Internal Affairs: 'Golden Spigot' takes turn on Silver Screen. Mercury News Posted: 10/27/2012 10:27:15 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: about a year ago The Santa Clara Valley Water District, a government agency that has earned the nickname "Golden Spigot" in recent years for its free spending, has a new project to boost its image: investing in the Silver Screen. The district spent $29,500 to hire a San Francisco production company to shoot and edit an 18-minute promotional film to sing its praises. District leaders held a premiere for their film, "Protecting Your Future," on Oct. 16 at the agency's San Jose headquarters. To make sure they'd get a good opening night crowd, district officials spent an additional $15,580 to purchase advertising trailers in local movie theaters.
An additional $5,139 went to buy ads in community newspapers. The district then spent an additional $5,000 to have 4,000 DVDs of the film made. Total cost, according to Teresa Alvarado, the water district's communications chief who ordered and supervised the project: $54,200. Protest the Use of Lion Bones in Chinese Medicine. Target: Gary Locke, U.S. Ambassador to China Goal: Challenge the unnecessary use of lion bones in Chinese medicines In China, it was (and is) traditionally thought that medicines made with tiger bones could cure rheumatism and stomach aches while granting the drinker increased strength, virility, and longevity. The practice of killing tigers for their bones, however, has come under fire. The wild tiger population dropped sharply around 2008, and traders and poachers from countries like China and Vietnam have begun hunting South African lions. Poachers and traders are able to sell lion bones for about $75 per pound, or $5,000 for a complete skeleton.
Despite the ease with which tourists and hunters can legally kill lions, it is estimated that half of the lion bones leaving South Africa are being exported illegally after being obtained by poachers. Dear Ambassador Locke, Sincerely, [Your Name Here] Photo Credit: etrusia uk (Away for a while) via Flickr. Our Nation's Most Endangered River -- The Colorado. Unrestrained thirst puts Colorado atop American Rivers' threat list Management of the Colorado River remains an engineering task that seeks to wring as much water as possible out of its banks. (David Morgan / iStockphoto) The Colorado River has been called the lifeblood of the west; it defines our geography, sustains our fish and wildlife, feeds and powers our cities. Without it, our lives and heritage would be fundamentally different—which is why Earthjustice and the conservation community have fought for years to preserve and protect this great river. But, the thirst for Colorado River water is proving too great.
Today, American Rivers, a national river conservation organization, named the Colorado its most endangered river for 2013. American Rivers identifies the problem confronting the Colorado as “outdated water management.” Further, years of readily available and cheap water have lured us into practices that are at best unmindful and at worst wasteful. Change is on its way. Stop seismic airgun testing for oil and gas off the U.S. East Coast. Family Of Beavers Takes Up Residence In Downtown San Jose. Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up SAN JOSE (KCBS) – A family of beavers has taken up residence in the Guadalupe River near the HP Pavilion in downtown San Jose. A pregnant mother beaver and two pups have set up camp at the confluence of the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos Creek near the Shark Tank. Santa Clara Valley Water District spokesman Marty Grimes said it was a definite surprise to see.
Family Of Beavers Takes Residence In Downtown San Jose Mike Colgan “It’s rather amazing that a whole family of beavers are living in Guadalupe River right downtown, right under the shadows of the skyscrapers,” Grimes said. Equally blown away was Guadalupe River Park Conservancy Executive Director Leslee Hamilton. “This is the first time in over 158 years that we know of a beaver family living in Santa Clara Valley,” Hamilton said. UFOs/Interdimensional/Ultraterrestrials Encounter Over The Atlantic: Commander Graham Bethune Testimony. Home | About Us | Contact | Subscribe Encounter Over The Atlantic: Commander Graham Bethune Testimony UFO that traveled 10,000 feet straight up in a fraction of a second toward their plane. csetiweb March 22, 2013 Cmdr.
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Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms. At exactly 10:53 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2011, Joe and Mary Reneau were in the bedroom of their whitewashed and brick-trimmed home, a two-story rambler Mary's dad custom-built 43 years ago. Their property encompasses 440 acres of rolling grasslands in Prague, Oklahoma (population 2,400), located 50 miles east of Oklahoma City. When I arrive at their ranch almost a year later on a bright fall morning, Joe is wearing a short-sleeve shirt and jeans held up by navy blue suspenders, and is wedged into a metal chair on his front stoop sipping black coffee from a heavy mug. His German shepherd, Shotzie, is curled at his feet. Joe greets me with a crushing handshake—he is 200 pounds, silver-haired and 6 feet tall, with thick forearms and meaty hands—and invites me inside. On that night in November, just as he and Mary were about to slip into bed, there was "a horrendous bang, like an airliner crashing in our backyard," Joe recalls.
Joe and Mary Reneau Photographs by Ben Sklar. Is Your Workout Gear Ruining Farm Fields? In a glittering example of industry setting its sights on solving the great problems of humankind, you can now buy workout clothes spiked with "moisture-wicking" nano silver—microscopically tiny silver particles that kill bacteria and (as one company puts it) "help counter the formation of unpleasant sweaty odours.
" But what are the consequences of our allegedly stench-free gym sessions? Before the apparel industry started spiking socks and even underwear with silver bits, you might assume the Environmental Protection Agency had thoroughly vetted the technology for unintended ecological consequences. Turns out, not. In a new report, the Natural Resources Defense Council looks at the EPA's system for vetting new pesticides, a category that includes nano silver, since it exists to kill pesky bacteria. How did they get by?
The EPA’s database is seriously disorganized. Nano silver leaches from clothes when they're washed, ending up in the wastewater stream and eventually in farm fields. Making Salt Water Drinkable Just Got 99 Percent Easier. Homeless Man 'Under Pressure' (VIDEO. You may recall this amazing video created to raise awareness about the homeless. The homeless Kermit puppeteer in the video is not actually homeless, rather he is comedian and actor Sky Soleil out of Los Angeles, California. He offers the following explanation from his official YouTube page: This is a performance meant to entertain and inspire.If you want to help… I said this is a performance. I don’t want there to be any doubts about my situation. I am a performer. I have a roof over my head and I have yet to start my own family.
But this video isn’t about me. The good people at Vulture conducted a mini interview with Soleil the day after the video appeared and began going viral: Are you actually homeless? Below is a short interview with Soliel as well: Meteorite hits Russian Urals: Fireball explosion wreaks havoc, up to 1,200 injured (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds have sought medical attention for minor injuries. Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES . Eyewitness accounts of the meteorite phenomenon, handpicked by RT. Around 1200 people have sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk alone because of the disaster, the region's governor Mikhail Yurevich told RIA Novosti. Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk.
Servicemembers from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal. Experts working at the site of the impact told Lifenews tabloid that the fragment is most likely solid, and consists of rock and iron. A local fisherman told police he found a large hole in the lake’s ice, which could be a result of a meteorite impact. Self-Immolation Milestone: Tibetan Becomes 101st Protester To Set Himself Ablaze Since 2009. KATMANDU, Nepal -- A Tibetan man who set himself on fire in Nepal's capital in the latest in a string of self-immolations protesting China's rule over Tibet has died at a hospital, police said Thursday.
The man died Wednesday night, hours after he self-immolated, police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said. Police are still trying to identify the man, who appeared to be about 21 years old, and no one has claimed the body yet, he said. Nepalese authorities have stepped up patrols and surveillance in areas of Katmandu where Tibetan refugees live to try to stop such protests from taking place again, Adhikari said. Dozens of police officers in riot gear guarded Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, where the man died. The man doused himself with gasoline, set himself ablaze and chanted anti-China slogans as he ran down a street near the Boudhanath stupa in the northeastern outskirts of Katmandu.
Thousands of Tibetan exiles live in Nepal and occasionally protest against China. Related on HuffPost: Images of forced late-term abortion in Shaanxi shock China [Warning: Graphic!] Feng Jianmei and her aborted baby. Images circulating on microblog platforms of a forced abortion inflicted upon a woman seven months into her pregnancy in Ankang, Shaanxi province have left netizens outraged at the methods employed by local family planning officials. From a report by Radio Free Asia: Speaking from a local hospital in her home county of Zhenping, Feng Jianmei said she had been forced to have the procedure by local family planning bureau officials after she failed to pay a 40,000 yuan fine for an "excess birth" under China's draconian population control policies.
Feng, speaking briefly from her hospital bed, said that she hadn't consented to the procedure. "I have just given an interview with a reporter. The Global Times weighs in, arguing "Forced late-term abortions must not be tolerated": With the development of society, expectations of the family planning policy as well as Chinese people's awareness of human rights are changing. Radiation Poisoning The Fukushima Syndrome: Japan. Home | About Us | Contact | Subscribe The Fukushima Syndrome: Japan ABC Australia A Post-Fukushima World ForbiddenKnowledgeTV Alexandra Bruce January 21, 2013 This excellent piece about the business of nuclear power in Japan shows how communities have been bought off -- and then sold out.
In one case, the rights were bought to build nuclear plant on the beach, on the *exact same site* where a major earthquake and tsunami struck some 150 years ago, which is the average time between major tectonic events in Japan. Japan is being divided into two camps: one that believes in the nuclear industry's propaganda and the other, which no longer wishes to be deceived -- now, more than ever, in a post-Fukushima world. Journeyman Pictures September 23, 2011 Japan has always been energy hungry and addicted to nuclear power. "The safety myth about nuclear power has been sunk deeply into people's hearts. A Film By ABC Australia Distributed By Journeyman Pictures October 2011 About Us | Privacy Policy | Contact. Super Bowl Commercials 2013: Watch Ads Aired During Ravens, 49ers Matchup. Super Bowl commercials are no longer merely filler between the plays. Oreo, Doritos and the rest of the Super advertisers all may have felt like they had as much on the line as the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers when Super Bowl XLVII kicked off.
The trend of early releases and teases continued this year, with Kate Upton RSVPing to your Super Bowl party days before the Harbaugh brothers arrived at the Superdome on Sunday. Despite getting a sneak peek at several ads, Super Bowl viewers eagerly turned their attention -- and Twitter commentary -- toward the television at each stoppage in play yet again this year. Speaking of stoppages, Super Bowl XLVII contained one far stranger than anything the ad mavens could have conjured: a power outage at the Superdome. Despite a spirited post-blackout surge from the 49ers, the Ravens held on for a thrilling 34-31 win. Budweiser's baby Clydesdale drew plenty of ahhhhhs, Deion Sanders got a few laughs and GoDaddy did what GoDaddy does. Is That A Fukushima In Your Pants, Or Are You Just Hot All The Time?
By William Boardman panthers007@comcast.net In something of a stealth maneuver during the 2012 holiday season, the U.S. Department of Energy set about to give every American a little more radiation exposure, and for some a lot, by allowing manufacturers to use radioactive metals in their consumer products – such as zippers, spoons, jewelry, belt buckles, toys, pots, pans, furnishings, bicycles, jungle gyms, medical implants, or any other metal or partly-metal product. The Energy Dept. announced its plan in the Federal Register on December 12 and invited comment for 30 days, through January 11, 2013. Citing its need to address environmental concerns under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), the agency said, in part, that its plan was: One Congressman Challenges Energy Department Largely ignored by mainstream media, the plan caught the attention of an alert Congressman, Rep. Although Rep. On January 16, while taking note of Rep.
Nuclear Industry Minimizes Radiation Dangers Rep. BP's Guilty Plea For 2010 Gulf Spill Approved By Federal Judge. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when a federal judge agreed to let the London-based oil giant plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of 11 rig workers and pay a record $4 billion in penalties. What the plea deal approved by U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance doesn't resolve, though, is the federal government's civil claims against BP. The company could pay billions more for environmental damage from its 2010 spill. Vance noted that the company already has racked up more than $24 billion in spill-related expenses and has estimated it will pay a total of $42 billion to fully resolve its liability for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The judge said the $4 billion criminal settlement is "just punishment" for BP, even though the company could have paid far more without going broke. The criminal settlement calls for BP to pay nearly $1.3 billion in fines. Mel Mjb (melvin barnum) SCVWD GOLDEN SPIGOT SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT - Santa Clara Videos : Firstpost Topic - Page 1. Mars Mission Test Shows Sleep Woes Might Affect Astronauts On Long Voyage To Red Planet. Internal Affairs: 'Golden Spigot' takes turn on Silver Screen - ContraCostaTimes.com - paul goeltz. Stream of Tax Dollars Fund Water District “Meetings” | NBC Bay Area - paul goeltz. Workers return to clean out a San Jose homeless encampment for the second time in less than three weeks. Santa Clara Valley Water District parcel tax, Measure B (November 2012.
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