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  • Plenty of nothing

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 2
    I just heard a tidbit of information the other day about the Sierra Club meeting to decide whether the club would vote whether to oppose the Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative or vote to be “actively neutral.” At the meeting, the anti the Initiative side had two speakers taking questions to support [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:23am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Pop quiz, hotshot

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    UPDATED BELOW, scroll… So, I was going to talk about the Boys and Girls Club funding request (Item 6-C) which is coming up before the City Council tonight and being recommended to add to the list of projects to be considered for Measure WW funding.  Interestingly enough, the staff report doesn’t [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:19am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Say you, say me

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Here’s what I am enjoying about the whole Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative.   Folks who generally wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about Development Agreements are suddenly so concerned about how the Development Agreement as presented in the Initiative itself is tantamount to a “giveaway” of epic proportions to SunCal. The main points are, [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:04am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Fee fi fo fum

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    So my latest project has been reading through the 2001 Citywide Development Fee Nexus Study.   Essentially this document was created so that the City could charge developers for the impact of their project on the City.   According to the state level legislation that controls, this type of Nexus [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:45am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Happy (early) Thanksgiving folks!

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 6
    Things to be thankful about tomorrow… Your family probably won’t want to talk about Alameda politics so you get a one-day mental break from it Four-day weekend Pie [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:08am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Let it B

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    And now we return you to “As Alameda turns”…  The latest ohmigod moment comes from first a letter sent by Mayor Beverly Johnson to the registrar of voters essentially saying that voters are too stupid to be able to sort out the difference between Measure A (the Charter law colloquially known as [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:26am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Southern California comfort

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 3
    Remember the Alameda Point  ”contingency plan” that has been kicked around by both the Interim City Manager and Councilmember Frank Matarrese, well this small news item in the Alameda Journal is a possible hint toward the direction in which some folks in the City and on the Council may want [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:28am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Sierra missed

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Normally I wouldn’t get involved in the private business of the executive committee of an advocacy organization, but since one of the members invited comment on the decision making process for the Sierra Club around the issue of the Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative, and invited members of the public to attend their [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:21am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Alameda: open-ish for business

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 9
    At the City Council meeting the other night, the Park Street Smoke Shop/Convenience Store/tschotske shop was “called for review” by Councilmember Frank Matarrese.   To quickly recap, this is a shop that wanted to open up on Park Street, but the North of Lincoln side.   They received approval from [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:23am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Substantial Point

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    “Louise” reposts from the Island the ballot argument against the Alameda Point Revtalization Initiative and then asks that folks “substantiate” their opinions and that “blanket assertions” are not adequate. Except for the fact that the arguments against the Initiative aren’t substantiated either, but rather blanket assertions themselves. Before I get into the whole [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:21am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Measure for measure

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    In a highly ironic but yet appropriate twist to the on-going dramedy that is the Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative, the Initiative going on the ballot in early — very early — February of next year will be called… Measure A. Can you see the campaign slogans on the anti-side now?   “Defeat [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:22am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 8
    This may sound a bit fan-girly and slightly geeky, but I am super excited with the idea of having some sort of appointed body in the City to act as a Sunshine Taskforce or an Ethics Commission of some type.   This item is coming up for review under City [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:33am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Baking business

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Some excellent news for Alameda, Semifreddi has finally moved into its Alameda location in Harbor Bay.   The new $6.8 million building is apparently a lot bigger and a lot more efficient than its old space in Emeryville. Which rounds out the food corridor in Alameda to the essentials: coffee, cookies, cheese, and [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:34am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • School Board’s in session

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    So, I have to say that I don’t physically go to a lot of City Council and/or School Board meetings.   Why?   Because the chairs are uncomfortable and I can’t press pause on a live meeting.   However on Tuesday night I actually went to a real live School [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:39am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Fire fighting

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 7
    There were a few tidbits of information revealed at last week’s City Council meeting that has not really been highlighted as it stands in the shadows of the Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative date that was set.    During the meeting as justification for not voting for the February date, Councilmember [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:11am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • I’ve been searchin’

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    John Knox White has an interesting post on his site about the Mayor dropping hints at a previous Chamber of Commerce meeting that she would like to change Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant from interim to permanent. JKW brings up some good points about why we should slow down the [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:35am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • All night long

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 9
    The Planning Board will be considering expanding the time that trucks can make deliveries to Alameda Towne Centre.  Trader Joes, Big 5, Petco, Safeway, Walgreens, and Panera all want to be able to have trucks drop off deliveries to their store beginning as early at 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:36am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Hooray for ACLO

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    I know I don’t generally post on the weekends, but here’s a good one for folks that do check in on the weekends and have a hankering for some good showtunes…Denise Shelton the box office manager for the Alameda Civic Light Opera sent in this reminder that ACLO is has [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:44pm EST
    by Lauren Do

  • A Target in site?

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 5
    So, I had anticipated that the CIC meeting would have been up on the old video streaming on the City website yesterday to talk about what is going on at Alameda Landing, but for some strange reason the video is not up.   Instead the City re-posted an old Planning [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:43am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • You’re so very special

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Okay, after watching Tuesday night’s meeting, I am convinced that the City and Council majority (Beverly Johnson, Frank Mataresse, and Doug deHaan) have screwed the pooch on this one.   The City Clerk and City Attorney were fixated on the two particular (or three actually) pieces of election code and [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:34am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Rowena or Rebecca

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Clearly I have not yet watched the City Council meeting yet.  I generally save that for the day after when I turn it on in the background while doing some work that allows for multitasking of that sort.   So instead, first a few feel good type notices. First up!  CASA [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:26am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • If you change your mind, I’m the first in line

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 9
    In the continuing farce that is Alameda Point, after Councilmember Frank Matarrese’s announcement that he is now not in support of the Alameda Point Initiative even though he used to be in support of it, but now realizes that even though there really has been no new information released since the other [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:45am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Election dysfunction

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    I hope everyone had a nice Halloween.   We had lots of trick o’ treaters, a lot of little witches and transformers.   Given the renewed popularity I was surprised some of the bigger kids who generally come out at the tail end of the trick or treating time weren’t [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:55am EST
    by Lauren Do

  • Transference

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    The newest member to the In Alameda blogging team, Susan Davis, has a wonderful debut post with an appropriately Halloween themed flair.   It’s all about Halloween in Alameda, Alameda Unified School District Master Plan meetings, and out of district student transfers. Excerpt: In the ensuing decade, of course, I’ve learned that [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:35am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • A Chipman off the old block

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    As reported by Michele Ellson, at Tuesday night’s School Board meeting a group of parents and teachers presented the School Board with an application to turn Chipman charter. So, full disclosure, I am a member of the Founding Board for the new charter school which will be named the Academy of [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:55am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Bay Bridge Closed

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Indefinitely! 511.org [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:45am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Design challenges

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 2
    Monday night the Planning Board had really only two items on their agenda.   But as with anything in Alameda, it took a long time to make a decision on the issue and for the first project, it’s not really there yet either. So the first one involves a parcel of [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:58am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Once you go private, you never go back

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 4
    Well…it appears that the City has dropped all pretense of the privatization of Chuck Corica Golf Course Management being on a trial basis.   The City has recently released a Request for Proposals for long term management of the golf course.    And when I say long term, I mean, [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:52am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • No way, St. Joe’s

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Tonight, the Planning Board will be considering whether to extend the time period for St Joseph’s for their Master Plan.   According to the staff report, they were given ten years to complete, but because of the usual setbacks: downturn in the economy yadda yadda they need more time.   An additional [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:51am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Tapping that asset

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    On In Oakland, the Oakland version on SFGate.com, blogger V Smoothe of a Better Oakland pointed to a post on East Bay Conservative’s blog and her open forum thread regarding the jump in Oakland’s Ad Valorem tax rate.   In Oakland, they have passed a series of General Obligation Bonds [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:47am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • That’s what she said

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 8
    At Tuesday night’s marathon City Council (and other various governing bodies) meeting, the Mayor had her Council Referral item up for discussion and putting aside why there was the need to introduce this item as a Council Referral item rather than just as direction to the City Manager, I’ll never [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 7:10am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Trauma drama

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Nothing like some wild speculation about the motives of city staff to keep Alameda interesting.    By now most folks should have either read the Action Alameda “story” or been on the receiving end of some email about it.    For those that have not been on the receiving end [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 6:56am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • I can’t get no satisfaction

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    In response to the Mayor’s press release announcing that she has shifted from being in the pro to the con column, SunCal sent a  letter to the Mayor from Pat Keliher.   This letter essentially boils down the terms they have been negotiating with the City in weekly meetings to these particular issues: Strengthen [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 6:54am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Red rover, red rover

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Lots of interesting things while I was on hiatus, but the biggie is of course the news that the Mayor Johnson has suddenly changed courses midstream and has decided that while she initially supported the Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative, now she does not. Oooo-kay…. While there have been some interesting theories out [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:16am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Susan Decker: Turning a Blind Eye on Street Life

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    People in Alameda are fond of talking about what a safe place this is, and why that is the case.  Is it because we have a great police department, or a relatively small population, or a widespread sense of contentment generated by something they put in the pancakes at Ole’s?  [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 6:40am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Giving 123%

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 6
    Just a quick break from blogging silence to say that SunCal’s signatures have been examined by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters using their satistical-y math-y method that makes sense to them and they have certified the signatures. The details: There were 9185 unverified signatures 6369 signatures were required to qualify the measure [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 7:38am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Doug Biggs: The Economics of Opportunity

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Title V of the McKinney-Vento Act(the “Homeless Assistance Act”) provides suitable surplus Federal properties for use to assist homeless persons. It was this provision that resulted in the creation of the Alameda Point Collaborative out of the closure of the Alameda Naval Air Station. The accommodation process included development of [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 6:39am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Mark Irons: Bloggers Anonymous

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    When I first came to this coast from the east I landed in Berkeley, a wide-eyed hippie kid. In the 1980s I transitioned through the Oakland artist scene along the estuary corridor before I ended up on the shores of Alameda in 1991, married with children. Back then, letters to [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:36am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Marilyn Ezzy-Ashcraft: Spinning Our Wheels

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 5
    “Do you really need more than a ton of steel to move your rear end two miles?” So asks Jeff Mapes, political reporter for The Oregonian and author of “Pedaling Revolution, How Cyclists are Changing American Cities” (Oregon State University Press, 2009). Mapes describes how cities across the country are [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 6:38am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Kevin Kennedy: A Long Way To Go, And A Short Time To Get There

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    When Lauren asked me to write a guest blog posting, I thought about all of the subjects I have an interest in as possible topics: fly-fishing, college football, keeping raccoons out of your backyard pond… But I’m a money guy, I’m in my third term as your City Treasurer, and I’m [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:47am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • David Burton: Bad habit

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Hi, my name is David and, like many of you, I’m addicted to driving. I managed to kick the habit for a while, selling my car and moving to San Francisco. For four years I rode the cable car to work, took the bus on the weekends, and walked a [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 7:00am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Mike McMahon: Civic Engagement in Alameda

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Ever since I was elected in 2002, I have struggle with my responsibility to engage the community.  While I have received positive feedback on my ability to provide information about school board proceedings, communications is a two way street. How do I ensure that all of the voices of the [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:57am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Eve Pearlman: Movin’ on up

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 9
    I was instant messaging on Facebook with a cousin who lives in New York the other day and at the same time—we are a generation of multitaskers, no?—trying to figure out who this man was who had asked to friend me on Facebook . His name sounded vaguely familiar, but [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:35am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Karen Bey: Alameda Towne Centre…A Potential Alameda Treasure

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    In a recent article in the SF Chronicle called “Alameda Theater’s Rebirth Sparks Renaissance”, I was pleased to read that Park Street now has zero store vacancies and is one of the most thriving commercial strips in the East Bay.  Park Street has a wonderful mix of coffee and tea [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 6:45am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Lena Tam: on Alameda Point

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Not being able to do everything is not a good argument for doing nothing. Change is difficult, and at times, downright scary. Looming over us now is an enormous change which has been the source of much anxiety and angry public debate – the development of Alameda Point. With the Suncal [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:43am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Hiatus

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 5
    That’s right folks, you read it correctly, I’m officially going on Hiatus for the next two weeks.   Why?  Because sometimes we all need a little mental break to clear our thoughts out.   Plus, I don’t think I’ve taken a substantial break away from the blog since last year-ish. But, I wouldn’t leave without providing [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:30am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • I miss &T

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    Ever since the unfortunate demise of &T I have been very unhappy with the my options for cable and internet.  I’ve tried not to complain too much about it, attempting to suck it up and make do with my current options, but I really miss &T of AP&T. When I had AP&T everything [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 6:51am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Pot-y mouth

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 9
    Alameda native son Don Perata is backing an initiative that should have folks in Oaksterdam pretty darn excited.   And considering that he is openly running for Mayor of said city, you want to make your constituents happy. According to Matier and Ross, even though he thinks its a losing effort [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 6:31am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • You’re my only HOPE

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m not going to go into detail on the Renewed HOPE’s analysis of the Alameda Point initiative right now, maybe some other time, but I did want to acknowledge its existence.   First though, I just want to preface my statements by saying that I have nothing but respect for the folks [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 6:45am EDT
    by Lauren Do

  • Plaza or square

    —Blogging Bayport Alameda

    Number of comments: 2
    UPDATED BELOW, scroll! Taking a break from Alameda Point for a bit, even though tonight at the Planning Board meeting, the PB will be considering a recommendation from the Oakland Chinatown Advisory Committee (OCAC) to direct staff to commence work on an Environmental Impact Report (EIR).   As to who will [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 6:57am EDT
    by Lauren Do

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