From_: owner-safety@myrddin.imat.COM Wed May 3 20:41:50 1995 Received: from myrddin.imat.com (bin@myrddin.imat.COM [140.174.70.1]) by swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA18594; Wed, 3 May 1995 20:41:35 +1000 Received: (from bin@localhost) by myrddin.imat.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) id CAA05246 for safety-digest-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 02:04:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 02:04:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199505030904.CAA05246@myrddin.imat.com> From: owner-safety-digest@myrddin.imat.COM To: safety-digest@myrddin.imat.COM Subject: safety-digest V1 #91 Reply-To: safety@myrddin.imat.COM Errors-To: owner-safety-digest@myrddin.imat.COM Precedence: list safety-digest Wednesday, 3 May 1995 Volume 01 : Number 091 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeff Dean" Date: Tue, 2 May 95 08:12:21 CST Subject: State MSF coordinators Straight from MSF, here in electronic form is the current list of state and military motorcycle safety coordinators. If you're interested in becoming an MSF-certified instructor, I urge you to contact your coordinator! Jeff Dean, MSF Chief Instructor ___________________________________________________________________________ STATE AND MILITARY MOTORCYCLE SAFETY COORDINATORS Note: This list is correct as of 04/27/95. If you are unable to reach a state or military motorcycle-safety coordinator, contact your state's Department of Public Safety or Education, or Department of Motor Vehicles; your military branch's worldwide safety center; or the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (see end of list). ALABAMA Dr. Freddie H. Ford Coordinator, Alabama Motorcycle Safety Programs, Traffic Safety Center University of Montevallo Montevallo, Alabama 35115-6000 205/665-6740 FAX 205/665-6749 ARIZONA Mr. Frank Johnson Manager, Motorcycle Safety Program Motor Vehicle Division Arizona Department of Transportation 1801 W. Jefferson, Room 155 (MD 530M) Phoenix, Arizona 85007 602/255-8072 FAX 602/407-3081 CALIFORNIA Sgt. Mike Nivens California Highway Patrol Office of Special Projects P.O. Box 942898 Sacramento, California 94298-0001 916/657-7222 FAX 916/452-3151 Mr. Doug Fitts Project Manager Crain & Associates 120 Santa Margarita Menlo Park, California 94025-2725 415/323-6777 FAX 415/323-3591 COLORADO Mr. Robert Philpot Coordinator, Motorcycle Program Department of Transportation Office of Transportation Safety 4201 E. Arkansas Avenue Denver, Colorado 80222 303/757-9466 FAX 303/757-9439 CONNECTICUT Mr. Jerry R. Beal State Coordinator Mr. Raymond C. Gaulin, Jr. Motorcycle Training Coordinator D.O.T. Office of Highway Safety P.O. Box 317546 2800 Berlin Turnpike Newington, Connecticut 06131-7546 203/594-2364 (Jerry) 203/594-2369 (Ray) FAX 203/594-2374 DELAWARE Ms. Agnes Mical Coordinator, Motorcycle Program Delaware Motor Vehicle Division P.O. Box 698 Dover, Delaware 19903 302/739-4422 - (DE) 609/256-4285 - (NJ) FAX 302/739-3152 - (DE) FAX 609/863-5344 - (NJ) FLORIDA Mr. Robert H. Hoffer Bureau of Driver Improvement Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Neil Kirkman Building, Room A-223 2900 Apalachee Parkway Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0570 904/488-3286 FAX 904/487-7080 GEORGIA Mr. T. Chadwick Burns State Coordinator Georgia State Patrol - Post 47 Motorcycle Safety Program 5036 Highway 85 Forest Park, Georgia 30050-2405 404/669-2950 FAX 404/669-3984 HAWAII Ms. Morgan D. Keene Coordinator, Motorcycle Safety Program University of Hawaii Community Colleges Employment Training Center 33 South King Street, Suite 314 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 808/587-2621 808/587-2623 FAX 808/587-2626 IDAHO Mr. Eldon Nelson (temporary contact) Supervisor of Support Services Idaho Department of Education P.O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0027 208/334-2203 FAX 208/334-2228 ILLINOIS Mr. Packey Rush & Mr. Joe Lindsay Cycle Rider Safety Coordinators Division of Traffic Safety, 3rd Floor 3215 Executive Park Drive Springfield, Illinois 62703 217/782-2920 FAX 217/782-9159 INDIANA Mr. John Bodeker Department of Education Division of School/Traffic Safety Room 229, State House Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2798 317/232-0890 FAX 317/232-9121 IOWA Mr. Erik Eriksen Bureau of Instructional Services Iowa Department of Education Grimes State Office Building Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0146 515/281-3190 FAX 515/242-6025 KANSAS Mr. Gerald Christensen Kansas Department of Education 120 East Tenth Street Topeka, Kansas 66612 913/296-3141 FAX 913/296-7933 KENTUCKY Mr. Steve Coffey Asst. Director, Driver Licensing Division State Office Building, 2nd Floor Frankfort, Kentucky 40622 502/564-7731 FAX 502/564-6145 Mr. Jim Calhoun Program Director, Kentucky Motorcycle Rider Education Program Stratton 253 Traffic Safety Institute Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, Kentucky 40475 606/622-1153 FAX 606/622-6548 LOUISIANA Mr. Laurence P. Ourso Education Program Manager Louisiana Motorcycle Safety, Awareness and Operator Training Program Louisiana Department of Education Room 822-A P.O. Box 94064 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804-9064 504/342-3404 504/342-3427 FAX 504/342-4474 MAINE Mr. Al Judkins Training and Education Coordinator Bureau of Motor Vehicles Station 29, State House Augusta, Maine 04333 207/287-2785 FAX 207/287-6304 MARYLAND Mr. Andrew Krajewski Motor Vehicle Administration Motorcycle Safety Division 715 E. Ordnance Road, Suite 101 Baltimore, Maryland 21226 410/508-2439 FAX 410/508-2444 MASSACHUSETTS Mr. Brook Chipman Governor's Highway Safety Bureau 100 Cambridge Street Room 2104 Boston, Massachussetts 02202 617/727-5073 FAX 617/727-5077 MICHIGAN Mr. Thomas J. Hampton Motorcycle Safety Education Consultant Michigan Department of Education P.O. Box 30008 Lansing, Michigan 48909 517/373-0763 FAX 517/373-4022 MINNESOTA Ms. Karen Kadar Project Director Minnesota Motorcycle Safety Program 100 83rd Avenue N.E., Suite 107 Fridley, Minnesota 55432 612/784-1488 FAX 612/784-1660 MONTANA Mr. James L. Bernet Motorcycle Training Coordinator Montana Office of Public Instruction P.O. Box 202501 Helena, Montana 59620 406/444-4569 FAX 406/444-3924 NEBRASKA Edward L. Schroyer Department of Motor Vehicles P.O. Box 94612 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509 402/471-2515 FAX 402/471-3865 NEVADA Mr. Jim Utterback Motorcycle Safety Administrator Office of Traffic Safety 555 Wright Way Carson City, Nevada 89711-0999 702/687-4321 FAX 702/687-5328 NEW HAMPSHIRE Mr. Roger Allen Motorcycle Safety Coordinator New Hampshire Department of Public Safety James H. Hayes Safety Building Hazen Drive Concord, New Hampshire 03301 603/271-6088 FAX 603/271-1061 NEW JERSEY Mr. Nick Geiger Principal Highway Safety Specialist and Mr. Richard Frost State Administrator State of New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety CN 048 Trenton, New Jersey 08625 609/633-9022 (Nick) 609/633-9308 (Richard) FAX 609/633-9020 NEW MEXICO Mr. Steven J. Flint Chief, Traffic Safety Bureau P.O. Box 1149 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-1149 505/827-0427 FAX 505/827-0431 Mr. David A. Stewart Program Administrator Motorcycle Training Office 3401 Pan American N.E. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107 505/841-2483 FAX 505/841-2471 NORTH CAROLINA Mr. Bill Vordtriede c/o Motorcycle Safety Education Program Minges A-19 East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 27858 919/328-4650 FAX 919/328-4669 NORTH DAKOTA Mr. Frank LaQua Coordinator of Rider Education Drivers Licensing and Traffic Safety Division 608 East Boulevard Avenue Bismarck, North Dakota 58505-0700 701/328-4354 FAX 701/328-4545 OHIO Ms. Lorrie Laing Motorcycle Safety Coordinator Ohio Department of Public Safety P.O. Box 7199 Columbus, Ohio 43205 614/466-6855 614/466-4041 FAX 614/466-0433 OREGON Mr. Stan Porter Oregon Department of Transportation Transportation Traffic Safety Section 400 State Library Building Salem, Oregon 97310 503/378-3669 FAX 503/378-8445 Mr. Steve Garets Team Oregon Motorcycle Safety Program Oregon State University Strand/AG 216 Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2216 503/737-2459 FAX 503/737-4001 PENNSYLVANIA Ms. Pamela Thomas Manager, Bureau of Driver Licensing Motorcycle Safety Program P.O. Box 68684 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17106-8684 717/787-2273 FAX 717/787-5853 Ms. Roberta Carlson State Coordinator Motorcycle Safety Program Millersville University P.O. Box 1002 Millersville, Pennsylvania 17551-0302 717/871-2308 FAX 717/871-2316 RHODE ISLAND Mr. Americo Ottaviano Dean, Community Services Louisquissett Pike/CCRI Lincoln, Rhode Island 02865 401/333-7070 FAX 401/333-7111 SOUTH CAROLINA Mr. Lee Hartley State Coordinator South Carolina Rider Education Program 1735 St. Julian Place, Suite 305 Columbia, South Carolina 29204 803/779-5852 FAX 803/765-2213 SOUTH DAKOTA Mr. Rick Kiley South Dakota Safety Council 3021 East 10th Street Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57103 605-338-0472 FAX 605/338-9948 TENNESSEE Mr. John Richard (Rick) Culwell State Coordinator Motorcycle Rider Education Program Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy 3025 Lebanon Road Donelson, Tennessee 37214 615/741-5851 FAX 615/741-5325 TEXAS Mr. Clif Burdette Bureau Manager Texas Department of Public Safety Attn: Motorcycle Safety Bureau P.O. Box 4087 5805 North Lamar Boulevard Austin, Texas 78773-0001 512/465-2021 FAX 512/465-2506 UTAH Mr. Albert F. Thornton Motorcycle Education Coordinator Driver License Division Department of Public Safety 3495 S. 300 West Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 801/262-2709 FAX 801/262-3174 VERMONT Mr. Robert King & Mr. Robert Lavoie Governor's Highway Safety Program 133 State Street Montpelier, Vermont 05602 802/828-2083 FAX 802/828-2098 VIRGINIA Mr. Bruce Biondo Manager, Motorcycle Safety Virginia Rider Training Program P.O. Box 27412 Richmond, Virginia 23269 804/367-1813 FAX 804/367-6031 WASHINGTON Mr. W. Don Mapp Washington Motorcycle Safety Program Department of Licensing P.O. Box 48041 Olympia, Washington 98504 360/902-3853 FAX 360/586-8351 WEST VIRGINIA Mr. R. Douglas Thompson State Motorcycle Coordinator West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles Capitol Complex, Building 3 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E. Charleston, West Virginia 25317 304/558-2350 FAX 304/558-0037 WISCONSIN Mr. Ronald L. Thompson Manager, Motorcycle Safety Program Wisconsin Department of Transportation P.O. Box 7910 Madison, Wisconsin 53707 608/266-7855 FAX 608/267-0441 MILITARY SAFETY COORDINATORS Motorcycle Safety Foundation Mr. James A. Riley, Director MSF Military Coordinator Eastern Resource Office 1235 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Suite 600 Arlington, Virginia 22202 703/416-2267 FAX 703/416-2269 U.S. AIR FORCE MSgt. Danny Tolentino HQ Air Force Safety Agency/SEGO 9700 Avenue G, S.E. Suite 221-D Kirtland AFB, New Mexico 87117-5670 505/846-0781 505/846-0792 FAX 505/846-2721 DSN 246-0781 246-0792 FAX DSN 246-2721 U.S. ARMY Mr. Rick Ackerman U.S. Army Safety Center ATTN: CSSC-PT Fort Rucker, Alabama 36362-5363 205/255-2443 FAX 205/255-9377 U.S. MARINE CORPS Mr. Paul Lewis Headquarters USMC (SD) 2 Navy Annex Washington, DC 20380-1775 703/614-1077 FAX 703/695-3231 DSN 224-1077 FAX DSN 225-3231 U.S. NAVY Mr. Charles M. Noonen Code 424, Naval Safety Center 375 A. Street Norfolk, Virginia 23511-4399 804/444-1470 FAX 804/444-6044 U.S. COAST GUARD ADC Bob Weiss Commandant (G-KSE-2) USCG HQS 2100 2nd Street S.W. Washington, DC 20593 202/267-2962 FAX 202/267-4355 MOTORCYCLE SAFETY FOUNDATION Mr. Ronald E. Shepard Senior Manager, Program Services Mr. William H. Cosby Manager, Training Department 2 Jenner Street, Suite 150 Irvine, California 92718-3812 714/727-3227 FAX 714/727-4217 NHTSA REPRESENTATIVE Mr. Ron Engle Chief, Safety Countermeasures Division National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NTS-23 400 7th Street S.W. Washington, DC 20590 202/366-2717 FAX 202/366-7149 ------------------------------ From: Michael_Nelson Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 15:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Passing the torch Several folks have responded to my plea for volunteers to take over the Ducati, Goof2, and Safety mailing lists and www server. Thank you all for your "volunteer spirit". Naturally, most people have wanted to know what's involved, and some things about the lists themselves. 1) There are three lists (each of which has a "sub-list" of people subscribed in "digest" mode), and all are running currently under MajorDomo v1.94. Since MajorDomo is in reality nothing more than a series of perl scripts, the software will run on any unix machine that perl runs on. 2) If someone is already running MajorDomo, it'd be a slam-dunk to move the lists to their MajorDomo server. If another package is running, such as ListProc or ListServ, it'd be more complicated to convert. But since the subscriber lists (the most important part of a mailing list's files) are just ascii text files (just a list of addresses, actually, with one address per line), someone who's clever shouldn't have much trouble converting them to another mailing list format. 3) The number of subscribers for each list is currently: ducati 207 ducati-digest 130 safety 100 safety-digest 118 goof2 106 goof2-digest 47 ...so, these aren't HUGE lists, but there is a significant volume of messages, especially in the ducati list. Each of the messages posted on the ducati list has to go to 207 different addresses, and each copy of a daily digest goes to the number of people on a -digest list. With a low speed connection like the 14.4k SLIP connection at myrddin.imat.com, it chews up the bandwidth pretty severely. A 56K, T1, or T3 line would hardly notice. Please note that I have currently changed all the lists so that no additional subscribers will be accepted, and I have shut the web server down until this is resolved. I don't want any further growth in the subscriber lists until this is resolved. The lists are not particularly cpu-intensive, (myrddin is a 66MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM, and it hardly notices them), so I would say they would run acceptably on anything from a 486/33 or a Sparc 1 class machine on up. You do need lots of memory though, as you can have lots of processes going on at the same time... ie: lots of sendmail processes, perl processes, etc.. 4) The archives currently occupy approximately 12+ megabytes of drive space. They could be compressed to save space, but they would not then be readable online through the www server. 5) The www server is currently running under the NCSA httpd daemon, which compiles and runs well on most unix machines. The www server consumes TONS of bandwidth and tons of memory. Netscape, (the most popular web browser), will open a seperate connection for each file and image that is to be delivered to the client. If you have a page with 3 images on it, the httpd deamon will spawn a copy of itself for each file that needs to be delivered, so the file itself plus the three images would cause four copies of the daemon to be in memory at a time, plus four tcp/ip connections FOR EACH USER currently accessing that page. So if you have five users on (a light load), you'd have TWENTY copies of the daemon in memory (at about 500K a pop) plus twenty open sockets. As you can see, a web server needs LOTS of memory and LOTS of bandwidth. Lack of either one makes the site seem to crawl from the client's standpoint. Again, fast processors aren't all that important with a web server, but memory and bandwidth are. 7)So that some of the neater features of the web server will still work, it'd be ideal if someone could take over all three lists and the web server to all reside on the same machine. To host all of it you'd probably need to have about 30-50MB of drive space to devote to it, especially to accomodate some future expansion. 8) MajorDomo supports the concept of "remote management" of the lists. All of the normal maintenance can be done via email (although I don't currently do it that way). So, the lists and www server could reside on one machine and there could be remote "list managers" for each list. In fact, each list can be remotely managed by more than one person if neccessary. If you are interested in this possibility, I strongly recommend picking up or borrowing a copy of O'Rielly and Associates book "Managing Internet Information Services" (about $30) to see what's involved. It covers mailing lists in general, MajorDomo in particular (including how to manage the lists remotely), as well as really good documentation on setting up, managing, and authoring for www servers. If you aren't interested enough to get that book, you probably aren't interested enough to do a good job of maintaining the lists, as there is a pretty high level of involvement and committment. 9) So as to not pollute the actual mailing lists with this stuff any more than we have to, I would appreciate it if future correspondence about this subject could be limited to direct email to me at my email address of nelson@seahunt.imat.com. Or, perhaps setting up a list just for the purpose of discussing this might make sense. - Michael - - -- Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com San Francisco, CA ------------------------------ From: yanasak@cc.gatech.edu (Ivan Yanasak) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 21:35:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Another one from behind Related to the recent "how not to get bumped at the traffic light" thread, here's a related scenario that happened to me today (while driving a *car*, thank God): It's around 5pm on a workday afternoon, lots of big cars driven by the "Type A, cell phone" crowd. I'm at the end of the cloverleaf (only one of them - to get back on you have to turn left under the bridge), waiting to merge into traffic on a four-lane road (the left lane of which is backed up with folks turning left, and the right lane of which has folks swerving into it to avoid having to wait). I try to merge, then have to hold off as another car swerves into the right lane. Meanwhile Mr. Lexus behind me, having decided that I'm essentially gone, fixes his gaze (over his shoulder) upon the upcoming traffic and decides to beat the next car. Knocks me a good 5 feet forward. Luckily for me, both of us were previously at a dead stop, and I was in a car, not on a bike. That episode got me thinking: if I were on a bike, I'd have been sprawled all over the road (prior to getting flattened by traffic). Unlike the "stopping at the traffic light" scenario, I would have had to take it over a high curb two feet to my right, and through the grass to avoid being hit (or riding into traffic). Also unlike most of them, I already had more than two cars stopped behind me, and there was no amount of flashing, blinking, or orange clothing that would have alerted him to the fact that I was still there. Any ideas on how one could avoid or evade in this case on a motorcycle? Hoping for insight... - -Ivan (Impatient drivers can be a real pain. A friend of mine was sideswiped by another one this weekend: flatbed truck carrying cinderblocks. Given the amount of "customization" that it did to his pickup, he agreed that he was lucky he wasn't on his Ducati. This one seemed to be a classic case of "anticipate that the tailgating truck will cut you off before you pull into traffic", however.) ------------------------------ From: Mike Waller Date: Wed, 03 May 95 16:23:00 PDT Subject: RE: Another one from behind -Ivan wrote >>>>> I try to merge, then have to hold off Knocks me a good 5 feet forward. Luckily for me, both of us were previously at a dead stop, and I was in a car, not on a bike. That episode got me thinking: if I were on a bike, I'd have been sprawled all over the road (prior to getting flattened by traffic). < nuvver snip> Any ideas on how one could avoid or evade in this case on a motorcycle? Hoping for insight.. <<<<<<<< ------------------------------ End of safety-digest V1 #91 ***************************