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		<title>Court Won&#8217;t Force Appeal of Prop 8 Ruling, Via The Huffington Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rosenfeld</dc:creator>
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		<title>SF Requests Opt-Out of Immigration Agency Fingerprint Plan, via SFGate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<title>One Mission Resident&#8217;s Lesser-Known San Francisco, via SF Examiner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashwin Seshagiri</dc:creator>
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		<title>Jóvenes Beben en el Parque Dolores Mientras que los Mayores se Reúnen en la Preparatoria Misión</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Mai-Duc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Si no hubiéramos estado aquí, hubiera sido un ataque en la gente que va al parque y le gusta beber y fumar”, dijo Zoë Leverant, de 21 años de edad, vistante asidua al parque. ]]></description>
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<p>Mientras que 60 residentes y miembros de la comunidad se reunieron la noche de miércoles en la preparatoria Misión para hablar sobre el abuso al Parque Dolores, cientos de jóvenes se encontraban sentados en el parque  -muchos bebiendo y relajándose en la calurosa noche.</p>
<p>Tres personas, con un desorden de cartón de seis cervezas a la vista, dijeron no estar preocupados sobre hablar de temas de orden público en una reunión comunitaria ya que han percibido un retroceso en las actividades que realizan.</p>
<p>“No me he encontrado con ningún policía”, dijo Justin de 23 años de edad quien se negó a dar su nombre completo. “Y lo que he escuchado por ahí tampoco es muy grosero”.</p>
<p><span id="more-79040"></span>No sabía de la reunión en la Preparatoria Misión, pero aclaró que si el orden público se volviera más notorio entonces tal vez se vería obligado a participar.</p>
<p>Jenni Thomas, de 28 años de edad, dijo nunca antes haber visto a un oficial de policía en el Parque Dolores, y estuvo sorprendida de haber escuchado que recientemente ha habido policías patrullando en vehículos Honda. “Al menos deberían andar a pie, o algo”, dijo Thomas, “y entonces tal vez podrían arruinar el fin de semana de algunas personas y no el de todos”.</p>
<p>Aunque ninguno de los dos expresaron remordimientos por estar sentados en el parque y haberse perdido la reunión, tuvieron mucho que decir sobre aquéllos que se quejan sobre el exceso de uso del parque. “Esto es San Francisco, es una gran ciudad. Esto es lo que deberían esperar”, insistió Justin.</p>
<p>Thomas añadió que “si no quieren gente orinando en las entradas, múdense a Noe Valley”.</p>
<p>Mientras tanto, en la cafetería de la preparatoria a unos pasos de los asiduos al parque, una multitud de residentes en su mayoría de mediana edad hablaron sobre las ventajas de prevenir dicho comportamiento. La discusión sobre poner en marcha prohibiciones al alcohol y a las drogas crearon momentos acalorados, pero en general los oradores se atenían a llamados de respeto mutuo.</p>
<p>“Espero que no me arresten por esto”, dijo Zoë Leverant de 21 años de edad, una de las pocas asiduas al parque que asistió a la reunión, “pero algunas veces he bebido cerveza en el parque. Soy una de esas personas que rompe la ley de manera conciente, pero se asegura de limpiar detrás de sí mismos”.</p>
<p>Leverant se rió nerviosamente mientras observaba al Capitán de la Policía Greg Corrales. Continuó explicando que los esfuerzos educativos sobre la estrategia “sin rastro” pueden centrarse en los que visitan el parque y que vienen de afuera de la Misión, y que no entienden lo que toma mantener el parque.</p>
<p>Kevin Montgomery, blogger local para <a href="http://uptownalmanac.com/">Uptown Almanac</a>, fue más mordaz. “San Francisco tiene una tradición por no hacer respetar las leyes, desde la mariguana a la inmigración”, dijo Montgomery.</p>
<p>El Capitán Corrales respondió firmemente a Montgomery. “Tendrá que hablar por usted mismo, señor. Yo he trabajado para hacer respetar la ley durante los últimos 41 años”.</p>
<p>Montgomery invitó a los lectores en su blog a que asistieran a la reunión y a que se defendieran de los “guerreros contra la diversión”, quienes dijo asistieron a las reuniones comunitarias en el verano pasado y provocaron medidas enérgicas similares.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://missionlocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/20100902_dolorespark3.jpg"><img title="Dolores Park Bingo" src="http://missionlocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/20100902_dolorespark3-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bloggers locales como Vic Wong de Mission Mission y Kevin Montgomery de Uptown Almanac hacen un bingo de palabras clave durante la reunión. Foto de Jessica Lum. </p></div>
<p>“Si realmente les importa su derecho a disfrutar una tarde en el parque con (sic) una patrulla de policías fuera de tono patrullando su parque en bicicletas”, escribió Montgomery, “hagan el esfuerzo de decirle al Capitán Corrales que se apure”.</p>
<p>Sin embargo hubo pocas personas jóvenes que asistieron y muchos en el público de gente mayor hablaron sobre las próximas regulaciones al parque sobre el orden público como el toque de queda, el beber y el fumar.</p>
<p>Una vecina que vive en los alrededores del parque dijo echar cloro en sus escalones de la entrada cada fin de semana después de que los asiduos al parque, que beben hasta estar ebrios, orinan y vomitan en su propiedad. Otra vecina, quien tenía a su bebé en los brazos, dijo que el ruido en la noche los ha mantenido despiertos durante muchas noches. Una mujer expresó su rabia cuando dijo que llamó tres veces a la policía la noche del sábado antes de que la policía hubiera irrumpido en un “rave al aire libre” que no estaba permitido y que las vibraciones de la música resonaban en sus paredes durante horas.</p>
<p>Crystal Vann Wallstrom, cofundadora de Dolores Parks Works y organizadora de la reunión, se encontraba entre aquéllos que pensaban que el tono hubiera sido diferente si la gente joven hubiera asistido. “Estaban representados en un número muy pequeño”, dijo Vann Wallstrom, quien explicó que había hecho un esfuerzo para motivar la presencia de los jóvenes.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://missionlocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/20100902_dolorespark2.jpg"><img title="Dolores Park Meeting" src="http://missionlocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/20100902_dolorespark2-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">El Supervisor Bevan Dufty le da una ronda de aplausos al Capitán Corrales por haber estado haciendo respetar la ley desde hace 41 años. Foto de Jessica Lum.</p></div>
<p>Robert Brust, otro cofundador de la organización, expresó sentimientos similares. Brust culpó al caluroso clima poco común de la noche de miércoles como resultado de la ausencia de asiduos al parque. “A mí también me hubiera gustado haber estado en el parque esta noche”.</p>
<p>Pero Leverant dijo que no hubiera tomado otra decisión. “Me siento bien de estar aquí esta noche. La mayoría de la gente en mi posición no tiene interés en las reuniones comunitarias”, explicó.</p>
<p>Aunque dijo que creía que por lo menos una de sus preocupaciones fue escuchada por los funcionarios del parque y la policía, se sintió decepcionada por la falta de contrapeso. “Si no hubiéramos estado aquí, hubiera sido un ataque en la gente que va al parque y le gusta beber y fumar”.</p>
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		<title>A Vanilla with Sprinkles Kind of Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Mai-Duc</dc:creator>
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		<title>Lost Cat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisette Mejia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help return Virginia to her owners. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Only People Unhappy about Muni Service Restoration? Muni Drivers, via SF Gate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.J. Barrow</dc:creator>
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		<title>BART Delays Due to Seismic Activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mallika Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BART services back to normal.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BART systems are back to normal. There was a 10- to 15-minute delay systemwide due to an earthquake within the BART service area. Trains were delayed to determine if any BART facilities had been damaged.</p>
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		<title>SF Tries Again to Opt Out of Fed Immigration Program, via SF Gate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lydia Chávez</dc:creator>
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		<title>OnBase: Lincecum Found!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Rabine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can't think, you can't pitch. Lincecum thinks. ]]></description>
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<p>The last time <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=453311">Tim Lincecum</a> met <a href="http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=434622&amp;c_id=col">Ubaldo Jimenez</a> in San Francisco, it was a Memorial Day game that would best be forgotten by Giants fans. Billed as a battle between the league&#8217;s two best pitchers, it was no contest. Lincecum, the Giants’ ace, the keystone to the franchise, had sparkled in April, but by Memorial Day he had already begun his now epic slump.</p>
<p>Ubaldo climbs back on the mound for the Rockies tonight, his record less splendid than it was in May, but he still throws rocket-propelled baseballs. Lincecum also made his reputation and won his awards as a fastball pitcher. The freaky thing about him was that at his relatively small size he could dominate much bigger men, because he could throw the ball accurately at 97 mph.</p>
<p>He’s not overpowering batters this year, and he doesn&#8217;t dominate anyone in the first inning tonight, but he takes a new approach when faced with a full 3-2 count. Recently, in that situation he has either tried to make a perfect pitch or a safe pitch, often resulting in a walk or a hit and shaking his confidence. This time he throws good pitches that induce ground balls. When he returns for the second inning, he looks more confident, and he begins to mix in changeups and curveballs. Meanwhile, Ubaldo is on, so Tim can’t expect his teammates to generate many runs.</p>
<p>So it goes through the first three innings. Tim pitches well. Ubaldo is pitching great. Neither team can score.</p>
<p><strong>Innings Four Through Six: Words From a Pitching Ghost</strong></p>
<p>No sooner do I get up from the press box to get something to eat but <a href="http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=471865&amp;c_id=col">Carlos Gonzalez</a>, who has been outstanding this series, hits the first pitch of the fourth inning into the left-field bleachers. It was a fastball from Lincecum, well placed on the outside edge, but high. Another key moment. How will Tim respond? He gets the next three batters out on six pitches.</p>
<p>After talking to fans about Lincecum last night, I looked up the post-World War II pitcher and outstanding pitching coach, Johnny Sain. He&#8217;s been dead for four years, but I found him in Roger Kahn’s book about pitchers, &#8220;The Head Game.&#8221; I got the impression Sain would not have been surprised by Lincecum’s season.</p>
<p>“[T]he natural tendency of pitchers is to start out throwing hard and keep trying to throw harder.” But overpowering has its limits, and Sain said very few pitchers can throw a baseball at 90 mph with pinpoint accuracy. The other way to get hitters out, the way pitchers eventually learn or go bust, is to upset a batter’s timing by varying velocity, and also by throwing fastballs that “rise” or suddenly sink into a black hole. For Sain, to pitch meant to think. &#8220;If you can&#8217;t think, you can&#8217;t play pitch,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t play baseball. Knowhow is the name of the game.&#8221;</p>
<p>As evening turns bright gold with pastel blues and reds, Tim keeps mixing in a variety of pitches, not throwing predictable patterns, not throwing the same pitch twice. Even on a warm night, he’s visibly more comfortable, his movements easy and smooth.</p>
<p>The Giants get a run off Jimenez in the fifth and they have to scratch for it. <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=115229&amp;c_id=sf">Jose Guillen</a> hits a solid line drive into right field. He moves to second when Jimenez walks <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=457763&amp;c_id=sf">Buster Posey</a>, and <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=11620497&amp;c_id=sf">comes all the way home</a> when <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=430917&amp;c_id=sf">Mike Fontenot</a> hits a ground ball straight into center.</p>
<p>At the end of six, 1-1.</p>
<p><strong>Innings Seven Through Nine: A Thinking Pitcher is a Winning Pitcher</strong></p>
<p>Three innings later, Mike Fontenot leads off with a walk. Lincecum, who I was sure would be removed in favor of a pinch-hitter, comes to the plate. What’s this about, <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/coach_staff_bio.jsp?c_id=sf&amp;coachorstaffid=111136">Bruce Bochy</a>? Another move: Bochy takes Fontenot out of the game and puts <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=452096&amp;c_id=sf">Darren Ford</a> on first. This is his first game in the major leagues, and you&#8217;re putting him in now? What’s this about?</p>
<p>After fouling off two attempts, Lincecum lays down a bunt fielded cleanly by Ubaldo. But he’s got no play at second; Ford is already there. Out at first, Lincecum canters off the field like a thoroughbred as the crowd goes wild. With <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=400083">Andres Torres</a> at the plate, Ubaldo throws a pitch into the dirt that does not get past catcher <a href="http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=400018&amp;c_id=col">Miguel Olivo</a>, but Ford has already taken off. Olivo finds the ball quickly and fires to third, only the ball sails high into left field and <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=11623747&amp;c_id=sf">Ford sprints home</a>, improbably, safely, for what will be the winning run. <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=451216&amp;c_id=sf">Brian Wilson</a> eschews his usual melodrama in the ninth, relying on <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?roster_year=2010&amp;player_id=408108&amp;c_id=sf">Freddy Sanchez</a> to atone for earlier mistakes in the series by <a href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=11624535&amp;c_id=sf">making the final out </a>in spectacular fashion.</p>
<p>After the game Bochy, explains his reasoning for leaving Lincecum in to bunt (“he’s one of our better bunters”) and bringing in Ford (“he&#8217;s faster than the ball”). Bochy was also delighted by what he saw from Lincecum on the mound. Like Sain, he didn’t think speed was all that important. “He wasn’t trying to overthrow; he pitched.”</p>
<p>Baseball is a head game, and that’s the game Lincecum played tonight. Whether or not this well-deserved victory marks the end of his slump, he showed he can be more than a Freak. If he thinks, Tim Lincecum can be a great pitcher.</p>
<p>Giants win 2-1, while the Padres lose again, putting the Giants only three games behind in the division race, while still one-and-a-half games behind the Phillies for the wild card.</p>
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