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"..For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"
John 18:37b-38a
As I've been watching the news closely I've noticed a common thread in the behavior of the left. and those who support them involving the rejection of Truth. This is the first of a series of posts along these lines:
Item: Today Instapundit quoted this piece at the JWF concerning Hurricane Sandy:
Clueless Bloomberg on Sandy 911 Chaos: "The technology functioned perfectly"
Posted by Jammie on Nov 20, 2012 at 7:52 am
The most out of touch man on the planet again shoves both feet in his mouth. Has there ever been a moment when he didn't, just out of guilt, admit the failure of something under his command?
Mind you that same Morning Joe talked about how wonderful Bloomberg/Obama did during Sandy before the election yet today Mika was tweeting about photos of the still existing disaster three weeks later. One of Glenn's readers put it thus:
"It's not cluelessness or incompetence; it's the Big Lie…and it is now pervasive in our government and media. They know the failings full well. They've just decided it's easier to whitewash/ignore them than do anything serious about them. Besides, working on real problems would take resources away from the 'transforming America' agenda."
This Jibes with a story in the Leominster Champion that got no coverage of local good Samaritan Ginny White trip to NY to help:
She ended up being sent to The Rockaways, where FEMA and American Red Cross were accepting donations.
"The Friends of the Firefighters set up for me to go and drop of donations from our City of Angels. When we got there, the Good Samartians got there first and loaded up the fire station. The firefighters were so grateful, they took a few skids of juice and such, then sent us about a mile away to where the Red Cross was set up in a parking lot," a very upset White began.
OK a good start but when she finally found the Red Cross
"We pulled in with our truck, and after getting a run around from FEMA and the red cross, a woman finally came to my truck and asked what we had."
Ginny opened the back of the truck and the reed cross woman went in and started ripping open bags and bins, according to White.
"She looked at me and said ,"we don't take this stuff, putting her hand up in the air, and walked away,"
Ginny as anyone in the Fitchburg Leominster area knows tirelessly works for the poor was not amused.
"I went behind her and said "wait a minute, I was told to come here and help people," Ginny said.
She said she was quite upset over the turn of events. Ms. White continued, "while we were there, a victim came up to me and asked if we had any blankets as she needed one. I told her I had new and used, and she said she would take a used one. I went to hand her a blanket, and four red cross people came over and told her I could not give this lady a blanket," she said.
As it ended up, Ginny snuck the blanket and a box of food to the woman.
"I could not believe they would not let me give away what we brought," a distraught White said.
But we can't blame the Red Cross, it's policy:
Dawn Leaks, regional director of communications with the Red Cross said it is policy that the agency does not accept bulk donations for disaster relief.
"We work with partner agencies such as Salvation Army and Catholic Charities who do that," Ms. leaks said.
According to Red Cross policy, only cash donations are accepted.
Ms. Leaks said it is an unfortunate situation that Ms. White was turned away, but it is policy, and that is just how it works.
But wait, I thought we were cutting through red tape to help these people, that's what the media, the left and the President Said.
There is nobody that I've heard of who spends more time and effort on the needs of the poor and Hungry, now Ginny is totally turned off on the Red Cross.
If George Bush was in office Ginny White would be on every TV network but this is the time of the Big Lie.
The Big Lie, it's all about not telling the truth or "speaking truth to power" but about pushing a meme and if some people are without blankets that's just the way it is. More on that tomorrow.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday sharpened its criticism of the Egyptian military and interim government's arrests of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, saying the continuing detentions are inconsistent with pledges of inclusivity made by authorities and may affect future U.S. assistance.
While the administration has determined it's not in U.S. national security interests to make any immediate changes to its aid program, officials said the ongoing arrests of members of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and political party are troubling. The criticism is some of the administration's most severe of Egypt's new leadership since Morsi was toppled last week and came a day after arrest warrants were issued for the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader and nine other Islamists accused of inciting violence.
The White House and State Department both warned against targeting any particular group in the aftermath of Morsi's overthrow, calling it self-defeating and counter to the idea of restoring a democratically election civilian government.
"The only way this is going to work successfully for the Egyptian people is if all parties are encouraged and allowed to participate and that's why we've made clear that arbitrary arrests are not anything that we can support," White House press secretary Jay Carney said. "We could not support those, because if you're arresting individuals from one group or one party, you're working against yourself if your effort is to be inclusive as you make this transition back to a civilian, democratically elected government."
At the State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki echoed those comments and went further, saying that the arrests contradicted assurances given to U.S. officials by the Egyptian military and members of the interim government.
"The arrests we've seen, of course, over the past several days targeting specific groups are not in line with the national reconciliation that the interim government and military say they are pursuing," she said. "If politicized arrests and detentions continue, it is hard to see how Egypt will move beyond this crisis."
Psaki added that U.S policy makers would be looking closely to see if the arrests continue as they review decisions on assistance to Egypt.
"We're looking at what happened last week and how things are certainly handled moving forward," she said. "Those are all factors in our decision-making around our policy as it relates to Egypt."
The administration has thus far declined to term Morsi's ouster a coup, a designation that would require a suspension in the $1.5 billion in U.S. aid to the country, including $1.3 billion in direct military support. While the review continues, officials have said assistance will not be interrupted.
Meanwhile, though, a Republican lawmaker introduced a bill to halt the aid. Several senators have urged the suspension of military and other funds for Egypt because of a U.S. law prohibiting foreign assistance after coups, but Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is the first to propose legislation to cut it off.
"The overthrow of the Egyptian government was a coup d'etat, and the law is clear that when a coup takes place, foreign aid must stop," Paul said in a statement. He criticized President Barack Obama for refusing to label the government takeover a "coup" and for continuing to send Egypt assistance. The president, Paul said, "is forthrightly saying, 'I am ignoring the rule of law.'"
Still, the bill is unlikely to pass. Despite criticism of the military from some American lawmakers, many believe Morsi's government was taking Egypt down an increasingly undemocratic path.

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If you're like me, you like for things to be semantically reliable. Huh?
Said another way, I like for things to mean what they say and say what they mean. Here are a few examples of I get annoyed by failed sematics - when a footpath is used almost entirely by cyclists, when an escalator is merely stairs, or when a restroom has a huge crowd and long lines. (No rest to be had in that room).
So you can bet that I get a little prickly when the "Error Log" is used to post messages that something completed successfully. Really? I came here to this error log looking for, wait for it, ... errors! My biggest annoyance here in the SQL Server sphere is that SQL Server has been posting messages in the error log every time a backup completes successfully for, like, 300 years or something. I can remember that at least five years ago Microsoft storage PM Kevin Farlee blogged about it. And Kevin has been working on SQL Server for, like, 300 years. too.
I recommend that you set your SQL Server to use the startup traceflag DBCC TRACEON (3226) to disable backup success message. Read all about it on Microsoft's webpage describing this and many other trace flags for SQL Server.
In addition, be sure to look at Benjamin Nevarez's post on cool, undocumented trace flags. He still hasn't told me the secret trace flag that sends a sock to the Microsoft developer whenever the feature s/he developed causes an end-user to scream in frustration.
And don't overlook golden-oldies posts, like Andrew Kelly's blog chalked full of example T-SQL programs to demonstrate this scenario. I think this blog post was also written, like, 300 years ago - way before computers were invented. Very prescient of Andy!
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Devin Koch '88 is VP of International Markets for ATDynamics
March 14, 2013
Devin E. Koch, a 1988 graduate of DePauw University, has been appointed vice president of international markets for ATDynamics. Koch is based in Zurich, Switzerland, for the company, the leading global supplier of semi-trailer rear-drag aerodynamics technology.
According to an announcement, Koch "will be responsible for driving business development in the European Union and other international markets, identifying new opportunities to build and drive ATDynamics' top-line growth. He will lead ATDynamics' international corporate strategy, sales and marketing. Devin is an experienced operating executive and serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience focused on developing international technology companies."
A computer science major as an undergraduate, Koch's resume includes leadership positions at telecommunications companies including Prophonos and Exwire, Inc. He is also a managing director at Maroons Partners, a venture fund that makes investments in early stage private companies.
"Devin will play a significant role in the evolution of our international market growth," says Andrew Smith, CEO and founder of ATDynamics, Inc. "Devin's strategy and leadership skills will help us move even more quickly to seize international market opportunities. His experience will serve our stakeholders well as he assumes this important leadership position at ATDynamics."
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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
I want to clear something up - the wwgha website says that you can "Contact us" and if there is not enough time to get back to an individual question, it may be posted to the forum instead. So, I did, assuming (always a mistake, I admit!) that the standard was a personal response, and the back-up was post-to-a-forum. So, long story short, I didn't particularly intend to begin a thread that would require daily check-ins. When I realized a thread had been started, I began to participate. I should have said at the outset that I am not going to be able to keep up on this through daily check-ins.
From the beginning, though, I checked "yes" to the option that allows persons to email me individually and I would be happy to exchange emails with you personally. That said, I respect that you do not want a list of things to read because your journey is not the same as mine - a list of things to read might not be meaningful to you.
I came to the faith through reason and research (And yes, included looking into other faiths & systems of belief. My undergraduate degree was in Anthropology; so research, particularly regarding systems of belief, is something I value quite a bit.), but that doesn't mean that you came to atheism in the same way. And, just as all Catholics are not the same, all atheists are not the same; this is, of course, because all people are not the same.
My assumption that some research or reading had taken place was based on WWGHA itself, which talks about Jesus, the Bible, etc. The reason I asked the question in the first place (again, intending it to go to an individual) was because so many of the things in WWGHA indicate that the writer(s) did research about Christianity, but missed what a basic Freshman/Sophomore-level course in Western Humanities would consider significant works. In other words, I'm not asking whether s/he read every work on Catholicism (the Courtier's Reply); I'm trying to get to the bottom of what was read in order to conclude WWGHA's conclusions.
(And, after the thread was posted, to find out what readers'/contributors' research has entailed, since WWGHA doesn't seem to have a specific spokesperson to describe what was read about Christianity in order to come to the conclusions drawn in WWGHA itself.)
Presumably, if someone were going around saying things like "your mother's a whore," or "your father is a greedy, lying son-of-a…", or "You have no sense of reason, intelligence, or the capacity to use your eyeballs and review evidence," you would at the very least ask him/her: "Where are you getting your information?"
Again, if this WWGHA were a website refuting the Muslim God, or Hindu gods, I wouldn't have been inclined to ask such a question.
WWGHA focuses on Jesus and Christianity, so I responded because I could see that what was known about Christianity, even at its most basic beliefs, was misunderstood - clearly based on popular media and modern-day American Fundamentalist Christianity.
Being that I am, like you, a person, and therefore have a husband and dinner and all those good things to attend to, I must stop here for now. I will check in again soon, and thank you again for reading…


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The current Times Building, minus a later annex, rises behind a worker demolishing the paper's previous home in 1937, during the Harry Chandler era. Harry's sway was impressive, but one L.A. expert places the family's peak influence a few decades later under Norman and Dorothy Chandler.
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George R. Watson poses in front of small backdrop with a 4 x 5 Graflex and powder flash gun. Watson was a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times from 1917 to 1929. He returned to the Times during World War II, when many staff photographers entered military service.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Watson Family Photographic ArchiveLink
The Times' balloon was hauled around the Southland on a truck, then raised to allow a crewman to photograph the local points of interest.
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Jan. 1, 1900: Riding in the 11th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade is Maj. Gen William R. Shaftey, left, Pasadena Mayor George Patten, center, and Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, president and general manager of the Los Angeles Times. The driver is not identified. The carriage was drawn by a pair of white horses, and adorned with roses and an American flag.
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Dec. 31, 1901: Angels Flight on opening day at 3rd and Hill streets in downtown Los Angeles. The sightseeing tower was later demolished as Bunker Hill was developed.
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Nov. 15, 1913: More than 40,000 people gathered at the north end of the San Fernando Valley to watch the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The Times headline the next day: "Silver Torrent Crowns the City's Mighty Achievement."
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Venice, circa 1915. While not Venice, Italy, the Southern California version still offered gondolas, arched bridges and winding canals.
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Jan. 1, 1918: Rose Parade.The Adolphus Busch Estate float won first prize, class F, commercial float category. First prize was a $50 silver trophy and blue banner. This image was published in the Jan. 2, 1918, edition of the Los Angeles Times
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Nov. 11, 1918: Los Angeles newspapers were a hot item when word of Germany's surrender was announced. The Los Angeles Times printed more than 150,000 copies that day. This photo was published in the Nov. 12, 1918, Los Angeles Times.
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Sept. 20, 1919: Parade for President Woodrow Wilson in downtown Los Angeles.
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Feb. 11, 1921: The funeral cortege of Santo Juncio leaves San Gabriel Mission. Chief Youngturtle of the Chickasaw tribe (in the head-dress) is leading the native pallbearers carrying the coffin of the 106-year-old man.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 22, 1923: Members of the Los Angeles Police Department parade on Broadway showing off their new uniforms. The Hall of Records and Los Angeles Times Building are in the background.
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Sept. 9, 1923: U.S. Navy ships are shown the day after fog, storm and radio confusion led seven destroyers to run aground at Point Arguello, north of Santa Barbara. Twenty-three sailors lost their lives.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles TimesLink
July 25, 1924: Cars line up for the opening of the 2nd Street tunnel connecting Hill and Figueroa streets.
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Workers clean up damage from the June 29, 1925, Santa Barbara earthquake.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles TimesLink
Mae West, in "Night After Night," moves her sex-symbol reputation from the New York stage to the movies.
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From left to right are Allen Hoskins (Farina), Joe Frank Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Johnnie Downs and Mary Korman. Members of the ensemble of child actors to star in Hal Roach's Our Gang series of comedy shorts hold their contracts. Assembled more for their physical characteristics than their acting experience, the changing groups of little performers and their mischievous antics began entertaining audiences in 1922, when the first troupe spun off the Sunshine Sammy comedies.
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A Red Cross worker helps outfit destitute children after collapse of St. Francis Dam. The dam collapsed just before midnight on March 12, 1928, sending a wall of water down the Santa Clara River bed. Hundreds were killed.
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Jan. 15, 1933: After working in fields, self-help cooperative members collect their wages in vegetables. With the arrival of the Great Depression, unemployment skyrocketed in Los Angeles County. Farmers could not afford to hire workers to harvest crops. Food spoiled as families went hungry. Both the unemployed and farmers benefited from the cooperative setup.
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1936: Leroy Norman, 15, crippled in both legs since childhood, makes the best of it in so-called jungle camp in the San Joaquin Valley, home for scores of out-of-work immigrants from Oklahoma and elsewhere.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jack Herod / Los Angeles TimesLink
May 9, 1936: Suspects line up during a Los Angeles Police Department "show-up," now known as a lineup, as victims or witnesses try to identify alleged crime perpetrators.
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Jan. 1, 1937: Marshall Goldberg (No. 42), left, Pittsburgh halfback, is shown tearing off a gain against the Washington Huskies during the Rose Bowl Game. Max Starcevich, Washington's All-American guard, is No. 66. Lying prone on the ground is Bill Glassford, 10, Panther guard. Tony Matisi, Pitt tackle, is running interference for Goldberg. Pittsburgh won by the score of 21-0.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Strock / Los Angeles TimesLink
July 17, 1937: More than 30,000 fans crowd the 22,000-seat Wrigley Field for a celebrity charity baseball game for Mt. Sinai Hospital. The Los Angeles Times caption reported the next day that "The overflow crowd was stationed in the outfield but no ground rules were necessary as none of the contestants was able to wallop the ball that far..." This panoramic view was made by a Los Angeles Times artist by combining three different prints shot by an unknown Times photographer.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 31, 1938. Shirley Temple, a mere 9 years old but the top box office attraction of 1938, cuts the cake at a party celebrating the 55th birthday of president Franklin D. Roosevelt. A trainload of Hollywood stars and moguls traveled from California to the nation's capital for the event.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 25, 1938: Firemen scatter as a gasoline tank on a burning truck explodes on Republic Street near Main Street in Los Angeles. Firemen H.M. Johnson, right, and J.H. Schoeffer, center were burned.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gordon Wallace / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 3, 1938: Flooding in Southern California killed dozens. This bus became stuck at West 43rd Place near Leimert Boulevard.
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April 10, 1938: Frenchy Uhalt, Hollywood Stars outfielder, had plenty of moral support as he slid across plate in ninth inning with run that beat the San Francisco Seals, 4-3, in the double hitter opener at Wrigley Field yesterday. Uhalt scored from second on Tom Carey's single, barely beating Brooks Holder's throw to catcher Larry]Woodall, shown diving as Frenchy's toe flicks a corner of the plate. Note [Chink] Outen, [Fern] Bell and [Bill] Norman, Stars in background, making the "safe" signal. The umpire is Henry Fanning.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jack Herod / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 28, 1940: The Huntington Beach coastline in 1940 was a forest of oil derricks. Oil discoveries in Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Santa Fe Springs in 1920 and 1921 drove massive drilling.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ted Hurley / Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 20, 1940: Jackie Robinson, a four-sport star at UCLA, teamed with Kenny Washington in 1939 backfield, which faced USC before 10,303 fans.
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March 22, 1941: A group of 41 men, including actor James Stewart, in the foreground wearing the solid black tie, takes the oath to enter the Army. Stewart was the first top-ranked Hollywood star to enter military service during the United States' mobilization before World War ll.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
Time exposure of U.S. Army anti-aircraft unit using a searchlight during World War II.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Paul Calvert / Los Angeles TimesLink
May 25, 1945: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at Union Station upon their return to California after wedding in Ohio. Bacall is blowing on small whistle attached to her bracelet.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: L. Maxine Reams / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 11, 1943: Frank Sinatra with unidentified friends after arriving by train in Pasadena. The Times reported on Aug. 12, 1943, that RKO Pictures had provided starlets to pose with Sinatra at the train station.
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April 12, 1945: Betty Hutton and other starlets entertain troops at the Hollywood Canteen.
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Feb. 20, 1947: Explosion at O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp. building. Firemen, police officers and volunteer rescuers are combing the ruins, searching for victims still trapped beneath fallen bricks, timbers and whole sections of broken buildings. Compression blew out windows in nearby buildings and shattered glass in some structures more than a mile away, while the reverberating roar carried as far as San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles Harbor. It was the worst blast in city's history.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Andrew Arnott / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 5, 1947: Howard Hughes after a test flight of a plane he designed and built. This was the second XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane built. Hughes was almost killed when the first XF-11 crashed on July 7, 1946.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Phil Bath / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 7, 1947: More than 25,000 worshipers gathered in Hollywood Bowl -- a setting more picturesque than ever before. Hours before the chimes began to ring at 5:30 a.m. thousands had found seats on the sloping tiers or on bordering hillsides. Trumpeters heralded the dawn.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Paul Calvert / Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 2, 1947: The "Spruce Goose," Howard Hughes' experimental wooden airplane, floats in Long Beach Harbor.
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Jan. 25, 1948: A Santa Fe diesel passenger locomotive hangs over Aliso Street after running off the end of the rails at Union Station.
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July 12, 1949: The battered fuselage and wing section of a C-46 Standard Airlines passenger plane lies on a mountainside near the Chatsworth Reservoir after it crashed, killing 35 people. Fourteen survived. The plane, which took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, was bound for Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Paul Calvert / Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 28, 1949: Tree-lighting ceremony for 105-foot Christmas tree in Pershing Square.
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Feb. 6, 1950: Mickey Cohen looks over what's left of his large wardrobe after bomb shattered part of his Brentwood home and damaged neighboring residences.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: S. A. Hixson / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 6, 1950: Elizabeth Taylor enters Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills for her marriage to Conrad 'Nick' Hilton Jr.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Paul Calvert / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 18, 1951: Gen. Douglas MacArthur gets a welcome home parade in San Francisco after being dismissed by President Truman.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Malmin / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 26, 1950: An X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager drops from a B-50 to break the sound barrier one more time before being placed in the Smithsonian Institution.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Phil Bath / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 11, 1952: A cross is raised on Puente Hill overlooking La Puente to be used for interdenominational Easter services. Six different denominations participated.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bob Ritchie / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 28, 1952: Sgt. 1st Class Owen Marsh of North Hollywood leans out a bus window to pick up his wife, Evelyn, for a kiss before going to Ft. MacArthur, where he was discharged.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Frank Q. Brown / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 25, 1952: Mrs. Rita M. Duarte is comforted by relatives at the funeral of her son, paratrooper Philip Duarte, 19, killed in the Korean War. Rita Duarte's oldest son, David M. Gonzales, died in 1945 during fighting in the Philippines. After rescuing three soldiers buried under debris, he was hit by enemy gunfire. President Harry Truman posthumously awarded Gonzales the Medal of Honor. David Gonzales was half brother to Phillip Duarte.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Delmar Watson / Los Angeles TimesLink
Sept. 23, 1952: Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, at the empty El Capitan Theatre, where he delivered his famous "Checkers" speech to TV cameras.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Paul Calvert / Los Angeles TimesLink
May 15, 1953: The Los Angeles arrives to a major welcome at Long Beach Municipal Pier B after an eight-month deployment in Korean waters.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wayne Cave / Los Angeles TimesLink
June 27, 1953: Marilyn Monroe, left, and Jane Russell, co-starring in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," plant their hands in a slab of freshly poured cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Sept. 6, 1954: DeForrest "Moe" Most, 37, bottom, Art Kidder, 37, and Sandra Hollabaugh, 14, draw a crowd with their stunts at Santa Monica's Muscle Beach on Labor Day weekend.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bill Beebe / Los Angeles TimesLink
Spectators watch the 1955 Rose Parade. It has rained 10 times in the Rose Parade 116-year-history, but the parade has never been canceled. Those rainy years are 1895, 1899, 1906, 1910, 1916, 1922, 1934, 1937, 1955 and 2006.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
July 17, 1955: Disneyland on opening day. The photo was taken looking north, with Harbor Boulevard on the upper right and the Santa Ana Freeway running across the top.
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A couple is photographed moments after learning that their 19-month-old child had been swept out to sea at Hermosa Beach. That morning, Times photographer Jack Gaunt was at his beachfront home when he heard a neighbor shout, "Something's happening on the beach!" Gaunt grabbed his Rolliflex camera and headed toward the shoreline. His photograph appeared on the front page of The Times the next day. The image won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for press photography; the Pulitzer committee called the photo "poignant and profoundly moving." But for Gaunt, the image was hard to bear at first, his daughter recalled in Gaunt's 2007 Times obituary.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jack Gaunt / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 11, 1955: Los Angeles Rams coach Sid Gillman is hoisted on the shoulders of Gene Lipscomb, left, and Don Paul, center, and Charley Toogood (No. 70) after a game against the Packers.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Phil Bath / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 19, 1956: Old Pacific Electric Red Cars sit at a Terminal Island junkyard, awaiting dismantling to become scrap metal. After World War ll, the Pacific Electric Railway system was slowly replaced by buses and freeways.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
June 28, 1957. "Jubilant Judy," read the caption that accompanied a photo from this assignment when it ran in the Los Angeles Times. But this previously unpublished image of Judy Garland preparing for a singing engagement at Los Angeles' Greek Theater seems to reflect a more ambiguous reality.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angles TimesLink
Dec. 16, 1957: A pair of Air Force F-89 Scorpion interceptors fly low over a remote radar station on Santa Rosa Island after successfully repelling simulated enemy aircraft during a drill off the Southern California coast. Five Los Angeles Times staffers -- three writers and photographers John Malmin and Larry Sharkey -- were assigned to cover the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) test of Los Angeles-area defenses.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Malmin / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 16, 1957: Bob Hope gives actress Jayne Mansfield a lift as five USO troupes prepares to leave for overseas performances for the military. Johnny Grant, left, Hedda Hopper and Roscoe Ates look on. The troupes left from Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal, later renamed Bob Hope Airport.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 18, 1958: Spectators line Broadway as Dodgers Manager Walter Alston, right, and coach Charlie Dressen ride in a caravan to their first game at the Coliseum.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Malmin / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 18, 1958: Members of the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants face the peristyle end of Memorial Coliseum during playing of the national anthem before the Dodgers' first game in Los Angeles.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Dare / Los Angeles TimesLink
May 8, 1959: Authorities remove a woman from her Chavez Ravine home before construction of Dodger Stadium.
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Sept. 17, 1959: About 3,000 fans attend the ground-breaking ceremony for Dodger Stadium. During the event, several giant earth-movers plunged down a 200-foot slope, shoving tons of dirt ahead of them as spectators watched. Some people scooped up handfuls of dirt and packed it in souvenir cardboard boxes.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Harry Chase / Los Angeles TimesLink
May 29, 1960: John Wayne relaxes at his Encino home during an interview with Los Angeles Times writer Jack Smith.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ray Graham / Los Angeles TimesLink
July 19, 1960: The demolished bow of the destroyer Collett shows the force of the collision with the Ammen in fog off the Orange County coast. Eleven sailors on the Ammen were killed.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Olender / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 27, 1961: Eli Grba of the Angels throws the first pitch during the home opener at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. The Twins beat the Angels, 4-2, in front of a small, opening day crowd of 11,931. The expansion American League Los Angeles Angels drew 603,510 fans during their first season.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 7, 1961: Burned-out homes along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air. Hundreds of homes were lost in fires that swept Bel-Air and Topanga Canyon.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 19, 1962: To cap off a 33-hour visit to Los Angeles, President Kennedy takes an impromptu dip at the beach in Santa Monica as throngs of admirers try to get close.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bill Beebe / Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 15, 1962: Cassius Clay raises his arms in triumph after knocking out Archie Moore in the fourth round of their match at the Sports Arena. Clay -- who in 1964 changed his name to Muhammad Ali -- had predicted that he would win in the fourth round.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 30, 1963: Singer Nelson Sardelli playfully kisses a scratch on the ankle of actress Jayne Mansfield. Earlier that day, Mansfield had attended a five-minute divorce hearing with husband, bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay in a Mexico court.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lou Mack / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 13, 1965: National Guard troops secure a stretch of 103rd Street, dubbed Charcoal Alley, in Watts to help Los Angeles authorities restore order. The riots, sparked by the arrest of a black motorist for drunk driving, lasted for six days. After the violence, 34 people, 25 of them black, were dead and more than 1,000 were injured.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Malmin / Los Angeles TimesLink
Oct. 11, 1965: Dodgers, from left, Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax and Willie Davis celebrate after winning Game 5 of the 1965 World Series against the Minnesota Twins. In that game, Koufax pitched a four-hit shutout, striking out 10.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lou Mack / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 18, 1966: Warren Beatty's embrace of his sister Shirley MacLaine temporarily separates them from the pop of the flashbulbs and the crush of the crowd at the 1966 Oscars ceremony.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
May 12, 1966: The skeleton of the 40-story Union Bank Square building rises over Bunker Hill Victorians in downtown Los Angeles. The high-rise was part of the Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project and was designed by architecture firm Albert C. Martin & Associates. It was completed in 1968.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 24, 1967: On the set of "Dragnet," actor Jack Webb, left, who played Sgt. Joe Friday, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Dan Cook and associated producer Bob Cinader take a break. The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Harry Chase / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 9, 1967: The Queen Mary arrives in Long Beach following a 39-day voyage from England. The city of Long Beach purchased the 31-year-old vessel, which was slated for the scrap heap, for $3.45 million to serve as its waterfront centerpiece.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 2, 1968: Clothing designer Rudi Gernreich onstage with models in swimsuits at the Los Angeles Fashion Group's Man of the Year.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Nelson Tiffany / Los Angeles TimesLink
Escorts saluting caskets of Vietnam servicemen as they are unloaded from trains at Los Angeles Union Station, 1968
PHOTOGRAPH BY: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times Archive/UCLALink
June 5,1968: Ambassador Hotel busboy Juan Romero crouches next to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan. Five bystanders were also wounded.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Boris Yaro / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 13, 1969: Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933 crashed about six miles offshore in Santa Monica Bay while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport. Fifteen aboard the plane were killed and 30 survived.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Fry / Los Angeles TimesLink
May 5, 1969: Jerry West walks off the floor at the Forum after the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics in the NBA finals for the sixth time in eight years. West scored 42 points in the 108-106 loss.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Art Rogers / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 2, 1970: Cleave Sharry plates Oscar statuettes in layers of copper, nickel and gold. For the 35th year, Dodge Trophies Inc. of Los Angeles made the 40 gold Oscars given out in 1970.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 23, 1970: Sculptor Claude K. Bell with his 45-foot- tall, 150-foot-long brontosaur in Cabazon next to Interstate 10. Bell, a Knott's Berry Farm sculptor and portrait artist, opened the Wheel Inn cafe in 1958. To attract customers, he began building dinosaurs.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Malmin / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 14, 1970: Aerial photo of the cruise ship La Janelle after being driven against jetty just outside Port Hueneme during a storm.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Art Rogers / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 31, 1971: A young man lies wounded after violence broke out during a Chicano demonstration in East Los Angeles. Friends of the man try to wave demonstrators away. One man was slain by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. Twenty-five people, including seven law enforcement officers, were hurt. About 70 stores were damaged or destroyed.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Browne / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 9, 1971: San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital patients wait in the open for evacuation to other facilities after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit at 6:01 a.m. near Sylmar.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bruce Cox / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 17, 1972: The Lakers' Wilt Chamberlain gets off a finger roll for a basket against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Milwaukee Bucks. Abdul-Jabbar was called for a foul. The Lakers won, 123-107, despite 50 points by Abdul-Jabbar.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 24, 1973: From left, Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) and William Shatner (Capt. James T. Kirk) — stars of hit TV series "Star Trek" — record their voices in a Los Angeles studio for "Star Trek: The Animated Series," which premiered in September 1973. A total of 22 episodes were produced and broadcast in 1973-74.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mary Frampton / Los Angeles TimesLink
Sept. 21, 1973: Firefighters battle flames from a tanker truck that flipped over and exploded at the junction of the 405 and 101 freeways. The blast occurred at 1 p.m. and closed both freeways for almost six hours on a Friday afternoon. More than 100 police officers responded to deal with the traffic mess. The tanker's driver, Duane Schumm, was unhurt.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Fry / Los Angeles TimesLink
Oct. 9, 1973: Elvis and Priscilla Presley leave Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica after their divorce is granted by a judge. As The Times reported the next day, they emerged from the court arm in arm, and Presley gave his ex-wife a friendly kiss before driving off. The couple, married in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967, agreed on a $1.5-million settlement.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Fry / Los Angeles TimesLink
Sept. 8, 1974: A movie set of fake brownstone structures burns on "Boston Street" at the Burbank Studios ranch. The set was a total loss. The multimillion-dollar fire destroyed three soundstages and four movie sets.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Boris Yaro / Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 6, 1974: Gov.-elect Jerry Brown talks with reporters at his campaign headquarters in Los Angeles shortly before giving his victory speech. In a close election, Brown defeated Republican Houston Flournoy by about 175,000 votes out of 6 million cast.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Meyer / Los Angeles TimesLink
November 1975: A documentary film crew focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger as he does a light workout at Gold's Gym in Venice before the International Federation of Bodybuilder's Mr. Olympia contest. On Nov. 9, 1975, Schwarzenegger won the Mr. Olympia crown - his sixth straight year. Then he retired from bodybuilding competition.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Harry Chase / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 8, 1976: Firefighters scatter after a saw ignites gas fumes at crash site of DC-6 in Van Nuys. Three trapped crew members of the Mercer Enterprises DC-6 charter plane died. Ten firemen were injured.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Boris Yaro / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 16, 1976: Sonny and Cher clasp hands playfully in their first joint concert appearance in three years. Their performance was part of the annual KHJ Christmas benefit at the Forum in Inglewood.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lou Mack / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 17, 1976: A helicopter searchlight illuminates wreckage in Los Angeles Harbor after an explosion aboard the oil tanker Sansinena. The nighttime blast split the 810-foot vessel in two and rocked the coastline, shattering windows in Costa Mesa 21 miles away. Six crewmen died and more than 50 people were injured. Two crewmen and a dock security guard were never found.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jack Gaunt / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 26, 1977: Los Angeles Rams defensive end Jack Youngblood walks the sidelines after the Minnesota Vikings scored a fourth-quarter touchdown to take a 14-0 lead in the NFL playoff game. Vikings won 14-7.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Michael Mally / Los Angeles TimesLink
June 22, 1978: Marine reservists training in an amphibious landing at Coronado capture one spectator -- a Navy specialist getting some rays after planting dummy explosives.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Robert Lachman / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 1, 1979: Patty Hearst and Bernard Shaw outside her mother's home in Hillsborough.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Meyer / LOS ANGELES TIMESLink
March 20, 1979: The space shuttle Columbia, atop a modified 747, leaves Edwards Air Force Base for Florida. First launched on April 12, 1981, Columbia was the first operational space shuttle. The craft completed 27 missions. On the 28th mission, Feb. 1, 2003, Columbia broke up during re-entry with debris falling in Texas. The seven-member crew were killed.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Cal Montney / Los Angeles TimesLink
July 17, 1979: New Lakers owner Jerry Buss poses in front of one of his new acquisitions -- the Great Western Forum in Inglewood. Buss had recently paid $67.5 million to Jack Kent Cooke for the Lakers, Forum, NHL's Kings and a 13,000-acre Kern County ranch. At the time, the purchase price was the highest single transaction in sports history.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Dave Gatley / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 20, 1980: Fans of the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers trade cheers and beers outside the Rose Bowl before Super Bowl XIV. The pre-game tailgate parties were limited as 8,000 parking spaces were closed because of recent rains.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Hively / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 13, 1981: During a press conference, President Reagan shows one of his boots following questions regarding a bubonic plague threat near his Santa Barbara ranch. Health officials recommended that residents tuck their pants into their boots -- providing protection after a bubonic plague infected rat was found near the ranch. In front of him are the economic tax relief bill and budget, which he signed while on vacation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jose Galvez / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 28, 1984: Michael Jackson holds an armful of Grammys, awarded for his "Thriller" album and other recordings.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Hively / Los Angeles TimesLink
July 28, 1984: Rafer Johnson lights the Olympic torch at the Los Angeles Coliseum to begin the 1984 Olympics.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jayne Oncea / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 3, 1984: Mary Lou Retton becomes the media star of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles after winning the gold medal in all-around competition.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Tony Barnard / Los Angeles TimesLink
June 9, 1985: Coach Pat Riley is surrounded by jubilant Lakers and flying Champagne after beating the Celtics 111-100 in Boston to win the NBA championship in six games. The Lakers' Kurt Rambis, left, Riley, center, and Magic Johnson, right, celebrate.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Joe Kennedy / Los Angeles TimesLink
Oct. 24, 1985: Richard Ramirez flashes a pentagram in a Los Angeles courtroom. Ramirez was convicted in assaults and murders by an attacker nicknamed the Night Stalker that terrorized the Los Angeles area. In many cases, he entered homes at night through open windows or doors. Spray-painted pentagrams were found in some of victims' homes.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Tony Barnard / Los Angeles TimesLink
June 14, 1987: The Lakers' Magic Johnson sprays Champagne on teammates and photographers during a locker room celebration after beating the Celtics 106-93 and winning the NBA championship.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Michael Edwards / Los Angeles TimesLink
Oct. 15, 1988: Kirk Gibson celebrates as he rounds the bases after his two-run pinch-hit homer off Oakland reliever Dennis Eckersley, giving the Dodgers a stunning 5-4 victory over the A's in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The Dodgers trailed the A's, 4-3, in the bottom of the ninth when the sore-kneed Gibson hit it out of the park and then made his memorable gimpy jaunt around the bases.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Joe Kennedy / Los Angeles TimesLink
April 30, 1992: On the second day of the Los Angeles riots, a man with a shopping cart full of diapers runs past a burning market on 3rd Street.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 17, 1994: The collapse of the second and third stories onto the first story at Northridge Meadows apartments in the Northridge quake killed 16 people and crushed cars.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rolando Otero / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 17, 1994: A man surveys the damage at the Northrige Meadows apartments after the partial collapse killed 16 people during the Northridge earthquake.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Joel Lugavere / Los Angeles TimesLink
Richard Nixon's funeral was attended by, from left, President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, former President George H.W. Bush and wife, Barbara; former President Ronald Reagan and wife, Nancy; former President Jimmy Carter and wife, Rosalynn; and former President Gerald Ford and wife, Betty.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Boster / Los Angeles TimesLink
June 17, 1994: California Highway Patrol officers on the 91 Freeway chase Al Cowlings, driving a white Ford Bronco, and O.J. Simpson, who was hiding in the rear of the vehicle. The chase ended with Simpson's arrest at his Brentwood home.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles TimesLink
Feb. 28, 1997: A wounded Emil Matasareanu is checked by LAPD officer after the bloody North Hollywood bank shootout. Matasareanu died of his wounds.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles TimesLink
Jan. 30, 1998: Marilyn Lane tries to shut the door as a large wave rushes into her Solimar Beach home in Ventura County. Eleven Ventura County beach homes were damaged by the combination of 15-foot tidal swells and a rainstorm.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alan Hagman / Los Angeles TimesLink
July 10,1999: Brandi Chastain exults after scoring the winning goal in the United States' 5-4 penalty-kick victory over China in the 1999 World Cup final in front of 90,185 at the Rose Bowl. The teams had played 120 scoreless minutes of regulation and overtime.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Anacleto Rapping / Los Angeles TimesLink
Aug. 10, 1999: Preschoolers hold hands as police officers escort them across the street after white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. went on a rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills. Furrow wounded three children, a camp counselor and a receptionist, and killed letter carrier Joseph Ileto. He was sentenced to five life terms.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: David Bohrer / Los Angeles TimesLink
Oct. 27, 2002: The Anaheim Angels win the World Series. The celebration is underway at the mound, with a pile of Angels on top of Troy Percival, and Scott Spiezio, right, overjoyed.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 23, 2003: Actor Adrien Brody surprises presenter Halle Berry with a kiss after he won the Oscar for best actor for his work in "The Pianist" at the 75th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Brian vander Brug / Los Angeles TimesLink
Fireworks fly from the Walt Disney Concert Hall after the conclusion of the gala opening concert led by the L.A. Philharmonic's Esa-Pekka Salonen.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Al Seib / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 8, 2001: Santa Ana winds create a dramatic golden spray off a small wave at sunset as a surfer glides down the face at the Huntington Beach Pier.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles TimesLink
Dec. 3, 2003: Alabama, left, and his girlfriend Mary Miranda get ready to bed down for the night along South Los Angeles Street in skid row. "Our goal is to keep a positive attitude and strive for a common goal, which is getting housing," said Alabama. The couple had been on skid row for six months.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles TimesLink
March 25, 2006: Thousands of protesters converge on City Hall in downtown Los Angeles demonstrating against a federal anti-immigration bill.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles TimesLink
Oct. 22, 2007: Firefighter Jason Falarski battles to save a house in Poway. For many in San Diego County, the scene was reminiscent of the deadly 2003 Cedar fire. Several hundred thousand people evacuated their homes as wildfires flared across vast areas of the county, but the size of the exodus made escape impossible for some.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles TimesLink
Laker Kobe Bryant celebrates his three-pointer against the Nuggets in Game 2 of the NBA playoffs at Staples Center. Bryant was named the NBA MVP for the first time in 2008.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles TimesLink
Sept 12, 2008: Workers rescue passengers trapped inside a Metrolink rail car after a head-on crash with a Union Pacific freight train. The collision killed 25 people.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Francine Orr / Los Angeles TimesLink
Nov. 7, 2006: A view of the 110 Freeway slicing through downtown Los Angeles at sunset.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles TimesLink
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A Mount Airy woman won a $26 million Mega Millions jackpot this week, state lottery officials announced, and the grandmother of two now plans to buy her first home — a beach house.
Maryland Lottery officials said the 48-year-old woman wished to remain anonymous. She is the first to win a Mega Millions jackpot in nearly a year, since three Maryland public school employees split the $218.6 million portion of a record-breaking $656 million jackpot.
According to the state lottery, the woman's fiancee jokingly told her as they went to bed Tuesday night that they would wake up millionaires. When the woman checked her tickets the next morning, she realized she had won.
She is retired and watches her grandchildren, and joked to her daughter that she would only be able to keep watching the children if they were at the beach house she plans to buy. It will be the first time anyone in the family has owned a home, the woman told lottery officials.
The gas station that sold the ticket, Mt. Airy Shell at 649 Lakeview Dr., will also get a $26,000 award.


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Yesterday's British newspapers had more information on the capture of Abd al-Hadi. Among other things, al-Hadi is credited with planning the London subway bombings of two summers ago. From the London Times:
The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein


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A great place to enjoy a smaller patio area with meals outdoors.
The set comes with 4 reclining rattan dining chairs, and a glass topped rattan table. All cushions are included in your purchase.
The rattan quality of this set is second to none, with UV stabilized weave and an aluminium frame, making this set weatherproof.
Simply store the cushions.
Chair: Height = 110cm Depth = 61cm Width = 61cm
Table - Height 73cm x 110cm round
Free home delivery to UK mainland (excluding Scottish Highlands). Please let us know in the comments box when placing your order if you have a preferred delivery date in mind and we will do our best to accommodate your request. You will receive your order within 14 days.
When will my item be delivered?
Your item(s) will be delivered within 14 days of your order being placed, however it's often a lot sooner, with many being despatched within 2 days.
If you have a specific date you would prefer, then write it into the "comments" section when you checkout on our website, although we cannot guarantee a date we will try to match it.
If your item is listed as a pre-order then it will be delivered on the approximate date listed on the product page.
Where do we deliver?
Home delivery is included in the price to UK mainland addresses (excluding parts of the Scottish Highlands).
Please note that we can no longer ship items to the Channel Islands or Northern Ireland.
For full details on restricted post codes, see the Post Code section of our delivery page here.
Small Items Can Be Left Safe With Neighbour
If you have ordered a single chair or bench, then it can be left safe with a neighbour if you aren't in.
When placing your order please use the comments box to let us know who the courier could leave your item(s) with safely.
Items can be left on the ground floor of the property, but not carried up stairs or around/over garden fences.
The Day of Delivery
You will receive an email from the courier on the day of your expected delivery to give you a timeslot for that day.
This means you do not have to stay in all day waiting for a delivery to arrive.
In the event that you are not home when the delivery is attempted (and you would prefer it wasn't left safe), the courier will leave a card at your address to arrange another suitable date for delivery.
How Will My Furniture Arrive?
Your furniture will arrive in a box, either carried by a courier if small enough, or for larger orders on a pallet.
Please note that our courier / pallet delivery services do not take items around the back of your house. If you require this then contact us for a quote (via phone: 01455 274748 or email: [email protected]).
Any More Questions?
We will be happy to answer any other queries you have about delivery, simply contact us via phone or email.
Welcome to Sapcote Garden Centre - a family owned business helping customers for over 18 years.
Garden Centre Shopping is the furniture website of Sapcote Garden Centre, a long standing family owned business in Leicestershire.
We've been in business for over 18 years, with thousands of happy customers, and we're proud of our amazing record of customer service that keeps our loyal customers coming back year after year.
You can see our lastest reviews on our website here.
You can also browse our Trust Pilot reviews here (new*).
You can see various reviews from our Trip Advisor Page, and our main garden centre website can be found here: www.sapcotegc.co.uk
Come and Try Before Your Buy
We're perfectly situated for a lot of customers to visit us in person, so if you think you'd rather try it out yourself, it's on display in our furniture area.
Here are some more reviews of our reclining furniture:
"We bought the chair for my mother-in-law so she can sit on her bedroom balcony and enjoy the views. She is thrilled with the chair and finds it sturdy and very comfy." Jane, August 2018.
"These are the best chairs to relax on in the garden. We looked at 4 different types of garden chairs and tried them all. We bought these from you without trying them and they are fantastic. We can't recommend them enough!" Derek, August 2018.
"We absolutely love our furniture. We bought the chairs last summer and the sofa this year. Everyone who sees them loves them ! Biggest fans are our dogs who keep sneaking on them. Thank you so much." Angela, July 2018.
"We bought 2 reclining chairs last summer, they have worked out really well in our sunroom." David, May 2018.
"We love the chairs. We bought in autumn and it's been a bad spring so not had much chance to sit out unfortunately." Trevor, April 2018.
"They are certainly enjoying the furniture and finding it very comfortable. They are pleased they purchased it and found everyone extremely helpful in your shop when they visited."
Helen, 14th March 2018
"Lovely comfortable outdoor furniture that we enjoyed last summer and would certainly recommend to anyone"
Wendy and Clive, 24th January 2018
"I love my garden furniture, just wish I'd had more time this summer to enjoy it!"
Diane, 20th December 2017
"Very happy with the quality of the furniture. The chairs are very comfortable and a great addition to the garden, would definitely recommend anyone purchasing them."
Kerry, 7th September 2017
"We are so pleased with the chairs and have spent a lot of time on them this summer..!! The only feedback we have is positive and that is with regards to the service we received and the quality of the chairs."
Miles, 7th September 2017
"They have been well used this summer (weather permitting) and the feedback is that they are very easy to use and extremely comfortable."
Shelley, 6th September 2017
"Really pleased with the reclining furniture, it is very comfortable and a good substantial build to some furniture that I have seen, also the cushions are nice and plump and very well finished."
Mrs Maguire, 12th July 2017
"We are really enjoying our reclining chairs, they are really comfortable, plus they look good."
Christine, 1st July 2017
"Really enjoying the reclining chairs. They look good and have not suffered in any way from being outside all winter. The mechanism still works well, cushions look like new."
Barbara, 27th Jun 2017
"We are very pleased with the furniture, it is comfortable and looks perfect in our summerhouse and impresses everyone who sees it.
Roll on spring and summer."
Rita, 10th Feb 2017
4 Seater Round Reclining Dining Set in Silver Grey Rattan
Price: £1,060.00 - Out Of Stock with Fast UK Delivery Included.


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The most interesting environmental leader in the United States right now is a former petrochemical worker from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" named Jerome Ringo. As chairman of the board of the National Wildlife Federation, Ringo heads what is by far the nation's largest environmental organization, with 4 million members, not to mention one of its richest, with an $80 million budget. It's unusual enough that a former union and community organizer would rise to the top of the NWF; traditionally, the group has belonged to the polite, apolitical wing of the movement–more inclined to publish nature magazines for kids than to challenge corporate power à la Greenpeace or Rainforest Action Network. But what really sets Ringo apart, both at NWF and throughout the mainstream movement's leadership, is that he is black.
"I am the first African-American in history to head a major conservation group," he says. Environmentalism in the United States has been dominated by well-to-do white men since the late nineteenth century, when John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and Teddy Roosevelt first put the notion of preserving natural resources on the national agenda with their campaigns to establish publicly owned parks and wilderness areas. Alluding to this history, Ringo says the whiteness of today's movement isn't because of racism. It's simply that most environmental groups "were founded by people who fished to put fish on the wall, not by people who fished to put fish on the table. And for poor people, issues like ozone depletion have not been a priority, compared with next month's rent. But I tell people in Cancer Alley, What good is next month's rent if you're dying from cancer?"
Now Ringo wants to bring these varying constituencies together across class and racial lines to build a broader and more powerful green movement. His chosen vehicle, besides the NWF, is the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor unions, environmental groups, business leaders and elected officials that advocates a massive green jobs and development program for the United States. Apollo proposes investing $300 billion of public funds in green energy technologies over the next ten years. This investment would create 3 million new jobs and countless business opportunities, Apollo claims, while also fighting climate change and cutting US dependence on foreign oil. The benefits to poor and working-class Americans of such an economic stimulus program are clear, but the idea is also business-friendly enough to have attracted support from prominent Democratic moderates and other centrists, including the group Republicans for Environmental Protection. "I had a phone call with the chief of staff of [New Mexico] Governor Bill Richardson just this morning," says Ringo, who assumed Apollo's presidency last September. "Several months ago I joined Hillary Clinton and [Pennsylvania] Governor Ed Rendell when the Democrats released their Energy Independence 2020 Plan, and one of the first items was an Apollo project. Apollo began five years ago as a vision. My goal is to turn it into action."
It's still too early to say, but if Jerome Ringo and the Apollo Alliance are representative of larger trends, green politics may at last be finding its voice again in the United States. In the past, most environmentalists did not bother to articulate much of an economic message. Perhaps because they tended to be economically comfortable themselves, they overlooked the fact that many Americans live paycheck to paycheck and thus need to hear that green policies can mean not only cleaner air but also more and better jobs. Indeed, environmentalists often failed to reach out to other constituencies at all; they stayed inside their own issue silo and assumed that having facts on their side was enough.


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February 05. 2013 9:00PM
Windham veterinary hospital to teach how to prepare for a pet emergency
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
Victoria Anctil, a veterinary technician at Rockingham Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Windham, checks the vital signs on her mohawk-wearing poodle as Norman, the resident cat, supervises. The hospital will host a pet first-aid class early next month. (APRIL GUILMET PHOTO)
WINDHAM - Life is never boring with pets.
Whether it's a dog that snacked on something potentially toxic or a cat in respiratory distress, knowing what to do in times of emergency is a vital part of being a pet parent, according to Dr. Christina Barnett, medical director at Rockingham Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Windham.
With that in mind, the local veterinary practice will offer its first ever community pet first-aid class early next month.
Led by longtime veterinary technician Victoria Anctil, the course will cover such basics as emergency signs to watch for, pet CPR, basic wound care and how to handle various unexpected instances that may arise. Participants will leave with some basic supplies for a pet first aid kit, along with a list of other useful items to have on hand.
"We'll talk a lot about the best ways to keep pets safe, and let people know how to safely handle an animal that's been injured," Anctil said.
Barnett said plans for the class have been in the works for the past year.
She said staff at the animal hospital became concerned after realizing a lot of clients tend to wait too long before deciding to bring their pet to the hospital.
"Usually when people ask us if maybe they should have brought their dog in earlier, the answer is yes," she said.
Emergency staff has responded to a variety of tense situations, but the majority of calls received from pet parents tend to follow instances of pets eating something they shouldn't have.
"Whether it's toxic plants or chocolate ... or some human medication that's been left hanging around, it's important to know what to look for," Anctil said.
Often times when a pet owner is taking multiple medications, it can be a game of elimination when trying to determine what substance a pet accidentally consumed.
Other problems tend to stem from old age. Dogs and cats can suffer from renal failure, arthritis and other maladies of the twilight years.
"The key is to learn how to recognize signs of an emergency," Barnett said.
Using a hands-on approach, class participants are encouraged to bring their well-behaved dogs along with them so they can get familiar with their four-legged friends' vital signs.
Staff members are hoping the course becomes a regular part of the happenings at Rockingham Emergency Veterinary Hospital.
The pet first-aid class will take place Thursday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m.
Though the class is free of charge, participants are encouraged to donate $20 to the Mackie Fund, which assists injured stray or homeless animals that might otherwise go without needed emergency care.
Named after Mackie, a Boston terrier who was treated at the clinic in 2010, the fund was started by the deceased pooch's caring owners, who wanted to assist other pets in need. There's no shortage of needy pets at the local animal hospital.
In May 2011, emergency staff rescued a stray kitty named Axle after he hitched a ride in a commuter's engine compartment. The errant feline sustained some bad burns, but fully recovered and was later placed in a loving home.
Several years ago, the hospital staff also adopted an outgoing tabby named Norman after his owners could no longer afford the special cat food Norman needed to treat a urinary tract condition.
Norman has since become a mascot of sorts for the veterinary hospital, reigning freely over the waiting room and comforting pet owners in times of distress.
For more information or to register for the upcoming pet first-aid class, call the animal hospital at 870-9770. Though the initial class is limited to 20 or so participants, plans for future courses are currently in the works.


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"Breaking Bad" ended its successful run last night as one of the most respected shows on TV, to the chagrin of millions of devoted fans across the country. No spoilers here, but Walter White saying "goodbye" in one way or another definitely caused a stir as the masses geared up in front of their televisions to see how the show would conclude. If and how would White die? What would happen to Aaron Paul's character? With official numbers coming later in the day, here are the top 10 viewed TV finales.
Still the gold standard, "M*A*S*H's" series finale pulled in more than 125 million viewers in 1983. Alan Alda and the gang went out with a bang in this Korean War comedy that lasted more than a decade.
Anytime you know the theme song even if you haven't seen the show, it's a hit. "Cheers" was the place to go where "everybody knows your name" and for that, the finale raked in 84.4 million viewers for it close in 1993.
For a show basically about nothing, 76 million viewers who watched the last show adequately titled "The Finale" in 1998 ain't half bad. "What's the deal with finales?," Jerry would have asked.
More than 52 million people watched as Ross and Rachel finally got back together in 2004. "We were on a break!" 10 years later, the show is sadly still on a permanent break.
|Magnum, P.I.
Tom Selleck's stache alone could pull in 50 million viewers to watch as "Magnum P.I." closed its run in 1988. A few years later, Selleck would be back in the No. 4 show on the list, as Monica's love interest in "Friends." Coincidence? No way!
|The Cosby Show
The show that rightfully so broke so many stereotypes and made Bill Cosby a household name pulled in more 44 million viewers for its last episode in 1992. Everyone loved the Huxtables.
|All in the Family
At the time it aired in 1979, "All in the Family" was the king of finales topping the charts back then with more than 40 million viewers.
|Family Ties
Michael J. Fox is back this year with a new show, but before "Back to the Future" he was a fan favorite in "Family Ties." The finale had more than 36 million watchers in 1989.
|Home Improvement
Tim Allen made his last "Home Improvement" before the new millennia in May of 1999. Apparently people cared, as it had 35.5 million people on the edge of their seat.
A spin-off of "Cheers," the No. 2 show on the list, "Frasier" was one of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time. So, it makes perfect sense that Kelsey Grammer was able to garner 33 million viewers for "Goodnight, Seattle."


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Before Robert Kirkman ever imagined the world of "The Walking Dead," the undead were brought to life by visionary director George A. Romero in "Night of the Living Dead." The classic horror film would launch an entire genre and inspire countless filmmakers to create their own zombie epics.
Now the man who has given entire generations chills is coming to Chicago for a rare convention appearance. George A. Romero will be a special guest at FLASHBACK WEEKEND where he will be re-uniting with cast members of his "Night of the Living Dead" sequel "Dawn of the Dead."
Calling from his home in Toronto, Romero spoke with me via telephone. We discussed strange autograph requests; figuring out trends in horror; the challenges of film finance; and I even pitch him a movie idea!:
Geek To Me: It is rare for you to attend conventions, so what is it about Flashback Weekend that made you say "I want to go to this show" and what are you expecting from it?
George Romero: Well, I'm not necessarily expecting anything different at the show. I've been there - I think - twice (laughs). I've been there before and I really liked it. They do a great job with it. Several of my colleagues and friends are going to be there, so it's just a good one to do.
I haven't done any in a couple of years. I've been holed up, sort of writing and staying off that circuit for a while. I've done a couple of appearances, but not signings. This is the first time I'm going to be out there at a table. It's always fun. I like meeting the fans. It's great.
G2M: Do you have any previous experiences that were peculiar or chuckle-worthy that you'd like to share?
George Romero: Well (laughs) I've had a couple of strange requests for me to sign. Somebody's ass (laughs)-
G2M: (laughs)
George Romero: -somebody's breast. And so I sort of make it a rule now. I tell people I won't sign body parts. But they go and get it tattooed, you know? And I don't want to be responsible for that. (laughs) When they grow up and decide they don't really want that tattoo anymore. So I just don't do body parts anymore.
G2M: Have you ever had an interaction affect the type of story you wanted to tell?
George Romero: No, not really. I mean, I mostly tell stories about zombies. I did write a script once about one of these conventions. And it never got off the ground. I was never able to sell it. I think the studios thought it was to "elite" - no - too specialized. That the general public wouldn't appreciate it, or get it. So I did do that once, but that was specifically to write about one of these conventions.
G2M: You're known for the horror genre, zombies specifically, but have you ever had the itch to dabble in another genre? Have you ever thought "I wanna do a romantic comedy."
George Romero: Well, you know I think some of my zombie films are comedies. (laughs) Truly. I go for the throat sometimes with the laughs. The last one I did, "Survival of the Dead", had some real Chuck Jones slapstick humor in it. I love that. But I've never wanted to do a flat out spoof. I do have - again - a script that is a complete comedy. It's zombies but it's just silly all the way. It doesn't deal with the apocalypse, anything like that. It's sort of like the Coyote and the Road Runner. So that script I have out there. I've shown it to a couple of people and once again nobody wants to do that broad a comedy with zombies. Despite "Zombieland" which was pretty hilarious.
G2M: You've been in the business a very long time. You're a respected name in the business. Personally I find it astonishing that your name can't get a particular project launched. What do you think is the reasoning behind that?
George Romero: I think basically I've always been this little sort of maverick off in the woods somewhere. I think I'm like John Waters or one of those guys. I don't think anyone particularly trusts me. I've only had two budgets that were close to twenty (million). One was "The Dark Half" and one was actually "Land of the Dead." That was because I had Steve King on board with "The Dark Half" and that made the sale, basically. And the other one was I had a strong producer named Mark Canton who was able to get it financed through Universal. So I always have sort of a partnership there. I'm not particularly interested in doing bigger budget stuff either. The last two films I made were hovering between 2 and 3 million. I prefer it, you know? All the executives go away (laughs) and I can't pretty much do what I want. And I'm very content doing this. I always have been.
G2M: Speaking of funding, there is a trend where name filmmakers are going to crowd funding sites like Kickstarter; Zack Braff and Spike Lee both have Kickstarter campaigns that are quite successful, getting their films financed without any studio input. Have you ever looked at crowd sourcing like that?
George Romero: Hm. I have. I've thought about it but I've never really pursued it. I know I've had a couple of people pitching me for it. I have a business partner. A long-term business partner, and he basically decides which way to go with these projects. We're just sort of hoping for the best out here. (laughs) Again, I'm not desperate to try and get something going. Nor do I have a project right now that I'm particularly passionate about. Otherwise I might try something like that. I really don't have anything right now that I'm dying to do.
I'm working on an adaptation of a novel by Steven Schlozman called "The Zombie Autopsies." And I'm writing a comic-book series right now, which my partner and I hope will become a film. Again, because of the comic-book, it might have enough clout to get financed. So we're taking a traditional route, making enough money to just live the way I want to take it easy.
G2M: With all the experience you have in film, what advice do you have for young filmmakers who want to do what you do?
George Romero: I would say don't make a zombie movie. (laughs)
G2M: (laughs)
George Romero: I go to these conventions and you know, I always walk away with at least a dozen or more movies that these young filmmakers have made, and every one is a zombie film! It's just too much. There's really a glut out there. And a lot of them are not thoughtful. They're just sort of all about the blood and gore, and I think they're probably easy to do. And fun to do, I guess. But I would say that there are just too many of them out there. Try to do something else. (laughs)
G2M: What do you think is going to be the next big trend in horror?
George Romero: I really don't know. I don't know if zombies are going to survive, I really don't know. I was talking to Guillermo Del Toro about this, and he's got a place here. I live in Toronto now and he just bought a place here. He shot "Pacific Rim" here. And he's doing his series up here based on his novel "The Strain." And we were just trying to dope that out. He says "basically a part of me is still a 14year-old. And I make stuff like Pan's Labyrinth that I feel love and passion for. Or I'm a 14 year-old making movies I'd like to go see." And that's basically where I'm at. I don't wanna try and predict what the next trend is gonna be. I mean vampires seem to have run their course. (laughs) Maybe not. But, there aren't that many monsters that you can turn to. I think they've basically been used. So when something comes along like "Cabin in the Woods", I think it's the unique stuff that scores. I think "The Conjuring" is doing pretty well right now, at least here in Toronto. And it's usually somebody has a sharp enough idea that's different enough from what came in the last few years, and horror runs that way, basically. It runs in spurts. "Friday the 13th" comes out and suddenly there's nine more of them. "Saw" comes out and seven more of those. (laughs) It's like people don't wanna think. The hardest thing is to get originality on the first one. If you're doing "Saw" 1, to get the distributor to put enough printed advertising behind it in order to make it score. That's the trick, you know?
G2M: Finally, a lot of filmmakers and celebrities are active in social media. How can people interact with you, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, a Tumblr page, where can they find you?
George Romero: Nope, I don't do any of it. (laughs)
G2M: (laughs)
George Romero: I really don't want to. I had a website once, way back in the early days of the net. And I would diligently answer everybody's questions. And pretty soon they would all start talking to each other and dissing each other, and calling each other a**holes, and it just became a chat site, having nothing to do with me. And so I just gave up on it. I don't do any of the other things now. I certainly don't want to be out there commenting on politics. I don't want to be out there saying "hey I went to the mall today and got a great pair of shoes." What am I gonna do? (laughs)
G2M: (laughs)
George Romero: I'd rather be here with my wife, taking it easy, and trying to write something meaningful.
G2M: I had an idea for a horror movie where it's about a social media site that come to life and tries to kill you if you quit using it. Eh? Eh?
GR: That's pretty good! There have been demon computer movies but not for a while. You should write it! (laughs)
G2M: I'm pitching George Romero! Thanks for taking the time to talk.
George Romero: Thank you.
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What Does A "Clear" Membership Actually Get You At Airport Security?
A PR hack sent us a stupidly long press release a few hours ago about Clear, the company that—for an annual $100 fee—will pre-authorize you with TSA to speed up your passage through security. Clear started operating in select airports over a year ago, and this month will add Reagan National and Dulles International airports to its list. So, is the service worth it? We guess that depends on how much you're willing to spend to be able to jump ahead of all the poor people waiting in line like the common criminals they surely are. We wanted a slightly more objective way to evaluate it, though, so we started looking around online for first-hand experiences of what exactly happens when you flash your Clear card.
Over on Venture Chronicles, some Clear customers have left feedback, calling it "security theatre" and saying it "can cut 15 minutes out of the process"—which we're not sure is worth $100 bucks a year. Some were upset by the idea of retinal scanning and fingerprinting—all of Clear's data is routed through the TSA, so the government gets access to that data, if you worry about that sort of thing. One commenter named Celeste notes that Clear doesn't let you bypass some of the more onerous security activities:
I signed up as well and realize that, for now, I'll be at the front of the line. My two questions are, since I still have to go through all the security checks (i.e., shoes, laptops, bag screening, etc., as I understand it), why do they need a retina scan and thumbprint? Basically, I've paid $100 to bypass 150 people but I've still got to take off my shoes. Also, at $100 a year, won't the FlyClear line be as long as the regular security line in a year, once more airports become available? They haven't reduced the actual screening time. In fact, it's been increased by going through the retina and print scan, haven't they? We'll see if it's a benefit next year before I decide to renew.
Another commenter, Jeff, pointed out just how much you're putting your personal data in the hands of a third party:
I did find myself thinking "crikey I hope they have some killer data security with everything I am giving them".
I guess it's a Faustian bargain at it's heart, paying $100 because our government can't figure out how to have effective AND efficient airport security pisses me off, but I won't be thinking about that as I breeze through the Clear security lane while everyone else is waiting 100 people deep.
I'm less concerned about the prospect that my civil liberties will be infringed because at some point in the future they may share it with some agency, maybe I should be but I just don't get worked up about it for whatever reason.
At the blog Daggle, Danny compares Clear's system to IRIS, a similar program in Europe. He says Clear is pretty behind the curve on efficiency and technology.
Leaving San Jose on a flight last week, there was a short line to go through security — but long enough to make trying CLEAR worthwhile. I walked up and handed my card over — strike one, since after scanning my eyes and fingerprints, why do I need a card?
Next, I had to put my right ring finger down. Hard. Like really hard, to the degree it physically hurt, in order to get a good images. Yeah, I'm a big baby. C'mon — it wasn't comfortable. And then the finger wouldn't work.
Next to my "backup" finger, my left index. Again, a hard pressing down that hurt, but eventually an image was captured, and I was me.
So why then was I next asked for picture ID? All these biometrics, and they want my driver's license? Apparently, the CLEAR folks are different from TSA — and TSA wants the picture ID checked.
Danny figures the Clear experience didn't save him any time at all going through security. In fact, its primary benefit may be that it lets you move to the front of the line, at which point you'll still be put through the standard gauntlet.
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Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to make an SOS call for a new assistant – as he prepares for life after his hip operation.
Meanwhile, United striker Wayne Rooney has told team-mates he wants to join Bayern Munich this summer.
Atletico Madrid are lining up a £40m bid for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez after resigning themselves to losing Radamel Falcao this summer.
Arsenal have agreed the biggest kit deal in English football with Puma, said to be worth £170m over five seasons.
Harry Redknapp is determined to keep central defender Chris Samba at relegated QPR next season.
Burnley are chasing Portuguese midfielder Paulo Regula, 24, who is set to be released by Olhanense.
Manchester United were last night engulfed in a frenzy of speculation about Sir Alex Ferguson's future.
Andre Villas-Boas has finally admitted that Frank Lampard never supported him at Chelsea.
Dean Saunders, sacked by Wolves yesterday, is being lined up for a rapid return to management by former club Doncaster Rovers.
Charlton and Burnley are both pondering moves for 24-year-old Bristol City striker Sam Baldock.
Championship side Millwall want to bring in Bournemouth's Eddie Howe as their new manager after Kenny Jackett quit yesterday.
Andy Hessenthaler wants the Accrington Stanley job after quitting his director of football role at Gillingham.
Chelsea have dropped out of the race for £50m Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao, leaving Manchester United in pole position.
Arsene Wenger and his board are at odds over whether Arsenal should launch a summer move for QPR striker Loic Remy or Vitesse Arnhem's Wilfried Bony.
Barcelona expect to land Liverpool keeper Jose Reina, 30, for £8m this summer.
Aston Villa, Fulham and Norwich are set to battle it out for Wolves midfielder Bakary Sako.
Derby County boss Nigel Clough admits he will be powerless to keep midfielder Will Hughes, 18, at the club when Manchester City launch a £10m summer bid.
Manchester United last night failed to quell persistent suggestions that Sir Alex Ferguson is about to announce details of his retirement.
Barcelona are to step up their interest in Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina, who has three years left on his Anfield contract.
AC Milan are considering an offer for Manchester City's 32-year-old defender Kolo Toure.
Hull are planning a move for Birmingham defender Curtis Davies as they prepare for life in the Premier League.
Former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler has offered to manage Blue Square Premier club Macclesfield Town for nothing.
Sir Alex Ferguson's future was the subject of intense speculation last night as rumours circled Manchester that he is set to announce his retirement.
Chelsea have dropped plans for a £46m summer move for Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao and instead aim to win a three-way battle with Manchester United and Bayern Munich for Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski.
Midfielder Leon Osman is close to agreeing a new contract with Everton.
Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United future was last night shrouded in doubt with the Scot understood to be seriously considering calling time on a managerial reign that has lasted almost 27 seasons.
Barcelona are set to tempt Liverpool with a £10m offer for 30-year-old goalkeeper Pepe Reina.
Chelsea's negotiations to secure the return of Jose Mourinho have reached an impasse over their refusal to pay the buyout clause in their former manager's contract at Real Madrid.
Sir Alex Ferguson's future at Manchester United was plunged into doubt last night amid mounting expectation of a major announcement by the club.
Wigan came up with the unexpected once again in their penultimate home fixture, failing to escape the bottom three before their Wembley weekend by losing what appeared to be the most winnable of their final three matches.
Andre Villas-Boas has accused Chelsea of playing "invisible" football and lacking style or identity since the days of Jose Mourinho as he prepares to return to Stamford Bridge for the first time since his sacking by Roman Abramovich last season.
Andre Villas-Boas has suggested that Chelsea chose success over developing a distinctive style when they sacked him in March last year, as the Tottenham Hotspur manager prepares to return to Stamford Bridge tonight for a critical league game against his former club.
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