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Comic book geek or hip alt-comedy scenesters? The line is pretty blurred on the fourth Friday of the month at Meltdown Comics. That's when the back room stays open after hours for a nonglamorous, harshly lit evening of standup comedy. The show is free, as is the plentiful Asahi beer, which is notable not only because the talent lineup is cover-charge/drink-minimum-worthy, but also because the show takes places only blocks from the Laugh Factory and Comedy Store, where parking costs almost as much as half a tank of gas. There's no valet for Comedy Meltdown, and you should arrive early to fight for a space, but you can peruse Alison Bechdel's latest graphic novel while you wait. You'll be rewarded with intimate performances by such established comics as Craig Anton, Blaine Capatch, Jackie Kashian, Morgan Murphy, Howard Kremer, Duncan Trussell, Melinda Hill and Maria Bamford. The show's put on by Linda Pine, who longs to book Eddie Izzard, Louis C. K., Emo Philips and Tom Kenny. Says comic Melinda Hill, a Meltdown regular, "I love performing at Meltdown because Linda packs the room with comedy fans equipped with all the free beer they can handle, sells your merch online for you, and hands you a scarf she knitted herself. It's like doing a comedy show run by your grandma, if your grandma was a comedy-loving hipster with a cute haircut."—Libby Molyneaux
It buggers the imagination that any sane person would consider running a record label in this chaotic environment. Why not play it safe and open a sub-prime brokerage, instead? In this landscape, a hearty huzzah to those who channel their musical passion into pumping the sounds of others. Labelwise, Los Angeles 2008 is a hearty place: Everloving Records outta Los Feliz has been globetrotting this year, putting out thrilling music by Germans, French, Japanese and Angelenos (the labyrinthine An Invitation collaboration between Inara George and Van Dyke Parks); PPF has tossed out sloppy dirgy smellpunk; Vanguard set the standard for songcraft (the Watson Twins, Greg Laswell); Plug Research, Dangerbird, Hellicopter, Ipecac, Aquarium Drunkard, anticon, Dim Mak and IHEARTCOMIX — all release music that's consistently inspiring.
But for sheer good taste and hometown pride, the best L.A. label these days is Stones Throw Records, founded by L.A.'s best DJ, Peanut Butter Wolf. The label has fueled our stereos with smart, deep, rich beat-based music from a variety of artists this year. They dug into the crates to celebrate the 1980s sounds of electro-rap pioneer (and former N.W.A DJ) Arabian Prince; threw us a curveball with the odd, ethereal Koushik record — which created a new subgenre: nitrous rap. And where the hell did that James Pants record come from? Who knew Stones Throw dug fucked-up postdisco? Need more proof? The Madvillain Box, which came out a few weeks ago, is a beautiful limited-edition set from L.A. beat genius Madlib (a.k.a. Beat Konducta, a.k.a. Madvillain, a.k.a. Quasitmoto). The label's propping legendary filmmaker and badass Melvin van Peebles by hooking him up with Heliocentrics, and has been instrumental in sealing the late hip-hop producer J Dilla's legacy. To say nothing about Stones Throw's regular podcasts, which could probably be sold as mixtapes; or PBW's eight-night VJing spin in August. Combined, a record label of the perfect sort: one that follows its heart and gut, trusting that good taste and bottom line aren't mutually exclusive ideals.—Randall Roberts
It's not hard to picture what Steve Meltzer must have been like as a little boy. The puppeteer, who mans the box office before jumping onstage to work the puppets for Puppetolio! every weekend, has a big, goofy grin and exudes the energy of an 8-year-old inviting you to play in his room. Puppetolio! is delightfully old-fashioned, a low-tech puppet show with Meltzer's zany cast of stringed characters and really corny jokes that add up to the equivalent of being tickled for an hour.
"I wanted to do what I am now doing when I was 4," Meltzer says. "Paul Winchell was a huge TV star back then, and my idol. I knew his partner, Jerry Mahoney, was not a living person, but Paul acted as though he was, and he made me believe it. The reason I do this is for the sheer joy that I have with the audience as we laugh ... and sing ... and believe together."
In an age where family entertainment has gone through the technology stratosphere, Meltzer's show might be a throwback, but the kids in the audience laugh like little loons. "I love all the modern technologies, but my experience has taught me that humans haven't really changed all that much. We still love to gather together and find the common joy of any kind of fantasy or illusion. In this tech-saturated time, I wish the purveyors of pop culture would realize that 'low-tech' can actually be a selling point."
This month, Meltzer will present the first-ever Santa Monica Puppetry Festival, which will conclude with an appearance by Leslie Caron, who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a poor French orphan in the heart-wrenching 1953 movie Lili, in which a lovelorn puppeteer and his puppets play a major role. Meltzer is currently searching for Carrot Top, the cute little boy hand puppet who sang "Hi Lili, Hi Lo" in the movie. Carrot Top was last seen at an MGM props auction in 1971. Meltzer would love to hear from anyone who might know Carrot Top's whereabouts.—Libby Molyneaux
"You are the entertainment capital of the world," says Ray Courts with a slow and polite Southern drawl from his home in Spring Hill, Florida. "We thought there were other people besides us who come to Hollywood and would like to meet some of your favorite celebrity guests. OK, I grant you that we don't have your Tom Cruises or Kevin Costners or your Will Smiths, but dog gone it, ma'am, there are so many of them I'm looking forward to meeting that I just watched on TV and the silver screen."
Thanks to Courts and his wife, Sharan, meeting celebrities other than Tom Cruise or Kevin Costner or Will Smith is as easy as showing up at the Burbank Airport Marriott for the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show. Sure, they're mostly stars from TV and film's bygone era. But for pre-eBay baby boomers who fondly remember their idols as a fraternity of actors and not the paparazzi bait and tabloid headlines of today, these shows are the equivalent of Grauman's Chinese come to life.
Originally from West Virginia, the couple began as collectors and dealers who were inspired to start their own show after frequenting early movie memorabilia gatherings that didn't allow celebrities to attend. For 13 years, the Courtses initially operated out of North Hollywood's Beverly Garland Holiday Inn, fittingly owned by Garland, who starred in My Three Sons. Once the show took off, it was the celebs who approached the husband-and-wife team. And to date, they've wrangled thousands of major and minor stars, retired actors, bit players, Western heroes and the voices behind some of Disney's early animations (Adriana Caselotti, the original Snow White, used to appear in character), all of whom are more than eager to pose for pictures, talk to fans and autograph photos for $15 or $20.
Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Eden and Adam West have all had fans lining up for their John Hancocks. And who wouldn't want to meet Jeannie or the original Batman? Or if it's current celebrities you're hounding, Val Kilmer not only attended in 2003, but signed guitars, while Hilary Duff appeared on behalf of a children's charity back when she was still a teen Disney star.
They also stage mini cast reunions from various films and TV shows, from Westside Story and Star Wars to Little House on the Prairie, The Partridge Family, Welcome Back, Kotter and even The Three Stooges. And dealers from as far as Argentina come to sell more photographs, posters, scripts, lobby cards, movie props and costumes, some dating back to silent films, ranging from a few bucks to upwards of $20,000.
"Even now I collect autographs," says Courts. "Holy smokes, you oughta see our family room. It is wall to wall of our heroes and heroines." Courts' first piece of memorabilia was a knife used by Gordon Scott, who played Tarzan in the '50s, while some of his other prized possessions include studio chairs from The Andy Griffith Show, starring Courts' favorite comedian, the late Don Knotts.
"For us, it is still a thrill," says Courts. "We got the legendary Jane Russell coming to our show. Wow! Howard Hughes discovered this young lady!" Did he say "young"?—Siran Babayan
Like a little razzle-dazzle when you're getting smashed in the face? At UpHigh/DownLow, the Silver Lake chapter of LADS (Los Angeles Dodgeball Society), you're sure to get a glimpse of sparkly purple tights, perhaps under a gorilla suit, right before a big red ball knocks you into next Tuesday. Although, says UH/DL founder Matty Pipes, those moon boots are just for showboaters. "The flashier people are just there for distraction and usually can't throw for crap," Pipes says. "It's the people with the plain tees waiting in the wings that you need to watch out for." Pipes, who also captains team Bandana Rama, says the Silver Lake division has gotten so much response that he actually has to audition people before they're assigned to a team. "It's $50 to join, but, unlike the other LADS leagues, you must be approved by a captain and me. We have to turn away a lot of people." The chapter's roster of teams features such motley crews as WW4, FAGS (Fun Active Gentlemen's Society), Prom Night Dumpster Babies, etc. But don't be fooled by the silly monikers; the competition gets pretty fierce, especially toward the end of the season. Sometimes the action spills into the stands and spectators are forced to dodge left and right, occasionally futilely, to avoid the ferocious flying bombardment. At the end of the game, though, UpHigh/DownLow is all about the "high-five mentality," Pipes insists. "It's also great to have a place to meet people where you don't feel like you have to be wasted. A lot of people thank us for that the most."—Rena Kosnett
Gyms in L.A. are always coming up with one new class or another — cardio boot camp, supercharged spinning, power yoga — so it was only a matter of time before the dodge-ball craze found its way to Crunch on Sunset Boulevard, which has been hosting exciting dodge-ball games (or classes) for the past year. Started last summer as a seasonal offering, dodge ball, which is "taught" by instructor and actor-dancer Dollar Tan, has become a year-round class that attracts men and women who like to compete and get a great workout in the process. A regular crowd often shows up to throw, dodge and catch the red rubber balls, but new players are always welcome.—Patrick Range McDonald
Sometimes overshadowed by its gigantic cousin in Long Beach, the Cabrillo Aquarium in San Pedro is a fantastic alternative for visitors who want to spend the majority of their day at an actual beach. Full of hand-painted displays and small-town charm, the Cabrillo Aquarium has a wide variety of marine species, some of which can be experienced firsthand in a touch tank. It's also home to the famous yearly grunion run, where the unique mating and reproductive habits of the small silverside fish attract curious human spectators.—Molly Lambert
Hiking the hills of Griffith Park alone after dark is, unfortunately, ill-advised. Happily, Sierra Club's Angeles Chapter has your back, offering group hikes of varying difficulty during the week and on weekends — and, once a month, a special moonlight hike. These treks are no secret: Between 150 and 250 trailblazers usually show up for each excursion during the warmer months, the more serious ones armed with a sturdy set of boots and poles. (Difficulty levels are numbered: 1 for beginners, 6 for — let's face it — those in better shape.) Led by experienced Sierra Club volunteers, the hikes are two hours long, exploring all 53 miles of the park's trails and changing each week to keep things interesting. Most hikes stop at a high point to give participants a chance to enjoy city views. From up high, even the 5 freeway takes on a mystic quality, the cars streaming around its curves in waves of tiny white lights. "This is a fantastic way for people to enjoy the park," says Councilman Tom LaBonge, who takes in a hike from time to time. "It's activities like this that make our city great." Damn straight, Tom.—Gina Pollack
You might not find the next Venus or Serena Williams giving the Echo Park tennis courts a good spanking, but you will find a lively, thriving tennis community there beneath Highway 101.
Unlike the nearby Griffith Park courts, which charge a small fee, the well-maintained Echo Park courts are free to the public. What's more, the hobos sunning on the lawn help out when a wayward ball flies over the fence — happily abandoning their 40s to chase down and toss back errant forehands with surprising swiftness.
Forget to bring a fresh can of balls? Just cross the street to the Chevron station, which keeps them in stock. There are also a number of shaded benches to rest on and the obligatory water fountain for the parched player. Sure, the courts haven't had lights for two years because, rumor has it, the neighborhood wise guys stole the copper wiring, but the Echo Park Tennis Club makes up for that. The club consists of a group of Filipino men approaching their 60s, all with the tanned, toned legs of 25-year-olds. At least half the members are at the courts seven days a week, starting at 6 a.m. On days when your strokes are particularly weak, friendly members will come over to offer helpful tips. These guys have been playing here since the 1970s, and can point you in the direction of a local instructor or a place to get your racket restrung. Avoid the afterschool hours reserved for nearby Belmont High, but on most days, you only have to spend a short time stretching, or take a quick stroll around the lake before a court opens up and you can pretend you're Serena for a session.—Sophia Kercher
In a town lousy with yoga (and so much of it lousy yoga), how does one pinpoint The Best? What does "Best Yoga" even mean? The whole idea of "best" is anathema to yoga, which means "union," which obliterates reductive, dualistic differentiations like "best" and "worst."
Aargh! I'll give it my best. ...
Noah Williams, seemingly sweet and sparkly, will sadistically whip your Type-A Ashtanga practice into Pattabhi-perfect shape in Silver Lake. If you're looking for a kick-ass flow, perfectly sequenced to the sounds of classic rock & roll, with a little New York humor thrown in and around the hip openers, Vinnie Marino's your man (see Best Yogi Rock). Bryan Kest holds down yoga for the masses in Santa Monica, with his suggested-donation classes geared toward the advanced practitioner and her 80-year-old grandmother alike (see Best Yoga Class for the Masses). Siri Shiva's rockin' an innovative mix of Kundalini kriyas, Hatha flow and ecstatic dance at Golden Bridge. But if I had to choose one teacher (which, apparently, I do) whose class not only rocks my body, but my soul, it's Julian Walker, a sexy South African snack keeping it really, really real on the Westside.
Julian Walker: The thinking man's yoga teacher.
Armed with heavy-lidded bedroom eyes and the slightest hint of his South African upbringing sliding off the back edge of his sultry lilt, Walker peppers his packed Open Sky Yoga classes with poetry — Rilke and Rumi — recited with thoughtful pauses and telling repetition, connecting mind and body, spirit and breath, inhaled inspiration with exhaled everything that isn't.
He's constantly grounding us in the present, inviting us to check in with our experience of the now and to make peace with it as it is, to surrender to the truth of the moment and to honor it, instead of wishing it were different and plowing through as if it were. And while inviting us to tune in to our awareness, he nudges us out of our self-consciousness, urging us to om and ahhh and hum and sing "as though [we've] never been shy" ... (did I mention his rockin' playlists?).
And though I know not the names of my sweaty cohorts, Ujjayi-breathing and tantric-ahhh-ing next to me, we are indeed a community. Julian takes great care in weaving a sacred space infused with intention and compassion, awareness and discernment, a shared experience in which we are safe to cry and to laugh, to let go and to break through. A favorite expression of his is "we take turns," as in we take turns falling in love, mending broken hearts and busted shoulders; we take turns flying high and falling down, soaring and sobbing, celebrating and grieving, expanding and contracting — oh, how we indeed take turns.
And when my spine caved in on itself and I was hurt and broken and I lost my Ashtanga practice and my usual yoga teachers weren't interested in modifying their sequences so that I could play along, Julian welcomed me into his class and showed me how to be gentle, and taught me that to sit still while the rest of the class is flowing all around me is the most advanced practice of them all. I've studied with masters all over this big blue planet, and I've tied myself into knots while balancing in impossible contorted configurations, and in all those years of Ujayi-breathing my way inside myself, I didn't actually find my way to genuine compassion until Julian took me by the hand and showed me.
Plus, he does bodywork (she sighs, with hearts in her eyes) ... and leads workshops and retreats and ... and ... did I mention the bodywork?—Dani Katz
We've all heard the story before: Drug-addicted East Coast guido flower child gets clean, migrates to Los Angeles and emerges as Venice Beach superstar yogi. It's as obvious as a Jerome Robbins musical.
Back in the early '90s, Marino substituted for a vacationing yoga-teacher friend, brought his Rolling Stones CDs to class and blasted the jams as the students pretzeled themselves into a higher consciousness. A harmless act with no ill intentions, but word spread like wildfire from Marina del Rey to Malibu. The cat got out of the bag. Vinnie Marino assumed the mantle of next big yoga thing. The rest is history.
These days, when Vinnie lays his dog down and pumps up the jams for his twice-daily Vinyasa Flow class at Yoga Works on Main Street in Santa Monica, hard-body yoga hoochies and celebs sardine-can into the room like it's the last Jefferson Starship reunion tour on Earth.
You really gotta get there early and secure some sacred space if you want a spot in Vinnie's class. His Tuesday, 9:15 a.m., level 2-3 is at the far reaches of my practice, but I decide to go for it.
I'm a little sweaty when I get to the class. "I tell people not to come in here stinking," Guru V says in his East Coast Italian-American drawl. He's disarming in a funny way. It's really inviting and part of why everybody loves him — that and the rock & roll. But don't be fooled by his charisma. Guru V is a master and his classes are not for the uncommitted.
During the 90-minute class, my heart pumps like mad, threatening a brain hemorrhage as I test the limits of my burgeoning practice. However, the other people in the class seem to be doing just fine. Hmm ...
Vinnie's word of mouth has provided him a following of yogis as high-res as Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham, David Duchovny and others.
Vinnie practices Vinyasa Flow classes as well as Iyengar yoga classes at Yoga Works in Santa Monica and privately (of course). In addition to those classes, this squeaky-clean yogi has embarked on another journey. His latest endeavor is called "Recovery Yoga." It's a sort of hybrid yoga workshop for junkies. It's a big hit, of course. Two things are never in short supply here in Los Angeles: yoga and junkies.—Sam Slovick
As the world spins off its axis and bounces recklessly beyond the confines of the Milky Way, Bryan Kest leads his packed-to-the-gills Santa Monica power yoga classes with an endless stream of lyrical, Seussian rhymes loaded with humor and self-effacing sarcasm.
Breathe with me
best as can be
through your nostrils
if that's a pos-si-bi-li-ty.
It helps that Kest has soulful eyes and sensual Scorpio energy. Is this yoga the traditional capital-"Y" Yoga that purifies the subtle energy channels? Maybe not. Will it lead us out of the illusion of separateness to Oneness with All that Is? Quite possibly. Kest's nonstop stream of chatter isn't just narcissistic babble. It's plump with merit and mojo, mirroring our issues and our mind chatter, quelling our competitive natures, pointing out our vanity and tirelessly reminding us to be gentle with ourselves and to honor our limitations without judgment.
He speaks to beginners — "For those of you new to yoga, this pose is called 'bending over and lifting your leg'" — and advanced practitioners alike: "If your leg is over your head, so what? It doesn't make you better than the person who can only lift it halfway."
Kest's emphasis is on practicalness. He wants us to be strong and limber so we can bend over and lift our children, not so we can twist ourselves into pretzel-like contortions and brag about it.
"Any idiot can jam themselves deeper into a pose."
He teaches only basics that everyone can handle, held for long periods of time and linked through movement and breath. Simple? Sure. Easy? Think again. Prepare to sweat. And laugh.
Your average Bryan Kest class brings in upward of 100 people at a time, and of those hundred, at least 99 are in love with him — even the straight guys. His merit as a yoga teacher extends far beyond his sex appeal, but it's there, for sure, and everyone knows it.
"Bryan walked on my mat today!" boasts my friend Ben after a sweaty afternoon class.
"Lucky you," I say, pretending not to be jealous.
Kest pioneered "suggested donation" yoga in L.A., effectively removing the class divide that previously rendered wealthy Angelenos toned and superior, and the poor ones soft and anxious. It's sweat-soaked wisdom in a room packed with Lycra and longing.
In the illustrious words of Kest himself:"It's like a dance class but without the bulimia."—Dani Katz


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Feb. 7, 2008
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team has signed U.S. Youth National Team players Bryan Dominguez (Atlanta, Ga./Edison Academy) and Danny Barrera (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Westlake H.S.) to national letters of intent, head coach Tim Vom Steeg announced Thursday. The two talented midfielders will help fill holes left by the departure of Eric Avila and Ciaran O'Brien.
Dominguez and Barrera are the first two recruits in a large 2008 class that the coaching staff plans to announce in the next few weeks.
With Avila and O'Brien leaving for the MLS last month, the defending Big West Champions will look to U.S. National Team standouts Dominguez and Barrera to step in and help replace two key members of the Santa Barbara offense that combined for 11 goals and 19 assists in 2007.
"In Bryan and Danny, we feel as though we have signed two of the most complete players you will find for their age," Vom Steeg said. "Although they are young and it will take some time for them to adjust to the rigors of the college game, these two players are extremely talented and will have a tremendous impact in our program early in their careers after competing at such a high level."
Dominguez comes to Santa Barbara after spending the last two years in the United States National Residency program, where he earned back-to-back NSCAA/adidas Youth All-American accolades. One of just three players born in 1991 to join the Residency in 2006, Dominguez was the starting attacking midfielder on the U-14 through U-17 National Teams and was recently called up to the U-20 camp. He was one of just five players from his age group to make U-17 roster last summer and represented the United States in the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea. A Parade High School All-American, Dominguez competes with the nationally recognized Concorde Fire, one of the Top 10 club teams in the country according to Soccer America.
Like O'Brien, Dominguez is a very quick and skilled attacking center midfielder. He can run the field, receive and keep the ball, and look to score. Dominguez is also considered to be a gifted passer with excellent range.
Dominguez is the first U.S. National Team player to come to UCSB from outside of California.
A two-time NSCAA/adidas Youth All-American, Barrera will don the blue and gold having also spent time in the U.S. Residency program. A member of the U-17 and U-18 men's national team, Barrera was among 24 players selected from the Residency to travel and compete for 30 days in Argentina in 2006. He also competed for the U.S. at the Pan American games last summer and plays for Real So Cal, a squad that has won three consecutive national championships at the club level. Barrera was recently listed No. 1 in RiseMag's list of Top 30 recruits for the class of 2008.
With the ability to play both inside and outside, Barrera is excellent at breaking down defenders and can dribble in and out of tight spaces. A gifted player with the ball much like Avila, he has been recognized as a skilled passer and can also run at the forward position.
Dominguez and Barrera join a Gaucho squad that returns just 13 letterwinners from last year's team that lost to eventual national finalist Ohio State in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. The coaching staff expects to add several more pieces in the coming weeks however, and with 2007 Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Year Chris Pontius and all-conference selections Alfonso Motagalvan and Jon Curry returning next season, UCSB will have three experienced players in place to lead a new-look squad in 2008.

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In memory
My lovely and amazing grandmother
Selma Theresa Målberg
Febr. 3, 1889 Larsagård, Rånnaväg, Västergötland.
She died May 18, 1972 in
Stugan, Gällstad, Västergötland.
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President James Monroe ordered this pair of mahogany armchairs for the East Room of the White House in 1818. The order was placed with Georgetown cabinetmaker William King Jr., and the set originally consisted of 24 chairs and four sofas. The chairs cost $33 each, and the purchase of the set was financed by the "furniture fund" that had been appropriated by Congress in 1817 to refurnish the White House after the British burned it down three years earlier.
Originally supported upon brass casters, the chairs were not upholstered. They were described in the 1825 inventory of furniture in the President's house as "unfinished." The chairs were made usable in 1829, when the East Room was decorated by Louis Veron & Co. of Philadelphia. According to an invoice, the set was "stuffed and covered, mahogany work entirely refinished, and cotton covers [supplied]." At that time they were upholstered in "blue damask satin," and the reference to "cotton covers" suggests that the set was provided with slipcovers used to protect against sunlight and dirt during the summer months.
In 1873, the set was sold at auction when Boston decorator William J. MacPherson redecorated the East Room under President Ulysses S. Grant. The DAR Museum purchased the chairs from an antique store in 1961.
American Spirit, Volume 141, No. 1, January/February 2007, Page 11
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 04, 2013 (AFP) – At least eight people were killed and more than 30 were injured in a multiple vehicle accident in southern California that involved a passenger bus from Mexico, officials said.
The accident occurred at about 6:30 pm local time (0230 GMT Monday) in a rural area north of of the town of Yucaipa.
The bus, operated by InterBus Tours, a Tijuana, Mexico-based company, apparently hit two other vehicles and rolled over, local fire department chief Ronald Walls told reporters.
In all, 43 people were involved in the crash, 38 passengers and the driver on the bus and two people in each of the other vehicles, according to Walls.
It took firefighters more than two hours to extricate all the injured from the wreckage. In all, 27 were taken to area hospitals, at least six of them in critical condition. Some of the injured were children.
A representative of the Mexican consulate was at the scene.
Bus going to ski resort
According to media reports, the bus was headed back to Tijuana after visiting Big Bear Lake, a popular mountain ski resort northeast of San Bernardino.
Witness Betty Harvey, a local resident, was driving behind the bus and thus was one of the first to arrive at the scene.
"People were waving and screaming," she said. "It was quite horrific."
Details of the tragedy remain sketchy.
"It happened so fast, I don't know how it all happened," one unnamed passenger told The San Bernardino Sun newspaper. "This was supposed to be a good day out with my companions and then this happened."
InterBus official Jodi Garcia said initial examinations point to brake failure as the cause of the crash.
"The information that we have is that the bus's brakes failed and the accident occurred," Garcia said.
San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman Eric Sherwin said some people were trapped inside the overturned bus and had to be removed by emergency personnel.
"Those injured range from minor to life-threatening," Sherwin explained.
A spokesman for Loma Linda University Medical Center told The Los Angeles Times that the hospital had received four victims from the crash — two adults and two children. One adult and one child were in critical condition.
"We're expecting more people from the crash," the spokesman, Herbert Atienza, is quoted as saying.
Highway 38, where the accident occurred, was closed for traffic in both directions.


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Sequestration cuts go into effect, have little local impact
Dramatic federal budget cuts of 13 percent for defense and 9 percent for most other programs took effect Friday, and the world did not end.
Instead, traffic flowed normally at the Peace Bridge, travelers came and went through the usual security lines at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, and the IRS remained hard at work processing tax returns.
But inside the federal bureaucracy, the stupid-by-design budget cuts known as "sequestration" were the source of great worry and, for the first time, personal pain, as employees at two agencies – the Justice Department and National Labor Relations Board – received furlough notices.
Those were the first signs of what government officials said would be a slow roll-out of budget cutting that won't touch Social Security or Medicare benefits but will take an ax to most other programs.
What's more, even though sequestration was designed to be so unpalatable to both parties that they would be forced into compromise on something better, it seemed increasingly likely Friday that the sequestration cuts would stay in place indefinitely.
For one thing, President Obama said he will not use a March 27 deadline, by which Congress must pass a spending bill to fund the government through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year, as leverage to force Republicans to make a deal on sequestration.
"There's no reason why we should have another crisis by shutting the government down in addition to these arbitrary spending cuts," Obama told reporters at the White House.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the House will pass legislation next week to extend routine funding for government agencies beyond the March 27 expiration. "I'm hopeful that we won't have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown while we're dealing with the sequester at the same time," he said.
Meanwhile, Republicans maintained that they would not even consider negotiating over the president's demand for higher taxes as part of a package to replace sequestration.
Emerging from a White House meeting with Obama and other congressional leaders, Boehner told reporters: "The discussion about revenue, in my view, is over."
That means that in Buffalo, the discussion is all about: When will the spending cuts hit?
And while that's still an unanswerable question, it was clear that they had not hit as of Friday.
Despite promises from Washington that border agents would be furloughed at some point, the Peace Bridge looked especially clear at midday Friday.
It remains unclear what, if anything, will happen at the international crossing, said Sam Hoyt, chairman of the Peace Bridge Authority.
"We recognize that this border crossing is just critical to the economies on both sides of the border," Hoyt said. "We have every confidence that our congressional delegation, who have been great allies of the bridge, will use all of their collective might to do what they can to make sure our concerns are addressed."
Meanwhile, at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, it was business as usual – even though the Department of Transportation has said it might have to end the control tower's overnight shift, and even though the control tower at Niagara Falls International Airport might be shut down, with its work shifted to Buffalo.
Such actions likely won't have much impact on air travel in the Buffalo area, said C. Douglas Hartmayer, spokesman for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.
"We're fairly confident that the [Federal Aviation Administration] would be able to keep an employee in the [Buffalo] tower and an employee in the operations center that would allow our flights to continue past midnight," Hartmayer said.
But it was all speculation Friday as airport officials waited for more news.
"We're sitting here waiting to find out what's going to happen just like everyone else," Hartmayer said.
There was no unusual backup at security at the airport, despite warnings that Transportation Security Administration officials may have to be furloughed.
So far, most agencies have not announced details of any plans to cut back on work hours for federal employees – although the Justice Department and NLRB are exceptions.
Some employees in U.S. Attorney's offices have received notices that they could be furloughed for up to 14 days between April 21 and Sept. 30, the Washington Post reported. William J. Hochul Jr., the U.S. attorney for Western New York, did not return a phone call seeking comment on the furloughs.
At the local office of the NLRB, all employees have been notified that they could be furloughed for up to 30 calendar days, said Rhonda Ley, the agency's regional director.
For most federal workers, though, sequestration still means uncertainty.
At the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, for example, employees know they might be furloughed as of April 21, and they know that a major construction project involving a new flight simulator is on hold. But that's all they know.
"There's an aura of caution here," said Maj. Andrea Pitruzzella, public affairs officer for the 914th Airlift Wing at the base, who said stress management services will be made available to employees who may be furloughed.
"We're preparing for the worst but hoping for the best," she added. "What this means, what the impact will be, we just don't know."
The same can be said for Robert T. Brady, chairman of Moog Inc. of East Aurora, whose defense unit employs more than 1,500 people in the region – and could suffer cutbacks because of sequestration.
"We don't know how sequestration will be implemented by the Department of Defense," Brady said. "We don't know how long it will take them or how they intend to do it."
School districts in Buffalo and around the nation, which face cuts in federal funding for educating the disadvantaged and the handicapped, face a slightly more certain outlook.
Buffalo Public Schools stand to lose $2.54 million in federal aid, but that cut won't take effect until the 2013-14 school year, said Elena Cala, spokeswoman for the district.
"We're just going to have to wait and watch and see how it affects our planning for the coming year," Cala said.
There's still a chance, of course, that sequestration will be repealed or modified by the time the school year starts. But local lawmakers agreed Friday that it looks increasingly likely that the cuts – $85 billion through September and $1.2 trillion over a decade – will stand for quite some time.
The House next week will consider legislation funding the government from March 27 through the end of the fiscal year at levels included under sequestration, said Rep. Chris Collins, R-Clarence.
In addition, the House will look at giving the president more flexibility in drawing up the cuts under sequestration, but Collins said he saw no pathway for negotiations to redraw or replace those cutbacks.
"I don't know what more there is to negotiate," Collins said. "We're not going to negotiate additional tax increases."
Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, also didn't hold out much hope for redrawing the spending cuts as part of the legislation due March 27 to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year.
Calling that deadline "just another inflection point," Higgins said: "Too many look at it as just another opportunity to create mischief."
While Higgins called the House and Senate "profoundly dysfunctional" and fretted that the cuts would be a big and unnecessary hit to the economy, at the Buffalo airport few people seemed all that worried about the impact of the sequestration.
"It seems as though they are scare-mongering," said Tom Irwin, a business owner from Derby. "I know a lot of people are concerned about it without knowing anything about it."
John McIntyre, of North Tonawanda, who teaches law at Niagara County Community College, seemed just as unconcerned.
"I'm not worried about it," he said. "They always manage to figure it out."
But Roberta Gainer, a General Motors employee from Cheektowaga who was on her way back from a conference with her husband, said she believes the American people feel like they're being held hostage by one congressionally created crisis after another.
"It's the sequester, and before it was the fiscal cliff," she said. "We're always living in fear."


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Farmers concerned about the new payment limit rules in the House version of the 2007 farm bill should not pin their hopes on getting a better deal in the Senate.
While Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, would not spell out any specifics, he made it clear to reporters he expects the Senate farm bill to go farther on payment limits than the House version.
"It will be tougher than the House bill," said Harkin, responding to a question about the $1 million adjusted gross income limit in the House bill, during his weekly telephone press conference. The House bill also requires direct attribution of farm program payments.
In his opening comments, Harkin said a top priority of the bill that has yet to be unveiled by the Senate Agriculture Committee will be continuing strong farm income protection. That will not mean settling for an extension of the status quo as he said the House bill does.
"I favor a system that places a stronger focus on paying farmers when their incomes fall and when they really need help," he said. "But we also need to create a system that is fairer — both to farmers and to taxpayers.
"We cannot go forward with a system that paid more than $1 billion to the estates of deceased farmers and doled out another $1.3 billion to landowners who don't even farm the land at all," he noted, referring to reports that appeared in the Washington Post a few days before the House vote on the farm bill.
Harkin also gave some hints about the behind-the-scenes farm bill discussions that have been taking place among his committee members. That includes backing away from earlier statements about reducing direct payments and transferring the funds to the new farm bill's conservation programs.
"The committee won't support it," he said. "Now what happens on the floor is a different matter. There probably will be measures on the floor to do things like that. But, quite frankly, I don't know where the votes are on that."
He also said he sees little chance the Senate bill will raise loan rates for program crops. "I just don't think that's in the cards. I think we will see more of the revenue-based counter-cyclical program that's been proposed by the National Corn Growers Association. The more I look at it, the more I like that. But, again, a lot will depend on the committee."
The chairman indicated one area where he has no desire to compromise is in increasing funding for the Conservation Security Program that he almost single-handedly wrote into the 2002 farm bill.
The House farm bill, the Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act of 2002, delays further signups for the Conservation Security Program until 2012 and transfers the savings to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
"It is totally unacceptable to stop signups until 2012, and that won't happen," he said. "We will continue signups in the CSP program next year and the year after and all the way through to 2012. My goal is to have 80 million acres in CSP by the end of this farm bill."
As farmers plant more corn to meet the demand for ethanol, including 17 million more acres of corn in 2007, the Conservation Security Program will be even more important, Harkin said.
"A lot of that is on hilly land, on fragile land, and more than ever, we need a CSP-type program to give encouragement and incentives to farmers to do no-till and to do good practices so they won't be eroding that soil or strip-mining their land by over-cropping or continuous corn on corn or those type practices."
But Harkin also cited some areas of agreement between himself and the authors of the House bill, including its provisions for providing increased funding for the greatly reduced budget baseline in the 2007 legislation.
House leaders included a proposal to raise $7.8 billion by eliminating a tax loophole that allows foreign-owned corporations to transfer U.S. earnings to countries with lower tax rates and diverting royalties from offshore oil drilling to the farm bill. The move touched off a revolt by House Republicans and brought a veto threat from the White House.
"Quite frankly, there are some loopholes out there that we can close," he said. "In the Senate we passed an amendment to the energy bill to go after those oil royalties. We got 57 or 58 votes for that. We needed 60. Some didn't like where the money was going.
"If some of that money went to agriculture for cellulose and biomass production and for conservation, perhaps the Senate would be more inclined to vote for that. We may get more than enough votes over here to use some of that money that's going to be collected to put into the farm bill."
Harkin said he believes some Republican senators would vote to close the foreign earnings loophole, as well. "I want to compliment the House for closing that loophole, and I hope we can do the same here."
The veto threat? "If it is just based on fact the farm bill is over the base line, the administration farm bill is over the baseline," Harkin said. "It's just a question of how much it's over the baseline."
Asked about the Senate ag committee's farm bill timetable, Harkin said he could make a chairman's mark outlining his proposals available for the ag media during the week of Aug. 6.


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High Schoolers to Study Near-Earth Asteroids at NM Tech, Dec. 18, 2008
Contact: Richard Bowdon SSP '74, Executive Director
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SOCORRO, N.M., Dec. 18, 2008 -- Applications are now open for the 2009 Summer Science Program (SSP), a six-week residential enrichment program in which small teams of gifted high school students apply physics, calculus, and programming to calculate the orbit of a near-earth asteroid – and the chances it might collide with earth someday. One of the oldest (since 1959) and most successful pre-college research programs, SSP is held at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, and in California. Again this year, New Mexican students will attend completely free of charge; the $3,750 program fee will be paid by a grant from the state government.
Bright teenagers from around the world come to SSP to spend their days in college-level lectures, and their nights doing hands-on astronomical research. Guest lectures from prominent scientists (many of whom are themselves alumni), and field trips to places like the Very Large Array and Magdalena Ridge Observatory round out the curriculum.
Students describe SSP as an intense, stimulating intellectual and social environment, "the educational experience of a lifetime." Emphasis is on teamwork and cooperation; neither grades nor formal credit are given. Enrollment is limited to 36 per campus, and eight faculty members live on-site with the students. Current juniors and very advanced sophomores are eligible to apply.
Students, parents, and teachers are encouraged to visit www.summerscience.org for more information and an online application. The Summer Science Program is an independent non-profit corporation, managed and largely funded by its own alumni. Additional support comes from New Mexico Tech and Lockheed Martin / Sandia National Labs.


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Amanda Lepore
Who: America's favorite post-op transsexual, Lepore is a ubiquitous figure on the downtown NYC nightlife scene and a muse to superstar photographer David LaChapelle.
Backstory: Born Armand Lepore in Cedar Hill, NJ, Lepore says she started wearing women's clothes at age 14. "Ever since I can first remember, I knew I was a girl. I couldn't understand why my parents were dressing me up in boys clothing. I thought they were insane." As a teenager, she befriended a transsexual at a club who started giving her hormone pills in exchange for Lepore's elaborate, handmade outfits; by the time she reached her senior year of high school, she'd undergone sexual reassignment surgery, paid for by her high school boyfriend's parents. Lepore soon moved in with her boyfriend and his sympathetic family, and for five years she remained there, under virtual house arrest, as her boyfriend didn't want her to be seen in public, lest she out him. Lepore finally escaped to New York, and worked as a dominatrix to pay the bills before falling in with the nightlife scene via Michael Alig's infamous "Disco 2000" parties.
Of note: For much of the 1990s, Lepore was a fixture at downtown Manhattan clubs where she was paid, as she puts it, "to dress up, look freaky and flashy and over the top, and to dance." But she also earned pop culture fame thanks to her close friendship with photographer David LaChapelle, who made her his muse. Over the years, she's been featured in countless LaChapelle photographs, and even graced a LaChapelle-designed Swatch watch. (The "Time Tranny" featured a close-up shot of Lepore and has since become a collector's item.) Lepore remains a fixture at events (where she can often be found alongside similarly colorful nightlife staples like Richie Rich and Lady Bunny), but she's also pursuing a music career. She released her debut album, featuring the singles "Champagne" and "My Hair Looks Fierce," in 2007.
The look: Lepore's over-the-top look includes sky-high heels, massively swollen lips and drawn-on eyebrows. Proving that you really do have to suffer for beauty, Lepore's undergone a nose job, cosmetic rib surgery, permanent lip implants, three breast enlargements, butt implants and "eye-slanting," to make her look more feline. And then, of course, there's the sexual reassignment surgery: Ms. Lepore proudly possesses an artificially-constructed vagina.
Personal: Lepore lives near Gramercy Park and is single. She says one serious relationship ended recently because her beau apparently wasn't a fan of her "party outfits." Go figure.
Soundbite: LaChapelle explained, "When I told her that silicone is dangerous, she said, 'I don't care, as long as I look beautiful in the coffin.'"
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Birth Name: Armand Lepore
Date of Birth: 12/05/1967
Place of Birth: Cedar Hill, NJ
Residence(s): New York, NY (Gramercy)
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As companies like Google and Facebook come under fire for increasing and often unwelcome online tracking, TRUSTe, a leading global data privacy management (DPM) company, recently announced findings from its latest privacy study – letting consumers speak for themselves about what they like and don't like about online behavioral advertising (OBA). Conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of TRUSTe, the "2013 U.S. Consumer Data Privacy Study: Advertising Edition" surveyed 1,171 U.S. Internet users between June 12 and June 19, 2013.
Although privacy concerns remain high, TRUSTe's 2013 survey shows that increased transparency and privacy controls engender more positive feelings about OBA. In addition, consumers want businesses to be clear and forthright about data usage and to give them the ability to make their own privacy choices. Only by doing so can businesses expect to create a strong and lasting foundation to support new technology innovations, such as online tracking.
Concurrent with its U.S. survey, TRUSTe also released findings from its "2013 UK Consumer Data Privacy Study: Advertising Edition." See UK study here.
"As demonstrated time and time again through numerous privacy firestorms, online companies that don't clearly explain what's happening with customer data or fully inform users of their choices contribute to a climate of fear," said Chris Babel, CEO for TRUSTe. "As our research shows, we think that by listening and responding to what users want, we can eliminate that fear and increase trust in the ever-growing data economy."
"This poll confirms that businesses that demonstrate their commitment to consumer privacy fare far better in the marketplace than those that do not. Giving consumers notice of online behavioral advertising and the ability to opt out through the DAA AdChoices icon is simply the best decision a company can make," said Genie Barton, VP and Director of the Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program administered by the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB). "It benefits all companies to adhere to the highest privacy standards when using interest-based advertising, and we will continue to build consumer trust in businesses by rigorous enforcement of the DAA Program."
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Back by Popular Demand: "Hallow, What's This?"
Two years ago on Halloween, resident linguist Neal Whitman explored the origin of the word Halloween. Just in time for the candy and costumes, we're revisiting his questions: how and why did eve turn into e'en? For that matter, what is a hallow? Why did the all get dropped?
I'll get the last question out of the way first: I don't know why the all disappeared from Halloween. The citations in the Oxford English Dictionary have it with the all from the earliest one in 1556 to one in 1616 from Shakespeare (Allhallond-Eue, in Measure for Measure). From the 1700s onward, it's Hallowe'en.
At least until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows arrived, the closest word to hallows heard in present-day English was the verb hallow "to make holy", usually in the form of the past participle hallowed. Christians are familiar with it from the first sentence of the Lord's Prayer, in hallowed be thy name; other than that, it occurs most often in hallowed ground(s) or hallowed hall(s), according to the Corpus of Contemporary American English. In fact, hallow and holy come from the same root. In Old English, holy was spelled halig; with the verb-creating suffix ‑ian it produced halgian "to make holy", which underwent several sound changes over the centuries to end up as hallow. The ‑ian suffix is the closest Old English comes to being able to "verb a noun" without changing it. I've translated halgian as "to make holy", since we can't just talk about "holying" something in present-day English, but still, "to holy" or "to holify" gives a better sense of having the meaning of "make holy" encapsulated in a single verb.
So much for hallow the verb; what about hallow the noun? J.K. Rowling used it to mean a sacred object, but that isn't its original meaning. It comes from halga, which as the masculine noun form of the adjective halig meant "holy person". In other words, hallow is a native English word for saint. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning of the plural hallows was extended to mean relics or temples of the saints, and from there, Rowling went a step further to give it her desired meaning.
Moving on to eve and e'en, both are shortened versions of even, an archaic word for "evening". Even itself might seem to be a clipped version of evening (likewise morn and morning), and cultural historian David Skal even writes, "The word Halloween derives from the Middle English hallowen ... and the progressive contracting of evening to even to e'en." He's wrong here: Evening came later.
Read the rest of Neal's column here.


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Much of the population mistakenly either decides to suffer through this in silence or is unaware of the problem despite the health dangers.
But theres one demographic that shouldnt underestimate the ramifications of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and thats the nations commercial truck drivers.
Stephen D. Ochs, M.D., chief medical director of Sleep Apnea Surgicure, understands what happens to a persons alertness levels when sleep apnea prohibits them from getting a good nights sleep leading to chronic fatigue. He has expressed concerns about what this could mean for public safety on our nations highways.
Far too many people dont take sleep apnea seriously, only taking action at the behest of a spouse who cant stand the loud noise anymore, said Dr. Ochs from the Surgicure center in Denver, Colorado. Its only recently that sufferers and many physicians have begun to respect the seriousness of the condition. Its imperative that sleep apnea be corrected not just for the health of those who suffer from it, but for those who have to share the road with someone who otherwise exhibits exhaustion at the wheel.
So that citizens all across the country might sleep better and provide fellow travelers with the necessary duty of care, Sleep Apnea Surgicure has put together a series of tips on moving past sleep apnea.
Retrain Your Body- Even slight adjustments to ones lifestyle can have a big impact on breathing. Something as simple as making oneself lie facedown or on their side rather than on their back can open up airways. Losing weight can similarly improve breathing patterns, as can refraining from such habits as excessive smoking or drinking, all of which could adversely affect breathing capability.
CPAP- The therapy, which stands for continuous positive airway pressure, is the most common treatment provided to sufferers of sleep apnea. Basically, a person places a mask over their nose and mouth that uses the forced passage of air to prevent airways from being obstructed during sleep. However, in order for CPAP to be effective in the both the treatment of OSA and the prevention of progression of OSA associated disorders including hypertension, sudden cardiac death, obesity, depression and chronic fatigue, CPAP MUST be used a minimum of 4 hours each and every night. Repeated studies show that anywhere from 40-60% of CPAP users fail to comply with treatment guidelines of nightly and all-night use. Under treatment with CPAP has been shown to be as dangerous to ones health as no treatment.
Surgery- Many patients cant or wont tolerate the continued usage of a CPAP mask and end up actually losing more sleep as a result. For such persons, Sleep Apnea Surgicure offers their proprietary, outpatient surgical procedure known as the Get2REM operation. The operation, which goes by the medical term of Maxillomandibular Advancement (MMA), enlarges the airway by actually moving a persons jawline forward, preventing the collapse of soft tissues of the airway that occur in effected individuals while sleeping. The Get2REM MMA operation has proven to be both safe and effective in their hands over the past decade.
Take Frequent Breaks- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimates that one in three commercial drivers have to cope with sleep apnea. This can lead to exhaustion should it affect sleep patterns. When commercial drivers feel themselves begin to tire while on the road, its imperative that regular rest breaks be taken. Drivers can pull over to a safe area and bide their time until theyre able to recuperate fully.
See A Doctor- When a driver cant account for why theyre so tired while theyre traveling the roads, he or she must make a visit to a sleep specialist a priority. If sleep apnea is detected, it can be treated promptly so that future safety is assured.
Fatigue Detection Technology- Whether drivers suffer from sleep apnea or not, safety is improved when employers and their employees invest in in-cabin technology that can distinguish when a driver is in danger of falling asleep at the wheel. By sending a warning, the system allows for drivers to pull over to the side of the road and get the rest they need to move on.
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Gay Rights Rallies in 160+ Cities, 50 states before Supreme Court Deliberations
Chicago rally is 5:30 PM, Monday, 3/25/13 at the Federal Plaza
Capitalizing on recent polls showing burgeoning popular support [2] for equal marriage rights, next week gay activists will hold vigils, marches and rallies in all fifty states and over 160 cities on the eve of the Supreme Courts oral arguments about two pivotal gay rights cases.
In Chicago the rally and march, sponsored by the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) and The Civil Rights Agenda, will begin at 5:30 PM, Monday, March 25 at Federal Plaza, Adams and Dearborn Streets, followed by a march to Pioneer Court by the Tribune Building.
On March 26 and 27 the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments in two cases about the freedom of same-sex couples to marry. These cases – which challenge the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8 – are fundamentally about whether LGBT Americans can enjoy the same freedoms and opportunities as everyone else.
Even if Illinois legalizes same-sex marriage, more than 1100 federal rights and responsibilities associated with marriage would still be denied gay couples here, according to a General Accounting Office study. The primary legislative barrier to this equality is the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed into law by President Clinton, which denies legal equality at the federal level even in states which have legalized same sex marriage, and allows states which do not recognize same-sex marriage to deny recognition of such marriages made in states that do.
To many, DOMA and Proposition 8 blatantly violate core constitutional principles that even conservative, "Originalist" Supreme Court justices, if they're being intellectually honest, should strike down.
The "full faith and credit clause" of Article V, Section 1, for example, says that states are required to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state," and should force a rejection, at least in part, of DOMA. If the Court is being honest, the "equal protection clause" of the Constitution's 14th Amendment, requiring that "no state shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," should force a rejection of Proposition 8 and all other state-wide anti-gay laws.
"The reality is that the Court, for all its pretensions and rationalizations of deciding cases based purely upon constitutional principles and precedent, is a completely political body," said GLN co-founder Andy Thayer. "In the 1990s, all branches of government leaned on anti-gay public opinion to thwart core constitutional principles that should have protected LGBT people. Today, with a massive swing in public opinion in favor of equality, our aim through these marches and rallies is to force the Court to live up to its Constitutional obligations that it heretofore has botched."
"We have to send a signal to the Court that if it rejects or muddles on equal rights, that it will pay an immense political price, that it will discredit itself as an institution, and that ordinary citizens will reject its legitimacy as an unelected, unaccountable body which has no place in a true democracy. Increasingly, institutions that oppose legal equality for LGBT people are seen as out of step with modern society, if not downright bigoted. Our challenge to the Court is that it can either join such relics, or it can keep in touch with modern society."


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die, any of various devices used for drawing wire, and for blanking, bending, cutting, machine forging, and embossing. Dies used for striking, or stamping, coins and medals are cut in intaglio, one for the front, another for the back, of the coin. Such dies were used as early as c.800 BC in Greece. Diemaking, or diesinking, formerly entirely a hand process in which the graver (a cutting tool), riffler (a file), and chisel were employed, has been accelerated in modern times by the use of diemaking machines supplemented by hand finishing. A punch, or male die, is commonly made as the counterpart in relief of the original die, or matrix; both are preserved as models, and duplicates are made from them for working dies. Sheet metal or other material is blanked (cut) out, shaped, or embossed between the dies by power-operated levers or drop hammers, or by die-casting . The die used for drawing wire or extruding rods is made of hard metal with a hole or a series of progressively smaller holes through which the metal is forced. For making screws or threading pipe a hollow hard metal die with internal threading is used.
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The secretary of state's office yesterday identified several requirements the Election Commission reportedly has put in place for poll observers that are inconsistent with state election rules, and ordered the panel to correct them.
The order, by Michelle K. Tassinari, director and legal counsel in the Elections Division, was issued after the Telegram & Gazette reported yesterday that the Election Commission issued rules that contain "numerous inaccuracies concerning rules applicable to the conduct of observers at a polling location." She identified six rules and statements quoted in the T&G article that she said are inconsistent with state election regulations and the steps taken surrounding them.
City rules that were reportedly issued and that the Elections Division said are inconsistent with state regulations are: requiring election observers to provide photo identification and to wear a badge. There also is no requirement that observers notify election officials in writing before Election Day that they will be observing, Ms. Tassinari said.
Contrary to statements reported at the meeting, she said, the secretary of state allows pictures and video within polling places, although certain prohibitions apply to them. Also, no audio recording is allowed.
The Election Commission issued new rules after allegations of improprieties committed by election observers at the polls during the September primary that could have intimidated voters or suppressed the vote.
"If the commission finds it has received and disseminated information to its election officials and poll workers that is inconsistent with this letter and the accompanying materials" outlining the regulations, Ms. Tassinari wrote, "this Office directs you to take immediate remedial action and provide this Office with a statement as to the action you have taken and/or intend to take."
City Clerk David J. Rushford declined to comment yesterday.
Elections Commission Chairwoman Diane Mohieldin did not return a call last night seeking comment.
City Solicitor David M. Moore said, "I'm sure the commission will review the secretary of state's memorandum and take appropriate action."
Although there is no requirement that observers wear a badge, which could make them appear to be official, Ms. Tassinari said, local officials are encouraged to provide observers with stickers and request that they be worn.
Ms. Tassinari disputed Mr. Rushford's contention that the secretary of state's office announced new protocols to Central Massachusetts election officials at a training session in Worcester last week. She said her office was not at such a training session and did not make such an announcement there, although representatives of her office were at an informal meeting in Worcester last week open to any group.
Ms. Tassinari said her office offered Mr. Rushford assistance in training city poll workers, including Election Day procedures involving observers at the polls, but he declined the help as well as several requests that her office be provided with training materials he intended to use for city poll workers.
She said pictures and video, but not audio, are allowed within polling places, outside of a guardrail area designated by the warden, provided they do not compromise the secrecy of any ballot or intimidate a voter, use public power sources, use signs, or leave equipment unattended.
Contrary to claims that the state developed new protocols because of Worcester's request, Ms. Tassinari said, "There has been no new adoption of rules and regulations for this election that have not already been in place for prior years."


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I love the results we are starting to get from Exo planet searches. There are planets out there, so far larger than anything we have in our solar system but getting closer all the time.
Now astronomers at NASA Goddard have created a simulation of how our solar system with video of how our own system might look to alien astronomers looking for planets much like we do.
They show that at least one planet in our solar system shows up by it's effect on the Kuiper Belt (a belt of dust and small bodies including Pluto beyond Neptune).
Another result of the simulation is that the researchers can take the forming of the belt back in time to see how it looked like when it was only a a few millions of years old. Patterns we already have on records for younger stars appear which I assume tells us something about how planets form and might get us a better model to predict where we can find smaller planets?
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William A. Garnett
American photographer
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
An American aerial photographer who elevated a practical procedure to the level of fine art. Two collections of his work have been published, "The Extraordinary Landscape" (1982) and "William Garnett Aerial Photographs" (1984).
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500003708.
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If Oregon's going to end up losing Chip Kelly as most expect, they'll have to wait a while longer before their current head coach officially pulls the trigger on a future at the next level.
Earlier today NFL.com reported that the Cleveland Browns were close to striking a deal with Kelly that would make him their next head coach. Apparently they weren't close enough as ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that Kelly will continue meeting with NFL clubs after wrapping up seven hours of talks with the Browns earlier in the evening.
According to Mortensen, Kelly and his representative(s) will meet with the Buffalo Bills tonight in Arizona, and then meet with the Philadelphia Eagles at some point Saturday. Where the latter meeting will take place is unclear.
Mortensen notes that the Browns remains are the favorites — "the two sides see no significant obstacles that would prevent a contract being completed" — and that the two sides have agreed to talk again Saturday night after he finishes with the initial conversation with the Eagles. What he doesn't note, however, is whether there's any chance Kelly returns to the Ducks for the 2013 season.
The move by Kelly's team to continue interviewing with other NFL clubs could merely be a ploy to wring every last dollar out of the Browns, who reportedly are prepared to open the vault in an effort to pry Kelly out of Eugene and on to the Cleveland sidelines. Or, it could simply be Kelly viewing all of his NFL options and deciding which would be the best fit — or if a "return" to the Ducks is the best option in the end, looming NCAA sanctions and all.
The collegiate door apparently hasn't been slammed shut as the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that "a source close to the situation said that [going to the Browns] was not a done deal and that Kelly could entertain other offers or even return to college." The paper did allow, though, that Kelly is "likely off the market" for the Eagles.
UPDATED 1/5/2013 @ 8:49 a.m. ET: A contingent from the Philadelphia Eagles will fly to Arizona to meet with Kelly Saturday, Adam Schefter of ESPN tweeted.


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California Department of Transportation
Date: April 1, 2013
District: 4 - Oakland
Contact: Robert Haus (Caltrans) Seana Gause (SCTA)
Phone: (510) 715-7212 (707) 565-5373
SONOMA COUNTY - Caltrans, the Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA), and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission today celebrated the start of construction on the next phase of the Marin-Sonoma Narrows Project (MSN) on U.S. Highway 101 in Petaluma.
The $700 million MSN Project will widen U.S. 101 from Novato to Petaluma and make other significant improvements. Known as "The Narrows" for its reduction to just two lanes, this segment of highway has historically experienced heavy congestion.
"This project will bring us closer to our goal of reducing congestion and increasing safety along Highway 101," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The MSN projects in Petaluma were allocated $120 million in funding, including $105 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond, and $7 million from Measure M, approved by Sonoma County voters in 2004. In total, nearly $15 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
The work underway in Petaluma will upgrade U.S. 101 from a highway to a freeway; reconstruct the Petaluma Boulevard South interchange; replace the Petaluma River Bridge; construct or widen nearly three miles of frontage roads; provide new pedestrian and bicycle enhancements; replace the northbound State Route 116 Bridge and widen the southbound SR-116 Bridge to accommodate future carpool lanes on U.S. 101.
"This work is the foundation for eventual carpool lanes and will bring the highway up to freeway standards," said Caltrans District 4 Director Bijan Sartipi. "When completed, the highway will be wide enough to accommodate a third lane once the carpool lane projects come through."
For more information about the U.S. 101 MSN Project, please visit SCTA's website at http://www.sctainfo.org or visit the Caltrans District 4 website at http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/msn/
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New York, NY – (January 14, 2013) – Viggle Inc. (Symbol: VGGL), the popular television loyalty service, announced today that following on the significant growth of the last quarter Viggle had its biggest single day yesterday, January 13, with nearly 870,000 verified audio check-ins.
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Subject: Implicit Recourse in Asset Securitization
Date: May 23, 2002
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel
Description: Policy Implementation
The guidance attached to this bulletin continues to apply to federal savings associations.
The attached "Interagency Guidance on Implicit Recourse in Asset Securitizations" was issued jointly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Thrift Supervision on May 23, 2002. The purpose of this guidance is to assist both bankers and examiners in assessing what types of post-sale actions may, or may not, constitute implicit recourse. However, the ultimate decision regarding risk-based capital treatment for these actions rests with the institution's primary regulator.
The attached statement highlights several examples of post-sale actions taken by institutions with respect to securitized assets. Examiners and bankers should be aware that, depending upon the specific circumstances, such actions could result in additional risk-based capital requirements.
For further information about this bulletin, contact the Office of the Chief National Bank Examiner (202) 649-6370.
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1 While the banking agencies are concerned about the use of covenants linked to supervisory actions in general, this guidance pertains specifically to covenants that use supervisory actions as triggers for early amortization or the transfer of servicing.
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Need some spare money? Have a unique talent? How would you answer the question — "I will _____ for $5?" If you have a service to offer, and want to buy one for $5, Fiverr might be for you. It's the latest marketplace allowing you to buy or sell your services, only this site charges a flat fee of $5.
When you offer a service it's called a "Gig." People in Cleveland are selling postcards and baseball cards all for the fixed price of $5. However, one of these sellers told me she hasn't had any takers.
Just like with Ebay, you are rated based on your activity, performance, and reputation. As with most sites, there are good and bad reviews even for the most highly rated.
Getting you hundreds or thousands of Facebook or Twitter followers is a common Gig on Fiverr. While many positive reviews, there are also comments that the Facebook likes are not legitimate or the Twitter followers are people with no profile and no picture.
If you don't get the service you paid for, you can cancel your order whether it wasn't fulfilled or wasn't delivered on time.
There are lots of quirky posts like, "Use a chicken puppet to read a short poem about my website" or "Create a 3 min video of you doing somersaults in various places." Both were posted as a need. Not sure why you would need either one, but if you can fulfill these needs you could earn $4. That's how much you're paid when you perform or sell a Gig.
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I'm an author. I wrote MESSY Manager - managing is messy, leadership is simple... just not easy - 11.75 Powerful Leadership Principles.
I also do consulting for small and medium sized companies. I work in the area of productivity, employee performance, sales and marketing.
We want the book cover to have THUD FACTOR which means it makes an impact. This book will be used as a marketing tool. We're not looking to sell 1 million copies but it needs to make an impact to our prospects and clients.
We want to be bold and daring.
Middle aged men (40%) and women (60%) who are frustrated by the lack of results in their company, their team or their group. This book is intended for people who know there are options and who can 'feel' it in their gut that 'there is a better way'.
Our audience is typically, confused, frustrated, upset, sick and tired of lack luster results. Either they have created a MESS or they have walked into a MESS or their superiors have created a MESS the resulting feeling is frustration.
Managing is messy, leadership is simple... but not easy!
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Michel Francoeur & Jean-Guy Francoeur
Foreword by Gerry Robert
Author of the bestselling book The Millionaire Mindset
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Think of a person who is stressed out and pulling their hair out.
Think of demotivated people
Use pictures of both men and women (ie: a group)
DO NOT use pictures of a messy desk (or messy papers) it's not about organization.
Think of a confusing puzzle map where this book is the missing piece - mix that with the feeling of frustration.
The book will be 6x9 hard cover. One we get the front cover nailed, I'll need the back cover and the 2 inside flaps.
I think this goes without saying but I want to make sure I get the original artwork in adobe (.ai and .psd) for this design. Just want to be sure.


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Below is an advert for the old supermarket on Clarendon Street showing the range of goods and services that were available circa 1976.
When I was young I used to love going in there with my Mum and Nan on a Saturday afternoon and buying chocolate biscuits which were all sold loose by the pound . As I got older I liked to peruse Hubbles record shop on the first floor. My Mum used to spend a lot of time on the haberdashery stall at the top of the stairs which always left me free to roam the entire shop floor with my sister. I never went in the Bingo area though - that was out of bounds.
Happy days !!
An aerial photo showing the old supermarket ( just above the middle of the shot)
Thanks to John Hopwood for the photo :)


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