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SpringFest in San Diego opened yesterday for two days of music and fun in the park. Allied Gardens was alive with the sounds of kids of all ages as Faded Natives opened the show. By the time Mobility hit the stage the beer garden was full and blankets and chairs emptied out onto the grass as people got up to dance.
Here is a sampler of the music from last night with news of what's to happen today. We have more great video. Subscribe and you won't miss a thing.
But right now, check the BareFoot FotoBlog for more photos from Springfest, and a link to an entire set!SpringFest in San Diego opened yesterday for two days of music and fun in the park.... more
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S.D. County firms plan new unmanned aircraft.
Two San Diego County defense contractors are hustling to develop a new generation of comparatively inexpensive, unmanned aerial vehicles in the wake of Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ call for a less costly naval arsenal.
Speaking in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Gates said the military needs to re-examine whether it can afford so many aircraft carriers and submarines when more money is needed to underwrite the Army and Marine Corps.
Those two branches of the military are leading the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while the Navy is playing a supporting role. The Navy, whose second-largest home base is San Diego, also has long-term plans to slightly downsize its fleet.
On the day that Gates spoke, Northrop Grumman announced it will team with Bell Helicopter to develop Fire X, a more robust version of the Fire Scout, a tactical UAV that’s designed to take off and land vertically.
The Fire Scout has been partly engineered at Northrop Grumman’s plant in Rancho Bernardo. The Navy is testing the Fire Scout using some of its surface ships, including those stationed in San Diego.
“Fire X would be able to fly for 14-plus hours and carry about 3,000 pounds of sensors,” said Brooks McKinney, a Northrop spokesman. “Fire Scout can stay up five to seven hours and carry 600 pounds of sensors” for surveying and other reconnaissance activity.
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WTF is going on here?S.D. County firms plan new unmanned aircraft.
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Where are the Whales?
Whale-watchers are dismayed by what they're not seeing. San Diego.
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ
Updated 3:02 PM PDT, Sun, Apr 11, 2010
Gazing past the rolling whitecaps in the middle of San Diego's whale-watching season, boat captain Bill Reese was dismayed by what he wasn't seeing.
"Where are the whales?" said Reese. "Where are the whales?"
Long held as an environmental success story after being taken off the endangered list in 1994, California gray whales draw legions of fans into boats or atop cliffs to watch the leviathans lumber down the coast to spawning grounds in Baja.
But whale-watching skippers became alarmed after sightings dropped from 25 a day in good years to five a day this season. Such anecdotal evidence has left conservationists and state officials worried about the whale's future, especially now.
The federal government's monitoring of the mammals has fallen off in recent years. And the International Whaling Commission in June will consider allowing 1,400 gray whales to be hunted over the next decade.
The decision will rely on a report that says the population is flourishing -- a study critics say is spotty and outdated.
"If you count 2,500 animals, all you really know rock solid for sure is there are more than 2,500. Beyond that you're using models and assumptions," said Stanford University marine biology professor Steve Palumbi. "The problem comes when you say, 'We do know how many whales there are and we're going to start making unalterable management decisions on that basis."'
The study draws on annual population estimates dating from 1967, but in the past decade only three census counts have been released, the most recent in 2006.
Since than, the estimated number of calves has plunged from more than 1,000 in 2006 to 312 in 2009. In addition, the species suffered a die-off of several thousand whales in 2000.
"You can't set specific quotas for 10 years based on 2006 data," said Sara Wan, a California Gray Whale Coalition member who is also a state coastal commissioner. "It's irresponsible."
In January, the California Coastal Commission pressed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for an updated gray whale study. The count is done but the analysis won't be finished until long after the whaling commission's decision.
NOAA scientists say their population estimates are reliable because the numbers have remained relatively consistent over time. They say the drop in calf numbers may reflect nature thinning out the herd.
The population is still more than double what it was in the 1960s and has been fairly stable of the past couple decades, said Paul Wade, one of the study's co-authors and a member of the commission's scientific committee.
"If it truly does go into an important decline, it's not going to happen overnight. We're going to see it," he said.
The gray whale's success has created a complex dynamic for NOAA researchers, who recently have focused on more threatened, less charismatic whales such as the North Atlantic Right whales, whose population may be as low as 30.
Over the years, scientists have been able to do a great amount of research on gray whales because they are so accessible and popular with the public. Any indication of trouble galvanizes countless fans.
"Gray whales are our pets, they're in our backyard," said David Rugh, a NOAA biologist who oversaw gray whale counts for years. "Of course we have a concern about them going through so many environments from Mexico to the Arctic but there are other species out there that we're also concerned about."
Gray whales migrate thousands of miles each fall from Alaska to Baja, then back north between February and May. They spend summers in the Bering Sea and Arctic.
Biologists sit in a little stand on California's central coast, counting adult whales as they swim south. Calves are counted as the whales make the return trip north. The counts are used to extrapolate overall population and monitor reproduction.
When gray whales were listed as endangered in 1970, an estimated 12,000 remained. A moratorium on commercial hunting and close monitoring helped the population rebound to more than 20,000.
Deemed recovered, the whales only needed to be monitored every five years, instead of annually, and there was no longer dedicated funding for the whale, which cost about $170,000 a season to count.
The 2006 count yielded about 2,500 whales, leading researchers to calculate about 20,000 whales total. The most recent calf count of 2009, however, revealed the fewest since 2001.
"These are troubling numbers," said Randy Reeves, chair of the Cetacean specialist group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. "If they're being reinforced by comments from whale watching guys, then it gets that much more troubling."
Wayne Perryman, who oversees NOAA gray whale counts, said he believes there is a correlation between lower reproduction rates and colder winters when lingering ice blocks whales from getting to feeding grounds. He also does not see reason to panic.
"I think it's like in a room when someone yells 'fire!"' Perryman said.
The whaling commission allows the Russian Chukotka people and the Makah Indian tribe in Washington to hunt 140 gray whales per year. While they typically revisit the issue every five years, the panel is considering limits through 2020.
Douglas DeMaster, the U.S. delegation's deputy commissioner, the number is about half of 1 percent of the current estimated population.
"This is a very conservative number and provides subsistence needs to aboriginals," he said.
But Liz Alter, a marine biologist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, "Given that we have very little ability to predict what climate change, ocean acidification and other threats will mean to the whale population for the coming years, it seems reckless to me to set catch limits for that length of time."
Images: Rare Whale Sightings - Click on Link AboveWhere are the Whales?
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The movie - Date Night is out and so are the reviews.
Order of appearance:
Adam Hunter - San Diego Resident
Scott Marks - Film Critic - emulsioncompulsion.com
video by: Chris Morrow
Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/morrowchrisThe movie - Date Night is out and so are the reviews.
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LA Earthquake 2010 (VIDEO): Amateur Footage As Tremors Rock Southern California
AP
April/4/ 2010
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) – A powerful earthquake in Baja California rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Sunday, collapsing a parking structure south of the border and causing power outages in both countries as it sent out seismic waves felt from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Arizona.
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The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:40 p.m. about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, a bustling commerce center on the Mexican side of the border where trucks carrying goods cross into California. More than 900,000 people live in the greater Mexicali area.LA Earthquake 2010 (VIDEO): Amateur Footage As Tremors Rock Southern California... more
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I spoke with 3 San Diego residents in the Little Italy area (downtown).
Order of appearance:
Rachel Ehlin
Ted Smith
Salvatore Filippone
The largest earthquake in the region in nearly 18 years struck at 3:40 p.m. Sunday more than 100 miles southeast of San Diego. The USGS originally said the quake was a 6.9 but later upgraded that figure to 7.2.I spoke with 3 San Diego residents in the Little Italy area (downtown).
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Today a 7.2 earthquake hit San Diego. I was in SouthPark. We felt a little tremble then it got stronger and stronger. I grabbed my camera and rushed outside along with the rest of the neighborhood.
The largest earthquake in the region in nearly 18 years struck at 3:40 p.m. Sunday more than 100 miles southeast of San Diego. The USGS originally said the quake was a 6.9 but later upgraded that figure to 7.2.Today a 7.2 earthquake hit San Diego. I was in SouthPark. We felt a little tremble... more
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UPDATE! 10:14 pm, pdt, 4/4/10
Earthquakes rattle Pacific Coast; 2 reported dead in Mexico; 100 injured
I'm in Santa Clarita, California (north of Los Angeles), and there was a 25-second swaying motion, nauseating many of us.
Please feel free to submit photos and videos... along with answers to "Did you feel it?" and, if so, where you were in relation to the epicenter.
My apologies that there is no photo to go with this original submission, but when I posted, there was no written news, yet, so I just dove in quickly, never realizing that, without an actual link to an article, no photos could be included. But I've more than made up for it with the following photos and videos.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-428979?hpt=C2
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UPDATE! 10:14 pm, pdt, 4/4/10... more
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Troy drowned in the ocean and his family needs help to find his body. The City of San Diego is no longer searching for him and his family is looking for divers and boat owners to donate their time to search for his body. More detailed information in the video.Troy drowned in the ocean and his family needs help to find his body. The City of San... more
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Public Service Announcements are a great way to get your message out to people. PSAs always work, no matter the topic.
The Onion News Network covers some a PSA that tries to get teens to stop smoking, by speaking their language.
New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens 'It's Gay To Smoke'
The Guerilla Film Society uses a different approach to convince San Diegans to start conserving their water.
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Celebrities are working towards corporate controlled health care with this PSA
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Those PSAs are all fake. But there are some very shocking ones, that are suprisingly real. infoMania looks at The Most Shocking PSAs.
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What could've been the context of this statement?
Ernie Anastos: "Keep fucking that chicken"
It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast Nick
I guess that's me.
Keep fucking that chicken.
This reminds me of a film I once saw...
In Anchor Man the culprit was Christina Applegate. I think she's set precedence and is also responsible for this gaffe. FCC send your fines to Christina Applegate, it was she who changed the teleprompter. Maybe.
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Today on Current Music, you can watch an exclusive clip from Jason Mraz's new live CD/DVD, "Beautiful Mess," filmed during his most recent stop in Chicago.
Jason is a performer who's gone from tiny coffeehouses in San Diego to headlining sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl. He's toured nearly non-stop for what seems like the past five years straight. (Next he's off to South America.)
His shows pack in a lot of things at once—radio hits, rarer b-sides, Jason-as-band director leading the audience in massive, extended singalongs. And not to sound like a total hippie about it, but they've got this vibe to them that even I—who will only ever set foot in jam band-land if dragged there by my wife—can't help but be all moved by. Plus he's got a hell of a voice that never quite shines as much in his studio takes as it does on a big stage he makes feel just like one of those tiny cafes where he got his start.
Check out jasonmraz.com for more music, tour dates and one of the best—and oldest—tour blogs from any musician in the business of spending life on the road.
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Check out this scene from "How Weed Won the West", the new sequel to Showtime's "American Drug War" from Sacred Cow!!Check out this scene from "How Weed Won the West", the new sequel to... more
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