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WESTMINSTER – A Mission Viejo woman was convicted Friday of second-degree murder for driving drunk on the 91 Freeway, rear-ending a big-rig truck and killing a passenger.
Suzanne Amelia Carlson, 27, now faces a 15 year-to-life term in state prison at her sentencing on June 11 by Superior Court Judge Gregg Prickett.
Witnesses testified that Carlson spent more than two hours drinking at a restaurant in Rancho Santa Margarita in January, 2007, before she got behind the wheel of a 1997 Infinite sedan owned by Scott Turner, 55, of Dove Canyon, according to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
She then drove away from the restaurant – with Turner in the passenger seat – to the 91 Freeway just west of Imperial Highway, where she veered across two lanes of traffic and ran into the back of an 18-wheel FedEx truck, according to prosecutors.
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Lab tests taken 90 minutes later showed that Carlson had a .22 percent blood alcohol level, almost three times the legal limit for driving, according to prosecutors.
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The films of the multifaceted Swiss artist Hannes Schüpbach (Winterthur, 1965) start from a direct encounter with a place or person and take the depiction to the limits of the metaphor. His latest works, Verso (2008) - starring his father - and L'Atelier (2007), are being screened along with Spin (2001), an earlier film with the artist's mother.
According to Philippe-Alain Michaud, for whom Schüpbach's opus represents an analogy between the work of montage and the act of sewing, "the cinematic images, which often frame a detail and are sometimes out of focus, superimposed or coloured with a filter as if they were dyed fabric, succeed and respond to each other in the distance," acting like "differentiated events of form and colour on a temporary canvas."
Although Schüpbach is mainly known for his meticulously planned and filmed 16 mm silent movies, his "cinematic formulas," a large series of paintings created in the 1990s, were only shown to the public for the first time in a solo show, Hannes Schüpbach: Stills and Movies, at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2009. His work examines the viewer's movement, the response of the body to what it sees and the complex processes of experiencing and remembering.
Spin, 2001, 16 mm, colour, silent, 12'
Verso, 2008, 16 mm, colour, silent, 16'
L'Atelier, 2007, 16 mm, colour, silent, 16'
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TULELAKE, Calif. — Dave Mauser walked the edge of a mudflat, peering underneath the dried brown rushes where one coot after another had gone to hide and then die.
"Now the coots are getting the worst of it," said Mauser, head biologist on the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, the nation's first large marshland preserved for waterfowl habitat. "Prior to that it was the snow geese and the white-fronted geese."
Standing in line for scarce water behind both endangered fish and agriculture, Lower Klamath Lake has watched one marsh after another dry up in recent years. Now migratory geese, ducks and other waterfowl that come here by the millions, following the Pacific Flyway, are so closely packed together that an outbreak of avian cholera has killed more than 10,000 birds, mostly pintail ducks, Ross' geese, snow geese and now coots.
First reported in the United States in the 1940s, the disease is not new to the refuge. Bald eagles that congregate here in winter depend on the deadly bacteria to provide them easy food. But what is different about this year is that only half the refuge's 31,000 acres of marsh are flooded, creating perfect conditions for a broader kill off.
Lying on the east side of the Cascade Range along the Oregon-California border, the shallow lakes and marshes of the Upper Klamath Basin were once known as the Everglades of the West, providing a place to rest and eat for untold millions of birds on the Pacific Flyway.
More than 260 species — ruddy ducks, cinnamon teal, white-faced ibis, sandhill cranes, white pelicans, snowy egrets and bald eagles — pass through in the spring. Some stay the summer to breed, but most fly north to the Arctic to nest, returning here in the fall. Some spend the winter, and others continue south to California's Central Valley and the Salton Sea.
The historic refuge got its origins after wildlife photographer William L. Finley wrote a story for Atlantic Monthly about market hunters wiping out white egrets and grebes here for feathers to decorate ladies' hats.
President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid bird hunter and amateur taxidermist in his youth, signed the executive order creating Lower Klamath in 1908. It was the second of 55 refuges he would create, but the first to offer a large area of land for habitat.
In the 1950s the refuge would see 5 million to 7 million birds annually. Now numbers have dropped to about 2 million, primarily due to the loss of nesting habitat in the far north.
But it still "may be the most important real estate for migratory birds in North America,'" said refuge manager Ron Cole.
The problem is that it is at the end of a long line for water, legally and literally. When it comes to water in the West, first in time is first in right.
Three years earlier, in 1905, Congress created the Klamath Reclamation Project, which created a vast complex of pumps and canals that drained lakes and marshes and fed water to farmlands. The refuge started receiving water from the project in the 1940s, when a tunnel was cut to pump excess water out of Tule Lake, the end of the line for the water running through the irrigation project.
Tule Lake remained the primary source of the refuge's water until 2006, when farmers lost a subsidized electric rate that made it cheap to pump water. Now most of the water for the refuge comes from the Klamath River, through the Ady Canal.
No matter the source, the refuge does not get water until the fish and the farms are satisfied. The last full delivery was in 2006.
"It worked well for decades," said Cole, until more water had to be allocated to the river for endangered salmon, and to Upper Klamath Lake for endangered suckers.
Now it is the refuge that suffers from drought.
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Monster (Myers novel)
|This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. (September 2015)
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|Walter Dean Myers
|Cover artist
|Christopher Myers
|United States
|Spanish and English
|Drama, Crime novel, Mystery
Publication date
|Media type
|Print (paperback)
|281 pp
|LC Class
|PZ7.M992 Mon 2004
Monster is a young-adult drama novel by American author Walter Dean Myers and was published by Harpercollins in 1999. It was nominated for the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2000,[1] and was named a Coretta Scott King Award Honor the same year.
The book uses a mixture of a third person screenplay and a first-person diary format to tell, through the perspective of Steve Harmon, an African American teenager, the story of his trial for felony murder in the state of New York.
16-year-old Steve Harmon sits alone in his cell musing over what he's come to learn about prison in his short time there. He details the violence of his fellow inmates, but points out the fact that they are all strangers - strangers who somehow still find a reason to hurt each other. Steve says he feels as if he has walked into a black and white movie, but that there are no real pictures. His world is just a grainy screen. He says he is going to write a script. Not a script about his entire life, but of this particular experience. Steve says he is going to name it "what the lady who is the prosecutor called me...MONSTER."
The novel begins with Steve leaving the Manhattan Detention Center, getting in a van shackled, heading out for his first trial. His defense attorney Kathy O'Brien briefs him on what is about to happen and warns him that everyone seated in the same room as a few guards and the stenographer of the trial. They begin talking about the trial as if Steve was not there. A guard makes a point to say that the trial should not last long as it is a motion case.
Steve is on trial for murder. At this stage, only two of the participants are on trial - James King and Steve- since the other two, Richard "Bobo" Evans and Osvaldo Cruz, have entered into a deal by pleading guilty. When the trial first begins Steve has a flashback a movie he saw in his film club and the discussion he has with his teacher Mr. Sawicki in which they discuss the concept of predictability.
The trial begins with the three lawyers - Sandra Petrocelli, the prosecutor; Kathy O' Brien, who is representing Steve; and Asa Briggs, who is representing James King - giving their opening statements. Jose Delgado, a clerk who works at the drugstore is brought to the stand and questioned by both Petrocelli and Briggs. As Jose steps down from the bench, Petrocelli calls on Salvatore Zinzi, a criminal who spent time on Riker's Island who claims to have had information from a fellow inmate about the holdup at the store. All three lawyers question him, then the story cuts to a flashback of Steve with his friend Tony. The boys are throwing rocks in a park when Steve hits a woman who is walking with her boyfriend. Steve tells Tony to run, but he doesn't and is punched by the man. Tony tells Steve he's going to get an uzi and blow the guy's brains out.
Wendell Bolden, the man Zinzi receives his information from, is questioned next. He reveals that Bobo Evans is the man he got his stolen cigarettes from, who says he was involved in the store robbery. The scene changes to a flashback to Steve and James sitting on a porch with a few friends; James expresses his need for cash and how if he had a crew it'd be much easier. The novel switches back to the trial and the questioning of Bolden. The judge then ends for the day, reminding jurors not to speak with anyone about the case. Steve writes in his notebook what he thinks is happening in the trial; he mentions the idea that despite O'Brien's assumptions about Petrocelli's defense, she is trying to make a point to the jury that Steve and James are hardened criminals just like the men on the stand. Steve believes that he is progressing well in his screenplay and shares it with another inmate.
On the second day of the trial a detective is brought in to give his testimony. He relays how he gathered his information, then the novel cuts to his first meeting with Steve at the precinct in which he says James accuses him of being the one to pull the trigger. It then jumps to Steve writing about what he imagines death row to be like.
The novel then returns to the courtroom where Petrocelli calls to the stand the youngest of the four accused: Osvaldo Cruz. Steve then writes of a time he spent hanging out with Cruz and his crew in which he boasts about his gang affiliation. Cruz tells Steve that he isn't hard and when something actually happens he won't be involved because of that weakness. Cruz talks about being afraid of Bobo and his threat against his life, and says this is the only reason he participated. O'Brien uses his fear of Bobo as a questioning technique, as he has committed heinous acts in the name of his gang, The Diablos]], yet says he was afraid of Bobo. Even in his conversation with Steve he says, "He don't have no choice. He mess with me and the Diablos will burn him up."
Steve is visited by his father in the novel and it is revealed that he is even more unlike his counterparts. Mr. Harmon details what he wished Steve's life would have been expressing his thoughts of him attending Morehouse College as he had. Steve next details various news reports covering the murder at the drugstore, including one featuring Mayor Giuliani speaking about how everyone deserves protection. Steve then documents his arrest and his mother's panicked reaction as his brother Jerry looked on.
The novel returns to the trial, but Steve writes in his notes that he refuses to write about what happened in the drugstore because he doesn't want to think about it. The coroner, the city clerk, and Detective Williams are questioned. O'Brien warns Steve to not write anything in his notebook he doesn't want the prosecutor to see.
According to Cruz, the original plan was that Steve would go into the drugstore, check for police or citizens, and then make a signal if the coast was clear. After King and Bobo robbed Nesbitt, Cruz would be responsible for slowing down any person who chased them. All sources indicate that Nesbitt drew a gun to defend himself against the robbers, which one of the robbers then wrestled him for, causing Nesbitt's death when the gun discharged. Bobo takes the witness stand to confirm that James King pulled the trigger and that Steve, who he hardly knew, was meant to signal an all-clear, though Bobo admits that he never learned what the exact signal was, since he assumed King knew and simply followed King's lead.
King's lawyer, Asa Briggs, argues that neither King nor Steve were ever involved in the robbery, since the only eyewitness to the robbery, Lorelle Henry, mentioned seeing merely two robbers, which Briggs argues can be accounted for by Bobo and Cruz alone. Henry testifies as a key witness that she saw two men begin an argument with Nesbitt and seize him by the collar before she hurriedly left the store, moments before the shooting.
O'Brien is doubtful about Steve's innocence, but she wisely has him distance himself from King. Careful readers can gradually acquire a stronger conviction about Steve's part in the crime. Steve appears to know King and Cruz only as remote acquaintances, and to know Bobo even less. Steve testifies that he does not particularly remember where he was on the day of the robbery, but that he certainly was not a participant. O'Brien and Briggs systematically continue to cast the honesty of Petrocelli's witnesses in doubt. Although many of the testimonies contradict, even the most incriminating toward Steve claims only that he acted as a lookout in the first stage of the robbery.
George Sawicki, Steve's film club mentor, serves as a character witness, proudly defending Steve's moral character. Briggs, O'Brien, and Petrocelli finally make their closing statements, before the jury decides on a verdict. James King is found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 25 year to life, while Steve is acquitted. As Steve triumphantly moves to hug O'Brien, she turns away, leaving Steve to wonder why. The end of the novel takes place five months after Steve has been cleared of all charges and released from prison. Steve has continued his filmmaking, but his father has moved away, creating a palpable distance between the two. He is still confused as to O'Brien's cold demeanor at the end of the trial.
Themes and format[edit]
The novel depicts the themes of identity, race, peer pressure, dehumanization, crime, teenaged masculinity, and the relative or subjective nature of the truth. This idea comes up multiple times throughout the novel. There is the truth in relation to the law, but also the truth of a person's character. Steve during the trial writes about experiences he has had that directly contradict the thug persona he has been labeled with. The book reads like a formal screenplay, written by Steve Harmon, interspersed with seemingly handwritten fragments from his diary. The screenplay's verisimilitude is enhanced by such cues as "fade in," "voice over," and "fade out." As one critic wrote, the novel is "Presented alternately as the first‑person, handwritten memoir... [and] a neatly typed screenplay."[2] Critics have commented on how the novel offers "surface effects – marginalia, drawing, photographs, mugshots, and video stills – to offer an analysis of the complex identities that emerge in the context of such surfaces." Generally, the novel has been praised for remarkably sophisticated levels of thematic and formal complexity, considering its ostensible status as a young adult novel. As another critic wrote, "Monster is an experiment in form and structure," demonstrating Steve's "vent[ing of] his passionate perplexity."[3]
The novel is interspersed with various photos depicting Steve. Many appear to be placed around the prison, possibly taken after he has been released as he is dressed in plain clothes although his over sized T-shirt is striped. Possibly indicating that he will never be free from this experience. Myers had an affinity for addressing issues of race in many of his other novels as well as several articles he penned.[4]
Main characters[edit]
- Steve Harmon: A 16 year old, African American on trial for a felony murder from a robbery.
- Kathy O'Brien: Steve's lawyer, who questions if he is guilty or innocent; nevertheless, she tries her best to defend him.
- Sandra Petrocelli: The Assistant District Attorney who prosecutes Steve and James King, labeling them "monsters" to the jury.
- James King: The 23-year-old defendant who is alleged to have encouraged Steve to join the robbery; he is also said to be directly responsible for the death of the store owner, Mr. Nesbitt.
- Richard "Bobo" Evans: The 22-year-old defendant who planned the robbery; the prosecution uses his testimony against King and Steve because he is receiving a smaller sentence.
- Asa Briggs: The defense attorney for James King. Has blue eyes and white hair.
- Osvaldo Cruz: A 14-year-old boy, slim and well-built, who has a tattoo of a devil's head on his left forearm and one of a dagger on the back of his right hand between his thumb and forefinger. He is in a gang, The Diablos, and has been arrested multiple times. He argues that he only participated in the robbery because of his fear of Bobo, though his violent gang history makes this excuse doubtful.
- José Delgado: A young, well built drugstore clerk, and the first person to see the murdered Nesbitt.
- Salvatore Zinzi: A criminal in jail telling the story he heard to get a break in his jail sentence. He was not part of this crime.
- Alguinaldo Nesbitt: 55 years old, a native of St. Kitts. The man murdered in the store during the robbery.
- Jerry Harmon: Steve's younger brother.
- George Sawicki: Steve's film club teacher.
- Lorelle Henry: A witness to the drugstore robbery and murder, 58 years old, a retired librarian.
Autobiographical elements[edit]
As a young man, Myers struggled with a speech impediment that caused many of his classmates and teachers to ridicule him and think him unintelligent.[5] He often got into trouble at school for selling drugs in school and on the streets. When trying to defend himself against the ridicule, many labeled him a "Monster" much like how Steve Harmon was labeled a "Monster."[6] Later, while working as a construction worker, Myers decided to follow advice given to him by his high school writing teacher and began writing at night after work, just as the character Steve Harmon writes throughout the novel.
Myers' novel is also one of very few young adult novels that features a protagonist of color.[7]
The cover artist for the novel is Myers' son, Christopher Myers.
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- ^ Bosman, Julie (2012). "Children's Book Envoy Defines His Mission". New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ^ Italie, Hillel (4 March 2011). "At 73, Jersey City author Walter Dean Myers is a hero to young readers". NJ.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ Myers, Walter Dean. Bad Boy: a Memoir. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2001. Print
- ^ Myers, Walter Dean (2014). "Where Are the People of Color in Children's Books?". New York Times. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
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It doesn't take a mathematical genius to realize that these youths are spending more time with media than in any other of their daily activities. Only three in ten of these youngsters have rules regarding their use of media. Often those who set rules, according to their children, fail to enforce them. Not surprisingly, the children of those parents who set rules spend "nearly 3 hours less media per day (2:52) than those with no rules."
Parents should not be surprised at the Kaiser report; they have saturated their homes with electronic media. The report reveals that the typical American home has "an average of 3.8 televisions, 2.8 DVD or VCR players, 1digital video recorder, 2.2 CD players, 2.5 radios, 2 computers, and 2.3 console video game players." In addtion, the television is on in many homes virtually every waking hour –– whether anyone is watching or not.
Not surprisingly, the report indicates that those youths who spend the most time connected to media have lower grades. Social networking produces "lots of friends," but those youths who are highly connected to media have lower levels of personal happiness and contentment. And, it should be noted, that "the relationship between media exposure and personal contentment withstands controls for other possibly relevant factors such as age, gender, race, parent education, and single vs. two-parent households."
In short, the Kaiser report is a wake-up call for parents that the digital revolution should carry warning signs. Too much of even good things can be very bad; too many of the nation's youths are hooked on media –– they connect first thing in the morning and they don't disconnect until parents insist on lights out.
In Children at Risk, I note that six prominent medical groups (American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Pschiatry, American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Psychiatric Association) are united in warning parents about the harms to children of too much media. The Federal Trade Commission found that 80 percent of the R-rated movies that they studied were marketed (via all the media that youths use) to children under seventeen and the same is true of music and video games. The National Institutes of Health and Common Sense Media, a nonprofit advocacy group, is urging parents to "turn off the TV" because of 30-years of research indicating a correlation between greater media exposure and adverse health outcomes for children, including drug/alcohol use, childhood obesity, sexual behavior and low academic achievement.
The Brookings Institution devoted an entire issue of their journal The Future of Children to "Children and the Electronic Media." They argued for greater pressure on the media industry from parents and other concerned members of the public. They asked, "Do we [leave] the nation's youth to the wiles of Madison Avenue, the purveyors of smut and violence, and Internet Predators?"
It is important, no, it is imperative for parents to educate themselves and know more about programming, rating systems, and current technology in order to help their children make reasoned, deliberate choices regarding their use of media. It is up to parents and other responsible adults to connect with today's youth where they are, "riding the airwaves," in order to teach them to understand when negative messages are being aimed at them and offer them "positive messags that compete with and offer attractive alternatives to the negative, unhealthful, or illegal messages that others offer. This effort is not optional. It is an essential part of the task we face in rebuilding the family into the safe haven that it was meant to be for our children.


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I'm working on this article. I find that writing and dealing with the reference formats etc at the same time is a bit too complex. But I will slowly clean things up to conform with Wikipedia standards. Feel free to do some clean-up of your own if you wish. My interest is in content, although I know it's important to use standard formats and approaches. I have to sort out the links for a list, such as the early practitioners. Most have web pages, external to Wikipedia. I don't know whether to include the pages or not. I'll keep looking for examples. Threadbear 04:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Truthnotignorance (talk) 03:54, 9 November 2010 (UTC)I fear this will turn out a waste of time because we arent going back to proper definitions. A quilt is a quilt, textiles are fabric or kind and fibre is thread or kind. The true value of working with textiles and fibre is only going to be credited properly if we agree on something like a precise definition. Maretta
what a strange and unrepresentative list of quilt artists!!! why not list the acknowledged giants of the field like Nancy Crow, Michael James, Jan Myers-Newberry and Joan Schultze? Kathy annie laurie (talk) 04:37, 9 November 2010 (UTC) kathy annie laurie


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Man, that's a mouthful.
Anyway, here's some recent "outreach" for the WANAPCOSC in the Fill'mo[re]:
Is this place still open?
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Man, that's a mouthful.
Anyway, here's some recent "outreach" for the WANAPCOSC in the Fill'mo[re]:
Is this place still open?
Did not know that…
Will YOU have a job when the summer wind, comes blowing in, from across the sea?
Looking for seasonal, part time or permanent employment? Then please join us for our annual Job Fair where you will have the opportunity to meet with over 20 local companies, all currently hiring for the summer season!
Saturday, March 21st
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
555 Chestnut Street, Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center
Participants include (but not limited to) the following companies:
Aquarium of the Bay
Ben & Jerrys
Bubba Gumps
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Gray Line of San Francisco
Madame Tussauds
San Francisco Dungeon
Red & White Fleet
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Positions include: (but not limited to)
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I don't know, do you care about stores 'n stuff?
I thought it would be like a convenience store, but no they sell cell phones and tablets and all kinds of stuff.
Big, in'nt it?
Now, here are your Tar-zhays, in order of size, as best I can figure:
All right, see you there!
See this place at 6th and Market? It catches the overflow from Dotties, the shop around the corner:
It used to be Pearl's Deluxe Burgers.
PDB was funded by and "Central Market Cultural District Loan Fund" and [cough] the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency*[R.I.P.]
Here's the story of PDB:
2010: Pearl's Burgers signs on to Mid-Market rejuvenation
2011: Pearl's Burgers opens on Market
2014: Pearl's Deluxe Burgers closes its location at Sixth and Market
PDB at 1001 Market Street wasn't a good idea.
Whose idea was it?
Was it Mayor Ed Lee's? Did he "create" jobs here? Well, take a look at the no-longer-operational pres release below.
Oh but look, Homeskillet arrives to save the day.
Shouldn't it too get corporate welfare from tax and fee payers? Why not?
Why on Gaia's Green Earth should we have the gov'mint picking winners and losers?
I don't get it.
Shouldn't the gov'mint focus on its core functions? Say, how's SFGov functioning these days down at 6th and Market?
Anyway, bon courage, La Maison Skillet.
*Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
"Mayor Lee Celebrates Central Market Milestone – 56 Jobs Created in Central Market by Companies Taking Advantage of New Payroll Expense Tax Policy
1/26/12—Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that businesses are beginning to take advantage of the City's Central Market/Tenderloin Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion. Zendesk and Pearl's Deluxe Burgers are the first of what is anticipated to be many companies choosing to locate in the Central Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods and take advantage of the six-year payroll expense tax exclusion for new jobs created.
Creating 56 new jobs in the Central Market area last year, both companies have now been issued conditional letters of eligibility, which allows them to continue to create new jobs, generate revenue for the City and transform Central Market.
"With the success of Pearl's and Zendesk in Central Market and with the opening of Twitter this summer, I continue to be encouraged by the successes we are seeing. While we have more work to do, we can still celebrate milestones like this and the many small businesses and arts groups arriving in the area, generating new foot traffic and increasing positive activity in the area," said Mayor Lee. "This is a historic opportunity to leverage the energy and momentum that is creating an eclectic cultural arts, small business, entertainment and innovation economy hub."
The Central Market/Tenderloin Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion was created to help to stabilize and revitalize an area that has been burdened by decades of high vacancy rates and disinvestment. The policy was designed to attract businesses to Central Market and the Tenderloin in order to create jobs and stimulate small business development. By providing tax relief for new jobs the Tax Exclusion encourages San Francisco companies, particularly those that are fast-growing, to move to Central Market as their employee base expands.
Zendesk, a San Francisco-based technology company that provides cloud-based help desk software, announced they had signed a lease in the Central Market in June of 2011 and that they would be doubling their footprint in September of 2011, shortly after they moved in. Since that time, Zendesk has added 40 jobs and plans to add another 96 jobs in 2012, totaling 200 staff.
"Our move to 6th and Market streets in August has been a meaningful one, and we are honored to be one of what will hopefully be many companies to bring positive change and innovation to this neighborhood," said Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane. "We're excited about being the first tech company to draft and now implement a Community Benefits Agreement, which will help us build and foster long-lasting and meaningful relationships with the residents, businesses, community leaders, and other neighborhood stakeholders in Central Market and the Tenderloin."
As part of qualifying for the Central Market / Tenderloin Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion, Zendesk entered into a Community Benefits Agreement with the City earlier this week. The company has committed to implementing a number of programs that will benefit the neighborhood and its residents, including support for community gardens, job training programs, access to technology, and a commitment to engage local restaurants and business for event catering and other services.
In November 2011 Pearl's Deluxe Burgers opened their fourth location in Central Market. The award-winning restaurant was able to locate in Central Market with help from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, a loan from the City's Central Market Cultural District Loan Fund and the Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion. They have created 16 new jobs as a result of their new location.
"It is an exciting and historic time to do business in Central Market," said Pearl's Deluxe Burgers Owner Sylvia Yi. "Sixth Street is fast becoming a comfort food corridor, and we are lucky to be a part of it. Innovative incentives like the payroll expense tax exemption will continue to entice other businesses to our area and keep the entrepreneurial momentum going in burgeoning Central Market. Kudos to Mayor Lee and his office for their commitment to revitalize this neighborhood. It is happening with great speed and much success thus far!"
The attraction and expansion of large employers and small businesses to Central Market is a cornerstone of the Mayor's recently-launched Central Market Economic Strategy, the result of a 10-month public process that has resulted in a comprehensive roadmap to stabilize, revitalize and transform Central Market. Enhanced safety services are one of the primary components of the Economic Strategy, which includes the City's Central Market Community Safety Ambassadors Program. To read the Central Market Economic Strategy, go to: www.centralmarketpartnership.org.
Here's the signage:
And here's the samwich board on Bush, offering jobs:
And here's the interior, so far:
Poor Walgreen's!
Poor CVS!
Bienvenido a San Francisco, TargetExpress
All the deets:
"Target to Open Smaller-Format Stores in San Francisco's Financial District and Berkeley – New TargetExpress Stores Customize Guest Experience
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) today announced plans to open two new TargetExpress stores in San Francisco's Financial District and Berkeley, Calif., in March 2015. Target's first TargetExpress store opened this year in Minneapolis, and the San Francisco-area stores will mark the first time Target is expanding this format outside the Minneapolis area.
The San Francisco store will be approximately 18,000 square feet and located at the southwest corner of Bush Street and Sansome Street, next to the Montgomery BART station, in the heart of the financial district. The Berkeley store will be approximately 12,000 square feet and located at the southeast corner of Shattuck Avenue and Allston Way, next to the Downtown Berkeley BART station, near the main entrance to the University of California, Berkeley.
"From listening to our guests at the two San Francisco CityTarget stores, we know the smaller format of TargetExpress will fit right into the busy San Francisco Bay Area lifestyle and enable us to cater to each community's needs," said Kamau Witherspoon, senior director, Store Operations, Target.
Target store teams have spent time understanding each local community to determine the right merchandise mix for each store, so both TargetExpress locations will be customized to fit the individual needs of the surrounding neighborhoods. For example, the Bush Street store will feature a large grab-and-go area with sandwiches, salads, breakfast items like yogurt and mid-day snacks for busy commuters on the go. The store will also include a Starbucks and select items from Target's Made to Matter collection, which features products from San Francisco Bay Area companies like Annies, Yes To and Method.
The Berkeley store will offer a large selection of grocery items, including produce, dairy, frozen, snacks and beverages to serve the students, commuters and residents of Berkeley. Additionally, both new TargetExpress stores will be stocked with essentials in home, beauty and electronics, including a robust assortment of Target's owned brands. The stores will also include Target's popular pick-up-in-store service and a pharmacy.
Target opened the first TargetExpress in Minneapolis in July, and has announced plans to open one in the Highland Park area of St. Paul, Minn. in 2015. A third San Francisco Bay Area TargetExpress will also open in 2015, with a location to be announced in the coming months.
About Target
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) serves guests at 1,925 stores – 1,795 in the United States and 130 in Canada – and at Target.com. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its profit to communities, that giving equals more than $4 million a week. For more information, visitTarget.com/Pressroom. For a behind-the-scenes look at Target, visit ABullseyeView.com or follow @TargetNews on Twitter.
Well, here it is, "OPENING SOON!" as promised:
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So this chain already has 1800 or so outlets, so let's call this place at Geary and Masonic Store #1801.
The thing is, regular San Franciscans, not the electeds, you know, just regular people, love chain stores and here's the test: OPEN ONE UP AND SEE IF PEOPLE SHOP THERE. You dig? That's why chain stores are banned or are effectively banned in certain areas under certain conditions.
If San Franciscan didn't like chain stores, then chain stores wouldn't open up here in the first place, or, if they did, then nobody would shop there and then the chain stores would close up and leave.
Now this particular chain store is hidden away, like a porno shop, and that helped it get approved. you see, we like chain stores but we don't want to see them all over the place.
On It Goes…
I'l tell you, I don't object to the Panera Bread coming to 2675 Geary at Masonic (but some people do).
Here's the ad – apply for a job if you want:
(The Panera will be right next to the new Chipotle. Truly, the City Centre Mall Has It All.)
All the deets about Panera, after the jump
I guess this is the SFPD's version of a Community Service Officer program?
But the pay starts off at $15.99 per hour?
The thing is that the In-&-Out Burger pays more. And didn't we just vote in a higher minimum wage?
Can you imagine living in the Bay Area with a part-time job what pays $1300-something per month before taxes? Well, if you're a rich kid living at home, I could see how you could swing that. Or if you had financial aid as a college student. Otherwise, IDK.
Read 'em and weep:
"SFPD Hiring Part-Time Cadets.
·Perform clerical duties such as ordering, receiving and distributing supplies, processing mail, preparing
reports, indexing and filing criminal records and correspondences
·May direct and control traffic
·Monitor walk-through metal detectors and video surveillance equipment in building security assignments
·Search handbags, briefcases, backpacks and other containers
·Provide directions and other information to persons entering public buildings
·Provide first aid and CPR in case of life threatening emergencies
·Performs traffic and pedestrian control as directed;
·Participates in crime prevention activities such as neighborhood watch meetings, school and community group
presentations, and Police Department building tours;
·Maintains records and retrieves information;
·Attends weekend and/or evening training sessions;
·Performs other related duties and responsibilities not requiring Peace Officer powers
Cadet Rotations and Training Assignments:
·Public Safety Building
·District Station
·Record Destruction
·Field Operations Bureau
·Police Academy
·Other Duties and Assignments as needed
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
·Learn the organization and functions of a Police Department
·Techniques for courteously dealing with the public in a tactful, but firm, manner
·Communicate orally with people of diverse education, social and ethnic backgrounds
·Learn, understand and apply applicable police department rules, regulations, instructions, laws, ordinances,
policies, practices and methods
·Work courteously with the general public on the telephone and in person
·Understand and carry out oral and written directions
·Walk and/or stand for log periods of time
·Understand and follow oral and written instructions
·Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work
$15.99 – $19.38/hour; $2,771.00 – $3,358.00/month; $33,254.00 – $40,300.00/year
To apply –> http://www.jobaps.com/SF/sup/bulpreview.asp…
[UPDATE: The video has gone private, sorry. It used to be here.]
Yes, yes it is.
As reported earlier this year by Tim Redmond and Mike Aldax
John Cathey and David Sands are plainclothes anti-gang SFPD officers in the Mission District. This is their story in seven minutes:
"Check out the latest from The I Files- a story about two cops in San Francisco who are taking an unorthodox approach to curbing gang violence."


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Posted: 12/05/2011 - Tigers Say SEC TV Money Helped Seal the Deal on Move.
Posted: 12/05/2011 - Tigers Say SEC TV Money Helped Seal the Deal on Move.
Updated: 12/06/2011 - Five Players Bound for NYC.
Posted: 12/05/2011 - Cavaliers Set to Face Auburn in Atlanta.
Updated: 12/07/2011 - Alabama & LSU Dominate Awards.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - Arkansas State's Hugh Freeze has agreed to take the Mississippi job, according to a person familiar to the coaching search.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - The Crimson Tide edged out Oklahoma State in the final round of voting Sunday and will play the top-ranked Tigers in the BCS national championship game on Jan. 9 in New Orleans.
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Posted: 12/04/2011 - Kansas State and Arkansas will meet in the Cotton Bowl in a matchup of top-10 teams left out of the Bowl Championship Series.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - Mississippi State and Wake Forest will meet on Dec. 30 in both team's first trips to the Music City Bowl.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - Conference championship game losers Georgia and Michigan State have landed in the Outback Bowl.
Updated: 12/04/2011 - Urban Meyer's former and future teams will play in the Gator Bowl.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - Jarvis Summers scored a career-high 27 points, and Dundrecous Nelson added 14 to lead Mississippi over Penn State 72-70 on Sunday night.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - Anthony Gill hit a tiebreaking 3-pionter with 1:19 left and Bruce Ellington and Malik Cooke had clinching free throws to lift South Carolina to a 58-55 victory over Clemson on Sunday.
Posted: 12/04/2011 - Virginia (8-4) and Auburn (7-5), both unranked, were chosen for the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Sunday after No. 17 Virginia Tech was invited to the Sugar Bowl.
Posted: 12/03/2011 - Bulldogs take a bite out of Mountaineers.
Posted: 12/03/2011 - Tyrann Mathieu and the LSU Tigers stage major comeback in SEC Championship
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Peyton Siva's teammates wondered why he didn't end the game in regulation when he had a chance and deferred to a freshman. Given a second chance, Siva finished with a flourish.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Jim Boeheim maintained his usual stoic facade Friday night while his unbeaten Syracuse basketball team notched another victory. Behind the postgame microphone, it was a different story.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Sean Kilpatrick scored 22 points, Dion Dixon added 19 and Cincinnati held off Georgia 57-51 in the Big East-SEC Challenge on Friday night.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - "I don't mind saying I told you so, but I told them so," Auburn coach Tony Barbee said. "They're playing down to the competition."
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Given little chance to knock off the nation's top-ranked team, Georgia doesn't have a lot to lose in the Southeastern Conference championship game.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Over the next two seasons, the university will install a new scoreboard, new turf and new lighting while considering further upgrades.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Freshman Anthony Davis scored 15 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and had eight of a school-record 18 blocks in No. 1 Kentucky's 81-59 victory over St. John's on Thursday night.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Morris Claiborne was happy to keep quiet and play in the shadows of more flamboyant LSU cornerbacks.
Posted: 12/02/2011 - Sherman's best and only winning season came last year when the Aggies won their last six regular-season games abd lost in the Cotton Bowl to finish 9-4.


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Avantpop (or Avant-pop) is an American artistic movement which derived from postmodernism in the 1990s.[1]
According to its proponents, among which there are literary critic Larry McCaffery and writer Mark Amerika, Avantpop is characterized by the use of materials coming from the mass media (cinema, pop music, television, comics, internet, videogames), that are mostly assembled in literary texts where avantgarde techniques and devices are also applied. The Avant-Pop Manifesto, which propounded this literary trend, was written by Mark Amerika, and can be read on the web. According to June 2, 2012, tweet from @markamerika, "Avant-Pop was the first aesthetic tendency to understand that it exists in the age of electronic distribution."
The name of the movement has been taken by Larry McCaffery from the homonymous 1986 album by American jazz musician Lester Bowie (Avant Pop - Brass Fantasy), where pop tunes are scored for a brass ensemble.[2]
Among the most important representatives of the movement there are Kathy Acker, Mark Amerika, Jonathan Lethem, Steve Erickson, Matt Ruff, Patricia Anthony, Lewis Shiner, Joe R. Lansdale, Lance Olsen, William T. Vollmann, Mark Leyner, Douglas Anthony Cooper, and David Foster Wallace.
There are also some forerunners of Avantpop literature, and they are genre writers like Harlan Ellison, William Gibson and Philip K. Dick (above all his VALIS Trilogy), or postmodernist authors like Kurt Vonnegut.
Some film directors are also considered part of the Avantpop movement or attuned to Avantpop sensibility: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Serbian director Emir Kusturica.
An important book for the definition of the Avantpop canon is the anthology After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (1996) edited by Larry McCaffery.
Two literary areas are quite close to the Avantpop sensibility: slipstream fiction and New Weird.
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- McCaffery, Larry, Avant-pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, Fiction Collective Two / FC2, 1994, ISBN 978-0-932511-72-0
- McCaffery, Larry, After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology, Penguin, 1995, ISBN 978-0-14-024085-6
- ^ Mark Amerika maintains that Avantpop has replaced postmodernism: "Now that Postmodernism is dead and we're in the process of finally burying it, something else is starting to take hold in the cultural imagination and I propose that we call this new phenomenon Avant-Pop"
- ^ McCaffery said that he "picked up the album and the first song was "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino, and Bowie did a weird twisted version of it. [He] realized that [Bowie] was playing with this popular tune, improvising and opening it up to what was already there but just needed to be let out. [He] thought it was similar to what Kathy Acker was doing by re-writing Great Expectations and stuff."


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If you buy something within the same country with sales tax then return, you get the sales tax back right?
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Troy Guard's TAG, which he launched last May in Larimer Square, swaggers one of Denver's brashest border-crossing kitchens — a kitchen that slants toward the other F-word. So what? Guard is a master of multiculturalism, and his menu, which is full of playfully modern dishes that usually erupt into something wondrous, is smart, hip and approachable. He sets off his flash-seared hiramama with pricks of jalapeños and Pop Rocks in a basin of white soy and yuzu; creates his own interpretation of French onion soup, which results in irresistible "soup" dumplings that explode with juice; and plates his duo of meaty lamb chops, studded and glazed with all things Asian, in a pool of no fewer than four sauces. In the hands of a less confident chef, all this might spell disaster — but in Guard's grasp, fusion turns out food that's nothing short of miraculous.
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Def-eating Weeds: A Holiday Feast of Nonnative Plants
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Oh, How We Have Grown
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text: Study: Non-Africans are part Neanderthal Science 18 July 11 by Katie Scott Flickr CC: Erich Ferdinand It has been a long held belief that our human ancestors came into contact with Neanderthals, and recent findings not only confirm this, but also suggest exactly how "close" this contact was.Doctor Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal's Department of Pediatrics and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center and team have found part of the human X chromosome comes from the Neanderthals and is found only in people outside of Africa.In a paper published in the July issue of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, the geneticists write: "We provide evidence of a notable presence (nine percent overall) of a Neanderthal-derived X chromosome segment among all contemporary human populations outside Africa". The team analyzed 6,092 X-chromosomes "from all inhabited continents". Their discovery confirms earlier hypotheses that early modern man and Neanderthals mixed and mated. The ancestors of the Neanderthals are believed to have left Africa between 400,000 to 800,000 years ago. However, by 30,000 years BC, they had disappeared. The ancestors of modern man left Africa between 80,000 and 50,000 years BC, suggesting that there was a definite crossover between the two.Discovery News adds: "The team believes most, if not all, of the interbreeding took place in the Middle East, while modern humans were migrating out of Africa and spreading to other regions."This finding comes nearly ten years after Labuda and team identified a piece of DNA in the human X chromosome (called haplotype) that seemed different. In a release detailing the finings, it explains: "When the genome of Neanderthals was sequenced in 2010, they quickly compared to 6,000 chromosomes from across the world with the haplotype of the Neanderthal. The sequence of the Neanderthal man was found in people of all continents, including Australia, but with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa."Dr. David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, and one of the researchers involved in the project of deciphering the genome of Neanderthals says: "Labuda and his colleagues were the first to identify in non-African genetic variation may come from an archaic population. At the time, they have identified without access to the genome sequence of the Neanderthal. Today, in light of the Neanderthal genome sequence, it is clear that they were absolutely right." Edited by Nate Lanxon Latest on wired.co.uk


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girl with a red baloon by takmajWatch
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I had some rough time lately and I wanted to rest just a little, so I decided to paint the second part of Based on a photo found on the Internet, which I completely changed. Maybe it's not as detailed as some my works because my point was to create a happy mood of new year's eve party. What more can I say? ... hope you like it
watercolors and marker on paper
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watercolors and marker on paper
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So juicy and joyous!
Are you aware of the Civil Wars' song "Girl with the red balloon" ?
I love your work. You have such talent. x
I love your work. You have such talent. x
this is so sweet and relaxing indeed...
I have enjoyed seeing your work very, very much. I am not able to give you constructive criticism as I do not have the knowledge or experience to be able to do so. I can say that I truly love how you use colour and you give your work such a vibrancy and I am hard put to tell you which one is my favourite even. They are all wonderful and I have added them to my Pinterest. I hope this will bring you some sales, I would love to buy one but sadly it is not possible at the moment. I live in New Zealand in the foothills of our mountain range. I shall hunt out a photo or two and send them to you. Our closes city Christchurch was destroyed by an earthquake 2 years ago and most of our old buildings have gone, having had to be demolished. Our landscape has irrevocably has been changed as a consequence/
Keep up your wonderful work, it is inspiring and beautiful!
Keep up your wonderful work, it is inspiring and beautiful!
very fun color and cool touch with the globes of light space around the lamps
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very nice
i like how she s almost hidden in there
i like how she s almost hidden in there
The Civil Wars?? "Girl With A Red Balloon"
lovely colors
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This is really beautiful! I love your unique style soooo much <3333
by chance inspired by the Civil Wars song of the same title?
I love your style!
Again, amazing use of colours!
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I love how the bottom has cool colors and the top has warm, it looks amazing!! XD
Everything about this is magical, from the spectator cat to the shapes in the sky.
WOOOW I love it!!! Amazing landscape, the color is cool... wow
Very good landscape. I like this colors.
Wow, nice job.
Full of life, absolutely charming!
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this is beyond beautiful...I just don't know what to say about it, but It's stunning, the colors and tones are perfect!