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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:50 p.m. Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EL REBALSE, Mexico — The town square in El Rebalse is now an island amid Hurricane Patricia’s floodwaters, a place for Maria Santana Vazquez and her husband to rest Sunday after wading through water, at times chest-deep, trying to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All around, kids swam, a dog paddled and just before noon two high-clearance army transport trucks arrived — the first outside help since Patricia, the hemisphere’s strongest hurricane on record, roared in Friday night and washed out the only paved road into town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mexico for the most part was relieved that the storm caused no fatalities and only marginal damage in the resort of Puerto Vallarta and the principle port of Manzanillo, the sparsely populated zone of Pacific coast where Patricia delivered its fury was only beginning to assess the full damage Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Enrique Pena Nieto said Saturday that 3,000 to 3,500 homes were damaged and about 8,650 acres of farmland were affected. But that was before anyone from the government arrived in El Rebalse, a town surrounded by banana plantations that Associated Press journalists tried to reach on foot before hitching a ride on the army trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banana trees as far as the eye could see were snapped in half, and large bunches of the fruit moldered in the intense sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to lose a whole year,” Santana’s husband, Artemio Sanmeron Sanchez, said of the plantations where everyone in town made their living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the couple slipped back into the water and waded off. Already they had slogged from the neighboring town, Cihuatlan, where they evacuated. They assumed their home of 15 years was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the surrounding Cihuatlan Valley, less than 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the Pacific, between 1,800 and 2,000 people depend directly on agriculture for livelihoods, said Narciso de Jesus Ramirez Rubio, a banana grower and president of the municipal small landowners association. That’s not counting their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was annoyed that, in his mind, Pena Nieto had played down the damage. He said that only with government help could the owners of the mango and banana plantations hope to get their fields producing again in a year’s time. Work to build levees to contain the nearby Marabasco River began three years ago, but was not completed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is total destruction,” Ramirez said, as he watched soldiers work to make a washed-out section of road passable. “Agriculture, along with tourism, is the principal source of employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican navy put out a statement Sunday that it had 5,791 sailors and marines, 192 vehicles, seven aircraft, three vessels and eight mobile kitchens working to reach those affected by the mega-storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia made landfall as a powerful Category 5 hurricane, having peaked at sea with winds up to 200 mph, and then came ashore Friday evening with winds of 165 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the wind and rain subsided, the river entered through a gap behind the banana plantation where Martha Gutierrez and her husband had lived and worked for nine years. It was 1:20 a.m. and the family scrambled to another house with a second story. They hadn’t evacuated before the storm because they wanted to care for their animals. In the end, five of their six pigs drowned, and their house was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have nothing to eat,” Gutierrez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Rebalse, Rosalinda Hernandez Murga stirred a pot of rice soup over a wood fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family and three others took shelter in a well-constructed, two-story house before Patricia struck. Its sloped driveway to an elevated parking area is now a landing area for boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 16 people staying there crowded into a room on the second floor when the storm hit. The fiercest winds lasted about two hours, but strong winds blew for five or six hours shaking the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like it was going to lift off,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 1 a.m. the water began rising around them. By Sunday it had gone down somewhat, but was still about chest-high in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on the road leading to El Rebalse, mud-caked and breathing hard, Carmela Jeronimo Avalos heaved a big garbage bag of clothing off her shoulder and onto the pavement. She had just slogged about a mile into the flood zone with relatives to salvage what they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the water subsiding to ankle-deep, they could haul out clothes, a small television and two electric fans. After catching her breath, Jeronimo turned around and began another trek to her ruined home to see what else could be saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous version of this story, also from AP’s Christopher Sherman:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCHAMELA, Mexico — Only a day after menacing Mexico as one of history’s strongest storms, Hurricane Patricia left surprisingly little damage in its wake Saturday and quickly dissipated into an ordinary low-pressure system that posed little threat beyond heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hurricane’s most powerful punch hit a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific Coast before the system crashed into mountains that sapped its potentially catastrophic force. The popular beach city of Puerto Vallarta and the port of Manzanillo were spared the brunt of the violent weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no reports of deaths or injuries, said Roberto Lopez Lara, interior secretary for the state of Jalisco. It was a remarkable outcome, considering that Patricia had been a Category 5 hurricane with winds up to 200 mph before it came ashore with slightly less power in an area dotted with a few upscale hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, as the storm spun inland, it collapsed into fast-moving bands of rain aimed at already sodden Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials were still trying to reach some of the hardest-hit areas that were blocked by downed trees, and residents of towns nearest the strike said they had endured a terrifying night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were the longest five hours of my life,” said Sergio Reyna Ruiz, who took cover between the shaking concrete walls of a neighbor’s home when Patricia passed over the hamlet of La Fortuna, about 2 miles from the ocean. “Five hours riding the monster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the storm hit, Reyna tried to secure the shingles of his roof with metal cables. But looking up from the inside Saturday, the ceiling was a patchwork of old tile and blue sky. He and family members next door tried to clean up, sawing through a downed tree and putting waterlogged mattresses and books into the sun to dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Those were the longest five hours of my life. Five hours riding the monster.’\u003ccite>Sergio Reyna Ruiz\u003cbr>\nHurricane witness\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Still, all were thankful that everyone survived: “It’s something to tell the grandchildren,” Reyna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the road in Chamela, people picked through boards, tree limbs and other refuse for anything salvageable. All 40 families that live there rode out the storm at a shelter in nearby San Mateo. When they returned, they found little that was recognizable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arturo Morfin Garcia wielded a machete trying to clear debris from around his home, which was reduced to a jumble of bricks and beams. The only part left standing was a concrete bathroom at one end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t hard to leave. It was hard to come back and find this,” Morfin Garcia said. “So much work to build something. It makes me very sad, but what can we do with these natural phenomena?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Manzanillo, high winds and waves blew out windows and damaged some buildings. Trees and utility poles were toppled. An enraged sea battered the Hotel Barra de Navidad in a nearby town, scooping sand away from the foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the streets were full of downed trees, hotel watchman Domingo Hernandez said, calling Patricia the strongest storm he’s seen in a quarter-century living on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puerto Vallarta, home to some 200,000 people, including thousands of U.S. residents and visitors, was largely unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People snapped selfies next to a sculpture overlooking the sea Saturday, and business owners swept sidewalks as they would on any morning. Puddles dotted the downtown district, but no more than a passing thunderstorm might leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia plunged ashore about 65 miles southeast of Vallarta, which was protected from much of the fury by mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were fortunate as to where it made landfall. It was not a densely populated area,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the U.S. National Hurricane Center. “You and I would be having a very different conversation if this went over the top of Puerto Vallarta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the lack of fatalities was probably the result of the storm’s narrow footprint. Category 5 winds extended 15 miles out on either side of the eye, and hurricane-force winds extended for 35 miles from the center of the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday, Patricia had dissipated and had maximum sustained winds of 30 mph, according to the hurricane center. Its remnants were expected to feed into existing rain hitting southern Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an area of low pressure that’ll be forming along the Texas coast, and that will be about the time that moisture from Patricia will be arriving,” Feltgen said. The wet weather was forecast to spread from Texas to the central Gulf Coast by early next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday afternoon, the remains of Patricia were about 45 miles southwest of the Mexican city of Monterrey, and moving to the northeast at 22 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That such a monster storm could inflict so little harm seemed wondrous. Patricia formed suddenly Tuesday and quickly strengthened to a hurricane. Within 30 hours it had zoomed to a record-beating Category 5 storm, catching many off guard with its rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday it was the most powerful hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere, with a central pressure of 880 millibars, according to the hurricane center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia’s power while still out at sea was comparable to that of Typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 7,300 dead or missing in the Philippines two years ago, according to the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurricane experts praised Mexico’s expertise at storm preparations and credited good fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mountains in the area quickly weakened the storm, and the coastal landscape did not offer the right conditions for a storm surge that could have become a devastating wall of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most affected part of the coast did not have a large area of shallow water “conducive for piling up a huge storm surge,” said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at Weather Underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm was also moving fast enough at landfall — about 20 mph (35 kph) — that its heavy rains “did not stay in place long enough to generate the kinds of devastating floods we’ve seen in the past from Mexican hurricanes,” Masters noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And that rope can get caught on a whale’s fin or tail, or in its mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, there are already more than twice as many whale entanglements reported as five years ago. And local fishermen are eager to help out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a yacht club in Half Moon Bay, nearly 100 fishermen gather in person and by video conference to hear a presentation from Justin Viezbicke, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_319919\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"In 2010, there were 16 whale entanglement reports in California. This year there have been more than 40.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement-400x309.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement-1440x1112.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement-1180x911.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement-960x741.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/Whale-entanglement.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2010, there were 16 whale entanglement reports in California. This year there have been more than 40. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You guys are out there all the time,” Viezbicke says to a group of about 20 Half Moon Bay fishermen who attended in person. “So, who better to help us with these situations and give us more information than the guys that are out there on the water all the time seeing these things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s illegal to disentangle a whale without federal authorization. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Viezbicke is asking crabbers to collect data like the location of the whale, the nature of its distress and how fast the animal is moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Dempsey is with the Nature Conservancy, which sponsored Tuesday’s session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at this training much like a community CPR course,” says Dempsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_321530\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of crab pots sit in Half Moon Bay, which Geoff Bettencourt will deploy when the season starts November 14. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-321530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/crab-pots.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of crab pots sit in Half Moon Bay, which Geoff Bettencourt will deploy when the season starts November 14.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dempsey explained that a network of fishermen, who know how to document sightings, is as important as the state’s three certified rescuers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what this training is about,” says Dempsey. “Building that community network of people who can initiate a more advanced entanglement response when they do see that rare entanglement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the crabbers will be out there, starting Nov. 14.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In California's drought, the struggling monarch butterfly may have found a sprinkling of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suburban homeowners ripping out thirsty lawns are dotting their new drought-tolerant landscapes with milkweed native to California's deserts and chaparral -- plants that have the potential to help save water and monarchs at the same time, because the female monarch will lay her eggs only on milkweed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall numbers of the majestic black-and-orange butterflies have dropped from 1 billion to fewer than 60 million over the past two decades, as milkweed nationwide has fallen prey to development and pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>4 Ways to Help Monarchs:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plant native milkweed\u003c/strong> - Contact the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnps.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Native Plant Society\u003c/a> to find milkweeds native to your area\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Provide nectar plants\u003c/strong> - The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Pollinator Partnership\u003c/a> locates native plants by Zip code\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Avoid pesticides\u003c/strong> – Pesticides kill monarchs throughout the life cycle\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Become a citizen scientist\u003c/strong> – Scientists need data to understand all stages of the monarch’s annual cycle. Contact \u003ca href=\"http://monarchjointventure.org/get-involved/study-monarchs-citizen-science-opportunities/\" target=\"_blank\">Monarch Joint Venture\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.monarchparasites.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Monarch Health\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.xerces.org/western-monarchs/\" target=\"_blank\">The Xerces Society\u003c/a> to find out how you can contribute\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a $1.2 million starter investment to restore habitat. Other national projects aim to distribute milkweed seeds by mail and build databases of breeding habitats as alarm grows. 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They were up in the nursery on palm trees. They were everywhere, under tables. We were releasing 500 caterpillars a week on native milkweed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anya Shortridge bought a few milkweed plants last year for her drought garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she grows more than 100 milkweeds and carefully scans them for microscopic monarch eggs. 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"content": "\u003cp>Until Thursday, Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane was a guy fans were mad at because he’d just engineered \u003ca href=\"http://swinginas.com/2015/10/04/oakland-athletics-forgettable-2015-season-comes-to-an-end/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the worst seasons\u003c/a> in his team’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Billy Beane is, at least for today, the face of our new pariah class: the guy who’s hogging water in the middle of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eastbaycitizen/status/654850582130233344\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beane, a resident of hot, dry, gated Blackhawk in Contra Costa County, is No. 3 on the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s list of 1,108 residential water users recently issued penalties for excessive water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility says that in the most recent two-month billing cycle, Beane used 360,000 gallons of water. There are all sorts of way to parse that: If his billing period was exactly 60 days, that comes out to 5,996 gallons a day. That’s 24 times the amount used by East Bay MUD’s average residential customer, 246 gallons a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I like to think of it in more personal terms. Like many people in the Bay Area, our household in Berkeley has heard that it’s been dry for a while. Like many others, we’ve tried to find ways to conserve water. And it shows: Our yard looks like a drought hit it. We’ve got buckets in the kitchen and bathroom to try to make sure that nothing that comes out of the tap is wasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10719979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GettyImages-85292542-e1445027951867.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10719979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GettyImages-85292542-400x280.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's executive Billy Beane, pictured at a 2009 spring training game. \" width=\"400\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane, pictured at a 2009 spring training game. \u003ccite>(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The result is our household water use is down to a total of 50 gallons a day, according to our most recent EBMUD bill. That means we used about 3,000 gallons in the last two-month billing cycle. And Billy Beane? His average use between midnight and noon averaged 3,000 gallons. Every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group, which was the first to publish the EBMUD data, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28976922/billy-beane-among-east-bays-biggest-water-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacted the A’s exec\u003c/a> to ask him about his water use. His response: “Beane said he has tried to reduce his water use this year but added that he has a large landscaped yard. ‘I certainly pay for it,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good of him. By my calculations, figuring in EBMUD’s basic water rates, drought surcharge and penalty for excessive use, Beane paid around $4,000 for the water he used from mid-July to mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(EBMUD’s penalty scheme seems exceedingly generous, by the way: In the midst of the worst drought in the state’s history, the district asks water guzzlers to pay the penalty only when they exceed a base amount of 1,000 gallons a day. One thousand gallons! That amount is four times the amount used by the average EBMUD residential customer, and it’s more than double the estimated use for a “typical” California household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens if you’re an EBMUD customer who uses more than 1,000 gallons a day? You pay $2 for every billing unit of water over that amount. A billing unit is 100 cubic feet of water, or 748 gallons. )\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eastbaycitizen/status/654852020268994560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back to Billy Beane. Let’s not lose sight of the fact he was just No. 3 on EBMUD’s list of top water guzzlers. The top spot went to one of Beane’s Blackhawk neighbors, George Kirkland, a recently retired Chevron executive whom the water district says used about 12,580 gallons of water a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group story says Kirkland, whose spread includes two vineyards, blamed a water leak for the excessive use.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Where the Water Hogs Are\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The number of customers penalized for excessive water use in towns served by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda:\u003c/strong> 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Alamo:\u003c/strong> 189\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Albany:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Berkeley:\u003c/strong> 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Castro Valley:\u003c/strong> 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danville:\u003c/strong> 211\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>El Sobrante:\u003c/strong> 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hayward:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hercules:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kensington:\u003c/strong> 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lafayette:\u003c/strong> 100\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Moraga:\u003c/strong> 48\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland:\u003c/strong> 53\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Orinda:\u003c/strong> 61\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Piedmont:\u003c/strong> 51\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pleasant Hill:\u003c/strong> 17\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 7\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Leandro:\u003c/strong> 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Lorenzo:\u003c/strong> 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Pablo:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Ramon:\u003c/strong> 46\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Walnut Creek:\u003c/strong> 269\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The No. 2 spot on the EBMUD list went to Mark Pine, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur residing in Alamo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That top trio reflects a pattern on the EBMUD List of Shame: 80 percent of those hit with penalties for excessive water use live in half a dozen communities in the torrid zone beyond the East Bay hills — Alamo, Danville (which includes Blackhawk), Lafayette, Orinda, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one sense, that’s unsurprising. It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hot out there in the summertime. And the rule of thumb in California is that in most locales, about half of all domestic water is used outside — on lawns, landscaping and, in the more well-heeled neighborhoods, for swimming pools. So yes, naturally, it’s an established but nonetheless often grating fact that people out in the warm belt use more water than EBMUD customers who live in the blessed cool zone on the west side of the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, there might be something else going on here. 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We believe this outcome is entirely appropriate and have immediately accepted his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s reaction to the finding that Professor Geoff Marcy violated the University’s sexual harassment policies has been the subject of understandable criticism and anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before describing the disciplinary options that were available to us, we want to state unequivocally that Professor Marcy’s conduct, as determined by the investigation, was contemptible and inexcusable. We also want to express our sympathy to the women who were victimized, and we deeply regret the pain they have suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important to understand that as Berkeley’s leadership considered disciplinary options, we did not have the authority, as per University of California policy, to unilaterally impose any disciplinary sanctions, including termination. Discipline of a faculty member is a lengthy and uncertain process. 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We also want to express our sympathy to the women who were victimized, and we deeply regret the pain they have suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important to understand that as Berkeley’s leadership considered disciplinary options, we did not have the authority, as per University of California policy, to unilaterally impose any disciplinary sanctions, including termination. Discipline of a faculty member is a lengthy and uncertain process. It would include a full hearing where the standards of evidence that would be used are higher than those that are applied by the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) in the course of its investigations. The process would also be subject to a three-year statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our objective was to protect our students by immediately preventing any re-occurrence of the behavior described in the investigative report. 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