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INSIDE FEATURESThe Weak That Was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 5
On the Vine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 8
A. Murphy on Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 12
Mike Grumet Insurance News . . . . . . .Page 15
Wes on Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 23
Sports with Kobritz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 25
The Cross Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 27
Hindsight with Moe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 28
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ChrisMacDonaldOn the road in Surf City
By Chris MacDonald - A Huntington Beach Downtown Business
Improvement District Ambassador
On Saturday June 20th, 2009 The
Huntington Beach Tree Society
partnered with Jared Pierce an
eagle scout receipent
from troop 92 and a 14
Year Old Edison High
School Freshman who
helped organize the tree
planting of 28 pine trees
on Meadowlark Golf
Course in Huntington
Beach To block the
wind from touching
Gibbs MonarchButtefly Park.
At the tree planting
were 43 volunteers who came to help
make this event a success. Some of
them on hand were Jean Nagy President
of The Huntington Beach Tree Society,
Shirley Knopf Vice President of The
Huntington Beach Tree Society, Leslie
Gilson who restored Gibbs Monarch
Butterfly Park, Chris MacDonald A
Supporter of The Huntington Beach Tree
Society, Jack Orris who is a retired City
Of Huntington Beach Tree and
Landscaping Employee and a tree
expert, Members of Jared Pierce's family
as well as his friends and volunteers that
found the event on
http://volunteermatch,org. My Thanks to
everyone involved.
If you are on Graham and go
towards heil look at these beautiful
trees and think of how nice it is for
these Butterflies and for people to
enjoy the park. The next Huntington
Beach Tree Society Planting Is on
July 20th, 2009 at Harbour View
Park in Huntington Beach.
Questions: Call Jean Nagy At: (562)
760-0733. The Huntington Beach
Tree Society Website Is:
http://www.hbtrees.org .
Ihad the pleasure of meeting a journalism legend, TV personalityextraordinaire, and all-round nice
guy. Larry King.Mr. King appeared at Barnes &
Noble Booksellers in Huntington Beachtoday for a book signing of his latestbook called, Larry King - MyRemarkable Journey. This New YorkTimes best-seller features, How IBecame Me, and Betting My LastDollar on a Horse.This true story aboutKing as an unemployed 37 year-oldwith several hundred thousand dollarsof debt and a four year old daughter tofeed shows how he gambled on a fillyby betting a wheel (bet on top of everyhorse 11-1 and below every horse 11-1
odds.) Kings last few dollars paid offand earned him enough money to payhis child support for an entire year, rent,and even buy some cartons of cigarettes.
It is one of the many examples of ahumble man who has lived throughtough times and come out ahead bytaking chances. Other information inthis tell-all book allows fans to discovermore about the on-air personality whohas written over 6 books, but never onequite so revealing and candid.
Other tidbits you learn aboutKings include:
Hes been married 8 times, hasbeen penniless, as well as wealthy. Hisfamily is quite large, with many childrenand grandchildren.
King is a huge baseball fan who
attended Jackie Robinsons first game asa Brooklyn Dodger.
King attended high school withbaseball great, Sandy Koufax.
Two years before John F. Kennedybecame president, Kings car bumpedinto the senators car with JFK driving.
At his Huntington Beach booksigning I asked Larry a few questionsand he was nice enough to answer thembefore a huge crowd that stood in linegot books signed.
My first question was, Whatinspired you to write the book, Larry?
Larry King answered right away,Because I turned 75 and it was time todo it, he said. I enjoy traveling aroundNorth America and signing my
autobiography.King said hes been to Toronto,
Texas, Huntington Beach, Calif. andLos Angeles to sign his new publicationso far. Other stops include Las Vegas.
King appeared on KTLA MorningNews program in L.A. recently topromote his book, and has made guestappearances elsewhere.
I told Larry King I would spreadthe word about his new book and hethanked me for that. Hes a really niceman and has a great program, LarryKing Live, appearing nightly on CNN.You can purchase Kings book at Barnes& Noble Booksellers in HuntingtonBeach, 7881 Edinger Ave., #110. Call:(714) 897-8781. Or purchase online at:
bn.com .
Chris MacDonald talks with Larry
King at the HB Barnes & Noble
Left To Right: Leslie Gilson,
Jean Nagy, Jack Orris, Jared Pierce
And Shirley Knopf.*
Larry King Live! in HB
Jared Pierce Eagle Scout Project Tree Planting
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I'll never forget the funeral service I went to
last week. We'll call this little
experience...God's Problem Now !
While the graveside service had no more
than terminated, there was a tremendous burst
of thunder accompanied by a distant lightning
bolt and more rumbling thunder.
The little old man, surviving spouse,
looked at the pastor and calmly said, 'Well,
she's there.'
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The Weak That WasAmerica: Home of the Free because of the Brave
President Barack Obama
Web Site: www.whitehouse.gov
E-mail:
Phone: (202) 456-1414
Fax: (202) 456-2461Address:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Vice President of the United States
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.,
E-mail:
Phone: (202) 456-1414
Fax: (202) 456-2461
Address:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500
Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
969-445-2841
U.S. SenatorBarbara Boxer(D)202-224-3553
U.S. SenatorDianne Feinstein (D)
310-914-7300 202-224-3841
U.S. Congressman
Dana Rohrabacher (R)
45th District
714-960-6483 202-225-2415
State Senator Tom Harmon
950 South Coast Drive, Ste. 240
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714-957-4555 fax:714-957-4560
Assemblyman Jim Silva
67th District Office
17011 Beach Blvd., Suite 570
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
714-843-4966 fax:843-6375
Coast Community
College District
714-432-5898
Huntington Beach Union HighSchool District
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Ocean View School District
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City Council Office
714-536-5553 fax:714-536-5233
City Administrators Office
714-536-5202 fax:714-536-5233
Administrative Services
714-536-5228 fax:714-374-1571
Building & Safety
714-536-5241 fax:714-374-1647
City Attorney
714-536-5555 fax:714-374-1590
City Clerk
714-536-5227 fax:714-374-1557
City Treasurer
714-536-5200 fax:714-374-1603
Community Services
714-374-1654 fax:714-536-5486Economic Development
714-536-5582 fax:714-375-5087
Fire Emergencies 911
Office 714-536-5411
fax 714-374-1551
Stations Include:
Bushard, Gothard, Heil, Lake,
Magnolia, Murdy, Warner
Library
Central 714-842-4481
fax 714-375-5180
Childrens Services 375-5107
Media 375-5108
References 842-4481
Genealogy 990-5946
Banning Ave. Branch: 375-5005
Graham St. Branch: 375-5006
Main St. Branch: 375-5071
Planning
714-536-5271 fax 714-374-1648Police Emergencies 911
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Police Chief: 536-5903
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FuneralA
friend of mine was driving
when a t ra f f ic camera
flashed over in Costa Mesa.
He thought his picture was taken
for exceeding the speed limit, even
though he knew he was not
speeding . Just to be sure , he went
around the block and passed the
same spot , dr iving even more
slowly but again the
camera f lashed.
H e
t h o u g h tthis was
quite funny so he slowed down
even further as he drove past the
area, but the traffic camera flashed
y et a ga in . H e tr ie d a f o ur th t im e
w it h t h e s am e r es ul t. . T h e f if th
time he was laughing when the
camera flashed as he rolled past at
a snail 's pace.
Two weeks later, he got five
traffic fine letters in the mail for
driving without a seat belt .
Driving
My five-year old
students are learning
to read.
Yesterday one
of them
pointed at
a picture in
a zoo book
and said,
"Look at this!
It's a frickin'
elephant!"
I took a deep breath,
then asked...."What did
you call it?"
"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the
picture!"
And so it does...
" A f r i c a n Elephant "Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?
Pre-School
Dave Garofalo
Publisher
We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' andhow we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is
a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all ourpast life that wasn't so hot.
- Will Rogers
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Poor Ruth Madoff. She may
have known nothing about
her husband's fraud. Right.
Mrs. Madoff gave up most
of her claims to cash and
property she said was hers.
According to The Wall Street
Journal, she "has agreed to
give up her potential claim
to more than $80 million
worth of assets, keeping
just $2.5 million in cashin an agreement reached
with federal prosecutors."
Mrs. Madoff may be
giving up most of her
fortune, but it is a small price
to pay. The government could
try to prove that she was aware
of her husband's actions.
Prosecutors may not have proven
the case, but it would have tied
Mrs. Madoff up in court
proceedings for years.
To "get out of jail free", she
gives up her homes
in three cities
and a number
of asset and
gets to walk
a w a y
"poor."
Money
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MARKETING COORDINATOR & CITY EDITOR:
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AWARD WINNING STAFF
REX GERLACH & JIM HORTON
(EMERITUS)
INTERNET SERVICES - HB PI0
SALES: ACCOUNT MANAGER:
KEVIN GAROFALO
MARKETING COORDINATOR &
CITY EDITOR:
NANCY GRAY
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
LORRAINE LARA
PHOTOGRAPHY & FREELANCE:
CHRIS MACDONALD
CONTRIBUTORS:
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Letters:
Angel Flights
Each month, volunteer pilots
from Angel Flight West fly
patients needing specialized
medical care, including
chemotherapy and dialysis, to
hospitals throughout California.
Many of these patients are
from rural areas and wouldotherwise be hard-pressed to
receive the care they need.
These flights are part of
General Aviation (GA), which
includes all flying except the
scheduled airlines and the
military. Right now GA is being
imperiled by misguided plans in
Washington, D.C. If these proposals
are enacted, the outlook could be
grim for patients who use Angel
Flight West, as well as for millions of
other people throughout the country
who depend on General Aviation for
services and jobs.Among the proposals are new
costs and regulations. Since Angel
Flight West pilots already donate
their time and planes and pay for
their own fuel, these increased costs
could ground them. The impact on
patients who live in rural California
could be devastating, because they
would have to drive long distances to
receive care.
The new charges and
regulations would involve not only
medical volunteer organizations.
With an estimated 65 percent of
General Aviation flights conducted
for public service and business,
many industries and services would
be affected, including agriculture,
emergency medical evacuation, law
enforcement, aerial fire-fighting,
package delivery and the Civil Air
Patrol.
In addition, millions of jobs
depend on GA, which pumps more
than $150 billion into the U.S.
economy. Two members of Congress
deem GA so essential that they a
caucus to educate their peers on its
value to the American economy andtransportation system.
Recently, the Aircraft Owners
and Pilots Association (AOPA), the
worlds largest pilot organization
with more than 415,000 members,
launched General Aviation Serves
America. The
goal of this
n a t i o n a l
g r a s s r o o t s
campaign is to
e d u c a t e
po l icymakers ,
opinion leaders
and the public
about the vital role GA plays in our
local communities and the nations
economy. Actors Harrison Ford and
Morgan Freeman, both avid pilots,
are volunteering their services insupport of the campaign. (To learn
more about the General Aviation
Serves America program, please
take a few minutes to visit
www.gaservesamerica.com.)
The importance of GA and its
impact on the citizens of California
cannot be overstated. For more than
80 years, General Aviation has
played a significant role in the lives
of millions of Americans across the
country. I hope you will join me in
our efforts to ensure that its around
for another 80 years, and well
beyond.
Sincerely,
Craig Fuller, President,
Aircraft Owners
and Pilots Association
July
2009Edito
rial
Hu n t i n g t o n
B e a c h srepresentative
on the Orange County
Vector Control District
Board of Trustees has
announced that changesin the Districts Retiree
Medical Plan will save
the County taxpayersover $2.5 million and
that the savings will be
returned to the taxpayers
over the next severalyears as the reforms are
implemented. I am
very pleased with the
changes in VectorControls Program,
Carchio stated. The
savings will be significant and returned to the taxpayers. I
commend the District and its employees on theiroutstanding cooperation on enacting needed
changes and reform.
Carchio, further announced that the District will be
reducing its benefit assessment levy from $5.10 per year to$5.06 for next year. This action reduces the benefit
assessment to 19% below the maximum allowable rate of
$6.28. This is the fifth consecutive reduction in the
benefit assessment for the District. The Orange CountyVector Control District is a well run organization that does
an effective job in serving the citizens of Orange County.
The District has a sound long term financial plan and
continues to return money to the taxpayers throughreductions of its benefit assessment. "I look forward to
working with the District to insure it remains an efficient
and effective organization, Carchio concluded.
HB City Council
Member Joe Carchio
announces Vector Control
Taxpayers Savings
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7/11 . . .Pilate Touhil
7/17 . . .Kenny Hale
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7/24 . . .Soul Shock
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Head of the Class
Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all
students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 6 percent of
public schools measured this way. Note: Subs. Lunch % is the percentage of students receiving federally subsidized meals. E and E % stands for equity and excellence
percentage: the portion of all graduating seniors at a school that had at least one passing grade on one AP or IB test.
RANK SCHOOL LOCATION STATE INDEX SUBS. LUNCH E&E
1 Talented and Gifted Dallas Texas 16.109 25 65.2
156 University Irvine Calif. 3.241 8 59.3
169 Corona del Mar Newport Beach Calif. 3.166 3 n/a
435 Beverly Hills Beverly Hills Calif. 2.259 4 n/a
504 Newport Harbor Newport Beach Calif. 2.139 21 n/a
612 Northwood Irvine Calif. 1.97 3 56.7
620 Fountain Valley Fountain Valley Calif. 1.957 10 34
709 Marina Huntington Beach Calif. 1.844 11 31
1004 Los Alamitos Los Alamitos Calif. 1.497 7 33.4
1042 Irvine Irvine Calif. 1.449 9 27.5
1072 Edison Huntington Beach Calif. 1.423 6 22
1234 Huntington Beach Huntington Beach Calif. 1.263 9 21
1256 Ocean View ** Huntington Beach Calif. 1.24 32 23
1286 Westminster Westminster Calif. 1.215 62 14
1353 Woodbridge Irvine Calif. 1.143 6 35
1478 Coral Academy of Science Charter Reno Nev. 1 5 6
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We explored the key differences betweenthe Left Bank and Right Bank regions
of Bordeaux. For this installment, we
will discuss some history and geography.
Classic Right bBank appellations include
Pomerol and St. Emilion. St. Emilion has been
known to produce wine sine the Roman times when
Decimus Magnus Ausonius arrived in 383 AD. His
namesake, Chateau Ausone still produces Bordeaux.
Pomerol gets its name also from the Romans. The
Latin word poma means fruit with seeds.
Of particular geographical note is the
latitudinal location of Bordeaux compared to
Napa. We all know that Napa produces world class
Cabernet Sauvignon and many Napa producers
have partnered with Bordeaux Chateaux, forexample, Mondavi and Rothschild for Opus One.
The French agree (albeit likely reluctantly!) that
Napa's climate is ideal for grape growing. This
would not seem likely as Napa is more southerly
than Bordeaux.
What makes a grape growing region ideal for
wine production is weather. As we trace around the
globe on latitudinal lines it would make sense that
same latitudes equals same weather. As the latitude
is exposed equally to sunshine one would think
that climate is similar. This is not the case when
comparing Bordeaux with Napa.
Bordeaux's latitude is much further north than
Napa. In fact the Napa valley (St. Helena) is at
38.3with an altitude of 197' above sea level.
Bordeaux township is located at 44.5 and
interestingly enough, also at 197' above sea level.
Mean July temperatures for both are high 60's to
low 70's. Six degrees more northern than Napa,
Bordeaux is located on about the same latitude as
Willamette Valley, Oregon.
If Bordeaux is much more northerly than
Napa and both produce high quality Cabernet then
what accounts for both having
the ideal climate for
cultivation of high quality
wine grapes? It's quite
simple: Napa gets hotter
than Bordeaux but is
subjected to the much
cooler ocean breezes
coming on form the Pacific
Ocean. The Pacific Ocean
temperatures rarely rise
above 65. In Bordeaux,
the Atlantic Ocean's
warmer temperature
counters the coolernorthern air temperatures
in Bordeaux resulting in
milder winters and warm
summers.
Both Napa and
Bordeaux require very
warm days and cool nights.
The wider the swing in
daily temperatures, the
better it is for grape
ripening. Both Napa and
Bordeaux offer the ideal
climate for high quality
wines.
Fortunately, foe us the
average consumer, both regions offer great wines
in the under $25 category. Napa decreasingly so,
but Bordeaux which produces in excess of 2.2
million hector liters of wine annually. One hector
liter is equal to 100 liters or 133 bottles (or about
11 cases per hecto liter). That's roughly 23,000,000
cases of Bordeaux produced each year. There
is a chateaux producing something for every
budget and every palate. Look for
Bordeaux next time you are at
your favorite restaurant or
wine store.
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According to a
new study,
"definitely" is
the most misspelled
word in English. (This
might be the Queen's
English, and not
American English
though, since
"manoeuvre" also
made the list.)
Also on the list
were broccoli, phlegm,
bureaucracy, indict, consensus,
unnecessary, sacrilegious and prejudice.
General opinion surrounding the
poll seems to blame text messaging for
our inability to spell. You know,
because people are always texting the
words "bureaucracy" and
"sacrilegious." Spell check perhaps
could shoulder a little blame, but typing
OMG into your phone is not
automatically the same thing as not
being able to spell words correctly.
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Reminder:
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will again be
holding their huge
half-price book and
video sale through
Saturday, July 11,
2009 at the Main
Street Branch
Library 525 Main
Street in
Huntington Beach.
All proceeds from
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From the Past:
Bayer's HeroinA bottle of Bayer's
heroin. Between 1890and 1910 heroin was
sold as a non-
addictive substitute
for morphine. It
was also used to
treat children with
strong cough.
Coca WineMetcalf Coca Wine
was one of a huge
variety of wines
with cocaine on the
market. Everybody used to say that it
would make you happy and it would also
work as a medicinal treatment.
Mariani wineMariani wine (1875) was the most
famous Coca wine of its time. Pope Leo
XIII used to carry one bottle with him all
the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani
(the producer) with a Vaticangold medal.
MaltineProduced by Maltine Manufacturing
Company of New York . It was
suggested that you should take a full
glass with or after every meal. Children
should take half a glass.
A paper weightA paper weight promoting C.F.
Boehringer & Soehne
( M a n n h e i m ,
Germany ). They
were proud of being the
biggest producers in
the world of
p r o d u c t sc o n t a i n i n g
Quinine and
Cocaine.
Opium for
AsthmaNo comments.
Cocaine
tablets
(1900)All stage actors,
singers teachers
and preachers
had to have them for a maximumperformance. Great to "smooth" the
voice.
Cocaine drops for toothacheVery popular for children in 1885. Not
only they relieved the pain, they made the
children happy!
Opium for newbornsI'm sure this would make them sleep well
(not only the Opium, but 46%
alcohol!!!!!)
And we worry about aspirin for
children today???
Treatments from our great granny's time, very effective medication!
Might not have ACTUALLY cured anything but it SURE took away the
caring about it aspect
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Two shots taken inside the plane before it
crashed. Unbelievable! Photos taken inside
the GOL A 330 aircraft that
was involved in the crash.....
The two photos attached were
apparently taken by one of the
passengers in the A 330, just after the
collision and before the aircraft
crashed. The photos were retrieved
from the camera's memory stick. You
will never get to see photos like this.
In the first photo, there is a gaping
hole in the fuselage through which
you can see the tail plane and vertical
fin of the aircraft. In the second
photo, one of the passengers is being
sucked out of the gaping hole.
These photos were found in a
digital Casio Z750, amidst the
remains in Serra do Cachimbo.
Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory
Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number
of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G.
Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in
the outskirts of Porto Alegre. It can
be imagined that he was standing
during the turbulence, he managed
to take these photos, just seconds
after the tail loss the aircraft
plunged. So the camera was found
near the cockpit. The structural
stress probably ripped the engines
away, diminishing the falling speed,
protecting the electronic equipment
but not unfortunately the victims.
Paulo Muller leaves behind two
daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.
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America has a rich and fluid history of
uprisings. It is this fact that our nation
was literally developed
under. I t began with our
separation from our British roots
in our demand for religious
freedom. It continued with the
Civil War and our emergingunderstanding of universal
human rights. It evolved into
organized unions in the fight for
fair labor practices. It was a
great and long-lasting cry in the
civil rights movement. A new
battle is beginning to gain force
for the socialization of America.
This battle is one I don't support
however I understand why many
do. The lack of perceived
opportunity has weakened the
American spirit and silenced our
drive. The uprising is less a
demand for equality than it is anacknowledgement that the fight
has been pampered out of too
many of us. It is no longer the
goal to have access to all America
offers, it is now demanded that
success somehow be laid at the
feet of individuals no longer knowledgeable of
how to make the sacrifices to gain it. I know the
counter arguments and I rebut them. Nothing can
replace human drive and initiative and nothing
kills it like socialism. Thank you to Karl Marx for
inadvertently proving utopian ideals to be a failed
practice.
I have watched the present uprising in Iran
with both a saddened heart and feelings of
triumph. I believe we are witnessing the birth of
a new nation of ideals that will ultimately replace
the present administration. We are seeing the
strength of the human spirit. We have seen
young people willing to risk their lives for a
concept of freedom they themselves may never
know. Their actions are a selfless gift to their
people. To see the citizens of Iran flood into the
streets day after day to voice opposition to an
oppressive government is reminiscent of our
own past. It is this fight that we should support.
People in Iran have lost their lives for
challenging the outcome of an election. There are
no ACLU, no lawyers, and no
organized unions coming to their
defense. They have no protection
between them and their
government. I have been humbled
by their courage.To all of us that cry about our
lives in America, I say this; Take
advantage of all we have, don't let
anything stand in your way, find
your American spirit and let the
people of Iran be an example to us.
We the people need to work to
improve our schools by
participating in the educational
process of our own children. We
the people need to improve the
affordability of health-care by
improving government policy with
regard to insurance. We the
people need to encourage greatminds by maintaining an open
market and society. We need to
send a message to the American
government that we are a self-
sufficient people that govern them,
or risk repeating our own history.
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Registration is currently taking
place for all surfboard-riding
pups for the first annual
SurfinPaws Dog Jam, benefiting the
Orange County Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, taking
place on Saturday, July 11, 2009 from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. in Huntington Beach,
California. Red carpet and auction
festivities will follow the competition at
the Waterfront Hilton Huntington Beach
from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Ren Bruce, the man behind the
SurfinPaws Dog Jam said thatOCSPCA's need for funds was what
made SurfinPaws happen. Registration
is open to dogs of all ages, sizes and
abilities; with a $25.50 per dog
registration fee profiting the OCSPCA.
Red carpet spectator tickets are also
available for $10.50 per person. The
surf competition is open to the public
and free for anyone to watch. For more
information about The SurfinPaws
Dog Jam, rules and regulations, or to
register your dog, visit
www.surfinpaws.com. Noon at the
July 11th event they are having a free
expression session, human/dog or
more then one dog on a board, and aregoing to attempt a world record of
eleven dogs on one board.
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The
Millionth
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English contains more words than any other
language on the planet and added its
millionth word early Wednesday, according
to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that
uses a math formula to estimate how often words
are created.
The site estimates the millionth English word,
"Web 2.0" was added to the language Wednesday at
5:22 a.m. ET. The term refers to the second, moresocial generation of the Internet.
The site says more than 14 words are added to
English every day, at the
current rate.
The City of Fountain Valley City
Council and Agency for Community
Development 2009 Summer City
Council meeting schedule is as follows:First & Third Tuesday of the Month
July 21th, 2009 - 7 PM
August 4th, 2009 - Canceled
August 18th, 2009 - 7 PM
September 1st, 2009 - Canceled
September 15th, 2009 - 7 PM
As a convenience, Agendas are
posted to the City web site at www.fountain
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Council meeting. Please feel free to contactthe City Clerks office at 714-593-4445
should you have any questions
regarding the above.
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insured or owner access to the death
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I personally had to use this rider when my
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exhausted a line of credit on my home and all
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The other rider is waiver of premium.
Typically, you qualify to have your
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to age 65 (if qualifying) and some longer.
Thus, when you can't work, yourexpenses are sky-rocketing; there
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Marvel Comics announced today that Steve Rogers, the original
Captain America who was killed two years ago during the "Civil
War" storyline, will be coming back to life in "Captain America"
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Rep. McClintock gave the following
floor speech in opposition to the
Cap and Trade legislation on June
26, 2009.
I had a strange sense of Deja Vu as I
watched the self-congratulatory rhetoric on
the house floor tonight, and I feel
compelled to offer this warning
from the Left Coast.
Three years ago, I
stood on the floor of the
California Senate and
watched a similar
celebration over a similarbill, AB 32. And I have
spend the last three years
watching as that law has
dangerously deepened
Californias recession. It uses a
different mechanism than Cap and
Trade, but the objective is
the same: to
force a
d r a m a t i c
reduction in
c a r b o n
d i o x i d e
emissions.
U p
until that
bill took
e f f e c t ,
Californias
unemployment numbers tracked very
closely with the national unemployment
rate. But then in January of 2007,
Californias unemployment rate began a
steady upward divergence from the
national jobless figures. Today,
Californias unemployment rate is more
than two points above the national rate, and
at its highest point since 1941.
What is it that happened in January of
2007? AB 32 took effect and began
shutting down entire segments of
Californias economy. Let me give youone example from my district. The City of
Truckee, California was about to sign a
long-term power contract to get its
electricity from a new, EPA-approved coal-
fired electricity plant in Utah. AB 32 and
companion legislation caused them to
abandon that contract. The replacement
power they acquired literally doubled their
electricity costs.
So when economists warn that we
can expect electricity prices to double
under the cap and trade bill, I can tell you
from bitter experience that in my district,
thats not a future prediction, that is an
historical fact.
Gov. Schwarzenegger assured us that
AB 32 would mean an explosion of new,
green jobs exactly the same promises
were hearing from cap and trade
supporters. In California, exactly the
opposite has happened. We have lost so
many jobs that the UCSB economic
forecast is now using the D-word
Depression to discuss Californias job
market.
M. Speaker, the Cap and Trade bill
proposes what amounts to endlessly
increasing taxes on any enterprises that
produce carbon dioxide or other so-called
greenhouse gas emissions. We need to
understand what that means. It has
profound implications for agriculture,
construction, cargo and passenger
transportation, energy production, baking
and brewing all of which produce
enormous quantities this innocuous and
ubiquitous compound. In fact, every
human being produces 2.2 pounds of
carbon dioxide every day just by
breathing.
So applying a tax to the
economy designed to
radically constrict carbon
dioxide emissions means
radically constricting the
economy.And this brings us to
the fine point of it.
When you discuss the
folly of the Hoover
Administration how it turned
the recession of 1929 into
the depression of the
1930s, the first
thing that
economists
point to is
the Smoot-
H a w l e y
Tariff Act
t h a t
i m p o s e d
new taxes
on over
2 0 , 0 0 0
i m p o r t e d
products.
Waxman Markey is our generations
Smoot Hawley. In fact, its worse because
it imposes new taxes on an infinitely larger
number of domestic products on a scale
that utterly dwarfs Smoot-Hawley.
Lets ignore for the moment the fact
that the planets climate is constantly
changing and that long term global
warming has been going on since the last
ice age. Lets ignore the fact that within
recorded history we know of periods when
the earths climate has been much warmerthan it is today and others when it has been
much cooler. Lets ignore the thousands
of climate scientists and meteorologists
who have concluded that human-produced
greenhouse gases are a negligible factor in
global warming or climate change.
Ignore all of that and still we are
left with one lousy sense of timing.
In the most serious recession since the
Great Depression why would
members of this house want to repeat
the same mistakes that produced that
Grea t Depression? Watching how
California has just wrecked its
economy and destroyed its finances,
why would they want to do the same
thing to our nation?
M. Speaker, this is deadly serious
stuff . I t t ranscends ideology and
polit ics. This House has just made
the biggest economic mistake since
the days of Herbert Hoover.
If this measure becomes law, two
things are certain.
First, our planet will continue to
warm and cool as it has been doing for
billions of years.
Second: Congress will have
delivered a staggering blow to our
nations economy at precisely that
moment when that economy was the
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This past
month, theO r a n g e
County Grand
Jury released a
20-page report
entitled Paper Water Does Orange County Have
A Reliable Future?. Their research into the potential
causes of future water deliver failure and over use by
our residents showed that they had spent some time
reading the newspapers and water world warnings.
It is scary to read that our supply from the North, half
of our annual supply, stands a 67% chance of drastic
failures sometime during the next 25 years! And,
should that failure occur, due to any cause, Orange
Countys drinking water supply would be destroyed
for two to four years, or longer!
Those kinds of scare words should make most
of us sit on the edge of our chairs and havenightmares. But, they don't! We have been hearing
this kind of theoretic for the past 30 years and have
heavily invested in putting southern California
dollars into northern California infrastructure to bring
their water south.. We have built new reservoirs,
new canals, and new fish infrastructure to prevent the
loss of water. Too bad some of it wasn't spent
developing a replacement source for out population
here in southern California should an earthquake occur!
Although the Grand Jury report goes deeply into
the catastrophe theory, they failed except in one short
paragraph, to offer any kind of recommendations for a
solution.
They mention desalination and reclamation, but
only in a very brief and short paragraph. If we want to
protect ourselves, that is where we should be spending
our money and effort today.
We sit on the shore of the largest body of usable
water in the world, the Pacific Ocean. For less cost
than building the big Diamond Valley Reservoir a few
years ago, our water industry could have build four, if
not more, Desal plants from Oxnard south. Those
plants would have produced more water than DVL can
store and would have done so year after year, in a very
cost effective manner.
Today we are looking at drinking water deliveredto Orange County from the Metropolitan Water
District at a cost of over $600 per acre foot. A
few years ago, the Orange County Water
District received a proposal from three very
big and reputable firms to build a Desal plant
that would deliver drinking water from the
Pacific Ocean at that same cost, or less. Four
of those plants would completely replace the
water we get from the Delta today, and with no
threat of the destruction of our water supply
system.
Maybe in the next few years we will look
at ways to deliver good, pure drinking water
that we don't have to worry about losing?
Maybe we will stop spending money on a
delivery system that is outdated, over worked,
and only imports water from out of our area?Let us hope that the Grand Jury will do a
follow up on their report to determine if there
is not a better way than their current report
leads us. It would be nice to sleep nights not
having to worry about having water to drink
tomorrow morning!
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The information contained in this column does not
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Wes Banister is a former HB Mayor, Director and past
president Orange County Water District, Former
Chairman Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California, President of the Joint Powers Insurance
Authority, Member Board of Governors California FAIR
Plan, a terrible golfer, classic fisherman and profound
American. Email: [email protected]
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Catch a Fish - Help a KidFRIDAY AND SATURDAY AUGUST 28th & 29th 2009
Kiwanis of Huntington Harbour is currently working
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administrators in an effort to
provide school supplies,
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our community. In this effortwe have planned our Catch a
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Ultimately your participationwill benefit our children by
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Love him or
loathe him
- andyou'll find no
shortage of
individuals in either camp - Don Fehr's name
invokes an opinion. When Fehr announced
his retirement last week as the ExecutiveDirector of the Major League Baseball
Players Association, both the accolades and
the criticism flowed freely. So who's right,
critics or supporters?Fehr's supporters point out the huge run-
up in player salary - from an average of
$289,000 to more than $3 million - which
took place on his watch. In addition to salary,MLB pension benefits are the envy of every
working American. But neither Fehr nor the
union was responsible for generating the
revenue to pay those salaries and benefits.The union and the players essentially took
from what was available.
In fact, a strong argument can be made that
thanks to Fehr, the financial gains to the players arenot as great as they should have been and are
unevenly distributed among union members. Fehr
steadfastly refused to agree to a salary cap and a
salary floor similar to the other three Major Leagueteam sports. As a result, MLB players share in the
smallest percentage - approximately 52% - of overall
revenue of any sport. Every MLB team, from the
profligate Yankees to the penurious Marlins, should
be forever indebted to Fehr for his obstinacy.
No discussion of Fehr's rightful place in historywould be complete without addressing the issue of
PEDs. Fehr steadfastly resisted drug testing on the
basis that it constituted an invasion of privacy. Of
course, he's right, in the same way that a blood orbreath test in a suspected DWI case is an invasion of
privacy. But the courts have consistently taken the
position that a driver's license is a privilege, not a
constitutional right. Without the union'sintervention, the same can be said for playing
baseball for a living.
There are undoubtedly many current and
former ballplayers that, if asked, would not be
complimentary of Fehr. Those who declined to take
PEDs and lost money and/or their careers to thosewho did have to be wondering if Fehr - and the union
- served their best interests. It says here he didn't.
I won't suggest, as othershave, that on drug testing - or
any other issue - Fehr should
have taken a macro approach
and looked out for the bestinterests of the game. According
to the Professional Baseball
Agreement, that's the
responsibility of theCommissioner. Fehr was hired
to look out for the best interests
of the players.
If you focus on the AlexRodriguez and C.C. Sabbathia
type contracts, you can argue
that Fehr served his
constituency well. But there's somuch more that a union and its
leadership owe the rank and file.
On that level, Fehr's legacy is open to debate.The information contained in this column does notnecessarily reflect the opinion of The Local News.
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From time to time, kids have
accidents on their way to
school. Maybe they crash
their bicycle and scrape their knee.Or, maybe they twist
their ankle stepping off
the sidewalk. Or, even
worse, a car might hit
them while they cross
the street. Gerrit Blank,
a 14-year-old German
boy, has one of these
stories, although it's a
little less ordinary.
According to a
report from the
Telegraph, a meteorite
entered Earth'satmosphere at 30,000
mph and struck Blank,
who somehow walked
away with only a three-
inch cut on his hand
(and a sweet new
show-and-tell item).
Blank told the
Telegraph that he saw a
"huge ball of light," felt
a pain in his hand, and
heard "an enormous
bang" that left his ears
ringing like a pair of
church bells. The
meteorite's impact knocked the
boy down and left a one-foot-wide
crater in the ground. The
Telegraph stated that the odds of
surviving a blow from a meteorite
are one in a million. If true, Blank
basically won the lottery -- the
prize being his life.
While this sounds like a tall
tale, Ansgar Kortem, director of
the Walter Hohmann Observatory
in Germany, confirmed that therock was a meteorite through
chemical tests. Kortem told the
Telegraph that meteorites enter the
Earth's atmosphere every day, but
most burn up before they reach
the surface. Those that do make it
that far, six times out of seven,
land in water.
We're still not sure if we
believe Blank's story. If it is true,
he should count his lucky stars (or
meteorites) that he's still alive. In
1954, a meteorite struck a woman
in Alabama, and she lived to tell
about it. That puts Blank in some
exclusive company. And, with that
50-year gap, we aren't too worried
about the sky falling on usanytime soon.
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