text: It's not in my nature to feel particularly sorry for Princess Michael of Kent but if I were her I would have been mildly depressed by the "scoop" in one of last week's London papers (not the Telegraph) that had been predicted in another (again not the Telegaph) two weeks earlier. This concerned a sale at Christie's, the London auctioneers of which Lord Linley, the carpenter-son of the Earl and Countess of Snowdon is head honcho. Christie's sold many of the heirlooms accumulated by Prince George, Duke of Kent, youngest son of King George V, who was killed in a mysterious flying accident during the last war, and his glamorous wife, Princess Marina. The sale realised more than £2 million and provoked the arguments that usually ensue whenever members of the Royal family sell off the family silver. These invariably involve doubts over whether or not they were entitled to sell gifts from foreign countries, loyal ship crews and so on; and surprise that objects of obvious historic interest – a Coronation stool in this instance – failed to fetch their reserve. This particular story, however, was headed "Princess Pushy's £2 m boot sale". "Princess Pushy" is popular newspaper-speak for Princess Michael on account of her apparently overblown social ambitions. In this instance the headline was terribly unfair. It transpired, on reading the story, that the sale had been agreed by the three children of the late Duke and Duchess, namely Princess Alexandra, the present Duke and Prince Michael. Prince Michael is the husband of "Princess Pushy" and that's the connection. Now it may well be that Princess Michael wielded a disproportionate influence but, as presented, the sale was the idea of her in-laws. Nothing to do with her. So the headline was unfair. The Princess has acquired a reputation for being financially acquisitive and "pushy" so every story that tends to support this view is taken and used against her. Even if it involves being economical with the truth. Last week's sale at Christie's was not, as reported, all her own work but that of the other Kents, who usually get a good press. This time at least, they appear to have deserved a bit more scrutiny than usual. As I say, I have no particular reason for supporting the Princess but I do believe in fair play. Return to the Expat front page


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What mount is this? (and can I tune it?)
Posted 11 September 2009 - 02:02 PM
I have been doing working at getting into Astrophotography and have started out using what equipment I had available. For me that meant a borrowed Canon Rebel XT with a truly terrible 28-90 F/4-5.6 lens and an equatorial mount that came with our third-hand beat up newtonian. The mount has a clock drive that has allowed me to do some wide-field shots, but even at that I end up tossing about 2/3 of my shots.
Now I *know* a better mount is going to be the #1 thing to improve my shooting but I am hopping that slight improvements can be made to my existing mount as budget is alas lacking at the moment.
I am not sure how to attached more then one image, so I have uploaded images of my mount here:
Can anyone help me identify what it is? Is there any hope I can improve it's tracking?
I already intend to move the camera mount position to be closer to inline with the weight arm as in it's current configuration the mount starts out balanced when flat as pictured, and then progressively gets unbalanced due to the off-axis position of the camera. I have not actually had any successful shooting with the scope shown, I have been using the standard 28mm-90mm camera lens instead. I also had the RA apart and wiped off some of the old glue... er.. grease and applied some marine lube I had on hand, but I did not use a de-greaser or attempt to mess with the gears at all at that time.
With his rig I have managed to take shots like these (large images):
- Orion - First ever successfull stack
- Andromeda
- Milky-way including the North American Nebula and others
- Labeled view of the south sky including Omega and Lagoon nebulas
- Milky-way with city light intrusion
FWIW the first image was stacked with Deep Sky Stacker (can not seem to keep colour in that app...) and the rest are shot and stacked with Nebulosity.
I have made a quick video of a small cropped area of the last sequence I shot to demonstrate the way the tracking seems to slip into and out of accuracy. The sequence was 20 images at 90-seconds per image, the video is a 320x240 crop of the center of each image.
- tracking error demo - 800k .mp4 file
I had some focus issues so the stars are not specs (blame the lens, working on that!) but it is a good example of the tracking issues I have seen. Notice how I will get one or two frames of clarity, then several frames of slip. I assume that the steady slow drift seen throughout is simply a polar alignment issue.
So, any advice on even slight improvements to my existing mount's tracking? If you need more info (other pictures, whatever) just let me know!
- Sean
-- Edited to include a better tracking error demonstration --
Posted 12 September 2009 - 07:43 AM
A drill and some lapping compound is about all that can help tracking.
Posted 12 September 2009 - 11:14 AM
Lapping compound 'eh? Had not thought of that (or used it before) - would hate to make the existing slop larger, but smoothing out all the internal surfaces would be good if I can do it without removing too much material
Posted 12 September 2009 - 10:59 PM
Posted 12 September 2009 - 11:25 PM
thanks for the info - would I be looking for a set screw on the worm gear then? (or set screws perhaps)
I will not be back home till tomorrow so I can not just glance at it right now, but I will look tomorrow night and perhaps snap some closeups of it
Posted 13 September 2009 - 12:13 AM
When you loosen the set **** can turn the eccentric and change the spacing of the gears.
Posted 15 September 2009 - 12:29 AM
- here
- and here
- and also here
I have always found it odd that the drive to scope gear mesh had such tiny teeth... more like groves then gear teeth. That meshing causes the drive to slip if there is any resistance or if the spring has gotten too lose.
Posted 15 September 2009 - 05:55 AM
Posted 15 September 2009 - 10:04 AM
Yours is a little different but it looks like you should be able to adjust it some.
Losten the lock nut then turn the adjustment to losten up the rotation of the worm gear.
This can be taken apart for cleaning and re greasing.
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Posted 15 September 2009 - 10:15 AM
You will have to press on the worm with your hand when you tighten it back up to maintain good contact.
It's a trial and error thing till you get it all working smooth.
Cleaning it out and re-lubing it would be a good starting place.
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Posted 15 September 2009 - 04:29 PM
Posted 15 September 2009 - 09:51 PM
In this image I have a second bracket set up that has another 1/4-20 bolt on it, in this case with a scope mounted. That second bracket can be removed entirely of course and just have the camera mounted. Interestingly when using both brackets the ring clamp for the original 4.5" newtonian will fit between them! So once I get some longer bolts I could mount the camera on the outside, where the galileoscope is currently mounted, and have the original newt in use. Not expecting great things out of such an arrangement mind you, but kinda a fun setup.
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This whole "How People See Me" meme now has versions of everything from belly dancing to directing movies to approximately 800 about writers, which should tell you something. But as it turns out, this concept dates back to the early 20th century. Check it out — this ran in Wellesley College's yearbook in 1909.
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Keagan Kerr's first assignment as vice president of human resources for Coeur Mining Inc. was a big one.
Coeur, the nation's largest silver producer, had outgrown its organizational model in 2012, and there was a shallow talent pool in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where the company was based at the time.
Mitchell Krebs, Coeur's president and CEO, needed an HR executive to help the company through the transition. So he hired Kerr, now 36, who over the next two years would help ignite a massive culture change at the company.
Perhaps the most ambitious change occurred when the company moved its headquarters from the idyllic mountains of Idaho's panhandle to the concrete jungle of downtown Chicago.
Kerr initiated the plan to move to the Windy City in 2013 to gain access to a wider talent pool and be closer to one of the nation's primary financial hubs, he said.
Though the company offered to take all of its employees from Idaho to Chicago, not all decided to make the move, Kerr said. As a result, he had to replace 50 employees. To fill the talent gap, Kerr decided to recruit 42 percent of the new hires from outside the industry so the company could gain fresh cultural perspective in business areas that didn't require prior expertise in mining.
"My thought was they can learn the business of mining because we have several mining experts, but we can't learn what they've seen in their careers because we didn't have that experience in-house," he said.
Kerr also initiated a new performance management process. Dubbed "Culture of Achievement," the online application enables managers to set goals linked to the company's strategic priorities, which then allows managers to track employee achievements without traditional performance ratings.
Kerr said his proudest moments since taking on the job has come in helping Coeur build its new identity in Chicago.
"I think just being able to push reset and start new in a new city with new talent — I think that's been the proudest moment for the company," he said.


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Students and families spend billions of dollars each year to pay tuition and fees at our nation's colleges and universities without understanding the value of the college education for which they are paying. A college rating system could protect students and families while helping restore public confidence in higher education.
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Student-loan debt now tops $1 trillion, and many former students are struggling to pay back their loans. As policymakers debate the best way to communicate value to college-bound students, CAP and Generation Progress plan to engage these former students to bring their voice to this important conversation.
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Turing, homosexuality and espionage
By Tim Groenendyk
Professor of European History, Robert Aldrich is the author of Gay Life Stories, a volume of more than 80 essays on the lives and times of influential homosexuals around the world and stretching back as far as 2400BC. Aldrich explains why homosexuals - like Alan Turing - were once considered a great threat to democracy.
For Gay Life Stories, which will be published this March, Robert Aldrich aimed not to merely write biographies from around the globe and since antiquity on homosexuals, but to compose over 80 short essays, each illustrating an important individual in homosexual history who reflected "aspects of politics, culture, society in those different times and places."
Aldrich has been editing and authoring texts on gay history since 1992, with particular interest in the British and French empires from ancient history to the mid-1900s.
Although Turing didn't make it into Gay Life Stories, Aldrich is keenly aware of public attitudes towards same sex relationships throughout the mathematician's lifetime.
In 1952 Alan Turing was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts. He was punished with chemical castration and barred from continuing his work for the British government.
Two years later Turing was found dead at his home, an apparent suicide.
"Homosexual acts were criminal in the UK from the early 1500s, in fact until the late 1800s they could be punished by death," said Aldrich.
"By Turing's time such heavy penalties were never enforced, although there were still episodes of very severe police harassment and arrests and penalties for gay men in particular.
"But, there was a certain amount of concern with homosexuality because it was thought to be linked to Communism, to sabotage."
"In the 1950s and even after, I think it's hard for us to realise now how much of a problem homosexuality was in many societies."
"In a place like Britain the church considered it a sin, the medical profession considered it an illness, psychologists considered it a mental illness, the law considered it a crime, and society in general considered it a vice and a source of great shame.
"Many gay people internalised those ideas and sought some sort of cure, or had to live a life of clandestinity."
Furthermore, the Red Scare of the 1950s, which reverberated to Britain, cast greater suspicion on homosexuals. A stereotype often attached to homosexuals was that they were politically dangerous.
People believed that because homosexuals were "living in clandestinity, and had these perverted desires, they could easily be blackmailed, and seduced into working for the Communists."
"There was a whole circle of men who'd gone through Cambridge, who had been recruited in the 30s and afterwards to work for the Soviets, one or two of them had defected to the Soviet Union."
The British government discovered that among the 'Cambridge Five' three of these men - Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt - were homosexual.
"So someone like Turing working anywhere that was politically sensitive was considered to be just about the worst possible position for someone like that," said Aldrich.
Aldrich acknowledges that not all homosexuals suffered in the same way as Turing.
"I think there was quite a lively gay life. Many people seemed to have lived perfectly happily lives in long term relationships, and with casual encounters.
"But there was always that fear outside the door of public shaming."
A challenge Aldrich faced researching Gay Life Stories was writing on people - such as Turing - whom the research world is saturated with information on.
"Look into Oscar Wilde and you'll probably find dozens of books in Fisher Library and tens or hundreds thousands of references on Google. In many cases it was very difficult to write such short pieces about people who have had many thousands, millions, of words written about them."
Aldrich hopes, however, that this book sheds light on lesser known homosexuals outside the Western World.
"There's been a lot of research in the last decade or so on same-sex life in Africa, Asia, other parts of the world where, of course, it has very different construction than it does in Europe and European influenced countries."
"These people broaden our understanding of what this whole phenomenon is in different places."


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Dr. Lee Hamm, who joined Tulane University's faculty in 1992 as professor of medicine and physiology, has been named senior vice president and dean of Tulane School of Medicine, effective July 1.
Hamm, who currently holds positions as the Harry B. Greenberg Chair of Medicine at Tulane, the executive vice dean of the School of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, served as interim dean of the School of Medicine in 2007. He is also co-director of the Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence.
"I have worked closely with Lee for 15 years and I am confident that his knowledge of Tulane and the landscape of medical education, research and clinical practice make him an outstanding choice to lead the medical school," Tulane President Scott Cowen said. "Lee has an outstanding national reputation as a medical researcher, educator and clinician."
Prior to joining Tulane, Hamm held faculty appointments at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he was associate professor of medicine and associate professor of cell biology and physiology.
"I am honored and thrilled by the prospect of leading a school that is as nationally recognized and accomplished as Tulane School of Medicine," Hamm said. "I look forward to working with a team that will enable Tulane to continue its leadership role in educating the next generation of doctors, conducting life-saving research and advancing medical breakthroughs while facing the challenges and opportunities brought about by the dramatic changes in healthcare, both locally and nationally."
Hamm will succeed current medical school dean, Dr. Benjamin Sachs, who announced his resignation last month.
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Bundle Of Edible Joy: Why New Moms Are Bringing Their Placentas Home
By Kira Kim
Guest contributor
I recently got an email with the subject line: "Placenta."
I work with a lot of pregnant women and new mothers, so this particular tag didn't faze me. But the note wasn't about a client; it was about a new law in Oregon that allows mothers to take their placentas home from the hospital after childbirth.
Some hospitals already allowed this practice, but it was technically against Oregon's law prohibiting medical facilities from releasing medical waste, reports The Oregonian.
Amanda Englund of Placenta Power in Portland told me in an email that momentum is "building" for mothers to take their placentas home with them for therapeutic use. "I have seen the number of clients I serve double every year. More folks are learning about it through media sources and more mothers are sharing their experiences about how positive the effects have been on their recovery. The new law cements…this growing trend." (Want more proof? Kim Kardashian is considering it. And mean "Glee" cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester took her placenta home.)
OK, so now it's legal: power to the placenta in Oregon.
But why, you may ask, would anyone want to take home their placenta in the first place?
The answer is broad: sometimes it's a cultural thing, part of a long tradition, and sometimes it's extremely intimate and health-related.
A 2013 survey published in the journal Ecology, Food and Nutrition by anthropologists at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada asked 189 women who ate their placentas after birth (a practice known as placentophagy) "why they did it, how they preferred to have the placenta prepared, and if they would do it again. (An interesting side note on demographics: in this study, the majority of women who ate their placentas were "American, Caucasian, married, middle class, college-educated and were more likely to give birth at home.")
Researchers report that the top three positive effects of placenta consumption, according to participants, were:
•Improved mood
•Increased energy
•Improved lactation
(For the record, the top three negative side effects of placentophagy were: "Unpleasant burping, headaches, unappealing taste or smell.")
I was first introduced to placentophagy while living in China. A Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner wrote me a prescription after I miscarried to balance my qi. As a Westerner I looked at him with a mix of sarcasm and confusion. He then explained that the medicine was actually placenta, dried, ground and taken in pill form. (This is called encapsulation — more later.)
I was not convinced about taking someone else's placenta, but he had me interested. Could my own placenta from future pregnancies be used for my benefit? It was then that I learned about the art of placentophagy and began to learn the ins and outs of this ancient practice, as well as it's benefits.
Upon returning to the U.S., I was surprised that so many American women were open to the practice. For the past two years, I've helped more than 100 mothers through this process. Here's a little more detail on how it all works:
I pick up the placenta after it is delivered. I inspect it to make sure it is complete, separate the membranes and the cord and take the blood out as much as possible. It is then sliced and dehydrated for 8-12 hours.
I then grind it into a fine powder and encapsulate it. The average placenta produces 75-150 pills, though I've seen higher numbers in women who lead healthy lifestyles including whole foods diets, adequate rest and exercise. (If you are put off by the taste, don't worry, I can do a chocolate version — soy and gluten free — as well.) The cost is about $200 but I charge on a sliding scale.
I realize these numbers are relatively small, but Moms whom I have served have reported that the difference between their first postpartum period with no pills and this one is like night and day in regards to emotional stability.
In mothers whose newborns had a proper latch for breastfeeding, there were no reports of insufficient milk supply even after the six month follow up. More than 60% of moms I worked with wrote of increased energy.
And the process is much more palatable than it may sound. Here's one of my former clients, Eleanor Quick:
I appreciated very much that the placenta was processed away from our home and that the bottles were discreet and attractive. This was important as we share our kitchen with tenants. And the price was right too. From what I'd seen on line I thought I was going to have to skip encapsulation altogether or look into making placenta smoothies at home by myself… which I probably would not have been able to do in the end as it was grossing my husband out at the mere thought and I knew I wouldn't have the energy (or the taste buds) for it when the time came.
This new law in Oregon opens up the conversation about laws in other states. Currently Hawaii is the only other state that also explicitly allows the legal release of the placenta. Indiana is the only state that expressly refuses it. Other states take it hospital by hospital. In Massachusetts, most hospitals oblige the request as long as it is mentioned before labor or upon arrival.
I don't think this law will change a lot of the negative attitudes, or the gross factor, that is sometimes elicited by this practice, but I'm happy to see that it is making news and getting tongues wagging.
Kira Kim, a Certified Lactation Educator, labor doula and student midwife, is the mother of soon to be three and the owner of North Shore Birth and Beyond based out of Salem, Mass.


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KOLKATA: Mud slandering between the ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition CPIM in West Bengal has reached a new height after the West Bengal industry minister Partha Chatterjee alleged that Suchetana, daughter of former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee used to run an NGO and had gained financially by running the organisation.
Chatterjee also alleged that Suchetana had taken financial help from the Tatas while running her NGO. Chatterjee's allegations came following Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's observation that he did not consider Mamata Banerjee as an honest person. Bhattacharjee was recently interviewed by a private television channel in which he had said that "I don't consider Mamata Banerjee as an honest person and an independent inquiry into her family's current financial status will reveal the actual picture."


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I never was aware TWA ever served Toledo Ohio until I saw some route maps from the late 1950s.What routes?
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Username: Squid
Posted 2012-11-07 19:45:25 and read 1158 times.
TWA flew to Detroit, Columbus and Dayton. It looks like sometime in the late 60's and through the 70's they dropped Toledo. Then they started flying there again after deregulation from St. Louis.
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Username: Squid
Posted 2012-11-07 20:20:11 and read 1158 times.
On further research, it looks as though Toledo was a stop. On the Going "west bound" the flights would originate in Detroit, then to Toledo, then Dayton and/or Columbus, then Cincinnati. There was also a daily flight that would then continue from Cincinnati to Louisville and then to St. Louis. There were 5 west bound flights a day all on DC-3's. Going "east bound" there were 3 flights a day, two starting in Cincinnati, and one in Dayton, all flown with DC-3s, and ending in Detroit.
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Posted 2012-11-08 11:23:48 and read 1157 times.
I flew to TOL every summer from PHX as a kid (in the 80's) .. TWA was the airline we flew mostly, what great memories. 727-100/200's and after the merger with Ozark, DC 9-10's .. I have photos I need to scan and upload of the TWA hybrid colors on DC 9-10.
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Big Brother – Daniele Saves Amber And Nominates Jen
August 21, 2007 10:06 PM by Joe Blackmon
After Jameka and Amber were nominated, Eric told them that he thought
it was going to be him. Daniele told Jameka that it was nothing
personal and that they could talk if she wanted.
Jen wondered aloud to Jessica if Daniele might be planning to put up a replacement nominee. Amber and Jameka appealed to God to pull through for them this week. The America's Player choice was revealed to be that Eric had to give Jessica his childhood Woobie.
Daniele, Jameka, Amber, Evel Dick, Jessica, and Zach participated in the power of veto competition, and Eric served as host. In the power of veto competition, houseguests had to guess what percentage of Big Brother fans responded a certain way to a question about the houseguests. As a reward for being the final two in the power of veto competition, Amber and Daniele got to go on a mystery trip outside the house. Daniele won the power of veto competition.
After losing the power of veto competition, Amber had a good cry. Daniele told Amber that she would use the power of veto to take her off the block if she promised that she would not put her up if she won head of household. Even though Daniele was only asking for a one week guarantee, Amber offered much more.
At the power of veto meeting, Daniele used the power of veto to take Amber off the block. Daniele put Jen up as a replacement nominee. Jen said "When I'm still here next week, Daniele and Dick will definitely be my target for the rest of the season, because she's a cheat and he's disgusting." At the end of the show, the mystery trip for Daniele and Amber was revealed to be a trip to New York City to take part in the game show the Power of 10.
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Bobby McBride Says:
August 21st, 2007 at 10:23 pm
After Daniele won the Power of Veto, I thought for sure Amber and Jameka were going to be locked in as the final candidates for eviction this week, since that's usually what happens when the HoH wins the Veto. Shows how much I know.
John Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 am
I was looking on the Big Brother comments and it said they pulled Amber off the Power of Ten taping because people were booing at her and calling her a neo nazi.
Kathy Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:03 am
Jen's gonna LOVE the picture you posted…lol
Kathy Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:04 am
Jen's gonna LOVE the picture you posted…lol
Peter Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 am
Why would they call amber a Neo Nazi? I don't get it? what did she say something about Jewish people?
I'm confused!
Judi Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:15 am
Please oh please oh please oh please get that crying wreck of a female Amber out of there. I can't bear to watch her another moment.
Mike C Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Yes, the picture of Jen is ghastly–eyes closed!!! And Amber is a blubbering mess or a creature. She seemd to have no concept that this is a game!!! Her misery drags the show down.
Pray her and Jameka dont make final two or the praying will never end!!!
Danno Says:
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Jemeka and Amber nauseate me! Dick nailed it in the diary room… "Like God doesn't have more important things to do than worry about this game!"
Also, while watching "After Dark" last night, it seems Jen has flipped out. The entire house (except Dani and Amber who were in NY), has alienated her. In addition to doing a bunch of stuff to Dick's possesions, she's also ignoring her slop restrictions and is eating real food.
Eric and Zach also tried trapping her in her room by wedging the door shut, but the producers stepped in and made them undo it. Kind of stupid of the two of them as it is against fire code to do something like that. Good call by the producers.
Robin Says:
August 24th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Hi! I love all reality shows! Jen needed to be kicked off. So when was amber and danille on the power of 10? hope i didnt missed it. Im rooting for Jessica!


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In this Idea Exchange moderated by Subhomoy Bhattacharjee of The Indian Express, Google India managing director Rajan Anandan talks about the impact of the internet on urban voters, data requests the company gets from the government, and Googles mission of digitising India
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee: There is a lot of buzz around social media in this election, and you are also the chairman of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). What was the standard you used to say that India has 213 million internet users? How credible is that number?
IAMAI, together with IMRB, does annual research among thousands of respondents in urban, metro and rural areas. Thats how we got the 213 million number. Its a very robust number, which is validated through carrier data as well as figures provided by companies such as ours. The quarterly financial reports of telecom companies report the number of active mobile internet users they have. So if we add up the numbers of the top five telcos, its about a 150-160 million active mobile internet users. And we know from our own data that there are over 200 million users.
Whats interesting is that it took 10 years for India to go from 10 million internet users to a 100 million, but three years to go from 100 million to 200 million. Today we are adding about four million new users a month. So by end of this year, India would have 250 million users. And by the end of next year, even at the current growth rate, we should have over 300 million. So, for an internet company, India is important and strategic. Regardless of where an internet company is launched today, India very quickly becomes a large user base for it. So, Sequoia India invested in Truecaller, a Scandinavian start-up. This is the first time that it has ever happened. And the reason is that though Truecaller is a global platform, India is its largest user base.
India is one of the few markets in the world where we are seeing Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 happening together. In developed internet markets like the US or UK and even China, the Web had two distinct phases. There was a Web 1.0 which was Yahoo, Amazon, Googleall of which were launched in the 90s. Web 2.0 is a social, mobile, local and video phenomenonYouTube, smartphones, all those came up in the late


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Bank drops claims against Powell, Moran
First National Community Bank has dropped its claims against former law partners Robert Powell and Jill Moran.
The bank first filed lawsuits against Powell and Moran in 2009 and 2010. In March, the bank revived the suit when it filed a "writ of revival" seeking the $4.16 million owed to it according to a 2009 judgement.
On Wednesday, the bank declared its claims against Powell and his wife, Debra, and Moran were satisfied.
Among those: the $4.16 million lawsuit first filed in 2009; and lawsuits seeking $344,000, $1.2 million and $235,000 in debts, all of which were filed in 2010.
The document filed Wednesday didn't provide any detail about how the debts were settled. Each was "satisfied, settled, ended and discontinued with prejudice."
Powell operated the Powell Law Group, which guaranteed the loans. Moran was the Luzerne County Prothonotary when the loans were made. The law group sued the bank in 2012, alleging that the bank's decisions were affected by conflicts of interest and other improper acts, such as a requirement that Michael G. Cestone by used as a primary builder for projects the loans were meant to finance. Cestone is the son of a member of the bank's board of directors.
The loans were for development companies "W-CAT Inc." and "Big Kahuna Realty" and for capital in the law practice.
Powell was arrested in 2009 for paying kickbacks to former Luzerne County judges Michael T. Conahan and Mark Ciavarella. The judges were accused of sending juveniles to juvenile detention centers owned by Powell. He went to jail for 18 months in the scheme.
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the single, group members Big Bank Hank, Master Gee, and Wonder Mike plan to put out an album next year. They have even confirmed that they will be collaborating with the UK's own Dizzee Rascal.
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From her name the word sjafni, meaning love, is taken. She is said to bring together lovers otherwise forbidden to join in marriage.
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Shemita - Chapter 12
If the purchaser dies, [the original owner] may redeem it from his son. Similarly, if the seller dies, his son may redeem it for the duration of the twelve months.7
If [the seller] sold it to one person and he sold it to another, the reckoning is made from [the date of] the first [sale]. When the first year is concluded, the house is established8 as the property of the [second] purchaser. For the [second] seller9 sold to the second [purchaser] all the rights that will accrue to him [with regard to this property].10 If twelve months pass and it is not redeemed, it is established as the property of the [second] purchaser.
Similarly, if [a person] gave a house as a present and did not redeem it within these twelve months, it is established11 as the property of the recipient of the present.12
During a leap year, the permanent disposition of the property is not brought about until the end of the year,13 as [Leviticus 25:30] states: "Until a complete year is completed for it." [This wording indicates that] the extra month [of the leap year] is included.
[The following rules apply when a person] sold two houses, one in the middle of Adar 1 and the other on Rosh Chodesh Adar II. When the month of Adar arrives in the following year,14 the year for the house sold on Rosh Chodesh II is completed.15 The year for the house sold in the middle of Adar I is not completed until the middle of Adar in the following year, for the purchaser took possession in the middle of the extra month [of the leap year].
When a person consecrates a house in a walled city and another person redeems it from the Temple treasury, when a year passes from the time that it was redeemed from the Temple treasury without it being redeemed by its [original] owner, it becomes established as the property of the one who redeemed it [from the Temple treasury].18 For the Temple treasury does not become the permanent owner, the purchaser does, as [implied by Leviticus 25:30]: "the one who purchases it for his generations."19
When a person sells a house in a walled city and the Jubilee arrives within the first year after the sale, the house does not revert to its owner in the Jubilee.20 Instead, it remains in the possession of the purchaser until the seller decides to redeem it throughout the year after its sale or it becomes established as the property [of the purchaser] after that year is completed.
When a person sells a home in a settlement or in a city that is not surrounded by a wall in the appropriate manner,21 he may redeem it according to the advantages that apply with regard to both the redemption of an [ancestral] field and the redemption of a home in a walled city.
What is implied? If he desires to redeem [the home] immediately, he may,22 as is the law with regard to a home [in a walled city]. If the twelve months pass and he does not redeem it, he may redeem it until the Jubilee, as is the law regarding a field.23 When he redeems it, he makes a reckoning with the purchaser and subtracts the value of the benefit he received.24 If the Jubilee arrives without having redeemed it, the house returns [to the owner] without payment, as is the law with regard to fields.
Any [residential property] within a city's wall, e.g., gardens, bathhouses, and dovecotes, is considered as a house,25 for [ibid.] states: "that are in the city." Fields that are located in the city may be redeemed according to the rules applying to fields outside the city, as [implied the phrase (ibid.)]: "And the house that will be within the city will be established." [This includes] houses and anything resembling houses, not fields.
When a house is not four cubits by four cubits, it does not become the permanent property of the purchaser like the houses in a walled city.26 A house does not become the permanent property of a purchaser in Jerusalem.27 A house that is built in the wall is not considered as a home in a walled city.28
A city is not referred to as a walled city unless it has three or more courtyards and in each of the courtyards, it has two or more houses.32 [Moreover,] it must have been surrounded by a wall first and then the courtyards were built in its midst. If, however, a place was settled and afterwards, surrounded [by a wall] or it did not have [at least] three courtyards with [at least] two houses [each], it is not considered as a walled city. Instead, its houses are like the houses of a settlement.33
We rely only on a wall that surrounded [a city] at the time of the conquest of the land.
What is implied? When a city was not surrounded by a wall at the time when Joshua conquered the land even though it is surrounded now, [the houses in it] are considered as the houses of a settlement. [Conversely,] if a city was surrounded by a wall at the time of Joshua,34 even though it is not surrounded at present, it is considered as walled.35
When the Jews were exiled after the first destruction [of the Temple], the sanctity of the walled cities from Joshua's time were nullified.36 When Ezra ascended at the time of the second entry into the land, all of the walled cities of that time became consecrated. For the entry [into the land] at the time of Ezra, i.e., the second entry, was comparable to the entry at the time of Joshua. Just as [after] their entry at the time of Joshua, they counted Sabbatical years and Jubilees, sanctified the homes in walled cities and were obligated in the tithes, so too, [after] their entry in the time of Ezra, they counted Sabbatical years and Jubilees, sanctified the homes in walled cities and were obligated in the tithes.37
Similarly, in the Ultimate Future, upon the third entry to the land,38 we will begin to count the Sabbatical and Jubilee years and sanctify the homes in walled cities, and every place that will be conquered will be obligated in [the separation of] tithes, as [Deuteronomy 30:5]: "And God your Lord will bring you to the land that your ancestors possessed as a heritage and you shall possess." [The verse] equates [the Jews' ultimate] possession with that of their ancestors. Just as when your ancestors took possession of the land as a heritage, they practiced the renewal of all these observances, when you take possession of the land, you should practice the renewal of all these observances.39
As stated in Halachah 15, it is not significant whether the city is surrounded by a wall at the present time. Instead, we are speaking about cities that were walled when Joshua conquered Eretz Yisrael.
I.e., the year mentioned in the Leviticus 25:29 is not a calendar year, beginning on Rosh HaShanah, but a twelve month period beginning from the day of sale.
In contrast to the laws of a field that is an ancestral heritage, as mentioned in Chapter 11, Halachah 4. The return of the purchaser's money in full resembles a loan at interest - for the benefit he had in using the property is comparable to interest paid for the principal - nevertheless, because a sale is involved, there is no prohibition (Arichin 9:3).
In contrast to the law regarding an ancestral heritage (Chapter 11, Halachah 18).
In contrast to the law regarding an ancestral heritage (ibid.:17).
In this, the laws parallel those governing an ancestral field (ibid.:17-18).
Arachin 32b derives these concepts from the exegesis of relevant verses.
Permanently, for it does not return to the owner in the Jubilee. See the Rambam's Commentary to the Mishnah (Arichin 9:4).
Who was also the first purchaser.
The Rambam is referring to a difference of opinion in Arichin, loc. cit., whether after twelve months, the house remains in the possession of the second purchaser or reverts to the first. Although one might argue that the Torah specifies that if the house is not redeemed it becomes the property of the first seller, that rationale is not accepted for the reason the Rambam states.
Permanently, for it does not return to the owner in the Jubilee. See the Rambam's Commentary to the Mishnah (Arichin 9:4).
For as indicated by Chapter 11, Halachah 19, a present is equivalent to a sale.
I.e., until the end of a 13 month period.
I.e., an ordinary year with only one Adar.
For it is a full twelve months after that sale and that sale was made after the extra month of the leap year had been completed.
And if that day passes, he will not be able to redeem it.
This is an ordinance established by Hillel the Elder to protect the rights of the seller (Arachin 9:4). The rationale is that since the purchaser has no choice whether to accept the money or not, it is sufficient for the money to be deposited in the court for him (Arachin 32a).
We are not concerned with the date on which it was consecrated. Instead, it is the date from which it was redeemed from the Temple treasury which concerns us, for that is when it was sold and it is its sale that brings about a change in ownership.
I.e., for the sake of his descendants and the Temple treasury does not have descendants (Arachin 32b).
The statement (Leviticus 25:30): "It shall not return in the Jubilee" applies both before the house becomes the permanent property of the purchaser and afterwards.
Again, what is significant is not the present state of the city, but its state at the time of Joshua's conquest, as stated in Halachah 15.
Since the sale involves a house, the seller has this advantage over the seller of a field.
For Leviticus 25:31 states that they will be considered as a field.
Arachin 33a [quoted by the Rambam's Commentary to the Mishnah (Arachin 9:7)] explains that since the above verse specifies that these homes can be redeemed and that they are returned in the Jubilee, we derive the concept that their redemption involves a reduction of the cost of the field.
I.e., it can be redeemed only within a year and does not return in the Jubilee.
For a house is not considered a house unless it is at least four cubits by four cubits (Sukkah 3b). This concept applies in several different contacts, for example, the requirement to place a mezuzah (Hilchot Mezuzah 6:1) or to construct a guardrail (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:1).
As the Rambam states in Hilchot Beit HaBechirah 7:14, Jerusalem was never divided among the tribes. For that reason, a person can never permanently acquire property there. Instead, houses there are bound by the laws that apply to houses in settlements (see Rashi. Arachin 32b; Bava Kama 82b).
Arachin 9:5 records a difference of opinion on this issue between Rabbi Yehudah and Rabbi Shimon. Both of them base their opinion on the exegesis of the Biblical story of Rachab's home in Joshua, ch. 2.
Megillah 5b explains that this refers to a situation where the city is not surrounded by a wall, but instead, its houses are built next to each other, so that it appears that it is surrounded by a wall (Rav Yosef Corcus).
For example, as in the instance of Tiberias which was surrounded by a wall on one side and the sea on the other.
Instead, they are governed by the laws applying to homes in a settlement.
Otherwise, it is not large enough to be called a city.
Interestingly, the Talmud also mentions these laws with regard to reading a Megilah in a walled city (Megilah 3b), but the Rambam does not quote them there, only here.
Arachin 9:6 gives as examples: Ancient Yodefat, Gamla, Chadid, Gedod, and Ono.
The Ra'avad differs with the Rambam and maintains that once a city's walls are destroyed, the city loses its unique status. The Radbaz and the Kessef Mishneh explain that the Rambam is referring to the situation in the First Temple era. If a city had a wall at the time of Joshua's conquest, but that wall was torn down, the status of the city did not change throughout that era. See also the Rambam's Commentary to the Mishnah (Arichin 9:6).
And the sanctity of the land was nullified, as the Rambam states in Hilchot Beit HaBechirah 6:15, Hilchot Terumah 1:26..
As stated in those sources, in contrast to the sanctification in the time of Joshua, the sanctification of the land by Ezra was only Rabbinic in origin. In his Commentary to the Mishnah (loc. cit.), the Rambam states that the cities that were walled at the time of Ezra were given the status of walled cities. From the Radbaz and the Kessef Mishneh, it appears that the cities that were given the status of walled cities by the people who returned with Ezra were cities that were considered walled cities in the era of the First Temple.
I.e., when the Jews return to Eretz Yisrael led by Mashiach.
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Montville Township Committee Special Meeting
Tuesday, May 7, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Montville Township Municipal Building, 195 Changebridge Road, Montville, New Jersey
7:00 p.m. – Statement of Open Public Meetings Act Compliance read by Chairwoman Deborah Nielson: "As required by the Open Public Meetings Act, adequate Notice of this meeting has been provided which Notice specified the time and place of the meeting to the extent known at that time. The Notice was posted on the bulletin board at the Municipal Building, mailed to The Daily Record, The Star Ledger, and The Citizen as well as other newspapers and it was placed on file in the Township Clerk's office. This meeting has been properly noticed to the public in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act."
Present: Committeeman Art Daughtry
Committeeman James Sandham, Jr.
Committeewoman Jean Bader
Committeeman Tim Braden
Chairwoman Deborah Nielson
Also present: Frank Bastone, Township Administrator
Frances Vanderhoof, Director of Finance
Thomas Mazzaccaro, DPW/Water & Sewer Director
John Wozniak, Health Officer
Maryann Witty, Recreation Director
Martin Murphy, Township Attorney
Gertrude Atkinson, Township Clerk
Pledge of Allegiance led by Chairwoman Nielson.
Chairwoman Nielson stated we are here tonight to share with the public information we have regarding the issues surrounding lead and the artificial turf fields at Camp Dawson.
We voluntarily tested these turf fields in our town for lead as a result of recent concerns in the media surrounding lead. We have been proactive in this regard, and we were not mandated to do the testing. We want assurances that our fields are safe for the public. I have children who play on these fields, as do other members of the Township Committee. We want our children safeguarded, as well as your children, and the public. As a parent, I personally want to understand the risks, the facts, and the issues surrounding lead and the potential for at-risk to our kids and whomever may use those fields. Also, we are mindful that these fields lie on top of the Towaco Valley Aquifer, and we want to be assured that there are no risks or what risks, if any, are posed to the aquifer to safeguard our drinking water supply.
This evening we hope to provide information to you and together come to a consensus as to what we should do regarding the Camp Dawson fields going forward. The sequence of events will be our Administrator, Mr. Frank Bastone, will give a chronology of what has transpired during the last week or so. Then we have an expert here from our environmental testing firm, Mr. Pat Guilmette from PMK, who will go over the testing procedures and the results. Then we will have questions from the Township Committee members, some of whom are just receiving this information this afternoon. We have updated test results today. Then we will open it up to any questions or concerns from the public.
Frank Bastone, Township Administrator, stated the Township has attempted to be as transparent as possible in this process. We have tried to keep information flowing, getting it out to the residents as quickly as possible via the website, with notices, meetings, e-mails. After we became aware of the turf field issue, which basically was news that came out of the State Department of Health & Senior Services having issues with a number of fields containing lead in New Jersey, we were concerned about the possibility of lead being in two of our facilities, Community Park and Camp Dawson. On April 14, I personally contacted both Field Turf, who was the company that manufactured the turf at Community Park, and General Sports Venue, the company that took over for SRI, who produced the turf for Camp Dawson. I had assurances from both those companies on April 15 that the lead is not in the polyethylene fiber. The turf at Camp Dawson is a material called astroplay, which is made out of polyethylene. Regardless of that, the Township went ahead and proactively took samples at both fields to make sure the citizenry was protected. On April 17, the Health Department took samples – core samples – a cross-section of the turf. On April 29, we got test results back and found that there was lead in the core samples at Camp Dawson. Samples were taken both from the field and from product stored at the DPW. We contacted our insurance carrier, JIF, who contacted the environmental consulting firm of PMK. Pat Guilmette of PMK is here this evening. On April 30, we contacted the NJ Department of Health & Senior Services about how to proceed. They instructed us to implement the four restrictions on the field: watering down the field for dust suppression; not allowing children under the age of seven to play on the field; bathing of people and washing of clothing of people who use the field; and dust samples. That same day, we contacted the sports groups who use the field at this time. We had a meeting that evening with those sports groups. On May 2, PMK came in and took five different types of testing samples. We even tested the parking lot. On May 5, we received the results for all but one sample. They all came back negative. We, again, put that on the website and sent a notice to the newspapers about this evening's meeting. We then took additional core tests as late as yesterday. We sent them to three different labs to be very sure of the results. Core testing came back this afternoon positive, which means they are above the threshold for lead. We had a meeting to discuss those results. At that meeting, we discussed what to do, and I am going to discuss with the Township Committee that we had communication from the NJ Dept. of Health on procedures that should be followed based on the fact that we did the vacuum test, the wipe test, and tested the actual blades of grass. All of them show no indication of lead, which means whatever lead is in the underlying material in the mat is not getting out. Based upon that, we are confident that people are not being exposed to lead. I am going to ask Pat Guilmette to address the technical issues of the testing.
Pat Guilmette, PMK, displayed and described the turf: the field itself is on a dirt sub-base. Then there is rubber backing, a matrix base/binder, in-fill material, and the blades of grass. The initial testing was core (all the way through the material itself into the soil), vacuum, and wipe. The vacuum and wipe samples came back negative. The parking area was tested – they came back well below the State guidelines for lead. Since there was a conflict in the two test results, we went ahead and tested again – core samples and the actual stock at the DPW yard. They were sent to all three labs. There was a wide range in the sampling results. We compared the results with the product data sheets. The source of lead was identified to be in the root matrix. We don't see that there is a breakdown in the root matrix or see any concentration of any leaching into the dust.
Bastone stated we have been making considerable efforts to get some direction from the NJ Dept. of Health & Senior Services. I am happy to point out that today at 3:20 p.m. we received the following e-mail from Mr. James Brownlee, MPH, Director of Consumer & Environmental Health Services. The e-mail was sent to our Health Officer, John Wozniak:
"John: As discussed, my understanding is that your testing of your fields was negative for lead, in fibers, dust, and wipes. This was from both the vacuum sampling done, and the laboratory analysis. I also understand that you tested field product not in use, but stored, and noted that the matrix which binds the turf had high concentrations of lead above the 400 ppm. If the core product tested and the matrix are not breaking down and dust rising to the top of the fiber bed, so that it is accessible, there is no reason to do dust suppression activities. My recommendation would be to just have field managers monitor each field and look at potential degradation issues that may result in matrix material becoming accessible. Hope this helps as we continue our examination of this issue."
Nielson stated from what we have heard tonight, the lead is in the backing and is encapsulated under the matting. From what I understand, it is not a health and safety risk. It is not being transferred into the blades of grass, is not in the little black particles, and children will not be inhaling lead. Is that a correct statement? Guilmette answered yes, that is accurate.
Nielson asked Thomas Mazzaccaro, Water & Sewer Director, is there potential for the lead to leach out of the turf, go down through the sand, and affect the public drinking supply?
Mazzaccaro answered our hydrologist, Vincent Uhl, did submit a written report on it. His indication is this is not going to happen. If there were high concentrations of lead, it would take 2 to 5 years and in doing that, it would not come from one source, because the wells are over 1,000 feet away. There would be significant dilution on its journey to the production wells. Additionally, we do test for lead according to NJDEP regulations on a periodic basis. We are due to test in June. We test at the tap. Based on last year's testing, we are not concerned about it at this time.
Nielson asked there is no known risk to our drinking water? Mazzaccaro answered no. We monitor our water all the time.
Committeeman Sandham asked when was the last time we tested the water? Mazzaccaro replied in 2005. We regularly test every three years. We are doing testing next month.
Sandham asked if we could test at the wells. Mazzaccaro answered yes.
Committeewoman Bader asked how often is the testing/monitoring of the fields going to take place?
Bastone stated we are going to consult with the NJ Dept. of Health and do what they suggest.
Bader asked if the heat and/or the plowing of snow will cause the breakdown process to speed up.
Guilmette stated the NJ Dept. of Health is consulting with the Consumer Product Safety Commission on these issues. They are supposed to release further documentation, suggestions, and guidelines within the next few weeks.
Committeeman Braden asked any of the grooming/plowing – none of these things come in contact with the portion of the turf that contains the lead? Guilmette answered correct, that material is bound.
Bastone stated we are going to continue to monitor.
Nielson stated we have the JIF and the warranties if we need to replace the fields.
Braden asked who will we look to for a schedule of testing? Bastone answered the NJ Dept. of Health & Senior Services.
Committeeman Daughtry stated there are no official State guidelines for lead in a turf field. All of this is a derivative of something they have arbitrarily adopted while they investigate this. At the end of the day, it is about the transfer of lead. The guidelines will not be adopted within the next few weeks. It will be July or August. There is no transfer of lead. I appreciate the Administrator for getting the news out quickly, but it creates a lot of angst and a lot of rumors. Some people thought the parking lot millings were loaded with lead. I asked that the parking lot be tested. There are no official State standards for turf fields right now.
Sandham stated the field will degradation unevenly based on use – footballs, soccer, lacrosse. What is going to be the monitoring process of the entire field? Pat, if your kid were playing on this field, how often would you check the field? Guilmette answered the Dept. of Health will probably come back with once a year and in various locations where there is the most wear.
Chairwoman Nielson opened the meeting up to questions from the public.
Daren Colaiacovo, 2 Buckingham Circle, Pine Brook, stated I don't feel you have enough information. It sounds inconclusive. We are asking you to let us use the grass fields to finish up our season. Our season ends in June. Our board unanimously voted to stay off the turf fields. I have contacted Mr. Bastone about using field 3, and I was denied. I don't feel that it is right to be denied a field that we pay taxes on. I ask you again if we can use the grass fields.
Nielson stated I would ask to defer the question until we have heard all of the questions.
Colaiacovo asked why do I have to reschedule games to go to another town? Why can't we play on a field that is available?
Bastone stated my reasoning is if the fields are going to be open, we need to maintain the schedule. I felt it was unfair to have some organizations move from that field, while having others stay on that field with the schedule. In my opinion, it was all or none. I felt we had to be uniform in the application of the policy. Either everyone gets rescheduled off that field or no one does.
Carmen Cerreto, 7 Karen Road, Pine Brook, stated I am a football parent and a member of Turf the Valley. I heard people speak about the warranty on the field. The company that put down the turf went out of business and it was taken over by another company. Who would cover the warranty?
Nielson stated I am referring to a specification guarantee of 8 to 10 years before degradation or wear and tear. That is the warranty I am referring to.
Cerreto stated we contacted a company called Field Turf. They are nationally known and have done a lot of the football fields. Wouldn't it behoove us to contact them?
Bastone stated I have no problem contacting Field Turf. The Township Engineer, Tony Barile, has possibly already contacted them. They are the ones that manufactured the Community Park field turf.
Daughtry stated the issue isn't only with Montville, but with the whole State. They need to decide whether their product meets whatever new safety standards are coming out.
Tanner Zabransky, 24 Brook Valley Road, Towaco, stated I live right next to Camp Dawson and have been playing on it since it was built. After practices my friends and I play on it and dive in it, etc. How come I am not affected from it?
Daughtry stated you are fine and healthy, and that is great.
Tyler MacKay, 12 Ashley Place, Towaco, asked how long are we going to be put off the turf field because I want to have a successful season. Without practice, we can't be successful.
Nielson stated we will be discussing that later tonight. We hope to come to a consensus.
Dennis Villani, 15 Pepper Road, Towaco, asked if the field has been here for 4 years, and it takes 2 to 5 years to get to the aquifer, would it be close to the aquifer by now?
Nielson stated as Mr. Mazzaccaro told us, it does journey down, but it gets diluted. He did explain they will be doing testing again. The lead is encapsulated and is not going down into the aquifer at this time.
Pat Villani, 15 Pepper Road, Towaco, it sounds like all of the testing has been on the perimeter of the field. Has any testing been done in the center of the field where there is a lot of wear and tear?
Bastone stated on each field we tested right at the 50-yard line. Guilmette showed on the sample how they tested.
Frank Lane, 27 DeFrack Road, Lake Hiawatha, asked why we didn't test four years ago. Nielson answered stated there was no reason to test four years ago. There were no guidelines. This concern came about in the State of New Jersey recently.
Sandham stated the only reason the State started testing is because they thought there was another site adjacent to a field that would contaminate a field. That is why they initiated tests on the fields themselves.
Joe Levine, 26 Diann Drive, Montville, football and lacrosse coach, member of lacrosse board, asked are there any members of the board here that were part of the purchase process? Has anyone actually identified who is holding the warranty?
Bastone answered no, we haven't. I am going to be consulting with the Township Attorney and looking at the bid documents.
Levine asked what constitutes a warranty defection? Is JIF a self-insurance fund? Bastone answered it is a self-insurance fund, and we are also members of a municipal excess liability fund.
Levine asked if the board thinks it's appropriate that the testing company that we used that said everything is okay is the one that is tied to the JIF. Do you feel that's okay, that's appropriate?
Levine stated as a lacrosse coach and member of the board, when we had five different test done – 4 positives and 1 negative – when we give the results to the competing towns, so far we have had tremendous pushback from the rest of the towns we are dealing with. I would like to understand what answer you suggest we give the towns that have refused based on 1 test, not 5, to come to Camp Dawson to play. How can we get grass field time so we don't lose a program in this town? What can we tell towns to give them the confidence?
Bastone stated I would provide them with the e-mail today from Mr. Brownlee of the NJ Dept. of Health.
Sandham stated our concern now is whether there is a health issue for the children, not who is going to pay for a new field and warranties.
Steve Moscone, 68 Hook Mountain Road, Montville, stated the installer has a large part of the guarantee. I was on the Township Committee when we purchased it. Are these fields 100% safe to play on? Towns will not come here to play, so we are rescheduling. There is absolutely no reason you are not rescheduling an entire sport. We are asking for field time on an underutilized field, #3. If the turf fields are not 100% clean, then we respectfully request some grass time.
Brandon Blanchet, 222 Brook Valley Road, Towaco, asked if anyone has been affected by the lead on the fields.
John Wozniak, Health Officer, stated not that they are aware of. You have to remember in order to be affected by the lead, you have to have exposure. What we are saying now is there is no lead being exposed.
Aidan Sanchez, 6 Kristin Court, Towaco, asked if the fields have been there for four years, how come no one has been affected by it?
Nielson stated it has come to the attention of some people that lead has been found in some turf fields. The State decided to test some turf fields, and we decided to test ours for the presence of lead so we would know exactly what is in our turf fields.
Tommy Bauer, 1 Daro Court, Montville, asked how exactly do you test the fields? Nielson stated there are five different tests. One test is the wipe test, where they wipe the turf with a Handy wipe or Kleenex, a vacuum test where they take a little vacuum cleaner to collect dust, and they test for lead in what is underneath – the backing. They are tested for lead in a laboratory by a scientist. That is where the lead is located – in that backing.
Nielson stated we are going to close the line after the next two gentlemen. These are not the end of the questions. We have e-mail addresses. We are here to work for and serve the public. We have been very aggressively pursuing this so we can get the information out to the public as soon as we have it so we all can understand it.
Michael Palma, 10 Manchester Way, Pine Brook, asked has any thought been given to bringing Manchester Park back up into shape? Nielson answered that has not been discussed at this time. That is always an option. In the summer, I am sure we can pursue that if necessary.
Vince Monteleone, 17 Masar Road, Montville, stated Mr. Bastone, you are stating you felt it would be unfair to take fields from other sports since they are already registered. There are only two other sports utilizing those fields. All you are doing is shifting two programs to other fields.
Monteleone asked about the washing of hands. For football this fall, they touch the fields with their hands and put their mouthpieces in. Do they have to keep washing their hands? Sandham stated no, because it is encapsulated.
Monteleone stated the field degradation is based on usage. There are multiple programs multiple time of the year. It is not based on annual degradation; it is based on usage. If you have a ten year lifespan, perhaps that should be evaluated much sooner.
George Drexl, 29 River Road, Montville, stated Broncos shares some of the concerns and comments from tonight. We look forward to our season and are following this closely. We trust that you will do everything you can for the programs following lacrosse. Many uses, many sports, many seasons.
Hearing no one further from the public, Chairwoman Nielson closed the public portion.
Nielson stated we came here tonight to gather information and bring us and the public up to date. The most important question we have before us tonight: Do these fields pose a health risk for people who play on these fields? We did receive this e-mail from the State today indicating that there is no transference going on, and we don't need to continue watering the fields and aggressively pursue the precautions listed on the website. Is that an accurate statement?
Bastone answered yes, that is an accurate statement, based on the representation of the State.
Nielson asked can the fields be opened without restriction? Bastone replied yes. Nielson asked do we need to discuss?
Motion made by Daughtry to approve the unconditional reopening of Camp Dawson based on the NJ Dept. of Health correspondence received today and based on at least a quarterly inspection of the fields and that the issue of any additional field issues, scheduling issues, or discussions would take place between the Administrator and the Recreation Director. Second: Sandham. Roll call vote – Daughtry, yes; Sandham, yes; Bader, no; Braden, yes; Nielson, yes.
Nielson stated issue #2 is the request to avail the lacrosse folks and other organizations with grass fields that are not currently in use. As you all know, we rotate a field to keep the grass fields in top shape. There is a field lying fallow at this time. We have been following Mr. Bastone's recommendation for the last nine days as we explore this. He is our full-time Administrator, and we have the utmost respect for him. What I would like to ask the Township Committee members now is to respond to the request from lacrosse.
Bader stated I think we need to reopen whatever we have available and use it. We will deal with the repairs when they come.
Sandham stated we have heard from the expert we have at the State that this field is safe. Having said that, I firmly believe that if any parent or team doesn't have that same level of confidence that we should open other fields and allow them to use grass. They would have the option. That would be my position, and I honestly thought that was included in the motion.
Daughtry stated that was in the motion, but I left it to the decision of the people who should be making it, not the Township Committee based on political positioning. That would be with the Recreation Director and the Administrator.
Sandham stated we have heard that the field is safe. If some people choose not to want to believe that information, that is fine. I don't think anyone on the Township Committee would impress their opinion on any individual parent about the safety of their children. Having said that, we should find out what other fields are available. I think Mr. Palma had a good suggestion about Manchester Park if we can do something with that, and we should make other grass fields that are available, available. Clearly, every Township Committee member and the Township Administrator are as concerned about the safety of your children as you are.
Braden stated it sounds like we have a consensus to get field 3 opened up. This is an extraordinary situation. I would make a motion that we open up that field and ask Director Witty and Mr. Bastone to do their best with the scheduling to get the games back on track. Second: Sandham. Nielson stated I don't know that we need a motion. Do I have a consensus? Township Committee: all yes.
Nielson stated we have a consensus to direct our Administrator and our Recreation Department to make available field 3 and any other grass area for play.
Nielson stated the public relations issue. The majority feels that the fields are safe at this time. We need to employ either a PR firm or have a press release. I think that the State will be working with us and other towns that have turf fields. It is a global issue. We certainly don't want fields sitting there not used. I think we need to work aggressively with the State. We want to continue to closely monitor this. Any information that comes in, we will make available immediately.
Daughtry stated last night at the Board of Education meeting, the Athletic Director stated when they asked the other towns about their fields, they were told they tested their fields and they are safe. I want to ask the association here to ask the other towns if their fields were tested and what the numbers were. This is not Montville's issue, this is a State issue. We need to collect data from these other places.
Coliaicovo stated they will ask that of everyone they play if you issue a statement that our fields are safe. If you say it is safe and the State says it is safe, I think this issue goes away, but it is not going to happen tomorrow.
Bastone stated he will put the correspondence from the State on the website.
Meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m. Motion: Sandham. Second: Braden. All in favor. Motion approved.
Respectfully submitted,
Gertrude H. Atkinson, Township Clerk


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