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NAMES & FACES

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"There was no bird involved, but the pilot did tell my captain that he felt it was a fatigue thing with the glass," Santa Barbara City Fire Department spokesman John Ahlman told the Associated Press.

Winfrey and boyfriend Stedman Graham were not hurt in Monday's incident.

Noted . . .

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and his wife, actress Shanna Moakler, welcomed their first daughter together on Christmas Eve, People.com reports. Alabama Louella Barker joins the couple's 2-year-old son, Landon . Moakler has another daughter, Atiana , 6, with ex-fiance Oscar De La Hoya . The "Meet the Barkers" co-stars wed last year.

In the afterlife, the doughnuts are always fresh: Brief and appreciative moment of silence for Michael Vale, 83, who died in New York last weekend of complications from diabetes. He was the groggy Fred the Baker of Dunkin' Donuts commercials for 15 years -- the dude who always said, "Time to make the doughnuts."

. . . and Quoted

"The president is the president 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as we all know, wherever he goes." -- White House Deputy Press Secretary Trent Duffy to members of the media yesterday. Roger that.

-- Korin Miller

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