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January 30, 2014

California Assembly approves limits on drones

The bill, by Assemblymembers Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo), Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) and Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), would require public agencies to destroy data collected by drones within six months and would ban the weaponization of drones in California.

It also would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant to use a drone, except in certain emergency situations.

"We also have to recognize there are going to have to be some parameters in place around how we use unmanned aerial vehicles," he added. "We want Californians to feel confident that this legislative body is protecting their right to privacy."

The bill, AB 1327, passed on a 59-5 vote.

http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-assembly-floor-bills-20140129,0,66786.story#axzz2rujataqF

January 24, 2014

I worry about my grandkids.

Scientists don’t know what’s causing the problem, whether it’s bacteria, a toxin, something that’s been discharged in the water or ocean acidification. They’ve termed the outbreak “sea star wasting disease.” (Scientists now call starfish “sea stars” because they aren’t fish.)

Starfish die-offs have happened before in Southern California in 1983-1984 and 1997-1998, when El Niño events turned ocean waters warmer than normal. But those events were localized, only affecting portions of the population. That made it easier for starfish to recover.

Scientists say they’ve never seen a die-off of this magnitude. It’s spread through most of the starfish’s range, which stretches from Alaska to Baja California. And it’s affecting several starfish species including pisaster, the five-armed, orange and purple starfish commonly seen on the Oregon coast.

Broad outbreaks can pose recovery risks. A die-off in the Gulf of California in Mexico between 1976-1978 killed 99 percent of one species of starfish there, said Pete Raimondi, chairman of UC Santa Cruz’s ecology and evolutionary biology department. More than 30 years later, the population still hasn’t recovered because the die-off affected the species’ whole range.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/12/oregon_coast_isolated_from_mys.html

(AP) LOS ANGELES - Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.

Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-9 earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/radioactive-bluefin-tuna-crossed-pacific-to-us/

January 22, 2014

Another political scandal brewing in San Diego

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024370847
(Posted in GD by Joanie Baloney)

The complaint identified the political candidates involved only by number — 1 through 4. A confidential source close to the investigation told the U-T San Diego that Candidate 1 is San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, Candidate 3 is former Mayor Bob Filner and Candidate 4 is former mayoral contender Nathan Fletcher.

The source didn’t know who Candidate 2 was although the complaint said the candidate ran for federal office in 2012.

The complaint specifically notes that Candidate 4 — Fletcher — didn’t have any knowledge of the meetings that took place to discuss possibly funding his failed campaign in the 2013 mayoral special election created by Filner’s resignation.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/21/feds-illegal-money-funneled-to-san-diego/

January 18, 2014

Try to find good fruit cups for kid's lunches.

This is only ten years old or so...

http://haveyourhealth.wordpress.com/category/health/

Another rapidly growing trend involves U.S. produce product imports. The idea is to save on labor costs, by shipping products from the U.S. to other countries and then shipping them back. One example Doyle gave are fruit cups, which are canned in the U.S., shipped to China or Thailand, repacked in plastic cups and are then shipped back to the U.S. as ready-to-eat.

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January 14, 2014

Basic Guidelines on How To Rain Dance

1. Never do a rain dance on a hill.
2. Make sure you have a lot of room so you don’t run into anything.
3. Spin around in clockwise circles.
4. Make up your own rain chant. It should be rhythmical and easy to say fast.
5. Yell your rain chant while spinning around in circles.
6. If you are trying to get rid of rain, spin in counterclockwise circles and say your chant backward

(everyone/tribe is unique, be creative, remembering to honor the earth. nothing can be taken less something given.)

http://sonocarina.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/how-to-do-a-rain-dance-native-american-rain-dance/

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