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Chinese Historical Society Museum Reopens Landmark Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition, Is Largest Ever

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On Saturday, November 5 Chinese Historical Society Museum Reopens Landmark Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition, Is Largest Ever for Esteemed Institution in San Francisco’s Chinatown

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21 September 2016 – San Francisco, CA: It is said that good things come to those that wait, and the reopening of San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America (www.chsa.org) is indeed a good thing — a landmark thing, actually. On Saturday, November 5, the oldest museum dedicated to the Chinese American experience re-opens after a summer of renovation with the most extensive and important exhibition in its 50 year history: Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion.

“This exhibit is the proof of our mission,” said Sue Lee, Executive Director of the Chinese Historical Society noting that the exhibition features reproductions from the New-York Historical Society’s holdings, interactive media, evocative recreations, and CHSA’s own historic Chinatown paintings by Jake Lee. “The curatorial quality, the historical detail, and the hands-on interactive technology of this exhibit are unlike anything we have ever done. Its educational potential really raises the bar for us. It is an unprecedented exploration of the Chinese American experience and diaspora.”

Prior to its now permanent installation at CHSA, Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion
had impressive runs at the Oregon Historical Society and at the New-York Historical Society, the latter of which facilitated the exhibition’s donation to CHSA. In addition to the exhibition donation from the New-York Historical Society, funding and installation for the exhibit has been made possible through the generous contributions of the following Chinese Historical Society supporters: The R.J.Louie Foundation, Seligman Family Foundation, and the Committee of 100.

“Quite simply,” said Lee, “this exhibit is the most comprehensive museum expression about the experience of Chinese in America to date. We are actively seeking additional financial support and program partnerships in order to make this exhibition a national destination for experiencing this impressive interpretation of our community’s history in the greater American historical narrative.”
 

About Chinese Historical Society of America
The Chinese Historical Society of America is the oldest organization in the country dedicated to the interpretation, promotion, and preservation of the social, cultural and political history and contributions of the Chinese in America. CHSA pursues this mission through exhibitions, publications, and educational and public programs in the CHSA Museum and Learning Center, a landmark Julia Morgan-designed building (formerly the Chinatown YWCA) located at 965 Clay Street, San Francisco.
 

Ten Percent. TV Listing. September – October 2016

Ten Percent

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Ten Percent. TV Listing. September – October 2016

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Episode # 326
Wednesday, September 21, 7pm
Rebroadcast: Thursday — Tuesday September 22 – 27, 11:30am & 10:30pm
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David Perry interviews Kirk Frederick author of the book Write That Down! The Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce.

Episode # 327
Wednesday, September 28, 7pm
Rebroadcast: Thursday – Tuesday, September 29 – October 4, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 1 – 2, 10:30pm
David Perry speaks with Zoe Elton, director of programming for the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival. Mr Perry also interviews The Honorable Mayor of San Francisco Edwin Lee.

Episode # 328
Wednesday, October 5, 7pm
Rebroadcast: Thursday – Tuesday, October 6 – 11, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 8 – 9, 10:30pm
David Perry welcomes John Manuel-Andriote, author of the award winning book Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America and his first children’s book Wilhelmina Goes Wandering.

Episode # 329
Wednesday, October 12, 7pm
Rebroadcast: Thursday – Tuesday, October 13 – 18, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 15 – 16, 10:30pm
David Perry welcomes John Cunningham, Executive Director of National AIDS Memorial Grove celebrating its 25th anniversary. David Perry also chats with Brenda Laribee Principal of BL Fund Development Consulting

Episode # 330
Wednesday, October 19, 7pm
Rebroadcast: Thursday – Tuesday, October 20 – 25, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 22 – 23, 10:30pm
David Perry speaks with Matt O’Grady, Principal of O’Grady Consulting. Mr Perry also chats with Juicy Liu, the reigning Miss GAPA of 2016

Episode # 331
Wednesday, October 26, 7pm
Rebroadcast: Thursday – Tuesday, October 27 – November 1, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 29 – 30, 10:30pm
David Perry interviews Ned Atkins, Marketing Producer of Upload VR. David Perry also speaks with Y’Anad Burrell, founder and creative director of Fashion On The Square.

Ten Percent is also available 24/7 through the “On Demand” Feature through your Comcast Cable Network. Choose “Get Local” and “Comcast Hometown” to access Ten Percent. Past shows may also be viewed online at www.comcasthometown.com.

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About Ten Percent:

Comcast Hometown Network (CHN), Comcast’s regional cable network covering Northern and Central California, continues its commitment to quality original programming with Ten Percent, a weekly interview series that focuses on lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender (LGBT) issues. The half-hour show, created and hosted by long-time San Francisco media professional David Perry, airs on Channel 104 and is available to all Comcast digital cable customers throughout Northern and Central California. Each episode will then be available online at www.comcasthometown.com as well as on Comcast’s popular ON DEMAND platform, which is free to Comcast digital customers.  To view Ten Percent ON DEMAND, Comcast Digital Cable customers can tune to Channel 1 on their Digital Cable lineup or press the ON DEMAND button on their remote control, then click on the “Get Local” section, then click on “Comcast Hometown.”

“I jokingly call the show ‘Charlie Rose for the LGBT world,” said David Perry, Producer/Host of Ten Percent. “We may be only ten percent of the general population, in round numbers, but our issues are one hundred percent front-and-center in today’s world. Whether it’s the fight for marriage equality or debates about gay clergy or the right to serve openly in uniform, our issues are reflective of the world at large.”

“David has a well-known and unique voice that bridges many communities,” said Jason Holmes, Executive Producer at Comcast Hometown Network. “David’s talents and the launch of Ten Percent further enhance Comcast’s commitment to our communities and Comcast Hometown Network’s compelling, community-based regional programming,”

Law of the Jungle Applied To Donald Trump in Viral Video Satire:

Casino Don

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Law of the Jungle Applied To Donald Trump in Viral Video Satire:

“Casino Don: Make the Jungle Great Again.”

 

Educator, Author, and Filmmaker John D. Murphy Thinks the Election of the Casino Titan is a Deadly Gamble with the Future of America.

16 September 2016 – San Francisco, CA: With less than seven weeks until election day, John D. Murphy believes he captured the essence of the Trump candidacy for president by dubbing him “Casino Don.” “Donald Trump has gambled with other people’s money his entire career, and his behavior as the Republican presidential candidate portends that, if elected, he will gamble with the lives of all Americans.”

Murphy penned and produced his homage “to our high quality presidential campaign,” starring a proboscis monkey he christened “Casino Don.” Framed in nine short political advertisements: “I’m Casino Don and I approve of this message,” Casino Don bloviates on the pressing issues of the day. Among those are the following:

Immigration: “I will deport all Meer Cats and put an end to their radical voyeurism.”

Guns: “Every gun will have a breathalyzer to make sure you’re legally drunk before you shoot.”

Casino Don University: “Not having a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Terrorism: “I will drop a million pornographic magazines in Syria and Iraq. ISIS will be so busy strangling the monkey, the war will be over in a week.”

Tongue-in-cheek, Murphy allows: “We share virtually the same DNA as our simian ancestors, and the banana is the favorite fruit of homo sapiens. Murphy, 70 (he and Trump born same year) is a founder of the University of Phoenix, then exacting critic in his book: Mission Forsaken: The University of Phoenix Affair with Wall Street. Murphy is also the filmmaker of the award-winning feature Valley of the Heart’s Delight about a 1933 San Jose, California lynching politically engineered by the then governor of California, James “Sunny Jim,” Rolph.

Humor aside, Murphy asserts this election must taken seriously. “Whether or not Hillary Clinton would be our first choice for president, a vote for the second choice is the foundation for the profound disintegration of America’s role as the economic and political leader of the free world.”

Casino Don: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9-odlQ_kbVjvPHeHaj0ZQ

Blue Willow Systems Highlights Innovative Wearable Technology for Elders

Blue Willow Systems

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Blue Willow Systems Highlights Innovative Wearable Technology for Elders
Debuts at National Investment Center (NIC) in Washington, DC

14 September 2016–Washington, DC: “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old,” famously said George Burns. Also, as you get older, sometimes you may not be able to prevent a fall. However, thanks to the innovative new Blue Willow System (www.bluewillowsystems.com), the danger from falls can be drastically reduced. Just as importantly, if your beloved George or Gracie does fall, help is on the way: instantly, automatically and specific to their needs.

“Blue Willow Systems is a strikingly innovate disruptor in the senior wearable health systems space,” said Vikram Devdas, Founder and CEO of Blue Willow Systems. Devdas founded the company after the tragic loss of his father due to an undetected fall. As he learned more about the issue, the highly-regarded computer engineer and successful entrepreneur, found that undetected falls account for a significant proportion of the hospitalizations of seniors in senior care communities. However, he was surprised to learn that new technologies weren’t being used to solve the problem, and decided to change this. The result, Blue Willow Systems, is an innovative fall detection and alert system designed to allow seniors’ facilities to automatically monitor the health and location of their residents using a variety of wearable and non-wearable sensor devices.

“Previous technologies required the wearer to pull a string,” Devdas continues. “What if your mother has a stroke and is incapacitated, or your grandfather has a heart attack and is unable to move? The automatic features of geo sensing in the Blue Willow device make previous technologies obsolete. Our patented technology is the future of senior and disability care delivered now: safely, securely and via the cloud.”

Blue Willow Systems makes fall detection and health monitoring into an easy-to-implement solution. Its innovative, cost-effective system provides significant benefits to meet all the challenges of helping seniors to stay independent:

“Blue Willow has cracked the  detection and elopement problem,” said Steve Moran of the respected Senior Housing Forum. “Blue Willow Systems has figured out how to take advantage of technology and capabilities.  They have created the system you have been looking for.”

“We are very excited to get our SaaS based platform for senior safety care to market,” said Richard Heaton, Blue Willow Systems CTO & COO, noting that the company has already started to install the Blue Willow System in care facilities in both the US and Canada.  “This is ground breaking technology in senior care and we are ready to share it with the world.”  

• Provides an integrated and modern platform: Blue Willow Systems offers an end-to-end solution that uses wearables and sensors within a resident’s living space, and sends information instantly to mobile and desktop dashboards for caregivers and operators.

• Cloud-based delivery proves ample mobility and flexibility: Multiple locations and on-the-go staff members require a solution that can be managed from anywhere, at any time. Blue Willow Systems is cloud-based, so you can access your data and tools whenever you need them.

• SaaS model gives you affordability and just-right functionality: No need to purchase an expensive software solution that’s packed with features you don’t use-not to mention getting hit with fees for upgrades and support. Software-as-a-service allows you to buy only what you need, making it an extremely budget-friendly option that still has all the functionality you require.

• Automatic monitoring, reporting, and alerts give you real-time insights: Fall prevention and health monitoring are a 24/7/365 responsibility, but few organizations can staff up to those levels. Now there’s no need. With Blue Willow Systems, you have always-on monitoring, which issues alerts when risks are detected. You also have reports that can give you insights on trends and issues worth watching.

“I am very excited about how this is designed, with older individuals for older individuals,” said Dr. Christy Lane, Professor at Stanford University’s Wearable Health Lab. “It is a vital tool for care situations with a variety of sensors for fall detection, location detection, monitoring and messaging to staff and families.”

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Leonard Iniguez Joins San Mateo County Event Center Board

San Mateo County

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Leonard Iniguez Joins San Mateo County Event Center Board

Experienced Equestrian and Livestock Professional Brings Experience and Fresh Outlook to
San Mateo County Event Center and San Mateo County Fair

www.smeventcenter.com
www.sanmateocountyfair.com -# SMCF2017

 

6 September 2016 – San Mateo, CA: Leonard Iniguez, well-known and widely respected equestrian and livestock professional, has been named to the Board of Directors for the San Mateo Exposition and Fair Association.

“Leonard is dedicated, compassionate and committed to public service within his community,” said Jonathan Gervais, President of the Board. “He brings a wealth of knowledge and we are very pleased to have him join us as a Board member.”

A member of the San Mateo County Fair Livestock Advisory Group and manager of the Fair’s the Junior Horse Show, Iniguez is well known in the County Future Farmers of America and 4-H communities. A native of San Francisco, Iniguez has been a resident of San Mateo County for 40 years, having lived in Brisbane and now Pacifica.

“From a young age I’ve had a love for horses which led me to pursue a career as a professional horse racing jockey,” said Iniguez who has ridden at Bay Meadows and other tracks around the country. “When a life threatening accident ended my career in 1986, I pursued a career in the nonprofit sector, working with at risk youth and troubled teens.”

Iniguez’s volunteer and community experience includes serving with the United Way of the Bay Area, the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury, the San Mateo County Drug Abuse Advisory Board, San Mateo County Heart Association School Task Force, San Mateo Youth and Family Assistance and the Mexican American Correctional Association. He is a long-time member of the San Francisco Horsemen’s Association, having served three terms as president, in addition to service with the California State Horsemen’s Association and the Brisbane Lions Club.

The San Mateo County Event Center is a premier destination venue and hosts over one-million visitors annually, providing over 200,000 square feet of the most centrally located event space in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit www.smeventcenter.com for venue information.

The San Mateo County Fair — “Where Tradition Meets Innovation” — is The Peninsula’s most popular, community event for family fun and entertainment: June 10 – 18, 2017. Visit www.sanmateocountyfair.com often for regular updates, Contests, schedules, promotions, and information.

Our mission is to build a vibrant campus providing a diverse experience to educate and inspire our community while showcasing our rich agricultural heritage through the San Mateo County Fair. The Board will use creative, innovative and fiscally responsible stewardship to expand and enhance the physical assets of the Event Center, providing a solid foundation for implementing new concepts and experiences for the community.