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If you haven't yet carved a pumpkin to display this Halloween, the Los Angeles Times has a great slideshow of elaborate pumpkin carving ideas to inspire you.
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For .99 cents you can beat up bankers and obliterate them with a laser cannon and a tank.
The No. 23 most popular paid app boasts, "Take revenge on bankers ... Defend the White House and save the U.S. taxpayers' money before it gets stolen! It's time for you to give them what they deserve."
Anti-bailout sentiment is popular on the app store. There's iStimulus, also for .99 cents, where gamers catch free-flowing money with a barrel.
Obsessed with the national debt? The National Debt & Bailout app provides a live ticker of the national debt, bailout allocations, payouts and repayments.
And for the wonks, $1.99 will get you the actual text of the 2008 bank bailout bill, the granddaddy of them all.
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The water meter at Escott Norton’s North Glendale home showed that 1.5 million gallons of water passed through it within a 64-day period. That’s equal to about 24,000 gallons a day and nearly 17 gallons per minute. Norton is disputing the amount -- and the $6,000 bill. To put things in perspective:
• 1.5 million gallons is enough water to fill a 3.5-foot-deep pool the size of a football field.
• Glendale High School, where about 3,000 students attend classes on weekdays, flushing toilets, competing on irrigated fields and showering in locker rooms, uses less water each month: about 1.2 million gallons. It would be approximately twice that amount during a 64-day period.
• Burbank’s 18-hole, 67-acre DeBell Golf Club, which uses reclaimed water, could be completely irrigated for nearly four days using that total.
(1) No. Disney officials have denied the charges levied in the lawsuits, citing a soil investigation that found chromium levels well within California and EPA regulations. (14 votes, 34%)
(2) Yes. I side with the plaintiffs who allege that for decades Disney pumped groundwater for its air-cooling system and added chemicals. (27 votes, 66%)
Current poll: A group of protestors recently said the media is doing a poor job of covering the president and his “socialist agenda.” Do you agree?
Yes. The media hasn’t truly examined Obama’s plans and I worry about the direction of this country.
No. The protestors complaints are unfounded; Obama doesn’t have a “socialist agenda.”
Cast your vote now at BurbankLeader.com.
(1) Yes. The city should require carriers to not only prove why they need to place their antennas at desired locations, and face denial if their proposals are deemed unsightly. (40 votes, 56%)
(2) No. This gives the city too much control over cellular antennas – we don’t do this for similar services, why single out mobile phone carriers? (32 votes, 44%)
Current poll: Police arrested protesters at health insurer CIGNA after they refused to leave the lobby of the Glendale building while chanting slogans like “Patients, not profits.” Are these tactics affective?
Yes. Protests and arrests draw attention to the health-care reform debate. Extreme times call for extreme measures.
No. These stunts don’t foster discussion between the public and insurers. It’s time to rethink the strategy.
Cast your vote now at GlendaleNewsPress.com.
A live grenade was found at GCC Garfield campus on Thursday. Click on photo for a gallery. [caption id="attachment_20908" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Crowds were evacuated after a live granade was found by construction workers at the Glendale Community College Garfield Campus construction site on Thursday, September 2, 2010. (Raul Roa/News-Press)"][/caption]
Menagerie: The Art of Animals exhibit at Forest Lawn Glendale [caption id="attachment_20898" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Andreas Deja's wire sculpture of a frog is part of the Glendale Forest Lawn Museum exhibit "Menagerie: The Art of Animals," in Glendale on Thursday, September 2, 2010. (Raul Roa/News-Press)"][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_20904" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A member of the L.A. County Bomb Squad prepares to detonate a live grenade that was found by construction workers at the Glendale Community College Garfield Campus construction site. (Raul Roa/News-Press)"][/caption] [Updated 2:54 p.m. Bomb squad officers have detonated the grenade device in a pit covered with sandbags. No injuries were [...]
From the Glendale News-Press Rachel Keown has gone from rookie to record-holder. The newly-minted motorcycle racer, who works at Harley-Davidson of Glendale, broke the speed record for a 1,000 cc motorcycle this week at the BUB Racing Inc. Motorcycle Speed Trials at Bonneville Salt Flats outside Salt Lake City. The final results won’t become official [...]
From the Glendale News-Press Smokers in Glendale, which has one of the highest smoking rates in Los Angeles County, could gain free access to tools to help them quit smoking under a bill passed by state legislators Tuesday. County officials and health care representatives gathered on the steps of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration [...]
From the Glendale News-Press LA CRESCENTA — The Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition on Tuesday was awarded a major federal grant that will total $625,000 over the next five years as they work to thwart substance abuse among local teens. The Office of National Drug Control Policy selected the coalition and 168 other [...]
From the Glendale News-Press SOUTH GLENDALE — Two women kidnapped another woman Wednesday afternoon, forced her to withdraw her bank savings and then burglarized her Pacific Avenue home, police said. The Glendale woman, who was unharmed in the incident, was walking home about noon at Pacific Avenue and Oak Street when she was approached by [...]
A state bill that increases the minimum age to start kindergarten passed the state Legislature Tuesday. To begin kindergarten, students must turn 5 years old by Sept. 1 of the school year. Previous law set the minimum at 5 years by Dec. 2 of the school year. If signed into law by the governor, it [...]
From the Glendale News-Press GLENDALE — A Glendale man who was stabbed last week after a road-rage incident was recovering from his injuries at home Tuesday, police said. The man was released Saturday from a local hospital after having sustained a stab wound that sliced his liver, Glendale Police Det. Keith Soboleski said. “He is [...]
Two hikers were rescued by helicopter Sunday night after reporting they got lost while trekking the Verdugo Mountains, police said. They called emergency dispatchers for help, but the calls kept disconnecting, police said. A helicopter was dispatched about 11 p.m. to the area to look for the hikers, who were severely dehydrated. The helicopter crew [...]
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