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The Mayors Mansion, once home to San Franciscos longest serving mayor, hits the market Built in the 1930s for James Rolph and asking $11.9 million Anna Marie Erwert FacebookTwitterEmail Perched on Liberty Hill, 3690 21st Street feels like old San Francisco. "Casa Cielo" began with "Sunny Jim" and the Burlingame Corporation commissioning it in 1931. Sunny Jim was none other than James Rolph, San Franciscos 30th and longest-serving mayor, who only left his post to become Governor of California. W...

DWP Ratepayers Demand Transparency LA WATCHDOG--The Department of Water and Power is planning a series of outreach meetings with Ratepayers and other interested parties to discuss the Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study (“LA100”) that outlines various plans that will provide City residents and businesses with reliable 100% clean renewable energy by 2045. However, this DWP sponsored study by the highly regarded National Renewable Energy Laboratory is very complex, offers many di...

The memoir “I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust” chronicles one family’s struggles and victories.

A Ketchup Shortage Thursday, April 8, 2021 I was informed recently that there was a spate of gasoline dispensers covered with the dreaded yellow plastic bags (which begs the question, “where do those bags come from and how is it that all gas stations regardless of brand, have the same ones?”) indicating an impending, if not already present, gas shortage. Since my car was down to a fourth of a tank, I dutifully filled up, doing my part to transfer as much fuel as possible from undergro...

DR. BARBARA FERRER, working in the post-vaccination observation area at The Forum. In February, I had the opportunity to volunteer at a COVID-19 vaccination site through the Medical Reserve Corps of Los Angeles (MRCLA). The experience was rewarding on many levels and helped me to see the impressive inner workings of our public healthcare system. I wanted to volunteer because, after a year of living in suspended animation, I needed to do something. I also wanted to get the vaccine. I had heard t...

A new piece of software developed at Caltech makes it easier to study the behavior of electrons in materials-even materials that have been predicted but...

Well-known technology contest organizer XPRIZE named five winning teams in its $6 million Rapid COVID Testing competition on Tuesday — and three of them are from San Diego County. ChromaCode and Reliable-LFC, both of Carlsbad, joined the La Jolla Institute for Immunology as local winners in the challenge, which aimed to spark development of “radically affordable,” accurate COVID testing platforms with turnaround times of no more than 12 hours from sample to result. Each winner is guarante...

New data challenges the long-held theory that all of Mars's water escaped into space Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue; according...

Date Time CCE Welcomes Grace Liang-Franco as New Division Operations Officer In February, the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE) welcomed Grace Liang-Franco as its new division operations officer (DOO). She is charged with overseeing operations, logistics, finance, infrastructure, compliance, and other crucial administrative functions of the division. Liang-Franco, who comes to Caltech from the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, served as its sen...

by Sam Partee on February 21, 2021 | Technical Rating: 6 Recently, a friend sent me a Wired article entitled “The Power and Paradox of Bad Software”. The short piece, written by Paul Ford, discusses the idea that the software industry might be too obsessed with creating better and better tools for itself while neglecting mundane software such as resource scheduling systems or online library catalogs. The author claims that the winners of the bad software lottery are the ...