Remember when Facebook brazenly deleted photos of mothers breastfeeding their babies, causing quite a ruckus from sleep-deprived moms, who later descended on the Facebook campus for a massive nurse-in?
Apparently, the Silicon Valley techies didn't learn much from that event.
The Bay Area tech giant reportedly blocked a North Carolina mother's Facebook page after she posted photos of her son, who has Down Syndrome, participating in a Special Olympics event. Diana Cornwell told CBS that "on Sunday, when I signed on, I had a message the pictures were a
violation and was ordered to remove them in order to continue. Every photo was of my son at the Special Olympics Event."
Facebook sent her the blunt message, and disabled her account for three days until she finally removed the pictures.
As the late Mac Dre explained, Thizz Face is "a look on your face like you smelled some piss."
Police are asking for the public's help in locating three men who they say were involved in two separate hate crimes in the Castro neighborhood.
The first incident happened on March 29 on the 400 block of Castro. The victim was attacked while the suspects yelled homophobic remarks, said Officer Albie Esparza. Then on April 7, at about 10:40 p.m., another victim was attacked while on the corner of Market and Gough.
Police believe the same suspects were involved in both hate crimes.
Police are giving all you pill poppers out there a chance to kick your habit and rid your house of the the unnecessary drugs you've been hoarding in your nightstand.
Come Saturday, load up all your unused or expired doses of Valium, Xanax , or whatever you poison is, and bring them to the nearest police station for drop-off.
Police hope this will help put an end to the frivolous pill-popping that has become a favorite pastime of so many Americans. And if you are in denial about this, here's some cold hard facts for you to swallow:
Last year October, Americans turned in 377,080 pounds, or 188.5 tons, of prescriptions drugs.
Professor Stanley Krippner is an impossible man to pigeonhole. He's nearly impossible to encapsulate in a single cover story. Well, we did our best. But we've only scratched the surface of his life and work.
On a milder note, we also left out a cartload of mind-blowing anecdotes. Krippner is one of this city's great storytellers, on top of having lived a unique life (to say the least). The following stories just didn't fit the narrative flow of our article -- which could have been overwhelmed by the cavalcade of amazing stories he has to tell, and others have to tell about him.
Here are but a few:
Boston psychiatrist Amaro Laria noticed a trend. On separate voyages to interview healers and holy men, he traveled to a jungle village in Ecuador, a remote rural town in central Java, and off the beaten path in Brazil. In each locale, the shamans he encountered posited the same question: "You're an American? So do you know Stanley Krippner?"
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Krippner served as a campus tour guide for Martin Luther King Jr. and Frank Lloyd Wright, and invited parapsychologist J.B. Rhine to speak at the University of Wisconsin in 1953. Krippner's devotion to psychological orthodoxy was shaken when, as a freshman in around 1950, a professor insisted that only schizophrenics dream in color.
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Krippner was introduced to the intertribal medicine man Rolling Thunder through Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart -- whom he met at a party for tabla virtuoso Alla Rakha. When pressed to come up with an anecdote about Krippner, Rolling Thunder's grandson, Sidian M.S. Jones, came up blank. Then he recalled the following:
A 48-year-old man is in critical condition this morning after he was reportedly shot in the head last night in the city's Oceanview neighborhood.
According to Sgt. Michael Andrayachak, police were called to the intersection of Plymouth and Farallones streets at about 8:45 p.m. on reports of a shooting. When they arrived, they found the victim on the sidewalk, suffering from a gunshot wound, police said.
He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
(Update 9 a.m.): SFPD is now reporting 24 people were arrested in yesterday's Occupy action.
As promised, protesters marched by the hundreds to the Financial District this afternoon where they planned to take over a scheduled Wells Fargo shareholders' meeting without getting arrested.
Were they successful? Well, that depends on who you ask.
Occupiers didn't technically take over the meeting (which is still in session, according to police) nor did they completely manage to dodge jail time. They did, however, manage to create just enough chaos to irk the 1 percenters -- and that counts for something.
Only a handful of occupiers actually got inside the building, located at 465 California St., where they vented a bit to Wells Fargo shareholders before being escorted out. As of 3:15 p.m., eight people had been arrested outside the building, according to Officer Albie Esparza, and "plenty" of officers were still out there surrounding the bank building.
A New York judge has ruled that Twitter must release tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester, claiming the information, which highlights the chaotic arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge last year, is -- and should be -- public for the whole world to read.
Malcom Harris, a 22-year-old writer, was one of 700 Occupy protesters arrested for disorderly conduct while marching across the Brooklyn Bridge last October. To prove that police had warned protesters not to enter the bridge, the New York
City Police Department released videos which show an officer giving directions
with a bullhorn.
Prosecutors later subpoenaed the San Francisco-based Twitter for Harris' tweets from Sept. 15 to Dec. 31, 2011 under the handle @destructuremal, claiming Harris' tweets posted while on the Brooklyn Bridge will contradict his intended defense at trial.
While Harris tried to block that subpoena, Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. claimed that the occupy protester had full knowledge that his posted tweets were not private and would live on in the Twitterverse.
"It really shows his recklessness," said Police Capt. Denis O'Leary.
