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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>As a community of cyclists, I think we can benefit from the introspection prompted by the appended narrative. For some of us the initial exhalation of learning to ride a bicycle as a child has never lost its influence. We go out on the road understanding the environment and challenge confronting us, and hope that the lessons we’ve acquired, some the hard way, will help us down the road…for the next ride. Be safe out there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Higgins, James C [mailto:higgins@bnl.gov] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> Harrington, Philip S; Adams, Jay W; Ballantyne, Ian; Binello, Severino; Carbonaro, Joseph; Diamond, David J; Granzen, Gerald A; Kuczewski, Anthony; Lewis, Wayne; Litzke, Wai-Lin; Lopez, Alexsandra; Mukherji, Swapna; Nemesure, Seth; Pfeiffer, Donna S; Pohlot, Peter D; Rind, Ofer; Sanchez Hanke, Cecilia; Sears, Trevor; Sedlacek, Arthur J; Todd, Robert J; Van Buren, Gene; Van Buren, Marie; Wagener, Richard; Young, John P; Yu, Dantong; Zahl, Percy; Zuhoski, Sharon<br><b>Cc:</b> Braunreuther, Maryellen; Cameron, Peter; Hoff, Lawrence; Kelly, Robert G; Paquette, Michael; Pomaro, John; Riker, Kenneth D; Steve Neilson; Tallerico, Thomas N; Van Derlaske, Gerry<br><b>Subject:</b> Memory of Steve Kane<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I was reading the current issue of </span>Bicycling Magazine and came across this article that so clearly brought to mind Steve and his accident. I offer it up in memory of Steve. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I ride toward home, to the finish of just one more ride of a year of them, every one of which hosted or caused some event, some that never mattered in any sense, and some that seemed to but we never knew for sure, and some that broke us, and some that fixed what had broken, just like any year on a bike, just like every year on a bike, when each ride we take can be the start or the end of who we are.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Quote from article “Just Another Year” By Bill Strickland in December 2012 issue of Bicycling Magazine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Goode, George A <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 02, 2012 9:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> ES&H Directorate Personnel List; ESH Coordinators Plus Others<br><b>Subject:</b> Sad News<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>It is with deep sadness that I must inform you that Steve Kane was hit by an automobile while bike riding offsite yesterday, and was fatally injured.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Police have notified Steve's family, and I held a meeting this morning to notify his coworkers. We will be reaching out to Steve’s family later today to offer our help and will obtain information regarding arrangements.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Steve dedicated his professional life to making the Laboratory a safer place. A tragic loss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>George<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>George A Goode<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Laboratory Director ESH<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brookhaven National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>