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By: Chris Kornelis James Russell's mother told him that his first invention was the “automated battleship” he built when he was 6. By the time he was 13, he was fixing toasters, irons and fans at a local appliance store in his hometown outside Seattle. The summer before he left for college, he was hired …
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Author J.K. Rowling's rags-to-riches biography is arguably better known than her most famous creation, Harry Potter. As the oft-repeated origin story goes, Rowling was a single mother making ends meet, aided by government assistance while she was scribbling the first installment of her phenomenally successful fantasy series in a café—which was heated, unlike her apartment. …
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UPDATE, APRIL 27, 8:54 A.M.: The final item in a Weekender Updater post a couple weekenders ago was on Corinthian Colleges being fined $30 million by the U.S. Department of Education for overstating job placement rates for graduates, which was just the latest government smack down of the Santa Ana-based chain of diploma mills. Sunday, …
A whale skull obtained from a beached newborn that could not be saved at Sunset Beach is now helping researchers figure out how fin whales hear sounds, which is a hot topic given the controversy surrounding the U.S. Navy's use of sonar. ] Navy Sonar Pact with Federal Agency Violated Law and Harmed Marine Mammals: …
UPDATE NO. 3, APRIL 23, 10:58 A.M.: The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a resolution calling for the resignation Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly, although the rebuke was less harsh than a previous version of the resolution the supes considered last week. ] The resolution says the supervisors: “wholly repudiate the …
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According to statements by White House officials, Adam Gadahn, the American face of Al Qaeda, and the first U.S. citizen to be charged with treason since World War 2, was killed during a January 2015 CIA drone strike in Pakistan. Officials claim that Gadahn, who had a million-dollar price tag on his head, was not …
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The Faculty Association of the Rancho Santiago Community College District claims the state's open-meeting law was violated in deliberations that led to RSCCD's controversial $105 million consulting contract with two technical schools in Saudi Arabia. ] Rancho Santiago Community College District Keeps Controversial Saudi Arabia Contract Last month, a dozen or so Rancho Santiago employees …
By Joshua Frank Perhaps you've driven past them at night: several towering panels lit up like a psychedelic art installation, with a 45-foot waterfall gushing down the side and onto the boulder-strewn, pedestal-shaped, very-much-manmade island. The brightly painted structures seem harmless enough–if a bit out of place several hundred feet offshore from Long Beach's affluent …
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The real star of the Monkey Wrench Collective's Slings & Arrows isn't the wholly committed ensemble, the deconstructed concept of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, or the complimentary cheese and grapes during intermission, all of which merit praise. It's the incredible site: Casa Romantica, a 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival mansion overlooking the San Clemente Pier that has …
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Coachella 2008 was a life changing weekend for Austin Whitney and not for the superfluous reasons you'd expect. He'd spent the day traversing the widespread fairgrounds–it was 110 degrees, he was in a wheelchair, and the accommodations were far from accessible. But how he got there and why this moment was somewhat earth-shattering all started …
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Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone and David and Amy Sedaris' The Book of Liz feel as different as lobster bisque does from a breakfast burrito. The first is a time-, space- and form-bending comedy with poignant, poetic accents, while the latter is a gleefully light, snarky comedy dealing mostly with cheeseballs. Yet both shows, …
A friend roped us into doing a race, but knew enough to make it worth our while. Orange County's leg of the FroYo 5k is a dash like no other, because you're guaranteed Yogurtland at the end of this road! What better way to kick off a Saturday than getting both exercise and dessert before …