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Show The Park Record A-14 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 5-8, 2005 MORE DOGS ON M A I N STREET Qpmti's DOIMC IT. Ww ARCM'T YOU? By Tom Clyde MARCH BOOT (AMP • The garage door opener crisis -TRADITIONAL BOOT CAMP -TRADITIONAL PLUS MEALS CLASSES HELD 5 DAYS A WEEK FROM 6-7:30 AM REBECCA ROBERTS - SIGN UP NOW! ^35-6^0-8695 OR 658-5115 'Wow at ±792 {Bonanza {Drive next to Tard City Seafood '$&>& R D E; <RaiCCentraC 435*6553055" Design ning Cfiesa Verde is fforaf design for affoccasions. (Attention to detail andunusuaf ffoforaf concepts are wfiatwe are aCCafaout. 'Delivering (Pxsutti. ttMtr VISIT 800 number for help. The lady in India was quite helpful, all things considered. She had nol personally ever driven a car, nor lived in a house with a garage, going several days at a lime without starting the car, let alone with an automatic garage door opener. Her the reality of living in this climate without a garage contempt for lazy Americans who have to rely on an was undeniable. So having a garage connected to the automatic door opener was thinly veiled. Her help house was a level 6f luxury that was hard to imagine; was largely anecdotal and based on a carefully prebetter than central heal. The electrician wired an out- pared script. "Is the unit plugged in to the wall?" "Is let in the ceiling of the garage for the opener. Well. I the circuit breaker turned on?" Apparently so, since frankly couldn't imagine anything more useless and the door moves when I push the buttons. "Is the batbourgeois than an automatic garage door opener. If I tery in the remote control?" Again, seems to be, couldn't gel out of the car and open and close the since it will open but not close. "Is there a red light on garage door, they might as well carl me off to the old the button on the wall of the house?" Nope. No red folks home. An automatic garage door opener. Get light. real. "Well, you must have a red light on the button for Thai lasted about three days. The driveway was a the door to operate. If there is no red light glowing on sea of mud. Before I had made the first mortgage the button, you need to reverse the connections on all payment, I went to Sears and bought the garage door the wires." The installation instructions specifically opener. Bourgeois or not. part of a quality life is hav- said that il didn't matter which of the two wires from ing a garage door that opens and closes at the push of the limit switch went to which terminal, just one to each. "Well, reverse them anyway," she said firmly. a button. "And throw the dung The automatic of a sacred cow over garage door opener died this week. Well, it If I couldn't get out of the car and your left shoulder didn't die, but . it open and close the garage door, they became extremely ill. I called a couple of ser- might as well cart me off to the old folks troi with your left ring vice people who all said that il was so old, home. An automatic garage door opener I should put it out of Get real... That lasted about three days." il can't hurt." its misery and install a The only available new one. They would M M B M H ^ ^ ^ " ™ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ™ ^^m^tmrn^^^m^^^m^m^ dung was from secular be happy to come out cows, so I jusl uttered and pronounce il dead, but the bill for that service the barnyard epithet a few times, and reversed a couwould be about 25 cents less than the price of a new ple of wires. The red light came on, but the door still would not close ffom the car. Back to the 800 numopener. Convinced that they were right, and being reduced ber. This time a man in India answered. He again to an unspeakable, caveman existence of opening and assured me that the manual was wrong about the closing the door manually, it was an easy sale at the wiring. Although the manual said that it didn't matter local mega hardware store. As some kind of cruel which wire from the limit switch went to which terhoax, they arc advertising bulbs and bedding plants minal, the electrons were very particular about in their circular this week. I got it all installed. whether they traveled through the circuit board from plugged it in. and pushed the button to rejoin civi- left to right, or from right to left. He couldn't say which lead went where, but assured me that if I tried lization. When I pushed the button in the house, the door all of the possible combinations. I would, by random would open. When I backed the car out and pushed luck get it right. There are two limit switches and the the button in the car, nothing happened. Zilch. I safely beam, each with two wires, plus the wires to could hold the button in the house down, and the the button on the wall of the house, for a total of door would close. When the door was closed, I could eight. "Reverse them all," he said. push the button in the car. and the door would open, At one point, I-pushed the button in the car and but the only way to close it was to hold the button in the dishwasher started. When I got to where the door the house. 'Hie instructions had an explanation for worked, without a red light on the button, I declared that! I double checked the wiring, and reworked the victory. I've lived 22 years without a red light on the installation. There was nothing obviously wrong. But button to open the garage door. If I ever get to where I discovered that if I didnt let it get all the way open, I need a red light on the button to open the door, they but rather stopped it manually just before it got to might as well cart me off to the old folks home. the full open position, everything worked fine, other I really don't know what fixed it. But just for I nan I bent the radio antenna on the car because VW good measure, I squirted WD-40 on every moving thinks il is "cute" to put them on the roof instead of part on the door and all four corners of the garage. on the fender like everybody else. The instructions It may not be as good as dung, but it's all I had to said this condition defied the laws of physics and to work with. call the 800 number before planets were knocked out Tom Clyde is a former city attorney and author of of alignment. "More Dogs on Main Street. " He has been a columnist So, holding my head in shame, I resorted to the for The Park Record for 18years. hen I built my house, one of the exciting feaW tures was a garage. I'd been living in Old Town for a few years, and even with the luxury of FOR. KMPAOKXZU GIFTS &. LXVISH HOME LETTERS TO THE EDITOR JJ's legacy lives on... Editor: Thank you for all the love and support shown to our family at the loss of our beloved Jerry. Flowers, gifts and donations were beautiful and unbelievable. Park City is an amazing place. Your generosity has been overwhelming, I'm grateful to live in such a caring community. Jerry spent his entire' life in Park City, witnessed many changes over the years, and left many loving friends behind. Jerry was a good man. What you saw is what you got, he was always willing to help anyone in need. Hopefully, when you think of him, you'll remember his great smile and that contagious laugh he had. At 44, with three young children, his life was cut too short, and as difficult as it is to believe he's gone, his legacy lives on in his children. Jerry was very proud of his kids and worked tirelessly to provide the Park City lifestyle. We love him very much and will forever -he'll be greatly missed by all. Again, thank you and God bless. w J .. ,IJL . w. Row: Iinda McBeynolds, Paul Schenk, Ruth Drapkm Bottom Row. Dennis Hanlon, Maire HosoL Karin Gage An All-Broker Office of Recognized Leaders in Park City and Deer Valley Real Estate. As an independent, high-volume boutique brokerage, we offer objective advice on all properties in Park City and Deer Valley. Please stop by our office in the heart of Upper Deer Valley at Silver Lake Plaza. Or call us at 435 615-7110 TJv Dornbush R E A L r aeei alle ^ i( y <llwd p ftrkcit y com Silver Lake Plaza 2 37° E sTT-,A T E- Park City, Utah 84060 governed should participate. Sincerely, Diane Murphy Park City Voting machines Editor: I am the founder of Utah Count Votes, and President of US Count Votes. I met with Lt. Governor Gary Herbert in January regarding Utah's purchase of new voting equipment. The new election director, Michael Cragun, was unable to attend. I later called the elections office to request a meeting with the Michael Cragun, and was told that the elections director is too busy selecting Utah's new voting equipment to speak with me. Also denied was my request to know who. if any, voting syslems experts are being consulted. Utah, it seems, is again considering the purchase of flawed DRE-style voting machines that Utah's computer scientists and voting system experts have recommended against. DREs record ballots electronically and do not provide any practical audit system. A recent Salt Lake Tribune Sincerely, article that paper ballots Sheri Johnson and children, would claimed "add considerably to the Madeleine, Calvin cost" of Utah's new voting and Rebecca machines. This is only true if Utah plans to purchase DREs, because op-scan voting machines that provide hand-recountable paper ballots cost less than DRE voting machines without paper. DRE voting machines were Editor: I'd like to lhank the residents used in Nevada where exit polls of Henefef who participated in showed Kerry had won the the Summit County Form of Presidential race, but the vote Governance public input session count gave the election to Bush. When the Green party tried on March 1. The discussion was lively, unsuccessfully to obtain a interesting and very helpful to recount in Nevada, it was revealed that the thermal-paperour committee members. For those Summit County resi- rolls-under-glass audit trail could dents who missed the March 1 only be recounted by hiring outmeeting in Henefer. and (he side experts from the voting vendor, at huge March 3rd meeting in Coalville, machine expense. Utah passed HB 211, additional public input sessions will be held, starting at 6:30 p.m, the "election integrity" amendon: March 10 at ment, which permits the most flawed DRE voting systems. Kamas City Hall; March 15 at the Santy Utahns of all political parties Auditorium, Park City; want honest elections, not easily ffercti! 17 al the Richins rigged vote-counting machines that have no independent audit Building; Snydervile Basin: March 24 at ihe Wanship Fire system. All the statistical and Station; and March 31 at Oakley anecdotal evidence shows that America's elections are being City Hall. Summit County residents suspiciously corrupted down to at interested in how our county is least the U.S. Congressional level Thank, Henefer residents so far. (See http://uscount votes.org). Would you put your money in a bank if the bank never audited its accounts? Would you put your money in a bank if you had to deposit it anonymously so that there was no way of telling whose money was yours and which money belonged to someone else, and with no way to verify or audit? When Utah selects voting machines, il should consult with computer scientists who are voting systems experts who have no conflict of interest. For all we know, Utah is consulting with the 'same experts who authored Utah's HB 211, which does nothing to ensure Utah's election integrity, or with the same expert who installed uncertified software on Georgia's voting machines during Georgia's suspicious November 2002 elections in which the popular Senator Max Cleland, triple-amputee war hero, lost his seat by well more than the margin of error of the exit polls. Any paper ballot must retain the mark of the voter for at least a year and be of sufficient durability to be optically scanned at least four times, or be on archival paper, rather than allow thermal paper-rolls-under-glass that can only be recounted by the same vendor who secretly programs the voting machines. We would never be so foolish as to select the operating system for a jet by having the pilot talk with vendors. We would hire an aerospace engineer who specialized in the type of jet in question if we want the jet to stay airborne. However, we continue to select voting equipment by having election officials talk with voting machine vendors rather than by hiring voting systems experts without any conflict of interest. The majority of today's voting equipment is designed so that most malicious programming or other errors are undetectable, despite the fact that it is simple to design voting systems which would catch these problems: http://utahcountvotes .org/Best_Practices_UCV.pdf. . Please contact Utah's Election office elections@utah.gov or (801) 538-1041. Kathy Dopp Park City More letters on A-15 |