The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Oakland Raiders: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Oakland Raiders History (Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)
The work Sharon Higgins does at her Perimeter Primate blog is invaluable. This came in from Pete Farrugio. Pete and I taught together at PS 16 in Williamsburg in the late 60's when we were newbie teachers. When I started going to meetings of Another View in District 14 in 1970, my first teacher activist group, I brought Pete along. Pete has gone on to a college level career and has continued his activism....
Alice In Chains have announced a slew of dates for a forthcoming tour of North American. The band are set to kick off the extensive jaunt on December 11 in Las Vegas and will play dates running into later next year. Among the dates announced are shows in Los Angeles, Oakland, Atlanta, and Montreal. The tour will be in support of the bands new album ‘ Black Gives Way To Blue ‘. Tour dates:...
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To celebrate the release of Crash Love, AFI and t3h Bax0jayz are giving one lucky winner the chance to win a special Crash Love branded guitar. The Epiphone Les Paul Special II features a custom Crash Love logo and is autographed by Davey, Jade, Adam and Hunter! Crash Love is the eighth studio album from perennial rockers AFI and features the single "Medicate" along with standout tracks...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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;...
"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...
[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...
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.
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...
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