Highway 330 between Running Springs and Highland is expected to be closed for an extended period of time. Running Springs resident Jeff Dambrun shares pictures of the damaged roadway.

California has especially tough rules barring companies from restricting their employees' job hunting. Many companies across the country require employees to sign so-called noncompete agreements, in which the worker agrees not to be hired by a competitor within a certain period of time. But California law generally regards such pacts as unenforceable, said Bob Taylor, a Palo Alto attorney who specializes in antitrust law, among other areas.

As a result, Taylor said, California "is one of, if not the most, difficult states for employers to prevent employees from taking jobs with competitors."

The bike station, funded by public transit agencies and operated by a private company, Warm Planet Bikes, has been in quiet operation on a limited basis since July, with around 70 to 80 people parking their bikes there every day.

Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, said the effort is a good example of how government can make it easier for people to get out of their cars by allowing people to "combine biking and transit to get around the region in a healthy, sustainable and convenient way."

Additionally, Festival revenue, which benefits over 160 local non-profit organizations, was up over six percent from 2008. Included in this amount was the sale of 10,618 servings of garlic fries on Gourmet Alley.

Sharp Rehabilitation Services offers comprehensive inpatient treatment for patients with spinal cord injuries.

santa barbara luria library - community bulletin board for fire resources and recovery

nice map via USGS and Jerry Michalski

this phrase currently #1 in twitter search w/lots of news and reports and links streaming in.

“At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last 9 years and 10 months past of S. F., Cal., declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these U. S.; and in virtue of the authority thereby in me vested, do hereby order and direct the representatives of the different States of the Union to assemble in Musical Hall, of this city, on the 1st day of Feb. next, then and there to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union as may ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring, and thereby cause confidence to exist, both at home and abroad, in our stability and integrity.

When it comes to elections, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen opts for blander, more traditional technologies, and that preference is helping her sleep better at night.
Speaking Wednesday at the Usenix Security Symposium in San Jose, California, the state's top elections official laid out a decidedly low-tech approach for ensuring that each voter's ballot is recorded as cast. It involves the use of ink pens to record votes on old-fashioned paper. An optical scanner records the information, and to make sure votes are counted correctly, ballots are randomly selected and compared with what's been tallied.

We offer the BUS service for you, if you...
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the motion calls for a ban on single use plastic bags at all supermarkets and retail establishments by January 1, 2012 IF a fee for plastic bags has not been established by that date. In addition, the motion calls for the city to support Assembly Bill 205

On Tuesday, July 22nd 2008, the Los Angeles City Council will consider its staff’s recommendations to: 1) ban Styrofoam at City facilities and events; and 2) ban carryout plastic bags at all supermarkets and retail establishments beginning in January 20

The people who banned smoking on Encinitas beaches and streets and banned selling novelty lighters now want to ban those worthless plastic bags they give you at the grocery store.

The image centers on the largest of the fires in the Siskiyou Complex, which is the Dark Three Fire. The burned area is charcoal-colored, while surrounding forest and other vegetation is red. Water is dark blue. The western perimeter of the fire is hidden

McGill, the disaster training coordinator for the American Red Cross's Washtenaw County chapter, will leave today for San Diego County, where between 250,000 to 300,000 people have already evacuated their homes.

nate is twittering san diego fire updates - here's his blog with maps etc

includes pointers to satellite photos; notes that multiple emergency management information sites are DOWN because they are self hosted by people who don't know how to manage for PEAK LOAD

250k views on this map at latest check -

overview of streams to watch for the fires; note also twitter @nateritter @kpbsnews

There should be a fire alert application for facebook so that families could communicate with their loved ones from across the world. Ideally a mobile facebook app would be best for these emergency types of situations. SMS and text messages work well when

google map of san diego county fires. see http://twitter.com/nateritter and http://twitter.com/kpbsnews for live coverage

Nine homes have major damage from Wednesday morning's landslide. Some appear to have been swallowed up by the shifting ground. Another eight are unliveable for now. The landslide swept out a section of Soledad Mountain Road. In just one hour, a sinkhole e

I've been working with Kalyia Hamlin, Laurie Rae, Julie French, Mary Hodder and lots of others to help pull together an unconference called She's Geeky that is happening Oct 22-23 at the Computer History Museum in Santa Clara, California.

Directions to: rBlock Inc., 2501 Ninth Street, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710, (510) 524-8052

In Irvine, where Koreans constitute only 5.3% of the city's population, there are six Korean soft tofu restaurants. Serendipitiously, three of the six are clustered together like mushrooms in the same sprawling neighborhood shopping center.

The automated program, which Caltrain is calling the "Real Time Train Predictive Arrival GPS System," will start at nine train stations and the Web site 511.org.

In an emerging crisis for California's elderly and poor, all Medi-Cal funding will be halted this week to an estimated 500 hospitals throughout the state and 11,000 nursing homes, hospices and adult day care centers.

The sites. The brushes with danger at intersections. Who says strolling is dull?

Even Leonardo da Vinci prized the idea of a pedometer. In the precise hand of the prolific 15th-century inventor and artist, he sketched what's undoubtedly the world's first pedometer. This pendulum-driven device was strapped to the leg, swinging back an

Rick Klau has an awesome realtor for relocating from Chicago to California

And that's why, from where I sit in Silicon Valley, there are probably 200 venture capital firms within 20 miles with likely over $20 billion of capital at their disposal chasing a very small number of good potential investments, despite terrible average

David Timmons, 44, a personal trainer from Oakland viewing the wreckage, said he was glad he didn't have to make the commute to San Francisco. "If BART were a publicly traded stock, I would buy some right now," Timmons said.

history of video games project at stanford

The server makes quite a production of bringing out nine small plates of various condiments and lining them up along the table. These are the panch'an--the various side dishes brought out at the beginning of a Korean meal.

burrito odyssey

yooper food in california

Sonoma State's mechanized stacks - much of their collection is stored in compact stacks with robotic access

unfortunately, the proposed stadium has zero mass transit infrastructure and is served by perpetually clogged freeways

muniwiki - municipal wiki. see also think new orleans, arborwiki, bloomingpedia, ypsiwiki

real time and composite maps of yellow cab trips through san francisco. view of the major city streets and commercial thoroughfares at a glance. eric rodenbeck

here's the plazes page for people in mountain view - this is where mashup camp is

the gov didn't have a motorcycle endorsement on his license