Carlsbad High School swimmer Spencer DiDio was recognized as one of nine “athletes of the week” by the San Diego Union-Tribune this week for helping the Lancers win its seventh straight titled.
The senior, who will attend USC, set a section record in the 100 fly and helped Lancers teams set section marks in the 200 medley and 400 free relays. DiDio was first in the 200 IM.
Congrats, Spencer.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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At this moment some of the biggest names in digital technology are cueing up at Carlsbadistan’s The Four Seasons Aviara (if that’s what it’s still called) for The Wall Street Journal’s D | All Things Digital Conference which runs May 26-28, 2009. And that means it’s time for our annual All Things Barged expedition. We’re not as excited this year because the line-up of tech players this year while strong isn’t exactly a list of people that we’re interested in, but there are still some extremely heavy hitters. Here’s who will be speaking in Carlsbadistan over the next three days:
Irving Azoff | CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment
Mitchell Baker | Chairman of Mozilla
Steve Ballmer | CEO of Microsoft
Carol Bartz | CEO of Yahoo
Mark Cuban | Chairman of HDNet and Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures
Eve Ensler | Playwright and Founder of V-Day
Arianna Huffington | Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | CEO of Nokia
Mike Lazaridis | Co-CEO of Research In Motion
John Lilly | CEO of Mozilla
John Malone | Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation
Roger McNamee | Partner, Elevation Partners
Jon Miller | Chief Digital Officer of News Corp.
Jon Rubinstein | Executive Chairman, Palm
Randall Stephenson | CEO of AT&T
Biz Stone | Co-Founder of Twitter
Owen Van Natta | CEO of MySpace
Katharine Weymouth | Publisher of the Washington Post
Evan Williams | Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter
Jeff Zucker | CEO of NBC Universal
Now that we think about it, if we made a list of people in the tech business who had some serious explaining to do it would look a lot like the D7 speakers list. Here’s a little of what we mean:
We would love to hear many of these explanations, but the conference costs $5,000. We’ll let you know how it goes. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher were very cool to us last year as was a certain PR person from Google.
If you’re interested in following along click here to get the All Things D iPhone app.
[Link: D7 | All Things D]
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This whole official Memorial Day back-to-summer thing reminded us of a clip we forgot to post up last summer. Transworld Surf and Fuel TV’s Build To Shred were at the jetty trying to take skateboarding (maybe snowboarding) to the waves with a rail and some surfers. It looked like the video above to us, but to watch the entire show click here for hulu.
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McGee Park on Carlsbad Blvd. was host today to the annual Memorial Day party of The Carlsbad The Church of Jesus Christ Latter -day Saints and they were rocking out. We first heard them at the post office and followed their rocking sounds all the way to the park.
Happy Memorial Day!
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Saturday morning gave Carlsbadistan beach goers a little taste of what is possible this weekend. But will the sun stick around or will the May gray return and cloud up the rest of the weekend? We’ll all just have to wait and see.
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Where are we going to be on this Memorial Day weekend? Well, on Saturday May 23, 2009 from 9 AM to 1 PM? We’ll be down at Ponto trying out some of Al Merrick’s latest Channel Island’s creations, that is if you all don’t check them out before us.
[Link: Transworld Surf]
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Okay, we actually like this one. The endless feathering on this wave is hypnotic. . . at least when those on-shores are blasting up Elm CVD. Nice work, Bryan.
[Link: Carlsbadcrawl]
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It’s summer time again and that means sipping wine to the sounds of the finest traveling bands in the business as the City of Carlsbadistan kicks off its 24th season of TGIF Jazz In The Parks.
This summer, like last, only three parks will be in the mix: Stagecoach, Poinsettia, and Calavera. Here’s what we all have to look forward to:
Stagecoach Park 3420 Camino de los Coches, 92009
June 19 Canned Heat – boogie blues
June 26 Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas – zydeco
July 3 Big Time Operator – big band swing
July 10 Bill Magee Blues Band – southern blues
Poinsettia Park 6600 Hidden Valley Road, 92011
July 17 Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca – afro-cuban
July 24 Lowrider Band – latin/funk
July 31 Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars – cajun
Calavera Hills Park 2997 Glasgow Drive, 92008
August 7 The Screamin’ Primas – jump jive swing
August 14 Tinsley Ellis – electric blues
August 21 Coco Montoya – rockin’ blues
All concerts are 6 – 8 p.m. Follow the jump for all the details.
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Last night at the Carlsbadistan City Council meeting the gang reviewed “a preliminary capital improvement program budget of $68.8 million for the fiscal year that begins July 1.” The capital improvements include the following:
And absolutely no skateboard parks. Follow the jump for the entire press release.
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The City of Carlsbadistan’s plans to replace 7,000 old high pressure sodium streetlights with new high-efficiency induction light may cut the City’s greehouse gas emissions from City ops by 20 percent, but according to a Michael Burge story in the San Diego Union-Tribune they could interfere with the stargazers at the Palomar Observatory.
“I don’t know what the new lighting fixtures will look like or how bright they are, but white lights are not friendly to research astronomers for a variety of reasons,” said Scott Kardel, public affairs coordinator for the observatory. . . Kardel said if the new streetlights aren’t too bright and don’t direct their beams skyward, they may not be as troublesome as the older streetlights. . . “Hopefully, they’ll be fully shielded,” Kardel added, saying he’ll look at some of the lights before Tuesday’s meeting.
More importantly, we’re hoping they won’t be shining in our windows and keeping us up all night. Follow the jump for the complete press release from the City.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune] [click to continue…]
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