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Set in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars Pinball lets you interact with the most iconic characters, and relive the greatest moments of the Star Wars universe mixed with exciting pinball action! Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode IV: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader, Starfighter Assault, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Boba Fett.
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As a complete package, Star Wars Pinball delivers the kind of arcade experience that makes you crave just one more game, constantly chasing to surpass your own score for the sheer satisfaction of it.
Desctructoid - 9.5/10
Each table is chock full of beautiful art, character cameos, and tracks pulled straight from the films' soundtracks. These first three tables are a bold and equally stellar introduction to Star Wars Pinball, and they'll keep you more than busy until Zen Studios drops the next batch.
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You don't need to be a Star Wars fan to recognize the creativity Zen has brought to the new tables. The company continues to include more fantasy elements in its designs.
The best thing about Star Wars Pinball is its jaw-dropping graphics. The many targets, ramps, rollovers, and kickers that make up its pinball course are all polished with incredible detail. Even the pinball itself is stunning, with its metallic surface realistically reflecting the ambient lights as it spins across the table. And the choreographed flashing of all these table elements really make you feel as though Zen Studios pulled out all the stops when making this game.
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If you're a fan of pinball, Star Wars, or fun things, this is pretty much a must-purchase.
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Everything is great without in app purchases. In app purchases should be free for buyers.
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An International Trade Commission (ITC) Judge has ruled that Apple's iPhone does not infringe on a Motorola Mobility patent.
Judge Thomas Pender found that the patent in question, number 6246862, is invalid because of prior art found in an older patent. Motorola's patent covers technology used to prevent accidental touchscreen input. The case still has to go in front of an ITC commission for final review.
According to Judge Pender, Motorola's patent is invalid due to prior art found in patent number 6052464. The judge ruled that the prior art showed that the patent at the heart of the case was an obvious evolution of existing technology.
Patent number 624682 covers technology which prevents accidental touchscreen input through the use of a close-proximity sensor. The patent was originally assigned to Motorola in 1989.
Judge Pender originally ruled that Apple was not guilty of infringement in the case because Motorola's use of the term "close-proximity sensor" was too broad for an infringement determination.
Following that ruling, an ITC commission asked Pender to re-review the case on behalf of Motorola. The commission will now review Judge Pender's latest ruling for a final determination.
This isn't the only case between Apple and Motorola to receive a ruling recently. A Wisconsin judge dismissed a case between Apple and Motorola in November.
Judge Barbara Crabb dismissed the case under the belief that Apple would not have followed the courts guidance if a pro-Motorola verdict was given.
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Texas is changing: Improving education conditions for black and brown kids is key to a bright future
It's easy to imagine that politicians would fall all over themselves to take credit for an economic outlook that looked like this: Enough new jobs are coming to Texas to boost the state's aggregate household income by at least $586 billion a year and, perhaps, by as much as $1.6 trillion a year.
But how would our state leaders respond if our total household income was projected to drop by at least $586 billion per year and maybe by as much as $1.6 trillion per year?
Those jaw-dropping numbers are real. They are documented in a new book, "Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge." The bottom line: The state's population will be poorer and less competitive in the coming years unless we improve the education and socioeconomic conditions of our growing minority population.
The state's population is rapidly changing. Hispanic Texans are expected to surpass whites as the state's largest population group by 2020. College graduation rates will decline and poverty will increase, according to the book's authors, led by demographer Steve Murdock, former U.S. Census Bureau director in the George W. Bush administration and currently director of Rice University's Hobby Center for the Study of Texas.
Business leaders face a challenge. State leaders and legislators face a challenge. All Texans face this challenge. We must change the trend line and it starts with the education of our children. The research is clear: Education plays a major role in increasing income for all racial/ethnic groups. By improving the socioeconomic condition of minority populations, the authors note, the benefits are likely to be widespread from the private sector that needs a reliable customer base to the state treasury, which needs a reliable and robust tax revenue stream.
Testimony in the school funding trial last year indicated that 47 percent of low-income students in the Class of 2015 were not on track to graduate. That's bad news. Even worse is the fact that an ever-growing super-majority of our public school students (60 percent) comes from low-income families. All of our enrollment increase over the past 12 years comes from children of low-income families.
Texas lawmakers must make the education of these low-income youngsters a priority. For starters, legislators should greatly expand access to early childhood education for 3- and 4-year-olds. Demographers cite evidence suggesting wide agreement that expanding access to pre-kindergarten can do more to close the gaps than any other single reform.
The state now funds half-day pre-K for at-risk kids, but only a fraction of the need is met. Children may learn more in a full-day program, which also better fits the schedules of working parents.
Expanding early childhood education won't come easy especially with the state Republican platform position in opposition. The stance is not smart for Texas. Our policies urgently need to go beyond the traditional political lens of red and blue and focus instead on empowering the emerging Latino majority. For the sake of our future, our policy choices must embrace Texas' socioeconomic and cultural diversity.
Our state's public education system from pre-school to higher education must no longer be determined by litigation. Instead, we should focus on inspiration. Lawmakers will achieve this goal when they ask: "What do our children need to succeed?" rather than, "What is the bare minimum we need to avoid being in court?"
Corpus Christi Caller-Times. April 20, 2014.
What's the harm in teaching Mexican-American history
The Texas Board of Education in 2010 tried to oust Thomas Jefferson, writer of the Declaration of Independence, from the state history texts because the founder who coined the phrase "separation of church and state" grated against their conservative skins. That same conservatism prompted them to try to inject religious "creationism" into the state's science texts.
But last week the Board conservative majority, facing a move to create a statewide Mexican-American history elective in Texas public schools, said they feared such a course would inject progressive politics into the schools. The board managed to sideline the motion. Yet it is the height of irony, if not cheekiness, that the group that has done much to steer the public school curriculum into its own brand of politics now says it is afraid to stir up political radicalism.
Board member Ruben Cortez, a Democrat from Brownsville whose District 2 includes Corpus Christi, deserves the credit for making the motion to create the Mexican-American studies course. In doing so he was following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Mary Helen Berlanga, who frequently battled to get acknowledgment of the state's Mexican heritage into what Texas public schoolchildren are taught.
It's well to remember that such a course would have been an elective, not a mandated course. Texas has some 200 elective courses on the books, including flower arranging. This is hardly the captive political brainwashing of the entire Texas student body. Opponents say districts have the leeway to create their own courses on Mexican-American history, but that seems more open to politicization than a model that would apply statewide.
It's also well to remember also that Hispanics now make up 51 percent of the state's student body. It's reasonable for this student population to desire to know more about their own history, a history that places them in context with state and even national history. This is a kind of history that does more than just bolster ethnic pride: any young Texan who intends to make their life in the state needs to know more about the ethnic population from which tomorrow's political, business and cultural leaders will likely spring.
This is hardly the stuff of radicalism. Though discussion of the initiative never progressed enough to get down to what such a course would include, it seems fair to say that such a curriculum would go far beyond just protest marches and strikes; simply the demography of Mexican-Americans in Texas and its history would offer a wealth of study material.
Mexican-American studies courses now have a history of their own as they have begun to rely on more recent academic historical research. Such courses have been developed in other schools in other states in the southwest of the United States. Del Mar College recently began its own Mexican-American studies curriculum as did Coles High School. The inauguration of both was free of the drama that attended the state action.
The board didn't defeat the motion outright. The majority asked publishers to submit textbooks on Mexican-American studies by the 2016-17 school year, though the publishers are under no requirement that they follow through. Cortez and proponents took what they could and called it victory, but no amount of dressing up will make it anything but a rejection. The state's public schoolchildren will be no better for the result.
Abilene Reporter-News. April 16, 2014.
Texas has learned from past disasters but changes slow to come after West explosion
April 16 and April 17 are two dates that live in infamy in Texas.
On April 16, 1947, the freighter Grandcamp exploded at a pier in Texas City. Perhaps it was a cigarette that started a fire in the hold of the ship, into which ammonium nitrate and ammunition a lethal cargo, to be sure were being loaded. The ammunition was removed but the fire could not be put out workers did not realize the ammonium nitrate, a compound used during the war to make dynamite and now used for fertilizer, did not need oxygen to burn and just after 9 a.m., the French ship exploded.
The blast was so strong that the ship's 1.5-ton anchor later was found two miles away. A nearby ship was lifted out of the water.
Pieces of flaming debris flew in all directions, some striking a nearby Monsanto chemical storage facility, causing it also to explode and killing an additional 234 people. A residential area of 500 homes was leveled.
In all, 581 people died and 3,500 were injured. The explosion caused $100 million in damage.
Just last year, on the evening of April 17, a fire was reported at a fertilizer plant in West, which is about 20 miles north of Waco, or about 175 miles east of Abilene.
First responders rushed to the facility, as did some folks curious as to the destination of the emergency vehicles.
Then, the plant exploded. Not only did the blast rock the town, it was felt at least 80 miles away.
Fifteen people including 13 firefighters were killed and more than 150 injured. A middle school and apartment complex were destroyed and other buildings, including a nursing home, greatly damaged.
Again, it was ammonium nitrate the same volatile ingredient used in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
The 1947 disaster, of course, has faded into history. However, one result of that explosion was limiting the Texas City port to the handling of oil products.
The cost of the damage in the Texas City and West tragedies each topped $100 million.
In March 1937, the London School in New London exploded as the result of a natural gas leak. Almost 300 students and faculty were killed, and it still stands as the greatest school disaster in Texas history. Overall, it ranks third behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the Texas City explosion.
As a result of the school disaster, the Texas Legislature ordered that a strong odor be added to naturally odorless and colorless natural gas to make detection of leaks easier. The practice became common worldwide.
In both disasters, change came about as a result of attempts to ensure that similar tragedies would not occur again.
As the residents of West rebuilt their town including the school and nursing home questions arose as to whether the fertilizer plant explosion could've been prevented, and why responders rushed in to fight what amounted to the fuse leading to a powder keg rather than evacuating the area.
About 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate were used in Oklahoma City; almost 550,000 pounds were inside the West plant.
A year later, there still are questions. There are dozens of other fertilizer plants in Texas, and many are wooden, as was the one in West. Obviously, there are plants in other states.
A veteran firefighter, knowing the potential danger, was ordering volunteer firefighters to pull back when the West plant exploded. He died with the others.
Tighter regulations have been proposed. Some have demanded that facilities be made safer a sprinkler system at the West Fertilizer Co. may have doused the fire before it ignited the fertilizer. Some have demanded better reporting of what is inside facilities and any changes made. Others have asked why there is little regulation and oversight at the state level.
Although Texans are hesitant to add more government authority to their daily lives, this is a case similar to the New London and Texas City disasters long ago when common-sense changes will help ensure a similar catastrophe doesn't happen again.
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. April 18, 2014.
Texas should discuss allowing the medical use of marijuana
Passage of state laws in Colorado and Washington two years ago allowing recreational use of marijuana has generated much national discussion about the leafy substance.
But the subject of marijuana's legality first broke into the national discourse in 1996, when California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
Currently, 13 states allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to patients suffering from a variety of ailments, according to Time magazine.
It's a safe bet the subject also is being talked about by citizens of the other 37 states, and we think it's time for Texas lawmakers and officials to begin to discuss it.
We're not yet ready to endorse the use of medical marijuana in Texas, but there are some logical arguments that should be examined.
Regardless of opinions about marijuana, the subject takes on a different perspective in the context of relieving suffering of people with glaucoma, AIDS and other illnesses.
The Harmon family of Amarillo, whose 8-year-old daughter suffers from spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and has up to 40 seizures a day, are hopeful the oil of a special strain of marijuana grown in Colorado can help their daughter as it has other children who suffer seizures.
How could even the most dogmatic anti-drug zealot in Texas oppose the family's hope to see if the drug can help?
Many law-abiding citizens, after seeing the suffering of loved ones, would be more than willing to buy marijuana illegally on their behalf if they thought it could help.
Such a willingness to break the law to ease a loved one's suffering probably is found in Texas more often than people would suspect, and it probably has happened here.
Members of our editorial board recently discussed marijuana in a lively candidate interview with Kinky Friedman, who is in a runoff election for the Democratic nomination for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture.
Regarding the medical use of marijuana, Friedman pointed out Texas has the finest cancer hospital in the world in Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center but doesn't have medical marijuana.
Friedman is running on a pro-hemp, pro-marijuana platform that favors legalization of recreational use of marijuana as well as medical use.
We disagree with full legalizing, but making the substance legal for medical use would not only help ease suffering, it would add to the tax base of Texas.
It also would allow growers to produce higher quality crops than are available on the illegal market and to develop hybrid plants designed to treat specific illnesses.
If medical marijuana were legalized in Texas, it wouldn't be a matter of Dr. Cheech and Dr. Chong going crazy with scribbling on prescription pads. The process would be regulated by the state and monitored carefully.
Would there be cheaters, who would get prescriptions for reasons other than medical needs? Yes, it's likely some would. But the opportunity to ease the suffering of sick people would more than make it worth it.
We're ready for the discussion with studied input from medical experts to begin.
Austin American-Statesman. April 15, 2014.
To help UT System heal, regent Hall should step down
The hallmark of good leadership is knowing when to step aside for the sake of the institution, and in the case of University of Texas System Board of Regents member Wallace L. Hall Jr., that time has come.
Hall's public wrangling with the University of Texas at Austin and its president, Bill Powers, has become a distraction and has tarnished the flagship's reputation. We believe that it is time for Hall to step down so that the university can get back to the business of educating students and leading in the world of academia.
Hall, who has come under legislative scrutiny for burying the university in records requests, may have had good intentions when he first began to probe into the university's dealings. But after months of digging and not much to show for his so-called research efforts, his actions have only cast a negative national spotlight and created a stressful environment for faculty, staff and the board of regents. With possible impeachment and potential criminal charges now on the horizon, Hall is but a distraction from pressing matters, including the search for a new system chancellor.
A report for the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, released last week, stated Hall's "unreasonable and burdensome requests for records and information", as well as his "improper use" of confidential student information, violated state laws and constitute grounds for recommending impeachment. Improper disclosure of student information is a misdemeanor under state law, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail. The report, written by Rusty Hardin & Associates LLP, also states that some of Hall's actions would not by themselves be grounds for impeachment, however "improper" or "incompetent."
On Monday, the American-Statesman reported that a state House panel had referred its report on Hall to the Travis County district attorney and the county attorney for possible criminal prosecution.
Also energized by the report's findings, the Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education has called on Hall to resign, saying he has become "a toxic distraction." We agree.
Hall's critics say he is on a witch hunt to oust Powers. Others criticize his lack of interest in other UT System institutions, citing as an example his lack of involvement on the sexual harassment claims against top administrators at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston that resulted in those same administrators getting new jobs after initially resigning.
Yet, supporters say Hall's demand for official documents has raised valid questions about open-records policies, political influence in admissions and other matters. His supporters may be right, but the price the school has had to pay for Hall's obsession has been high.
Not only have Hall's demands created a divide between UT-Austin and UT System personnel, but the highly publicized scrutiny of UT-Austin has also discouraged recruitment of faculty and students to UT-Austin. Recent searches for provost, school deans and the new director of the Butler School of Music have all been affected by the instability.
Every board, whether corporate or academic, has a healthy amount of ideological differences. That's a good thing. Differences challenge the norm and can be the foundation for greatness.
But when the differences go beyond ideology and turn personal, it takes away from the organization's goal and mission. Hall's hunt has not resulted in new policy or ideas to enhance the UT System.
We firmly believe that in order to protect the best interest of the UT System, regents should and need to ask tough questions. We've learned this to be true from cases like the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State. However, spending 30 to 40 hours a week, as Hall has, combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of UT System emails, letters and other documents, some of them confidential, without disclosed reasons is not productive.
Regents should not be a rubber stamp of approval for all of a president's ideas. But a regent should find balance in pushing for excellence and moving forward in the name of progress.
Though Hall might believe he is only doing his job, he should see the damage his actions have cause and will continue to have if he stays on as regent.
Hall's efforts have resulted in change. In February the UT System's governing board adopted tighter procedures for its members' information requests, while also granting the members wide latitude to obtain records and data.
But enough is enough; it is time for Hall to step down.


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After our round Trump, Mike and I sat on a veranda and ate sandwiches. Trump does not drink; he's never tasted the vodka that bears his name and has never sipped a postround beer. Trump had a brother Fred Trump Jr., 11 years older and named for their father who was a free spirit, a pilot, a good athlete and a bad drinker. Trump worshipped him and still carries the sorrow of his death, induced by booze, at age 43.
Trump was in no rush. He talked about various pro golfers, male and female, plus various football and baseball players, tennis stars and boxers and TV wrestlers. He knew, or thought he did, who was gay or adulterous or broke. The detail with which he described their private lives made you hang on every word, but it was his insight into how these people went about their business both as athletic heroes and as ordinary, failed human beings that was truly mesmerizing. He described the advice he gave to Natalie Gulbis, the pert LPGA player still looking for her first win. She had been saying in public that Ben Roethlisberger, the Super Bowl quarterback, had dumped her. "I never want to read that again," Trump said he had told her. "From now on I want to read that you dumped him." You could call it lying. Trump would call it marketing. He told her, "You don't get dumped."
After finishing his hamburger, Trump ordered another one to go. He went on a little riff about French fries and where they were best, at his Bedminster club or at his Westchester club. He seemed fascinated that I preferred the Westchester fries, which were thin and crisp, to the thick Bedminster fries. Steak fries, I noted, didn't travel well in those white Styrofoam to-go containers, in which they get all soggy in their own steam. I asked if the box had far to travel.
"Just a little ways," Trump said. "I'm bringing this home for Donnie." You may know Donald Trump Jr., Trump's 29-year-old son and oldest child, from The Apprentice.
A few minutes later Trump's Rolls-Royce was brought up to the club's front door. He put the container with the hamburger on the backseat, got behind the wheel and drove off.
Before he left, he said to Mike, "I want you to make sure that your man here writes a good story about me. But whether he does or he doesn't, I'm still worth six billion dollars."
Mike and I tried, but Trump wouldn't let us pay for a thing.
Over the next eight months I talked to Trump dozens of times and saw him a bunch too. . . .
I saw him in his office at Trump Tower and at his clubs. I watched him play with Annika Sorenstam. I talked to many people about Trump, including some who had negative experiences with him or knew somebody who did. There were people who had relationships with Trump that ended poorly, and there were people who would take their relationship with Trump to their graves. The response was often extreme.
Trump's funny. I'm still trying to figure out whether it's intentional or not. At Mar-a-Lago, a mansion he owns in Palm Beach, Fla., there's a portrait of Trump wearing one of those preppy white V-neck tennis sweaters, with the stripes at the neck. Underneath it are the words THE VISIONARY. That has to be a joke, right?
It's hard to tell with him. One day he was talking about an exhibition he had played in, Trump and Tom Watson against Annika and Natalie Gulbis, on a makeshift course on Governors Island, off Manhattan. The course was dirt interspersed with loose sod and rough greens. "It wasn't, as they say, in Trump National condition," he said, as if that's a phrase in common use.


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CHICAGO - The Chicago Blackhawks signed goaltender Cristobal Huet to a US$22.5-million, four-year contract Tuesday.
He was dealt by the Montreal Canadiens to the Washington Capitals at the NHL trade deadline last season.
In 183 career NHL games, Huet is 83-61-24 with a 2.43 goals-against average, .918 save percentage and 17 shutouts. Huet went 32-14-6 with the Habs and Capitals last season.
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Detroit Tigers Jhonny Peralta Accepts 50 Game Suspension From MLB
The suspensions from Major League Baseball are being handed out today, and reports say that Jhonny Peralta has accepted his 50 game suspension.
The suspensions from Major League Baseball are being handed out today, and reports say that Jhonny Peralta has accepted his 50 game suspension.
The Tigers knew that they would have to do something at shortstop with the looming suspension of Johnny Peralta, and many think they have upgraded by getting Jose Iglesias.
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Jose Bautista, J.J. Hardy and Jason Kipnis each drove in runs, and the American League beat the National League, 3-0, in the 2013 MLB All-Star Game at Citi Field in New York.
Jim Leyland made the official announcement that Jose Valverde (aka: Papa Grande) would be returning as the Detroit Tigers closer today.
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After the Giants swept our beloved Detroit Tigers in the World Series, the streets of San Fransisco erupted into a party, riot scene. Everyone was going crazy with the news that the Giants were World Series champs, well almost everyone.
The Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland signs a one-year extension to see if he can lead the Tigers all the way next year.
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The Bees have lost all four of their games since the defender picked up the knock and manager Andy Scott admits that they are unlikely to be able to call on his services again any time soon.
"I think Matty's going to be out for longer than we anticipated," he said.
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School Mom vs. Summer Mom: Is there a difference at your house?There certainly is, at mine.School Mom is all about bedtimes, making beds, eating breakfast at the table, no TV before school, homework before screen time, posting the family schedule calendar, making appointments and being clean before getting into bed again. Doesn't sound like much fun, does she? Probably not, but she is a necessary evil.Summer Mom is less concerned about bedtimes, happy to eat breakfast on the couch, while watching TV, fine with swimsuits as all-day-attire, prefers endless blank calendar-squares, likes ice cream for dinner, and is still all about being clean before getting into bed again.(Yes, that last one is year-round. I can't help it.)With two days of school left, I am desperately clinging to School Mom rules, while really wanting to unleash Summer Mom fun. It's time.I don't have any more lunch-packing left in me. I agree that "it's still light out, how can it be bedtime?!" I don't want to have to be anywhere at a specific time. I don't really even want to answer questions, solve problems or remember important dates.I just want to put everyone in their swim suits and call it a day.The countdown is on.(But I'll still be responsible for soap and shampoo.)
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Photos and Description of this 2 bedroom holiday bungalow in Studio City - Hollywood Hills/Universal
2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Main House with optional Studio Guest House sleeps 8
Modernized 2 bedroom 2 bath MID-CENTURY post and beam main house nestled within a forest of bamboo, preserved old oaks and of course Hollywood's rich and famous. Designed and renovated with a keen eye on the architecture and style of the era, this special home blends old and new in true Hollywood fashion.
Tandem parking provided for two cars just minutes from Universal, Warner Brothers, NBC and Disney studios. Cook's eat-in kitchen inspired by the iconic Airstream Trailer. High ceilings, central A/C and heating, concrete floors, high end furnishing, stone counters, vintage and modern fixtures throughout. Amenities include washer/dryer, dishwasher, vintage stove, disposal, ice maker, 1 King, 1 Queen memory foam bed. Two twins converted from 60's sectional in living room. Main House Sleeps 6. Add additional 75.00 per night for optional Studio Guest House and the property sleeps 8 or 9. Posted pricing is without the studio guest house included. Studio Guest House link: VRBO # 512919.
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
- wheelchair inaccessible
About Gina Martin
This prime property is brand new to the Vacation and Corporate rental markets but not new to it's owner who has been in the vacation / corporate rental business for years. This property has been the pride and joy of its owner since 2006. David takes enormous pride in the heritage of Hollywood and the restoration of its unique historical and architectural history. You are sure to find staying here a memorable and valuable experience.
Gina Martin purchased this bungalow in 2006
Why Gina Martin chose Studio City
Hollywood is a vibrant, bustling town and this is a truly perfect location from which to tour LA. The studio, guest house is fully self-contained and may also be rented separately for maximum 2 guests.
Ten minutes away, by foot there is an enormous, hip, new LA Fitness and Starbucks. A short drive to either the 101 Freeway or Cahuenga Blvd. gets you to Grauman's Chinese /Walk of Fame /Hollywood/Highland complex, Hollywood Bowl, Melrose Avenue, Cinerama Dome, subway stations that connect you to downtown, countless gyms, shops, tours, restaurants theaters and night clubs. This home and its rear studio guest house (when available sleeps 2, total 6) is freeway close and convenient to the Valley, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills by car or metro.
What makes this bungalow unique
Set among mature trees and a forest of bamboo, this house is situated on a sleepy, windy road, just 3 minutes from the 101 Freeway. You will feel like you are miles away from the action of the City..but you're not!


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The PSC appeared somewhat swayed by ConEd's argument that gas marketers might lose capacity rights to electric generators, but saw no need to act immediately "because no plants are currently under construction in the New York City area and utilities still have capacity under contract." But it conceded that in the future, a generator conceivably could opt to take firm off-peak service, affecting service to high priority transportation customers. .
Right-of-Way Leasing. The California PUC OK'd an arrangement whereby Southern California Edison Co. will lease potential sites for telecommunications facilities, including underutilized land parcels, to Pacific Bell Mobile Services.
"It is sensible for California's energy utilities, with their extensive easements, rights-of-way, and cable facilities, to cooperate in this manner with the telecommunications utilities that are seeking to build an updated telecommunications network," the PUC said. "Joint use of utility facilities has obvious economic benefits."
The PUC approved a 90/10 allocation of such lease revenues between utility shareholders and ratepayers. .
Names, Brands, & Logos. Maryland regulators found it "appropriate, in principle," to impute a royalty to regulated gas and electric utilities for the goodwill value and other "unquantified benefits" inherent in the utility name and logo used by an unregulated affiliate (such use is permitted in the state), but will require a disclaimer that the utility and the affiliate operate as distinct corporate entities.
The state commission will open a separate case to calculate benefits and royalties, and has told most energy utilities to file cost allocation manuals no later than Nov. 1 to address cross-subsidies between utilities and affiliates. .
Arkansas Restructuring. The Arkansas PSC approved various measures over the summer to implement the state's electric restructuring law, the Electric Consumer Choice Act of 1999. n Billing and Metering. Introduces competition for production and issuance of bills, payment and collection, and related call center functions. (Metering and dissemination of metering information in "bill-ready" or "rate-ready" formats is still regulated.) .
- EDI. Adopts standards for electronic data interchange by Jan. 1, 2002 (startup date for supply competition). Will address specific procedures for exchanging data in defined situations at a later date. .
- Market Power. Requires utilities and utility affiliates to conduct market power analyses for all competitive products and services. .
- Customer Education. Includes explanations of the standard-offer service package, itemized billing, reliability and safety, customer protections and rights, and confidentiality of customer-specific information. .
- Utility Affiliates. Adopts an "arm's length" standard for review of deals between utilities and affiliates. .
Interruptible Rates. Responding to unusually high prices and increased demand for electricity, the Oregon PUC on June 30 approved a Portland General Electric pilot tariff that gives the utility's larger customers incentives to cut back on power usage. PGE will pay large industrial users that voluntarily cut their electric loads when prices are high a price that is less than it otherwise would cost PGE to buy power and serve them.
Purchased Power Costs. The Virginia commission OK'd a plan for Conectiv subsidiary Delmarva Power & Light Co. to separate its generation units from its distribution