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Signs that Show the Season is Coming to an End

Well if looks like the season for biking is coming to an end. Thanks to mother nature I am squeezing a few more days of good biking weather. Today was one of those days. I go a chance this morning to spent some time taking some great pictures since I brought my camera with me. Here in Chicago, it starts turning really bad around Halloween. We have been very fortunate this year with good weather overall. There was a few times of incredible weeks of rain and cold. But I am closer and closer to my distance goal this year. Unfortunately, they are predicting colder than normal temperatures and snow for winter.

MWLUG 2011 Community Outreach Donation and Special Thanks to Meridian IT

MWLUG 2011 was the second year of our MWLUG Community Outreach Program.  Each year we raise money for a food bank in the area where we have our MWLUG conference.  This year the conference was in Milwaukee and the receipt of donation was the Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.  We raised $1000 for the food bank which translates to 5000 meals for the hungry.  The raffle prize was donated by the Sheraton Milwaukee-Brookfield hotel and was a weekend stay with breakfast.  We recently received a nice thank you letter from the President of Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin. I would like to thanks everyone who participated in the raffle or donated their registration fee to the outreach program.  I would like to give a special thanks to one of our MWLUG 2011 sponsor, Meridian IT.  Beside being a one of our Gold Sponsors, Meridian IT was also kind enough to donate $100 to MWLUG Community Outreach Program and help our community.  Remember, our community extends beyond our Yellow Bubble and it is

Live Webcast of Sessions at GRANITE LUG, October 17, 211

We will be have two great presentations at GRANITE next week at the IBM Center on Monday, October 17, 2011.  If you are in the Chicagoland area, please join us.  If you can not make it in person, we will be doing a Live Webcast of the sessions.  If you would like to register for the Webcast go to: http://bit.ly/GraniteUG2011 GRANITE Meeting - October 17th, 2011 Agenda and Webcast Registration The October 17th GRANITE meeting will be an historic first for GRANITE. For the first time, the GRANITE meeting will be webcast live to other Lotus User Group throughout the United States. For this meeting, we will be presenting extended versions of two sessions were presented at MWLUG 2011 in Milwaukee, WI. in addition to other presentations and discussions. If attendees cannot attend in person, please register for the live webcast. 8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration, Breakfast, Refreshments & Networking at IBM Center for on-site attendees 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Presentation: "What's New With Lo