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Menlo Park: Developer Sam Sinnott asks for police presence at City Council meeting
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a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 16, 2013 at 2:32 pm
So much for outreach to the neighbors.
If this house is built per Mr Sinnott's plan, I feel sorry for the new owner. Let's assume this controversy, including now the need for police presence, will be fully DISCLOSED to the buyer by Mr. Sinnott.
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Aug 16, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Interesting that Sam assumes the police will be on his side!
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Aug 16, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Kiki Kapany admits the people who approached my wife and me on our way to the car came from their group and do not live on Louise Street. She also admits she doesn't know them. Their group is very large as a result of the many emails and messages sent far and wide urging people to show up and fight something they often don't understand. The message is typically a developer is exploiting a neighborhood and it could happen to you.
The first individual to follow us said "I hope you rot in hell!". Other comments followed from other individuals in very close proximity to us as I tried to reason with them. They were a group of approximately 25. We were alone. Kipany was not in the conversation nor was she close by. She should take responsibility for the behavior of her group.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 16, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Sam, why blame Ms. Kapany for reporting what she saw? And why do you think it is "her group" to control? Your use of charged words such as "admitted" sound like you are accusing her of being untruthful or at lest disingenuous. If you asked the reporter to contact her & clarify what she said/saw, there'd be some credibility.
You just keep stirring your mess & making it worse by implying that someone quoted in the news article has recanted.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 16, 2013 at 3:25 pm
". . . as I tried to reason with them." And there you have it. A smart person would have avoided confronting hecklers and thus exacerbating the tensions. To demand police presence over something so minor is ludicrous. This is just a self aggrandizing attempt by Mr.Sinnott to inflate the situation.
I most definitely do not want our money wasted on police protection for a non-existent threats.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Aug 16, 2013 at 3:28 pm
SteveC is a registered user.
The police will not be on anyone's side. The are equal opportunity arrestees. Create a disturbance or violate the law, they will arrest or remove you from the meeting. Keep it civil and show a little respect regardless of what position you are for or against.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 16, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Sam Sinnott is completely distorting Kiki Kapany's words. She did not "admit" anything. She simply reported what she saw. I saw the same incident. One person approached Sam. Sam then walked back to confront two or three people to whom that person was speaking. His wife quickly came and escorted him away. At no time was Mr. Sinnott ever surrounded by 25 people; we were just milling around outside Council chambers at least 30 yards away from where the incident occurred talking about what had happened at the meeting.
To say that anyone who attends a City Council meeting to support our position "came from our group" and to suggest that Kiki or anyone else on Louise Street "should take responsibility for the behavior of her group" is just ludicrous--especially coming from someone who recently claimed that the multiple Craigslists ads advertising 1825 Santa Cruz Avenue as having three different but equally fictitious Louise Street addresses were not his responsibility because his business partner had posted them without his knowledge!
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 16, 2013 at 4:20 pm
PS--The people who take the trouble to show up to support us actually do understand what we are fighting for. There is no need to patronize them.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 16, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Poor Sam Sinnott. I appears that his mommy and daddy must have always let him have his way. When he doesn't get what he wants he stomps his little feet and makes a huff. Now that he is older and has money he has decided to use his money to threaten the city into submission knowing full well that the City of Menlo Park (purported to be the City he loves) can ill afford a protracted legal dispute. [Portion removed; stick to the issue.]
Ultimately Mr. Sinnott's actions are not only one of a spoiled child, but they are actions driven by greed. Extreme greed.
The sooner the City of Menlo Park learns to control the irresponsible development within the city, the better off we will all be. There is simply too much money to be made at the current time and it is drawing those individuals in who are not professional in the act of responsible development.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 16, 2013 at 4:30 pm
If Mr. Sinnott is so concerned for his safety why doesn't he bring private security to protect him?
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Aug 16, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Schwarz only wants Sam to pay legal fees to his wife Kalpany.
And the other neighbor only wants free land.
Come to the meeting Tuesday and learn the truth about the "green" Louise Street neighbors. The only green they are after is Sam's money.
Any legal dispute will be caused by the City Council violating Sam's property rights.
a resident of another community
on Aug 16, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Hey, bringing private security is a *great* idea! Our former landlords, the infamous Page Mill Properties, had their executives use bodyguards to attend community meetings, even meetings held in a church. We were all bemused, then we laughed at them.
Why am I not surprised that another unpopular developer may be skewing things to gain attention & sympathy? But paying for private security is better for the economy than asking the cops for help. Is Sinnott an Atherton resident? If so, maybe one of their officer-butlers can also be his bodyguard.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 16, 2013 at 6:13 pm
To Long time Menlo resident (whoever you may be): Sinnott wants to make an extra $500k to $1 million by flipping his property from Santa Cruz to Louise Street. He hires lawyers, threatens to sue the city and the residents for $1 million in damages, and we're the greedy bad guys??? Give me a break. At Council Tuesday we will fight to keep the green space as is. No driveway, no structures, by anyone, EVER. We want to keep it the way it is. Is that clear enough?
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Aug 16, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Mr. schwarz
Why are you so focused on what Sam's profit? It is none of your business.
And can you answer one or two questions for me. Did you or your wife ask Sam for legal fees?
And since when is an old oleander bush green space. You continue to be dishonest with the public. Sam's property abuts the city property. No matter what the address, why does he not have a right to connect to the city street?
Have a great weekend.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 16, 2013 at 7:51 pm
Just more of Sam Sinnott's arrogance. The whole thing could have been prevented if he could have put his ego in his pocket. Unfortunately, that seems to be impossible for Sam.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 16, 2013 at 7:59 pm
Now Now, Sam has been around Menlo Park for years, yes he is a developer "a local one" that provides employment, and understands property rights and of course local issues. What happened to free enterprise he wants to connect to a city street. Yes he will make a profit so what - that is what he is in business for.
Stick to the facts, and act like adults here the name calling and sniveling is a true reflection of your complete lack of common sense and decency.
Good Luck Sam - the good guys here support you and wish you well
a resident of Atherton: other
on Aug 16, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Access from Louise Street is for the primary use and benefit of the Belle Acres Subdivision Lots on Louise, and city of MP public works dept to maintain its storm drain pumping station at the end of Louise St
SAMs parcel was not part of that subdivision and is strictly limited to pedestrian and service access to his parcel
Use of that Louise Street access for Sam driveway access for a Santa Cruz Ave fronting parcel is strictly at the discretion of the city after city public works decides that it's storm drain system pumping station at the end of Louise Street is unnecessary
Well established case law obviates the need for the city council to back its city attorney rec to proceed with abandonment process
That will still give Sam pedestrian and service access thru his back gate by virtue of historical use, But never permit primary driveway access to his parcel
End of case
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 17, 2013 at 8:13 am
Miller and Star seems to state the facts in a clear and concise way. Thank you for removing the emotion and hyperbole.
It is easy to understand why both the Louise St. neighbors and sam sinnott feel the way they do. They both feel that they will be losing something; the neighbors lose green space, privacy, tranquility and a way of life that currently exists. sam feel he could lose some of the profit that he will likely make after he develops the property. One loses something they have while the other (Sam) loses something that they could possibly have.
Money (greed) is the evil here. It should be no surprise to anyone as we have all seen it time and time again. sam would openly tell you that he is improving the value of the neighbors' property through his development practices. Most developers truly believe this, but what they fail to recognize is that there is a cost to the neighbors (defined by each neighbor differently based on their personal beliefs, values and ideals).
One purpose of government is to protect the greater good of the community. I hope that the City of Menlo Park continues to take this responsibility seriously and not be intimidated by a small person with a big pocketbook.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 17, 2013 at 8:23 am
To the Old Sage.
You must be too old. Sam is a wannabee developer. After years of being an Architect and enabling developers to make profits Sam has decided to try his hand at crating profit through development (he is an entrepreneur too) Clearly he got tired of being the least compensated member of the development food chain [portion removed; stick to the topic and be civil] His arrogance got in the way [portion removed; stick to the topic] here when he treated everyone inappropriately. Too bad for him that he underestimated it all.
I suspect that both you and sam would also like to erect a statue of sam as the saving grace for all of our economic woes because he is driving the economy through development. Perhaps he could get a use permit for the property and store toxic waste there.........
Your driving the economy is old and tired just like an Old Sage.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 17, 2013 at 10:17 am
To Longtime Menlo Park resident:
I don't answer any questions from people who hide behind anonymous pseudonyms. But shame on you for alleging that I "continue to be dishonest with the public." You may disagree with my neighbors and me, but we have legal backing and evidence for everything we have been arguing.
a resident of another community
on Aug 17, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Menlo Resident - Will the residents of Louise Street actually lose "privacy, tranquility and a way of life that currently exists" because of a driveway?
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Aug 17, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
"the neighbors lose green space, privacy, tranquility and a way of life that currently exists."
Just imagine what it will be like when, lacking a driveway but being guaranteed pedestrian access to Louise, construction begins and all the truck park on Louise and all the construction deliveries are made via Louise.
I would think that it would be much better to have a nice driveway which allows all of that activity to take place on Sinnott's property. Seems like the lesser of two evils.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 17, 2013 at 2:08 pm
"Just imagine what it will be like when, lacking a driveway but being guaranteed pedestrian access to Louise, construction begins and all the truck park on Louise and all the construction deliveries are made via Louise."
What is this about no driveway??? There is a driveway on Santa Cruz Avenue. The site is large enough for trucks to enter, park onsite, and exit. There is no need to use Louise for that. The Louise neighbors should be sure there is a construction traffic management plan they can support and monitor.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Aug 17, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
Here is what the Louise Street property owners MUST agree to per the Staff Report #: 13-123:
"The adjacent property owners of 1017 Louise Street shall record a Pedestrian
Access Easement against the abandoned portion of Louise Street, ensuring that
the property owners of 1833 Santa Cruz Avenue continue to enjoy pedestrian
access to Louise Street from their property. The Pedestrian Access Easement
shall be granted for the benefit of the property located at 1833 Santa Cruz
Avenue, providing a pathway a minimum of 5 feet in width between the property
at 1833 Santa Cruz Avenue and the new right-of-way boundary at the terminus of
Louise Street. The owners of 1017 Louise Street will work with the owners of
1833 Santa Cruz Avenue to create an easement acceptable to all parties, with
the Public Works Director and City Attorney having final approval of said
easement. The approval of said easement shall not be appealable."
Nothing in here precludes parking on Louise St or the use of Louise St for delivery of anything to this property.
" The Louise neighbors should be sure there is a construction traffic management plan they can support and monitor."
Not with the above required agreement calls for or permits such restrictions.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Aug 17, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
Nothing in the above required agreement calls for or permits such restrictions.
You cannot guarantee access and then restrict it.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Aug 17, 2013 at 8:32 pm
Belle acres sub map dedicated Louise to San Mateo County, well before incorporated into the city
The city then takes on a responsibility to the Belle Acres lot owners in accordance with the State Subdivision Map Act to maintain access to the Belle Acres lot owners, and not to any other lands that may abut on Louise Street, but are not part of Belle Acres, unless Louise Street were the only reasonable access to those other lands
Sam parcel has Santa Cruz access
His and counsel Garrett argument that Sam has de facto full vehicular Louise Street driveway access at the expense of Belle Acres and city public works storm drain pump station maintenance is without foundation
SAMs predecessor never perfected a full driveway access to Sams parcel from Louise
Nor is it necessary for Sam to enjoy full public street access to his Santa Cruz fronting parcel
Case closed
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 17, 2013 at 9:16 pm
To Miller and Starr: Amen! It is heartening to hear from someone who understands our position and sees through all of the bogus claims being advanced by Mr. Sinnott and his supporters. Thank you for your support.
a resident of another community
on Aug 18, 2013 at 12:16 pm
If Louise is a public street and there is pedestrian access to the lot, there will be construction vehicles parked there because the parking is easier than on Santa Cruz.
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on Aug 19, 2013 at 10:32 am
To Miller and Star remember Louise Street is 'fee simple' and not an easement...as assumed by you and all neighbours.
The title to Louise Street, including the area proposed to be abandoned, is presently vested in the City of Menlo Park, in fee. In other words, the land area within the bounds of the street is publicly owned land, the title to which belongs entirely to the City, subject only to the appurtenant easements rightfully belonging to the owners of the adjoining lots or parcels of land, for purposes of vehicular and pedestrian ingress to and egress from their lands, by means of Louise Street.
These private easements belonging to the owners of the lots adjoining Louise Street, which burden the public title to Louise Street, will of course not be extinguished by a City Council order vacating the street area proposed to be abandoned. The order vacating part of Louise Street also will not have the effect of transferring the City's fee title to the owners of the adjoining lots. In order to accomplish this, it would be necessary for the City to execute grant deeds describing the boundaries of the land titles to be conveyed. And, in addition to finding that the parts of Louise Street to be vacated were no longer needed for public use, a finding would have to be made by the City Council that an adequate consideration was to be paid by the owners of the adjoining lots, for the City's vested title to the land within the street areas vacated.
Finally, while Mr. Sinnott's abutter's rights for access to and from Louise Street, having arisen by reason of the establishment and maintenance of a public street adjoining their land, might be terminated upon formal vacation of the portion of Louise Street upon which their land abuts, their additional prescriptive rights, and claims of a right to title to an appurtenant easement in Louise Street by reason of other legal causes, would not be eliminated.
Case closed.Mr. Sinnott will win his driveway access on Louise St. now or later.
I personally would not advise paying off any attorney fees incurred by the neighbors. In some circles that is called extortion.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 11:39 am
I live within a couple of blocks of Louise Street.
My advice to all parties: Be nice. Be civil.
To the current residents --- concentrate on what you have to do to convince the city to see it your way. Don't waste your time (and your boiling emotions) on the other guy...because you're really wasting your time.
Study the request. Thoroughly understand your property rights and the city's property rights/responsibilities. Understand your opponents strengths and weaknesses in their *argument*...not their personality and/or business.
Be business-like and professional in approaching your problem and creating an appeal/argument that will be factually sound and not personal (in terms of your opponent).
You will certainly have a much greater appeal and will find a more sympathetic city council if "air tight" your argument and ignore the bad guy on the other side.
My two cents
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Aug 19, 2013 at 1:59 pm
SteveC is a registered user.
I believe they are so blinded and hard of hearing that its my way or he highway. They love to fight, but old mp is right
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Aug 19, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
Posted by Peter Carpenter, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood, on Jul 27, 2013 at 12:37 am
Peter Carpenter is a member (registered user) of Almanac Online
There are facts, law and equities on both sides - negotiate a settlement. Any political decision will be challenged in court by the losing side.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Bingo. Give that kid a star.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 2:45 pm
old MP is right.
I think I remember Cline saying something to the tune "if you are trying to solve your problems between two parties at a council meeting, then you have already guaranteed you will both be unhappy.."
Get back to the table and make a deal. Don't waste city time and your own dollars in court.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 3:23 pm
@ Old Sage
Sam is not greatly experienced as lead developer. What makes you think his projects benefit "local" economy? Historically, he & his associates bring in out-of-area laborers & subcontractors to work for less money than locals demand. Not sure how that's a boost to MP economy, except for fast food & beer.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 4:27 pm
What does "out of area" mean?
My stucco subcontractor is from Oakley. Is that out of area?
My tile guy is from Pacifica. Out of area?
Let's be honest here - not that many subcontractors and construction labor live in MP.
a resident of Woodside: Woodside Glens
on Aug 19, 2013 at 6:01 pm
I hope that the real Sam Sinnot did not make the above post about Ms. Kapany's reported statements, because the comments don't cast him in a very good light, and don't even make very much sense. In the very least, the remarks offer a glimpse of what the folks on Louise might be trying to deal with.
If the quotes from the letter printed in this article are being accurately reported, Kiki Kapany did not "admit†to the things Mr. Sinnot posted. He twisted her words into something she didn't write; alleged that she wasn't even "in the conversation nor was she close by†the verbal exchange that resulted in his protection request; yet, he declares that she should accept responsibility for the alleged behavior of "25†people she supposedly was too far away to know anything about, and never claimed to see. Is there evidence that she is somehow the ringleader ("her groupâ€) of potentially dangerous people?
I noticed, however, that this poster didn't deny confronting the man (that Ms. Kapany said she saw), and didn't deny being pulled away by his wife. If this behavior is true, I doubt that Mr. Sinnot needs police protection, but maybe those who voice opposition to him might-- just in case his wife isn't there. :<)
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Somewhere along the way, Sam got the idea that switching frontage & street address for his speculative project could be achieved. Whether or not his wife, Lorie Sinnott was still on the MP Planning Commission when this plan germinated, was any there any preferential treatment given to the spouse of a current or recently serving colleague?
a resident of Menlo Park: Felton Gables
on Aug 19, 2013 at 8:32 pm
Real Estate runs Menlo. Always has.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2013 at 8:35 pm
@ Crescent Park (Palo alto?) dad, resident (how?) of menlo park -
Pacifica is of course in the area - San mateo Co.
Oakley? not hardly. It's a 76 mile drive. I doubt if Oakley residents support MP, or your PA businesses. They generally shop in Concord, Antioch, Pittsburg & in fact are closer to Stockton than to MP. That's what I mean by out of the area.
Redwood City, Mountain View, East Palo Alto, even Fremont are certainly "in the area".
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 19, 2013 at 9:04 pm
Once again, comments totally deleted by the editors about Sam.
Editors: just what are you afraid of when someone expresses an educated opinion about Sam? Is he threatening you? That would be par for the course for him.
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on Aug 20, 2013 at 8:03 pm
I'm embarrassed to live in this town. The hypocrisy and 3rd grade antics of most of the participants of this blog are shocking. I'm pretty sure that most of these people live in a house that was built by a developer. A developer that tried to make an .....OMG, a profit! I certainly hope that the developer that built your homes didn't have to go thru the personal verbal attacks, threats, name calling etc. .
Why don't you keep to the facts, let a CIVIL process take place and keep this garbage to a minimum. Who cares if Sam is "arrogant", or has "a short man complex" or is a "wannabe developer", etc., that has nothing to do with the decision that is at hand.
You people scare me.
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"Developed by men who had left their families behind to start a life in Argentina's bustling capital city, the dance expressed machismo, passion, longing and a fighting edgeand was set to an emerging sound rooted in Spanish and Italian melodies, criollo (Argentine-born) verse and Afro-Uruguayan candombe (a drum-based rhythm). When Argentine musicians took tango to Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, it quickly swept through the ballrooms of Europe. By 1913, everyone wanted to dance the tango, and only then did the porteño aristocrats embrace the trend in the upscale dance halls of Recoleta in Buenos Aires. In 1917, Carlos Gardel recorded the poetic 'Mi Noche Triste' (My Sad Night). Considered the genre's first anthem, it featured Gardel's crooning, charismatic voice and set a new standard
. By the 1970s, the legendary Astor Piazzolla, a master on the bandoneón, was moving tango out of the dance halls and blending the form with jazz and classical music
. Tango electrónica [is] an energetic and sensual music form that's become extremely popular in Buenos Aires and abroad."Bridgit Gleeson, Lonely Planet


text: Hi all, Our model of use of Intel's compiler in our cluster here is just to compile programs which are then run by various researchers. I've posed those same questions to an Intel representative, to which they answered that I only needed to buy a license of the compiler. We have been using it that way with no legal problems - I even talked to it's representative yesterday. Best regards, Tiago Marques CICECO University of Aveiro On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>wrote: > Having read what the license itself says, I tend to agree with the position > asserted below. However, at the last 3 SC conferences in the US, I've > engaged Intel compiler developers and managers on this. > > Caveat: IANAL. Worse, I don't think anyone from Intel I've talked to was, > either, which could bode ill for us all, if the lawyers DO get involved. > > However, the talking heads from Intel have asserted to me that the intent > was not to stop academic folk from reasonable use. They were surprised that > the interpretation in the below assertion was made, and that they didn't > interpret it as being that severe. > > I will buy a license (I've been saying that for nearly a year) for our > cluster, before instituting it there using the intent expressed to me > verbally, but I suspect that using it for test/evaluation, even if I do draw > a salary, isn't outside their intent. > > That said, the academic cost of the compilers is pretty low. Check with > your advisor and see if (s)he has enough discretionary money to acquire a > 5-seat or even 1-seat version. > > gerry > > Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> John Hearns wrote: >> >>> 2009/4/20 Tomislav Maric <tomislav.maric at gmx.com>: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I'm a mechanical engineering graduate student from Croatia (Europe :) >>>> and >>>> I'm doing computational continuum mechanics simulations using OpenFOAM >>>> (http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/). >>>> >>> f) as a student you get to use the Intel compilers under a free >>> development license >>> >> >> Read the Intel Compiler license carefully. If you are getting paid by >> your institution to do this work/research, you may not qualify to use >> the Intel compilers for free: >> >> "Non-commercial means you are not getting compensated in any form for >> the products and services you develop using these Intel® Software >> Development Products. Please check the non-commercial FAQ for more >> information about qualifying for a non-commercial license. >> >> Note that academic use of the products does not qualify for a >> non-commercial license. Intel offers heavily discounted licenses to >> academic developers through our Academic Developer Program." >> >> See >> >> >> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/non-commercial-software-development/ >> : >> >> for more information >> >> > -- > Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.clustermonkey.net/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20090422/4d0194dc/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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By Hayden Wright
Kesha is scheduled to perform at the House of Blues in Cleveland tonight, but she's missing a key piece of her wardrobe for the engagement — a beloved jacket. Last night, the singer took to Instagram to ask her fans to help recover the garment, which she says was stolen from her dressing room. The effort launched a wave of amateur sleuths combing through the depths of Instagram for the jacket, its thief and the hope of a reunion. Oh, and she offered the successful detective a kiss on the mouth.
Related: Kesha Transitions with 'Dirty Rock and Roll and Country'
"Hi guys last night my suit jacket was stolen from my dressing room," she said in a dimly lit video. "It is black with a tiger on the back with rainbow on it."
Then she sweetened the pot for would-be Nancy Drews and Hardy Boys among her ranks of followers.
"If you can get me my f—ing suit, I don't know what I'll do I'll kiss you on the f—ing mouth," she added.
However, there's a clock on this offer—she needs it by this evening. And in Cleveland, natch.
"If someone can get it, I'll do something great for you but please I need that f—ing suit by tomorrow night at 9 o'clock. Okay, I love you. Bye."
Best of luck, Kesha! We hope you find your suit. In the meantime, try retracing your steps because perhaps you misplaced it.
And here's what fans suspect the jacket in question looks like:


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This has nothing to do with tanking. It is ineptitude of BC and his staff. We are terribly short at the 1-2 and he cant sign anyone decent. I was fuming when the veterans were brought in at the start of the season and now he lets them go as well. He trades Barbosa for nothing. Demar and Jose are playing extended minutes this season and risking injury.
We need a pg right now till bayless is back cause forbes is playing great at the 2
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Hi Will,
Those are quite a rich red - I think they'd sit absolutely fine. In my opinion you can mismatch leather gloves, they're a good statement.
However, perhaps a tan pair would be a better choice? They'd compliment your browns perfectly, and as you mention you wear tan shoes sometimes I'd suggest they'd work wonderfully there as well.
I contributed an article on co-ordinating leatherwear to the site recently, and I did briefly mention gloves; my general conclusion was do whatever the hell you want, and I'd stand by that
I'd been eyeing up those Cos gloves - but they sold out in my size! So I ended up getting a pair by Dents, which is no bad compromise
Hope that helps!


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Pittsburgh Pirates 4, San Francisco Giants 1: Welcome back, 2011 Giants offense
Well, we all knew the eight consecutive games of scoring 4+ runs was going to end.
We were hoping it might come against Roy Halladay or Cliff Lee. But Kevin Correia?
The Giants were held to one run on five hits by the Pirates in the series finale.
It wasted a solid outing by Ryan Vogelsong in his season-debut, giving up two runs on four hits and three walks in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out seven.
After failing to record a quality start in three games in Arizona, Giants pitchers have posted quality starts in five of their next six games.
- Barry Zito 9 IP, 0 ER in Colorado
- Madison Bumgarner 7 1/3 IP, 1 ER in Colorado
- Matt Cain 9 IP, 0 ER (1 hitter) vs. Pirates
- Barry Zito 7 IP, 2 ER vs. Pirates
- Ryan Vogelsong 6 1/3 IP, 2 ER vs. Pirates.
That's more like it.
But the offense fell back to old habits on Sunday, including failing to get a runner home from third with no out in the eighth. But there were silver linings.
- They only had five hits, but three were extra-bases hits, including the second straight stand-up triple from Angel Pagan, who is start to swing the bat better.
- They made contact. They only struck out three times, and once was by Vogelsong. (The other two were from Buster Posey. What?!?)
- Brandon Belt got a start and went 1 for 3 with walk, stolen base and double. More importantly, he did not strike out. Unfortunately, he'll undoubtedly return to the bench Monday against Halladay.
It's Happy Lincecum Day, or at least we hope it is. Lincecum needs to fall in line with the rest of the rotation and give us a quality start. Starting at home should help things, but will it be enough to beat Halladay at 7:05 p.m. Monday? We'll see.


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|The thermal transport properties—thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity—of potassium selenate crystal have been measured through the successive phase transitions, following the photo-pyroelectric thermal wave technique. The variation of thermal conductivity with temperature through the incommensurate (IC) phase of this crystal is measured. The enhancement in thermal conductivity in the IC phase is explained in terms of heat conduction by phase modes, and the maxima in thermal conductivity during transitions is due to enhancement in the phonon mean free path and the corresponding reduction in phonon scattering. The anisotropy in thermal conductivity and its variation with temperature are reported. The variation of the specific heat with temperature through the high temperature structural transition at 745 K is measured, following the differential scanning calorimetric method. By combining the results of photo-pyroelectric thermal wave methods and differential scanning calorimetry, the variation of the specific heat capacity with temperature through all the four phases of K2SeO4 is reported. The results are discussed in terms of phonon mode softening during transitions and phonon scattering by phase modes in the IC phase.
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|Elastic properties of sodium doped Lithium potassium sulphate, LiK0.9Na0.1SO4, crystal has been studied by ultrasonic Pulse Echo Overlap [PEO] technique and are reported for the first time. The controversy regarding the type of crystal found while growth is performed at 35 °C with equimolar fraction of Li2SO4H2O, K2SO4 and Na2SO4 has been resolved by studying the elastic properties. The importance of this crystal is that it exhibits pyroelectric, ferroelectric and electro optic properties. It is simultaneously ferroelastic and superionic. The elastic properties of LiK0.9Na0.1SO4 crystal are well studied by measuring ultrasonic velocity in the crystal in certain specified crystallographic directions and evaluating the elastic stiffness constants, compliance constants and Poisson's ratios. The anisotropy in the elastic properties of the crystal are well explained by the pictorial representation of the surface plots of phase velocity, slowness and linear compressibility in a-b and a-c planes.
|Elastic constant measurements ...pdf
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text: I put a pair of Z8's on my R1200rt 2,000 miles ago and so far they have been real good. Rode thru TS Debby in Jacksonville on them and lots of hot weather miles too. Looks as though I could get many miles out of them. Wife has Michelin P3's on her F800ST and they are real mileage kings as well.


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It won't be the first time that the Los Gatos Legends will be recognized as winners at a Hot Stove banquet in San Jose. But then, it's not the first time that the local baseball team has won a Colt League World Series championship.
The Legends are repeat winners of a Hot Stove award after posting a three-peat win at the Colt Series. The squad won a similar local award in 2011.
Los Gatos, a team made up of players from throughout Santa Clara County, will be named as the year's Outstanding Amateur Organization at the 30th annual Hot Stove Banquet coming up Jan. 21 at the San Jose Elks Club, 444 W. Alma Ave.
A couple of guys who were in another World Series last year will also be honored at the Hot Stove event. Major Leaguers Daniel Nava of the World Champion Boston Red Sox and Daniel Descalso of the runner-up St. Louis Cardinals will top the list of award winners. Nava is the winner of the Major League Player of the Year award and Descalso is the Major League Special Achievement Award winner.
The Legends won it all last summer–claiming their third straight Colt World Series championship. The team of 15- and 16-year-olds crushed Puerto Rico in the finals to claim the title. Luke Rasmussen (Archbishop Mitty) was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player after hitting .562 with two homers and six doubles. Kris Bubic (Mitty) was picked the tourney's Most Valuable Pitcher and shortstop Conor Thane (St. Francis) was named the Most Valuable Defensive Player.
Nick Oar (College Park), Lane Robinette (Homestead), Keenan Brigman (Valley Christian), Bobby Wood (Homestead), Ben Hughes (Valley Christian), Tommy Hudson (Mitty), Drew Strotman (Homestead), Andrew Najeeb-Brush (Wilcox), Eric Benedetti (St. Francis), Alex Zarate (Branham), Andrew Theron (Leigh), Edric Wong (Homestead), Mark Quimby (Valley Christian), Danny Erlich (Palo Alto), David Ressa (Los Gatos) and Troy Burg (Bellarmine) were other members of the team.
Others winning Hot Stove awards include: Andre Mercurio of San Jose State University, College Player of the Year; Mark Appel of Stanford, College Pitcher of the Year; Mike Simonini of San Jose State, Brant Whiting of Stanford and Mike Couch of Santa Clara, Loyd Christopher Award; Tyler Keifer of West Valley College, Community College Player of the Year; Lucas Yovanovich of De Anza, Community College Pitcher of the Year; John Riley of Willow Glen, High School Player of the Year; Michael Strem of St. Francis, High School Pitcher of the Year; Nick Molina of Wilcox, Frank Bettencourt High School Academic Achievement Award; Joc Pederson of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Minor League Player of the Year; Erik Johnson of the Chicago White Sox, Minor League Pitcher of the Year; Dean Stotz, Lifetime Achievement; Al Talboy, Service Award; Eric Kumota of the Oakland A's, Scout of the Year; Greg Charles, Ted Barrett Amateur Umpire Award; Darren Sabedra of the San Jose Mercury News, Media Award winner; Debbie Gallas of the Oakland A's, Kathy Wolff Women in Baseball Award winner.
Ted Robinson returns as the master of ceremonies. The cost is $50 per person or $500 for a reserved table for 10. Call 408.802.3756.


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Jerry "The Ends Justifies The Means" Brown is at it again. Last week saw the release of the first commercial for Proposition 30, the measure crafted by the governor and the California Federation of Teachers that would temporarily raise the sales tax for everyone and income taxes on the wealthy. It could scarcely be more dishonest and misleading.
As documented by The San Francisco Chronicle and the Fox & Hounds political website, the Prop. 30 ad:
• Doesn't even mention the tax hikes and implies the measure would require spending cuts. "For every dollar in new revenue, the plan makes $3 in spending cuts," the commercial asserts. In fact, Prop. 30 mandates no cuts of any kind – just an estimated $47 billion in tax hikes.
• Asserts that because of Brown's fiscal stewardship and avoidance of budget gimmicks, "California's bond rating is now positive." This uses the technical language of a recent Standard & Poor's report on the state in a grossly misleading context. In fact, S&P gives California the worst rating of any state, and Brown not only has continued the budget gimmicks of past governors, Prop. 30 itself is such a gimmick. Remember, the revenue it would generate if it passes is already counted in the 2012-13 budget adopted in June. The 2011-12 budget only was balanced because of the governor's arbitrary decision to sharply increase revenue projections. When his revenue fantasy didn't come to pass, that made this year's budget headaches even worse.
• Asserts that the state has cut $16 billion in spending. In fact, the 2012-13 budget is $91.4 billion, up more than $5 billion from the 2011-12 budget, the first spending plan that Brown largely crafted after his 2010 election.
The commercial's mendacity is stunning – one more sign of a warped Sacramento political culture that holds the public in utter contempt. From Brown on down, no one thinks there's anything wrong with lying to voters. With manipulating the election process by pressuring country registrars on which ballot signatures they count first. With passing legislation to guarantee the tax-hike measure is first on the ballot and having the measure take effect immediately by deeming it budget-related because it has a $1,000 appropriation.
And, no, this is not a partisan assessment. George Skelton, the veteran liberal columnist for The Los Angeles Times, condemned Brown's gaming of the ballot placement as "bad politics – sleazy and smelly. Nothing like packaging a tax increase in a reeky wrapper. And it's breaking faith with the voters – another example of why they have so little." Dan Walters, the veteran moderate columnist for The Sacramento Bee, noted that the push for the tax hikes comes even as the governor committed billions to a hopelessly flawed bullet-train project and as the Legislature gave raises to nearly 1,000 staff members. He wrote that state leaders appeared to live "in a hermetically sealed political bubble, disconnected from reality."
Given their record over the past dozen years, no one should be surprised that legislative leaders are acting this way. But when he sought an encore third term as governor in 2010, Brown billed himself as being different – relentlessly honest and devoted to ending the state's dysfunction.
If only. Instead, we're stuck with a governor who defines his role as the tax collector for the state's broken status quo.


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Acemoglu and Robinson argue that the these predictions were off primarily because the Big Push model ignored politics and institutions:
Of course, things didn't quite work out that way. In fact, many of the economies about which Rosenstein-Rodan was bullish are not much richer today than they were in 1961. Liberia and Haiti's economies contracted since then. Angola, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda haven't done so well either. We of course know that Afghanistan, India and Pakistan grew more slowly than South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. Argentina and Haiti were no match for Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
The main reason why Rosenstein-Rodan got it so wrong is because he completely ignored the role of institutions and politics.
It's hard to disagree that Rosenstein-Rodan should have taken these into account – but are they the primary drivers? What about geography, natural resources, export commodity prices, health and the myriad other factors which might drive a country's growth rate? Without a little more effort, the models lack of effectiveness doesn't tell us anything about why¬†it is ineffective. I understand that Acemoglu and Robinson consider institutions to be the chief determinant of everything since the beginning of time, but arguing that the Rosenstein-Rodan prediction is wrong because it ignored institutions is a little like arguing that a car missing all four wheels won't drive because – damn it – it's also missing four tires.
Slightly more disconcerting: A&J are only displaying a subset of predictions from Rodan's original paper. Why? My guess is that eye-balling the full dataset doesn't reveal as much. This calls our for a slightly more rigorous approach than pointing to a few bad predictions. Even better, does someone have the time to crunch the numbers and see if Rodan's predictions are less useful than predictions being made today?


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I suppose that is how the tradition of "spring cleaning" came about. But it is really about much more than cleanliness. It is about the preparation of the heart. As I clean, sort and discard or set aside things to donate that we have not used in the previous year, I think about what should also be discarded from my life.
Nothing is beyond consideration — things like wasting time on too much TV, overuse of the voyeuristic online social networks, even sometimes reading too much literature that does not enrich my life. It is all on the table for consideration. My life as well as our home is "cleaned out," and that is what Passover preparation is really about!
Passover and the feast of unleavened bread is a time to celebrate and rejoice over our deliverance from Egypt. When we participate in a Seder, the dinner that is shared with family and friends to remember this event, we are to tell the story as if it were us that walked out of Egypt so long ago. Deliverance from Egypt happens every time we overcome sin in our lives, and turn to our Messiah for forgiveness! So it is not a great stretch to remember our deliverance so personally.
The Seder celebrates the Holy One's redemption of His chosen people from Egypt. Those chosen were many, they included the children of the 12 tribes as well as many others that attached themselves to the Israelites through belief in the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
KJV Exodus 12:38 "And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle."
Let's take some time in our devotions this week to walk through some of the elements of a traditional seder meal. The accompanying ritual is read from a book called a "Haggadah" and Haggadah means "The Telling." It is called this because we are commanded to "teach our children" about our deliverance from Egypt:
KJV Exodus 10:2 "that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD."
One of the most beautiful things about a Seder, is the rich symbolism behind each element, and how they also tell the story of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus in English). Though most Jewish people do not believe in Him, I believe they will feel like they do once introduced, because of years of attending Seders and suddenly recognizing Him in the elements.
On this special night we join in with others around the world who are also observing this sacred Moadim (appointed time). But as believers in Messiah Yeshua, we are able to bring to the table the joy of our redemption through His death and blood atonement for our sins. And His glorious resurrection in victory! The Seder is rich with symbolism regarding our beloved Messiah. We have only to open our eyes and see.
Passover is a memorial, an appointed time, and a great festival! There are many scripture references which show us the importance of this day.
KJV Exodus 12:14 "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever."
In the center of our table you will see a round plate containing a lamb shankbone, a sprig of parsley, a bowl of salt water, a mixture containing chopped apples, nuts, cinnamon, raisins and juice, a bit of ground horseradish, and some square, flat crackers called Matza. These items are all present because they are each important to the story of the Passover. Let's take a moment to examine each one:
The lamb shank bone symbolizes the sacrificial lamb that all families took to the Temple for slaughter before sundown on Nissan the 14th. Remember, that this lamb was taken into the home on Nissan the tenth, and treated as a pet, lovingly cared for, and examined for four days prior to its sacrifice.
Prophetically, Yeshua also entered Jerusalem triumphantly on this same day. Like the Passover lamb, He was repeatedly examined by the priests. And He became the Pesach sacrifice, dying for us on the cross at the same time the Pesach lambs were sacrificed in the Temple.
The Karpas is Hebrew for the Greens, usually some of the early spring greens like parsley, celery or lettuce, they are symbolic of the new life we have in Messiah, as we are freed from slavery to sin. We dip our greens in salt water before we eat them, to remind us of the tears of slavery, so that we never desire to "return to Egypt."
The Maroror "Bitter Herbs" are a reminder of the bitterness of our bondage in Egypt to harsh task masters. It also reminds us of the bitterness of sin without the sacrificial redemption brought to us by Messiah Yeshua.
As we eat the horseradish spread upon the matza, we remember that bitter was our former life of sin. But now our lives can be sweet in the joy of a new life of freedom! We also get a chuckle out of the faces of the children as they react to this "bitter" experience!
The Haroseth: A sweet mixture of apples, raisins, honey, cinnamon, nuts and sweet wine (or grape juice), specially prepared to resemble the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves. Though it was used to bind bricks together in Egypt, it can now bind together believers in sweetness as we fellowship together as believers in Messiah.
The children of Israel toiled to make treasure cities for Pharaoh working in brick and clay. We remember this task by eating the charoseth. We eat the horseradish twice, but before we eat it the second time we cover it with Charoseth, dipping twice to remember how bitter life was for the Israelites, and to remember that even the bitterest of circumstances can be sweetened by the hope of redemption!
Now the Matza, a beautiful picture of Messiah. Matzah is a mixture of water and flour, rolled out flat, and then pierced in long rows of holes that form stripes on the cracker. They measure about 8 by 8 inches. They go from the mixing bowl to the oven in less than five minutes, this is to avoid the picking up of yeast, which floats freely in our air, to ensure that it remains yeast free.
The area between the piercings rise up and form brown stripes on the white matzah. This is a picture of our Messiah who was both striped and pierced, once by the scourging given to him by the Roman soldiers, and again at the cross. Matzah figures prominently in our seder, as does Messiah as our redemption.
During the seder, There are three pieces of matzah hidden under a napkin. This represents the unleavened bread that the children of Israel ate as they left Egypt, because there was no time for their bread to rise. We diligently search our homes on the eve of Pesach to rid ourselves of leavening. In the Bible, leaven is often symbolic of sin.
As the seder elements are eaten and their symbolic meanings discussed, the leader takes one of the three matzah hidden in the napkin, and removes the middle one. He breaks the middle one in two, now called the afikomen and wraps one half in a napkin to hide when the children aren't watching. After the main meal, the children are charged to search out the hidden Matzah, and return it to the leader to redeem it for a prize.
The Afikomen is symbolic of our savior, broken, swaddled, and hidden for a time in the grave. But like our Messiah, it arises and becomes part of us again as we partake of it, with the cup of redemption. This is what Messiah was doing with his disciples in the garden of Gethsemane prior to his arrest when he said, "do this in remembrance of me."
As you contemplate these things, may you realize the joy of a risen Messiah in your heart!


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Walter Maurine Jenkins Sr., 82, was attempting to cross North Church Street in Atkins, just south of the street's intersection with Northeast 2nd Street, at approximately 5:50 p.m. Sunday, according to the report, when a 2005 Chevrolet van struck Jenkins.
Jenkins was transported by Pope County EMS to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center. He succumbed to his injuries shortly after being transported, according to police.
According to the report, Jenkins was walking eastbound across the street, crossing the southbound lane and into the path of the van. Jenkins crossed the at the intersection from the southwest corner to the southwest corner, across the street from a marked pedestrian crosswalk on the north side of the intersection.


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Dump trucks will rumble to and from Siesta Key public beach next year to move loads of dirt from a Sarasota County project.
Attendees at the open house for the public beach project Nov. 13 gave their opinions on how many trips those trucks will make based on two options for the Beach Road drainage improvements.
Sarasota County commissioners will consider the choice of projects Dec. 11; the decision comes down to a balance between island aesthetics and taxpayer money.
As part of the first option, the county would remove the 26,000 cubic yards of soil from the beach road site and store it elsewhere. Then, when the time came, they'd return some of the dirt for use in the Siesta Key public beach enhancement project.
But if commissioners approve a second option, the county would, instead, leave a 4-foot pile of dirt at the drainage project location in anticipation of the beach project and plant a 20-foot-wide buffer made of trees and shrubs. During the open house, County Resources Manager Hank Schneider said that the landscaping buffer wouldn't completely hide the pile of excess soil.
County staff estimates the first option will cost more than triple that of the second option, which carries a forecasted price tag of $120,000, and will require 670 more round trips for dump trucks.
The contractor chosen for the drainage project is expected to start work after Easter on the new retention pond, which will generate the excess soil, with construction coming in fall.
But, the county is still waiting for the final design on the beach project, and questions remain regarding how it will be funded, both of which could extend the lag between completion of the drainage improvements and start of the beach enhancements.
The county has the full $2.8 million of total cost earmarked for the Beach Road project, which consists of a $975,000 grant from the Southwest Florida Water Management District and funds from the penny surtax.
The Options
Option one: Remove all excavated soil
1,800 dump truck loads
$200,000 cost to move soil off site
670 dump truck loads a year later
$180,000 total cost to deliver soil back to sire
$380,000 total cost for option one
Option two: Leave some soil for Siesta park project
1,100 dump trucks to remove excess soil
$120,000 cost to move soil offsite
26,000 cubic yards of soil remain at site
20 foot wide landscaping buffer to shield 4-foot dirt pile (diagram, left)


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|February 9, 2013, 09:24 PM
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Bayonet for M1 Garand
I am in the market just because. I see people are about 50-50 on a $25 repro. Worth a shot, I guess, except it's made in China. You know, the folks who were shooting at the guys carrying M1's in Korea.
I can't see owning a Norinco 1911 for the same reason. If I wanted an SKS, AK, or other butt-ugly firearm, sure. But not this.
"Jeez, man, what's another word for 'stupid?'"
"Tactical." -Tom Servo
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CMP. Get the real thing.
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A few years ago I purchased a repro bayonet for a M1917. The blade was excellent quality with all the correct markings and a nice scabbard.
Encouraged, I ordered a 16" Garand repro from the same company (don't recall the name now). It is a really cheap imitation, I was not pleased at all, especially considering the quality of the M1917 bayo from the same company. Feels like pot-steel and the scabbard was crappy imitation leather.
Shoulda sent it back immediately, but it's still sitting in the closet somewhere.
If you can find and handle a decent repro, then go for it, but don'tget stick with a blade made from a recycled matchbox car.
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CMP will not ship you one until you snail mail them a proof of citizenship.
I paid more, but I bought one locally, and didn't have to wait up to 4 weeks for them to ship it.
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I wish to report a weakness in design of Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite (7.0.302)'s Anti-virus settings.
I hope Zone Labs will fix this weakness and issue an automatic update to the program after reading this.
The weakness is in the way Zone Alarm handles "Exception lists" for the Kaspersky Anti-virus.
When you do a scan of your c: drive, and Kaspersky notes its a possible virus, but you wish to add
the particular file to Zone Alarm Suite's exception list, the Zone Alarm suite incorrectly adds the
virus name to the exception list, instead of the file name that caused the false positive.
The security weakness here is that:
You want Zone Alarm to ignore a particular file you have.
Zone Alarm will instead ignore all files in the future that have this virus.
This is unacceptable and very insecure - so you really can't add anything to the virus exception list,
because you would then be giving any future files of that virus freedom to run on your computer.
The solution would be for Zone Alarm's virus exception list to allow you to enter exceptions
by file names, not virus names.
The same weakness also exist's for Zone Alarm's Spyware Exception list.
Zone Labs - if you are monitoring this forum, please kindly fix this security weakness in your 7.0.302 suite
as soon as possible, and offer it as an automatic update.
Thank you,
William Sternbach
Operating System:Windows XP Pro
Product Name:ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite
Software Version:7.0


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MADRID, July 17 -- There's a simple way, to calculate a middle-age patient's eventual dementia risk, on a scale of one to 15, according to Swedish investigators.
The risk score highlights the role of vascular factors in the development of dementia 20 years hence, said Tiia Ngandu, Ph.D., of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
"It may help to identify individuals who can benefit from lifestyle changes and drug therapies," she said in a poster presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders here.
The dementia risk score is still being tweaked to validate and refine its accuracy, Dr. Ngandu said. The score was developed by following 1,409 participants in the Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) project. The participants were examined at a mean age of 50 and then were re-examined 20 years later to assess dementia.


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Christopher Pritchard will once again be'front stage as the narrator for the St. Augustine Community Chorus Concert "On Broadway," at 7:30 p.m. March 10, and 3 p.m. March 11, at St. Augustine High School in the St. Johns County Center for the Arts (SJCCA), where he is a student. Prichard will showcase his performance skills as he weaves the narratives of the popular musicals of the '50s throughout the concert.
Audiences may remember several of the acting roles of Pritchard which include: Chris in "Miss Saigon" and the Man in Chair in "The Drowsy Chaperone," both with SJCCA at St. Augustine High School, and Reverend Hale in "The Crucible" and B-Flat in "Second Samuel" at the Limelight Theatre. A high school senior who has acted since the age of five, Pritchard plans to major in musical theatre in college.
"Planning concert programs is challenging, time consuming and fun," director Kathleen Vande Berg said.
"And we are delighted that Christopher Prichard will be on stage with us, contributing his professionalism as actor and singer."
Vande Berg, a retired music educator, brings her professional skills in combining pop style and jazz in this production, based on the music of four outstanding and long-lasting Broadway shows — "South Pacific," "Guys and Dolls," "The King and I" and "My Fair Lady."
Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, and Frank Loesser, these musicals continue to provide pleasure these many decades later.
The St. Augustine Children's Chorus, under the direction of Kerry Fradley.will perform "Dites Moi" and "You have to be Carefully Taught to Hate and Fear" from "South Pacific" and "The March of the Siamese Children" from "The King and I."
The accompanist is Bryant Miano, who will be joined by an instrumental ensemble.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, with tickets for children 12 and younger for $5.
Advance tickets are available at Herbie Wiles Insurance; Music Matters; CNL Bank First Coast; Anastasia Books; The Print Shop; Southern Horticulture; Carter's Jewelry; and online at www.staugustinecommunitychorus.org.


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He was born July 2, 1946, in McComb, Miss., to Fred C. Moak, Sr and Mary Carr Moak.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Moak; three sons, David Moak of Parthenon, Daniel Moak of Fallsville and Derek Moak of Harrison; one daughter, Stephani Butler of Harrison; one brother, Fred C. Moak Jr. of Alabama; two sisters, Patricia Williams of Florida and Bettie Ann Hubbard of Louisiana; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Sunday, May 12, 2013, Broussard Funeral Home of Clarksville.
Graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, Cassville Cemetery in Cassville, with the Rev. Don Mulford officiating, under the direction of Broussard Funeral Home of Clarksville. The online obituary and guestbook are available at www.broussardfuneral.com.
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As promised by Sony late last month, the PlayStation
Store revamp is now here. PlayStation 3 users who check for a network
update will find that firmware version 2.30 is available.
For gamers, the most immediately appreciable improvement in
the new software is support for the redesigned PlayStation Store, which drops
its web browser foundation in favor of a locally viewable but still online
required version. The result of this change is much quicker browsing speeds,
which are now more comparable to Xbox Live Marketplace rather than a slow
website. A video walkthrough of the new store is available on the official PlayStation
Early PS3 owners who installed the update reported that the
store would occasionally fail to load images, instead displaying only a "missing
image" placeholder. Some have been able to fix the problem by clearing the PS3
web browser cache, though various loading errors on the store could be due to
the PlayStation Network's heavy strain from the masses of updates.
The PlayStation Store accessible via the PC and PSP also
sport a new look, though the changes appear to be cosmetic and do not behave
the same as the PlayStation 3 version.
For high-definition movie enthusiasts, the 2.30 firmware
also brings with it the much anticipated DTS-HD
Master Audio support for the console's Blu-ray Disc playback feature. Like
PCM and Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA can deliver audio presentation that is bit-for-bit
identical to the original studio master.
"PS3 was designed to enable delivery of new and improved
technologies like DTS-HD Master Audio," said Teiji Yutaka, SVP of Software
Platform Development at SCE. "So we are delighted to be able to offer this
capability to PS3 users."
The 2.30 firmware update is now available from the
PlayStation 3 update function, or as a direct
download to PC from PlayStation


text: I've just recovered from an elbow injury (thank goodness it wasn't too bad), which I got from trying to get the fastest speed possible on a serve speed radar I haven't been able to serve fast comfortably for 3-4 months and I've only really been playing around with groundstrokes. But although my elbow feels fine now, I feel like I've lost my muscle memory for serving. At first I saw this as a problem, but now I see it as a chance to start fresh and start serving properly. Now I'm going to try to describe what my old serve was like (I still don't have a camera). It was like a jack-in-the-box technique, similar to Dolgopolov's. I had a fairly short ball toss and jumped and swung my arm at relatively the same time. I noticed that I dont use my legs as much as I should. I know that this isn't exactly a great technique hence I want to try to learn how to serve properly. So I have a bunch of questions. Here they are? 1. The proper way to serve is to jump first then swing your arm. 2. Is Andy Roddick's serve's fundamentals worth learning? 3. Any other good serve tips and pointers would be nice too. PS for those who are curious, the highest serve speed I had was 171 kph.


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For once, there's no argument when it comes to where FC Dallas should stand in the MLS Power Rankings; pundits across the board have ranked FCD number one. The folks at MLSsoccer.com ranked Dallas number one for the first time this season, citing the play of goalkeeper Rauls Fernandez and playmaker David Ferreira as reasons for FCD's rise.
Avi Creditor at SportsIllustrated.com and Ives Galarcep with Soccer By Ives both kept FC Dallas on top of their rankings, with both noting the contributions of a healthy David Ferreira to FCD's success. The rankings on ESPNFC.com and Goal.com both pointed out that Dallas' win was a special milestone for head coach Schellas Hyndman while keeping the club ranked number one. And Yahoo! Sports and the Bleacher Report also both named FC Dallas as the top team in Major League Soccer after week eight.


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Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) [1988 Panel] (ICPSR 9568)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
This data collection is part of a longitudinal survey designed to provide detailed information on the economic situation of households and persons in the United States. These data examine the distribution of income, wealth, and poverty in American society and gauge the effects of federal and state programs on the well-being of families and individuals. There are three basic elements contained in the survey. The first is a control card that records basic social and demographic characteristics for each person in a household, as well as changes in such characteristics over the course of the interviewing period. The second element is the core portion of the questionnaire, with questions repeated at each interview on labor force activity, types and amounts of income, participation in various cash and noncash benefit programs, attendance in postsecondary schools, private health insurance coverage, public or subsidized rental housing, low-income energy assistance, and school breakfast and lunch participation. The third element consists of topical modules, which are a series of supplemental questions asked during selected household visits. A topical module was not created for the first wave of the 1988 panel. The Wave II Topical Module (Part 3) concerns fertility history. Women were asked the number of children they had and the number they expected to have in the future. They were also asked about their employment status prior to and after their first pregnancies. The Wave III (Part 5) and Wave VI Topical Modules (Part 11) include data on work schedules, child care, child support agreements, support for nonhousehold members, long-term care, disability status of children, and health status and utilization of health care services. The Topical Module for Wave IV (Part 7) contains questions on assets and liabilities, such as savings accounts, stocks, IRA accounts, loans, and credit cards. The Wave V Topical Module (Part 9) covers educational financing and enrollment for persons over the age of 15. Part 15, the Full Panel Research Data File, has not been edited nor imputed although it has been topcoded or bottomcoded and recoded if necessary by the Census Bureau, to avoid disclosure of individual respondents.
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Really? I voted for the option that happens to be the most popular, and I feel rather happy these days...
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
So the majority of people sampled still think in primitive levels in terms of what makes them happy.
Actually I don't really see a problem with that
But honestly, what's really happened here is that someone (not me!) has seen that the poll doesn't take the simplest of steps to prevent ballot stuffing and has written a script to effect the results for a laugh.
In fact, I got a follow-up email from the owner of the poll saying the the results had been "hacked" so he had reset the totals and please cou
Not to start a philosophico-moral debate here, but I'm not entirely convinced by that hierarchy. Or rather, by the need for a hierarchy. However, accepting it as such for the sake of discussion I still see no reason to see a sad story. You seem to be making an implicit statement that the hierarchy is walked up or something, while there is no reason that you couldn't address each of these points in random order.
Taking myself (because I know myself better than I do the anonymous pollees) as an example:
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]


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It is reported that once she hits the lecture circuit, Hillary Clinton will get paid around $200,000 for a two-hour speech, like her husband and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I can understand that you need to pay some speakers to get them to attend. Speaking is often the way that writers earn much of their livelihood because the money they make from the sale of their books and articles may not amount to that much. Even for those who do not depend on speaking honoraria to make a living, an offer of an honorarium partially compensates for the hassle of leaving one's home and traveling to often distant places to give a talk and then upon returning of having to catch up on all the work that piles up at home in your absence. Even I get paid small honoraria by groups that have money to pay for speakers, though I also speak for free to groups that have no budget for this.
But surely these kinds of large numbers bandied about for the big names make no sense? What could anyone possibly say that would be worth that amount? Clearly the hosts are paying for something other than the content of the talks. But what? Just to be in the same room and breathe the same air? To have a photograph taken with the speaker? To briefly exchange some small talk? And what kinds of organizations have that kind of money to spend on a single brief event?
The only reason I can think of is that the sponsors of the event want to curry favor with the speaker in return for some favor, making it a form of lobbying. Or that they want to draw a large crowd and only a big name will do it. But that cannot be the whole story, surely? Why would they want a crowd just for its own sake?
There is clearly a world out there that is opaque to me.


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January 25, 2013
Here is a very short time-lapse video showing me at work at the Devil's Golf Course.
I know that a lot of you will ask: Color?
It's just an iPhone snap, but hopefully more serious (and less colorful) work will emerge after I get home and process my images.


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|Junior Book Club
Event Type: Book Discussion
Age Group(s): Grade School (age 5 - 12)
Date: 10/21/2013
Start Time: 4:30 PM
End Time: 5:30 PM
Hey bookworm!
Are you in 2nd through 5th grade? Want to read good books and have fun discussing them?
Join us once a month and come ready to read the title of the month. This season, we are doing juvenile read-alikes of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, the adult novel chosen for this year's Big Read. Books are available at the Youth Services desk three weeks prior to the club meetings.
September 16th: Lunch Lady and the Video Game Villain by Jarrett Krosoczka
October 21st: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
November 18th: No Passengers Beyond the Point by Gennifer Choldenko
Please register at 708.795.8000 ex 3088, on our website, or in person at the Youth Services desk. Sign up begins 30 days before event.
Location: Youth Services Program Room
Contact: Angelica Soto
Contact Number: 708-795-8000 x3088
Presenter: Miss Angelica
Status: Closed


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2012 Olympics Tech: How to Watch the Games
While there are many new ways to watch the Olympic Games of London 2012, they run the risk of not seeming nearly as miraculous as the home televised viewing of the Games of London 1948. That year marked the first time that the Games had been broadcast to homes and also the BBC's return to the air just two years before after a seven-year hiatus during World War II.
Though only 45,000 homes in the BBC broadcast area had television sets and all were around London, the Games were so popular that the BBC canceled other programs to double its originally planned coverage. Staffed only with two vans and six Emitron cameras (and half of each were pre-war), the BBC produced 70 hours of programming in 15 days.
During the London 2012 Games, not one moment will escape a screen of some sort. This time, the BBC is managing 2,500 hours of live content, including producing 33 hours of live television each day across BBC One, Two, and Three; airing 24 hours a day of news coverage; and broadcasting 24 live HD channels to cover every event.
Viewers will consume that content on phones and tablets, in front of 3D TV sets, and in theaters decked out with Super Hi-Vision. They'll also be talking back to their screens, whether they're getting the inside scoop by using Shazam or watching the Games and chatting with friends via Facebook.
Paul Deighton, CEO of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, told Reuters, "It's sort of the anytime, anyplace, anywhere Olympics and Paralympics. It's really the customer experience, whether they're watching it on their phone, on their TV, on their laptop, and all the ways in which they can interact with the Games that way."
Tune in to our story to see where and how people will be watching London 2012.
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SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada math teacher killed by a 12-year-old student in a school-yard shooting that also wounded two classmates was remembered for his character, selfless acts and military service at a memorial service Sunday.
Speakers hailed Michael Landsberry for trying to talk the shooter into turning over the semi-automatic handgun before the youth shot him in the chest as students arrived for class Oct. 21 at Sparks Middle School.
Gov. Brian Sandoval says the 45-year-old former Marine was a devoted husband, father and teacher who made "the ultimate sacrifice so his students might live."
Brig. Gen. William Burks of the Nevada National Guard says the core values of honor, courage, commitment and integrity that Landsberry learned as a Marine and Nevada Air National Guardsman were "on display in the school yard" when he walked calmly to the shooter and gave other students a chance to flee.
Landsberry received full military honors, including a 21-gun salute, during the two-hour celebration of life at Sparks Christian Fellowship.


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YOUR EASY SIMPLE WORK JUST FOR A FEW HOURS FOR FREE SPACE FOR YOUR ADVERTISEMENTS ON MY WEBSITE FOR HALF OF YEAR. = No cash money! Instead of the cash money, I'll give you free space where you can place your advertisement. It will make more money for you than some standard cash you usually ask for your work!: What kind of the advertisements you will place on my website, depends only on you: Whether you will run Google AdSense with your publisher id to earn direct revenue for each click on the advertisements from Google Company by any visitor of my website or whether you advertise your own website and get traffic to it or you will advertise any of your services and get the payment from your future customers or whatever, just suggest! I am open for an arrangement. If you want cash money for your work, do NOT contact me! If you agree with that deal, DO contact me.
1) Adding unlimited number of uploaded videos + linked videos: (embedded videos with URL links):
I will be pasting unlimited number of URL links into a playlist (probably into XML format?) and unlimited number of uploaded videos (unlimited giga bytes for each video). All the videos will be played in ONE (the same) web video player like TV on my public page. = There will be only one playlist in XML(?) for only my private use to be adding new videos with these two ways.
2) No video will be repeated (except exceptions):
Playing videos RANDOMLY = (where absolutely nothing will be repeated before ALL the videos are played, even after repeatedly restarting a computer by any individual user.): The web video player will remember which songs already were played by each individual viewer so that NO song could be repeated FOR each individual viewer! (except exceptions: SEE below)
3) Repeating concrete videos:
If I want, I will make settings for some concrete videos how many times some concrete video will be played (repeated) = percentage rate to all the number of videos in the playlist, to be able to promote concrete songs / videos / advertisements.
4) "Annotations" WITH (and without) THE DIRECT LINK to an original video on Internet:
(I mean the same feature like it is on YouTube where you can write any text you want on the screen of the player and after you click on the text, you are automatically redirected to any other page on internet (in a new window), for example: "CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SINGER ON YOUTUBE." After one click on this sentence it will open a singer's original channel on YouTube or any other web page (in a new window). This feature will be for the UPLOADED videos as well as for the LINKED videos, because "annotations" can be used also for any other text (not only for the redirection).
5) The web video player has to be played in ANY media:
(for example: in any computers: desktops, laptops/notebooks, ipodes, any telephones, tablets, (MP4 if connected with internet) or whatever. (In MP3 players as an internet radio only = only audio, of course). But adding videos (uploading, pasting the links) has to be done ONLY once = only one format of the links (uploadings) for each video because I will be adding a huge number of the links (of uploadings) every day. That's why I will NOT have any free time to be pasting more formats of the links / uploading videos for each video.
6) Playing uploaded ANY formats:
(For axample: .flv, .MP4, etc. of the videos that will be uploaded / linked into the web video player).
7) Standard features:
Full Screen, Skip the video ("forward" )*SEE below, Volume, Mute, Stop / Play, time of the running video / duration of the running video, change quality, Autostart the web video player, Autonext every video.
8) "Forward" ("skip) the song (video):
If an individual viewer clicks the button: "forward" ("skip") the song (video), the player will play the next video and NOT play this song (video), any more, until all the playlist has been watched by that viewer. (Because the player will think, that viewer does not like this song (video).) By this way it will work (=it will remember it) ALSO even after restarting individual computers.
9) Background of the page where will be the website video player:
Just include a code so that I can anytime simply change background by uploading a picture / photo. PLUS inserting any active links ANYWHERE on the page on that photo / picture. The size of the picture / photo should have unlimited Mbs and unlimitedly long. Number of the links should be unlimited, as well.
- The problems with "buffering": Viewers will NOT wait for "buffering".


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Orange you glad Jude Law isn't shacking up next door?
The hunky actor made a fruitless attempt to fend off nosy New York University freshman by launching oranges at the pesky co-eds who were gazing at the actor on his terrace from their high-rise dorm rooms, according to the New York Post.
"He noticed we were there, and we started waving at him," NYU freshman Neha Najeeb told the Post. "Then he went inside and came back with two oranges. He threw them at our window, but he missed."
Law left his terrace then came back out with two more oranges, she said.
"This time, he hit the windows -- there was orange pulp on the glass for a week -- and then he went back to working out. Now we don't like Jude Law anymore."
Students begin to scream "Hey, Jude!" every time the actor steps out onto his private balcony on Washington Square that happens to be within view of an NYU freshman dorm. The Broadway star plays with his son and works out with his trainer, photos obtained by the Post reveal.
A second NYU frosh said she was shocked that the "Hamlet" star would stoop so low as to chuck produce their way.
"We couldn't believe it when the orange hit the window," student Kaitlin Coari said. "I'm supposed to go see 'Hamlet' with my sister this Saturday. It's awkward. I should bring some oranges, I guess."


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I'm making a custom PCB that will be controlled by an Arduino Due. The Arduino Due provides 5V, 3V3, and a GND pin. I'm going to use this for most of the chips, and I will use a 9V battery or maybe even a separate power supply for the voltage reference and opamps.
1. Will the behaviour/output of opamps and voltage regulators/references such as the MAX6325 change appreciably with some droop in power supply voltage (e.g. from a battery?)
2. For every component on my schematic, I have a +power pin, and at the other power pin I put a GND there. However, some components on my PCB will be powered by a battery. The second terminal of the battery has to be connected somewhere... so how do I reconcile this? The MAX6325 has a GND pin, so I guess it wants to be connected to the same ground as all my other logic chips, and the return current will go out through that pin.
3. A DAC, a MAX5318, says I can connect a pin called AVSS to either a negative voltage power supply ~-1V or GND. I heard that the negative power supply is needed if you want the DAC to output negative voltages. But the datasheet never said anything about this. From what I can gather, it might not make a difference. Is this true/plausible?