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NASCAR Unites for 9/11 Tribute
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NASCAR announced today a special in-race tribute to take place on Saturday, Sept. 10 during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway. Fans attending the event, ABC-TV and MRN Radio broadcasters announcing the race, and the track announcer will all go quiet for a three-lap moment of silence from laps 9 through 11 at the .75-mile oval.
The three-lap moment of silence, in which all fans attending the race will also wave American flags, is the culmination of many 9/11 tributes and patriotic activities being planned by NASCAR race tracks, teams, sponsors, licensees, drivers, and fans in special recognition of the anniversary.
ABC's broadcast of the Richmond race will also feature a NASCAR Foundation public service announcement (PSA) television spot that encourages NASCAR fans to pay tribute by pledging to perform good deeds, support charitable causes, and volunteer in honor of the 9/11 victims, survivors and those who served in response to the attacks. The NASCAR Unites-branded, 30-second PSA has been airing on ABC and ESPN race broadcasts, as well as on SPEED, since August 27.
"NASCAR takes great pride in the patriotism that the sport showcases every race weekend, and the 10th anniversary of 9/11 is a special opportunity for NASCAR to unite and recognize those we lost and honor those who responded with courage," said NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France. "Bringing together the various 9/11 tributes with the NASCAR Unites platform collectively demonstrates the giving nature of NASCAR fans and those who work in our sport."
The NASCAR Unites PSA is an extension of The NASCAR Foundation's support for the national "I Will, Join the 9/11 Tribute Movement" campaign organized by MyGoodDeed and the HandsOn Network, which seeks to create the single largest day of charitable service in observance of the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance (911day.org). MyGoodDeed's campaign features relatives of 9/11 victims and survivors of the attacks, along with celebrities, sharing a special 9/11 memory or tribute. Appearing in a campaign spot as a representative of NASCAR is five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who will wear a Helmet of Hope in Saturday's race to raise awareness for children and families in need.
Johnson also appears in the NASCAR Unites PSA spot, entitled "I will. Will you?" along with fellow NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart and Brian Vickers, team owner Richard Childress, Richmond International Raceway President Dennis Bickmeier, NASCAR officials, team crew members, track safety firemen and NASCAR fans. In the spot, viewers are directed to visit NASCAR.COM/Unites to submit their own 9/11 video tribute, send a postcard to a first responder and register for volunteer opportunities in observance of the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance.
NASCAR Unites is an industry initiative led by The NASCAR Foundation that creates an opportunity for NASCAR fans, drivers, teams, tracks, sponsors and more to unite to encourage volunteerism and improve the lives of children across the nation. Through NASCAR Unites, the NASCAR Foundation will grant $1 million and generate one million volunteer hours in local communities to help kids live happier, healthier lives. Earlier this year, NASCAR Unites led an industry-wide effort in donating over $300,000 toward disaster relief efforts. To learn more, visit NASCAR.COM/Unites, Facebook.com/NASCARUnites or Twitter.com/NASCARUnites


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I am a mother of four lovely children. I live in Patagonia, Chile with my husband and three youngest children.. We live on a small farm with many animals. I will enjoy sharing about my life here in Chile. I hope to create an interest in readers so you will visit Chile in the near future.


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Today we debut Balancing Act, a weekly column from the Tribune's Heidi Stevens that will explore the challenges — big, small, tragic, comic or all of the above — of juggling life and work in a not-always obliging world.
An overwhelming fear in so much of parenting is that you've forever crushed the spirits of your children.
The root of the fear can be deep and impenetrable or flimsy and weak: You travel for work. You can't afford theater camp. You won't buy Lunchables.
The emotional weight of the fear is the significant part: It has no solution and no expiration date and no viable distraction, so it's as likely to shake you awake at 3 a.m. as it is to silently interrupt an otherwise benign reading of "Green Eggs and Ham."
The root of my fear is a divorce already a year in the past. The moving boxes are long unpacked, and the happiness that seemed forever buried under a mountain of bills and court orders and uncertainty has been unearthed and hangs comfortably in the air of our cozy, newish confines.
Still. Maybe it's our culture, or maybe it's my conscience — or maybe the two are so intertwined as to be indistinguishable — but a nagging voice is forever reminding me that I've taken something my children knew and cherished and relied on, and I've wrecked it. And, probably, I've wrecked them too.
It's hogwash, of course. Most of our fears are. But you don't know that at first, and you forget it a lot, so you scour, constantly, your children's landscapes for signs of joy.
And you find them — I find them — everywhere. My kids are 3 and 7, so they find joy in moments and rituals that the rest of us stopped delighting in decades ago. Bathing, for example.
And when you make a point of tracking joy, this lovely thing starts to happen.
Joy starts to feel like a victory. It starts to feel like the one thing, of all things, that you need to make room for and create and protect.
It starts to feel like the whole point.
So when my little guy, post-bath, bounces naked on the bed and squeals with laughter as the just-folded laundry takes flight, I feel my mood lift instead of sink.
When I ask my daughter to put on her shoes and she launches into a handstand followed by an Irish jig followed by an elaborate twirling routine en route to the closet, I realize I'd rather be 5 minutes late (we're always 5 minutes late) than miss a sign that her spirit is alive and well.
When the third, fourth, fifth round of knock-knock jokes is nipping at the heels of homework time, which pushes back bedtime, which invariably screws up the next morning, I no longer feel as if I'm doing every single thing wrong. I feel as if I'm doing one thing — the big thing — a little right. They're happy.
We're all obsessed by balance right now, whether we're dissecting Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's edict against working from home or deciding how many extracurriculars is too many extracurriculars or weighing the need to plow through a to-do list against the need for sleep.
I obsess about it myself a fair bit: how to give equal attention to two little humans whose needs are constant and humbling and so different from each other. How to forge a work identity without tying my identity to work. How to give ample, if not equal, attention to all those noncareer, nonkid pursuits — friendships, exercise, good books.
It's an elusive thing, balance, and it will always mean different things to different people. But I wonder if we wouldn't all do well to place joy on one side of the scale and the rest of our stuff on the other side.
And to make sure the stuff side never weighs more than the joy side.
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Tennessee Man Puts Octomom To Shame: Has 21 Kids!
Desmond Hatchett, 29 has children range in age from newborn to 11. There are at least 11 mothers; probably several more. Had 4 kids in 1 year, twice!!! The mothers of Hatchett's children are supposed to get anywhere from $25 to $309 a month, but when his paycheck is garnished amongst them all, some women only get a $1.98 a month. Rumor has it that 2 minors are pregnant right now by him, and many of the mothers are high-schoolers!!!! He is also on the way to prison for probation violation.
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It can be hard to make ends meet after losing your job, but there are some tax breaks from Uncle Sam to help cover job-hunting expenses.
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"Struggling job seekers can deduct almost every legitimate expense they incur while looking for employment provided they don't run afoul of IRS publication 529," says David Selig, federal tax practitioner at Selig & Associates and Founder of TrueTaxHelp.com. "Most job seekers don't have a clue about the breaks or about most of the available tax deductions."
According to IRS publication 529, job seekers can deduct certain job-searching expenses even if they remain unemployed. But with most tax code rules, there are some caveats. You can't deduct expenses if you are looking for job in a new occupation. For instance, a doctor couldn't write off the costs of trying to land a job as a lawyer, nor could a mortgage broker deduct the expenses of finding employment as a mechanic.
First-time job seekers aren't allowed to take deductions, and the IRS rules there can't be a "substantial break" between the ending of your last job and the search for a new one. Self-employed people may not benefit from these deductions because they have to exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income, according to Selig.
So what can you deduct?
Costs incurred from using a headhunter or employment agency can be deducted come tax time. However, if a new employer covers those expenses you'll have to count it as income when you file taxes. After all, the IRS doesn't look kindly to double dipping.
Even in this digital age many job seekers mail out their resumes, which can be a costly affair between paper, stamps and printer expenses. The IRS allows you to deduct all the money spent on preparing and mailing your resume, even if you are sending out a 100 resumes a week. But remember the rule: your search must be for a job in your old occupation to remain eligible for the deduction.
If an out-of-town event or interview opportunity arises, you won't have to worry about incurring all the travel costs. The IRS lets you deduct travel expenses if the primary purpose of the trip employment. Even the car mileage you rack driving to and from interviews is deductible. The 2012 rate for business use of a vehicle was around 55 cents per mile.
According to the IRS, the amount of time you spend on personal activity compared to the amount you spend looking for an employment will determine if you can take the deductions. "Be sure to keep excellent records in case the IRS thinks you're trying to write off a wonderful vacation," recommends Selig. You can take these deductions using Schedule A (Form 1040 or Form 1040NR).
Experts say job-related write offs tend not to raise a red flag within the IRS, but they still recommend keeping all your receipts, networking event information, proof of travel and anything else that can validate a claim in the event of an audit.
"It's important that you keep detailed records that accurately catalogue your efforts. For example, keeping a diary is a good way to stay compliant and ensure that you get all the deductions that you're entitled to," says Selig.


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Boulder Indoor Cycling, home to one of just two velodromes in the state of Colorado, closed its doors Monday after almost four years in business.
The owners said the velodrome simply did not bring in enough customers to stay open.
"It's certainly not what anyone was hoping for," said Bruce McPherson, president of Boulder Indoor Cycling. "We were hoping to provide a service to the community and make it a profitable business."
In addition to the velodrome, the converted warehouse at 3550 Frontier Ave. also housed a mountain biking course. But McPherson said when the weather was nice, cyclists chose to go outdoors rather than ride inside.
"The single biggest factor was the seasonality," he said. "We had riders for essentially four months of the year. We had a core group that rode all year long, but it wasn't enough."
Chris Echelmeier, a Boulder cyclist who often rode on the velodrome and even helped build it in 2009, said he was sad but not shocked to see the business close.
"I think a lot of people were bummed, but not surprised," he said. "I think it was an inevitability at one point, especially given how warm March was. No one was riding indoors."
Echelmeier said the people who used the track the most were riders who rode during their lunch breaks or late at night when riding outside wasn't as viable an option. He said he and a group of other local riders are looking into possibly buying the facility and keeping the velodrome in place, but leasing out the area around the track as office space to help cover costs. He said the track could be open during late hours and weekends when it was most likely to be used.
"I think there are some options," he said.
Local cyclist Cari Higgins taught some courses at the facility but never trained on the velodrome, which she said was too small.
"But I loved the fact that it was there," she said. "It's really a shame that it's closing."
Both Echelmeier and Higgins said one of the business' best assets was its CycleTykes program. Higgins said it helped expose a whole new generation to cycling.
"Kids had that opportunity to learn and be exposed to it, and now that's been taken away from them," she said. "What Boulder Indoor Cycling tried to do was awesome. They saw a need in the community and went after it."
When it was built in 2009, Boulder Indoor Cycling's velodrome became just the second in the state and the first in the Denver metro area. The other is in Colorado Springs.
In 2010, Erie town leaders green-lighted construction of an outdoor velodrome that should be completed this summer. The Boulder Valley Velodrome is planned for a 4.2-acre site at the intersection of Bonnell Avenue and County Line Road and will be 250 meters long. Boulder Indoor Cycling's velodrome was 142 meters long.
"I have no doubt Boulder can support a velodrome," Higgins said. "It's just too bad it didn't work out for Boulder Indoor Cycling."
The company will be liquidating most of its inventory, including its rental fleet of track bicycles and bicycle parts.
For more information on the event and the liquidation, visit boulderindoorcycling.com.
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For most people, the thing to do after a heavy lunch would be a nice walk to digest the food they've ingested (In my case, it was lunch at Jean Georges and then a Chicken and Rice at the Halal Cart) so they would be hungry by dinner time. In the case of the fat ass Panda here, I went for a dessert tasting. Hey, I walked to the dessert tasting, give me SOME credit there (so I tell myself that). Given this was my last day in New York (trip from 2010), I figured I had to try ChikaLicious before I depart the Big Apple.
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Since ChikaLicious was comprised of mainly bar seating, I happily took a seat from my "court side" view to the open kitchen. The menu at ChikaLicious is quite simple: For $14, you get an amuse, a choice of dessert, and petits fours. There's also an optional $8 wine pairing for your dessert choice.
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We were all given the same amuse, which as shown above was a apple sorbet in a caramel soup. The refreshing apple sorbet was a nice start to the tasting, and the dish as a whole reminded me of a caramel apple. It was quite delicious.
|Warm Chocolate Tart with Pink Peppercorn Ice Cream and Red Wine Sauce
|Brioche Crumb Cake soaked in Wine-Rum Syrup with Creme Chantilly and Clementine Sorbet
|White Chocolate Mousse Profiterole with Blood Orange and Frosted Pistachio
My friends and I were able to taste a few of the choices that day and enjoyed it as a whole. Now, was it my favorite desserts I've ever had? No, not even close. However, you really can't go wrong with any of the choices here. My favorite of the trio was definitely the brioche crumb cake with the clementine sorbet. I enjoyed the rum flavors in the cake and the citrus taste of the sorbet was a nice complement of that particular dessert.
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The dessert tasting was finished off with a simple petits fours. Again, all three petits fours were delicious.
ChikaLicious is definitely a place to try if you have a sweet tooth like myself. The ambiance was relaxing, so relaxing in fact, I didn't even bother with my dSLR and I just used my point and shoot camera there. The desserts here were simple and elegant, so don't expect anything extravagant, or you'll be left disappointed. At this price point, I was extremely happy with what I had that day. Also, just as a note: if you're on the go, there is a ChikaLicious To-Go right across the street!
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A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Side Effects
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What the Tabloids Taught Us While Waiting In Line This Week
We had some time to read the tabs while we were waiting in line to buy Alka Seltzer and carpet cleaner this week and here's what we learned from Globe, Us Weekly, National Enquirer, Life & Style and Star.
We can't deny that avoiding the express line has its privileges.
- George Bush Sr. has a dying wish. He's wishing that everyone would stop talking about him dying already because it's really bumming him out.
- Jack Klugman took a secret to the grave. He never let a single houseguest know when he replaced their coffee with Folgers Crystals.
- There are exclusive photos of a soap queen marrying Debbie Reynolds' son. It's unclear whether the soap made her its queen or if it was a self-imposed title.
- Pregnant Kate Middleton has walked out on the Royals after a nasty fight with Evil Camilla. She reportedly told her husband Prince William that she would come back after Camilla takes more meds and Nice Camilla comes back out to play.
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- Kourtney Kardashian shares how she got thin fast by losing 44 pounds in six months. She said it wasn't that difficult because 10 of those pounds were baby weight and the rest were ego.
- Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux had a sexy vacation. Derp. How else is she getting pregnant with all those babies she's supposedly carrying?
- Bethenny Frankel is still living with her ex-husband. Her ex says that while she's not a Real Housewife anymore, she is still a real pain in the ass.
- No retouching was done on Kourtney Kardashian's cover photo. A Kardashian publicist said that all retouching is done on Kourtney herself before photographers arrive.
National Enquirer
- See a list of the best and worst celebrity diets. Health experts say the list is unnecessary since the photos of over- and underweight celebs will make you sick enough to lose your appetite anyway.
- Chelsea Clinton has a pregnancy secret. A source close to the family says it's how to not get pregnant and she's hoping to share it with the entire cast of 'Teen Moms.'
- Khloe Kardashian has a plan to free O.J. from prison. "Prisoners shouldn't get fresh juice!" she cried as she carted out the bottles.
- A 96-pound Kelly Ripa is just bones and muscles. She keeps her skin suit in the closet, but apparently it's totally weightless.
Life & Style
- Khloe Kardashian has joy over a baby in the new year. A source says that, like any good sister, Khloe is excited that Kim will be heavier than she is.
- Chris Brown cheated on Rihanna with a blonde. A shocked Rihanna couldn't understand Brown's choice since blondes bruise so easily.
- Ashton Kutcher said to Mila Kunis, "Marry me." Mila Kunis said to Ashton Kutcher, "Finalize your divorce and get back to me."
- The stars have tips for peeling off holiday pounds. Next time you see a gorgeous celeb, just picture them as a giant banana. You'll feel better.
- The divorce of Bruce and Kris Jenner has gotten nasty. Like pretty much everything else involving Bruce and Kris Jenner.
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a holiday surprise. While in Italy, they actually met someone to whom they did not feel superior.
- Janet Jackson has a $1 billion pre-nup with an Arab prince. Among other things, the agreement states that Janet is prohibited from cheating on her betrothed and he has to call her Miss Jackson if he's nasty.
- Eddie Cibrian is burning through LeAnn Rimes' money. It's her fault. She gives him a big quarterly bonus for staying.


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Long acknowledged as one of Hollywood's finest actresses, three-time Academy Award nominee Debra Winger recently appeared at the National Institutes of Health in a dramatic reading of Act III of Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill's gripping 1941 play of family alcohol and drug addiction. It was part of the Addiction Performance Project, developed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to help healthcare providers remove the stigma associated with addiction and promote a healthy dialogue that fosters compassion, cooperation, and understanding for patients living with the disease of addiction.
Why are you participating in the Addiction Performance Program?
Ms. Winger: I was in high school in the late '60s and early '70s. Everybody came in contact with somebody whose recreational use turned into something else. And we didn't know what that was, really. But you knew that some people were different.
I never intended to be an actress. In fact, I was a sociology major and wanted to go into criminal rehabilitation counseling. And one of the most interesting questions of that for me was, "How did they get there?" I learned that 80 percent of the guys on death row were without their mother's presence as kids. You start to understand how drugs and alcohol just … it's almost like not even a question because it's part of the picture.
Drug and alcohol use has become part of the fabric of American life. My connection is partly from my family experience and a little bit from the world at large. Everyone is touched by addiction in one way or another.
How do you mean?
Ms. Winger: Because we assume addiction is woven into our everyday tapestry, we address it as a medical problem. But it is more than that. I had a fellowship at Harvard with Dr. Robert Coles, a world-renowned child psychiatrist, who created a wonderful course called "The Literature of Social Reflection" for undergrads just going into pre-med and areas of psychiatric care. He gave them literature, most times written by doctors, for example, William Carlos Williams. The purpose was to absorb the emotion, of someone dying; for example, Ivan Ilyich, in Tolstoy's famous The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
You mean using the power of drama to get the emotion?
Ms. Winger: Yes. Let's talk about what's going on around him and the family. Basically, this is what we're trying to do here, bring humanism back into medicine.
Who is your audience?
Ms. Winger: The Addiction Performance Project is for healthcare professionals and scientists, who often are not given the training to help with the things that happen to a person after the medical problem is diagnosed.
What is the message to them?
Ms. Winger: My goddaughter suffered from cystic fibrosis, which is a chronic disease. She spent a lot of time at the hospital, and I spent a lot of time with her. And I watched residents, interns, and then doctors; they can't take it in all the way because they would be trashed inside of five years. But when someone's in your office, include yourself in the conversation. It's going to help you bring yourself to the room.
The message is, listen carefully. There are two people in the room, you and the patient, so listen carefully. The healthcare professional must be ready for the full picture: what family life is like, the level of education, money issues; everything needs to be considered.
And what should patients hear?
Ms. Winger: Get ready. Be ready for your appointment. The patient has the responsibility to bring his or her one-in-the-morning fears to the 3 p.m. appointment. Often when we go to the doctor, we've had this and that happen. Our body doesn't hurt so much, and maybe we have already taken an aspirin.
But don't think that just because you feel okay right now you are. We have a tendency to discount what we were feeling as "just nerves"—and then ask for sleeping pills.
How do you feel about your role in the Addiction Performance Project?
Ms. Winger: It's an ongoing process of staying awake in my chosen profession, staying awake as a human being. I'm a mother, and although my parents are gone and I'm no longer a daughter, I'm a member of a family in all its different aspects. So I'm just trying to stay busy and involved.


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A cataract is a cloudiness of the normally transparent eye lens. It can cause a decrease in vision and may lead to eventual blindness.
Cataracts are a common vision problem, especially as we age. They are the leading cause of vision loss among people over 55, and they affect one in six Americans older than age 40. More than one-half of all Americans will have cataracts by age 70.
Warning Signs & Symptoms
As a cataract progresses, you may notice a decrease in your clarity of vision that glasses cannot fully correct. You may also experience:
- Cloudy or blurry vision
- Difficulty seeing at night, especially while driving
- Sensitivity to bright lights
- A "halo" effect around lights
- Faded or yellowed colors
- Double vision in the affected eye
- A need to change your glasses or contact prescription frequently
Cataract surgery is a low-risk treatment that effectively restores vision. The surgery is usually done on an outpatient basis, it generally takes less than fifteen minutes and serious complications are rare. The recovery period is relatively short, and you can resume most of your normal activities the following day.
Cataract surgery involves removing the eye's cloudy lens and replacing it with an artificial lens called an IOL, or intraocular lens. An IOL is a clear, plastic lens that requires no care and becomes a permanent part of your eye. Click IOLs to read more about IOLs, or click Cataract Surgery for more details on the surgery.
We utilize "phaco," or Phacoemulsification, which is the most commonly used cataract surgery procedure today. Phaco makes recovery time shorter and reduces the risks involved with larger incisions. It involves only a few steps:
- A small incision is made on the side of the cornea, the clear, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye.
- The surgeon inserts a tiny probe into the eye.
- The phacodevice emits ultrasound waves that soften and break up the lens so that it can be removed by gentle suction.
- The surgeon then inserts the new lens and aligns it correctly.
The incision is so small that it seals itself, so stitches aren't necessary.
Cataracts develop as you age, but there are some steps you can take to slow their development:
- Wear sunglasses. Ultraviolet B rays from the sun may contribute to cataract development, so always use eye protection.
- Quit smoking. Ask your doctor about medications or other strategies that can help you quit.
- Don't ignore health problems. If you have diabetes or other medical conditions, that can increase your risk of cataracts. Adhere to the treatment plan your doctor suggests.
- Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or obese can increase your likelihood of developing cataracts, so reduce your calorie intake and increase your exercise level if you fall into either category.
- Eat more fruits and vegetables. These types of food provide vitamins, nutrients and antioxidants, which could prevent damage to your eyes' lenses. Study results are not yet conclusive, but fruits and vegetables have proven health benefits.
After surgery, a shield will be placed over the eye. Our medical team will monitor for any problems, and most patients are discharged within half an hour, though they will need a designated driver to take them home.
Post-surgery recovery time is relatively short. Most people take it easy the day of surgery and resume normal activities the next day. Your doctor will provide detailed instructions for eye care after the surgery.


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Atomiser was a comix anthology edited by Stratu and published a year after the final issue of Sick Puppy Comix. It was intended to be a series of themed issues, the first being *Ancient*. The second issue, *Father*, was never published. Stratu, after a six-year hiatus, began a new comix anthology, Blackguard, another themed series, the second of which is to pick up the *Father* theme from the unfinished Atomiser #2.
Atomiser #1 [April 2003] Marcel Ruijters, Glenn Smith, Doug Iannucci, Mike Diana, Neale Blanden, Anton Emdin, Boz, The J Man, Ryan Vella, Martin Humphreys, Gregory Mackay, SCAR, Simon James, Stratu, David Aronson, Josh Simmons.
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This strange film from Lars von Trier ("Breaking the Waves," "Dogville"), which topped my favorites list for 2011, is now available on Blu-ray disc and DVD. It's an impossible movie to categorize sensibly: One can call it "Ingmar Bergman meets Michael Bay," which is partly true and partly ridiculous. It bounced up and down within my Top 10 but ended up in first place because it haunted my thoughts more than "The Tree of Life" or "Take Shelter" or any of the year's other deep-dish releases. It functions as a multilayer metaphor, allowing several different readings, none of them clearly "right" or "wrong."
Trier made it after suffering a period of crippling depression — a condition that motivates (or unmotivates) Justine (Kirsten Dunst), the central character. Even more accurately, she suffers from melancholia, which — according to a doctor in one of the disc's supplements — is not a condition, but rather a character trait.
After a deliriously gorgeous visual overture set to an orchestral passage from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," the movie is divided into two parts. The first takes place on Justine's wedding night, as she goes from apparently happy to hostile and self-destructive, managing to destroy her marriage before its first day has passed. You expect someone to comfort the groom with some platitude like, "It's not the end of the world" — which is true. That's in the second part of the film.
A hitherto unknown planet is careening in our general direction. Astronomers insist it will simply pass us by, but, of course, that's what they'd say in any case. Why panic the populace? That the planet has been given the absurdly unlikely name Melancholia suggests a connection to Justine's problem. Is this her dream? Is she somehow psychically linked to the planet? Did she conjure it up into the real world? The answer to those and several other possible questions is: Maybe; could be.
This is one of those movies that should really be seen on the big screen. Failing that, it really deserves the extra resolution of Blu-ray, particularly for the eight-minute overture and the final five minutes, both visually amazing. Sound and video are transferred with dazzling clarity.
The extras are relatively brief, but fairly interesting. There's no commentary track, but, in addition to the usual trailers, we get four shorts (totaling about 35 minutes), focusing on the nature of melancholia, the visual style, the special effects and the scientific underpinnings to the story. (There is also a 5-minute "making of," produced for HDNet, some of which duplicates material used in the shorts.) Trier participates in all; ever the provocateur, he positively twinkles when he claims that the movie has the happiest ending of any of his films.
"Melancholia" (Magnolia Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, $29.98; DVD, $16.98)
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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Bright colours, strong lines, fanciful figures: the Cobra art movement started a revolution in the European art of the 1940s. No more traditional still lifes and old landscapes; in this movement artistic freedom would prevail. It was all very controversial at the time but nowadays the works of the Corbra artists are among the classics of Dutch art. In the Cobra Museum you can admire the exciting works of top names such as Karel Appel and Corneille.
Cobra refers to Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, the home cities of the founders of this art movement: Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret. At an international art conference on 8 November 1948 in Paris, they decided to put an end to the depressing post-war art. A manifesto was signed in which the artists pledged to only create works that spontaneously sprang from their imagination; similar to the way children's minds work.
A major part of the unique legacy of Cobra is featured at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam. Birds, cats, snakes and imaginary creatures are often the subject of these playful works. Dutch painters including Karel Appel, Eugène Brands and Anton Rooskens were often inspired by children's drawings; after all children were free and unspoilt by conventions and rules. This freedom is clearly reflected in the endearing painting Cats by Jan Nieuwenhuys, and Toy Painting by the Danish artist Asger Jorn.
Cobra is now seen as a leading movement in modern Dutch and European art, but this was not always the case. Places at which the artists exhibited in the 1940s were often accosted by angry and even violent mobs who blamed them for destroying art, while a common saying was 'My child could have done that!'. Eventually Cobra became a huge success and upon reaching this goal, the radical movement abolished itself in 1951. The influence of Cobra was unparalleled and its effects can still be seen in contemporary art today.
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Thank you, Ms. Mostoller, and thanks for allowing me to visit your classroom to talk to you and all these students, and millions more in classrooms all across the country.
You know, long before I became President I was a parent. I remember the times that my kids came up with a really tough question or a difficult decision. I tried my best never to shut them down with a quick ``no.'' I would simply say those three magic words that made that problem disappear: ``Ask your Mother.'' [Laughter]
Let me tell you why I've made the trip up from the White House to Alice Deal Junior High. I'm not here to teach a lesson. You already have a very good teacher. I'm not here to tell you what to do or what to think. Maybe you're accustomed to adults talking about you and at you; well, today, I'm here to talk to you and challenge you. Education matters, and what you do today, and what you don't do can change your future.
Every day, we hear more bad news about our schools. Maybe you saw today's headline, I don't know if you had a chance to look at it, about the release of the new National Goals Report. Get the camera to come in and take a look at this for a moment. In math, for instance, this national report card shows that, nationwide, five of six eighth graders don't know the math they need to move up to the ninth grade.
In spite of troubling statistics like this one, I don't see this report, however, as just bad news, and I'll tell you why. This report tells us a lot about what you know and what you don't know. It gives us something to build on. It shows us our strengths and the weaknesses that we've go to correct. It sets forth a challenge to all of us: Work harder, learn more, revolutionize American education.
I know you've heard about stanines and percentiles, surveys and statistics, but here's what all that fancy talk really means: Education means the difference between a good future and a lousy one. Reports don't give us the right to make excuses. Our scores will tell us where we are and where we need to go.
I mentioned earlier the bad news we hear about schools today. But what we don't hear enough about are the success stories. You know, all over America, thousands of schools do succeed, even against tough odds, even against all odds. Kids from all over the District of Columbia petition to get into Alice Deal School here because parents know this school works. It works because of teachers like the one standing over here, Ms. Mostoller, who decided at the age of 25 -- maybe you all know this, but a lot of people around the country don't -- she decided at the age of 25 that she wanted to teach. She was standing in a supermarket checkout line when she saw a magazine ad about college. She went back to school, worked her way through in 7 years, waiting tables to pay tuition. She made it, and so can you.
This school here works because of students like the ones with me today, students like Rachel Rusch -- where's Rachel? Right there, okay -- a member of Alice Deal's award-winning ``Math Counts'' team. Rachel, you tell me if I'm wrong, but you and six other students in this class alone have taken part in the Johns Hopkins Talent Search. They took the college entrance exams on an experimental basis last year as seventh graders. Even in junior high, some of them scored well enough to get into college right now. So, let's just put it on the line. You've got the brains. Now, put them to work -- certainly, not for me, but for you.
Progress starts when we ask more of ourselves, our schools and, yes, you, our students. We made a start nationally now by setting six National Education Goals to meet the challenges of the 21st century. By the year 2000, at least 9 in every 10 students should graduate from high school. We should be first in the world in math and science. We need to regularly test student's abilities. Every American child should start school ready to learn; every American adult should be literate; and every American school should be safe and drug-free. Reaching those goals is the aim of a strategy that we call America 2000, a crusade for excellence in American education, school by school, community by community.
But what does all this mean, you might say, what is he doing, what does this all mean for the students right here in this room? Fast-forward -- 5 years from now. Unless things change, between now and 1996 as many as one in four of today's eighth graders will not graduate with their class. In some cities, the dropout rate is twice that high or higher. Imagine: Out of a total of nearly 3 million of your fellow classmates nationwide, an army of more than half a million dropouts.
I ask every student watching today: Look around you. Count four students. Start with yourself. No one dreams of becoming a dropout, but far too many do. Which one of you won't make it through school?
The fact is, every one of you can. Let's make a pact then right here. Let's work to see that 5 years from now, you and your friends will be more than sad statistics. Give yourself a decent shot at your dreams. Stay in school. Get that diploma.
Let's go back to the future. In the fall of 1996, 5 years from now, nearly half of today's eighth graders who get their diplomas will enter the working world. More than half the graduates will stay in school and become the college class of the year 2000.
The question each student watching today should ask is: Where will I be, where will I be 5 years from now? Will I be holding down a good job and maybe working toward a better one, or will I be out of school and out of work? Will I be on a college campus, or out running the streets?
Think about that tonight when you're at a kitchen table doing some homework; while your parents are meeting your teachers like so many millions do this year at back-to-school nights all across our great country.
I'm asking you to put two and two together: Make the connection between the homework you do tonight, the test you take tomorrow, and where you'll be 5, 15, even 50 years from now. You see, the real world doesn't begin somewhere else, some time way down there in the distant future. The real world starts right here. What you do here will have consequences for your whole lives.
Let me tell you something, many of you may find very hard to believe this. You're in control. You're thinking: How can the President say that about kids like us when we don't even have our driver's license? But think about it, and you'll see what I mean.
Think about drugs. You see films. You hear police experts and tough speakers from the outside. You get stern lectures from everyone: movie stars, athletes, teachers, parents, friends. But you know and I know that all the drug prevention programs, all the pledges, all the preaching in the world won't pull you through that critical moment when someone offers drugs. At that moment, everything comes down to you. Yes or no, you've got to choose, and the answer will change your life. Your parents won't make the decision. Your teachers won't make the decision. Your friends won't make the decision. It's up to you. It takes guts to take control.
A sound body and a sound mind, they go together, as my friend, and he is a friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger says. He's crossing the Nation talking with students about the importance of fitness. And real fitness means no drugs.
Studies show a decline in drug use, and that's good, that's encouraging, I think. And every student who draws the line against drugs really deserves credit for that. But drugs and violence continue to threaten every school, every small town and suburb in America. And as students, you have a right to be physically safe at school. You should never have to worry that a quarrel in the hallway will lead to gunfire in the playground. Fear should never follow you into the classroom.
If you have to take the long way home after school so you don't cross paths with the gang hanging on the corner, if outsiders roam the halls of your school hassling kids, hassling students, you must take control. Go to your teacher, or go to your principal, or go to your parents, as difficult as it may be, go to the school board if you have to. Demand discipline. If good people chicken out, bad people take control. Together, we can -- I really believe this -- we can drive the drugs and guns and senseless violence out of our schools.
When it comes to your own education, what I'm saying is take control. Don't say school is boring and blame it on your teachers. Make your teachers work hard. Tell them you want a first-class education. Tell them that you're here to learn.
Block out the kids who think it's not cool to be smart. I can't understand for the life of me what's so great about being stupid. If someone goofs off today, are they cool? Are they still cool years from now when they're stuck in a dead-end job? Don't let peer pressure stand between you and your dreams.
Take control -- challenge yourself. Only you know how hard you work. Maybe you can fake, maybe, just maybe you can fake your way into a job, but you won't keep it for long if you don't have the know-how to get the job done. Maybe you can cram the week before that marking period ends, and turn that C into a B. But you can't con your way past the SAT and into college. If you don't work hard, who gets hurt? If you cheat, who pays the price? If you cut corners, if you hunt for the easy A, who comes up short? Easy answer to that one: You do.
You're in control, but you are not alone. People want you to succeed. They want to help you succeed. Here at Deal, teachers like your outstanding teacher standing here with us today, Ms. Mostoller, from your principal, Mr. Moss, to your custodian, Mr. Francis. Right now in classrooms across this country, in the communities you call home, when things get tough, when answers are hard to come by, there's a teacher, a parent, a friend or family member ready to help you. They want to see you make it.
If you take school seriously, you won't have to settle for a job, just any job. You'll have a career. If you make it your business to learn, one day you'll be a better parent. You may not think about it now, but one day your children will want to look up at you and say, ``I've got the smartest Mom and Dad in the world.'' Don't disappoint them.
Let me leave you with a simple message: Every time you walk through that classroom door, make it your mission to get a good education. Don't do it just because your parents, or even the President, tells you. Do it for yourselves. Do it for your future. And while you're at it, help a little brother or sister to learn, or maybe even Mom or Dad. Let me know how you're doing. Write me a letter -- and I'm serious about this one -- write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals. I think you know the address.
Now we're going to walk over to the school auditorium to say hello to the rest of the student body. To all the students across the country who watched us here in this great classroom today, may I simply say thank you and good luck to you this school year.
And now, Ms. Mostoller, if you'll kindly lead the way. Thank you all very much. Nice to be with you.
Note: The President spoke at 12:15 p.m. in a classroom at the school. His remarks were broadcast live by the Cable News Network, the Public Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the NBC radio network. In his remarks, he referred to Cynthia Mostoller, an eighth grade humanities teacher; Rachel Rusch, a student; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness; principal Reginald R. Moss; and custodian George Francis. A tape was not available for verification of the content of these remarks.


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When Boulder attends the Sister Cities International Conference in July, the city's representatives will walk in the Parade of Flags, but without a Boulder flag. No image of the Flatirons or pesky prairie dogs will stand for the city.
Boulder officials don't think they'll be able to get a flag designed in time for this year's parade in San Jose, California.
But the City Council has authorized the Sister Cities Committee to come up with a flag for next year, even if only for the limited purpose of using at Sister Cities events.
"I think it could be a really fun event and a way to have engagement from the community," said Councilwoman Lisa Morzel, a liaison to the Sister Cities Committee, of designing a flag. "I grew up in Kansas City, which has had a flag since I've been little girl. A lot of cities have flags. It could be fun."
It's not the first time Boulder has thought to create a flag, though no one seems to remember much about the last attempt.
On Nov. 18, 1987, the Daily Camera published an article about the anonymous winner of a flag contest held by Boulder native Ron Campbell.
"The artist is nameless but the legacy may wave forever," the article begins.
It wasn't to be. The legacy never waved at all.
The City Council never adopted the flag as the city's official symbol, and it's not clear that council members ever gave it much thought at all.
Then-Mayor Linda Jourgensen was quoted in the Camera as having doubts about a city flag.
"I think we want to give this a lot of thought," she said. "I am in the dark on this. I don't know who selected it. At this point, I feel neutral about it."
Reached Thursday, she had no memory of the city flag contest, only of debate over whether the council meetings should open with the Pledge of Allegiance. (They do not and have not.)
Jourgensen said she could see having a flag just for Sister City purposes, but she would not like to see an official city flag.
"Boulder may have been more modest then," she said. "I don't think Boulder needs a flag. Boulder stands on its own."
Jourgensen is skeptical of the ability of a contest to deliver a good design.
"When you have a contest, you get a big red 'Yes!'," she said, referring to the proposed public art project at the library that generated community outcry before being abandoned.
Winner unmasked
The winning design of the 1987 contest had three horizontal stripes — green, white, green — with an image of the Flatirons in a circle.
Frank Griggs, the father-in-law of a Camera employee, said he submitted that winning design, but left his name off the entry because many of the other designs were from students.
"My competition was grade-school kids," he said. "I was kind of embarrassed, so I thought, 'I'll do it anonymously.' I thought I could beat them."
But there were other adult submissions, including one with the image of a $100 bill and another with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union.
Alan Boles, who was at the City Council meeting Tuesday on behalf of PLAN-Boulder County, told the council members they could use the design he and his colleagues came up with when they worked in the City Attorney's Office.
But when reached Wednesday, he had never heard of the flag contest.
His flag design had been an inside joke — a cocaine spoon against a backdrop of the Flatirons.
"Today it would probably be a reefer," he said.
Spence Havlick, who was on the City Council at the time, could remember his first night on council in 1982, when he had to vote on whether nude bathing should be allowed at Coot Lake and the city attorney wouldn't let him abstain. But he could not recall the issue of a flag ever coming up.
Griggs said his recollection was that the City Council just wasn't that interested in an initiative that had come out of the private sector.
Replacing Buddy Boulder
Former Mayor and City Councilman Bob Greenlee had a very vague memory of the flag. What he remembered more was how much everyone hated the city mascot that Campbell had hoped the flag would replace: Buddy Boulder.
Buddy Boulder was an anthropomorphic rock with a smiling face topped by the Flatirons.
At the time of the flag contest, Buddy "had not been seen in public for some time," the Camera reported.
Havlick said the new flag should feature an equally beloved Boulder denizen: the prairie dog.
Norris Hermsmeyer, chairman of the Boulder Sister Cities Committee, said with or without a flag, he'll have "a nice walk" in the parade.
At previous conferences, there have been flag parades representing the nations of the international partner cities. This is the first year that U.S. cities have been asked to bring flags, he said.
"I'm assuming a lot of other cities don't have flags, but it's still going to be a celebration of sister city relationships around the world," Hermsmeyer said. "We'll have a nice walk."
But Hermsmeyer does like the idea of coming up with something to represent Boulder.
City Council members said they didn't want to invest a lot of city resources toward creating a flag. The issue is in the hands of the Sister Cities Committee, and Hermsmeyer said he expects some kind of as-yet-to-be-determined public process.
"I think the iconic thing about Boulder is the Flatirons," he said. "And maybe some components of the city would be nice."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355, email@example.com or twitter.com/meltzere.


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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
The Guardian
Youth unemployment: can mobile technology improve employability? [1]
"Attention in the development sector has shifted sharply towards two areas over the past couple of years: youth and employment. While the huge increase in some countries' 15-24 year old population offers an opportunity for catalysing change and bringing in fresh ideas and new energy, many are grappling with the challenge of providing young people with meaningful work opportunities and concerned about the growing number of youth who are disillusioned about their futures.
The ILO reported that 74.8 million youth between 15 and 24 years were unemployed in 2011, an increase of more than 4 million since 2007. Globally, the youth unemployment rate is almost 13%, and youth are nearly three times as likely as adults to be unemployed. In some countries there are no jobs. In others, there is a skills mismatch and with some quality soft and hard skills training and support, young people could be ready for existing, unfilled jobs." READ MORE [1]
Development Gateway
Why International Development is like Fantasy Football [2]
"I am Stephen Davenport and this year I took a stab at fantasy football, which is like other fantasy sports (FIFA Soccer, Baseball, etc.), where you select individual players using statistics and form virtual teams that compete each week against other virtual teams in a pseudo league. It's for sports fanatics.
I was always skeptical on how "fun" that would be given that I played football myself in high school and am naturally hesitant to use pure statistics to predict winners and losers in competitive sports. Even so, I set up a league, read up on the rules, asked around and enlisted 7-8 of my college friends to join my league. As the "commissioner" I held unlimited power. We had a blast, I got crushed." READ MORE [2]
Is corporate social responsibility profitable for companies? [3]
"In 2011, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter – the king of business gurus – put forward a radical proposition to global corporations.
"Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress," he wrote in the Harvard Business Review. "Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center."
"We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking," he boldly pronounced." READ MORE [3]
The Girl Effect
Social media for girls: The potential is explosive [4]
"Social media is a powerful tool in today's world - it connects people across continents and has affected massive social and cultural change. I believe that for girls in particular, the potential it holds is explosive.
Working as a female entrepreneur in Nigeria, I've been able to see first-hand how using it smartly is one of the best ways to overcome communication barriers. This week, I'll be at Social Media Week Lagos, discussing how social media has the power to change the lives of adolescent girls. As part of the ' Mobilize! Social Media For Social Change' event hosted by Girl Effect, I'll be debating how tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have given Nigerian girls the opportunity to use social media to take part in the global development dialogue." READ MORE [4]
The FCPA Blog
Author discusses future of global anti-graft enforcement [5]
"Last week I had the pleasure of attending Global Financial Integrity's panel discussion and book launch for Laurence Cockcroft's Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World.
The panel, which included my professor at Georgetown, Lester Myers, Michael Hershman of the Fairfax Group, Raymond Baker of GFI and Mr. Cockcroft, covered a range of topics. I cover here a few of the high points.
The purpose of my book is to look beneath the surface of global corruption." READ MORE [5]
Center for Global Development
Development Drums Episode 36: Accountability and Openness [6]
"In this episode, Owen speaks with two guests: Rakesh Rajani, a Tanzanian civil society leader who currently leads Twaweza (meaning 'we can make it happen' in Swahili), and Martin Tisné, director of policy at Omidyar Network.
This is the first of three episodes of Development Drums which look at the relationship between effective and accountable states, active citizenship and development." READ MORE [6]
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By Andria Cheng
Retailers' holiday sales have so far proved disappointing, but online-sales again are a bright spot.
On Monday, after mall-traffic tracker ShopperTrak reported a 3.1% decline in holiday in-store sales and a 21% plunge in store traffic in the crucial shopping week ended Sunday, some data again suggest a brighter picture online. IBM Digital Analytics said total online sales from Friday through Sunday surged 37% year-to-year, with mobile traffic representing two-fifths of all online traffic. Consumers buying from their mobile devices sent mobile sales up 53%, accounting for 21.5% of all online sales, IBM said.
The days between Friday and Sunday are important for the retail industry because they, along with Black Friday, represent the top four shopping days of the season, ShopperTrak said.
Separately, online sales between Dec. 15 and Dec. 18 also jumped 13%, with 23% traffic growth, according to Custora Pulse, which tracks real-time data from more than 100 U.S. retailers selling online.
However, while online growth continues to outpace the in-store growth, consumers still spend the bulk of their money at brick-and-mortar stores. The National Retail Federation forecast total holiday physical-store and online sales in November and December to total $602 billion, but its online Shop.org arm projected as much as $82 billion for Internet sales.
With what looks to be a disappointing holiday season, Retail Metrics' Ken Perkins told MarketWatch on Tuesday fourth-quarter retail sales for the 120 chains it tracks is now expected to rise just an average of 1.9%, the weakest since third-quarter 2009. Profit growth is expected to be just 1.3%, also the weakest since third-quarter 2009, "when retailers were still clawing their way out of the Great Recession." Fourth-quarter same-store sales are expected to rise an unimpressive 1.1%.
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Retailers aren't calling it quits yet. Across the board, retailers from Wal-Mart /quotes/zigman/245476/delayed /quotes/nls/wmt WMT to Amazon /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN are pitching gift card sales in the final countdown to Christmas. Meanwhile, brick and mortar chains from Best Buy Co. /quotes/zigman/219712/delayed /quotes/nls/bby BBY to the card-hack troubled Target Corp. /quotes/zigman/253872/delayed /quotes/nls/tgt TGT are pitching online purchases for in-store pickup. Anything helps because 31% of consumers still plan to shop on Tuesday, according to an International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs survey.
Because gift card sales don't count as sales until they are redeemed, retailers are hoping that will give them some additional sales push after Christmas. The idea is people armed with gift cards will spend the money on full-priced spring merchandise already in stores.
This coming Thursday and Saturday both are ranked among the top-10 shopping days.
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CLAREMONT (CNS) – A passenger has died after being ejected during a two-vehicle collision on the Foothill (210) Freeway in Claremont early today, while the driver of another vehicle was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and fleeing the scene.
Ryan Munos, 37, of Alhambra was taken into custody after a witness spotted his vehicle in a driveway near the scene of the accident and phoned police, according to the California Highway Patrol.
At about 1:33 a.m., Munos was heading westbound in the number three lane of the freeway just east of Towne Avenue and driving at a high rate of speed behind a white Dodge, said Sgt. Kurt Stormes of the CHP.
Munos allegedly rear-ended the Dodge, forcing it to the right and onto a raised dirt embankment where it began to roll over, Stormes said.
The passenger of the vehicle, an unidentified 27-year-old male, was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the car, suffering fatal injuries, he said.
The Dodge ended up on its roof in the number three lane and the driver, 30-year-old Michael Mahan suffered lacerations and abrasions, Stormes said.
Munos failed to pull over and exited the freeway, turning north onto Towne Avenue and then right onto Baseline Road, where he pulled into a driveway, according to the sergeant.
A witness reported the suspect vehicle and police arrested Munos for allegedly driving drunk, causing a crash with great bodily harm and failing to pull over after an accident.


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Forget the red roses. Nix the chocolates. Cancel the dinner reservations at the ridiculously-expensive and over-crowded restaurant. It turns out, most significant others want something much more basic from their partner: a good credit rating.
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According to a survey from American Express (NYSE:AXP), 8 out of 10 couples will exchanges gifts this Valentine's Day spending an average of $260- up 67% from last year. And yet that same survey found that 30% of women currently in a relationship say Valentine's Day is "over-rated."
Call it unromantic, but odds are your partner would be more turned on with money spent on something practical like a house down payment or reducing debt.
"People get very caught up in buying fancier gifts," says psychologist Michelle Callahan, a consultant for Chase's credit card division. Whether we're talking about birthdays, Christmas or Valentine's Day, she says expectations seem to go higher each year. "People feel pressure to impress their mates and do something that tops the previous year. It's almost culturally inappropriate to do something sweet and low-cost."
In fact, according to a poll by CreditCards.com, poor money habits can actually kill a relationship. Both women and men agreed that discovering that a partner had lied about his/her ability to pay routine household bills, is as serious as learning of a criminal history. According to the poll, 70% of women said that either condition would be grounds for breaking off a relationship. Men were slightly more forgiving: 54% said they'd walk away from a woman with poor bill-paying habits vs. 58% saying they'd do so if she had a criminal record.
In addition, two-thirds of women and slightly more than half of men said that discovering their partner had a large amount of credit card debt was also grounds for walking away. Furthermore, 47% of men and 57% of women either agreed or strongly agreed that before they got seriously involved in a relationship with another person, they would want to know that individual's credit score.
"Clearly, women are more sensitive to money issues in relationships than men are," says Dan Ray, editor-in-chief at CreditCards.com.
Age also plays a role in our attitudes about the financial foibles of our significant other. "Young people in general tend to be more tolerant of financial problems in a partner than older people," says Ray. "I suspect it's because we've all screwed up as kids. It's tough to find a young person who hasn't had some problems with money." It could also be that many young adults find themselves in the same student loan debt situation.
However, by the time you've reach a certain age, you're expected to have figured it out. When asked, "Would you break off a relationship if you found out your partner was heavily in debt?," 24% of those aged 18-24 agreed compared to 71% of those 65 or older.
Possibly because of the different ways the questions were phrased, some of the results in the Chase survey were exactly the opposite. For instance, only 2% of respondents of all ages report that finding out their partner had debt of $10,000 or more would be grounds for breaking up. Instead, respondents overwhelmingly (74%) said their response would be to "sit down and talk with them about it." More than one out of 10 said they would personally help their partner pay down their debt.
Despite their differences, there is a central take away from both surveys: communication is crucial. Since financial issues are the No.1 cause of arguments among couples, "being open and honest with your partner about money early on is key to a lasting relationship," says Ray.
"Both partners have to be on the same page financially," stresses Callahan. "Couples should be talking about where they are financially and thinking about their future together." Although it's probably not something you want to do over Valentine's Day dinner, she recommends partners use the date as an annual time to "Take stock. Set goals."
"What's not romantic, is when you're so stressed out about your bills that you're not being romantic."