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SAN FRANCISCO -- The woman who reported an incident of apparent domestic abuse that led to the suspension of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi issued a statement on Friday slamming Supervisor Christina Olague for a vote that allowed him to return to office.
Olague, however, dismissed the statement and the committee that issued it as part of a politically motivated effort to "buy the election."
Olague faces multiple challengers on Tuesday as she seeks to be elected to her District 5 seat, which Mayor Ed Lee appointed her to after her predecessor, Mirkarimi, was elected sheriff.
Now Olague is the subject of a video released by Mirkarimi neighbor Ivory Madison, calling on residents to vote for "ANYONE on the ballot but Christina Olague."
Madison came to prominence after she contacted San Francisco police about an incident in which Mirkarimi grabbed his wife's arm during an argument, causing a bruise. Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, had confided in Madison and made a video with her documenting the incident, but later refused to testify against her husband.
Mirkarimi, who held the District 5 seat now occupied by Olague before his election as sheriff, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor false imprisonment charge in March, prompting Lee to seek his removal on grounds of official misconduct. Olague, however, voted against his removal last month along with three other supervisors.
The vote drew the ire of Lee, who is listed as an endorser on her campaign web site, as well as advocates for domestic violence victims and women's issues. Today's video of Madison was released by an independent committee targeting Olague, called the San Francisco Women for Accountability and a Responsible Supervisor Opposing Christina Olague 2012.
"I live in District 5, next door to a convicted batterer, who is also our sheriff, because Christina Olague thinks it's okay to abuse your wife and still run a major law enforcement agency," Madison states in the video, noting that Olague helped "put Ross back in power."
The committee also released a statement from another Mirkarimi neighbor, Callie Williams, who indicated that Lopez had personally told her that Mirkarimi had abused her.
Olague said that the committee, and the statements, are part of a cynical effort to exploit the issue of domestic violence and pave the way for a more moderate or conservative candidate in a district widely considered among the more progressive in the city.
The committee, she noted, is funded heavily by Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway, a reputed ally of the mayor, and Linda Voight, the wife of real estate investor Thomas Coates. Coates has spent heavily citywide in support of moderate candidates.
"I think they're spending $100,000 to buy the election in District 5," said Olague. "I don't think they really care about this issue."
Olague, who emphasized her progressive credentials in areas including tenants' rights, youth violence and work with the homeless, said that her vote on Mirkarimi's case reflected her concerns about the legal precedent that would have been set by his removal.
"It wasn't an easy decision to make," Olague said. "It was one we really had to look at, setting precedent around how much power you want to give a mayor, because if they're given too much leeway then it would actually encourage a politicizing of these types of situations."
She did not join several other supervisors, however, in stating her support for a possible Mirkarimi recall, saying only that she didn't have an opinion on the matter.


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YouTube's New Content Push: Investing in Its Own Stars
As YouTube's home-grown stars seek bigger stages, Google wants a share of the benefits.
YouTube has approached many of the site's top video-makers in recent weeks, offering to fund additional programming in return for a portion of the proceeds when creators distribute the content elsewhere, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
Negotiations are said to be in their early stages, according to these people. The terms that YouTube is offering aren't clear, nor the aggregate amount the company is looking to invest.
"We are always exploring various content and marketing ideas to support and accelerate our creators," said a YouTube spokeswoman.
The strategy is another sign of how Google is trying to cultivate talent on YouTube, after years in which many content creators felt underappreciated. YouTube has run marketing spots to promote some stars, and launched a program to help them boost ad rates.
Three years ago, Google paid around tens of millions in advances to attract traditional stars and established media brands to create "original channels" on YouTube. A few channels caught on, like Vice Media Inc.'s Vice channel. But many others, like Demand Media's eHow Home, failed to find big audiences on YouTube.
YouTube's effort to nurture home-grown talent comes as many YouTube stars seek to reduce their dependence on the video site, where they have complained it is difficult to make money. Ad rates tend to be low because there are so many videos, and Google pockets roughly 45% of the ad revenue.
Some YouTube producers are building their own websites, where they keep more of what they earn. Dreamworks Animation Awesomeness TV, a successful network of YouTube channels, has its own show on Nickelodeon, now in its second season.
Last month, the distributors of a YouTube serial called Wigs signed a deal with rival online-video service Hulu to host its newest season. YouTube executives were unhappy because they felt YouTube had helped Wigs build its audience, according to two people familiar with internal discussions.
Reuters recently reported that YouTube was seeking deals in Hollywood to support premium content.

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Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding the mechanism(s) of anticarcinogenic and procarcinogenic effects of beta-carotene is important due to continuing interest in the potential use of carotenoids as chemopreventive agents -- and the conflicting results of observational studies vs. intervention trials. In the last grant period, our studies indicate that a biologic basis for the harmful effect of beta-carotene supplementation in smokers is related to the high dosage used and the enhanced formation of reactive beta-carotene metabolites in the free-radical-rich, but antioxidant-poor environment of the lungs of cigarette smokers. A mechanism to explain the instability of the beta-carotene molecule is that exposure of lung cells to smoke results in increased lung cell oxidative stress, thereby causing decreased tissue levels of other important antioxidants, such as ascorbate and alpha-tocopherol, which have a stabilizing effect on unoxidized beta-carotene. In the present grant, we propose to conduct an intervention to investigate possible protective effects of a rational combination of linked antioxidants (beta-carotene, vitamins C and E) against cigarette smoke-induced lung lesions in the ferret model. These studies will provide important information on the potential future use of rational antioxidant combinations against lung cancer as well as other tissue. Our specific aims are as follows: 1) To determine the effectiveness of beta-carotene in both physiologic (low) and pharmacological (high) doses in the presence of vitamins C and E as anti-proliferative agents in the smoke-exposed ferret by examining A) lung cell proliferation indices (cyclin D1, proliferative cellular nuclear antigen PCNA), and the appearance of squamous metaplasia; B) lung retinoid concentrations and retinoid target gene expressions (RARbeta, MAP kinase phosphatase-1, and Bax-1); C) the Jun N-terminal kinase-dependent (JNK) signaling pathway; and D) apoptosis (Caspase 3 and TUNEL); 2) To determine if there is a dose-dependent relationship between beta-carotene intake in the presence of vitamins C and E and oxidative stress by examining A) beta-carotene, vitamin E and vitamin C concentrations in both plasma and lung tissue; and B) the degree of oxidative stress status by measuring isoprostane and malondialdehyde levels in both plasma and lung tissue of ferret; and 3) To determine if vitamins C and E will inhibit the formation of oxidative metabolites from beta-carotene via in vitro incubation studies using the post-nuclear fraction of ferret lungs. We will also determine whether beta-carotene 9?10?-dioxygenase in the ferret lung is involved in metabolism of beta-carotene into apo-carotenals by examining A) expression of beta-carotene 9?10'?-dioxygenase in the ferret lung tissue after treatment with smoke, pharmacological beta-carotene supplementation, or a combination of both in vivo; and B) whether additional supplementation of vitamins C and E in the smoke-exposed ferret with or without beta-carotene supplementation will regulate the expression of beta-carotene 9?10?-dioxygenase and prevent the destruction of beta-carotene both in vivo and in vitro.
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The Stanford-Cal sports rivalry has spawned a special kind of animus among legions of Bay Area fans.
But school loyalty be damned when it comes to Josh Huestis and Christian Dean.
Huestis plays basketball at Stanford. Dean plays soccer at Cal.
Yet, they have in common something more powerful than any rivalry: A mother.
Sutton Lindsey gave birth to the boys, 15 months apart, in Alvin, Tex. Unable to care for them, she made the heart-wrenching decision to give them up. They were adopted by separate families and grew up 1,200 miles apart. But there is nothing halfway about their brotherhood.
"He's my best friend," Dean said recently.
When Cal's top-ranked soccer team plays Stanford on Nov. 13, Huestis will be there for Dean.
"I feel bad," said the Stanford basketball player, "but I have to root for Cal."
In a family narrative as poignant as it is convoluted, adoptive parents and birth parents worked together in hopes that the boys would grow up as brothers. A challenge under any circumstances, this was made more daunting by the fact that one boy lived in East Palo Alto and the other in Great Falls, Mont.
And it started in Houston, at an adoption agency that specialized in finding families willing to let birth parents remain part of their kids' life.
"I say a prayer every day for bringing me Bonnie Huestis and Elizabeth and Bill Dean," said Lindsey, the birth mother. "It's more than I ever could have asked for."
Bonnie Huestis, a therapist from Great Falls, adopted Josh as a newborn in December 1991. Elizabeth and Bill Dean, social workers in the Bay Area, adopted baby Christian in March 1993. Lindsey could afford to keep only her oldest son, Holden.
"The choice was for all three of them," said Lindsey, now 48 and working as a manager at a clothing store. "I couldn't give all three of them what they deserved. But I could still love them just as much."
Bonnie Huestis cannot imagine the pain of such a choice.
"Nobody can love their child more than a mother like Sutton who gave them up," she said.
The boys say they respect the decision their mother made with each of them. They seem to harbor no hard feelings and have visited with her and Holden regularly in Montana and Texas.
"Once I was adopted, it would have been so easy for them to just forget about me and move on," Huestis said of his birth parents.
Unlike Dean, Huestis has a father who remained in his life. Only 19 at the time of the pregnancy, Poncho Hodges was scared. Of the adoption, he said: "I was a kid making an adult decision."
An actor now -- Hodges lives in Los Angeles and has appeared in shows such as "Sons of Anarchy" and "True Blood" -- he was a college basketball player then. The game took him to professional leagues in France, Israel, Japan and Turkey.
But he stayed in contact with his son, whom he met when Josh was 2, through letters. When Josh turned 13, they had a talk. "You'll always be my son," Hodges told him. "It didn't happen because you weren't wanted."
The summer before his senior year of high school Josh went to live with his dad in hopes of attracting college recruiters while playing for a top AAU team in Long Beach. That's where Stanford discovered the 6-foot-7 forward.
"Coaches don't come to Montana to look for basketball players," said Huestis, who led Stanford in rebounding last season with 9.0 per game and averaged 10.5 points.
Dean also is having considerable success on his field. A junior, he has been a starter for every game of his Cal career. However, amid great promise while playing for the De Anza Force Soccer Club four years ago, he took a break from the sport to live with his brother in Montana.
It was during the extended stay in Great Falls that Dean also received some brotherly advice.
"He was doing a lot of soul-searching and introspection," said Huestis, who is on track to earn a degree in psychology next year. "We talked a lot and then he realized soccer was his love and a big part of his future."
Dean returned to the Bay Area committed to soccer. He earned a degree at the School for Independent Learners in Los Altos before enrolling at Cal, where he studies social welfare.
The brothers bear a resemblance despite having different fathers. It strikes their birth mom when she hears them on the phone or sees their mannerisms.
"He's a bigger version of me," said Dean who, at 6-3, gives four inches to Huestis.
The similarities stretch to the athletic fields where both men are recognized for their defense: Huestis made the all-Pac-12 defensive team last season while Dean was an honorable mention all-conference player.
They have talked about extending their careers in the professional ranks.
Their birth mom would be thrilled if they made it, but she's already overjoyed by how it all has turned out.
"I knew I had to be part of their lives no matter what," Lindsey said. "Sometimes I don't have words for how much I love them."
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi baseball team lost its opener on Friday night, falling 7-3 to the McNeese State Cowboys in the first game of the Southland Conference series at Chapman Field.
The Islanders are 19-27 on the season with a 10-15 mark in the league. The Cowboys move to 19-24 overall, 13-12 in conference games. Adam Hoelscher was tagged with the loss, pitching 4.2 innings to fall to 6-5 on the season. Hoelscher gave up just three hits, but walked one and hit two batters while giving up five runs, two earned, in the loss.
In a game that Texas A&M – Corpus Christi led by a slim margin early on, a five-run inning did the Islanders in for the second Southland game in a row.
The Islanders threatened in the second inning, getting three straight hits, but having the final out of the inning thrown out at the plate on an outfield assist to keep the score 0-0.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi did score in the third inning, picking up one run on two hits to make it a 1-0 game. Omar Garcia led off with a single up the middle, and moved to second on a groundout by Jordan Lee. Drew Vest followed with an RBI single through the right side to score Garcia for a 1-0 lead.
McNeese struck back in a big way during the top of the fifth inning, getting five runs on just two hits, but taking advantage of three Islanders errors as well as a walk and two hit-by-pitches to take a 5-1 lead.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi got a pair of runs back in the bottom half of the inning to cut it to a 5-3 score. Jeramie Marek started the inning with a single to third, and Santiago Ruiz followed by reaching on an error. Lee brought home Marek on a single up the middle to cut the lead to 5-2. After a failed hit-and-run moved Lee to second while Ruiz was out on the play, back-to-back singles by Vest and Jonathan Gonzales plated Lee for a 5-3 score.
It would be all the runs they would get however, as the Cowboys added single runs in the seventh and eighth to make it a 7-3 final in the first game of the series.
Lee led the team with three hits on the night, while Vest, Eric Weiss, Marek and Garcia each had two hits in the game. Gonzales, Weston Montgomery and Ruiz had one hit apiece to round out the offensive output. Lee, Vest and Gonzales each also had one RBI on the night.
Game two is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start on Saturday afternoon at Chapman Field. Daniel Minor will get the start for the Islanders, while McNeese State is schedule to pitch Tyler McDonald in the second game of the weekend.
Live stats and video will be available by visiting www.GoIslanders.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball) and follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball).


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Gustav Saenger(31 May 1865 — 10 December 1935)
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About the Book
"In Gonick's work, clever design and illustration make complicated ideas or insights strikingly clear."
—New York Times Book Review
Larry Gonick, master cartoonist, former Harvard instructor, and creator of the New York Times bestselling, Harvey Award-winning Cartoon Guide series now does for calculus what he previously did for science and history: making a complex subject comprehensible, fascinating, and fun through witty text and light-hearted graphics. Gonick's The Cartoon Guide to Calculus is a refreshingly humorous, remarkably thorough guide to general calculus that, like his earlier Cartoon Guide to Physics and Cartoon History of the Modern World, will prove a boon to students, educators, and eager learners everywhere.
A complete—and completely enjoyable—new illustrated guide to calculus
Master cartoonist Larry Gonick has already given readers the history of the world in cartoon form. Now, Gonick, a Harvard-trained mathematician, offers a comprehensive and up-to-date illustrated course in first-year calculus that demystifies the world of functions, limits, derivatives, and integrals. Using clear and helpful graphics—and delightful humor to lighten what is frequently a tough subject—he teaches all of the essentials, with numerous examples and problem sets. For the curious and confused alike, The Cartoon Guide to Calculus is the perfect combination of entertainment and education—a valuable supplement for any student, teacher, parent, or professional.
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"How do you humanize calculus and bring its equations and concepts to life? Larry Gonick's clever and delightful answer is to have characters talking, commenting, and joking-all while rigorously teaching equations and concepts and indicating calculus's utility. It's a remarkable accomplishment-and a lot of fun." — Lisa Randall, Professor of Physics, Harvard University, and author of Knocking on Heaven's Door
Gonick is to graphical expositions of advanced materials as Newton or Leibniz is to calculus. The difference is that Gonick has no rival. — Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics and Department Chair, Harvard University
Larry Gonick's sparkling and inventive drawings make a vivid picture out of every one of the hundreds of formulas that underlie Calculus. Even the jokers in the back row will ace the course with this book. — David Mumford, Professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and recipient of the National Medal of Science
I always thought that there are no magic tricks that use calculus. Larry Gonick proves me wrong. His book is correct, clear and interesting. It is filled with magical insights into this most beautiful subject. — Persi Diaconis, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford
It has no mean derivative results about the only derivatives that matter…. A spunky tool-toting heroine called Delta Wye seems the perfect role model for our next generation. — Susan Holmes, Professor of Statistics, Stanford
A creative take on an old, and for many, tough subject…Gonick's cartoons and intelligent humor make it a fun read. — Amy Langville, Recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award at College of Charleston and South Carolina Faculty of the Year
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- On Sale: 12/27/2011
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Kids, visit Country Corner in Alpha with your Grandparents. Grandparents will be admitted free with a paying grandchild. Activities available include a Hayrack Ride, U-Pick Pumpkins, and Corn Maze. Special Discounts and Concessions in Timber Park. Hours: 9 am to 6 pm. Fall Fun Park Hours:10:30 am to 6 pm.
The community spirit of Alpha shines bright and brings residents and visitors together to enjoy their lighted parade and festive food. Parade begins at dusk.
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Enjoy a large Flea Market with over 20 vendors each day displaying their wares for sale from 10am to 5pm. Hayrack Rides, U-Pick Pumpkins, Corn Maze. Fall Fun Park Hours: 10:30am to 6pm.
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Have you ever seen pumpkins fly at the speed of sound? Watch the Q-9 pumpkin cannon – always shooting for a world record, or pick and shoot your own pumpkin. Distance and accuracy competitions are held twice daily.
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Jack O'Lantern meets Jack and the Beanstalk! Like Jack's plant, a pumpkin can grow, and grow, and grow – until it becomes one of the stars of the annual Giant Pumpkin Festival! See pumpkins weighing over 500 pounds. Most are for sale, so–give yourself the ultimate challenge and wrestle a giant out in our 20-acre pumpkin patch–or just point at one that's been pre-picked at the farmstand. We'll help with the wrestling, weighing and toting. Fall fun park, hayrack rides, corn cannons, our famous "Cow Train" barrel train, "Mining for Gems" ,bounce house, and Kids' Corn Maze. Free admission, ample parking, nominal charge for events. Fall Fun Park open: 10:30am to 6pm.
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Last night I finally realized the true value of the bright headlamp: getting a left-turning driver's attention. I was using the Princeton Tec Dual 3W LED while riding down a gradual hill in the bike lane. Despite all the lumens I was throwing out and my reflective clothing - a driver turning left from the center turn lane apparently didn't see me. As he started his turn I grabbed the brakes and looked at him. He hit the brakes and froze like a deer in headlights. He waved apologetically for not seeing me and we both continued on our way. Without the helmet light - I think it would have been a different ending to the story.
Cyclists come up with all sorts of ways to suffer through training, especially indoors. This year in rain-soaked Seattle, I've set an all-time personal record for riding inside, and have timed my workouts to repeats of Law and Order. Starting at the doink doink, I'll get the Cosmos going, usually have a rest cycle during the commercials, and ride on through until the heinous crime is solved.
Nick at 53x11 composes music for his rides, some cyclists watch entire stages of Le Tour, the best of police chases, or a movie. My wife Pam finds the most gossipy skinny-model trash TV programs and noted that if MTV actually played music videos. she'd watch those.
How do you get through the trainer grind?
Normally, we leave the race coverage to Cycling News et al, but today's vague admission by Museeuw gave me pause. Museeuw was a hero of mine, a powerful big-ring rouleur who was also el dope. Last year, when the Landis allegations broke, I posted on what I believed about cycling and that holds true today.
I believe in the bike and don't believe anyone else.
You could sell those old race wheels on eBay or Craigslist or use them to commute! Andy, from Hed Cycling sent us this photo of his commuter – Besides the wheels, I particularly like the Star Trek lunchbox action.
I'm in Portland, visting clients, talking new technologies for bikes, and possibly going to see a new bike. After a restless night in a hotel, my Bodum travel press poured a cup of coffee with creme! Nice! While it's not the perfect cup we've discussed before, the pour sure brightened my day.


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U.K. Dreams of a Robot Heaven
If everything goes according to plan, robots will decommission British nuclear sites, service offshore oil and gas rigs; zip Brits across the skies and deliver their pizza. Garbage-bots will also collect trash and carebots will look after the elderly. Life will be simpler, easier, and more efficient when humans let robots do all the work, so that we can do everything else.
And if things don't go according to plan? Well we've all seen the movies.
For the past 18 months, everyone who is anyone in the U.K.'s robotics sector has been hard at work on making sure everything goes according to plan, drawing up a strategy paper to determine the future of intelligent, autonomous machines—AKA robots— in Britain.
A final version of the document, written by the 20 experts of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Special Interest Group (RAS-SIG), is to be officially unveiled by Science Minister David Willets on July 1.
According to interviews with two members of the interest group, an external consultant, and a summary of earlier drafts, the strategy rests on several key pillars. Legislators will make the U.K. the world's most welcoming place for robotics research, testing and development. It won't be just about creating robots, but also about creating standards and regulations that allow for easier testing of autonomous machines. Areas of industry will be created to tackle some of the country's most challenging problems, like the decommissioning of nuclear sites, opening up farming productivity, and robotic monitoring of sewage pipes and offshore gas and oil rigs.
Government will deploy robots to build schools, roads and hospitals, and care for the elderly. It will help fund robotics research at schools and universities to raise the number of people who can make and work with robots. New technologies that improve the ability of humans to control multiple robots simultaneously will be highlighted. Culturally, there will be an emphasis on explaining that automation does not cost people their jobs, but actually creates more opportunities and opens possibilities.
This is not the first time that a U.K. government has looked to robots to boost the economy. Mired in recession, the Thatcher government launched a campaign in 1985 to increase the number of robots in industry. According to the British Automation and Robot Association, in 1982 only 100 robots out of 439 installed in the country were built by U.K. engineers. Most of the robots were installed in the auto industry sector. Thirty years later, the number of new robots working in the U.K. in 2012 alone was 2,447—none of them were manufactured in the U.K.
"UK industry, for whatever reason, didn't rise to the challenge," says David Lane, professor of autonomous systems engineering at the Ocean Systems Laboratory at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lane leads the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Special Interest Group.
Like others in the robotics group, he's somewhat superhuman himself. Apart from being a world authority on undersea robotics, he's also a startup entrepreneur, an adviser to NATO, a dive instructor, mini-rugby coach and referee, a keen skier and snowboarder—and he also has a pilot license from the Royal Air Force reserve for aerobatic flying.
Lane believes this time the U.K. is better positioned to make a go for a robotic future.
"The time is right now for two reasons: from a technology point of view computers are faster, software is better, and algorithms like machine learning techniques are better. From a market point of view, there's more potential for them to be disruptive," Mr. Lane says.
Another member of the group is Richard Walker, Managing Director of London-based Shadow Robot Company.
A roboticist and mathematician with a shaggy beard and dreadlocks down to his lower back, Mr. Walker describes himself as a "no-work anarchist."
"I genuinely believe that work is something that is difficult, dirty, dangerous and unpleasant and should be left to robots," he says.


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|Length Overall
|64' 5''
19.65 m
|Dry Weight
|35 tons
5.20 m
|Tested Weight
5' 10''
1.55 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
924.6 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
198 gal.
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|1000-hp MAN V8
|Tested Power
|2 x 1200-hp MAN V8
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Not Available
By Captain Steve Larivee--
Mission Statement
The mission of the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 is to provide world-class cruising on a level of luxury and style comparable to much larger yachts. She is primarily designed to accommodate the family and (fortunate) friends of an owner/operator, but recognizing that many owners of yachts this size have little desire for cleaning, polishing and changing oil, the design will provide separate accommodations for a crew of two. Because she is 65' she can also be an owner/operator vessel and then her crew quarters may be used as another guest cabin.
The Monte Carlo Yachts 65 carries the same sweeping sheer line and hull side portlight design of the 76. No other yachts have this treatment. Her bow is wide on deck and has pronounced flare. Note the graceful sweep of her flying bridge cowling. Her dark side windows and black support pilaster aft serve to create the illusion that the boat is lower than it really is.
Distinguishing Features
Here are some of the features that separate the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 from others in class --
• Designed by Carlo Nuvolari and Dan Lenard. This is the same design team that created the award-winning Monte Carlo Yachts 76 and it has given the 65 a look that is masculine in seagoing style, while maintaining graceful curves and beauty that can only be defined as Italian.
• Relatively Small Engines. The twin MAN V8 engines are offered in either 1000-hp or 1200-hp configurations. According to the builder, the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 will reach a maximum speed of 31 kn.
The Monte Carlo Yachts 65 is not just another pretty motoryacht, she has lots of practical design thinking built into her that should make her successful in the long haul. For example her invisible passerelle tucked into one of rear stairs, the large teak beach swim platform with standard hydraulic lift for launching the vessel's tender, and her black carbon fiber hardtop all serve important purposes for cruising and entertaing.
• Ease of Operation Thanks to the Joystick. The MCY 65 can be maneuvered easily with a joystick offered as an option which is unusual in this size boat. This eliminates any concern about being able to handle the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 in close confines for owner/operators. Additional operational parameters, such as trim, are designed to self correct automatically throughout the entire performance range of the 65.
• Lighter Weight than Most in Class. Because Monte Carlo Yachts engineers have carefully managed the weight of the 65 by using Kevlar in the hull bottom, carbon fiber in the hardtop, relatively light MAN V8 engines, and cored bulkheads doors and cabinetry where possible, she weighs 61,729 lbs. dry (28,058 kgs.).
• Hardtop for the Flying Bridge. Another departure for a European builder is to design the boat as standard with a hardtop, unlike most boats in class, which consider the flying bridge more a sunning area with a helm for convenience. Further, the hardtop is made with super lightweight carbon fibers which keeps the boat's CG low without added ballasting. European designers have eschewed hardtops on most flying bridges in motoryachts of this size because they feel it negatively affects the graceful, sleek lines of the yacht. Monte Carlo Yachts has mitigated this consideration by making both the top and the supports black. We whole-heartedly applaud the builder's approach to this subject as it makes the boat more practical and livable.
• Relatively Shallow Draft. Her relatively light weight combined with her long water length and 17' (5.2 m) beam permit her to draw only 4'4" (1.32 m), which places her firmly on the shoal side in class where some yachts draw a foot more.
• Galley Aft in an Italian Yacht. Traditionally, motoryachts of this size have had their galleys forward if on the main deck, or below in many European-built vessels. Monte Carlo Yachts has decided to capitalize on one of the newest trends in yacht design, and that is to put the galley on the main deck and aft. This is an important departure for a European builder and one that takes some amount of courage. This design creates what is essentially a "country kitchen" arrangement with the settee and table opposite the galley. With glass doors that open completely to the aft cockpit, the galley can be joined with the big table located there. With the aft doors open, a unique huge area is available for parties.
• Optional Lower Helm Door to Side Deck. In flush deck motoryachts of this type -- particularly in Euro designs -- we often do not see side doors adjacent to the helm. They are absolutely necessary for handling the boat short-handed, something that both owner/operators will appreciate, along with a delivery crew.
Performance Numbers
With a pair of MAN 1200 engines powering our test boat we reached a top speed at 2350 rpm of 29.7 kn. At that speed fuel burn was 120 gallons per hour giving us a range of 206 nautical miles.
The MCY 65 cuts a stunning profile as she makes her way towards open water. The large hullside windows are adding light and scenery to the master stateroom. Note how far back in the hull the master stateroom is.
With a boat of this size and displacement, there really is no "best" cruise but rather cruise performance is a determination between the desired speed and the desired range. For example, range is improved nearly 50% when reducing speed from 11.7 kn to 10 kn. One simply decides whether to go fast or far with the two characteristics being mutually exclusive.
Personally, I found the 65 to be most comfortable at 1750 rpm and 20 kn where we had an impressive fuel burn of only 60 gph and an endurance of nearly 14 hours, translating to a range of 279 miles, all while still maintaining a 10% reserve.
On the other hand, I know motoryacht owners who quite happily cruise along at the 10 knots. In the case of the MCY 65, at that speed they would get .85 nmpg and have a range of 614 nautical miles with a 10% fuel reserve. That is an impressive range at a decent speed.
Handling Characteristics
After spending a considerable amount of time on sea trials aboard the Monte Carlo 76 I had high expectations of the handling characteristics that the smaller 65 would present, and I was not disappointed. One major difference was where the 76 was powered by ZF 4000 pods, the 65 is only offered with straight shafts and rudders.
With that said, lest a future owner/operator be concerned about his/her ability to handle a yacht of this size and caliber with twin shafts, joystick maneuverability is offered by way of the Xenta (pronounced Zenta) joystick that combines the two propellers with bow and stern thrusters to provide complete joystick maneuverability at the dock. On our test boat the system functioned flawlessly.
Xenta Joystick
Once the lines were cast off, a gentle nudge on the joystick had us easing forward out of our slip, the emphasis on that maneuver being a "gentle" nudge. This joystick has an extremely light sensitivity and it does not take a heavy hand to move this 77,000 lbs. (34,926 kgs.) plus yacht on its way.
Once clear of the dock I reverted to the ZF throttles that had us cruising at a minimum speed of 6 kn. Trolling valves are offered as an option with the ZF transmissions but they were not fitted on our test boat and trolling valves should not be used for docking anyway. While some may consider that a fast idle speed, I have found it to be typical in this size yacht. To go slower just take the props in and out of gear.
At planing speed she cuts cleanly through the water and has a solid feel throughout her ride.
Towards Open Water
As we approached the inlet, the light chop rolling through seemed to have little effect on the muscle of the MCY 65 as I started advancing the throttles. It was at this point, that the true joy of operating this luxurious yacht came to light as we immediately began overtaking the rest of the yachts around us - and all eyes were on us. Once out into open water, I proceeded to get as heavy handed as I could to try and bring out the worst of what the MCY 65 had to offer.
As it turns out, her worst seems to exceed some other yacht's best handling characteristics. She comes up on plane from a flat attitude with no bow rise and really starts to accelerate once the turbochargers of the MAN 1200 engines kick in. We reached planing speed at 12.5 seconds and continued accelerating to 30 mph in 14.7 seconds. At full speed she will complete a 360-degree turn in approximately 70 seconds while taking up sea room equivalent to roughly four boat lengths. At 20 kn she'll come around in half that time and half that distance. During turns, her maximum bank angle was 16-degrees.
Sea Keeping Ability
We had virtually no wind during our tests, but once completed Mother Nature kindly obliged with a 10 to 15 mph wind giving us a little bit of a chop to add to my observations.
At speed the MCY 65 is designed to throw water away from her hull, but the prevailing wind managed to pick it up on occasion and toss some spray into the lower windshields. Bringing her around 180-degrees in order to pass through our wake to see just how much water she throws and it was impressive how cleanly she cut through these waves without jarring the yacht. She easily gives the impression that she can handle so much more, only I didn't have more to give.
All Good Things Must Come to an End
On our way back into the inlet I let the combined 2400 horses do their thing again as we overtook every other yacht coming in. On nearing our slip, that 6 kn minimum speed was completely negated by bringing the controls to neutral and turning on the joystick. The Xenta maneuvering system took over for our final approach to the dock. The joystick allowed gentle, well-controlled boat movements that anyone is capable of, which bodes well for this yacht, as she is clearly designed to be an owner/operator vessel.
Features Highlights
Flying Bridge
The flying bridge is accessible by a stairway from the aft deck removing any concern of having to take up space in the sizable salon for an additional stairway.
The flying bridge offers what will probably be the most popular gathering area while the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 is underway, at anchor or even at the dock. A starboard mounted helm sits ahead of a double wide helm seat with a sun lounge to port. A U-shaped settee lies just abaft with a refrigerator, ice-maker, sink and barbecue unit lying behind the base of the carbon fiber radar mast.
There is space to either side of the outdoor galley for additional lounge chairs. This arrangement allows for the most efficient use of space in the flying bridge and the entire area is shaded with a sizable carbon fiber hardtop, the center of which is fabric that retracts to allow the sun to shine through, when desired.
Teak decking runs the entire length of the flying bridge including the raised helm platform. Notice the clear hatch over the companionway which allows viewing of the port quarter from the helm, even in the closed position. The hardtop supports are elongated to allow for strength while minimizing the impact on visibility. Both the hardtop and it supports are black so as not to distract the eye.
The carbon fiber top has courtesy lighting that cycles through colors for day and night operation. The center retractable fabric section is controlled by a switch at the helm.
The flying bridge area was designed to remain exposed to the elements. I shudder at the thought of this beautiful yacht coming to the American market with an owner deciding to completely destroy the beautiful exterior aesthetics by enclosing the flying bridge in isinglass (but not everyone will agree with me on this point.) As if to assuage such concerns, the design team at Monte Carlo Yachts has included an efficiently outfitted lower helm as standard.
Main Deck
The stern of the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 is highlighted by the sizable swim platform with a standard hydraulic platform. This will allow the platform to accommodate a tender, or pair of PWCs, or even serve as the much enjoyed "teak beach". The cockpit is accessed via stairways to either port or starboard, one of which can accommodate an optional passerelle.
The aft cockpit is protected by the extended overhead of the flying bridge. Overhead supports have tinted glass to maximize visibility while reducing wind coming from the sides.
The aft deck outdoor gathering area is well-protected from the extended overhead of the flying bridge. Windage is reduced by the overhead supports to the outside of the side decks, and these supports have tinted glass inserts to lessen an obstruction of the waterfront view. An aft sofa is in a fixed position and five movable deck chairs lay opposite a teak dining table allowing eight to be seated comfortably for al fresco dining.
Enclosure Possible. Because the overhead extends back to the transom, this whole aft deck can be enclosed for three season boating. This is an important consideration, particularly given the propensity of cold fronts to blast through many areas of the world even in the summer.
Operationally, there are dual warping winches to either side of the cockpit and the teak railing with stainless grab rail curves around the quarters, above stainless steel rollers to pass dock lines through. Symmetry adds elegance to the transom. Note the sunning lounge chairs on the top deck.
Crew quarters are accessed through a door in the transom, and they're accommodating enough to serve as additional guest space with an en suite head. The high quality of finishing is unusual in the crew quarters for this size of yacht.
Optional controls on the aft deck will serve as a convenient location for backing into a slip or med mooring.
One Stairway Up. To the port hand side of the aft deck are the only stairs leading to the flying bridge. I find this arrangement to be perfectly acceptable as, thanks to the well laid out lower helm station, the flying bridge will only be used when the weather is nice, and this also eliminates an interior stairway taking up much needed usable space in the salon.
Roomy side decks to both port and starboard allow the entire length of the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 to be transited without ever having to enter the living areas. Both owners and crew (if any) will appreciate this practical and traditional design.
The hull side portlights and windows that have now become a trademark feature of Monte Carlo Yachts. The stainless grab rails make a perfect transition to matching stainless cleats.
The side decks converge around the forward part of the superstructure in a Portuguese bridge with an opening to the center that continues to the bow between two sun lounges.
The sun lounges are configured so sun bathers can choose to sit or lay out in multiple positions. At the bow, there is no pulpit and the working area is elevated to allow the crew to work lines and ground tackle from a standing position. Storage compartments are located at the Portuguese bridge bulwarks. Note that the anchor is kept off the deck and goes through the stem.
Pop-up LED mood lights are on and deck level courtesy lights (which are off) add to the nighttime ambiance of the foredeck. The arrows in the background point to two of four holes that hold up a diaphanous canopy in the daytime.
Salon Deck
Galley and Dinette
The salon deck features three distinct gathering areas flanking an aft galley in the middle of it all. The lower helm is located forward and to the starboard side and features, as an option, a side door leading directly to the outside deck.
The concept of continuity between inside and outside continues with the Monte Carlo Yachts 65, just as seen in the 76. Triple opening glass doors allow a seamless transition between the aft cockpit to the inside. The galley aft and to port features a full range of full sized appliances and serves as a central service access point for both the interior and exterior dining areas.
To starboard is an L-shaped sofa and a table being custom-designed to allow for effortless passage to the forward salon and expanding to allow dining for six to eight.
The aft galley is centrally located to the gathering areas and features full-size appliances as well as ample ventilation and natural light. Note the full-size stand-up refrigerator/freezer and exhaust hood over the stove top. The counter at left can be used for food prep allowing two people to work in the galley at once.
A view looking forward from the door to the aft deck. The table to the right is folded over on itself to open the passageway and can be used as a counter during food prep. When it is time to dine, the table folds out and chairs can be pulled up.
This picture of the salon facing aft highlights the seamless transition between the inside and outside. The gray structure at the right and the half bulkhead at the left define the galley/dining area from the salon. Wood moldings above the valances hide indirect lighting and the A/C vents.
Salon and Helm
Moving forward, a single step up transitions to the forward salon area with a C-shaped sofa within close proximity to the helm. To the starboard side is a well-equipped helm that may be thought of as the primary operational station, due to the completeness of its layout and level of equipment and functionality.
Visibility from this lower station might be the best in class and a design element reminiscent of much larger yachts is present… an optional weather door on the side deck.
The port side sofa provides an intimate gathering area in close proximity to the helm, allowing the owner/operator to be involved in the conversation while underway.
This lower helm station was certainly not created as an afterthought. The nav displays are correctly placed low enough to not interfere with visibility at the bottom of the windshield. In order to do that the counter has to be lower than normal which is exactly what should be done in this instance. Note the hub of the wheel is higher than the instrument counter. This is a sign of very good design and quite practical. This level of sensitivity to proper helm design is rarely seen.
Accommodations Deck
Accommodations layout of the Monte Carlo Yachts 65. Note that each stateroom has an en suite head.
The Monte Carlo Yachts 65 continues the same tradition as her larger sister for spending the days above decks and nights below. A three stateroom layout accommodates the owners and two other couples or a family. All staterooms have en suite heads and surround a central foyer bathed in natural light.
Walnut and gray oak are complemented by brown and gray leather inserts and fabrics are from Armani Casa and Rubelli. The full beam master gets the full treatment of the larger hull side windows and a settee to the starboard side allows you to lounge in privacy with a waterfront view.
A vanity lies adjacent to the master stateroom entry. To the left, note the leather wrapped handrail.
Opposite the vanity is the head featuring dual travertine stone sinks and decking as well as natural light from additional hull side windows.
The travertine stone decking continues into the shower that is surrounded by ceramic tile.
Indirect lighting comes from above the overhead vents and behind the headboard panels. We'd like to see additional storage cabinets occupying the space above the opening portlights.
The VIP en suite head features a rain-type showerhead and sitting platform for use while underway. With the single basin sink on top of the travertine stone counter, more storage space is opened up in the cabinet below.
The guest stateroom features twin berths and dual opening portlights.
The guest en suite features a shower with a rounded sliding door that creates a much more efficient use of space. The portlight opens.
Engine Room and Crew Quarters
The Monte Carlo Yachts 65 engine room is as much a study of elegance and functionality as the rest of the yacht itself. The machinery space is gleaming white with a surgical look to it. With 5'10" (1.77 m) of headroom, the compartment is clearly designed for working as well as housing the twin MAN diesel engines. Owners can choose between 1000-hp and 1200-hp engines.
As you can see, the engines are relatively small for such a large motoryacht. This, we predict, will be one of the secrets to this boat's success. No one likes to spend more money on fuel than necessary.
Heavy stainless steel rails around the engines and to the port side seamlessly blend into the access ladder to the overhead hatch which opens to the aft deck. Additional access to the engine room is via a watertight aft hatch, something not found on many 65' boats. The generator is at the aft bulkhead, fuel tanks are to either side of the compartment with twin filters attached to each tank allowing for change out on the fly.
The crew's quarters feature twin berths with head, storage and separate climate control.
For those who were longing for the Monte Carlo Yachts 76 but found her just a little too big for their liking, or budget, the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 will serve to fill a gap that will make the brand accessible to a wider audience. And, essentially, the 65 has all of the functionality of her larger sister, and certainly has the same good looks.
Owner/operator. Regular readers know that we think large yachts such as this should be owner/operated and the builder has done everything possible to make that a cinch. The optional lower helm weather deck door makes it easy for the skipper to pop out on the side deck to handle lines. The optional joystick will also make docking easier.
Propulsion System. There are a number of motoryachts on the market in this size range but I think the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 stands apart for several reasons. First, as mentioned, are her stunning good looks that we think will age very gracefully. Second, she has one of the most efficient propulsion systems we've seen in class. Because she is relatively lightweight with low horsepower engines she should excel at performance at reasonable speeds. That not only makes her less expensive to buy, but also less costly to operate.
Reduced Depreciation. It occurs to me that the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 might also render other motoryachts of the same size which are heavier, have much bigger engines and can go faster obsolete, or nearly so. Where there was once a craze to go 40 knots in a motoryacht, I think the bloom may well be off that lily. Cruising at 20 to 24 knots is fast enough for me, in fact, I am quite used to 20 knots, so that will make operation of the 65 even more advantageous. If I am right, then in the future people will be looking for economical boats to operate -- even in the rarified air of multi-million dollar yachts. And if that happens, then a boat such as the Monte Carlo Yachts 65 should be a hot ticket on the used boat market.
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Today's energy transmission and distribution (T&D) systems are more complex than ever before. In response, electric utility companies are on the lookout for innovative smart grid technologies that make it easier to monitor and manage the health of their T&D systems, and improve customer service by minimizing and potentially avoiding outages. One emerging and important device is the phasor measurement unit (PMU) used to assess transmission line conditions and enable utilities to load lines closer to their limits. However, many PMUs and associated data management solutions are still evolving and can be rather expensive, non-standard or non-real time. Addressing these issues, Dell*, Intel, National Instruments* and OSIsoft* worked together to develop an end-to-end synchrophasor data management solution that combines high-performance computing, networking and storage to provide real-time, actionable data. In addition to helping utilities improve efficiency, this cost-effective, scalable solution is based on an open, nonproprietary architecture designed to increase compatibility and speed up integration with legacy systems.
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NEW MOON OF CONTINUOUS SNOW DECEMBER 1,1976 VOLUME 6 NUMBER 15 Extension Given to Indian Loggers By Lonny Desimone What exactly are the responsibilitys of the Tribal Council concerning our natural resources and people. Take for example income from Tribal timber harvest vs. employment and furthering the capabilities of Tribal Member logging contractors. Do they seek to make the most revenue possible while keeping logging sales down to a sustained yeild balance, or do they halt logging operations and keep the forest areas in a natural state, sacreficing revenue for environment? And if they choose to have revenue for all members, and keep employment up for those who work in the woods related fields, where do they draw the line between revenue for all and employment for some? These questions, and a multitude of others, are facing each Councilman when a logging unit comes up for sale, or when a problem arises concerning a unit already sold. Just such a decision was faced by the Council Monday evening, November 22, when three logging units contracted by three independent Indian logging contractors were brought to the Council for not reaching their required annual cuts. The three ( continued on page 2 ) Indian Health Service Director Rose Cline, is pictured here awarding Baptise Pichette his 20 year certificate and pin for his years of service with IHS. Glenrose Bird and Blanch Phalan were also given 10 year certificates and pins at the IHS luncheon held in their honor November 18. ( see photo on inside of issue. ) Christmas Per Capita On Its Way At an Executive Session of the Tribal Council, held Monday evening, November 15, the wheels were put into motion to distribute a per-capita payment of $150. The rumor that a petition was being circulated among the member asking for a $250. per-capita before Christmas was discussed by the Council. It was decided at this time to recind past Council action which provided for one payment per year, paid out in the month of August. By resolution, the Council voted for changing the yearly dividend to be paid out in two installments, one in August and the other in December. The exact amount of the two installments for the future years to be decided in late June of each year, and based on projected tribal Resource income. This proposed December's dividend will be appropriated from alreday invested income, which is currently drawing interest of between 5 and 6 percent. In cashing in these bonds, the tribe will have to find some other tribal nation to purchase the U.S. Government bonds from us, otherwise we will lose the interest accrued up to the time of redemption. ( continued on page 2 )
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Photo Essay: Mating Games
Courtship Flights are an amazing display of color and acrobatic flying
Across the continent's breeding grounds, waterfowl take part in timeless spring mating rituals. Ducks participate in acrobatic pairing flights, which are an important step in selecting a mate. (photo by David Stimac)
Handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens. (photo by Tom Martineau)
Male suitors outnumber females by a wide margin, so courtship competition is intense. (photo by Jim Thompson)
Courtship consists of signals by male and female birds – such as calls, posture and feather displays – to indicate the condition of their respective sexual interests. Aggressive behavior among competing males is not uncommon. (photo by Jim Thompson)
While courtship flights appear playful, this is serious business for all involved. (photo by Scott Fink)
In the never-ending process of natural selection, only the strongest, most experienced male breeders may prevail in winning mates. (photo by Scott Fink)
The strong bond forged between a paired hen and drake is vital to the hen's nesting success. (photo by DU member)
The hen will face many hazards on the nesting grounds, where her drake must also vanquish legions of would-be suitors and defend the pair's territory against other pairs. (photo by Mike Khansa)
It will, after all, be the progeny of the most successful pairs that eventually take to the skies, ensuring a bright future for their species. (photo by Michael Peters)
Once pair bonds have been formed, some males, particularly wood ducks, take an active role in seeking out suitable nest sites. (photo by Randy Hunn)


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Options for Video and Audio Codecs in Linux
Red Devil's Tech Blog has a good article reviewing how four different major Linux distributions deal with making video and audio codecs available.
Fedora, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu are all covered, with Vector Linux getting a brief tongue in cheek mention at the end.
It seems that Fedora is moving away from their strictly no non-free software approach, to one encouraging end users to install Fluendo's commercial codecs, of which new versions have just been released. Mandriva is doing something similar with their paid for 2008 Power Pack.
Personally, I applaud this approach. While I wholeheartedly support free and open source software, I also don't mind the concept of paying a small amount for something essential, like video and audio codecs. If this is what it takes, to avoid even the sniff of legal problems for a Linux distribution, I'm fine with it.
Tip of the iceberg you say? I can understand that response too. What I don't see at this time is a valid alternative, besides installing, what is in some jurisdictions, legally questionable software.
I'd be much more concerned about Sun purchasing MySQL and Novell/SUSE cosying up to Microsoft, than paying £20 for some very useful codecs. Perhaps an organisation like Fluendo deserves support, just to keep yourself personally in the clear.
I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't follow this lead.
Ultimately though, I think the decision has to be up to the end user. Linux is about choice. And I'm quite the hypocrite anyway, not about to purchase Fluendo's codecs. All the decoding functionality I need is done with libavcodec, which is a core dependency for FFmpeg.


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AGATE BAY, Calif. - A boil-water order for Agate Bay property owners was lifted this past Friday upon instruction from the California Department of Public Health after samples taken roughly four weeks ago discovered the community's drinking water had tested positive for E. coli contamination.
The contamination was discovered the evening of Dec. 14 after one of five water samples taken by Western Environmental Labs in Sparks, Nev., on Dec. 13 in the Agate Bay neighborhood came back positive, said Duncan Davis, Agate Bay Water Company manager.
E. coli is a diverse group of bacteria with most strains being harmless, but some can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, respiratory illness, pneumonia and other illnesses, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We are very grateful there were no reported incidents of illness related to the drinking water provided by Agate Bay Water Company - before, during or after this time period," the company said in a prepared statement.
Upon learning of the contamination, the Drinking Water Division of the California Department of Public Health instructed Agate Bay Water Company, located at 710 Agate Road in Carnelian Bay, on the morning of Dec. 15 to issue a boil water advisory to all households serviced by the company, Davis said. In all, 580 households were affected.
A printed notice provided by the state health department was distributed that day to all households, Davis said, advising residents to boil their water for one minute, or to use bottled water for activities such as brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation until further notice.
Agate Bay Water Company then complied with additional requests from the state health department, including flushing and chlorinating the water system, Davis said. Additional testing was ordered to be done "immediately," all of which returned with negative results for E. coli, Davis said.
"The source of the contamination is unknown," Davis said Tuesday. "... All testing done since that date - including at the original source of the first positive test - has been negative for E. coli. Unfortunately, there is no way to conclusively determine why the sample tested positive."
According to the written notice distributed to households, bacterial contamination can occur when increased runoff enters a drinking water source, when pipes break or if a provider's water treatment process fails.
All households were advised between Sunday and Monday of this week that the boil notice had been lifted after the water company got the OK from the state health department to do so on Friday, Davis said.
State health department officials were working on submitting comments for this story, but did not meet press deadlines Tuesday. A call to Western Environmental Testing Laboratory in Sparks was not immediately returned due to staff being out of the office Tuesday.
The issue surfaced on Monday, when residents contacted the Sierra Sun about the boil water order.
"I don't understand why it took so long to rectify the situation," said Agate Bay resident Debra Schroepfer, adding that the situation was particularly difficult since it occurred during the holiday season.
"(An) inconvenience? Yes," added Agate Bay resident Christine Madden. "But it would be a lot worse to be sick."
Madden went on to say she respected that testing needed to be done and the need to be cautious.
"We highly value both our water and our customers," the water company said in its prepared statement. "We greatly appreciate their patience and understanding as we worked our way through this first ever incidence of possible contamination."


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Schwarzenegger, who is in Algeria for three days, signed an accord Tuesday with Environment Minister Amara Benyounes to open an office of his non-governmental organization in the western city of Oran.
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TORONTO - Canada is moving ahead with building a key component for a space mission that will explore an asteroid and eventually bring a piece of it back to Earth.
With the help of $8.84 million in funding announced by the federal government on Thursday, construction is set to begin on the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter — a mapping system that will create 3D maps of the asteroid Bennu.
"This is really groundbreaking for space exploration," said Treasury Board president Tony Clement, who presented details of the project in Toronto.
"It means we'll have a better understanding of the origins of the solar system and of course that helps us understand many things, including our environment, including the mineral composition of bodies outside of the Earth and so it's of historic scientific importance. And it also helps, incidentally, the space industries that we have here in Canada."
The Canadian Space Agency and technology company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates have been designing the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter since 2008.
The latest funding commitment — which is part of a planned $61 million for the project over 15 years — will allow the Canadian scanning system to be constructed in preparation for an American-led NASA mission, which will blast off in late 2016 and reach the asteroid Bennu in late 2018.
Once there, it will spend eight months studying the asteroid's geology to help scientists select a site from which to collect a sample.
The spacecraft will then approach the surface of the asteroid and, without landing, will use a robotic arm to collect at least 60 grams of material from its surface.
The asteroid sample is expected to return to Earth by 2023, at which time Canada will get to own four per cent of it, giving Canadian scientists their first-ever direct access to an asteroid sample brought from space.
"(Asteroids) contain material, original material, from our solar system and when you study them it helps us understand the conditions of our solar system, its birth and maybe even the origin of water on Earth," said Walt Natynczyk, president of the Canadian Space Agency.
"The information in this mission will also help us in our knowledge of how to track the orbits of asteroids, especially when they come near the Earth."
The asteroid the mission is focusing its attention on is thought to be rich in carbon, dark in colour and is unlike any samples found in meteorite collections. It is thought to have a one in 2700 risk of impacting Earth in about 200 years.
The reason such asteroids are of interest is because of how little they've changed since they formed, said Craig Thornton, general manager for robotics and automation division at MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates.
It's a time capsule from about 4.5 billion years ago," he said. "This is going to be an opportunity to provide a really up close and personal look at an asteroid, a place that very few instruments have ever visited before."
The Canadian scanning system, which is going to be rigorously tested before it leaves Earth, will give scientists millions of pieces of information about the asteroid.
"It will have created 160 million sample measurements, each accurate to a couple of centimetres. So at the end of the day we're going to have a very, very precise map of Bennu's surface," said Thornton. "It will actually be the most accurate map that's ever been created of an asteroid."
The mission to Bennu is part of NASA's larger New Frontiers Program, which aims to explore the solar system with frequent spacecraft missions that conduct scientific investigations.


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SKOWHEGAN, Maine — The children of Michele D. Corson, who was arrested Wednesday night as a fugitive from justice for a murder case in New Hampshire, said their mother is a jovial woman and not capable of being an accomplice to the murder of her brother's ex-wife in March.
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SAN ANTONIO (October 16, 2012)--At least $4.2 million in television ads are bombarding viewers in San Antonio, who will decide whether they should keep freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Francisco Canseco, or oust him in favor of Democratic challenger Pete Gallego.
The sprawling 23rd Congressional District will be among the few toss-ups in Texas next month.
The nearly 600-mile wide district boundary stretches all the way to El Paso, but the race will be won or lost in San Antonio, which is the market where the candidates and groups backing them are buying air time in bulk.
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F.H. Buckley Presents Dim View of America's "Crown Government"
On Thursday, April 3, The Heartland Institute's Author Series featured F.H. Buckley, author and foundation professor at George Mason University School of Law with his eye-opening, recently published book titled, "The Once and Future King: The Rise and Fall of Crown Government." A citizen of Canada, Buckley will be sworn in as a U.S. citizen April 15.


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Houma Police conducted seat-belt checks Monday afternoon at Roussell and Main streets, ticketing 26 violators, authorities said.
Police checked 472 vehicles. The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission gave the department $200,000 for such operations, which will continue.
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Anthony Morotto poses for a photograph in front of the home he rents in New Dorp Beach, Staten Island. At the height of Hurricane Sandy, Morotto heard screaming from behind his home, one of only a handful in the area with a second story. He tied a rope to his waist and pulled three neighbors from the flood in through his second story window. At least 23 people died on Staten Island mostly from drowning in storm surge flooding.
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With all the browsers available for the Mac OS keeping your bookmarks organized can become a real problem. But with Bookit keeping your browsers' bookmarks synchronized is quick and easy. Bookit compares the bookmarks you have and then lets you synchronize the bookmarks that are not in all of your browsers. Finally, Bookit creates identical bookmark files for each browser. If you use more than one browser regularly, give Bookit a try, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
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I have contacted the developer by mail and he has sent me a reply saying that BookIt is still under development. He's working on a new version that will be compatible with Firefox 3. (No date yet for its release.)
Abandonware. Don't use. Firefox 3 doesnt work.
Anyone have an alternative?
It used to be a great little tool, but the developer won't update it to work with FireFox 3. He said it would be compatible with FF3 as soon as it released, but that's been months ago. If he hasn't noticed, FF is the second most popular app used by Mac users.
the interface can be confusing, the icon looks old and boring, and personally i think they are charging a bit much for it. I own it, I use it, it works well for me. I use .mac syncing of bookmarks, but that only syncs Safari bookmarks, so I use Bookit to migrate those Safari bookmarks to other browsers that I use more frequently.
Looks nice and works like a snap but does not support migrating bookmark folders.
You can view a free screencast for this at ScreenCasts Online (http://www.screencastsonline.com/sco/Shows/files/SCO0106-bookit.html). One thing to note, with the current version (3.7.1) you have to use .Mac to sync multiple computers.


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I bought a Plasma TV Panasonic 65" and today I discover that PMS works better than the media server suggested by Panasonic!
The only problem I have is that, even if the MKV format seems to be well accepted by TV directly without transcoding needs, sometimes with transcoding some file works better, but it always appears completely stretched! A 2.35:1 movie become 1.85:1 with horrible effects! Is there some setting I should change in order to avoid this bad problem?
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The 2nd in this year's series of quarterly industry panels focuses on giving local professionals the inside scoop from every angle of the business from the best in the business. Moderated by local film critic Bob Denerstein, The Talent You Don't See centers on aligning the right players to get your film greenlit, including producers, directors and cast.
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Dreambridge Films is a New York based film development, production and financing company. Founded in 2008 by Todd J. Labarowski, the company has received attention and awards across the globe premiering at Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, LA Film Festival, South By Southwest, the Gotham Awards, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and The Academy Awards.
Focusing primarily on innovative storytelling with premiere talent, Todd J. Labarowski produced The Kids Are All Right, an acclaimed film that was the 2010 Sundance Film Festival darling directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson, which garnered 4 Academy Award nominations, 2 Golden Globe wins, as well as 4 BAFTA and 5 Independent Spirit Award nominations.
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Danielle has had four other features premiere at Sundance, including Fox Searchlight's WAITRESS, Miramax's AMERICAN SON, and Sony Classics' NOVEMBER and GROOVE. She also produced Miramax's DALTRY CALHOUN with Quentin Tarantino, DOUBLE DARE, which premiered at Toronto and aired on PBS, and ONE NATION UNDER DOG for HBO. Danielle has served on the jury for Los Angeles Film Fest and the Starz Denver Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for producing. She is currently in pre-production on the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain with Oscar nominated director Brett Morgen.
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