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Sr. Geraldine Warthling, OSF
Sr. Geraldine Warthling, OSF, (formerly S. Mary Cordis) of Stella Niagara, passed away on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
She was born Geraldine Teresa Warthling, in Lackawanna, NY, on August 1, 1937, a daughter of the late Cyril and Edith (Blehl) Warthling.
After graduating from South Park High School in 1955, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity at Stella Niagara and made her profession of vows on August 23, 1961. She received her Bachelors of Arts Degree from Rosary Hill College and her Master's Degree from Manhattan College, in Riverdale, NY.
Sister Geraldine taught and was a head of the Mathematics Dept. at Rosary High School and a head of the Religion Department at Bishop Wehrle High School, both in Columbus, OH. She also served as the Director of Youth Retreats and Director of Youth and Young Adults Ministry for the Diocese of Columbus. Sister was the Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Pontifical College Josphinum in Columbus. She had also taught at Charleston Catholic High School in Charleston, WV, and was the Director of Campus Ministry and Vice President of Student affairs and St. Leo College in Dade City, FL.
Sister Geraldine returned to Stella Niagara in 1995 where she was a Provincial Councilor for the Sisters of St. Francis, a Home Health Visitor with Mercy Home Health Care and a director with the Warde Center in Buffalo, NY. She retired at Stella Niagara in August of 2009.
Sister Geraldine is survived by one sister, Joan (Edward) Roberts; and many nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Betty Ann (Thomas) Fanning and the Rev. William Warthling.
The family will be present on Sunday from 2-7 PM at Stella Niagara, 4421 Lower River Road, where a prayer service will be held at 7:00 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday at 10:00 AM in the Sisters Chapel at Stella Niagara. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Sisters of St. Francis, 4421 Lower River Road, Stella Niagara, NY 14144. Interment at Stella Niagara Cemetery, Lewiston, NY.
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Bengals DE Antwan Odom admitted on his Twitter page that he has tested positive for a banned substance but that he is appealing the league-mandated four-game suspension.
Odom's statement said the rumors of him testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs or steroids is false but he did not elaborate on what the substance was that caused the positive test.
As of this writing on Friday afternoon, there had been no official announcement from the NFL and the Bengals had not confirmed whether a suspension was coming or not. Odom has been practicing with the team and is expected to play against the Patriots in the team's season opener Sunday.
Odom has had an injury-hampered three years with the Bengals. He signed with the club as a free agent in 2008 but missed four games with a foot injury. Last season, he had nine sacks before suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon in Week Six and going down for the season. Then, early this preseason, he lost 20 pounds because of a virus but has managed to gain most of the weight back.
If Odom is forced to sit out at some point this season, he likely would be replaced in the starting lineup by backup Frostee Rucker. Rookie Carlos Dunlap, currently listed as third string, and veteran Jonathan Fanene, who started 10 games after Odom was injured last season, also are options.
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By Timothy Chipp
Niagara Gazette
Niagara Gazette — With a grim budget situation continuing to develop in Lewiston-Porter, officials are turning to other means for income. One of those places might be the district's foreign exchange program, if high school Principal Paul Casseri has his way.
Last month, Casseri completed a much-needed step in brining foreign students through Lew-Port's doors by formally becoming SEVP – Student Exchange Visitor Program – certified through United States Homeland Security.
Casseri said the certification allows him to jump through red tape getting students from their home countries to Lewiston.
"When students come to the U.S. for private schools, they usually come under an F visa," he said. "With this certification, I can now issue an I-20 form, which is the nonimmigrant student status form, so they can go to their visa office and apply for an F visa to come to the U.S."
The F visa, though, requires students to be tuition-paying, which Lew-Port has set a figure at. In the current school year, foreign students paid almost $8,700 to attend Lew-Port. Next year, with active recruitment in countries like China ongoing, the district is hoping to find five or six students in an effort to support the district's struggling general fund.
Getting started bringing more and more students to the school, Casseri's primary focus is in China. The Chinese market for students, he said, is ripe with families which have the liquid cash to send their children to the U.S. for education. And Casseri, who has spent many months in the communist country since taking over the district's high school, has all of the connections to make it possible.
In fact, he may end up traveling there before the end of the school year, he said, to recruit with some local ambassadors already overseas. It's one way to put some life into a district which is bleeding out financially and is suffering from chronic decreases in enrollment, he said.
"We've established this program here at Lew-Port and we see it as important to the overall makeup of this school," Casseri said. "This avenue could be huge for us, considering our declining enrollment and budgetary issues. Plus, this program promotes diversity. It'll be great for the Lew-Port community. I'm super excited about it. I'm excited about actively recruiting kids to come here."
The only hiccup in Casseri's plan appears to be a time limit on public entities like Lewiston-Porter keeping students enrolled. Under current guidelines, F visa students are only allowed to remain enrolled for one year, not the four-year figure private schools can provide families.
But a fix, Casseri said, may soon be going through the halls of congress, though nothing is certain yet.
If the district can find enough students to come overseas, it could eventually help fund the district's reverse program, which sends students to those countries for their own learning experiences. It's a program Superintendent Christopher Roser has recently proposed eliminating funding for as the district attempts to patchwork a 2013-14 budget together without needing to override the 4 percent tax levy threshold mandated by New York State's property tax cap.
So, if Roser's proposals are adopted by voters May 21, incoming students could help buoy the operating fund, but Lewiston and Porter residents couldn't send their children overseas through the district.
It's all about the changes, Roser said.
"It's going to be a little different," he said. "We are still a Confucius Institute school. There are a number of things that take place because of that designation. But opportunities for students to go to other countries, right now, that won't be taking place."
The Confucius Institute, organized through the University at Buffalo and the Chinese department Hanban, generates programs and opportunities for students to learn about Chinese culture. Lewiston-Porter currently has Wang Ying teaching language classes throughout the district's four schools and has hosted summer camps last year.
But any hope in using the foreign exchange income to fund exchange expenses is out of Roser's hands. All financial matters are handled by the school board and it'll be up to the seven-member group to determine what any money generated by Casseri's certification efforts will be used for.
"It's up to the board to determine," Roser said. "If we have a number of students come in, we may use it to fund those opportunities.
"I have some questions about it, but the board felt they wanted to go down this path. I like the opportunities for the kids, but I have to worry about all 2,100 of them in the district, not just a select few."Contact reporter Timothy Chipp at 282-2311, ext. 2251 or follow on Twitter @timchipp.


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The gnocchi was flavorless. Next time I would add some marinara sauce, or season the diced tomatoes and let the gnocchi cook longer in the mixture so it would soak up some flavor. Also, I would decrease the amount of gnocchi. I also only used 1/4 of an onion, since a whole one seemed a bit much.
Please don't believe the rating stars on this recipe. Some people think its funny to enter nonsense reviews with low ratings. This is a great family meal. Everyone that has eaten it at my house loves it. I use spinach but will try chard when I have some in my garden. I use frozen gnocchi because I couldn't find the other kind. Just boil according to package directions, drain and add when you put in the tomatoes and beans. Yummy!!
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Oh my goodness, this was absolutely delicious. I made it for my husband and 11 year old, they both thought it was great, and definitely a keeper. I used spinach instead of chard. The toasting of the gnocchi before cooking really adds an extra little bit of yumminess. Not sure why this is rated so low, but ignore the low rating and make this dish. You won't be disappointed.
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Asked about recent disease outbreaks, including the hantavirus outbreak traced to Yosemite National Park, Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC division of vector-borne infectious diseases, said pathogens are spreading faster because people and goods are moving around the planet at record rates. "The world is a smaller place right now," he said.
U.S. health officials have notified 39 countries that their citizens might be at risk from the rodent-borne hantavirus after traveling recently to Yosemite. Six hantavirus cases, two of which were fatal, have been linked to the park. The CDC said that as many as 10,000 people were at risk after staying in Yosemite's "signature tent cabins" between June 10 and Aug. 24.
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Hardball caused a frenzy after he broke free from his handlers.
The bull was not set to perform Sunday; he was on standby as a backup.
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drug concentrations.27 Because of this uncertainty in the optimal timing for sample collection, in many cases changes in cyclosporine dose in cats
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Of course, these kids aren't sleeping in the public parks of Cuzco — but in countries with plenty of cheap travelers' hostels, you don't have to. And though international flights cost more than the van rides and freight train hops that brought in most of the Haight Street kids, backpackers abroad do the same things: take fewer showers and flaunt social norms — not because they want to cause a problem for the natives of the lands they pass through, but because they are young, and discovering themselves for the first time, and can't see much past that. Piss isn't being violent, but he has lost the language to deal with "normies" and he's seen as unpredictable to the not-traveling, not-disenfranchised around him. Which to those who see public space as a place that should be predictable, mean he's a threat.
The clash between the settled and transient in the Haight is not new. Indeed, it's what made the neighborhood famous. As far back as the mid-1960s, officials have been simultaneously fighting and publicizing the Haight's worldwide reputation as a traveler's meeting place, a place with a culture of loosened societal moorings and enlightenment through free love, drugs, and art.
Businesses claim that the omnipresent homeless drive away paying customers from Haight Street. It a curious claim in an area where the vagrant hippie culture made the place the tourist attraction it is today, and one that is belied by the entry of Whole Foods, which plans to open a branch this year at a lot at Haight and Stanyan vacant since 2006. When contrasted with the Tenderloin — another neighborhood with a visible street community — and its chronic problems attracting a grocery store, the Haight street kids' effect on local commerce doesn't seem to be all that grave.
They certainly aren't making the place any less desirable of a neighborhood to live in for the wealthy. Real estate website Trulia.com puts the median listing price for homes in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood at $962,264.
The Haight Street kids I spoke could all too easily see what sit-lie would mean for San Francisco. When you control public space, you control who is in public space — and they have no illusions about whether or not they're included in the perfect world of those who push the measure. If it's enacted, the subculture that made Haight famous — part of which still survives today in a different form — would be gone, leaving it sterile and safe for the head shops and clothing boutiques, an even less authentic version of the '60s love fest their patrons come to the street for. One wonders if a scrubbed-clean Haight is even what the residents and business owners who have thrown their lot behind sit-lie truly want, or if they've been duped into sit-lie's efficacy by the same forces that on a national level have convinced us that curtailing civil liberties will lead to freedom for the real Americans. It comes down to this: What do we want Haight Street to be? Do we want to capitalize and benefit from the accepting, messy, wildly creative legacy the 20th century endowed our streets, or do we want a clean, friendly, outdoor mall? The powers of homogenization and gentrification can demonize the little heathens on Haight Street all they want, but they've miscalculated if they think that they don't belong in San Francisco — after all, Haight created them, not the other way around.
as a woman, and a rather attractive one at that, I find your flinging around the term "misogynistic" the way a monkey flings her poo to be disgusting. Wrongly labeling people, events and words "misogynistic" results in the word itself being reduced to meaninglessness. Misogony is far too serious a subject for you to reduce it's importance with your carelessness. The earlier comment was clearly questioning Calvary Kendrick and calling into question his demeaning protrait of the upper haight neighborhood. I love the haight and i'm glad someone said something to one of these people hell bent on portraying our neighborhood as something it's not. This is a wonderful place.
For years and years, whenever a woman was victimized or attacked, men almost always called her a liar, said she was being hysterical, or some other such hateful nonsense. No here you are doing the same thing. Saying a woman who was attacked is exaggerating. I take a woman at her word when she tells me she has been threatened. You, on the other hand, call her a liar. This tells me two things - that you're not a woman, and that you're an asshole. I really don't give a hoot about cavalry kendrick or whatever his name is. But I will say one thing, at least he has the courage to come on here using his real name. Thanks to people like you, a woman would be crazy to do that. You'd just find out her address, post it, and encourage whatever maniac that actually believes your MISOGYNISTIC hate speech to go after her. What a scumbag you are.
Women certainly are lucky to have an angry superhero like you defending them.
You wouldn't, by any chance, have an example of the "MISOGYNISTIC hate speech" that you are using as an excuse to vent your rage, would you?
I didn't think so.
Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your captain, Captain Oveur.
Capt. Clarence Oveur:
Gentlemen, welcome aboard.
Captain, your navigator, Mr. Unger, and your first officer, Mr. Dunn.
Capt. Clarence Oveur:
Mr. Unger:
Mr. Dunn:
Capt. Clarence Oveur:
Dunn. Gentlemen, let's get to work.
Unger, didn't you serve under Oveur in the Air Force?
Mr. Unger:
Not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Oveur, and I was under Dunn.
Mr. Dunn:
So, Dunn, you were under Oveur, and over Unger.
Mr. Dunn:
Capt. Clarence Oveur:
Uhh, that's right. Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn.
Mr. Unger:
So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur, even though I was under Dunn.
Capt. Clarence Oveur:
Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn.
I guess my original post has stirred up quite a little sh*tstorm, hahaha. I feel like that greedy old man in "It's a Wonderful Life" :)
Alright, I promised my wife I would stop posting in here 'cause she said it's getting me too worked up. She is actually been trying to convince me to vote against Prop L for months now (she's a much nicer person than I am). But I wanted to respond to the "nightmare" post and the response from the other woman as well.
First to "Nightmare", your post made me chuckle a bit because I think you kind of nailed me. I am somewhat of a crybaby (though a far bigger one than 1.3). You said you were honestly interested in why I'm in the Haight if I'm not comfortable here. Here's your answer, I am comfortable here. I've lived here for ten years. I walk through the Haight at all hours of the day or night and hardly ever have I been hassled. But I'm 6' tall and 200 lbs. I don't feel intimidated very often anyway, whether I'm in the Tenderloin or wherever. But it's different for women. The attack on my wife was very real, it wasn't benign like you assumed, far from it. Despite that, she still has much compassion for the homeless and dislikes the whole idea of Prop L. Probably because she used to be a homeless teen herself (yes, really and truly. Ask around, tons of people know her in SF). Before that incident happened, I honestly didn't give sit/lie much thought. But that incident pissed me off pretty bad. Since then, I've begun to notice more of this kind of thing in our neighbourhood, violence that is, and I don't like it. Is it all homeless men? Not at all. I've seen many fraternity types vandalizing and fighting on my corner as well and I call the cops on them too. But more often it's the younger homeless men causing trouble. That's the truth, whether you choose to believe it or not.
You also wanted to know why I thought making sitting illegal would improve things in the Haight. In all honesty, I actually doubt Prop L or Prop M will do much of anything, either way it gets voted. Like I said, up until my wife was attacked, I really didn't give it much thought. I realize I'm not making any friends here, on either side of the argument, but I really don't care. I didn't start posting here to make friends. I posted on here initially because I read Caitlin's article about our neighbourhood and thought it was a total crock. The Guardian could have at least freelanced the assignment out to a writer who actually lives here. That's something I could respect, even if I disagreed with him/her. But I found it insulting that somebody strolls down here and hangs out for a few days, and then declares that there's no violence. I call BS. I watched a homeless woman get kicked in the head by a guy. It happened right in front of me. That is the truth, and no one should have to minimize or try to discredit that reality in order to make a political point. Never cover up violence, it's not worth the piece of your humanity it cuts away. That's all I have for you, "nightmare".
To the other woman posting, I appreciate you worrying about my wife, but you don't need to feel troubled about that. For one thing, she can totally take care of herself. She wasn't concerned in the least about her address being on the Guardian website. Also, though I don't think Barbara and "Nightmare" are exactly the most awesome people ever, I kind of doubt that they meant for any harm to come to my wife. It was more of them saying about me, "hey look at this greedy S.O.B over here" than anything about her at all. But I do appreciate your spirit :)
According to Fog City Journal, Supe John Avalos has attacked Police Chief George Gascón for supporting Prop L, claiming that the chief has the demon of hubris:
"this man [Gascón] has got some serious hubris, and that's a demon."
In recent years, SF progressivism has become less like an open popular movement and more like a doctrinaire religious sect. It now insists on dogmatic conformity, demonizes independent thinking, and is tied to the careers of certain politicians.
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I take it Caitlin Donahue and Tim Redmond were the first in line to save pit bull rescues after this article was printed? Tim, who has written that he has a young child, should especially be first. It's well known that pit bulls are wonderful with children.
Supervisor John Avalos said: "The police chief thinks he can change everything in San Francisco by talking to the establishment people, people who are funding the Prop L campaign, the people who think we can cleanse our sidewalks of the riffraff. We are riffraff. I am riffraff. He's saying that the Board of Supervisors are playing politics with public safety, but this man has got some serious hubris, and that's a demon."
As for the manufactured panic and fears of "thugs with dogs", it turns out that, after six weeks of daily patrols and strict enforcement,
the SFPD says: :"We have not found any menacing dogs,"
"instead of encountering aggressive animals, the officers discovered the more-common issue was unlicensed and off-leash dogs."
When will people finally wake up?
We need to give police the tools they need to protect our families and our neighborhoods before these crimes occur!
Allowing these sorts of people to sit hidden in structures in the heart of our family neighborhoods, only to emerge with acts of inexcusable violence like the ones described in this article is bad for neighbors and damaging to small businesses!
For the sake of neighborhood safety,
Vote Yes on the No Sitting Inside Your Own Home Law!
the police already have the necessary tools they need. you didn't read the article from the bay citizen? quoting from a previous comment by ms. chelsai:
The Law Firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP of San Francisco looked into this claim and their legal analysis revealed that the cops currently have the necessary "tools" they need (see What's Wrong with the Sit/ Lie Campaign's Story? published by the Bay Citizen). Sit-lie is not necessary.
no on prop L.
yes on prop M.
That was meant to be satirical.
The point is that the rabid nutjobs and moneypigs that are trying to destroy San Francisco with laws like No Sitting On The Sidewalk won't be satisfied until we all live under curfews and are allowed out only on days that we clean their houses or do their gardening.
A few of them are the boot, and the rest of them can't get enough of licking it.
Are you retarded? Do you like walking on dog shit all the time? Maybe when you have kids, you can teach them to grow up to be a lazy Haight street transient.
Your contention is that, somewhere in this city, people are "walking on dog shit all the time".
Where is this dog shit shangri-la?
Maybe you should take a picture of it.
Because the only thing full of shit here is not a sidewalk.
And you know for a fact that this shit is the product of butts belonging to dogs belonging to "lazy Haight street transient".
That is just pure sparkling brilliance.
While accusing someone else of being retarded.
>>>Do you like walking on dog shit all the time?<<<..........No, and I don't do that. If I see any, I walk around it. It's not often that I see any. Just occasionally. So you walk right in it and then track it wherever you walk? That's not good judgment. Why would you do that? It's best to walk around it. Try walking around it next time and come back and let us know if that works better for you. I think it will. Now, what on Earth does that have to do with homeless and street people on Haight Street or any other street? I know that the wealthy will have a diarrhea moment when they hear this (see link below) because the wealthy can't stand to see homeless and street people within their view. But one should expect to see more homeless and street people on streets all over the nation...
Foreclosure activity up across most US metro areas
>>>Do you like walking on dog shit all the time?<<<..........No, and I don't do that. If I see any, I walk around it. It's not often that I see any. Just occasionally. So you walk right in it and then track it wherever you walk? That's not good judgment. Why would you do that? It's best to walk around it. Try walking around it next time and come back and let us know if that works better for you. I think it will. Now, what on Earth does that have to do with homeless and street people on Haight Street or any other street? I know that the wealthy will have a diarrhea moment when they hear this (see link below) because the wealthy can't stand to see homeless and street people within their view. But one should expect to see more homeless and street people on streets all over the nation...
Foreclosure activity up across most US metro areas
you're wondering where to ship the street bums? how about Alaska. maybe they'll be able to see San Francisco from there! they sure wouldn't starve - lot's of caribou around; no problem with weed - lot's of tweakers and stoners there; no problem with handouts - everyone in Alaska gets a stipend thanks to Exxon. join them Barbara so that you can keep 'em warm. watch out for the dog shit near the sleds.
The bums are the wealthy corporate "elite" who sit in their plush towers with their snooty noses turned in the air getting bailouts from the taxpayers and taking home huge bonuses and then they come onto websites forums and speak hate about the homeless and street people who they don't want to see because they think they are too good to see homeless and street people. THEY (the wealthy "elite") are the bums in our society.
Some advice to tourists in today's Chron:
"The Haight: You'll want to get out to Haight and Ashbury just to say you were there. And, yes, we are aware that there are an enormous number of shops selling bongs. We think they are catering to collectors of fine crystal.
Don't miss the scruffy guys sitting on the sidewalk with the pit bulls. With luck, they'll growl something threatening at you so you can have the real San Francisco experience. The city is voting on a sit/lie law that would make them stand up. Opponents are attempting to make a comparison with the civil rights movement in the South in the '50s and '60s. Apparently their view is that an unkempt panhandler camping on the sidewalk equates to the Freedom Riders opposing racial discrimination. Weird."
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Not filthier.
People need to stop lying about the conditions of our city and the behavior of the people here, in an effort to rob their neighbors of their civil rights.
It is one thing to spend a few hours, few days, few weeks with the street kids on Haight and develop a connection to them, find their signs and whatnot funny. It's another thing entirely to live on Haight, and be kept up all night by the noise (music, fighting, loud talking), to be harassed for money every morning on your way to work, to have to ask people to move just so you can open your door.
I am in no way this "right-wing" oppressor that some seem to think are the only people who could possibly support prop L. I'm young, liberal, tattooed, and broke too. But thats the thing... I work and support myself and don't expect others to just give me money just because I ask for it. And I am barely scraping by. Some of these street kids, when I politely refuse to give them money (and I mean it. I smile, I say I'm sorry, I'm really nice about it) respond by yelling at me, calling me selfish, making comments about how I'm lucky I have a job or whatever. What made you think you deserve the money I worked hard for?
Also, in response to the author's comment implying that complaints about music are imaginary excuses to harass the street kids... you must not live here and have to work in the morning. It gets loud, and it lasts all night. It's hard to sleep. I'm sure people do complain. Often, it's not just music either. It's loud talking, yelling, bottles breaking, dogs barking.... I have nothing against "the homeless" or "the impoverished" or dogs, for that matter, but it can get ridiculous out here sometimes. One last thing, since this is already super long... to the people that are so upset about prop L meaning that you or I can't recline on the sidewalks legally... gross. Who does that? The sidewalks are covered in urine, trash, and loogies anyway. I certainly don't want to sit or lie on them.
"to the people that are so upset about prop L meaning that you or I can't recline on the sidewalks legally... gross. Who does that? "
Who does that?
Right now anyone who wants to. Maybe not you, that's fine.
But how arrogant do you have to be to say" Hey. I'm going to make something illegal for everyone in San Francisco, because I can't see myself wanting to do it."
Suppose you don't care to use language that offends other people or suppose you don't see the point in voicing your opinion if it makes others uncomfortable.
Then why not make saying those things a crime, too.
You know, like this:
to the people that are so upset about prop X meaning that you or I can't say things that other people don't like legally...gross. Who does that?
Just because you're too much of a milquetoast to find any use for the freedoms granted to all of us by the Constitution doesn't give you an excuse to deprive the rest of us of those freedoms.
My comment was made to point out that I have rarely seen anyone sitting on the sidewalks, especially in the Haight and Tenderloin, other than the street kids or homeless. Why? Because the sidewalks are dirty and most people don't want whatever is on the sidewalk transferred to themselves. All I was saying is, to those using that specific point as their main argument for why they are against it, you more than likely wouldn't to sit on the sidewalk anyway.
Please don't take the "gross" from my comment and apply it to civil rights, or voicing one's opinion, or the people against prop L, as you seem to have done. I don't think you're "gross" for voting against it, and I don't think the street kids are "gross" for being there... I think the urine, spit, food, occasional vomit, cigarette ash/butts, etc. on the sidewalks are gross.
You said it was gross.
You said you certainly didn't want to sit on them.
You used these statements to argue that "the people that are so upset about prop L meaning that you or I can't recline on the sidewalks legally" should let you make it a criminal act for anyone in San Francisco to sit on a sidewalk because
"Who does that? "
Stop kidding yourself that you are not what you are.
You are arguing to rob people of their civil rights and the only difference between you and "some right-wing oppressor" is the "right wing" part. Which, when you are trampling on people's rights, is negligible.
No. You are reading one line of my comment and interpreting it in the way you choose to do so. I said, in fewer words, that sidewalks are gross, covered in gross things, and therefore reclining on them is also gross. I said who does that, because I would not do it, and haven't seen many others doing it. Again, you took my words, and gave them a meaning that they did not have when I wrote them.
I refuse to allow you and your accusations to anger me. I know that I am a wonderful, caring person who does, in fact, care about civil rights issues, and who has in the past and will in the future stand up for the rights of people who I may not necessarily agree with, and do my part to help. I feel that sit/lie is not one of these issues to me. I think that the rights of the people who live, work, and visit the Haight (or anywhere else) to not have to step over people, not be harassed, or snarled at by aggressive dogs, are also important, and in this case, I feel they take precedent.
Believe me, I don't dislike a good number of these street kids. A lot of them are friendly enough. But allowing groups of people to camp out on the sidewalks and drink, and deal drugs, and urinate on public and private property (all of which the author of the article was so eager to share with us) is unfair to the rest of us.
I would like to add that sitting on the sidewalk, obstructing pedestrian traffic, is already not legal. The current law is just difficult to enforce because it requires a complainant, and most people don't want to be bothered with that. Smoking pot is also illegal, for the most part, as is drinking in public, and smoking cigarettes within a certain distance of buildings and bus stops. I have yet to see anyone actually get in legal trouble for doing ANY of these things, unless they were absolutely out of bounds with their behavior. In a city like San Francisco, I don't believe that sit/lie will result in employees on breaks or tired shoppers or residents sitting in their driveways getting cited or imprisoned. I don't actually think that all of the street kids will leave either. I think that the law will result in people who are simply sitting out on the sidewalk, drinking, obstructing traffic, and harassing others having to move on (You are aware that the police would have to first inform the person that they are in violation of the law and ask them to move BEFORE issuing a citation, right?). That is totally fine with me.
Wanting to give up your own civil rights makes you a stupid person.
Wanting to take away other people's civil rights makes you a bad person.
Every single time.
" I think that the rights of the people who live, work, and visit the Haight... take precedent."
One group of people's rights cannot supersede another group of people's rights.
Either we all have civil rights, or none of us do.
Understand, we are talking about you wanting to make criminals of all people who sit on a sidewalk in San Francisco.
Going on and on about snarling dogs and harassment has nothing to do with it.
You are advocating people being jailed for sitting on a sidewalk and that makes you a person who is working to TAKE AWAY the rights of others, and it is right for you to feel discomfort and shame..
I do not feel discomfort and shame. I am well aware that that is what you are trying to make me feel, and I don't. I know I can't win this argument, nobody ever wins arguments about politics, because everyone has valid points. It's especially hard to win an argument, though, when the other party continues to twist words and make accusations. I have made my point, I stand by it, and I won't post on this page anymore. Have a great day.
These kind of articles amaze me, because somebody projects their single experience, such is "I didn't see any violence" and implicitly makes it seem that others who don't like the street people phenomenon have conspiratorial commercial intentions. Or an arrest of a "meek" weed-smoker implies they are meek. Similarly, I can find many counterexamples of the meekness or Ghandian tendencies of street folk on Haight (and indeed throughout the city).
Further, from a policy and culture standpoint, a neighborhood is defined by the people who live there permanently, maintain homes, and pay their taxes (which ultimately are used to maintain the very sidewalks being confiscated by street people). To define a neighborhood and a "community" by their homeless, is stupid beyond belief. A homeless man recently moved into a deserted business' doorstep across my house. I have a family (two kids), keep my side of the sidewalk clean, pay property tax and spend money at local businesses. Basically what most citizens of the city do. The homeless guy shits on the ground, litters all over the street (which I often clean up) and made this nook a breeding ground for pests by leaving discarded open fast food containers there. He has some homeless friends an junkies who come by, and ruffle through garbage cans. According to the author, these people are somehow a community, heroically rejecting society's constraints! Street people should have every right as human beings, but subordinate rights to community assets as people who DO put up with societal constraints and actually bear some of society's burdens.
Nowhere are you guaranteed special privileges or more rights than anyone else here.
Conversely, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights guarantee ALL of us equal rights under our laws.
Everyday people come to America, fleeing the exact type of society you imagine and dream of. The reasonable thing for you to do would be to leave us for any number of countries that (given your possession of enough money) will grant you the special status and privileges that you are foolishly trying to assert here.
Luckily for everyone not included in your demented Un-American mindset, that is - the vast majority of Americans, your dream of a ruling class and "subordinate rights"
Nobody "confiscated" your sidewalk, dumbass.
If you look outside, it's still there.
Nowhere are you guaranteed special privileges or more rights than anyone else here.
Conversely, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights guarantee ALL of us equal rights under our laws.
Everyday people come to America, fleeing the exact type of society you imagine and dream of. The reasonable thing for you to do would be to leave us for any number of countries that (given your possession of enough money) will grant you the special status and privileges that you are foolishly trying to assert here.
Luckily for everyone not included in your demented Un-American mindset, your dream of a ruling class and "subordinate rights" has no chance of ever coming to pass here.
Nobody "confiscated" your sidewalk, dumbass.
If you look outside, it's still there.
We do want we want a clean, friendly Haight. We don't want outdoor mall but we want a place where families can leave and raise children. Its not a museum.... These street kids deserve better.... No one deserve to die of overdose... This is reality and not your imaginary romantic version of Haight
These street kids are the result of a failed American suburban culture. These aren;t the kids of working class laborers, or agrarian field hands; these are kids rebelling with poverty in order to piss off their upper middle class folks. I'm a working class kid, and poverty tourism was never on my radar. I knew of these kids, but when I was a kid they called them Gutter Punks. They were always the rich kids who's dad was a drunk, or who had a mean step mom. They were hurt, marginalized and lost for sure, but they didn't come from poverty, they embraced it as an adventure.
I think these kids represent American hedonism and general disrespect for real poverty. It's like they know so little about real homeless people that they think living on the streets of any city is some sort of a happening. Go talk to a real homeless man on Market Street and watch him get tears in his eyes because he's trying to get clean and the methadone clinic is closed, or his section 8 housing didn't come through, or he can;t walk because of a staff infection that is eating his flesh. Ask that man if he thinks being homeless is fashionable or a choice.
Your article was a piece of dribbling shit.
Those of us who have to deal with our neighborhoods turning into open air toilets, drug dens, and flop houses know better.
And here we again have Barbie/Sam/Whatever it is today spreading his/her/its line of dribbling shit. Amazing that he/she/whatever refuses to answer any serious questions. I and others have dared Barbie to invite some of these people she supports so vehemently into her own home, or onto her property, or onto the sidewalk in front of HER residence. So far, no response. Not surprising.
She even goes so far as to try to deflect criticism away from her and onto election propaganda by objecting to the paper content. Amazing.
But this is nothing new to those who have followed that person's comments. At NO time does she/he/whatever respond to any real questions. Deny, Deny, Deny and Deflect, Deflect, Deflect. ONE of the responses to another thread even went so far as to call down the wrath of god.....
Come on Barbie.....Sam...or whatever.....step up or shut up.
I'm a crazy leftist, artistic, poetic, cause driven, open minded dude, and I really enjoy San Francisco for its culture, history and its people. I'm a Chicago native, and I have had the pleasure to visit your city twice in the last ten years. I didn't go to Haight Street during my first visit, just because I had heard it was a tourist trap and filled with lack luster pop enthusiasts, serious addicts, and out of town morons. I visited the spot with my young niece and nephew as well as my sister and brother in law. Haight St. was a dark haven, filled with an ominous stench of both drug fueled misery and moronic consumerism run amok. It was not the best San Fran has to offer.
We saw the street kids, traveling kids, gutter punks, crust punks, and homeless hippies with their dreads, dogs, bandanas, dirty faces, and punk rock raver paraphernalia. They stood around sulking, smoking, playing hacky sack and begging for change from bewildered tourists. Being from Chicago, I know their type well, and a few years ago I befriended a group of neo-hobo, freak folkers who all looked like fairies and elves. I get the deal with the travel kid phenomenon. It's romantic, communal, drug fueled, counter cultural and it gives the middle finger to middle class life and upper middle class roots. That being said, I think the travel kid phenomenon, like the "slummers" in 1800s London, is primarily driven by a group of disenfranchised suburbanites, most of whom come from upper middle class, albeit dysfunctional roots. I found it amusing to hear the "street" kids call out names like "Trevor", "Chase", "Anders", and "Brice". These are not the sons and daughters of agrarian field hands, or day laborers, or factory hour slaves, these are the kids of investment bankers, lawyers, and doctors. These kids aren't revolutionaries, they're disenfranchised, marginalized upper middle class cannon fodder. The flotsam and jetsam of a society driven by materialism, psychotic drugging, media garbage, superficiality, and cruelty. These kids weren't forced into poverty, they decided to opt for it in leu of their dysfunctional middle class futures.
They are for the most part, voyeurs to a lifestyle that when come upon honestly through job loss, substance abuse, mental illness, or calamity, is neither fashionable or enjoyable. In essence, these kids are poverty tourists, who use hedonism as an excuse to leach of the very society they claim to loath. Who made the cigarette you're smoking trevor? Who went to work in a factory, in a work a day world to make the malt liquor you spill all over your labrette piercing Chance? What chump sat in an office so that you could have a Patagonia backpack to put your soiled pants into? Those McNuggets you're eating at the mouth of Golden Gat Park were made by a jerk with a day job Ethan, I know that must trouble your rebel soul.
I am a working class kid. I worked full time to pay for college, my dad worked a graveyard shift to pay for food and shelter for his young kids, and my mom held down a career and raised us without hesitation. A poor kid, or a working class kid would never volunteer for poverty, because that wouldn't be rebelling against our situation, it would be succumbing to it. I've sat in a rodent filled apartment with no heat on a below zero Chicago winter night, I have sat in an unemployment office that was so bleak joining the Army looked like an attractive work option, I have seen my parents discipline themselves to get up every morning at 6 to hustle weary kids off to school. Life can be a struggle, but poverty and real street life, is never fashionable or fun. I can understand these kids desire to live free, but they represent a failed American suburban landscape, more than they represent any revolutionary spirit or struggle.
Gandhi might have lived out of a shoe box, but his life was spent in service, not drinking malt liquor, selling pot and loitering. I believe you are what you do, and I am sorry, but these sons and daughters of failed fortune do not do anything but mock, and fictionalize poverty in a way that is both nieve and disrespectful.
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Portnoff cautioned, however, against doing a QCD without doing some due diligence. "With such recent natural disasters Hurricane Sandy, some IRA owners who might want to give to charities to help victims should be sure they are giving to a qualified charity," he said "There are many organizations that pop up to help people, but now all of them will be qualified for purposes of making a QCD."
Is it worth it?
As for whether doing a QCD makes a difference on your tax return is a matter of some debate. Prather, for instance, said the QCD isn't reported as taxable income on the tax return nor is the donation allowable on Schedule A of the tax return as a charitable donation deduction. "If the taxpayer supports charity, the QCD essentially allows a tax deduction even if the taxpayer doesn't itemize deductions on Schedule A of his tax return," he said.
And since the QCD isn't included as taxable income, Prather said, it doesn't increase a taxpayer's Adjusted Gross Income (AGI). This, he said, can be helpful for many taxpayers provided they meet the qualifications for a QCD, which include the following:
The amount of Social Security benefits subject to federal income tax is generally based on the individual's other taxable income. As this taxable income increases, more of the individual's Social Security benefits are subject to federal income tax until the maximum 85% of benefits are taxed. If a taxpayer falls within this range, a QCD can cause a lower amount of Social Security to be taxable and therefore reduce his federal income tax liability.
Lowering one's AGI via a QCD can sometimes limit the phaseout or reduction in several tax deductions. (Schedule A miscellaneous deductions are only deductible above 2% AGI, Schedule A medical deductions are only allowed above a certain percentage of AGI depending on the taxpayer's age).
By directing the distribution directly to the charity the taxpayer won't have to report the distribution as income on their tax return, said Vora. "In some cases this may allow the taxpayer to remain in a lower tax bracket, not have to pay as much in tax on their Social Security income and obviously reduces the amount of taxes paid overall," Vora said.
Rogers noted that in terms of the taxes due or not due as a result of doing QCD, that you are either showing the income and taking a deduction, or you aren't showing the income, which is allowed under the QDC provision. "It would seem at first glance that the net would be the same either way," Roger said.
However, the charitable deduction may be limited by other provisions of the tax code, so the net may not be the same, Roger said. "Additionally, showing the income would increase MGI which is before deductions, and can negatively affect the net result in other ways," he said.
Of note, for those who do a QCD, Vora said a 1099-R will be sent to the taxpayer for reporting on their tax return. "However, it is up to the taxpayer to indicate how much of the distribution was a QCD," he said. "The 1099-R must be recorded on the return." When in doubt or not, he suggested that you consult a tax professional for the proper reporting method.
Odds and ends
Meanwhile, Michael Schwartz, the founder of Schwartz Financial Services, also noted that IRA account owners can do a distribution for 2012 through the end of January 2013. And Joe Felicetti of R. Seelaus & Co. said this "a terrific tax break for owners of SEP IRAs who are 70½, still working and making contributions, and forced to take RMDs."
This means, Felicetti said, that even if an IRA account owner took an RMD for 2012, they can instruct the IRA custodian to cut a check to a qualified charity by Jan, 31, 2013 and have that count as a QCD for 2012. "In essence, they get a tax break on the contribution and the distribution," he said. "They get to "have their cake and eat it too."
For the record, Prather also said the QCD can be applied toward a portion or all of the taxpayer's RMD. And, he noted that the annual maximum amount of a QCD is $100,000 per taxpayer and that a husband and wife can each transfer $100,000 for a total of $200,000.
And Vora noted that the IRA account owner may direct any amount of their RMD to a charity. "This is not an all-or-nothing situation," he said.
Of course, doing a QCD works only if someone is charitably inclined, said Portnoff. "This also speaks to those who normally give to charity and don't know about the QCD option," he said. "If you already give to charity, why not do it in a more tax efficient way such as the QCD."
The bottom line for Rogers is this: If available, use the QCD provision. But make sure the rules are followed—and to do this, make sure you do it right to start with and make sure your tax return preparer knows the rules.
Robert Powell is editor of Retirement Weekly, published by MarketWatch. Learn more about Retirement Weekly here. Follow his tweets at RJPIII .


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The pack meets Thursdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Saint Robert's Bellarmine Parish and is open to boys in grades one through five. Cub Scout activities include weekly den and monthly pack meetings, pack sleepovers, trail hikes, family camping overnights, community service projects and more. In addition, the Cub Scouts march in the town's Memorial Day Parade and participate in a Pinewood Derby race.
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