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ClassifiedsTom Ammiano’s bill has been modified and I haven’t found the State Board of Equalization’s analysis of it. However, much of the analysis of his older bill still holds true. Here are some excerpts I found interesting.
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Denton, Texas, band Midlake has been at once compared to both Radiohead and Jethro Tull. Conversely, in the recording studio, Midlake is trying to emulate a tone similar to early ‘70s-era King Crimson, which bass player Paul Alexander says is the best recorded sound in rock history.
Midlake will be in Arcata on Friday, March 5, at the HSU Depot with Matthew and the Arrogant Sea at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 general admission and $2 for current HSU students with a student ID.
Tags: Arcata, ca, California, coast, festival, HSU, Humboldt, Humboldt County, job, pot, shooting, Trial, United States
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SAN FRANCISCO — Former Humboldt Creamery CEO Rich Ghilarducci appeared in federal court Wednesday morning, pleading not guilty to the single fraud charge brought against him by the United States Attorney’s Office.
Tags: attorney, court, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Humboldt Creamery, Local, San Francisco, United States
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Schools celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday
For 13 years, the National Education Association has organized an annual Read Across America event to celebrate the joy of reading with every child across the United States.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Northern California, Ukiah, United States
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2010 Census forms will be arriving in mailboxes around the country in mid-March. This year’s questionnaire has only 10 questions.
The US Census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Northern California, United States, Willits
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Schools celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday
For 13 years, the National Education Association has organized an annual Read Across America event to celebrate the joy of reading with every child across the United States.
Tags: California, Humboldt, Northern California, Ukiah, United States
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The recent crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in LA has activists howling. But after hearing about the amounts of insecticides found on some of the confiscated weed, patients should be howling for the blood of some of those pot shop owners.
Tags: California, Cannabis, Humboldt, Humboldt County, marijuana, medical marijuana, pot, United States
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On Jan. 30, a local family happily welcomed home their soldier, Brian A. Batchelder. He is a sergeant first class with United States Army Reserve Unit 13-97th, located in Vallejo.
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CHILE WIRE: Chile struck by one of strongest earthquakes ever [Daily Triplicate]
TALCA, Chile (AP) — One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and authorities said at least 214 people were dead.
The magnitude-8.8 quake was felt as far away as Sao Paulo in Brazil — 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) to the east. The full extent of damage remained unclear as scores of aftershocks — one nearly as powerful as Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake — shuddered across the disaster-prone Andean nation.
President Michelle Bachelet declared a “state of catastrophe” in central Chile but said the government has not asked for assistance from other countries. If it does, President Barack Obama said, the United States “will be there.” Around the world, leaders echoed his sentiment.
In Chile, newly built apartment buildings slumped and fell. Flames devoured a prison. Millions of people fled into streets darkened by the failure of power lines. The collapse of bridges tossed and crushed cars and trucks, and complicated efforts to reach quake-damaged areas by road.
At least 214 people were killed, according to Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma, and officials said about 1.5 million homes suffered at least some damage.
In Talca, just 65 miles (105 kilometers) from the epicenter, people sleeping in bed suddenly felt like they were flying through major airplane turbulence as their belongings cascaded around them from the shuddering walls at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. EST, 0634 GMT).
A deafening roar rose from the convulsing earth as buildings groaned and clattered. The sound of screams was confused with the crash of plates and windows.
Then the earth stilled, silence returned and a smell of moist dust rose in the streets, where stunned survivors took refuge.
A journalist emerging into the darkened street scattered with downed power lines saw a man, some of his own bones apparently broken, weeping and caressing the hand of a woman who had died in the collapse of a cafe. Two other victims lay dead a few feet (meters) away.
Also near the epicenter was Concepcion, one of the country’s largest cities, where a 15-story building collapsed, leaving a few floors intact.
“I was on the 8th floor and all of a sudden I was down here,” said Fernando Abarzua, marveling that he escaped with no major injuries. He said a relative was still trapped in the rubble six hours after the quake, “but he keeps shouting, saying he’s OK.”
Chilean state television reported that 209 inmates escaped from prison in the city of Chillan, near the epicenter, after a fire broke out.
In the capital of Santiago, 200 miles (325 kilometers) to the northeast, a car dangled from a collapsed overpass, the national Fine Arts Museum was badly damaged and an apartment building’s two-story parking lot pancaked, smashing about 50 cars whose alarms rang incessantly.
While most modern buildings survived, a bell tower collapsed on the Nuestra Senora de la Providencia church and several hospitals were evacuated due to damage.
Santiago’s airport was closed, with smashed windows, partially collapsed ceilings and destroyed pedestrian walkways in the passenger terminals. The capital’s subway was shut as well, and transportation was further limited because hundreds of buses were stuck behind a damaged bridge.
Chile’s main seaport, in Valparaiso about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Santiago, was ordered closed while damage was assessed. The state-run Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, shut two of its mines, the newspaper La Tercera reported.
The jolt set off a tsunami that swamped San Juan Bautista village on Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing, said Guillermo de la Masa, head of the government emergency bureau for the Valparaiso region. He said the huge waves also damaged several government buildings on the island.
It then raced across the Pacific, setting off alarm sirens in Hawaii, Polynesia and Tonga and prompting warnings across all 53 nations ringing the vast ocean.
Tsunami waves washed across Hawaii, where little damage was reported. The U.S. Navy moved a half-dozen vessels out of Pearl Harbor as a precaution, Navy spokesman Lt. Myers Vasquez said. Shore-side Hilo International Airport was closed. In California, officials said a 3-foot (1-meter) surge in Ventura Harbor pulled loose several navigational buoys.
About 13 million people live in the area where shaking was strong to severe, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS geophysicist Robert Williams said the Chilean quake was hundreds of times more powerful than Haiti’s magnitude-7 quake, though it was deeper and cost far fewer lives.
More than 50 aftershocks topped magnitude 5, including one of magnitude 6.9.
The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and left 2 million homeless. It caused a tsunami that killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines and caused damage along the west coast of the United States.
Saturday’s quake matched a 1906 temblor off the Ecuadorean coast as the seventh-strongest ever recorded in the world.
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John Lane Beacon Correspondant The national Foreign Policy Association has many local Great Decisions chapters in the United States. Locally Humboldt County is fortunate in a lively chapter based in Eureka sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
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After spending nine hours searching with two boats and three helicopters for a suspected missing surfer off the coast of Trinidad, the United States Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday morning.
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Surviving member of Washington state crew hospitalized
A Washington man died and another was seriously injured on Thursday
after a boat began to take on water during gale force winds and 30-foot
swells.
The fishing vessel Flamingo was abandoned 3 miles southwest of the
mouth of the Chetco River, according to the United States Coast Guard.
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A sting targeting unlicensed contractors netted an elder abuse suspect and a registered sex offender in Eureka Tuesday.
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The Lost Coast Brewery situated in Eureka, Ca is the 46th largest brewery in the United States and has a basketful of beers that range from dark to the palest of pales. Great White is delight in the pale ale realm.
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One child out of four in Humboldt County lives in poverty, according to recently released numbers from the United States Census Bureau. ”We’re dealing with a cycle,” said Kathy Young, director of the Social Services Branch of
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