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Cal State students made new Nixon Governor book about Watergate scandal possible Brown signs by Vickie Vértiz agreement John Dean, the former legal counsel to President Richwith Mexico ard Nixon, did not know what he was in for when he began to reduce writing The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He dangerous Knew It. The book took four years of careful listening and meticulous transcription of greenhouse gases tapes from the Watergate scandal to complete the project. “I didn’t know that I would have to transcribe all of those tapes. Had I known that, I would have said, `You’re insane,’ “ said Dean in a recent interview quoted by the Connecticut Post. As Dean gathered the research, he realized there were hundreds of additional hours of untranscribed discussions which held the information he needed. The tapes were located at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. More than 150,000 Watergate documents are available at the National Archives, which added another layer of difficulty in the construction of the most thorough record of the scandal, said the
funds were spent. Chancellor Bruce Baron said: “Our congratulations to the winners! The San Bernardino Community College District supports the activities of the EIOSB which brings new businesses into the marketplace. The Inland Empire benefits when new businesses succeed. The Entrepreneurship Institute helps those
On the first full day of California’s Trade and Investment Mission to Mexico, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Mexican environment officials signed an agreement to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. “California can’t do it alone and with this new partnership with Mexico we can make real progress on reducing dangerous greenhouse gases,” said Governor Brown. July 28th’s agreement was signed by Governor Brown, Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy and Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez. “Mexico and California have a long and rich history of environmental cooperation, and recognize each other as strategic partners in coping with climate change challenges and protecting and preserving our natural resources. The agreement signed today will take our joint work to a whole new level of cooperation, which will reflect in tangible and concrete results that will inure to our mutual benefit,” said Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy. The pact seeks to enhance cooperation through a range of activities, including:
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The Watergate Hotel, site of the scandalous break-in of Democratic Party Headquarters during the Nixon Administration. Washington, D.C.- Photo by Carol M. Highsmith
New York Times. Luckily, he found a bit of help. The Post noted that Dean had a friend at California State University San Bernardino who
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Best Business Plan 2014: boutique frame shop custom frames family heirlooms The San Bernardino Community College District (SBCCD), Entrepreneurship Institute Of San Bernardino (EIOSB) have announced the winners of the awards for Best Business Plan 2014. Those competing had previously completed the Entrepreneurship Institute of San Bernardino six-course program that awarded them a Certificate endorsed by the San Bernardino
Community College District. The First Place winner receives a $3,000 grant from the Economic Development and Corporate Training (EDCT) Division, which oversees the EIOSB; the Second Place winner receives $2,000. In addition to the Business Plan submission, the competitors, on behalf of their respective businesses, must submit a detailed grant application and then provide a post-grant accounting of how the
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Get Bugged at the Victor San Bernardino Public Library summer reading game finale Valley Museum Experience a hands-on adventure into the world of bugs at the Victor Valley Museum during Bug Fest, Saturday, August 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bug Fest activities are included with museum general admission. Families can explore the world of arthropods—insects, spiders, and crustaceans—with insect games, insect stories and activities, and creepy-crawly craft creations to take home. Peer through microscopes, explore for insects in the museum garden, and learn some amazing facts in the Believe It or Not bug trivia game. “We will also have special guest insects coming to us from the Exploration Station at the County Museum in Redlands,” said Rhonda Almager, the Victor Valley Museum’s facilities manager. “These critters take special care and handling, so it’s a real treat to be able to meet them up close
and personal.” The Victor Valley Museum is a branch of the San Bernardino County Museum located at 11873 Apple Valley Road in Apple Valley. The museum is openWednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5 (adult), $4 (senior or military), and $2.50 (student). Children under 5 and San Bernardino County Museum Association members are free. Parking is free. For more information, visit www.sbcountymuseum. org. The museum is accessible to persons with disabilities. If assistive listening devices or other auxiliary aids are needed in order to participate in museum exhibits or programs, requests should be made through Museum Visitor Services at least three business days prior to your visit. Visitor Services’ telephone number is 909-307-2669.
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The Summer Reading Program at the San Bernardino City Libraries will wrap up on Saturday, August 9th in the Bing Wong Auditorium at the Feldheym Central Library at 555 W. 6thStreet. This is the ending event for all 4 of the City Libraries. Abbit the Average will present his magic show in the auditorium beginning at 2:00 PM. Drawings for the Grand Prizes and other prizes will be done immediately following the magic show. Participants in the children, teen, and adult reading programs who received raffle tickets will be eligible for the grand prize in their category. You do not need to be present to win. Books need to be checked out by Saturday, August 2nd and returned before Satur-
day, August 8th. Everyone who attends the magic show will receive a raffle ticket for chances to win other prizes, even if they did not participate in the Summer Reading Program. Sponsors for this event and the summer reading program are The Friends of the San Bernardino Pubic Library, Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, Baker’s Drive-Thru, Hometown Buffet, Elephant Bar, Chick-fil-A, Fiesta Village, Del Taco, Legoland California, Rainforest Café, Wienerschnitzel, Regal Entertainment Group, and the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology. For more information call 909-381-8235 or visit www.sbpl. org
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at the school. They agreed to be the ones to complete the bulk of the close listening and transcribing of more than 1,000 hours of archival tapes. The transcripts students transcribed revealed new and important information. Among those new insights were tapes where Nixon plainly discusses giving an ambassadorship to Tom Pappas, a Republican businessman and major campaign contributor. According to the Post, Dean said, “It’s like a scene from `The Godfather.’ Pappas talking in his husky, whispery voice...and Nixon selling an ambassadorship to raise money. He knew that was illegal.” The Cal State student work also helped shed light on yet another reason why Nixon chose to resign instead of the impeachment trial. The Post noted that, although President Bill Clinton would face an impeachment trial in the Senate instead of resigning as Nixon did, Dean said the big difference between the two cases is
that Clinton believed he would not be convicted. Nixon, on the other hand, knew he would not beat that case. “The impeachment part is easy. [...] You can impeach a ham sandwich, but (the Clinton case) was very political and they knew they couldn’t convict him in the Senate. Nixon didn’t know that,” Dean told the Post. Dean served a reduced sentence for serving as a key witness in the trial. He has gone on to write three books on Watergate, this most recent one completes the trilogy. He has also written about other presidents including G.W. Bush. If not for the help of CSUSB grad students, Dean might still be listening closely to audio tapes in a darkened archive, with no end in sight. In a conversation with the Post, Dean confessed that he was looking forward to the upcoming national book tour which would last two weeks. Dean laughed at the question. “That’s going to be a vacation,” he said.
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Rare lightning strikes all over Southern California kill 20-year old and injure several others By JENNIFER schlueter On the weekend of July 2527, Southern California experienced a rare weather phenomenon for its region: Hundreds of lightning strikes jolted LA and its surrounding counties. In Venice Beach, one strike proved to be fatal for 20-year old Nick Fagnano, who was in the ocean when it hit him, and injured 13 additional beachgoers. On Santa Catalina Island, a 57-year-old golfer was struck, hospitalized, and according to Steve Denning, a law enforcement technician with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, in a stable condition. A National Weather Service map shows 858 lightning bolts in San Bernardino, 228 in Western and Central Riverside County, 248 in inland San Diego County, 75 in San Diego County along the coast, and 28 in LA County. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than a total of 1,400 lightning strikes were reported in Southern California (see National Weather Service map) throughout the weekend and the following Monday of July 25-28. James Thomas, a meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the LA Times: "It's an unusual amount of lightning strikes... for any time of year for that matter.” The lightning resulted from an unusual high-pressure system pulling hot, moist air up from the Gulf of California and Mexico towards the Southern California coastlines, explained climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the LA Times. "Coastal Southern California is virtually lightning proof," he added. "Because it's so unusual, people are not sensitized to the dangers." Because thunderstorms are very rare in Southern California, and even less in July, lifeguards and officials were not as well prepared and did not ask people to clear the beaches, as they would
have done in Florida or the Midwest, where these weather conditions are more common, states Patzert. Scott Miller, an inspector with the Los Angeles County Fire Department agrees and told National Geographic that lightning strikes are “hard to predict.” Miller added that in the rare event of thunderstorms, LA lifeguards are trained to get people out of the water within 30 seconds. According to the rule “If you hear thunder, head for cover,” looking for shelter should be the next step; however, LA beaches have no approved rules for this, says Miller. John Jensenius, a light-
ning safety specialist with the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland, told National Geographic that lightning currents can travel across the ground and items which can channel electricity, and that most people are struck by ground current. Therefore, he advises not to lie on the ground and to avoid metallic objects such as wires, doors, windows, plumbing, etc. Sturdy buildings and hardtop vehicles provide the best protection. Fagnano was the 16th victim nationwide to have died from a lightning strike in 2014, and the first one in California.
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Aligning greenhouse gas reduction programs and strategies; Collaborating on fire emergency response along the border and other climate change adaption strategies; Improving air quality, including reducing pollution and expanding markets for clean energy technologies; and strengthening fuel and truck efficiency standards and supporting green freight initiatives. “In line with the priorities of the Mexican Government for the forestry sector, the Memorandum of Understanding signed today with the State of California lays down the conditions and excellent opportunities for mutual coopera-
tion to strengthen our capacity to prevent and respond to forest fires, a key issue in our common border,” said Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez. The agreement with Mexico comes on the heels of similar agreements signed in 2013 with the governments of British Columbia and the states of Oregon and Washington and China’s National Development and Reform Commission – the first agreement of its kind on climate change between the commission and a subnational entity. For the past several years, the California Air Resources Board and Que-
bec have worked together to fully harmonize their cap-and-trade programs. The Governor first announced the Trade and Investment Mission to Mexico in his 2014 State of the State address and met with Mexican Consuls General from cities across California in March. Last week, ahead of the trip, Governor Brown met with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs José Antonio Meade Kuribreña in Sacramento and invited Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to meet later this year in California. The Governor is joined on the Trade and Investment Mis-
sion to Mexico by a delegation of state legislators and senior administration officials. A delegation organized by the California Chamber of Commerce with the help of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education that includes approximately 90 business, economic development, investment and policy leaders from throughout California is also participating in the trade mission. For social media updates and other announcements throughout the trade mission, please follow these twitter handles: @CAMexicoTrade; @JerryBrownGov; @ GovPressOffice; @CAGoBiz; @ CalChamber and @VisitCA
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businesses grow by providing the aspiring business owner with the nuts and bolts of business ownership, creation and operation.” First place winner Karen Holritz and her business partner Breanna Strauss, a current student in the EIOSB program, own Custom Frames 4 U, a boutique frame shop that custom frames family heirlooms. Providing a complete package, including consultation, design, framing, display and delivery, they specialize in art preservation. Holritz said, “We provide personalized service – going to our clients’ home or busi-
ness saves the client money and time, and has been the corner stone of our success.” More company information can be found at CustomFrames4U.com. The second place winner, Taffette Boykins, is the founder of RestRelaxRestore, a non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to provide outreach services, educational training, guidance and support to the whole person through community outreach services. Information about her business is available online at www.Taffette.com. The Institute is led by EDCT
CEO Matthew Isaac, Ph.D.; Bruce Underwood, MBA, CFO/ Partner of B2B Staffing Services, Inc. and San Bernardino Valley College business instructor; and Professor Michael Assumma, MBA, chair of the Business Department at San Bernardino Valley College. Dr. Isaac noted, “Entrepreneurs are major drivers of economic growth locally and across the United States. However, to be a successful business owner, an entrepreneur needs training, mentoring and guidance. One of the vital basics for successful business
ownership is a well constructed, reasonable business plan. The competition allows a serious entrepreneur to have his or her business plan evaluated by experts. These two business plans were created by dedicated business owners who are ready to move forward to the next step of achievement. The EIOSB remains ready to support their efforts through our mentoring process.” Additional information on the Entrepreneurship Institute Of San Bernardino is available at www.EIOSB.com, or by calling 909.382.4037.
(Back row, left to right) SBVC Professor Bruce Underwood, SBCCD Chancellor Bruce Baron and EDCT Executive Director Matthew Isaac, Ph.D., present (front row) Karen Holritz and Breanna Strauss (first place) and Taffette Boykins (second place) their awards for “Best Business Plan 2014” on behalf of the Entrepreneurship Institute of San Bernardino. -Courtesy Photo