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Sick of soccer parents yelling on the sidelines? Little League baseball just not doing it for little Johnny anymore?
Ultimate fighting (or human cockfighting as it's sometimes derisively referred to) used to be just for thick-necked men intent on bloodying their opponent to a pulp.
Not anymore! Now the kids can get involved too.
Read the whole story here.
Lake Ming could close for four to six months to give construction crews time to install new boat launching ramps, build a new restroom, add more lighting and improve the asphalt parking lot.
Kern County Parks and Recreation Committee members will discuss the closure, or a possible partial closure, at 7 p.m. Thursday in the first floor meeting room at the county public services building at 2700 M St. in Bakersfield.
At least it will be quiet on the 3rd tee at Kern River.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is stopping by The Californian today to talk to our editorial board.
If you had one question you could ask the actor-turned-politician what would it be?
It's time to kill sea lions, writes contributing columnist Steve Merlo in his weekly Outdoors column.
Merlo has had enough of sea lions stealing salmon from his fishing lines and writes that fisherman are incorrectly being blamed for the declining salmon population.
While he's at it, Merlo wants to kill cormorants too.
Read his excellent column here.
Rapper and reality show regular Vanilla Ice is performing at the Nile Theater Thursday.
Read our preview of the show and an interview with Ice (real name: Robert Matthew Van Winkle) here.
If that interview doesn't send you to the box office, we don't know what will.
Here at The Californian there are no annoying workmates, but apparently at other companies there are.
Hold on a minute, someone's at my desk.
"Shut up you idiot and get back to work"
The following categories of obnoxious co-workers comes from a story in the The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal:
The Box o’ Chocolates
This type of colleague might be extremely easy to work with one day and the next day could explode for no apparent reason.
The Rumormonger
Rumormongers...
A few years ago I bemoaned the loss of Beale Park's swimming pool when it was replaced by a spray park.
But whenever I drive past the park on my way home from work it's great to see how busy the spray park is.
Now a similar fate awaits Jastro Pool in the Westchester neighborhood.
Yes, it is impossible to take swimming lessons at a spray park, but other than that are there other disadvantages to replacing public swimming pools with spray parks?
Check out our interactive map locating...
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned about 9 a.m. this morning (our time) following intense pressure to step down because of a prostitution scandal.
Read the whole story here.
Seriously, what other options were available to him?
California parents without teaching credentials can no longer home school their children, according to a recent state appellate court ruling.
The Associated Press reports that an estimated 166,000 students in California are home schooled, but it is unclear how many of them are taught solely by an uncredentialed parent.
Read the whole story here.
Do you think this is fair?
For local home schooling support groups and resources, check out newtobakersfield.com.
A survey released today by the National Sleep Foundation found that the U.S. worker gets an average of six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night on weeknights, even though they estimated they’d need roughly another 40 minutes of sleep to be at their best.
Roughly one-third of those surveyed said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the past month.
Read the story here.
Some companies are even going so far as offering sleep rooms for tired employees to take a nap in....
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