EFTA02706186.pdf

From: Lesley Groff <lesleyjee@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3:16 PM To: Epstein Jeffrey Subject: Fwd: Sundials, DNA, whatever Attachments: Sundial ljpg; Untitled attachment 00078.htm; Sundial IILjpg; Untitled attachment 00081.htm; Sundial legendjpg; Untitled attachment 00084.htm; EOT Adjustmentjpg; Untitled attachment 00087.htm; Equation of Time.jpg; Untitled attachment 00090.htm; Analemma calculation.pdf; Untitled attachment 00093.htm; GCB and LSJ from Cocounts.jpg; Untitled attachment 00096.htm; LS1 sundial thru telescope.jpg; Untitled attachment 00099.htm Begin forwarded message: From: "McCarthy, Kevin" =It;Kevin.McCarthy@dovermotion..om> Subject: Sundials, DNA, whatever Date: December 5, 2012 =:25:33 AM EST To: "lesley.jee@gmail.com" <lesley.jee@gmail.com> Lesley: Would you be so =ind as to forward my email to Mr. Epstein? =hanks. Mr. Epstein: Hi! The other month, I was busy =uilding a nice equatorial sundial on the lawn of our villa on St. =ohn. Some photos are attached; I CNC engraved the brass time =trip, which is magnetically preloaded against Teflon glide strips in a =lot in the equatorial arc. To implement the Equation of Time =orrection, you just grab a knob near one end of the time strip, and =tide it until a wire aligns with the date. Little St. James is one of =wenty-some islands visible from our villa on a clear day. I keep = 110 mm refractor and a 320 mm reflector there, and shortly before we =eft, I was startled to spot what is obviously a rather large sundial of =ours (photo through the 110 mm attached). Very cool! Not suite as accurate as an equatorial dial, of course... We have a mutual acquaintance =n George Church. I have been collaborating with George for some =ears now on DNA sequencing; we first commercialized his technology with =he Polonator, and have just completed a radical re- architecting of the =ystem. The new "H" sequencer is still undergoing its initial =hakeout, but we expect it to deliver a 30X whole human genome for well =nder $500, and to sequence nearly 1e12 bases per =ay. I'm curious as to =he boxy building on the summit of LSJ. Might it house a =elescope? I am in the final figuring stages on a 685 mm =llipsoidal Zerodur primary for a telescope back home. My =ackground is in physics (MIT '75), although I blew off grad school to =oin my friends on a farm for seven years. I then ran a private =ech company, selling it in 1999 to a public firm that was promptly "required by the goofy-large conglomerate (Danaher) that I'm still a =art of. EFTA_R1_02099376 EFTA02706186  I keep a trimaran sailing kayak at Coconuts, and would =ove to sail over some time to check out Little St. James, and "rap" =in the 70's sense). Our next scheduled visits are January =2-24, April 6-21, and most of October. Other dates are flexible, =lthough our villa is rented when we aren't there. If you are up =or a get-together sometime, let me know. All the =est, Kevin =cCarthy Chief Technology =fficer Dover 159 Swanson Road Boxborough, =A 01719 603-966-7432 =cell) www.dovermotion.com <http://www.dovermotion.com> www.polonator.org <http://www.polonator.org> Please be advised that =his email may contain confidential information. If you are not the =ntended recipient, please notify us by email by replying to the sender =nd delete this message. The sender disclaims that the content of this =mail constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any =greement; provided that the foregoing does not invalidate the binding =ffect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual =ignature that is included in any =ttachment. 2 EFTA_R1_02099377 EFTA02706187