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The article presents a documentation of the career of American independent politician Quentin L. Kopp. It was in 1972 when he was first elected to the public office, to a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California. After attaining success as member of the board, he decided to run as mayor in 1979 but he lost to Dianne Feinstein. In 1985, he ran for the California State Senate and won the election.

Strategic water management on a river basin scale requires the inclusion of stakeholders from different sectors and the use of methodologies based on scientifically sound models and techniques, keeping in mind that the power of smaller and larger subgroups of stakeholders should be equal. In this paper, we present an approach to tackle this problem based on two Social Choice Theory (SCT) methods: preferential Borda Count and no-preferential Approval voting method. Two different scenarios of grouping members of the water committee of the San Francisco River Basin in Brazil are simulated, by interested sectors and by interested delegates from the states where the river passes through, five long-term management plans are evaluated and voted in either scenario. Results indicated that if members of the committee demonstrate reasonable competency and consistency while setting their judgments on management plans, the final group decision is the same or similar, regardless the method used. One of the conclusions is also that the voting of small subgroups may have the same power as the voting of a large subgroup in the social choice-based decision-making processes. SCT methods can thus be recommended as an equity framework to empower small groups in selecting long-term water management plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers structural engineering news briefs as of March 2014 including the construction of paper airplane and lift having capacity of 1,900 tons. Topics including 1:60 model of a Boeing 777 jumbo jet being assembled in San Francisco from paper cut out of manila folders and Left Coast Lifter which is 400 feet long and 100 feet wide and with a lift capacity of nearly 1,900 tons and it also won an award in the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations' 2011 awards program.

Presents an interview with author Paul Auster in San Francisco, California. In 1985 "The New York Trilogy" was finally published by Sun and Moon Press in San Francisco, this came after many denials for publishment from other companies. Even tough he regularly wrote reviews, translations and his prose poem "White Spaces" published in 1988, the Trilogy was the beginning of his literary career. The year after "The New York Trilogy" was released he released the other two novels "Ghost" and "The Locked Room." In the late sixties he attended Columbia University then moved to Paris to start The Living House, a publishing house, with his first wife. This company is where his first novel was published and since then he has published one every year. Austers work is viewed as remarkable because he has so many types of literary writings; novels, essays, translations, poems, plays, songs and collaboration various artists. When asked of his writing technique he says always notebook with a fountain pen, sometimes pencil, it seems to be more primitive and he remains more creative. He does say though that the paper also has to be in notebooks, he has a fetish of writing on quadrille line paper, the little squares.

Profiles Dominique Schurman, a fine-paper entrepreneur in San Francisco, California. Expansion of Papyrus shops with Marcel Schurman Fine Paper creations; Importance of marketing acumen and creative ideas in franchising businesses; Description of the Schurman line paper designs.

The AAOS Annual Meeting in 2024 will be held in San Francisco from February 12 to 16. The meeting will offer a wide range of educational opportunities, including paper presentations, posters, symposia, panel sessions, expert sessions, debates, industry exhibits, and more. The meeting will also feature an emphasis on case-study presentations and will provide opportunities for attendees to earn CME hours and fulfill professional obligations. The meeting will include the OrthoDome experience, which offers immersive surgical videos, and will have a mobile app to help attendees navigate the event. The meeting will also include activities and events for orthopaedic surgery residents, Spanish-language programming, and will welcome Chile as the 2024 Guest Nation. [Extracted from the article]

Reports that Philip Cushway's gallery Artrock in San Francisco, California displays blotter paper soaked in liquid LSD as folk art. Description of several blotter paper works.

Abstract A great deal of interest has been paid to enhance the radar range resolution for the last decades. One of the techniques is to construct a waveform combining inter-pulse and intra-pulse modulations. In this paper, stepped frequency (SF) waveform is used to represent the former, whereas phase coding (PC) is considered for the latter. To obtain the high-resolution range profile (HRRP) of a target induced by an SF waveform at the receiver, one of the approaches is the frequency domain (FD) algorithm. It has been successfully applied with SF linear frequency modulation waveforms. However, based on our investigations, processing the SFPC waveform with the FD algorithm does not lead to the performance, in terms of peak sidelobe ratio (PSLR) and integrated sidelobe ratio (ISLR), of the single-carrier phase coding (SCPC) waveform processed with a matched filter (MF). To overcome these drawbacks, we propose to split the spectrum of a phase coded pulse into a predetermined number of portions, and then to successively transmit the time-domain transformed versions of these various portions. The received echoes are then processed with a modified version of the FD algorithm. Our analysis and simulations show that the proposed waveform can be characterized by a PSLR and an ISLR close to those of the SCPC processed with MF in some scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers information on Brondell, a bidet manufacturer based in San Francisco, California. The company manufactures Swash, a bidget that can be installed on toilet seats. Owners of the company are Scott Pinizzotto and David Samuel. Its revenue in 2007 was $2.28 million. Its projected revenue for 2008 is $6.15 million.

The article reports that concern over the environmental dangers of plastic shopping bags recently caused San Francisco, California to ban them. The bags are difficult to recycle, take centuries to decompose, and litter landscapes. A hosts of other cities, including Phoenix, Boston, Berkeley, Oakland and Santa Cruz, California, and Portland, Oregon, are considering similar measures.

The São Francisco River has been, and continues to be, the only major river in arid Northeast Brazil and, as such, continues to be a major focus for development policy in this poorest part of the country. In a context of persistent water scarcity and recurring drought, the imperative is to develop a water development and management framework capable of simultaneously creating a platform for growth, dealing with distributive conflicts and ensuring rational usage. Addressing this challenge has been complicated by the multi-layered institutions of Brazilian federalism. This paper traces the development of the institutional framework for water management in the São Francisco Basin, highlighting the role of both local innovation and the pressures of federal centralization. The single most important policy debate currently affecting the basin is an ambitious inter-basin transfer project that aims to provide secure water supply to major cities and irrigation projects in neighboring basins. The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the project, with a special focus on understanding the policy process underpinning the project. This analysis anchors the discussion in the difficult dilemmas currently faced by policymakers and gives some insights into the actual functioning of a complex and sometimes ambiguous institutional set-up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on miscellaneous related to travel. It mentions that the Bhutan banned the use of plastic bags to protect forests. It offers information on Hayes Valley building dedicated to jazz music in San Francisco, California. It presents information on the Wi-Fi sticker developed by Chamtech Enterprises for laptops and cellphones.

Presents information on a collection of papers held by the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco, California about the experiences of Russian immigrants during the revolution in 1917. Accounts of chemist Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff and writer Antonia Von Arnold on life as immigrants in the United States; Significance of the collection.

This article provides news from across the U.S. during March and April of 2007. Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park may allow as many as 720 snowmobiles a day, a policy that has come under fire from environmental advocates. The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, California has banned petroleum-based plastic bags from 100 of the city's largest grocery stores.

Reviews some papers that will be presented at the 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in San Francisco, California. Details on several sessions that will be conducted.

This article focuses on the events and activities related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the Design Automation Technical Committee are sponsoring the 13th Design Automation Conference that will be held during June 28-30, at Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, California. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum whereby developments in the field of design automation can be presented and discussed. The conference aim is to improve and expand the quality and quantity of design automation developments. The three-day technical program has been arranged so that the technical papers are presented concurrently in different disciplines of design automation. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) announced that the next of the triennial IFIP Congresses will be held in Toronto, Canada during August 8-12, 1977. The theme of the Congress is "The Maturing Profession--Perspectives and Prospects." IFIP Congress 77 will be the first North American gathering of international computer professionals under the aegis of IFIP since 1965.

Reports on a tunnel that was built under the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, California. Use of the tunnel in the 1970s; Disclosure of the tunnel by a mistaken release of papers in 1983; Reactions of the Russians, who began digging around the consulate to check for spies.

Focuses on the meeting of the Republican Party in San Francisco, California on July 13, 1964 concerning the crisis faced by the alliance. Purpose of the Republican Citizens Committee's Critical Issues Council; Details of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization paper on government administration; Background on the good men in the government.

The article focuses on Ilona Bensczko Selle, a columnist and one of the most influential woman in San Francisco, California. She has contact with countless people during war and her fanatical followers of a morning paper know her as "Miss Fixit". They regarded her as the soother of homesick souls, unraveler of torturous problems and the general minister to the needs of fouled-up General Infantry officer. All these descriptions, she hopes someday to cease her laborious job and rest for years.

Highlights a new weapon in publishing showdowns--the cyberstrike--and recounts how management and striking editorial staffers at San Francisco's `Chronicle' and `Examiner' took to the Internet to supplement erratically distributed print copies of their papers during the strike. Free availability of `The Gate' and `San Francisco Free Press' through the World Wide Web; Details.

Reports that the University of California has won the right to distribute on the World Wide Web the internal documents and memos from cigarette manufacturer Brown & Williamson suggesting that the company was aware of the addictive and cancer-causing nature of cigarettes at least 30 years ago. Brown & Williamson's legal action to get the papers back, claiming that they had been stolen; Web site address.

The article discusses the papers presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February 2009 at the San Francisco Marriott hotel in California. One of the papers considers the introduction of Intel Corp.'s Nehalem-EX server CPU, a 2.3 billion-transistor member of its 45-nm Nehalem family. Meanwhile, another paper shows the technique described by Hideaki Saito, a principal researcher at NEC Corp., for stacking a memory chip using direct aluminum-to-copper links.

The article profiles artist Francis Di Fronzo, of San Francisco, California. Fronzo is a dedicated realist painter, but not in the traditional sense. He does not use brushes-at least not ones from the art-supply store. Instead, he invents all the painting implements depending on the needs of the piece, relying for the most part on a comb consisting of 60 or 70 individual hairs adhered to a thin, flat piece of wood.

Conference papers related to psychology are presented. The papers cover various topics which include the capability of older white men to cope with stress, increased risk of war veterans with depression for family problems and domestic abuse, and the violent behavior of makes with an extreme form of shyness.

The article presents information about innovative ways that people in the recycling industry are devising to use waste products. TerraCycle Inc.'s natural plant foods use worm castings as raw material. The company's products are packaged in used soda bottles. The dung of two cellulose fiber eating animals, Welsh sheep and Sri Lankan elephants, is enlisted as a source of pulp for manufacturing paper products. The city of San Francisco, California is testing a way to turn dog droppings into a source of power.

The article reports on the two technical papers presented at the recent International Interconnects Technology Conference in San Francisco, California. The papers indicated the semiconductor researchers' power-saving techniques as they scale chips to smaller sizes. Researchers from Intel Corp. showed direction on how to optimize repeater and logic transistor technologies, as well as improving repeater insertion methods and applying three-dimensional integration. Another paper from Georgia Institute of Technology suggested the use of carbon nanotubes to address some of the challenges of gigascale-integration interconnects.

Focuses on the presentation of ferro-electric memories at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, California. Overview of the research paper from Texas Instruments, Agilent Technologies and Ramtron International; Description of volt embedded-Ferrous random access memory technology; Details of the paper of Fujitsu.

This article features the use of the HP Envy100 e-All-in-One and the Lexmark Genesis inkjet printers at the 440 Brannan Studio/Showroom in San Francisco, California. The clothing store's staff and designers use the printers to create everything from price tags to designers' fall line sheets. The store was able to reduce its paper usage because of the automatic duplexing functions of the printers.

Information about several papers discussed during the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Conference held on October 1 to 5, 2010 in San Francisco, California on the role of acceptance and promotion of circumcision is presented. Topics include the report of Ron Dempsey which tackles infant circumcision, parenting and the themes and challenges for intactivism. The symposium featured several speakers including Amy Callan, Ron Dempsey and Brian O'Donnell.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference sponsored by Higher One Inc. on the excellence and innovation of the universities' administrative operations held at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco Bay in San Francisco, California in 2010 is presented. Topics include the importance of improving efficiency to generate savings, and the criteria to qualify for the Models of Efficiency program. The conference featured several school employees including Dan Kinnaman.

Information about several papers discussed at the Web 2.0 Expo held in San Francisco, California on April 22-25, 2008 is presented. During the event, big and small computer vendors pushed their visions of service platforms. Microsoft also unveiled its Technology Preview of its Live Mesh synchronization technology during the event.

Information about several papers discussed at the green information technology (IT) movement held on February 20, 2008 in San Francisco, California. It was the first convocation of an 18-month-old coalition called the Connected Urban Development, spearheaded by Cisco Systems and its chairman and chief executive officer, John Chambers. They met to discuss how network connectivity can reduce carbon emissions from cities, countries and individuals.

Information on the discussion of designs for biomedical devices at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, California is presented. German researchers presented an artificial silicon retina consisting of 232 electrodes, that will be implanted in few patients in 2007 by Intelligent Medical Implants AG, one of the co-developers. Maurits Ortmanns, an assistant professor who discussed the paper, revealed that patients with the implant will have real visual reception.

The article reports that Rambus Inc. will reveal a technique for delivering Input/Output with power rates of 2.2 milli-watts per gigabit per second, at the 2007 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, California. In its prepared paper, Rambus Inc. will describe a 6-Gbit/second serializer/deserializer transceiver at 2.2 mW/Gbit/s in 90-nanometer process technology. The company believes that the technology would achieve power reduction and would deliver high performance.

The article features Packard Jennings' solo exhibition at the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, California. According to the article, the exhibition's centerpiece is a multipart installation titled "Business Reply" which criticizes companies that target consumers with direct mail. Also presented are giveaway stickers printed on gold paper and inscribed with messages that target Darwin debunkers.

The article highlights IBM Corp.'s (IC) emphasis on electronic frequency as presented at the 2006 International Solid-State Circuits conference in San Francisco, California. IC design engineers delivered three papers that described the pending Power6 microprocessor, aimed at the company's own pSeries servers. The 65-nanometer Power6 will be launched in the four- to five-gigahertz range when servers begin shipping in 2007.

The article discusses the computer's role as the pencil and paper of the 21st century school with Director of Technology Howard Levin and Systems Administrator Igor Zagatsky of the Urban School of San Francisco. Levin argues that when all students have access to a personal wireless laptop, there is a paradigm shift in student learning. Zagatsky admits that the technology is far from flawless.

Profiles artist Kota Ezawa in San Francisco, California. Description of Ezawa of his work as a form of "video archaeology"; Interest of Ezawa in a digital approximation of paper-cutout animation; Academic background; Growth in the popularity of Ezawa of his animated video.

Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein were fixtures on San Francisco, California's social scene. But whispers began to fly about their marriages Bronstein, the executive editor of the "San Francisco Chronicle," started making solo appearances around town. Stone, meanwhile, seemed content to be off in Europe shooting the drama "A Different Loyalty." The couple, who wed on Valentine's Day in 1998 and have an adopted son, 3-year-old Roan, announced an "amicable" split on July 3, 2003. The pair stuck by each other through Bronstein's 1999 heart angioplasty, the bizarre 2001 Komodo-dragon encounter and Stone's near-death brain hemorrhage later that year. But they often were apart, with Bronstein in the newsroom--"He's a workhorse," says a former colleague--and Stone on location or in Los Angeles, where she owns a home and was spotted nearby having a drink with actress Rosanna Arquette and briefly chatting with pal Adrien Brody. Divorce papers filed by Bronstein suggest that he may plan to challenge an existing prenuptial agreement, which reportedly grants him a $1 million settlement (Stone's fortune when the pair wed was a reported $11 million).

Provides information on the 50th International Solid-State Circuits Conference that will be held on February 10, 2003 in San Francisco, California. Theme of the keynote speech that will be delivered by Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus of Intel Corp.; Paper sessions; Panels; Workshops.

Reports on the holding of the 48th International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, California, from December 8-11, 2002. Topics of the opening papers session; Product introductions.

Details the development of the New City project by the `San Francisco Examiner' newspaper in California. Purpose of the project; Explanation from managing editor Sharon Rosenhause; Major stories published by the paper; Significant demographic changes in the city.

The article discusses the Fifth Decennial American Helicopter Society (AHS) Aeromechanics Specialists' Conference titled "Current Challenges and Future Directions in Rotorcraft Aeromechanics" sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter in San Francisco, California, from January 22-24, 2014. Topics discussed include presentation of 43 papers in aeromechanics, celebration of 40 years of aeromechanics technology research, and focused on Joint MultiRole (JMR) Technology Demonstration.

The article features EarthBaby Compostable Diaper Service, a business based in San Francisco, California founded by Mark Siminoff and Stephen Wahl. EarthBaby collects the used diapers of 1,250 families and transfers them to a professional biosolid composting facility which converts the diapers into compost and fertilizer. The article also informs that EartBaby has kept more than 1 million pounds of diapers out of landfills.

Information about several papers discussed at the Google I/O Developer Conference held in San Francisco, California on May 28-29, 2008 is presented. A roundtable discussion was sponsored by the company where participants discussed the business implication of developing in the cloud. Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, also gives his keynote speech.

Information about several papers discussed at the Web 2.0 Expo held at San Francisco, California on April 24, 2008 is presented. During the event, Marc Andreessen, founder of Ning, was grilled with myriads of questions from attendees. He was asked on his opinion of Microsoft, which the Netscape and Loudcloud creator avoided with ease.

This article focuses on the city of San Francisco, California and its decision to ban plastic shopping bags. The article explains that city supervisor Ross Mirkarimi led the legislation to ban the bags. The city is the first to ban plastic shopping bags from grocery stores and drug stores. A dozen U.S. cities and four states are considering similar bans.

Information about several papers discussed at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, California in 2008 is presented. Microsoft Corp.'s lawyer Brad Smith pleaded that the relationship between his company and open source developers will be less abrasive and addresses an open source gathering. He assured that the company wanted to sign as many patent agreements with other software companies.

Information about several papers discussed at the education summit held on February 26-27, 2008 in San Francisco, California. The event was attended by 750 school district, K-12 college and university information technology (IT) administrators wherein they will listen to the discussion of Scott McNealy, chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, regarding the latest in technology for the classroom.

The article presents tips on shopping at the IFPDA Fair. According to Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation Collection of Works on Paper in San Francisco, California, the Print Fair is not like other fairs, visitors should decide what they are interested in and then find the specialist dealers. He adds that it is a good idea to plan to visit the fair twice because there is too much material to absorb in one round.