Ken Adelman, the retired gazillionaire who has gained new fame as a photographer of the California coastline, lives a couple of parcels from me, perhaps half a kilometer. For a while now, I'd wondered who owned the heliport that had helicopters departing and arriving a few times a week (that I knew of...could have been more). I couldn't actually see the heliport, due to some ridges and some trees, but I could see the choppers banking over my hilltop and disappearing behind a ridge. Well, today I did some Googling on Ken Adelman, who I already knew was a Corralitos resident. I had no idea where in my little community he lived, only that he had California's largest private solar cell array (and had gotten into yet another controversy, with PG&E, our power monopoly, when he proposed to connect his array to the grid and be paid for the power he _added_ to the grid, as per official law and PG&E policy...it seems PG&E really doesn't _want_ the sheeple generating power, though they tolerate tiny, hobbyist generators...but Adelman['s array was an actual competitor, and would cost them money, so they tried to nix it...another story). In reading about the controversy over Streisand's property, I saw that Adelman is using his own helicopter. A bell went off in my head and I Googled to find his home address. His address in the phone book is unlisted, but he gave his home address in one or more of his ventures, and so up it popped in a Google search on his name: 1365 Meadowridge Rd., the road just before mine (Allan Lane) off of Brown's Valley Road. My address is 427 Allan Lane. Entering these into Yahoo or Mapquest shows how close our properties are. Here's one such street map: <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/ map.adp?zoom=8&mapdata=xU4YXdELrnBvmOFq2kcGOEQi7CbOldSJXG%2fHyl1%2fRq6Pe 4iyA3NaeyFOzwHt%2f59dLuXHRyy%2bIQSsOdYkttX8p5XZaw8IQC2MsQha1yRfzwQEdkcrT BRm4kENrZ2%2fgc6RCtIF5Yq1kQSRiLgSE%2bPL3SI8WloPMbT25qbIYzAmfr76TkHJ2RAZe 809GEwt7Utfq95yhGw%2f8r6J3b%2bdl5aPdiUdFaOV62t2BuHrlX7W%2b2EFfsGA%2be0r8 px2WBRa4HFSUfzgxZyva%2bgXBlqmO2q%2fUeDYZgUuJCBKcXpXJ2LYIj3OCGwHpqJO0Q%3d %3d> His property is about where the first "d" in Meadowridge Rd. appears. My property is at the end of Allan Lane. Obviously, then, it is his helicopter I've been seeing flying over to about that spot. (Tiny chance it's someone else's...) BTW, I don't think this Ken Adelman, who is now 39-40, is the same Ken Adelman who advised Reagan in the 1980s on arms control--the D.C.-based Adelman was graying and balding at least 15 years ago, so I doubt they're the same person. But I haven't done enough Googling, nor have I found images of the Corralitos version, to be sure. More research is needed. --Tim May "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams