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By Sara Cardine 03/29/2012
On Saturday, the campus of Pasadena's Messiah Lutheran Church will be the scene of a different sort of healing as 13 health service organizations convene for a free, daylong health fair hosted by the newly formed Pasadena Pride Center
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the fair will offer a range of services, from vision and heart screenings to body fat and HIV testing, as well as information on diabetes and cancer from City of Hope, Huntington Hospital and Pasadena's AIDS Service Center. And while the event is open to anyone, insured or uninsured, the Pride Center hopes to specifically reach out to the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community.
Why? Because when it comes to offering services for this segment of the population, Pasadena pales in comparison to gay-friendlier neighbors, like Hollywood and Santa Monica. Individuals in need of medical or mental health services, or who may be seeking LGBT social networks, must travel many miles out of town — something that is especially difficult for young people or those with disabilities. But while gay-friendly businesses and organizations in Pasadena are few and far between, the need continues to grow.
At least that's the position of Pastor Rick Eisenlord of the city's Good Shepherd Church, which opened its doors on Messiah's church grounds in 2010 as a safe haven for gay and questioning locals. Good Shepherd is the parent organization of the Pride Center, though the new group is not religious in nature.
"When I came here two years ago, there was virtually nothing for the gay and lesbian community," Eisenlord says. "There's an active and vibrant gay community here in the San Gabriel Valley. It's been under the radar in many respects, but it's here. It's just looking for a leader, someone to galvanize it and bring the community together."
Lives at stake
Since the Pride Center formed in September, its board of directors has developed several programs and events for LGBT youth and adults. Despite that designation, anyone is welcome to attend and participate, because the center's aim is to gradually reform Pasadena into a more open and accepting community for all, according to Eisenlord.
In addition to a LGBT youth choir and a men's community service group, the Pride Center has created a group for gay and bisexual professional women and self-defense classes aimed at teaching teens how to protect themselves in dangerous situations, including confrontations with bullies.
The idea for the self-defense class was developed partially in response to a string of suicides in late 2010 among teens who had been bullied by peers for being or acting homosexual. Predation by bullies is a big concern for gay teens, many of whom are still questioning their identities, says Eisenlord, who is himself openly gay and has experienced discriminatory violence.
"We're still one of the few minority groups it's acceptable to discriminate against legally. We have young people ending their lives because of that discrimination," Eisenlord says. "We, as adults, have a responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen. We can't afford to look away any longer. Lives are at stake; they really are."
He hopes th Pasadena Pride Center will raise awareness of the need for more gay-friendly doctors, counselors and crisis prevention services. But he also hopes that as more and more individuals step up and give voice to their experiences, a shift in thinking will occur and people will understand, as he says, "We are all God's children."
To Patti Loitz, that shift in thinking can't come soon enough. When the Altadena resident tried to find support for her own daughter, Lisa, who came out as a questioning lesbian at age 16, she was shocked at how few services there were in the San Gabriel Valley. How would her daughter make friends? Where could she go and just be herself without fear of being judged or misunderstood?
"I was just beside myself, because I didn't know where to go or what to do. There was nothing over here at all," she recalls.
Today, Loitz is president of the local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), an outreach group that supports friends and families through and past a loved one's coming out. Despite the area's slow march toward openness and acceptance of homosexuality and those who live an "alternative" lifestyle, there's still a lot of work to be done.
"We need people to be accepting and just give love," she adds. "There are tons of gay families around here who don't even know each other exist. Connection is what it's about, so people aren't doing it alone. Once word gets out, I think things will start to grow."
A new day
One of the participating service providers at Saturday's health fair will be the city's own Public Health Department, which will offer free and confidential HIV testing and counseling for at-risk groups.
Providing medical and mental health services to members of the LGBT community is important, says Pasadena Public Health Director Dr. Eric Walsh, because marginalization of any minority group usually just deters people in that group from getting the care they need.
"If you go into a place and you feel you don't belong, that they don't understand you, you're less likely to access services," Walsh says. "At the end of the day, what we want to do is not only prevent disease, but promote wholeness and health. And that doesn't happen in secret."
Eisenlord says he is amazed at how many local businesses, organizations and agencies volunteered to be a part of Saturday's health fair. He hopes it is a sign of good things to come in Pasadena.
"Already, the business community here in Pasadena is stepping up to the plate," he says. "If we can provide that model of what can be done, maybe other cities will follow and take notice. It's a new day, it really is."
The Pride Center Health Fair takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the campus of Messiah Lutheran Church, 570 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena. For more information on the fair or the Pasadena Pride Center, including a list of upcoming events, visit pasadenapridecenter.org.
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When the Ka Loko Dam on Kauai breached, it sent 400 million gallons of mud, rocks and water raging down the valley, killing seven people.
Seven years later, and less than a month after dam owner Jimmy Pflueger was convicted of reckless endangerment, he's not only still blaming the state, he's demanding it pays up.
"The state of Hawaii continues to utilize the water and Kilauea Irrigation Company continues to supply the water. So, we're looking, not at past actions, we're looking at what might happen in the future," said Pflueger's attorney Bill McCorriston.
Pflueger said the state has been selling water from his dam to local farmers for decades, but still taxing him thousands for dam operations and maintenance.
In a March 2013 letter, he told the Department of Land and Natural Resources:
"I have received nothing, but am accused of everything. You owe me more than I owe you."
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Attorney Bill McCorriston said over the years, the state and the company responsible for maintaining the ditches that connect to Pflueger's dam have failed to do their share.
He said the bill is for something of a piggy bank for future potential problems.
"The water gates are in disrepair, the ditch is in disrepair, trees are growing in the ditches," said McCorriston.
In a June 2013 response letter, DNLR director William Aila told Pflueger he's responsible for any problems, but the state is still waiting for an emergency plan in case something does go wrong. Adding:
"We decline at this time to respond to other statements in Mr. Pflueger's letter. Silence does not signify agreement."
"They're all leaving this up to Mr. Pflueger to solve a problem that really isn't of his own creation. That's not fair and ultimately if it takes a lawsuit that's what will happen," McCorriston said.
McCorriston said since the breach, the reservoir was dug deeper and rerouted to avoid potential future flooding.
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McCorriston said even is there was a spillway, it wouldn't have worked anyway, because he said, the surrounding area was blocked by trees and other debris.
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The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) is a voluntary conservation program that offers landowners the means and opportunity to protect, restore and enhance wetlands on their property through perpetual easements, 30-year easements or 10-year contracts.
The program is administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Technical and financial support is available to landowners who participate in the program.
The program is designed to be an incentive for farmers and ranchers to take suitable acres out of agricultural production.
Eligible lands include:
Once a tract of land has been accepted into the WRP, the NRCS and its partners work with the landowner to create a restoration plan to restore the wetland functions and values of the property.
This restoration includes creating water impoundments and planting bottomland hardwood trees or other native vegetation.
WRP in Arkansas provides wetland habitat for the millions of migrating waterfowl that visit Arkansas each winter.
Since European settlement of North America, the United States has converted more than 118 million acres of wetland, leaving only 103 million acres. These remaining wetlands are essential to the health of our environment for many reasons.
Ecosystem Restoration – The Lower Mississippi River Valley was once covered with 24 million acres of bottomland hardwood forests, a majority of which flooded each year. This vast wet forest was an ecosystem that supported plants and animals found no where else on earth. Although only 4.4 million acres of these forests are left, discoveries such as the ivory-billed woodpecker remind us of how important these areas are. The WRP is an integral part of the plan to increase what is left of the bottomland hardwood forests by returning less productive farmland back into wetlands.
Floodwater Retention – Wetlands act as traps that hold back floodwater and slow down its flow into major creeks and rivers. This lessens the impacts of floods. It is estimated if 3 percent more wetlands were present in the Upper Mississippi River, the flood of 1993 would have been prevented.
Carbon Sequestration – One of the most available sources of fighting global climate change is through the planting of trees. The WRP plants millions of hardwood seedlings each year, which continually remove carbon dioxide from the environment.
Water Quality – Wetlands have been called nature's sponge because of their ability to remove toxins from the water supply. A small strip of forested wetland along a stream can remove up to 80 percent of phosphorous and up 90 percent of nitrogen from water. Wetlands also serve to slow down the flow of water during a flood. As the water slows down, it drops the soil particles it is carrying before they can enter into waterways, improving the water quality for fish and aquatic plants.
Wildlife Observation – Wetlands provide a perfect location for observing wildlife. Many species of neotropical migrant songbirds, waterfowl, amphibians, reptiles and other animals depend on these habitats.
Recreation – Wetlands are a perfect place for recreation, especially hunting. Many WRP sites in Arkansas have been purchased by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and are managed for public hunting. These sites have recreated natural wetlands so effectively that they are literally teaming with wildlife.
Wildlife Habitat – 43 percent of all endangered species need wetlands for survival. Arkansas' wetlands support more wintering mallards than any other state in the country. The wetlands along the Mississippi River are important resting and feeding areas for the millions of songbirds that migrate through Arkansas each year.
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3,926 acres of wetlands are under permanent easement through the Emergency Watershed Program/Floodplain.
Unfunded Acres as of March 2007: 52,819 acres
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) through the Wetlands Reserve Program is partnering with The Nature Conservancy to restore thousands of acres in the Big Woods of Arkansas – a 550,000-acre corridor of floodplain forest along the Mississippi River.
Of the 550,000 acres of bottomland forest still standing, about 300,000 acres are contiguous. The remainder exists as islands among agricultural fields -- less than 10 percent of Arkansas' original 8 million acres of forested wetlands remain.
A 404-acre WRP project in Woodruff County is designed to tie some of the fragmented areas together by converting the agricultural fields back to wetlands.
"This practice is a win-win situation for everyone involved -- especially for the wildlife that inhabit these areas," said Jerry Hogan, a Field Representative for The Nature Conservancy.
"We have installed four levies and planted approximately 70,000 trees," said David Fowlkes, Conservation Agronomist at the Jonesboro Technical Service Center.
"By incorporating five water control structures into the plan, we can control the water level with flashboard risers to flood fields for waterfowl and shorebirds," Fowlkes said. "By dropping the water slowly we can create several ages of forage for the birds."
Shallow water areas with mounds also provide semi-permanent to permanent water on the site for a variety of birds, amphibians and other animals.
"Our goal with each WRP project is to return the land to its natural state," Fowlkes said.
To accomplish this, a mixture of bottomland hardwood species was planted to provide cover and a food source for the wildlife.
The NRCS and The Nature Conservancy are working on five other WRP projects in the Big Woods area to restore nearly 6,000 acres.
Dana Horn started with just 363 acres enrolled in the Wetlands Reserve Program in 1997, and since then has added to it for a total of approximately 17,000 acres in WRP and 120 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
This land benefits more than ducks and it is all thanks to Horn keeping the big picture and long-term plan in mind.
Horn has a superior grasp on what is important for wildlife and his farm. "Water is king," he says. "It is precious and is getting more so." Ample water is available from rivers, lakes and wells on the property to irrigate both crop land and WRP moist soil units. The largest pump can move 12,000 gallons of water per minute.
NRCS Resource Engineer, Randy Childress, designed the plans to utilize the irrigation canals already on the farm. Working with the on-site manager Brendon Burrell, Childress and Horn are restoring micro-typography potholes and habitat mounds in the newer WRP sites and monitoring the 902,000 trees planted last year.
The value for wildlife is enhanced by the cypress swamps, hardwood timber and farm fields. The complete mosaic is a paradise for wildlife. Deer, otters, alligators, bobcats, waterfowl, and songbirds all call the farm home.
"The CRP buffer parallel to the creek acts like a corridor for wild creatures to move about the farm," says Brendon, as he points out a golden eagle roosting atop a tree along the creek. Most impressive though is more than 176 species of birds and mammals are now found on the easement, where as prior to restoration efforts the count was only 36, (as reported by the SW Arkansas Audubon Society).
Horn came home to the land of his youth and now he is bringing nature home to his land.
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A postseason virgin, Roy "Doc" Halladay pitched with surgical precision last night on his way to no-hitting the Reds in his playoff debut.
All I can say is, "Wow!"
After Doc mowed down the Reds in the first few innings, I began to think "Wouldn't it be cool if he threw a perfect game?" Of course, I think this every time a Phillies pitcher retires the side in order for three innings or so. Perfect it would not be, though, as a walk erased that thought. But the no-hitter was still intact!
Due to the rather inconvenient starting time of 5:07 (who comes up with these things, anyway?), I missed portions of the game while picking up the kids from CCD. We also needed to eat dinner, but I left the TV on so we could at least hear it while eating. I was thankfully able to sit down and properly watch the final two innings, as history unfolded across my screen.
Game 1 to the Phils! Hooray! No game tonight; Roy Oswalt will take the mound tomorrow in Game 2.
Random Thoughts on the NLDS so far:
– Just like last year, the lousy sound on TBS is going to drive me crazy! Would someone please get them some better microphones? The crowd always sounds muted and tinny, like it's at the end of a long metal tunnel. It would have been nice to get a sense of the excitement in the ballpark over the broadcast, instead of having to take the announcer's word for it.
– There are no former Reds on the Phillies' roster, though the Reds have three former Phillies on theirs: Arthur Rhodes, Miguel Cairo, and Scott Rolen. No deep meaning, just an observation.
– Speaking of Scott Rolen, does that man ever smile? It's one thing to be intensely focused on the game (i.e., Roy Halladay), but Rolen looks like he's either constipated or plotting mass murder.
OK, so that photo is from last season, but that's pretty much the way he looks whenever the camera happens to show him. Yo, Scott, there are millions of men who would love to trade places with you to play the game they love for a living, so could you at least look like you're having a little bit of fun??
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Rolen got boo'ed mercilessly…even with a cheerier photo ;o) What an AMAZING game though! Wow.
Amazing performance by Halladay. Very surgeon-like indeed. I bet you don't miss Cliff Lee so much anymore!
I have an intense dislike for for Rolen, he was never very fan friendly when he was in Philly..
on to game 2 and hopefully another win…
Sue, just stopping by to say congrats on the sweep – and, if you want to enter the contest for the cupcakes, Crumbs ships! I just added the clarification. Anyone anywhere can win, although I'm not sure why you'd want Yankees cupcakes. lol.
Congratulations on the sweep. Reds, like the Twins just look like innocent bystanders.


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Last Thursday members of the Class of 2015 planted their class tree. Arboretum Director, Bill Astifan and Horticulturist, Carol Wagner welcomed the class. Under threatening skies and distant thunder (a non relative of Irene's) the Prunus 'Okame' was settled in to the ground. '15 takes up residence next to '10 in the allee along Leeds green. These cherry trees are the first to bloom on campus.
Friday was a day of preparation for the pending storm. The entire college system was making arrangements. The upper classmen were allowed to return early, Safety and Security, Facilities Management and the College Administration had action plans in place.
The Arboretum only lost two large trees and they were both on the perimeter of the property. A Celtis occidentalis, hackberry, fell on the Feather Bed fields were the cross country course begins and a large Quercus alba, white oak, fell in the woods between HCA road and the south parking lot. The Climbing Tree, a sentinel of the college landscape and beloved by generations of kids, Maclura pomifera, osage orange, is being evaluated today as Irene's wind caused it to shift and lean further to the ground.
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New Mexico State Police on Saturday at a Clovis hotel arrested a fugitive from Washington state who was wanted for assault, said Capt. Jimmy Glascock.
Glascock said Fernando Jesus Lorea was arrested without incident after officers were able to call him out of his room at the Traveler's Inn and take him into custody without incident.
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Sorting out the optionsFebruary 24,2014In the early 1990s, Yugoslavia was approximately where Ukraine is today, and the bloody unrest that tore that Balkan confederation apart remains a threat to peace in Europe to this very day.
Marshal Josip Tito, who had held Yugoslavias various religious, ethnic and nationalist factions together from 1953 until his death in 1980, was a dictator and a communist (although not a Soviet puppet), but he was a popular figure at home and he kept the peace.
When the federation he had helped cobble together following World War II began to unravel after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was nobody of his stature or power to prevent a bloody civil war.
Todays situation in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe, is eerily similar to that in Yugoslavia two decades ago.
Theres an understandable temptation to salute the Ukrainian protesters who, while hardly united in political philosophy, bravely banded together to drive out the corrupt regime that was leading the country into a dependency on Russia and a rejection of economic and cultural links to Europe.
But while a despised president and his political cronies may have been unseated and a window of opportunity opened for the west to strengthen its ties to Ukraine, the unavoidable fact is that there are deep and dangerous divisions among the people of that troubled land.
Perhaps the single most critical division separates those who speak Russian (mostly in the east and southeast) and those who speak Ukrainian. But keep in mind the protesters included radicals from the nations far right and from the far left. Their common goal has been achieved but presumably their conflicting post-protest priorities remain in place.
So the question arises: Will Ukraine find a road to lasting peace and prosperity, or will it be ripped apart the way Yugoslavia was? And what does this hold for the United States, which was drawn into the Balkans war and eventually helped to broker the peace negotiations in Dayton, Ohio?
While Ukraines language and political differences will certainly have to be resolved if civil war is to be averted, economic issues present a huge challenge to the nations new leadership. And thats where the United States and the European Union will make their cautious case for closer links to the west instead of to Moscow.
Nobody wants to end up owning all the problems that Ukraine faces, Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told The New York Times the other day. The country is bankrupt, it has a terrible, broken system of government and insane levels of corruption.
But if the western powers dont own all of Ukraines problems, Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin has made it clear that Moscow is quite willing to take whatever steps it feels are necessary to bring Ukraine back into its economic, military and cultural sphere of influence, regardless of the hopes and dreams of many of the protesters.
So an international tug-of-war has begun and, as in the past, it is the east against the west.
The United States view and I believe this view is shared by our European allies and partners is that the only viable route back to sustainable economic health for Ukraine goes through the International Monetary Fund, an unidentified senior state department official told reporters in Washington Friday.
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The frame itself is made from aluminum.
Unfortunately the frame doesn't bend well. What most folks do is make a square/rectangle shaped screen to cover what they can as its better then nothing.
With 3 sections over your tank you will want 3 of the 3 foot kits. You can cut with a hack saw the frames down to length to work on your tank! Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
You can't get this exact kit with 1/2" netting but we do sell an identical product that is 1/2" instead of 1/4" which can be found at the link below:
We currently have the 1/8" screen top kit available in rimless (one top kits) and rimmed (which make 2 tops) You will want the 4" rimmed option. I have included the link below!
4 Ft DIY 1/8" Screen Top Netting Kit - Rimmed Tanks
This is 5/16" thick from top to bottom. Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
You can just pull the spline out pretty easily. Once the spline is out the netting should fall right out. From there the frame can just be pulled out of the corners and trimmed if needed.
They are made out of aluminum. In almost every tank situation your going to have to trim the frames to size. A hacksaw works the best for most folks.
On most tanks you would cut it long enough that it fits on the inside lip of the rim. If you have a rimless tank and you want to cut it smaller then the inside dimension then you would need some sort of bracket or clip.
Unfortunately the screen top kits are not well suited for corner tanks or bow fronts. The frame is standard window frame and does not bend along with bow of the tank. in addition the screen is not designed to hold elements and a hot basking light would have the potential to melt through the top. Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
Yes, this can work with rimless tanks. A popular option is the aquarium lid clips in the link below!
The netting will work great under metal halide, We currently have several tanks with this netting under MH. Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
Most folks make the frame small enough to fit on the inside lip of the frame, so unless the legs on your light fixture protrude a lot on the inside lip, you should be just fine. There strong enough that if the frame was only supported on the front and back lips you usually wouldn't have any issues either.
We typically will shape the frame to be a little smaller to allow for cords to leave the back, To notch you may be able to with a hack saw or metal sheers. Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
We do not currently have a handle solution available. However this may be a DIY project with Super glue and small segment of plastic or acrylic. Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
The frame is made from aluminum. It won't rust and water splashing on it/salt spray isn't an issue though I wouldn't suggest actually submerging it.
You got it. The 4ft kit comes with frame and netting to cover up to a 4ft x 3ft area.
How will it affect reef light?
What's the best way to cut the framing pieces to the fit my tank?
Correct, its the grid spacing on the netting. It has a very minimal effect on the amount of light in the tank. The easiest way to cut the framing is with a simple hacksaw.
I think this is what your looking for:
You are correct! You cut them down to size so you just want to make sure they are atleast as long as the sides of your tank.
A hacksaw works just fine for the screen frame. The netting itself is soft enough to easily be cut by a razor blade.
Full Details
Rimless tanks are becoming more and more common and we all know why, they simply just look better. They do require a full sized net top to span the full length of the aquarium, keeping your fish in the tank. Many people will make their own plastic brackets, magnets, or come up with their own DIY way to suspend the top just inside of the glass of the tank for the best overall look. Innovative Marine has their Auqa Gadget Screen Top Suspension Clips, which work very well with rimless tanks making suspending the top super easy.
Rimless Kits:
Rimless kits come with full length frame sections to span the total length of the tank to create a single screen top. Only 4 corners are needed to complete a rimless screen net top kit.
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|2x 4 Foot
|2x 3 Foot
|6.5' x 6.5' 1/4"
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|2x 4 Foot
|2x 4 Foot
|6.5' x 6.5' 1/4"
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|2x 5 Foot
|2x 4 Foot
|6.5' x 6.5' 1/4"
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|3x 4 Foot
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Screen frame can easily be cut with a typical hack saw or saw with a metal blade.
Light weight but non-rectangle shapes are impossible By Tony on 11/29/2016Tony would recommend this product to a friendI wanted to make the screen around my overflow but found that to be impossible to keep the screen taunt. The minute you put pressure on the screen to keep it taunt, the pressure pushes the rails in and distorts the shape. This is especially pronounced with a larger size aquarium.
I would say stick to rectangle shapes to make this work well.
Excellent By Gb on 10/11/2016Gb would recommend this product to a friendIts lightweight, easy to move about, and very easy to assemble. They gave much More than enough netting and I would gladly recommend this screen top.
Great Product By John on 9/5/2016John would recommend this product to a friendassembly was easy, components were of good quality, and the finished product looks great. One suggestion is to take your time and you will get a real professional result.
Works great By Jim on 6/21/2016Jim would recommend this product to a friendEasier than I thought to put together. Works well. Looks good on my redsea tank
Great Product By Erin on 6/18/2016Erin would recommend this product to a friendWas a little worried that this would be difficult for me to put together (I'm not very handy), but was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to put together. Used a hack saw to cut the pieces to size. Spline roller made it incredibly easy to make the screen secure. Love the way it looks on my rimless tank. You can't even see it!
Good Product By DAF on 6/12/2016DAF would recommend this product to a friendEasy and does the job. Not the best looking thing but you barely see it even on rimless. Good product
Real easy to put together By Neil on 4/26/2016Neil would recommend this product to a friendWould recommend to anyone
Easy! By Megan on 4/25/2016Megan would recommend this product to a friendI was nervous this could be difficult but it wasn't at all. Used a hack saw. Easy to cut and easy to assemble. Perfect for the top of the tank.
Simple and effective By David on 4/23/2016David would recommend this product to a friendPatience is the key to getting a taut and squarely aligned mesh screen. Take your time and you should be pleased with how the final product looks.
Great Product By Terry on 3/26/2016Terry would recommend this product to a friendWas looking for clear eggcrate to cover my tank but this is even better. It sits on the lip of the tank so it looks great and you can hardly see it. I've never put something like this together before, but I followed the video and had no problems at all. The kit includes plenty of netting and spline so that even if I did make a mistake I could have re-tried. Nice to receive all materials needed in one box and not having to "fish" at Home Depot.
Nice kit By sppf121 on 3/7/2016sppf121 would recommend this product to a friendI really like this kit. I feel it was easy to install and I was impressed with how nice it fit together.
Excellent Product By Stephen on 2/6/2016Stephen would recommend this product to a friendDefinitely takes two people unless you have three hands. Just made one for my Solana 34 and it's light years nicer than the eggcrate I had on it.


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Vermont senators call for reversal of Citizens UnitedBy DAVE GRAM
The Associated Press | May 10,2013MONTPELIER A group of Vermont lawmakers called for a national constitutional convention to reverse the effects of the U.S. Supreme Courts Citizens United decision that allowed corporations greater influence in political campaigns.
Sen. Ginny Lyons, D-Chittenden, led a group of senators at a news conference Thursday calling for what would be the first constitutional convention since the one that convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to write the original Constitution.
If we want real democratic reform we have to start it here in Vermont and urge our elected leaders in Washington to support free and fair elections, Lyons said. Its time for state leaders and local citizens to step up and take action to get our country back on track.
While Lyons was joined by Sens. Robert Hartwell, Anthony Pollina, and others, the idea was not universally popular.
Calling a constitutional convention potentially is one of the greatest threats to freedom that I can think of, said Sen. Peter Galbraith, D-Windham.
He said limiting the agenda ahead of time would be impossible and such a convention could result in the United States being officially declared a Christian country, without abortion rights, freedom of speech, press or other rights, he said.
Others noted that Lyons and Hartwell were among the senators who earlier this session voted to help defeat a ban on corporate contributions to political campaigns in Vermont. Critics of the Citizens United decision, like Lyons, have complained that it opened the floodgates to corporate money in politics by equating corporations with people and money with speech.
The constitutional convention idea was raised on a busy day at the Statehouse as lawmakers rushed to finish their business for 2013 by what legislative leaders say they still hope will be a Saturday adjournment.
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Legislation to allow child care workers to unionize and negotiate with the state over subsidies for parents of children in their care and over working conditions failed in the Senate, after Lt. Gov. Phil Scott ruled it could not be added to a miscellaneous education bill, and supporters failed to muster the three-fourths majority needed to override that ruling.
The House debated much of the day before giving preliminary approval to a bill that would require labels on genetically modified food. The Senate lacks time to work on the measure this session, however, lawmakers said.
Supporters of marijuana decriminalization worked to resolve the differences between House and Senate versions. The stickiest among them was the Senates addition of language saying Vermont would shift from misdemeanor criminal penalties to traffic-ticket-like fines, not just for up to an ounce of marijuana but also up to five grams of hashish. The two contain the same active ingredient, with five grams of hashish being about equivalent to an ounce of pot.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryMONTPELIER Gov. Full Story
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Rich Harvest Links
Sugar Grove, Illinois
July 6 - 9, 2004
SUGAR GROVE, Ill. â Kyle Davis of Kennett Square, Pa., fired a 1-under-par 71 for the second consecutive day, and remained atop the leader board at the Midwest Junior Championship at Rich Harvest Links. Carly Truitt continues to lead the Girls Division after a finishing at even-par.
The Midwest Junior Championship at Rich Harvest Links is a 54-hole stroke-play event, conducted by the American Junior Golf Association. The tournament includes 110 boys and girls junior golfers, ages 12-18, from 19 states. Two Rolex Junior All-Americans and 61 Illinois residents highlight the field.Davis completed another round under par, by shooting 35 on the front-side and finishing with a 36 on the back. He continued his consistent play from the first round, finishing with four birdies on the day. Davis was not able to hit his driver well, but credited his iron play with keeping him in the lead.âMy irons really kept me in it today,â Davis said. âI missed several seven to ten foot putts, but overall I was pleased with my play. I continue to hold no expectations and I am looking forward to playing tomorrow.âDavis was able to make birdie on Nos. 7, 12, 13, and 15, and an eagle on No. 9. He mentioned his putt on No. 7 as the key to his round. The eighteen-year-old was able to sink a 12-foot putt for birdie on the short par-3. On the 545 yard par-5 No. 9, Davis holed-out from 30 yards for eagle and opened his lead to three strokes.Trailing Davis with a two-day total of 145 is Jeff Kaiser of Onalaska, Wis. Kaiser entered the day tied for third and finished with an even-par 72. Andy Winings of Franklin, Ind., Craig Cerbins of Portage, Wis., and Peter Uihlein of North Dartmouth, Mass., all sit at 147. Winings had the low round of the day with a 68, including a 31 on the back-nine. Truitt of Marysville, Ohio, finished the second round with an even-par 74, to take the overall lead in the Girls Division. The 2003 Rolex Junior All-American took sole possession of first heading into the final round, capitalizing on her strong putting on the back-nine. Truitt made birdie on Nos. 10, 11, 15 and 16, leaving her with a two-day total of 152.
âI never got anything going on the front, but I also avoided making any big mistakes,â Truitt said. âI hit the ball better than the first round and my putting was certainly better.â
The 18-year-old believes she has herself in perfect position heading into the final round.
âIâm starting to get this course and I really feel confident with where I am,â Truitt said.
Following Truitt is Jennie Arseneault of Grinnell, Iowa, who shot a 73 and trails by two strokes. Kelly Calkin of St. Charles, Ill., sits in third, after carding a second-round 78.
The final round of the Midwest Junior Championship at Rich Harvest Links will begin Friday at 7 a.m. off the No. 1 tee.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
For more information about the Midwest Junior Championship at Rich Harvest Links, please contact tournament headquarters at (630) 466-7610.
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The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
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Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.


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|2013-01-03, 15:53
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Let me ask you guys how the MC has evolved this entire series?
The prologue to the story was that he was a pretty boy who all the girls hated because he was cuter than them and thus they bullied him by various methods including dressing up as a girl.
The story starts by him getting kicked out of the house and forced to move in with his Aunt. The Aunt then sends him after various girls that SHE choses, and he does what she asks and he stops going after said girls when his Aunt tells him to stop. The Aunt rewards him or teaches him inbetween her orders or gets mad at him for failure. And just now his aunt sent him out in girl clothing to hit on a man and he did it.
I see absolutely zero progression this entire series. He is still being bullied by his Aunt. Just like he was when younger. She is basically training him to become her sex slave, or pet. Imagine if the roles were reversed and this was about an Uncle and his Niece. I think everyone would agree that it would look like a typical master/pet relationship going on between the Uncle and Niece. Yet since the pet in this story is a man, all you GUYS think that he is somehow going to evolve and switch the relationship around and become some big pimp and not just his Aunt sex pet.
|2013-01-03, 23:04
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And that folks would sum up the manga atm perfectly.
He is not evolving at all.
He is still used, abused, treated like pet or trash.
But it seems its like this stupid internet meme "doesnt matter had sex". So as long as his aunt will *allow* him to get on some of his targets everything is fine? I thought he would develop by now.
Readers got blueballs for dozens of chapters with the tedious 9 pages. Then sex happens everyone is overjoyed. But then even with sex happening we see that the main character is regressing rather than progressing. This particular chapter just hit the rock bottom. Next thing you knows aunt will ask him to do some gay action so that he *develops himself*.
If it was me I would have at least a little bit of self respect, or a border that I wouldn't cross.
Crossdressing and going after other man is the border here. Crossdressing to fuck some chick in her room without any cameras/photos/movies/witnesses is one thing, crossdressing and deliberately going after another man is a different monster altogether.
Frankly I didn't really read this manga, more likely just jump around and read about 30-40% of text, because frankly there wasn't much to read. So I'm still waiting to make a proper reading from 1st page to 9 page ^^. But if the story will follow this developement then I think I'm gonna continue the *half assed* reading that I did until this point.
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|2013-01-15, 02:26
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He looked so pathetic that I think if aunt would have told him to suck that guys thing or take it up his ass he would have went with it - thats how pathetic and desperate he looked.
This manga should have been a gradual growth of character but instead he is still dominated by others, now even harder than before, and instead of progressing his character is regressing.
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Dunno if this was posted before but...
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|2013-01-18, 12:44
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I think Auntie is having too much fun with this, scary is the fact that she mentioned seeing Terumi dress up as a girl started to awaken her S side. If these actions were just teasing, do we really want to know what happens when Aunt's S side is awaken?
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Site updates and fixesposted by Dark0ne Site NewsFollowing on from last weeks update to the way file search and category results are displayed we've patched in a few fixes and added a few more features based on user feedback. Perhaps most important, and worthy of being outside of the bulleted list below is the fact we've coded in some rudimentary browser back button functionality to the AJAX on the site.
The problem is thus; most browsers' page history and back log are dictated by page reloads. Each time you visit or reload a new page it's recorded in the browser history, and if you press the back button on your mouse/keyboard/browser you'll go back to the last page you visited. Because we present a lot of the content on the site to you through AJAX, which is seamless and doesn't require a page load, the browser's history doesn't record your button presses or remember what you were looking at before, and will instead take you back to the last page you visited. So if you search for "Weapons" in the file search, navigate to page 10, click on a mod you like the look of and then try to go back in your browser it'll take you back to the default file search page, and not page 10 of your search for weapons. Of course, the simple fix for this is to just embrace tabbed browsing and simply open mods you're interested in via a new tab (ctrl+click, middle-click or right-click a link and select "open in new tab"). It's not a new concept, it's been around for a very many years, but it seems quite a few people haven't quite caught up with modern browsing methods yet and have complained about this to me.
As such we've coded in some simple browser history fixes to the sites so that your browser will remember every link you click, AJAX or not, and take you back through every click and not just page reloads. Now if you browse pages 2, 3, 4 and 5 in a category and then click the back button your browser will take you back through those pages, rather than back to the start. Similarly if you're on a file page and click the images tab, comments tab and files tab clicking the back button will take you back through the tabs you just clicked on.
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CACE introduces senior fellows, launches website
March 10, 2014
The Center for the Advancement of Christian Education (CACE) at Dordt College is pleased to announce the hiring of three senior fellows: Dan Beerens, Chad Dirkse, and Paul T. Neal.
As recognized experts in the philosophy and practice of Christian schooling, CACE senior fellows represent a variety of fields and capacities. Fellows will assist in CACE's mission of helping innovate, improve, sustain, and promote Christian education at the primary, secondary, and college/university levels.
CACE director Tim Van Soelen says the fellows who are joining him will provide a wealth of expertise for the organization and the schools it works with.
Dan Beerens is a CACE fellow in the area of school improvement and innovation. Beerens is an independent education consultant, author, and international speaker. He regularly presents on teacher evaluation and professional growth, curriculum design, school improvement, technology integration, faith integrated learning. Van Soelen describes him as "a household name in Christian education" and notes that Beerens has been part of many schools' accreditation processes and professional development plans.
Chad Dirkse will provide expertise in school operations and sustainability. Dirkse currently serves as president of Chattanooga Christian Schools, which includes more than 1,100 students and 130 faculty and staff. Van Soelen says Dirkse's innovative work at Chattanooga Christian Schools, as well as his connections and professional network within Christian schools, will be put to good use.
Paul T. Neal specializes in sociological research. Neal is co-founder and chief research officer of Charter Oak Research with expertise in research markets, presenting and publishing normative data in analysis, respondent motives, and trends in education. "The research he does has been a change agent for many schools," Van Soelen says.
Fellows will mentor and visit program-participating schools, as well as foster dialogue in the CACE online community at www.cace.org, where they will write on topics of interest to Christian educators, administrators, parents, and church leaders.
The fellows fill three positions of a five-concentration area structure identified through focus groups and other research, and intended to promote excellent, sustainable Christian schooling in North America. CACE continues to seek fellows in the areas of political action and advocacy, and pastoral/church leadership and development.
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I didnt mean that in a mean way aiming at u, its just that everytime Dantoni do one good thing he turns around to do 3 stupid things.
I too, want the Knicks to get a CROWN....but I dont see it with Dantoni apart of the organization. u right the guy do make me angry....but I been a hard core Knicksfan since Red Holzman
heard on another forum that apparently Shump likes Mobb Deep or the 6th men..... I really like Mobb Deep though.
It Sounds Tough and obviously has NY roots due to its connection to NY rap.
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I been a big fan of using a 2nd unit since Hubie Brown coach the Knicks....
especially when u keep turning over your roster consistently like the Knicks been doing the past decade by adding several new players during the season. u must have a program system to unite the new players by adding them with the 2nd unit of players to see how well they compliment the 2nd unit.
I been promoting a 2nd-unit for the Knicks since 2005 when we drafted Frye, Lee, Nate, and had a 2nd season Trevor Ariza....they were NBA Ready with a high athletic level to be put into a coaches scheme system for a inside and outside plan.
The Knicks having a stream of good-luck in finding Jeremy Lin & Novak has to be like a person playing the Lottery for the first time and hitting it.
Lin-Sanity & Novak added a new dimension to this Knicks team (9-3) without any practices, they made Baron Davis healthy, and JR Smith leave China.
Having deep bench depth of....
PG-BDiddy, SG-Smith, combo-Shump, SF-Novak, PF-Jefferies, PF-Jorts, and C-Jordan should be in our back to back rotation (we were playing 4 games in 6 days).
We need to FIRE Dantoni-brothers, and let Mike Woodson & Herb finish
out the 2nd half of the season...
Baron Davis is calling it the Super Subs
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Man, I love watching our bench. They turned the game around in the 1st half yesterday, forced many turnovers, got steals, novak hit some big ones, etc. Jeffries had a few too. They hustle so hard and play with so much energy, I wish our starters could feed off their energy.
Although plus/minus statistics can certainly be misleading, they were interesting in yesterday's game with Boston. If I remember correctly, no one in the starting five was better than a minus 8, but all but JR in the second unit were at least a plus 8. JR was a minus 2.
Is there an obvious 6th man of the year/team like Toni Kukoc in our bench?
I just realized we didn't even have a firm starting 5.
most dynamic and versatile bench in the NBA. shout out to our front office for bringing this group together


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker says he is recommitting to a $75 million economic development loan fund in his next budget, as well as increasing the amount of money dedicated to attracting international tourism and bolstering entrepreneurs in Wisconsin.
Walker detailed those and other parts of his budget at an economic development conference on Thursday.
Walker says other key parts of his plan, like creating a new investment fund, remain in development.
But Walker says he will invest an additional $6 million in a fund designed to help entrepreneurs and other startup businesses.
He also plans to make nearly $11 million available to a program designed to help market Wisconsin as a place to do business and add $500,000 to program aimed at helping veterans start their own businesses.
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So when Cline and other parents who have watched their children grow up playing soccer learned about North Carolina Youth SoccerŌĆÖs Olympic Development Program, a path leading to regional and national soccer training, they got excited.
ŌĆ£We feel like itŌĆÖs a big deal,ŌĆØ said Cline, who is president of the Swain Youth Soccer Association. The training camp in Bryson City, which kicked off in December, now gives players the chance to improve their game with guidance from college coaches.
ItŌĆÖs a new opportunity for soccer players in Western North Carolina, but in the state ŌĆö and nation ŌĆö as a whole, itŌĆÖs nothing new. U.S. Youth Soccer started the national program to give talented teenage players the exposure they need to rise through the ranks. The ultimate goal? Ascending to the national spotlight for a chance to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
And bringing the camp to Bryson City could also heighten enthusiasm for soccer, allowing its appeal to compare to that of football.
The organization runs training camps in cities in central and eastern North Carolina every year; before December, the closest one was held in Statesville.
ŌĆ£The whole big thing about this is one word, really ŌĆö the Olympics,ŌĆØ Cline said. ŌĆ£ThereŌĆÖs a lot of excitement over it.ŌĆØ
That statement rang true at tryouts. At the Dec. 15 event, 41 players showed up to the Parks and Recreation Department to display their best moves before an audience of local and regional college soccer coaches.
ŌĆ£It went well,ŌĆØ Cline said. ŌĆ£We had a variety of age groups.ŌĆØ
Students ranged in age from 9 to 17, and all 41 of them spent the day training with local coaches during the first of six sessions scheduled between December and April. Players who demonstrate exceptional skills there could earn the chance to train with even higher-level coaches and players at state, regional and national trainings.
ŌĆ£Either way theyŌĆÖre going to have college-level coaches, but it could be national-level coaches if they make it to the very end,ŌĆØ Cline said.
Having the potential for that kind of experience is huge for young players, Cline said.
ŌĆ£The biggest benefit is (other participating) players will be high-caliber and have that exposure to college coaches,ŌĆØ he said.
It is impossible to predict whether any soccer player here will ascend to the highest tiers, of course. But regardless of the final outcome, the training camp grants opportunity by gathering what local soccer coaches and enthusiasts say is a notable amount of young talent scattered across the mountains.
ŌĆ£Around here, you donŌĆÖt have that much opportunity to play against really good players,ŌĆØ said Jack Gray, whose 9-year-old son, Matthew, earned a recommendation from his coach to try out for the training camp.
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City Planner Hurt by Driver Making Illegal Right Turn at Market and Octavia
John Billovits is all too familiar with the perils of one of the city's most hazardous intersections for bicyclists. For the past decade, he has traveled through the Market and Octavia intersection on his daily bicycle commute. As a senior planner at the San Francisco Planning Department, Billovits was also the project manager for the Market and Octavia Neighborhood Plan, and fought against building the Central Freeway touchdown on Market Street.
Right turns for eastbound drivers on Market Street are prohibited at Octavia because they present a danger to bicyclists and pedestrians. Allowing the right turn would also create a huge traffic queue on Market Street, causing congestion on the city's most important transit and bicycle corridor. Billovits outlined the case for banning the right turn in this 2003 memo [pdf].
Drivers who have made the illegal sudden turn south onto the freeway, where there is a bike lane and pedestrian crossing, have caused numerous right-hook collisions over the years, leaving dozens of people hurt. Two people, a pedestrian and a bicyclist, have died from injuries suffered in collisions caused by drivers at the intersection.
Yesterday, Billovits became the latest victim. As he was pedaling his Bianchi Volpe through the intersection around 9:25 a.m., on his way to work at the Planning Department, a German tourist behind the wheel of a rental car made the dreaded right turn and sent the 49-year-old flying.
"I just kind of plowed right into it, and bounced off the car, flew over it, and landed on the concrete, kind of head first, on the other side," a shaken Billovits told Streetsblog, just hours after being released from the hospital yesterday. "I had a helmet on, which is a sturdy helmet, and so it felt pretty good. I just kind of crumpled over to the side, and it happened really quick."
"It doesn't appear right now that I have any kind of broken bones, or broken back, or anything like that. I'm a little achy. I have to wait to see how my body reacts," Billovits explained, adding that doctors are monitoring him for a concussion. "I wouldn't say I'm seriously injured. I'm not broken down. I'm at home, you know. They brought me home this afternoon. I think I'll be okay."
Billovits wasn't riding fast "because I'm not much of a speedster person," and he always slows down because he gets off Market and takes the McCoppin Street cutoff for bicyclists. After the collision, he found himself conscious, but lying injured on the pavement, directly under the no right turn sign.
"I can't imagine a situation where a citation would be more blatantly called for, you know what I mean? Somebody lying under the sign and a car there at an angle, obviously just made the turn, you know?"
But there was no citation issued. "Impairment is not suspected. No citation issued at this time," a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. Michael Andraychak, wrote in an email to Streetsblog. He described the collision itself in cop talk that seems forgiving of the driver, with no mention that the turn was prohibited.
A small white Chevy sedan driven by an adult female, resident of Germany, made a turn from eastbound Market to Octavia on ramp to US 101.
An adult male bicyclist traveling eastbound Market Street contacted the Chevy, ejecting the bicyclist.
The driver of the car remained on scene. The bicyclist was transported by ambulance to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Impairment is not suspected. No citation issued at this time.
"I really am not aware of what transpired there, besides me just getting carted away," he said of the police investigation. "This hasn't happened to me before like this, but it was a little confusing. I'm in an accident and they took a report with a piece of paper that says I can request a copy of the report in writing in 7 days."
Lax Enforcement
As this latest case illustrates, drivers routinely get away with causing collisions and injuring bicyclists and pedestrians at Market and Octavia without so much as a slap on the wrist.
On the engineering front, the SFMTA has tried a number of fixes, and the latest — a concrete median with signage and soft-hit posts — has certainly improved the situation, but not enough, said Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.
"We call on the SF Police Department to step up enforcement at this known problem area, and we urge the city to add camera enforcement at Market-Octavia to better deter drivers from behaving illegally on San Francisco's busiest bicycle and transit route," she said.
Last September, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, AB 2729, that would have allowed the SFMTA to install an automated traffic enforcement system at Market and Octavia to photograph infractions and issue citations to drivers who make the illegal right turn. In his short veto message, Schwarzenegger said current law already allows the city do it.
Earlier this year, Ammiano sent a letter [pdf] to the state Attorney General's Office requesting a legal opinion on the issue. Eight months later, Ammiano has still not gotten a response, said Quintin Mecke, the state legislator's communications director. A phone call to the press office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the former San Francisco District Attorney, was not returned.
"It is frustrating that after many months, we are still waiting on an opinion from the Attorney General's Office as to how best to do this," said Shahum. "We hope this unfortunate incident will spur state and local leaders to act with more urgency to improve safety on San Francisco's streets."
From Billovits' perspective, there shouldn't be any turn movements at all at Market and Octavia because "there's just too much going on." It's a case he made 11 years ago.
"I wanted to get rid of both the turning movements, the right hand off and the right hand on," he said, before reflecting on yesterday's collision that left him injured. "It's just so ironic after all the stuff we've been through with that, to be lying there and lying under the (no right turn) sign, more or less."


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Seems history has taught nothingFebruary 12,2013
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Mr. Stuart Lindberg, your letter dated Feb. 9 to the editor of this very left-leaning newspaper was so on the mark. Unfortunately, I fear you are like the lone reed blowing in the wind. Since this paper, more often than not, basically publishes articles and commentary that lean toward left thinking we are not given the opportunity to hear much about how this country is heading toward socialism. Socialism is a word nobody wants to use, referring to what is going on in this Nation of Sheep. However, if anyone is paying attention, like you are, it is becoming clearer that we are very slowly losing our freedoms; as you so well put it, embracing the collectivist ideas ... for the good of society that were the cornerstone of the Soviet Socialist Republic. You can see how this paper and most news media are supporting this trend. It is very frightening, to say the least.
What also bothers me is that those who dont agree with these thoughts, e.g., the likes of Mr. Danziger, cartoonist, as well as many of the folks who lean to the left, find it necessary to call those with opposing views names and make fun of them. Shame on them. I just want you to know that there are probably many more people, like myself, that understand where you are coming from. Thank you for expressing it so well. I also would like to say thanks to all the other folks that have sent letters of this ilk to this paper. I, for one, am paying attention. I only hope that more and more people will pay attention to what is going on in this country and do what they can, where possible (the polls), to turn it around. If not, God help us all.
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