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Oswald Bastable's Ranting (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
My arse! Hat Tip: Crusader Rabbit We have all of this to look forward to here (it has already started) and need to kill this immigration/colonization/invasion RIGHT NOW! List of islamist attacks on American soil: Date Country City/State Killed Injured Description: 4/14/1972 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one. 1/19/1973...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - California legislators struck a middle-of-the-night water wars truce on Wednesday that could unleash the biggest spending spree on water in half a century and aims to satisfy environmentalists, unemployed farmers and the lush cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
OAKLAND, CA (MARKET WIRE) GSC Logistics, Inc. (GSC), the industry's forward-thinking logistics provider, today announced that its truck fleet is fully compliant with new emission regulations mandated by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Committed to helping protect the environment from dangerous greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, GSC proactively met the strict CARB standards on October 1, 2009...
F.R.I.D.A. (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
LGBTQ Long Term Care Survey! Check it out! Dear Colleague: The National Senior Citizens Law Center, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), are working together to raise awareness of the issues facing older adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
LAist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Photo by sryffel via Flickr A press release from the University of California today announced a new revolutionary program wherein tuition will be free. Pretty cool, right? Too bad it's a fake press release from a fake website mocking University President Mark G. Yudof and the Regents. Here's a fun little sample: We, The Regents and UCOP, will no longer be the zombies of global capitalism-always-in-crisis-for-our...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Laney College Student Center- 4th Floor Conference Room 900 Fallon Street Oakland, CA
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I blogged previously about the town hall meetings the EEOC and DOJ will hold on the new ADAAA regulations. Today's federal register gives the dates and specific locations: October 26, 2009 in Oakland, CA; October 30, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA;...
Weird is Relative (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
"Chinatown" communities across the United States ( New York , Chicago , Los Angeles , Boston , San Francisco ) are undergoing a shift in linguistic identity, as recent immigrants are more likely to natively speak Mandarin (the official spoken language of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) instead of Cantonese. Also see Vancouver and Oakland, CA . Signs like this may soon become commonplace. The...
tinyways (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
[See post on tinyways.com to listen to audio] Don’t be fooled by the seemingly ridiculous moniker Monsters of Folk . Thursday night live at Paramount Theatre, Seattle (third show of their U.S. tour), the supergroup featuring M. Ward , My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Bright Eyes ‘ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis proved to be real folk monsters, bursting with energy for their nearly...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The sun is shining, so to speak, on a team of students from Santa Clara University and Oakland’s California College of the Arts competing in the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.
Trade Secrets Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Semiconductor International has published an interesting piece on the pending trial between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) that is being litigated in Oakland, California. The companies reached a contingent settlement agreement in 2005 that permitted additional litigation if SMIC did not comply with that settlement agreement...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Columbia Records has announced Raphael Saadiq will be embarking on a fall tour starting in Seattle Nov. 16 and wrapping in Minneapolis exactly one month later. This comes on the heels of Saadiq’s summer festival appearances, which included dates at the Bonnaroo, Essence and Bumbershoot festivals. All that came after Saadiq released the CD The Way I See It in 2008, which was popular in several...
Daddy Dialectic (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Three announcements: 1) I've started a new series over at my Mothering magazine blog: " Twenty-Five Ways for Dads to Change the World." Here's the introduction and here's the first entry, "Attend every prenatal class and doctor's appointment." 2) I'll be reading with Daddy Dialectic contributor Tomas Moniz at Book Zoo in Oakland, California, to celebrate the release of the fifteenth...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Kylie Minogue kicked off her North American tour in Oakland, California last night. Some are accusing the Australian diva of borrowing Gaga's look. And then there's this. Kylie makes her entrance, AFTER THE JUMP...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Take 4 in the Wolfmother's “Transmissions From The Cosmic Egg” shines a little light on the new players in the Wolfmother traveling roadshow. We hear the stories about how Andrew Stockdale came across these wandering minstrels and how they came to join the band.... Transmissions From The Cosmic Egg – Episode 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb9cb0G7Q78 Transmissions From The Cosmic...
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