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video: Northern California Renaissance Faire - Series 20-1
The Northern California Renaissance Faire is "must see" entertainment whenever I visit San Francisco and the Bay area during showtime.
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slideshow: Second Saturday Car Show in Downtown Marshall -- Apri 10, 2021
What fun! This is the first time I photographed the Second Saturday Show in over a year. There is an interesting collection of cars and everyone was happy to be out in downtown just like me.
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video: People's Park March -- 1969
In his foreword to People`s Park, Todd Gitlin explains that California`s governor, Ronald Reagan, ran his 1966 campaign on making welfare “bums” go back to work and cleaning up “the mess in Berkeley”. By the time he was running for re-election he had all but granted the national guard and law enforcement officers permission to shoot to kill: “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with, no more appeasement.”
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The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: when Vietnam came home
On 4 May 1970, the Ohio national guard shot at hundreds of students protesting against the invasion of Cambodia, wounding eight and killing four. Kent State was seared into the national consciousness. The US government had authorized the killing of its own (white) children.
But what many might not know is that a year earlier in Berkeley, California, police opened fire with buck and bird shot on a large crowd of young protesters seeking to keep open People’s Park, an impromptu community garden on land UC Berkeley wanted to use. Fifty people were hit.
James Rector, a 25-year-old visitor from San Jose, was killed. Alan Blanchard was blinded. Donovan Rundle was shot point blank in the stomach and almost bled to death. After two dozen surgeries, he would live with chronic pain for the next 50 years.
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video: Painted Ladies - Series 20-1
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The Future of Everything
Imagine an exchange that’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can buy and sell everything from stocks to cryptocurrency to art. Trades happen almost instantly, without the need for middlemen or gatekeepers. Profits can turn to losses in the wink of an eye.
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smith: Reparations for the nation’s history of slavery
By George Smith — 4/102021
Reparations for the nation’s history of slavery.
Yea or nay?
With a history of being editor and publisher of newspapers where racial disharmony was a constant stain on the communities I served, where cultures conflicted as a part of everyday life, and having a black son-in-law and biracial grandchildren, you can guess where I stand.
Or maybe not.
Attempting to erase the nation’s nefarious and horrid treatment of people of color — Black, Asian, Native American or “other” — by handing out wads of I’m-sorry! cash is not a plausible solution.
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CORONAVIRUS INFO PROVIDED BY DR. JIM HARRIS – 04/11/2021
04/11/2021
QUICK COVID REVIEW ARTICLE OF COURSE OF COVID AND TESTS
Now, virtually every US medical practice and health system must make all information in electronic health records—with a few exceptions—easily accessible to patients at no charge. The mandate, part of the 20th Century Cures Act enacted in 2016, originally was supposed to go into effect November 2, but the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the last minute extended the compliance deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic….
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