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There's something the Virginia Senate candidate doesn't want to talk about.
Virginians: Before you go to the polls in November to elect a U.S. senator, there is a very real and terrifying fact you simply must know about Ed Gillespie.
No, it's not that he's a former lobbyist (though he is). Or that he worked in George W. Bush's White House (he did), ran the Republican National Committee (that too) and has said he was "torn" between rooting for the Redskins and the Eagles (shudder). It's far more sinister than that.
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He's from New Jersey.
Sure, Gillespie has lived for more than two decades in Virginia's Fairfax County, where he's raised a family, gone to church, shopped at ABC stores and paid the car tax. But much will no doubt be written between now and Election Day about whether Gillespie – the current Republican frontrunner in the race to face Sen. Mark Warner (D) – is a "real" Virginian or merely an interloper whose true heart lies in the Philly suburbs or the dreaded District of Columbia.
Warner, meanwhile, is busy telling anyone who'll listen that Gillespie "doesn't have many ties to Virginia." This despite the fact that Warner – whom polls typically dub Virginia's most popular statewide politician – is originally from Indiana.
But maybe this line of attack won't work anyway. The commonwealth actually has quite a habit of voting for non-natives. The 2013 ballot for governor pitted Terry McAuliffe (born in New York) against Ken Cuccinelli (New Jersey). The previous year featured the Senate race between George Allen (California) and Tim Kaine (Minnesota). And in the 2009 governor's contest, Robert McDonnell (Pennsylvania) trounced born-and-bred Virginian Creigh Deeds. In fact, McAuliffe is the fourth consecutive Virginia governor born elsewhere, and the state hasn't had a Virginia-birthed U.S. senator since Harry Flood Byrd Jr., who left office in 1983.
Virginia isn't alone in this trend, as recent years have witnessed the rise of the rootless candidate. President Obama, after all, was born in Hawaii to a Kansan and a Kenyan, and went on to study in California, New York and Boston before settling in Chicago. Little wonder so many cities are battling to host his presidential library.
And then there is Hillary Clinton, who dropped into New York to run for Senate in 2000, and Scott Brown, who represented Massachusetts on the Hill and now wants to do the same for New Hampshire. Sean Eldridge, the husband of Facebook mogul Chris Hughes, launched a bid for an upstate New York congressional seat shortly after buying a home there (he already owned an upstate estate, but in the wrong district). And Alex Mooney is running for a West Virginia congressional seat having just resigned as state Republican Party chairman — in Maryland.


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Start by expanding how spacious your home feels with some simple tricks and fool-the-eye color cleverness.
- Because pale colors tend to recede visually (move away from you), the lighter the color you choose for your walls and your floor, the larger your room will appear.
- Cool colors such as blues, greens and purples also seem to recede, making small spaces visually appear more open and spacious.
- Shiny surfaces can help you expand space even more. That's something to remember when selecting paint sheens. For example, you can use a semigloss sheen to visually expand a small kitchen or bathroom. Use a softer sheen, such as satin or eggshell, in bedrooms (these are especially great for kids' rooms) and living areas to offer a more subtle finish.
- Trim, molding and even furniture placed at various heights can affect a person's perceptions of space. Furniture kept at the same height level can help make rooms appear more spacious. To avoid decorative boredom, add a few simple level breakers such as a tall plant, wall art or an attractive floor light. In any case, don't go for the massive and the overstuffed. Sleek furniture and clean lines keep the room looking large.
- Try the "same palette" trick. To make a small place appear larger, use the same palette of colors throughout but vary how you use it. For example, if using two different colors for your walls and trim, try repeating the colors in a connecting room, but use the trim color on the walls and the wall color on the trim.
- Open the door to a confined corridor by painting it with light, cool colors. Then mount a tall mirror at the end. The space may seem to go on forever./li>
- You don't have to raise the roof over low ceilings. Instead, paint it a shade or two lighter than the walls to open the area up visually. Also, extend the wall color a few inches onto the ceiling.
- Another tip-top notion is to install crown molding around the perimeter of the ceiling and paint it in a darker color than the ceiling itself. This will help to draw the eye upward.
- Put patterns into play. Those with a strong directional feel (stripes, for example) can really help to visually expand your space. Vertical stripes tend to make rooms seem taller, while horizontal stripes make rooms appear longer.
- Let the sunshine in. Minimize window treatments to let in the light and add an air of openness.
- Paint your baseboards the same color as your walls.
Keep these tips in mind and you may find you can enjoy the illusion of a much bigger home without seriously slimming your wallet.
Ms. Rice is a color and home design expert at Behr Paints. For more information, visit Behr.com. While at the site, you can also use a new feature called Paint Your Place using ColorSmart that lets you upload your own digital photos and preview color combinations before you paint. You can experiment with over 3,700 different colors from Behr Paints before making a commitment. The program is available online with unlimited photo uploads for a small annual fee.
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Investigator to visit Norfolk council to examine conduct complaint against deputy leader
PUBLISHED: 07:00 05 December 2012
A deputy council leader's conduct is to be investigated after a complaint was made against her.
Broadland District Council's Jo Cottingham revealed yesterday she was standing aside from her role as deputy leader while the allegations are examined.
An external investigator will visit the council on Monday, December 17, to interview a list of people they have asked to see and produce a report.
Conservative Mrs Cottingham was accused at a full council meeting last month of claiming she previously wanted to get rid of a member of staff - who is now at risk of redundancy.
Liberal Democrat Barbara Rix claimed Mrs Cottingham made the comments to her at a book sale in August.
Mrs Rix said she later mentioned it to two Broadland officers. She made the allegations public at a full council meeting on November 13, but at this stage had lodged no formal complaint for Broadland to investigate.
But the Buxton councillor made a complaint against Mrs Cottingham on November 23.
Broadland's monitoring officer Martin Thrower spoke to Alastair Roy, the council's independent person, with both agreeing to bring in an external investigator.
Mrs Cottingham attended a cabinet meeting yesterday, although it emerged afterwards she was stepping aside.
She said: "It would be inappropriate to comment at this point."
Her duties as communities and housing portfolio holder and deputy leader will be shared among her cabinet colleagues.


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Stricter Standards are Needed for Cruise Ship Sewage Treatment
Cruise ships are no doubt engineering marvels that are meant to provide vacationers a luxurious and entertaining vacation. In 2012, there were approximately 200-300 active cruise ships, and with most of these ships operating 24 hours/day year-round, one can imagine all of the resources that go into daily operations. From the endless buffets and drinks available to staff making sure guests have access to clean drinking water and amenities, these floating cities are faced with some other hidden issues – one being what to do with all that sewage.
While operating cruise ships are required to discharge only treated wastewater within three miles of the shore, beyond that limit, pretty much anything goes in terms of sewage discharge. According to Friends of the Earth (FoE), the Environmental Protection Agency estimates an average cruise ship with 3,000 passengers and crew produces 21,000 gallons of sewage daily — and this is a conservative estimate, since some new ships can carry as many as 8,000 passengers and crew.
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Fortunately, not all cruise companies are quite like the others, and some appear to be making good faith efforts to improve their practices. FoE's 2013 Cruise Ship Report Card, which has just been posted online, gives Disney Cruise Line an environmental grade of A, judged on three criteria: sewage treatment technology; whether ships can plug into shore-based power and if they use cleaner fuel than required by U.S. and international law; and compliance with water quality regulations unilaterally established by the State of Alaska to protect the coast of the Last Frontier.
According to FoE's Marcie Keever, the progress shown by some cruise lines such as Disney is good news, but stricter government regulations are needed to push the industry as a whole into action.
Keever commented, "We're encouraged that some cruise lines are taking incremental steps to improve their performance, but the entire industry must stop hiding behind weak regulations and take action to make sure the oceans remain as clean as in the photos in cruise brochures. But we also need the EPA to adopt tougher treatment standards to protect our oceans and coasts from the waste of these floating cities."
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One of the more closely-watched figures in BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. quarterly earnings is its hefty war chest.
The Canadian company, which currently has no debt but maintains a $500 million credit facility, reported cash and equivalents of $2.9 billion at the end of the fiscal fourth quarter. That was unchanged from the previous quarter.
The fact that RIM still maintains a sizable amount of cash is a bit of a surprise. RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins had said that the company will spend "several hundreds of million dollars" in the marketing and launch campaign for the company's new BlackBerry 10 devices.
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Good Glory!I am impressed. What may have seemed like a few "simple tasks" to you are anything but that to many of us here. I wonder if you have the time (and desire) if you could provide any more details about how you formed the dome shape, how you mixed your "homebrew" refractory concrete, and what overall costs were.Either way, your oven looks great and your pies look even better! How bout some smoker pics too!!John K
John, the dome was made using a form made from plaster. I drew a circle 30" in diameter and cut some 1/4" plywood into arcs with a 16" height. Hooked them together onto a piece of 3/4" plywood and used rebar wire to make a way to attach wire lath to hold the plaster. I then filled the areas between the 1/4" ply with plaster to get my "inside oven mold". I then divided the mold into quarters and hand packed homebrew refractory onto the mold at the desired thickness(2.5"). The recipe for the refractory is 6:1:1:1 (sand, portland cement, lime and fireclay, respectively). I would say I have about $500 into the build currently(just the oven, hearth, insulation, enclosure). I am still working on the smoker, but I will post up pics as they come.Thanks for the kind words everyone.
Benny,I know you're not trying to be evasive, and I'm trying my best not to be an idiot, but I am still wondering about a few things. If you'd prefer to have me contact you directly, I'd be happy to do that, but I'd bet others would be interested in knowing the answers as well. My questions are:1. The oven seems to have been constructed in a place other than its final resting place. Did you make each piece, then let each piece dry and then piece it back together, like I did with the pieces I got with my (purchased) refractory concrete oven?2. The edges of the dome pieces look like they have carefully constructed overlap joints (like my oven). How were these made so precisely?3. How did you get your inner plaster mold out from the inside of the oven? (I guess the answer to that is that you DIDN'T, assuming that the pieces were made one at a time and then removed from the mold when they were dry.)4. Do you think that a similar process would work for a lower dome oven, i.e a Neapolitan oven?5. How many ways are there to REALLY screw this thing up? More specifically --- It looks like you've got some serious masonry experience. Would you advise against someone without lots of experience with masonry, molds, etc going along this route?Thanks again, and sorry if I'm a pest.John K
I am not sure of the homebrew as a castable, but at worst it will last for a while. Save the mold though, you may have to reuse it with a modified mix. Very nice job all around though, I recommend that a Mod move this to the appropriate forum.


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JAMAICA, NY - Lincoln Coach Dwayne "Tiny" Morton talked about how you can't judge a team just by watching them play.
You won't truly know how a team operates until you get on the court and actually play them. Morton and the Lincoln Railsplitters found out that Curtis was truly a test for a team that routinely makes it out of the PSAL quarterfinals.
The game came down to the last few second before the winner was decided. Isaiah Whitehead scored a game high 19 points to help Lincoln advance to the semifinals next weekend. Lincoln held off Curtis 60-57 because of clutch free throw shooting, none bigger than two made by Whitehead with 7.0 seconds left on the clock.
Curtis came out on fire, jumping out to a 24-15 lead midway through the second quarter. Lincoln fought their way back into the game with an 11-0 run. Whitehead scored 6 of those points, finishing a fast break for one field goal and knocking down a jumper from the top of the key for another field goal. Lincoln was able to carry a 29-27 lead into halftime.
They Railsplitters fell behind by six points in late in the third quarter after senior guard Dashawn RichmondShaquille Davis (12 points) ended the third with a lay-up and Lincoln led 45-44 after three periods.
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Whitehead suffered a severe ankle injury when they played Boys & Girls during the regular season. He had to sit out a few games but has been on the court for a couple of games now. He looked like he wasn't able to drive by his man when he had the ball, but he played as hard as he could.
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Lincoln will play Boys High at St. John's next Saturday.
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Original post made by neighbor, Greenmeadow, on May 14, 2013
a resident of Greenmeadow
on May 14, 2013 at 8:40 am
Jet to work day?
a resident of Midtown
on May 14, 2013 at 10:46 am
Planes landing at SFO regularly fly low above Palo Alto and are quite loud. What is surprising is that there is not more of an uproar about it in this town.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 14, 2013 at 10:58 am
My hubby and I have noticed that at least two of them are rather large PRIVATE jets!
Google and Larry Ellison, maybe?
a resident of Greenmeadow
on May 14, 2013 at 11:16 am
Midtowner: imagine if you lived in Menlo, RWC, San Mateo, Foster City, Burlingame, Milbrae or San Bruno. Imagine being on the other side: SSF or Daly City - during takeoff.
All closer and on the flight path, all lower altitude, all noisier. A lot of jets don't fly over PA, but come into the path over Woodside and Menlo. You can see them make the turn north of PA.
Yes, I hear them, but I know how much noisier they are up the Peninsula. Take a shoreline walk in Foster City.
> What is surprising is that there is not more of an uproar about it in this town.
Nah. Your uproar is pretty surprising, though....
a resident of Midtown
on May 14, 2013 at 6:35 pm
@ Barnes
I don't need to imagine any of that. You see, we bought our house in PA in large part to escape airplane noise we used to have. Then, lo and behold SFO and San Mateo County signed an agreement to reroute most of the airplanes elsewhere, including above... Palo Alto and Santa Clara County
I can't feel sorry for people who bought houses clse to SFO. They had to know what they were getting into. Then they managed to get the noise rerouted over us. There no sense and no fairness in what happened.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on May 14, 2013 at 6:42 pm
Sorry... it just isn't that loud. you just admitted it's worse up the peninsula.
Ain't that bad. Trains bother me much more.
Just move out to the foothills if you require perfect silence.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 14, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Move to rural Minnesota if you want complete silence. When my mom would visit, she said she slept the best at our house. But there are other downsides to living there . . . such as the silence (of the people and the surroundings) will eventually drive one to be starved for socialization and knowledge (think CNN 24/7, excess emailing/chatting with friends, wondering if your vocal cords are dormant).
a resident of Midtown
on May 14, 2013 at 8:44 pm
@ Barnes?
How did I admit it's worse up the Peninsula? I said it used to be worse up the Peninsula... until San Mateo County cut a deal to move the noise away from San Mateo County to other areas, such as Palo Alto. Palo Alto did not use to be on the approach to SFO. A few years ago it was suddenly put under a flight path.
I am not asking for perfect silence. I do think it's not normal that people who knowingly moved near SFO then went on to battle the airport and managed to have a large proportion of the noise moved to us.
And before moving to Minnesota, I'd move to Europe where they actually close airports at night.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on May 15, 2013 at 9:29 am
I have read that it the past -- that a signed agreement with San Mateo County increased airplane noise (and altitude, btw) over Palo Alto. It has increased in recent years and I wonder if it would help to submit noise complaints Web Link
This site also allows live view of air traffic. The planes flying over Palo Alto are flying in the 4000ft range, which is why it is so noisy. This seems very low. Those leaving SFO an flying over the foothills are at 9000ft+.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 15, 2013 at 9:51 am
I ask the original poster a question about this.
Do you mean the regular airline jets that we frequently get due to flight patterns approaching SFO and SJC?
Or, do you mean the occasional military jets that are flying into Moffett?
I haven't noticed anything recently flying into Moffett, but there are times that military jets fly low over our house and make the house shake and my eardrums hurt. I usually run outside to see if I can see them, but they have often passed out of sight while the noise is still loud.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 15, 2013 at 10:03 am
Very recently we were startled and noticed breathtakingly loud, low commercial aircraft flying (several minutes apart) in what I would assume to be the REVERSE route for SFO (or some other airport) -- in any case, it was the reverse of what we have ever experienced previously, RIGHT over our home, and SEVERE. They were low, too.
We have double paned windows and periodic routine aircraft noise is not an issue.
This was worse than the occasional helicopter that goes by overhead.
Either there were low clouds or some new routing scheme for SFO or Oakland?!
Instead of coming in for a landing, I took our situation to be aircraft taking off and heading out over the ocean - like I said, without putting a fine examination on it and without insider knowledge, it appeared to be a reverse of whatever patterns we have noticed previously.
I thought when one area starts objecting, the flight patterns are altered to affect another area - until they start complaining.
Property values in Palo Alto, a residential suburban area, are no the same as Daly City and South San Francisco, Burlingame, 101 near SFO...and expectations are different.
Perhaps increasing the engines rather than throttling back -
I had to do something right away, or else I would have considered phoning PA non emergency Police number to inquire how to lodge a complaint. We do NOT live right by an airport, and this noise was SCARY LOUD and NOT ROUTINE.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 15, 2013 at 10:06 am
Sepaking for myself, I am certain I was not remarking about military aircraft - they were large commercial. Sorry I can't recall the airline.
I used to live in Sunnyvale, and planes coming in to Moffett were nothing like what we heard/saw in the post I wrote above -- this was MUCH worse here in Palo Alto.
Subchasers and even Air Force One and occasional other military (though slightly to our side, not RIGHT overhead) really weren't a problem in any regard for us in Sunnyvale.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 15, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Occasionally flight patterns are reversed due to wind direction changes. For example, SJC approach sometimes will be over PA instead of coming up the Santa Clara Valley.
a resident of Professorville
on May 15, 2013 at 1:30 pm
I CLEARLY do not understand the physics of this statement:
> I said it used to be worse up the Peninsula... until San Mateo County cut a deal to move the noise away from San Mateo County to other areas, such as Palo Alto.
How did they move the jets away from San Mateo County, when the planes ACTUALLY LAND IN San Mateo County?!?!!?
And this one is fun:
> I'd move to Europe where they actually close airports at night.
Munich's open at night. Heathrow's a 24 hour operation.
Any more magical "opinions"?
Can't imagine the folk in Menlo Park think planes suddenly disappeared because of the Midtowner's magical "deal".
Nor the folk in Foster City.
Also do not understand Midtowner's magic where planes taking off are quiet until they reach 9,000 feet.
Quite magical indeed.
a resident of Professorville
on May 15, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Wow, that posted poorly... should be:
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I CLEARLY do not understand the physics of this statement:
> I said it used to be worse up the Peninsula... until San Mateo County cut a deal to move the noise away from San Mateo County to other areas, such as Palo Alto.
How did they move the jets away from San Mateo County, when the planes ACTUALLY LAND IN San Mateo County?!?!!?
Can't imagine the folk in Menlo Park think planes suddenly disappeared because of the Midtowner's magical "deal".
Nor the folk in Foster City.
Also do not understand Midtowner's magic where planes taking off are quiet until they reach 9,000 feet.
Quite magical indeed.
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And this one is fun:
> I'd move to Europe where they actually close airports at night.
Munich's open at night. Heathrow's a 24 hour operation.
Any more magical "opinions"?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 17, 2013 at 1:28 am
If you think commercial jet noise has increased in the last few months... you are correct. In August 2013 the South China Morning Post reported that the FAA, in response to the Asiana crash at SFO, had begun advising Foreign Airlines to stop using the 5,000' visual approach to SFO, and to only fly 3,000' GPS final approach routes. These overseas flights, which typically use older four engined aircraft, are the jets rattling your windows, and vibrating your walls.
The smaller two-engined jets that emit a high pitched whistle are flying a new approach to SFO known as "NextGen" which the FAA began to roll-out at Bay Area airports in January 2013. Under "NextGen", aircraft "coast" down from altitude at high speed along several precisely navigated approaches. If you live under one of the "NextGen" approach routes, you better get used to it. The precision navigation used in the "Nextgen" system will channel air traffic into several narrow flight paths, and allow air traffic control to use much tighter aircraft-to-aircraft spacing. While the "Nextgen" approach should reduce the noise emitted by an aircraft's engines, residents living under a "Nextgen" approach route will experience increased noise due to the lower altitude of the "NextGen" flight profile, and a much greater number of aircraft passing overhead.
SF Gate ~ FAA plan seeks more direct air routes in Bay Area
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Web Link
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Dec 17, 2013 at 1:19 pm
Thank you, Jetman, I remember reading this also (followup to the Asiana pilots' apparent inabilities or lack of competence in landing at SFO) and it explains part of it.
I KNOW the lowflying major jets have increased - for us in N Palo Alto it seems to be 4 engine huge planes coming in from Asia (both size of plane and route and schedule appear to corroborate this informally). I think Palo Alto is being taken advantage of, and our city officials should object to this excess noise frequently overhead now. We did NOT have this previously.
By the way, I lived in Sunnyvale and even back in the olden Moffett Field days the noise was less than here.
Don't get me started on the sweetheart taxpayer subsidized deal Google management has for their aircraft fuel at Moffett.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 23, 2013 at 12:58 am
The diagram linked below illustrates the approach and departure plan for bay area airports, under the prevailing westerly wind pattern. Three out of five approach routes into SFO fly over Palo Alto.
Only one approach flies over San Francisco (from the north), crossing San Francisco at an altitude 11,000'. This same route descends to 3,000-3,200 by the time it crosses 101 in Palo Alto.
Approach and Departure Plan for Bay Area Airports: Web Link
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 23, 2013 at 11:26 am
Yes, the problem is that these planes are very low by the time they turn over Palo Alto.
And so they are very noisy over certain parts of Palo Alto.
Thanks for the clear picture showing PA getting the worst of it.
Perhaps we should arrange a field trip for the council to the parts of the city where they can hear this level of noise?
Is there any organized effort to improve the situation?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Dec 23, 2013 at 11:38 am
I was part of a five city committee re: excessive airline noise in the '80's and early 90's. When Gary Fazzino was mayor and Joe Simitian was in his first term as a supervisor, all collaborated with Anna Eshoo who negotiated what was known as the Eschoo Agreement with SFO - that commercial planes could fly NO LOWER than 5K feet over the "Menlo Triangle" of which is Palo Alto is one 'leg' and no lower than 8K feet over Woodside, Portola Valley. The San Francisco Airport Roundtable Committee, organized by San Mateo north county cities to advocate for the cities affected by take offs from SFO ,refused to recognize that our area had a problem. It finally allowed San Mateo County southern cities representation or even recognition but not Palo Alto or Los Altos, and we attended some 'contentious' meetings. The Eshoo Agreement worked, and I have never heard it had been cancelled.The Palo Alto Weekly did a stellar article on the entire situation, and Gary Fazzino held a 'press conference' on City Hall Plaza along with Eshoo, etc. to announce the agreement - when a 747 came over so low, it was almost 'on cue'. We all 'waved'. Press and TV were there as well as other dignitaries. But somebody someplace has forgotten this. We also got a phone # to call in complaints to the airport and got rid of the number called from Santa Clara County as a 'toll call'. Here's the number. It still works 1-877-206-8290. The airport thinks we don't HAVE a problem - unless we tell them. So call - during the daytime - get the time - a description of the plane - color, markings, type - how many engines, etc. At night call in the time - put the # by your bedside phone. The airport must report - or is supposed to - the number of complaints by city and area - to the oversight committee. It's up to us to do this. I think that really low one at about noon is Asiana . There is an early bird in the morning from Hawaii. Southwest from LAX still follows the rules and a precise flight path. Some big planes, especially from Asia do not and also some of the European flights. We should get a new 'committee' down here. Maybe Surf Air has to follow the rules too. Ann Eshoo is home for the holidays. A delegation should meet with her. PS. I'm 'retired'.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 23, 2013 at 11:50 am
Note about that approach diagram, don't use SJO for San Jose or you'll land in Costa Rica.
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 23, 2013 at 12:42 pm
The key part of what Mary says above is that SFO and San Mateo County agreed to a deal to reduce noise over San Mateo County. Period.
Palo Alto has never been part of the above deal. So we get noise that we did not use to get before the deal between SFO and San Mateo Co, even though some San Mateo Co residents want to have you believe otherwise (for obvious reasons).
There definitely is a severe (mostly SFO bound) jet airplane noise problem over Palo Alto including in the wee hours.
Time to wake up Palo Alto. The quality of life in this town is becoming very bad.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Dec 23, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Re: the Menlo Triangle. Palo Alto IS/WAS one one of the legs and when negotiated, Palo Alto was a part of that 5K deal. Planes then could safely descend at three hundred ft. per mile, so the 'big birds' were give a wide berth to swing over Palo Alto to reach the Bay and the beacon on or south of the Dumbarton Bridge. This was especially critical for airlines then where the crews were not basically ' English speaking". I remember being told Then that only one person in the cockpit had to speak English - and it didn't necessarily mean the pilot. Bu that was 15 -20 years or more years ago. There are three basic inbound routes into SFO over the Peninsula- the Big Sur Route - LAX planes come in from the Big Sur Beacon to the Bay-Dumbarton beacon and then head to the airport at approx. 5' feet. Southwest is very good on this. #2 are the planes coming down the Peninsula from the Pacific Northwest through the north coast beacon - Mendicino, down the spine of the Peninsula then spread off to San Jose or San Mateo. The 'big birds' coming from Europe and Asia follow the same route but swing around over the Menlo Triangle to lower altitude to
approach the Bay beacon. There is a Woodside beacon too. The other route is straight in from Hawaii and the mid-Pacific over about Pescadero- there's a beacon about 12 miles out - and hit onto the Woodside beacon where it used to be that the altitude there had to be 8K' . Maybe it all changed, maybe people forgot. But that's how it used to be - and it did work. Unfortunately, it a fit of senior-paper tossing, I may have thrown it all out...then retired. But Ann Eshoo should know...and so should the San Francisco Airport Roundtable Committee.
Most of the residents in Atherton, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc. who worked so hard on this then in their fifties and sixties and seventies - maybe 15-20 years ago are retired, moved, or deceased. But Anna Eschoo should know.
She got a lot of civic kudos for her efforts as did the late Gary Fassino.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 28, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Mary Carlstead:
Thank you for all your hard work on this issue. Thanks to your effort, Palo Alto has enjoyed a decade of skies, which have been relatively free from commercial aircraft noise. However, with the FAA's roll-out of "NextGen" approach routes at SFO, any "agreement" between Anna Eshoo and SFO seems to have been forgotten.
Apparently, SFO never considered any of the "agreements" they have with local officials to be "agreements" but merely "policies".
Noise from Low-flying Aircraft Still Troubles Towns
Almanac ~ Dec 2, 2012 Web Link
"When Mr. Lyons produced a copy of Ms. Eshoo's letter, Mr. Zwingle said that the identifying number assigned to the letter indicated a policy. "There may be a policy, but there is no rule," he said. "Anna Eshoo can sign letters of agreement or whatever until she's blue in the face."
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 28, 2013 at 5:41 pm
Last year Almanac reporter Dave Boyce wrote an excellent article about "NextGen" air traffic control entitled "New Technology Promises Less Noise from Jet Engines, but to Whose Ears?" in which he asked FAA spokesman Ian Gregor many good questions, but received few answers.
"New Technology Promises Less Noise from Jet Engines, but to Whose Ears?"
The Almanac ~ August 29, 2012 Web Link
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 28, 2013 at 5:52 pm
The jet noise day and night over Palo Alto is nothing compared to what they get in the Rose Garden section of San Jose. It Is. directly under the line of jets approaching San Jose International. We house sat for friends there recently, and it was impossible to sleep at night, or to watch a movie, or talk on the phone, or even think. The roar and rattle of jets came every fifteen minutes all day and most of the night-- and this is an airport with a curfew! That curfew must be 4:00 am!
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Dec 28, 2013 at 9:18 pm
Within the last two months Atherton residents and members of their City Council have held meetings with airlines including a local new airline that has begun flights into and out of San Carlos airport. This has increased the number of planes flying over Atherton.
Atherton residents are complaining about the increased noise, which they have done before. Whenever they makes a big fuss about noisy planes, I always notice that more planes are directed over south Palo Alto because that is the only way airlines can deal with complainers - just move the flight path somewhere else!!!
I wish members of our City Council would get involved like Athertons. Hold meetings with the PA community, SFO and the airlines and perhaps we can push the flight path even further south over Sunnyvale and Santa Clara!!!
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 2, 2014 at 1:27 pm
I attended a community meeting in Atherton regarding Surf Air. Representatives from Surf Air, San Carlos Airport, and FAA were in attendance. This was a well organized meeting - I am impressed with the mayor of Menlo Park and Atherton who are trying to get a better position regarding the line of flight for this small, charter plane. It is important that we have a rep from Palo Alto to participate. There has been a very active line of discussion in the Almanac - on-line version for Atherton and Menlo Park.
Surf Air is a small, private charter company jet that is flying a north/south route over/between Middlefield and 101 and is very low and noisy. It is not part of the SFO controlled commercial jets which are flying west/east over Palo Alto to make their northbound turn up to SFO. Palo Alto is at the approximate 17 mile marker while Atherton is approximate at the 13 mile marker which means the commercial SFO traffic is already positioned over the bay in a north bound arrival route. Atherton is not complaining about the SFO traffic - it is complaining about the San Carlos Surf traffic which at that point is very low. This plane is very noticeable when it goes over Palo Alto - it is very whiney.
Since it is flying over the main educational corridor of Palo alto we need to exert some influence to have it move over the bay.
I think we need some political muscle to make that happen and concentrated co-city effort.
Go to Surf Air in Google to get information regarding their business plan and future plans - you will see that this is at our expense.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 2, 2014 at 2:44 pm
I could be wrong about this, but I don't see Surf Air moving their approach to the south and over PA. Recall that there's another airport in the way!
If they moved any further south for their approach, they would get in the way of the normal PAO take off pattern.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 2, 2014 at 5:05 pm
Resident 1:
The problem of aircraft noise will be batted around, until it comes to rest in the community that poses the least resistance. The Palo Alto City Council needs to be more active, and to become a more potent force, with respect to the problem of aircraft noise, or Palo Alto will continue to be used as a dumping ground for the problems associated with air traffic on the Peninsula.
Although Surf Air is under the spotlight today, Surf Air sits in a larger social, technical, and political morass.
Palo Alto already bears a disproportionate burden of the SFO arrival noise, with three out of the five arrival routes under the prevailing westerly winds transiting Palo Alto at low altitude on their way to final approach at SFO. With the roll-out of the "NextGen" air traffic control at SFO, some Palo Alto residents, who are unfortunate enough to live under the new "NextGen" routes, will emerge from their closed home in the spring to find an incessant stream of commercial jets flying over their property at 6-12 minute intervals.
A near future goal (2015) of the goal of "NextGen" air traffic control is to make the US airspace compatible with the operation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (drones). Government and military drones have been designed for spying, and are likely to be quite stealthy, however commercial drones are likely to use the same noisy internal combustion piston engines and prop-drive used in general aviation aircraft.
The drone business has been estimated to be an $82 billion business. This may be the secret behind Surf Air's ability to raise capital based on the dubious "all you can fly" business model. "The best way to make a million dollars in the airline business is to start with a billion" is an oft-quoted maxim in the aviation industry. Surf Air's founder, Wade Eyerly, has a background in intelligence and national security, and was once an Advance Representative for VP Cheney. Surf Air may serve as a sort of advance work for the drone industry. By establishing landing rights and operational facilities at smaller regional airports, Surf Air establishes a presence on what will become prime real-estate for drone operators. Surf Air could eventually abandon its business as an air carrier, and transition to business as a drone operator. Subsequently selling surf air to a company that serves as a front company for one of the intelligence services might then prove to be a lucrative "exit strategy" for the founders of Surf Air.
The Palo Alto City Council meets every Monday night, and anyone who fills out a card (available at the entrance to the council chambers) can speak to the council for two minutes, usually before or after the council begins the published agenda. Any effort to use this approach to get the attention of the City Council would carry more weight if several concerned citizens were to speak at the same council meeting.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 3, 2014 at 10:11 am
This morning was particularly bad.
Is there a group forming in midtown to try to impact this?


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LIKE a dog with a bone, state Republicans are squeezing for dear life the increase in state fees on motor vehicles.
Assembly members Marc Molinaro, R-Red Hook, Peter Lopez, R-Schoharie, and Nancy Calhoun, R-Blooming Grove, were joined recently by Ulster County Clerk Nina Postupack, also a Republican, at a press conference staged in front of the Ulster County Office Building.
Under the state budget adopted last spring, most state agency fees were increased. These included the costs of registering a motor vehicle and getting a driver's license, each up by 25 percent. Perhaps more irritating is the requirement that, effective April 1, 2010, all vehicle owners will be required to get new license plates and renewed registrations. That looks, sounds and feels like the breaking of what most license and registration holders probably regard as a contract. You pay the money, you get the license and registration, and you figure that both will be good until their expiration dates.
Republican office holders know this is the kind of thing that really gets the goat of residents, so they are busy blaming Democrats for it.
POLITICALLY speaking, the fee increases have the added virtue of playing off the Upstate-Downstate split, the argument being that New York City residents either don't have or don't need motor vehicles and operator's permits.
The line of attack by Republicans would be a lot more convincing if they could make a credible claim to having a solution to the state's budget crisis. But if they have one, they've done a good job of keeping it secret.
The fact is that the state is facing a projected $18 billion budget deficit over the next few years. There is no doubt that the Legislature has been irresponsible in failing to respond in anything like a coherent and comprehensive fashion to this situation. Clearly, a substantial reduction of spending obligations is needed, but has been avoided.
But it is highly fanciful to think such a huge budget deficit can be bridged without every New Yorker also having to pony up something extra. Against the collective deficit of $18 billion, paying an extra 25 percent for licenses and registrations is, practically speaking, chump change.
TRULY. For all of the superheated air that Republicans blew, it's worth noting the operator's fee increase amounts to about $2 per year and the registration fee increase is about $5.50 per year. So a single operator with a vehicle will pay about $7.50 per year more.
That is not to say we have to like it. Most New Yorkers, after all, are struggling with the economic consequences -- from foreclosure and depleted retirement accounts to job losses or reduced hours -- of this severe recession.
But writhing in agony over it is irrational. It's like complaining about a hangnail from the confines of a foxhole that is under mortar attack.
DID legislators think their paralysis in the face of an $18 billion state deficit would be without any consequence whatsoever? More to the point, do they think taxpayers should regard that deficit as someone else's problem, just as they would have you believe their own failure to act legislatively is not their responsibility?
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Rock 'n Roller Coaster was my first rolle coaster that went upside down and I went with friends who convinced me to go. I remember getting to the alley and seeing (and hearing) the launch and instantly second guessing my decision But in the end, it was worth it and has become a favorite attraction.
Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:39 PM
Like Matt, I was not pleased when I got to the coaster launch. But once I got on, I absolutely loved it. It was a must do every time I came to visit from Hawaii, and now I make any visitor I may have try it out at least once. It's great, especially experiencing it in the front seat.
And yes, I must stick my tongue out and make the Devil/Rock and Roll sign with my hands everytime I pass the camera. It is a requirement.
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Lets see when I get the nerves to ride ToT alot of more people come out from there crying.
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The Aerosmith theming is probably my least favorite part of the attraction, but honestly, the music fits the ride just fine. Still, I'd prefer something like the Stones or the Beatles. Or a totally unhinged Pink Floyd Trip 'n' Freakercoaster. ("And now it's time to set the controls for the heart of the ... fun!")
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LOL, just razzing you. You may be a bit young to remember their glory days. Actually, you are about the same age as my wife, and she has been an Aerosmith fan since she could walk. Well, to each his own.... LOL
Speaking of my wife, I have to tell her story: she has an issue with rides that have strong negative G-forces, so she was adamantly opposed to going on RnR at first. Finally on our second or third trip, I talked her into going. She SCREAMED LIKE A BANSHEE the whole time, but absolutely loved it!! You should have seen her afterwards: pale as a ghost, shaking like a leaf, pupils the size of dinner plates, but giggling like a school girl! It took her a whole day to get over it, but now she is a RnR ADDICT!!!
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Help! I want to design glamorous centerpieces and have no clue were to start! I feel so lost I have no clue what flowers would be good for a December wedding or what colors would begin to look good together. I love the colors purple and silver I will say I love purple in many different shades, but eggplant and lavender are my favorites! I would like to add a touch of pink and green as well. I also like glamorous as far as a little bling or pearls in the arrangement. Could you please lead me down the path to arranging a fabulous centerpiece. I would like to see tall and small for different arrangements. If you could also include how many flowers you use in the arrangement please. I also love the idea of lights of with candles as the lighting. I know I know I'm all over the place lol I can see it in my head but I don't want it to be a mess. Also could you help me with bridesmaids bouquet and boutonnieres . I do know that I love roses and lilies or whatever you think would look good together. Thanks in advance signed lost and confused
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Construction on the streetcar route from the historic Martin Luther King Jr. district to Centennial Olympic Park will begin in the fall, Farooqui said.
Earlier this week, proponents said the project might include tapping an option by Utah Transit Authority (UTA) with Siemens for an unspecified number of S70 light rail vehicles, capable of on-street operation, instead of seeking true streetcar designs.
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I tried the newest version listed and it says its incompatible with 64.
Or maybe does anyone know when a compatible version will be coming out?
By the way, I'm new visiting here and was happy to find the dedication I've been seeing in the post.
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I did get in touch with 50 Foot Wave and they saw the release when it was at about 150,000 downloads and the response was, "Holy f*ck that just made my year. Thank you so much for making this happen!" (well, paraphrasing at least, I got the actual quote somewhere else if need be) This is suppose to be for those who know about eMule, know about ED2K, have some extra bandwidth, but have a reletively empty directory.
On with a few suggestions:
Revision 3 - Pixel Perfect - I use to have a release on the content database that was essentially a show about photoshopping. The show was rediculously popular. It climbed faster then TWiT (which is now in the top 20) That show was pulled unfortunately because at one point it went from a free vidcast to a for-profit vidcast (meaning it cost money to watch a show older then the current episide. I actually found this out first and had the show pulled because of this - as dissappointed as I was - but knew that a show on photoshopping was bound to bring success. Pixel Perfect has every opportunity to do what that old show could ever do on the content database and hope someone will eventually post this and see how well it replaces that old show. (while I do release Systm, The Broken, Diggnation, and CTRL+ALT+Chicken from Revision 3, everything else is up for grabs as well)
TWiTcasts - TWiT, FLOSS Weekly, Inside the Net, and Security Now may be already released on the content database, but that doesn't mean all the TWiTcasts are there. Shows like TWiM, TWiL, Windows Weekly, and the Daily GizWiz also have been running podcasts of their own and, to my knowledge, have yet to be added to the database. I'm sure there are other winners in there. IMO, everything from the TWiTcasts I've added have all been successful.
SectionZ - Do you love techno? Drum N' Bass? Trance? Dance? Ambient? DownTempo? Electronica? Jamendo isn't the only repository out there (though Jamendo IS highly recommended!) SectionZ offers thousands or even millions of CC licensed music tracks by artists (like me) I know rock is definitely on these places as well. You can find a lot of content on the CC website as well if you can't find what you are looking for.
Podcasting/Vidcasting - If you lived to be a thousand years old, you still woudn't be able to check out all the vidcasts/podcasts avaliable today. Indexing is already impossible when getting all the content put together in a single list. But hey, we all gotta start somewhere. Slyck has compiled a large directory of podcasts/Vidcasts/IPTV/etc. shows and a good majority isn't on the content database. I do, however, have a few supported shows, so be sure to run a search through the database if you plan on releasing anything just incase someone else already has that show covered (and up-to-date)
SourceForge - There's a lot of GPL licensed software on this site. eMule is on there, there's plenty of games on SourceForge. Some of the games have made their way to the database, but not very many. These are probably lower maintenance to keep up because updates don't happen weekly forever like some podcasts are, so maintaining software will likely be easier... just don't forget about the release though!
Let's cram the database full of content!!! (and remember, it's about the legit content! )
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Grand Teton National Park officials have had to kill another black bear that had become accustomed to linking humans with food. This is the second bear in less than a week that park officials killed because it had become habituated to human food.
In the first incident, the bear in question had become used to looking for food in Colter Bay Village. The latest incident involved a bear that had been raiding backpackers' packs in Garnet Canyon, rummaging for food in the Lupine Meadows parking lot, and foraging among campsites and cars at Jenny Lake Campground.
This past Monday the bruin broke into a car at Jenny Lake, and on Tuesday she was seen checking out tents, fire rings, and bear boxes in the campground.
While frequenting the Lupine Meadows parking lot, the bear eventually got a stuff sack filled with food; she also obtained food left in the back of a pickup truck parked at the trailhead. Most recently, she began to boldly approach cars—even crawling on top of a few—and put her head into both the open trunk and front seat of a vehicle, said park officials.
In addition to the incidents involving food rewards at the Lupine Meadows parking lot, the bear was also reported to be wandering around the Surprise Lake area. On one occasion, she obtained and ate a tube of sunscreen. She also investigated unoccupied tents in that area.
While rangers tried relocating the bear, moving her on August 18 to the Grassy Lake Road in John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, she returned to Garnet Canyon within four days. She also visited the Surprise Lake area, where she tore into a tent and got into some backpacks.
Interestingly, there was no word in the release as to whether rangers issued citations to the owner of the pickup truck, the stuff sack, or the backpackers who left their packs on the ground or in their tent. Perhaps that should be required information so folks who read these stories understand they'll be fined if they don't correct their behavior.


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In Nairobi, Kenya, on the first day of this year's True Spirit of Christmas tour, host Kris Allen met John Mucheru, founder of Zakale Creations.
John has founded a business that gives at-risk youth a chance to learn job skills, earn money, and most importantly, have the opportunity to live a better life.
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UP 9900 is the signature unit in a series of 25 locomotives, developed jointly with Electro Motive Diesel, that UP announced earlier it will use in a test of various emissions-reduction techniques throughout California.
To create the space needed to install aftertreatment technology in the body of the locomotive, engineers reduced the engine size of a long haul locomotive. The railroad expects UP 9900 to move toward the Tier 4 standard with a 45% reduction in the oxides of nitrogen emissions compared to the Tier 2 standard and an 85% reduction in particulate matter emissions based on preliminary analysis.
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I had signed up in 2010...got a little side tracked. But I am back to get some inspiration to get quilting again along with suggestions for My very own quilting/sewing studio in our new home. It is a 3 bedroom rambler and I will being using the front bedroom for my studio. It has two window (East and South - plenty of MN sunshine), small closest. The room size is 10 x 10. I currently have in for furniture - 2 tall black 5 shelves, Old Singer Antique Machine, another old kenmore machine (I haven't really explored how old it is yet - was my MIL), my Elna Quilter's Dream, cedar chest, office chair, many storage, 6 foot folding table with foot elevators(cutting table), my grandmothers quilting frame. I have been surfing for room ideas but thought I'd come here and see what you all have experienced and recommend. Thanks, Sheri


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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Evaluation of Arizona Pretrial Services Drug Testing Programs, 1987-1989 (ICPSR 9807)
Principal Investigator(s): Britt, Chester L.; Gottfredson, Michael R.; Goldkamp, John S.
The purpose of this data collection was to examine the relationship between drug use and pretrial misconduct in Pima and Maricopa counties in Arizona. Data assess the effectiveness of Arizona pretrial services, which were designed to monitor those defendants who tested positive for selected drugs. The collection includes variables for drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, previous criminal history, results of urinalysis testing, pretrial misconduct, and drug monitoring. Demographic information includes defendant's sex, ethnicity, age, marital status, employment, and last grade completed.
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Britt, Chester L., Michael R. Gottfredson, and John S. Goldkamp. Evaluation of Arizona Pretrial Services Drug Testing Programs, 1987-1989. ICPSR09807-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-03-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09807.v1
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Subject Terms: defendants, drug abuse, drug testing, pretrial procedures, urinalysis
Geographic Coverage: Arizona, United States
- 1987--1989
Universe: Pretrial felony populations of Pima and Maricopa counties.
Sample: Three different sample groups were selected for each of the two counties. For Pima County, one sample group consisted of individuals who were booked on felony charges, agreed to a drug test, and were released prior to their trials. A second group was a random sample of defendants who were on pretrial supervised releases with or without drug testing. A third sample group consisted of those arrested on felony charges who were granted release. For Maricopa County, one sample group consisted of felony defendants who were released prior to trial and agreed to a drug test. Another group comprised felons who were released prior to their trials and were either randomly assigned to the monitoring program or were on their own recognizance. Individuals in the third sample group were on pretrial release and were randomly assigned to the drug monitoring program or to normal treatment without drug monitoring.
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Burberry takes your privacy very seriously. Please select from the different sections of this Privacy Statement to learn more about what personal information we collect across our web and mobile sites (Sites) and applications (Applications) and in our stores, how and when it is collected, what we use it for now and how we will use it in the future and also details of the circumstances in which we may disclose it to third parties.
About Burberry and this Privacy Statement
Burberry Limited is a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 00162635 (referred to in this Statement as "we, "us" and "our").
Your data will be held and managed by Burberry Limited. We will at all times seek to comply with the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act, 1998 (the "Act") and any applicable laws and regulations to ensure that the personal information you give us is kept appropriately secure and processed fairly and lawfully.
By visiting and using the www.burberry.com web or mobile site (the "Site") or any other Burberry application ("Application") that we make available from time to time or by visiting a Burberry store for the purchase or sampling of products or for interacting with our content and/or services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and are consenting to the practices in relation to the use and disclosure of your personal information described in this Privacy Statement and our Terms and Conditions. If you are considered to be a minor in your country of residence, please obtain your parent's or guardian's consent before providing us with any personal information if you are visiting and using the Site or Application or are visiting a Burberry store.
When you register for an account with us (whether online or in-store), place an order, interact with our digital content on your computer or mobile device, request an in-store service or send us an enquiry, we will collect certain personal information from you. Please select from the different sections of this Privacy Statement to learn more about what personal information we collect and what we use it for.
+ - Account management and customer profile information
This information may include your name, postal address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and credit card numbers and other payment information. We may also obtain information about you as a result of authentication or identity checks (for example in connection with our standard fraud checks when you make a purchase on our Site). We use this information to identify you as a customer, to process your order, to deliver products and services, to process payments, to update our records, and to generally manage your account with us.
If you have a customer account (whether created online or in-store), we may also collect information about the products you purchase, where you purchased the products from and other information related to your purchases or which is otherwise relevant to your customer relationship with Burberry. This may include birthdays and other important dates and information on lifestyle and interests and on product preferences. We use this information to offer you an enhanced service according to your preferences, including by identifying relevant products, services and events which may be of interest to you, personalising your experience with Burberry and to share information on past purchases with you.
+ -Information about your device
Depending on how you access our content and services, our Site and Application and in-store technology where such technology is in place in our stores, will also collect certain technical information about your computer or mobile device relating to the service you receive. This includes information relating to the type of device and internet browser you use, an identifier for your device and your IP address, (the unique address which identifies your device on the internet) any website from which you come to the Site or Application and your operating system.
Some of this information may be collected automatically from and about your devices, or, in the case of some stores, may involve the collection of aggregate and activity information. This information is collected using cookies, beacons and device identifiers, including, in stores, to understand in-store footfall data.
Device information collected in stores is collected in aggregated and statistical form only and is not linked to identifiable account information about you. For more information about cookies and other technologies which are used on our Site and Application, please see our Cookie Policy. This information is used to assist us in providing an effective service on the Site and Application and in our stores and to collect statistical information about site traffic, sales and other usage related information about your interaction with our services, for example where you view our Site videos and shows. If you register for an account with us these statistics will be linked with the personal information held about your account but this personal information about you will not be shared with third parties.
+ - Location information
Where you request location services provided by us, for example in order to find the nearest store to you, we will either do a Site lookup of the browser IP address for your computer from a public Geographic IP database (providing us the location of your internet Service Provider (ISP)) or establish you real time location relating to the latitude and longitude of your mobile device, where this is available.
You must first choose to allow us to access your mobile location data and you can then change your location preference at any time by managing your device settings. You may also use the standard uninstall processes available as part of your mobile device.
+ - Burberry WiFi usage information
If you register for our free WiFi Service at our stores, we will collect certain limited information about your device, including MAC or IP address, connection date and time and the location(s) at which you connected to our WiFi Service. We do not link this information to the information we collect from you from our Site, Application or in-store
+ - Information about your friends
We sometimes run promotions (for example, on social media platforms) where you can tell us about a friend or someone else who is known to you who may be interested in our products, Site or Application, or what services we have to offer. If your friend gives you their permission to provide us with their details, then we will only use their information for that reason and not to send them any other unrelated offers. We may also mention that it was you who made the referral in the message we send to them.
+ -Linking personal information and customer profiles
We may also use your personal information for our internal marketing and demographic studies, together with non-personal data to analyse, profile and monitor customer patterns so we can consistently improve our products and services and understand what may be of interest to you and other customers. This means that we can offer more personalised and integrated shopping and interactive experiences to our customers across our stores, our Site and Applications.
We may supplement information we collect about you with marketing and demographic information which we receive from affiliated third party companies, in addition to other information which is available in the public domain or which we are otherwise lawfully permitted to be provided with, in order to better understand the interests and preferences of our key customer audiences and improve our service to our customers.
+ - Customer communications information
We may use information about how you use our Site and Application and any in-store services to tailor how these appear to you and to personalise our communications and our store service to you, so as to make the Site, our Application and those communications more relevant to you and to enable your use of any interactive features of our services and offers.
We may also obtain personal information where you "like" us, create posts or otherwise interact with our pages on social media platforms and may use this information to communicate with you or provide relevant content via those social media platforms about our products, events and promotions. Please refer to the privacy policies of the social media platforms for information about how they collect and use your personal information.
If you have consented, we will use your contact information to provide you with information about our products, events, promotions and services by post, e-mail, mobile messaging, telephone communications and/or through any other electronic or digital means including social network platforms.
We may also use your contact information to contact you in relation to service-related matters, including, on occasion, to request and respond to feedback on your experience in-store and/or on our Site and/or Application, and to assist you in relation to prospective purchases on our Site and/or Application, where permitted to do so in accordance with applicable laws.
Providing us with contact information is entirely voluntary but we may not be able to process your order and send you the required order acknowledgement and shipping confirmation e-mails if you do not provide us with certain requested information. You may, however, choose whether or not to receive promotional communications from Burberry and we will only send you such communications where we have your consent to do so.
+ - Communications with Burberry Customer Service
If you call our Customer Service team, please note that our Customer Service consultants may record details from the call in order to enable us to better service our customers, and that calls may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.
If you have registered to receive updates from us, and you no longer wish to receive these, you can request that we amend your preferences. You can do that either as indicated in the particular communication, e.g. by using the unsubscribe link which is included on all email updates, or by clicking here. Burberry will stop sending updates in respect of which you withdraw your consent within a reasonable period, in order to allow sufficient time for the change to be administered. If you opt out of receiving updates from us, we may still send you non-promotional communications such as emails about your account or purchases you have made from the Site.
If you have an online customer account, you can amend or update your information by logging into My Account on the Site or Application and amending your details as appropriate.
If you have created a customer account in-store, you can amend or update your information by visiting a store and speaking to one of our sales associates, or by contacting our Customer Service Team at email@example.com.
We will only keep your information as long as you remain an active customer and for 5 years afterwards or otherwise as required for our business operations or by law. We may need to retain certain personal information even once a customer account has been closed or deleted for fraud prevention and/or proper record keeping purposes.
If you wish to request the deletion of your personal details, or wish to change your preferences at any time please contact our firstname.lastname@example.com.
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We use cookies, local storage and other similar technologies which may place codes on or access information from and/or about your device to elevate your user experience and the quality of our Site and service. This includes keeping track of what you have in your shopping bag, remembering you when you return to our Site, identifying how you navigate around the internet, including where you click, and which website you arrived from. We may also use cookies and other technologies to understand how parts of our Site are used. Please see the Cookies Policy for more information
In addition to cookies we may collect information that enables us to identify a mobile device by which you access our Site or Application or a code for a Burberry Application running on your device. A device identifier or Application code acts in a similar way to cookies in that it enables us to better understand how our content and services are used and their effectiveness.
By continuing to use this Site, you consent to our cookie and device identifier settings and agree that you understand our Cookies Policy (which explains how you can manage your cookie choices and preferences. Please be aware that restricting certain cookies or other device identifiers will impact on your user experience and may prevent you from using part of our Site.
+ -Service partners
We may share information about you with companies we have chosen to handle our order dispatch service, any delivery company that we may use from time to time and with other companies that provide support services to us, including website hosting companies. We may also share your information with other companies who assist Burberry in promoting Burberry products and services in order to provide you with enhanced customer services and/or share information about Burberry products and services with you. In addition, we may also share certain limited information with companies who assist Burberry with other services, for example, in analysing our customer data in order to better understand, profile and monitor customer patterns so we can consistently improve our products and services and understand what may be of interest to you and other customers. In each case, we will only provide these companies with the information which they need to carry out their services and they will not be permitted to use the information for other purposes. They will only be allowed to use your information in the way in which we instruct them and as permitted by the Act.
+ - Financial institutions and payment processing partners
Payments using our Site or Application are made through our payment solutions providers. You will be providing credit or debit card information direct to our providers who process payment details further.
+ -Legal disclosures
You also acknowledge and agree that in certain circumstances we may disclose personal information relating to you to third parties, for example, in order to conform to any requirements of law, to comply with any legal process, for the purposes of obtaining legal advice, for the purposes of credit risk reduction, to prevent and detect fraud and/or to protect and defend the rights and property of Burberry and other members of the Burberry group. At all times where we disclose your information for the purposes of credit risk reduction and fraud prevention we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that it remains secure.
+ - Business or process change partners
In the event that we or a part of our business undergo re-organisation or are sold to a third party, you agree that any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party.
Please click here for a current list of the affiliated companies and service providers who perform functions on our behalf and the countries in which they are located.
+ -Overseas transfers of data
The personal information that you provide through the Site and/or Applications is processed in the United Kingdom and is stored on servers in the US.
We may transfer information that we collect from you to Burberry affiliated companies, including other companies in the Burberry group, joint ventures, franchisees, licensees, other companies who assist Burberry in promoting its products and services and to selected service providers who perform functions on our behalf, based in countries outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA") or your country of residence and this information may be stored and processed in such countries.
By submitting your personal data on the Site and/or any Applications or in-store, you agree to this transfer, storing and/or processing outside of the EEA or your country of residence. Whether the personal information you provide to us is processed by us or our affiliated companies or services providers within the EEA or outside of it, we will take steps to ensure that your personal information will be afforded the level of protection required of us under and in accordance with this Privacy Statement and applicable data protection laws and in accordance with current legally recognised data transfer mechanisms.
In certain circumstances we may share your information with affiliated companies including other companies in the Burberry group globally, joint ventures, franchisees, licensees and selected service providers who perform functions on our behalf such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, and carrying out promotional services or data management. We may also share aggregated or anonymised information that does not directly identify you. Please select from different sections of this Privacy Statement to learn more about who we may share your information with and when.
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time. The amended Privacy Statement will be posted on the Site or Application. Please check this page regularly for changes to this Privacy Statement. If you continue to use the Site or Application or if you submit information to us following such changes, you will be deemed to have read and agreed them.
The Site and/or Application may from time to time contain links to other websites not controlled by us. We do not accept responsibility or liability for the privacy practices, data collected or the content of such other websites. The operators of these linked websites are not under a duty to abide by this Privacy Statement. If there are terms and conditions, other privacy statements or policies appearing on those websites, you should also review them carefully as your use of those sites may be subject to them.
Unfortunately transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data we cannot guarantee the security of your data submitted to us and any transmission is at your own risk.
We do however use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access wherever possible. Personal information provided to Burberry via the Site or via any Applications and online credit card transactions are transmitted through a secure server using Secure Socket Layering (SSL), encryption technology. When the letters "http" in the URL change to "https," the "s" indicates you are in a secure area employing SSL; also, your browser may give you a pop-up message that you are about to enter a secure area or display a padlock image.
The Site and the Applications use this encryption technology to protect your information during data transport. SSL encrypts ordering information such as your name, address and credit card number. Our customer service centre and stores also operate over a private, secure network. Please note that e-mail is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting credit card information.
Contacting Burberry
If you have any questions about the way in which your information is being collected or used which are not answered by this Privacy Statement and/or any complaints please contact us at email@example.com.
Alternatively you can write to Burberry at Horseferry House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AW. Or you can contact the Burberry Legal Department on +44 (0) 20 3367 3000 if you have any queries in relation to your data.


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In 2007, Billy & Alexis Reilly started a charity bike ride called Pedaling for Preemies in honor of their son, Will. All funds raised benefit the Brigham Womens & Childrens Hospitals' NICU's. To date, they have raised more than $225,000. This year, the ride throughout southeastern Massachusetts (50 or 100 mile) will take place Sunday, Sept 26.
To contribute to this worthy initiative please visit www.firstgiving.com/pedaling4preemies.
You can also visit Pedaling for Preemies on Facebook!


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Emily Schur
Ever stared at Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz together and thought, "Wow, I really want to have eye makeup just like. . .Pete?" You aren't alone, and the Fall Out Boy bassist, one of PEOPLE's Most Beautiful, gave us a step by step instruction on how to apply guyliner correctly. Check out the always charming Pete and his handy makeup tips by clicking here. And don't miss the complete coverage of PEOPLE's Most Beautiful People online, including covergirl Drew Barrymore, stars without makeup and beauties at every age.


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OCEAN PINES – A 17-year-old East New Market, Md., youth operating a motorcycle with a learner's permit was killed last week when he collided with a vehicle on Route 589 near Ocean Pines.
Shortly before 10 p.m. last Friday, Maryland State Police from the Berlin Barrack were dispatched to an accident involving a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle on Route 589 just south of Route 575. The investigation revealed the motorcycle was traveling on Route 589 when its driver, later identified as Andres Perez, 17, of East New Market, Md., lost control, crossed the double center line and collided with the driver's side door of the passenger vehicle.
Perez was transported to Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin where he succumbed to his injuries. Perez was operating the motorcycle with a Maryland learner's permit. He was with his father at the time of the collision.


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An A. Brian Merry Elementary School paraprofessional was fired Jan. 9 for grabbing a 5-year-old special-needs pupil and slapping him across the face during lunchtime before the winter break.
According to a termination letter from Superintendent Frank Roberson, a witness saw Sharla Tomberlin talking to one of her pupils during lunch about his behavior "on or about Dec. 12." The date of the incident was later determined to be Dec. 17.
When the kindergartner became upset and started yelling, Tomberlin grabbed his face, placed her face close to his and told him to "quit yelling at (her)." When the pupil continued, Tomberlin told the boy "I am not your mama" and slapped him across the face, according to Roberson's letter.
"While students may become defiant and need redirecting, your actions were neither suitable nor justified under any reasonable circumstance," Roberson wrote. "While (the pupil) may have acted inappropriately, you should have asked for assistance from a colleague or and administrator. The misconduct of a student does not excuse you, as an adult, from remaining calm, professional and personally detached."
In a statement, Tomberlin admitted to hitting the pupil in the mouth, "but not very hard."
The pupil's father said officials did not notify him about the incident when it occurred, and he didn't find out until his son came home from school and told his mother.
According to an e-mail sent to central office officials at 7:08 p.m. Dec. 17, Principal Elizabeth Schad said she called "the parent" after school about the incident. The parent told Schad her son already had informed her about the incident when he got off the school bus, according to the e-mail.
Schad also wrote that Tomberlin was assigned to a different classroom while the investigation was being completed, "in fairness to the child and the (paraprofessional)."
The pupil's father said he was alarmed that officials did not contact him before the school day was over and allowed Tomberlin to remain with his child that day.
He also said the School Safety and Security Department should have started its investigation that afternoon, rather than waiting until the following day. Schad's e-mail indicates she questioned witnesses and Tomberlin that afternoon before contacting school safety officials.
"They never notified me that the incident happened," said the father, who has transferred his child to another school. "If my son wouldn't have said anything about that, I guarantee Ms. Tomberlin would still be at A. Brian Merry Elementary."
He also said he has looked into filing charges against Tomberlin and will be meeting with Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree for guidance.
"I was more hurt about the situation than anything, especially when you have a young parent coming up there that wants to be involved with his school, wants to be involved with his kids and wants to work with them."
According to a statement from Roberson, Schad "immediately contacted the Central Office" to request an investigation. The school system was closed for the holidays from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2, and Tomberlin was fired Jan. 9 when the investigation was completed.
Richmond County Board of Education President Venus Cain said she believes the incident was handled correctly but was saddened by the actions of the educator.
"I don't know why it happened, but it's a sad day when you're supposed to care about children," she said. "I know sometimes these children push buttons, and I know as adults we all have issues, but no matter what we have going on in our lives, we have to maintain our composure while dealing with a child."