#San Francisco Peninsula

[claviculars]

San Francisco Fountain Landscape Image of a sizable Mediterranean backyard water feature landscape made of concrete pavers. #woodside, #chris jacobson, #san francisco peninsula, #environmental landscaping, #california home +design magazine

[funny-junks]

Wine Cellar San Francisco Example of a mid-sized classic travertine floor wine cellar design with storage racks

[conandaily2022]

Redwood City, California's Kevin Granados-Elizalde arrested; What did the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula employee do?

Kevin Granados-Elizalde, 25, of Redwood City, San Francisco Peninsula, San Mateo County, California, United States was an employee of the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula, a free summer camp program held at Fiesta Gardens International School in San Mateo, San Mateo County. The program is for students in grades between kindergarten and fifth grade. 

[keisukeabe]

San Francisco Kitchen a large, modern u-shaped dark wood floor kitchen pantry remodel with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, granite countertops, beige backsplash, subway tile backsplash, paneled appliances, and an island.

[itsalwaysdark]

the world if sims 4 had more lots per world

[haetae]

FRIENDLY REMINDER: @wrathofbom & I will be tabling at Peninsula Libraries Comic Arts Fest (PLCAF) Kickoff Day

Sat, Apr 6 10-4PM South SF Library& Parks & Recreation Center 901 Civic Campus Way, South San Francisco

[josiahcarr]

Foyer in San Francisco An illustration of a large arts and crafts-style entryway with a dark wood floor, gray walls, and a dark wood front door.

[sfcitytowingca]

Website : https://www.sfcitytowing.com/

Address : 95 3rd St 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103

Phone : +1 415-287-3020

We provide towing services for the San Francisco Bay Area and around the peninsula. Some of our services include flatbed towing, light duty towing, medium duty towing, roadside assistance, battery replacement, flat tires, locked vehicles, motorcycle towing, car lockout, battery jump start and more.

[herpsandbirds]

San Francisco Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia), defensive posture, family Colubridae, northern California, USA

ENDANGERED.

Photograph via: Peninsula Open Space Trust

[pleistocene-pride]

Glaucopsyche xerces, better known as the Xerces blue butterfly or simply xerces blue is a recently extinct species of butterfly in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae. The species was first described and documented in 1852, and was named after the French spelling of "Xerxes", the Greek name of the Persian kings Xerxes I and Xerxes II of the fifth century BC. Reaching around .7 to 1.18inches (18 to 30mm) in wingspan length, the xerces blue is a small, brightly colored butterfly characterized by iridescent blue on the upper wing surfaces of males, and pale spots below. It was endemic to the coastal sand dunes of the upper San Francisco Peninsula where the Xerces fed on vegetation belonging to the genus Lotus and Lupinus. The loss of the Lotus plant that the butterfly fed on while in its larval stages is believed to be the main reason for the extinction of the Xerces blue. As growing urban development resulted in extensive disturbance and loss of habitat of which the lotus plant couldn’t survive. Lupinus, the Xerces blue's other main adult food source, was not suitable for the larval stages. By the early 1940s the Xerces Blue was driven to extinction, becoming one of the first and most well-known butterflies in the United States lost due to human impact, with the last confirmed sighting of a xerces blue occurring in 1943 on land that is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The butterfly’s extinction inspired the foundation of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1971, as well as ushering the need for insect and invertebrate conservation into the public mindset. Today there are ongoing efforts to reestablish related butterflies in the Xerces blue's former habitat such as the silvery blue and the Palos Verdes blue. Also the possibility of reviving the xerces blue via de-extinction is being explored.

[armandofnowhere]

on today’s episode of iwtv x history, check out this passage from “the first asians in the americas” by diego javier luis:

In a speech given shortly after [Catarina de San Juan's] interment, the Jesuit Francisco de Aguilera proclaimed that "all that the world adores as most precious, it makes holy, without claiming it, nor searching for it, [it found] a poor little china, slave, foreigner, who made us fill our tongues with her praises, our hearts with jubilation, and even our eyes with tears."

But for all the acceptance she eventually found among Puebla's denizens, Catarina continued to be a "a poor little china" (the colonial Mexican term used to refer to any Asian person) and a "slave, foreigner." This was so although she had lived almost seventy years in Puebla, most of them as a free woman. Those who knew Catarina speculated that she might have been born on the Arabian Peninsula or lived in her youth as a princess of the Mughal royal family in India. The Jesuit Joseph del Castillo Graxeda's conjecture was the least ambitious and, therefore, perhaps the most persuasive: "Catharina was native to the Mughal Kingdom. The place where she was born is unknown, and even she did not know it for being such a young age when she was taken from it." As a child, Catarina had been a victim of a Portuguese slave raid in South Asia. She was eventually sold in Spanish Manila. Then, at the nearby port of Cavite, she was made to board a Spanish galleon destined for Mexico. The journey across the world's largest ocean on an early modern ship, even one advanced for its time, lasted many months under horrid conditions. In 1621, Catarina disembarked at the port of Acapulco in chains and was sent overland to Puebla. There, she eventually gained her freedom and, through her piety, became a renowned symbol of holy virtue and global Catholic hegemony.

Despite her celebrity, Catarina--the person behind the reputation--remained an unknown and unknowable entity, a "Thesaurus absconditus" (hidden treasure) in the words of the Jesuit Antonio Plancarte.

if the writers hadn’t marked armand’s origins as delhi, the more plausible alternatives would have been calicut or the bay of bengal.

of course, to preserve book!armand’s backstory, he would still wind up in venice rather than new spain so that would require an extra step in his enslavement journey from east to west. there’s still the christianisation, the othering. and to become a freeman in early modern italy was to become a roman citizen (“Every manumission is accompanied by the granting to the freed slave and his offspring of the rights of the Roman citizen and the liberty to dispose of property,” according to Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900).

[rabbitcruiser]

Flying West (No. 5)

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated major U.S. city behind New York City and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind four of New York City's boroughs. Among the 92 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2022.

Prior to European settlement, the modern city proper was inhabited by the Yelamu, who spoke a language now referred to as Ramaytush Ohlone. On June 29, 1776, settlers from New Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate, and the Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi. The California gold rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, transforming an unimportant hamlet into a busy port, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time; between 1870 and 1900, approximately one quarter of California's population resided in the city proper. In 1856, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, it was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama–Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, it was a major port of embarkation for naval service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. In 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, establishing the United Nations and in 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, the rise of the beatnik and hippie countercultures, the sexual revolution, the peace movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

[mapsontheweb]

Number of Spanish Missions in California and Baja California by county/municipality

by mexidominicarican8

<div class="md"><p><strong>California:</strong></p> <p>The Spanish missions in California formed a series religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California. The missions were established by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize Indigenous peoples backed by the military force of the Spanish Empire. Civilian settlers and soldiers accompanied missionaries and formed settlements like the Pueblo de Los Ángeles. Indigenous peoples were forced into settlements called reductions, disrupting their traditional way of life and negatively affecting as many as one thousand villages</p> <p><strong>Baja California:</strong></p> <p>The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, between 1683 and 1834 to spread the Christian doctrine among the Indigenous peoples living on the Baja California peninsula. The missions gave Spain a valuable toehold in the frontier land, and introduced European livestock, fruits, vegetables, and industry into the region. Indigenous peoples were severely impacted by the introduction of European diseases such as smallpox and measles and by 1800 their numbers were a fraction of what they had been before the arrival of the Spanish.</p> <p><strong>Mexico:</strong></p> <p>The First Mexican Republic secularized the missions with the Mexican secularization act of 1833, which emancipated indigenous peoples from the missions. Mission lands were largely given to settlers and soldiers, along with a minority of indigenous people. Most of the missions in Baja California were abandoned and are currently in ruins. Cities like Loreto, Mulegé, La Paz, and San José del Cabo were formed near/around Spanish missions</p> <p><strong>USA:</strong></p> <p>Many of these missions were restored in the mid 20th century. They have become a symbol of California, appearing in many movies and television shows, and are an inspiration for Mission Revival architecture. Concerns have been raised by historians and Indigenous peoples of California about the way the mission period in California is taught in educational institutions and memorialized. The oldest European settlements of California were formed around or near Spanish missions, including the four largest: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.</p> </div>

[mariacallous]

Vandals spray-painted the Hillel building at San Francisco State University with a slogan referencing an ancient battle in which  Muslim troops defeated a group of Jewish fighters. 

The perpetrators in San Francisco also tried to break into the building, according to the  Jewish Community Relations Council of the Bay Area. 

The sign on the front of the San Francisco Hillel was spray-painted late Sunday or early Monday with the word “Khaybar,” which is chanted at protests against Israel around the world, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The word refers to a battle between Muslims and local Jews on the Arabian Peninsula at the dawn of Islam that ended with the slaughter of the Jewish tribes. Underneath the word, vandals drew symbols for communism and anarchism. 

The center’s garage door was covered with graffiti in large capital letters reading, “death to Western imperialism!” 

Tyler Gregory, CEO of the local JCRC, called the incident an antisemitic attack and linked it to what he described as a pattern of hateful acts against Jews at universities.

“The Hillel House is a vibrant community center and should be a place where Jewish students feel safe and comfortable, especially as antisemitism continues to soar on campus,” he said in a statement. “It is imperative that our elected officials and education leaders dramatically curb the antisemitic rhetoric at campus protests and in college classrooms that inevitably leads to attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions.”

Tensions around Israel have skyrocketed on college campuses since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which launched the war in Gaza. Pro-Palestinian protesters at a number of schools have targeted Hillels, which are the center of Jewish life on many campuses, owing to their support for Israel.

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Report generated at 2024-11-20 15:09:32.942752-08:00 using satellite imagery and alert data provided by the National Weather Service.

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Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore

San Francisco Bay Shoreline

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High Surf Warning

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Curry County Coast

Avalanche Warning

South Central Siskiyou County

[reasonsforhope]

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has announced a plan to transform the state’s oldest prison into a center for rehabilitation, education and training, modeled after Norwegian incarceration systems, which are much less restrictive than US facilities.

Newsom told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that his goal was “ending San Quentin [prison] as we know it” and working to “completely reimagine what prison means”. San Quentin, located on a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area and established in 1852, houses nearly 4,000 people, including hundreds on its infamous death row, the largest in the US, which is on track to be dismantled.

The Democratic governor said that by 2025, he plans to transition the massive penitentiary into a final stop of incarceration before individuals are released, with a focus on job training for trades, including plumbers, electricians or truck drivers, the LA Times reported. His recently released budget proposal includes $20m to start the effort.

“The ‘California Model’ the governor is implementing at San Quentin will incorporate programs and best practices from countries like Norway, which has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world – where approximately three in four formerly incarcerated people don’t return to a life of crime,” the governor’s office said in a statement on Thursday. The prison will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

Pictured: Instructor Douglas Arnwine hands back papers with comments to his students at San Quentin state prison in April 2022.

The transformation Newsom has described would, at least for San Quentin, mark a fundamental shift from the extremely punitive American system. The US has the highest reported incarceration rate in the world...

Although California is considered a leader in criminal justice reform, the state’s prison system continues to be overcrowded, with thousands of elderly people languishing behind bars and Black residents disproportionately imprisoned for decades due to harsh sentencing laws adopted in the 1990s.

Scandinavian models of incarceration that have garnered increasing attention from some US lawmakers are less focused on punishment and are meant to give imprisoned people support and a sense of normal life behind bars so that they are prepared to reintegrate into society. That can mean access to personal computers, televisions and showers, consistent classes and programming, fresh food, more freedom of movement and stronger connections with the outside world.

“Do you want them coming back with humanity and some normalcy, or do you want them coming back more bitter and more beaten down?” Newsom told the LA Times.

An overhaul of San Quentin would be a huge undertaking, and there are significant unanswered questions about what the transition would mean for its current residents as well as the tens of thousands of others located across the California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR). San Quentin has a long and recent history of scandals involving abuse, overcrowding, guard misconduct and medical neglect. It is also a prison that has significantly more programming than some of the remote and rural CDCR prisons, with a renowned podcast produced by incarcerated San Quentin journalists.

The governor’s office noted research showing that every $1 spent on rehabilitation saves more than $4 on costs of re-incarceration; that people who enroll in education programs behind bars are 43% less likely to return to prison; and that crime survivor groups say victims prefer sentences that include programming designed to prevent recidivism...

Assemblymember Mia Bonta noted that California spends $14.5bn on prisons each year – $106,000 a person – but traditionally puts only about 3.4% toward rehabilitation: “It’s time for a significant paradigm shift.”

One of the reporters in attendance was Steve Brooks, an incarcerated journalist and editor of the San Quentin News paper, who asked the governor how the Scandinavian model would be adopted in a prison where residents remain concerned about overcrowding and the living conditions. Brooks also said people were concerned that those convicted of violent offenses would be excluded from programs under a new system. Newsom responded, “I’m not looking to cherry pick certain offenses. I’m for people who are committed, not passively interested, in changing themselves.”

-via The Guardian, 3/17/23