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Wren Rovers advanced to the next round with a 4-2 penalty shootout win over tital rivals Longridge Town. The game finished with 10 players on each side and Longridge equalized in the last minute
Student activists from CT Students for a Dream (C4D) and supporters rally to demand justice in higher education for undocumented students with legislation that equalizes access to student-generated funds: State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut, Thursday, April 13, 2017.
"In Connecticut, public colleges and universities set aside a proportion of tuition revenue to be used as ‘institutional aid’ to assist students with a demonstrated financial need. However, immigrant students who have grown up in CT and have graduated high school here are not eligible for this student-generated aid. All Connecticut students, including undocumented students, pay tuition and therefore contribute towards this institutional aid pool of funds. Yet Connecticut does not allow immigrant students access to institutional aid themselves. This aid is student funded, we believe all students who pay tuition should be be eligible to receive it.”
Vancouver Skylines - 6 (of 28) - Olympus dSLR E-410 with Zuiko Digital 1:3.5-5.6 14-42mm (4/3 mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
An audience member directs a question to Caroline McCarthy, Editor of Trends and Insights for Google, Luc Carl, Running Coach and Author, Pat Jeffers, Marketer at Nike, Robin Arzon, Runner and Evangelist from ShutUpAndRun, Robby Abaya, Software Engineer at Zynga and Meghan Loftus, Senior Multimedia Editor at Runners World as they participate in the "Running: Social Implications of the Global Equalizer" panel at the Lifestyle and Culture Hub at Hearst Tower as part of Social Media Week in New York February 20, 2013. INSIDER IMAGES/Andrew Kelly (United States)
Financial District, Montgomery Street, San Francisco, August 2007
The first "building" on this lot was actually a wooden ship. Its hull was eventually incorporated into the building. By 1853, a brick building occupied the lot and in 1893 the Canessa Printing Company was established. Luigi Mastropasqua rehabilitated the building after the 1906 earthquake, adding the round windows and skylights among other details.
This was later the site of the Black Cat Cafe
Black Cat Bar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Established 1906, 1933
Street address 710 Montgomery St
City San Francisco
State California
Country United States
The Black Cat Bar or Black Cat Café was a bar in San Francisco, California. It originally opened in 1906 and closed in 1921. The Black Cat re-opened in 1933 and operated for another 30 years. During its second run of operation, it was a hangout for Beats and bohemians but over time began attracting more and more of a gay clientele, and becoming a flashpoint for what was then known as the homophile movement, a precursor to the gay liberation movement that gained momentum in the 1960s.
The Black Cat was at the center of a legal fight that was one of the earliest court cases to establish legal protections for gay people in the United States. Despite this victory, continued pressure from law enforcement agencies eventually forced the bar's closure in 1964.
Origin
The Black Cat opened in 1906, shortly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In the early years, the bar was located in the basement of the Athens Hotel at 56 Mason Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. This building still stands today and is now the Bristol Hotel. When entrepreneur Charles Ridley acquired the bar in 1911, he turned it into a showplace for vaudeville-style acts. Over the next several years, Ridley and the Black Cat came under increased police scrutiny as a possible center of prostitution. In 1921, the bar lost its dance permit and closed down.
Beats and bohemians
With the repeal of Prohibition, the Black Cat re-opened in 1933 at 710 Montgomery Street, again under Ridley's proprietorship. Sol Stoumen bought the bar in the 1940s. In the early years of Stoumen's ownership, the Black Cat was a center for the bohemian and Beat crowd. William Saroyan and John Steinbeck were known to frequent the establishment, and part of Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road is set in the bar.
Growing gay clientele
While the Beats continued to congregate at the Black Cat into the 1950s, in the years following World War II, more and more gay people began patronizing it. The varied crowds mixed and gay Beat poet Allen Ginsberg described the Black Cat as "the best gay bar in America. It was totally open, bohemian, San Francisco...and everybody went there, heterosexual and homosexual....All the gay screaming queens would come, the heterosexual gray flannel suit types, longshoremen. All the poets went there." By 1951, the bar was placed on the Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board's list of establishments which military personnel were forbidden to enter.
The bar featured live entertainers, the best known of whom was José Sarria. Sarria, who began as a waiter, wore drag and entertained the crowd by singing parodies of popular torch songs. Eventually he performed three to four shows a night, along with a regular Sunday afternoon show, with Sarria performing full arias. His specialty was a re-working of Bizet's opera Carmen, set in modern-day San Francisco. Sarria as Carmen would prowl through popular cruising area Union Square. The audience cheered "Carmen" on as she dodged the vice squad and made her escape.
Tables were pushed together to form a makeshift stage for live entertainment. Sarria encouraged patrons to be as open and honest as possible, exhorting the clientele, "There's nothing wrong with being gay–the crime is getting caught," and "United we stand, divided they catch us one by one." At closing time, he would lead patrons in singing "God Save Us Nelly Queens" to the tune of "God Save the Queen". Sometimes he would take the crowd outside to sing the final verse to the men across the street in jail, who had been arrested in raids earlier in the night.
Speaking of this ritual in the film Word is Out (1977), gay journalist George Mendenhall said:
"It sounds silly, but if you lived at that time and had the oppression coming down from the police department and from society, there was nowhere to turn...and to be able to put your arms around other gay men and to be able to stand up and sing 'God Save Us Nelly Queens'...we were really not saying 'God Save Us Nelly Queens.' We were saying 'We have our rights, too.'"
Sarria became the first openly gay candidate in the United States to run for public office, running in 1961 for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Sarria almost won by default. On the last day for candidates to file petitions, city officials realized that there were fewer than five candidates running for the five open seats, which would have assured Sarria a seat. By the end of the day, 34 candidates had filed. Sarria garnered some 6,000 votes, shocking political pundits and setting in motion the idea that a gay voting bloc could wield real power in city politics.[11] As Sarria put it, "From that day on, nobody ran for anything in San Francisco without knocking on the door of the gay community."
Police harassment
In 1948, the San Francisco Police Department and the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, in response to the Black Cat's increasing homosexual clientele, began a campaign of harassment against the bar and its patrons. Bar owner Stoumen was charged with such crimes as "keeping a disorderly house" and the State Board of Equalization suspended the bar's liquor license indefinitely. In response and on principle, Stoumen, who was heterosexual, took the state to court. In 1951, the California Supreme Court, in Stoumen v. Reilly (37 Cal.2d 713)[13] ruled that "[i]n order to establish 'good cause' for suspension of plaintiff's license, something more must be shown than that many of his patrons were homosexuals and that they used his restaurant and bar as a meeting place." This was one of the earliest legal affirmations of the rights of gay people in the United States. The court qualified its opinion, however, by stating that ABC might still close gay bars with "proof of the commission of illegal or immoral acts on the premises."
In response to this legal victory and based on the "illegal or immoral acts" language of the opinion, the state passed a constitutional amendment creating the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC). The California State Assembly in 1955 passed a law authorizing broad powers for the ABC to shut down any "resort [for] sexual perverts." The Black Cat was shut down under this authority, along with a number of other establishments. In a test case involving an Oakland bar, Vallerga v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the California Supreme Court struck down this new law as unconstitutional..
This decision was not a complete victory, as the court noted that had the ABC's revocation been based on "reports of women dancing with other women and women kissing other women" it might have upheld the law. Homosexuals, therefore, had won the right to assemble but only if they agreed not to touch.
Police and city officials responded to the increasing visibility of the Black Cat and other gay bars in the city, and the Black Cat's success in court, by increasingly cracking down, staging more frequent raids and mass arrests. One favorite tactic was to arrest drag queens, since impersonating a member of the opposite sex was, at the time, a crime. Sarria responded by passing out labels for the drag queens to wear reading "I am a boy" so it could not be claimed they were impersonating women.
Closure
By 1963, following some 15 years of unrelenting pressure from the police and the ABC, Stoumen decided he was no longer able financially to sustain the fight. The cost of his long legal battle was more than $38,000. Sarria tried to enlist the owners of the city's other gay bars to help Stoumen pay his legal bills, but none offered any assistance. The ABC lifted the bar's liquor license in 1963, the night before its annual Halloween party. After a final defiant Halloween celebration at which only non-alcoholic beverages were served and an attempt to survive on food and soft drink sales, the Black Cat closed down for good in February 1964.
The site is now the location of Nico's, a high-end restaurant. On December 15, 2007, a plaque commemorating the Black Cat and its place in San Francisco history was placed at the site.
From SFGate:
How one SF bar, a Holocaust survivor and his lawyer helped change the tides on gay rights in America in 1951
Herb Caen once dubbed it the "Temple of the True Bohemia."
www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/slideshow/How-one-SF-bar-a-Holoc...
Vancouver Skylines - 18 (of 28) - Olympus dSLR E-410 with Zuiko Digital 1:3.5-5.6 14-42mm (4/3 mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
It was goals-a-plenty in this West Lancashire League Premier Match with Lostock taking a 24th minute lead but going in at half time level after a late goal. Lostock regained the lead early in the second with Oxley getting his brace but 2 goals from Whitehaven took them in front. Matty Bulcock fired in an equalizer from distance to level once again. LSG finished the game with 9 players after late dismissals for Wilkinson and Riding.
The Dyson cars looked fabulous in BP green and white livery last year, but this one's even better in "classic" Castrol red, green and white.
Also like last year, I found it really hard to take good photos of it - something about its shape, or the exposure on the whites, was causing me problems all day long. This shot has been "helped" with rather a lot of levels and colour monkeying, as well as a touch of local equalization to add some definition to what is otherwise a very soft shot.
Mario Andretti Straight, Mobil 1 Grand Prix of Mosport 2010. 1/200th sec., f/7.1.
It was goals-a-plenty in this West Lancashire League Premier Match with Lostock taking a 24th minute lead but going in at half time level after a late goal. Lostock regained the lead early in the second with Oxley getting his brace but 2 goals from Whitehaven took them in front. Matty Bulcock fired in an equalizer from distance to level once again. LSG finished the game with 9 players after late dismissals for Wilkinson and Riding.
After shootouts Meveščak wins a point against Austrian Linz...
Medveščak had a lead 3:1 after the first period, with goals from Morley (11', 13') and Netik (19'), while Brod (16') scored for guests. Linz equalized through Lebler (25') and Locke (28'). Zagreb players scored for the lead again through Olden (38'), but only a minute before the end of the second period Lukas equalized again. The third period and overtime went with no goals, and in shootout the Linz goalkeeper Ouzas excelled and defended all three shots from Medveščak players, and Leber was the only one to score for the win.
»It's a shame, I am sorry that we missed the win. Everything was on our side, but we obviously still have a problem with powerplay. It started well, but Linz came back quickly and didn't surrender to the end«, commented Sašo Rajsar, and added: »We don't have much time until the next game. We must do the work to get even better and revenge to Villach for the away loss from the season start, in front of our supporters.«
The Bears hold the 9th position with 12 points, and their next game is already on Tuesday, in Zagreb, vs. Villach (7.15 p.m.)
KHL Medveščak Zagreb –EC LIWEST Blak Wings Linz 4:5 SO
(3:1, 1:3, 0:0, 0:0, 0:1)
EBEL, The Ice Hall of Dom sportova, 4789 spectators
Referees: TRILAR V., ZRNIC M.; PAGON N., ZGONC G.
GOALS:
1:0 MZA Morley T. (10:04 / Poyhonen M.,Privitera A. / EQ)
2:0 MZA Morley T. (12:12 / Olden S. / EQ)
2:1 EHL Broda J. (15:54 / Dowell J.,Hofer F. / PP)
3:1 MZA Netik T. (18:14 / Tikkanen H.,Morley T. / 5:3 PP)
3:2 EHL Lebler B. (24:08 / Locke C.,D'Aversa J. / EQ)
3:3 EHL Locke C. (27:51 / Lukas R.,Lebler B. / EQ)
4:3 MZA Olden S. (37:21 / Morley T.,Jankovic I. / EQ)
4:4 EHL Lukas R. (38:58 / Hofer F.,Locke C. / EQ)
4:5 EHL Lebler B. (65:00 / GWS)
SHOOTS ON GOAL: 42- 43
PENALTIES: 12 min- 29 min
MEDVEŠČAK: MacIntyre D. / Privitera A., Cepon M., Poyhonen M., Ficur B., Tikkanen H., Kudelka T., Kegalj B. / Brine D., Zanoski T., Simsic N., Olden S., Mahbod S., Jarcov L., Jankovic I., Koskiranta T., Netik T., Rajsar S., Morley T., Aviani M.
LIWEST BW LINZ: Janny F. / D'Aversa J., Dorion M., Kragl G., Freunschlag S., Kirchschläger E., Fechtig B., Lukas R., Piche S. / Lebler B., Ober L., Schofield R., Franz D., Broda J., Lukas P., Dowell J., Hofer F., Spannring P., Gaffal S., Moderer K., Locke C.
McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II of VMA-214 "Blacksheep" from MCAS Yuma seen at the 2016 MCAS Miramar Air Show held September 23-25, 2016. Note the GAU-12 25mm "Equalizer" cannon pod on the lead aircraft.
E - Equalizer, Equalization
Equalization, equalisation or EQ is the process of using passive or active electronic elements or digital algorithms for the purpose of altering (originally flattening) the frequency response characteristics of a system
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Dikembe Mutombo-NBA Legend, dancing with the students of Sitaram Mill Compound BMC School, Lower Parel, during NBA, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings Legacy Project / AIF's Digital Equalizer program in Mumbai photographed on October 5, 2019. Photograph by Abhijit Bhatlekar
Un-equalize Me - Sony A200 with MC Variozenitar-K 1:3.5-4.5 35-105 mm zoom - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
It was goals-a-plenty in this West Lancashire League Premier Match with Lostock taking a 24th minute lead but going in at half time level after a late goal. Lostock regained the lead early in the second with Oxley getting his brace but 2 goals from Whitehaven took them in front. Matty Bulcock fired in an equalizer from distance to level once again. LSG finished the game with 9 players after late dismissals for Wilkinson and Riding.
Detlef Schrempf-NBA Legend and Dikembe Mutombo-NBA Legend, dancing with the students of Sitaram Mill Compound BMC School, Lower Parel, during NBA, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings Legacy Project / AIF's Digital Equalizer program in Mumbai photographed on October 5, 2019. Photograph by Abhijit Bhatlekar
At Brewery Ommegang, a 35,000-gallon equalizer receives waste from the beer-making process and feeds into a 150,000 gallon aeration basin in Cooperstown, N.Y., on May 21, 2015. In the aeration basin, microorganisms break down organics to remove nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus before water is discharged from the plant. “We consider wastewater the front of the train at the building. Without wastewater we can’t do anything. We can’t brew; we can’t package,” said Joe Poliseno, brewing manager at Brewery Ommegang. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Detlef Schrempf-NBA Legend and Dikembe Mutombo-NBA Legend, dancing with the students of Sitaram Mill Compound BMC School, Lower Parel, during NBA, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings Legacy Project / AIF's Digital Equalizer program at in Mumbai photographed on October 5, 2019. Photograph by Abhijit Bhatlekar