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blah. that is what I say to you, world. that, and this. I dare you.¤
by the by.. make sure you sit through the commercial and thennnnn watch the short film (it's only two and a half minutes).. silly kids..
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[18 Jun 2007|04:29pm] |
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from the NYTimes headlines..
Tiny but Hungry, Moth Threatens California Crops
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Agriculture officials began spraying pesticide last week in Oakley, Calif., a Bay Area suburb, hoping to stop the movement of the light brown apple moth.
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: June 18, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 — Full grown, the light brown apple moth is roughly the size of a nickel: a little dirt-colored insect with an adult life span shorter than the average summer vacation.
California Department of Food and Agriculture, via Associated Press
The light brown apple moth.
But oh, what an eater. As a caterpillar, the moth feeds on flowers, fruits and firs, a diet that can include corn and tomatoes for dinner and cherries, peaches and plums for dessert. So omnivorous is the moth that some entomologists call it the “light brown everything moth.”
It is exactly that appetite that has state and federal officials in California worried. A native of Australia, the moth had never been seen in the continental United States before February, when a retired entomologist discovered one in a trap behind his house in Berkeley, just across the bay from here and within fluttering distance of one of the nation’s most important agricultural regions.
The moth has since been found in nine California counties, including Napa, where the discovery of a single specimen set off alarm bells for winemakers and farmers up and down the grape-happy region.
“It is a significant pest of wine grapes and because that’s what we grow, that’s what caught our attention,” said Greg Clark, the assistant agricultural commissioner in Napa County. “And if we have an infestation here, it’s likely it could move into other agricultural regions.”
Over the years, California has faced a number of threats to its agriculture. Perhaps the most famous invasive pest was the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, which prompted a statewide panic — and aerial spraying — in the early 1980s, when it appeared to be threatening the state’s billion-dollar citrus industry. The National Guard was called out to bury tons of infested fruit, and highway checkpoints were installed.
No one is predicting that kind of response this time. But, then again, no one is taking the chance. “People want to see this pest dealt with quickly and decisively,” Mr. Clark said. “Because there’s always another pest over the horizon.”
Spraying began this week in Oakley, a Bay Area suburb where masked workers went bush-to-bush with organic pesticides, with additional treatments planned for Monday in Napa, thought to be the northernmost border of the moth invasion.
The problem seems even more serious to the south in Santa Cruz County, where nearly 3,500 moths have been discovered and where farmers and agricultural officials have set thousands of traps in wholesale nurseries to try to safeguard the county’s $73 million industry in shrubs, trees and other ornamental flora. Statewide, agricultural officials say California could lose more than $100 million because of increased production control and pest control.
Officials also fret that California may be just the port of entry for the moth.
Chief among growers’ concerns is the possibility that foreign markets will begin to reject California crops. To that end, the federal Department of Agriculture and the California Department of Food and Agriculture have declared quarantines for the affected counties, barring the transportation of crops or plants around the state without inspections. That comes even as Mexican and Canadian officials have traveled to California to inspect their progress fighting the moth.
Like many states, California is already dealing with a variety of other invasive pests and diseases, each with a more evocative name than the last, like the glassy-winged sharpshooter (which can be devastating to citrus groves and vineyards) and the red imported fire ant, a nasty little insect whose bites can result in pain and welts.
Officials say they do not know how the moth got here, but that it may have come via a host plant brought by a homesick immigrant. “California is a popular place, and people come and bring their favorite plant along,” said A. G. Kawamura, California’s secretary of food and agriculture.
The moth infestation has also renewed cries from officials like Mr. Kawamura who believe that agricultural border inspections should be returned to the province of federal agricultural officials. The job is currently performed by the Department of Homeland Security, which some critics say does not have the expertise to spot incoming pests like the moth. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, has recently introduced a bill in Congress to move inspections back to the Department of Agriculture....
what are we doing to this world??¤
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I finally managed to branch out of Modest Mouse and it has been really good. I've been in an "I love the world" mood a lot lately. certainly my fair share of "I hate you people" too, but yesterday and today I found a lot of peace in this album. I want to quote so many lines, but it would just be excessive and overwhelming. listen. I dare you. maybe give it a few times, it took me a few to appreciate it. oh, and read Dharma Bums. it's amazing.¤
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[23 Feb 2007|01:01pm] |
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words cannot express what this music means to me right now. I don't even know what it is. the first time I heard the album I wanted to cry, but I couldn't explain to you why. maybe it's this point at which I have found myself in my life, I have been really reflective and introspective and thinking about the past and the present and the future and something about the music felt very cathartic and fitting. I'm pretty sure that wasn't even an English sentence. oh well. I warned you I couldn't explain it. all I know is I haven't stopped listening to it and I can't get enough and it makes me feel good inside. all of a sudden I am traveling all over the place. or, hopefully. I am definitely going to Extremadura, Portugal, Paris and Ibiza and by the end of the day I want to have Amsterdam and Tenerife planned, maybe Málaga too. I have figured out that for me a happy weekend is a weekend out of Madrid. I'm not going anywhere this weekend but I have a lot of studying to do. and bar hopping? maybe? a little? a lot? going into midterms I am riding a little A- wave and I'm having internal conflicts about it. on one hand I want to be like, fuck it, this is a semester that should be more about the experience than the grades. butttttttt.. I am only taking three classes (which is already lazy of me) and my GPA could use the boost so I feel like I should just buckle down and get things done. there was something else I wanted to write about but now it is eluding me. as usual. if only I had the internet at home and could write whenever I felt like it. if only..¤
EDITED at 4:11pm
can we just please take a minute..
March 2-4 Faro, Portugal (a.k.a. the beach! gimme some sun!) with Rachel, Lauren, and Alli
March 9-11 Extremadura, Spain and somewhere in Portugal with half the NYU program
March 22-24 Ibiza with Rachel and her sister
March 27-30 not booked yet, but probably Málaga or Alicante (a.k.a. the beach in Spain!) with Martina and Ken
April 2-6 Amsterdam with Ken, Rachel, and Rachel's sister
April 13-16 Paris with Alli (and meeting Janice there)
April 20 Toledo with the entire NYU program
April 24(ish) - ? parents in Madrid
these are all finalized. I need hostels in Paris and Faro but both will probably be figured out Monday. Málaga and Alicante I have only done a little research but both look good.. I'll book that next week too, I really want to go to the beach during spring break even if only for a few days. I am so excited. I'm in a constant state of almost peeing myself. not counting this weekend there are only two weekends where I don't have anything going on, and one of those is the week before finals a.k.a. the week before I leave. maybe I'll go to a beach for Saint Patrick's Day weekend. and I wouldn't be surprised if I go somewhere close the rest of the weekend of Toledo. except for Paris and Amsterdam all of my traveling is and has been very local. I can't believe how much there is to see. there's so much just in Spain, and Europe is full of countries just like it where each of them has so much. if I don't do a pretty major backpacking experience at some point soon I will probably pasar el resto de mi vida viajando. es increíble. of course I am still listening. I can't remember the last time an entire album had such an impact on me. it's something beyond just listening to and enjoying the songs for what they are.. I don't know why but it's deeper than that.
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[09 Dec 2006|02:57pm] |
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my dad and I were talking about Christmas presents and he said he wanted a copy of An Inconvenient Truth and then he told me about an article he read in the San Jose Mercury News. he said that people had raised over $200,000 in order to donate 50,000 copies of the movies to schools so they would be shown in science classes. when people went to give them to the teachers, the National Science Teachers Association rejected them, saying they didn't want to endorse special interest groups or get politically involved. when people did a little research, they found that ExxonMobil gives millions to the NSTA. ExxonMobil, the people who push so hard to claim that global warming is not real. so much for not getting involved. now there are 50,000 copies of the movie sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Los Angeles, not being given away for free.¤
I found the article if you're interested:
ExxonMobil's inconvenient truth
By Laurie David
At hundreds of screenings this year of ``An Inconvenient Truth,'' the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie.
The producers of former Vice President Al Gore's film about global warming, myself included, certainly agreed. So the company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in their classrooms. It seemed like a no-brainer.
The teachers had a different idea: Thanks but no thanks, they said.
In their e-mail rejection, they expressed concern that other ``special interests'' might ask to distribute materials, too; they said they didn't want to offer ``political'' endorsement of the film; and they saw ``little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members'' in accepting the free DVDs.
Gore, however, is not running for office, and the film's theatrical run is long since over. As for classroom benefits, the movie has been enthusiastically endorsed by leading climate scientists worldwide, and is required viewing for all students in Norway and Sweden.
Still, maybe the NSTA is just being extra cautious. But there was one more curious argument in the e-mail: Accepting the DVDs, they wrote, would place ``unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters.'' One of those supporters, it turns out, is the ExxonMobil Corp.
That's the same ExxonMobil that for more than a decade has done everything possible to muddle public understanding of global warming and stifle any serious effort to solve it. It has run ads in leading newspapers questioning the role of human-made emissions in global warming, and financed the work of a small band of scientific skeptics who have tried to challenge the consensus that heat-trapping pollution is drastically altering our atmosphere. The company spends millions to support groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute that aggressively pressure lawmakers to oppose emission limits.
It's bad enough when a company tries to sell junk science to a bunch of grown-ups. But, like a tobacco company using cartoons to peddle cigarettes, ExxonMobil is going after our kids, too.
And it has been doing so for longer than you may think. NSTA says it has received $6 million from the company since 1996, mostly for the association's ``Building a Presence for Science'' program, an electronic networking initiative intended to ``bring standards-based teaching and learning'' into schools, according to the NSTA Web site. ExxonMobil has a representative on the group's corporate advisory board. And in 2003, NSTA gave the company an award for its commitment to science education.
So much for special interests and implicit endorsements.
In the past year alone, according to its Web site, ExxonMobil's foundation gave $42 million to key organizations that influence the way children learn about science, from kindergarten until they graduate from high school.
And ExxonMobil isn't the only one getting in on the action. The oil industry, the coal industry and other corporate interests are exploiting shortfalls in education funding by using a small slice of their record profits to buy themselves a classroom soapbox, through textbooks, classroom posters and teacher seminars.
NSTA's list of corporate donors also includes Shell Oil and the American Petroleum Institute (API), which funds NSTA's Web site on the science of energy. There, students can find a section called ``Running on Oil'' and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record -- citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies have fought tooth and nail, by the way -- but makes only vague references to spills or pollution. NSTA has distributed a video produced by API called ``You Can't Be Cool Without Fuel,'' a shameless pitch for oil dependence.
The education organization also hosts an annual convention, described on ExxonMobil's Web site as featuring ``more than 450 companies and organizations displaying the most current textbooks, lab equipment, computer hardware and software, and teaching enhancements.'' The company ``regularly displays'' its ``many . . . education materials'' at the exhibition.
John Borowski, a science teacher at North Salem High School in Salem, Ore., was dismayed by NSTA's partnerships with industrial polluters when he attended the association's annual convention this year and witnessed hundreds of teachers and school administrators walk away with armloads of free corporate lesson plans.
Along with propaganda challenging global warming from ExxonMobil, the curricular offerings included lessons on forestry provided by Weyerhaeuser and International Paper, Borowski says, and the benefits of genetic engineering courtesy of biotech giant Monsanto.
``The materials from the American Petroleum Institute and the other corporate interests are the worst form of a lie: omission,'' Borowski says. ``The oil and coal guys won't address global warming, and the timber industry papers over clear-cuts.''
An API memo leaked to the media as long ago as 1998 succinctly explains why the association is angling to infiltrate the classroom: ``Informing teachers/students about uncertainties in climate science will begin to erect barriers against further efforts to impose Kyoto-like measures in the future.''
So, how is any of this different from showing Gore's movie in the classroom? The answer is that neither Gore nor Participant Productions, which made the movie, stands to profit a nickel from giving away DVDs, and we aren't facing millions of dollars in lost business from limits on global-warming pollution and a shift to cleaner, renewable energy.
It's hard to say whether NSTA is a bad guy here or just a sorry victim of tight education budgets. And we don't pretend that a two-hour movie is a substitute for a rigorous science curriculum. Students should expect, and parents should demand, that educators present an honest and unbiased look at the true state of knowledge about the challenges of the day.
As for ExxonMobil -- which just began a fuzzy advertising campaign that trumpets clean energy and low emissions -- this story shows that slapping green stripes on a corporate tiger doesn't change the beast within. The company is still playing the same cynical game it has for years.
While NSTA and ExxonMobil ponder the moral lesson they're teaching with all this, 50,000 DVDs are sitting in a Los Angeles warehouse, waiting to be distributed. In the meantime, Mom and Dad may want to keep a sharp eye on their kids' science homework.
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[28 Sep 2006|01:33pm] |
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I should preface this by saying that I very rarely remember my dreams. so I guess it was a week ago.. I dreamt that I lost one of my teeth - on the top and kinda to the side. I later realized that my teeth were rapidly moving and I freaked out and put my retainers on. that's all I remember about that one, but then the next night I dreamt that I was playing tennis with Andre Agassi in my family room at home. it was so freakin sweet and fun and I was all good, but not really professional good. we were just playing for fun. there were people hanging out in the kitchen with us and stuff but I don't remember who. (for those of you who can imagine my house, the family room is the one that has the kitchen and dining room adjacent, not the one when you first walk in the door.) I think we might have been drinking, but it may be that we were drinking healthy stuff like juice or smoothies or something.. I don't really remember that part. then last night I had a dream where I was all good at basketball. I was scared at first because I was like, "I haven't played basketball in forever, I'm gonna suck it up out there!" but then I was tearing shit up in this coed game and it was awesome. people were all glad that I was good, and it was like I was leading the team. I had to shoot free throws and I was nervous because I hadn't done it in a long time and I was afraid that my fundamentals wouldn't hold up in that area as much as they had thus far, and I did my usual pre-free throw routine and right before I was going to shoot it, I woke up. I woke up all happy.. hahaha.. it's all about competent sports dreams. ha! I'm laughing right now just thinking about it. there's this famous psychologist named Edward Thorndike who proved that cats are smarter than dogs. so there all you misinformed, misguided, lie-spreading dog-lovers! oh, and last but not least, we saw Panic! at the Disco eating lunch last weekend. we got to Curly's and I was looking at this group of scenesters like there was something about them.. and after they walked out Joe says who they were and there was this great moment of recognition. except I didn't get to do anything teeny-bopperish because they had already left. but we saw them. and it was cool. Built to Spill number four in six days!¤
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[27 Apr 2006|11:21pm] |
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tonight Jake held a floor activity which consisted of super cheap tickets to the Yankee game. in other words, Ankita, Heather, Boonie and I went. it was way fun though. Jake had a jersey that was purple, he said he had picked it out at his first game when he was like eight. but I contend that it all worked out pretty fatefully because there he was, taking NYU kids in his purple NY jersey. being at baseball games makes me want hot dogs soooooooo bad because they're just intrinsically better at baseball games. we went on an adventure but couldn't go out of the bleacher area so no veggie dogs were to be found. Heather was disappointed too. but baseball games are always a good time so it's cool.
the pictures are blurry because they are from my phone..
2006 unstoppable! check out that ghetto cap action..
he didn't start, but I did get to see my boy Bubba in action..
and finally..
gimp-ass Ankita and Heather prove yet again that there's nothing quite like piggy backing through NYC..¤
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[06 Apr 2006|04:48pm] |
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from the NYtimes:
Editorial
Stop: Don't Test Those Cows!
Published: April 6, 2006
Late last month, Creekstone Farms, a Kansas-based beef company, sued the United States Department of Agriculture. The reason? Creekstone wants to use tests for mad cow disease on all of the cattle it slaughters, and the U.S.D.A. won't let it.
In contrast, the U.S.D.A.'s testing program for mad cow disease tests only high-risk cattle — those that die on the farm, can't walk or are obviously sick. In other words, the department tests about 1 percent of the 35 million cattle that are slaughtered in this country every year. It believes, based on its statistical models, that testing 1 percent is plenty. We disagree.
Why would the U.S.D.A. stop a cattle company from voluntarily meeting a higher standard than the one required by law? The very idea sounds counterintuitive. But then so does the agency's rationale. The U.S.D.A. argues that 100 percent testing would not guarantee food safety because mad cow disease can be hard to detect in younger cattle — the very cows that a premium beef company like Creekstone is most likely to slaughter.
To us, this sounds like nonsense — as if we were more likely to be safe by following a testing plan based on statistical modeling of the beef supply than by actually testing all the cattle.
We agree that private testing is not the way to go in the long run. It wouldn't make much sense to have a national system made up of a few large producers that tested all their cattle while only 1 percent of everyone else's were tested. But there is a simple solution for that.
The U.S.D.A. should test every cow that goes to slaughter. The cost is not prohibitive. Fear is the problem. The current testing program for mad cow disease is intended to produce, at best, a snapshot of the likelihood of the disease. The program rests on assumptions that reflect, as assumptions tend to do, only what we know already, and we do not know nearly enough about mad cow disease.
The fear is that broad testing may reveal a higher rate of infection and destroy consumer confidence, with a devastating impact on the cattle market. Which leaves us where we are now: relying on what we don't know to make us feel safe.
oh, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.. I will never tire of thee. soooooooooo.. psych research, huh?¤
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| sweet ass day in the life of me |
[07 Mar 2006|06:53pm] |
Enjoy yourself in ways big and small, from teensy luxuries that won't break the bank to cost-free indulgences -- like lazing around with a good book -- that are worth their weight in gold. The best things in life are free.
less than four hours of sleep + a sunrise + Jamba Juice (peach pleasure) on my tongue and in my belly + cupcake for breakfast + There's Nothing Wrong With Love in my ears + spring break anticipation + two nights of Built to Spill less than two months away + sun + general happiness in life and my friends = me in a state I can only describe as euphoric. can you make it real? make it more than real. I have my least favorite class in an hour and a hefty amount of studying to do tonight, but it would be difficult to break how I feel right now. high on life is so sweet. sure as fuck beats down on life. just the thought of it's enough to penetrate.. my comfort zone. I don't want this feeling to ever end.¤
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I figured it out.¤
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| is there anyone out there cuz it's getting harder and harder to breathe |
[18 Jan 2006|10:24pm] |
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Sunday morning rain is falling
steal some covers share some skin
clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable
you twist to fit the mold that I am in
but things just get so crazy living life gets hard to do
and I would gladly hit the road get up and go if I knew
that someday it would lead me back to you
that someday it would lead me back to you
that may be all I need
in darkness she is all I see
come and rest your bones with me
driving slow on Sunday morning
and I never want to leave
my fingers trace your every outline
paint a picture with my hands
back and forth we sway like branches in a storm
change the weather still together when it ends
that may be all I need
in darkness she is all I see
come and rest your bones with me
driving slow on Sunday morning
and I never want to leave
but things just get so crazy living life gets hard to do
Sunday morning rain is falling and I'm calling out to you
singing someday it will bring me back to you
find a way to bring get myself back home to you
and you may not know
that may be all, all I, all I need
in darkness she is all, all I, I see
come and rest your bones with me
driving slow
driving slow
driving slow
there's a flower in your hair
and I'm a flower in your hair
on Sunday morning¤
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fuck it. they keep getting worse.¤
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[20 Dec 2005|04:27pm] |
first, Heather and I went caroling and we saw a Santa Pope!
then, we went to see Altar Boyz, an off-Broadway show. it was awesome, and we had awesome hair to go with it!
you can't tell from the picture, but there's a chink bun on the other side of my head and an ugly-ass braid in the back. good times. so last night, I woke up, and it felt like my left hand was resting on my chest. it was, in fact, above my head, and my whole arm was asleep. so I picked it up with my right hand and moved it down. picking up my sleeping arm with my not sleeping arm always makes me laugh because I think of the time I dropped it on my face. even at four in the morning. I can't help but chuckle a little. after I did that, I could feel the blood rushing through my veins and back to my hand. it was such a weird feeling. I don't think I've ever felt it like that before. super super strange. one more from last night:
that's Danny, he plays Mark in Altar Boyz and he apparently has some sort of affinity for braids and dumb hairstyles. we are asses.¤
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Just for a moment
Everything I treasured was gone
Just for a moment
the world was full of pain
Oh how I love you
Just for a moment
I faced my life alone
Just for a moment
My luck had finally run out
Oh how I love you
The same thing that blew us together
Might blow us apart
So keep a piece of me precious
And close to your heart
Just for a moment
All of my nightmares came true
Just for a moment
My heart was broken in two
Oh how I need you
Oh how I'd miss you
Oh how I love you¤
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what a disappointment..
Million Solar Roofs Bill Dies In California Assembly: Three-year long effort to establish the nation’s biggest solar power initiative fails on last day of legislative session
SACRAMENTO—The Million Solar Roofs bill, the biggest solar power policy considered in the nation, was killed again by the California Assembly today after months of high-profile attention and bipartisan votes in both chambers.
“Not air pollution, nor blackouts, nor soaring energy costs were enough to elevate the Million Solar Roofs bill above the politics of the day,” said Bernadette Del Chiaro, clean energy advocate for Environment California, the leading advocate for the Million Solar Roofs bill the past three years. “The derailment of one of the most popular and commonsense bills of the year is the new poster child for short-sighted partisan politics.”
The Million Solar Roofs bill, authored by State Senator Kevin Murray (D-Culver City) and supported by Governor Schwarzenegger as well as more than 200 cities, businesses and organizations throughout the state, aimed to build 3,000 MW of solar panels on a million roofs, including half of all new homes, in ten years growing the market by 30-fold – enough to make the industry self-sustaining.
The Million Solar Roofs bill would have achieved its goals in three main ways:
- Provided $2.5 billion in consumer rebates to homeowners and businesses over 10 years.
- Required that solar panels become a standard offer for new homebuyers just like marble countertops.
- Allowed homeowners and businesses to receive a credit on their monthly electric bill for excess power generated by their solar system.
Over the past six months the bill, SB 1, passed through five committees as well as the State Senate by a strong bipartisan vote of 30-5. The bill was derailed when it reached its second to last stop, the Assembly Appropriations Committee where three amendments were added to the bill after intense lobbying of two labor unions, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the State Building Trades Council. Two other unions, Carpenters and Laborers, opposed these amendments, two of which were geared toward electricians.
“Now the finger pointing will start, everyone having someone else to blame but at the end of the day, Sacramento failed to reach what was an easy compromise,” said Del Chiaro. “Ultimately the problem with the Million Solar Roofs bill wasn’t the policy, it was the politics.”
Solar advocates will now turn their attention to the Public Utilities Commission, which has the authority to establish a rebate program on its own. The Commission does not have the authority, however, to incorporate solar panels into new home construction, a key component of the Million Solar Roofs bill, or increase net metering, the ability for homeowners and businesses to receive a credit on their monthly electric bills for excess power generated by their solar systems.
“In the wake of Sacramento’s inaction, establishing a consumer rebate program through the administrative process is our next best bet,” said Del Chiaro. “But ultimately, California needs a more comprehensive solar policy and so long as the sun still shines we’ll continue to fight for this commonsense solution.”
Other policy venue options include returning again to the legislature in January or taking the solar initiative straight to the voters through the statewide initiative process.
Environment California is a statewide nonprofit nonpartisan environmental organization with more than 75,000 citizen members.
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tonight we watched the full harvest moon rise over (and under) the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. it was freakin awesome.
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| because Brand New says it better than I can.. |
[08 Sep 2005|05:32pm] |
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I am heaven sent.
don't you dare forget.
I am all you've ever wanted,
what all the other [girls] all promised.
sorry I told. I just needed you to know.
I think in decimals and dollars.
I am the cause to all your problems,
shelter from cold. we are never alone.
coordinate brain and mouth.
then ask me what it's like to have
myself so figured out.
I wish I knew..
I hope this song starts a craze.
the kind of song that ignites the airwaves.
the kind of song that makes people glad
to be where they are,
with whoever they're there with.
this is war.
every line is about,
who I don't wanna write about anymore.
hope you come down with something
they can't diagnose, don't have the cure for.
holding on to your grudge.
oh it's so hard to have someone to love.
and keeping quiet is hard.
cuz you can't keep a secret
if it never was a secret to start.
at least pretend you didn't wanna get caught..
we're concentrating on falling apart.
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but I just wanna believe, I just wanna believe,
I just wanna believe, in us.
Oh, we're so c-c-c-c-c-controversial.
we are entirely smooth.
we admit to the truth,
we are the best at what we do.
and these are the words you wish you wrote down.
this is the way you wish your voice sounds,
handsome and smart.
oh my tongue's the only muscle on my body
that works harder than my heart.
and it's all from watching tv,
and from speeding up my breathing.
wouldn't stop if i could.
oh it hurts to be this good.
you're holding on to your grudge.
oh it hurts to always have to be honest
with the one that you love.
oh, so let it go..
we're concentrating on falling apart.
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but I just wanna believe, I just wanna believe,
I just wanna believe.
we're concentrating on falling apart.
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but I just wanna believe, I just wanna believe,
I just wanna believe, in us.
this is the grace that only we can bestow.
this is the price you pay for loss of control.
this is the break in the bend,
this is the closest of calls.
this is the reason your alone,
this is the rise and the fall.
we're concentrating on falling apart.
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but I just wanna believe, I just wanna believe,
I just wanna believe.
we're concentrating on falling apart.
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but I just wanna believe, I just wanna believe,
I just wanna believe, in us.
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me: yarr.. good luck on ye final, matey!
David's away message: heather RG and ankita are the coolest ever!
me: p.s. - get ye hands off me booty!
me: p.p.s. - thar be no runnin on the poop deck! yarrr..
David: arg me love fer ye is like der blasin fires of a thousin suns!
ha.. it's fun being a pirate with David.. I don't remember exactly how the beginning part went, but I'm pretty sure that's right.. or close enough to right.. today's a good day. and I even feel semi-good looking (straight hair AND makeup including black eyeliner!) and! I've been listening to good music all day. and! I'm going to clean. and! Joe and I are going to be nice to each other all day. yup.. good day.¤
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