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Am I hearing you clearly?,” Colclough replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sings: “You must punish me severely!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Severely!” He cries out incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"E. Scott Levin as Babayan, with Miki Yamashita (L) as Soon-Yi Nam.\" width=\"440\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. Scott Levin as Babayan, with Miki Yamashita (L) as Soon-Yi Nam. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Figaro” was written as an \u003cem>opera buffa\u003c/em>, a comic opera. The new adaptation received \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-withhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&\">high praise\u003c/a> from the New York Times for its humor as well as its underlying drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altany says she relates to the subject matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandparents emigrated from Mexico to California’s Central Valley, and though she grew up comfortably in San Francisco, she was always conscious of the difficulties facing many immigrants to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the stress of being undocumented, of being afraid to drive or to get your license or to go to school because they might check your papers,\" Altany says. \"You know, it’s really incredible what people go through to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"¡Figaro! (90210)\" Susana crosses the border in exchange for promising to work in a sweatshop, but she manages to escape -- until her old boss comes looking for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She gets out of it, but that’s still hanging over her head all the time, and it’s just a constant fear,” explains Altany. “And I think an issue that’s really important to me as a woman, is that she has to deal with sexual harassment and blackmail, which is such a big issue for Latina communities in L.A., especially those who are undocumented. It’s such a vulnerable population, so easily preyed on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrerio says he wanted to put the issue of illegal immigration into an opera in order to humanize it, and take it out of the realm of political debate. Even the character of the count, the selfish real estate tycoon, is given a back story that helps explain his position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408493\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana-400x564.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Adan Perez as Figaro and Maria Elena Altana as Susana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10408493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana-400x564.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana-800x1129.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/FigaroSusana.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Adan Perez as Figaro and Maria Elena Altana as Susana. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He still starts, saying, you know, ‘the glue of this great nation is true assimilation,’ ” Guerrerio says. Then Conti sheds some light on his own background. “And the lines are, ‘My folks may not have swum here, but living in a slum here, dad said, son, we are scum here. You must speak like you’re from here,’ ” Guerrerio explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrerio says that history elevates Conti from a stock villain. And it also comes from personal experience. Guerrerio grew up in an Italian-American family, where his grandparents forced his parents to speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that was because growing up in the ‘50s, it was absolutely crucial that, ‘You are America, you speak American,’ ” says Guerrerio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole concept of \"¡Figaro! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Barack Obama’s \u003ca href=\"recent%20executive%20action\">recent executive action\u003c/a> made it more likely that millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States will have a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans in Congress call the changes “executive overreach” and are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-gop-centrists-push-back-on-immigration-20150114\">pushing back\u003c/a>. Also this month, for the first time, undocumented immigrants in California will be able to get \u003ca href=\"http://abc7.com/politics/10000-undocumented-immigrants-granted-california-drivers-licenses/474313/\">driver’s licenses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, the debate over immigration reform is moving to an unlikely venue -- the opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186434168&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186434168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozart’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366268/The-Marriage-of-Figaro\">The Marriage of Figaro\u003c/a>” is one of the most beloved and widely performed operas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Italian libretto, written by Lorenzo Da Ponte and based on the stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, Figaro is a heroic everyman, and a personal servant to the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The count is a sleazy aristocrat pursuing Figaro's bride-to-be, Susana. The couple and the countess team up to expose the count’s efforts to seduce Susana before she marries Figaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the nutshell of an opera that has delighted audiences for over two centuries. But it didn’t start out as very popular. The storyline, of a servant making a fool of his master, was seen as a challenge to the aristocracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408435\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408435 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-400x529.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Colclough as Paul Conti and Maria Elena Altana as Susana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-400x529.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/CountAndSusana.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Colclough as Paul Conti and Maria Elena Altana as Susana. \u003ccite>(Ben Gibbs/LA Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The play, when it originally premiered, was actually banned in France for several years because it was considered so subversive,” says Vid Guerrerio, a librettist in Los Angeles. He decided “The Marriage of Figaro” could use a modern take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal was absolutely to kind of brush off some of the dust that’s accumulated over the last, you know, 250 years, and let contemporary audiences really see what a fresh, daring, even dangerous piece of art the original 'Marriage of Figaro' was,” Guerrerio explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Guerrerio’s version, \u003ca href=\"http://www.laopera.org/season/1415-Season-at-a-Glance/Figaro90210/\">“¡Figaro! (90210),”\u003c/a> staged by the LA Opera, Figaro is a handyman and his fiancee, Susana, is a housekeeper. They’re undocumented immigrants working in a Beverly Hills mansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent rehearsal, Craig Colclough plays the role of the count, now a real estate mogul named Paul Conti. He’s conflicted about whether to help Susana avoid deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For just a few thousand dollars I can save her, but does that mean it’s the right thing to do?\" Colclough sings. “She made a contract, and contracts must be respected. Plus, she’s here illegally, it’s all connected. If she pays nothing, no penance, the rule of law in this country goes unprotected!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the next scene, Susana, played by Maria Elena Altany, hatches a plan with her boss’s wife, who’s caught on to her husband’s wandering eye. They decide to trap him in the act by having Susana seduce him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So punish me. I will not try to change it. Tonight we shall arrange it,” Altany sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait! Am I hearing you clearly?,” Colclough replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sings: “You must punish me severely!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Severely!” He cries out incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10408430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"E. Scott Levin as Babayan, with Miki Yamashita (L) as Soon-Yi Nam.\" width=\"440\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Figaro2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. 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The new adaptation received \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-withhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/call-it-the-green-card-of-figaro-with-thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&thanks-to-mozart.html?_r=3&\">high praise\u003c/a> from the New York Times for its humor as well as its underlying drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altany says she relates to the subject matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandparents emigrated from Mexico to California’s Central Valley, and though she grew up comfortably in San Francisco, she was always conscious of the difficulties facing many immigrants to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the stress of being undocumented, of being afraid to drive or to get your license or to go to school because they might check your papers,\" Altany says. \"You know, it’s really incredible what people go through to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"¡Figaro! 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Then Conti sheds some light on his own background. “And the lines are, ‘My folks may not have swum here, but living in a slum here, dad said, son, we are scum here. You must speak like you’re from here,’ ” Guerrerio explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrerio says that history elevates Conti from a stock villain. And it also comes from personal experience. Guerrerio grew up in an Italian-American family, where his grandparents forced his parents to speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that was because growing up in the ‘50s, it was absolutely crucial that, ‘You are America, you speak American,’ ” says Guerrerio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole concept of \"¡Figaro! 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"content": "\u003cp>Ten years after the premiere of \"Sideways,\" the region where the film was set continues to feel its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent movie about two middle-aged men drinking and misbehaving their way through Santa Barbara wine country opened in limited release in October 2004 and went on to became a surprise hit, grossing more than $71 million at the box office. It was also a boon to the then-fledgling winemaking industry in the Santa Ynez Valley and a boost to tourism in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agriculture and tourism are really two of the big industries that are still important in Santa Barbara and the Central Coast, and wineries live right in the middle of those two,” says Josh Williams, president of Carlsbad-based BW Research, which studies the job market for the Santa Barbara County Workforce Investment Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/185299449\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says his research shows the number of jobs in wineries in Santa Barbara County has grown from about 950 in 2005 to nearly 1,400 today. That's huge growth compared with other industry sectors in the county, says Williams, who adds that winery jobs are good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While tourism and agriculture tend to be low-wage paying industries, wineries pay anywhere from 30 to 50 percent more than the average tourism job pays,\" says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the sector tends to generate lower-wage jobs, there’s no denying the residual effect of increased tourism. It can be the tide that lifts all boats, bringing added customers to nearby retailers, hotels and other enterprises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2014/10/24/17437/sideways-ten-years-later-hit-film-still-makes-wave/\">Read the full article at KPCC's website\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>etween 1848 and 1852, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/06/boomtown-history-san-francisco-gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco exploded\u003c/a> from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were illustrators, photographers and mapmakers, who documented the city's shockingly quick rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Jean Jacques Vioget, a French-born ship's captain who arrived on San Francisco Bay in 1837, was among the first to settle in the village of Yerba Buena. In 1839, Mexican officials hired Vioget to survey and map the settlement. The area he laid out is roughly bounded by today's Pacific Avenue to the north, Washington Street to the south, Grant Avenue to the west and Montgomery Street to the east. The map is oriented with west at the top; the bay would be below the map's bottom border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, also known as the Plaza, seen in a daguerrotype dated 1851. The view is toward the west, with the pictured buildings along Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and the heights later dubbed Nob Hill. The image was credited to a dentist named S.C. McIntyre. (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398867 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"high-and-dry-sf-street-1856\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Bancroft Library) \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Hundreds of ships arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and many were abandoned as crews deserted to go to the gold fields. Some of the ships, like the whaling ship Niantic, were hauled ashore and incorporated into the city's earliest waterfront neighborhoods. The Niantic, shown here in a lithograph by wandering memoirist Frank Marryat, was pressed into service as a hotel near the corner of Clay and Sansome streets. The ship/hotel was destroyed during a fire that swept much of downtown in May 1851. (See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic: Buried Gold Rush Ship\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> A Frank Marryat view of San Francisco looking east across the city toward the bay. Yerba Buena Island is pictured at the left, with Mount Diablo visible in the distance at center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> And here's what the rapidly growing city looked like from the shore of Yerba Buena Island in 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10398865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\" alt=\"Wood engraving by F. Hickock. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps-400x215.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(F. Hickock/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This engraving, published in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper in June 1856, shows a Chinese settlement on the fringe of San Francisco. In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese immigrants registered at San Francisco customs houses -- most intending to travel inland to the gold fields. California imposed a Foreign Miners Tax that May; the levy of $3 a month was explicitly directed at Chinese miners. Violence increased soon after 200 Chinese miners were robbed and four murdered at Rich Gulch that year, according to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Alta California\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-400x311.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An early 1850s image of Mission Dolores, which despite San Francisco's rapid growth still lay well beyond the city's borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An 1857 map of San Francisco demonstrates the city's rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\" alt=\"(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This is one of several line engravings created by A. Nahl in 1856 showing workers at the San Francisco Mint, built just two years prior. Workers produced $4,084,207 worth of gold coins in 1854 alone, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Mint.\u003c/a> The new mint quickly outgrew the small brick building and moved to new headquarters at Fifth and Mission streets -- today's \"Old Mint\" -- in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398863 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy the Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom-400x305.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>etween 1848 and 1852, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/06/boomtown-history-san-francisco-gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco exploded\u003c/a> from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway to newly discovered gold fields in the Sierra Nevada foothills, were illustrators, photographers and mapmakers, who documented the city's shockingly quick rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399634\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/yerbabuenamap1839.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Jacques Vioget's 1839 map of San Francisco. (Bancroft Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Jean Jacques Vioget, a French-born ship's captain who arrived on San Francisco Bay in 1837, was among the first to settle in the village of Yerba Buena. In 1839, Mexican officials hired Vioget to survey and map the settlement. The area he laid out is roughly bounded by today's Pacific Avenue to the north, Washington Street to the south, Grant Avenue to the west and Montgomery Street to the east. The map is oriented with west at the top; the bay would be below the map's bottom border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1-400x201.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/portsmouth_square1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, also known as the Plaza, seen in a daguerrotype dated 1851. The view is toward the west, with the pictured buildings along Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and the heights later dubbed Nob Hill. The image was credited to a dentist named S.C. McIntyre. (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398867 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"high-and-dry-sf-street-1856\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/high-and-dry-sf-street-1856.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Bancroft Library) \u003ccite>(Courtesy Bancroft Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Hundreds of ships arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and many were abandoned as crews deserted to go to the gold fields. Some of the ships, like the whaling ship Niantic, were hauled ashore and incorporated into the city's earliest waterfront neighborhoods. The Niantic, shown here in a lithograph by wandering memoirist Frank Marryat, was pressed into service as a hotel near the corner of Clay and Sansome streets. The ship/hotel was destroyed during a fire that swept much of downtown in May 1851. (See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic: Buried Gold Rush Ship\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sanfrancisco-east.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Frank Marryat/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> A Frank Marryat view of San Francisco looking east across the city toward the bay. Yerba Buena Island is pictured at the left, with Mount Diablo visible in the distance at center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg\" alt=\"A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/view-from-yerba-buena-island.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. (W.H. Dougal/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> And here's what the rapidly growing city looked like from the shore of Yerba Buena Island in 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10398865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg\" alt=\"Wood engraving by F. Hickock. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/chinesecamps-400x215.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(F. Hickock/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This engraving, published in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper in June 1856, shows a Chinese settlement on the fringe of San Francisco. In 1852, about 20,000 Chinese immigrants registered at San Francisco customs houses -- most intending to travel inland to the gold fields. California imposed a Foreign Miners Tax that May; the levy of $3 a month was explicitly directed at Chinese miners. Violence increased soon after 200 Chinese miners were robbed and four murdered at Rich Gulch that year, according to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Alta California\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg\" alt=\"Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. Courtesy Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-800x623.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v-400x311.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/32185v.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithograph on blue paper by Quirot & Co. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An early 1850s image of Mission Dolores, which despite San Francisco's rapid growth still lay well beyond the city's borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> An 1857 map of San Francisco demonstrates the city's rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg\" alt=\"(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/sfmint1856-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> This is one of several line engravings created by A. Nahl in 1856 showing workers at the San Francisco Mint, built just two years prior. Workers produced $4,084,207 worth of gold coins in 1854 alone, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Mint.\u003c/a> The new mint quickly outgrew the small brick building and moved to new headquarters at Fifth and Mission streets -- today's \"Old Mint\" -- in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10398863 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy the Library of Congress\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/adjustingroom-400x305.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A. Nahl/Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above:\u003c/em> Women worked at mints throughout the United States during the mid-1850s. \u003ca href=\"http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/us-philadelphia-mint.html\" target=\"_blank\">By 1860\u003c/a>, women at the Philadelphia Mint earned 11 cents an hour and often worked 10 hours a day. San Francisco's mint was originally a branch of the Philadelphia Mint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y now, the Bay Area has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of young seekers like Richard Henry Dana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana was a college undergraduate who left school in a crisis, taking a radical course in his search for answers about who he was and what he might become. His path led him from what appeared to be a safe life at Harvard, the scion of an established Massachusetts family, to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in coming to the West Coast, his quest found at least partial fulfillment. He tested himself physically in the journey, found himself adept at a difficult occupation, discovered exotic cultures and even picked up a new language, Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that many of us share a little bit of that story. We've come here looking for education, work, love, a change of scenery, a place where we might more fully know ourselves and give the genius we believe lives inside us a chance to breathe a little.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.'\u003ccite>Richard Henry Dana\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That much we might have in common with Richard Henry Dana. But his experience was essentially different from that of the throngs, including us, who have come anticipating a place of striking beauty, diverse culture and rich opportunity. Whatever we actually find, most of us have arrived ready to be enchanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BBV56SkjV9joNruaCgvFX89vACuWlokU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"stU2yGdY4FyadpEOH021b1tsAfRb6Nqz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd love to hear about your favorite reads, too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the back of a West Berkeley warehouse, Pegasus Books owner Amy Thomas is surrounded by boxes and boxes of 2015 calendars. She’ll be putting them on sale New Year's morning, and to say the selection is eclectic would be an understatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cowboy boots, pocket pigs ... I think this is our first year with sloths and manatees.\" Thomas buds with excitement as she sorts through the boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have dogs underwater, that’s really a good one!” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183962343\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For almost 40 years, the East Bay has been home to a slightly unusual New Year's Day tradition. Before 10 a.m., scores of people will line up outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pegasus Books\u003c/a> -- at all three locations in Berkeley and Oakland -- just to buy a 2015 calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are Flower Recipes. Witches. Moustaches for the Modern Gentleman. More than 600 different calendars, selling three for $10. \u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-10392753 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13848_calendar-rack-2-qut-400x710.jpg\" alt=\"RS13848_calendar rack 2-qut\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13848_calendar-rack-2-qut-400x710.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13848_calendar-rack-2-qut-800x1420.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13848_calendar-rack-2-qut.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas says Pegasus' three stores sells about 85,000 calendars annually, including 30,000 on New Year's Day. That’s a huge financial boost that has helped them survive, while many small independent bookstores have shut down over the past two decades. Thomas says that, over the years, the event -- billed as \"the earth's biggest calendar sale\" -- has become part of the store’s identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s become this crazy thing that people look forward to. They change their airplane tickets so that they don’t miss it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside Pegasus' Shattuck Avenue store in downtown Berkeley, Robert Lew is reading at a table, copying recipes out of a book. He's been coming to the calendar sale for the past eight years, and says he'll be here New Year's morning to get in on the deal. In the past, he’s found Hebrew, Greek and Chinese calendars that turned out to be his favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's mainly the graphics that sort of turn me on to it, so it's not pre-conceived what I’m gonna get,” says Lew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another calendar-phile named Michael favors Japanese prints, landscapes and pictures of forests. But he says he prefers to show up after the first-day rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like the commotion and the crowdedness and stuff like that,\" he says. \"People don’t get into fights the way they do on Black Friday and electronics stores, but it's still kind of crowded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some obviously like the crowd. Thomas says people see each other year after year and compare purchases. Others don’t want to miss out on what might be the most-talked-about calendar of the year. This year's favorite could be North American Grain Elevators ... or Underwater Puppies.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1.jpg\" alt=\"RS13679_JV0A0614-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/thousands-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-francisco-join-millions-march\" target=\"_blank\">filled the streets of San Francisco and Oakland\u003c/a> on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, to protest police brutality and the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers. 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Here a woman waves a sign, in reference to Eric Garner's death in New York, moments before being shoved off a dividing wall on Interstate 880 in Oakland on Dec. 5. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg\" alt=\"RS13360_459889820-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13360_459889820-qut1-800x546.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">pounded the Bay Area several times in December\u003c/a>, causing severe flooding in parts of Marin and Sonoma counties. The moisture was welcome, but experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/11/18/this-weeks-rain-unlikely-to-dent-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">California still desperately needs more rain\u003c/a> to make up for three years of drought. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\" alt=\"China basin fire2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze damaged several buildings in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/11/4-alarm-fire-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Bay in March\u003c/a>. Fire inspectors reported the blaze was started by unattended sparks from \"hot work\" on a building under construction. One of the companies working as a subcontractor on the building was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-fire-department-issues-citation-in-massive-mission-bay-blaze\" target=\"_blank\">fined for failing to follow fire safety regulations.\u003c/a> The blaze prompted the San Francisco Fire Department to announce it will be taking a more \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">proactive stance toward citations\u003c/a> in the future to prevent negligence. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12817_458073306-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/29/world-series-game-seven-live-update\" target=\"_blank\"> won the World Series\u003c/a> in a seven-game series against the Kansas City Royals this year. 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(Elsa/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants win prompted fans to celebrate in the streets. While most of the revelry was peaceful and in good fun, police reported some people got out of hand, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/the-giants-win-and-then-the-trouble-starts\" target=\"_blank\">lighting fires in the streets and throwing beer bottles\u003c/a> that injured several officers. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_011[1]-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/24/uc-berkeley-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley students staged a walkout\u003c/a> and march on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, to protest a series of tuition increases approved by the University of California Board of Regents. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/18/csu-and-uc-tuition-hikes-over-time\" target=\"_blank\">average UC student now leaves school\u003c/a> $20,500 in debt and the average CSU student is $18,460 in debt, according to analyses conducted by both systems. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392143\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\" alt=\"Oyster Fisherman Battles National Park Service Over Harvest Rights\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long legal battle, retail operations at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/05/video-last-day-at-drakes-bay-oyster-companys-retail-business\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. came to an end this summer\u003c/a>. The federal government allowed the company to continue wholesale operations, mainly selling oysters to local restaurants for a few more months, but customers can no longer visit the now-closed Oyster Shack in order to purchase, grill and shuck oysters on the beach of Drakes Estero. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392145\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\" alt=\"US-EARTHQUAKE\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 6.0 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/quake-rolls-through-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake rolled through the Bay Area\u003c/a> at 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, lasting 44 seconds. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/south-napa-earthquake-photos/\" target=\"_blank\">quake caused extensive damage in Napa\u003c/a> and reminded all Bay Area residents about the importance of earthquake preparedness. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392147\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\" alt=\"lake oroville drought2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is pictured on Jan. 18, 2014, the day it hit its lowest point during the current drought. Despite recent rains, experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">the state is not out of the drought\u003c/a> and residents should continue to practice water conservation. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\" alt=\"wine drought\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California vintners \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/28/california-winemakers-brace-for-drought-impacts/\" target=\"_blank\">braced themselves for the impacts of prolonged drought\u003c/a>. Napa growers aggressively pruned back vines, which will concentrate precious water and nutrients on a smaller number of grape clusters. But fewer grapes mean lower profits. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City crews \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled San Jose's massive homeless encampment known as \"The Jungle\" \u003c/a>on Dec. 4, 2014. The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most \"Jungle\" residents lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash. People \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">packed up their belongings and moved out\u003c/a> amid a rare bout of rain. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\" alt=\"Construction Continues On Bay Bridge Ahead Of Opening Of Eastern Span\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/01/some-good-news-and-some-bad-news-about-bay-bridge-rods\" target=\"_blank\">construction and stability of the Bay Bridge's east span\u003c/a> have some commuters worried. Questions remain around the massive steel bolts holding the bridge together and whether Caltrans kept \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/bay-bridge-report-caltrans-worked-to-keep-construction-flaws-quiet\" target=\"_blank\">concerns about the bridge secret\u003c/a>. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392152\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\" alt=\"airbnb\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco legalized home rental services like Airbnb this year. The issue has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/4/30/airbnb-supporters-rally-at-city-hall/\" target=\"_blank\">polarized citizens\u003c/a> concerned about housing affordability and individuals' ability to stay in the city. Regulation of these home-sharing services may make it to the state Legislature this year. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\" alt=\"Belmont Stakes 2014 - Previews\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians had big hopes that the horse named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/california-chrome\" target=\"_blank\">California Chrome\u003c/a> could win the Triple Crown this year. He did win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, but fell short with fourth place in the final Belmont Stakes competition. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\" alt=\"smoke jumper\" width=\"1438\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg 1438w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-800x506.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very dry conditions made this a tough year for wildfires in California. Fires started by lightning often erupted in very remote, mountainous parts of the state, far from any roads. Sometimes the only way to get fire crews to them was to have them \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/01/californias-smokejumpers-fight-the-hardest-to-reach-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\">jump out of planes\u003c/a>. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392157\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg\" alt=\"CCSF skirmish\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco student Otto Pippenger was detained by San Francisco police officers outside an administration building. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/ccsf-protest-violent\" target=\"_blank\">Students and teachers protested decisions\u003c/a> by Special Trustee Robert Agrella on Thursday, March 13, 2014. The accrediting commission revoked the school's accreditation, but the action is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/11/city-attorney-accreditation-commission-get-day-in-court-over-ccsf\" target=\"_blank\">currently being appealed in court\u003c/a>. The judge is expected to issue his verdict in January 2015. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">pounded the Bay Area several times in December\u003c/a>, causing severe flooding in parts of Marin and Sonoma counties. The moisture was welcome, but experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/11/18/this-weeks-rain-unlikely-to-dent-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">California still desperately needs more rain\u003c/a> to make up for three years of drought. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg\" alt=\"China basin fire2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/China-basin-fire2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A massive blaze damaged several buildings in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/11/4-alarm-fire-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Bay in March\u003c/a>. Fire inspectors reported the blaze was started by unattended sparks from \"hot work\" on a building under construction. One of the companies working as a subcontractor on the building was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-fire-department-issues-citation-in-massive-mission-bay-blaze\" target=\"_blank\">fined for failing to follow fire safety regulations.\u003c/a> The blaze prompted the San Francisco Fire Department to announce it will be taking a more \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">proactive stance toward citations\u003c/a> in the future to prevent negligence. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12817_458073306-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12817_458073306-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/29/world-series-game-seven-live-update\" target=\"_blank\"> won the World Series\u003c/a> in a seven-game series against the Kansas City Royals this year. This was the third time in five years the baseball team took home the trophy. Here, Buster Posey #28 and Madison Bumgarner #40 celebrate after defeating the Kansas City Royals by a score of 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium on Oct. 29, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Elsa/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12841_20141029_giants_celebration_jt_001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants win prompted fans to celebrate in the streets. While most of the revelry was peaceful and in good fun, police reported some people got out of hand, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/the-giants-win-and-then-the-trouble-starts\" target=\"_blank\">lighting fires in the streets and throwing beer bottles\u003c/a> that injured several officers. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_011[1]-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13247_20141124_tuitionhike_jt_0111-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/24/uc-berkeley-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-tuition-hike\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley students staged a walkout\u003c/a> and march on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, to protest a series of tuition increases approved by the University of California Board of Regents. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/18/csu-and-uc-tuition-hikes-over-time\" target=\"_blank\">average UC student now leaves school\u003c/a> $20,500 in debt and the average CSU student is $18,460 in debt, according to analyses conducted by both systems. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392143\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg\" alt=\"Oyster Fisherman Battles National Park Service Over Harvest Rights\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drakes-bay-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long legal battle, retail operations at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/05/video-last-day-at-drakes-bay-oyster-companys-retail-business\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. came to an end this summer\u003c/a>. The federal government allowed the company to continue wholesale operations, mainly selling oysters to local restaurants for a few more months, but customers can no longer visit the now-closed Oyster Shack in order to purchase, grill and shuck oysters on the beach of Drakes Estero. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392145\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg\" alt=\"US-EARTHQUAKE\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/napa-quake-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 6.0 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/quake-rolls-through-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake rolled through the Bay Area\u003c/a> at 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, lasting 44 seconds. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/24/south-napa-earthquake-photos/\" target=\"_blank\">quake caused extensive damage in Napa\u003c/a> and reminded all Bay Area residents about the importance of earthquake preparedness. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392147\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg\" alt=\"lake oroville drought2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/lake-oroville-drought2-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is pictured on Jan. 18, 2014, the day it hit its lowest point during the current drought. Despite recent rains, experts say \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">the state is not out of the drought\u003c/a> and residents should continue to practice water conservation. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg\" alt=\"wine drought\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/wine-drought-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California vintners \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/28/california-winemakers-brace-for-drought-impacts/\" target=\"_blank\">braced themselves for the impacts of prolonged drought\u003c/a>. Napa growers aggressively pruned back vines, which will concentrate precious water and nutrients on a smaller number of grape clusters. But fewer grapes mean lower profits. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City crews \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled San Jose's massive homeless encampment known as \"The Jungle\" \u003c/a>on Dec. 4, 2014. The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13340_20141203_jungle_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most \"Jungle\" residents lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash. People \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">packed up their belongings and moved out\u003c/a> amid a rare bout of rain. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg\" alt=\"Construction Continues On Bay Bridge Ahead Of Opening Of Eastern Span\" width=\"1440\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/bay-bridge-concerns-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/01/some-good-news-and-some-bad-news-about-bay-bridge-rods\" target=\"_blank\">construction and stability of the Bay Bridge's east span\u003c/a> have some commuters worried. Questions remain around the massive steel bolts holding the bridge together and whether Caltrans kept \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/bay-bridge-report-caltrans-worked-to-keep-construction-flaws-quiet\" target=\"_blank\">concerns about the bridge secret\u003c/a>. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392152\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg\" alt=\"airbnb\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/airbnb-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco legalized home rental services like Airbnb this year. The issue has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/4/30/airbnb-supporters-rally-at-city-hall/\" target=\"_blank\">polarized citizens\u003c/a> concerned about housing affordability and individuals' ability to stay in the city. Regulation of these home-sharing services may make it to the state Legislature this year. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg\" alt=\"Belmont Stakes 2014 - Previews\" width=\"1439\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome.jpg 1439w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/California-Chrome-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, 1439px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians had big hopes that the horse named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/california-chrome\" target=\"_blank\">California Chrome\u003c/a> could win the Triple Crown this year. He did win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, but fell short with fourth place in the final Belmont Stakes competition. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg\" alt=\"smoke jumper\" width=\"1438\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper.jpg 1438w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/smoke-jumper-800x506.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very dry conditions made this a tough year for wildfires in California. Fires started by lightning often erupted in very remote, mountainous parts of the state, far from any roads. Sometimes the only way to get fire crews to them was to have them \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/01/californias-smokejumpers-fight-the-hardest-to-reach-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\">jump out of planes\u003c/a>. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10392157\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg\" alt=\"CCSF skirmish\" width=\"1440\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish-400x252.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/CCSF-skirmish-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco student Otto Pippenger was detained by San Francisco police officers outside an administration building. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/ccsf-protest-violent\" target=\"_blank\">Students and teachers protested decisions\u003c/a> by Special Trustee Robert Agrella on Thursday, March 13, 2014. The accrediting commission revoked the school's accreditation, but the action is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/11/city-attorney-accreditation-commission-get-day-in-court-over-ccsf\" target=\"_blank\">currently being appealed in court\u003c/a>. The judge is expected to issue his verdict in January 2015. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>And now, here’s another in our occasional series called “My Spot,” celebrating personal experiences with special places in California. Meet a\u003cbr>\nwaitress/caregiver who takes us to the studio where she dances flamenco!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183268888\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name is Maria Howard and I live in Santa Rosa, California. And I’ve been taking dance classes at Flamenco Arts Dance Studio in downtown Santa Rosa for 15 years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dance has played a very important role ever since I was five, from Chinese folk dancing through ballet through modern dance. And now that the kids are grown and gone, I have more time for myself, and I’ve rediscovered that part of me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve made many friends at the studio and it’s like my second family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first flamenco solo, which was in May at the studio, was something that I anticipated -- and I was nervous. But my teacher said that I was ready, and I surprised myself in the end. And it helped to have friends in the audience. And as I got on stage, I thought, 'You know, this is my time.' And it was very moving and powerful for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a transformation. You put on a persona and you just love it when people afterward say, 'I didn’t know you could dance that way! I didn’t know that part of you.' It’s very rewarding.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Who would have thought there would actually be a picture that could advertise with the tagline \"See this movie or the terrorists win\" -- and it's actually sorta true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, Sony Pictures made \"The Interview\" available online. If you want to watch it, you can do so at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkWWgkFfBX4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seetheinterview.com/\">dedicated site\u003c/a> from the movie studio and \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Interview?id=Ed2kSuKqfz0\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play\u003c/a>. It's also available on Microsoft's Xbox Video. 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The comedy, starring James Franco and Seth Rogen, depicts a U.S.-sponsored plot to kill North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un. The film was scheduled for a Christmas Day release, but last month hackers infiltrated Sony Pictures, the studio behind the film, releasing embarrassing corporate emails and other sensitive information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/sony-looking-into-possible-north-korea-link-to-hack-attack-1201366822/\" target=\"_blank\">suspicion fell on North Korea\u003c/a>, a belief that increased after the hackers invoked Sept. 11 in a threat to theaters that warned them not to show the film. A majority of theaters then canceled their runs, and Sony pulled the film from distribution. Last Friday, the FBI said it had determined that North Korea was indeed behind the hacking. (CBS News ran a story yesterday \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-the-fbi-get-it-wrong-on-north-korea/\" target=\"_blank\">questioning that conclusion\u003c/a>.) 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They'll be extra vigilant, and so will we. Beyond that, we're not doing anything extraordinary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camera had originally booked the film into several of its theaters before it was canceled. Normally, theaters shy away from booking films that will simultaneously be available on other channels, as \"The Interview\" now is. Orloff said the theater knew going in that Sony was looking to distribute the film online, and that the issue of its release went beyond mere commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A right to free speech not protected is a right potentially lost,\" he said. \"If they want to show it for free at Candlestick Park, that would be fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Corkill, the owner of Cinema West, which is showing \"The Interview\" at several of its Bay Area theaters, said he had originally booked the film as well before Sony pulled it. When the studio backtracked and made the film available, the theater chain \"quickly made a decision to show this movie. When that movie was initially canceled, we had sold a lot of tickets, we had a lot of disappointed customers, and got a lot of feedback from those customers that they were disappointed in us for canceling, which wasn't our decision. It was Sony's decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in the last week, the \"movie has grown into more than just a movie, it's grown into a national statement of pride. Whether the movie content or not represents that, it's more about the issue of whether movie theaters can show movies that have content, whether controversial or not. In this case it's really a matter of free speech.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corkill said the company did not believe there was a credible threat but would heighten security nonetheless, mostly to make patrons feel comfortable. To that end, customers will not be allowed to bring in backpacks, packages or bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corkill said advance sales have been \"brisk.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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