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Sexually chaste firm Apple apparently removed 5,000 apps from the iPhone app store last Friday, and came up with a set of rules that indicates the censors at the Cupertino minds have dirtier minds than their customers.
According to developer Chillifresh, it spoke with Apple at the end of the week and came up with a list of things that were sexually inappropriate and would warrant removal from the app store.
Those are images of women (and men) in bikinis, people in skating tights, people showing skin, silhouettes that could be forced to wobble, nothing with sexual connotations or innuendo and certainly nothing that could be sexually arousing.
Chillifresh has an application called Wobble that’s been on the app store because it has overtly sexual content. Chillifresh points out that the Playboy app is still on sale on App Store.
Sex does sell, but it’s obvious the puritanical Apple Inc doesn’t want its stlyish name to be dragged through the online brothel that is today’s internet.
See the full article from “Tech Eye”
Chicago, New York and San Francisco all ban housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and, more recently, gender identity. The number of complaints about anti-gay bias filed with authorities has been relatively low — generally less than 10 percent of all housing complaints — but that can be attributed to some declining to out themselves by stepping forward, advocates said.
Fear of being outed is also a reason to hold the HUD sessions in big cities, where anti-gay bias may be less prevalent than elsewhere but where people also are more willing to discuss it when it happens, said Carey.
A study by Michigan’s Fair Housing Centers, a group of private advocacy organizations, found nearly 30 percent of same-sex couples were treated differently when trying to buy or rent a home. Such treatment included a male landlord who made sexually charged comments to a lesbian couple and a Detroit landlord who told testers, “No drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, one-night stands.”
A San Francisco police officer who produced videos parodying life on the force that were denounced as racist, sexist and homophobic is resigning.
Andrew Cohen said Tuesday he’ll leave the department in July.
The 44-year-old Cohen was the department videographer when he filmed controversial skits in 2005. One video showed an officer running over a homeless woman, one showed a male officer ogling a female motorist, and another showed officers heading into a massage parlor.
The department’s internal affairs division launched an investigation after the videos were discovered on a Web site. Then-Police Chief Heather Fong later suspended two dozen officers.
Cohen, who is out on disability, says he is tired of fighting the numerous disciplinary cases against him and wants to move on with his life.
The police department declined to comment on his resignation.
Amid the hustle and bustle of the Tenderloin, where storefronts seem to open and close without notice, a uniquely San Francisco business is attempting to re-make a name for itself. The Power Exchange, an “adult play space” catering to any and all of a patron’s sexual fantasies, opened last Thursday, to differing reactions.
The location at 220 Jones St. has been in the adult entertainment industry since the 1950s, serving as both a gay theater and most recently, the Pink Diamonds strip club. Across the street is the Boys and Girls Club, and next door is the San Francisco City Academy, along with various cafes and the Providence Community Church within a few blocks.
In an area with a high concentration of families as well as liquor stores, it seems as though the Power Exchange will be a fitting, if not welcome, addition in the eyes of its neighbors.
OAKLAND — An effort to turn around the foreclosure crisis with a local opportunity for low-income, first-time homebuyers reached a landmark Monday when hands-on work began to restore a blighted East Oakland home.
OakCLT, the Oakland Community Land Trust, is a community-controlled nonprofit granted $5 million by the City Council in April to buy, renovate and sell 200 foreclosed homes as affordable housing. The building at 8000 Olive St. is the first OakCLT was able to acquire, and workers on Monday began cleaning out illegally dumped trash and discarded couches from the property’s yards.
“After the foreclosures started getting really bad about two years ago, those houses were just sitting there, and they got filled up with drug dealers and prostitutes,” said East Oakland resident Beverly Williams, 61, a member of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which is working closely with OakCLT.
OAKLAND — An effort to turn around the foreclosure crisis with a local opportunity for low-income, first-time homebuyers reached a landmark Monday when hands-on work began to restore a blighted East Oakland home.
OakCLT, the Oakland Community Land Trust, is a community-controlled nonprofit granted $5 million by the City Council in April to buy, renovate and sell 200 foreclosed homes as affordable housing. The building at 8000 Olive St. is the first OakCLT was able to acquire, and workers on Monday began cleaning out illegally dumped trash and discarded couches from the property’s yards.
“After the foreclosures started getting really bad about two years ago, those houses were just sitting there, and they got filled up with drug dealers and prostitutes,” said East Oakland resident Beverly Williams, 61, a member of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which is working closely with OakCLT.
The driver of the Nissan Maxima who police said was responsible, Oscar Alejandre, 21, of San Pablo, was arrested following the crash and appeared in San Francisco Superior Court this morning on a separate firearm case.
Buckelew said his office decided late Friday morning to charge Alejandre with second-degree murder.
Bail was set this morning at $100,000 on Alejandre’s previous case, two misdemeanor charges for alleged possession of a gun at a parking lot at 530 Broadway, the same location of Friday’s alleged shooting.
Alejandre remains in custody and is expected to be arraigned on the murder charge Tuesday morning.
According to police, Alejandre, Fidel Bejarano, 24, of Hercules, and Andrea Luna, 22, of Richmond, had been at a nearby strip club in the 1000 block of Kearny Street on Friday night.
Trust spokeswoman Beverly Williams said this is an attempt to ease the foreclosure problem in the city.
“We are working as a community, not as separate entities, to rebuild our community, to reintegrate the idea that this is where you live, and is this what you really want to see, or is there something else you want to see? That’s just revitalizing the whole area,” she said.
Williams told KCBS something needed to be done, to keep the neighborhoods from a downward spiral.
“Houses like this were being taken over by drug dealers and prostitutes, and it was destroying our neighborhoods,” she said. “My passion for this is that we can revitalize our area by possessing the houses in our community and keeping it affordable, so they won’t wall into the same trap.”
See the full article from “KCBS”
The gambler and the showgirl-prostitute, plying their respective trades out on the wild edges of Americas unfinished frontier, is another familiar fable (though “Imbued” wears that cloak lightly and with some ambivalence theres one bit with the national anthem that steers us away from over-reliance on symbolism.) This time, Nilsson sets the action in today, from sunset to sunrise on the 32nd floor of a sleek and soaring but pointedly unfinished skyscraper, San Franciscos Infinity Tower. We should not be too fooled by the modernity of this glass-walled apartment where a man and woman camp for the night its still littered with step-ladders, paint trays, outsized unframed canvases on stretchers, a broken desk chair and a mattress on the floor, all of which Nilsson makes us notice right away. For all the distant sparkling lights of the citys skyline, the balcony overlooks an exit ramp off a deserted stretch of freeway. Though wired to the ether of the outside world via cell phones and laptop and via something more primitive too, in the form of a good-luck Mama Effa statue Donatello and Lydia surely occupy as remote and isolated an outpost as any in American cinema.
Crockett County Schools Superintendent Stan Black has been charged with patronizing prostitution in Nashville, according to various news reports.
Specialized Investigations Division detectives have charged 26 men with patronizing prostitution since Feb. 11 in four separate reverse prostitution stings, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Web site.
The Web site says Harold Black, 65, of Alamo also known as Harold Stan Black was issued a state misdemeanor citation on Wednesday.
The investigations were headquartered at motels in the airport and South Nashville areas, and the men involved are accused of agreeing to deals for sex with a female police operative who advertised on the Internet.
See the full article from “Jackson Sun”
