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This 2011 Political Declaration commits to reaching 15 million people living with HIV with antiretroviral treatment; to reduce sexual transmission of HIV by 50 per cent by 2015; to reduce transmission of HIV among people who inject drugs by 50 per cent by 2015; and to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
If it is honoured, it will add to the impact achieved by the previous High Level Meeting (HLM) in 2006, where the international community committed to the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by 2010. Although that target has not yet been reached, the 2006 Political Declaration triggered an unprecedented response to HIV, with over 6 million people receiving antiretroviral treatment worldwide and a reduction in AIDS-related deaths by more than 20 per cent.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance secretariat and Linking Organisations worked with other civil society organisations to ensure that governments attending the 2011 HLM adopt a robust Political Declaration to make a real difference in the lives of people living with HIV and those at higher risk of HIV. The negotiations leading to the HLM and the language included in the Political Declaration reflect deep contradictions in the approach that some States take to the HIV. The text reflects a clear tension between evidence-based approaches to HIV that emphasise the crucial role of human rights and the participation of key affected populations (such as men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people, sex workers (SW), or people who use drugs) in the HIV response on one hand; and positions of some governments who privilege some social, religious or political 'values' over effective responses to HIV on the other.
However, the adopted text:
The Political Declaration will bring hope for millions of people affected by HIV and AIDS worldwide. But it will only be worth what governments make of their pledge.
The time for governments to honour their commitments has already started.
Recommitting to Universal Access and setting measurable targets in reach and funding
The declaration commits to "redouble efforts to achieve, by 2015, universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support as a critical step towards ending the global HIV epidemic."
Although many governments were reluctant to including measurable targets in the political declaration it does set concrete and measurable targets for 2015: to reach 15 million people living with HIV with antiretroviral treatment; to reduce sexual transmission of HIV by 50 per cent by 2015; to reduce transmission of HIV among people who inject drugs by 50 per cent by 2015; and to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV. If these targets are met, the impact of the global HIV response in the next five years would be extremely significant.
The declarations commits to gradually increasing expenditure on HIV and AIDS by 2015 to between USD$22 and USD$24 billion in low- and middle- income countries. It also urges developed countries to reach the target of 0.7% of their GNP to official development assistance; and African countries to devote 15% of their national budget to health by 2015. The declaration also pledges to work towards closing the global resource gap for the HIV response through strategic investments that include innovative financing but does not mention the Financial Transaction Tax which the Alliance and, many others are campaigning for.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is recognized as a "pivotal mechanism for achieving universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2015". However, the document does not make explicit the need to fully fund the Global Fund
Committing to an evidence-based response and a stronger accountability framework
The Alliance and other civil society organisations called on governments to scale up their HIV responses based on a 'know your epidemic' basis and to strengthen the existing accountability mechanism by which countries report their progress on an annual basis.
The Political Declaration acknowledges that programmes must become more cost-effective, evidence-based and deliver better value-for money and calls on "donors and UN system to support Member States in ensuring that nationally driven, credible, costed, evidence-based, inclusive and comprehensive national HIV and AIDS strategic plans are, by 2013, funded and implemented with transparency, accountability, and effectiveness."
The Declaration also aims to reinforce the existing country reporting mechanism (known as UNGASS indicators), committing to revise the UNGASS core indicators proposed this year by the end of 2012 and "where necessary, to strengthen national, regional and global coordination and monitoring mechanisms of HIV and AIDS responses".
Reaffirming human rights values in the HIV response
The experience of the Alliance Linking Organisations and partners on the ground is that one of the most important obstacles in the response to HIV is the vulnerability of key affected populations. This includes violations of their human rights and the high level of stigma and discrimination individuals and communities affected by HIV face on a daily basis.
Only a human rights approach to the epidemic can guarantee that those at higher risk and most vulnerable access HIV programmes and services.
During negotiations, the adoption of a human rights framework for the global HIV response was constantly under threat. The final Declaration was weakened by text that reaffirms the sovereign rights of UN Member states and the prominence given to national laws, and to cultural, ethical and religious values which could undermine commitment to a scaled up response that is based on evidence of what works. Concessions to 'cultural values' often undermine evidence based programming and policies.
However, the declaration does reaffirm "that the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV epidemic". It gives particular attention to all people vulnerable to and affected by HIV and commits to "monitoring the impact of the legal environment on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support" and to intensifying "national efforts to create enabling legal, social and policy frameworks in each national context in order to eliminate stigma, discrimination and violence related to HIV."
Recognising men who have sex with men, people who use drugs and sex workers as key affected populations
Negotiations prior to the meeting were marked by a growing number of conservative positions in relation to the acknowledgment of the importance of some populations who are at higher risk of HIV. In previous political declarations, no specific mention of men who have sex with men, people who use drugs or sex workers was made. This represents an important acknowledgement of how disproportionately affected certain population groups are.
The 2011 political declaration notes that "many national HIV prevention strategies inadequately focus on populations that epidemiological evidence shows are at higher risk, specifically men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and sex workers." Unfortunately, it does not include these groups explicitly when outlining HIV interventions for vulnerable groups and when making human rights considerations to the HIV response.
The Alliance is deeply disappointed that transgender people, one of the populations at higher risk and with highest HIV prevalence rates worldwide, are not mentioned at all in the document.
Another highly contested area during negotiations were references to harm reduction. The Political Declaration does commit to a reduction of 50% of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs, but it also states that consideration should be given "as appropriate" to implementing and expanding risk and harm reduction programmes, but only "in accordance with national legislation". This remark could accommodate countries that criminalize drug use depriving people who use drugs of accessing the services they need. The declaration also calls for Member States to "combat the world drug problem", an ambiguous wording that fails to represent drug use first and foremost as a public health issue.
Emphasising the role of community-based responses to HIV
The Alliance's model relies heavily on community responses to HIV, which have proven to provide an essential part of the national responses to HIV. They allow HIV programmes and services to reach key affected populations, reduce social stigma and discrimination and link up community based service providers with primary health care and national health care systems.
It is extremely positive that the Political Declaration endorses the community response to HIV recognising "the role that community organizations play, including those run by people living with HIV, in sustaining national and local HIV and AIDS responses …and strengthening health systems, in particular the primary healthcare approach."
With care and support services forming a significant part of the community response to HIV, it is a disappointment that only two paragraphs refer to them in the document. In the last few days of negotiations references to "the effects of long-term living with HIV" and to "disorders associated with aging" were dropped. However, it is encouraging that the core components of comprehensive care and support are included in the text.
Putting these commitments into practice could make a real difference to the HIV epidemic. The Alliance will monitor the implementation of the Political Declaration and will continue to advocate for a strong, transparent and accountable framework to review progress in delivering this important declaration.
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NORMAN — Michael K. Blevins of Noble has earned the Eagle Scout Award, the highest advancement award by the Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts.
Blevins was recognized Sept. 28 at Discover Church in Noble during his Eagle Scout Court of Honor.
As a member of Troop 222, Blevins is one of approximately 4 percent of all Boy Scouts who attain the Rank of Eagle.
Each candidate must earn 21 merit badges and successfully complete a community service project to earn his eagle; Michael's project was to clean up and complete the "Green Room" at the Noble Public School Administration Building.
He has served as Senior Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader and Troop Guide. He has received the Polar Bear Award, High Temperature Award, Kayaking, and Snorkeling Emblem. Michael joins other outstanding American citizens who have become Eagle Scout, among them former President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, cinematographer Steven Spielberg, and the head of the F.B.I., William Sessions.
Blevins attends Noble Assembly of God and is a 2012 graduate of Noble High School. Michael is currently attending Oklahoma City Community College where he plans to major in Engineering.
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When we produce fruits of holiness through the power of God's grace, we have no reason to fall back into a life of sin and bondage. They are free, empowered and whole. However, this promise does not apply to believers who do not walk in true holiness. Hear what Peter says about this: read more
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God has freely given us the tools we need to live a holy life that pleases Him—that's fabulous news! There's no need to fall short. The writer of Hebrews tells us: read more
The Road of Holiness
God has given us the resources we need to live a holy life that pleases Him! There's no need to ever fall short. Consider what the writer of Hebrews tells us: Pursue…holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God. (12:14–15, NKJV) read more
The Cleansing Process
There is a huge difference between justification and sanctification. Justification is salvation from eternal death, whereas sanctification is the process of holiness. read more
HOLY - Defined
The word holy is from the Greek word hagios. Some words used to define it are set apart, sanctified, and consecrated, along with pure and morally blameless. The fundamental qualities of holiness are separation, consecration and devotion to the service of God, sharing in His purity and abstaining from worldly defilement. read more
A Sexual Nightmare
We are straying far from God's heart because we are so influenced by our society. In so many ways, the church has become a subculture rather than what we are called to be—a counterculture. read more
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True holiness takes effort on our part, which many are not willing to give. John Bevere says ministers will either unconsciously or purposefully avoid preaching holiness to avoid losing the appeal of the gospel. He shares how grace produces holiness. read more
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A Rohnert Park man is dead and his family injured following a Wednesday night accident in a Mojave Desert valley, near the town of Landers, according to an article in the Press-Enterprise, a local newspaper there that covers both San Bernadino and Riverside counties.
According to the story, Steven Brent Williams, 30, his wife and the couple's two children were in a recreational vehicle crash during an off-road excursion. The article stated that:
"A roll-over accident in a popular Mojave Desert off-road vehicle area killed a Northern California man Wednesday night and sent his wife and their two small children to the hospital by medical helicopter."
"Thirty-year-old Steven Brent Williams died at the scene of the 7:45 p.m. crash on Means Dry Lake in the Johnson Valley Off Road Area, about 13 miles northwest of Landers."
"The family had left their campsite to seek cell phone reception and were driving a 1965 Jeep that had been modified into a rock crawler containing two seats, both with five-point safety belts, said Officer Joaquin Zubieta."
The son, 1, and daughter, 4, were reportedly injured after the Jeep overturned three times, throwing the family from the vehile.
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The Oscars are going to be a little later next year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday the dates for the next two years' ceremonies — March 2, 2014, and Feb. 22, 2015.
With the shift, the 2014 awards season calendar is shaping up to be an unusual one, with a frenetic January full of guild awards and then a long lull until the Oscar telecast in March. (The show was Feb. 24 this year.)
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went to my first casino earlier; walked in with $40 and left with $15
Hey man, at least you left with something.
Enough to buy some booze to make me forget I wasted perfectly good money.
Nah...I did have a good time. I played all the Pop Culture themed slots.
Did they have the KISS slot machine?? And did you become a member of the KISS army? Because that happens when you win the jackpot, and its fucking sweet.
i like to just think of it as a grown up arcade, but instead of winning tickets, you get actual money.
and yes you waste money at an arcade too, pinball machines and street fighter never gave you tickets
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I only play the Dolly Parton slot machine.
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Last week Olivia and I had a doctor appointment (we always go together) and after we thought it might be fun to play a few slots. We didn't win anything but the thrill of "Maybe I'll strike it big" was still hidden there somewhere in the back of my mind. I was really hoping, best case scenario, that I would win $30 or so and take her to the buffet for lunch as a treat to ourselves. We ate at the buffet anyway but I think it would have tasted even better if it had been free.
I played the Ghostbusters slot for a minute and that one was a lot of fun.
Lottery only became legalized in Oklahoma in the past few years. It's been interesting to see how it has affected the state. They said in the campaigning leading up to the vote on whether to bring lotto to the state or not that the money would go to schools. I can't say that's happened as much as everyone wanted to believe. I don't really know where the money is going.
I have only played a couple of times, but again there was that sort of fun, "What if" moment.
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---- — The debate over whether Michigan should allow hunters to kill wolves in the Upper Peninsula is certainly worth having.
Opponents who say the state rushed to establish a hunt just weeks after the wolf was taken off the endangered species list are right that the state must take more time and hear from a lot more people before before establishing a hunt.
More alarming, however, is that the Legislature is also taking aim at Michigan voters and their constitutional right to petition by sticking a phony-baloney appropriation onto a wolf hunt bill to make the issue referendum-proof.
It's an underhanded but legal tactic used by lawmakers to prevent voters from putting contentious issues on a future statewide ballot. The tactic is usually used in cases like this - issues that are likely to take a shellacking at the polls and by lawmakers who hold voters - and the referendum system - in contempt.
Under state law, appropriations bills can't be overturned by a referendum, so tying a $1 million appropriation to the wolf bill takes the decision out of voters' hands. The bill in question would give the state's Natural Resources Commission, along with the Legislature, final say on which species are open to hunting; the bill would also give the Legislature the sole authority to remove species from the list.
That's a total usurpation of the role of the outdoor professionals Michigan has long relied on to manage our resources and gives that power to state politicians, the absolutely last people we want making what should be science-based decisions.
Instead, lawmakers have opened the process to the lobbyists who seem to hold sway in Lansing these days.
A group called Keep Michigan Wolves Protected has already collected 254,000 signatures on petitions to put the issue to voters in 2014. That's more than enough to gain ballot status, so lawmakers decided to stoop to the appropriations ploy to keep them at bay. That stinks.
This isn't to say a limited wolf hunt in the Upper Peninsula isn't good science. The Department of Natural Resources has formally proposed a wolf hunt in three areas of the UP to let hunters kill up to 43 of the estimated 658 wolves there. But the Legislature should have no role in that decision or be the sole arbiter of which species should be taken off the hunting list.
If the bill makes it to his desk, Gov. Rick Snyder should veto it. In the meantime, the next statewide petition effort should be deep-six the appropriations ploy once and for all.


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Watch a clip for the follow up to Director Darren Lynn Bousman and writer/actor Terrance Zdunich's The Devil's Carnival, The Devil's Carnival 2: The Librarian starring Tech N9ne as The Librarian.
Having worked as a librarian I can attest to the fact that some weird things go on in the stacks, but I haven't seen anything quite like this teaser. That being said, adorable boys in kilts and cardigans would have been quite welcome in my library.
Apparently, the nine-minute teaser offers fans quite a few "visual and musical hints" so keep on the lookout. In case you missed it, you can watch episode one here and get updates on the Facebook page.


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ALBANY -- It's not quite your Lincoln-Douglas debates, but raging today in the world that is Twitter is an argument, er, debate, no, let's just say slapfest between Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and actor Alec Baldwin. (Yep, that's not a sentence you write every day in Albany).
Turns out the actor, a Democrat, didn't like the portrayal of him on the Capitol Pressroom radio show Tuesday by Skelos, a Republican, who basically made Baldwin out as a rich guy OK with raising taxes in New York.
Skelos may have started things off in the real world, but Baldwin began his barbs this morning on Twitter. His first entry: "Dean Skelos says I want your taxes to go up and not my own." He followed with a challenge to debate Skelos, and told the senator to bring 10 years' worth of tax returns and his itinerary. Another: "Only a Nassau County Republian tool like Dean Skelos could drag my name into a debate on state income tax."
Later, Baldwin followed with this:
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Local 10's Baron James' exclusive interview with a boy who witnessed the shooting on the school bus that killed Lourdes Guzman.
James: Tell me how the gun was being passed around. What did you tell police happened that day on the bus?
Witness: I told police that I put the bullets inside of the gun. I did not pull the sting back. I did not add anything to it. I just put the bullets in it and I put safety and then Jordyn put the gun on his waist band and the other girl she took it from Jordyn, you know, she had it on her lap. I don't know what she was doing. She was touching it.
James: Was this not Lourdes, but another girl?
Witness: Another girl.
James: How did the gun end up shooting Lourdes?
Witness: Because after that, Lourdes Guzman, she took the gun from her and she kept like messing around with the gun. She put it on her head.
James: Lourdes put the gun to her head?
Witness: Yes and she put it to her neck and then she pointed it at everyone and me and Jordyn kept saying, "Stop playing with the gun because it is dangerous and it has bullets in it."
James: What did she do? What did she say?
Witness: She just kept playing with it. The last time I saw her do something, she put it to her head and then a little while after I looked down to my phone and I heard the blast. So I looked around -- I was checking to see if everyone was alright. I looked under my shirt.
James: You thought you had been shot?
Witness: Yeah. So then I heard screaming and it was Lourdes. So then I picked Lourdes from the floor and I sat her on the seat and after that…
James: She was still alive at this point?
Witness: She was still alive. She was screaming and she was panicking. I sat her on the seat and I was taking care of her while the bus driver and the other girl was calling the cops and then…and then…
James: Where was the gun at that point?
Witness: It was on the floor. She dropped it. And then after that, Jordyn Howe picked up the gun and put it in his book bag because he panicked. He was there looking at Lourdes for like a minute and then he walked out because he was scared looking at blood. He told me before. So after that, I went off the bus, and Jordyn was saying, "I told her to put the gun down. Now look, she shot herself." He said something like that.
James: You're telling me that Jordyn Howe did not shoot Lourdes? That Lourdes Guzman shot herself?
Witness: Yes.
James: Where was her little sister?
Witness: Her little sister was in the front. She was in the front of the bus playing with two other little girls.
James: So did she see all of this when it happened or after it happened?
Witness: After it happened.
James: So did you tell police exactly what you are telling me?
Witness: Yes.


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By Joy Hampton
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — Despite the expenditure of well over $200,000 on city election campaigns, the voter turnout for the April 2 city vote was lower than candidates had hoped.
Less than 18 percent of eligible, registered voters cast ballots in the Norman mayor's race this week, according to analysis by the Cleveland County Election Board. Numbers also indicate that the highest voter turnout and strongest support for mayoral challenger Tom Sherman came from Ward 3.
The Cleveland County Election Board certified the election at 5 p.m. Friday. A dozen additional provisional ballots were accepted but did not affect the outcome of any of the races, Cleveland County Election Board Secretary Jim Williams said. Those ballots are not included in the following analysis of the election.
Williams said there were 62,961 eligible voters in the Norman mayoral race. Of those, 10,908 — 17.33 percent — voted. Slightly fewer voters cast ballots in the hotel/motel tax proposition.
While the tax proposition carried with a high margin, winning with 8,397 "yes" votes to 2,462 against, the total 10,859 votes cast is even lower than the number who voted for mayor.
The three-way mayoral race was dominated by incumbent Cindy Rosenthal who garnered 5,898 votes with challengers Tom Sherman, 4,050 votes, and David Kempf 928 votes far enough behind to avoid a runoff.
Avoiding that runoff saved the city a nice chunk of change.
"Each citywide election costs us between $26,000 and $30,000," said Norman City Clerk Brenda Hall. "The only variable is the ballot printing cost."
In addition to ballots there are fees involved with each election. Combining city elections with county, state, federal and other elections does help curb the amount each entity must pay.
In Ward 3, ineligible candidate Benjamin Carter garnered 335 votes. Incumbent Robert Castleberry won that race with 1,528 votes for a total of 1,863 votes cast.
The worst turnout was in precinct 13 with 38 out of 2,010 voters casting ballots in the mayoral race. That precinct may have a high percentage of student voters. The precinct supports Ward 7 and votes at the Cross Center's main building on the OU campus at 1600 Jenkins Ave. In the Ward 7 city council race, only 35 votes were cast at precinct 13.
In the 2012 city elections, 1,238 people cast ballots in the Ward 4 city council race. Ward 4 is traditionally a high turnout race. Ward 3 turnout, despite pouring rain, topped that, as did voting in Ward 5.
Hall said she believed the election was the best turnout Ward 3 has seen.
Ward 3's Precinct 27, which votes at Brookhaven Baptist Church, 4301 Country Club Terrace, had the highest percentage of voter turnout at 29.44 percent of the 2,500 eligible voters casting 736 ballots in the mayor's race. Precinct 27 was one of five precincts Sherman won.
Sherman carried precincts 27, 35, 53, 73 and 91. Of those, 27, 53 and 73 are in Ward 3.
Ward 5 also had decent numbers with 1,385 votes cast. Incumbent Dave Spaulding, 583 votes, lost to challenger Lynne Miller, 802 votes, in that ward.
Ward 7 was the closest city ward race with Stephen Tyler Holman winning 218 votes to incumbent Linda Lockett's 191 votes. With only 409 total votes cast in the Ward 7 race, it was the lowest Norman ward turnout overall.
Ward 1 also had low turnout with incumbent Roger Gallagher, 289 votes, falling to challenger Greg Heiple, 425 votes, for a total 714 votes cast in that ward.
With the dust settled on the race, two official ethics complaints have been filed, one directly related to the election and both leveled at Council member Tom Kovach who served as a professional consultant for Sherman during the election.
A complaint filed by Norman resident Mary Francis alleges that Kovach violated the city's ethics code forbidding city council members from using their offices to endorse or oppose another city candidate. Kovach maintains his professional services, which were paid for out of campaign funds and reported as required, do not constitute an endorsement or a use of his office to promote another candidate.
An additional ethics complaint was filed by Ben Alpers and alleges that Kovach violated executive session protections by alerting the press to the existence of a memo written by the mayor.
The memo was written outside of executive session but referred to the session. Kovach told the Transcript, he believes it may have violated open records laws.
While the open records issue is not directly connected to the election, some supporters of the mayor have made it clear they believe revealing the memo's existence was a political ploy on the part of Kovach.
Hall said neither of these complaints fall under the purview of the Election Commission. The complaints have been given to city attorney Jeff Bryant.
"He (Bryant) is taking them very seriously and will investigate," Hall said.
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Brazil thought its nightmare was over -- but perhaps it's only just beginning.
After the humiliation of being obliterated by Germany, those who had dreamed of a Brazilian World Cup triumph might have thought they would be left alone to quietly lick their words or perhaps console themselves with a sombre walk along the shores of the Copacabana.
Alas, such a luxury will not be afforded to them -- not now at least.
Instead neighbors Argentina will launch an invasion of Rio Sunday hoping to start their own party in its arch rival's back yard.
This was the result which Brazil feared -- the scenario it never wanted to face, to have Argentina, its oldest foe, walk out at the Maracana on Sunday just 90 minutes away becoming world champions.
While Brazil had leaked goals in its shambolic defeat by Germany, Argentina displayed true grit and then calm under pressure in a penalty shootout to book its place in the World Cup final for the first time in 24 years -- the fifth in its history.
Don't bother telling those with their faces painted blue and white that was a tepid and insipid encounter.
They're probably still jumping up and down with joy -- while celebrating Argentinian Independence Day like never before.
"I'm very happy because we reached the final and now we will see what we can do," Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella told reporters.
"We will give everything as usual, with humility, work and 100% effort."
A goalless 120 minutes was enough to bore most to tears but when Maxi Rodriguez struck the decisive penalty kick to win the shootout 4-2, the march to Rio began and Brazil closed its eyes.
For the third time, Argentina will play Germany in the final having won in 1986 and lost in 1990 -- but regardless of the opposition, it will surely need to improve on this performance.
Lionel Messi, the man who has inspired Argentina on so many occasions, was almost anonymous but he was not the only one to disappear.
This game was a case of going from the sublime to the ridiculous as the sequel to Germany's dominant display over Brazil was temporarily forgotten as these two sides served up one of the poorest offerings of the tournament.
It was dire -- so dire you had to keep pinching yourself that this was actually a World Cup semifinal.
For all the talent on the field, the inability to keep possession, deliver a cross or even manage a simple pass proved beyond those on show.
Often such games are classed as 'intriguing', 'tactical' or 'chess like' but none of those descriptions fitted -- file this under dreadful and error-strewn.
Neither side deserved to win and penalties looked the most likely outcome from the offset -- a stark contrast to Germany's 7-1 thrashing of Brazil on Tuesday.
While the goals flowed like Caipirinhas in the bars of Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo provided a far more sober affair.
Tight, tense and turgid in the first half, both sides struggled to create a chance of note with space at a premium.
Messi, so often Argentina's leading light, fizzed a free kick at goal which Jasper Cillessen did well to save, while Ezequiel Garay's header flew just over the crossbar as the South American side briefly threatened.
Messi, making his 92nd international appearance, found himself accompanied by Nigel de Jong each and every time he moved, touched the ball or dared to breathe.
Previously ruled out of the tournament with a groin injury only to make a miraculous recovery in time for the contest, De Jong gave the Dutch the bite in midfield which it had missed in the quarterfinal victory over Costa Rica.
But while the Dutch side was relatively untroubled in defense, it rarely threatened going forward with Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie almost anonymous.
Robben, one of the outstanding players of the tournament, touched the ball just six times in the opening 45 minutes as Argentina, and Javier Mascherano in particular, kept the flying Dutchman quiet.


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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
|October 17, 1989[1]
|15 seconds
|6.9 Mw[1]
|11 miles (18 km)[1]
|37°02′24″N 121°52′37″W / 37.040°N 121.877°WCoordinates: 37°02′24″N 121°52′37″W / 37.040°N 121.877°W[1]
|Countries or regions
|United States
(San Francisco Bay Area), (Santa Cruz County, California)
|Max. intensity
|Mostly V (strongly felt) to VII (light damage), with localized areas experiencing IX (heavy damage) to X (extreme damage)[1]
|63 killed,[2] 3,757 injured[3]
The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake,[4] struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on Tuesday, October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm local time. Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quake lasted 10–15 seconds[1] and measured 6.9 on both the moment magnitude scale[5] and on the Richter magnitude scale.[1] The quake killed 63 people throughout Northern California,[2] injured 3,757[3] and left some 3,000–12,000[1][6][7][8] people homeless.
The earthquake occurred during the warm-up practice for the third game of the 1989 World Series, featuring both of the Bay Area's Major League Baseball teams, the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Because of game-related sports coverage, this was the first major earthquake in the United States to have its initial jolt broadcast live on television.[9]
- 1 Epicenter
- 2 Injuries and fatalities
- 3 Damage
- 4 1989 World Series
- 5 Effects on transportation
- 6 Science of the earthquake
- 7 In popular culture
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, in a sparsely populated area of the Santa Cruz Mountains (geographical coordinates 37°02′24″N 121°52′37″W / 37.040°N 121.877°W),[1] approximately 2–3 miles (3–5 km) north of unincorporated Aptos and approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz. Slip occurred along approximately 35 kilometers (22 mi) of fault at a depth of about 7–20 km (4.3–12.4 mi).[10] The quake was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak which lies 5 mi (8 km) to the northeast in Santa Clara County.[11]
Injuries and fatalities[edit]
Fifty-seven of the deaths were directly caused by the earthquake; six further fatalities were ruled to have been caused indirectly.[2] In addition, there were 3,757 injuries as a result of the earthquake, 400 of which were serious.[1][3] The highest number of fatalities, 42,[12] occurred in Oakland because of the Cypress Street Viaduct collapse on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where the upper level of a double-deck portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. One 50-foot (15 m) section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge also collapsed, leading to a single fatality, a 23-year-old woman named Anamafi Moala.[4][13] Three people were killed in the collapse of buildings along the Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz, and five people were killed in the collapse of a brick wall on Bluxome Street in San Francisco.[4]
When the earthquake hit, the third game of the 1989 World Series baseball championship was just beginning. Because of the unusual circumstance that both of the World Series teams (the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics) were based in the affected area, many people had left work early or were staying late to participate in after work group viewings and parties. As a consequence the normally crowded freeways contained unusually light traffic. If traffic had been normal for a Tuesday rush hour, injuries and deaths would certainly have been higher. The initial media reports failed to take into account the game's effect on traffic and initially estimated the death toll at 300, a number that was corrected to 63 in the days after the earthquake.[14][15]
The earthquake caused severe damage in some very specific locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, most notably on unstable soil in San Francisco and Oakland. Oakland City Hall was evacuated after the earthquake until US$80M seismic retrofit and hazard abatement work was completed in 1995.[17] Many other communities sustained severe damage throughout the region located in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Major property damage in San Francisco's Marina District 60 mi (97 km) from the epicenter resulted from liquefaction of soil used to create waterfront land. Other effects included sand volcanoes, landslides and ground ruptures. Some 12,000 homes and 2,600 businesses were damaged.[1]
In Santa Cruz, close to the epicenter, 40 buildings collapsed, killing six people.[18] At the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Plunge building was significantly damaged.[19] Liquefaction also caused damage in the Watsonville area.[20] For example, sand volcanoes formed in a field near Pajaro as well as in a strawberry field.[20] The Ford's department store in Watsonville experienced significant damage, including a crack down the front of the building.[20] Many homes were dislodged if they were not bolted to their foundations.[20] There were structural failures of twin bridges across Struve Slough near Watsonville.[20] In Moss Landing, the liquefaction destroyed the causeway that carried the Moss Beach access road across tidewater basin, damaged the approach and abutment of the bridge linking Moss Landing spit to the mainland and cracked the paved road on Paul's Island.[21] In the Old Town historical district of the city of Salinas, unreinforced masonry buildings were partially destroyed.[22]
An estimated 1.4 million people lost power following the quake, mainly due to damaged electrical substations.[23] Many San Francisco radio and television stations were temporarily knocked off the air.[24] KRON-TV was off the air for about half an hour,[25] while KGO-AM was off the air for about 40 minutes.[24] About an hour and 40 minutes after the quake, KTVU resumed broadcasting, with their news anchors reporting from the station's parking lot.[26][27] KCBS-AM switched immediately to backup power and managed to stay on air despite a subsequent generator failure.[24] KCBS later won a Peabody Award for their news coverage, as did KGO-TV.[28] Power was restored to most of San Francisco by midnight, and all but 12,000 customers had their power restored within two days.[23]
The quake caused an estimated $6 billion[1] in property damage, becoming one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history at the time. It was the largest earthquake to occur on the San Andreas Fault since the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[11] Private donations poured into aid relief efforts and on October 26, President George H. W. Bush signed a $1.1 billion earthquake relief package for California.[29]
Marina District[edit]
Four people died in San Francisco's Marina District, four buildings were destroyed by fire, and seven buildings collapsed.[9] Another 63 damaged structures were judged too dangerous to live in.[9] Among the four deaths, one family lost their infant son who choked on dust while trapped for an hour inside their collapsed apartment.[4]
The Marina district was built on a landfill made of a mixture of sand, dirt, rubble, waste and other materials containing a high percentage of groundwater. Some of the fill was rubble dumped into San Francisco Bay after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but most was sand and debris laid down in preparation for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a celebration of San Francisco's ability to rebound after its terrible catastrophe in 1906.[30] After the Exposition, apartment buildings were erected on the landfill. In the 1989 earthquake, the water-saturated unconsolidated mud, sand and rubble suffered liquefaction, and the earthquake's vertical shock waves rippled the ground more severely.[8]
At the intersection of Beach and Divisadero Streets in San Francisco, a natural gas main rupture caused a major structure fire.[31][32][33] The fire department selected bystanders to help run fire hoses from a distance because the nearby hydrant system failed. Since the bay was only two blocks from the burning buildings,[33] water from the bay was pumped by the fireboat Phoenix, to engines on the shore, and from there sprayed on the fire.[34][35] The apartment structures that collapsed were older buildings that included ground floor garages, which engineers refer to as a soft story building.[36]
Santa Cruz and Monterey counties[edit]
In Santa Cruz, the Pacific Garden Mall was severely damaged, with falling debris killing three people, half of the six earthquake deaths in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.[18] Some 31 buildings were damaged enough to warrant demolition, seven of which had been listed in the Santa Cruz Historic Building Survey.[37] The four oldest were built in 1894, the five oldest withstood the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[37]
Immediately, a number of civilians began to free victims from the rubble of Ford's Department Store and the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company — both buildings had collapsed inward on customers and employees alike.[18] Two police officers crawled through voids in the debris, found one victim alive and another dead inside the coffee house.[38] Santa Cruz beach lifeguards assisted in moving the victims.[38] Police dogs were brought in to help locate other victims.[38] A woman was found dead inside Ford's.[39] The civilians who were helpful initially, were soon viewed by police and fire officials as a hindrance to operations, with frantic coworkers and friends of a coffee house employee thought to be trapped under the rubble continuing their efforts in the dark.[38] Police arrested those who refused to stop searching. This became a political issue in the following days.[40] The body of a young woman coffee worker was found under a collapsed wall late the next day.[41]
During the first few days following the quake, electric power to most Santa Cruz county subscribers was out, and some areas had no water. Limited phone service remained online, providing a crucial link to rescue workers.[40] Widespread search operations were organized to find possible victims inside the remains of fallen structures. As many as six teams of dogs and their handlers were at work identifying the large number of damaged buildings that held no victims.[40]
The quake claimed one life in Watsonville;[40] a driver who collided with panicked horses after they escaped their collapsed corral.[42] In other Santa Cruz and Monterey county locations such as Boulder Creek and Moss Landing, a number of structures were damaged, with some knocked off of their foundations.[43] Many residents slept outside their homes out of concern for further damage from aftershocks, of which there were 51 with magnitudes greater than 3.0 in the following 24 hours, and 16 more the second day.[43] The earthquake damaged several historic buildings in the Old Town district of Salinas, and some were later demolished.[44]
San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge[edit]
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge suffered relatively minor damage, as a 76-by-50-foot (23 m × 15 m) section of the upper deck on the eastern cantilever side fell onto the deck below. The quake caused the Oakland side of the bridge to shift 7 in (18 cm) to the east, and caused the bolts of one section to shear off, sending the 250-short-ton (230 t) section of roadbed crashing down like a trapdoor.[45] When that part of the bridge collapsed, one car drove into the hole, resulting in the death of the driver. Traffic on both decks came to a halt, blocked by the section of roadbed. Police began unsnarling the traffic jam, telling drivers to turn their cars around and drive back the way they had come. Eastbound drivers stuck on the lower deck between the collapse and Yerba Buena Island were routed up to the upper deck and westward back to San Francisco. A miscommunication made by emergency workers at Yerba Buena Island routed some of the drivers the wrong way; they were directed to the upper deck where they drove eastward toward the collapse site.[4] One of these drivers did not see the open gap in time; the car plunged over the edge and smashed onto the collapsed roadbed. The driver Anamafi Moala died, and the passenger was seriously injured.[31][46] Caltrans removed and replaced the collapsed section, and re-opened the bridge on November 18.[8]
Oakland and Interstate 880/Cypress Viaduct[edit]
The worst disaster of the earthquake was the collapse of the two-level Cypress Street Viaduct of Interstate 880 in West Oakland. The failure of a 1.25-mile (2.0 km) section[47] of the viaduct, also known as the "Cypress Structure" and the "Cypress Freeway",[4] killed 42 and injured many more.[48]
Built in the late 1950s, the Cypress Street Viaduct, a stretch of Interstate 880, was a double-deck freeway section made of nonductile reinforced concrete[49] that was constructed above and astride Cypress Street in Oakland. Roughly half of the land the Cypress Viaduct was built on was filled marshland, and half was somewhat more stable alluvium.[7] Because of new highway structure design guidelines—the requirement of ductile construction elements—instituted following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, a limited degree of earthquake reinforcement was retrofitted to the Cypress Viaduct in 1977. The added elements were longitudinal restraints at transverse expansion joints in the box girder spans, but no studies were made of possible failure modes specific to the Cypress Viaduct.[49] When the earthquake hit, the shaking was amplified on the former marshland, and soil liquefaction occurred.[43]
During the earthquake, the freeway buckled and twisted to its limits before the support columns failed and sent the upper deck crashing to the lower deck. In an instant, 41 people were crushed to death in their cars. Cars on the upper deck were tossed around violently, some of them flipped sideways and some of them were left dangling at the edge of the highway. Nearby residents and factory workers came to the rescue, climbing onto the wreckage with ladders and forklifts[16] and pulling trapped people out of their mangled cars from under a four-foot gap in some sections. Some 60 members of Oakland's Public Works Agency left the nearby city yard and joined rescue efforts.[47] Employees from Pacific Pipe (a now-closed factory adjoining the freeway) drove heavy lift equipment to the scene and started using it to raise sections of fallen freeway enough to allow further rescue. Hard-hatted factory workers continued their volunteer operation without stopping night and day until October 21, 1989, when they were forced to pause as U.S. President George H. W. Bush and California Governor George Deukmejian viewed the damage.[50] The stubborn efforts of the rescue workers were rewarded just after dawn on October 21 when survivor Buck Helm was freed from the wreckage, having spent 90 hours trapped in his crushed car under the rubble.[51] Dubbed "Lucky Buck" by the local radio, Helm lived for another 29 days on life support, but finally succumbed to respiratory failure at the age of 57.[52]
Rebuilding the freeway took 11 years.[53] In the meantime, traffic was detoured through nearby Interstate 980, causing increased congestion.[53] Instead of rebuilding Interstate 880 over the same ground, Caltrans rerouted the freeway further west around the outskirts of West Oakland to provide better access to the Port of Oakland and the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, and to meet community desires to keep the freeway from cutting through residential areas.[54] Street-level Mandela Parkway now occupies the previous roadbed of the Cypress Structure.[54]
1989 World Series[edit]
Among the most notable aspects of the Loma Prieta earthquake is that it was one of only a few times that the onset of an earthquake of such magnitude has occurred during a live network television broadcast, and as a result, the first moments of the earthquake were seen around the world as it happened. The World Series was being televised that year by U.S. network ABC. At the moment the quake struck, sportscaster Tim McCarver was narrating taped highlights of the previous Series game. Viewers saw the video signal begin to break up, heard McCarver repeat a sentence as the shaking distracted him, and heard McCarver's colleague Al Michaels exclaim, "I'll tell you what—we're having an earth—."[42] At that moment, the feed from Candlestick Park was lost.[55]
The network put up a green ABC Sports graphic as the audio was switched to a telephone link. Michaels cracked, "Well folks, that's the greatest open in the history of television, bar none!" accompanied by the excited screams of fans who had no idea of the devastation elsewhere.[56] ABC then switched to an episode of Roseanne which was on standby for a rain delay situation, while attempting to restore electricity to its remote equipment. With anchorman Ted Koppel in position in Washington, D.C., ABC News began continuous coverage of the quake about 5:40 p.m. (Al Michaels, in the process, became a de facto on-site reporter for ABC), at the same time as CBS News.[25] NBC News also began continuous coverage, with Tom Brokaw, about an hour later.[25] The Goodyear blimp was aloft above the ballpark to provide aerial coverage of the World Series. Blimp pilot John Crayton reported that he felt four bumps during the quake.[57] ABC was able to use the blimp to capture some of the first images of the damage to the Bay Bridge.[24]
Inside Candlestick Park, fewer than half of the more than 62,000 fans[4] had reached their seats by the time of the quake, and the load on the structure of the stadium was lower than maximum.[58] There had also been a seismic-strengthening project previously completed[59] on the upper deck concrete windscreen. Fans reported that the stadium moved in an articulated manner as the earthquake wave passed through it, that the light standards swayed by many feet, and that the concrete upper deck windscreen moved in a wave-like manner over a distance of several feet. Electrical power to the stadium was lost, forcing the game to be postponed. The series did not resume for 10 days.[58] After the shaking subsided, many of the players on both teams immediately searched for and gathered family[58] and friends from the stands before evacuating the facility.
Because of the importance of the World Series as a national sporting event, many members of local, regional, and national broadcast media were in attendance, and later broadcast their observations of the aftermath of the earthquake to viewers around the world.[60] In addition to broadcast news, many photojournalists were present, and a collection of their photos was released as the book Fifteen Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989, which was published soon after the quake to raise money for the victims.[60]
CBS Radio Sports broadcast the 1989 World Series nationally with commentators Jack Buck, Johnny Bench, and John Rooney. Unlike the television coverage on ABC, CBS Radio was in a commercial break when the earthquake struck. After the earthquake hit, Jack Buck told the listening audience, "I must say about Johnny Bench, folks, if he moved that fast when he played, he would have never hit into a double play. I never saw anybody move that fast in my life."
Effects on transportation[edit]
Immediately following the earthquake, San Francisco Bay Area airports closed to conduct visual inspection and damage assessment procedures. San Jose International Airport,[61] Oakland International Airport and San Francisco International Airport all opened the next morning.[62] Massive cracks in Oakland's runway and taxiway reduced the usable length to two-thirds normal, and damage to the dike required quick remediation to avoid flooding the runway with water from the bay.[63] Oakland Airport repair costs were assessed at $30 million.[63]
San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) lost all power to electric transit systems when the quake hit, but otherwise suffered little damage and no injuries to operators or riders.[64] Cable cars and electric trains and buses were stalled in place—half of Muni's transport capability was lost for 12 hours. Muni relied on diesel buses to continue abbreviated service until electric power was restored later that night, and electric units could be inspected and readied for service on the morning of October 18.[64] After 78 hours, 96 percent of Muni services were back in operation, including the cable cars.[64] Amtrak intercity rail service into Oakland from the east continued, but the Coast Starlight was temporarily suspended north of Salinas because of damage to the Southern Pacific's Coast Line.[65]
The earthquake changed the Bay Area's automobile transportation landscape. Not only did the quake force seismic retrofitting of all San Francisco Bay Area bridges,[66] it caused enough damage that some parts of the region's freeway system had to be demolished.[49] Damage to the region's transportation system was estimated at $1.8 billion.[43]
- San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, Interstate 80: The Bay Bridge was repaired and reopened to traffic in a month. However, the earthquake made it clear that the Bay Bridge, like many of California's toll bridges, required major repair or replacement for long-term viability and safety. Construction on a replacement for the eastern span began on January 29, 2002. The project was completed on September 2, 2013.[67]
- Cypress Street Viaduct/Nimitz Freeway, Interstate 880: The double-decked Cypress Street Viaduct, Interstate 880 was demolished soon after the earthquake, and was not rebuilt until July 1997. The rebuilt highway was a single-deck rather than double-deck structure, and was re-routed around the outskirts of West Oakland, rather than bisecting it, as the Cypress Street Viaduct had done. The former route of the Cypress Street Viaduct was reopened as the ground-level Mandela Parkway.
- Embarcadero Freeway, State Route 480: Earthquake damage forced the closure and demolition of San Francisco's incomplete and controversial Embarcadero Freeway (State Route 480). This removal opened up San Francisco's Embarcadero area to new development. The elevated structure, which ran along San Francisco's waterfront, was later demolished and replaced with a ground-level boulevard.
- Southern Freeway, Interstate 280: Seismic damage also forced the long-term closure of Interstate 280 in San Francisco (north of US 101), another concrete freeway which had never been completed to its originally planned route. The uncompleted northernmost stub of I-280 was demolished during August–October 1995[68] while one connecting ramp between northbound I-280 and southbound US 101 was opened in December 1995.[69] The full I-280 project was completed in late 1997.[70]
- Central Freeway, U.S. Highway 101: San Francisco's Central Freeway (part of US 101 and a key link to the Bay Bridge flyover) was another concrete double-deck structure which faced demolition because of safety concerns. Originally terminating at Franklin Street and Golden Gate Avenue near San Francisco's Civic Center, the section past Fell Street was demolished first, then later the section between Mission and Fell Streets. The section from Mission Street to Market Street was rebuilt (completed September 2005) as a single-deck elevated freeway, touching down at Market Street and feeding into Octavia Boulevard, a ground-level urban parkway carrying traffic to and from the major San Francisco traffic arterials that the old elevated freeway used to connect to directly, including Fell and Oak Streets (which serve the city's western neighborhoods) and Franklin and Gough Streets (which serve northern neighborhoods and the Golden Gate Bridge).
- State Route 17: The mountain highway was closed for about one month because of a landslide. The route crosses the San Andreas Fault in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the earthquake's epicenter.
- State Route 1: In Watsonville, the Struve Slough Bridge collapsed, with concrete/steel support columns punching through the bridge deck like toothpicks. The highway was closed for several months until it could be demolished and rebuilt. Another section of Highway 1 through Monterey suffered damage and had to be rebuilt as well. Additionally, the bridge carrying Highway 1 over the Salinas River near Fort Ord was damaged and subsequently rebuilt.
- Bay Area Rapid Transit: The BART rail system, which hauled commuters between the East Bay and San Francisco via the Transbay Tube, was virtually undamaged and only closed for post-earthquake inspection. With the Bay Bridge closed because of its damage, the Transbay Tube became the quickest way into San Francisco via Oakland for a month, and ridership increased in the three work weeks following the earthquake, going from 218,000 riders per average weekday to more than 330,000 post-quake, a 50 percent increase.[8] BART instituted round-the-clock train service until December 3 when they returned to their normal schedule.[8]
- Amtrak: Historic 16th Street Station in downtown Oakland suffered significant damage and was rendered structurally unsound. Amtrak would shift its Oakland operations to new station in Emeryville.[71]
- Transbay Ferries: Ferry service between San Francisco and Oakland, which had ended decades before, was revived during the month-long closure of the Bay Bridge as an alternative to the overcrowded BART. A ferry terminal was put together in Alameda, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged a suitable ferry dock at the Berkeley Marina.[63] Additionally, the demolition of the quake-damaged Embarcadero Freeway led to the Ferry Building Terminal renovation, increasing the efficiency of ferry service to the peninsula. The passenger-only service proved popular and continues to expand its service.
Science of the earthquake[edit]
Data on magnetic disturbances[edit]
After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred, a group led by Antony C. Fraser-Smith of Stanford University reported that the event was preceded by disturbances in background magnetic field noise as measured by a sensor placed in Corralitos, California, about 4.5 miles (7 km) from the epicenter.[72] From October 5, they reported a substantial increase in noise was measured in the frequency range 0.01–10 Hz.[72] The measurement instrument was a single-axis search-coil magnetometer that was being used for low frequency research.[72] Precursor increases of noise apparently started a few days before the earthquake, with noise in the range .01–.5 Hz rising to exceptionally high levels about three hours before the earthquake.[72] Though this pattern gave scientists new ideas for research into potential precursors to earthquakes, and the Fraser-Smith et al. report remains one of the most frequently cited examples of a specific earthquake precursor, more recent studies have cast doubt on the connection, attributing the Corralitos signals to either unrelated magnetic disturbance[73] or, even more simply, to sensor-system malfunction.[74]
In popular culture[edit]
- The events in the Full House episode, "Aftershocks" (December 8, 1989), took place following the Loma Prieta earthquake; it centered on Stephanie Tanner having a hard time telling her father Danny about how she fears another aftershock might happen and kill him, since he is a widowed single father, as well as other members of the family.
- After The Shock (1990), a made-for-TV movie with stories of rescue after the disaster.[75]
- Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993), a TV movie fictionalization and re-enactment of events at the collapsed Cypress Structure.[76]
- Journeyman (2007), TV show on NBC in which the main character travels back in time to save a person who died during the earthquake. Occurs in third episode, "Game Three," in reference to the 1989 World Series.[77]
- Midnight Caller (1990), TV show set in San Francisco in the aftermath of the earthquake. In the show, a caller jokes about Candlestick Park being renamed "Wiggly Field".
- Medium (2005), TV show on NBC in which a character uses her coincidental presence in Oakland during the earthquake as an opportunity to fake her own death and disappear. Occurs in the episode "Sweet Dreams".[78]
- Fringe (2008), TV show on FOX in which a character's parents were killed in the Oakland Bay Bridge collapse, while the Observer was watching her and her parents. Occurs in the episode "August".[79] In a later episode ("Amber 31422", November 4, 2010), the alternate Walter Bishop refers to October 17, 1989, as the first time he used his amber-based protocol to heal breaches between the two universes.
- The Grateful Dead performed the Rodney Crowell song "California Earthquake" at their concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 20, 1989, then again three nights later in Charlotte, North Carolina—the only times the band ever performed the song. On December 6, 1989, the band played an earthquake benefit concert at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004 video game by Rockstar Games) takes place in 1992, and the fictional city of San Fierro (based on San Francisco) has a few areas that have been destroyed by the earthquake that took place 3 years before the game took place.
- Hardcore punk band Loma Prieta takes their name from the earthquake.
The Danielle Steel novel "Amazing Grace" begins on the day of the earthquake at a charity benefit. It follows four characters affected by the earthquake including a nun, a wife who discovers her husband is unable to mitigate his underhand business dealing in time to save himself and a friend from fraud charges, a photo-journalist who attends AA meetings, and a pop star dominated by a mother reliving her own dreams through her daughter.[80]
See also[edit]
- 1994 Northridge earthquake
- Earthquake engineering
- List of earthquakes in California
- List of earthquakes in the United States
- Notes
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- ^ book itself
- Bibliography
- Fradkin, Philip L. Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault, University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0-520-22119-2
- Gunn, Angus M. Encyclopedia of Disasters: Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. ISBN 0-313-34002-1
- Palm, Risa; Michael E. Hodgson. After a California Earthquake: Attitude and Behavior Change, University Of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-64499-5
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Loma Prieta earthquake.
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- A film clip "Loma Prieta Earthquake, ca. 1989" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
- Reflections 20 Years Later in Loma Prieta
- 1989 earthquakes
- 1989 Major League Baseball season
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- History of Oakland, California
- History of San Francisco, California
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