SFMTA Announces the Winners of the 53rd Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest (SFMTA - San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016
SFMTA - San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency). The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which manages all transportation in the city, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), today announced that Leonard Oats was declared World Champion of the 53rd Muni Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, held today in Union Square ... 'San Francisco is truly a global village....

Assassin’s Creed Movie – New Shots From the Film Emerge (Ubisoft Entertainment SA)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016
(Source ... In addition to showing Aguilar in the company of other hooded figures and a shirtless Lynch aiming a crossbow during a scuffle with Abstergo guards, the images also showcase the armies of the Inquisition, led by Javier Gutierrez as Tomas de Torquemada ... [Attachment]. [Attachment]....

Some perspective on Giants’ bullpen woes

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 08 Jul 2016
Because perspective is more useful than hysteria, some facts. A blown save occurs when a reliever gives up a lead from the sixth inning on ... Javier Lopez got a blown save on a David Ortiz bouncer to Brandon Crawford, who missed tagging a runner going by and could not get an inning-ending double play ... ....

Father sues SF over death of daughter, 36, a psychiatric patient

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 08 Jul 2016
A 36-year-old woman who leaped to her death at a construction site last year should have been safely in the custody of San Francisco General Hospital, but she went missing just hours earlier while on an involuntary psychiatric hold, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the woman’s father....

San Francisco police investigate possible shots fired near hospital

Edit Reuters 08 Jul 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police and federal agents converged on San Francisco General Hospital on Thursday after receiving reports of possible gunshots or explosions heard coming from the building, authorities said. ....

California Bail Agents Association Seeks to Become Defendant in Lawsuit by Equal Justice Under Law

Edit PR Newswire 08 Jul 2016
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Bail Agents Association filed a motion Wednesday morning to formally join the City and Sheriff of San Francisco and California Attorney General Kamala Harris as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by Equal Justice Under ... ....

Investor grabs 100 Montgomery St. in San Francisco for $285 million

Edit Business Journal 08 Jul 2016
Vanbarton Group LLC and a pension fund partner snapped up the 25-story, 429,095-square-foot 100 Montgomery St. in San Francisco. The price was $285 million or about $664 per square foot, according to a source familiar with the deal ... The sale marks another major Class A building trading hands in San Francisco in an increasingly hot market for investment sales. This year… ... ....

Wooing Governor Cuomo, Airbnb Boots 2,233 New York City Listings

Edit Bloomberg 08 Jul 2016
Airbnb Inc ... cities, New York and its hometown San Francisco. Airbnb is suing San Francisco for passing a law that would fine the company for listing units that aren’t registered with the city ... Officials in New York and San Francisco are concerned that Airbnb is causing housing to be taken off the market, further crowding the limited supply in those cities ... Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal ... ....

World champion cable car bell-ringer crowned

Edit Palm Beach Post 08 Jul 2016
... years winner Leonard Oats after the San Francisco Cable Car Bell Ringing Competition in San Francisco, Thursday, July 7, 2016....

Mexico name squad for Olympic gold defence

Edit FourFourTwo 08 Jul 2016
Mexico are out to defend their Olympic football gold medal at the upcoming Games in Brazil ... Mexico squad in full.. Goalkeepers. Manuel Lajud (Tijuana), Alfredo Talavera (Toluca). Defenders. Jose Javier Abella (Santos Laguna), Erick Aguirre (Pachuca), Cesar Montes (Monterrey), Jorge Torres Nilo (Tigres UANL), Carlos Salcedo (Guadalajara), Jordan Silva (Toluca). Midfielders ... Forwards....

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Edit Venture Beat 08 Jul 2016
being held July 12-13 at The Village in San Francisco ... Also, there’s one day left to enter VentureBeat’s international botathon to compete against participants from Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne ... In between talks at Botness, a gathering of bot community leaders held last month in San Francisco, Andy Mauro wondered aloud if chatbots will ultimately make people more social....

CPUC to Hold Series of Public Participation Hearings on PG&E;’s Request to Raise Rates (California Public Utilities Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016
______________ California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco ... SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2016 - The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold Public Participation Hearings to hear directly from members of the public about Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) request to increase rates ... CPUC Auditorium, 505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco....

The border wall between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego is seen in 1998.

Edit Topix 08 Jul 2016
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Homeland Security officials must quickly release immigrant children - but not their parents - from family detention centres after being picked up crossing the border without documentation. The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that lengthy detentions of migrant children violated a 19-year-old legal settlement ordering their quick release after processing ... ....
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