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By Monday, a free-wheeling online bazaar had sprung up, inflating the value of Series tickets like the currency in a banana republic. Standing-room-only tickets were being marked up on Craigslist by as much as 2,000 percent, front-row seats on StubHub were going for $20,000 a pair, and desperate fans were offering their beach homes in trade for a way into the game.
And as season-ticket holders set a price tag on their loyalty,
high-rollers swarmed onto websites such as StubHub and Razorgator, willing to pay up to $5,000 for a pair of box seats. This left fans like Jesse Walker, a carpenter from Santa Clara who attended 25 regular-season games, fuming.
Amid 10 pages of ads for Giants tickets — many of them the most expensive offerings seen on Craigslist since the website stopped ads for prostitutes — Walker’s plaintive cry for the little guy stood out.
The line didn’t get built until after the end of the Civil War, but its completion was a milestone in the institutional development of the Mormon settlements. The telegraph tied the settlers together more tightly and allowed Young to disseminate the church’s messages more efficiently. By 1880, there were more than 1,000 miles of wire in the territory. Control of the telegraph was important enough that the president of the church (first Young and later others) was also the president of the Deseret Telegraph Company, a church-owned public utility. The company had a different rate structure from the purely commercial concerns, including bulk discounts for small stations to receive chunks of news.
Eventually, the federal government confiscated the line during its attempts to end Mormon polygamist practices during the 1880s. It was eventually given back to the church, which sold it to Western Union in 1900.
This photo has one of the best captions I’ve ever seen. At the National Archives it reads, “Richard Pierce, Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 2. 14 years of age. 9 months in service, works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes and visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Del., 05/1910″
See the full article from “The Atlantic”
San Rafael postpones action on massage law
By Jessica Bernstein-WaxMarin Independent Journal
Posted: 10/19/2010 08:32:04 AM PDT
The San Rafael City Council on Monday put off introducing a new massage ordinance that would require state certification for practitioners and enhance the city’s ability to shut down “illegitimate” parlors through administrative rather than criminal legal measures.
After about an hour of public comment and discussion, the council voted unanimously to postpone adopting the ordinance so that staffers could address several concerns massage therapists raised at the meeting and write an objective statement for the proposed law.
“If we’ve got a sore that’s starting to fester, I think we need to treat the sore,” Mayor Al Boro said, referring to massage parlors suspected of acting as fronts for prostitution, as well
as the neon signs associated with those businesses.
If you like haunted houses and getting spooked, you might want to visit these Top 10 Spookiest Cities in America cities. Most of these haunted cities offer spooky tours where they put their darkest folklore on display.
You can even spend the night in a real haunted house. Several cities on the list offer overnight packages at places where guests have heard voices and encountered ghosts.
The eerie thing about these cities’ supernatural secrets? They’re true.
10. Portland, Oregon
Portland got it’s haunted reputation from its famous Shanghai Tunnels. Built underneath the city to connect shops to the docks of the Pacific Northwest and intended to make shipping easier these tunnels were used to kidnap people in the 1800s. Unsuspecting victims were “shanghaied” and sent to the harbor to be shipped off as slaves and prostitutes in the Far East.
Haunted Spot: The White Eagle Café – former brothel, hotel and boarding house.
… DEAD MAN’S WAKE” — West End Studio Theater, 1554 Fourth St., San Rafael; 453-0552; www.westcoastarts.org. Oct. 27 through Nov. 14: Larry Klein’s new play about complex family dynamics following the death of a patriarch in Marin County in 1969. Preview performance 8 p.m. Oct. 27. $10. 8 p.m.
“DRACULA” — Belrose Theatre, 1415 Fifth Ave., San Rafael; 454-6422; www.thebelrose.com. Through Nov. 13: theatrical adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic horror tale about the vampire count. 7:30 p.m. Fridays $15.; 6:30 p.m. dinner show Saturdays $25. Reservations required.
“INTIMATE
APPAREL” — Art Works Downtown, 1337 Fourth St., San Rafael; 454-2787; www.altertheater.org. Through Oct. 24: AlterTheater production of Lynn Nottage’s drama about a woman who makes boudoir garments for both New York society women and prostitutes at the turn of the 20th century. 8 p.m. Oct. 22 and 23; 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 24. $15 to $35.
The goal in Tower Bloxx, one of DC’s most popular downloads for the iPhone and Facebook, is simple but addicting: Stack as many building blocks as high as you can without toppling them (and see how you score against your friends). The catch is that both the blocks and the tower are swaying randomly across the screen. With persistence and some finger-to-eye coordination, I finally, successfully drop the 68th block. A cheesy photo of Hawkins boots up on the screen and a congratulatory message proclaims, “This guy might be in the Video Game Hall of Fame, but he’s no match for you.”
The Hall of Fame is just one milestone of Trip Hawkins’ gaming legacy. Three years before Apple introduced the iPhone, he was pimping something he called “social apps.” In a speech at a 2005 wireless industry event in San Francisco, he predicted that these apps would become a multibillion-dollar opportunity that would bring sweeping changes to the entire industry. But back then, with Facebook strictly a college phenomenon and Twitter still a year from inception, no one paid much attention.
See the full article from “Entrepreneur”
Man charged in prostitution case pleads not guilty
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — A San Mateo County man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sold his mentally disabled girlfriend into prostitution.
Nicholas Geranios is facing counts of domestic violence, abuse of a dependent adult and pimping. The San Mateo County Times reports that he pled not guilty to all of the charges last week.
Authorities say the 27-year-old Geranios posted Internet ads offering his girlfriend for sexual services in exchange for cash. The girl is 21, but apparently has the mental capacity of a child.
South San Francisco police say Geranios pocketed the money from at least six sexual encounters the woman had.
They say investigators found evidence on Geranios’s computer linking him to the online ads.
Sam Hamod, the poet and publisher, recounts what happened when The Nation of Islam rid Washington D.C. projects of Jamaican drug gangs; the police went after the NOI because they were no longer receiving kickbacks from prostitutes and drug dealers–money that is used to improve the lifestyles of suburbanites. The underground economy in black neighborhoods throughout the nation pays for home improvements, medical bills, college tuition, and vacations for white and colored ethnic groups. In one Harlem precinct, twenty six policemen were charged with corruption.
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The practice of absentee landlords renting their properties to drug dealing gangs can also be seen as an act of racism. The lower property value of my neighborhood and those like mine can be attributed to this practice. An abandoned house located on my block was the scene of prostitution and drug dealing before it was boarded up. The city has been promising to demolish it for two years; it’s still there. Such is the power of Oakland’s landlords that she has been able to ignore citations from the city and threats of fines. She owns four properties in North Oakland and is probably the product of a two family home.
See the full article from “CounterPunch”
On Saturday, members of the relatively new Community Police Advisory Boards for San Francisco’s 10 district stations gathered for the first time to discuss some of those problems, like graffiti, gang problems and prostitution.
For example, said David Delp, one of the advisory board members, in 2008 the Mission district was rocked by violence, with eight murders occurring in about one month. Delp lived in the center of that violence, at 23rd and Capp streets, where the territories of rival gangs Norteños and Sureños collide.
“In 2008, if you were to tell anyone that [you lived there], you’d get this, ‘Ooooh,’” he said.
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In another case of such cooperation, residents along Polk Street earlier this year complained about prostitution in the area, and three different neighborhood groups joined to help solve the problem.
The other would primarily use existing CSX freight lines through east Tampa to USF, then follow the same path as the other line north. Projected cost: about $1.5 billion. HART included an estimate that it could cost another $679 million to acquire the rail line from CSX. Projected ridership: 16,750-19,500.
Some rail advocates fear an interstate path would not attract the sort of redevelopment seen along rail lines built in other cities. But planners say redevelopment would happen near stops.
Count Seminole Heights resident Sue Long among those who see development potential near an interstate-based rail line.
Besides providing a convenient travel option to places north and south, Long thinks rail could finally drive a turnaround of Nebraska Avenue, with its mix of used car lots and cheap motels that draw prostitution stings.
See the full article from “Tampabay.com”
