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It's time for our daily chat with KCBS Insider Phil Matier. Big cuts are coming to San Francisco City Hall, as Mayor Lurie is planning to cut 1,400 city jobs in order to close a budget deficit.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has denied allegations that he secretly funded a nearly $100,000 bronze bust of himself in San Francisco City Hall, calling them "categorically false." A spokesperson stated that the project was initiated by a nonprofit organization and funded by private donors, not taxpayers. Meanwhile, following a mistrial in the case of Orange County judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who is charged with murdering his wife, he gave an exclusive interview reflecting on the emotional impact of the legal proceedings. Finally, Julia Peters, representing Hackman and Arakawa's estate, requested a Santa Fe court to seal case records to protect the family's privacy amid concerns about potential media leaks of sensitive materials.

Monday, February 17th, 2025Today, Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country's nuclear weapons stockpile so now he's trying to re-hire them; Zelensky refuses to hand over US access to Ukraine's minerals; three DOGEbags showed up to San Francisco City Hall demanding records; Trump bars federal funding for schools with COVID vaccine mandates; internal DOGE documents show Musk is trying to skirt the law with his DEI firings; the Trump administration has moved to drop transgender discrimination cases at the EEOC; protests erupt after the National Park Service removed the “TQ” from LGBTQ at the Stonewall National Monument; DOGE published classified information; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Thank You DeleteMeJoindeleteme.com/dailybeans code dailybeans for 20% off.Thank You PiqueLifeGet 20% off on the Radiant Skin Duo, plus a FREE starter kit at Piquelife.com/dailybeans.Stories:Zelenskyy declines to accept US proposal to access Ukraine's minerals - Emma Burrows | AP NewsElon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website - Jennifer Bendery | HuffPost Trump bars federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates - Anne Flaherty and Kelsey Walsh | ABC NewsProtests at Stonewall National Monument after "LGBTQ" changed to "LGB" on government website - Ali Bauman, Kristie Keleshian | CBS New YorkRecords show how DOGE planned Trump's DEI purge — and who gets fired next - Hannah Natanson and Chris Dehghanpoor | The Washington Post3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records -  Tim Fang | CBS NewsTrump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them - Peter Alexander and Alexandra Marquez | NBC NewsTrump administration moves to drop transgender discrimination cases - Julian Mark and Beth Reinhard | The Washington PostGood Trouble:#TheMajorityProject: 100k Postcards to Congress – Signs Of JusticeFederal workers - feel free to email me at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen. From The Good News“Pay the people - F*** Elon!”#TheMajorityProject: 100k Postcards to Congress – Signs Of JusticeLink to Bacchus' adoption pageReminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Substack|Muellershewrote, Twitter|@MuellerSheWrote, Threads|@muellershewrote, TikTok|@muellershewrote, IG|muellershewrote, BlueSky|@muellershewroteDana GoldbergTwitter|@DGComedy, IG|dgcomedy, facebook|dgcomedy, IG|dgcomedy, danagoldberg.com, BlueSky|@dgcomedyHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

Send us a textGuess what kids?! Your favorite weird ass Hoosier girls are back in your ears. This week we hit up California for our stories. Krys leads off with the Sutro Baths. These were mainstays of San Francisco for years before shockingly taken out by a mysterious fire. Sutro had a tendency to accumulate relics from around the world, sounds like a great idea right? Oh,  can someone figure out what land this was built on? Cliff House was next up and that was another problem waiting to happen. And it did. Tori covers the Queen Mary that has been a popular Long Beach attraction at this point. This ship saw it's share of deaths and has ghost tours to this day. This luxury liner made 1001 trips before coming to port for the last time. The Grey Ghost had a more interesting past than expected. Krys rounds the episode off with the San Francisco City Hall. An earthquake managed to take that sucker out. Also proves that when you build on old cemetery, bad things may happen. Our Sources: thehauntghosttours.com, sfghosts.com, journiest.com, kqed.org, sfgate.com, amyscrypt.com, sfbaytimes.com, nancydbrown.com, nps.gov, paranormalghostsociety.org, queenmary.com, USghostadventures,com, travelandleisure.com, thehauntghosttours.com, californiahauntedhouses.com, brokeassstuart.com, thetowersatrincon.com, weddingphotographersanfranciscocityhall.comOur theme music:   Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.Support our show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trendylobotomypodcast Find us at FB/Instagram @TrendyLobotomyPod as well as our blog trendylobotomypodcast.blogspot.com Support the show

Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), discusses why some Arab and Muslim-American organizations and individuals living in the San Francisco Bay Area boycotted the San Francisco City Hall Iftar, stating that Mayor London Breed and several city officials have made racist, harmful, and dangerous comments about Palestinians, Muslim and Arab-American communities during the ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza where more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed, and while Israel is deliberately starving 2.2 million Palestinians by denying the entry of food and other essential supplies into Gaza.

In this hour, stories of people who made an impact—through a single phone call, a helping hand, or human touch. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Greg Quiroga sees his Uncle Steve in a new light. Meg Lavery experiences a change of perspective after over a decade as a teacher. Beth Yates volunteers at San Francisco City Hall during "gay marriage Lollapalooza.” Brittney Cooper gets an unexpected call from Tyler Perry. Jerry Jennings Army National Guard unit is unexpectedly deployed after 9/11

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. First border crossings from Gaza into Egypt begin today. Donald Trump Jr. testifies at New York civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization. The Federal Reserve hold interest rates steady for the second straight time. Senate panel hears testimony on rising election threats ahead of next year's vote. Advocates for the homeless celebrate the Day of the Dead at San Francisco City Hall and demand more assistance. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 1, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.  (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) First border crossings from Gaza into Egypt begin today. Donald Trump Jr. testifies at New York civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization. The Federal Reserve hold interest rates steady for the second straight time. Senate panel hears testimony on rising election threats ahead of next year's vote. Advocates for the homeless celebrate the Day of the Dead at San Francisco City Hall and demand more assistance. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 1, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

(Airdate 10/05) “A More Perfect Union" Hour 1 with Nii-Quartelai Quartey | @drniiquartelai| Podcast Hosted by changemaker, journalist, educator, and KBLA Talk 1580 Chief National Political Analyst Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey, “A More Perfect Union” promises to deliver national news of consequence, informed opinion, and analysis beyond the headlines. Today we bid farewell to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein LIVE from San Francisco City Hall with Urban League of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area President Kenneth Maxie. We remember the barrier breaking senator, trade thoughts on the historic appointment of her successor Laphonza Butler, and more.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Republican representatives Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan confirm runs for House speaker. President Joe Biden says his administration has approved 9 billion dollars in student debt relief—an action he says will provide aid for 125-thousand Americans. It's part of what is so far nearly 127-billion dollars the Biden administration has provided as it seeks to make college more affordable and to put it in reach of more people. In his remarks at the White House, Biden also took aim at what he calls MAGA extremism in Congress, opposition to Ukraine aid, and a “poisonous atmosphere” and dysfunction in Congress. The New York State Attorney General criticized former President Donald Trump's comments regarding his civil fraud trial, deeming them offensive and groundless. The Attorney General also labeled Trump's appearance in the early days of the trial as nothing more than a political stunt. As a major conservative policy-writing group celebrates its 50th anniversary, a coalition of pro-democracy groups held an “unbirthday” for the organization, calling out the American Legislative Exchange Council's long record of undemocratic activity. Mourners gathered at San Francisco City Hall to pay their final respects to the late Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein as she lay in state. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – Wednesday, October 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Republican representatives Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan confirm runs for House speaker. President Joe Biden says his administration has approved 9 billion dollars in student debt relief—an action he says will provide aid for 125-thousand Americans. It's part of what is so far nearly 127-billion dollars the Biden administration has provided as it seeks to make college more affordable and to put it in reach of more people. In his remarks at the White House, Biden also took aim at what he calls MAGA extremism in Congress, opposition to Ukraine aid, and a “poisonous atmosphere” and dysfunction in Congress. The New York State Attorney General criticized former President Donald Trump's comments regarding his civil fraud trial, deeming them offensive and groundless. The Attorney General also labeled Trump's appearance in the early days of the trial as nothing more than a political stunt. As a major conservative policy-writing group celebrates its 50th anniversary, a coalition of pro-democracy groups held an “unbirthday” for the organization, calling out the American Legislative Exchange Council's long record of undemocratic activity. Mourners gathered at San Francisco City Hall to pay their final respects to the late Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein as she lay in state. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – Wednesday, October 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Wayne Resnick and Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. Matt Gaetz moves to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker. SAG-AFTRA and AMTP set second day of negotiations. Sen. Dianne Feinstein to lie in state of San Francisco City Hall. 565-square-foot West Hollywood home sells for over $1MIL. US health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a ‘morning-after pill' against STDs. Disneyland theme park expansion envisions 16 rides and an outdoor show. This is the reason why you suddenly need to pee when you get home.

Under a new proposal in San Francisco, the SF Municipal Transit agency will need to get written approval from the mayor before they extend metered hours or up the fares. This comes as local businesses have been critical of the agency's changes to metered parking, saying it's just making it harder to get customers in the door. For more KCBS Radio's Matt Bigler and Margie Shafer spoke with KCBS Insider Phil Matier.

San Francisco City Hall has a legendary dome and rotunda, featured in movies including "Milk" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and literally covered in gold. Total SF hosts Heather Knight and Peter Hartlaub take a dome tour with City Hall building manager Rob Reiter, visiting behind the scenes and climbing to the very top of the structure. Then they sit down with City Hall historian Ellen Schumer, who is also chair of the City Hall Preservation Advisory Commission, to hear stories about former mayors, the wedding of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe and the meaning of the plaster symbols on the rotunda walls. Also in this episode, Knight and Hartlaub have an announcement about a job change, and the future of the podcast. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music from the Sunset Shipwrecks off their album "Community," Castro Theatre organist David Hegarty and cable car bell-ringing by 8-time champion Byron Cobb. Follow Total SF adventures at www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know that Rocky Road ice cream originated in Oakland? Or that Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were once married in San Francisco City Hall? Or that a disaster in Concord helped desegregate our nation's military? Our region is full of fascinating history that even some lifelong residents don't know about. Uncovering forgotten history and solving local mysteries is what KQED's Bay Curious podcast is all about. And now, the show's reporting is in a book, “Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area.” KQED's Olivia Allen-Price, host of Bay Curious joins us to talk about investigating forgotten histories, legendary locals, and the many quirks and oddities that make the Bay Area unique. This segment originally aired May 10, 2023 Guests: Olivia Allen-Price, Host, KQED's Bay Curious - a podcast that investigates questions asked by local residents about things both profound and peculiar that make the Bay Area unique.

How do you know that that person is “The One,” and how do you stand strong in your relationship and in who you are? In this episode celebrating Pride Month, Bianca talks to makeup artist Jigs Mayuga and lawyer JB Ty, who just this month, exchanged vows and got married in San Francisco City Hall, as a personal and political statement on love and acceptance. Paano Ba ‘To: The Podcast is created and hosted by Bianca Gonzalez, edited by Paolo Halili, and produced under ANIMA Podcasts. Follow us on Instagram! @paanobato Join the #PaanoBaTo private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/paanobato Follow Bianca on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/YouTube/Tiktok: @iamsuperbianca

Did you know that Rocky Road ice cream originated in Oakland? Or that Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were once married in San Francisco City Hall? Or that a disaster in Concord helped desegregate our nation's military? Our region is full of fascinating history that even some lifelong residents don't know about. Uncovering forgotten history and solving local mysteries is what KQED's Bay Curious podcast is all about. And now, the show's reporting is in a book, “Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area.” KQED's Olivia Allen-Price, host of Bay Curious joins us to talk about investigating forgotten histories, legendary locals, and the many quirks and oddities that make the Bay Area unique. Guests: Olivia Allen-Price, Host, KQED's Bay Curious - a podcast that investigates questions asked by local residents about things both profound and peculiar that make the Bay Area unique.

Kered Whitcraft, medically retired years ago due to lifelong and worsening visual impairment, refused to concede to the doctors' repeated conclusions that he would be blind by now,. Instead, Kered has boldly pushed forward in life. This is seen in his Bay Area heirloom garden and his passionate work with splotch and tactile visual art. Recently he had a piece on display at the San Francisco City Hall. Join us  for this lively, and spirit-lifting conversation with Kered.Art With Elders has been instrumental in supporting Kered's creative path. Here's a nice article sharing more of Kered's and Art With Elders good work: https://localnewsmatters.org/2023/03/30/seniors-artwork-lights-up-their-lives-and-sfs-city-hall/ Support the showHave comments or questions for us? Interested in sharing your story on Aging Well? Please send your information and questions to Hugh via email at willowwaycreations@gmail.com or through any of our social media links on our website, findingbeautyinthegray.com. We'd love to hear from you and appreciate your feedback. Leaving feedback on your podcast host site (Apple, Spotify, etc.) is the single most important and effective way for us to stay viable and to continue to bring you great stories and helpful resources. And if you are enjoying the show and getting value from our topics and guests, we would most welcome your financial support. Producing a quality resource does require appreciable financial investment. Thank you!

In this episode of the Policing Matters podcast, sponsored by Staccato, host Jim Dudley speaks with a legendary detective whose investigations may read like a crime novel, but his story is 100% non-fiction. Retired San Franciso Police Department Homicide Inspector Frank Falzon was active in solving some of the most heinous homicides of the 1970s and 1980s, including the Night Stalker case, the "Zebra" murder spree, and the double murder of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed in San Francisco City Hall. Falzon was a principal figure in the hit 2021 Netflix series, "Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer," and has been featured internationally in numerous documentaries, broadcast interviews, articles and books.  About our sponsor This episode of the Policing Matters Podcast is brought to you by Staccato. Choose the handgun trusted by over 900 law enforcement agencies across the country. With Staccato, you can feel confident knowing you aren't sacrificing incredible accuracy for reliability. Whether you're protecting your family at home or on duty, Staccato has your back. Military and law enforcement receive discount pricing through the Staccato Heroes Program. Visit www.Staccato2011/heroes-program.com to learn more.

“The most famous gay movie theatre in the world.” - Gerard Koskovich In San Francisco's gay neighborhood there is an ornate, historic movie Palace called the Castro Theatre. It towers over the Castro neighborhood with its bright neon blade sign, and art deco marquee. But lately, the marquee hasn't shown much of anything, and the theater seems as deserted now as it did during the pandemic. The Castro Theatre's new managers want to renovate the space, saying the very future of the theater depends on its flexibility, and resulting financial viability. This would involve some changes to the traditional movie theater layout that have the LGBTQ and film communities divided. The arguments have reached San Francisco City Hall, and the fight is getting ugly. This time on Stereotypes — in a piece I made for the KQED podcast Bay Curious — I'll show you why this little theater plays such an important role in LGBTQ history, and take you inside the fight for the future of the Castro Theatre. - Support my work on Patreon and receive early access to Stereotypes and hours of bonus content! That, and all of my work are at christopherjbeale.com. - Christopher Beale

California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced this week she will not run for reelection next year, ending a legendary career that saw her go from San Francisco City Hall to Capitol Hill. With her upcoming retirement, there's much speculation as to who will replace her.Today, we look back at the career of the storied politician and look ahead as to who'll be running for Feinstein's seat. Read the full transcript here.Host: Gustavo ArellanoGuests: L.A. Times political columnist Mark Z. BarabakMore reading:Sen. Feinstein makes it official: She will retire at the end of her current termDianne Feinstein retires: Looking back on tragedy, triumph and her contentious perseveranceColumn: Dianne Feinstein is one of California's greats. Let's remember her that way

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Welcome to Episode 53 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! I am so excited to have Mike Wardian back on the show to chat about his transcon run, which he completed this past July.I did an Athlete Nutrition Profile on Mike in April 2020, right after he won the Quarantine Backyard Ultra with 262 miles in 63 hours. If you would like to learn more about Mike's nutrition story as a plant-based athlete (he eats eggs and honey, but otherwise follows a vegan diet), check out Episode 26.  Mike always is a joy to talk to, so full of passion and positivity, and of course he is an unbelievable athlete too. He wears so many hats it's hard to keep track of it all - he is a professional runner, mostly focusing on ultra endurance events but you can find him doing pretty much every distance, and he also does CrossFit, plays pickle ball, cycles, rows, keeps a beehive (or at least tries!), and goes after all kinds of fun, random world records, all while working and spending time with his wife and two teenage sons. He only sleeps four hours a night, but it's still mind-boggling how he is able to accomplish everything that he does! If you're not familiar with his Running Home project, Mike ran 3,234 miles over 61 days, from May 1st to July 1st, across 13 states, from San Francisco City Hall to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, while raising over 100,000 dollars for World Vision's global clean water initiatives. I wanted to dig into all the details of how he fueled himself across the country, and of course, discuss some of the fun and crazy things that happened along the way.Thank you Mike for spending time with me on the podcast once again, and for continuing to inspire us all with your running accomplishments as well as your wonderful attitude towards life. Also - the audio was a bit choppy for some reason at certain points in the show. My apologies - working to fix that for next time, and hopefully doesn't take away too much from the show!Links & Resources:Website: http://mikewardian.comFollow on Instagram, Facebook, and TwitterMike is still raising money for World Vision USA - link to donate here. Other Announcements:Please show your support by leaving a rating and/or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcastsMusic Credit: Joseph McDadeHave nutrition questions, a guest or topic request, or any other feedback? Email me - eatforendurance@gmail.com.Want to work together? I'm accepting private nutrition clients! Check out my website www.eatforendurance.com for more info. Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations.Support the show

Politics is a dirty business. Bringing about change requires fighting tooth and nail and that can make you enemies, something Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor and America's first openly gay politican, knew all too well. On a cold November morning in 1978, ex-supervisor Dan White, who felt the so-called ‘Mayor of Castro Street' had played a key role in the premature demise of his own political career, shot and killed his former friend in San Francisco City Hall.Crosshairs is a podcast from What's The Story - the leaders in premium true-crime content.For ad-free listening to this series - sign up to Crime Corner - brought to you by What's The Story.Crime Corner is your home for brilliant true-crime story-telling. Subscribers can get early access to new series of Crosshairs, with all episodes from every series completely ad-free.PLUS - your subscription helps to ensure we can keep bringing the show back season after season.AND - there's a collection of other shows which you can only find on Crime Corner - all designed for fans of Crosshairs.Signing up to Crime Corner is quick and simple.If you're listening on Apple Podcasts, just search for the Crime Corner Channel, sign up, and all the exclusive content will be in your Apple Podcasts app.If you're listening on Spotify, Amazon, Castbox, Pocketcasts, or any other player - you can sign up directly here : CRIME CORNERWith a couple of clicks, you'll receive all the exclusive content in your chosen platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode #16 of The Teddy Brosevelt Show is a one hour discussion of the bombshell story we just dropped on the brand new website Austin Texas Times. “BOMBSHELL: Austin Wants to Hire Scandal-Ridden California Non-Profit Urban Alchemy to Manage ARCH Downtown Homeless Shelter”For people who listen to the show for national and global topics, this is a major national discussion about the notoriously corrupt Homeless-Industrial Complex that fleeces taxpayers for billions of dollars each year, while making the crisis way worse. Starting a homeless non-profit organization is a great move for grifters.The worse you suck at your job, the more money you make, fruitcake.(Say that last line in a Jerky Boys voice Paul). If the Homeless Industrial-Complex came up with a real solution to end homelessness by 2023, they'd all be out of a job within the next 18 months.Instead they encourage more homeless vagrants to relocate to their city by providing catered meals, free needles and the promise of ‘free permanent supportive housing'.I copied this article practically word-for-word directly from the Austin Texas Times.I don't care if it gets me in trouble. They work me to the bone, I never get any credit and the paycheck sucks. Have zero fear of getting fired, since all those a******s over there who work on that digital garbage dump realize one thing.If Teddy leaves, that whole thing collapses in less than two weeks.Tops.AUSTIN TEXAS TIMES BOMBSHELL:‘Austin Wants to Hire Scandal-Ridden California Non-Profit Urban Alchemy to Manage ARCH Downtown Homeless Shelter'Austin City Council will hold their next marathon meeting on Thursday July, 28 to vote on 193 agenda items.There are dozens of wasteful, corrupt-looking items on Thursday's agenda that should trigger serious anger among Austin citizens.However, here's an item buried near the very end of the agenda that stands out as the most outrageous ideas I've ever seen in nearly two years of keeping a close eye on these despicable snakes.ITEM #190:Authorize negotiation and execution of an agreement with Urban Alchemy to operate the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) shelter for a thirteen and a half month term, beginning August 15, 2022, in an amount not to exceed $4,143,350.Austin's NBC affiliate KXAN reported yesterday:"There will soon be new leadership at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) shelter.""Listed on next week's city council agenda is a vote on whether to authorize a new, more than $4 million contract with a California-based company called Urban Alchemy.""This comes after the city announced on Monday they'll be discontinuing their partnership with Front Steps, due to that group reorganizing internally."Out of all the grifters that make up America's corrupt Homeless-Industrial complex, I dare you to find a more scandal-ridden, sketchy and shady company than Urban Alchemy.First huge red flag:Urban Alchemy employs convicted felons to run their outreach programs.The Pacific Sun reports that most of Urban Alchemy's 1,100 employees “have served life sentences in prison”.What better people to mentor and manage Austin's homeless community than a bunch of convicted felons?From the Urban Alchemy website: Don't be alarmed when you see a naked vagrant on meth choking their chicken and screaming at the moon on Sixth Street. Most people just confuse feeling uncomfortable with feeling unsafe.[/caption]The Urban Alchemy website insists that their trustworthy, top-notch team of compassionate convicted felons did “serious self-work to get out" from their life sentences in prison.Skeptical Emoji questions whether convicted felons are the best outreach coordinators to supervise and mentor Austin's 3,100 Homeless people.[/caption]Urban Alchemy was awarded a six month contract for $463,620 from the Sausalito City Council to provide "around the clock site management services" for the Bay Area town's homeless camp from January 2022 to June 2022.Ten past and current homeless residents who were staying at a Sausalito, California homeless camp supervised by Urban Alchemy shared this list of shocking allegations with the Pacific Sun.[caption id="attachment_986" align="alignnone" width="630"] Pacific Sun screengrab on Urban Alchemy from June 1, 2022[/caption]Pacific Sun (June 1, 2022):Urban Alchemy staff members frequently did drugs on the job, including snorting meth and smoking concentrated marijuana oil out in the open with homeless residentsUrban Alchemy staff members sexually exploited homeless females.President of the Marin Homeless Union tells Pacific Sun: "“Once the city increased the contract, we got all these new Urban Alchemy people coming and going. They don't have name tags on, and some were pretty confrontational. There was a lot more anonymity and a lot more opportunity for exploitation. It turned dark.”[caption id="attachment_982" align="aligncenter" width="223"]Urban Alchemy logo[/caption]Four homeless people told the Pacific Sun that Urban Alchemy employees brought methamphetamine into the encampment for personal use or to share with campers.One of the Urban Alchemy employees (Josh) had several visible white supremacist symbol tattoosOne of the Sausalito staff members had to be transferred to another location after being caught on cell phone video calling a woman at the encampment a “b***h” and a “w***e.”Current encampment resident Sarah Gossage: "I did a line with an Urban Alchemy guy. He asked if I want to do a line and I said sure. He handed me a rolled up 20-dollar bill with crushed up crystal meth. After I was done, he let me keep the 20 dollars."Current encampment resident Phil Deschamps: “Steveo would drop off drugs to a woman at the camp and ask campers to find him drugs. A UA employee f--ked [a female camper] in the tent next to the tent I'm in."Keep in mind these are fresh allegations from June 2022.Now in July 2022 - in light of all this scandal - the Austin City Council wants to award them with a $4.3 million contract!Nice vetting process, huh?The City of Austin is begging for potential lawsuits by hiring a rogue, unlicensed bunch of convicted felons with a track record of supplying meth to homeless campers and sexually exploiting vulnerable homeless females to run the freaking ARCH homeless shelter (of all places!) in downtown Austin.Urban Alchemy's current legal situation in California:At least SIX lawsuits have been filed against Urban Alchemy since it's inception in 2018.Last year over 450 employees filed a potential class action suit against Urban Alchemy alleging labor violations.Three homeless individuals are suing the organization for civil rights violations by Urban Alchemy employees.Sounds like just what Austin needs right now!A corrupt, scandal-ridden bunch of California grifters with highly suspicious financials who loudly accuse you of racism if you dare question anything about their methods, operations, employee vetting process or dubious financial records.San Francisco taxpayers have awarded $41 million in highly suspicious no-bid contracts to Urban Alchemy just this year.The San Francisco Examiner reports:"Despite the fact that Urban Alchemy is receiving tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money from city coffers, the operation remains stubbornly mysterious and opaque."Urban Alchemy currently runs San Francisco's three safe sleeping villages, which are city-sanctioned and monitored encampments surrounded by a locking chain link fences and supervised by several unarmed 'street ambassadors'.Did I mention all of their 1,000+ 'street ambassadors' are convicted felons who spent several decades in prison?What could go wrong?Urban Alchemy Promotes Anarchy in California:An unarmed Urban Alchemy 'street ambassador' got shot in front of a homeless encampment while trying to stop two men from selling drugs near San Francisco City Hall on February 23, 2022.Unlike other shelters, people can stay at the San Francisco safe sleep sites as long as they want.Even better, they are free to smoke, snort and inject all the drugs they want.Homeless drug addicts don't need to worry about about overdosing, as Urban Alchemy's team of convicted felons has plenty of Narcan handy to assist junkies in fending off the Grim Reaper. This saves an average of one homeless overdose death per week at the three camps.Skeptical critics say Urban Alchemy is "another expensive Band-Aid" on San Francisco's fight to reduce the skyrocketing substance abuse and open air drug dealing on city streets.Urban Alchemy Exploits Loophole to Avoid Street Ambassador Security TrainingEven though Urban Alchemy is providing security service at these encampments, they are exploiting a loophole that would normally require all 'street ambassadors' to obtain licenses.Under California law:Charities that are “organized and maintained for the public good” are exempted from private patrol license requirements.The San Francisco Standard reports: "California requires an extensive licensing process for operators of a 'private patrol service', which means someone 'who furnishes a watchman, guard, patrolperson or other person to protect persons or property, or to prevent theft, unlawful taking, or loss.'""Licensure for security guards requires training as well as FBI background checks.""Urban Alchemy, in documents filed to qualify as a “public benefit corporation,” or charity, states that the organization “employs former long-term offenders as ‘Urban Alchemy Practitioners' to provide clean and safe public facilities in urban areas.”"City records reviewed by The Standard show that Urban Alchemy representatives and city officials have both acknowledged that the nonprofit's staff members are providing security services that fit the state's definition of activities that would normally be regulated."Urban Alchemy ain't dealing with all that extensive licensing, training and FBI background check b******t!This trustworthy team of 1,000+ convicted felons is composed of “practitioners” or “street ambassadors”.Never call them "security", "guard" or "patrol".Unless you want trouble.If you dare question anything about Urban Alchemy, just know that their motto is 'No Fuckery'. See the footer of their website.Urban Alchemy even applied for an official trademark for their very own 'No Fuckery' symbol. Urban Alchemy Trademark application[/caption]Urban Alchemy's Highly Suspicious Financial RecordsUrban Alchemy has ballooned to 1,000 workers since 2018Urban Alchemy's budget increased by more than 500% since 2019Urban Alchemy's page on Charity Navigator is missing all financial information.Just look at their shady-ass 2022 Fiscal Year budget.Operating revenue for FY 2022: $43.4 millionPersonnel expenditures for 1,000 convicted felons: $35 millionAdministrative expenses (a.k.a. executive salaries, offices and perks: $6 millionMoney left over for the Homeless after Urban Alchemy pays themselves: $2.2 million- SOURCEAre you freaking kidding me?So Urban Alchemy gets $43.4 million from the City of San Francisco...And less than 5% of that money actually goes to the homeless community? No wonder the city of San Francisco looks like the slums of Mumbai in 2022!Hardly any of the $43 million that Urban Alchemy has been awarded this year is going directly to San Francisco's Homeless population.The San Francisco Examiner discovered a city document that listed Urban Alchemy Founder and CEO Lena Miller's salary as $220,000.Reporters questioned whether her longtime relationship with San Francisco Mayor London Breed and her "relationships with City Hall power brokers" played a major part in Urban Alchemy's stunning revenue growth.[caption id="attachment_989" align="aligncenter" width="568"] Urban Alchemy Founder and CEO Lena Miller[/caption]Urban Alchemy Founder and CEO Lena Miller bristled back through her PR flack on allegations of cronyism:"I don't care if me and the mayor were best friends. She wouldn't keep me around half a second if we weren't getting results."“How is it helping society or the story to tell the whole world what I make? What is the purpose, so everyone can decide if it's enough or too much? It's just messy.”"It's frustrating to me when people try to kind of connect dots, are constantly looking for the trick. How have we cheated to get this big? Because, like, you can't cheat picking up needles."If you think that cronyism is bad, wait until you get a load of this:Last November, the first homelessness chief in the City of San Francisco (Jeff Kositsky) joined Urban Alchemy after years of working with the group as a city official!Urban Alchemy was only providing mobile outdoor bathrooms back in early 2018.That's when Kositsky first suggested to city colleagues that Urban Alchemy should be awarded an expanded (and highly lucrative) new role running San Francisco's homeless encampment and hotel services.After Kositsky helps Urban Alchemy land a no-bid contracts with the city (currently tallied at $68 million), he bolts from his role as San Francisco's Director of Homelessness and goes to work for... Urban Freaking Alchemy!Here's the LinkedIn profile for this corrupt snake:Wait, it gets even better.Jeff Kositsky (He/Him) claims that criticism of Urban Alchemy is due to...wait for it.....Racism!Whitest man in the world Jeff Kositsky clumsily kibbitzes:“I think when you have an organization that's being run by primarily Black men who have been in prison for 10 or more years, you're held up to a different level of scrutiny.""When I'm feeling dark about the world, that's what I think.”Here is a photo of Jeff Kostisky's big white head.Bet you've never seen a 60-year-old man wearing Harry Potter glasses during a non-Halloween occasion until right now.When his organization that is founded and ran by white people faces criticism, white man Jeff Kostisky cries "racism" and claims his organization faces a higher level of scrutiny because it's being run primarily by black men.Founder and CEO of Urban Alchemy is a white woman and the Director is a white man.Yet they are both screaming:"Back off racists!""You are only criticizing our company that's run by white people because black people are in charge here!"The San Francisco Examiner called for a full investigation into these slimeballs back four months ago."Let's not wait until someone dies before we start asking serious questions.""It's time for the Board of Supervisors to get more curious about the role of an organization that's receiving lucrative city contracts to carry out ambiguous and possibly illegal duties."San Francisco Examiner editorial:"The real issue for me is the management and operation of Urban Alchemy.""Leadership has not issued a detailed program plan; there are no deliverables, no measurables and no benchmarks.""There is no apparent record keeping that maintains accurate financial oversight."San Francisco Redditors don't have a very high opinion of Urban Alchemy: "Urban alchemy bringing meth into homeless camps?""Urban Alchemy is useless. I'm frequently in TL for work and they just stand on the corner and smoke blunts. What a joke of a non profit. Maybe they need to vet the felons they hire.""One of the things I've noticed is that some of the Urban Alchemy guys do use drugs on their own or with the denizens. I've frequently seen them smoking weed on the job, and also seen them smoking other drugs, and even one time apparently dealing crack or meth, then ducking inside a tent to lay down (on Polk at Turk) and relax.""I've seen Urban Alchemy guys catcall passerby women loudly and comment on their bodies for the whole block to hear, so that doesn't surprise me.""You have a crew that's staffed with formerly incarcerated criminals. Some are going to use the money we're giving them for doing basically nothing and take it and make themselves better, and others are going to use it to go back to their ways and continue to victimize."Want more exclusive details on Homeless Industrial complex grifters Urban Alchemy?Stream Episode #16 of the ‘The Teddy Brosevelt Show' now:SpotifyiHeartRadioApple PodcastsTuneIn RadioSubstack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit teddybrosevelt.substack.com

Friend to the show Gina Lett-Shrewsberry, owner of Inspirations has had a big year and she returned to the Full Circle studio to tell us all about it. Gina is first African American designer to be an exhibitor at the Bouquets to Art @deyoungmuseum, she is the only black florist on San Francisco City Hall's preferred vendor list and she is currently featured on the new book “Black Flora: Profiles of Inspiring Black Flower Farmers + Florist by Teresa J. Speight. Tune in to hear this trailblazer's story and find out how you can bring floral joy to your life! Weblinks: Inspirations by Gina https://www.inspirationsbygina.com/ @inspirationsbygina Purchase your copy of Black Flora here https://www.amazon.com/Black-Flora-Profiles-Inspiring-Florists/dp/1736848135 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/iammswanda/support

Chris Kostman is one of the most iconic names in Ultra, he is your Race Director for The Badwater 135. He also set world ultra-cycling records, to include riding against the clock from San Francisco City Hall to Los Angeles City Hall and completed the 3,127 mile Race Across America bike race in less than eleven days at age of 20. The Badwater 135 tends to draw folks from all over the world and country out to the Badwater Basin, or also known as Death Valley, California. However, every year Florida tends to have an amazing group in the masses out there! This year there are A LOT of Floridians in race! This year we have David Castro, Ted Williamson, Amy Costa, Dawn Lisenby, Alexis Garcia, Caryn Lubetsky, Maria Paredes, Ashley Paulson, Michael Ryan, and Keys 100 Race Director Bob Becker. The Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in the Death Valley National Park, which should be noted is the lowest point in North America and the United States with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. Now the course also goes out to Mount Whitney which is the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, the race itself finishes at Whitney Portal which is the trailhead to the Mt. Whitney summit! The Badwater 135 course covers three mountain ranges for a total of 14,600 feet of cumulative vertical ascent and 6,100 feet of cumulative descent.

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Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com   Today, we are talking about an active and daring freedom fighter from California history!   For decades after America's largest migration, the gold rush began, the men who came alone to California to seek their fortunes longed for wives and women of pleasure. It was easier for Chinese traders to convince families to sell their daughters rather than their sons. The traders would offer money to the parents for their daughters, some as young as five years old. The parents were straight up lied to. They were told the traders would help their girls find wealthy husbands, or arrange for them to get an education. The girls would became domestic slaves or were sold into prostitution. The young women lived brutal lives. The youngest girls didn't last more than a few years before their worn and abused bodies gave out. They would usually die within five years after they were first held captive. Some who were on the verge of death were put in a solitary room to starve. Chinese gangs known as Tongs, usually headed up the operations. The local government overlooked the crime. San Francisco City Hall took kickbacks from Tong groups at the time so there was little government action against this problem.   Donaldina Cameron was born on a sheep farm in New Zealand in July of 1869. She spent the first three years of her life there with her Scottish family including her six older siblings. By the time she was four years old, the entire family had immigrated to the United States of America. They brought their skills and knowledge from the farm and made their home on a large sheep ranch in the San Gabriel Valley in California. San Gabriel Valley is to the east of Los Angeles in present-day Pasadena.   Her family and friends called her Dolly. Dolly's childhood was secluded from the outside world. On the ranch, she spent the days picking Johnston's bush lupine and dreaming of marrying. She would have a hard working ranch family and live the kind of comfortable life that her parents had always provided. She knew of nothing else in her new home state of California.    When she was thirteen years old, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, the first piece of federal immigrant legislation in the United States. It was said to be originally passed to prohibit sex trafficking of Asian women and an influx of Asian male laborers. The Chinese slave trade was as much a part of San Francisco history as was the gold rush. Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, any immigrant from any area considered “undesirable” was prohibited from entering the United States. This included most of Asia. Chinese women could not enter the United States unless they were already married to a man living there. A dangerous and illegal system dubbed the "paper daughters” was created, where papers were forged stating the trafficked victims were already members of Chinese families in the United States.   Hours north, cable cars were first climbing San Francisco's hills. The city had been built to a massive scale since the gold rush began. Protestant women were launching an attack on “yellow slavery” in San Francisco. Cameron came to the city as a young woman to attend school to be a teacher. In the bay, she fell in and out of love.    Her best friend at school had an activist mother, who volunteered at the Presbyterian Mission House in San Francisco. Young Chinese girls who had been shipped from China or kidnapped to work as indentured servants were taking refuge under Maggie Culbertson's team's care. They were provided with “food, shelter, and the teachings of the Christian faith.” At the time, females made up 60 percent of the missionary force. Missionary work, and social work in general, was an example of leadership that was acceptable for Victorian women. Maggie Culbertson, the founder of the Presbyterian Mission House, was ill and needed help.    Dolly had recently left a fiance and quit college and decided to join Culbertson's team. She could teach sewing and other useful skills at the San Francisco Mission House. They agreed on a one year term. Dolly arrived in April of 1895. On her first day ever at the Mission House, sticks of dynamite were found around the premises. She then realized the magnitude of her new situation. The gangs often threatened the mission with death and destruction not just from the Tongs, but, by the police who came to roust the illegal aliens. Magggie Culbertson mentored Dolly in the ways of care and justice. Dolly relished in assisting her in providing the safe haven for the young Chinese girls. She was inspired by Culbertson's courage as she worked by her side.     Tien Fuh Wu was rescued from a Chinatown gambling den and  lived at the home when Cameron arrived. She really didn't care for her and Wu was disobedient for Dolly's first two years at the house. As a child, Wu was told she was going to San Francisco to visit her grandmother. She was taken to a boat in her native province Zhejiang, China. Her father locked her inside a cabin onboard with only a toothbrush and washcloth, told her to eat her supper and left without saying goodbye. Her father had sold her to pay off his gambling debts.    The boat brought her one hundred miles north to Shanghai, then she boarded a steamship to San Francisco. She worked as a mui tsai, or, a domestic servant in a brothel in the city until the owner at the brothel fell into debt. Wu was sold to the gambling den on Jackson Street. There, she was subjected to rigorous household chores, and physically abused by her new owner. When she was old enough, she was transferred to a life of sex work. When rescued, Wu's body was covered in burns, cuts and bruises. She arrived at the home on 920 Sacramento Street 15 months before Dolly. At the turn of the century in San Francisco, this kind of trafficking was rampant, and largely ignored by city authorities.  Culbertson's health failed when Cameron was 25 years old. Two years later, she took over as superintendent of the Presbyterian Home. Wu changed her mind about Dolly after one of the Chinese women who worked alongside Cameron passed away. The intense grief Dolly displayed showed Wu a new side of the woman. Wu worked for Dolly as a translator during court cases, and helped supervise the Mission House, earning $5 a month.    Donaldina Cameron continued Culbertson's mission of the Home. She saved young women from sex slavery and indentured servitude in the worst hellholes of Chinatown. Cameron had an uncanny knack of smelling out the brothels that were often hidden behind trap doors. Secret messages were sent to her from friends and relatives of these captive girls, tipping her off the girl's location. Engaging in chases over rooftops, down dark alleys, hiding in hidden rooms and breaking down doors with an ax. I mean shit worthy of a blockbuster feature action film.   At the safe house, the girls however, were not entirely free. They were to concede to Anglo-American ways. Dolly incorporated Chinese food and decorations into their daily living, but the students were forced to convert to Christianity. Most of the immigrant women welcomed the conversion and looked to Dolly as a hero. They called her “Lo Mo” translated it means Little Mother. Yet there were women who had mixed feelings about this forced conversion. The house was also the site of many happy marriages of girls who eventually found worthy men. When they married their chosen suitor, they would wear a white gown, rather than the traditional red. White gowns symbolize funerals in Chinese culture.   Wu was her favorite aide. Her ability to translate was a fantastic asset. She was also able to comfort the rescued girls. The brothel and slave owners commonly spread fear of "White Devils" to stop the women in their possession from seeking help. The Tongs had many nicknames for Dolly. Jesus Woman, White Spirit, White Witch, White Devil and the Angry Angel of Chinatown. The Tongs would tell their captives that the “White Witch” would drink the blood of the liberated girls to keep up her vitality. Wu would show them her own scars, ensuring their safety. The scars were evidence of her understanding. She accompanied Cameron on the dangerous rescues that took many months and intense investigation to orchestrate. When the fear of the bubonic plague had been in Chinatown. The roads were blocked off and the neighborhood was under quarantine. They used the roofs to get to the girls they were rescuing. Together, Dolly and her 4' 11" cohort saved the lives of thousands of trafficked Chinese girls and women in San Francisco. Wu was targeted by the Tongs because she herself was Chinese. The gangs saw her as a traitor. The threats were so common that after each major rescue, Cameron would stop Wu from going out alone for weeks at a time.    The law wasn't always on her side. Getting legal custody of the girls was nearly impossible for Cameron since child protection laws did not yet exist. Tong leaders would claim that they had a right to the captive as her “sponsor” and the courts often agreed. They would say the captive was a relative, or that she was working voluntarily. If she captured the girl first, she could work the legal problems out later. This way, the girl would be safe in the mission house while the courts hashed out the details.   On March 29, 1900 two Chinese men and a police officer arrived at the Mission Home looking for resident Kum Quai, who they claimed was a thief. This was a typical tactic used by the brothel owners to reclaim the women. Quai was arrested, but Cameron would not let her be alone with the men, so she joined on the train journey to Palo Alto. Quai was to be locked in a cell for the night, and Cameron remained with her. At 2 am, the deputy tried to open the door, but Cameron was suspicious of the early morning entry and barricaded them inside until the officers started breaking down the doors.    After the train, the men loaded Quai in a buggy, and Cameron attempted to follow. She was pushed out and thrown onto the road. Cameron woke townspeople up right away, panicked. Frustration spread throughout the town. A crowd demonstrated the  next day in San Jose at the office of the lawyer who planned the event. “The public uproar led to criminal indictments,” and the men involved were punished.  In 1904, she had her attorneys challenge the courts to provide for child welfare laws. It was a breakthrough that would provide her a most useful tool for her rescues. Some of the girls opted for more education, and one of Donaldina's “daughters” became the first Chinese woman to graduate from Stanford University. Another daughter trained to become the first Chinese nurse through the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Yet other daughters stayed on at Cameron House to help with the mission's work. Cameron wrote extensively in publications like Women and Missions and a pamphlet titled "The Yellow Slave Traffic", seeking to gain financial support for her mission.    In April 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake and fire forced the evacuation of the Presbyterian Home, which was destroyed in the earthquake. The night the tragedy happened, Dolly ran through the blazing city back to her home to retrieve a logbook that detailed her guardianship over her girls. She did not want them to be forced back into servitude or prostitution.   The home was rebuilt the following year. Hidden passages were constructed in the basement of the new structure. A fire that happened years later burned several girls to death who were trapped in the very room that was supposed to keep them safe. It is said that this is ranked as one of San Francisco's allegedly haunted locations and these very women still haunt the building today. The building, now known as The Donaldina Cameron House is San Francisco Landmark #44. The doors to the basement remain sealed.    Throughout her career, she kept expanding her work. She tried to overturn the Oriental Exclusion Act, which prevented Chinese from owning property, limited where they could live and denied them the right to testify on their own behalf in an American court. Donaldina also founded two homes for Chinese children and raised awareness about widespread prejudice toward all Chinese.  Many of these children were orphans or the children of the rescued women. The Chung Mei Home served young boys, while the Ming Quong Home was for girls. The former Chung Mei house is today part of the Windrush School in El Cerrito, California, and the Ming Quong Home is now a part of Mills College in Oakland, California.    Donaldina retired in 1942 and the Presbyterian Home was renamed the Donaldina Cameron House. After retirement, Donaldina moved to the Palo Alto area. Despite living in Chinatown for 40 years, Cameron never learned Chinese. Three years later, she adopted an orphan from Korea. Wu lived next door to Cameron when she was an elderly woman living in Palo Alto. She is credited with saving and educating over 3,000 Chinese immigrant women and girls and was considered a "national icon". Over 800 women are recorded as having lived there between 1874 and 1909 .    Cameron was remembered for how close she was with the home's residents and for being kind and caring to all people, despite their nationalities. At the same time, she was part of the larger missionary system, in which “the ethnocentric attitude and national and religious absolutism… cannot be denied”. She made an effort to embrace these women's culture when she arrived at the Mission Home. “Nothing angered Miss Cameron more than the racial discrimination to which Chinese were subjected in housing, employment, and education”. For the time, Cameron was progressive and accepting. However, she still forced the residents to comply with her leadership and culture.   Historian Dorothy Gray calls her “perhaps the most active and daring freedom fighter in the history of the West.” Ron Cameron, Donaldina's great nephew, remembers that when visiting the elderly Cameron on her birthday, years after she stopped working, he “would have to get in a line that was about two blocks long of Chinese people who had driven… to wish her a happy birthday    She died in Palo Alto, California, in 1968, at the age of 98. Wu is said to have been at her mentor's side, reading from a Bible until the very end. She is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. When Wu passed away seven years later, she was buried next to her friend in Cameron's family plot at the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles.   The Cameron House still stands today in San Francisco, serving as a multi-service agency serving Asian communities by promoting healthy Christian communities through programs like youth sports, tutoring, and counseling. If you call Cameron House today, the phone is still answered in Chinese. Miranda Raison portrays Donaldina Cameron in the Cinemax TV series Warrior as Nellie Davenport. Ah Toy is also a character in that series.  https://cameronhouse.org/ https://truewestmagazine.com/donaldina-cameron/ https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880286/the-child-slave-who-helped-rescue-thousands-of-women-in-chinatown   http://www.sfmuseum.net/1906/ew15.html   https://truewestmagazine.com/donaldina-cameron/ https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Donaldina_Cameron:_The_Person_Behind_the_Legend

Connie Chan used to love listening to music at Tower Records. In this podcast, we get to know Connie, who's beginning her second year as supervisor of San Francisco's District 1 (more or less the Inner and Outer Richmond). She and her brother were born in Hong Kong and raised in Taiwan. Connie shares the story of how her parents met: Her dad was a Hong Kong cop who worked with youth; Connie's mom was a social worker who also spent a lot of time with kids. They met through their work. When Connie was 5, the family moved to Taiwan. It was the Eighties and Connie and her brother were very much latch-key kids. Connie was exposed to plenty of pop culture, although it took some time for music and movies to reach eastern Asia. She talks about how members of her family had various trades and interests in Asia (piano teacher, opera singer, university professor) that they had to give up when they immigrated to the US. An aunt and uncle came over before her own family, and they landed in San Francisco's Chinatown. Her aunt served dim sum and her uncle worked as a bookkeeper for the famed Empress of China restaurant. ​Connie talks about the well-established immigrant and Chinese-American community in Chinatown and the role they played in her family's move there when she was 13. The networks that existed, the opportunities that opened to newcomers ... it all played a part in establishing a trust that was almost always paid forward. Her mom moved Connie and her brother there, where the three lived with her aunt and uncle in a not-very-big apartment. But she got her first impression of San Francisco on a trip here the year before. Connie plays the mandolin and visited as part of a band that toured the US for two weeks, SF being one of the stops. It was also the beginning of her really learning English. Her family speaks Cantonese, but from an early age, Connie learned Mandarin in school. She talks about some racism and bullying she experienced at school shortly after her arrival here. But Connie adjusted and made the most of her new circumstances. She would stop at Tower Records and visit their listening stations, where she would read along to the music and learn even more English. As a teen, Connie felt she had everything she needed in Chinatown. But when she returned to San Francisco as a 21-year-old after college, The City really opened up for her. ​Check back Thursday for Part 2 and the story of how Connie ended up running for and becoming a supervisor in San Francisco. Related Episode D9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen Part 1/Part 2 ​We recorded this podcast at San Francisco City Hall in February 2022. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

This week Chris Massey of Craft Ventures and David Mack (D-Mack) guest host the show and interview David Owen of Shef. Shef is a startup based out of San Francisco that allows consumers to have authentic, homemade meals cooked by local, certified chefs delivered right to their home.  Chris and D-Mack speak with David about: How David decided to make the move to in-house government relations; What it was like working for AirBnB in the early days of the company; How the '08 financial crisis and smartphones paved the way for the creation of companies like Lyft, AirBnB, and Eaze; How Shef is navigating the patchwork quilt of food-related regulations across the country Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show. Don't forget to subscribe! Have a suggestion, or want to chat with Jim? Email him at Jim@ThePoliticalLife.net  Follow The Political Life on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for weekly updates.

Chris Kostman is the Chief Adventure Officer at AdventureCORPS and the Race Director of the worldwide series of Badwater events. In this episode of Run with Fitpage, Chris talks all about Badwater 135, the toughest footrace on Earth with our host Vikas Singh. Episode Summary:00:00 - About this episode02:00 - Welcome Chris Kostman to the show!02:13 - Chris Kostman before Badwater09:19 - What is Badwater? What is the Death Valley?15:03 - How does one think about qualifying for the race?20:34 - More ways to prove credibility25:43 - How can one start to train for Badwater?31:09 - What are the types of people who go ahead to win, or even complete in the race?36:01 - Chris' job as a race director - managing to be with every athlete, and standing for the at the finish line — the role of the race director41:54 - Chris on his own training and athletic career47:47 - Advice to runners in India54:46 - Chris loves India! Guest Profile:Chris got his start early in ultra sports: He set world ultra-cycling records in high school in 1984 and 1985 (riding against the clock from San Francisco City Hall to Los Angeles City Hall) and completed the 3127-mile Race Across America bicycle race in less than eleven days at age 20. That was a springboard to competing in events as diverse as the Triple Ironman in France, the 6.5-mile Skaha Lake Ultra Swim in Canada, three 100-mile snowshoe races in Alaska, six Ironman Triathlons, an Ultraman-distance triathlon stage race in Vermont, the Boston Marathon, and many other endurance races. Hand in hand with his athletic career, Chris has been producing some of the toughest endurance events on the planet since 1984 through his company, AdventureCORPS, Inc. Chris has also published over 250 articles about the endurance world, adventure, travel, archaeology, human potential, and the outdoor way of life. Connect with Chris Kostman:Website: Badwater.com Instagram: @BadwaterHQ / @ChrisKostmanFB: Chris KostmanAbout Vikas Singh:Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale and Reliance before coming up with an idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:Instagram: @vikas_singhhLinkedIn: Vikas SinghGmail: vikas@fitpage.inTwitter: @vikashsingh1010About the Podcast: Run with FitpageThis podcast series is built to bring science and research from the endurance sports industry. These may help you learn and implement these in your training, recovery, and nutrition journey. We invite coaches, exercise scientists, researchers, nutritionists, doctors, and inspiring athletes to come and share their knowledge and stories with us. So, whether you're just getting started with running or want to get better at it, this is the best podcast for you!Learn more about fitness and nutrition on our website, www.fitpage.in or check out our app Fitpage on iOS and Android. This podcast was recorded on Zoom conferencing.

The San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal that kicked off with the arrest of former Public Works chief, Mohammed Nuru, back in 2020 continues to unfold. Today, the union representing City employees filed suit, saying workers faced retaliation for calling out problems in their departments.  For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke to KCBS Radio Insider Phil Matier.

It's a liberal bashing Friday! Bob and Scott talk about the state of the Democrats in the wake of the Virginia, New Jersey and Buffalo elections. They talk about how the Democrats continue to act like it's 1993 and put up tired old Clinton hacks like Terry McAuliffe and ex-Goldman bankers like Phil Murphy and expect things to be different. Furthermore, they undermine democratic socialists like India Walton in the Buffalo mayor's race and blame woke politics, defund the police, medicare for all, the Green New Deal, etc when things don't go their way. In Glasgow, it's even more of the same liberal slight of hand, as Obama and Kerry play up the "climate action" rhetoric when both have built long careers on keeping the fossil fuel sector afloat. Obama was in the White House for eight years with climate movements sitting in on his front doorstep, fighting pipelines in Texas, fracking in New York and coal mining in Appalachia and did NOTHING. Scott has more than a few gripes about this. We then get into how autonomous movements, using direct action and organizing, defy powers that be in the corporate suites, Washington DC and, the "leadership" of their own movements. We discuss the John Deere strike and a recent disruption of Sen. Amy Klobuchar by Stop Line 3 protestors as examples of disruption and resistance to the powers that be. Finally, we wrap with a "Love'em they're liberals" segment about Nancy Pelosi officiating billionaire's weddings in San Francisco City Hall (true story). Love them they're liberals! And they ain't doing nothing for us! ---------------------------------- Links // Buzzanco: Democrats Won't Save You . . . Virginia and Buffalo (https://bit.ly/3oiphqc) G&R: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/ActionDirectGandR) Parkin: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/2021DirectAction) Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Donate to Green and Red Podcast// Become a recurring donor at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.

Sully joins us back on the show again. Today's podcast ties together several related threads of our unraveling civilization. First, the problem of homeless encampments popping up in liberal cities all over America, some of them in embarrassingly public places (San Francisco City Hall, Venice Beach in LA, New York City's restaurant districts). Second, the presence of illegals who bring their brutal cultures with them when they overstay their visas. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thepatriotangle/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thepatriotangle/support

Today's podcast ties together several related threads of our unraveling civilization. First, the problem of homeless encampments popping up in liberal cities all over America, some of them in embarrassingly public places (San Francisco City Hall, Venice Beach in LA, New York City's restaurant districts). Second, the presence of illegals who bring their brutal cultures with them when they overstay their visas. Third, the fact that we are increasingly a nation of soy boys, beta males and their female equivalents, in which no one comes to the aid of a woman being raped right in front of them. In the news this week, a homeless illegal from The Congo raped a woman in full public view. Bystanders took out their smart phones and started filming the event. What has happened to us? Savage reacts to these questions in a recent NewsMax interview, and reiterates a point he's been making for years: The homeless need to be housed in institutions where they can be helped, not left to fester in their own waste on our city streets. Also the closures of mental hospitals in California was NOT by Ronald Reagan as some mistakenly believe, but by his predecessor Edmund Brown. Ambulance chasing lawyers will sue anyone for any reason, if there's money to be made. So even a red-blooded male who wants to help will think twice about being sued by a shyster. The podcast concludes with an archival segment from 2020 on the homeless problem, together with a most interesting interview discussing the fact that China now controls our supply of medicines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much would you guess the air over San Francisco City Hall is worth? The answer is a lot, as the Board of Supervisors are set to vote on selling permits to develop it. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Dan Mitchinson and Holly Quan spoke with KCBS Radio Insider Phil Matier.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To be a part of the continuing growth of this podcast please head over to patreon.com /rizolove where you'll find various ways to support me and my work.. “Tikkun Olam; leave the world a better place than you found it” Ari Shapiro, the voice many depend on to bring their news as the host of All Things Considered started as an intern for NPR right after college and quickly rose through the ranks. After four years as NPR's White House Correspondent during President Obama's terms, Ari spent two years as the International Correspondent before being asked to host All Things Considered.  He's reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One. He's covered wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel, and he has filed stories from five continents. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.  Shapiro has an unusual side-hustle for a news correspondent, he moonlights singing with Pink Martini, the shape-shifting pop orchestra that makes a joyful noise all over the world including venues like Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. A few years ago Ari assembled his own stories from his years as a journalist, paired them with songs to make his first solo cabaret show- a beautiful piece called Homeward. On stage he was most recently seen performing with the Scottish actor/ singer Alan Cumming in their new duo show, Och and Oy.   Ari and his husband Michael Gottleib inadvertently became faces of the fight for gay marriage when 2004 footage of their union was captured on the steps of San Francisco City Hall in the first few weeks after mayor Gavin Newsome performed a civil disobedience by issuing licences for same sex-marriage. He lives in Washington DC with his husband and dogs Simone and Bruce. Image credit Victor G Jeffreys II @victorjeffreysii Connect with Ari; https://instagram.com/arishapiro https://twitter.com/arishapiro Connect with Rizo: https://rizo.love https://www.patreon.com/rizolove https://www.instagram.com/rizo.love https://twitter.com/rizoloves https://www.facebook.com/rizo.loves

The bloom is off the rose the corrupt liberal politicians at San Francisco City Hall can't keep a lid on the truth their the propaganda is a failure.

Beginning with an iPhone and an “a-ha moment” in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall, photographer Arthur Drooker began a project that would last five years and take him across the United States to photograph the most impressive and interesting city halls in the nation. The project culminated with his wonderful book, City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture, from Schiffer Publishing, and it brings him to the B&H Photography Podcast to discuss photographing architecture, civic pride, research and interviews, book publishing, zoom and tilt-shift lenses, and a host of other subjects related to his photography. Join us for this practical and insightful episode. “To me, the best city halls are not just office buildings to administer services, they also use architecture and design to express something about civic pride, civic virtue, and democratic engagement.” – Arthur Drooker Guest: Arthur Drooker Photograph © Arthur Drooker

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Chris takes us on a journey to a land that is simultaneously far away, yet near, ancient, yet brand new.   Search Categories --- Anthropological; Common Interest/Fandom; Conspiracy Theory   Topic Spoiler --- The Tartarian Empire   Further Reading --- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory http://zachmortice.com/ https://twitter.com/cinemashoebox/status/1339956378912350214 https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/ieg2k0/tartaria_the_supposed_megaempire_of_inner_eurasia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_architectural_styles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Empire_architecture_in_the_United_States_and_Canada https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=tartaria https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4765 https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-old-buildings-have-half-buried-windows-Also-I-have-seen-some-old-excavations-that-have-levels-that-are-underground-complete-with-windows-and-doors-Why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition https://www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gallery/news/2015/10/02/from-the-archives-historic-photos-of-the-iowa-state-capitol/28360153/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_State_Capitol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_City_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Federal_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary https://www.historytoday.com/archive/treaty-tilsit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia   Henceforth begins the pro-Tartaria literature: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tartarianarchitecture/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CulturalLayer/ https://stolenhistory.org/resources/the-one-world-tartarians-by-james-w-lee.30/ https://www.youtube.com/c/BushwhackingTartariawithBerserkerBear/playlists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_dHMV6umCs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6HFPNdewsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYyjkdDuws

In #136 futurists tune into an Our Future social impact episode, co-hosted with Jess Schmitt, featuring Sarah Goody, a 16-year-old climate activist and the founder of Climate Now. Sarah gained national attention from outlets like NBC, LA Times, and Good Morning America when in 8th grade, she protested in front of San Francisco City Hall for 50 consecutive Fridays to raise awareness for climate change. Since her initial campaign, Sarah has founded Climate Now, an organization focused on providing young people an introductory experience into the issue of climate change and the ways in which they can participate in reversing the planet's trajectory toward increased temperatures and natural disasters. Jess and I were blown away by Sarah's poise, professionalism, and incredible confidence as just a 16-year-old, and it's absolutley unreal the work she's doing to raise awareness for an issue she feels endlessly passionate about. Don't miss this powerful and inspirational episode. Check out Climate Now's website: https://www.climatenow.solutions/ Get 50% off Verb Energy's caffeinated energy bars, which have just 90 calories and pack the same punch as a cup of coffee, coming in delicious flavors like Vanilla Latte, Double Chocolate, and Peppermint Mocha. You, the Our Future listener, can get 16 Verb energy bars for just $12 by purchasing through our unique link here: https://www.verbenergy.com/ourfuture Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2htIc3-njRI5BKTJ2QqNfA Subscribe to Our Future Newsletter: https://www.ourfuturehq.com/ Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ourfuturehq/ Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ourfuturehq

San Francisco native Ellen Schumer is the docent tour manager and historian for San Francisco City Hall. She’s worked under many administrations and knows a lot about the entire city’s wonderful history — but her deepest love is for the majesty of City Hall. This week, join us at Beyond The Fog Radio as Ellen Schumer teaches us about what makes City Hall so great.

The corruption at San Francisco City Hall is undeniable. Money laundering etc. when will the feds investigate?? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanfranciscodamn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sanfranciscodamn/support

I knew I was destined to be an entertainer at a very young age. Michael Jackson was the first iconic musical influence to pique my interest in the performing arts. In fact, Somewhere boxed away in storage there's a video of me dancing and singing karaoke to Michael Jackson's “Rock with you” wearing a glove at the age of five years old. Eventually, I became intrigued with Jazz. I remember being in San Francisco, CA sitting in a Japanese Sushi Restaurant with my Grandmother. They were playing music and it was a much different sound than I was accustomed too. I asked my Grandmother “What's that?” And with much enthusiasm, she replied, “That's Jazz!”. It wasn't long after that day I picked up my first Saxophone. Post receiving my Bachelors Degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, I have played at San Francisco City Hall for the Mayor London Breed and the amazing audience that was in attendance for the Black History Month Ceremony in the Rotunda Hall whilst being featured on NBC Bay Area News. Currently I provide entertainment for a variety of music gigs including weddings, conferences, private parties, churches, clubs, and lounges. I even had my own students working as a private music teacher. Over time, I added more instruments to my toolboxes such as flute, piano, percussion, and vocals. Now, I am focusing on continuing to develop as a published artist in the entertainment industry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/justchatwitbri/support

Flowers and cupcakes go together all year around! So even though Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching, you can patronize Saturday’s Full Circle guests anytime. The show opened with a conversation with Gina Lett-Shrewsberry, CEO of Inspirations by Gina, a full-service floral and event design studio that specializes in weddings and special events and serves Sacramento and the Bay Area. Gina is a preferred vendor for San Francisco City Hall, a list that contains very few African American businesses. Hear Gina’s story of reinvention, perseverance and following your dreams. In the second hour of Full Circle, I welcomed LaQueanya Henry, co-owner of Sugar Coated Cupcakes. Ms. Henry and her daughter own the Country’s FIRST Mobile Dessert Cupcakery & Dry Hire Bar. Not only do they make delicious gourmet cupcakes, which you can get at their popups or have them delivered, they have also created a DIY Cupcake Kit, operate the Sugar Coated Cocktail Mobile Bar and give back to the community though their Sugar Coated Toy Shop. This episode was sponsored by Everyone’s Place, Sacramento’s only mobile acupuncture clinic. Follow our sponsor and guests on social media: @everyonesplace @inspirationsbygina @sugarcoatedcupcakes

Biden's picks for his cabinet send ripple effects across the nation, especially in California. Kevin and Minh Nguyen examine the change happening at various levels: Big Dems going to the DC, San Francisco City Hall scandal, and LA's new, but not-so new DA George Gascon (12:40) Then, the guys do a book swap for the holidays (58:00)   Reminder: Join TCM's PlayStation 5 raffle to raise money for the Georgia run-off elections. $30 per entry, no limits, with winner to be announced December 23rd. Submit proof of your donations to Fair Fight Action and/or the Asian American Advocacy Fund to: TheConcernedMinorityPod@gmail.com Check in on the Raffle here. 

San Francisco has faced many scandals in which public officials abused their power for personal, political or organizational gain. On the November, 2020 ballot, Proposition B has been proposed as a way to limit the scope of alleged corruption in the sprawling Department of Public Works, but what other measures could voters use in the future to keep elected and appointed officials accountable in San Francisco?

October marks the 25th anniversary of The California Report, and this week, we’re kicking off the first in a series of shows celebrating 25 years on the air. In this first installment, we’ll listen back to stories that showcase some of the ways the state has been a trailblazer. From passing first-in-the-nation climate change initiatives, to legalizing medical marijuana, to galvanizing the immigrants-right movement and marrying same-sex couples at San Francisco City Hall back in 2004, our state is often on the frontlines of progressive change. Host Sasha Khokha is joined by Scott Shafer, senior editor for KQED’s Politics and Government Desk and former host of The California Report. 

At the recent Global Training in July 2020, former Vice President Al Gore and the Climate Reality Project continued their call to prioritize and center the environmental justice work of communities of color and indigenous communities. In this spirit, we invite you to learn about and engage with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice's "We Can't Breathe" campaign in San Francisco's Bayview and Hunters Point (BVHP) neighborhoods, a low-income community of color (33.7 percent African American, 30.7 percent Asian, and 24.9 percent Latinx per the 2010 Census) where residents suffer from high rates of asthma and cancer and where radioactive waste and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and multiple other contaminated sites are located. As one of the lowest-lying points in San Francisco, BVHP will also be first impacted by rising oceans, which have already risen by almost 8 inches as of 2016 and which threaten to create flooding of hazardous and radioactive waste of neighborhoods, transportation infrastructure, and the entire San Francisco Bay, while several hundred new luxury homes have been built next to and possibly on top of radioactive contamination, and 10,000 more homes are planned at the contaminated Shipyard Superfund Site where critics complain that radioactive and toxic cleanup has been marred by fraud and lax standards. Speakers will also discuss the August 25 Car Caravan Protest to San Francisco City Hall for the Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice "We Can't Breathe" Campaign. NOTES Co-presented by The Climate Reality Project Bay Area Chapter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TheLouDaddy joins 2Stupid2Win & ThankMeLater to discusses the Daiquiri 2 release and the outlook of Upland. San Francisco City Hall construction starts, a new event to award the first NYC property, and much much more is covered. Upland is a virtual property trading game powered by blockchain technology. For a 50% bonus on your first deposit use this link https://discover.upland.me/UPX-Podcast (https://discover.upland.me/UPX-Podcast)

The Tenderloin’s vile Willow Alley tent junkie village wasn’t cleaned despite UC Hasting’s college of Law SUING & City Hall. The Tenderloin’s district supervisor failed us the Mayor failed us we had to go over their head and get a local news team to cover the story I’ll be posting the link when the story airs tomorrow July 28! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanfranciscodamn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sanfranciscodamn/support

Actions speak louder than words San Francisco City Hall continues to neglect the Tenderloin’s citizens...The junkie apocalypse drug refugee camps are out of control almost 500 tents! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanfranciscodamn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sanfranciscodamn/support

San Francisco City Hall has effectively surrendered to the drug dealers. Homelessness is out of control due to dealers supplying drugs to addicts 24 hours a day. Its time the effort to take back city streets be handed over to the US Federal government, now.

The recent FBI arrest of former Department of Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru is just the latest example of a "culture of soft corruption" at San Francisco City Hall. That's according to Mission Local editor and columnist Joe Eskenazi. He joins us to share the latest on the Nuru investigation and to talk about why a city government that prides itself on high-minded moral stances seems to get all-to-frequent visits by federal authorities.

San Francisco's Market Street is now car-free and San Francisco City Hall is still reeling from the announcement that the city's high profile public works director was being arrested and charged with bribery. Local people. Local stories. From the KCBS Radio Newsroom, this is "The All Local" for the morning of Wednesday, January 29, 2020.

On August 27, 1987, KCBS Radio broadcast an hour-long special report, "The Feinstein Years". Produced and reported by longtime KCBS Radio San Francisco City Hall reporter Barbara Taylor, the piece examined the legacy of a political figure who had served at San Francisco City Hall for more than 17 years (sworn in as a city Supervisor in 1970) and was a few months away from the end of her mayoral term. Feinstein would run for Governor of California in 1990, and after that failed campaign, would be elected to the United States Senate in 1992.​

We Three Kings - Sue Hutton and Athan Maroulis; Theory - Hot Jacking; Trash - Velvet Acid Christ, EINE KLEINE HEXENNACHT MUZIK - Hanzel Und Gretyl, Ancient Machines - Forrest Fang; Geeknotes: 12/08 - Sixth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair, 12/11 - Poor People’s Mass Meeting and March, San Francisco City Hall, 12/14 - Solidarity Meeting With The People Of Chile & Bolivia, ILWU Local 34, SF; Practice - Snapshot Specs; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Sue Hutton and Athan Maroulis

The grand jury is in session. The boodlers who may end up in the dock? — that's how the Chronicle put it. Mayor Eugene "Handsome Gene" Schmitz and Abe Ruef, the Boss Tweed of San Francisco, the head of the city's political machine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highly respected, frequently provocative, always challenging, Harvey Rose has survived the drama and intrigues of San Francisco City Hall politics for many years as San Francisco's most highly respected, independent budget and legislative analyst. As part of a valued San Francisco institution, no financial or legislative detail escaped Rose's attention. In his straightforward talk, Rose will discuss work and the critical need for independent view of San Francisco's money, politics and the work of city hall, supervisors, commissioners, legislators and mayors. MLF Organizer:Ann Clark MLF: Environment & Natural Resources Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPEAKERS Harvey M. Rose Budget and Legislative Analyst, City and County of San Francisco: Founder, Harvey M. Rose Associates LLC; Former Auditor General, State of California This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on September 3rd, 2019.

Update on the American Psychiatric Association – Part 1   Show Notes By Jacqueline Posada, MD, 4th-year resident in the department of psychiatry & behavioral sciences at George Washington University, Washington. Lorenzo Norris, MD, interview with Saul Levin, MD, MPA, CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Levin also is clinical professor at George Washington University.   In 2019, the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary. The APA was the first medical association formed in the United States. The 2019 APA annual meeting in San Francisco attracted 13,000 psychiatrists and mental health professionals, and hosted 650 sessions covering all topics in psychiatry, including subjects related to private, community, and academic psychiatry. Highlights of the 2019 meeting included: A Gala at San Francisco City Hall, which allowed generations of psychiatrists to celebrate the progress of the APA. Sessions at the meeting, which focused on the latest basic, clinical, service, and psychopharmacology research. Additional sessions focused on minority and underrepresented populations, both within APA membership and patient populations. Major networking opportunities at the APA were available, allowing peers and experts in the field to create lifelong professional relationships. A burgeoning networking opportunity is the Psychiatry Innovation Lab, which is “an incubator at the American Psychiatric Association that aims to catalyze the formation of innovative ventures to transform mental health care.” The APA’s role in advocacy: The organization is not just a guild that seeks to support psychiatrists. Part of the APA’s mission is to advocate for patients with mental health illness with a focus on improving treatment and outcomes. For members, the APA sponsors a National Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill and state advocacy days, in which the APA helps fund people to come talk to their elected representatives. Major areas of advocacy by the APA as a medical association are numerous. Mental health parity: Advocating for equal pay to psychiatrists for treating mental health diagnoses as well as the provision of equal coverage of psychiatric diagnoses by insurance companies. Augmentation of the workforce: Supporting measures aimed at making sure that there are enough psychiatrists to treat patients with mental illness in the United States. Examples of advocacy initiatives by the APA are numerous. The group is active in the following areas: Advocates for legislation that advances telepsychiatry by supporting laws aimed at reducing barriers to the technology. Promotes integrative mental health care models. Explains the concept of prior authorization on Capitol Hill and helps to craft sensible guidelines. Promotes evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders, especially opioid use disorders. Lobbies for appropriations for agencies such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Helps construct smart loan repayment plans aimed at allowing psychiatrists to practice in low-resource areas. The APA recommends several research initiatives. “Moonshots” should be a goal in in psychiatry, much like those taken with illnesses such as HIV and breast cancer. Stigma must be reduced, and money must be appropriated to mental illness research in the same way it is for other medical illnesses. References APA Innovation Lab  Mental health parity advocacy  Advocacy and APAPAC   For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgePsych  

San Francisco mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou talks with Richie Greenberg , regarding her priorities, her vision and her views on the current environment of the city. Recorded on location inside San Francisco City Hall, Jun 5th 2019.

In 1985, KCBS Radio reporter Barbara Taylor, a longtime San Francisco City Hall reporter, produced a 28-minute "KCBS Reports" segment on the mayoral administration of Dianne Feinstein. By then, Feinstein had already been an elected official in San Francisco for 16 years.

With Election Day just around the corner and a hotbed of social and political issues surrounding women everywhere, San Francisco mayor London Breed sits down with The She-Compass Show for a chat about the empowerment of women. Holding court in the stately International Room at San Francisco City Hall, Mayor Breed discusses the life lessons that helped bring her to San Francisco's highest office and the impact she hopes to make on generations of women. She also shares insight on how she maintains the strength and determination to lead a city at the hub of the global technology boom and a metropolis that boasts the 5th largest economy in the world.

1. Antoine Hunter & Colette Ewoi re: 35th Ethnic Dance Festival, June 29-30, 2013.  2. Latanya d. Tigner is one of the programmers for the World Arts West: "Ethnic Dance Festival, it's 40th Anniversary." The Festival opens with a free public celebration with performances in San Francisco City Hall’s rotunda on Friday, July 6. Two different programs will be presented at the Opera House July 14 & 15 and July 21 & 22, and a complete list of dates and artists may be found below. Tickets are priced $25-$45.Visit sfethnicdancefestival.org Tigner currently directs Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble, Dimensions’ pre-professional youth ensemble. She holds a B.A. in Physical Education/Dance and a Master's Degree in Arts Administration, and currently teaches dance at Contra Costa College and the University of California-Berkeley. 3. Angelique Kidjo rebroadcast (June 18, 2014). http://www.kidjo.com/ife-yoruba-songs Music: Kidjo's "Orisha"; Wadada Leo Smith's "Don't You Remember"; Zion Trinity's Opening Prayer for Elegba."  

Tuesday 27th March 2018. BEAUTIFUL BENTEY BATTERIES Bentleys led designer Stefan Sielaff recently told Auto express that “A full electric Bentley is something I am extremely convinced we have to do. It will happen not so far in the future”. For executives used to not saying anything because it’s all so competitive, we can take that as a ‘yes’ for something coming. This ties into what had previously been reported about possibly using the Mission E platform. Electric luxury cars make so much sense from the perspective of the driver in that they’re quiet and very fast. From an engineering perspective those large cars provide ample room for a 100 or 120kW battery for long ranges, plus a motor front and rear gives incredibly speed plus safety. And for a designer, an EV takes away all that engine and transmission from a luxury car which can be used for extra space. They can start with a blank sheet of paper to reimagine something fresh. Those luxury cars need to waft across long distances with 4 or 5 adults and all their luggage, and an electric drivetrain suits that perfectly. This is all part of a plan to bring a new type of customer to Bentley. Auto Express say: “The next-generation Continental GT will get a PHEV drivetrain, and the Crewe manufacturer plans to have its entire range electrified by 2025. Speculation at one time was that the EV could be called "Barnato," an homage to Joel Woolf "Babe" Barnato, one of the original Bentley Boys of the 1920s.” https://www.autoblog.com/2018/03/26/designer-full-electric-bentley   FANTASTIC FLEETS A new report from ALD Automotive shows nearly all company car journeys could be taken in an EV. ALDs telematics showed that 77% of fleet journeys were LESS than 1oo miles a day. They surveyed random company cars covering a total of 95,000 miles and 2,396 hours of total journey time. 52% of daily journeys were even below 50 miles a day. Only 12% of daily journeys were over 150 miles a day. Matt Dale, consultancy services manager for ALD Automotive said: ““Increasingly, we’re seeing the opportunity for fleets to employ a more holistic mobility strategy that looks beyond the traditional view of a single company car. For many journeys, public transport, car share, pool or hire cars are the more sensible option from both a cost and convenience perspective. On the few occasions where electric vehicles aren’t practical, drivers can supplement their travel with these more appropriate forms of transport. Fleets may well find that, due to the lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) implications of running Plug-in Hybrid (PHEVs) and BEVs, they can afford to facilitate other smart, mobility solutions and still save money.”   NICE ONE, NORWAY! A report on Electrive today shows that EV sales in Norway now to 5.1%, last year pure BEV’s were up over 40%, and there are 142,000 all electric cars and vans currently driving around Norway on lovely clean energy from all their renewables. Tesla have had a slow Jan and Feb in Norway but so far have delivered over 1,000 cars in Norway with another week of the month left. In the capital Oslo, for every 1000 cars you see, 37 are electric. https://fleetworld.co.uk/77-of-fleet-journeys-could-be-completed-by-evs/   JAGUAR HEADING TO N.Y.C. The New York International Motor Show is soon and a press release landed from Jaguar Land Rover. They’ll be at the show with the F-PACE, I-PACE and E-PACE compact performance SUV. Of their I-PACE they say: “The Jaguar I-PACE is the electric vehicle drivers have been waiting for. Clean, smart and safe, I-PACE delivers sustainable sports car performance, next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) technology and five-seat SUV practicality to place Jaguar at the forefront of the EV revolution. With a state-of-the-art 90kWh lithium-ion battery using 432 pouch cells, I-PACE delivers a range of up to 480km (WLTP cycle). Owners will be able to achieve a 0-80 per cent battery charge in 40 minutes using DC charging (150kW). From 2020 all new Jaguar Land Rover vehicles will be electrified, giving customers even more choice. A portfolio of electrified products will be introduced across the entire model range, embracing fully electric, plug-in hybrid and mild hybrid vehicles as well as continuing to offer ultra-clean petrol and diesel engines. https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/three-new-jaguar-land-rover-vehicles-share-spotlight-new-york   WORKHORSE 100-MILE EV VANS Finally according to Clean Technica: “Workhorse* will introduce it N-Gen all electric van at the San Francisco City Hall on March 28. The battery electric N-Gen is an all-wheel drive delivery vehicle that features a low floor height and a tall roof for ease of access. N-Gen vans will be available in the San Francisco Bay area starting next month. The N-Gen van has a range of 100 miles. Workhorse has also developed large PHEV delivery vans for UPS and WB Mason that lower tailpipe emissions while offering lower fuel and maintenance costs.” Follow the link in the show notes to read more from Clean Technica. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/26/workhorse-will-unveil-n-gen-electric-van-san-francisco-march-28   I’d love to spread the word about electric cars so, if you can, share this somebody who might be interested. You can listen to every previous episode of this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, TuneIn, and the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – subscribe for free and get every new episode automatically and first. It would really mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on iTunes which will help us spread the word to a wider audience about electric cars. And if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing. Come and say hi on Twitter @EVNewsDaily, have a wonderful day, and I'll catch you tomorrow.   CONNECT WITH ME! evne.ws/itunes evne.ws/tunein evne.ws/googleplay evne.ws/youtube evne.ws/blog

Eliza and Michael met in the most unexpected of ways. Michael was an inmate at San Quentin State Prison. Eliza was enrolled in a psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She volunteered for a program through CIIS to help prison inmates process their actions and their traumas. San Quentin was her first assignment, and that's where she and Michael first met.

It used to take hours or days to change the lights at city hall lights. Now it's done with a few clicks. Reported by Jessica Placzek. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

I've run into Cynthia many times at San Francisco City Hall, as well as private wedding ceremonies all over the Bay Area. Most of the time I see her in a black robe, so it was intriguing to invite her to the studio and learn about the woman behind the robe. Cynthia and I had a fascinating conversation. We started talking about weddings, but before long we were discussing (among many other things) her love for hats, costumes and film noir; some of the oddest ceremonies she's ever performed; and even that time she climbed on a piano and sang "Black Coffee". I honestly didn't want to let her leave.

This country just confirmed Donald Trump, a self proclaimed billionaire, as the 45th president of the United States. The media has also reported that President Trump's cabinet picks have a combined wealth of more than $14  billion (CBS News). Yet in the bay area and beyond, we see what appears to be a growing number of visible homeless encampments along the freeways and streets. How often do you feel saddened and concerned by this? Do you wonder what role you can take in your community and workplace to address the severity of homelessness in your local neighborhoods? Do you sometimes find yourself numb or desensitized to people you see living on the street or asking for help, or feel helpless in being able to support change? We interview a local leader, Kristie Fairchild, who directs a community-based organization that addresses the needs of homeless people at the local level, a neighborhood model in San Francisco. We hear innovative practices and skills at both the personal  and organizational levels that increase our capacity to support dignity, empathy and compassion when addressing the needs of homeless population in our neighborhoods. Since 2003, Kristie Fairchild has been the Executive Director of North Beach Citizens, a community-based non-profit organization focused on addressing the needs of homeless and low income people living in North Beach. In 2005, she was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to serve on the Implementation Council of San Francisco's Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. Kristie has been recognized as an innovative leader by the City and County of San Francisco, California State Senate, and California State Assembly. In 2014, she was awarded the Jefferson Award for Public Service and was the Women's History Month Honoree by San Francisco City Hall. The post Compassionately Addressing Needs of Homeless and Low Income People Across Differences appeared first on KPFA.

Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco for just one month before he pissed off the President of the United States. But that was the goal. After President George Bush called for a constitutional marriage ban in his State of the Union, San Francisco’s newly-elected mayor racked his brains for an appropriately defiant response. He was sure he’d hit on the perfect solution when he got the idea to start let gays and lesbians marry. To his surprise, the plan encountered strong resistance from queer leaders, including those within his own staff. The timing was wrong, they told him; it was too risky; as a straight man, it wasn’t his fight. But he stuck to his principles, and soon there were lines of same-sex couples ringing San Francisco City Hall, broadcast internationally and propelling marriage equality into the spotlight like never before. Then came the backlash, both in the form of more marriage bans across the country and repercussions to Newsom’s career. Was it worth it? “It's never the right time to do the right thing when it comes to politics and politicians,” he told me years later. “Which means it's always the right time to do the right thing.”

This City Hall was once San Francisco’s grandest building. It's collapse during the 1906 earthquake was attributed to political corruption. My examination suggests otherwise.

On this weeks installment of APEX Express: Contributor R.J. Lozada interviews Seng Alex Vang, Conference Co-Chair of the 16th Hmong National Development Conference. This years conference, themed The Journey Forward, is a three-day gathering of Hmong and their allies on three major threads: Education, Health & Wellness, and Economic Development.  The United States Supreme Court is in the throes of two major proceedings in the Gay Marriage or Marriage Equality movement, Hollingsworth v Perry, and the legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. In an effort to bring the complexity of the different conversations happening within the LGBTIQ movements regarding marriage equality, contributor R.J. Lozada has invited three speakers to shed some light on the subject. (photo courtesy of Lauren Quock) Lauren Quock is a queer third generation Chinese American artist and community leader.    Lauren has been working with the Network on Religion and Justice for Asian Pacific Islander LGBTIQ People (NRJ, www.netrj.org) since 2004 and is currently the NRJ Coordinator. NRJ creates community and leadership development for API LGBTIQ people of faith and works to change the culture of silence around sexuality and LGBTIQ experiences in API Christian churches through education.    Lauren is also an artist (www.laurenquock.com). Lauren appropriates industrial processes and materials to create Modified Bathroom Signs that challenge the gender binary and transform the public restroom from a site of anxiety and trauma into one of affirmation for queer people.  (photo courtesy of Yasmin Nair) From the author's website: Dr. Yasmin Nair is a Chicago-based writer, activist, academic, and commentator.  The bastard child of queer theory and deconstruction, Nair has numerous critical essays, book reviews, investigative journalism, op-eds, and photography to her credit.  Her work has appeared in publications like GLQ, The Progressive, make/shift, Time Out Chicago, The Bilerico Project, Windy City Times, Bitch, Maximum Rock'n'Roll, and No More Potlucks.   Nair's writing and organising address issues like neoliberalism and inequality, queer politics and theory, the politics of rescue and affect, sex trafficking, the art world, and the immigration crisis.  Her work also appears or will appear in various anthologies and journals, including Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matters and How to Stop It, Windy City Queer: Dispatches from the Third Coast and Arab Studies Quarterly. Most recently, her work has appeared in the Lambda-nominated anthology, Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America, edited by Tracy Baim.  Nair is a co-founder and member of the editorial collective  Against Equality; she contributed to their first book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage as well as the second, Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars, and the third, Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You.  She is also a member of the Chicago grassroots organisation Gender JUST (Justice United for Societal Transformation) and recently became its Policy Director (a volunteer position) and co-ordinator of the Chicago chapter of South Asians for Justice, a new group devoted to forging a radical South Asian-inflected political vision outside of electoral politics and Bobby Jindal. Nair was, from 1999-2003, a member of the now-defunct Queer to the Left.  Her activist work includes gentrification, immigration, public education, and youth at risk.  John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney (photo courtesy of Stuart Gaffney) Stuart Gaffney, Media Director and API Outreach Director with Marriage Equality USA  and also as a founder of API Equality Northern California.  From Huffington Post: Stuart Gaffney and his husband John Lewis are leaders in the freedom to marry movement. Together as a couple for 26 years, they were two of the plaintiffs in the historic 2008 lawsuit that held that California's ban on same-sex marriage violated the state constitution. On June 17, 2008, they married at San Francisco City Hall, surrounded by friends and family. Stuart and John are leaders in Marriage Equality USA, a national grassroots organization, and API Equality, a coalition targeting outreach and education to the Asian-American community. They have appeared extensively in local, national and international media. The focus of their work has been to foster connection between the general public and the lives of LGBTIQ people. Stuart is a graduate of Yale University and currently a Policy Analyst at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. With Host RJ. The post APEX Express – April 4, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.

The Human Power Generation in Fitness Facilities research project will create a human power generation center at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facilities to develop new technologies and methods for energy conservation and power generation.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 [00:00:30] minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with [inaudible], a fifth year mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics major at UC Berkeley, who along with Kimberly Lau, launched the human power gym project. After conducting a feasibility study, they are attempting to design and prototype [00:01:00] an elliptical exercise machine for the UC Berkeley recreational sports facility that will generate electricity. Rather than consume it, the generated electricity will be put back into the electrical grid. The project began in the summer of 2009 Maha g talks about her enthusiasm for the project and the challenges to make it a reality. Maha and I are joined by Rick [inaudible] for the interview. This interview is prerecorded and edited. [00:01:30] Maha, could you please explain the project you're working on currently? Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm working on a project titled The Human Pirate Gym Project. It's part of the Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Laboratory in the mechanical engineering department. And the goal of our project is to harness human power from exercise machines currently in the recreational sports facility or the RSF at UC Berkeley. And we're hoping to retrofit and 28 elliptical machines to harness human power and send it back to the electric grid and also work an energy education [00:02:00] campaign to improve energy literacy among the members of the RSF and people who frequent the facility to give them a better idea of sustainability and energy. Speaker 3: How did that idea bubble up for you and the group you're working on this with? Speaker 4: So I'm working on this with a graduate student named Kimberly Lough in the Mechanical Engineering Department under professor at Gugino. We came across it separately. She came across the idea when she's working out in the RSF, seeing all these people burning calories and you know, exercising so much, they must be expending a lot of energy and there must [00:02:30] be a way to harness that. And then I came across the idea because I was reading up about, um, there's a project harnessing children's power to pump water up out of the wells. And in African villages they create like a, a carousel where kids can play on and when they spin around the carousel they're actually pumping water up into a tank. And so I thought, well if kids run around and harness all this energy, why can't we do something like this and the gyms across the u s Speaker 3: and much power do you Speaker 5: expect [00:03:00] to be able to generate from all this? Speaker 4: So unfortunately it's not a lot of power. Um, the RSF uses on the order of 1.5 million kilowatt hours a year and energy consumption and by other things like air conditioning or where's all that go? So actually it's not air conditioning cause we live in a bay area. We don't actually have air conditioning and the RSF cause it stays relatively cool. It's definitely for heating and air circulation and ventilation. And then a good chunk of it goes to lights and actually [00:03:30] powering treadmills, believe it or not. So if we haven't retrofitted 28 elliptical machines, it would harness about 10,000 kilowatt hours a year, which is enough to power a small house but only 1% of what the RSF needs to run its daily use. The treadmill is actually account for about 12% of the energy use at the RSF and not a lot of people know that. So part of our project, we're trying to encourage people to use elliptical machines or other self powered machines that use less power that but give comparable workouts [00:04:00] according to fitness trainers and the hopes that maybe they'll switch over to more ellipticals and the treadmills can be replaced in the RSF cause they actually acquire. I think running on a treadmill for about an hour requires as much energy as doing a load of laundry, washing and drying. Speaker 5: How did the project come together in terms of getting an off the ground funding, all those things. Speaker 4: So two years ago I am part of the UC leads program, which is, I forgot what it stands for, but it's some type of scholarship program at Berkeley that encourages summer research. [00:04:30] So I was funded by them to do a summer research project two years ago and I contacted fresher ag Gino with this idea saying, hey, I'm funded, can I work in your lab with Kimberley? She's really awesome. Wants to work in this project. So the UC leads program funded me for that summer and they've also funded me to continue researching in the fall and of that year, fall 2009 so we researched the feasibility of this and tried to come up with some energy estimates on how much energy we could harness, how much that would cost, what sort of things would need to be in place [00:05:00] to continue actually with the retrofits. And we actually published a paper in a conference and a spring of 2010 with the American Society of mechanical engineers. And after that we started applying for funds through the Green Initiative Fund, the Sigmas I m research honors society and the Chancellors Green, the chancellor's Green Fund cacs, I believe it's called the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for sustainability. And so with all those three funding resources, we have about a little over $17,000 [00:05:30] currently to actually go ahead and build these prototypes and get going with the retrofits at the gym. Speaker 4: Can you talk about your, a conference paper anymore. So what does it, what was it about? So our conference paper was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability in May of 2010 and it just talked about our feasibility study on the RSF detailing how much power could be harnessed from the RSF, what [00:06:00] percentage of power consumption that accounted for. And it also detailed sort of how long it would take to payback such a system. And it also looked at the light life cycle assessment of the system and life cycle assessment basically means you take into account all the energy required to make the components that you'll be adding to the system and then take a look at how long it would take to payback the co two emissions related to that energy that was put in. So I think we estimated that unfortunately it's relates [00:06:30] to at savings of only a thousand dollars a year in energy consumption because energy is so cheap out here. But if we made CO2 emissions, the metric instead of dollars, the system would pay itself off in like two to three years of CO2 savings. If we assume that the energy generated at the RSF no longer needs to be generated by say PGNE and then taking into account how much CO2 is required for those few components that we have to add to each elliptical. So that was a much less bleak outlook. Speaker 5: [00:07:00] Did you draw on previous attempts to do the same thing? Speaker 4: So we redid a lot of research and a couple other gyms across the nation have retrofitted elliptical machines specifically to harness human power. And we talked to them and we talked to, there's a company called rewrap that actually does commercial retrofits and they approached the RSF also saying that they could do the retrofits before I came onto the project and we talked to those jams and I actually had a chance to visit one of them in [inaudible] at Oregon state. And [00:07:30] for some reason they didn't seem to be completely happy with the setup. For one reason or another, they didn't think it was producing as much energy as they thought. And so based on those interviews I had done with gyms across the nation, we decided to try and come up with our own retrofit. Also, cal poly has done a retrofit of their gym facility and are harnessing power from ellipticals in their own method. Speaker 4: And the gym users there are really, really excited about it and really enjoy it a lot more than people at Oregon State for instance. So that's kind of why we're trying to go [00:08:00] ahead with doing it ourselves. Um, based on interviews and research from other gyms, definitely. And are only the ellipticals being used to generate power. Currently they're the easiest to tap into because they have an onboard generator that will convert your human power movement into resistance, electrical resistance that you feel when you're working out. So it's really easy to tap into them, just remove the resistance mechanism and instead put in something like an inverter to convert the DC power [00:08:30] you're generating to AC power. That can be used and sent back to the grid. Speaker 5: When the cal poly success, was there any attempt to collaborate with them? Speaker 4: We did approach them and ask them for collaboration, but I believe they are, have, they have some sort of patents on their devices now and it's very proprietary and so they're not, they're various hesitant to work with us and so if we create our own solution we're hoping to be much more open about it and sort of spread it around to any universities who want to do this on their own. Jim, [00:09:00] because we've had such a hard time contacting other people for help that we want to make sure it's easier for others. Speaker 6: You are listening to spectrum on the KALX Berkeley, we are talking with Mar Haji, but the human power gym project of which she is a founding member. Speaker 5: What's been the most challenging aspect [00:09:30] of the project? Speaker 4: I think definitely recruiting people for the project because we've seen so many people come and go last year in our teams that has been really hard to get anything done. Um, we really need people who are skilled in electronics and mechanical engineering and unfortunately I don't have a very big electronics background myself and since I'm graduating in December, I have a lot of requirements that I need to meet and I can't give my all to the project as I could two years ago. So it's been really hard to find people who are as motivated or as determined about the [00:10:00] project to go ahead and finish it up and follow it through and hand it off and I, so that's been a big, big challenge I think. Speaker 5: Is that something that you want to do? Do you want to recruit people what he was attempting to do in that vein? Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely want to recruit people because it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of minds to prototype one elliptical and then expand it to the entire gym. And like I said, since I'm graduating in December, I definitely want to hand off the project to other people to sort of conduct follow up [00:10:30] research. Like okay, if we put these ellipticals and generate power, do people actually learn from this? Do the energy literacy rates go up, do treadmills get useless. There's a whole host of followup research that could be done and hasn't been done yet and definitely has a potential of being published and presented around the nation I think. Speaker 5: So are you mostly interested in recruiting other engineers and how would they sign up? Speaker 4: So I'm interested in [inaudible] definitely recruiting um, upperclassmen engineers but also [00:11:00] people who have experience in signage and education. Cause I know, I don't know how best to reach people or get the knowledge disseminated about all the energy sustainability going on in the RSF. And that would definitely be helpful. And if anyone's interested they can just email RSF energy@gmail.com we'd be happy to have them on board. Speaker 5: All right. Any of your current efforts documented anywhere of Wiki or mainly list or anything like that? Speaker 4: So we have a webpage, hpg.berkeley.edu [00:11:30] needs to be updated for the past couple months. But generally a lot of our documents are there and we also have a [inaudible] website for all the members of the project. And that's how we communicate for papers that need to be read or budgets they need to be updated and that kind of thing. Speaker 5: Do you know if, uh, there are sort of commercial efforts in this too, like commercial? Uh, Speaker 4: so besides outside, outside universities, I guess so universities are really unique in that their gym [00:12:00] facilities are open for so many hours and frequent, so many users. So unfortunately Jim is like 24 hour fitness even though they're open 24 hours, don't see as much throughput of people or patrons that, um, university of do. So there hasn't been a huge push and they're at that direction. I believe there's a handful of them that use at least the re-roof technology. And there's a couple of gyms that are like, I think there's one gym in Hong Kong that's created some type of something called like a human dynamo where four people will bike on [00:12:30] the sort of combined system and move their hands at the same time and that will generate a whole lot of power for the gym. But aside from that, then not much that I know, it seems like a natural for a gym setting is to make it competitive somehow. I know both Oregon State and University of Oregon did retrofits and they sort of had a competition like who can create the most energy. Um, and we hope when we actually retrofit the gym to involve some sort of LCD panel that reads out which elliptical is [00:13:00] generating the most energy, you know, compare it across the gym and everyone can see, oh no like I gotta be 12 like my friends over there or something. Yeah. Speaker 4: What's been the most unexpected thing that's happened in the project? So finding an elliptical machine was really hard. We originally thought that it was this elliptical machine floating around and so to haul on the sixth floor that no one really had, no one really knew who it belonged to. So we thought we'd use that for our project. We had [00:13:30] took a while to track down who the professor was who had it laying around and he gladly donated it to our project. And then when we took it apart, we found out that its internal mechanism was completely different than those used at the gym. It was using less electrical resistance like modern, most ellipticals use in was using more mechanical resistance, um, something much more like a recumbent bicycle. So we were like, well if we prototype on this system it's really not going to be compatible with anything in the gym. Speaker 4: So then we had to contact the gym and try [00:14:00] and track down elliptical that way. And luckily they were after a couple of weeks or months, like everything fell together when we finally got it transported. And transporting those big things is also huge hassle from the RSF all the way down to attra very hall on North side on the social outreach part of it, the behavioral aspect of the project. What's been the challenge there to get that up and running? Um, so we conducted a survey of all the members of [00:14:30] the RSF and I believe something like five or 600 responded, which was great. And they, we post questions such as how much energy do you think x, Y and z machines use? Um, to get an idea of how energy literate people are about the machines at the RSF. And so we have a good base of where we think people could have their education, energy education improved. It's just a matter of figuring out the best way to actually do that. So as a mechanical engineering major, unfortunately I haven't [00:15:00] had to deal very much with energy education or engineering education and we could definitely use people on our project who know perhaps more like the psychology of a situation. Like definitely some sort of analysis on where people move in the RSF and where's the best place to place these things and how can we make them as interactive as possible to increase awareness, stuff like that. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you are listening [00:15:30] to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with Maharaji but the human powered gym project of which he is a founding member. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: are there any key things that you're learning in doing this that you might not have learned if you hadn't been involved in this project? Speaker 4: Definitely like in Berkeley engineering for the first three, three and a half years [00:16:00] of your educational career. It's very theoretical and this project has given me the advantage of doing something on the side that's much more hands on and applications of my learning at Berkeley. So that's been really awesome. And then working with other people on a project and just knowing how to work in a team is not something that people teach you in class either until you get to the higher level project-based classes and engineering. So that's been really great. And uh, working and collaborating with people, not only in the mechanical engineering department but the directors of the RSF to [00:16:30] TGF and other funding agencies and Co working together to get all that going is like intense. I can only imagine what professors have to go through to get grants written and proposals and then get the actually get that money and use it for their projects. That's been kind of like a mini Speaker 5: many experience with that. How much time do you estimate you spent working on a project? Speaker 4: Well, I've been working on it since summer of 2009 and I work anywhere [00:17:00] from five to 10 hours a week on it. I think pretty consistently with the exception of last summer and this summer because I've been away doing other internships and research projects. But every time I come back to Berkeley it's like, all right, got to get on. I gotta get going again. Speaker 5: And have your summer internships where you haven't been working on the Human Powergen bin and sort of related fields? Speaker 4: Yeah. Last summer I got the chance to go to Oregon State University and do, uh, an inner and study on the interaction [00:17:30] between wave energy devices in the environment, studying what types of organisms might colonize the environment. Cause I hadn't really, really been looked at. And then this summer I got the chance to go to MIT and study, um, fluid dynamics in the ocean engineering lab there. So starting to get a feel for the field and both on the west and the east coast and getting ideas of what professors doing what. So that's been really great. Yeah. Speaker 5: So for this project, you're probably not going to get completed by the time you graduate and if you're able to hand it off, [00:18:00] would you be involved in trying to get additional funding to make that transition happen? Speaker 4: I think at the moment we haven't used much of our funding because we've had a lot of setbacks and getting ellipticals and getting team members. So depending on the stance of the project in December, we would definitely, depending on if we've used a lot of our funds for prototyping or we're still waiting to get people on board to start prototyping, that would probably influence whether or not we apply for more funding. But I mean [00:18:30] more money's always great cause right now the funding we have budgeted, we'll only retrofit 14 of the 28 ellipticals. So if we are to consider doing all 28 we definitely need to look for more funding. I'm just sort of hesitant to do it right now because we don't actually have anything prototyped at the moment and no real product to show before we apply for more funding. Speaker 5: What is it that you like about engineering? What drew you to engineering? Speaker 4: So actually one thought I wanted to be a film major for a really long time [00:19:00] and then I went to a summer program just for like fun. I was like, okay, I'll get out of the house for a month, uh, in mechanical engineering. And they had us like take apart part printer, take apart a blender and like build these little like out of the box robots. You're just like screw a few things in the other and put a battery. And I think just the whole idea of like building things and taking things apart sort of amazed me. And I was always like really good at puzzles and math and so it was like, oh this is like way more fun than making movies. [00:19:30] So that's sort of what drawn me to it. Speaker 5: Has Your work on this project given you a better sense of how what you want to do going forward? Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It has encouraged me to look more into alternative forms of energy. That's definitely what I want to do in the future. Unfortunately, it's made me disheartened about human power cause going into the project I thought, Oh yeah, we can just retrofit all the ellipticals and then power the entire gym. We use so much power on a daily basis that that's not [00:20:00] feasible so definitely opens your eyes onto how much power we consume every day and I think this project has been a great stepping stone into the world of alternative energy and I hope to study something like ocean energy and ocean energy extraction for graduate studies in school. Speaker 5: Thanks very much Maha for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us. Speaker 4: No problem. This was awesome. Thanks Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:30] [inaudible] Speaker 5: irregular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Speaker 7: I am joined for this by Rick Karnofsky every Thursday night at 6:00 PM the California Academy of Sciences. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park host nightlife at 21 and over event featuring [00:21:00] music, cocktails and learning and mission is $12 or $10 for members. In addition to the regular exhibits and planetarium shows, the cal academy offers theme related special events. The theme for October 13th Nightlife is designed from nature. The biomimicry institute will show off real products inspired by natural forums such as green shield, a low chemical water repellent fabric finish inspired by the microscopic texture of leaves and Formaldehyde free plywood inspired by the adhesive chemistry of intertidal muscles. [00:21:30] Current design soons will show how they incorporate biomimicry into their projects. Also enjoy stilt walking and juggling inspired by Cirque decile a his latest nature theme show totem and catch a screening of the biomimicry documentary. Second Nature. The theme for October 20th Nightlife is the science of voting, a lively roundtable moderated by the bay citizens political writer, Gary Xi, and featuring political aficionados, Alex Clemens from SF usual suspects and [00:22:00] San Francisco state universities, political science professor and outspoken tweeter. Speaker 7: Jason McDaniel. We'll discuss topics such as rank choice voting and how it affects the strategies of San Francisco's May oral candidates, University of San Francisco, professor of American politics, Corey Cook will discuss the science of voting for more information on nightlife and other events at the California Academy of Sciences. Visit their website@www.cal academy.org the October Science at Kow lecture will be given by Dr Peggy Helwig [00:22:30] and is entitled tectonic timebombs earthquakes near and far. She will talk about the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Virginia as well as the earthquake hazard from faults in our own backyard. Dr Helwig is the operations manager of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The lecture is at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 15th in the genetics and plant biology. Building room 100 [00:23:00] for more details, visit the website science@caldotberkeley.edu Lawrence Berkeley national lab is having a free open house on Saturday, October 15th you could attend from either 10:00 AM to 1230 or from 1230 until 3:00 PM the theme of the show is Cirque de Sciences and the open house will feature exhibits, tours of the advanced light source and guest house performances, hands on science, investigations for children [00:23:30] and lectures on Supernovas, biofuels computing, ancient sounds, plasma beams, indoor air pollution and scientific visualization. There'll be food available for purchase. For more information and to register for this event, visit Speaker 3: www.lbl.gov/open house. The Biosafety Alliance presents a global citizens report on the state of genetically modified organisms. False promises, [00:24:00] failed technologies. These reports highlight scientific research and empirical evidence from around the globe demonstrating how genetically modified seeds and crops have failed to deliver the advertised promises. The Speakers will be Dr Yvan Donnas, Shiva philosopher, environmental activist and ECO feminist. Debbie Barker International Program Director Center for food safety. Miguel LTA Ari, associate professor of agroecology at UC Berkeley. [00:24:30] This event will happen October 13th, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center four zero one Venice Avenue, San Francisco. The event is free and donations are accepted. If you would like to RSVP, go to the website, global state of gmos.eventbrite.com there will also be a press conference [00:25:00] for the reports at the San Francisco City Hall at noon October 13th featuring Dr Vandana, Shiva elected officials and other Speakers Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Now three news stories that caught our attention. Genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation [00:25:30] regions across North Dakota. A study published by the online journal plus one reports the genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along road sides across North Dakota. These escaped plants were found statewide and account for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled. Furthermore, populations were found to persist [00:26:00] from year to year and reached thousands of individuals. The authors found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits, and the authors argue that their result more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the u s to track the environmental impact of biotech products. Berkeley's [00:26:30] own cell Perlmutter is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics with Adam G. Reese of the John Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt of Australian national universities, Mt. Strom Lowe and siding spring observatories pro mudder led the Supernova Speaker 7: cosmology project that in 1998 became one of the two scientific efforts that are credited with discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe and Schmidt led the competing supernova search team. Pearl mudder is UC Berkeley's 22nd Nobel Medal [00:27:00] winner and the ninth winner of the Physics Prize. The discovery of the accelerating expansion has formed theories of the distant future of an ever expanding universe and has alleged the speculation of dark energy that theoretically makes up almost three quarters of the matter and energy of the universe, but it has proven elusive to observe. Perlmutter has recently been working with NASA and the u s department of Energy to build and launch the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Speaker 3: [00:27:30] This news item is also a job opening NASA to seek applicants for next astronaut candidate class. In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. For more information, visit the website, astronauts.nasa.gov a bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or math [00:28:00] and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science or extensive experience flying high performance jet aircraft. After applicant interviews and evaluations, NASA expects to announce the final selections in 2013 and training to begin that August. Additional information about the astronaut candidate program [00:28:30] is available by calling the astronaut selection office at area code (281) 483-5907 Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 6: The music played during the show is written and performed by David lost honor from his album titled Folk and Acoustic Speaker 2: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We're happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to SVA meal. 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The Human Power Generation in Fitness Facilities research project will create a human power generation center at the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facilities to develop new technologies and methods for energy conservation and power generation.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 [00:00:30] minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with [inaudible], a fifth year mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics major at UC Berkeley, who along with Kimberly Lau, launched the human power gym project. After conducting a feasibility study, they are attempting to design and prototype [00:01:00] an elliptical exercise machine for the UC Berkeley recreational sports facility that will generate electricity. Rather than consume it, the generated electricity will be put back into the electrical grid. The project began in the summer of 2009 Maha g talks about her enthusiasm for the project and the challenges to make it a reality. Maha and I are joined by Rick [inaudible] for the interview. This interview is prerecorded and edited. [00:01:30] Maha, could you please explain the project you're working on currently? Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm working on a project titled The Human Pirate Gym Project. It's part of the Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Laboratory in the mechanical engineering department. And the goal of our project is to harness human power from exercise machines currently in the recreational sports facility or the RSF at UC Berkeley. And we're hoping to retrofit and 28 elliptical machines to harness human power and send it back to the electric grid and also work an energy education [00:02:00] campaign to improve energy literacy among the members of the RSF and people who frequent the facility to give them a better idea of sustainability and energy. Speaker 3: How did that idea bubble up for you and the group you're working on this with? Speaker 4: So I'm working on this with a graduate student named Kimberly Lough in the Mechanical Engineering Department under professor at Gugino. We came across it separately. She came across the idea when she's working out in the RSF, seeing all these people burning calories and you know, exercising so much, they must be expending a lot of energy and there must [00:02:30] be a way to harness that. And then I came across the idea because I was reading up about, um, there's a project harnessing children's power to pump water up out of the wells. And in African villages they create like a, a carousel where kids can play on and when they spin around the carousel they're actually pumping water up into a tank. And so I thought, well if kids run around and harness all this energy, why can't we do something like this and the gyms across the u s Speaker 3: and much power do you Speaker 5: expect [00:03:00] to be able to generate from all this? Speaker 4: So unfortunately it's not a lot of power. Um, the RSF uses on the order of 1.5 million kilowatt hours a year and energy consumption and by other things like air conditioning or where's all that go? So actually it's not air conditioning cause we live in a bay area. We don't actually have air conditioning and the RSF cause it stays relatively cool. It's definitely for heating and air circulation and ventilation. And then a good chunk of it goes to lights and actually [00:03:30] powering treadmills, believe it or not. So if we haven't retrofitted 28 elliptical machines, it would harness about 10,000 kilowatt hours a year, which is enough to power a small house but only 1% of what the RSF needs to run its daily use. The treadmill is actually account for about 12% of the energy use at the RSF and not a lot of people know that. So part of our project, we're trying to encourage people to use elliptical machines or other self powered machines that use less power that but give comparable workouts [00:04:00] according to fitness trainers and the hopes that maybe they'll switch over to more ellipticals and the treadmills can be replaced in the RSF cause they actually acquire. I think running on a treadmill for about an hour requires as much energy as doing a load of laundry, washing and drying. Speaker 5: How did the project come together in terms of getting an off the ground funding, all those things. Speaker 4: So two years ago I am part of the UC leads program, which is, I forgot what it stands for, but it's some type of scholarship program at Berkeley that encourages summer research. [00:04:30] So I was funded by them to do a summer research project two years ago and I contacted fresher ag Gino with this idea saying, hey, I'm funded, can I work in your lab with Kimberley? She's really awesome. Wants to work in this project. So the UC leads program funded me for that summer and they've also funded me to continue researching in the fall and of that year, fall 2009 so we researched the feasibility of this and tried to come up with some energy estimates on how much energy we could harness, how much that would cost, what sort of things would need to be in place [00:05:00] to continue actually with the retrofits. And we actually published a paper in a conference and a spring of 2010 with the American Society of mechanical engineers. And after that we started applying for funds through the Green Initiative Fund, the Sigmas I m research honors society and the Chancellors Green, the chancellor's Green Fund cacs, I believe it's called the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for sustainability. And so with all those three funding resources, we have about a little over $17,000 [00:05:30] currently to actually go ahead and build these prototypes and get going with the retrofits at the gym. Speaker 4: Can you talk about your, a conference paper anymore. So what does it, what was it about? So our conference paper was published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability in May of 2010 and it just talked about our feasibility study on the RSF detailing how much power could be harnessed from the RSF, what [00:06:00] percentage of power consumption that accounted for. And it also detailed sort of how long it would take to payback such a system. And it also looked at the light life cycle assessment of the system and life cycle assessment basically means you take into account all the energy required to make the components that you'll be adding to the system and then take a look at how long it would take to payback the co two emissions related to that energy that was put in. So I think we estimated that unfortunately it's relates [00:06:30] to at savings of only a thousand dollars a year in energy consumption because energy is so cheap out here. But if we made CO2 emissions, the metric instead of dollars, the system would pay itself off in like two to three years of CO2 savings. If we assume that the energy generated at the RSF no longer needs to be generated by say PGNE and then taking into account how much CO2 is required for those few components that we have to add to each elliptical. So that was a much less bleak outlook. Speaker 5: [00:07:00] Did you draw on previous attempts to do the same thing? Speaker 4: So we redid a lot of research and a couple other gyms across the nation have retrofitted elliptical machines specifically to harness human power. And we talked to them and we talked to, there's a company called rewrap that actually does commercial retrofits and they approached the RSF also saying that they could do the retrofits before I came onto the project and we talked to those jams and I actually had a chance to visit one of them in [inaudible] at Oregon state. And [00:07:30] for some reason they didn't seem to be completely happy with the setup. For one reason or another, they didn't think it was producing as much energy as they thought. And so based on those interviews I had done with gyms across the nation, we decided to try and come up with our own retrofit. Also, cal poly has done a retrofit of their gym facility and are harnessing power from ellipticals in their own method. Speaker 4: And the gym users there are really, really excited about it and really enjoy it a lot more than people at Oregon State for instance. So that's kind of why we're trying to go [00:08:00] ahead with doing it ourselves. Um, based on interviews and research from other gyms, definitely. And are only the ellipticals being used to generate power. Currently they're the easiest to tap into because they have an onboard generator that will convert your human power movement into resistance, electrical resistance that you feel when you're working out. So it's really easy to tap into them, just remove the resistance mechanism and instead put in something like an inverter to convert the DC power [00:08:30] you're generating to AC power. That can be used and sent back to the grid. Speaker 5: When the cal poly success, was there any attempt to collaborate with them? Speaker 4: We did approach them and ask them for collaboration, but I believe they are, have, they have some sort of patents on their devices now and it's very proprietary and so they're not, they're various hesitant to work with us and so if we create our own solution we're hoping to be much more open about it and sort of spread it around to any universities who want to do this on their own. Jim, [00:09:00] because we've had such a hard time contacting other people for help that we want to make sure it's easier for others. Speaker 6: You are listening to spectrum on the KALX Berkeley, we are talking with Mar Haji, but the human power gym project of which she is a founding member. Speaker 5: What's been the most challenging aspect [00:09:30] of the project? Speaker 4: I think definitely recruiting people for the project because we've seen so many people come and go last year in our teams that has been really hard to get anything done. Um, we really need people who are skilled in electronics and mechanical engineering and unfortunately I don't have a very big electronics background myself and since I'm graduating in December, I have a lot of requirements that I need to meet and I can't give my all to the project as I could two years ago. So it's been really hard to find people who are as motivated or as determined about the [00:10:00] project to go ahead and finish it up and follow it through and hand it off and I, so that's been a big, big challenge I think. Speaker 5: Is that something that you want to do? Do you want to recruit people what he was attempting to do in that vein? Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely want to recruit people because it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of minds to prototype one elliptical and then expand it to the entire gym. And like I said, since I'm graduating in December, I definitely want to hand off the project to other people to sort of conduct follow up [00:10:30] research. Like okay, if we put these ellipticals and generate power, do people actually learn from this? Do the energy literacy rates go up, do treadmills get useless. There's a whole host of followup research that could be done and hasn't been done yet and definitely has a potential of being published and presented around the nation I think. Speaker 5: So are you mostly interested in recruiting other engineers and how would they sign up? Speaker 4: So I'm interested in [inaudible] definitely recruiting um, upperclassmen engineers but also [00:11:00] people who have experience in signage and education. Cause I know, I don't know how best to reach people or get the knowledge disseminated about all the energy sustainability going on in the RSF. And that would definitely be helpful. And if anyone's interested they can just email RSF energy@gmail.com we'd be happy to have them on board. Speaker 5: All right. Any of your current efforts documented anywhere of Wiki or mainly list or anything like that? Speaker 4: So we have a webpage, hpg.berkeley.edu [00:11:30] needs to be updated for the past couple months. But generally a lot of our documents are there and we also have a [inaudible] website for all the members of the project. And that's how we communicate for papers that need to be read or budgets they need to be updated and that kind of thing. Speaker 5: Do you know if, uh, there are sort of commercial efforts in this too, like commercial? Uh, Speaker 4: so besides outside, outside universities, I guess so universities are really unique in that their gym [00:12:00] facilities are open for so many hours and frequent, so many users. So unfortunately Jim is like 24 hour fitness even though they're open 24 hours, don't see as much throughput of people or patrons that, um, university of do. So there hasn't been a huge push and they're at that direction. I believe there's a handful of them that use at least the re-roof technology. And there's a couple of gyms that are like, I think there's one gym in Hong Kong that's created some type of something called like a human dynamo where four people will bike on [00:12:30] the sort of combined system and move their hands at the same time and that will generate a whole lot of power for the gym. But aside from that, then not much that I know, it seems like a natural for a gym setting is to make it competitive somehow. I know both Oregon State and University of Oregon did retrofits and they sort of had a competition like who can create the most energy. Um, and we hope when we actually retrofit the gym to involve some sort of LCD panel that reads out which elliptical is [00:13:00] generating the most energy, you know, compare it across the gym and everyone can see, oh no like I gotta be 12 like my friends over there or something. Yeah. Speaker 4: What's been the most unexpected thing that's happened in the project? So finding an elliptical machine was really hard. We originally thought that it was this elliptical machine floating around and so to haul on the sixth floor that no one really had, no one really knew who it belonged to. So we thought we'd use that for our project. We had [00:13:30] took a while to track down who the professor was who had it laying around and he gladly donated it to our project. And then when we took it apart, we found out that its internal mechanism was completely different than those used at the gym. It was using less electrical resistance like modern, most ellipticals use in was using more mechanical resistance, um, something much more like a recumbent bicycle. So we were like, well if we prototype on this system it's really not going to be compatible with anything in the gym. Speaker 4: So then we had to contact the gym and try [00:14:00] and track down elliptical that way. And luckily they were after a couple of weeks or months, like everything fell together when we finally got it transported. And transporting those big things is also huge hassle from the RSF all the way down to attra very hall on North side on the social outreach part of it, the behavioral aspect of the project. What's been the challenge there to get that up and running? Um, so we conducted a survey of all the members of [00:14:30] the RSF and I believe something like five or 600 responded, which was great. And they, we post questions such as how much energy do you think x, Y and z machines use? Um, to get an idea of how energy literate people are about the machines at the RSF. And so we have a good base of where we think people could have their education, energy education improved. It's just a matter of figuring out the best way to actually do that. So as a mechanical engineering major, unfortunately I haven't [00:15:00] had to deal very much with energy education or engineering education and we could definitely use people on our project who know perhaps more like the psychology of a situation. Like definitely some sort of analysis on where people move in the RSF and where's the best place to place these things and how can we make them as interactive as possible to increase awareness, stuff like that. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you are listening [00:15:30] to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We are talking with Maharaji but the human powered gym project of which he is a founding member. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: are there any key things that you're learning in doing this that you might not have learned if you hadn't been involved in this project? Speaker 4: Definitely like in Berkeley engineering for the first three, three and a half years [00:16:00] of your educational career. It's very theoretical and this project has given me the advantage of doing something on the side that's much more hands on and applications of my learning at Berkeley. So that's been really awesome. And then working with other people on a project and just knowing how to work in a team is not something that people teach you in class either until you get to the higher level project-based classes and engineering. So that's been really great. And uh, working and collaborating with people, not only in the mechanical engineering department but the directors of the RSF to [00:16:30] TGF and other funding agencies and Co working together to get all that going is like intense. I can only imagine what professors have to go through to get grants written and proposals and then get the actually get that money and use it for their projects. That's been kind of like a mini Speaker 5: many experience with that. How much time do you estimate you spent working on a project? Speaker 4: Well, I've been working on it since summer of 2009 and I work anywhere [00:17:00] from five to 10 hours a week on it. I think pretty consistently with the exception of last summer and this summer because I've been away doing other internships and research projects. But every time I come back to Berkeley it's like, all right, got to get on. I gotta get going again. Speaker 5: And have your summer internships where you haven't been working on the Human Powergen bin and sort of related fields? Speaker 4: Yeah. Last summer I got the chance to go to Oregon State University and do, uh, an inner and study on the interaction [00:17:30] between wave energy devices in the environment, studying what types of organisms might colonize the environment. Cause I hadn't really, really been looked at. And then this summer I got the chance to go to MIT and study, um, fluid dynamics in the ocean engineering lab there. So starting to get a feel for the field and both on the west and the east coast and getting ideas of what professors doing what. So that's been really great. Yeah. Speaker 5: So for this project, you're probably not going to get completed by the time you graduate and if you're able to hand it off, [00:18:00] would you be involved in trying to get additional funding to make that transition happen? Speaker 4: I think at the moment we haven't used much of our funding because we've had a lot of setbacks and getting ellipticals and getting team members. So depending on the stance of the project in December, we would definitely, depending on if we've used a lot of our funds for prototyping or we're still waiting to get people on board to start prototyping, that would probably influence whether or not we apply for more funding. But I mean [00:18:30] more money's always great cause right now the funding we have budgeted, we'll only retrofit 14 of the 28 ellipticals. So if we are to consider doing all 28 we definitely need to look for more funding. I'm just sort of hesitant to do it right now because we don't actually have anything prototyped at the moment and no real product to show before we apply for more funding. Speaker 5: What is it that you like about engineering? What drew you to engineering? Speaker 4: So actually one thought I wanted to be a film major for a really long time [00:19:00] and then I went to a summer program just for like fun. I was like, okay, I'll get out of the house for a month, uh, in mechanical engineering. And they had us like take apart part printer, take apart a blender and like build these little like out of the box robots. You're just like screw a few things in the other and put a battery. And I think just the whole idea of like building things and taking things apart sort of amazed me. And I was always like really good at puzzles and math and so it was like, oh this is like way more fun than making movies. [00:19:30] So that's sort of what drawn me to it. Speaker 5: Has Your work on this project given you a better sense of how what you want to do going forward? Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. It has encouraged me to look more into alternative forms of energy. That's definitely what I want to do in the future. Unfortunately, it's made me disheartened about human power cause going into the project I thought, Oh yeah, we can just retrofit all the ellipticals and then power the entire gym. We use so much power on a daily basis that that's not [00:20:00] feasible so definitely opens your eyes onto how much power we consume every day and I think this project has been a great stepping stone into the world of alternative energy and I hope to study something like ocean energy and ocean energy extraction for graduate studies in school. Speaker 5: Thanks very much Maha for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us. Speaker 4: No problem. This was awesome. Thanks Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:20:30] [inaudible] Speaker 5: irregular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Speaker 7: I am joined for this by Rick Karnofsky every Thursday night at 6:00 PM the California Academy of Sciences. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park host nightlife at 21 and over event featuring [00:21:00] music, cocktails and learning and mission is $12 or $10 for members. In addition to the regular exhibits and planetarium shows, the cal academy offers theme related special events. The theme for October 13th Nightlife is designed from nature. The biomimicry institute will show off real products inspired by natural forums such as green shield, a low chemical water repellent fabric finish inspired by the microscopic texture of leaves and Formaldehyde free plywood inspired by the adhesive chemistry of intertidal muscles. [00:21:30] Current design soons will show how they incorporate biomimicry into their projects. Also enjoy stilt walking and juggling inspired by Cirque decile a his latest nature theme show totem and catch a screening of the biomimicry documentary. Second Nature. The theme for October 20th Nightlife is the science of voting, a lively roundtable moderated by the bay citizens political writer, Gary Xi, and featuring political aficionados, Alex Clemens from SF usual suspects and [00:22:00] San Francisco state universities, political science professor and outspoken tweeter. Speaker 7: Jason McDaniel. We'll discuss topics such as rank choice voting and how it affects the strategies of San Francisco's May oral candidates, University of San Francisco, professor of American politics, Corey Cook will discuss the science of voting for more information on nightlife and other events at the California Academy of Sciences. Visit their website@www.cal academy.org the October Science at Kow lecture will be given by Dr Peggy Helwig [00:22:30] and is entitled tectonic timebombs earthquakes near and far. She will talk about the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Virginia as well as the earthquake hazard from faults in our own backyard. Dr Helwig is the operations manager of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. The lecture is at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 15th in the genetics and plant biology. Building room 100 [00:23:00] for more details, visit the website science@caldotberkeley.edu Lawrence Berkeley national lab is having a free open house on Saturday, October 15th you could attend from either 10:00 AM to 1230 or from 1230 until 3:00 PM the theme of the show is Cirque de Sciences and the open house will feature exhibits, tours of the advanced light source and guest house performances, hands on science, investigations for children [00:23:30] and lectures on Supernovas, biofuels computing, ancient sounds, plasma beams, indoor air pollution and scientific visualization. There'll be food available for purchase. For more information and to register for this event, visit Speaker 3: www.lbl.gov/open house. The Biosafety Alliance presents a global citizens report on the state of genetically modified organisms. False promises, [00:24:00] failed technologies. These reports highlight scientific research and empirical evidence from around the globe demonstrating how genetically modified seeds and crops have failed to deliver the advertised promises. The Speakers will be Dr Yvan Donnas, Shiva philosopher, environmental activist and ECO feminist. Debbie Barker International Program Director Center for food safety. Miguel LTA Ari, associate professor of agroecology at UC Berkeley. [00:24:30] This event will happen October 13th, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center four zero one Venice Avenue, San Francisco. The event is free and donations are accepted. If you would like to RSVP, go to the website, global state of gmos.eventbrite.com there will also be a press conference [00:25:00] for the reports at the San Francisco City Hall at noon October 13th featuring Dr Vandana, Shiva elected officials and other Speakers Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Now three news stories that caught our attention. Genetically engineered canola growing outside of established cultivation [00:25:30] regions across North Dakota. A study published by the online journal plus one reports the genetically engineered canola endowed with herbicide resistance have been found growing outside of established cultivation regions along road sides across North Dakota. These escaped plants were found statewide and account for 45% of the total roadside plants sampled. Furthermore, populations were found to persist [00:26:00] from year to year and reached thousands of individuals. The authors found that the escaped plants could hybridize with each other to create novel combinations of transgenic traits, and the authors argue that their result more than 10 years after the initial release of genetically engineered canola raises questions of whether adequate oversight and monitoring protocols are in place in the u s to track the environmental impact of biotech products. Berkeley's [00:26:30] own cell Perlmutter is sharing the Nobel Prize in physics with Adam G. Reese of the John Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt of Australian national universities, Mt. Strom Lowe and siding spring observatories pro mudder led the Supernova Speaker 7: cosmology project that in 1998 became one of the two scientific efforts that are credited with discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe and Schmidt led the competing supernova search team. Pearl mudder is UC Berkeley's 22nd Nobel Medal [00:27:00] winner and the ninth winner of the Physics Prize. The discovery of the accelerating expansion has formed theories of the distant future of an ever expanding universe and has alleged the speculation of dark energy that theoretically makes up almost three quarters of the matter and energy of the universe, but it has proven elusive to observe. Perlmutter has recently been working with NASA and the u s department of Energy to build and launch the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Speaker 3: [00:27:30] This news item is also a job opening NASA to seek applicants for next astronaut candidate class. In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. For more information, visit the website, astronauts.nasa.gov a bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or math [00:28:00] and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science or extensive experience flying high performance jet aircraft. After applicant interviews and evaluations, NASA expects to announce the final selections in 2013 and training to begin that August. Additional information about the astronaut candidate program [00:28:30] is available by calling the astronaut selection office at area code (281) 483-5907 Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 6: The music played during the show is written and performed by David lost honor from his album titled Folk and Acoustic Speaker 2: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We're happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to SVA meal. Our email address is spectrum dot kalx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. Speaker 2: [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

George Moscone was a San Francisco supervisor, a California state senator, and finally mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until November 1978, when he was killed in City Hall. His work is often overshadowed by that of gay rights activist and city supervisor Harvey Milk, who was killed along with Moscone. Who was Moscone? Learn more about this native son of San Francisco who fought Gov. Ronald Reagan over the closing of mental hospitals, stewarded the nation's first gay rights law through the California state senate, got the convention center built that now bears his name, and led San Francisco during one of its most turbulent and fascinating eras. It is meant to be listened to inside San Francisco City Hall, though it can be listened to anywhere. The program features original interviews with Moscone's family and colleagues, as well as archival audio of Moscone himself. For more info visit www.InsideStoriesOnline.com.

Harvey Milk was a San Francisco supervisor (like a city councilor) and gay rights activist who was killed in 1978 in City Hall, along with Mayor George Moscone. This tour is about Milk and the rise of gay power in 1970s San Francisco. It goes from the site of Harvey's old camera shop at 575 Castro Street, to San Francisco City Hall, and features original interviews with Harvey’s friends and colleagues, as well as archival audio to transport the listener to a time of dramatic political upheaval. The route is a mostly flat 1.75 miles, makes several stops along the way, and takes about 70 minutes. If you only have time or energy for an abbreviated tour, start at the northeast corner of Market St. and Van Ness Ave., at 50:20 on the audio program. If you don't live in San Francisco or can't get there to take the tour, try listening on a route to your own City Hall, or at home. More info at www.InsideStoriesOnline.com.

In February 2009 GALLERY CRAWL interviewed Bill Fontana about his sound installation SPIRALING ECHOES at SF City Hall. A few blocks away, local art collector Robert Shimshak explained his interest in musical scores and how his collection inspired a new exhbition, EVERY SOUND YOU CAN IMAGINE at New Langton Arts.

Bill Douglas and Carol Brouillet are interviewed at the 9/11 International Inquiry-Phase 1 in San Francisco, CA at the end of March, 04.Bill Douglas lives in Kansas City, Mo. where he works with the 911Visibility Project-- a national project and organization which supplies support and tools for organizing and getting out the word about what happened on Sept. 11, 01. This project goes straight to the people by using signs saying "Stop the 911 Cover-Up". Douglas talks about the need for going around some leaders and straight to the people with information and organizing. In fact, people are hungry for information and building an action-oriented 911 truth movement. More and more local organizations are being organized and the 911 visibility website provides a good way to get local contacts in your area and organize to broaden the number of people demanding an end to the cover up and an exposure of the truth of what happened on 9/11/2001.Carol Brouillet organized the International Inquiry, Phase 1, in San Francisco. She has been working on exposing this cover up almost since the tragic events occurred in 2001. She speaks about the conflicting interests of the Official 911 Commission, which she calls a way to justify the limitations on our civil rights-- moving toward a police state-- being put in place since September 11. She runs down the backgrounds of the commission members. People came to the Inquiry from long distances, including other countries, to this conference. The Inquiry consisted of 21 hours of talks by 911 researchers and activists. Brouillet refers to it as the ABC's of 911-- a military standdown of planes on 911, evidence of top US Gov't officials having links with the money behind Sept. 11 and Bob Graham having breakfast with the Head of Pakistani Intelligence who had wired $100.000 to Mohammed Atta a few days before 9/11, building 7 looked like a controlled demolition and collapsed on Sept. 11 even though it wasn't hit by any planes or anything-- and many many more questions (and answers) about the true story of what happened on Sept. 11.Part of the conference was a group walk across the street, carrying the "stop the 911 cover up" signs, to San Francisco City Hall to ask the present Mayor of San Francisco to investigate how and by whom Willy Brown, the former Mayor of San Francisco, was informed not to fly on 9/11. Some websites are http://www.communitycurrency.org/ Phase 2 of the 911 International Citizen's Inquiry will take place from May 25. That website is http://www.911inquiry.org/ Both Douglas and Brouillet suggest that Ray Griffin's book "The New Pearl Harbor" might be the needed breakthrough on the issue of the 911 cover up. There are many website and links for further information.