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Kim Kardashian is keeping her name in the news any way she possibly can the option of running for Glendale Mayor very much open.
On the red carpet of Saturday night's White House Correspondent's Dinner - she was a guest of Fox News, for reasons that remain unexplained - the reality star was asked about her strange quote a couple weeks ago when she told Khloe, quite simply, that she would run day hold the aforementioned office.
Might she still run?
"I always set my goals really high," Kim said, adding that she tries to do all she can for the Armenian community and concluding with the words hammered home to her by E! executives: "Stay tuned."
We can think of at least one superstar who wouldn't vote for Kardashian.
Watch her interview with Politico below.
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"Families that are already the most disadvantaged get the least," Martha Matthews, an attorney for the advocacy group Public Counsel, testified before a panel of legislators in Sacramento. "This is exactly the opposite of what it should be."
State Sen. Darrell Steinberg, who heads a committee on autism, called for legislation to provide greater accountability in the $4-billion-a-year entitlement program for people with developmental disabilities. Autism now accounts for about a quarter of the 252,000 people in the state system and 45% of all new disability cases it accepts. Budgets have not kept pace.
Steinberg ordered the hearing in response to articles in The Times documenting how obtaining help for an autistic child can require waging battle against the gatekeepers of state services. Parents with the time and resources to fight receive significantly more, resulting in enormous racial and socioeconomic disparities.
It is not uncommon for autistic children from affluent families to receive 25 hours a week of one-on-one behavioral therapy. Advocates for poorer families, on the other hand, said parents aren't necessarily even told what public services are available.
Matthews recounted the case of a severely autistic 6-year-old boy whose parents, a laborer and a seamstress who speak only Spanish, asked for individual behavioral therapy. The request was denied, despite a doctor's insistence that it was necessary. Instead, the state provided a month's supply of diapers, bus passes and 10 group classes in behavior management.
"This is such a hellish nightmare," state Sen. Mark Leno responded.
In its December series, The Times found that for autistic children ages 3 to 6 ? a critical period for treating the disorder ? the Developmental Services department spent an average of $11,723 per child on whites in 2010, compared with $11,063 on Asians, $7,634 on Latinos and $6,593 on blacks.
"Black and brown children are discriminated against," testified Areva Martin, a Los Angeles lawyer who runs the Special Needs Network, which advocates for poor minority children. "Parents should not be expected to sell their homes, quit their jobs and relocate to access services."
State money for the developmentally disabled flows to service providers through 21 nonprofit regional centers, which decide whether a child has a qualifying condition and what services to provide. Services are free for life, regardless of a family's means. In principle ? but not in practice ? everybody has the same opportunity for help. Regional center officials testified that the state budget crisis has worsened long-standing inequities.
Harried case workers have less time to find "creative solutions," said George Stevens, head of the North Los Angeles County Regional Center. The process used to award services is "slowly crashing down on clients it was intended to serve," he said.
Dexter Henderson, head of the South Central Los Angeles Regional Center, said many families in his largely impoverished area did not aggressively pursue services and the regional center "has zero dollars to advertise" them.
In 2010, the center spent an average of $1,991 on each autistic child age 3 to 6 ? the lowest in the state. The center in Orange County had the highest average spending, at $18,356 per child.
Terri Delgadillo, head of the state Developmental Services department, testified that regional center budgets eventually will be set so that similar amounts of funding are available for clients with similar needs.
alan.zarembo@latimes.com
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Today is BlackBerry Jam, RIM's developer conference or WWDC equivalent. It's RIM's moment to redefine, rejuvenate, and re-establish itself in the world. Whether or not the company can pull it off, however, is an entirely different matter. BlackBerry 10, RIM's brand new platform, has been delayed, run into naming issues, and seen the transfer of power go from the company's co-founders, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, to long-time employee Thorsten Heins. The conference will prove whether or not RIM is now adaptable ? something for which the company has been publicly flogged for the past year. We took a trip up to Waterloo to speak with some of the employees ahead of the event, namely Vivek Bhardwaj, Head of Software Portfolio EMEA for RIM, and as I walked away I felt less sure of who RIM is and what the company is about than I ever have before.weather nyc open marriage department of justice doj dept of justice weather chicago swizz beatz
Fat Camp is a silly, exuberant musical that comes at you like an ice cream truck and doesn't slow down.
The situations in the show could be from any campy camp comedy--the jealousies, romances, one-upmanships, self-image problems, and triumphs.
But the characters happen to be plus sized and are trying to be "losers"--some way more than others--as Camp Overton becomes a place where you can shed some inhibitions along with a pound or two, while singing and dancing up a storm.
I actually would have liked more focus on their physicality issues instead of the cartoonishly generic hijinks that go on a lot of the time, rendered with too much meandering music.
But the show is lively and often clever--one of the funniest songs is "Her Butt Is Totally Bigger Than Mine," vamped out by the hilarious Carly Jibson and super Molly Hager--and the cast consists of of big-lunged belters who can also deliver laughs.
I had no idea there were so many talented fat people out there!
When they battle the snooty skinny cheerleader invaders, a valuable lesson is learned, but the brief trip into preachiness is a little bit jarring.
Fat Camp has already established itself as a thin (ouch) but spirited smile sandwich.
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