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RALLY TODAY IN SAN FRANCISCO! TUESDAY APRIL 3, 2012
BAY AREA UNITY MEDICAL CANNABIS RALLY
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A Preview of Good Food Day L.A.
For most Los Angeles food-related charitable events, the cause often takes a back seat to the thrill of...
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding...”
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At the Huffington Post, Evan Shapiro writes:
The 2010 Census reported that 63.7 percent of America is white;...
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= the cost to taxpayers of Defense Secretary Lean Panetta’s military jets home to Monterey, CA
A 23-year-old City Councilman from Riverbank, California was charged with a litany of offenses after crashing his Corvette into a parked car, while drunk, with his four-year-old kid strapped into the car. Councilman Jesse James White then proceeded to leave his bleeding son in the car as he ran away, only to be “tackled and held by bystanders” until the police arrived.
After spending nearly $69,000 to remove White from office, the City Council of Riverbank gave up because it was too expensive oust him.
It’s a victory for small government.
The Great Recession hit California community colleges particularly hard, with spending cuts forcing administrators to cancel hundreds of classes, and the remaining classes growing overcrowded. One school’s has come up with a unique solution. Santa Monica College will charge students more to enroll in the most popular courses — five times more.
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Is Yosemite’s Waterfall Disappearing?
To the eyes of a seven-year-old, Upper Yosemite Falls appears to materialize inexplicably from the top of this 1,400-foot cliff. So I explain to Alex that up there, beyond sight, a lot of melting snow fills that creek with water. But I don’t try to explain, yet, that Yosemite Creek, like many High Sierra streams, is ephemeral—this creek and waterfall dry up by July or August every summer. A rare heavy rain in autumn may temporarily resuscitate the creek. It alternately trickles and freezes through winter. But as spring liquefies the prodigious high-country snowpack, a rejuvenated Yosemite Creek bulks up again, building to a crescendo in May and June.
Nor can I figure out, at the moment, how to describe for her one certain outcome of a warming climate: less snow in Yosemite’s future. Snowfall has declined measurably for decades in virtually all parts of the world that receive it. In the Sierra, as across the Mountain West, snow melts out and streams reach peak runoff two to four weeks earlier than a half century ago. The upshot is that this waterfall and every other one in Yosemite will reach peak runoff weeks or months earlier in the year by the time Alex is grown up. The profound effects of this seasonal shift in water flows will reverberate throughout ecosystems across the western United States, the region that’s home to many of our big wilderness parks.
Seeing and hearing the upper falls, it’s hard to believe it dries up every summer. I remember a late-summer day years ago, when I looked toward Yosemite Falls and it wasn’t there. For an instant, I assumed I must have been looking in the wrong spot, but I wasn’t.
Read more. [Image: docentjoyce/Flickr]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1x2l8APir1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Is Yosemite’s Waterfall Disappearing?
To the eyes of a seven-year-old, Upper Yosemite Falls appears to materialize inexplicably from the top of this 1,400-foot cliff. So I explain to Alex that up there, beyond sight, a lot of melting snow fills that creek with water. But I don’t try to explain, yet, that Yosemite Creek, like many High Sierra streams, is ephemeral—this creek and waterfall dry up by July or August every summer. A rare heavy rain in autumn may temporarily resuscitate the creek. It alternately trickles and freezes through winter. But as spring liquefies the prodigious high-country snowpack, a rejuvenated Yosemite Creek bulks up again, building to a crescendo in May and June.
Nor can I figure out, at the moment, how to describe for her one certain outcome of a warming climate: less snow in Yosemite’s future. Snowfall has declined measurably for decades in virtually all parts of the world that receive it. In the Sierra, as across the Mountain West, snow melts out and streams reach peak runoff two to four weeks earlier than a half century ago. The upshot is that this waterfall and every other one in Yosemite will reach peak runoff weeks or months earlier in the year by the time Alex is grown up. The profound effects of this seasonal shift in water flows will reverberate throughout ecosystems across the western United States, the region that’s home to many of our big wilderness parks.
Seeing and hearing the upper falls, it’s hard to believe it dries up every summer. I remember a late-summer day years ago, when I looked toward Yosemite Falls and it wasn’t there. For an instant, I assumed I must have been looking in the wrong spot, but I wasn’t.
Read more. [Image: docentjoyce/Flickr]
(via shortformblog)
The gunman who police suspect killed seven people and wounded three at a Christian college in Oakland, California, was upset with the school’s administration and students over what he viewed was unfair treatment while he was enrolled there, the Oakland police chief said Tuesday.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said ABC’s “Good Morning America” that One Goh, 43, has been cooperating with investigators trying to piece together a motive for killings at Oikos University. It was the deadliest shooting rampage on a U.S. college campus since 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech University in April 2007.
“We’ve learned that the suspect was upset with the administration at the school,” Jordan said. “He was also upset that students … in the past when he attended the school, mistreated him, disrespected him and things of that nature.
(via producermatthew)
In more Oakland news, Feds raided Oaksterdam University, billed as California’s first cannabis industry training school. Founder and owner Richard Lee’s home was also searched.
Oakland in many ways has served as the cradle of California’s medical cannabis movement. Lee has been at the forefront, spearheading California’s recent unsuccessful ballot initiative to legalize marijuana.
Photo: U.S. marshals stand Monday at the entrance of Oaksterdam University in Oakland. Credit: Noah Berger / Associated Press
Dozens of occupiers from San Francisco were arrested this evening after taking over a vacant building belonging to the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The group was working on turning the space into a “into a social center, shelter and food bank for the people.”
“This action on Sunday is not a temporary protest but a permanent occupation intended to establish a social center,” organizers wrote in a statement. “We will transform this vacant building into a productive and vibrant space, just as we did in the plaza occupation, and we wish others to take similar actions and more.” via
