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Sorenstam wins portion of ADT Skills Challenge
Annika Sorenstam won the short iron competition in the Skills Challenge on Monday in her first professional competition in three years.
Woods: Steve Williams is 'not a racist'
Woods: Williams not a racist
Speaking from the Australian Open, Tiger Woods says his former caddie Steve Williams is not a racist and that he has apologized to Woods for a slur. Woods said they are "moving forward."
Winner's Circle: Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011
See what the winners had in their bags this week.
Player of the week: Nicole Vandermade, Texas
Vandermade posted a final-round 69 to win the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational by a stroke over teammate Madison Pressel.
Team of the week: Texas-San Antonio
UTSA scored an impressive victory at its own The Alamo Invitational, a three-shot win over Baylor and finishing 14 shots clear of third-place Texas A&M.
Player of the week: Steve Lim, USC
Lim, a senior, posted rounds of 66-67-69 for an 11-under 202 total at the Gifford Collegiate to finish one shot ahead of last year's college golf player of the year, UCLA sophomore Patrick Cantlay.
Team of the week: USC
The Trojans won for the first time this season in convincing fashion
Pisciotta (No. 9, 2014) commits to Georgia Tech
has given a verbal commitment to Georgia Tech.
Michael Pisciotta of Alpharetta, Ga., has given a verbal commitment to play college golf at Georgia Tech. Pisciotta is the ninth-ranked golfer in the 2014 class and ranked No. 47 overall.
Rounds-played report shows September drop
Rounds played in September fell 4.4 percent, continuing a steady string of year-over-year monthly declines and almost ensuring a participation drop for 2011.
Tseng won't play in Puerto Rico event, adviser says
Yani turns down offer
It appears that Yani Tseng, the top-ranked player in women's golf, will not play the Puerto Rico Open, or any other men's event, in 2012. Sean Martin explains why.
Maginnes: 10 reasons Prez Cup could be special
Maginnes on Tap
Last year's Ryder Cup was pretty memorable, but in his weekly column John Maginnes explains why this year's Presidents Cup could be even more special.
Complete Coverage: 2011 Presidents Cup
2011 Presidents Cup
Golfweek staffers will be on the ground at Royal Melbourne, bringing you all the coverage from the Presidents Cup. COMPLETE COVERAGE
Southern States Four-Ball to be revived in January
The Southern Golf Association is reviving the elite Southern States Four-Ball Championship after more than a half-century of dormancy.
Norman: Stevie comments 'stupid,' not racist
Greg Norman defended caddie Steve Williams over his racial slur about Tiger Woods, and does not believe Williams is racist.


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Without addressing the issue of women's prayer groups, I believe Adam is
misunderstanding the Maharal's statement (for which he provides no
citation). When the Maharal says, "Such a judge is better than one
who... decides on the basis of a code without understanding the
underlying rationale at all", the operative phrase is "without
understanding". Obviously, a judge cannot issue a decision without a full
understanding of the Halachic issues involved. However, there is nothing
wrong with following a code if, based upon a full analysis in the
Talmudic sources, one has ascertained that the decision as cited in the
code *does* apply to the situation at hand. Indeed, under those
conditions a judge may well be *required* to follow the code unless he
has strong evidence that the code's decision is not accepted by
authorities of equal stature. The same reasoning would apply to "the
rulings of gedolim" [current leading authorities] to, perhaps, an even
stronger degree. For, unlike an older code (such as the Shulchan Aruch),
the rulings of our gedolim take into consideration many of the extenuating
circumstances of our generation. It is conceivable for a particular p'sak
(ruling) in the SA to not be applicable due to changed circumstances, but
the ruling of a gadol is made with those changed circumstances in mind. The
Mahara'l is not saying that the codes may be ignored, he is saying that
reliance on a code without an understanding of the Talmudic reasoning
behind it is improper.
Adam Szpiro also wrote:
>I do not mean to suggest that the Halakhic process adheres to the model
>suggested above by the Maharal. But the fact that he held such views
indicates >that things are far more complicated than one might guess from
Yaakov Menken's >argument.
I believe it is clear that the Halachic process *does* adhere to the
Maharal's view (as quoted by Adam).
With regard to R' Menken's description of the Halachic process, it is
true that, in light of the absence of a formal Halachic hierarchy, it is
something of an oversimplification. Nevertheless, it is essentially
correct. Obviously, there are rabbi's who are qualified to make decisions
which will impact on the entirety of Klal Yisroel and there are those who
are not. The difficulty is in determining who possesses this status.
While the qualifications for such power are based primarily upon the
person's Torah knowledge and Yiraas Shamayim (Fear of Heaven) (which is
absolutely vital), effectively such status is conferred by the consensus
of other religious Jews. To a large degree, the stature of the Jews who
confer such status is also important. Obviously, a rabbi who gains his
primary support from people who are generally less knowledgable and less
committed to Torah cannot and should not have the same stature as one
who's primary support is from people with greater Torah knowledge and
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EIBTM, the Global Meetings, Events, Incentives and Business Travel Exhibition (www.eibtm.com), has unveiled a new logo to celebrate 25 years within the meetings industry. EIBTM first opened in 1988 and has been committed to delivering vital business opportunities for meeting industry professionals across the world. The 25th edition will take place in Fira Gran Via, Barcelona (27 – 29th November).
The logo can be viewed and downloaded from the EIBTM website at www.eibtm.com/logo25. The new design which reflects the official "silver" associated with a 25th anniversary, marks the first of many new initiatives throughout the year, which will culminate with celebrations in Barcelona.
Katie Devaney, Reed Travel Exhibitions, Marketing Manager EIBTM comments, "EIBTM is recognised as the leading event of its kind in the world and the global hub for the meetings industry. We could not let this landmark pass without using it to celebrate the past, as well as look to the future.
This logo is a modern reflection of the anniversary and part of the inspiration behind many new dynamic initiatives, all part of the innovations that EIBTM plans to deliver for the industry over the next 25 years. This year will deliver business as usual but with lots of fun thrown in!".
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before-after remix . Request ... http://www.freesound.org/forum/sample-requests/17730/
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Breaking plates.
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Picture: Sean Penn has lunch with a friend at Louise's Trattoria in Santa Monica Santa Monica, California - 23.01.11
Sean Penn has spoken out about Charlie Sheen's decision to join his aid efforts in Haiti, insisting the troubled actor's "energies, intelligence and passion" will be a great help.
Sheen has been a regular in the headlines over the last few weeks as he battles personal and professional problems and he recently revealed he is set to put his raised profile to good use by jetting to the Caribbean nation on a humanitarian mission with Penn.
The Oscar-winner has now confirmed Sheen plans to help boost publicity for the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which Penn set up in the aftermath of last year's (10) earthquake, and the Milk star insists his friend will be an asset to the team.
He says in a statement, "I think his energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people. Charlie is one of the very few public people who cannot be accused of using the media to his own benefit. I would very much like to show my old friend the world of needs on the ground in Haiti, and introduce him and his tremendous wit to our hard working Haitian staff. If he chooses to give support, I'll trust it."


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California Avocado Salad Recipe
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You can toss together Mrs. William Ellermeyer's salad in just a few minutes. "It truly represents my state, since avocados and almonds are grown in such abundance here," she notes from Walnut Creek, California.
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 bunch romaine, torn
- 1 medium ripe avocado, diced
- 4 green onions with tops, sliced
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
- Dash seasoned salt
- In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the first six ingredients; shake well. In a large bowl, combine the salad ingredients; drizzle with dressing. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 servings.
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nice map mate, very pleasant to play and to watch ...thx for ur work and for sharing...
nice map mate, very pleasant to play and to watch ...thx for ur work and for sharing...
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PC Download Link Version 4.0 [22/07/12]
Changelog 4.0/ Version 4.0
* Added scrolling [animated] preview images like ut2004
* Created the shadow in the tunnels [as seen in UT2004- a must see]
* Bumped up the Lightmap Resolution []
* Toned down the Sky
* Moved ammo in the tunnels [because bots were being silly- a vital update]
* Added some blocking elements to the map, although some gaps may still exist [perimeter]
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I get this error every time I load into the map...
Editor @ www.ut3mod.com
don't know why, but AlbatrossPackage.upk won't push from my redirect; it insists on copying from the server.
Hey TKBS, just downloaded your updated version of DM-Albatross in v4.0 four months later, after that in this day, I've got a Runtime Error after loading this map and UT3 went apparently crash. Installation is fine but not in the game, or did I just found some mistakes.
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Ah, I remember this map, hope has the original music.
I'm going to give it a run.
The PS3 version runs fine, thank goodness. The issues I found is
the music doesn't repeat and a little too quiet. At least there's the original
UT2004 music. The other issues is that when you kill the character in the
rocket launcher hallway, the character disappears when not gibbed, the gibs fly out
randomly, and when you pin the character at the wall or ceiling with stinger minigun
alt fire, the character stretches out of shape along with intense geometric stretches
into jaggy, pointy, triangles that ruins the character when they die in the rocket launcher
hallway. That kind of disappoints me with these kind of issues.
Overall, the map remake itself brings back the nostalgia from 2004, fun to
play in, and a great layout design. Hope these issues would be fixed if someone uncooks it and
recook it again.. Thanks for the map anyways.


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On August 21st, GWPNA received confirmation that two of the three applications we submitted to the SFMTA Neighborhood Traffic Calming program were accepted into the evaluation phase for the 2014 program. The MTA will evaluate all applications between now and January 2014. During this time, the SFMTA will choose the top 25 applications for traffic calming. As part of the selection process they will conduct on-site speed and traffic count studies and research the collision history for each location under consideration. After that, they will rank all the applications for pedestrian risk, and select the top 25 for implementing pedestrian safety measures.
If they do select the locations we suggest, they will notify us in January of 2014, they will ballot our neighbors and hold a public hearing to ensure support for the project before doing any construction.
Our contacts at the SF MTA for this program include:
Jeffrey Banks, (415) 701-5331, email@example.com
Bridget Smith, Deputy Director - Livable Streets (415) 701-4500, firstname.lastname@example.com
1) Ulloa St. between 15th Ave and West Portal Avenue - ACCEPTED
When we first submitted the application for this street, the MTA rejected it because we didn't have enough signatures from neighbors who lived directly on Ulloa St. We needed to go back and get more than half of the homes with addresses between #900 and #1,300 Ulloa St. to sign the application form. The MTA counted 45 homes on that stretch of Ulloa St., so it meant we need 23 signatures -- which were hard to get during Summer vacation. Luckily, they gave us a 7-day extension to collect the additional signatures and we were able to do it with the help of a small group of very dedicated volunteers.
2) Vicente St. between West Portal Ave and Madrone - ACCEPTED
Because there weren't many homes with addresses on Vicente St. along this stretch, signatures wasn't a problem. Also, since the most recent pedestrian death occurred on Vicente St. at West Portal Ave, the MTA seemed very willing to consider this application for traffic calming.
3) West Portal Ave at 14th Ave - REJECTED
Unfortunately the Neighborhood Traffic Calming program is limited to residential streets, so our application for traffic calming at the intersection of West Portal Ave. and 14th Ave., was rejected. We will continue to pursue some sort of pedestrian safety improvements at this dangerous intersection through other programs.
The Traffic and Safety Committee for the West Portal Neighborhood Association has been working to get some pedestrian safety improvements in three locations in the neighborhood: 1) along Ulloa St., 2) at the 5-way intersection of Vicente, Wawona and Madrone, and 3) at the corner of West Portal Ave. and 14th Ave. near the Bank of America.
We have applied to the SF Municipal Transportation Agencies Neighborhood Traffic Calming program. Each year, the MTA selects 25 locations from all the applications in San Francisco for study and possible improvements.
Here's a quick update on our progress:
1) Ulloa St. Application (between 15th Ave and West Portal Ave.) - We didn't get the required 23 signatures from addresses on Ulloa St. itself, but they gave us an extension until next Wednesday to try for more signatures.
2) They accepted our application for Vicente St. between West Portal Ave and Madrone Ave.
3) They rejected our application for West Portal Ave. at 14th Ave. because it's not a residential intersection.
So, we're going to try again this week to collect signatures from the 45 homes that have street addresses on Ulloa St. between 15th Ave and West Portal Ave. We need at least 23 signatures to reach the threshold to qualify to be considered, and even then they may not accept application into this years program. If not, we'll have to try again next August.
If you personally know anyone who lives on Ulloa St. please call or email them and ask them to sign the application for neighborhood traffic calming. Few of our neighbors on Ulloa St. are members of NextDoor.Com, so your help is appreciated. Tell them to contact me directly (Matt Chamberlain), either by email or by phone and we'll schedule to have someone pick up their signature this weekend.
Matt Chamberlain,
GWPNA, Chair of the Traffic and Safety Committee
(415) 265-7234
Traditionally GWPNA has met on Wednesday nights, but that can conflict with SF Board of Supervisors meetings on some evenings, so starting in the Fall of 2013, the monthly GWPNA meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of the month instead. This will allow our members to attend BOS meetings when necessary without missing a GWPNA meeting. More importantly, it will allow our Supervisor, Norman Yee to join our monthly GWPNA meetings and provide updates on how he's advocating for us at the Board of Supervisors.
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by Avrum Shepard
Have you noticed all the food trucks parked around the City? It's hard to miss them, since they have jumped in number from only 20 four years ago, to about 250 today. Off The Grid (http://offthegridsf.com) holds about 20% of those permits and operates around 50 trucks in the City today.
It's not just a food truck, it's a phenomenon, and there have been several reports in the SF Chronicle, SF Examiner, the Westside Observer, and the West Portal Monthly about them. Most articles say they aren't at all like the "roach coaches" you'd see parked at construction sites years ago. Heck, there is an article about food trucks in the most recent AARP magazine and even in Information Week, a long-standing tech weekly.
In the spring of this year, one of the West Portal merchants invited the 3Sum Eats food truck to park in front of their business for a day. It worked out so well for 3Sum Eats, that they opened the Market & Rye restaurant on the first block of West Portal Ave. It also triggered a proposal by Off The Grid to add West Portal as another location served by their fleet on a regular basis. Off The Grid suggested closing 14th Avenue, between West Portal Avenue and Portola Drive on Tuesday nights between 4:00 pm and 10:00 pm and providing eight trucks. We don't know yet what type of food the trucks would serve, but regulations block them from offering foods similar to those provided by established area restaurants. There will be no tables but there might be chairs.
Many of the restaurants (there are about 20) on West Portal were not happy with the competition, so Maryo Mogannam, President of the West Portal Merchants Association called a meeting in June to discuss the issues around permitting the food trucks to block 14th Avenue and setup business on a permanent basis. Most of the restaurants were very concerned about the competition the food trucks would offer. After all, the trucks don't pay rent, are said to have some tax advantages and so have a significant financial advantage over brick and mortar restaurants. They seem to charge the same for their fare as brick and mortar places. On the other hand, Off The Grid estimates that the trucks will attract somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 shoppers to West Portal. Those people could include a whole new demographic and potentially provide opportunity to current merchants, restaurants included, to significantly increase business.
Off The Grid has placed food trucks at 15 locations throughout San Francisco, Marin, and the East Bay. The trucks are located at specific places and they communicate with their customers via their websites, Facebook, and Twitter.
One issue raised at the Merchant meeting was litter. Off The Grid, and many observers note that the trucks clean the areas during their stay and leave a place cleaner than when they arrive. Probably the most significant issue people mention is closing 14th Avenue. The Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association Traffic and Safety Committee is opposed to the idea of blocking 14th Avenue during the evening commute because of the extra burden it would put on the Vicente & West Portal Avenue intersection as traffic flows around the blocked street. They recommend Off The Grid consider using one of the two public parking lots in the neighborhood and augmenting that with curb-side parking in the vicinity.
What do you think of the food truck idea? Is it a good one or otherwise? Let me know at email@example.com. I'll publish a follow-up to this article next month.
by Avrum Shepard
Neighborhood groups are often asked by neighbors "Can I have my above ground utilities moved underground?" This article summarizes the process here in San Francisco for doing just that. Additional information can be found at the San Francisco City web site link below.
NOTE: The money that funded undergrounding ran out a few years ago, and that funding won't be available again until later this decade. However, property owners can form a utility undergrounding assessment district to pay for undergrounding.
For all property owners who are interested in undergrounding their utilities within their neighborhood, the Utility Undergrounding Tool Kit (PDF) provides San Francisco residents with a step-by-step approach to forming a property-owner funded undergrounding utility district. Listed below are the basic steps in the tool kit.
Utility Undergrounding Tool Kit Basic Steps
Step 1 Determine District Boundaries (1-2 months)
District boundaries are determined by the Neighborhood Committee made up of local residents
Step 2 Circulate Petition (2-4 months)
The Neighborhood Committee gauges support for the project, collecting signatures and meets with city officials at DPW.
Step 3 Legislate Underground District (2-4 months)
Once the Neighborhood Committee submits signed petitions to DPW, there is a Public Hearing required and then approval by Board of Supervisors for a Utility Undergrounding District.
Step 4 Form Assessment District (1-2 year)
Property Owners Obtain Funding for Utility Design Plan and Engineering Report.
Step 5 Construction (1-2 years)
DPW will oversee construction management and neighborhood notifications.
For more information, call (415) 554-4860.
by Rae Doyle
On May 24, in a 6-5 vote, the SF Board of Supervisors agreed with the SF Planning Commission's decision to allow AT&T to install 726 new utility boxes on public right-of-ways in San Francisco without an Environmental Impact Report. The new boxes would approximately double the number of AT&T boxes now in San Francisco. At present, the existing AT&T boxes provide phone service to individual homes through copper wires.
In order for AT&T to upgrade their service to provide telecommunication technology offering high speed internet access, advanced television and entertainment services, they need to feed signals through fiber optic cables into the existing boxes. In order to do this, they need to install a new box within 300 feet of the existing box.
Fiber optic cable will be brought underground into the new box which will house electronic equipment to convert the signal from the fiber optic cable to the copper wiring of the existing boxes and onto individual homes.
Last month, Alex Saleh, homeowner of 301 Kensington Way, was notified that AT&T proposed to place a new box on an easement on his property within a few feet of an existing box. Saleh had a few issues with this installation. He was concerned that the box would provide cover for criminals and present a safety risk for his family. He was also concerned about the aesthetics, since the existing box was poorly maintained by AT&T. Furthermore, he also felt that hosting one box on his property was enough and suggested that the new box be placed across the street on the Kensington Triangle property owned by SF Public Utility Commission.
Matt Chamberlain, president of the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association heard of his dilemma and arranged a community meeting on Nov. 1 with Marc Blakeman, AT&T Regional Vice President of External Affairs, to discuss the neighborhood's concerns. Blakeman agreed to investigate the possibility of placing the box on the Kensington Triangle.
Chamberlain acknowledged that a number people oppose the box installations, but there are many who support the installations because it will result in better internet service and, perhaps most importantly, keep AT&T as a viable competitor to Comcast.
In 2008, AT&T attempted to deploy their new U-Verse service to San Francisco because of the population density in the City - but, because of public opposition, withdrew from San Francisco and rolled out their service to approximately 3,000 other United State cities, with little opposition.
Utility boxes similar to those proposed by AT&T are ubiquitous throughout San Francisco and are used to control traffic signals and for other utility purposes.
Blakeman explained that AT&T selects sites for their boxes, then posts a notice on a utility pole that is within 300 feet of the proposed site and notifies neighbors in that area by mail. People have 20 days to submit complaints or comments. If there are concerns expressed, AT&T will arrange for a meeting with neighbors at the site to discuss alternatives.
One very vigorous complaint about the boxes is that they are "graffiti magnets." Blakeman said that AT&T is required by the city to clean the graffiti on the boxes within 72 hours of a telephone complaint. "However," he said, "people just don't call to complain often." Taggers usually don't repeat graffiti at a site where it is cleaned up or painted over promptly, so the more aggressively it is controlled, the less graffiti an area generally gets.
The number to call for graffiti removal is posted on each utility box. For AT&T, the number is (866) 243-6122.
There are currently six AT&T boxes in the West Portal area - with six more proposed.
The existing boxes are located at 460 Laguna Honda Blvd., 301 Kensington Way, 199 Merced Ave., 125 Taraval St., 701 Vicente St., and 299 Wawona St. The proposed boxes would be located at 500, 1501, and 1253 Portola Dr., 120 Juanita Way, 410 Laguna Honda Blvd., and 2 Miraloma Dr.
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Chamberlain said that he recognizes the value of GWPNA as a liaison between the community and AT&T and as a liaison between the factions supporting and opposing the AT&T box installations.
By Rae Doyle
The Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but this year the dastardly villain threatening the Harry Potter themed Halloween Party on Wawona Street is Father Time.
How it all began
A month and a half after the tragic events of 9/11, the neighbors on Wawona Street, between 14th and 15th Avenues, led by Wawona resident, Bridget Wylie, decided to lift neighborhood children's spirits by closing off their street and turning it into a magical Harry Potter world for Halloween.
Ten years in the making
This past Halloween was the tenth and final year in which eight garages on Wawona, two houses on 14th Avenue and one on 15th Avenue were decorated with Harry Potter themes. The event has become so popular that more than 2,000 kids and adults attend each year, with a ratio of about two kids to one adult. Most of them are in costume. This year Mayor Ed Lee even joined the fun.
Passports are provided that point out the sites and the Harry Potter themes of those sites. The street is closed off so that children and adults can safely amble from one side of the street to another side. Neighbors from all over the West Side attend year after year, and use the event to catch up with each other, as the children enjoy a safe, fun trick-or-treating experience.
The end of an Era
Now, Harry's voice has changed and he shaves regularly, and there are no more Harry Potter books or movies planned for the future. The Wawona Street neighbors have decided it is time to end the yearly event. Father Time had brought an end to the Wawona Street Harry Potter Halloween.
There were other factors also. One of the original organizers, Bridget Wylie moved to Redwood City three years ago and another neighbor, Thea Gray, will soon be moving to the Oakland Rockridge neighborhood. However, even though Bridget Wylie no longer lives on Wawona, she still returns every year to serve as Horton.
Historically, the event was organized and paid for entirely by a small group of neighbors on Wawona St. They'd pay for the permits to block the street, rent lighted safety barriers and print passports for the children. However, when the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association (GWPNA) president Matt Chamberlain heard that this was going to be the last Harry Potter Halloween event, he acted quickly to provide financial support to the neighbors. He called an emergency meeting of the GWPNA Steering Committee to meet in front of the West Portal Library to approve a $300 grant to help the Wawona neighbors fund the event. The freezing Steering Committee members passed the motion for the grant unanimously.
What the future holds
Marina Hardeman of 329 Wawona is doubtful that any future theme can be as compelling as Harry Potter. This year on Wawona there were eleven garages with the following themes: Hagrid's Hut, Dragon at Grigott's Bank, Hogwarts and its Great Hall with the Sorting Hat; Nagini at the Home of Professor Bathilda Bagshot; Lestrange Vault, Grigett's; Broom Repair Service; St Munge's Hospital; Entry to Ministry of Magic; Hog's Head Tunnel Leading to the Room of Requirement; The Weasley's Burrow, Divination Classroom.
Even without a theme picked yet, there is still a lot of motivation to continue the Wawona Halloween event. Marina Hardeman said it's a lot of work - but it's fun. And so many people say "Thank You" to the Wawona neighbors who host the event, that she'd love to see the event return next year with a new theme.
By Fred J. Martin Jr. - GWPNA Member
The fundamental issue in the Arizona shooting was that a pot-smoking, chronically mentally ill person went untreated, was expelled from an educational institution with a warning to get treatment as a prerequisite for return, yet was permitted to buy a gun.
This, unfortunately, could have happened in San Francisco or Berkeley, where the political climate is much different.
This tragic event should be a wake-up call for San Francisco which, under Mayor Gavin Newsom and Dr. Mitch Katz, was systematically eliminating acute-care facilities for severely mentally ill persons, who run afoul of the law and end up at San Francisco General Hospital.
Psych Emergency Services doctors at SFGH are largely left with grim choices: Return these individuals to the streets, to their families (if they have family), or to jail and often ultimately prison.
These delusional individuals, who self-medicate on street drugs and alcohol for lack of treatment, are a threat to the city as they slash tires, rob cars and homes, break and enter businesses and live in misery and filth.
There is a lesson here for our city, our state and the nation, if we heed it.
Fred J. Martin Jr. is a retired director of governmental relations for the Bank of America. He chaired the 2002 program on mental illness and public policy at UC Berkeley.
Note: Fred also published this article in the SF Chronicle on January 12, 2011 - Link
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SF Recreation & Parks Department has scheduled a 6:00pm public meeting on Monday, November 15th at the JP Murphy clubhouse to discuss the RPD's leasing of the JP Murphy clubhouse and park facilities. The Clubhouse is located at 1960 9th Avenue at the corner of 9th Avenue and Ortega.
In 2008 the Citizens of San Francisco spent $3,849,933 of the Proposition A, Parks Project Bond to renovate the JP Murphy Playground & Clubhouse. The Clubhouse is located at 1960 9th Avenue/Ortega. Effective August 15th, 2010 the RPD also fired or relocated all of its Recreation and Park Directors. The RPD is now about to lease-out our newly, renovated JP Murphy Park. The RPD euphemistically calls this new leasing for profit scheme "park revitalization."
RPD representative, Lev Kushner, the Assistant Director for Strategic Planning, has been holding meetings throughout San Francisco in an effort to rent out neighborhood clubhouses, parks and facilities. The RPD is trying to lease at least 24 of the 48 park clubhouses in San Francisco. Usually, the RPD's citizens notification is very lax and few people realize that their local Park is going to be leased for a minimum 5 year period.
It's not that the groups that lease the parks are good or bad, the problem is that these private commercial groups take over large portions of the park at specific times and the neighbors who use these parks are not allowed to use the portions that are leased. The groups leasing the City parks often have nothing to do with recreation and are already working from an existing commercial location.
The RPD lease clearly states, "The tenant shall have the right to shared access of all playground and garden space in areas surrounding the premises." Additionally, "The City shall use it's best efforts to avoid interfering with the tenants quiet and exclusive use of enjoyment of the premises."
Whatever happened to the neighborhoods right to "the use and enjoyment of premises" of our own park?
The RPD is claiming that this is its best way to generate revenue for now "underutilized" facilities. With usually only one potential tenant, the Parks are leased for ridiculously low amounts of money. The RPD started leasing parks throughout the City in July and is usually charging between $1.31 - 1.51 per square foot per month and allows full usage of the other park facilities. It is doubtful that the JP Murphy clubhouse will be leased for more than $1,500 per month. Apparently, the RPD now has a tenant for JP Murphy park or Mr. Kushner would not have scheduled a meeting.
The RPD's quest for money has actually made them predatory. On July 15 the Rec & Park Commission voted to let an expensive private preschool displace a free, 38-year-old City College parenting class at the Laurel Hill Clubhouse. The clubhouse was leased to Language in Action (LIA), a preschool offering nine-month terms immersing two to five year olds in Spanish and Mandarin. LIA tuition ranges from $1,000---for two hours per day, two days per week---to $14,000 for full day, five day per week instruction. The RPD leased the Laurel Hills playground to LIA for only $1,427.00 per month.
"On the face of it, the RPD wanted to lease this property and they didn't really care what the public thought," stated City College Board of Trustee President, John Rizzo. "The RPD cared so little about the public that it was too late once they were notified."
JP Murphy Park is our park, located in our neighborhoods and is used recreationally by the people in our neighborhoods. We don't accept the premise that the Recreation and Park Department can have one meeting with the neighborhoods and then lease out our park for five years. We want to use our park the way we want to use them. The RPD has not even talked with the neighborhoods about how we might want to use our own facility. Without citizen protest/input the new RPD tenant will probably be moving into the park within a couple of months.
If the money that neighborhoods/voters are spending on public parks is being converted to support and subsidize commercial businesses and privatize public parks, voters will have to think long and hard as to why we would want to support the RPD's proposed 2011 parcel tax or any other future bonds supporting the RPD.
This November 15 RPD meeting (next Monday night) is the neighborhoods only chance to stop the RPD from leasing the JP Murphy Park. The RPD will soon be leasing out other parks and clubhouses in our neighborhoods such as the Midtown Terrace park. If you love your park and want to save it from being privatized, please bring your friends and neighbors to this meeting. United we stand, divided we fall.
George Wooding
West of Twin Peaks Central Council
In a posting on the SF Recreation and Parks web site, Phil Ginsburg explains the options for keeping neighborhood clubhouses open. It essentially boils down to: 1) RPD finds a tenant to lease the clubhouses to, 2) Neighbors find a tenant to lease the clubhouse to, or 3) Neighbors find some other way to fund the $40,000/yr (part time) or $80,000/yr (full time) staffing at their local clubhouse.
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I'm really excited to announce that the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association (GWPNA) is gearing up to help you understand the issues in the coming June and November elections. Both San Francisco and all of California face serious issues, starting with huge budget deficits, but certainly not ending there. It's likely we'll be asked to vote in both City and State elections this June, in order to address some of these issues. Which ones are still up in the air, but by May 3rd we'll have a pretty good idea of what will be on the June ballot. That's why GWPNA has invited the League of Women Voters of San Francisco to join us at our May 3rd meeting to discuss the June ballot. Our meeting is open to the public and attendance is free.
The League of Women Voters in SF is a nonpartisan, multi-issue organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government. Their experts research the issues and can explain them in simple terms that we can all understand.
But that's not all. GWPNA is also reaching out to the candidates running for Mayor of San Francisco this November. We'll be having them join us to talk about their qualifications and goals between now and October. It'll certainly make for some exciting meetings! So come join your neighbors and meet the candidates. We currently have the following lineup, but check our web site for updates and changes.
Additionally, GWPNA is partnering with several other neighborhood organizations under the leadership of the West of Twin Peaks Central Council, to hold a large-scale Mayoral candidates forum in September. The details of that will be published as they emerge, but it promises to be another don't-miss event!
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Thanks Bow Drawn, I always wondered about the spine of my arrows and had noticed that they seemed to tighten up with lighter heads. It puzzles me why GT would label them 5575 when they are underspined for a 70lb draw weight with 100gr. heads. What is unfortunate is that I really can't see well enough to focus on the pins without my glasses, but can't really focus on the target with them. I suppose it is just one of the many benefits of getting old. lol BOC, I like shooting at longer distances just to see what I can manage to hit, and I have pulled off some pretty crazy shots...but never with accuracy that is better than a good marksman could do with a handgun offhand. Those were mostly just one-time luck shots. I don't even have pins to 80 yards. My 5th pin is at 60 yards, but I have noticed that the top of my sight level is about 80. I'm not even sure what sight has enough pins to get out that far.
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Joe Flacco makes big-time throws... John Harbaugh out-coaches John Fox... Result: Ravens 38, Broncos 35 in double-overtime... Possibly the greatest playoff game of all time in terms of dramatic timing.... Somewhere up there in the all-time playoff archives near the "Hail Mary" by Roger Staubach and the "Immaculate Reception" by Franco Harris now lives the "Flacco Fling" by the Baltimore Ravens quarterback. One big Flacco throw down the sideline, 70 make-or-break yards on a wing and a prayer -- a high arc of a touchdown pass that soared through the icy air--- flew over two defenders, landed in the hands of Jacoby Jones, saved the game for Baltimore and kept Ray Lewis' 17-year career going at least one more week. The record will show Justin Tucker kicked a 47-yard field goal 1:42 into the second overtime Saturday to give the Ravens a 38-35 victory over Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. The highlight? That would be Flacco's game-tying touchdown to Jones on third-and-3 from the 30 with 31 seconds left in regulation and no timeouts. Bad day for the Broncos' secondary...but give Joe Flacco and OC Jim Caldwell credit for exploiting it and staying on it. And yet, even Flacco admits he needed a little good luck on the deep throw that tied it up. "At that point," Flacco said, "you have to start taking shots. You have to get a little lucky." And while Flacco gets to celebrate that throw, Manning will have a long offseason to think about a really bad one. On Denver's second possession of overtime, he stopped and threw across his body to the middle of the field and into the arms of Ravens cornerback Corey Graham at Denver's 45. Baltimore (12-6) ran five plays and gained 16 yards before Tucker sailed his winning kick down the middle. The Manning throw, intended for Brandon Stokley, was one quarterbacks from junior high to the pros are advised not to make. It's a throw that unraveled all the good Manning has accomplished during this, his comeback season from neck surgery during which he threw for 37 touchdowns and led the Broncos (13-4) to top seeding in the AFC. "Yeah, bad throw," Manning said. "Probably the decision wasn't great, either. I thought I had an opening, and I didn't get enough on it, and I was trying to make a play and certainly a throw I'd like to have back." Ray Lewis, who led the Ravens with 17 tackles over this nearly 77-minute game in 13-degree weather, kneeled down to the ground and put his helmet on the rock-solid turf when it was over. "I've never been a part of a game so crazy in my life," he said. This game, the longest since the Browns beat the New York Jets 23-20 in 1987, was an all-timer -- up there with San Diego's 41-38 double-overtime victory over Miami for drama. But Flacco's throw might best be bookended next to one made by Staubach, who famously coined the term "Hail Mary" after his game-winning toss to Drew Pearson beat Minnesota in the 1975 playoffs. Staubach was near midfield when he threw his. Flacco was standing around the 20 for his throw, buying time in the pocket when he saw Jones sprinting down the right sideline into double coverage. Defensive back Tony Carter slowed up and let Jones streak by him. Instead of staying step for step with Jones, safety Rahim Moore tried to leap and knock down the ball. Flacco, who throws the high, deep ball as well as anyone, got it over Moore's head and into Jones' hands. "I started to step up in the pocket and I kept my eye on the safety's depth at that point," Flacco said. "Just felt I had a shot of maybe getting over him. At that point in the game, you don't have any timeouts. When you've got to go a pretty decent length, you've got to start taking shots at some point. It happened to work out." Jones caught it and pranced into the end zone, blowing kisses toward the crowd. "I was kissing to God. I was thanking the Lord," Jones said. "I don't disbelieve in myself. I've been believing in myself since I was born. Never no disbelief. Moore was on the verge of tears after the game. "The loss, it was my fault," Moore said. "I got a little too happy. It was pathetic. My fault. Next time, I'll make that play." The teams were tied at 14 after the first quarter, 21 at halftime, 28 after three quarters and at 35-35 after regulation. They punted three times to start overtime, the last of them setting up Denver on its 7-yard line. The temperature at kickoff was 13 degrees, and Manning, wearing an orange-and-gray glove to get more feel in the icy weather, fell to 0-4 lifetime in playoff games when the temperature is 40 or less. He finished 28 of 43 for 290 yards and accounted for all three Denver turnovers -- the two picks and a lost fumble that set up the touchdown that tied the game at 28 late in the third quarter. Combined, the Broncos' mistakes nullified a record-setting day for returner Trindon Holliday, who returned a punt 90 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 104 yards for another score. Both were playoff records for longest returns, as was the 248 total return yards he had. This was, more or less, the unthinkable for the Broncos (13-4), who came in on an 11-game winning streak and the odds-on favorite, at 3-1, to win the Super Bowl, in Manning's hometown of New Orleans, no less. Instead, this loss goes down with the most devastating in Denver history...right there with the 30-27 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Jan. 4, 1997 -- another year when Denver looked very much like Super Bowl material. "Certainly we did a lot of good things this season, but as of right now, it's hard to think about anything besides the loss tonight," Manning said. Baltimore, meanwhile, will think about its second straight trip to the AFC title game. The Ravens had rookie kicker Justin Tucker (Texas) primed for the game-winner, and though the temperature was cold and the ball was hard, coach John Harbaugh showed zero desire to get the ball closer after Ray Rice ran for 11 yards to the Denver 34 near the end of the first overtime. Tucker was making them from 67 yards in pre-game warmups and was practicing during the break between overtime periods. "I always feel good when I go out on the field," he said. "Not many people get to do this. This is a heck of a lot of fun." While Tucker finished the day 1 for 1, Broncos kicker Matt Prater missed his only try, from 52 yards, when he hit the turf, then the ball, on an attempt at the end of the first half. Broncos coach John Fox will be second-guessed about the decision to go for the long kick, especially considering the way Flacco responded---throwing and completing three straight passes after the miss for a 58-yard touchdown drive that tied the game at 21 going into halftime. The touchdown was a 32-yard connection to Torrey Smith, marking the second time Smith beat Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey. Smith also got behind the 12-time Pro Bowler for a 59-yard touchdown in the first quarter. "The first one -- I lost it," Bailey said. "The second one, he just made a great play. I was in position, he made a good play. That's why he's in the league." All part of an uncharacteristic day for the Broncos, who routed Baltimore on its home field, 34-17, less than a month ago. But on this day, the coldest playoff game in Broncos history, these were different teams playing for different stakes. Flacco finished with 331 yards and three touchdowns. Rice had 131 yards and a score. 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This is a great moderate hike that starts out with a well defined and wide trail which becomes rocky with steady elevation gain until closer to the pools where there will be some up and down. Stay on this trail until you reach the pools. The pools are a great place to take a lunch or in the warmer months, go for a swim. After a good rain, you may enjoy flowing waterfalls and streams, as well as gorgeous mountain views and desert landscapes. As a cautionary warning, be careful when walking around the pools since the rocks are very slippery and wet. Great three season hike, doable in summer if you start from the trail-head at daybreak and carry enough water.
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Distance Round Trip 5.5 miles (from the parking lot)
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