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A low pressure system has dropped south through Nevada and California, creating a disturbance that’s curling counter-clockwise inland, generating strong offshore winds. The phenomenon is known as an inside slider.

Winds are gusting almost 50 mph in and around the Cuyamaca and Laguna mountains, whipped up by a low pressure system that will generate gusts up to 60 mph early Thursday in the rugged terrain east of Camp Pendleton.

The National Weather Service says the winds will blow strong, off and on, until late Thursday, when they’ll fade. But the winds are expected to regain some of their pop early Friday.

Forecasters say the winds are “potentially damaging” because they’ll place stress on powerlines, and they’ll make driving difficult at times on state Routes 78 and 79 and Interstate 8..

sd u-t, 30.11.11.

Jim Grant of La Costa took this image from Mt. Soledad at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Stefanie Sullivan of the National Weather Service says,” These clouds were roughly between 200 and 500 feet. The temperature in the clouds was around 50 degrees. Based on the satellite loop from this morning, the cloud deck was was moving towards the north at about 5-10 mph.”

Occupy Oakland in solidarity with Occupy LA.

oak folks in LA.

better quality video feed. thanks ustream for helping out occoak.

WE ARE PEACEFUL.

• 1300 police officers filed out of the HQ
• people getting arrested.
• media stepping out—the press getting ushered off the street
• closed area for the media

oakfosho (ustream linked above) got moved to the media area. 
this stream still coming from the inside. 
^ she needs a new battery! 

WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.

*10 minutes to disperse*

WE ARE NOT MOVING.

Tension is building at #OccupyLA as over 20 busloads of riot cops are reportedly closing in. 

hopefully nothing oaklandish or uc davis-esque will happen tonight..

#occupyLA

men in white suits? hazmat?

what is going on? 

also: CBS/LA live news

• “unlawful assembly” just declared a couple hours ago.
• SWAT teamed called in.

Tension is building at #OccupyLA as over 20 busloads of riot cops are reportedly closing in. 

hopefully nothing oaklandish or uc davis-esque will happen tonight..

#occupyLA

4) Toddlers. Oh, they think they’re so cute. They think they’re so important, what with claiming to be… what was it again? Right. “The future.” I mean, please.

Enough of them. Look at it this way: If it wasn’t for toddlers, we wouldn’t have to worry about the environment, the water supply, the economy, oil, anything at all. We could run riot, pwn this meager planet and abuse it to smithereens, just like the GOP intended. Here, little ones. Try a dose of harsh reality, courtesy of the police department. Psshhht. See you in college!

8) Hipster cyclists. Oh right, like you’ve never been driving along all calm and happy, when suddenly a skinny hipster whips in front of you and flips you off with one hand while toking on his American Spirit with the other, even as he chugs his Four Barrel triple latte with his giant beard before pedaling his fixie all the way to the Piercing Emporium to punch holes in your unsuspecting kids. Heathens! I pepper spray your nicely converted Schwinn and/or cool Chrome messenger bag!

read more: mark morford. sfgate, 30.11.11.

I love Mark Morford.

also read the reviews on amazon for this item (pepper spray).

sdcitybeat, 28.11.11.

It’s on the outside of the baggage area. WTF benefit do we get from this??! There’s still nothing interesting to look at in the luggage waiting area except the conveyor belt machine.

Only on holidays when the security line extends this far out will anyone really bother to look at this.

climateadaptation:

I’ve tried horse once — pretty tasty. But, I think they’re better as pets…

“In a bipartisan effort, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate approved the Conference Committee report on spending bill H2112, which among other things, funds the United States Department of Agriculture.  On November 18th, as the country was celebrating Thanksgiving, President Obama signed a law, allowing Americans to kill and eat horses. Essentially, one turkey was pardoned in the presence of worldwide media while in the shadows, buried under pages of fiscal regulation, millions of horses were sentenced to death.

Horse slaughter has been prohibited in the United States as funding for inspections of horses in transit and at slaughter houses was non-existent. This worked because the horse meat cannot be sold for human consumption without such inspections. The House version of the bill retained the de-funding language and the Senate version did not. The conference committee charged with reconciling the two opted to not include it. The result is that it is now legal to slaughter horses for humans to eat.

Notwithstanding that 70% of Americans oppose horse slaughter, that President Obama made a campaign promise to permanently ban horse slaughter and exports of horses for human consumption (horses can be sent to Mexico and Canada), that documentation of animal cruelty, slaughterhouse stench, fluid runoff and negative community impact exists, it is taxpayers that will bear the costs!

Wyoming state representative Sue Wallis and her pro-slaughter group estimate that between 120,000 and 200,000 horses will be killed for human consumption per year and that Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Georgia and Missouri, are considering opening slaughter plants.

During these trying times, is the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that Americans need to eat horses?”

technorati, 28.11.11.

I’m not the only one to note that cycling happens in Cambridge not because of the infrastructure but despite it.

same can be said of cycling in many other British and American cities.

The local newspaper in Cambridge often includes the same kind of articles and letters from outraged non-cyclists (red lights, one way streets, pavement cycling) which you see in other areas in Britain. These letters, and the attitudes which go with them, are unknown in the Netherlands. The conditions which cause cyclists to ignore red lights, ride the wrong way down one-way streets and ride on the pavement are to a large extent eliminated in the Netherlands by infrastructure designed to benefit cyclists, so they are not an enforcement issue. The occurrence of these problems are symptoms of a greater planning and design problem.

…what makes cycling attractive in Dutch cities could be replicated in British cities if only the will existed to ask for it. What has been done is very simple. Long term planning is key — the same policies have been followed for many years. They’ve followed the principles of sustainable safety and have created conditions which:

• Keep cyclists away from cars absolutely as much as possible.
• Make all residential streets no-go areas for through traffic (preserving segregation of modes without cyclepaths).
• Provide bikes with more direct routes than cars.
• Remove cars from minor rural roads.
• Produce a high degree of subjective and social safety everywhere.

This is what is needed to make infrastructure a draw for cycling rather than a hindrance.

a view from the cycle path, 28.11.11.
and check this out! It’s so thorough! Photos of conditions in Cambridge with comments by Hembrow.