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Just when you thought you'd heard everything about the NSA's spying on Americans, Salon comes out today with a story on another secret government room inside AT&T's St. Louis datacenter that has been in operation even longer than the one in San Francisco.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the AT&T San Francisco operation goes back into session tomorrow morning, June 23, where the federal government will try to get the court to dismiss the case because it might expose state secrets.

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Blue Coke
Sun shines on a Coke in a blue glass.

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Hans Stolfus (left) and Aaron Wachtfogel handed Phil Dalhausser (right) and Todd Rogers, their second loss all year in an exciting overtime match 17-21, 30-28, 19-17. Dalhausser/Rogers continued in the contender's bracket and actually won the event - their fourth in a row.

Here are more photos of today's matches.

You can see the stadium on the web cam, and AVP will stream the finals on their website, Sunday June 11 at 3PM.

There is free admission to most of the seats Sunday, but you'll probably either perseverance or a ticket to get a good one :-)

This year both the women's and men's finals will be on Sunday, and FSN Prime Ticket will also broadcast them live at 3:00 and 4:30pm PDT, respectively.

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The AVP's annual visit to Hermosa Beach is this weekend.

You can see the stadium on the web cam, and AVP will stream the finals on their website, Sunday June 11 at 3PM.

There is free admission to most of the seats, and it's easy to get a nice courtside view while there are multiple games going on (i.e, Friday and Saturday). By the finals on Sunday, you'll need either perseverance or a ticket to get a good seat :-)

This year both the women's and men's finals will be on Sunday, and FSN Prime Ticket will also broadcast them live at 3:00 and 4:30pm PDT, respectively.

As we have since 1996, we have some photos of today's qualifying rounds.

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Opponents of Hermosa's School Improvement Bond Measure A won in yesterday's election, 1625 to 1620.

Don't ever say my vote doesn't matter, because clearly, it does.

Other local winners: Kit Bobko, Jane Harman, Debra Bowen, Jenny Oropeza, Lynn Olson, congratulations all.

Official Vote Tallies:
Local Races
Statewide Races

Update: I have been informed that it takes 55% of the vote to pass a ballot measure, so it would have required 1785 votes to pass. Killed a great headline but the facts are always the most important thing. Thanks Tom.

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A confluence of recent events brings into clear focus what our country has become, and what could have been:

Last night I watched former Vice-President Al Gore's movie about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth -- a movie full of shocking imagery of what we're doing to our planet, with scientific explanations that make the images even more depressing. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to see it. Now.

And this morning President Bush introduced a new bill into the Senate: a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. No matter what you think about the merits of this bill (and I don't think much), you have to wonder: with everything that is going on in the world right now, this is what our fearless leader is concerned about?

You know there is no way this legislation can pass the required 2/3 majority in each house and a majority of state legislatures, so its only purpose is to create a wedge issue to give the hapless Republicans something to campaign on.

The oil lobby calls Gore and the environmentalists "fear mongers," but let's be serious: who are the real fear mongers here?

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Today's Frazz comic strip touches on a subject I have found amusing recently: the evolution of the photographer's pose.

Of course, the original position of the view camera photographer behind the tripod with a cloth over his head has long been relegated to the history books.

But the common camera-against-the-face position has evolved yet again, with photographers now taking an arm's length approach resembling a martial arts stance, as I saw with this group of tourists recently in Japan.

It's a sight you experience everyday, but don't see until someone points it out...

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