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Artists listed alphabetically and cross referenced by category and a concert calendar by geographic area. Judy Caplan Ginsburgh does this for a hobby. She has over 100 various artists listings, which will get you started. She includes musicians, actors, dancers, storytellers and comedians among other performing arts entertainers. Performers are encouraged to submit listings to the site.
Reports events in Jewish music in the UK. Not always up to date.
Listings of all sorts of events in the klezmer and new Jewish music world. One of the most comprehensive sources of news for Jewish musical events, CD releases and the like. Updated frequently.
Klezska will be playing two shows on Sat. the 13th @ 8 & 10PM with a $10 cover at a new club that opens up this week. Satalla (which is owned by an Israeli) features music from all over the world. They serve food as well and there is plenty of free parking on the street in the evenings. You can hear some of their music at www.klezska.com.
Satalla is located on 26th Street between 6th Ave. & Broadway.
A website that announces upcoming dates of Israeli artists, groups and individuals, touring in the US. Organized by artist.
The monthly Kavehoyz, sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture begins its second season with a performance by Chaim Freiburg, who sings the repertoire of the great Yiddish singer, Sidor Belarsky.
Admission $5 includes coffee and pastries. What a deal!
Congress for Jewish Culture, 25 E. 21st. NYC between Park and Broadway.


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How to stop the San Francisco Exodus
by John Farrell
Our city is in big trouble. And it is not just because of Covid-19 which has devastated our economy. It is because of a continued string of bad policies and decisions by City Hall over the past 10 years that has led to a dramatic drop in our quality of life in the City. City Hall was projecting a deficit even before the pandemic hit.
We watch as our city continues its slide due to lack of vision and direction. Nothing compares to the extent of the crime, drugs, homelessness and overall filth our visitors, residences and businesses have to deal with every day on our city's eastside, such as in the Tenderloin. But the efforts to clean up the Tenderloin are pushing homeless people, especially the mentally ill and drug addicted, into other neighborhoods all over the city and making the problem worse. People are now leaving our city because they are fed up.
We cannot ignore or arrest our way out of this. People are dying and there is something we can do. It is inhumane to continue allowing this."
The current approach to homelessness is not working. Albert Einstein said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." People are complaining about our homeless problem on facebook, nextdoor, etc… but nothing gets done to solve the problem.
So what do we do? How do we protect our society at the same time showing compassion to those sick and struggling? That is the big question. We cannot ignore or arrest our way out of this. People are dying and there is something we can do. It is inhumane to continue allowing this.
We need to reevaluate our current programs and formulate a game plan for the future. We do not need to reinvent the wheel. For example, 10 out of 10,000 people in Rhode Island are homeless. Of these, 93.3 percent are sheltered, one of the highest rates in our nation. Rhode Island also scored well when it comes to veterans, as just 3.3 percent are without shelter. There is a program in Providence, Rhode Island called the "Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)" program. First thing they do is enforce their laws. Drug dealers and people who steal and commit crimes to get their drugs end up in a correction facility. Every day at the facility they line up to get their medicine. There are three opioid blockers (Methadone, Suboxone and Vivitrol) that are FDA approved to get people off heroin. The inmates choose what blocker they want. These blockers stabilize them physically to handle the emotional work needed to address the disease of drug addiction. The MAT program provides counselors to help them return to the outside. Many inmates were thankful for being arrested. It has saved lives.
Since our city has no rules the homeless can come and go as they please. We need to enforce our quality of life laws while providing services to these people who desperately need it. So how do we enforce the laws? For those mentally ill and drug addicted, I recommend the mayor and our supervisors pass an ordinance that provides that, if a person on our streets is incoherent and not of sound mind, they will be taken to a treatment center to be evaluated and helped over at least the next 30 days.
So where do we take them? We need treatment centers where doctors, counselors and caseworkers are available along with the treatment that we know work to save lives. The majority of homeless are over 40 years old. As our society ages more and more people need skilled nursing facilities (SNF). The reduction in SNF beds has provided another crisis in our City. In 1999, voters approved Proposition A to rebuild the 1200 SNF beds and 140 assisted living beds at Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH). In 2008, LHH cut its' SNF beds to 780. The City knew there was a shortfall in SNF beds and instead of building more and ensuring LHH rebuilt the 1200 as approved by the voters, the City reduced SNF's. This needs to be revisited and more SNF's need to be made available for our aging society.
Where will the money come from to do this? City Hall just closed a $1.7 billion deficit that is being addressed by rainy day funds, department cuts and wage freezes. City Hall needs to audit the current $300 million annually spent on homeless services, especially those provided by City departments. The City needs to stop throwing good money after bad. When I worked for the City we brought in hundreds of millions to our City that were being missed. The City has the funds to cover the deficit but they are not being recognized. I have identified over $1 billion in revenues from missed assessments, taxes and fees. I have sent several emails to the Mayor's Office to show where these revenues are being missed but have only received one boilerplate reply which didn't address my letter's substance.
There is also a lot of goodwill in our tech companies as well as others. These philanthropic companies are concerned and care about our City problems. If we have a business plan to address our homeless situation throughout our City I know these companies, along with many others, would rise to the occasion to assist our brothers and sisters in need.
I don't have all the answers but I do know the current approach isn't working. I will be damned if I will just sit back and do nothing to help those in need and watch my city continue to go to pot.
We have an opportunity for our city to rise again. Let's grab it.
John Farrell Broker/Realtor® – Farrell Real Estate, MBA, Former Assistant Assessor – Budget & Special Projects, Westside resident - farrellreinvestments@yahoo.com.
Impending Budget Shortfall a Dilemma for Our City's Taxpayers
John Farrell
Our city is hurting. Our economy is shot. Our drug and homeless situation is out of control, especially in the Tenderloin. Small businesses are closing at record numbers and there is over 12% unemployment. Hotels rooms are empty as conventions and tourism has halted. There are protests over recent tragedies. And tragedies resulting from these protests. Our police are being minimized and protestors are allowed to destroy and take down statues without ramifications. Trust in our City government (City) is at an all time low especially from the abuse of power from entrusted City officials.
The City just closed a nearly $250 million budget deficit and now faces a $1.7 billion deficit over the next two fiscal years which could reach over $2.5 billion per Controller Ben Rosenfield. With all the financial experts the City has, they will come up with budget cuts and increasing taxes to property and business owners. If departments are to be cut then the City needs to prioritize and ensure the funding of vital services and programs such as our police, fire and public health before lower priorities are funded. In regard to increasing taxes, our taxpayers have been through a lot these past months and you can't always put the burden on them.
With all the financial experts the City has, they will come up with budget cuts and increasing taxes to property and business owners."
There are at least four tax increase proposals on the November ballot which includes a tax on CEO's earning at least 100 times the median income of the average worker, a 1.12% payroll tax on stock-based corporations, a doubling of the transfer tax from 3% to 6% for commercial and residential properties sold for over $10 million, and there will be two competing proposals to overhaul the City's gross receipts tax.
All options need to be on the table. When I worked for the City we brought in hundreds of millions to our City that were being missed. Several were missed for political purposes but once we found out — we made sure they were picked up. The City has the funds to cover the deficit but they are not being recognized. I have identified monies from missed assessments, taxes and fees, in former articles on this website, to cover the deficit. I have sent several emails to the Mayor's Office to show where these revenues are being missed but have only received one boilerplate reply which didn't address the substance of my letter.
To quote Victor Hugo, "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
We have an opportunity for our city to rise again.
All the best to you and your family in these trying times.
John Farrell Broker/Realtor – Farrell Real Estate, MBA, Former Assistant Assessor – Budget & Special Projects, Westside resident - farrellreinvestments@yahoo.com
An Emphatic Letter to City Hall
Our City and nation have gone through a lot these past months and it has given us the opportunity to reflect on who we are and where we want to go. We have seen the best in people and we have also seen the worst. This virus has devastated our economy and how we interact with each other, but not our spirit.
Never forget, our City was in a terrible state of depression after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the incomprehensible murders in Guyana by the People's Temple leader, the tragedy of AIDS and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, to name a few. But San Francisco always rises stronger than ever.
We are presented with another opportunity to rise again. This time with Mayor Breed at the helm. But we have come to that fork in the road. As Al Pacino eloquently said in the movie A Scent of a Woman, "Now I have come to a crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception. I knew. But I never took it. Do you know why? It was too damn hard."
Now I have come to a crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception. I knew. But I never took it. Do you know why? It was too damn hard."
If our City continues on the same road it was on, prior to the pandemic, then we will continue on a path to imminent failure. But if we take the other road, we will all succeed. Our City needs to get our economy back on track and get people working again, and to address our devastated City finances and our increasingly horrendous homeless situation.
To address the budget deficit of nearly $2 billion over the next two fiscal years, our City financial advisors will consider increasing taxes on property owners and reducing or cutting low-priority expenditures—in addition to a hiring freeze and work furloughs.
The City is planning a $438.5M bond measure in November to fund street paving, park improvements and homeless services. Leave the property taxpayers alone. They have already been through a lot this year and you can't always put the burden on them. There are other ways. The City has the revenues but they are not being recognized.
In regard to our homeless situation the current programs are not working. We are seeing more and more homeless in our neighborhoods. Some come for hotel rooms and other freebies. Some think they can do as they please without ramifications. Apparently, the City accepts the most appalling behavior and the resulting (nearly) 400 homeless deaths on our streets over the last three years (prior to the pandemic). So at this point City Hall is part of the problem — not part of the solution.
I advise the City to step back. Do not allow homeless camps in Golden Gate Park, especially since many are mentally ill, drug addicted and/or recently released from incarceration. Once you give someone the right to inhabit the park, it will be very difficult to take it away months later. Just like the hotel rooms. You can't expect to put homeless people in hotel rooms and then expect them to leave. This is wrong. The City has plenty of land all over the state to consider.
It is time to recover and we will. It will take time but we can do this together.
United we stand – we are not going to fall.
Coronavirus Aftermath – What Does Our City Do Next?
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having huge impact our City finances. City Hall has a projected deficit in the current fiscal year of up to $288 million. The upcoming fiscal years are projected from $528 million to $779 million for FY 2020-21 and from $444 million to $612 for FY 2021-2022. Prior to this pandemic our city's basic issues such as safety, housing affordability, homelessness and drug infested streets seemed worse than ever and we were short on police, MUNI drivers, nurses, etc… Further, the FBI picked up MS-13 gang members in our city and we read about entrusted City Hall officials abusing their power.
The Mayor and related departments have addressed this pandemic head on. I want to thank them and all medical staff, police and fire, garbage collectors, MUNI drivers, volunteers and everyone who stepped up in making our city run during this tumultuous time.
... City Hall will have the daunting task of grappling with balancing the City's budget and addressing our city's priorities such as housing, public safety and homelessness."
It is hard to believe that in January the US had the strongest economy in the world and was winning the trade war with China and suddenly a virus develops which is now devastating the US economy.
By the way, did you know that 97% of all antibiotics in the US come from China, as well as 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to make drugs. We need to start producing these products here in the US.
This pandemic will be over soon and City Hall will have the daunting task of grappling with balancing the City's budget and addressing our city's priorities such as housing, public safety and homelessness. While we all have been requested to shelter-in-place, this gives time for City Hall to reflect and formulate a game plan to address these issues and getting our city's economy back on track.
City Hall has a golden opportunity to develop this game plan to ensure our vital services are met as our economy has been devastated by this virus. We need to just get through this next budget cycle and then once completed, direct the Budget Analyst's Office in conjunction with the Mayor's Office to conduct a zero-based budget. We need to also address how to minimize the losses of our city businesses affected by the virus, especially our small businesses.
We need accountability in our city government. City Hall needs to utilize our city resources more effectively and efficiently, to cut waste and consolidate departments, programs and services where applicable, to eliminate those that are low priority and not cost effective, and reallocate funds to departments that are justified. City Hall needs to prioritize essential services and programs to ensure they have sufficient funding before lower priority programs are funded. We need to audit non-profit agencies and City contracts to ensure that services are provided and determine if they are necessary. We must ensure that City contracts are entered into with the utmost integrity. All revenue generating departments need to audit their practices to ensure all revenue sources are addressed.
I grew up in the greatest city in the world. I am tired of reading about what a mess it is now. Let's get back to basics.
I wish you and all your family all the best during these trying times. We will get through this together. God bless.
The California New Deal - Care for the Homeless
John Farrell walking his dogs
I am a fifth generation San Franciscan but can't believe what I have been seeing over the last several years. Last month I was walking my dogs up Pacheco Street and woman in her early thirties in a windbreaker walked up to me and started talking. As she talked she became incoherent as she rambled about her being sexually abused when she was younger and about her brothers in the army using iPhones to listen to our every word. As she started becoming crazier and crazier I crossed the street to get away and protect my dogs. She started spitting at me and yelling profanities and that she wanted to kill me.
The prior week a man walked into the Marina Safeway and crapped in the aisle where the toilet paper was. Our personal property crimes are the highest in the nation, people are shooting up on the streets and drugs sold without consequences. We are losing conventions and our City is known around the world as the "Poop City." This is becoming the norm in our city unless the quiet majority starts speaking up. Yes I am talking to you.
As she started becoming crazier and crazier I crossed the street to get away and protect my dogs. She started spitting at me and yelling profanities and that she wanted to kill me."
A year has gone since our governor took office, and President Trump has been continuously criticizing him and state leaders for failing to fix the homeless problem, threatening to provide federal intervention. Our governor just created a new homeless plan to spend more money, identify state land for shelters, designating 100 state fleet trailers for temporary housing, and calling for a study of the causes of homelessness in CA by the State's Health and Human Agency working with the University of California researchers.
Let's save the state at least a couple of hundreds thousands on a homeless cause study. Here is how we got there and here is how to fix it.
In 1963 President John F Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Act that transferred the responsibility of mentally ill patients from the state to the federal government. This was to create a network of community mental health care centers where mentally ill people could live in the community and rveceive the care they need. However less than a month after signing the Act he was assassinated.
In 1965 Congress enacted Medicare and Medicaid, which provided benefits to mentally disabled people living in the community but not for those in psychiatric hospitals. State legislators encouraged discharging patients from mental hospitals, since costs for care were then incurred by the federal government.
When Ronald Reagan became governor in 1967 the number of patients in state mental hospitals had dropped to 22,000 from the peak in 1959 of 37,000. This reminds me of Juvenile Hall, which is being closed due to the drop in occupants, even though it would be packed if our laws weren't changed making felonies now misdemeanors. Reagan signed the Lantermann-Petris-Short Act ending institutionalizing patients against their will. This was a disaster, as the number of patients at mental hospitals fell to 7000 by 1973 as mentally ill people exited the hospitals only to enter the criminal justice system. Even today people blame Reagan for what is happening on our streets even though we are on our 7th Governor since then and any of those could have done something.
Now let's look at the homeless today, where the majority are those with mental illness and drug addiction. Like many other counties in our state, there has been a dramatic increase in homelessness since 2017. The number of homeless people in our City has increased by 17% since 2017, which includes a large increase of people living in RVs, despite our City's efforts creating hundreds of new beds and spending over $300 million annually on the homeless population, not including costs of Police, Fire, Department of Public Works, and Public Health Department.
The City's current approach to homelessness isn't working. Jeff Kositsky, the Director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (DHSH), reported that the numbers are bad. He also reported that their data tracking shows that for every person who exits homelessness, three fall into it. Further, 75% of our City residents believe homelessness has gotten worse since 2017 per a Controller's survey.
How do we protect our society at the same time showing compassion to those sick and struggling? We cannot just ignore or arrest our way out of this. People are dying and there is something we can do to stop this. It is inhumane to continue allowing this on our City streets.
We need to create a California New Deal which would:
Provide programs and housing for the homeless. From 1933 to 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt enacted the New Deal which was a series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms and regulations. This was a respond to the Great Depression. Programs provided support to farmers, the unemployed, youth, elderly and poor. Our homeless crisis is "the Great Depression of our Society." Our homeless are broken and we need to help them back on their feet and not just let them exist and become another death statistic. Frederick Douglas put it the best, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Our homeless are broken.
We must enforce our quality of life issues and no longer tolerate the defecation, drug abuse, mental illness and any other dysfunctional behavior on our streets. We need to provide the resources to enforce quality of life issues and provide the treatment to those in need.
We need to build Specialized Treatment Facilities where doctors, counselors and caseworkers are available along with the treatments, and where sick people could learn how to live life again and be provided job training and therapy in one place. Eventually these people would be able to leave and be on medication to cope with their addiction.
For example, Providence, Rhode Island has a successful program that has saved lives and helped those drug addicted called the "Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)" program. First thing they do in Rhode Island is they enforce their laws. Drug dealers and people who steal and commit crimes to get there drugs end up in a correction facility. Every day at the facility these individuals in the MAT program line up to get their medication. The MAT program provides counselors to help and build a relationship with the inmates while they are there and as they return to the outside. The program has been successful in saving lives. Many inmates were thankful for being arrested since it saved their lives.
Our roads and infrastructure throughout our state needs repair and we need to cut back trees throughout the state to avoid major fires. We can help build many broken people by providing the training and jobs. Many just need the opportunity.
California's economy is larger than any other state in our nation and if it was its own county it would be the fifth largest economy in the world. Our City is our country's second-most densely populated major city after New York. We have more billionaires per person in our city than anywhere else in the world.
We have an affordable housing crisis in our state but our legislators are focusing in on building more and more high density units like in the recently failed SB50 which had major effects on San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and less on other regions that have the land to build. We need to build more housing outside our major cities. Everyone can't afford to live in San Francisco and there is plenty of land around our state to build all the housing we need.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Saleforce stated about the effects of capitalism: "Yes, profits are important, but so is society. And if our quest for greater profits leaves our world worse off than before, all we will have taught our children is the power of greed."
There is a lot of goodwill in these tech companies as well as others. These philanthropic companies are concerned and care about our City and State problems. If we have a business plan to address our homeless situation throughout our City and State I know these companies along with many others would rise to the occasion to assist our brothers and sisters in need.
Enough talk. Time for action.
John Farrell Broker/Realtor® – Farrell Real Estate, MBA, Former Assistant Assessor – Budget & Special Projects, Westside resident - farrellreinvestments@yahoo.com
Let's Get Rid of Ranked-Choice Voting
Another election has passed and it is too bad we had to deal with this ranked-choice voting (RCV) scam as votes are split and not everyone's vote counts in the end. This is a flawed system which in most cases elects a candidate without a majority vote of the total votes cast, and is unconstitutional.
The whole facade of RCV was to save the City money by switching from a run-off election to RCV, since voter turnout for run-off elections was typically lower. This is a scam. The main purpose of RCV is to manipulate the voting system to confuse voters and split the vote.
A prime example of how this RCV system failed is this past election for District Attorney (DA). First off, congratulations to all the candidates for stepping up to make a difference in our City, whether you believe in the candidates' ideas, or not.
... there were 22,415 exhausted votes, reflecting over one third of the votes that did not rank either Loftus or Boudin, which cost Loftus the election."
Per the Department of Elections, there was a 41.63% voter turnout. There were 193,168 votes cast in the DA race as follows: Chesa Boudin had 68,792 (35.61%), Susy Loftus had 60,002 (31.06%), Nancy Tung had 37,347 (19.33%), and Leif Dautch had 27,027 (13.99%). After the rankings were completed, Chesa Boudin received 86,696 and won by 2831 votes over Susy Loftus who had 83,865 votes. Chesa Boudin won with 44.9% of the total votes cast (86,696/193,168).
Now let's get to the real problem of RCV. Of the total 64,374 votes for Nancy Tung (37,347) and Leif Dautch (27,027), there were 22,415 exhausted votes, reflecting over one third of the votes that did not rank either Loftus or Boudin, which cost Loftus the election. In other words, these votes didn't count. Not having your vote count is unconstitutional.
If we did not have this RCV boondoggle, there is no way Chesa Boudin wins over Susie Loftus in a run-off election. As in this case, a single progressive candidate won against three moderate/conservative candidates by having those candidates split the vote. This would not happen in a run-off, as the top two candidates would face off.
The people who came up with this flawed RCV system were fully aware that not all voters will rank everyone. Let's face the fact that voters will not typically rank anyone other than their preferred candidate, and possibly another candidate. The end result in most cases is a candidate who is elected without a majority vote of the total votes cast, as in this DA case. This is wrong.
By the way, I went through the RCV results since inception and many elected Board of Supervisors members would not have won in a run-off election. No surprise there.
It is essential that an election be fair and just to keep our democracy alive and well. Run-off election results are fair all the time. RCV results are not, as history shows. The system is manipulating and confusing to voters.
We need to return to run-off elections between the top two candidates. This gives the voters an opportunity to vote for the person they prefer most, or the lesser of the two evils, whichever applies, and everyone's vote counts. This RCV system becomes more confusing as residents in our City turn over. The Department of Elections will always have to train voters on this RCV system every time there is an election. You never had to be trained on a run-off election.
I urge everyone, especially the quiet majority, to wake up, to contact the Mayor's Office to place an initiative on the next ballot for the voters to decide whether to continue this failed RCV scam.
By the way, I get a kick because RCV was to save taxpayer monies by eliminating run-off elections, and then our City decides to provide public financing for elected positions. Nearly $20 million of your tax dollars has been spent so far on candidates running for elected office in our City since inception of public financing. Don't you think this money could be better spent elsewhere? I do. But that's a discussion for another time. Let's first get rid of RCV.
I wish you and your family all the best this holiday season. God bless.
Is San Francisco Dying?
If you have an hour to spare I highly recommend a YouTube video called "Seattle is Dying." It asks the question "What if Seattle is dying and we don't even know it." It is about people who are compassionate but no longer feel safe in their City, no longer feel they are being heard. It is about lost souls who wander the streets with no home or reality chasing a drug that, in turn, chases them. It is about the damage they instill on themselves and the fabric of their City. There is a seething, simmering anger that is boiling over into outrage. Property crimes are out of control. This story is about a beautiful jewel that was violated and in current crisis, and of people falling out of love for their home. Sound familiar?
How do we protect our society at the same time showing compassion to those sick and struggling? That is the big question. We cannot ignore or arrest our way out of this. People are dying and there is something we can do."
Seattle is a place where people who grew up in it don't recognize. Numerous residents, business owners, and city employees talk about their disgust. Seattle police fear retaliation that could cost them their jobs and pensions if they speak out. One officer said "Yes, I am frustrated because I am … told NOT to enforce the law." Another officer noted, "People come here because it's called Free-attle and, if they come here, they will get free food, medical treatment, mental health treatment, a free tent, free clothes and be free of prosecution for just about everything, and they are right." Another noted, "…it started with the legislature decriminalizing felonies and dumping convicts onto the streets." Sound familiar?
A concerned resident said Seattle is a different place from the one he grew up in and it is really sad. He is so embarrassed that he doesn't want friends to visit. While it is one of the most beautiful regions in the world but looks like sh—. He even started a Facebook site called, "Seattle Looks Like Sh--." It's not meant to be funny, it's meant to be sad. Check it out.
There is a disconnect between City of Seattle officials and the frustrations of residents and businesses. It's not legal to live on the sidewalk but it is allowed. How bad is the property crime rate in Seattle? It was ranked second per capita in our nation in 2017. Only one other City was higher, and that was our home, San Francisco.
I listen to friends and neighbors complaining about people shooting up on our streets, even shooting each other up. I have called the police numerous times on people sleeping on our City streets. Once a man was totally out cold and the officer on the phone asked me to go up to him to see if he was still alive.
My daughter called me when she came home to her apartment in the Castro and found a disturbed man on her stairs. She told a policeman on Market Street about him, but he said it was not his jurisdiction. I came over and we waited for him to leave.
I went to Safeway on Taraval Street and parked in the upper lot. There was a homeless man in a sleeping bag next to the stairs and elevator. When my wife drives up Santiago Street, she sees the same homeless woman there. I read on Nextdoor that a neighbor's car was broken into or a package taken. As I write this a neighbor's car was stolen last night. You never heard of anything like this on our side of town 5 years ago. I can go on.
I am rooting for our new mayor since she has her hands full and is trying to figure out who she can trust. We have an $11 billion dollar budget but still MUNI is a mess, streets are congested and continuously being worked on and we need affordable housing. Further, the City continues to dump bond initiatives on our tax payers but it is never enough.
Seattle, like San Francisco, struggles with the same problems, but an answer may have come from Providence, Rhode Island. It is called the "Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)" program. First thing they do is enforce their laws. Drug dealers and people who steal and commit crimes to get their drugs end up in a correction facility. Every day at the facility they line up to get their medicine. There are three opioid blockers (Methadone, Suboxone and Vivitrol) that are FDA approved and work to get people off heroin and save lives. The inmates choose what blocker they want to use. These blockers stabilize them physically to handle the emotional work needed to address the disease of drug addiction. The MAT program provides counselors to help them return to the outside. Many inmates were thankful for being arrested. It has saved lives.
What if we built a specialized facility where doctors, counselors and caseworkers were available—along with the treatments that we know work, where sick people could be provided job training and therapy in one place. Eventually they might be able to cope with their addiction.
In December I proposed a resolution to tackle our crisis that would provide that a small portion of the Candlestick Park site for a larger Navigation Complex, and a temporary parking lot for 500 RV's to offer respite from life on the street and providing room and board while case managers work to connect them to relatives, income, public benefits, health services, shelter and housing. The temporary RV parking lot would house about 1,100 people. This would result in a higher quality of life in our City by providing safer and cleaner streets, and substantially reduce the costs of City services, including Police, Fire, Public Works, and Public Health.
Homeless and Supportive Housing's (DHSH) 2017 Point-In-Time count reported that 7,499 people experience homelessness on any given night. Of those 4,353 are living on the streets. Further, the Director estimates that 500 RV's are parked on our streets every night with 1,100 people living in them—up from 387 per the homeless count in January 2017.
We are all broken at some time in our lives. Luckily, many have had someone to pick them up. Our obligation and compassion to care for the mentally ill and drug addicted, our veterans, our seniors, our disabled, and our homeless youth who are nearly 50% LGBTQ and 13% HIV positive. Further, 2100 students in our public schools are homeless, and nearly 400 homeless people died on our streets in the past three years. It is inhumane to continue allowing this.
"Is San Francisco Dying?" No. Our City has come to that proverbial fork in the road and we are in crisis mode. I have seen changes over the years, but nothing like it is now. It is time for all of us to look at the problem straight on. The future of our City and posterity depends on it.
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Listen to Scientists
Lou Barberini
The Dept. of Public Health Lacks Transparency. Deaths surged 76% and the media went quiet. Why the lack of stories?.
Fish Gotta Swim...
Water, Fish, and You.
by Steve Lawrence
...In super dry years, no way there's enough water. You will be forced to ration fifty percent, that is, you get half rations of water.
Quentin Kopp
In District 7, despite Joel Engardio accruing the most first place votes for supervisor, the third place candidate, Myrna Melgar, employed ranked choice voting to win.
Dissolve the Revenue Bond Oversight Committee
by Brian Browne
"SFPUC Watchdog or Lickspittle? From the first meeting of the RBOC, SFPUC operatives and aligned city-family loyalists injected themselves into the business and governance of the RBOC."
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Who Benifits from Green "Benefit" Districts?
by John Hooper & Mark Sullivan
Once a "benefit" district is formed ... private firms are hired ... The disgraced former head of DPW, Mohammed Nuru, was personally involved ...
Breed's COVID-19 Recovery Sputters
Patrick Monette-Shaw
... allow restaurants to increase indoor dining capacity from 25% to 50% ... cases stood at 11,275 confirmed cases ... Another 3,048 COVID cases occurred ..."
The Irony of Progressivism
... public utilities were formed so that public officials would not steer the ship of modern electricity. ... the state Public Utilities Commission, would review, and ensure fair treatment.
What Biden's Win Means for Education
by Carol Kocivar
His approach bears the fingerprints of first-lady-elect Dr. Jill Biden ... President-elect Biden ... "You're going to have one of your own in the White House."
Taraval Crime Beat
... we are down 37% in vehicle burglaries, 27% in assaults, and 36% in robberies. We are currently up 24% in vehicle thefts and 8% in home and commercial burglaries.
Persistent Sleaze in the "City Family's" Contracting
by Dr. Derek Kerr
...a patronage network that recycles retiring City employees - including former Willie Brown special assistants" In return, these former City employees provide access to City department managers."
The Kamala Harris We Know
After being hired in 1998 , she rewarded her benefactor by running against him ... she raised $563,000 for her campaign ... signed under penalty of perjury a ... $211,000 campaign expenditure limit.
Can Ed Harrington Save the SFPUC?
...the largest job, almost a billion dollars, has not gone well. The so-called biosolids digesters — the heart of the operation ... pre-construction services have increased in cost by a factor of 18 times.
Breed's Prop A Propaganda
Since March 2000 voters passed three parks bonds totaling $800.5 million in principal and interest. If this new bond passes, pushing park bonds to approximately $1.3 billion
Will Restricting Public Scrutiny Fix City College?
... the new regime under Interim Chancellor Gonzalez abruptly ... returned to the previous agenda structure, with very limited public comment — and only near the beginning of the meeting — reservation is now required in advance as well.
Déjà vu: Controlling Pay-to-Play Donations
In October 2009, former Supervisor Chris Daly proposed an Ordinance that prohibited department heads and employees from steering donations to "Friends of…" non-profits that raised funds for their departments ...
More Pavement — Less Park
by David Romano
"Our beloved Golden Gate Park ... natural environment is being replaced by concrete and artificial turf. Two and half million dollars are being spent so dogs can run around?"
Don't Change Lowell's Admission Policy
by Name withheld due to anonymous threats
"There is an obvious power grab designed to attack Lowell's long-term academic status, that provides a unique service to a unique student population, just as School of the Arts does."
School Names and Political Correctness
I agree that we should not celebrate those who represent the worst in our society. But there is true historical value to recognizing leaders who have made our world better—and recognizing them warts and all."
Inside City Hall's Web of Corruption
DPW's subaccounts at the Parks Alliance amassed $990,000... donated by 8 contractors who received $572 million from DPW plus 7 companies that obtained 218 building permits from the Department of Building Inspection (DBI)
Laguna Honda: Inappropriate for Housing
If LHH was too small for 160 units, how is it now suddenly big enough for up to 375 units?"
Trecherous Toxics at Treasure Island
by Glenn Rogers
" ... the cleanup reports need to be available to the public. Skipping these steps will result in future lawsuits and the city will be ultimately held accountable, making the taxpayers liable"
Prop. A's — $960 Million Oversite?
COP's and Robberies
Problem is, the Bond Oversight Committee has held only one meeting in 2020 ... Then COVID detonated. Unfortunately, CGOBOC never figured out holding remote meetings accessible to the public."
San Francisco Sees Itself as a 'Green' City - But is It?
by Kathy Howard
The developer is proposing a six-unit condo development on the site of a former auto repair shop contaminated with benzene and other pollutants at levels 900 times above residential standards ...
Audit's Unanswered Questions:
Does the Ethics Commission Fight Corruption?
The audit fails to mention that no retaliation claims have ever been sustained by the Ethics Commission. That startling fact has been hidden by reporting only that cases are "dismissed" or "closed."
Taraval Crime Report
Multiple Arrests: Illegal Firearms and Narcotics
Police officers from the Tactical Unit, Specialist Team, and Taraval Neighborhood Team (TNT) served a search warrant on the 1500 block of 48th Ave."
I Love the Library!
Any time someone mentions a good book, I literally just go to my phone and reserve it on the App. That says a lot..."
A Subpoena for SFPUC Skullduggery
The federal subpoena demanded the resumes, job descriptions, and performance evaluations for "any PUC employee who earned at least $100,000" since 2010 ... Evidently, the feds are probing cronyism as well as self-dealing
D7 Supervisor Candidates Answer the Tough Questions
Six contenders respond to the questions that will guide the next 4 years in the district.
Stand Up for Arts in Schools
The arts touch our emotional core, whether it is song or dance or drama or drawing. The arts can connect the mind and the spirit and help guide children from crisis to confidence.
Balboa: Supervisers Get It All Wrong
"The giveaway, linked to corrupt leadership, sacrifices precious public land for private profit ... leaves City College more vulnerable and is a significant reversal in our goal of income equality"
City Managers Reject Breed's Budget Plea
That's not a balanced budget; it's a gaping hole she plans to solve by kicking pay-raises bargained for in good faith down the road."
Teachers to Vote on COVID 19 Plan
by K. Rolph Morales, 3rd Grade Teacher
"Assuming teachers agree to these and additional detailed conditions, school begins August 17th."
Free Government Money.
While the FBI is investigating city bigwigs, SFPUC personnel included ... Everyone in power is complicit in forcing the rate payer to "donate"
Walking West Portal
A photographer goes in search of life on the Avenue ... dining and browsing are available on sidewalks, parking spaces and in some stores inside within strict limitations.
Bay Area Plan to Mitigate Climate Change
"The authors of the San Francisco Plan Bay Area 2050 are asking for public feedback on their 9-county plan to provide solutions ... "
Our city is in big trouble. And it is not just because of Covid-19 It is because of a continued string of bad policies and decisions by City Hall over the past 10 years.
Teaching Civics Never Mattered More
Whether it's protests about police violence and racism or defiance of government orders to wear a mask, the most fundamental issues of our democracy are being played out every day in front of millions of people.
City Attorney's Retaliation Fiasco Blows $12.2 Million
Dennis Herrera's retaliatory sewer-gate debacle, alongside the FBI's recent arrest ... jab at the City's anti-graft capabilities.
Irreparable Damage to City College — Legal Violations at Balboa Reservoir Project Cited
City College Stakeholders File CEQA Appeal"This is NOT the time for any Project to go forward that will all but destroy the access for 70,000 college students, most of them from working class, immigrant, black or brown communities."
Defund and other public debacles
by Quentin Kopp
"... the heralded notion of "defunding" police ... risks a return to the high-crime era of the 1960s and 1970s that damaged so many American cities. That applies to San Francisco, which suffers supervisors who berate police and ostracize them politically."
"... the issue of Black Lives Matter is on everyone's lips. Unfortunately, many Americans do not acknowledge institutional racism. But consider the numerous steps that led to the problem and two alternative policing solutions."
Teachers Wait for Direction
"Teachers, who are already using their own money to buy school supplies are now also purchasing masks and materials in order to be prepared ..."
Students Want Schools Open
by an 8th Grade Student
"If schools do not open this fall, it is likely to induce students to interact with one another outside of school. At school ... it is easier to enforce facemask and social distancing ..."
Creeping Toxic Tire Crumbs Seep into SF Groundwater
"SFPUC Failed to Protect Clean Water The Beach Chalet Soccer Fields (BCSF) in Golden Gate Park used to have a permeable surface; it's called grass."
Loading Our Utility Costs on Our Children's Backs
"... your water, wastewater, and garbage rates are special taxes ... Your great-grandchildren should not be paying for a service provided in 2020."
Turmoil at Taraval Station
Dr. Derek Kerr
Morale was sagging. Capt. Rainsford ... apparently referenced how the police had handled previous protests.
COVID-19's Cruel Visit to LHH
...whether the discrepancy is due to President Trump wanting CMS to "slow down" the testing and positive test results...
Stadiums and other Boondoggles
...the attitude of professional sports team-owning billionaires that local taxpayers must provide stadiums for their professional sport businesses ...
City's Budget Shortfall — Taxpayers Beware
a $1.7 billion deficit over the next two fiscal years which could reach over $2.5 billion per Controller Ben Rosenfield...
Boudin Bolsters SFPD's Statistics
SFPD officers spend 99% of their day responding to where 9–1–1 customers direct them. It is 9–1–1 callers themselves who determine the location and quantity of encounters.
New Normal: Decline in Urbanization
Glenn Rogers
Development is in trouble. If Parkmerced, which is the largest multifamily property in San Francisco is an example of the future of development in San Francisco, it is in very real trouble.
Homeless Encampments in GG Park?
Board of Supervisors seek solutions ... raising concerns among the public about the possibility of long-term use of parkland to address social and economic problems ...
Big Balboa Giveaway Bad Break for City College
by Jean Barish
The SF PUC will sell over 17 acres, for approximately $11.2 million — about $640,000 per acre for prime SF real estate to a privateer for more than 90% below market rate ...
Enigma of Covid-19 Immunity
Hopes were that recovering from COVID-19 would generate antibodies, thus conferring immunity and peace of mind. Plus, survivors could help treat newly-infected COVID-19 patients by donating their convalescent plasma. It's not that simple.
Our Inefficient Water, Sewer and Power Provider
While water and sewer bills are not taxes, they are worse. They hit ordinary people harder ... and rates are determined by cost. When costs rise, so do rates.
Westside Businesses Reopening
Life returns slowly to West Portal People are beginning to return to West Portal — and other Westside businesses are ready to make sales...
Nursing Home "Invisibles"
Dr. Teresa Palmer
My Mom is Not Disposable...universal testing in all group care facilities, where asymptomatic staff can begin a deadly outbreak, is now being publicly recognized. But it is slow to happen.
Prelude to a Police Shooting
Tommy refused to social distance...... Upon arrival, the two officers immediately observed Tommy was bleeding from his mouth ...
Pandemic Clobbers School Budgets
Carol Kocivar
Double Whammy... Schools throughout California are facing severe budget cuts for the next few years...
We've been here before...after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the incomprehensible murders in Guyana...AIDS and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake...
City Hall's End Run Around Environmental Review
Kathy Howard
Planning to 'streamline' CEQA? ... projects that formerly might have needed extensive review under CEQA would be approved unilaterally by Planning staff if the projects met specific requirements ...
SF's Covid Response
Where Are Our Priorities? Nursing homes are like cruise ships, and the outbreak at Central Gardens is illustrative...
Nuru, Breed and Willie Brown
George Wooding
Nuru was not the FBI's main target of the investigation—he was the bait to lure someone bigger.
Earthday & Coyotes
Environmentalk: Kathy Howard
...a coyote attack raises the question... How do we coexist with wildlife?
Breed's Secrecy
...suspending access to public records — even temporarily, is clearly dangerous to open government.
Distance Learning at SFUSD
K. Rolph Morales
—A New Challenge for Teachers
Court Upholds $5 Million Whistleblower Judgment against City Attorney Herrera
Taxpayer costs will exceed $5 million since the City has been paying the Keker & Van Nest law firm $850/hour to defend Herrera. They already billed the City $2,267,75, in September 2016...
See Her OpEd ...
Hold up on "insurance" for your water and sewer lines
Don't be fooled: you're being sold insurance. Do you have a choice? Yes you do…
Is City Hall Getting Nervous?
London Breed is Falling Down
by George Wooding
… City Officials are worried that Nuru is about to negotiate a plea bargain deal naming names as he is facing twenty years in prison.
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Boxing Year in Review - 2015
Bad Left Hook's Boxing Year in Review 2015
Contributors: Scott Christ
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We saw the end of an era, the potential beginning of the end for some other top fighters, and overall a year of tremendous change in professional boxing.
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Year in Review: The Strawweights
By Scott Christ@scblh1
A clear top two followed by a talented field make up the 105-pound ranks as we get 2016 going.
Year in Review: The Junior Flyweights
Donnie Nietes emerged from 2015 with an even stronger grip on the division's top spot, thanks to some controversy below him.
Year in Review: The Flyweights
Just like there's a lot more than corn in Indiana, there's a lot more to the flyweight division than Chocolatito Gonzalez. But just as there is mostly corn in Indiana, Gonzalez is the clear ruler of this division.
Year in Review 2015: The Super Flyweights
Naoya Inoue and Carlos Cuadras lead a mixed bag at 115 pounds, with plenty of veteran names mixed in with a lot of young fighters on the way up.
Year in Review 2015: The Bantamweights
Who is this mysterious Shinsuke Yamanaka of the Orient? He's the No. 1 bantamweight in the world, though challengers for the throne are there.
Year in Review: The Super Bantamweights
The top of the division is strong but stayed put this year, and the hope is that youth will add depth to the 122-pound ranks in 2016.
Year in Review 2015: The Featherweights
Vasyl Lomachenko leads a division with plenty of quality fighters, and one that could stand more quality fights.
Year in Review 2015: The Super Featherweights
The 130-pound division doesn't get a lot of publicity, but the Fight of the Year and two more strong Fight of the Year candidates came from this division in 2015.
Year in Review 2015: The Lightweights
The 135-pound ranks have become a highly competitive, pleasantly muddled division that could look totally different by the end of 2016.
Year in Review: The Junior Welterweights
Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol staked their claims as the top guys in another division that experienced some significant changes in 2015.
Year in Review: The Welterweights
We finally got what we wanted in the welterweight division this year, and now major turnover has begun with the top two stars of the era either retired or close to doing so.
Year in Review: The Junior Middleweights
There's no true top star in the 154-pound ranks now that Canelo Alvarez is gone, but there's still talent here, and plenty potentially on the way.
Year in Review: The Middleweights
New stars, new titleholders, big fights, and a big crop of prospects highlighted 2015 in the middleweight division.
Year in Review: The Super Middleweights
Just a few years back, the super middleweight division was one of the deepest in boxing. Now, it's in a state of transition.
Year in Review: The Light Heavyweights
The top light heavyweights were largely stagnant in 2015, but there appears to be change coming in the form of some top prospects and some rising contenders.
Year in Review: The Cruiserweights
Call it boxing's eternally overlooked division (at least north of super flyweight). The cruiserweights provided some thrills again in 2015, and top fighters didn't shy away from tests.
Year in Review: The Heavyweights
It was a year of change for the heavyweights, as Tyson Fury supplanted Wladimir Klitschko at the top of the division, Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz arrived as serious players.


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The IT Girls
About The It Girls
• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 24, 2017)
From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .
One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .
The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .
Together, they were unstoppable.
They rose from genteel poverty, two beautiful sisters, ambitious, witty, seductive. Elinor and Lucy Sutherland are at once each other's fiercest supporters and most vicious critics.
Lucy transformed herself into Lucile, the daring fashion designer who revolutionized the industry with her flirtatious gowns and brazen self-promotion. And when she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon her life seemed to be a fairy tale. But success came at many costs—to her marriage and to her children . . . and then came the fateful night of April 14, 1912 and the scandal that followed.
Elinor's novels titillate readers, and it's even asked in polite drawing rooms if you would like to "sin with Elinor Glyn?" Her work pushes the boundaries of what's acceptable; her foray into the glittering new world of Hollywood turns her into a world-wide phenomenon. But although she writes of passion, the true love she longs for eludes her.
But despite quarrels and misunderstandings, distance and destiny, there is no bond stronger than that of the two sisters—confidants, friends, rivals and the two "It Girls" of their day.
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Sisters, Lucy and Elinor Sutherland grew up on the sleepy island of Jersey. They were insatiably curious and had large ambitions; ambitions far bigger than the island. Upon meeting the notorious Lillie Langtry one day in their youth, the sisters decide that they will one day become much more. Through time, hard work and dedication, the two women eventually do realize their dreams. Lucy transforms into Lady Lucille Duff-Gordon fashion designer and entrepreneur extraordinaire. Elinor becomes Elinor Glyn, scandalous romance writer whose books went onto the big screen. Both Lucy and Elinor became the 'It' girls of their day; however, while both women excelled in their career goals, their dream came at a price in other areas of their life.
Elinor and Lucy quickly pulled me into their world of daring, creativity and determination. I was amazed at what these two women accomplished in their lives, especially for women living in the early 1900's. The story follows Lucy and Elinor from their youth through later life bouncing back and forth between the two women. The writing showed the 'it' factor of each woman without laying it out. Lucy had amazing grit while opening up her own fashion enterprise and ingenuity enough to make change in the fashion world. Even though I knew of Lucille Duff-Gordon, mainly through her voyage on the Titanic, I never knew of her impacts on the fashion world and how they are carried through to the present. Lucille was the first to use live models and do runway presentations, she also led the way to get women out of corsets and into more natural silhouettes. I did not know much about Elinor Glyn, but it seemed that her style of romance writing had an impact on many people. It also seemed that she made an impact on Hollywood romance as well! While the sister's careers and social standings skyrocketed, I was surprised to see that their personal and family lives took a toll. Both women struggled in marriage and didn't seem to have strong relationships with their children, often living in separate countries. This imbalance, to me, was a strong commentary on the lives of women at the time, showing that even successful, strong women had to choose either career or family. Overall, a wonderful portrait of two strong, important women in history.
About Karen Harper
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author KAREN HARPER is a former Ohio State University instructor and high school English teacher. Published since 1982, she writes contemporary suspense and historical novels about real British women. Two of her recent Tudor-era books were bestsellers in the UK and Russia. Harper won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for Dark Angel, and her novel Shattered Secrets was judged one of the best books of the year by Suspense Magazine.
Find out more about Karen at her website, and connect with her on Facebook.
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It's sad to think that so much forward movement for women came at the expense of many women's personal lives. (Does that make sense?) What an amazing story, though!
Thank you for being on this tour!


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Is Romney backed by Goldman Sachs and other "Bailout Banks"?
Written by Joe Levi Published January 30, 2012 Discussion Leave a Comment on Is Romney backed by Goldman Sachs and other "Bailout Banks"?
The top donor to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs, received over $10 billion in emergency lending and bailouts from the Federal Reserve after the 2008 financial meltdown, according to public sources and published reports.
Goldman backed Obama for election in 2008, and the firm, like many Wall Street institutions, is now backing Mitt Romney for president.
Romney has long had a close relationship with Goldman Sachs. In 1999 Romney purchased initial IPO shares in Goldman that netted him $1.1 million in profits when he sold them in 2010. And The New York Times recently reported that "many of the assets in Romney's blind trust" are managed by Goldman.
Today, Goldman is Romney's largest donor. And nine of Romney's top 20 campaign contributors are big Wall Street Banks like Goldman. But Goldman leads all Romney contributors, having donated $357,200 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And six of those nine top contributors received over $161 billion in taxpayer bailouts, reports ProPublica, the independent, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative organization.
Goldman doesn't contribute directly to candidates like Romney, but does so through its employees.
Romney's ties to Goldman have already become a campaign issue. During Thursday's CNN debate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stated that Romney profited from millions he invested in a Goldman Sachs fund that relied heavily on investments in the mortgage-backed securities linked to the 2008 implosion on Wall Street. Romney said he personally didn't direct the investment, which he said was made through his trust.
Still, Romney's close ties with Goldman will continue to nag his campaign.
ProPublica says that the The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., received over $782 million in emergency lending from the Federal Reserve. On Jan. 17, the investigative site reported that the total of taxpayer bailouts received by Goldman tallied a whopping $10 billion.
The relationship between Goldman and Romney goes far beyond its patronage of his campaign. The firm has reportedly managed significant assets of Romney's in his blind trust.
Romney's relationship with Goldman dates back at least to 1999, when he purchased 7,000 shares of Goldman's initial public offering. The release of those shares was tightly held, and were largely unavailable to ordinary investors.
According to a May 1999 BusinessWeek story, "few of the public shareholders were folks who happened to be lucky enough to snare a few shares."
One potential political landmine for Romney: Personal financial disclosures from May 2011 indicating he and his family invested millions in a Goldman Sachs fund that invested heavily in mortgage-backed debt obligations.
There have been growing indications that Romney's ties to Wall Street would be subjected to intense scrutiny in a general election campaign especially the Goldman Sachs fund he invested in that benefited from the housing collapse.
Romney's disclosure forms show that he invested between $1 and $5 million in the fund, and his wife Ann invested another $1 million plus.
The report is based on Romney's May 2011 personal financial disclosures, which indicates significant investments in the "Goldman Sachs Strategic Income Fund (institutional class)." Approximately 24.5 percent of that fund is reportedly invested in mortgage-backed obligations.
Romney's profit taking through his Goldman fund investment remains a sensitive subject in Florida, one of the states hardest hit by the housing meltdown. Romney's Goldman fund invested in some of the biggest culprits in the housing meltdown, including Bear Stearns, Countrywide, IndyMac and Washington Mutual.
In October, Romney ran into trouble on the foreclosure issue, when suggested the remedy to the turmoil in the real estate market is "don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.
On Tuesday, Romney stood before a foreclosed home and promised a small crowd of Floridians that he would encourage financial institutions to help homeowners. But he also partially defended banking institutions' role in the mortgage crisis.
"In this case, it's because of the banks," he said, according to a FoxNews.com report. "Well, the banks aren't bad people. They're just overwhelmed."
By comparison, only one of the top 20 contributors to GOP rival Newt Gingrich's campaign is a bank: Wells Fargo donated $5,900 to the Gingrich campaign through Sept. 30.
Then-candidate Barack Obama received strong support from Wall Street in the 2008 cycle. But so far this cycle, the only financial institution listed among his top 20 donors is Goldman Sachs. It contributed $50,124 to his re-election campaign.
Analysts say Wall Street's lackluster financial support for the president's reelection campaign reflects the pinch they're feeling on profits due to the Dodd-Frank financial regulations reforms he has championed.
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Over a month since the #MeToo movement triggered a much-needed dialogue in the country, it was almost imperative to go back and chat with the woman whose story started it all — Tanushree Dutta. Though her account of being sexually harassed by Nana Patekar on the set of Horn Ok Pleassss (2008) inspired a sea of women to come forward and name their sexual perpetrators, the movement appears to be unfortunately petering out.
But Dutta insists the revolution is here to stay. "This is a spark that has ignited the consciousness of people. True, the initial burst is over, but now it will remain in people's minds and help cleanse the industry. The movement started with Bollywood and then, women, who never thought they would speak up, came forward."
While it was heartening to see the industry adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual harassment, it wasn't hard to miss how several big names maintained a studied silence on the subject. Point out the dichotomy, and she says, "People have been conditioned to think that it's okay for men to behave inappropriately and actresses have to compromise without complaining.
Fortunately, the newer generation is opinionated and will phase out the patriarchal thinking. People have been dropped from projects, studios have become careful to not hire names that are accused. [Having said that,] it's disappointing that not many actresses have spoken up on the matter. They probably gave themselves over to their ambitions. Some stories of Swara [Bhasker] and Kangana's [Ranaut] struggles have been chronicled, but several others disappeared."
Admitting that her police complaint against Patekar is moving at a "slow pace", she says that the environment doesn't encourage women to take a legal recourse.
"The cases go on for decades, and society stigmatises the victim. Even in my case, it took me four hours when I went to record my statement. After that, I was trolled and got legal notices. No arrests have been made so far."


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In August 2018, Amazon canceled our affiliate accounts as well as our API access (how we collected sales rank data), stating we violated their Code of Use. "Specifically, you are using our Content for reasons other than sending end users and sales to the Amazon Site." I know this is heartbreaking for those who have come to depend on the service. It's also heartbreaking for me as this was my job, my income, and it happened weeks after my wedding (first marriage!). I'm just as disappointed as you probably are.
Below I've outlined what happens next and answer some common questions I've received since this was first announced.
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I was the last one standing and also the largest target; I can't recommend another tracking website. Businesses can still purchase the Enterprise software and run it privately.
How long do I have to download my book's data?
You should download your sales and sales rank history as soon as possible. However, while I still control the site, the data will be available till January 1, 2019.
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In Norton for Windows you can contact Support by clicking Help from the main Norton UI I'm sure it must be similar with Norton for Mac.
There are not so many users of Norton who have a Mac sometimes replies can take longer than those users who have Windows. Perhaps if you post your problem here a reply will be forthcoming if not I will try to bring it to the attention of somebody who can assist.
I'm not sure if any of the Guru's are Mac users but a number of Norton staff do look at the Mac Forum.


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How will I know it's time to say goodbye? | Rushcliffe VeterinaryHow will I know it's time to say goodbye?
How will I know it's time to say goodbye?
Saying goodbye is the hardest part of owning a pet. This is often because, sadly, animals don't often die peacefully in their sleep – they tend to keep going, with an ever-increasing list of medical problems, and an ever-decreasing quality of life.
With modern veterinary medicine, it is very easy to keep a dog or a cat going long after they've stopped enjoying their life. This means it falls to you to decide when enough is enough, and it isn't fair to keep going any more. The only thing worse than worrying that you might have let a much-loved pet go too soon is knowing that you kept them going for too long.
Can't the vet help me?
Our vets will be able to help you come to a decision – but they can't (and shouldn't) make that decision for you, except in the most severe of emergencies. You know your pet and know what they would want better than our vets ever could!
Quality of life – when your pet is no longer enjoying their life.
Terminal disease – when they're ill with no realistic hope of recovering.
Declining health – making the decision before they start to suffer.
Loss of function – when they can no longer work, or do the things they love most.
There are of course other ways of thinking about it, but these cover most of the approaches.
But what if there is a treatment but it's too expensive?
The most difficult decisions are often those when there is a treatment, but it is simply unaffordable. Sadly, as more medications and treatments become available, inevitably it is more likely that some expensive drug or surgery might help.
It is really, really important to you as a responsible pet owner not to feel guilty about this – if you cannot afford a treatment, it doesn't make you a bad owner, or a bad person. It just means that your pet is really unlucky to have a condition that needs a really unusual treatment – but lucky enough to have an owner who cares for them enough to agonise over it.
Can I make any plans to help me decide?
What often helps (and it's what many people do with their animals) is to sit down while they're still healthy and think ahead. Think about all the things they like to do best; and the things that their life would be meaningless without. Then, when they become old, ill or seriously injured, you can compare what they can do (and are likely to recover enough to do) with this list.
For example, if you owned a dog whose idea of bliss is to run all day long in the woods, a disease such as severe arthritis that meant their walks had to be limited might mean you would decide to "call it a day" at an earlier stage than if you owned a cat who just wanted to snooze in the sun or by the fire for 23 hours a day.
Also, think about the things that your pet really doesn't like and would want to avoid at all costs.
Nowadays, many forms of cancer, for example, are very treatable, but may require intravenous infusions of medication on a regular basis for life. If your pet likes (or at least doesn't mind!) coming to see us, then you might decide it was worthwhile attempting treatment; whereas another animal that is petrified of the surgery and collapses in a heap at the mere mention of the V-E-T word probably wouldn't cope so well with exactly the same condition and treatment.
The final point to remember is that, as an owner, your duty to your pet is to do the best for them. When the time comes, most people know it instinctively; although it is tempting to keep them for a bit longer (because we would miss them so much), that isn't always fair to them. We are privileged to be able, at the very end, to relieve the pain and end the suffering, and it is sometimes the greatest gift we can give our pets.


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Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Scott Paulin, Charles Frank, Lance Henriksen, Donald Moffat, Levon Helm, Mary Jo Deschanel, Scott Wilson, Kathy Baker
Review: The year is 1947 and far away from civilisation in the California desert there are endeavours afoot to bring off a top secret project to break the sound barrier in an aeroplane. There has been a selection of failed attempts, some ending in death, but such is the life of a test pilot, fraught with danger once they are up in the skies. However, Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard), a World War II flying ace who was celebrated in military circles for his bravery is now interested, and as a skilled pilot, possibly the most skilled in the United States, the powers that be are keen to see him at the controls of their most advanced prototype yet. It won't be a smooth journey, especially after Yeager breaks ribs in a riding accident, but somehow he succeeds and history is made…
There was a lot of history being made in director Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling book, a true life account of what went on behind the scenes in America's space programme of the nineteen-fifties and sixties. Kaufman took the source's idolisation of Yeager, who by all accounts was happy to be lauded in such a fashion, and who wouldn't be, to bring to bear a more searching examination of heroism and how it had changed from the famed pilot's heyday to how we regarded them in the eighties. Of course, there was no shortage of heroes in American cinema of that decade, many of them wielding guns and doling out violence to prove themselves, but here was someone to look up to who didn't kill anyone for the full three hours plus The Right Stuff lasted.
Yeager had naturally killed during the war, but his portrayal here and the band of Mercury space pioneers were not shown to be bloodthirsty in the least, at odds with the Ronald Reagan era of politics this would-be blockbuster emerged from. As a result, what appeared to be a sure thing flopped very badly at the box office, leaving the studio and filmmakers reeling that an item of such obvious quality should fail to strike a chord at all with the public who were fresh from enjoying the escapades of the Space Shuttles – this was three years before the Challenger disaster made them feel a lot less invincible. Yet there was more to it than that, as Kaufman's tone was always questioning, always asking us how we were reacting to these images of sometimes noble, other times crass people.
Look at the way the women were presented: the wives of the Mercury crew and Yeager's spouse Glennis (Barbara Hershey) were always fretting, wondering if any of this was worth it when there was a very real possibility that the next flight could be their last and they would never see their husbands alive again, a tone of worry that was at odds of the more straightforward celebration it could have been. That President John F. Kennedy featured often in archive footage only underlined the fragility of those we look up to, both because they may have feet of clay and because someone or something might cut them down just when we need them most. For this reason, The Right Stuff played far better later on once its considerable cult following was established, as the idea of irony pervaded pop culture in a way displayed here, but ahead of its time for 1983 when Kaufman was examining the phenomenon.
In pitiless detail, as he recreated various events, some more fictionalised than others, with a view to pondering the worth of such possibly deadly events, and all for some nebulous concept of glory that by his time, after the late sixties in fact, not everyone was buying into. That said, when the director wished to portray the incredible feats concerned he truly dedicated himself to them: contrast the treatment of Gus Grissom (Fred Ward) whose heroism is in doubt thanks to an uncertainty about whether he jettisoned his capsule door or not with the flight of John Glen (Ed Harris) as he orbited the globe, a magical and near-mystical sequence that was among the greatest of the eighties as he marvels at his situation as Australian aborigines perform a ceremony back on Earth and at mission control they realise he is very close to death thanks to faulty equipment. No matter the tendency to caricature, that too was part of the film's relentless examination of derring-do, with even Yeager called into queries about how sensible he was for pushing himself and how sensible we were for admiring him. The conclusion was mixed: we needed these heroes, but regretfully admitted they had their flaws, a state of mind that would only grow more relevant as the new millennium dawned. Music by Bill Conti.
Philip Kaufman (1936 - )
Level-headed American writer and director who doesn't shy away from challenging material; after award-winning debut Goldstein, he offered superhero spoof Fearless Frank, but it was five years until his movie career really got off the ground. The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid was followed by The White Dawn and the script for The Outlaw Josey Wales, and a remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers was his first big hit. Then came The Wanderers, The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the controversial Henry & June, Rising Sun, Marquis de Sade drama Quills and thriller Twisted. He also contributed to the story of Raiders of the Lost Ark; considering his talent, it's surprising how few films he has directed.


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Should the Blazers Keep Ed Davis and Move on From Jusuf Nurkic?
The Ringer's Paolo Uggetti suggests Portland keep Davis and let Nurkic walk.
By Miles Custis@MilesCustis Jun 13, 2018, 12:00pm PDT
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The NBA offseason has arrived, and the Portland Trail Blazers, along with almost every other team, are facing important questions as they prepare for the NBA Draft and NBA Free Agency. On Wednesday, Paolo Uggetti of The Ringer published a list of suggestions for every Western Conference team.
Uggetti starts by advocating that Portland not split up Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum: "I understand the thought process, but why get rid of one of two known quantities unless you can get another bona fide star?"
He then recommends that the Blazers let Jusuf Nurkic walk:
At the same time, place me in the camp of being fully on board with moving on from Jusuf Nurkic, who has been good in spurts but will command a lot of money in restricted free agency and lock Portland into this roster for the foreseeable future. The team has already seen the downside of overpaying to keep an asset with Meyers Leonard, Mo Harkless, and Allen Crabbe, and a Nurkic deal might be even worse since it blocks the path of Zach Collins. The postseason was rough for Portland, but what it accomplished this regular season speaks highly of its ceiling with Lillard and McCollum. Now, the Blazers just have to get creative in order to take it to the next level.
Nurkic is set to become a restricted free agent which means Portland will have the option to match any offers he accepts. It is not clear what the market for him will be. He averaged 14.3 points and 9.0 rebounds in 26.4 minutes per game for the Blazers last season. He'll be 24 years old at the start of the 2018-19 season.
Uggetti's "friendly suggestion" for Portland: "Free [Zach] Collins, keep Ed Davis, and let Nurkic walk." He also suggests the Dallas Mavericks try to sign Ed Davis.
You can see the full list of his suggestions for other Western Conference teams here.


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What TV shows has Sue Perkins presented and why did she leave The Great British Bake Off?
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Comedian, actor, author and TV presenter Sue Perkins is well known for her years on The Great British Bake Off.
Since leaving the show in 2016, she has taken presenting roles on several other shows and continued her move into documentaries.
She will be the host of upcoming Christmas special The Greatest Snowman, which will see celebrities competing to show off their snowman building skills.
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Here is a look at her career so far and why she left Bake Off:
What TV shows has Sue Perkins presented?
Sue Perkins started her TV career in 1997 and one of her very first presenting roles was on the Channel 4 show, Light Lunch.
In 2007 she was a co-presenter of the BBC Two show, Edwardian Supersize Me.
As a solo presenter, she has been at the helm of BBC Two's All Roads Lead Home in 2011 and The British Academy Television Awards in 2017.
She has also branched out into documentaries, her first being Sue Perkins' Big Night Out in 2015 on BBC Two. In 2018, she presented the documentary Sue Perkins and the Chimp Sanctuary and in 2020 Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border on BBC One. Perkins will also be presenting The Greatest Snowman this year.
Why did Sue Perkins leave The Great British Bake Off?
Sue Perkins began presenting The Great British Bake Off alongside co-presenter Mel Giedroyc when it first aired on BBC from 2010.
In 2016, both Mel and Sue Perkins made the decision to leave the show, which originally aired on BBC, after finding out, via TV, that the show had been sold instead to Channel 4.
Sue felt that a lack of communication about this major move meant that they were not a team and therefore did not feel comfortable continuing working on the show after it moved over to its new home on Channel 4.
She told Radio Times: "It was painful, said Perkins. "There's no antagonism there. I just think, 'If you're going to let us find out that way [from TV], then we're not really a team, are we?'"
A statement released by Mel and Sue about leaving Bake Off said: "We've had the most amazing time on Bake Off, and have loved seeing it rise and rise like a pair of yeasted Latvian baps. We're not going with the dough."
When does The Greatest Snowman air?
On Christmas Eve Sue Perkins will be presenting a new one-off Christmas special show, entitled The Greatest Snowman.
It is a Bake-off style challenge show where celebrities show off their snowman building skills and are then judged by experts.
Celebrities who will feature on the show this year include actor and comedian Johnny Vegas, EastEnders' Dani Dyer, designer on DIY SOS: The Big Build Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, TV presenter Cherry Healey and former The Great British Bake Off contestant Liam Charles.
The Greatest Snowman will air on Christmas Eve, Friday December 24 at 8pm on Channel 4. It will then be available to watch on the Channel 4 streaming service All4.
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