SACRAMENTO -- updates Gov. Key unravels songs: "Daydream Believer," "I'm a Believer"David Cassidy: The 1970s heartthrob rode the bus with his fake family, the Partridges, and set the stage for his brother Shaun's success a few years later. The Securities and Exchange Commission's docket of probes stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis has grown at least 40% since January amid mounting investor losses and the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. , a person familiar with the agency's caseload said. The SEC has more than 50 open inquiries relating to the credit-market turmoil, compared with about three dozen in January, the person said, declining to be identified because the cases aren't public. It's one of the longest mammal migrations and it's certainly the most scrutinized. Nowhere is that scrutiny more evident than at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center, where volunteers for the Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project work throughout the 4 1/2 -month season, noting all marine mammal sightings. "To me it's a feeling, like, 'Everything's OK in the world if the whales keep returning,' " Libby Helms, a retired teacher from Palos Verdes, says from her perch on the patio. The signature afternoon tea is a sort of build-your-own affair that allows you to select any three of the dozen or so sandwich offerings, your choice of scone and one of the 50-plus teas. * Tea Rose afternoon tea, $16. 95 per person 28 S. She wrote it after Megan McGivern Shaw died of cancer in 1983. Referring to Daly as "the spiritual grandmother of the young adult novel," a Los Angeles Times review of 1986 observed: "With 'Acts of Love' she returns after 44 years to the sort of love story she pioneered when she herself was a young adult. "Daly is survived by her sister, who lives in New York City; her son, Patrick McGivern of Palm Desert; and grandsons Antonio and Nicholas Shaw of Glendale. Her husband died of cancer in 1982, one year before her daughter died of the disease. mary. rourke.

And that's a good thing. Billingsley, a former starter, is among the candidates to join the rotation the next time the Dodgers need an extra starter. "We're all confident that he's going to be a good starter here for the Los Angeles Dodgers for a long time," Little said. *Outfielder Jason Repko reported some tangible progress in his lengthy comeback from a torn left hamstring, saying he could "feel the muscle contract instead of feeling like Jell-O. " Repko said he was attending physical therapy sessions three times a week in an effort to strengthen the muscles that had atrophied since he suffered the injury during spring training. . . . "Marley & Me," the tale of a boisterous dog, led a strong pack of movies at the box office over the weekend, but together, they still couldn't pull this year's movie attendance out of the doghouse. "Marley" made the most money ever for a Christmas Day premiere with $14. 7 million in ticket sales, adding $37 million more over the weekend . David found this. "For years, Spindler survived mostly off savings from his consulting work . 8 has passed and the election is now over," said Frank Schubert, manager for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. In San Francisco, a crowd estimated by police at 7,500 converged on the city's civic center, some wearing T-shirts emblazoned with "Milk," a reference to the county's first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, who was assassinated 30 years ago. Although a march had not been planned, about noon a large portion of the crowd set off along Market Street and split into two, one headed for the Castro District and another for the Embarcadero . "There will be a painful response against the Zionist enemy. "Taha said all factions of Hamas had been summoned to a meeting to review the cease-fire accord in light of what he called "continuous Israeli aggression. "As recently as last week, Israeli and Hamas officials had expressed an interest in extending the truce . "The idea of providing $8 billion for state-of-the-art healthcare for murderers like Charles Ng, Richard Allen Davis and Scott Peterson is sheer lunacy. "Kelso said Wednesday that his facilities would provide basic care; he said almost half the cost was related to guarding patients. At a news conference and in his filing to the judge, Kelso detailed a series of unsuccessful efforts he had made this year to obtain the money from Schwarzenegger, Chiang and state lawmakers as they struggled with a $15. 2-billion budget gap. The federal courts have found the state incapable of fixing California's system of prison medical care, which is so flawed that dozens of inmates have died needlessly in recent years because of medical mistakes, a lack of access to treatment and other problems. Kelso is planning seven facilities for the long-term medical, mental health and dental care of 10,000 inmates, and he is planning to renovate clinics at the state's 33 prisons.

Now Barack Obama and John McCain are at odds over an issue not quite so weighty: the tire gauge. In a town hall-style meeting here, Obama defended his suggestion that motorists should properly inflate their car tires to improve gas mileage and cut oil consumption. Republican John McCain has mocked the idea, with one of his aides handing out tire gauges emblazoned with the words "Obama's Energy Plan" aboard his campaign plane. Obama pushed back hard Tuesday, accusing his rival's campaign of lying about the scope of his energy plan. The Democratic candidate has also called for developing renewable fuels, curbing dependence on foreign oil and increasing production of plug-in hybrid cars. "So now the Republicans are going around -- this is the kind of thing they do, I don't understand it -- they're going around sending, like, little tire gauges, making fun of this idea as if this is Barack Obama's energy plan," he said. "Now, two points: One, they know they're lying about what my energy plan is . Self had fallen short with three schools, including last year's edition of the Jayhawks . To the extent there is any loser here, it's probably the Bay Area," Brulte told me when I asked him about the change in legislative leadership. The question is whether Steinberg, and the two GOP minority leaders, can make inland California a winner in the legislative policy wars. . Given the same number of passes and the same amount of pressure, paper with larger particles sands deeper and rougher than paper containing smaller particles . If you've owned the stock less than a year, you can deduct only the amount you paid for the shares, not their current market value. In the example above, that would mean you'd get only a $1,000 deduction, making the donation of such a short-term holding a much worse deal than giving cash. Also, in deciding which stock in your portfolio to donate, you should choose the one that has gained the most in percentage terms since you bought it. But what if you still want that stock in your portfolio? Simply buy shares of the same stock to replace the ones you're donating, Holthouse suggested. With charitable donations of securities, Holthouse said, there are no "wash sale" rules requiring you to wait a certain amount of time before buying the same stock that you gave away. Over that period, atmospheric levels have risen from 280 parts per million to about 380 parts per million, the highest point in 650,000 years. Plants are acutely sensitive to carbon dioxide because they use it for food, converting it into carbohydrates, lipids and other compounds during photosynthesis. A previous study of poison ivy found that the plants grew faster and larger and produced more of the skin irritant urushiol when an additional 200 parts per million of carbon dioxide was piped into a forest near Duke University. Lewis Ziska, a U. S. Imaging studies of the brain in action show that all brain cells are in constant use