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Raw: Suspects Butt Dial 911, Lead to Arrest Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone. A dispatcher listening to the 35-minute conversation, directed police to their location. (May 20) May 21, 2013 12:00 AM

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Company Promises to Make All Snail Mail Digital A San Francisco company is taking paperless to the next level, converting all conventional mail and sending it to your smartphone or tablet. (May 20) May 20, 2013 1:00 PM

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Patience & Prudence: Tonight You Belong To Me, 'Live' on The Perry Como Show Sisters Patience & Prudence McIntyre enjoyed enormous success in 1956 with this, their classic first Liberty Records single Tonight You Belong To Me, and its follow-up Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now. The girls released a few other singles in the late '50s and made a brief return to recording in the mid-'60s, but they failed to achieve further commercial success. Nonetheless, their music - for the most part arranged by their father Mark McIntyre, who had played piano for Sinatra in the '40s and worked as an arranger for numerous other major stars of the post-war period - retains its beguiling sweetness and charm more than half a century after it was recorded. Patience & Prudence never released an album, but the 'A' and 'B' sides of all their singles (plus a few early demos) were collected on a great 'Best Of' CD in 2005. It's still available and has won the girls - who will be 70 and 67 respectively as I write this - quite a bit of latter-day interest, if internet discussion and frequent airings of their songs in movies and commercials are anything to go by. Detailed information about what happened to Patience & Prudence post-fame is scant. This is because they went on to live ordinary middle-class lives in California. They had no desire for fame and quite reasonably wished to keep their business to themselves. In fact, as Patience revealed in a rare interview given in 2005 to coincide with the release of the 'Best Of' CD, she and her sister had never wanted to be recording artists in the first place, to the extent that she refers to their recording career as 'the accident'. You can read that interview, conducted by Doug Bright, here: http://tinyurl.com/8zd8sll . Thanks are due to Mr Bright for soliciting the interview which, succinct though it is, nonetheless represents the most in-depth source of information available about Patience & Prudence's lives before, during and after fame. Standard biographical material also exists, the core of which is to be found in the 'Best Of' CD booklet, for which I believe Patience was also consulted. You may find snippets of info here and there around the web, but probably not anything that isn't already covered in the booklet. During their initial period of fame Patience & Prudence made just one TV appearance; on The Perry Como Show on September 15th 1956. Here it is now, for your viewing pleasure. They made one further TV appearance in 1978, in a 'Where Are They Now' slot on a Dick Clark Special. If you'd like to see that too, I've uploaded it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-4GLbKIZpY . Patience recalled in 2005 that at the time of its recording she and her sister were somewhat bemused as to why they were doing the Como Show at all, telling their father on set that they knew they were just 'a passing thing'. Patience & Prudence's parents had concerns about overexposing the girls to the harsh glare of the showbiz spotlight which is why, despite the million-selling success of the 'Tonight' 45, the singing siblings were limited to performing just this one TV spot. I'd wanted to see this performance myself for a long time and I knew P & P fans would too, so I tracked it down and posted it. I hope you enjoy it. It's for non-commercial use and is not intended to infringe any copyright. I'm simply a fan of this bygone duo and wanted to share this unique footage of them. Originally in colour, it appears that this B & W telecine is what's left. User: runarounddead May 18, 2013 3:11 AM

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Tragedy in Bangladesh: Retailers Seek Amends for 1,100 Dead (LinkAsia: 5/17/13) The government of Bangladesh and Western retailers are making steps towards improving work conditions in the country, three weeks after a factory collapse killed over 1,100 in Dhaka. Katie Quan, associate chair at the University of California's Center for Labor Research and Education, discusses the impact these changes could have on Bangladesh's lucrative garment industry. Watch more at http://linkasia.org IMAGE: A garment worker inspects a factory belonging to Tung Hai Group, a large garment exporter, after a fire in Dhaka May 9, 2013. Eight people were killed when the fire swept through the garment factory in an industrial district of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police and an industry association official said: REUTERS/Andrew Biraj May 17, 2013 6:01 PM

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Why Are Homeless Veterans in La Being Blocked from Using Brentwood Land Donated for Their Shelter? Jon Wiener, contributing editor for The Nation, tells Current TV's John Fugelsang about an ACLU lawsuit involving a plot of Brentwood, Calif. land donated to the Veterans Administration specifically to house disabled veterans more than 100 years ago. The land is now used for a variety of purposes â€” the site includes both a parking lot and a dog park â€”while more than 6,300 veterans remain homeless in Los Angeles according to a Dec. 2012 Housing Department report. Tune in Mon - Thursday at 8e/5p on Current TV http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/ May 16, 2013 3:04 AM

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Holder: Rep. Issa's Behavior 'shameful' ttorney General Eric Holder sparred with Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, at a hearing Wednesday. Holder said Issa's actions were, "unacceptable and shameful." (May 15) May 16, 2013 3:01 AM

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L.A. Apartment Evacuated and Devices Found A police bomb squad searched an apartment in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon after finding explosive material in a man's car and potentially explosive devices in his apartment. (May 15) May 16, 2013 1:02 AM

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Earth Focus Episode 54: Saving the Rivers of the American West The Willamette River has some big problems, but it's also the focus of one of the most creative and ambitious watershed restorations efforts ever undertaken. Earth Focus speaks with Jeremy Monroe about his film Willamette Futures, which documents the effort to restore the watersheds of Oregon's largest river system. Satirical writer George Wolfe's controversial act of civil disobedience, leading a kayaking expedition down the cemented Los Angeles River, is the focus of Thea Mercouffer's film Rock the Boat. The expedition sought to have EPA declare the river navigable so that it could gain protection under the Clean Water Act. The boating trip down the LA River became a political movement which led to changes in federal policy and opened up public access to a long-neglected waterway. The Colorado River is the most dammed, and diverted river in the world. It struggles to support thirty million people across the western United States and Mexico and is reaching its limits. James Redford and Mark Decena talk about their film Watershed: Exploring A New Water Ethic for the New West, which looks at how we balance the competing interests of cities, agriculture, recreation, wildlife and indigenous communities with rights to the water. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. Watch more at http://www.linktv.org/earthfocus. May 15, 2013 8:01 PM

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Star Trek Cast Hope Fans Follow into Darkness 'Star Trek' cast share their thoughts on what fans should expect from the latest installment as they regroup for the Los Angeles premiere of 3D movie 'Into Darkness.' (May 15) May 15, 2013 11:00 AM

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Police Break into Private Home without a Warrant and Tase Residents (Cotati California) COTATI, CA -- Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggressively exercise their fourth amendment right, refusing the police entry as they demand at gun point to let them inside without a search warrant or probable cause. As the police quickly holster their weapons after the camera turns on, the three occupants continue to exercise their rights non-aggressively. The police respond by going into "over-the-top" aggressive mode, utilizing excessive force by kicking in the door, assaulting the female and tazing the cameraman four times causing the camera to short out. All three occupants are arrested/cited for obstruction. Incident occurred on 5/10/2013. https://www.facebook.com/PoliceStateUSA May 14, 2013 11:46 PM

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Bet Award Nominees Announced The BET Award nominees were announced Tuesday in Los Angeles featuring host Chris Tucker and Chris Brown, who will perform at the show. Rapper Kendrick Lamar talked with the AP about Brown's reputation. (May 14) May 14, 2013 10:00 PM

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America's Cup Officials Say Race Will Continue The America's Cup will go on as planned after the death of a sailor during a training run last week on San Francisco Bay. The officials also said they expected all four entrants to compete, including Artemis Racing. (May 14) May 14, 2013 8:00 PM

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Real News: California Domestic Workers Demand Bill of Rights Workers and advocates host Mother's Day brunch with legislators to urge passage of bill. From The Real News. May 14, 2013 3:01 AM

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Community Stunned, Saddened by Murder Arrest The community of Valley Springs, California was saddened Monday after the latest twist in the stabbing death of Leila Fowler. Her 12-year-old brother was arrested over the weekend. (May 13) May 13, 2013 10:00 PM

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Scientists Measure LA's Carbon Footprint A project at CalTech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is trying to measure the carbon footprint of human activity in the Los Angeles basin. (May 13) May 13, 2013 4:01 PM