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While Congress ponders how best to deal with the growing number of sexual assaults within the military, one group thinks the solution starts with getting rid of porn.
Morality in Media, a faith-based group, argues that porn on military bases contributes to a hostile environment toward women, and it is pushing the Department of Defense to remove all promiscuous materials on its premises.
Organization president and former DOJ employee Patrick Trueman says that removing pornography from bases will send a message that the military does not stand for the sexual degradation of women. "Having this material available and actually sold, and therefore sanctioned by the military, sends a signal to the women in the military that the sexually exploitive nature in the military is acceptable," he says.
In one sense, though, Trueman's group is fighting a battle already won.
The Military Honor and Decency Act, passed in 1996 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1998, already requires the DOD to remove all sexually explicit materials, porn included, from being sold and rented at exchanges, on ships, and at commissaries. But the law isn't always implemented—and a wide variety of glossy porn magazines is still available for sale on bases.
Earlier this month, Morality in Media wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, asking for better enforcement. According to the group, he has yet to respond.
To prove their point about lackluster enforcement, Morality in Media at the same time published photos taken at bases blatantly displaying publications like Playboy andPenthouse for sale. One of the photos was taken at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas, the site of a scandal where 43 females reported being sexually assaulted by their training commanders in instances dating back to 2009. Overall, according to a Pentagon report released earlier this month, there were 26,000 instances of sexual assault in the military in 2012, an increase from the year before.
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Demi Lovato surprised kids at Levine Children's Hospital in North Carolina during a recent stop on her Neon Lights tour.
The singer, whose visit was organized by the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, posed for photos with the kids and talked to them about her own struggles.
Lovato also gave the young patients advice on how to cope when they're having a particularly bad day.
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Jeremiah Heaton claimed a 800 square mile mountainous region between Sudan and Egypt, so his daughter could live out her dream of becoming a princess.
Heaton named the land the Kingdom of North Sudan, and his daughter is now known as Princess Emily, according to an article published Sunday by the Daily News.
The region he claimed is known as Bir Tawil and is claimed by neither Sudan nor Egypt. Heaton told the Times Dispatch Friday he plans to "pursue formal recognition with African nations."
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Attractive wallet, but very flawed.
By Jim
from Providence, RI
This is a very stylish and slim wallet that easily holds numerous cards without much bulk. However, it seems to be very poorly made. Within one month of everyday use, lots of dark marks began to show on the surfaces, and the seams began to loosen and fray. Because it looked so beaten up after so little use, I returned it. HS is excellent with returns/refunds/exchanges, so I didn't have any problems doing this.Get the stingray wallet instead-- much more durable and great-looking, too.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Too Stiff and Slippery
By Stueeybueey
from Virginia Beach, VA
Wallet disappointed because too stiff, too slippery and too bulky with 5 credit cards, a plastic driver's license, a plastic AAA card and a dozen bills of various denominations.
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(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
Not as durable as leather
By Dave
from Chicago, IL
This looked really sharp when I originally got it, but after a year the steel cover has broken on both sides, exposing a black plastic stiffener. I have had leather wallets last much longer.
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By Doug the Guy who Bought 2 Wallets
from Clearwater, FL
Each time I fly, I look through the sky mall mag and see the wallet. Finally broke down and bought two. One for me and one for my dad.When they arrived it was a let down from the start. I did not like the feel of the wallet, it feels greasy just from the material itself.When I emptied out my old wallet, I found that less than half the stuff in there fits in the new one, and when loaded it will not lie flat. Wallet Pops open at a 45 degree angle. This could have been fixed with a longer wallet length to allow for a better fold.The storage in this wallet is very limited.As I always do I put my car keys in the same pocket with my wallet. You cant do that with this wallet, because I scratched/scuffed the inside of the wallet within the first 24 hours.The marketing people did a great job of presenting this wallet in the magazines. However I regret the purchase. My old leather wallet costs about $15 and I had it for years. It looked good and was functional.If you choose to order this product keep in mind that this is not a traditonal wallet. I dont know of any "real" guys who change their wallets out depending on their lifestyle. I wish I stuck with my Leather wallet and purchased a fancy money clip.
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Good Idea - Mediocre Execution
By Dick
from Portland, Oregon
This wallet is a great idea that doesn't perform as constructed. It is bulky when loaded with the claimed capacity of cards and currency. The divided currency pocket is a bad idea. The fold is not flexible enough to give a smooth corner when folded. Your testing procedure was flawed for this product.
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(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Not-quite-ready-for-prime-time design.
By A Wallet Walloper
from Cincinnati, Ohio
I like the stainless steel, cool material. The execution in the design of the wallet is where it falls flat. The card slots are topped with a strip of the stainless-steel material, stitched in place with thin leather. The leather is folded over and stitched to the bottom of the stainless strips, which presents a thin lip that catches the edge of any card as you try to slip it into the card slot. Thus, you have to fight the card into the slot a bit, which is an unnecessary inconvenience, nuisance, and slightly frustrating waste-of-time, in part due to the extra effort needed.The wallet is also not optimized for slimness and minimizing bulk, despite using a thin nylon for the lower-section of the card-slot dividers, and the bill divider. The nylon also makes the bill divider feel cheap, I could live without it just fine, although I know many prefer double billfolds.Another review points out the stiff plastic inserts sewn into the bill compartment - these add unnecessary thickness and bulk, I think the wallet would probably be just fine without them.The wallet could stand to be taller, with an additional card slot on each side, which can reduce thickness when loaded with cards. As it is, any cards you don't fit into the slots will have to be stacked in the slots behind the primary card slots (which have the same leather-lip hangup issue), making the wallet a thick one to be keeping in a rear pants pocket and sitting on.The completely unanticipated issue that makes me conclude I can't make it my everyday wallet is the silky-ness or slippery smoothness of the finely woven stainless steel material; this wallet is very slippery in my back jeans pocket. I would stand too high a chance of just having it slip out of my back pocket, losing it, and having no awareness it's gone until too late.So, for a rear-pocket wallet, it leaves much to be desired. Perhaps a better idea would be something like Hammacher's Kangaroo wallet with the stainless steel sewn in the outer billold to work as a smartcard-scanning shield.For me, this wallet is too small for daily use, and even though I really like the material, too slick. It's size makes it usable as a suit-jacket pocket wallet, or front-pocket wallet, at times when I might tote along less cards, etc. than I normally need.
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(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
'The Wow Factor
By Johnny A
from New Jersey
Class A Wallet.Superb Leather Interior.Totaly Awesome Stainless Steel Exterior.Feels Good Looks Good and Mostly , Has the "WOW" Factor.A True Conversation Piece Indeed!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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good solid wallet
By Jim Engineer
from Norfolk, VA
The wallet is stylish in an art-deco kind of way. The feel of the material is silky, but it is also durable. I haven't seen any stretch, which is a bit of a problem. The pockets are tight, so they wil always be tight. all told, it is a good everyday wallet.
great product
By carol
from Houston, TX
My hub is very hard on wallets and usually they only last a few months. He had his last one for 2 years and I just now replaced it. Great product for those very hard on wallets.
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
The best wallet
By Liz
from Las Vegas Nevada
I purchased this wallet for my husband on his special 50th birthday-This was the 3rd wallet I purchased for him but the other 2 were made out of fine leather-all stretched out lost its shape in no time. So I decided to turn to the best of the best -and I feel I got the best! He love it and so do I, hoping this will be the last wallet he will ever need! You did it again Hammacher Schlemmer! Thank you for another fine product!
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Petco sued after boy dies from rat-bite fever
(NEWSER) – A California family whose 10-year-old son died of rat-bite fever just two weeks after he brought home a male companion for his female pet rat is taking Petco to court for alleged negligence. Aidan Pankey died hours after being rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains last summer, but the family waited for lab results to confirm that the rat was infected before filing the lawsuit, their lawyer tells the AP. The lawsuit accuses the national pet store chain of failing to have adequate procedures in place to prevent this kind of tragedy. Petco says it is "in the process of investigating these claims and will respond appropriately when we have more information."
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'Weeds' Come to Life? NY Mom Arrested in Massive Pot Bust
To people who didn't know her well, Andrea Sanderlin was a fairly typical mom. She doted on her two young daughters and bragged about their endeavors to anyone who'd listen. She was to be the maid of honor in a wedding next month. She goes to dinner parties and family functions. She designs baby furniture.
That's what she tells people, anyway.
"She's a great mom," one friend told The Daily Beast. "Because she's all about being a mom."
But the few people Sanderlin allowed inside a tight "inner circle" knew the 45-year-old Scarsdale, N.Y., woman kept a loosely guarded secret that funded a lavish lifestyle: a secret straight out of the Showtime series Weeds.
Sanderlin was running a massive marijuana growing operation out of Queens, federal authorities allege in a criminal complaint released Tuesday. Agents seized 2,800 marijuana plants and large quantities of dried marijuana from the sprawling, two-room warehouse where she allegedly tended to her plants on an industrial block in Maspeth, Queens, according to documents obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Sanderlin's arrest came as a shock to some. To others, not so much.
"I knew she was growing weed. It was just kind of known," said one friend, who spoke on the condition that she not be named. "I had no idea how extensive it was."
What Sanderlin didn't hide were the apparent spoils of the operation: a leased four bedroom, five-bathroom, 5,500-square-foot Spanish-style mansion on a tranquil street in one of New York City's wealthiest suburbs. A Mercedes GL4 sport-utility vehicle. The "biggest diamond ring I've ever seen in person, on a human person, outside of a museum," according to the friend—an engagement ring given to her by her boyfriend, Vince "Rome" Garcia. The Friesian horse and newfound equestrian hobby she cultivated at Twin Lakes Farm in Bronxville, where private lessons go for $95 an hour.
"She was into plastic surgery," the friend said. "She got a Brazilian butt lift that she actually went to Brazil for."
While she didn't hide her wealth, Sanderlin kept her alleged pot business under wraps, at least until an anonymous informant tipped off the New York branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency after the arrest of five men in a separate incident in April. In order to save himself, one of the five arrested growers ratted out Sanderlin, whom he referred to as "Andi."
Federal agents responding to the tip eventually found Sanderlin's posh house and her three vehicles—a white Chevy van and black Jeep Liberty, along with the Mercedes. Then they found a clue: Sanderlin was paying $9,000 a month in electricity fees to Con Edison. In cash.
"I know that large cash payments are consistent with narcotics activity," the indictment read.
Agents tracked Sanderlin for more than a week as she went about her daily routine, driving the gray Mercedes from 193 Saxon Woods Road in Scarsdale across the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and parking in the driveway of 58-15 57th Drive in Queens, the site of the warehouse registered as a New York City corporation called Fantastic Enterprises. On May 20, the agents stopped Sanderlin, identified themselves, and searched the warehouse.
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Robin Thicke to direct & star in short film
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Robin Thicke is taking on a new acting gig.
According to "The "Hollywood Reporter," the "Blurred Lines" singer is getting behind the camera again for an upcoming short film called Mercy, which he also wrote and directed.
Thicke is starring opposite his wife Paula Patton. He plays a family-man and limo driver dealing with the drug and alcohol addictions of his troubled wife.
Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg plays their daughter, a talented musician.
Mercy, which is based on true events, was shot in Los Angeles earlier this year. Thicke's experience in the world of film and television includes the ABC singing show "Duets" and BET's "Real Husbands of Hollywood." He's also set to star in an upcoming indie flick called Abby in the Summer opposite Jaime Pressly.
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Right in time for Spring is Jennifer Lopez on the cover of "In Style's" April issue.
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(Yahoo!) - Okay, so everyone knows that Taylor Swift has no problem calling out ex-boyfriends in her songs. The superstar made one of her most pointed barbs in history Sunday night at the 55th annual Grammy Awards, however, when she took what appeared to be an unmistakable shot at One Direction's Harry Styles during her opening number.
Swift used the spoken bridge of her hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," to seemingly slam her recent ex Styles, abruptly switching into an exaggerated English accent (Styles is British). "So he calls me up and he's like 'Ah still louve you,'" she drawled. "And I'm like 'I'm sorry, I'm busy opening up the Grammys…and we are never getting back together!'"
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This isn't the first time Swift's taken the liberty of, well, for all intents and purposes barbecuing a boy in front of an audience of millions. Styles at least was spared the embarrassment of being called out by name: In 2009, Swift famously referenced ex Joe Jonas out during an appearance on Saturday Night Live: "Hey Joe. I'm doing real well. I'm hosting SNL."
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Arcadia, CA, Oct. 25 -- HRTV (R), The Network for Horse Sports, today announced the full scope of exclusive online Breeders' Cup content as network HRTV.com debuts its new digital HD studio, beginning Saturday, Oct. 27.
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The wide-ranging enhancements offer compelling, exclusive content, designed to inform both experienced racing fans, and casual ones, with up-to-date Breeders' Cup developments. It will also include live HD coverage of workouts from key Breeders' Cup entrants, a staple of informative information for serious racing fans, as well as daily updates from HRTV's Carolyn Conley. Conley's reports will detail a wide-range of Breeders' Cup-related activities.
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Welcome to the Age of Unlimited Government!
It's a telling coincidence that the latest scandalous revelation about the National Security Agency (NSA) is hitting the front pages just as the enrollment period specified by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) is getting started.
Each of these things underscores different but related aspects of the virtually unlimited state that has ruined the peaceful slumber of libertarian-minded Americans for decades. Whether we're talking about surveilling citizens without any sort of serious legal oversight or forcing them to participate in economic activity in the name of healthcare über alles, the answer always seems to favor the growth and power of the state to control more and more aspects of our lives. Is it any wonder that a record-high percentage of Americans think the federal government is too powerful?
In an explosive story, The New York Times detailed the ways in which the NSA, which was originally supposed to spy on communications among foreign agents and provide intelligence on threats posed by non-citizen actors and governments, is increasingly focused on domestic activities. Since 2010, according to an NSA memo obtained by the Times, "The agency was authorized [by officials in the Obama administration] to conduct 'large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness' of every e-mail address, phone number or other identifier."
Through a process known as "contact chaining," the NSA is able to suck up all sorts of email addresses, phone numbers, social media network information, and more without regard to the physical location or citizenship of each data point. The agency, reports the Times, then "enriches" that metadata "with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information," and more. The result, as George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr puts it, is "the digital equivalent of tailing a suspect."
The only restriction on the practice appears to be that the NSA must make a claim that their data-gathering serves a foreign-policy justification. Which is never a problem for the agency since, as a spokesperson told the Times, "All of NSA's work has a foreign intelligence purpose." While it's clear that the contact chaining results in vast webs of information that rope in Americans completely uninvolved in terrorism, the NSA refuses to divulge any relevant numbers or incidents.
The NSA originally sought such unrestricted use of metadata and other information involving Americans back in 1999 but was rebuffed due to concerns that it was not legal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which governs the agency. Legal opinions within presidential administrations—and after the 9/11 attacks—change, though, and there's some indirect evidence that the NSA may have engaged in contact chaining during the Bush years. Despite his stated interest in protecting civil liberties, Barack Obama has disappointed even his staunchest defenders when it comes to constitutional limits on executive power and the surveillance state. Indeed, he has upped the ante from the Bush administration by claiming not simply the right to hold U.S. citizens indefinitely without charging them but the right to unilaterally kill them.
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Syria Reportedly Wants To Join Weapons Ban Treaty
Syria is reportedly ready to come clean on its chemical weapons stash. CNN reports the nation is ready to stop production and disclose supply locations. The nation will also show facilities to United Nations inspectors. Syria accepted terms today of a Russian proposal to place the weapons in the hands of the international community. There are also reports the country wants to join the chemical weapons ban treaty.
President Obama is due to address the nation tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern. He's been pushing Congress for approval on military strikes after a suspected chemical weapons attack last month on Syrian people that killed hundreds.


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What History Will Say About Obamacare and the Government Shutdown
We sometimes don't notice history as it's unfolding right before us, so let's stop and take note of what a historically momentous day Tuesday was. Twenty, 50 years from now, when historians or college professors are trying to describe to their readers and students what the difference was between the two political parties in our time, they will direct them to October 1, 2013. That one day says it all.
The Democratic Party was opening up its historic program to bring health care to all citizens, and the Republican Party was closing down the federal government, a fanatical minority manipulating the rules of our democracy and holding a gun to the country's head, all because it wants to deny all citizens health care and is furious that it failed three times in that effort.
Tuesday perfectly expressed what these two parties have come to be about. The Democrats have many flaws, and money has corrupted them at certain times on certain issues almost as much as it has corrupted Republicans. And yes, sometimes some Democrats behave divisively, too. But at least they have had good moments, even great ones. The passage of Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid. Civil rights (and please, you cynical Everett Dirksen-invokers, give it a rest and go away; you would have long since drummed Dirksen out of your party today). Women's rights. And most recently gay rights, including same-sex marriage; history will recall Barack Obama with admiration as the first sitting president willing to voice his support for that.
This is where you might expect me to say the evil Republicans were implacably opposed to every one of these great advances at every turn. But that isn't the case. In 1935, majorities of Republicans backed Social Security—not by anywhere near the percentages Democrats did, but they supported it. Thirty years later, about half of Republicans in both houses of Congress backed Medicare and Medicaid. And yes, Dirksen and other Republicans were important allies for Lyndon Johnson on civil rights against the racist and reactionary Southern wing of his own party.
The GOP was wagging the tail of the dog of history in those days—while it wasn't leading the fights, a respectable number of Republicans signed onto them. Still, wagging a tail is a far sight better than cutting one off with a rusty serrated knife. And that's all the party of resentment does these days.
Universal health care has been discussed in the United States for a century. It never succeeded before because of the powerful business and vested interests that opposed it. In Harry Truman's day, the American Medical Association assessed its members an extra $25 in dues to fight Truman's universal health care plan, and the AMA won.
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Shutdown at Ground Level: A Soldier's Eye View
President Obama signed a last minute bill on Monday night, approved by the House and Senate, to ensure that even during a government shutdown members of the military would still be paid. But that bill came too late to stave off the hurried preparations that occurred on every military base in America yesterday as everyone from top leaders to junior soldiers got ready for the impact. Nor did the bill make clear exactly how many DoD civilians and contractors with jobs related to the military would be protected. According to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, pay will continue for civilians with jobs that "are providing support to members of the Armed Forces." But support is a broad term and may not cover many of the ancillary functions that are essential to day-to-day activities and quality of life within the military but are not deemed essential for conducting critical operations.
With all the uncertainty, here's a bit of perspective on how the shutdown looked to members of the armed services and the civilians whose livelihood is tied to the military.
There are three things people in the military did yesterday in anticipation of government the shutdown.
Budgeters bought enough supplies—from printer cartridges to bullets—in a hasty end-of-year spending spree so the "essentials" could do their jobs today as the government shut down. But we do that every year.
Leaders were in never-ending meetings about how to still accomplish their missions even with minimal manning and no guarantee of filling equipment shortfalls.
Everybody else held their post, worrying if their paychecks would come on time after the government shuts down. Uniformed troops know they will get paid, but will the systems and people be in place to pay them on time? Many reservists prepping their uniforms yesterday expecting to be on orders today were told last night not to show up.
All three distractions could have been averted had Congress passed a budget. Rest assured though, if called, aircraft would launch, the carrier group would sail and brigades would deploy. Despite the political crisis, the Defense Department will not hurt America's national security by compromising readiness. What may be compromised are the multitude of supporting tasks that sustain the military's ability to conduct its core mission. Many of those jobs, ranging from administration to maintenance, are performed by DoD civilians and contractors who may not be protected by the president's 11th hour bill continuing soldier's pay.
An exclamation point on this claim was the Pentagon comptroller's statement to reporters this week about a potential strike against Syria. "If … the president were to authorize some action against Syria," Robert Hale said, "it would be a military operation approved by the secretary, and so it would be an excepted activity and, yes, we could go forward with it."
Given that the critical missions will go on, it may seem that the shutdown doesn't mean much for the military. Nothing is further from the truth.
The first-order consequences of this uncertain budget drill have been rehearsed for years. Even when Congress has passed a continuing resolution, everybody in the Pentagon down to the remote Tooele Army Depot in Utah has stocked up on enough office supplies to sustain operations. It's akin to squirrels hoarding nuts for the winter.
Besides ensuring there's enough paper to at least print out operations orders, concerns regarding the shutdown's potential effects on readiness loom. But to a wrench-turner on a flight line, or grunt in the field, it mostly translates to a slower tempo and anxiety about essential services not related to their paychecks. Mid-level leaders will creatively mitigate effects on their own units but will have to waste energy addressing the most menial tasks, like: will the trash be picked up tomorrow?
The brass drew a fat, red line on their priorities immediately dropping non-essentials from the to-do list—because there's nobody to do the work. Anything that could be delayed is now delayed. Contracts not signed yesterday likely won't be today—so that leaky roof on the chow hall is going to leak for a few more months.
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A few words with Dave Wassel who we roused from his sleep at 5am Fiji time upon seeing these photos…
TWS: How's it going Dave?
Dave Wassel: Epic. It's five in the morning, what's happening?
We just got the photos from yesterday and we're baffled.
Yep, yep. Wait 'til you see today.
Is it bigger today?
It's supposed to be five feet bigger today.
Wow! Was yesterday the biggest you've seen it down there?
It wasn't the biggest I've seen it, but definitely the cleanest for how big it was.
What was the ratio between guys towing and guys paddling in?
98% paddling. Guys towed in the morning when it was kinda funky and high tide, but after that everyone started paddling in.
Are you staying on Tavarua or on the main island (Viti Levu)?
I'm on the main island with Bruce [Irons], Nathan [Fletcher], Reef [McIntosh] and Alex Gray. The only guys staying on Tavarua are Kelly, Healey, and Ian Walsh.
How was that wave of Kohl's?
Absolutely huge air drop into a death pit…Kohl came to party.
What's up with that round nose quad he was riding?
Put it this way, I asked Nathan about it and he said he wouldn't ride it if it didn't work.
Looks like it paddles pretty well. Who were the other standouts?
The standouts were Kohl, Nathan, Bruce, Alex Gray, and obviously Healey.
You got a few yourself, right?
I managed to get a few. We'll see what happens today…
All right! Let's not rack up your phone bill too bad, get back out there!
Sounds good.
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1,200 Games Later, America Has New Marbles Champs
(NEWSER) – Yesterday saw the completion of the 90th National Marbles Tournament, and America has crowned two new winners. Emily Cavacini, 11, who hails from outside Pittsburgh, took home the title of girls' champion, while Cooper Fisher, 12, from Middletown Valley, Maryland, beat out the other boys, reports the AP. It was a more involved process than you might imagine: Each competed against 25 others in a tournament in Wildwood, NJ, that lasted four days. The Post-Gazette reports that more than 1,200 (yes, twelve-hundred) games were played, in which the kids were tasked with knocking seven marbles out of a circle using a shooter marble.


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New Benghazi investigation spooks GOP leaders
Last Wednesday, as the House was preparing for its new investigation into the Benghazi attacks, House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers gathered Republican members of his committee for a meeting. While the main purpose of the meeting was to discuss surveillance reforms the committee was about to pass, Rogers also warned his colleagues about the upcoming select committee to investigate Benghazi.
"He was saying this could be a rabbit hole," one House member told The Daily Beast. "He was warning us that we should not let this investigation get into conspiracy theories."
Contrary to the caricature of Republicans, as singularly obsessed for political reasons with Benghazi, the reality is quite different. There is deep unease within the Republican leadership that the select committee, which has yet to announce a schedule of hearings, could backfire, and badly. Investigate and find nothing new, and the committee looks like a bunch of tin-hatted obsessives. Investigate and uncover previously-hidden secrets, and it makes all of the other Republican led panels that dug into Benghazi seem like Keystone Kops.
Three Republican sources tell The Daily Beast that the chairmen of the House Intelligence, Armed Services, and Government Reform committees—Reps. Rogers, Buck McKeon, and Darrell Issa, respectively—all opposed the formation of a select committee on Benghazi. All three men have led their own investigations into the matter.
House Speaker John Boehner himself resisted calls to form the committee for nearly a year and a half. Rep. Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia, proposed a special select committee on Benghazi first in November 2012. Since then he worked to get a majority of Republicans to sign onto his plan.
But it was not until Judicial Watch in April uncovered a set of White House emails on Benghazi—emails that were not shared with Congress—that Boehner agreed to Wolf's idea.
Boehner's calculation was, in part, political, according to one House Republican aide. The Speaker was looking to mollify the Tea Party faction of his caucus who were upset with him about a range of issues, including the federal budget and immigration reform.
"There is a whole combination of factors here," this aide said. "You have the email. But remember Boehner has also gotten a lot of resistance from House Republicans on immigration. He wanted to turn the page on this." This aide said that Boehner's view was that, "OK, I am giving you guys this committee, now it's on you to make this work."
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Private Prisons Rule With Little Oversight on America's Border
TUCSON — The smell in the courtroom is overpowering.
About 40 men and two women fill seven rows of benches in the special proceedings courtroom at the U.S. District Court in Tucson—fewer than the maximum of 70 who shuffle through here every weekday at 1:30 pm. Their ankles are shackled, the handcuffs on their wrists attached to chains around their waists. They look exhausted, confused, and ashamed. They range in age from 18 upwards, but the majority look no older than 25. Most of them are Mexican, more than a handful are Honduran and Guatemalan, and all of them were caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Some of the men and women have spent the past two or three days in detention without showering or changing their clothes. Others were picked up by Border Patrol in the desert this morning, their skin and clothing still caked in dirt and sweat.
Before entering the courtroom today, these men and women were given about 20 minutes, an hour at most, with a court-appointed attorney. The lawyers are contracted and paid upwards of $100 an hour to explain the charges against the detainees and, in almost every case, encourage them to plead guilty.
Everyone in the room today is being charged with two crimes: the petty crime of illegal entry and the felony of re-entry after removal. In other words, they've all been deported at least once before and they were all caught trying to cross again. Some look at their feet, or gaze around the courtroom, others stare blankly at Judge Bruce McDonald as he explains the penalties they face: a maximum of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine, a criminal conviction, and deportation. A translator echoes the judge's words into Spanish through plastic headsets that hang below their chins like broken stethoscopes. When McDonald asks if everyone can understand him, one man raises his hand and explains that he speaks an indigenous language and doesn't understand Spanish very well. The judge tells him to sit tight and wait for his case to be individually handled at the end of the proceeding. Then he moves on.
McDonald calls the defendants to stand before him in groups of five at a time. Their court-appointed defense attorneys stand a step behind them, sometimes with a hand on their backs. As each group of five gets up, the remaining defendants scoot to the end of the bench, waiting their turn. McDonald goes down the line asking each defendant the same questions and receiving the same answers:
"Do you understand the charges against you?"
'Are you pleading guilty voluntarily?"
"Are you a citizen of Mexico (or Guatemala or Honduras)?"
"Did you enter the U.S. through a designated port of entry?"
"How do you plead?"
"Culpable." Guilty.
Judge McDonald doles out sentences, ranging from 20 to 180 days in prison, and one by one and the defendants are escorted out of the courtroom by U.S. Marshals, only to be replaced by the next five. After less than two hours, all of the day's defendants have been sentenced and escorted out of the courtroom by U.S. Marshals except one: the man who could not understand Spanish or English at the beginning of the hearing. Judge McDonald asks the U.S. prosecutor, Chris Lewis, if he wants to reschedule another court appearance for this man and try to find a translator who speaks his native language. Without much of a pause, Lewis chooses to drop the charges against this man. McDonald attempts to impart on him the severity of the consequences he will face should he find himself back in this courtroom.
"Do not try to cross illegally again," he says.
This is a scene that takes place every weekday in federal courtrooms in every state along the U.S.-Mexico border except California. Criminal convictions for illegally crossing the border are issued in bulk proceedings that take no more than a couple of hours. It's part of a program called Operation Streamline, which was introduced under the Bush administration in 2005 as a means of expeditiously slapping a criminal conviction on every person caught illegally entering the country without technically denying their basic rights to due process. In the nearly 10 years that it's been around, the number of new Operation Streamline cases has increased by 300 percent. According to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Immigration, 97,000 new cases were filed in 2013—an all-time, nationwide high.
These group court proceedings are just one part of the U.S.'s larger "zero-tolerance" criminalization policy that, over the past decade, has catapulted immigration past drugs, firearms and white-collar crime as the most prosecuted federal offense in the country. The goal is to deter illegal immigration by raising the stakes: Not only do illegal border crossers face criminal charges and deportation if caught, they face prison time. Whether it works depends on whom you ask. Indisputable—though largely unrecognized—however, are the unprecedented numbers of incarcerated immigrants the policy has produced—and the increasing need for more space to house them.
Enter private prisons: a booming industry that is capitalizing on that need.
Over the past decade or so, the responsibility of housing convicted immigrants along the southwest border has increasingly been contracted out to private prison companies on the American taxpayers' dime. Between 2002 and 2010, the number of ICE detainees held in private prisons grew 206 percent, while the U.S. Marshal Service sent 322 percent more of its detainees to private prisons. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Bureau of Prisons spent about $600 million on private prison contracts in fiscal year 2013.
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WATCH: Beyonce FaceTimes with fan during concert
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Beyonce is proving she knows how to put on a show, after bringing her "Mrs. Carter Show" to one lucky fan who wasn't even in the stadium.
During a recent concert in Adelaide, Australia, the star spotted one concert-goer who happened to be FaceTiming on his iPhone with a friend as she walked by. Fan footage from the concert is now surfacing online.
Without skipping a beat, Beyonce bends down to grab the phone and tell the person on the other end, "Nice to meet you!" She hands the phone back to the ecstatic fan joking, "This is a first!" before continuing her performance of "Irreplaceable."
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WATCH: The nation's fastest field cleanup
The Tennessee baseball pitching staff sets the tone early on game day. Approximately an hour before first pitch, the Vol hurlers bounce to the beat of "Call On Me" and use the dulcet tones of Eric Prydz to tackle their pregame cleanup duties. The record has been set at 30.86 seconds.


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The Real College Crisis Isn't About Student Loan Rates
Senators sparred Wednesday over whether and how to subsidize federal loans for college students, whose total debt load has tripled in the last eight years. But missing in the tug of war over the "Keeping Student Loans Affordable Act" was any significant debate over how to keep the skyrocketing price of college affordable for parents and students.
In the end, Republicans filibustered a bill that would have cut the 6.8 percent rate for federal subsidized loans back to 3.6 percent for one year. Experts in higher education say that by focusing on making borrowing cheap, while public grant money dries up and student-loan debt balloons past $1 trillion, Congress is missing the point altogether.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calls the student loan debate "the tip of the iceberg" of a looming crisis in higher education that Congress seems decades away from addressing.
"I love that people are getting upset, because it's amazing how long people have not paid attention to this problem," she said. "But I'm sad at how misdirected the attention is." Goldrick-Rab said driving down the price to attend college, not making it easier to finance massive tuitions, should be the focus of the debate in Washington. She testified to the Senate in April that many college campuses have become "glorified summer camps," made downright luxurious in many cases by universities engaging in an arms race to have the most impressive bells and whistles for prospective students, parents, and college-ranking publications.
"We are paying through the nose for prestige," Goldrick-Rab said. "And colleges are finding that the more you charge, the more people want it and are willing to pay for it."
Prestige on college campuses comes in many packages. In some cases, it's Division I sports teams, the majority of which are subsidized by student fees and general school funds. In other cases prestige comes in the form of well-known tenured professors, some of whom Goldrick-Rab said may teach one class a year while part-time, low-salaried instructors pick up the extra teaching load. The average full professor's compensation at American schools last year was $134,000, up about 2 percent from 2011, although many made significantly more.
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Akron homer and Rock Hall inductee Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders will be releasing a new album called Break Up The Concrete to be released on Tuesday, September 23 through Shangri-La Music
But just as other veteran acts such as the Eagles, Madonna and Earth Wind & Fire, are embracing the future of the music business so are The Pretenders and Shangri-La.
When singer/songwriter/guitarist John Mayer played Blossom in 2004, he seemed to be a conflicted artist. Between songs he kept ripping of searing guitar licks, stopping himself and then returning to his groovy, adult alternative pop tunes as if he was afraid to unleash his inner guitar hero for fear of alienating the folks who just wanted to be told their body was a wonderland. Eventually, his inner guitar hero escaped and he played a seemingly off the cuff and credible take on Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child (Slight Return).
Since then Mayer has given that inner guitar hero plenty of room to breathe, particularly on Try! his 2005 live trio album with drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Pino Palladino and his recent multi-format Live album Where The Light Is.
In 2008 the pop star and the guitar hero have merged and Thursday night at Blossom in front of a large, multi-generational, multi-cultural crowd he successfully channeled both sides of his artistic nature, and with his natural stage charisma and enthusiasm Mayer held fans in the palm of his fretboard fondling hands for nearly two hours.
For the first time in more than a decade Cleveland rap crew Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are a quintet.
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All hiphop.com reports that Howse was greeted by friends and family including crew members Krayzie, Layzie (a.ka. his brother Steven Howse), Bizzy and Wish Bone.
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Tim McGraw has been a country music superstar for more than 15 years and mainstream pop star for a decade taking the mantle of crossover king from the semi-retired Garth Brooks and racking up a string of country and pop chart topping albums and sell out tours alone and with his crossover superstar wife Faith Hill.
One of the ways McGraw has topped both charts is heâs not afraid to cross-pollinate his music mixing in crunchy rock, slick soul and big pop ballads with his neo-traditional country and contemporary honky-tonk.
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McGrawâs superstar status doesnât stop him from bucking the fairly codified country music system by using his touring band in the studio and recording tunes with rappers and rockers. While many artists have stopped playing soon to be released songs in concert because of camera phones and Youtube, McGraw opened the Blossom show with a solid new song, Still from his next album due in the fall and played three more new songs.


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WATCH: Javonte Douglas putback may be dunk of the year
Sometimes the best way to get the crowd on their feet is to simply put a little distance between your own feet and the ground. History has shown us that this phenomena works especially well on the basketball court. Particularly when you elevate so far above the rim that you're actually looking down on it. Still, words probably can't begin to describe the sheer awe that those sitting in Ocala Gymnasium must have experienced when they witnessed Javonte Douglas' dunk up close and personal.
Squaring off against Pasco-Hernando on Nov. 2 the 6-foot-7 College of Central Florida small forward crashed the offensive boards to retrieve a Chris Bryant miss — that was still about 12 feet in the air — and slammed the ball one-handed over two helpless defenders cowering much closer to sea level. It probably falls into the category of a you-need-to-see-it-to-believe-it moment, but even some of the fans seemed to be in utter disbelief as they processed what they'd seen for a good moment before rising to their feet. Not a bad way for the Patriots to open the regular season at home.


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Can a Senator stop a union? Bob Corker is certainly trying
Sometime today, we're expected to find out whether the workers in that Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant have decided to unionize. I hope very much that they didn't let Sen. Bob Corker's intimidation campaign—which strikes me as a possible violation of the Wagner Act, a point to which I'll return—scare them out of voting yes.
The vote is the perfect occasion to recall that, on the right's very long hate list of abortionists and gays and undocumented workers and Kenyans and so on and so on, very few groups—perhaps none—occupy a higher spot than labor unions.
This may seem an odd thing for me to say. After all, we argue, our two broad political sides, about gays and immigrants all the time. It never stops. But unions, we don't discuss much. This would give the impression that they aren't that important to the two sides anymore.
Alas, that's only half true. Paradoxically, perhaps, it's on the left that unions aren't that important today. Most liberal activists are far more interested in women's rights, LGBT rights, climate change, and other issues that are more au courant. Furthermore, most liberal activists are white-collar, and, how to put it, white-skinned upper-middle-class people who no longer feel any deep and reflexive empathy for the working classes. Liberal elites are more interested in other people and things. The broad left's enthusiasm for unions is still real, but it's a shadow of what it once was.
The broad right's hatred of unions, however, is not a shadow of what it once was. It is a seething, boiling, roiling, apoplectic revulsion at the very idea of unions. I remember some episodes I encountered back in 2009 that really brought this home to me.
Obama was just settling in to the Oval Office, and libs of course were full of the big plans they had for the next eight years. Health care, finance reform, climate change, same-sex marriage, all the rest; plus the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA, a little concatenation of measures designed to try to take the management thumb off the scale during organizing drives.
I would talk with pro-labor senators and House members I knew, Democrats, and they'd expressed optimism that EFCA was really going to see the light of day. They'd always just come back from an encouraging meeting at the White House. Then I'd check this against some conservatives I spoke to. Or not even. You didn't even have to be a journalist. All you had to do was go to a public seminar and pay attention, and take note of the looks that crossed the faces of conservatives the second EFCA was mentioned. No. Never.
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The GOP's comedy gap
Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz had the most to lose appearing before the elite group of journalists known as the Gridiron Club Saturday night. But he gamely appeared in the required dress of white tie and tails, and truth is he didn't look all that uncomfortable. He joked about how his anti-media speech had gone over so well the previous day at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservatives, and how he made sure to hightail it out of there before they learned about his plans for the following evening.
"The ambiance is different," he mused, noting with perfect pitch that the Gridiron is "more high brow," and speaking here "would take some edge off my populist image," maybe help him "fit in with the smart set."
He already had the crowd of some 600 Washington insiders guffawing when he recalled his 21-hour Green Eggs and Ham talkathon last year, "hearing nothing but my favorite sound," he said. "We're talking Biden territory here," he added, an in-the-know reference to the vice president's loquaciousness. "How this town works, they cut me off right when I was getting to my point," he exclaimed.
Doing well at the Gridiron is a rite of passage that not everybody survives. "I don't know where Cruz got his material, it didn't look like L.A. writers," Landon Parvin, the GOP's veteran go-to-guy for humor, tells The Daily Beast. "It looked natural to him." That's the highest praise for a politician, and in Cruz's case that he could bring off two such very different speeches: red meat for the base one day, and the next day, deliver remarks that have the dreaded media elite admiring how he was able to poke fun at himself.
Self-deprecating humor is the key to these speeches, and the search is on in Washington for whoever helped Cruz craft his jokes and helped him with the delivery. Calls and an e-mail to Cruz's office in Washington were not returned, and there is the possibility of course that Cruz, a Harvard-trained lawyer with a super-duper high IQ, wrote his speech himself. He is not short on self-confidence, noting that he's been called a "pompous condescending know-it-all… At Harvard Law School, they even have a word for it—alumni."
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The Charleston Water Saga
You can drink the water again in downtown Charleston and some outlying areas, but still not in large portions of the affected area extending into several counties. Here's a map.
You've probably read by now that the Freedom Industries facility that was the source of the spill had not been inspected by anyone since 1991. Today's Charleston Daily Mail (yes, Charleston has two newspapers, and more surprisingly still, they're both very good, though the Gazette's editorial page is more to my liking) has an excellent article from Capitol bureau chief Dave Boucher about why the state's Department of Environmental Protection has never had any jurisdiction over the plant and whether that might change.
The DEP has authority only over manufacturing or emission sites, not mere storage sites, as this one is. The DEP doesn't even know how many facilities there might be in the state like this Freedom Industries storage site, which housed 4 million gallons of the chemical. An inventory will reportedly get underway here in the near future.
Reports of inventoried chemicals are, under the state's Community Right to Know Act, supposed to be filed with the state's division of homeland security and emergency management. Boucher's report doesn't indicate explicitly whether Freedom has filed the appropriate paperwork but nevertheless suggests that it wouldn't matter because the paperwork required of facilities that store "hazardous" materials is so vague as to be meaningless.
There's a higher standard under state law for facilities that store "extremely hazardous" chemicals, but Freedom's storage facility did not meet that standard.
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WATCH: Taylor Swift's Adorable Duet with Children's Hospital Patient
Here's the perfect feel-good clip to start your week! Gotta love it when some of our favorite artists spread the love.
Taylor Swift stopped by Boston Children's Hospital for a visit last week. She met Jordan, an adorable patient (and a big fan), and they sang "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - so sweet!


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Introduced to pottery in my 50's at a community college class, and knew I wanted to make this part of my future. Dabbled for some years as my career (healthcare org management & training) allowed. At 60, semi retired, I was thrilled to set up a pottery studio in my home. I am mostly throwing functional ware, building skill, experimenting, learning a lot, dreaming of possibilities down the road.
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Check out what's happening at the March 18th City Council Meeting
To find out more about any of the items being presented to the City Council, click here to review the agenda and associated staff reports. Remember, you can also post an opinion on a specific agenda item by clicking on this link and scrolling down to that agenda item. Then simply click on the "comment" and type away in the text box and hit "submit". This enables the Council to see your comments prior to the Council meeting.
Accepting Applications for Various Boards and Commissions
The Sausalito City Council continues to accept applications from residents who are interested in volunteering their time to serve on some of our Boards and Commissions. Over the next couple of months, Council will be accepting applications, interviewing and filling several positions on the various Boards and Commissions. Below you will see a list of those Boards/Commissions currently being considered:
To find out more about each of these boards and commissions, click here and scroll through the list. The application can be found here.
City Hall Parking Lot Repaving Project
The City of Sausalito parking lot is scheduled to be repaved, including re-grading of the two accessible parking stalls (to bring them in to compliance with the California Building Code and the Americans with Disabilities Act), new pavement markings, new curb ramps and reconstruction of the Bee Street driveway. The anticipated start date is Monday March 24. The contractor, American Asphalt, is proposing to close the parking lot for seven days. City staff will work with the contractor to minimize the duration of the parking lot closure and apologize for the inconvenience.
While the upper lot is closed, the City will provide temporary substitute parking off Bee Street and adjacent to the Recreation Department entry for persons with impaired mobility whose vehicles display either valid license plates or a DMV-issued placard identifying a person with a disability.
Sausalito People Series
John Kehoe: A World of Chocolate
Friday, March 14th - 7:00pm inside the Library
As the Vice President for Sourcing and Development for TCHO in San Francisco, John Kehoe works with cocoa farmers around the world to grow high quality cocoa beans and develop sustainable agricultural methods. In his talk, John will share stories from a career spent promoting sustainable, fair trade cacao production in the name of delicious chocolate. Chocolate samples included! John lives in the Caledonia Street neighborhood of Sausalito.
Friday, March 14th - 7:00pm inside the Library As the Vice President for Sourcing and Development for TCHO in San Francisco, John Kehoe works with cocoa farmers around the world to grow high quality cocoa beans and develop sustainable agricultural methods. In his talk, John will share stories from a career spent promoting sustainable, fair trade cacao production in the name of delicious chocolate. Chocolate samples included! John lives in the Caledonia Street neighborhood of Sausalito.
Robert Haley: The Road to Zero Waste
Friday, March 21 - 7:00pm inside the Library
The City of San Francisco is a global leader in recycling and waste management, with a goal of 'zero waste' (i.e. no use of landfill) by 2020. Where San Francisco leads, Sausalito and Marin County are likely to follow. What milestones lie on the road to zero waste? Join Sausalito resident and San Francisco Zero Waste Manager Robert Haley for a fascinating look at the future of "garbage."
Sausalito Library Speaker Series
All About the Marin Civil Grand Jury
Monday, March 17 - 7:00 pm in the Council Chambers
You've probably heard about Grand Jury reports in the news, but what the heck is a Grand Jury anyway? For this program, representatives from the Marin Civil Grand Jury will be on hand to explain the Grand Jury system and its benefits. Does the Grand Jury affect public policy? What kinds of issues are investigated? What are the responsibilities and benefits of serving on the Grand Jury?
Spring Bingo on Game Night
It's time for SPRING-O!
Wednesday, March 19th - 7pm in the Library
Who needs sunshine and daffodils when you can have some fun competition for silly prizes? Join us as we welcome the seasonal change with a few rounds of a classic family favorite (flower crowns optional). Light refreshments will be served.
See you there!
City Wide Yard Sale - MLK Parking Lot, 610 Coloma Street - April 5, 2014 from 9:00am – 2:00pm
The City of Sausalito's bi-annual yard sale has over 90 sellers in one location. Check us out online at www.sausalitoyardsale.info for information on how to rent a space. Registration opens February 28th, 2014 at 9:00am.
Sausalito Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee Online Resident Survey
Have an opinion on how the City of Sausalito should manage the shifting--and growing--mix of bicycle, pedestrian, and auto traffic in town? Concerned about a specific safety issue pertaining to bicycles and pedestrians in your neighborhood? Want to share an idea on how to improve the overall Sausalito transit experience for residents and tourists alike?
If so, make sure to participate in the Sausalito Pedestrian & Bicycle Committee online resident survey. To receive the survey, simply send an email request to email@example.com that says "Please send me the survey." Within 24 hours, you will receive an email response containing an online link to the PBAC survey tool that will allow you to share ideas and help the City prioritize projects related to bicycle and pedestrian safety.
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Your "LIVE WORK AND PLAY" Guide to Sausalito is in your mailbox
Lots of great new updates so check it out!
The new and updated Sausalito Chamber of Commerce Guide & Directory has been mailed to every household in Sausalito, courtesy of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce. The Guide includes a comprehensive listing of businesses and services in Sausalito aswell as useful information on City and County services, recycling, ferry schedules, calendar of community events and things to do for you and/or your out of town guests.
Why leave town, drive that car and pay for gas when almost everything you need is here in town? So please use this guide to THINK LOCAL. BUY LOCAL. STAY LOCAL.
If for some reason, you do not receive your Guide in the mail, please call the Chamber at 415-331-7262 ext 10.
from your Tree Committee:
Considering planting a tree but not sure which one to choose? Here are two good resources for Sausalito residents.
PG&E has produced a wonderful color-illustrated poster entitled "Guide to Small Trees Near Distribution Lines – SF Bay Area". Choose one of these small trees to grow beneath power lines – and to be sure that your views (or your neighbor's) won't be obstructed when the tree matures. Visit www.pge.com and see "Right Tree Right Place".
To order a copy, call 1-800-743-5000. Ask for it by email request at: email@example.com
The City of Sausalito Department of Public Works maintains a list of recommended trees for planting in the City's rights of way. This list includes many species and varieties well suited to Sausalito's coastal conditions (Sunset Zone 17). Check out the City's website at www.ci.sausalito.ca.us; under "Public Works," look for "City of Sausalito Street Tree List."
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No Doubt's Gwen Stefani plays with the Rolling Stones
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Gwen Stefani helped the Rolling Stones get things started in Los Angeles this weekend.
The iconic rockers kicked off their "50 and Counting" trek Friday night, and RollingStone.com says the No Doubt frontwoman joined them for a duet version of "Wild Horses."
But Stefani -- who came dressed for the part in a shirt featuring a giant sparkly version of the Stones' tongue logo -- wasn't the only special guest. Country star Keith Urban also took the stage with Mick Jagger and company, as did former Stones guitarist Mick Taylor.
The Rolling Stones are scheduled to continue their outing with a stop in San Jose, California on Wednesday, while Stefani and the rest of No Doubt are still in the studio working on the follow-up to last year's comeback album, Push and Shove.


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Arrests made in Philip Seymour Hoffman death investigation
(Yahoo!) - The investigation into Philip Seymour Hoffman's death continues.
Four people — three men and a woman — were arrested on narcotics charges Tuesday in Manhattan and questioned about a possible link to the heroin found in the "Hunger Games" star's apartment, "The Insider With Yahoo" has confirmed. According to CBS, more than 350 bags of heroin were found in the three apartments that were searched, but none of them had the "Ace of Spades" logo on the bags similar to some recovered in Hoffman's rental apartment.
The NYPD is trying to piece together Hoffman's final hours. It was determined that the Oscar winner, who was found dead on the floor of his bathroom Sunday with a syringe in his arm, made six ATM transactions totaling $1,200 at a local grocery store the night before he was found dead.
A police official did tell the news station that the heroin recovered at Hoffman's apartment was tested and did not contain the powerful additive fentanyl, which has been linked to numerous heroin deaths recently.
Meanwhile, Hoffman's partner, Mimi O'Donnell, is making funeral preparations. On Tuesday, she released a statement announcing a private funeral service — which is expected to take place Friday — in Manhattan for family and close friends. There will be a memorial service later this month, also in New York City.
"The family wishes to thank everyone for their continued support and good wishes," said the statement, which also asked that donations "be made in Phil's name to two charities that were very close to his heart: The DreamYard Project and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
O'Donnell, who has three young children with Hoffman, has received a steady stream of visitors in their family home, which is a few blocks from his rental apartment, following his death. After Cate Blanchett and Justin Theroux stopped by Monday, Joaquin Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, and Bobby Cannavale were spotted visiting as well.
Hoffman had a long-time struggle with drugs and alcohol. He had said he first went to rehab and got sober when he was 22. After a period of sobriety, he relapsed last year and did a second 10-day stint in rehab last April.
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PHOTO: Lady Gaga covers 'Elle'
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Every time we've seen Lady Gaga this era, she's usually sporting an entirely different look than when we last saw her. The image she's constructed for ARTPOP is one of no image, in which she can wear whatever she wants, whenever she wants. One minute she's a mermaid, then she's a swine, and then she's completely naked and spread eagle in V magazine. It's fabulous, isn't it?
Check out Gaga's latest transformation for Elle magazine below, as well as a few obligatory Gaga quotes about being a tortured artist and listening to Bowie.
On handling pressure: "What are you talking about, pressure? I'm great under pressure. I'm a warrior. I'm Rocky, round 12."
The difference between Gaga's high-priestess act and the girl who spends time with her family: "I am—Stefani is—a perpetually tortured artist. That's why I changed my name. I can't be her in public. She would be a mess!"
On raging against the critics who question the authenticity of her early struggles:"Everyone is so cynical—that I can't purely love my fans, or share an honest story about my past, without someone asking me if I really, truly struggled. Do you know how much dirt I ate? Do you know the men I had to crawl through, the people that disrespected my body, my mind, my heart?"
How she used her forced hiatus to "go back to the core" and prepare to prove herself all over again—this time not just as a pop star but as a pop artist to prepare for her new album Artpop:"I went to look back to myself being 19, with all my Warhol books and all my Yoko Ono and John Lennon CDs, my Rolling Stones CDs and my Bowie…, and I said, what would she want me to do right now? Well she'd want you to call Jeff Koons and Robert Wilson and Marina Abramović and Inez and Vinoodh…And that's what I did!"


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Manhunt prompts hospitals to lockdown
(Boston, MA) -- Hospitals in Boston are on lockdown as the manhunt continues for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Patients and staff can't leave until travel restrictions are lifted. Most outpatient services and appointments were canceled for the day. However, emergency rooms remain open.


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Tomorrowland: Day 2
Day two down, and Tomorrowland continues to bring an experience you can only imagine, to life. That may be why ID&T named the campsite "Dreamville," because Tomorrowland is the festival of every dance music fan's dream. In Axwell's own words during his Tomorrowland set on day two, the festival is "the Olympics of dance music."
Aside from the amazing artists at Tomorrowland, the festival is an experience all by itself - ths is NOT your typical festival. There are numerous food vendors, a ferris wheel, and plenty more surprises. On day 2, the ladies of Tomorrowland made sure they looked their best with an outdoor beauty salon. There were hair stylists styling hair into the most intricate and elaborate designs - and they only took about 15 mintues per head of hair. A make-up artist was also on-site, to beautify festival-goers with Tomorrowland-themed looks.
Day two hosted a number of special stages, featuring some very talented dance music artists. The butterfly-themed stage transformed itself from the previous day into the Super You & Me stage, there was the Cocoon heros stage, a Full On Ferry stage for trance fans, a special V Sessions stage, the Q-Dance stage still going strong, and of course the incredible main stage volcano.
Imagine your favorite DJs had alter egos, and dressed as superheros? This idea became a reality at Tomorrowland. Several dance music superheros took over the Super You & Me stage, including Sandro Silva, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Tommy Trash, Marting Solveig (aka Super Solveig), Benny Benassi, and of course the lean green Mixmash machine, Laidback Luke.
It's astounding to see the main stage in action, not only for the stunning special effects and detailed structure, but also for the massive amount of fans that surround it. On day two, the main stage hosted much of dance music's best like Sander van Doorn, Zedd, Chuckie (who brought out Slash!), Knife Party, and Axwell. Avicii also took the main stage and treated fans to his new music, but also some Avicii classics.
@Slash & @djchuckie rockin' the #Tomorrowland mainstage!! pic.twitter.com/kgdetvrS4V— Tomorrowland (@tomorrowland) July 27, 2013
With a lightning storm over Tomorrowland and extremely heavy rainfall, Armin van Buuren took the stage, having traveled straight from the hospital where his new son was born! At the very beginning of his set, he shared a photo of his new baby boy with fans on the main stage monitors, and as he expressed his joy, declared that his set was dedicated to his new son. A big congratulations to Armin and his family!
Taking over V Sessions on day two included Eric Prydz, Nicky Romero, AN21 & Max Vangeli, Sultan & Ned Shepard, Jacob Van Hage vs. Loopers, and a special set from the one and only Pete Tong. Pete kept the crowd movin' and groovin', and V Sessions quickly went All Gone Pete Tong.
Trance fans gathered at Full on Ferry, enjoying sounds from W&W, Orjan Nilsen, Cosmic Gate, Aly & Fila, John O'Callaghan, Shogun, Solarstone, Sied van Riel, and of course Ferry Corsten himself.
With still one more day left of madness at Tomorrowland, there is way more still to come!
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Using patented fabric developed for NASA to help keep astronauts cool in space, this is the pillow that provides a comfortably cool sleeping surface. Available only from Hammacher Schlemmer, millions of invisible microcapsules inside the pillow shell absorb excess heat and move the warmth away from the head and neck until the pillow eventually reaches the ambient temperature. As you shift positions naturally while you sleep, the vacated area of the pillow recovers its cooling properties. The patented fabric covers both sides of the pillow and it is filled with a spiral-crimped polyester that has a loose, thread-like texture for long-lasting loft. The 100% cotton cover is hypoallergenic, removable, and washable.
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My brother-in-law always feels his pillows get too warm but this one disperses the heat and is therefore more comfortable. He got the medium cushioning version for people who sleep on their side or stomach.
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Cool to the initial touch but slowly warms, slower then my down pillow. Ergo, it does not retain the coolness
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Nice pillow
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This pillow does get cooler faster than a standard pillow. I still have to flip it over as it will get too hot, but it's better than a standard pillow. I got the medium fill and it's perfect for me.
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I purchased this in a whim, knowing that if I didn't like it I could send it back... At first I thought it would be too soft, until I feel asleep and didn't move until the alarm went off in the morning... it was the best night's sleep I have gotten in a long time! I have enjoyed this one so much that I purchased a second one for my rv...I would highly recommend this pillow!
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Stay cool pillow seems to warm up like any ordinary pillow.
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The Cool Contact Pillow might work as advertised in space (for NASA) but it sure does not cool on contact for me. Basically its a comfortable "normal" pillow. I guess I expected more "cool feel" based on the description (and price) but frankly can't see much difference than a high quality down pillow. Perhaps the lower density works better (I purchased medium density). Also I live in a hot climate (summer time) so maybe winter time the pillow will cool better.
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My husband doesn't get nearly as warm at night with his new cooling pillow. Everything about it is great, but he'd prefer if the pillow felt colder upon initial contact.
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Atlanta losing power as 'catastrophic' storm begins
(NEWSER) – The warnings haven't minced words, and the potentially "catastrophic" weather set to hit the South has begun, with Atlanta already feeling the effects: Some 39,000 and counting have lost power there, with that number climbing by the thousands within spans as short as 10 minutes. In terms of thousands, 2,200 flights have been axed out of the city's airport, the world's busiest, with just 300 expected to depart today. Ice began to descend on major roads around 4am, and "all of the interstates, all of the secondary routes, all of the surface streets, are all iced over," said a local radio host, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Where you are right now is where you're going to be tomorrow morning, there's no doubt about it."
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WATCH: Britney Spears Posts Lingerie Shoot Instagram Video
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Britney Spears has a new lingerie line called 'The Intimate Collection' coming out, and for the past week she's been teasing her fans by posting photos from the new line's campaign on her Instagram account. And she looks GOOOD!
Now, she has given the fans something even better - a video from the shoot! Brit captioned the video, "This was one of the most beautiful shoots I think I've done. More to come!"
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Check out the Instagram pics she posted earlier this week and last week below.
"A woman is like a beautiful flower, the true beauty inside. #Ambrosia."
"Coming very soon... The Intimate Collection, by yours truly. Just a peek at what's to come. xo."
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Family: Rat baked into 96-year-old's birthday cake
(NEWSER) – It's tough to think of a less appetizing way to celebrate one's 96th birthday. Joseph Vallenti's request for his big day was a slice of his favorite German apple cake, made by King Kullen supermarket. What Vallenti's family recalls the Commack, NY, man saying after taking one bite of the dessert on Thursday: "Something isn't right." Indeed. His niece's boyfriend decided to inspect the uncut portion of the cake—and Neil Gold says he found the remnants of a rat inside. WABC reports that Gold initially thought it was a ribbon of black mold. Then "I saw ... something sticking out," he says. He claims that after flipping the cake over, what he found was a 5-inch tail, still attached to part of the rodent's rear.
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