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Bristol Palin gets in a heated argument with a gay dude at a bar. Calling her mother, Sarah Palin, a whore and Bristol questioning his motives because he's a homosexual. This is intense. As much as I dislike Sarah Palin, I'm with Bristol here. Dude was out of line and couldn't even articulate one of the many reasons of why Sarah Palin is awful. Arguing with a drunk will get you know where... I have much respect for Bristol now for getting in his face and sticking up for her family.Bristol Palin gets in a heated argument with a gay dude at a bar. Calling her mother,... more
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According to The Healthy Home Economist (HHE), California's Assembly Bill 499 has already quietly passed both the California House and Senate, and today sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown where it awaits his signature. The bill, which is only a single page in length, contains specific language that will allow children as young as 12 to opt for sexually-transmitted disease (STD) vaccines like HPV (Gardasil, Cervarix), Hepatitis B, and any future vaccines developed to treat STDs, without having to attain parental consent.
You can view a full copy of the bill, as it was passed, here:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_499&sess=CUR&house=B
Apparently devoid of all conscience, soul, and any trace of respect for human life and dignity, the drug industry is now resorting to new lows to force its deadly vaccines on the unsuspecting public. If Big Pharma cannot convince people to take the deadly shots of their own free will, then the poisons must be secretly injected into the weakest and most vulnerable members of society, the children, without their parents knowing about it.
Drug giant Merck & Co. attempted a similar approach back in 2007 when it influenced political lackey Gov. Rick Perry to sign an egregious executive order mandating that all young girls in the Lone Star State receive the HPV vaccine Gardasil upon being enrolled in school.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033629_vaccinations_parental_consent.html#ixzz1YbblJlAxAccording to The Healthy Home Economist (HHE), California's Assembly Bill 499 has... more
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Source: LA Times
GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann on Friday predicted California would side with Republicans in 2012, a distinct improbability given voting registration trends and recent history in the Golden State.
"I'm here to announce to you tonight, we will take our country back in 2012 and together we will make Barack Obama a one-term president," Bachmann told about 400 people at a dinner at the California Republican Party convention.
"President Obama's numbers are the lowest they have ever been and I'm just here to say they haven't hit rock bottom yet. I think Election Day in 2012 will probably be the lowest they are yet, that's why I know … that we have got a message and we have got a winning streak," she said. "I firmly believe 2012 will be a blowout election…. I believe 2012 will be a wave election that goes all the way across the United States, it will even take in the Golden State, I am so excited."
Bachmann's comments notwithstanding, a recent USC/Los Angeles Times poll showed Obama with expansive leads over the major Republican candidates, including Bachmann. The last Republican nominee to win the state in a general election was George H.W. Bush, who eked out a narrow victory over Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received a required whooping cough vaccine while others are defying a law passed last year after a historic spike in cases of the potentially fatal disease.
The law approved last September initially required all students entering grades seven through 12 to get vaccinated by the start of the 2011-2012 school year. Lawmakers passed a 30-day extension this summer as districts worried many students wouldn't meet the deadline.
Under California law, students also can still attend if their parents file a form saying they oppose vaccines.
No statewide estimates of the number of students turned away is available because districts are not required to report their final vaccination tally until December, state education and public health officials said.
But anecdotal reports from individual districts indicate the percentage of students meeting the requirement varied widely, from about half of students to nearly all.
"We've done a tremendous amount of outreach with the schools trying to let them know," said Linda Davis-Alldritt, the school nurse consultant for the education department.
On Thursday, San Francisco Unified School District began sending home students who arrived without proof of vaccination or a parental personal belief exemption.
District spokeswoman Heidi Anderson said the district estimates about 2,000 students, or 10 percent of the student body, are still unvaccinated. The district held a free vaccination clinic at its offices Thursday and was providing shots at individual schools Friday.
District officials were optimistic that most students would be able to return to class soon.
"We're getting down to it," Anderson said.
The Folsom Cordova Unified School District hit the extended deadline Friday for having all students immunized. Mary Ann Delleney, director of health programs for the district, said about 2,250 students who have yet to get vaccinated won't be turned away.
"We will not withhold education for students, but we will make every effort that we possibly can to be in compliance with state law," she said. The district had 70 whooping cough cases last year, she said.
In the Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento, about 1,100 students hadn't received their immunization shots by Thursday night, said Janet Handley, the assistant supervisor of education services. The district's 30-day extended deadline ended Friday.
Students who show up Monday without proof of their immunization will be sent to the school's gymnasium for study hall, Handley said. The students who are sequestered into the gym will not count toward the district's attendance-based funding for those students on those days, she said. Schools in California lose money for each absence.
"We're trying to balance how to get the message out that they need to get the shot, and we also need them at school," Handley said.
Natomas High School hosted a free clinic after school Friday, where a line of students curled around the gym where nurses were administering shots. Many said they hadn't heard of the immunization requirement until this week, despite what health and education officials described as a barrage of information sent to parents, students and schools.
Jake Terry, a 12-year-old at NP3, a charter middle school in Sacramento, said he first heard about the shot requirement on the news.
"I'm scared about the needle's size," he said.
State education officials said allowing unvaccinated students on school premises at all broke state law, but that the education department had no power to sanction defiant districts.
Allowing unvaccinated students to come to school also puts the students themselves and others exempted from the vaccine for medical or personal reasons at greater risk, said John Talarico, chief of immunization for the California Department of Public Health.
"If one of them gets it and they're all together, you now have a whole pool of susceptible people," Talarico said.
San Diego Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, a co-author of the law, said students who haven't been vaccinated shouldn't be at school at all, regardless of the funding or instruction children might miss.
"This is not an academic or philosophical discussion. Children have died as a result of this. We took very seriously our obligation to protect children so I think school districts need to take seriously the obligations to comply with it," he said.
The vaccination mandate covers about 3 million public and private school students who public health officials say have lost much of their immunity since receiving their original immunization against whooping cough before entering kindergarten.
California saw more than 9,000 whooping cough cases diagnosed in 2010, the highest number in the state since 1947. Ten infants too young to receive the vaccine died from the illness. About 2,400 cases have been diagnosed so far in 2011, but the state has seen no fatalities.
The highest percentage of California students entered kindergarten last year in more than 30 years under a California law that allows parents to exempt their children from vaccines for philosophical or religious reasons, according to state health records. About 3 percent of incoming kindergartners received either a personal belief or medical exemption from state vaccine requirements.
Health officials said there was no firm link between lower vaccination rates and the rise in whooping cough cases. The vaccine's effectiveness also wears off over time and doesn't work for all people, Talarico said.
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Sheila V Kumar reported from Sacramento.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some California schools are turning away middle and high school... more
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Source [ http://coast2coastmixtapes.com/audiodetail.aspx?audioid=75024 ] by Adam Glass Associated Press UK September 16, 2011| New Single from Lord Hector Diono leaked to the online community around the world. Mix-tape venues are starting to buzz about the controversial song " Whip It Raw", the single was produced and performed by Lord Hector Diono, an Atlanta Georgia based music producer and underground recording artist managed by Michael "Goldie" Greaux of Def Jam Records NYC who spoke frank about the single last Thursday, stating quote" I made this joint for my convicts, for my niggas on the grind" Hector doesn't apologize for the single,but goes on to say the single is a song for the those who live the life style of indulgence Hector also admits he too is a part of the lifestyle but claims to keep it in it's proper prospective. The single is listed on a website called coast2coastmixtapes.com and can receive votes from the general public. Hector encourages the Hip Hop,Twitter, and facebook community to get behind the single that has an official release date of October 31, it will appear on the EP " "Scarecrow" (The Final Chapter) Label Dark Town Music Group distributed by Island Def Jam Digital Music NYC.by Adam Glass Associated Press UKSource [ http://coast2coastmixtapes.com/audiodetail.aspx?audioid=75024 ] by Adam Glass... more
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Before those not living in California think "this won't impact me," remember just two things about California:
1. It grows the vast majority of the produce consumed by Americans.
2. California, like New York and other "liberal" states, provide far more in taxpayer revenue to the federal government than we receive back in services. How can governors like Rick Perry function if he doesn't have the taxpayers of California to bail him out when the state he has been running finally starts to fail thanks to the inept leadership of Perry and the prior incompetent who ran the state, GWBush?
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Rising sea levels could take economic toll on California beaches
A state-commissioned study by San Francisco State says erosion and storm damage by the advancing ocean over the next century could cut into tourism and tax revenue.
By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times
September 14, 2011
As rising sea levels eat away at the California coastline over the next century, the advancing ocean could cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to beach communities as tourism and tax revenue is swept away, according to a state-commissioned study released Tuesday.
As climate change warms and expands the ocean, increased storm damage and erosion will narrow the state's beaches and diminish their appeal to both tourists and wildlife, economists at San Francisco State predict.
"You need a certain amount of space for people to recreate, and, as beaches erode, you lose beach size and you lose tourism," said study author Phillip King, associate professor of economics at San Francisco State.
The study, commissioned by the California Department of Boating and Waterways, looked at five California beach communities, using sea-level-rise projections to estimate economic losses from flooding and beach erosion.
Venice Beach, for instance, could lose up to $440 million in tourism and tax revenue if the Pacific Ocean rises 55 inches by 2100, as scientists predict.
A drop-off in visitors to an eroded Zuma Beach and Broad Beach in Malibu would cost as much as $500 million in tourism spending and tax revenue, the study found.
The effect of more destructive storm surges and higher tides would reverberate through the local and state economy, researchers said.
The ocean's expansion would be particularly hard on Southern California, where the heavily used shoreline generates big bucks to businesses, which pass some of it on to local governments in taxes.
Elsewhere in the state, homes and roads would be particularly vulnerable.
At San Francisco's Ocean Beach, the increasingly erosive power of storm surges could cause $540 million in damage to land, buildings and infrastructure by century's end, researchers project.
The study also examined beaches at Torrey Pines in San Diego County and Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County.
The research underscores the pressing need for beach communities to adapt to the rising waters by building sea walls, replenishing beach sand or pushing homes and structures away from the shoreline, King said.
"Sea-level rise is here," King said, "and we need to start planning for it."
The ocean has risen about 8 inches in the last century and is expected to swell at an increasing rate with global warming.
But California may have been spared the full strength of the ocean's advance for the last few decades, recent research suggests....
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By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times
Nearly 3 in 4 say the country is on the wrong track, and nearly half favor slashing government spending — a potentially dismal finding for President Obama, who will unveil a jobs plan this week.
California voters are increasingly downcast about the direction of the country, but — like their leaders in Washington — many would rather adhere to party orthodoxy than compromise to address the current economic problems, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows.
The findings offer little guidance for President Obama, who will unveil a jobs package this week that he hopes to push through a polarized Congress. Further troubling for the president: The survey results suggest that Republicans, even in deep-blue California, are winning the rhetorical war of words over how to frame the country's economic troubles, and how to get out of them.
Although Obama has previously called for strategic government investments to stimulate the economy, only 37% of California voters said they favor such an approach. Instead, the Republican view — that slashing government spending to restrain the deficit will better lead to prosperity — was preferred by 49% of respondents, according to the survey sponsored by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and The Times.
"The argument of 'We need to cut the size of government, we need to reduce the deficit' has won, even in California," said David Kanevsky, research director for American Viewpoint, a Republican firm that co-directed the bipartisan poll. "Stimulus is almost a four-letter word here."
With California unemployment mired at 12%, the electorate is clearly dissatisfied with the status quo. Nearly 3 in 4 voters say the country is on the wrong track, up sharply from the 55% who felt that way in November 2009......[Article continues at URL, above]September 05, 2011
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Is there any other state that is as stupid as California? Unemployment in California has been sitting at about 12 percent for an extended period of time, and yet they continue to push businesses out of the state by imposing thousands of ridiculous regulations on them and by taxing them into oblivion. Now California is even requiring workers comp for babysitters and paid vacation for nannies. How insane is that? The state government in Sacramento is flat broke and drowning in debt and yet they continue to spend gobs of money on some of the most frivolous things imaginable. Poverty and crime are everywhere, yet California continues to pass legislation that encourages even more illegal immigrants to come in. Unless you have a really, really good reason to stay in the state, it seems rather stupid to stay in California at this point. The economy is in shambles, home prices continue to fall, traffic is worse than ever, crime is rising and poverty is everywhere. Meanwhile, entire portions of the state could be leveled by the next big earthquake at any time. So why in the world would anyone still want to live in California?Is there any other state that is as stupid as California? Unemployment in California... more
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The Salton Sea is a desert saline lake located in the Imperial Valley of California. It was created in 1905 when the Colorado River overflowed and broke through a dam. Approximately fifteen miles wide and thirty-five miles long, the Sea gets its water from agricultural run-off and inflow from rivers and canals. The level of the Sea can change dramatically due to evaporation or changes in run-off. As there is no outflow from the Sea its salinity has surpassed that of the Pacific Ocean. The Sea sits on the Pacific Flyway and draws a wide variety of migratory bird species.The Salton Sea is a desert saline lake located in the Imperial Valley of California.... more
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By Frontline. California Marijuana Rush extraordinary video
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Legislation aimed at discouraging attacks against the homeless, by expanding their right to compensation when they are targeted for assault, was vetoed Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown, who said the move was unnecessary.
The bill, AB312 by Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, would have added homelessness to the categories covered by a California civil rights law that allows victims of hate-based violence to seek damages without going to court.
The categories include race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, political opinion and position in a labor dispute.
A person who is assaulted or threatened for one of those reasons can file a complaint with the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which can award damages of up to $150,000, plus a $25,000 penalty. Someone who decides to sue in court can win compensation for actual losses, plus $25,000, punitive damages and attorneys' fees.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/05/BAKM1KK2FV.DTL#ixzz1UGzRgha7
"Wow, is he saying it's OK to beat up on folks the Gov't has already Beaten Up???"Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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I’ve been reading a lot about Amazon’s outrage on having to pay sales tax in California and I’ve been doing a little bit of thinking about it. I honestly think that they should collect sales tax in California, but the idea that they’re not having to collect it is hurting local businesses is incorrect. Even if they do collect sales tax, it is in my opinion that they will still hurt local businesses and here is why.I’ve been reading a lot about Amazon’s outrage on having to pay sales tax... more
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HUGE fire at Macro Plastics "environmental" recycling plant in Fairfield,California.HUGE fire at Macro Plastics "environmental" recycling plant in... more
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By KENNETH C. CURNOW, Saturday, July 23 9:00 PM
Medical Marijuana will no longer be available in the County of Kern, California, following an expected August 2 amendment to the county's ordinance code.
Emboldened by section 11362.768 (f) of the California Health and Safety Code — which states that cities, counties or both shall not be prohibited from enacting “ordinances or policies that further restrict the location or establishment of a medical marijuana cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider” — Kern County announced Friday that it will move to permanently “prohibit the operation of medical marijuana collectives, the outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana, and the sale and distribution of any edible products containing medical marijuana.”
An amendment to Title 5 of the Ordinance Code of the County of Kern has been proposed for the August 2 meeting of the county’s board of supervisors.
As the expiration of last years moratorium on new cooperatives and collectives draws near, the board of supervisors has moved to both extend that moratorium for another full year, and to enact new draconian legislation.
Although then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger decriminalized recreational marijuana possession in October 2010 — reducing the fine for the infraction to $100 — when he signed SB 1449, Kern County is moving to increase the fiscal penalty for operating a collective, cooperative or dispensary for medical marijuana to $1,000 and a possible six months in county jail.
The proposed enactment of the amendment follows a July 22 report from the California Employment Development Department that unemployment has risen to 15.3-percent. The amendment proposal does not outline the possible fiscal impacts of the legislation, nor does it mention the nearly 80 legally operating businesses which will be forced to close as a result of this legislative amendment.
"In less than two weeks this will all be illegal and these people will be criminals, and right now they have no idea," said the manager of one Bakersfield dispensary.
Furthermore, the county proposes to consider the amendment effective immediately after it is voted in at the August 2 meeting, and to consider each day that a business is in violation of the brand new legislation a separate crime — and to penalize accordingly.
Chapter 5.84 (f) of the proposed ordinance amendment alleges that public entities have documented “violence related to the operation of medical marijuana collectives,” but does not source this information. It also goes on to allege that medical marijuana collectives, in general, attract crime and associated violence, increased traffic, loitering, noise and a loss of trade for other businesses located nearby.
Ironically, section (i) of the same proposed amendment names “providing access to medical marijuana for ill residents” as one of the proposed intentions of the legislation.
Despite the fact that 55.6-percent of California’s voting population voted to allow medical marijuana in California in 1996, Kern County was one of the 31 counties which voted against proposition 215 — commonly called the Compassionate Use Act.
It is currently unclear whether or not this legislation will be opposed by any special interest groups, but the amendment states that anyone attempting to bring a civil suit can expect to pay for the County’s legal expenses if the County decides to counter sue.
The legislation says that “in the event any civil suit or action is brought by the County to enforce the provisions of this Chapter, the person responsible for such violation shall be liable to the County for costs of the suit, including, but not limited to, attorney’s fees.”By KENNETH C. CURNOW, Saturday, July 23 9:00 PM
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Inmates in a third of California's prisons are conducting a hunger strike in protest of solitary confinement policy. Recent reports show that many inmates, who are in their third week of the strike, have shown dramatic weight loss and are collapsing from starvation, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The protesting inmates, who are most active at Pelican Bay State Prison, Corcoran State Prison, and the California Correctional Institute at Tehachapi, have been refusing meals since July 1, according to KPCC radio. Many of the protesters are in solitary confinement, otherwise known as security housing units (SHU).
They have five core demands (via Prisons.org):
1. "Eliminate group punishments" and instead enforce individual accountability.
2. Abolish debriefing policies, which dictate that inmates in SHU can only be released into the regular prison population if they provide information on gang activity.
3. Make prisons comply with the recommendations of the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in Prisons (2006) to end longterm solitary confinement.
4. "Provide adequate food" and sanitary conditions in solitary confinement.
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5. Have the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation expand and provide education programs and other privileges for SHU inmates.
Estimates about the number of striking prisoners vary. The LA Times places the number of protesters at about 400, while the New York Times reports that about 2,000 California inmates are under medical watch. The Huffington Post reports that nearly 1,500 prisoners are involved. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told SolitaryWatch.com that at least 6,600 inmates have refused meals.
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By Eric Marrapodi, CNN
July 19, 2011 12:42 p.m. EDT
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein is proposing a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act
The act defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman
She says federal law denies hundreds of benefits to same-sex married couples
"It's unconstitutional, I believe, and wrong," she says at a news conference
Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, announced Tuesday a bill to repeal the federal law that defines marriage as a "legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" and that allows states to reject legal same sex marriages from other states.
The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, passed both the House and the Senate in 1996.
Feinstein said she is one of only 14 senators who voted against the legislation at the time. "I thought even then, this is unconstitutional and wrong. Well, today it's unconstitutional, I believe, and wrong," she said in a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
She said her bill would "strike the Defense of Marriage Act from law and would free the government to allow for the same type of benefits they allow for married couples to also be applied to same-sex couples."
"Family law has been traditionally the preserve of state law," she said. "Therefore it varies from state to state and the federal government usually stays out of it." Marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance are all under the purview of individual states, she noted, adding that the federal government is involved only in relation to marriage.
"Believe it or not, there are over 1,000 federal laws and protections that are afforded to married couples but are not afforded to legally married same-sex couples in any of the states that have approved same-sex marriage," she said.
Kathleen Cumiskey and Robin Garber were among three same-sex couples who joined Feinstein at the news conference. They said they traveled from New York's Staten Island with a stack of papers they take with them nearly everywhere.
The couple was married in Toronto, Canada, in 2006 and their home state of New York legally recognized their marriage in 2008. But when they travel across state lines, they said, they have to bring with them paperwork in case of an emergency.
"We traveled from New York City last night and had to bring with us our box of documents," Garber said holding up a marbled-cover box. "Wherever we go we need to be able to prove the legal documentation of our relationship. We need to be able to prove that we are legally responsible for each other, that we have the legal right to make decisions for each other."
She added, "We find it really incredible that we can travel halfway around the world -- we can go to Spain, we can go to Ireland, we can go to South Africa -- and have our marriage recognized and respected, but when we travel 15 miles from our own front door that is not the case and we need our box of documents."
Feinstein's repeal bill has gained 27 Democratic co-sponsors. She noted in the hallway after her remarks that there has been no Republican support for the bill. "I think it's a hard time because of the tea party and the ideological bent, but I think that's going to change," she said.
She added that the bill would have a hard time getting through the House were it pass in the Senate, but "we're in this for the long march, not just the short hop."
In February, President Barack Obama ordered the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
The Senate Judiciary committee will hold a hearing on the repeal bill Wednesday.
"I do believe in fair and equal treatment on all issues, for everyone, I Wish Senator Feinstein, good luck toward this accomplishment..."By Eric Marrapodi, CNN
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Screw planking. The photo of this trio on the 405 highway during this weekend's shutdown raised the bar for Carmageddon stunts — along with their glasses. We tracked down the photographer, Jesse Glucksman, the fourth of the merry band of misfits, and he exclusively told us who they are and how they did it.
So, was it three or four of you? And who are you guys?
It was three in the shot and me with the camera. Left to right, Matt & Amanda Corrigan and Barry Neely. We all went to Emerson College together and Matt & Amanda recently got married.
What time did you take the photo and where on the 405 was it?
It was before 6 am, in Sherman Oaks a mile or two north of Ventura Blvd.
How did you do it?
Last week Matt & Barry scoped out a location where the freeway was totally unguarded except for a fence, a steep hill of crumbly soil, a wall, construction workers & police in a helicopter and car down the road. We hopped the fence & climbed the hill all while carrying the table, chairs & place settings, found a gap in the wall, set up and posed while I frantically shot a couple dozen photos and got the heck out of there when a construction guy drove up and told us to scoot, informing us that we were lucky it was him and not a cop.
Better question, why did you do it?
How often do college educated professionals in their late 20s/early 30s get to do something so ridiculous? I've got kids, man. I never have time to really have fun.
Ain't that the truth.
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What can you make with 65 old, used shipping containers? How about a huge building with an amphitheater, offices and a sustainable development educational center.
The complex of 65 shipping containers is the creation of the Los Angeles-based architectural firm APHIDoIDEA. Acronymically and rather clumsily named the eCORRE (Environmental Center of Regenerative Research Education), the building would primarily serve as an environmental education center for Long Beach, California. The complex includes a public plaza underneath raised and angled shipping containers in the middle of the structure.
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