When the ancient Polynesians invented surfing, they often used a paddle to help them navigate. Fast-forward a few millennia, and Stand-Up Paddleboarding, or SUP, finds itself trendy again. Part of its increasing popularity is that standing upright allows surfers to spot waves more easily and thus catch more of them, multiplying the fun factor. Paddling back to the wave becomes less of a strain as well. The ability to cruise along on flat inland water, surveying the sights, is another advantage. Finally, it’s a good core workout. If you’re sold on the idea, schedule an intro SUP lesson, free with board and paddle rental, and you may find yourself riding the waves like a Polynesian king.More
Many of us remember coming home from our elementary schools with freshly glazed pinchpots, cups, or whatever else our young imaginations could conjure up. Saturday mornings at the Randall Museum can bring that memory back, or create a new one for the youngsters. Ceramics make great gifts — especially on Mothers' and Fathers' Day. Hop on board for the Randall's once-weekly class, and for $6 and two weeks to have your work fired and glazed, you'll have all the materials you need.More
December is almost over - the New Year is coming up and everyone is busy drying off from the rain or holiday shopping. Let's take a look at what's happened this month.
For a town that's been home to generations of wittily-dressed men, S.F. is rather impoverished as far as a one-stop thrift-shop for cool men's clothes.
The Ramos Fizz was invented a century ago in New Orleans, where one saloon, the Imperial Cabinet, employed 35 men to do nothing but shake up Ramoses during a particularly festive pre-Osterizer Mardi Gras.
Immigration
Immigrants Not Taking Your Job, Study Claims
PostedByLauren Smiley
on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:15 PM
No excuses!
People who hate immigrants often hang their rhetorical hat on the argument that immigrants are stealing jobs from and depressing wages for people born here. Yet a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco blows that theory apart.
Immigrants in the workforce increase the income and job opportunities for U.S.-born workers, who can take on more specialized, communication-based jobs, writes Giovanni Peri, an associate professor at U.C. Davis who is a visiting scholar at the bank. The study is optimistic about the effect of immigrants on the workplace at a time when anti-immigrant sentiment seems to be hitting a fever pitch with the passage of Arizona's "papers please" SB 1070.
The study compared states that have a lot of immigrants -- like California (where one in three workers in foreign-born) -- to those with very few -- like West Virginia (where only one in 100 was foreign-born). It threw in a bunch of controls to make sure the findings weren't due to extraneous factors, and came up with the following claims:
Immigration to the U.S. betwen 1990 and 2007 brought about an increase in worker income of up to 9.9 percent, or about a $5,100 increase in the real income per worker.
Since U.S. born-workers have better English skills than foreign-born workers, they tend to specialize into more communication-oriented positions, while immigrants pick up manual labor (no pun intended).
This increases wages for U.S.-born workers, as they become supervisors, coordinators, and designers, and leave the menial labor to foreign-born workers. The study used the example of a construction company that has immigrants performing the manually intensive construction work, allowing the U.S.-born workers to move into supervisorial positions with better wages. The production capacity of the hypothetical business increases along with the increased workforce.
In summary, "...immigrants expand the U.S. economy's productive capacity, stimulate investment, and promote specialization that in the long run boosts productivity. Consistent with previous research, there is no evidence that these effects take place at the expense of jobs for workers born in the United States."
Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'.
Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"
