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New KFF/Cook poll shows Warren favored by Minnesota DFL likely primary voters
By Eric Black | 11/07/2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
According to a new poll of likely Democratic voters in several Midwest states considered swing states for the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Elizabeth Warren leads the Minnesota race for the Democratic (we say DFL) nomination for president among likely DFL voters by 10 points over Sen. Amy Klobuchar and the rest of the pack.
The poll was jointly conducted in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Cook Political Report. Those four states were formerly considered part of the so-called "Blue Wall," until 2016 when Donald Trump narrowly carried the latter three and came very close to winning Minnesota. The four states are obviously considered vital to the outcome of the 2020 race.
As always, I caution against too much importance attached to polls taken this far in advance of an election. But, for what it's worth:
Here are the top line Minnesota numbers. Among Minnesota Democrats, first choice for the Democratic nomination:
Warren 25%
Klobuchar: 15%
Joe Biden: 14%
Bernie Sanders: 13%
Pete Buttigieg: 7%
Warren's lead among Minnesota DFLers actually grew, and Biden dropped to third place when KFF combined first and second choices, as follows:
Warren: 43%
Sanders: 24%
Biden: 21%
Buttigieg: 16%
Kamala Harris: 8%
Looking ahead to the general election, 32 percent of Minnesotans polled said they would "definitely vote for the Democratic nominee" and about 24% say they would "definitely vote for President Trump," leaving 41% who "remain uncertain" although many of those (10 percent on either side) said they would "probably" vote for the Democratic nominee or for Trump.
Impressively, only 3 percent of those who said they would definitely or probably vote for Trump said there was a chance they would flip to the Democratic nominee and only 1 percent of those who plan to vote for the Democratic nominee said there was a chance they would vote for Trump.
Just 21 percent said they were pure "undecideds," unwilling to express any lean toward Trump or toward the Democratic nominee.
Among those who are pure undecideds, or only leaning one way or the other, the poll asked them their views on a few issues, and they came across as a fairly liberal group on some issues but not others. Specifically, of those undecideds and leaners:
76% favor a path to citizenship for those who entered the U.S. illegally.
68% favor a ban on future purchase of assault weapons.
64% said they favored the "Green New Deal."
54% favored a ban on owning assault weapons at all, including mandatory buybacks.
But by 50-42 the undecideds opposed a ban on fracking.
And by 63-31 they opposed a "Medicare for All" plan that would eliminate private insurance.
And by 66-27 they opposed "no longer detaining people for crossing the U.S. border illegally."
All the above Minnesota numbers can be viewed here.
I won't go into detail on the other three swing states covered by the detail (you can get the full report here) but, in general, based on approval ratings, Trump is in trouble across all four states. His disapprovers outnumbered his approvers by these margins:
Minnesota: 58-42
Michigan: 59-41
Pennsylvania: 61-39
Wisconsin: 57-42
Obviously this is just one poll. And Trump may benefit when the Democrats have to settle on a single alternative to him. But if these numbers are right (and I don't claim to know that, and poll findings can be fleeting), Trump is in a heap of trouble in the current and former Blue Wall states.
This link will get you an overview of the full four-state report with other links galore to get into the state-by-state details.
Veteran journalist Eric Black writes Eric Black Ink for MinnPost. His latest award is from the Society of Professional Journalists, which in May 2017 announced he'd won the national Sigma Delta Chi Award for online column writing.
Submitted by Bill Schletzer on 11/07/2019 - 12:40 pm.
Choosing Warren is a perfect way to ensure that Trump is re-elected.
Submitted by Frank Phelan on 11/07/2019 - 04:34 pm.
2016: Choosing Don Trump is a perfect way to ensure Clinton is elected.
Submitted by Paul Brandon on 11/09/2019 - 06:51 pm.
That's what the voters said.
Submitted by Peter Stark on 11/07/2019 - 01:13 pm.
The only thing Klobuchar's campaign has done for me is convince me to vote for a primary opponent, Legal Cannibis Now, or CPUSA in her next Senate re-election race.
Here, being innocent and ignorant, I mistook her popularity in the state and her winning margins as signs of a good politician with a winning message. Her race for the Presidency reveals her to be a small-thinking pessimist who thinks that we shouldn't do much of anything to address obvious societal problems. We just need to be nicer to each other gosh-darnit.
Well, welcome to the club. I knew that already.
I doubt Klobs will lose her next senate election, but I do wonder if she will enjoy such large margins again. I doubt GOP-leaning voters will be so kind toward her, and progressives may feel emboldened to give her grief.
Unless she gets the VP nomination, which i still think is her real goal.
Submitted by Tom Anderson on 11/07/2019 - 06:45 pm.
Minnesota is not a "swing state" no matter how much we pretend to matter. Could Warren benefit from Republicans crossing over (they only have one candidate on their ballot) and helping her get the nomination?
Submitted by Ray Schoch on 11/08/2019 - 08:28 am.
I take some solace in the Trump disapproval numbers, but have no idea who the Democratic nominee is likely to be. Ms. Klobuchar has a good sense of humor – wit is worth its weight in gold in a politician, I think – but is otherwise nondescript enough in terms of policy proposals that I'm not especially enthused. Like many, many others, my personal desire is to get Trump-Pence out of positions of power and influence in government – any government, whether federal, state or local – and I will happily vote for whoever their Democratic opponent might be if it will help achieve that end.
Amy is a native daughter who polls a dozen points higher in Minnesota than she does nationally.
The question is where those points will end up when things get real.
Submitted by Paul Udstrand on 11/08/2019 - 10:19 am.
It's important to note that the "centrist/moderate" panic a poll like this will provoke is a symptom of threatened privilege and entitlement.
The political landscape in the US has been severely distorted for decades. The alleged "moderate center" was never really the moderate the center the two Parties or the media claimed it to be. If you dug into almost any issue you would find then and now, that a majority of Americans were/are more liberal than either major political Party.
This is why Wellstone was so successful, and it's why "moderates" from Klobuchar to Biden and Clinton "move" the left in every campaign, even going so far as to describe themselves as "progressives".
The "moderate" center as represented by candidates like Klobuchar and Biden has never really been moderate and "centrist"… they're actually conservatives, moderate Republicans. This is why they're so much more comfortable reaching "across" the isle than they are reaching out to the progressives on their own side of the Isle.
So don't be "alarmed" by the "radical" shift to the "left" that "centrists" claim Warren and Sanders represent, because that "shift" is really just a recognition of the true "center" that neoliberals have been marginalizing for decades. We're not seeing any radical left emerge, what we're seeing is a liberal majority that is finally taking it's place where belongs despite elite and privileged resistance.
I don't see where Eric get's his 64% opposition to a national health care plan that eliminates private insurance? That question doesn't appear. What we DO have is 36% of Democrats, 5% of Republicans, and 14% of Independents who support implementing MFA.
It looks like Eric is assuming that those who don't support MFA are doing so because they want to keep their private insurance, but there's no data to support THAT assumption in this survey. There are a lot of reasons people currently appose MFA, many think it will be MORE expensive for instance, or limit their options, or create a tax, etc. etc. You can't assume that 60% are simply so happy with their current private insurance that they don't want to give it up. This survey doesn't ask WHY people don't support MFA.
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Review – Borderlands 2 : Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
Now this my friends, this is how you create DLC. I've now completed this on all three difficulty mode, and it got better with every run through. In a word, this DLC is "great".
The game is told/narrated by Tiny Tina, and gives the impression that you, as the player are playing through a game of Bunkers and Badasses (which I assume is Pandoras version of D&D). Without going into spoilers, your quest as the vault hunter is to rescue the queen from the evil sorcerer.
As you can probably tell from the title, the game is medieval themed, with knights, dragons and lots of old worldy stuff. It's actually pretty amazing how they've managed to adapt the Borderlands universe to feel like it fits in the old world, it somehow doesn't feel strange that you're fighting knights and sorcerer with an over powered sniper rifle.
Without a doubt, the best part of this game is the storytelling, and to be honest, really made me want to try out table top gaming. The way the story twisted and turned coming to the conclusion it did really made me feel I've been missing out for all these years.
If you've yet to complete Borderlands 2, I highly suggest you don't start this DLC, as it contains major spoilers concerning the ending of the main game. These particular story items were told very well, and with the investment I've put into the Borderlands universe, felt like it tied everything up nicely, similar to how Mass Effect 3: Citadel did.
Unlike the other DLC offerings, there are 10 trophies to collect, non of which require you to grind. I will however be running through it a number of times, on Ultimate Vault Hunter mode to see if I can get some of the new legendary grenades, including Magic Missiles, Chain Lightening and Fireballs. Currently I only have the blue drops, but looking forward to giving the legendary ones a go.
This for me was the perfect end to what had been a highly enjoyable experience. I have now unlocked every trophy the game has to offer, and still find myself dropping back in to have a play.
Approx Time taken to beat – 6 hours
Difficulty setting – Normal
Score – [Rating:5/5]
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Sargento Mayor Demar Garcia of the Salvadoran army presents NH Adjutant. Gen. David Mikolaities a plaque of El Salvador's national bird, the turquoise-browed motmot, during a gift exchange May 25, 2022,at the Ministry of Defense in San Salvador, El Salvador. A NHNG delegation led by Mikolaities met with Salvadoran Defense Minister René Merino to discuss the future of the NHNG-El Salvador State Partnership Program. (Photo courtesy of the Salvadoran Ministry of Defense)
Salvadoran Defense Minister René Merino and NH Adjutant Gen. David Mikolaities discuss the future of the New Hampshire National Guard-El Salvador State Partnership Program during an office call May 25, 2022, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Photo courtesy of the Salvadoran Ministry of Defense.
New Hampshire National Guard, El Salvador Build on SPP Relationship
By By Lt. Col. Greg Heilshorn, Director of Public Affairs
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador –
After two years of sporadic correspondence, it only took a few minutes of face time for N.H. Adjutant Gen. David Mikolaities and Salvadoran Defense Minister René Merino to reaffirm their commitment to the New Hampshire National Guard-El Salvador State Partnership Program.
"If you have the will, welcome," said Merino, during a May 25 office call at the Ministry of National Defense.
The vice admiral last hosted Mikolaities in February 2020 when they cut through a thickly frosted "pastel" to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the partnership at Ilopango Air Force Base. That day, the U.S. ambassador praised the program's longevity, a remarkable feat considering the region's shifting politics and amount of turnover in both the Salvadoran and New Hampshire high commands.
Across the airfield, the NHNG's 39th Army Band was playing to a raucous crowd of thousands gathered for Central America's largest air show. That was just before COVID-19 forced both the Salvadoran military and NHNG to become the lynchpins of their government's respective relief efforts. For the next 18 months, lockdowns and travel restrictions stunted a partnership that had been averaging 10 bilateral exchanges a year.
"It was great to be back," said Mikolaities, who led a delegation of six NHNG personnel for the one-day engagement. "El Salvador is a key strategic partner in Latin America. It was really important to reset the relationship."
The itinerary included embassy briefings from the U.S. Military Group and country team, and a civil disturbance demonstration by the Salvadoran army's special security brigade. For four of the American travelers, the trip was their first exposure to the partnership.
"It was good to see the different parts of government coming together to support a partner nation," said Lt. Col. Daniel Sawicki, commander of the 157th Maintenance Squadron.
"The State Department and the people working at the embassy all share a common goal and to see that for just a day was a great experience."
The timing of the visit was especially significant for Capt. Mario Rey, who just took over as the NHNG SPP coordinator.
"The Mil Group is going through a changeover in key positions so it's good for us to extend the continuity," Rey said. "We've been here, our initiatives have been ongoing, and it's an enduring partnership. They can relay that message to the incoming leadership, which makes for a seamless transition at least with our small piece. I think we achieved that."
It helps that the NHNG has one of its own assigned to the embassy. Capt. Jeremy Saunders, a logistics officer from Rochester, works both as a member of the Military Group's security cooperation team and a liaison for the state partnership.
"It's been a great experience so far," he said.
Six months into the job, Saunders wants to extend his two-year assignment for another year. He took a leave of absence from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and brought his family.
"To see how the U.S. works at an embassy, how they use different programs to extend U.S. influence in the region – just to be a part of that has been amazing," Saunders said.
Under the direction of National Guard Bureau, the state partnership program began nearly 30 years ago as an initiative to assist countries emerging from behind the Iron Curtain.
SPP now involves one-third of the world's countries and the National Guard of every U.S. state and territory. Some states have multiple partnerships. Earlier this year, Cabo Verde signed on to become the NHNG's second, state partner country.
To those who might question the logic of pairing New Hampshire with a Central American republic and a West African island nation, where Spanish and Portuguese are the official languages, Rey has a simple answer.
"We have a lot in common, our organizational structures have a lot in common," he said. "Soldiering is soldiering and being an airman is being an airman whether it's here or there. A lot of our core competencies are interchangeable. We all learn from each other."
The unique, civil-military nature of the NHNG has allowed for a wide range of exchanges with El Salvador involving not just the military, but also government, business, education and law enforcement. They are coordinated through the combatant command, U.S. ambassador's country team, and other agencies as appropriate to ensure they meet both U.S. and country objectives.
Mikolaities likes to tout the whole-of-society approach whenever he speaks about the Guard's international alliances. "In this new era of great power competition (a reference to the ongoing rivalry between the United States, China and Russia for global influence), it's critical to be on the field," he said.
By the close of their meeting, he and Merino had agreed to schedule a planning conference for later this summer with a goal of setting a glide path for the next five years of the partnership. Among Merino's most pressing asks were continued help with developing El Salvador's non-commissioned officer corps and cyber security.
"I can't wait to see how the next 20 years unfold," Mikolaities said.
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The Call of the Cthulhu (Kobo eBook)
By H. P. Lovecraft
The Call of the Cthulhu is a short story by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. The narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his grand-uncle, Brown University linguistic professor George Gammell Angell after his death in the winter of 1926–27. Among the notes is a small bas-relief sculpture of a scaly creature which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature." The sculptor, a Rhode Island art student named Henry Anthony Wilcox, based the work on delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths." Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in Wilcox's papers. Angell also discovers reports of mass hysteria around the world. More notes discuss a 1908 meeting of an archeological society in which New Orleans police official John Raymond Legrasse asks attendees to identify a statuette of unidentifiable greenish-black stone resembling Wilcox's sculpture. It is then revealed that the previous year, Legrasse and a party of policemen found several murdered women & children being used in a ritual by a cult, in a shunned region of a Louisiana swamp. After killing five of the cultists and arresting 47 others, Legrasse learns that they worship the "Great Old Ones" and await the return of a monstrous being called Cthulhu. The prisoners identify the statuette as "great Cthulhu." One of the academics present at the meeting, Princeton professor William Channing Webb, describes a group of "Esquimaux" with similar beliefs and fetishes. Thurston discovers a 1925 article from an Australian newspaper which reports the discovery of a derelict ship, the Emma, of which second mate Gustaf Johansen is the sole survivor. Johansen reports that the Emma was attacked by a heavily armed yacht called the Alert.
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Warming ocean waters turned Hurricane Michael into a superstorm
Living on Earth
November 5, 2018 · 11:00 AM EST
By Adam Wernick
Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida panhandle on Oct. 10, 2018.
NASA Worldview/ NOAA
When Hurricane Michael came ashore in the Panhandle of Florida on Oct. 10, it shredded buildings with the sheer force of its Category 4 winds and swept away entire neighborhoods with an 8- to 12-foot storm surge.
Michael was the third strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in the continental United States. Fortunately, it passed through fairly quickly and dropped less rain than other recent major hurricanes such as Florence, Harvey, Irma and Maria. Only the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969 had lower barometric pressures, a key measure of hurricane strength.
Even some storm experts were surprised by how Hurricane Michael intensified from Category 1 to Category 4 in just 24 hours. But, according to Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, we can expect more of this type of phenomenon as the oceans continue to warm.
Hurricane Michael intensified so quickly, Mann says, because it encountered sea surface temperatures in the low 80s Fahrenheit — between 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial sea surface temperatures. And this is no fluke.
Ocean waters have warmed about 1 degree Celsius globally. As a result, ocean levels have risen between half a foot and a foot along Florida's Gulf Coast and on the US East Coast.
Related: Even a slight increase in global warming could be catastrophic, experts warn
"Sea level rise adds to the storm surge of every single storm that makes landfall," Mann says. "In the case of Superstorm Sandy, in 2012, it added a foot to that 13-foot storm surge. One foot might sound like a modest amount, but it meant 25 more square miles of coastal flooding. It meant several billion dollars worth of additional damage. Same thing with Florence making landfall in North Carolina — sea level rise added about a foot to that storm surge."
Warmer ocean temperatures also lead to what scientists call rapid intensification, as with Hurricane Michael. "We have seen this now so many times, where a storm balloons from a minor tropical storm to a major hurricane over the course of a day or two," Mann says. "That only happens over very warm seas."
The science is clear on the relationship between warm waters and the damage caused by these rapidly intensifying storms, says Mann. Each degree Fahrenheit of ocean warming translates into a 7 percent increase in maximum wind speed. While 7 percent may sound modest, the destructive potential of a storm increases by three times the increase of its wind speed.
"A 7 percent increase in wind speed is a 21 percent increase in the destructive potential of the storm," Mann explains. "That's with one degree Fahrenheit ocean warming. With Hurricane Michael, those temperatures were 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. If you do the math, that means it was probably twice as destructive as it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming."
In addition, each half degree Celsius adds 4 percent more moisture to the atmosphere, which increases the potential for torrential rains, like those that occurred during Hurricane Florence.
Related: Why the military isn't tracking climate change costs
The recent International Governmental Panel on Climate Change report has added to the global concern about humanity's ability to mitigate the worst effects of a warming planet.
"I'm certainly frightened of the possibility that we will not act in time," Mann says. "I hold out cautious optimism that we will. And let me be specific: Do I hold out much optimism for stabilizing warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius? No, I don't at this point. Do I still see stabilizing warming below 2 degrees Celsius as possible? I do, but we need to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions — not 10 years from now — now."
"It isn't a cliff that we go off of at 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius," he explains. "It's much more like a minefield that we walk out onto and the further out onto that minefield, the more likely it is that we set off these devastating detonations. And that is why we have to limit the warming as much as we possibly can."
This article is based on an interview that aired on PRI's Living on Earth with Steve Curwood.
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ESL Pro League Season 16 Opening Day – Predictions and Analysis
by Luke Warr
1 Natus Vincere vs Team Spirit
2 Team Vitality vs Endpoint
3 Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Fnatic
The start of one of the most important tournaments in the CS:GO scene is just days away. Following the qualifiers, the main event of the ESL Pro League Season 16 will start on August 31 and run until October 2, featuring 24 teams. The organization's match schedule will progress group by group, with Group A matches taking place first. Featuring teams such as Natus Vincere, Vitality and Ninjas in Pyjamas, the opening day games are as follows.
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Natus Vincere vs Team Spirit
Predictions:Natus Vincere to win
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When: August 31, 2022 – 12:30 CEST
There's no end in sight for Natus Vincere's CS:GO action as they race from tournament to tournament. Currently competing in BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022, the Ukrainian representative will take the stage in the opening match of ESL Pro League 16.
Due to the back-to-back matches and tournaments, Na'Vi's superstar s1mple has decided to sit out the last 2 tournaments his team has participated in. It is not yet clear if the player will take part in the first weeks of ESL Pro League 16. Nevertheless, Natus Vincere managed to perform at a very high level with the stand-in players.
Team Spirit played their last official match a month ago at IEM Cologne 2022, where they finished 12th. Although they have a strong core, the fact that the players have not played in a serious tournament for a month will be a big disadvantage.
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Team Vitality vs Endpoint
Predictions: Vitality to win
CS:GO Odds: 1.12
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Vitality, who made a lot of hype with their transfers at the beginning of the season and made big changes within the team, are finally starting to find their rhythm. In the last tournaments they participated in, they started to reach the levels expected of them and the harmony within the team seemed to increase. Spinx, the latest addition to the team, has also created a great rapport.
Endpoint have been struggling for a while with the roster they have built. Finally, they strengthened their team with Kjaerbye, one of the most prominent names of the past. The organization last appeared at the IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe Open Qualifiers but failed. It is quite possible that they will lose to Vitality in the opening match of ESL.
Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Fnatic
CS:GO Predictions: Ninjas in Pyjamas to win
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One of the most anticipated and expected to be close matches on the opening day. Ninjas in Pyjamas, with a young roster, have been one of the strongest teams on the scene and are ranked 9th in the World Rankings. Brollan's 1.10 rating over the last 3 months stands out, but the rest of the roster has also played their part.
On the Fnatic side, things have gone well recently. After qualifying for the Major's next stage, the European giant went on a five-game win streak to qualify. Form-wise, Fnatic seemed to be one step ahead, but their wins were not against S-Tier teams. NiP have played a lot of top tier matches in the 2022 season and will take advantage of that.
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Spanish Respondents' Choice of Language: Bilingual or English?
Norm Trussell,
Trussell, Norm. 2010. "Spanish Respondents' Choice of Language: Bilingual or English?" Survey Practice 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.29115/SP-2010-0003.
Table 1 Preferred Materials by Language Use among Hispanic Respondents.
Nielsen has used self-reports recorded in a paper diary for television audience measurement since the 1950s. Nielsen sends bilingual Spanish and English materials to TV Ratings Diary service households that had any indication of Spanish usage in the household. This has long been assumed to be the best practice, as anyone in the household can use the materials whether they prefer to read English or Spanish. However, the bilingual materials may be perceived as more complex by survey respondents, but there was no empirical data to support that position. As viewing choices have increased and television technology has evolved, respondents increasingly have difficulty accurately and completely recording all viewing information in a paper-based diary.
In response, Nielsen recently developed a "mailable meter", a smaller self-installed television meter that captures tuning data. With this system the respondents complete a very simple viewing log in lieu of the more complicated viewing diary. Nielsen has been conducting an ongoing series of methodological tests to determine the viability of this concept. As part of the research and development of this new system, in July 2008 Nielsen conducted a field test with more than 400 households in a heavily Hispanic market. In order to maximize the benefit of a more technological solution, one must still examine the burden placed on respondents in following instructions to complete the survey. Since this study focused on how Hispanic households would react to this new methodology, respondents were given the option of what type of materials (English only or bilingual) they would prefer to receive. Therefore, respondents in that study who spoke Spanish during recruitment calling, or answered a question that indicated that they or someone in their home was a Spanish speaker, were asked an additional question about their preference for the language of the log and survey instructional materials. Respondents were advised that their entire household would be expected to participate in the study and had agreed to this prior to being asked about their preference for materials.
Increasingly in the survey industry, the concept of acculturation is coming to the forefront as an important consideration in survey design and methodology. Webster defines acculturation as "cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture". Padilla and Perez (2003) argued that social cognition, cultural competence, social identity, social dominance, and social stigma all play a role in the rate and degree of acculturation that an individual or group would experience. The process of acculturation is complex and not well appreciated by many researchers. However, when viewed from a survey participation perspective, the level of acculturation of the rapidly growing Hispanic respondent population is a critically important factor in how a person perceives information and thus how they react to survey materials. Though perhaps somewhat of an oversimplification, two of the most commonly used measures of acculturation are the language used at home and how well the respondent speaks English. Depending on the level of acculturation of a given respondent, there may be a positive or negative effect of providing English only, bilingual or Spanish only survey materials. Thus the language treatment given to a Hispanic target group must be an important consideration in survey planning.
A random digit dial (RDD) sample of 9,586 phone numbers was selected in the El Paso, Texas market. The Nielsen Call Center recruited 459 households that agreed to install meters and complete logs of their household's viewing for one week. Of these 459 households, 431 were mailed survey packets. Of those 431 households, 280 respondents indicated that they or someone in their home speaks Spanish. Two hundred and thirty-seven of these 280 respondents were Hispanic and were asked a follow-up question on the level of Spanish use in their household (only Spanish, mostly Spanish, Spanish and English equally, mostly English or only English at home). These 280 respondents were asked their preference for language of viewing log and instructional materials, and mailing of materials was based on that response. In addition, a post survey follow-up questionnaire was mailed to all households that received meter packets to gather information about their survey experiences.
Surprisingly the results showed that nearly three out of four respondents (73%, 203 of 280) to this preference question requested English only materials. There was a predictably strong connection between the amount of Spanish use in the home and a request for bilingual materials. As shown in Table 1, more than 90% of respondents who spoke only Spanish asked for Spanish materials and 56% of those that spoke mostly Spanish asked for bilingual materials. Conversely, only 4% (6 of 134) of households that spoke an equal amount of Spanish and English, mostly English or only English requested bilingual materials. There were 43 non-Hispanic respondents that were asked their preference of materials, as we learned on the phone that there was at least some Spanish spoken in their home. Only two of these respondents requested bilingual materials.
Preferred Materials
English only (n=162) 3 31 4 116 8
Spanish-English bilingual (n=74)* 28 40 2 4 0
Total (n=236)* 31 71 6 120 8
*1 Respondent refused to answer the spanish use question
Age did not appear to have much influence on the respondents' choice of materials, as 64% of those with a householder under the age of 35 selected English only materials, whereas 68% of those with a householder age 35 to 49 and 71% of those with a householder over the age of 50 did so. This was despite the fact that 51% of those with a householder under the age of 35 stated that they spoke only or mostly Spanish at home and only 38% of those with a householder over the age of 35 did so.
The broad implication of this research may indicate a need to examine the methodologies one employs when sending survey materials to bilingual populations.
To maximize the usability of the survey instruments when sending survey materials to bilingual populations don't assume all bilinguals should receive bilingual materials or that all Spanish-speaking people should receive Spanish materials.
Providing a choice of language of materials for the bilingual survey respondent is an important consideration that may improve response rates and data quality.
In considering what special treatments one might need to give unacculturated Hispanics, consider the importance of language used to this group.
Some interesting insights were gained through the post survey follow-up questionnaire regarding their experiences with the materials. Among English only materials households only 4% reported that instructions were difficult and less than 7% would have preferred to have received bilingual materials. Among bilingual materials households: 66% reported looking at Spanish instructions more, while 17% looked at both languages equally and 17 % looked at English more. Also, 31% of bilingual materials households reported never looking at English instructions, and only 2% reported never looking at bilingual instructions. Only 2% of bilingual materials households reported that the instructions were difficult.
"Acculturation." 2009. In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acculturation.
Padilla, A.M., and W. Perez. 2003. "Acculturation, Social Identity, and Social Cognition: A New Perspective." Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences February 25 (1): 35–55.


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Call Rep. Joseph Wagner, Chair of the Joint Transportation Committee, and tell him we can't afford the highest in the nation gas tax.
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Birkir  is an Icelandic male given name. Notable people with this name include:

 Birkir Bjarnason (born 1988), Icelandic football player
 Birkir Hólm Guðnason (born 1974)
 Birkir Jón Jónsson (born 1979), Icelandic politician
 Birkir Kristinsson (born 1964), Icelandic football player
 Birkir Már Sævarsson (born 1984), Icelandic football player
 Birkir Valur Jónsson (born 1998), Icelandic football player
 Birkir Ívar Guðmundsson, Icelandic handball player

Icelandic masculine given names

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Q: Select a random data from a text file and put it in a specific locations in an Excel spreadsheet I have a question: how can I select one single random piece of data from a file and put it inside of a .csv file? I know you need to set up the path to locate the file in your computer but I would like to know when to use the random() method or another method to use random since in C#, random is mostly for integers and doubles.
For example: I have this list of names inside of a text file:
Kenneth
Samuel
Samantha
Catherine
Danielle
Jonathan
Ellen
Valentin
Christopher
Edward

Now, I would like to put one of these names inside a .CSV file, in a specific location. Here is what I've tried so far:
namespace ConsoleApp
{
    class Program
    {

        public static List<RecordStructure> CSVRecords = new List<RecordStructure>();

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Data Mask Process");
            Console.WriteLine("**************************");

            CSVRecords.AddRange(ReadCSVFile());

            // some things I wrote for a work :)
            string contentF_names = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\\path");
            string contentM_names = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\\path");
            string contentNames = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\\path");
            string contentPlaces = File.ReadAllText(@"C\\path");

            // For the random part
            Random r = new Random();

            var line = contentF_names[r.Next(contentF_names.Length)];

            // Printing and ending

            Console.WriteLine(CSVRecords[1].firstname);
            Console.WriteLine(CSVRecords[1].lastname);
            Console.WriteLine(CSVRecords[1].city);

            Console.WriteLine("**************************");
            Console.WriteLine("End of Process.");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

        public static List<RecordStructure> ReadCSVFile()
        {
            List<RecordStructure> RecordList = new List<RecordStructure>();

            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead(@"path"));

            while (!reader.EndOfStream)
            {
                string line = reader.ReadLine();

                if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
                {
                    string[] values = line.Split(',');

                    RecordList.Add(new RecordStructure
                                       {
                                           firstname = values[0],
                                           lastname = values[1],
                                           company_name = values[2],
                                           city = values[3]
                                       });
            }
        }

        return RecordList;
    }
}

class RecordStructure
{
    public string firstname { get; set; }
    public string lastname { get; set; }
    public string company_name { get; set; }
    public string address { get; set; }
    public string city { get; set; }
    public string country { get; set; }
    public string state { get; set; }
    public string zip { get; set; }
    public string phone1 { get; set; }
    public string phone2 { get; set; }
    public string email { get; set; }
    public string web { get; set; }
}

A: Since you're working on CVS files, you can convert the result to Array or List, then use its index with the Random to get a random index.
Example :
var contentF_names = "Kenneth,Samuel,Samantha,Catherine,Danielle,Jonathan,Ellen,Valentin,Christopher,Edward";

// ToList
var contentF_namesArray = contentF_names.Split(',').ToList();

//For the random part

Random r = new Random();

// Get Random index between 0 and the total number of elements in the list
var randomIndex = r.Next(0, contentF_namesArray.Count);

// Use the random index to get an element from the list.
var randomFirstName = contentF_namesArray[randomIndex];

the randomFirstName will hold the random name, and each time you run . You could use a loop to get x number of random names.
Example :
/*
    Get Five Random Names
*/

for (int x =0; x <= 5; x++)
{
    // Get Random index between 0 and the total number of elements in the list
    var randomIndex = r.Next(0, contentF_namesArray.Count);

    // Use the random index to get an element from the list.
    var randomFirstName = contentF_namesArray[randomIndex];

    Console.WriteLine(randomFirstName);
}

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Posted by Dylan Routledge | Aug 3, 2015 | The Weekly Challenge | 0 |
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I'll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person's repertoire to help in the examination of their work. Kurt Busiek is this week's writer as we take a look at the work he's done with the biggest heroes within the DCU.
Kurt Busiek has had a storied career, having defining runs on books like Avengers, Astro City, Marvels, and so many more that it'd justify a single article to itself just to talk about them all. Back in 2008, Busiek was tasked with the monumental task of crafting a year long weekly series, Trinity, starring Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman for DC Comics. The series was a rousing success and adapted a unique style of storytelling, splitting the book into two halves, replying heavily on the back-up story to help push the narrative for the series.
Trinity Volume 1
Trinity follows Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman as they deal with an arcane threat against the DC Universe. The three heroes all gather in Keystone City to touch base with each other following a peculiar dream that they all shared. When several strange things begin to occur across the planet Earth, the sense of connectivity between the three heroes only grows stronger as they try to root out the cause of this most recent disturbance. Their search sends them to seemingly every corner of the Earth as they discover a mystical attack is being launched against them. But how does a tarot card reader, Despero, Hawkman and several other random characters factor into these unknown plans against the Trinity?
Trinity Volume 1 collects the first seventeen issues of the weekly series from 2008 that stars DC's holy trinity of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. The story is told in a unique format for modern comics as each issue is divided into two separate parts, a twelve page story that follows the exploits of the Trinity followed by a ten page story that checks in with other parts of the DC Universe. Kurt Busiek crafts a large scale story that stretches out across the entire tapestry of the DC Universe, drawing in characters from street level vigilantism, to cosmic scale superheroes and even the magically inclined.
The dynamic shared between the Trinity is the highlight of the entire story.
When talking about Trinity overall I feel as though it is easiest to talk about the bad before you get to the good, simply because the bad is a glaring part of the book stretches from the start to finish. Although it adapts a unique style of storytelling for comics, relying heavily on using "back up stories" (something that many modern comics lack), the narrative struggles to get off the ground every issue due to having a limited number of pages to tell a story. With the first twelve pages of every issue being about the Trinity, you're bound to get excited because that's where the meat of the story lies. The unfortunate truth though, is by the time you get to that twelfth page and start to feel invested, you're cutoff and transitioned into the ten page back up story in the back half of every issue. The balancing act isn't kind as the back-up stories don't actually get interesting until about half way through the book. It's a true disadvantage to use the last ten pages of the book to talk about characters within the DC Universe that you can't really invest in.
Now when you examine the two different sets of story per issue on their own, they actually hold up much better. One can only wonder why DC didn't just combine much of the Trinity into a much more seamless story and only cutaway to the back up stories when necessary for this collected format. The main Trinity story functions well enough on it's own, keeping you informed plenty well enough along the way. Busiek does a fine job of investing us into the story of the bond between Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman over the seventeen issues we spend with them. The further you get into the tale, the more tightly bound they become due to the arcane nature of the attacks against them. You get to watch their personalities dissolve and actually switch amongst each other as Superman begins to take on characteristics of both Wonder Woman and Batman, and so on. It's fun to see these personality shifts as it shakes up the conventional knowledge you have of these characters as you try to decipher which personality traits someone like Batman is taking on from other characters.
Mystic shielding…it just ain't what it used to be.
The back-up stories can easily be broken down into three separate stories, with two of them actually connecting together more tightly than the third of the bunch does. You follow Tarot for the first half of the book, the exploits of characters like Nightwing, Robin and Oracle in the second half, while in the last story you follow Hawkman, Gangbuster and the collective DC Universe. The Tarot and Hawkman stories actually serve as parts one and two to each other when you look at them closely while the vigilante section largely functions in its own playground and finds its own way to connect to the remainder of the story. The Tarot story is the weakest of the three as you're introduced to a character that you can hardly feel an emotional connection to. When you get to the adventures of Nightwing and company you can't help but pay attention due to the characters' dynamic natures and general history in relation to the rest of the DC Universe. It's like an immediate shot into the arm by Busiek who makes these characters fun to following along with.
Speaking of characters, the cast for this book is HUGE. Busiek seemingly uses every single heroic character from DC's history in this volume. Not all of them have speaking lines but they are certainly there. Although your core cast consists of the Trinity, other characters like Hawkman, Tarot, Green Lantern, and Gangbuster have fairly significant roles to be played. Even beyond these characters, the Justice League from this time period factored in fairly regularly into the story, serving as solid back up for the group of heroes. In terms of villains, your primary three who are lashing out against the Trinity, Morgan Le Fey, Enigma, and Despero, are all uniquely motivated in their goals and have a few shocking secrets that only make reading this volume more interesting.
When Batman calls, you come running.
Collects: Trinity #1-17.
Best Character: Enigma.
Best Line Of Dialogue/Caption: "Maybe it doesn't like concrete?" – Robin.
Best Scene/Moment: Earth 3 invasion – Issue 12.
Best Issue: Issue 16. Issue 16 is the winner because it largely concludes the first act of this massive, 52 issue story. You watch as the Trinity finally comes to blows with their mysterious foes and tries to thwart their plan that would unhinge the entire DC Universe. It's thickly plotted, action packed and tons of fun to watch unfold.
Why You Should Read It: Kurt Busiek plays with some different concepts and tries to take modern storytelling in a new direction with Trinity. The result isn't always award winning but ultimately you're left with a story you can't help but invest yourself into because of how massive in scope it really is. You're exposed to so many different areas of the DC Universe that it's hard to walk away without feeling attached to one character and what happens to them.
Kurt Busiek teamed up with Alex Ross to bring a whole new perspective to the comic world through Marvels. Everyone has seen the many historic moments that have occurred throughout Marvel's history through the eyes of the superheroes who have experienced these events. But how often do you see one of these major, game changing moments through the eyes of a civilian? That's exactly what Busiek did with Marvels, changing the comic landscape with a story from a civilian perspective unlike any other story done in comics up to that point. The story was only enhanced by the enamored artwork done by Alex Ross during this critically acclaimed miniseries.
Set in the early years of the Mavel Universe, Marvels follows photographer Phil Sheldon over forty years of his life. The age of superheroes kicks into high gear as Sheldon begins to try and make headway in his career as a photographer. All around him, the world reacts and revolts to these new "Marvels", something modern mankind has never seen or even heard of before. From beautiful moments of saving citizens to natural disasters, the Marvels bring just as much woe as they do joy to the world. Through Sheldon's lens he captures how the general population reacts to the highs and lows of having a superhero driven world, using the images he gets to create a best selling book. But at what point does Sheldon have to stop before he sacrifices his family for his career?
Marvels does a magnificent job of humanizing superheroes whilst still placing them on a pedestal. This is a raw and authentic story from Kurt Busiek who taps into something that hadn't really been done to this degree before in comics at the time of its release. Using the point of view of Phil Sheldon, a regular human, isn't anything woefully unique but it's Busiek's approach to the character, and as such the characters approach to superheroes, that sets this story out as an instant classic. Marvels is a winner through and through. Obviously the story is more enjoyable if you're a fan of the Marvel Universe but even on it's own, ignoring all the history associated with Marvel, the story stands up on its own two feet beautifully. The history of this world and characters is important to the story and is largely the reason it all works in such a magnificent fashion but that doesn't mean you need to be a Marvel historian to get what Kurt Busiek is laying the foundation for.
In my mind, the main point of this story is to show that these "Marvels", these incredible things and people, can still have human qualities and be easy to relate to. It's likely part of the reason that the story opens with a tale about the first Human Torch. A normal man who is driven by scientific curiosity turns his son into the Human Torch. He is lush with excitement over this amazing development only to be rejected for creating something unnatural. The story becomes told through the Human Torch's point of view and you're consumed by this saddening anxiety from this man who was changed and rejected. The effect is similar to something like Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein, with man rejecting what they believe to be a beast. Furthermore, you see more of this theme in every part of the story. Whether it is the prejudice towards the mutants, the horror of a hero like The Thing, or the tantalizing sorrow that creeps in surrounding Spider-Man's greatest defeat, all these real emotions creep into these fictional characters.
In telling the story through someone like Phil Sheldon, Busiek taps into the sense of humanity necessary to pull off a story like Marvels. You watch a young and hopeful Phil grow into a bitter old man, hardened by a life that has left him fickle. Through the story you ride the waves of the time period, watching as Phil, a man who wouldn't harm a fly, gets caught up in things like mob mentality and actually tries to harm mutants even though it is outside of his usual characteristics. Then, a few scenes later, Phil is forced to help hide a young girl who is a mutant, taking upon his duty as a father to set a good example for his daughters who have actually been harboring the mutant. It's all believably human for Phil to be conflicted at several sharp turns in the story where he has the option to go left or right and chooses to go with the flowing of how things are unfolding instead of just reacting repeatedly. The wonder of what's happening around him is never lost, as there are so many pages where Phil is left in awe that you'll lose count of them all by the end.
To give a character like Phil a job as a photographer is simply brilliant as it makes him the reader's eyes to the entire story. We see these beautiful images through his lens and his perspective, getting swept up in the sheer beauty of everything that unfolds. How Busiek manages to inject so much humanity into one character is astounding as he manages to actually project Sheldon's emotions on to you as a reader. The perfect example of this is a scene late in the book where Sheldon captures a fateful fight unfolding between Spider-Man and The Green Goblin for Gwen Stacey's life. The fight isn't what's important about the scene. What makes this scene important is how closely it places a hero under the microscope of a normal man. We all know how that scene ends but Busiek does something incredible with the way he writes the scene, distilling a sense of hopefulness into Sheldon to convince the reader that Spider-Man might actually save the day, only to snatch it away in gut wrenching fashion. Everyone knows the story of Spider-Man and how Gwen Stacey dies but watching it play out through the eyes of a bystander who is heavily invested in the situation shines a whole new light on the scene. That is largely what you can expect from Marvels, as this new perspective will change the way you'll look at plenty of classic Marvel stories. Marvels isn't a story about superheroes, it's a story about superheroes as seen through the eyes of regular people.
Collects: Marvels #0-4.
Best Character: Phil Sheldon.
Best Line Of Dialogue/Caption: "But there was something in her–in its eyes–and I couldn't help thinking of the liberation of Auschwitz–and the look in her eyes–" – Phil Sheldon.
Best Scene/Moment: Gwen Stacey's euphoria in the midst of chaos – Issue 4.
Best Issue: Issue 4. It feels a little unfair to just pick one issue that stands out from the pack for this one since the story works best in a flowing motion where you read one issue after another. With that said, it's still an absolute pleasure to break up your reading and watch how much things change from issue to issue. To me, issue 4 perfectly captures the central themes and moods that Busiek was striving to accomplish and it serves as an excellent final chapter to the entire story. All that plus it features that scene with Spider-Man, Green Goblin, and Gwen Stacey that I gushed about above.
Why You Should Read It: Busiek does something marvelous here as he makes a great superhero story that isn't about the superheroes so much as it is about how they effect the lives of regular people like you or I. For a work of fiction this feels incredibly humanizing. Every page feels real, dragging you further into the life and times of Phil Sheldon. To a further point, this book takes some of the biggest classic moments from Marvel Comics' history and enhances them to a point where they might be better portrayed here than they were decades ago when they first occurred. All this AND the artwork is breathtakingly done by Alex Ross. How can you say no?
Tags: Alex Ross, Art Thibert, Fabian Nicieza, Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley
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Michigan House Candidate Jennifer Suidan Accused Of Embezzling $100,000 From Elected Official's Campaign Account
A Michigan House candidate is accused of embezzling more than $100,000 from another politician's campaign funds.
Jennifer Suidan allegedly embezzled more than $100,000 from Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner's campaign account.
Meisner made the allegations at a news conference from the Goodman Acker law firm. Suidan worked at the law firm. The firm fired her immediately after learning of the alleged embezzlement. She worked as a nonlawyer managing the campaign funds at the law firm for Meisner and other Democrats.
The prominent suburban Detroit law firm handles primarily personal injury claims. The firm also handles funds for a number of prominent Democrats.
Michigan Democratic Party officials immediately called for the Michigan House candidate to drop out of her House race.
Michigan House Candidate Jennifer Suidan Stole From Prominent Michigan Democrat
Andy Meisner told reporters that he became aware of irregularities over the weekend:
I became aware of significant irregularities in the record keeping of my campaign committee. It now appears that the committee's designated record keeper, Jennifer Suidan, misappropriated money from my campaign. When I learned of this, I immediately notified the authorities.
Suidan was also Meisner's campaign manager in the 2012 and 2016 elections.
Meisner said he'd reported the discovery of missing money to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the Oakland County Clerk and state Bureau of Elections. The prosecutor's office on Monday said the sheriff's office is investigating.
Meisner's move to share his decision with media and law enforcement will kill the candidacy of the Michigan House candidate. The 39th District was a key battleground for control of the Michigan House of Representatives. The Michigan Democratic Party had hoped to retake the seat they lost in 2012.
It now appears Republican nominee Ryan Berman of Commerce Township is now a shoo-in to win the seat in November.
Suidan Betrayed A Lot Of Her Friends In Politics
Suidan was Meisner's campaign manager in his 2012 and 2016 campaigns for County Treasurer. The crime occurred while Suidan worked as Meisner's campaign-fund treasurer, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.
Meisner had no comment Tuesday after the indictment, other than to refer to the statement he gave at the time of Suidan's arrest. At that time, Meisner said that a detailed audit of his campaign fund showed that she had "betrayed my trust."
Suidan embezzled funds while working at the Goodman Acker law firm. At that time, he and other prominent Democrats withdrew their endorsements of Suidan's run for the 39th House District. Suidan did not return multiple voicemail, email and Facebook messages left by the Free Press in September and October.
The court ordered Suidan to repay Meisner's fund $90,304. In addition, she also has to repay Goodman Acker $51,000. She must also get a job and receive mental-health treatment. Her sentence includes credit for one day of jail served upon her arrest. The judge declined a prosecutor's request that Suidan be fitted with an electronic tether in lieu of serving more jail time.
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I was shown this trailer today by the only other person I know who loves George as much as me, my dear friend Maggie.
. . . and then I almost wet my pants.
It will air on HBO on Oct. 5th and 6th in a two part documentary.
I'm not sure if I can wait that long.
I might just search high and low online for a bootleg version.
I reallllyyy fell in love with Georgie after reading Pattie Boyd's autobiography a few years back.
Me and Mags both agreed that seeing that trailer made us want to re-read that book.
If you haven't read it, then put down The Help, and start reading it right this instant!
. . . if only PA school allowed time for leisure reading.


Summer is here and school's out…Let's go explore and take advantage of the many local adventures that the San Francisco Bay Area has to offer. If you're looking for some family fun activities to do close to home, here is our "Bay Area Bucket List" with some ideas before the season ends that will allow you to create great memories with friends and family.
Please check back regularly since we will be updating it frequently… so if you have ideas to share please comment below, we would love to heard them!
We can't wait to check more items off this list!
Eat sourdough bread at the Boudin Sourdough Factory and Museum.
Have clam chowder on the wharf.
Eat an ice cream sundae at Ghirardelli Square.
Play games at the Musée Mécanique museum.
Eat Cioppino (seafood soup which is uniquely San Franciscan) at Cioppino's.
Find animation, innovation and inspiration at The Walt Disney Family Museum.
Play at the Julius Kahn Playground while enjoying the beautiful views.
Eat, Drink & Play…Off the Grid: Picnic at the Presidio on Sundays.
Run the Lyon Street Steps and enjoy the views.
Build a sand castle at Baker Beach and take panoramic pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands and Lands End.
Walk the "Lover's Lane" trail and the Wood Line.
Check out the Pet Cemetery, a treasured spot in the Presidio.
Find Inspiration at Inspiration Point.
Explore the abandoned batteries of Fort Winfield Scott.
Legion of Honor fine arts museum in Lincoln Park.
Explore the ruins of the Sutro Baths.
Hike the Land's End Trail, from the Cliff House to the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Dine with a View at the Cliff House one of the oldest and most iconic buildings in San Francisco.
Visit the massive brick walls of Fort Point U.S. Army's.
Walk and/or Fly a kite along the water from Marina Green.
Listen to the ocean at The Wave Organ.
Visit the Palace of the Fine Arts, the last remaining structure from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Visit Fort Mason Center, a converted military base.
Climb up to Pacific Heights for some of the city's best views.
Ice skate on the Union Square Ice Rink during Christmas time.
Visit Grace Cathedral and have a yoga class on the labyrinth.
Check out the Cable Car Museum (free).
Visit the 22-Foot Tall Gingerbread House at the Fairmont Hotel during Christmas.
Eat at the TOP OF THE MARK and enjoy a breathtaking 360 degree view of the San Francisco skyline.
Walk Up/Down Lombard Street, the "Crookedest Street in the World".
Hanging off a cable car.
Try every sample offered at the Ferry Building.
Visit the Saturday morning Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market.
Catch a Ferry and take a tour to mysterious Alcatraz Island.
Visit the Exploratorium a 21st century learning laboratory.
Walk around the expansive lobby of the Hyatt Regency.
Visit the Fortune Cookie Factory in Chinatown.
Climb the stairs to the top of Telegraph Hill and visit the top of the nozzle-shaped monument "Coit Tower". Check out the beautiful murals at Coit Tower.
Trek up the stairs to Grand View Park and enjoy the breaktaking of views of the city & the sea. (Turtle Hill).
Hike the Moraga Steps – The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps.
Visit the San Francisco Zoo.
Visit the California Academy of Sciences and/or roll out your sleeping bag for Penguins + Pajamas at the Academy.
Cross the Drum Bridge at the Japanese Tea Garden.
Visit De Young Museum: The oldest museum in San Francisco.
Ride to the top of the Hamon Observation Tower at the De Young Museum. It's free!
Smell the roses at the Rose Garden.
Rent a rowboat on Stow Lake.
Check out the bison paddock.
Play and Ride the carousel at the Koret Children's Quarter Playground.
Bike along Golden Gate Park's John F Kennedy Drive on a Sunday when the street's closed to traffic.
Check out the Casting Pools & Angler's Lodge.
Visit the painted Ladies in Alamo Square and find the full house house.
Channel peace, hope, and love from the '60s at the corner of Haight and Ashbury.
Take a walking tour to learn about the Balmy Alley Murals in the Mission – the most concentrated collection of murals in the city.
Near the Mission Find a favorite taquería in the Mission; eat lots of tacos and burritos.
Sit in top of Bernal Heights Park and enjoy a breathtaking 360-degree panorama and clear views of San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, downtown, San Bruno Mountain, and the hills of the East Bay.
Enjoy a picnic at Dolores Park (It's between the Mission and Castro neighborhoods).
Drive down Vermont Street, the actual curviest street in San Francisco.
Drive to the top of Twin Peaks.
Visit Billy Goat Hill Park. It is a rope swing on the big tree near the top of the hill.
Slide down the Seward Street slides.
Visit Tom and Jerry Christmas House during the Holidays.
Step inside City Hall and stand under the dome, which is the tallest in the United States, 42 inches higher than the one in the nation's capital in D.C.
Check out the "Bliss Dance" (dancing lady statue) a forty-foot tall sculpture by local artist Marco Cochrane and enjoy the Amazing views of the city.
Create a work of art at the SFMOMA.
Visit the Yerba Buena Gardens an oasis in the heart of the city.
Read inspiring words from Martin Luther King Jr. behind the cascading fountain at Yerba Buena Gardens.
Zip down the 25-foot tube slide at the Yerba Buena Gardens Play Circle.
Go to a Giants game at AT&T Park or Take a behind the scenes AT&T Park Tour.
Celebrate cartoonists and visit the Cartoon Art Museum.
Walk the Golden Gate Bridge.
Hike the Muir Woods National Monument.
Visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum a 7.5 acres of natural beauty framed by the majestic backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Take another view of the Golden Gate bridge from Battery Spencer at Fort Baker.
Visit Point Bonita Lighthouse in the Marin Headlands.
Go to the Italian Street Painting Marin in San Rafael.
Take the ferry from Sausalito/Larkspur to San Francisco.
Visit The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
Hike in the Marin Headlands.
Day trip out to Stinson Beach.
Visit the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito.
Visit Angel Island State Park.
Visit Point Reyes and the lighthouse.
Visit the stunning Cypress tree tunnel In Point Reyes National Seashore. At the end of the tunnel is the historic RCA/Marconi station, a wireless telegraph station where operators tap out Morse Code messages from ship to shore in the early 2oth century.
Enjoy the Inkwells swimming holes – small, deep pools lie beside Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Lagunitas, Marin.
Visit Paradise Beach Park – A 19 acre regional park is located along the east shore of the Tiburon Peninsula.
Hike the Alamere Falls – A waterfall in Point Reyes National Seashore.
Hike the Cataract Falls in Fairfax.
Eat at Bouchon Bistro and/or have a delicious pastry at Bouchon Bakery in Yountville.
Tour the French Laundry's Garden.
Ride a tram to the top of Sterling Vineyards in Napa Valley and enjoy the 360-degree views.
Tour an authentic 13th century Tuscan castle-winery at Castello di Amorosa.
Catch the Napa Valley Wine Train.
Board the Napa Santa Express Train this Holiday Season.
All Aboard at Train Town!
Visit Old Faithful Geyser, one of three Old Faithful Geysers in the world.
Ride a Zipline in the Redwoods at Canopy Tours.
Visit Coppola's vineyard in Geyserville. Take a tour, sit by the pool, or visit the vineyard with the kids to pick up eggs during Easter time.
Kayak or canoe on the Russian River.
Take a hot air balloon ride over wine country or go to the Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic.
Take a hike in the beautiful wine Country.
Explore the Sonoma-Marin Cheese Trail.
Visit Mrs. Grossman's Sticker Factory. The oldest and largest sticker company in the United States and check how thousands of stickers are made.
Visit Spring Lake in Santa Rosa with the Family.
Experience the Joy of Peanuts Visiting the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Ice Rink Complex in Santa Rosa.
Experience "The Spirit of Africa" and see animals in their natural habitat at Safari West.
Ride wild roller coasters and visit the animals at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
Spend some time at small, out of the way vineyards in and around Napa and Sonoma.
Relax in a mineral water pool at Indian Springs in Calistoga.
Experience the Flavors of Oxbow Public Market in Napa.
Tour or take a one hour cooking class or a full-day learning experience at the Culinary Institute of America.
Hike Armstrong Woods State Reserve.
Take a tour of the Petrified Forest (Petrified by volcanic activity).
Tour California's Last Mission (Mission Solano) and Spend an afternoon in Sonoma Square.
Visit the cottage where author Jack London's wrote many of his novels and stories and explore the Jack London State Historic Park.
Enjoy the Food and Wine Walking Tour in Healdsburg.
Go Pumpkin Picking in a local Farm/ Decorate them.
Visit the California Mission Museum at the Cline Cellars in Sonoma (specially for 4th graders).
Walk the the nine-acre gardens of Cornerstone Sonoma.
Take a self-guided tour at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
Visit Winchester Mystery House in San Jose.
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.
See the campus of UC Berkeley.
Fly a Kite at the annually Berkeley Kite Festival.
Visit Children's Fairyland in Oakland. Children's Fairyland opened in 1950 and was America's first storybook theme park.
Experience Wonders of the Universe at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.
Go to the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo.
Do a Fun Geeky Tour in the Silicon Valley (Steve Jobs' garage, "HP Garage", home of Google, Facebook).
Visit the Home of Google!
Try Garlic-Flavored Ice Cream at Gilroy.
Take a Drive down the Pacific Coast Highway (US Highway 1).
See the elephant seals in Año Nuevo State Reserve.
Santa Cruz – Combine a mile-long beach with cool rides and games.
Hike in Big Basin State Park.
Visit the Mystery Spot where gravity defy nature.
Walk around Point Lobos State Reserve.
Visit Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park & Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park – Park offers a hike to a waterfall, a redwood grove & coastal views.
Experience The Big Sur – Check the Bixby Bridge.
Explore Hearst Castle a magnificent Mediterranean-style country house.
San Luis Obispo — Stay at the Madonna Inn, see the mission and the sand dunes, and explore downtown on foot.
Visit Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove one of our most beloved attractions from late October through February. Thousands of colorful Monarch butterflies cluster in the limbs of Eucalyptus and Monterey Pines in the area, giving the appearance of yellow and orange leaves.
Enjoy Lake Tahoe during Summer and Winter.
Take a history lesson at Fort Ross, an impressive historic Russian fortress that was once a bustling base for Pacific trade.
Visit California State Capitol in Sacramento.
Tour the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield.
Take a FAIRFIELD Budweiser BREWERY TOUR. One of America's oldest brewers.
Visit Bridgeport Covered Bridge on the Yuba River one of only a dozen covered bridges in California.
Visit the gold rush towns of Coloma, Grass Valley, and Nevada City.
Yosemite Valley. — See El Capitan and Half Dome.
Humboldt County — See Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
Sequoia National Park — General Sherman Tree, Crystal Cave, and Grant Grove.
Bumpass Hell, Lassen Volcanic National Park.
Sundial Bridge, Sundial Bridge Drive, Redding, CA.
lol, now where do I start?
I found your blog by accident. My fiancé & I are trying to plan our honeymoon. In the midst of wedding planning, trying to learn all I can about San Francisco has been overwhelming. Thank you for your posts and links. I can tell I will be a frequent visitor.
Thank you for your comment. San Francisco is a beautiful city with a lot of places to visit and things to do. I'm sure you will have a wonderful honeymoon.
Make sure you dress in layers. San Francisco weather can change a lot from day to day and you will also find temperature variances from neighborhood to neighborhood.


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Biographical sketch: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born November 30, 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Sarah and Jackson Parks. He was an American photographer, musician, composer, author, poet, and film director. Parks is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine, his autobiographical novel and film The Learning Tree and as director of the film Shaft. Parks died March 7, 2006 and is buried in his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas.


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Just over 500 activists and staff met at Warwick University for our 2010 AGM and National Conference on 9-11 April. We had an inspiring three days of debates, workshops and presentations. The AGM debated resolutions on prostitution, climate change, the papal visit to the UK later this year, Roma communities in Europe, Papua, strategic directions for Amnesty UK and many other issues.
Please note the 2011 National Conference & AGM takes place on the weekend of 6-8 May at Queen's University, Belfast.
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