Freedom's Thunder Bike Rally on Fort Sill

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FORT SILL, Okla_ Thursday was a beautiful day for a joyride. While more than 300 Fort Sill soldiers and civilians did enjoy hitting the streets of Lawton, they were actually riding for a much bigger cause.

Thursday marked the 9th Annual Freedom's Thunder Motorcycle Rally: a ride promoting the importance of rider safety.

The army is all about safety, whether soldiers are in combat or not. Nine years ago, Post Commander Major General David Ralston saw the need for motorcycle safety awareness, as too many members of the army were dying in bike-related accidents. His goal: to teach inexperienced riders how to prevent those accidents from ever happening.

George Keck, a civilian employee on Fort Sill, has been riding for over 40 years.

"I enjoy it," Keck said. "It relaxes me, and there's nothing like getting away from everything and riding on two wheels."

A relaxing joyride can turn into tragedy, if people don't realize the importance of knowing how to ride a motorcycle. Staff Sergeant Paul Johnson said understanding the operation of the bike isn't enough. While riding, you need to scan ahead recognizing road position.

"You are smaller," Johnson said. "People don't see you. If somebody were to merge into your lane, you've got to be thinking about what you'd do before they do that."

Another piece in the puzzle of motorcycle safety is protective equipment. In a vehicle, you have airbags and seatbelts. When riding a motorcycle, you only have what you're wearing. It takes Brent Hayes a while to get geared up for a ride. He said a helmet is of utmost importance, but so are other elements.

"Impact resistant eye wear, full finger gloves, leather boots, long pants and a safety vest are important," Hayes said.

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is required to ride on post. On top of that, soldiers and civilians have to complete safety courses to legally ride on Fort Sill.

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Freedom and Parkland tie for most Freddy Award nominations

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Freedom High School's production of "Les Miserables" and Parkland's "Phantom of the Opera" tied for the most 2013 Freddy Award nominations, with 15 each, it was announced today.

Nazareth High School's "Anything Goes" had the second-most nominations with 11. Southern Lehigh's "42nd Street" and Notre Dame's "The Music Man" tied for third with 10 nominations each.

Wilson Area High School led the smaller schools with six nominations for its production of "Fiddler on the Roof."

Twenty-seven of the 30 participating schools from Lehigh, Northampton and Warren counties received at least one nomination.

The Freddy Awards, in its 11th year, recognize outstanding high school musical theater. Awards will be presented live in a Tony Awards-style ceremony 7 p.m. May 23 at Easton's State Theatre, which is broadcast on WFMZ-TV.

State Theatre Executive Director Shelley Brown and Ed Hanna, WFMZ-TV meteorologist, announced the nominees during the station's noon broadcast today. There are 21 categories, including acting, dancing, scenery and lighting.

The nominees are:

Overall production: Freedom, "Les Miserables"; Nazareth, "Anything Goes"; Notre Dame, "The Music Man"; Parkland, "The Phantom of the Opera"; Southern Lehigh, "42nd Street"

Production by a smaller school: Belvidere, "Changing Minds"; Hackettstown, "Annie Get Your Gun"; Moravian Academy, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"; North Warren Regional, "Anything Goes"; Northern Lehigh, "Little Shop of Horrors"; Wilson Area, "Fiddler on the Roof"

Performance by a lead actress: Taisha Walker, "Aida," Dieruff; Nina Attinello, "The Music Man," Easton; Logan Beck, "Legally Blonde," Emmaus; Ally Borgstrom, "Annie Get Your Gun," Hackettstown; Vanessa Ruggiero, "Anything Goes," Nazareth; Madeline Prentice, "The Music Man," Notre Dame; Elizabeth Stirba, "The Phantom of the Opera," Parkland

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Citrix to Present “Freedom at Work, Wherever Work Happens” at WorldBlu LIVE 2013

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Citrix will present at WorldBlu LIVE 2013, the worlds premier gathering on freedom in the workplace, on May 16 in Denver, Colorado. Citrix Podio co-founder and Director of Brand Strategy Jon Froda will present the session Freedom at Work, Wherever Work Happens, focusing on the changing nature of work, evolving mobile workstyles and the new technologies influencing this shift. For the third consecutive year, Citrix Podio has been recognized in the 2013 WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces for practicing the Worldblu principle of decentralization.

Podio provides a social business platform that empowers teams to work the way they want to, giving people more control over the tools they use to get their work done and increasing peer recognition, transparency and self-determination. A cloud-based service, Podio is designed to support distributed teams and keep people connected and productive from anywhere, on any device.

Attendees of Worldblu Live will learn how to implement Organization Democracy and create work environments that are based on freedom and happiness rather than on the industrial-age command and control philosophies of yesterdays workplaces. Come and see for yourself how Podio can help teams work better together in a world of rapidly changing workstyles.

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Jon Froda, Director of Brand Strategy, Citrix Podio

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Arteria Technologies Named “Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013” by Gartner Inc

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Bangalore, India (PRWEB UK) 9 May 2013

Arteria Technologies, a leading provider of Mobility and Portal solutions on SAP technology and a part of All World Network @ Harvard Business School today announced that it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the report titled "Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013 by Gartner, Inc.

Arteria provides innovative solutions that tackle recurring SAP customer challenges and helps customers to maximize their SAP ROI.

We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner a confirmation of our mission to enable customers to leverage the power of enterprise systems using mobility and portal technologies thereby improving business performance, said Sriram Kanuri, CEO of Arteria Technologies. We continue to innovate with our product roadmap; the upcoming launch of cloud version of our products will further enhance our market position. Our strength is our capabilities to build solutions with quick ROI and help customers extend their SAP ERP processes to business partners and employees while staying invested on the SAP technology platform.

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Arteria is a SAP NetWeaver service partner, providing high-value strategic IT management consulting services certified by SAP. Headquartered at Bangalore, India, Arterias over 500 employees are a skilled in the enterprise application services, particularly SAP. Arteria provides customized solutions to ensure faster ROI to over 2000 clients globally. Arterias services range from evaluating the right SAP technologies, to derive measurable business benefits out of SAP installations. Arteria focuses on excellence in consulting services, leveraging new technologies in a proven, cost-effective fashion, specializing in the domain of Enterprise Application Services mainly in SAP and Integrated Business Solutions segments.

Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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re:publica 2013 – Neil Harbisson, Moon Ribas: Life with extra Senses – How to become a Cyborg. – Video

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