| Battle rages on PHR front
Once the lines were drawn on the sides of the private home rental issue years ago, they haven't shifted much. Supporters on each side of the battle wage their fight based on the facts as they see them, as they believe them and as they interpret them. In the city of Big Bear Lake, it appears it will be up to the voters in November 2008 to make the decision. On one side are the proponents of private home rentals, which are homes rented for periods of 30 days or less. The city of Big Bear Lake has an existing ordinance that regulates private home rentals, requiring the homes to be registered with the program. The program requires property owners to have their home inspected, collect and pass along transient occupancy tax and abide by various regulations outlined in the ordinance.
Disabled skiing takes big stage with high-flying acts at Winter X Games
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Action sports athletes are constantly looking for ways to push boundaries, whether it's completing a 1200 on a snowboard or doing a backflip on a snowmobile. Disabled skiers are no different, taking their adaptive skis from race courses to the boxes and rails of terrain parks, even hucking over 12-metre gaps and dropping off 10-metre cliffs - on one-track skis. Now, after years of getting gnarly in relative obscurity, they'll get a chance to show what they can do on a much grander stage: the Winter X Games. When the games open Thursday, disabled skiers will be right there next to the hippest and most talented action sports athletes in the world, charging down the same courses and pulling off many of the same tricks on their sitdown skis.
It's a TURF WAR out there
BUSKER Thor Ai Pheng, 48, who is partially-blind, was playing his Chinese flute and minding his business when he suddenly felt his chair being kicked. A rival blind busker, upset that Mr Thor had set up stall less than 1m away from him had come over to make his displeasure known. The two had a previous run-in the week before over the same problem. .
Ben Taub hospital has a new urgent care center
The facility gives non-emergency patients the options to be seen in the emergency center, the hospital's urgent care center or a district health center. "Many of the patients that come to the emergency center are not truly emergency patients," said Peter Dancy, associate administrator of Ben Taub. "We want to help these patients find a primary medical home to free up our emergency center so its staff can focus on providing exceptional emergency medicine and trauma care to those who really need it." The new 4,400 square foot space contains eight new exam rooms fully equipped and electronically wired. The larger area accommodates large stretchers and wheelchairs for transporting patients to other parts of the hospital. The center is located at the northeast end of the hospital's first floor.
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