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A. Murphy on Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 12

Mike Grumet Insurance News . . . . . . .Page 15

Wes on Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 23

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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:

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Left To Right: Leslie Gilson,

Jean Nagy, Jack Orris, Jared Pierce

And Shirley Knopf.*

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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:

[email protected]

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:

[email protected]

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

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Assemblyman Jim Silva

67th District Office

17011 Beach Blvd., Suite 570


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Coast Community

College District

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Huntington Beach Union HighSchool District

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Ocean View School District

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References 842-4481

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Surfersvillage.com

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

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Publisher

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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."

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AWARD WINNING STAFF

REX GERLACH & JIM HORTON

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INTERNET SERVICES - HB PI0

SALES: ACCOUNT MANAGER:

KEVIN GAROFALO

MARKETING COORDINATOR &

CITY EDITOR:

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LORRAINE LARA

PHOTOGRAPHY & FREELANCE:

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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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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.

The Most Misspelled Word

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New Owner New Management New Attitude

Reminder:

The Main Street

Library in

Huntington Beach

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

this sale will

benefit the Main

Street Branch

Library.

A rborsSteak & Seafood Restaurant

Pr ime Rib Fi ll et Mignon and Fresh Fish Dai ly Chil dren's Menu

Happy hour:$ 3.50 well dr inks $ 2.00 Bud Lt & Coors Lt Draft

$ 2.75 Domestic Bott led Beer $ 3.25 Chablis & Burgundy Wine

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visitSurfersvillage.com Legal Meds -

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.

A. Murp hy o n Life

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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

Word

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

valley.org the Friday afternoon prior to the

Council meeting. Please feel free to contactthe City Clerks office at 714-593-4445

should you have any questions

regarding the above.

F.V. Summer

Schedule

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Making Insurance Understandable

Most life

i n s u r a n c e

policies come

with riders that

attach to yourpolicy. Some

riders are

optional like

accidental death; childrens riders,

waiver of premium etc. (you pay a fee

if you qualify) and some are included

in your policy. One rider included at

no cost to policies issued in recent

year is called the Accelerated Death

Benefit Rider.

The Accelerated Death Benefit

Rider essentially allows the qualifying

insured or owner access to the death

benefit of the policy BEFORE theinsured person expires. Typically, the

insured needs to be diagnosed by a

physician to be terminally ill with less than 6

months to live. Typically, these policies limit

the percentage of the death benefit that the

insurance company will advance and a

maximum dollar benefit limit also applies.

I personally had to use this rider when my

wife was terminally ill with cancer. I had

exhausted a line of credit on my home and all

of my savings. When she came home for

hospice care, we needed $300 per day for one

full time live-in assistant and one part time

assistant. The doctors said she would survive

anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

With no where else to turn, we asked for an

advance on her life insurance policy. We paid

off credit cards and other debts to relieve the

financial stress and put away 6 month of in-

home care expenses. Not worrying about

where the money would come from each

day let me focus on the personal comfort

and emotional needs of my wife. This

allowed my wife to pass peacefully in her

own home. It was her final wish to pass

away in her own home and near her family.

The other rider is waiver of premium.

Typically, you qualify to have your

premiums waived after you've met their

definition of disability for 6 continuous

months. Most policies waive your premiums

to age 65 (if qualifying) and some longer.

Thus, when you can't work, yourexpenses are sky-rocketing; there

is a way to keep your insurance in-

force. Imagine if your disability

lead to pre-mature death and you

dropped coverage because you

couldn't afford the premium? My

wife had this feature on a policy

that ultimately funded our

childrens college.

Life insurance can be

complex, boring and frightening

all at the same time. A good agent

knows the questions to ask, the

recommendations to make and theright combination of products and

riders to include.

Little Known Life Insurance Riders that

Might Save You While You're Living!

Mike Grumet

Mike Grumet has been providing

life, health and disability insurance

assistance since 1992. In addition, Mike

provides assistance with annuities and

long term care. He is located at 16541

Gothard St., #202, Huntington Beach, CA

92647. Consultations are complimentary.

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visitSurfersvillage.com Two California

Employers

Recognized

2009 Secretaryof Defense

The Santa Ana Police

Department and Consolidated

Electric Distributors of

Westlake Village, Calif. have been

selected as two of 35 national finalists

for the 2009 Secretary of Defense

Employer Support Freedom Award.

The award is the U.S. Governments

highest recognition given toemployers for exceptional support of

their employees serving in the Guard

and Reserve. The Secretary of

Defense Employer Support Freedom

Award is also significant because only

members of the National Guard and

Reserve or their family members may

nominate their employers for the

award.

The Santa Ana Police

Department and Consolidated Electric

Distributors, nominated by a Reserve

Component service member in South

Carolina, were selected from more

than 3,200 nominations submitted.

From the 35 finalists, a national

selection board comprised of senior

defense officials and business leaderswill select the 15 recipients of the

2009 Secretary of Defense Employer

Support Freedom Award, which will

be announced by the Department of

Defense in July. The awards will be

presented at a ceremony in

Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2009 at

the Ronald Reagan Building and

International Trade Center.

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"

#600, followed by the upcoming series "Reborn." The Cap issue hits comic

book shops this Wednesday, and the first issue of "Reborn" on July 1st.

"Reborn" editor Tom Brevoort told ComicsAlliance that while he

can't reveal exactly how Rogers comes back to life, "we had the

mechanism by which Steve comes back in place in when he died. And

even before that issue, there were hints and clues that are about to start

paying off."

To honor the return of the original American hero, Chris Sims

of the Invincible Super-Blog helped ComicsAlliance collect some

of the greatest and most hilarious moments from the nearly 70-year

career of Captain America.

Captain America

is Back

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

most vulnerable. HBGold.com

The Biggest

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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

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League Baseball team owner. He is an Assistant

Professor of Sport Management at Eastern New

Mexico University, teaches the Business of Sports at the

University of Wyoming, and is a contributing author to

the Business of Sports Network. Jordan can be reached

at jkobritz@ mindspring.com.

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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