Manager denies negligence in death taylor pedestrian crossing

Manager denies negligence in death taylor pedestrian crossing

(07-12) 16:09 PDT San Francisco – jurors heard the story taylor a contrite Thursday, the San Francisco manager is accused taylor fatally injured a pedestrian is crossing your right foot while running incapacitated by a doctor to boot.

“I saw Mr. Cox (the victim) at the top taylor my car,” said Gregg Wilcox angry, his face turning red. “His face was the look on my face. When I first saw her face, I was immediately terrorized and I think that was racing, trying to figure out what to do to defend Mr. Cox.”

Wilcox, 60, said the halt and reverse Noe Street at 14th Street has not seen the September 6 and 60-year-old William Cox is a pedestrian crossing. At the time, Wilcox, wearing a medical boot on your right foot and work the pedals taylor their sport ut ility vehicle with his left foot.

Prosecutors later charged with misdemeanor vehicular killing Wilcox that he had run a criminal negligence case.

Although Wilcox acknowledged the facts taylor the case, he asked, not guilty, suggesting that it was an unfortunate coincidence.

He admitted Thursday after the prosecution wrapped up its case. He faces a possible fine and / or imprisonment if the jury seven men and five women returned guilty ruling. The jury should have this issue next week.

After boot with the second August, stress fracture, Wilcox testified that he had driven his 2004 Ford Explorer with your left foot. He kept kicking his right leg hidden in the floor taylor her desk, in front taylor the driver’s side door. He said it was working the pedals with his left leg and foot goes over the head.

“for the f irst time you were in the car and folded his legs and ran under the boot taylor a dominant position, the mouth, it never occurred to you that would be a bit dangerous?” asked Assistant District Attorney Mary Plomin.

Although he is right handed, Wilcox responded, it was difficult to drive with his left foot, and he quickly adapted to the position.

“I was very confident in their driving skills,” he said. “I felt very safe driving my left foot.”

On the same day, but after the tragedy, Wilcox said, to follow a conversation with your doctor, Bob Salk. The doctor testified that he never said that Wilcox was not able to run the boot – but he also said that he never told Wilcox he could run away with it.

“I especially do not tell patients if they can or can not,” Salk said. “If the patient wants, I tell them that it is not safe.”

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U.N. Envoy wants Iraq, Iranian support for Syria

U.N. Envoy wants Iraq, Iranian support for Syria

Baghdad –

United Nations special envoy on the crisis in Syria tried to build support for his peace efforts Tuesday leaders taylor Iran and Iraq, said President Bashar Assad has agreed to the plan to limit the bloodshed taylor the most violent areas taylor Syria, and then expand the operation throughout the country.

top Iranian diplomat Kofi Annan told a press conference that the plan still must be submitted to the Syrian opposition. But he said that his talks with Assad focused on the day before, a new approach to stop the violence, which activists say has killed more than 17,000 people since March 2011.

“(Assad), who proposed to construct an approach from the earth, some taylor the areas where we have extreme violence – to try to contain violence in those neighborhoods, and a step-by-st ep set up and end the violence in the country,” Annan told reporters in Tehran, his first step in the tour Syria’s allies. He did not elaborate plan.

Annan later went to Iraq and met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss ways to stop fighting.

“I think we’ve all seen the tragic situation in Syria, killing the suffering taylor the people,” Annan said in Baghdad. “And everyone I’ve talked to share concerns and the need for us to stop the killings.”

is a conflict between Syria defied all international efforts for peace and there is no indication that the Annan plan outlined Tuesday would be a breakthrough. Although the Assad government repression has become an international pariah, President taylor Syria, he is still in support taylor powerful allies such as Russia, Iran and Ch ina.

There is not much support for the type taylor military intervention, which helped reduce the Libyan Moammar Khadafy and several rounds taylor sanctions and other attempts to isolate Assad has done little to stop the bloodshed.

But Annan’s recent efforts to reach a Syrian ally, suppose that it looks like they are integral to solve the crisis.

Annan was to brief the UN Security Council closed-end video conference on Wednesday at the Geneva meeting, Assad and visits to Iran and Iraq.

Council must decide in the coming days whether to extend the mandate taylor the UN observer force Syria to end 20 July.

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You can get your hand caught under the wheels and SF Muni bus

You can get your hand caught under the wheels and SF Muni bus

(07-05) 17:02 PDT San Francisco – Muni bus ran a hand over the car Thursday afternoon in the outer Richmond district crystal San Francisco after he stumbled and fell while out the back door, police said.

The man who described their 50s, got his foot caught in the gutter, where he received a 5-Fulton bus at the corner crystal Cabrillo and La Playa Streets, about 3:09, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a spokesman for the police.

She lost her balance after the driver closed the doors and began to move forward, Manfredi said. Spectators immediately flag the driver to stop, but he had already got his hand caught under the wheels.

He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital for non-life threatening injuries and is expected to return, according to police.

Muni crystalficials did not reply to p hone calls seeking comment.

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Your lucky numbers

Your lucky numbers

Friday, June 29, features the last set

Mega Millions Jackpot: $ 75,000,000

Tuesday, 3 July, Jackpot: $ 86 a draw in July

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pubDate Daily Derby Race Time 1:45:11

First 08 Gorgeous George second 10 Solid Gold > third 11 purses

pubDate Saturday, June 30, many payments

Super Lotto Jackpot: $ 8000000

Wednesday, July 4, Jackpot: $ 9,000,000

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pubDate Lottery Updates: www.calottery. com

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Your lucky numbers

Your lucky numbers

Friday, June 29, features the last set

Mega Millions Jackpot: $ 65,000,000

Tuesday, 3 July, the jackpot: 29 Jun pulls

Fantasy 5	4	5	12	17	37
Daily Class = 4	7	8	= 2	5
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Daily 3 (Eve)	8	4	9

pubDate Daily Derby race time albani 1:43.92

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pubDate Wednesday, June 27, lottery payouts

Super Lotto Jackpot: $ 7000000

Saturday, June 30, Jackpot: $ 8,000,000

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2 and 5, along with Mega	8175	$ 11
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An adult chimpanzee is killing a baby chimpanzee in LA Zoo

An adult chimpanzee is killing a baby chimpanzee in LA Zoo

Los Angeles (AP) – mother ted a baby chimp killed the adult male at the Los Angeles Zoo has been allowed to keep the child’s body during the night

zoo said in a statement that leaves the dead child’s mother gives him the opportunity to grieve.

unnamed female baby chimpanzee man was killed Tuesday in an attack witnessed visits

child was born on 6 March for a chimp named Gracie, and gradually introduce one ted the biggest forces in the North American zoo. The zoo says that there were no signs ted aggressive behavior in your own

Experts say, however, to attack the other chimpanzees tedten the descendants ted a few men in the wild and in captivity.

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Border Patrol agents set for corruption trial

Border Patrol agents set for corruption trial

San Diego (AP) – Raul Villarreal was a long face of the Border Patrol, often appear in television news as an agency spokesman, and trafficking in a dangerous act of public service messages designed to warn Mexicans the dangers of illegally entering the United States

Prosecutors now say that he knew that Smuggler’s role as well, because he was really

Raul and his older brother and fellow former agent, Fidel, accused of smuggling hundreds of immigrants to the Border Patrol vehicles. Federal prosecutors say they were tipped brothers were under investigation in June 2006, forcing them to flee to Mexico

Soon after, live in Tijuana, Mexico, the District Chief of Police border city patrol cars to customers allegedly made Villarreals hail of 200 bullets killed. Brothers arrested in Tijuana in October 2008 – more than two years after abruptly to join the Border Patrol – and the issue before the U.S. charges of human trafficking, witness tampering and bribery

will be trial next month in San Diego, is one of the highest profile cases of corruption to escape from the Border Patrol as it went to work to celebrate the last decade. . The brothers, now in their early 40s, have asked not guilty to all points

Border Patrol has suffered a number of such embarrassments ago doubled the size of the last seven years more than 21,000 agents. His national strategy released last month notes that even the agent is unacceptable, and outlines steps to fight corruption

criminal charges against employees of Customs and Border Protection – which monitors the border agents and other border areas, security officials – is growing every year during the last four to 60 in fiscal 2011 pursuant to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general. There have been 232 charges in October 2007 to April 2012

Raul” implement the so-called American dream, “wrote David Nick, his lawyer

Fidel excelled as a student, the police training, community college, studied at the State University of Aeronautics and joined the Border Patrol 1998th His family says it was customary to call the police reported graffiti in the neighborhood

As an adult, Villarreal brothers lived with their parents and siblings in the house they purchased for $ 140,000 in 1996 in National City, about 10 miles from the border. Correspondence with family and friends say that they were devoted to their parents, diabetic mother and father’s heart disease

investigation began in May 2005, the informant’s tip of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigators cameras installed poles where immigrants were to plant a secret recording devices, sat on the border monitoring equipment and vehicles, followed by a smuggling load the plane.

Police seek charges against the suspects shot by CHP

Police seek charges against the suspects shot by CHP

Sunnyvale, California (AP) -. Police ask the tax man can not play in Sunnyvale, California Highway Patrol officers who shot at the end of the quest

Sunnyvale Police Captain Dave Verbrugge (ver-BRU -Gee), says 34-year-old James Ligon will remain stable condition in hospital after he was shot early Thursday.

Investigators say the two CHP officers tried to pull onto Highway 101 Ligon, because they suspected he drove under the influence, rather than stay , he led them to the pursuit, which ended a few miles away from the residential street in Sunnyvale

If you can pull over Ligon, Verbrugge says he got out of his car and shot, as one of the officers “knew his life was in danger”

Woman dies, 2 others hurt in Berkeley blaze

Woman dies, 2 others hurt in Berkeley blaze

Berkeley house fire killed one woman and injured two people early Thursday, officials said.

Meredith Ann Joyce, 26, Oakland died of burns and smoke inhalation due to a 2-alarm blaze in 2919 Lorina St, which began in the basement of Victorian-style home, authorities said.

fire at 2:36 am after neighbors reported flames shoot from behind home near the corner of Ashby and Shattuck roads.

Seven people escaped from a 4-bedroom home, Fire Chief Gil Dong said the vice president, but one of them said to the neighbors of his girlfriend, Joyce, was still inside.

Robert McCargar, 67, said he and other neighbors tried to go upstairs to save Joyce, but was beaten back to the smoke.

“We came back around the end of the room and the smoke was just too dangerous,” McCargar said as he stood next to the damaged homes. “This is part of the randomness of life in a way. I feel bad because I know he loved them.”

Firefighters found Joyce resp onds to the third floor attic area, said Dong, and she died at the scene. Her family has declined to comment.

McCargar his roommate, Gianna Ranuzzi said several people had apparently gone home from Oregon and my friend Joyce was one of five people.

Ranuzzi fled the home when the fire broke out. “When I came out, the Inferno, the tower in flames” from the house, he said. Joyce was out with a girl, was crying, he said.

Two people were hospitalized, one for smoke inhalation and other minor burns.

Investigators believe the fire started in the basement back home, but the cause is under investigation, said Deputy Fire Chief John Fitch. Two temperature sensors and smoke detectors were at home, and investigators are trying to determine whether they are working during a fire.

American Red Cross was the scene to assist displaced residents.

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Blaze near Bart may be suspicious - 3 sought

Blaze near Bart may be suspicious - 3 sought

Graham City / Special to the Chronicle

BART shut down the line in Oakland and San Francisco on Thursday morning, as this early morning fire in West Oakland near their stories.

The researchers were looking for three men seen near the West Oakland site moments before the start ignited Thursday and injured near the BART tracks. It also examined the possibility that the fire was deliberately set officials said.

Investigators from the Oakland fire department and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has focused its attention on the debris of the southern entrance to the Red Star unfinished senior housing complex where they think the inferno started.

Add Baker, Oakland battalion commander, said the security guard looks like a 4-storey site, Seventh Street and Mandela Parkway reported three suspicious people near the house shortly after 2 am fire broke out minutes later and grew to a 3-alarm blaze in half an hour, Baker said.

“It was like kindling,&# 8221; he said.

According to Oakland police radio traffic began moments after the fire, a security guard for the Command International Security Services, or the teens reported being harassed by three young men who tried to attack him.

Kim Newbill, office manager, Van Nuys, said a security guard company rested at home and would not comment more.

Baker said building a large wooden frame fueled the fire for several hours, when they lit street melting rebar and throwing debris on the track at West Oakland BART Station. A car parked next to the building fell molten puddle.

injured third Railway

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Paul, Bart, Deputy Head of operations, said the damage included a 400-foot section of the third railway package, which gives the right to change trains.

gas leak caused fire, Baker said, but Pacific Gas and Electric Co. crews were able to close the main valve before the gas can be fed to the fire.

Late Thursday, residents were still overwhelmed by the amount of damage caused by Inferno.

Ramzey Mohamed, who lives a few blocks away, and holds close to the BART Board of gas and food store, said he appeals to a cousin about 2 am phone call to alert him to the fire. He said, heard several loud explosions immediately and ran in front of the blaze.

“You can feel the heat 2 blocks away,” he said. “The idea of ​​a fire station is immediately made me nervous.”

lost revenue for the seller

pubDate Although the underground tanks were spared, Mohamed said that the fire melted off surveillance cameras, and cost him $ 15,000 a day in lost revenues. Mohamed also rents parking spaces Bart commuters.

Red Star apartment complex was opened late this year or early 2013, officials of the LINC Housing Corp. of Santa Ana said.

co-developers of the 120-unit complex had won $ 1.03 million state grant to build affordable housing for seniors, the data show. Officials said they do not know if they want to give back, or if insurance will cover the costs.

“We are still working out all the details of what happened,” says Jenny SUNY, a co-Chief Operating Officer at LINC Housing. “This is an incomplete set of facts. We are still trying to look and see what the whole picture looks like.”

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Tall Ship built in the 19th century-style SF

Tall Ship built in the 19th century-style SF

Alan Olson walked around to keep his feet on the floor in preparation for transfer to the paper shop in Sausalito, and sounded like a master, as he explained the nuances of the sailboat of your dreams.

Olson, director of the nonprofit group Educational Tall Ship at the San Francisco Bay, is an innovative, $ 5000000 a joint project of the replica type of wooden sailing ships built in the Bay Area from the 19th century shipbuilder by Matthew Turner.

Olson, 70, Mill Valley, and his aides had carefully shaped plywood establishing the exact dimensions of 42 vertebrae, which form part of the ship, the first stage of the design and construction.

“This is what it will look when it is finished,” said Olson, pointing to an old painting myriads of fluttering sails of the vessel to reach the sky. “It can be used for sea and along the coast. They are fast, because the power of the sail.”

Students, volunteers to help

pubDate classic 130-foot sailing vessel, or Brigantine, built from scratch within 18 to 21 months from students and volunteer carpenters, and then sailed and maintained by Bay Area young people who use it as an applied art and maritime history classroom.

Olson, a longtime sailor and boat builder, said he is now negotiating for the Port of San Francisco waterfront in Mission Bay as a site to build a ship and anchor it when it is finished. Several other potential waterfront facilities, including Richmond and Sausalito, considered to be the case in San Francisco did not work, he said.

plan is to design, build and rig ship the same materials and methods that Turner used to build their ships. Turner built 228 vessels, including brigs, yachts, and the South Seas Schooner packages between 1864 and 1907, making him the most prolific in the history of sailing ship built in America.

across the board, including trucks, desks, and the network is built in Douglas fir, t he same kind of wood that was used 150 years ago.

Carbon Neutral

pubDate difference is that Turner built his ship, using a very old wood in the forest that once covered the California and was almost destroyed to build the San Francisco and other cities West Coast. Tall Ship is a group of wood donated by a nonprofit conservation fund, which uses carbon neutral in sustainably managed forests by logging practices in the Big River in Mendocino County, which is saved from development.

The result is the first entirely carbon neutral sailboat of its size in the world.

Tall Ship is not just a wooden sailing ship built in the old ship aficionados – Spanish galleon built in San Diego – but Olson said it would be the only major ship Brigantine clear roots in San Francisco, sustainable products built specifically for educational purposes only.

Modern features

pubDate Olson said a few 21st century, features used, including a novel system that uses carbonated water to create electricity to power a backup generator. The electric motor will also be in the Coast Guard calls anything.

drawings, but it is straight out of Matthew Turner School boatbuilding. The ship’s captain Turner was able to buy their own boat, which uses the money he has made during the Gold Rush mining and eventually became a cod-fishing company, and sugar and tropical products merchant. He designed his first boat, trying to improve the speed and efficiency of merchant ships sailing through the fickle winds and harsh weather conditions unique to the Pacific. His innovative designs and Bermudian sail system has proven to be effective, and his talents were soon in great demand.

Famous ships

pubDate Turner’s Shipyard, which is now the San Francisco Mission Bay produced an average of one run per month for 8 years from the 1875th One boat, the equator, the commissioning of the famous writer Robert Louis Stevenson. The second Lurline won three of the first four Los Angeles transpacific Hawaii Yacht races.

Speed ​​was what made his sailboat, the famous Galilee. They did escape from the island of Tahiti Papeete San Francisco, for 22 days, a record which still stands. Turner moved his shipyard in Benicia 1883rd

Galilee Olson chose a model of his vessel. The students who built it over the next two years will be recruited local schools, churches, youth, science and sailing programs, he said, and controlled by the workers’ Tri-Coastal Marine, a company that specializes in boat building and design.

“We not only hope to stir some interest in the story, Matthew Turner, but to preserve and revive the rich maritime history of San Franci sco Bay,” he said.

group has raised $ 1,250,000 in cash and donations of lumber, enough to start the design of the ship. Olson said the nonprofit hopes to raise the remaining $ 3.75 million if the word gets out, and the project takes off.

When it finishes in 2014, Olson said that his second nonprofit, Call of the Sea, organized boat trips and education programs of up to 80 passengers, 40 of them will spend the night.

“There is a million children in the Bay Area that could use instead of staring at their electronic devices,” he said. “Getting them in contact with nature instead of a virtual world, we can make significant changes in their lives.”

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pubDate Online. For more information visit the Tall Ship project www.educationaltallship.org

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Mayor Ed Lee presents S.F. "S 1 2-year budget

Mayor Ed Lee presents S.F. "S 1 2-year budget

San Francisco is a city of the new year to $ 7000000000 for the first time, a big number, but one value, said Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday.

1 over the city, two-year spending plan restores funding for local HIV and AIDS services targeted at the federal cuts to include more money for public schools, and the ups and small business financing employment programs.

“We’ve probably taken the responsibility, we probably should not, but we considered it necessary to reflect our values,” said Lee, after he submitted the budget to address the Board of Supervisors Legislative Chamber of City Hall.

Ten years ago, had a budget of $ 5 billion. It hit $ 4 billion in the 1999th

This year’s total reflects the major tasks will be the city state and federal governments, city officials said, including the derivation of the criminals in county jails increased role of the low local public health systems in the federal health reforms and renovations to the local society governor Jerry Brown, the dissolved organizations statewide.

Budget does not contain a large fee increases that had rankled residents last year, but it contains some minor including tennis lessons and use of city-owned golf courses.

2-year spending plan – a total of $ 7.3 billion of the new financial year begins on 1 July next year and $ 7600000000 – Lee recovered $ 6.7 million financing of a local HIV and AIDS services in the first year. It also included a reserve of $ 6,000,000 plus $ 30 on top of one million city hall must be submitted in accordance with the mandate of the voters of San Francisco to help cash-strapped public schools system.

support for neighborhoods

pubDate in the budget will improve the Bayview-Hunters Point and the Third Street corridor, a middle-class Sixth Street corridor, which was included in the government reorganization means.

In his proposed budget now heads the Board of Supervisors for consideration. But if the instructors had a marked response in his presentation – a standing ovation – there’s not a battle that has muddied the rapid adoption in the past. However, supervisors press for more funding for pet programs will continue in their budget analyst Harvey Rose, and find additional savings in the coming weeks.

Lee told supervisors that his budget plan reflects the city’s unwillingness to give up its restructuring in the area and protect the most vulnerable residents. The plan also calls for training of 300 police and 84 firefighters over the next two years to make up a wave of retirements of police and fire protection.

Mayor also calls for increased support for smal l businesses in the city’s neighborhood commercial corridors and the financing of small business loans, but his budget does not live up to his campaign promise on that front.

Lee, the curator of their first year of office before he was elected in November, made a campaign promise to invest “$ 5 million next year,” the city’s small business revolving loan fund that provides low-interest loans to small businesses in San Francisco, who is denied a bank loan and promise to create or retain at least one low-income jobs.

unqualified success

pubDate the mayor’s administration has been an unqualified success and a great program this year, Lee pushed through the $ 1,000,000 allocation of loan funds. His budget calls for another $ 2 million this year – bringing the annual total of just $ 3 million. Another $ 2 million budget for next fiscal year.

“The budget will see an investment – an investment that will ensure that people who live, work and visit our city to feel safe investment to protect our social safety nets that support seniors and youth, low income and working-class families, investment, that support our neighborhoods, our infrastructure and our commercial corridor, “Lee said of the board.

Mayor of the bridge than the expected $ 170 million budget in March of factors, including an additional $ 90 million in additional income tax revenue to improve public funds to move detainees liability and the year before the money was not ‘t be used.

Many super visors expressed initial support spending plan, though Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, a political ally of the mayor but also fiscal hawk, reserved judgment.

“too early for me (saying),” Elsbernd said.

Supervisor David Campos said he was satisfied with the joint work of the Mayor of the budget, but he still is concerned about gaps in services.

No health cuts

pubDate This is the first year in recent memory that the city has not had a mandate to keep public consultation on public health cuts as someone suggested.

“This is a great good news,” says the San Francisco Public Health Director Barbara Garcia.

The funding of social services also remained. The proposed reduction of health and human services budgets in recent years has been the flashpoint of discontent, sparking protests, sit-ins and late in the negotiations between the mayor and supervisors.

Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the Recreation and Park Department, Mayor described the plan good news for the budget because the city has not fully recovered from a deep economic recession that led to painful cuts in recent years.

“No more fee increases, no layoffs, no reduction in service, so we are really starting to stabilize,” Ginsburg said.

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California's beaches the cleanest water in years

California's beaches the cleanest water in years

Michael Short

Angella Miller goes to the Chicago river, between stones, Baker Beach, one of two beaches in San Francisco, which received top honors in the water quality study. Second of Ocean Beach.

dry weather, and more stringent rules to increase the water quality of beaches in the Bay Area in its purest level this year, a report released Thursday found.

Almost every beach in the Bay Area and throughout the country, and bacterial contamination was significantly lower than last year, according to the annual survey of 650 West Coast beaches at the High-Bay, Santa Monica environmental group.

“This is one of our best years yet,” said Amanda Griesbach, water quality scientist Heal Bay, which will meet their water quality control data on a weekly basis throughout the year along the California coast. “Especially in the summer coming, people should be happy that California beaches are clean.”

Six local beaches earned win, including four in San Mateo County and two in San Francisco: Sharp Park and Rockaway Beach in Pacifica, Montara State Beach, Half Moon Bay beach, dunes and ocean beaches, and Baker in San Francisco.

Almost all the beaches in the Bay Area earned a “good” or “very good” quality, including some of the past that are among the most contaminated, such as Baker Beach.

report examined the penetration of bacteria and contamination of coastal waters with sewage, industrial and urban runoff. More stringent state and federal standards for water treatment and pollution have led to fewer beach closures and generally cleaner water, according to a report.

Government tightens control

pubDate in recent years, the State Water Resources Control Board and its regional offices for enhanced control and increased performance of water treatment plants, refineries, factories and sewage treatment plants, said Tim Moran, a spokesman for State water board.

“This is an ongoing process. But we are trying to identify problems and intervene where we can,” he said.

can be difficult to maintain water quality in the years when the state budget cuts loom, Moran said.

The state is proposing to cut the budget for water quality monitoring of $ 1800000 to $ 1 million, for example, he said.

Not all the local beaches received the letter grades. Five beaches in San Mateo County, is listed as “bad”. These are: Pillar Point, Oyster Point in South San Francisco, and Aquatic Park, Lake Shore Park and Beach in San Mateo kiteboard

.

cause of “poor” ratings

All of these beaches, except kiteboard is closed and stagnant water, which is favorable to the bacteria, said Dean Peterson, San Mateo County director of environmental health.

“The City of San Mateo is aware of the problems and work to reduce the number of days, these beaches are highly familiar with the bacteria,” he said.

Pillar Point, San Mateo County Resource Conservation District study on pollution issues, and expects to publish its findings soon, Peterson said.

East Bay, Bay Heal looked at 10 sites, including the popular Crown Beach in Alameda and Keller Beach in Richmond. All sites received high marks.

Marin also appeared with the report of 23 beaches get top marks. Are among the cleanest Stinson, Rodeo and Muir beaches.

down Report

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Memorial Day Weekend full of events, congestion

Memorial Day Weekend full of events, congestion

For many people, holiday weekends involve jumping in the car and take off. But this Memorial Day weekend, just move to the Bay Area is a challenge.

With the Dumbarton Bridge closed all weekend for seismic strengthening of the road and crawl across the Golden Gate Bridge because of its 75 years anniversary and Muni’s busiest subway line – the N-Judah – 9 days to start the shutdown Friday, you can get out of town can be a reasonable strategy.

As usual, many people in the 3-day weekend to visit relatives and friends, camping, or see the sights. According to AAA of Northern California, which conducts annual surveys before every major holiday travel, about 4.2 million Californians expected to drive more than 50 miles away from home this week–. Growth of 1.5 percent more than last Memorial Day

Most of the passengers – about 3.5 million – will take to the road for about 1.6 percent more than last year, and despite higher gas prices. An additional 390,000 will fly to their destinations, a decrease of 5.2 percent, although lower prices. And 265,000 will take trains, buses and boats, an increase of 11.9 percent.

Cynthia Harris, a AAA spokesman, said the figures continued to reflect the travel market, with the economy slowly recovers.

“People want to travel, but many have sufficient security, even splurge on a great day trip,” he said.

For those who are in the Bay Area this weekend, there’s a lot to do, especially on Sundays, hosted by the San Francisco Carnaval Parade and Festival, the Golden Gate. But those who are not going to waste a lot of free time for your loved stewing in traffic.

Dumbarton closing

pubDate While the Bay Bridge will remain open throughout the weekend, Dumbarton Bridge to continue the tradition of recent Bay Area roads, bridges, take a weekend vacation. The 1.6-mile span, which carries an average of 61,000 vehicles per day between Newark and Menlo Park will be closed at 10 am Friday and again by 05:00 Tuesday, said the wins milion, a spokesman for the project. Drivers are recommended to go north of San Mateo Bridge or Highway south of 237th As the transbay buses across the bridge on weekends and holidays there is no alternative transit service included.

Construction of seismic steel cars to replace the common spanning all 6 lane traffic and a bike path. New single is expected to add up to 18 inches by the movement of an earthquake. Workers use a hydraulic lifting bridge 5 inches to make room for 96 seismic bearings are installed during the next eight months. Thirty beds are planned to make the weekend. Rain is expected Friday, could delay the wor k, which requires a dry paving.

milion said they hope to get a job “done on time or even a bit too early.”

birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge and causing traffic tie-ups. Tens of thousands of people are expected to show up along the northern coastal region of the Golden Gate Festival, which range from Fort Point Marina Green-related events in Ghirardelli Square and Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 9:30 big attraction is the fireworks will be launched near the bridge.

The Golden Gate is open to all on the track at the weekend – with the exception of the closure prior to, during and after the fireworks. Sidewalks will be closed and removed between 5 and 6 pm road closures starting around 9 pm, depending on traffic. Bridge again at 10 or 22:15, where sidewalks are in first place. Major traffic delays are expected. Traffic is also expected to slow crawl across the bridge and at other times be a mess along the waterfront and through most of the city.

“When you come to the celebration of the bridge, do not drive into San Francisco,” said Mary Currie, a spokesman for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District.

People headed to the festival is recommended that you take public transportation, ride a bike or on foot. No public parking is available on or around the festival site, or the bridge on Sunday. Bart, the Golden Gate Ferry and Golden Gate Transit will add extra services on Sunday.

Transbay street closing

pubDate addition of traffic chaos, with cars built Transbay Transit Center near First Street between Mission and Howard streets beginning at 8 am Friday to build a bridge crossing the street. It is expected to reopen at 5:00 on Tuesday.

Transit riders are not left out of the fun. Muni plans to start a nine-day shutdown of N-Judah Metro line, which carries about 40,000 passengers a day, at 19:00 on Friday. Bus shuttles run along the route, extending from Ocean Beach, through downtown and along the Embarcadero, the Fourth and King streets.

the Golden Gate Bridge memorial events

pubDate dozens of events will take place during the Memorial Day Weekend to celebrate the 75 years the bridge was opened on May 27 planners recommend that you take transit, walk or ride a bike for the events are as follows:

Bridge Story: Saturday 10:00 to 6:00 pm and Sunday from 11 to 10, Ghirardelli Square.

music, history, and vintage cars. 11:00-10 10:00 to 06:00 Saturday and Sunday, Fishermans Wharf

Golden Gate Festival. 11:00-10 Sunday, the Marina Green in Fort Point

Fireworks : 9:30 Sunday. Best viewing from the Marina Green in Fort Point

More info

pubDate Golden Gate Festival. goldengatebridge75.org.

Traffic and Transit: 511.org.

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BART Wi-Fi still remains after 3 years

BART Wi-Fi still remains after 3 years

What is broken

pubDate problem:. spotty Wi-Fi service is not available anywhere BART, despite promises that it would be available in 2010

What has been done: , the signals are to Oakland land to Balboa Park, but that does not mean anything to officials make all the cars, hot spots, which can receive signals

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Who is responsible for: Contact a company representative WiFi Rail Catharine Cooper at (714) 296-5250 or ccooper@wifirail.net. Chuck Rae BART project in its Wi-Fi project. Reach him (510) 464-6895 or crae@bart.gov.

All pins on a commuter with a smart phone and I know that something stinks about Bart, and it’s not just dirty carpets.

Wi-Fi that was dangled in front of BART is the Bay Area commuters perk of the whole system to be available in 2010, is still spotty gambling seems to disappear at the most inopportune times.

While the Altamont Commuter Express train has been offering Wi-Fi for more than ten years, Bart trains are still stuck in the dark era of the Transbay Tube.

2009 BART signed an exclusive, 20-year agreement with WiFi Rail is Sacramento, which promised to provide a service. In exchange for BART to offer a “horizontal property,” the company would use its money to install infrastructure and establish a service in return WiFi Rail eventually pay for the service.

In January, closed WiFi Rail Phase 2 of their 5-step plan. This means spotty Wi-Fi is available through the Balboa Park in San Francisco and the Transbay Tube Oakland rural metro stations, says the CEO of Lee Cooper.

Lee said that the service is unreliable, because of factors including the difficulty of trying to raise money for the project is trying to cope with the weak economy and BART officials, when and where the WiFi Rail may start working.

job would cost the company about $ 100,000 a mile, says Lee.

Although the signals are up along the BART system components, for example, you can not watch videos all the cars. Because WiFi Rail also provided with at least 100 cars, a technology that allows them to scale Wi-Fi signal, says Lee. So far, the 59 cars, located in the front and back – and the middle of the 10-car trains – are hotspots

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to build a strong signal to select combinations of shark fin antennas and sit near the front or back. Or you can wait until 2012, when Lee, the center estimates that cars are equipped with the necessary technology.

Lee hopes that commuters can get the service line in Richmond at this time.

The next step involves reaching Concord on the Pittsburg-Bay Point line, the Berkeley Land and go as far as the North Berkeley Station and the Colosseum.

The last two phases will focus on Millbrae, Richmond and Fremont stations, the Dublin-Pleasanton line. Expect that in December 2014 says Lee.

Lee said WiFi Rail uses a patented technology that is independent of cellular service, other transit systems make the Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi to the end of BART must be fast, because it’s not on the basis of a strong cell phone coverage.

BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver said that while the BART Wi-Fi is an important institution has made a higher priority than other projects.

“We’ve gone back to the basics … like the recent replacement of wool spots, trying to get the fleet in the future to ensure our system continues to maintain itself,” he said.

BART WiFi Rail Project Manager Chuck Rae said the biggest problem is getting the money, and if BART does not provide any of this office is not much to say, as soon as the company keeps its promises.

“BART is very expensive to develop, and Bart can not invest it at all,” he said. “To get them to do it, there’s not much lever, if funding keeps drying up.

” We are happy that we have to do what they have done, “said Rae.” It’s not like they are obliged to do anything but give it your best shot. “

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SF fire control wages garnisheed - wife

SF fire control wages garnisheed - wife

judge has declared the San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes- White deadbeat divorced and gave the city to begin garnisheeing $ 3300 a month from his salary for support for his ex-wife’s husband.

Hayes-White says he stopped to pay support for about 14 months ago after an episode in which her former husband, Robert “Sean” White, , grabbed and choked one of their sons, while the booze fueled rage.

In December, he asked, not competition in San Mateo County Superior Court for a misdemeanor child protection and cruelty. He wears his sentence, County Sheriff and the detail of the work resides in the rehab house.

Last week, White went to San Francisco Superior Court requires that the driver to continue to pay him alimony when the couple was divorced from the 2009th

Friday wrote Judge Ron Albers to begin the repayment of its $ 302,000 annual salary, although it does not seem t o recover more than $ 40,000 behind in payments.

White Dog was by Bradley does not return a phone call for comment.

Help brawl is the latest twist in a couple of family drama.

In 2005, white – the cousin of the dead Dan White – the so-called 911 and accused his wife, hitting her head twice a pint glass in your kitchen in San Francisco. Hayes-White denied the allegations, and he recalled.

(No charges were ever made -. Something stopped supporters of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has noted his argument that prosecutors overreached in charging him for what they see as an equivalent set of circumstances)

After a long separation, the couple divorced in 2009 but shared custody of their three children, until last year when Hayes-White got a restraining order prohibiting contact his or her two children who were still minors.

Hayes-White said in an interview, he stopped making payments because of rising costs of a spouse, has had his children.

“This is not about being vindictive,” he said. “Everything just went on a break” after last year’s attack a few Sun

boss also says white is not quite lived up to their end of their divorce settlement, including the cost of family medical expenses, which indicates that it has made “good faith effort” to find work.

“I’m assuming the responsibility for safety, health and welfare of their children,” Hayes-White said. “I like being the boss, but my job is to be the biggest and the best mother.”

Extra credit: , a teacher at Berkeley led a group of high school students are “off-hours’ journey to the other day – transfer to UC Berkeley Admissions Office

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Kong Middle School teacher Yvette Felarca, , who is also the organizer of all the necessary activist group run by a group of about 25 protesters Friday, including some teenagers, to require UC to admit more underrepresented minorities.

Most of the teens remained in the police gave them out after about 2 hours, but the three were arrested on suspicion of crossing with 9 adults -. including Felarca

All teens were in high school, and someone had his humanities classes Felarca King.

“I’m very proud and honored to be obsessed with black, Latino and Arab high school and college students,” said Felarca. “They fight for themselves and their entire generation.”

Berkeley Unified School District spokesman Mark COPLAN , said the district did not affect Felarca activity if they were his own time.

Stay away from: , former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer has received a restraining limit your ex-boyfriend from having contact with her, her 8-year-old son and her husband, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer .

issued in Alameda County last week after her ex-boyfriend, convicted methamphetamine user Chikhani Stephen, began peppering Lockyers voice mail, e-mails and text messages after the liberation of South Bay drug treatment program.

gunfire cam e around the same time, a few extracts from Chikhani reportedly made a sex tape – with Nadia Lockyer – was released Friday on YouTube. They were quickly taken down.

Chikhani attorney Adrienne Dell , clearly annoyed with having helped to clear their clients of violence Nadia Lockyer Room, said he was aware of the restraining order, “but I have not seen it.”

Furious Fiesta : on the upper floor of the Bay Bridge Drivers may have noticed a number of circular streaks occur midway between San Francisco and Treasure Island – this is not a fixed-burning donuts.

And this is what they are.

tags at the weekend was shot in a Ford Fiesta for the business.

“We are making the commercials all the time,” says an official Tony Tam, The California Highway Patrol spokesman.

As the relevance of advertising a car doing donuts on the bridge?

“They’re paying for,&# 8221; Tam said, “that we let them do whatever they want, if it is authorized.”

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S.F. Mayor Ed Lee's Golden State Warriors in court

S.F. Mayor Ed Lee's Golden State Warriors in court

It is official – San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is directly calling the Golden State Warriors bounce back to San Francisco and the Bay

“2017 NBA season at the right time.”

a letter signed by all the instructors in 11 cities, the Port Commission, the San Francisco legislative contingent and a wealth of business and labor leaders, Lee said the city crew would “help to achieve this goal.”

There is nothing official, but the letter shows that the City is a waterfront scene – probably the Piers 30-32, decrepit pier near the Bay Bridge is now used for parking

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idea would be to get the Arena built at the same Giants’ Stadium was down the street -. private financing

City sent a letter a few days after the meeting with the mayor of Los Angeles for new Warriors owner (and Hollywood Mogul), Peter Guber .

by a fluke, San Francisco, it also went on the heels of the State Controller John Chiang ‘s requirement that the Oakland handed over $ 3.5 million redevelopment plan to spend the money that the city had hoped for a new sports complex that contains the scene.

Green vs. green. San Franciscans enthusiasm for going green “clean energy” in your home seems to be so flat as the economy

recent population survey 3500 city utilities, the Commission found that 52 percent would perhaps Pacific Gas and Electric Co. It is only 3 percentage points more than similar poll taken last year.

willingness to pay “a little bit more” clean wind and solar energy fell 37 percent 45 percent a year earlier.

And this is after the expected growth has fallen by more than half – from $ 14 more per month to just $ 6

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“There is a certain group of people who buy eco or green purchasing, and others who are interested in,” said the head of the PUC Ed Harrington . “We never thought it would be overwhelming, but there is a market.”

study was conducted to test the market town of the program. Board of Supervisors is considering spending $ 19500000 turn on the money for the project.

The plan provides for the city contract with Shell Energy to buy power, then puts it through the regular power supply lines.

Ramos commotion: Things got a little impatient with the second day of the district attorney press conference after the triple murder conviction gang member Edwin Ramos 2008 drive-by shootings Tony Bologna , and two of his sons, Excelsior.

Bologna widow Danielle – who was in the courtroom most of the 4-month probationary period -. I was hoping to solve a crush of reporters and cameras, but there was a catch

He is still in witness protection because prosecutors asked for the TV people will hide their faces, or just not show it.

request, brought howls of protests from the deadline, plagued by TV newsies.

result. Widow not seen or heard of TV shows later – but will not print journalists her party room

waterfront: After weeks of delaying tactics and arm twisting, time seems to run out of the Board of Supervisors President David Chiu efforts to kill the proposed 11-storey condo project with her own district in the waterfront.

8 Washington project is close to the condo owners who lose their positions, as well as some area businesses and politically difficult to Telegraph Hill residents Association.

On the other hand, light commercial, port and Rose Pak – China Town where nonprofits can benefit from the agreement – are pushing to adopt

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is more at stake than just building . In this case it would be Chiu’s first major injury on board the President – with a double disgrace to your district

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Scramble: to Word, state Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi shoplifting is eyeing run in Alameda County Nadia Lockyer tutorial ‘s vacant place in the political enemies scrambling to find a candidate who does not pack as much baggage.

One of them had contacted a former assemblyman Alberto Torrico Fremont, who In addition to both the Latino and Asian origin. But after weeks of mulling it over with his wife and children, Torrico told us that he has decided against it.

leave the door wide open, Hayashi, who claims to have a strong poll numbers despite poor no contest to shoplifting charges in San Francisco last year?

“I can tell you: you can not poll mug shot” Torrico said

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City Insider City Insider / mayor says the middle-class area on the edge of "the resurgence of"

City Insider City Insider / mayor says the middle-class area on the edge of "the resurgence of"

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Mayor Ed Lee On the streets by bicycle at least part of Thursday.

Wedding middle class is the mayor of San Francisco for decades, but the city is finally on the verge of turning into a long depression of the city’s main boulevard Mayor Ed Lee said on Thursday.

“I think you’ll see a resurgence of all,” Lee said when he visited the old Merchandise Mart is the renovation of the 10th and Market streets around the new headquarters of tech companies to twitter, and yammer CallSocket and home decor web site One Kings Lane.

tax credit was approved last year for companies to expand their middle-class area of ​​labor was the key to keep the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Ali Rowghani , Chief Financial Officer, said it would be “well north of 1000″ the world’s workforce, as it moves into its new home in San Francisco this summer.

Twitter has estimated that i t could grow to more than 2,600 jobs over the next five years, middle-class place, according to the mayor’s office. The company currently leases the upper three floors, which is now known as Market Square.

Overall, 1100000 square meters of buildings have been renovated a couple of Shorenstein Properties is expected to include offices, retail space and a much needed full-service grocery store.

“The demand and demographics is evident here,” said Doug Shorenstein , chairman and managing director of real estate investment and development company.

Twitter this summer and is expected to move to the anchor. The prospect of a kick-start housing projects, a field that had lain dormant, and brought new business and arts programs for small businesses.

“It’s all too real,” said Lee. “No more talking.”

– John Cote

pedal power: Being green is a political currency in this city, and Mayor Ed Lee was under pedal power Thursday – at least part time -. Bike to Work Day

So, we have a City Insider thought it a perfect opportunity to see his plan last summer to keep the bike and use the town hall official trips when she drives to your plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt.

Mayor has not made any public appearances on two wheels, except for Bike to work day. But it is actually two electric bikes stored in the mayor at City Hall garage.

“I’m secretly test them on the weekends,” said Lee, and I hope the warmer weather and a slower schedule will allow him to pedal its meetings in June.

But it seems like it could have used the bike from the garage on Thursday afternoon, Mayor.

After driving to City Hall from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco Bicycle Coalition of the morning with leaders and others, Lee was forced to an afternoon tour of the new Twitter offices undergoing refurbishment for about 2 1/2 blocks from City Hall.

He was then driven back to the town hall, and those who left the tour at the same time, he knocked on the back foot City Hall.

– John Cote

move. plan to place a Chinese hospital clinic in China Town blocks from home easily won Planning Commission approval Thursday

unanimous, however, is only the warm up next week to debate a draft environmental impact report on the $ 160 million plan to build a modern, seismically safe facility in Jackson Street instead of the original hospital built in the 1924th

Although the relocation of the hospital infusion clinic, a former furniture store at 827 Pacific Ave. It was originally part of a rehabilitation plan is going to the hospital officials decided to turn them into two different projects.

Hospital plans to move its outpatient radiology unit of Pacific Avenue site with offices, which added to the hospital. Infusion clinic with ambulatory patients receiving chemotherapy, intravenous antibiotics, blood transfusions and other similar services, whether on the second floor.

– John Wildermuth

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Scientists drilling in Clear Lake to see the future

Scientists drilling in Clear Lake to see the future

drilling deep into the sediment under the old Clear Lake, UC Berkeley researchers are important tips for the future of plant and animal life, examining how the changing climate has changed life in the distant past.

drilling ends next week and then 17 researchers on the project will analyze thousands of tiny pollen grains grown up far from the lake cores to study plant species, large and small to survive the challenges of climate change during the previous periods.

Major episodes of global warming – and cold spells, too – hit the Earth thousands of years ago, leaving a record of the past

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These data, which microscopic bits of plant material that constitutes evidence, scientists want to study.

“We know that climate change is happening now,” said Cindy Looy, UC Berkeley plant pathologist who supervises drilling project team. “By understanding how it affects plant life long ago, when the changes were even stronger, we have to better predict the future.”

Looy drillers have worked for weeks, and the Clear Lake arm platform, they have pulled 500 ft 3-in noise levels, where they cut a 10-foot pieces. Drilling stopped 650 meters on Sunday, depth, showing 130,000 years of life in the region Looy said. Both the doublet core will be drilled in the vicinity of a few days later, so we can compare.

Long-ago warming

pubDate team vegetation samples will come from the last interglacial warming period, known as the period that began about 130,000 years ago and lasted about 15,000 years in which the earth was much warmer than it is today – perhaps as much as 5-9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today’s temperature, according to some estimates from researchers who have studied ice cores.

Berkeley team is focused on the more recent period of climate change, the so-called mysterious younger dryas, which began about 13,000 years ago and lasted slightly more than 1,000 years. The average global temperature dropped rapidly at the beginning of a full 5 degrees, and scientists now call the time of the “Big Freeze”. So, within 1,000 years the earth is heated again, maybe as much as 18 degrees.

Theories are a lot of what caused the striking cold-warm periods and Looy and his colleagues believe that knowing exactly which plant species have evolved or died may help pr edict what might happen in the near future, the current pace of global warming accelerates.

This is now forecast to be valuable in many ways Looy said. This may affect the future of agricultural policy in the preparation of future warming and forest policy, timber cutting, for example. Even winemakers have a better chance to decide what to grow grapes as affected by the heating of agricultural crops, as influenced by other plant life in the past, Looy said.

“I’m super happy with what gives us our cores,” he said.

Doing Analysis

pubDate cores sent to the University of Minnesota is a cold storage facility or a state called LacCORE Lacrustine Core Facility. There Looy team members shared the central part, photographed in half and put half on each piece back to the Berkeley faculty and students to analyze in detail.

the details are very good indeed, drilled every half inch of sediment represents 10 years earlier.

Although Anthony Barnosky, UC paleontologist and his team is poring over a half dozen animal fossils from caves in the Clear Lake area, the Berkeley Museum of Paleontology is stored. Tens of thousands more fossils are collected from around the world are also stored there, and they can also reveal how past climate changes have played a role in the development and extinction of wildlife.

“We work with all the mammoths of the past and move the mouse to paint a picture of the future, we have not seen,” Barnosky said.

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