2015-03-31
Vae Viator61
America’s Worst♪
When politicians involve themselves in technical matters, expect failures.
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The photograph below documents the
situation at the Maxella AV and Lincoln BL stop on the BBB number 3
Line. It is the sort of “work” one would expect from the LACMTA. They
taped or caused to be taped shut the aperture in the plastic pipes associated
with power poles. These pipes continue to be used as improvised trash cans. BBB N.B. The
stop still needs a trash can!
BBB Maxella Trash
Fix???♪
Su Topo will include this
comment in every post with the above until BBB corrects the problem. For quite
awhile BBB has been charging for intra-line transfers, reversing the long
standing policy of free transfers to other BBB lines.
Too, BBB has spent lots of
money to build a big headquarters on Colorado BL just east of 4th Street. Mr.
King, just a few dollars for a trash can, you might need a few more to
cover other bus stops too, will erase this section. After all, it is Marina Del
Rey! :-)
Why a trash
container is needed♪
The photo above shows exactly what
people will do when a trash container is not provided. They will jury rig
something. What they did in this case is rip off the tape which covered
the plastic pipes at the base of the utility pole and stuffed their trash into
the pipe, nice, huh?
Edward F. King, Director of Transit
Services
City of Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus
City of Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus
(Photo: www.bigbluebus.com)
The man pictured above could ensure
that trash containers are installed along BBB routes with a simple three-line
memorandum.
White Line Incursion Series
Su Topo uses video to
highlight the problem of scofflaw drivers endangering Metro bus passengers yet,
no authority seems to want to take ownership of the problem. The issue is not
unique to the particular site which this Mole documents, but is illustrative of
a general problem. Your Mole encourages you to report similar problems to the
appropriate agencies in your area(s) and hope that you will have better luck
than he. In the youtube.com videos linked below one can see exactly what
happens when the policing agencies fail to enforce traffic laws.
The videos linked below document the
important fact that a never ending stream of vehicles fail to use the lane as
required by law.
Neither are the policing agencies
active when it comes to protecting us by bringing these obvious and frequent
traffic law violations to an immediate halt. The LACMTA is derelict
as well, in that they fail to use the near hourly proof of the violations
captured by the on board cameras, mentioned here, and discussed at length in
the posting of 2012-05-31.
In the following video(s) we see
further instances of scofflaw drivers, a black SUV sandwiched in between two
shuttle vans, cutting in front of Metro a 111/311 bus.
Please see the video of three vehicles which cross the solid white line and cut off a Line 111/311 bus.
Thanks to www.youtube.com for their excellent video support!
Thanks to www.youtube.com for their excellent video support!
Please carefully note that, in some
videos, pedestrians are pinned to the curb by the vehicles that cut in front of
the bus —as a result these pedestrians are illegally denied the right-of-way.
Which right-of-way would be unchallengeablely theirs IF, and
only IF, Mr. Leahy would have one of his staff
explain su Topo’s simple solution (vide infra)
to him.
In spite of the potential for these
violations to occur several times per HOUR, I have never
seen a police presence at this location. One would think that with a bus
schedule taped to the dashboard one of the several policing agencies would have
made some arrests by now. Unless they have "more important"
work, than protecting bus passengers, to do.
La Taupe feels that it is appropriate
to dedicate these video(s) to ALL the agencies that should be protecting us.
So, they are dedicated to (1): Airport (LAWA) Police, the L.A.P.D., the L. A.
County Sheriff’s Department and Mr. A. Leahy who is CEO of
the LACMTA.
Su Topo has
recommended a simple solution to the problem. That is, have
the 111 Line buses pull up to pedestrian crosswalk then stop and discharge
passengers. Doing so eliminates the space in front of the bus which the
always-in-a-hurry scofflaws use to cut in front of the bus. But, with
the LACMTA nothing is simple. Although the solution could be
implemented with nothing more than a memo to the 111/311 Line drivers, it is a
task for which the LACMTA is inadequate.
OVERMATCHED (for a while anyway)
The
Mole reads the papers and other things, obviating the necessity of your doing
so.
The Los Angeles Times
(Nelson) covered the move, from Denver, to Los Angeles of the LACMTA's new
CEO. The first thing I noticed was that
he is being paid less than he was in Denver, i.e., $327,000 or $23,000 less
than he earned in Denver.
So that your Mole to
make an estimate of exactly what Mr. Washington will do for the LACMTA —believing that the past is the best predictor of the future— he reviewed the
type of transportation which Denver has in place now.
Presently Denver's city to airport
service is via (1) "Sky Ride”. “SkyRide" is RTD’s convenient, affordable bus service to
and from Denver International Airport (DIA)“ and East Rail and (2) Denver East Rail from the city to DIA.
The first line in the Denver
Post piece (Samuelson) is “You can't do it at LAX,,
…”. They refer to a single seat (not
four seats) to LAX. Please read it via the "Works Cited" link.
What Mr. Washington
oversaw in Denver was, viz, “… the first public-private partnership for transit
...”. This may be the way out of transportation for the LACMTA.
Denver's City to Airport Line♪
Mr. Washington's former city has (or will very soon have) a connection from the city to its airport. I wanted to ask the operators a question so I sent email messages.
In response to su Topo's query which was intended to determine whether the Denver, city to DIA was rapid or mass transportation, I received professional replies from a representatives of the agency.
"The East Rail Line does have at-grade crossings along the route, along with a number of grade-separated crossings/bridges as well. The top speed on the train is 79 mph, which will likely occur in the areas that do not have any pedestrian or vehicular interactions. The trip from Union Station in Denver to Denver International Airport will take 35 minutes."
Please use this link to access more information about the line.
Unfortunatel we find that the line in NOT rapid transit due to the "at-grade crossings along the route".
Quoting from the Times
(Nelson2) article, which I also featured last month, “Arthur T. Leahy's performance as
chief executive has been under confidential review by the Metro board of
directors for more than six months, and a majority of members were ready to let
his contract expire in April, according to sources familiar with the
negotiations. In an interview with The Times, Leahy, 65, said leaving Metro was
his choice.”
But don't be too
concerned for Leahy, who “… is expected to be hired by Metrolink, Southern
California's troubled commuter rail agency.”
Perhaps, that should be –other troubled commuter rail agency. In any event the LACMTA's loss is ….umm, well
anyway.
The worrisome idea which seems to be held by the LACMTA hierarchy is: good management can salvage a flawed plan. That is simply not true! However good the new management is, it is saddled with an overabundance of poor plans badly implemented. This Mole is no longer concerned that he will
have nothing to write about :-).
The “Bullet Train” is in
the news again (Vartabedian); and the news is not good! It seems that the CHSRA
forgot the natural order of things. In
the supermarket it is: Select items then checkout. In building “Bullet Trains: (even those which
are based upon technologies of the 1960s) –it's: Purchase the land then implement
your build plan. Now that everything is (kind of) ready CHSRA
wants to buy the land BUT, apparently some owners don't want to sell.
Here is Mr. Vartabedian: “… a wide range of Central Valley
farmers and landowners who complained about lowball state offers and the damage
their operations will suffer for a project they say may never be completed.”
I understand their feelings completely, since several transportation
operators who operate in California, excepting BART, have lots of
trouble with the two concepts: on time and on budget. So what this Mole hears the Central Valley
Farmers saying is “if you won't complete it anyway, please, go somewhere else
and not complete it there.”
Going back a slightly more than a year
the Los Angeles Times (Vartabedian2) described a common source of
real life problems –the interface. It
seems that Metrolink will have a need for Art Leahy's magic in mating the
CHSRA's “bullet train” to Metrolink's older “rolling stock”. Mr. Vartabedian details the problem of having
to transfer between the San Francisco to Los Angeles
—read Merced to Burbank— bullet
train to Metrolink's diesel powered trains in Burbank.
Loopy Solution♪
EURIKA! We can apply the LACMTA's fix for this kind
of design flaw. That's it! We can build a … what? An Uptown Connector!! Problem solved. Like the actual “Downtown Connector” or
“tracks to nowhere”. The “Bullet Train”/MetroLink” can be another “ring
solution”, an attempt to Band aid a bad design.
It might be a solution acceptable to the LACMTA to “fix” other design
and construction flaws by a series of interlocking “rings”. Although this Mole would prefer to call them
“loops”.
Nice work
Mr. Vartabedian! Please read the entire
article and others that are linked in “Works Cited”.
Metro/New York City News informs us (na.) of the continuing dangers of railroad grade level crossings. The piece, an excellent one, which includes all recent grade level crossing accidents, describes the efforts by politicians to upgrade safety at these dangerous convergences.
Grade level crossings are an artifact of our agrarian past. Vehicles were few and railroad terminology, e.g. "cowcatcher", tells a story of our past. In this Mole's mind, "improving grade level crossings" means eliminating them. An efficient construction company can find a cost-effective solution to the problem.
Metro/New York City News informs us (na.) of the continuing dangers of railroad grade level crossings. The piece, an excellent one, which includes all recent grade level crossing accidents, describes the efforts by politicians to upgrade safety at these dangerous convergences.
Grade level crossings are an artifact of our agrarian past. Vehicles were few and railroad terminology, e.g. "cowcatcher", tells a story of our past. In this Mole's mind, "improving grade level crossings" means eliminating them. An efficient construction company can find a cost-effective solution to the problem.
For the most part, excepting the Green Line which has NO grade level crossings the LACMTA build out will add grade level crossings they see fit. Each one of these crossings will be the scene of future accidents.
Here is what the New York State Department of transportation says: "Improving and/or eliminating highway-railroad grade crossings is so critical that for more than 30 years the federal government has provided states with dedicated funding established to improve safety and eliminate hazards of highway-railroad grade crossings. The Department’s Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Section administers this federally-funded program for New York." (Source dot.gov.ny)
And of course, our own LACMTA, rather than eliminating these dangerous crossings, only builds more of them into their Toonerville system.
Please read this excellent Metro article which is linked in "Works Cited", below.
The Times features an article (Nelson3) about
yet another grade-level accident. This
one involving the Expo Line which “left 12 people hurt, one critically.” Your Mole sees accidents like these today and
going forward as a negative legacy, that will keep on taking away, as a
side-effect of Los Angeles’ Toonerville Trolley system where minimum investment
is of overriding concern.
It is reminiscent of Ford’s Pinto philosophy; in the case
of the LACMTA, it is more cost effective to allow the accidents to happen and
pay the victims or their beneficiaries than to design a proper, more costly rail system —one with grade separation.
Ms Nelson covers all the details in her eminently readable
prose, so please read the piece.
Honolulu gets it right
with Rapid Transit rail!♪
One can easily
see from the above photo, that Honolulu really has done it right with their
transit plan. It is elevated RAPID
TRANSIT. It will have a stop at Honolulu
International Airport – likely far, far in advance of when a single seat from
Los Angeles downtown to LAX is available, if one is ever available.
The web site
is beautiful so please read all the details there.
It is in order to salute Hawaii with some Hawaiian music. I like "Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii" and you? Let's listen to a version by Amy Hanaiali' and Willie K. La Taupe, please one more Hawaiian song? OK! Here is one of your Mole's personal favorites, Kaiman Hila (Diamond Head).
And speaking of beautiful web sites, or friends at grooveshark.com have produced a wonderful new interface, intuitive and easy to use. If you like it half as much as I do, you'll like it a lot!
And speaking of beautiful web sites, or friends at grooveshark.com have produced a wonderful new interface, intuitive and easy to use. If you like it half as much as I do, you'll like it a lot!
« Dans une guerre, ce
qui se passe, ce n'est jamais ce qu'on avait prévu. Alors ce qui compte, c'est
d'avoir le moral! »
Général Marcel Bigeard (1916-02-09~2010-06-18)
One of the heroes who fought for France
at Diên Biên Phû
(1953-11-20~1954-05-07) in Viêt Nam.
[In a war, what is
happening is never what we had planned. So what matters is to have the moral!]
Merci Bien à http://evene.lefigaro.fr/
Ars longa vita breva
Gustave Caillebotte
(1848-08-19~1894-02-12) painted at the time Napoleon III and Baron
Haussmann were modernising Paris. Here is his “Paris Street; Rainy Day” and “Fruit Displayed on a Stand”.
See much more of
Caillebotte’s work here. http://alturl.com/8ik5n
Listen here, to an NPR
broadcast which discusses Caillebotte and aspects of the rebuilding of Paris.
¿Musica?
I’m in
the mood for some Parisian Musique. How
about “En Chantant French Music” by Mireille Mathieu. And as an encore, “Mon Amie La Rose”. By Francoise Hardy
Un plus? OK! Here is "Et Un Jour, Une Femme En Duo” by
Pascal Obispo.
Ah,
grooveshark.com, vous êtes magnifique!
You always have the appropriate music for us!
Thank you!!
The Mole rides again, so you don’t
have to take courses in geography and map making before you use a bus schedule.
(All dates are ISO8601 format, times are expressed in the
24 hour system.)
Silver Line Map♪
2015-03-12: As I ride aboard a line 910 bus
to a downtown meeting, I study the map so that I’ll know where to board. LACMTA work products cannot stand much
scrutiny —the map is no exception. Study
the photo above or click it for an enlarged version which should open in a new
browser tab and study it there. N.B. the
arrows and letters at the arrow tails.
The “W” (Wrong) denotes an incorrect positioning of the 7th/Metro
Center stop. The arrow with a “R” at its
tail shows a better (but not perfect) approximation of the location of the subject stop. It pays to plan ahead as I did by reviewing
what is available from the LACMTA and making a determination as to exactly how
useful it is.
Still Broken After All These Years♪
It's the 98% that Give the Rest a Bad name♪
Or Just Lets It Happen♪
La Taupe has taken the LACMTA's braggadocio themed artwork, above, and applied a “keeping it
real” factor to it!
Mosaic
Of Gum Blobs Note
2015-03-24 At Inglewood Transit Center: Su Topo noted the mosaic composed of
thoughtlessly discarded blobs of chewing gum (pictured above). Where the LAXCBC was cleaned by high pressure
hoses, the ITC doesn't get that sort of treatment.
Uncleaned Litter
One would think that ITC is not equipped with trash containers, that
is not the case. It seems that the users
of this bus center prefer to drop any unwanted materials and let gravity take
over from there.
Ear (and Eye) to the Rail
Transit as unseen and unimagined by
the LACMTA
The LACMTA (Subordinate
to LAWA)
Presents
Every Which Way But
Right!
OR
Four Seats to LAX!
OR
The LACMTA Tries
Again; Asymptotically to LAX!
OR
The World’s Most
Inconvenient Way in Which to Travel From City Center to an Airport!
The purpose of this section is to
make people aware that the LACMTA is not home to many problem
solvers. I hope to accomplish this end by presenting the solutions
adopted by other cities, some in foreign countries, in solving the city to
airport rapid mass transportation challenge.
Cautionary Note: Those employed by
the LACMTA or LAWA should NOT view the following video(s). The speed of
the train(s), the fact that they neither share the right of way nor stop at
stop lights, because they are truly rapid transit, will likely make you dizzy,
nauseous, confuse and frighten you.
I believe that the Hawaiian Rapid transportation plan detailed herein (Vide supra "HART") covers the city to airport demonstration of rapid transit for this month.
The combined population of the line's termini is 17,748,000, larger than Los Angeles, but with more geographical challenges, I believe that we here in Southern California are cursed, or something, with can't do organizations that seemingly can't learn either (with the exception of Bart)! In Los Angeles the LACMTA is building the same type of rail that is found in San José, CA.
Please use this link to use the interactive system map for San José, CA and its neighbouring cities.
Again, thank you to our host, www.youtube.com and to DocumentingNews for
uploading the video.
Cosmology
According to an article (NEWS) in the IEEE Spectrum, "... CERN [Centre
European Recherche Nuclear] management
decided to shut down the accelerator for a two-year period, starting in early
2013. This allowed the LHC engineering teams to update and upgrade several
other systems, including the data gathering and storage technology and the
cryogenics, which keep the system’s superconducting magnets at a crisp 1.9 kelvins [1.9 kelvin = -271.25 Celsius]."
The power of the device has almost doubled, from 7 TeV. (TeraElectronVolts) to about 13 Tev. A video about the upgrade can be seen here.
You can view a status report on "the world's largest physics machine" here
Is E.T.
phoning us? Gliese 581’s planets may be calling earth —however unintentionally. The Daily Mail reports (Zolfagharifard) that signals from the star Gliese 581, which were earlier dismissed, may now be a kind of proof of life [Mole's term].
An earlier Daily Mail article (Niall) informs us that in
2008, a signal from the area of star system Gliese 581 was discovered. No further “signals” have been yet
discovered.
The
planet Gliese 581g is the suspected source of the signal. Gliese 581g orbits at the same relative
distance from it's sun, called the Goldilocks zone because it is the area most conducive to
supporting life, as we on earth do.
The
signal is described by the Australian scientist, Dr Ragbir Bhathal, of the
University of Western Sydney as, 'We found this very sharp signal, sort of a
laser lookalike thing which is the sort of thing we’re looking for - a very
sharp spike. And that is what we found. So that was the excitement about the whole
thing.'
What intelligence might be
encoded in such a signal? Below I've shown a terrestrial TV signal as shown on
an oscilloscope. Now a TV signal from our neighbours 22 light years away might
look different. It would be a function
of the frequencies used, the number of raster lines for make up the image and
etc. And of course, our terrestrial TV
signals —the ones which could be intercepted, anyway— travel as electrical
pulses through space. We know that modern
communication signals travel as light pulses through fibre optic cables but
laser beams could also be modulated to carry information.
Video Signal On An Oscilloscope♪
It would not be impossible
that, in a relatively short time
–provided that the signals were from a TV broadcast or audio, we could have one
of the greatest broadcasts imaginable, a 22 year delayed, kind of live, ongoing
stream from fellow inhabitants of our galaxy.
But, of course, we must first find a reliable signal which may be much
more difficult than it appears.
Imagine lots of laser
signals traveling through space.
We must determine which
ones persist for a long duration, which ones are like police communication —short
bursts which are seldom repeated. What
does long duration really mean? Gliese is rotating, we are rotating. It is not as easy as tuning in KCRW (89.9FM)!
You can see the
youtube.com presentation of a video signal on an oscilloscope here.
I performed a brief check of the literature and found this description
of laser communications: “The advantages of optical communication
systems are wider bandwidth, larger capacity, lower power consumption, more compact equipment,
greater security against eavesdropping, and protection against interference
than those with radio frequency (RF) communications
(Hyde,
Edelson, 1997).” [referenced in Toyoshima, M. et al.
Springer].
Endnote:
This posting was/is again mared by the frequent, unexplainable changes in Font when editing, from my preferred style to something ugly -yet may/may not appear here. I have notified the Blogger Staff. ¡Lo Siento!
Fare Box Score Box and related Lists
of Shame
I.D. Numbers of buses with Out of
Order Fare Boxes: xxxx;
Note: No or few entries above do not
necessarily mean all fare boxes are in operation.
I.D.Numbers of Distracted Drivers: xxxxx (i);
None included here, but observations
of a minor nature may be included in the main posting;
Codes: (i) Extended conversation(s)
with passenger(s) or (ii) cell phone call(s). Frequently, details can be found
in the text above, (ii*) cell phone call(s) which are aggravated by some other
action, (iii) Self-distracted. Codes (ii*) and (iii) will ALWAYS be explained
in the posting.
I.D. Numbers of Buses Defaced
by WhoIs stickers: xxxx;
~UR or +UR =
(+UR) whois sticker and the ugly residue left after passengers partly
remove the sticker. (~UR) = Only the ugly residue left after passengers almost
completely remove the sticker. +L = an old (legacy) sticker black letters on a
plain white background –these are the original form of the defacement.
* Another reason for displaying the
operator's ID on the internal display and the headsign.
ID numbers of Buses whose Head
and Tailsigns disagree: Not noted xxxx/xxxx;
Format is Bus number followed
by Headsign number/Tailsign number.
ID numbers of Buses without Braille
signs: xxxx;
METRO drivers Lack of Basic Technical
Skills Report
The format is Driver number
F[{Y/-n/+n}] C[{Y/N+/-}]. Meaning of F if Y the driver stopped with the Bus
stop “flag pole” somewhere between the bus front door frames. A negative
number, e.g., -3 is the approximate distance in metres (think yards dear
readers) between the nearest bus door vertical frame member and the flag pole
signifying that the bus stopped short of the flag. A positive number, e.g., +3
(metres) is the approximate distance between the nearest bus door vertical
frame member and the flag pole signifying that the bus stopped past the flag.
The value for C[{Y/N}], “Y” tells us that the driver stopped within an easy
step from the curb to the bus, “N” means it was NOT an easy step from the curb
to the bus. It is this Mole's belief that an average experienced good driver
should be able to control his bus so as to position in near the curb and with
the flag pole slightly to the front of the bus.
xxxxx F[] C[];
I.D. numbers of drivers who are unable
or unwilling to position their buses parallel to the curb, a
short step from the curb and/or equidistant from the vehicles exits.
XXXXX F[+10] C[Y]; F[+7], C[Y]; xxxxx F[Y],
C[Y]; xxxxxF[Y], C[Y]; N.B. distances are in metres, think yards.
13 metres is this is MORE than a bus
length. nnnnn* = Contract Driver
I.D. numbers of drivers who are
almost guaranteed to give you a Rough and Jerky (R& J) ride: xxxxx;
I.D. numbers of drivers who will give you a potentially life-threatening ride: XXXXX(J)date; XXXX-XX-XX(-);
Codes: S = not wearing seat belts; J
= bad judgment (unsafe driving practices).
La
Taupe's Abréviations
ADADO = Automatic
Destination Announcement (on) Door Opening. This feature is installed on many
buses and operates on extremely few. Another“money down the
toilet” LACMTA investment. La Taupe that this is intended for the
visually impaired because people who can see can read the “head signs”.
ASAS = Automatic
Stop Announcement System the GPS (Global Positioning System) driven mechanism
for generating audio for the upcoming stops. N.B. Because of the low power
(read weak) processors used in the on-board stops may be too close to identify
stops separately. This is known as a granularity problem. Then too, if the
driver operates the bus at speed above the speed limit you will find the system
“back announcing” stops which you have already passed. I find that this will
NOT keep some drivers from complaining “that you didn’t signal (ring) in time.
They don’t understand their relationship to the system and how, by driving
faster than the GPS computer, they can bias it.
BART = Bay Area Rapid
Transit – Please note the use of the word “Rapid” because it is a word we
almost never hear in Los Angeles.
BBB = Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus
CHSRA = California High-Speed
Rail Authority, which is the equivalent, in more ways than one, of
the LACMTA.
CC or CCMBL = Culver City
(Municipal) Bus (Lines)
CCTC = Culver City
Transportation Center this is the place formerly known as FHMTC = the
Fox Hills Mall Transportation Center (Sepulveda& Slauson)
FFE = Full Fare Equivalent
(presently $1.75)
GMBL = Gardena Municipal
Bus lines
ITC = Inglewood Transit Center
LAWA = Los Angeles
World Airports.
LAXCBC = the LAX
City Bus Center.
OCTA = Orange
County Transportation Authority.
OOS = Out Of Service.
Rapid Transit = does not
compete for right of way, that is, it will not run at grade unless it has
EXCLUSIVE DEDICATED USE of the right of way).
R&J = Rough and
Jerky [ride].
T= Torrance Transit.
T1= the normal type of driver/staff.
T2= is the non-stop talker type of
driver/staff, on the phone or to passengers,
T3= the uncommunicative type of
driver/staff, sometimes surly.
WLATC = the West
Los Angeles Transportation Center (Fairfax & Apple)
Su Topo’s Disclaimer and apologia
Your Mole always attempts to write an
easy-on-the-eyes page using text input. Blogger.com however, has other ideas
and will often not stay with a single font type or point size, produces
extraneous spacing and etc. I wish I had time to debug the HTML which they
produce, it is NOT the straight text which I pasted into the form, but I don’t.
Therefore, I apologize on behalf of Blogger.com for the changes which they
make, of which I do not approve. Sometimes, what I see, thankfully you don’t,
is 24 point type –it is giant and other times they swallow my text, although it
still seems to be there. In fairness to them, things seem better, although this
is partly because I do understand which of their “features” do the most damage
to me and consequently do not use them. Communicating these problems to
them, for me, is something like having teeth extracted without the benefit of
anesthetic, actually it is less fun than that. By their design,
there is no simple e-mailing them with "Please look at my say, posting of
2009-06-28, it is weird!” I have been submitting feedback and
experiences slow but positive progress. Until all issues are
resolved, lo siento. [Addendum 2014-07-31]: Things
have been much better lately. There is a more responsive feedback system now.
If things keep this way, I may have to delete this "Disclaimer
and apologia" section in the near future. Almost
immediately after writing the preceding, the system "returned an
error" on a save.
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any vendor, supplier, or other party doing business with any of the entities
about which I have written, which has resulted or could result in personal
benefit to me.
2) A recipient, directly or
indirectly, of any salary payments or loans or gifts of any kind or any free
service or discounts or other fees from or on behalf of any person or
organization engaged in any transaction with any of the entities about which I have
written.
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stated below with a full description of the transactions and of the interest,
whether direct or indirect, which I have (or have had during the past year) in
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There are no exceptions.
Date: 2009-06-24 S/LametroMole
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