California's beaches the cleanest water in years

California's beaches the cleanest water in years

Michael Short

Angella Miller goes to the Chicago river, between stones, Baker Beach, one of two beaches in San Francisco, which received top honors in the water quality study. Second of Ocean Beach.

dry weather, and more stringent rules to increase the water quality of beaches in the Bay Area in its purest level this year, a report released Thursday found.

Almost every beach in the Bay Area and throughout the country, and bacterial contamination was significantly lower than last year, according to the annual survey of 650 West Coast beaches at the High-Bay, Santa Monica environmental group.

“This is one of our best years yet,” said Amanda Griesbach, water quality scientist Heal Bay, which will meet their water quality control data on a weekly basis throughout the year along the California coast. “Especially in the summer coming, people should be happy that California beaches are clean.”

Six local beaches earned win, including four in San Mateo County and two in San Francisco: Sharp Park and Rockaway Beach in Pacifica, Montara State Beach, Half Moon Bay beach, dunes and ocean beaches, and Baker in San Francisco.

Almost all the beaches in the Bay Area earned a “good” or “very good” quality, including some of the past that are among the most contaminated, such as Baker Beach.

report examined the penetration of bacteria and contamination of coastal waters with sewage, industrial and urban runoff. More stringent state and federal standards for water treatment and pollution have led to fewer beach closures and generally cleaner water, according to a report.

Government tightens control

pubDate in recent years, the State Water Resources Control Board and its regional offices for enhanced control and increased performance of water treatment plants, refineries, factories and sewage treatment plants, said Tim Moran, a spokesman for State water board.

“This is an ongoing process. But we are trying to identify problems and intervene where we can,” he said.

can be difficult to maintain water quality in the years when the state budget cuts loom, Moran said.

The state is proposing to cut the budget for water quality monitoring of $ 1800000 to $ 1 million, for example, he said.

Not all the local beaches received the letter grades. Five beaches in San Mateo County, is listed as “bad”. These are: Pillar Point, Oyster Point in South San Francisco, and Aquatic Park, Lake Shore Park and Beach in San Mateo kiteboard

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cause of “poor” ratings

All of these beaches, except kiteboard is closed and stagnant water, which is favorable to the bacteria, said Dean Peterson, San Mateo County director of environmental health.

“The City of San Mateo is aware of the problems and work to reduce the number of days, these beaches are highly familiar with the bacteria,” he said.

Pillar Point, San Mateo County Resource Conservation District study on pollution issues, and expects to publish its findings soon, Peterson said.

East Bay, Bay Heal looked at 10 sites, including the popular Crown Beach in Alameda and Keller Beach in Richmond. All sites received high marks.

Marin also appeared with the report of 23 beaches get top marks. Are among the cleanest Stinson, Rodeo and Muir beaches.

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Memorial Day Weekend full of events, congestion

Memorial Day Weekend full of events, congestion

For many people, holiday weekends involve jumping in the car and take off. But this Memorial Day weekend, just move to the Bay Area is a challenge.

With the Dumbarton Bridge closed all weekend for seismic strengthening of the road and crawl across the Golden Gate Bridge because of its 75 years anniversary and Muni’s busiest subway line – the N-Judah – 9 days to start the shutdown Friday, you can get out of town can be a reasonable strategy.

As usual, many people in the 3-day weekend to visit relatives and friends, camping, or see the sights. According to AAA of Northern California, which conducts annual surveys before every major holiday travel, about 4.2 million Californians expected to drive more than 50 miles away from home this week–. Growth of 1.5 percent more than last Memorial Day

Most of the passengers – about 3.5 million – will take to the road for about 1.6 percent more than last year, and despite higher gas prices. An additional 390,000 will fly to their destinations, a decrease of 5.2 percent, although lower prices. And 265,000 will take trains, buses and boats, an increase of 11.9 percent.

Cynthia Harris, a AAA spokesman, said the figures continued to reflect the travel market, with the economy slowly recovers.

“People want to travel, but many have sufficient security, even splurge on a great day trip,” he said.

For those who are in the Bay Area this weekend, there’s a lot to do, especially on Sundays, hosted by the San Francisco Carnaval Parade and Festival, the Golden Gate. But those who are not going to waste a lot of free time for your loved stewing in traffic.

Dumbarton closing

pubDate While the Bay Bridge will remain open throughout the weekend, Dumbarton Bridge to continue the tradition of recent Bay Area roads, bridges, take a weekend vacation. The 1.6-mile span, which carries an average of 61,000 vehicles per day between Newark and Menlo Park will be closed at 10 am Friday and again by 05:00 Tuesday, said the wins milion, a spokesman for the project. Drivers are recommended to go north of San Mateo Bridge or Highway south of 237th As the transbay buses across the bridge on weekends and holidays there is no alternative transit service included.

Construction of seismic steel cars to replace the common spanning all 6 lane traffic and a bike path. New single is expected to add up to 18 inches by the movement of an earthquake. Workers use a hydraulic lifting bridge 5 inches to make room for 96 seismic bearings are installed during the next eight months. Thirty beds are planned to make the weekend. Rain is expected Friday, could delay the wor k, which requires a dry paving.

milion said they hope to get a job “done on time or even a bit too early.”

birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge and causing traffic tie-ups. Tens of thousands of people are expected to show up along the northern coastal region of the Golden Gate Festival, which range from Fort Point Marina Green-related events in Ghirardelli Square and Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 9:30 big attraction is the fireworks will be launched near the bridge.

The Golden Gate is open to all on the track at the weekend – with the exception of the closure prior to, during and after the fireworks. Sidewalks will be closed and removed between 5 and 6 pm road closures starting around 9 pm, depending on traffic. Bridge again at 10 or 22:15, where sidewalks are in first place. Major traffic delays are expected. Traffic is also expected to slow crawl across the bridge and at other times be a mess along the waterfront and through most of the city.

“When you come to the celebration of the bridge, do not drive into San Francisco,” said Mary Currie, a spokesman for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District.

People headed to the festival is recommended that you take public transportation, ride a bike or on foot. No public parking is available on or around the festival site, or the bridge on Sunday. Bart, the Golden Gate Ferry and Golden Gate Transit will add extra services on Sunday.

Transbay street closing

pubDate addition of traffic chaos, with cars built Transbay Transit Center near First Street between Mission and Howard streets beginning at 8 am Friday to build a bridge crossing the street. It is expected to reopen at 5:00 on Tuesday.

Transit riders are not left out of the fun. Muni plans to start a nine-day shutdown of N-Judah Metro line, which carries about 40,000 passengers a day, at 19:00 on Friday. Bus shuttles run along the route, extending from Ocean Beach, through downtown and along the Embarcadero, the Fourth and King streets.

the Golden Gate Bridge memorial events

pubDate dozens of events will take place during the Memorial Day Weekend to celebrate the 75 years the bridge was opened on May 27 planners recommend that you take transit, walk or ride a bike for the events are as follows:

Bridge Story: Saturday 10:00 to 6:00 pm and Sunday from 11 to 10, Ghirardelli Square.

music, history, and vintage cars. 11:00-10 10:00 to 06:00 Saturday and Sunday, Fishermans Wharf

Golden Gate Festival. 11:00-10 Sunday, the Marina Green in Fort Point

Fireworks : 9:30 Sunday. Best viewing from the Marina Green in Fort Point

More info

pubDate Golden Gate Festival. goldengatebridge75.org.

Traffic and Transit: 511.org.

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BART Wi-Fi still remains after 3 years

BART Wi-Fi still remains after 3 years

What is broken

pubDate problem:. spotty Wi-Fi service is not available anywhere BART, despite promises that it would be available in 2010

What has been done: , the signals are to Oakland land to Balboa Park, but that does not mean anything to officials make all the cars, hot spots, which can receive signals

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Who is responsible for: Contact a company representative WiFi Rail Catharine Cooper at (714) 296-5250 or ccooper@wifirail.net. Chuck Rae BART project in its Wi-Fi project. Reach him (510) 464-6895 or crae@bart.gov.

All pins on a commuter with a smart phone and I know that something stinks about Bart, and it’s not just dirty carpets.

Wi-Fi that was dangled in front of BART is the Bay Area commuters perk of the whole system to be available in 2010, is still spotty gambling seems to disappear at the most inopportune times.

While the Altamont Commuter Express train has been offering Wi-Fi for more than ten years, Bart trains are still stuck in the dark era of the Transbay Tube.

2009 BART signed an exclusive, 20-year agreement with WiFi Rail is Sacramento, which promised to provide a service. In exchange for BART to offer a “horizontal property,” the company would use its money to install infrastructure and establish a service in return WiFi Rail eventually pay for the service.

In January, closed WiFi Rail Phase 2 of their 5-step plan. This means spotty Wi-Fi is available through the Balboa Park in San Francisco and the Transbay Tube Oakland rural metro stations, says the CEO of Lee Cooper.

Lee said that the service is unreliable, because of factors including the difficulty of trying to raise money for the project is trying to cope with the weak economy and BART officials, when and where the WiFi Rail may start working.

job would cost the company about $ 100,000 a mile, says Lee.

Although the signals are up along the BART system components, for example, you can not watch videos all the cars. Because WiFi Rail also provided with at least 100 cars, a technology that allows them to scale Wi-Fi signal, says Lee. So far, the 59 cars, located in the front and back – and the middle of the 10-car trains – are hotspots

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to build a strong signal to select combinations of shark fin antennas and sit near the front or back. Or you can wait until 2012, when Lee, the center estimates that cars are equipped with the necessary technology.

Lee hopes that commuters can get the service line in Richmond at this time.

The next step involves reaching Concord on the Pittsburg-Bay Point line, the Berkeley Land and go as far as the North Berkeley Station and the Colosseum.

The last two phases will focus on Millbrae, Richmond and Fremont stations, the Dublin-Pleasanton line. Expect that in December 2014 says Lee.

Lee said WiFi Rail uses a patented technology that is independent of cellular service, other transit systems make the Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi to the end of BART must be fast, because it’s not on the basis of a strong cell phone coverage.

BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver said that while the BART Wi-Fi is an important institution has made a higher priority than other projects.

“We’ve gone back to the basics … like the recent replacement of wool spots, trying to get the fleet in the future to ensure our system continues to maintain itself,” he said.

BART WiFi Rail Project Manager Chuck Rae said the biggest problem is getting the money, and if BART does not provide any of this office is not much to say, as soon as the company keeps its promises.

“BART is very expensive to develop, and Bart can not invest it at all,” he said. “To get them to do it, there’s not much lever, if funding keeps drying up.

” We are happy that we have to do what they have done, “said Rae.” It’s not like they are obliged to do anything but give it your best shot. “

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SF fire control wages garnisheed - wife

SF fire control wages garnisheed - wife

judge has declared the San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes- White deadbeat divorced and gave the city to begin garnisheeing $ 3300 a month from his salary for support for his ex-wife’s husband.

Hayes-White says he stopped to pay support for about 14 months ago after an episode in which her former husband, Robert “Sean” White, , grabbed and choked one of their sons, while the booze fueled rage.

In December, he asked, not competition in San Mateo County Superior Court for a misdemeanor child protection and cruelty. He wears his sentence, County Sheriff and the detail of the work resides in the rehab house.

Last week, White went to San Francisco Superior Court requires that the driver to continue to pay him alimony when the couple was divorced from the 2009th

Friday wrote Judge Ron Albers to begin the repayment of its $ 302,000 annual salary, although it does not seem t o recover more than $ 40,000 behind in payments.

White Dog was by Bradley does not return a phone call for comment.

Help brawl is the latest twist in a couple of family drama.

In 2005, white – the cousin of the dead Dan White – the so-called 911 and accused his wife, hitting her head twice a pint glass in your kitchen in San Francisco. Hayes-White denied the allegations, and he recalled.

(No charges were ever made -. Something stopped supporters of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has noted his argument that prosecutors overreached in charging him for what they see as an equivalent set of circumstances)

After a long separation, the couple divorced in 2009 but shared custody of their three children, until last year when Hayes-White got a restraining order prohibiting contact his or her two children who were still minors.

Hayes-White said in an interview, he stopped making payments because of rising costs of a spouse, has had his children.

“This is not about being vindictive,” he said. “Everything just went on a break” after last year’s attack a few Sun

boss also says white is not quite lived up to their end of their divorce settlement, including the cost of family medical expenses, which indicates that it has made “good faith effort” to find work.

“I’m assuming the responsibility for safety, health and welfare of their children,” Hayes-White said. “I like being the boss, but my job is to be the biggest and the best mother.”

Extra credit: , a teacher at Berkeley led a group of high school students are “off-hours’ journey to the other day – transfer to UC Berkeley Admissions Office

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Kong Middle School teacher Yvette Felarca, , who is also the organizer of all the necessary activist group run by a group of about 25 protesters Friday, including some teenagers, to require UC to admit more underrepresented minorities.

Most of the teens remained in the police gave them out after about 2 hours, but the three were arrested on suspicion of crossing with 9 adults -. including Felarca

All teens were in high school, and someone had his humanities classes Felarca King.

“I’m very proud and honored to be obsessed with black, Latino and Arab high school and college students,” said Felarca. “They fight for themselves and their entire generation.”

Berkeley Unified School District spokesman Mark COPLAN , said the district did not affect Felarca activity if they were his own time.

Stay away from: , former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer has received a restraining limit your ex-boyfriend from having contact with her, her 8-year-old son and her husband, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer .

issued in Alameda County last week after her ex-boyfriend, convicted methamphetamine user Chikhani Stephen, began peppering Lockyers voice mail, e-mails and text messages after the liberation of South Bay drug treatment program.

gunfire cam e around the same time, a few extracts from Chikhani reportedly made a sex tape – with Nadia Lockyer – was released Friday on YouTube. They were quickly taken down.

Chikhani attorney Adrienne Dell , clearly annoyed with having helped to clear their clients of violence Nadia Lockyer Room, said he was aware of the restraining order, “but I have not seen it.”

Furious Fiesta : on the upper floor of the Bay Bridge Drivers may have noticed a number of circular streaks occur midway between San Francisco and Treasure Island – this is not a fixed-burning donuts.

And this is what they are.

tags at the weekend was shot in a Ford Fiesta for the business.

“We are making the commercials all the time,” says an official Tony Tam, The California Highway Patrol spokesman.

As the relevance of advertising a car doing donuts on the bridge?

“They’re paying for,&# 8221; Tam said, “that we let them do whatever they want, if it is authorized.”

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S.F. Mayor Ed Lee's Golden State Warriors in court

S.F. Mayor Ed Lee's Golden State Warriors in court

It is official – San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is directly calling the Golden State Warriors bounce back to San Francisco and the Bay

“2017 NBA season at the right time.”

a letter signed by all the instructors in 11 cities, the Port Commission, the San Francisco legislative contingent and a wealth of business and labor leaders, Lee said the city crew would “help to achieve this goal.”

There is nothing official, but the letter shows that the City is a waterfront scene – probably the Piers 30-32, decrepit pier near the Bay Bridge is now used for parking

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idea would be to get the Arena built at the same Giants’ Stadium was down the street -. private financing

City sent a letter a few days after the meeting with the mayor of Los Angeles for new Warriors owner (and Hollywood Mogul), Peter Guber .

by a fluke, San Francisco, it also went on the heels of the State Controller John Chiang ‘s requirement that the Oakland handed over $ 3.5 million redevelopment plan to spend the money that the city had hoped for a new sports complex that contains the scene.

Green vs. green. San Franciscans enthusiasm for going green “clean energy” in your home seems to be so flat as the economy

recent population survey 3500 city utilities, the Commission found that 52 percent would perhaps Pacific Gas and Electric Co. It is only 3 percentage points more than similar poll taken last year.

willingness to pay “a little bit more” clean wind and solar energy fell 37 percent 45 percent a year earlier.

And this is after the expected growth has fallen by more than half – from $ 14 more per month to just $ 6

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“There is a certain group of people who buy eco or green purchasing, and others who are interested in,” said the head of the PUC Ed Harrington . “We never thought it would be overwhelming, but there is a market.”

study was conducted to test the market town of the program. Board of Supervisors is considering spending $ 19500000 turn on the money for the project.

The plan provides for the city contract with Shell Energy to buy power, then puts it through the regular power supply lines.

Ramos commotion: Things got a little impatient with the second day of the district attorney press conference after the triple murder conviction gang member Edwin Ramos 2008 drive-by shootings Tony Bologna , and two of his sons, Excelsior.

Bologna widow Danielle – who was in the courtroom most of the 4-month probationary period -. I was hoping to solve a crush of reporters and cameras, but there was a catch

He is still in witness protection because prosecutors asked for the TV people will hide their faces, or just not show it.

request, brought howls of protests from the deadline, plagued by TV newsies.

result. Widow not seen or heard of TV shows later – but will not print journalists her party room

waterfront: After weeks of delaying tactics and arm twisting, time seems to run out of the Board of Supervisors President David Chiu efforts to kill the proposed 11-storey condo project with her own district in the waterfront.

8 Washington project is close to the condo owners who lose their positions, as well as some area businesses and politically difficult to Telegraph Hill residents Association.

On the other hand, light commercial, port and Rose Pak – China Town where nonprofits can benefit from the agreement – are pushing to adopt

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is more at stake than just building . In this case it would be Chiu’s first major injury on board the President – with a double disgrace to your district

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Scramble: to Word, state Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi shoplifting is eyeing run in Alameda County Nadia Lockyer tutorial ‘s vacant place in the political enemies scrambling to find a candidate who does not pack as much baggage.

One of them had contacted a former assemblyman Alberto Torrico Fremont, who In addition to both the Latino and Asian origin. But after weeks of mulling it over with his wife and children, Torrico told us that he has decided against it.

leave the door wide open, Hayashi, who claims to have a strong poll numbers despite poor no contest to shoplifting charges in San Francisco last year?

“I can tell you: you can not poll mug shot” Torrico said

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City Insider City Insider / mayor says the middle-class area on the edge of "the resurgence of"

City Insider City Insider / mayor says the middle-class area on the edge of "the resurgence of"

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Mayor Ed Lee On the streets by bicycle at least part of Thursday.

Wedding middle class is the mayor of San Francisco for decades, but the city is finally on the verge of turning into a long depression of the city’s main boulevard Mayor Ed Lee said on Thursday.

“I think you’ll see a resurgence of all,” Lee said when he visited the old Merchandise Mart is the renovation of the 10th and Market streets around the new headquarters of tech companies to twitter, and yammer CallSocket and home decor web site One Kings Lane.

tax credit was approved last year for companies to expand their middle-class area of ​​labor was the key to keep the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Ali Rowghani , Chief Financial Officer, said it would be “well north of 1000″ the world’s workforce, as it moves into its new home in San Francisco this summer.

Twitter has estimated that i t could grow to more than 2,600 jobs over the next five years, middle-class place, according to the mayor’s office. The company currently leases the upper three floors, which is now known as Market Square.

Overall, 1100000 square meters of buildings have been renovated a couple of Shorenstein Properties is expected to include offices, retail space and a much needed full-service grocery store.

“The demand and demographics is evident here,” said Doug Shorenstein , chairman and managing director of real estate investment and development company.

Twitter this summer and is expected to move to the anchor. The prospect of a kick-start housing projects, a field that had lain dormant, and brought new business and arts programs for small businesses.

“It’s all too real,” said Lee. “No more talking.”

– John Cote

pedal power: Being green is a political currency in this city, and Mayor Ed Lee was under pedal power Thursday – at least part time -. Bike to Work Day

So, we have a City Insider thought it a perfect opportunity to see his plan last summer to keep the bike and use the town hall official trips when she drives to your plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt.

Mayor has not made any public appearances on two wheels, except for Bike to work day. But it is actually two electric bikes stored in the mayor at City Hall garage.

“I’m secretly test them on the weekends,” said Lee, and I hope the warmer weather and a slower schedule will allow him to pedal its meetings in June.

But it seems like it could have used the bike from the garage on Thursday afternoon, Mayor.

After driving to City Hall from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco Bicycle Coalition of the morning with leaders and others, Lee was forced to an afternoon tour of the new Twitter offices undergoing refurbishment for about 2 1/2 blocks from City Hall.

He was then driven back to the town hall, and those who left the tour at the same time, he knocked on the back foot City Hall.

– John Cote

move. plan to place a Chinese hospital clinic in China Town blocks from home easily won Planning Commission approval Thursday

unanimous, however, is only the warm up next week to debate a draft environmental impact report on the $ 160 million plan to build a modern, seismically safe facility in Jackson Street instead of the original hospital built in the 1924th

Although the relocation of the hospital infusion clinic, a former furniture store at 827 Pacific Ave. It was originally part of a rehabilitation plan is going to the hospital officials decided to turn them into two different projects.

Hospital plans to move its outpatient radiology unit of Pacific Avenue site with offices, which added to the hospital. Infusion clinic with ambulatory patients receiving chemotherapy, intravenous antibiotics, blood transfusions and other similar services, whether on the second floor.

– John Wildermuth

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Scientists drilling in Clear Lake to see the future

Scientists drilling in Clear Lake to see the future

drilling deep into the sediment under the old Clear Lake, UC Berkeley researchers are important tips for the future of plant and animal life, examining how the changing climate has changed life in the distant past.

drilling ends next week and then 17 researchers on the project will analyze thousands of tiny pollen grains grown up far from the lake cores to study plant species, large and small to survive the challenges of climate change during the previous periods.

Major episodes of global warming – and cold spells, too – hit the Earth thousands of years ago, leaving a record of the past

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These data, which microscopic bits of plant material that constitutes evidence, scientists want to study.

“We know that climate change is happening now,” said Cindy Looy, UC Berkeley plant pathologist who supervises drilling project team. “By understanding how it affects plant life long ago, when the changes were even stronger, we have to better predict the future.”

Looy drillers have worked for weeks, and the Clear Lake arm platform, they have pulled 500 ft 3-in noise levels, where they cut a 10-foot pieces. Drilling stopped 650 meters on Sunday, depth, showing 130,000 years of life in the region Looy said. Both the doublet core will be drilled in the vicinity of a few days later, so we can compare.

Long-ago warming

pubDate team vegetation samples will come from the last interglacial warming period, known as the period that began about 130,000 years ago and lasted about 15,000 years in which the earth was much warmer than it is today – perhaps as much as 5-9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today’s temperature, according to some estimates from researchers who have studied ice cores.

Berkeley team is focused on the more recent period of climate change, the so-called mysterious younger dryas, which began about 13,000 years ago and lasted slightly more than 1,000 years. The average global temperature dropped rapidly at the beginning of a full 5 degrees, and scientists now call the time of the “Big Freeze”. So, within 1,000 years the earth is heated again, maybe as much as 18 degrees.

Theories are a lot of what caused the striking cold-warm periods and Looy and his colleagues believe that knowing exactly which plant species have evolved or died may help pr edict what might happen in the near future, the current pace of global warming accelerates.

This is now forecast to be valuable in many ways Looy said. This may affect the future of agricultural policy in the preparation of future warming and forest policy, timber cutting, for example. Even winemakers have a better chance to decide what to grow grapes as affected by the heating of agricultural crops, as influenced by other plant life in the past, Looy said.

“I’m super happy with what gives us our cores,” he said.

Doing Analysis

pubDate cores sent to the University of Minnesota is a cold storage facility or a state called LacCORE Lacrustine Core Facility. There Looy team members shared the central part, photographed in half and put half on each piece back to the Berkeley faculty and students to analyze in detail.

the details are very good indeed, drilled every half inch of sediment represents 10 years earlier.

Although Anthony Barnosky, UC paleontologist and his team is poring over a half dozen animal fossils from caves in the Clear Lake area, the Berkeley Museum of Paleontology is stored. Tens of thousands more fossils are collected from around the world are also stored there, and they can also reveal how past climate changes have played a role in the development and extinction of wildlife.

“We work with all the mammoths of the past and move the mouse to paint a picture of the future, we have not seen,” Barnosky said.

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The protesters bins in Mission District businesses, cars

The protesters bins in Mission District businesses, cars

(05-01) 13:27 PDT San Francisco – Broken glass full of a number of streets in San Francisco Mission District after protesters looted and damaged cars for more than 30 companies and at least 17 cars on Monday night.

Tuesday to clean them were police officers in the neighborhood, where a mask and dressed in black activists threw paint and bashed the front door. Some business owners in the area, said police did not do enough to prevent damage to their shops and restaurants, and one said to the officers themselves seemed to be the “Escort” vandals.

protesters were a group that marched from Dolores Park shortly after 9:00 on Tuesday after a meeting before the plan is confirmed, the general strike, police said. Travel for less than 18 Street and Valencia Street, they smashed windows and strong characters, threw paint and eggs at the building and spray-painting anarchy symbols of the hoods of parked cars.

“All I heard was” b ang, bang, bang “and some guy had a valet character, trying to break our window,” says manager Adam Koskoff Locanda restaurant in Valencia. “I did not even see the audience, and I ran out and got egged.”

The luxury and everyday vehicles along the streets of Valencia and Guerrero were damaged. Aston Martin had its windshield smashed and covered with brown Hood.

Pink and yellow barricaded marred, broken glass doors in Mission police station is 17 and Valencia streets.

“It was like the station was under siege,” said one official, who asked not be named.

Tuesday, said the Mission Station Captain Robert Moser, vandalism was “made fast” and that someone took a hammer or a club-like object the station door. He estimates that 100,150 people have participated in neighborhood rampage.

One person was arrested on suspicion of vehicle code violations and resisting arrest, Moser said. He was referred to in and out. < /P> Some business owners said that the extent of the damage should be more vandals have been arrested.

J.H. Kostelni from Farina restaurant on 18 Street, said he saw a police car in front of and behind a group of about 30 people who threw paint and eggs at their windows and toppled him off the boards.

“It looked like a police escort for them,” said Kostelni. “They did not stop them.”

Asked about the criticism, Moser said, “We wanted to make sure we had enough staff to public security and safety of our employees.”

About 15 officers in riot gear had a guard in front of the police station Monday night, when other officers moved up and down the street, documenting the damage that the cards shredded cars and telling business owners.

officers dispersed the group when it came to Valencia and Duboce streets, Moser said. He said his officers were preparing for another possible incident on Tuesday night, after the additional registration of deeds.

owner Jeremy Tooker Four Barrel coffee, dried paint on their shop windows broken glass crushed under the feet of pedestrians. He said that a friend had warned her injuries after the completion of a protester from smash the glass storefront with a crowbar – and take the hit in their hands.

One of the protesters threw a Snapple bottle full of the color of the building, said Tooker.

“It just seems like they are frustrated by their impotence at the time,” he said. “It’s like” Look at me, I’m still here, I’m still obsessed. “”

As Koskoff smoked a cigarette damaged the Aston Martin, he said that he did not understand the motives of the protesters.

“They come out on a mission where there are no traders, but many small businesses, which is what they all,” he said. “It does not make sense.”

Although the rally began in March for the company, other p rotesters tried to occupy the participants in the data. Some businessmen, but said the injury was responsible for Occupy.

“Occupy, says that it’s not them, but we would not be here if it were not for use, and now would we?” Michelle Horneff-Cohen, a real estate agent, said that next to the broken window, he shook his job Property Management Systems.

He said he was dragged out of bed to deal with injuries. Although his company has insurance, he said, it’s going to pay a large share of the cost of repair.

“I think the bull -” Horneff-Cohen said. “We’re 99 percent, and this is bull -.”

By Tuesday morning, was suspended for business owners, or to replace broken glass storefronts and had washed away the power of the eggs, paint splatters and spills. Some were preparing for what may come next year.

“We could have a place to police it,” Tooker said. “I do not want anyone to be hurt, and we can deal with broken windows, but nothing serious will happen, that we may have to close down.”

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