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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Als an einem Abend Anfang November etwa 30 Tänzerinnen ihre ersten Gehaltsschecks vom Penthouse Club erhielten, erfasste den beliebten Stripclub in North Beach eine Welle der Panik. „Ich habe meine in der Umkleidekabine geöffnet und war schockiert“, sagte eine ehemalige Penthouse-Tänzerin, die als Jane identifiziert werden wollte. „Alle anderen Mädchen sind auch ausgeflippt. Meine Freundinnen &#8230;</p>
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<p>Als an einem Abend Anfang November etwa 30 Tänzerinnen ihre ersten Gehaltsschecks vom Penthouse Club erhielten, erfasste den beliebten Stripclub in North Beach eine Welle der Panik.</p>
<p>„Ich habe meine in der Umkleidekabine geöffnet und war schockiert“, sagte eine ehemalige Penthouse-Tänzerin, die als Jane identifiziert werden wollte. „Alle anderen Mädchen sind auch ausgeflippt. Meine Freundinnen und ich haben in diesem Moment entschieden, dass es für uns vorbei ist. Das war der Tropfen, der das Fass zum Überlaufen brachte.“</p>
<p>Die Tänzerinnen waren früher als unabhängige Auftragnehmerinnen eingestuft und waren es gewohnt, jeden Abend nach Ende ihrer Schichten mit Bargeld – oft Hunderten von Dollar – aus den Clubtüren zu gehen. Das änderte sich schlagartig, als Clubs in der ganzen Stadt begannen, ein Urteil des Obersten Gerichtshofs von Kalifornien vom April in einer anderen Branche durchzusetzen, das neue Standards für die Bestimmung setzte, ob Arbeiter als Angestellte eingestuft werden sollten oder nicht.</p>
<p>Die Entscheidung hat die Gig Economy erschüttert, wirkt sich aber auch auf unerwartete Bereiche aus, etwa auf Friseursalons und die Erotikbranche, in denen Arbeitnehmer traditionell nicht als Angestellte gelten.</p>
<p>In den örtlichen Clubs führt die Umstellung auf Angestelltenstatus bei Tänzerinnen zu einem Exodus; viele von ihnen verlassen die Lokale in San Francisco.</p>
<p>„Das ganze Geschäft wird komplett ruiniert. Der Sinn des Stripper-Daseins besteht darin, dass man schnell an Geld kommt, niemand weiß, wie man es bekommt, es wird nicht dokumentiert und es wird einem nicht weggenommen“, sagte eine alleinerziehende Mutter, die ihren Namen als Darla angab und kürzlich ebenfalls ihre Verbindung zum Penthouse Club abgebrochen hat. Wie andere Tänzerinnen, mit denen der San Francisco Examiner für diesen Artikel sprach, bat sie aus Angst vor Vergeltungsmaßnahmen darum, anonym zu bleiben.</p>
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<p>Menschen gehen am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2018, am Penthouse Club am Broadway in North Beach vorbei. (Kevin N. Hume/SF Examiner)</p>
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<p>Die Clubbesitzer sagen, dass die Änderungen auch für sie Kosten verursachen.</p>
<p>Auf einem Mitte Oktober in der Umkleidekabine der Tänzerinnen des Gold Clubs im Viertel South of Market angebrachten Schild hieß es, der Club sei „der Ansicht, er schütze Ihr Recht und Ihre Freiheit, ein unabhängiger Auftragnehmer zu sein“.</p>
<p>„Aufgrund der Klagen und der anhaltenden Forderungen der klagenden Tänzerinnen und ihrer Anwälte ist der Club nun jedoch per Gerichtsbeschluss gezwungen, die Möglichkeit der unabhängigen Auftragnehmerin abzuschaffen und alle Tänzerinnen zu Angestellten des Clubs zu verpflichten“, hieß es auf dem Schild.</p>
<p>Axel Sang, Marketingdirektor von BSC, bestätigte in einer E-Mail an den Examiner, dass die Tänzerinnen früher Vertragspartner gewesen seien, jetzt aber „Clubangestellte seien, die einen Stundenlohn und eine Provision auf Tanzverkäufe erhalten“.</p>
<p>„Die von BSC verwalteten Clubs erhalten jetzt zusätzlich zum Stundenlohn die entsprechenden Lohnsteuern, Arbeitslosenunterstützung, Arbeiterunfallversicherung, Kosten für Healthy San Francisco, Kosten für Affordable Care Insurance und Krankengeld für mehrere Hundert neue Entertainer“, schrieb er.</p>
<p>Er schätzte, dass 200 Tänzerinnen ihre Stelle in BSC-Clubs, darunter Penthouse und Gold Club, seit der Änderung in Kraft getreten sind, und sagte, die Änderung habe „dramatische Auswirkungen auf das Geschäft und die Rentabilität“ gehabt und koste die Clubs „mehrere Millionen Dollar“ pro Jahr.</p>
<p>„Ein erheblicher Rückgang der Zahl der auftretenden Künstler sowie eine deutliche Steigerung der Lohn- und sonstigen Kosten machen es sehr schwierig, Gewinne zu erzielen“, sagte Sang.</p>
<p>Die Entscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshofs von Kalifornien, die die Änderungen im Unternehmen durchsetzte, ging auf eine Klage von zwei Fahrern von Dynamex zurück, einem Unternehmen für Same-Day-Lieferungen und Logistik, das seine Fahrer 2004 zu unabhängigen Vertragspartnern machte. Nach dem Urteil können Arbeiter nun als Angestellte betrachtet werden, wenn sie ihre Arbeit im Rahmen des normalen Geschäftsbetriebs des Unternehmens verrichten, sagte David Peer, ein Arbeitsrechtsanwalt in Carlsbad, der über das Dynamex-Urteil geschrieben hat.</p>
<p>„Wenn Sie einen Stripclub betreiben, würden Sie denken, dass die Tänzerinnen ihre Arbeit im üblichen Rahmen verrichten“, sagte Peer. „Wenn die Clubbesitzer auf Nummer sicher gehen wollen, sollten sie auf jeden Fall den Mindestlohn zahlen und die Lohn- und Arbeitszeitregeln einhalten, die die meisten Organisationen befolgen, wenn sie einen Mitarbeiter einstellen.“</p>
<p>Laut Harold Lichten von Lichten &#038; Liss-Riordan, einer Anwaltskanzlei in Boston, die Uber-Fahrer vertritt, die behaupten, das Mitfahrunternehmen habe sie falsch eingestuft, gab es bereits vor dem Dynamex-Urteil Klagen wegen unsachgemäßer Einstufung exotischer Tänzerinnen.</p>
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<p>Silhouetten exotischer Tänzerinnen vor Centerfolds am Broadway in North Beach am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2018. (Kevin N. Hume/SF Examiner)</p>
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<p>„Wenn Sie jemanden fälschlicherweise als unabhängigen Auftragnehmer einstufen, müssen Sie weder Sozialversicherungsbeiträge noch Arbeitslosengeld, noch Mindestlohn oder Überstunden zahlen“, sagte Lichten und fügte hinzu, dass die Anreize für Unternehmen „unglaublich groß“ seien, „Menschen falsch einzustufen, weil sie so viel Geld auf Kosten der Arbeitnehmer sparen.“</p>
<p>Lichten sagte, das Dynamex-Urteil sei ein Hebel im laufenden Rechtsstreit mit Uber, und merkte an, es dürfte auch den Tänzerinnen zugute kommen, die nun Anspruch auf den gleichen Schutz hätten wie alle Arbeitnehmer.</p>
<p>„Die Sorge ist, dass einige Unternehmen die Beträge, die sie ihnen zahlen, senken könnten, um ihre Verluste auszugleichen“, sagte Lichten. „Das wäre bedauerlich. Aber insgesamt ist es viel besser, Angestellter zu sein, weil man gesetzlichen Schutz genießt.“</p>
<p>Die vom Examiner befragten Tänzerinnen sagten jedoch, dass ihnen die Neueinstufung zwar nun ein Anspruch auf Mindestlohn, Sozialleistungen und die Möglichkeit zur Gewerkschaftsbildung zustieße, sie jedoch mehr Schaden als Nutzen gebracht habe.</p>
<p>„Zwei Wochen lang hatte keines dieser Mädchen einen Scheck über 300 Dollar. Es herrschte große Aufregung. Viele Mädchen packten an diesem Abend ihre Sachen und gingen. Ich war eines dieser Mädchen“, sagte Darla.</p>
<p>„Ich kann für 15 Dollar die Stunde bei McDonald&#39;s arbeiten, muss meine Klamotten nicht ausziehen und muss mir nicht den ganzen Mist anhören, den ich als Tänzerin ertrage“, fügte Darla hinzu und bemerkte, dass alle Penthouse-Tänzer „überlegt haben, zu gehen“.</p>
<p>Die überwiegende Mehrheit der Stripclubs in San Francisco – 10 von 12 – gehören BSC Management oder werden von diesem Unternehmen verwaltet. Die einzigen Ausnahmen sind das Mitchell Brothers O&#39;Farrell Theatre und The Crazy Horse.</p>
<p>Sang sagte, das Unternehmen zahle den Tänzern nicht mehr als den Mindestlohn, da sie „Provisionen auf Tanzverkäufe erhalten, die in den meisten Fällen den Stundenlohn weit übersteigen.“</p>
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<p>Neonschilder für Erotikclubs leuchten am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2018, entlang des Broadway in North Beach. (Kevin N. Hume/SF Examiner)</p>
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<p class="tnt-summary">Die Fakultät und die Studierenden fordern den neuen Kanzler unter neuer Leitung auf, der Verfügbarkeit von Englisch 1A-Kursen Priorität einzuräumen.</p>
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<p class="tnt-summary">Chobani-CEO Hamdi Ulukaya sagte, er beabsichtige, weiterhin Craft Beer vor Ort zu brauen und gleichzeitig die Produktion auszuweiten </p>
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<p class="tnt-summary">In einem offenen Brief erklären KI-Mitarbeiter, dass Unternehmensvereinbarungen und -kulturen sie daran hindern, Sicherheitsbedenken – einschließlich existenzieller Risiken – offen zu diskutieren.</p>
<p>Tänzer sagten jedoch, dass auch die Provisionsstruktur für private Tänze erheblich gekürzt wurde.</p>
<p>Die Richtlinien können von Club zu Club unterschiedlich sein, aber vor der Neueinstufung sagten die Tänzerinnen, dass sie 75 Prozent ihrer Tanzeinnahmen behalten könnten, wenn sie früh genug zu ihrer Schicht kämen – womit sie den Großteil ihres Geldes verdienten.</p>
<p>Eine Tänzerin im Gold Club, die darum gebeten hatte, Mary genannt zu werden, sagte, es sei üblich gewesen, dass Tänzerinnen pro Schicht durchschnittlich Tänze im Wert von etwa 1.000 Dollar verkauften und 750 Dollar behielten.</p>
<p>Im Rahmen der neuen Provisionsstruktur des Gold Clubs behalten die Tänzerinnen allerdings nach eigenen Angaben von den ersten 150 Dollar, die sie bei Privattänzen verkaufen, nichts ein, von den nächsten 250 Dollar, die sie verkaufen, 40 Prozent und von den darüber hinausgehenden Verkäufen 60 Prozent.</p>
<p>Einige Tänzer sagten, sie müssten für die Anmietung des Privatraums zusätzlich eine Gebühr von 100 Dollar bezahlen.</p>
<p>Tänzerinnen im Gold Club sagten, dass sie für den ersten verkauften Privattanz einer halben Stunde jetzt nur noch 60 Dollar bekommen.</p>
<p>„Wenn ich einen Kunden 400 Dollar zahlen lasse und davon nur 60 Dollar sehe, ist das für mich unrealistisch“, sagte Mary. „Wir wollen unseren Job machen, und früher bestand unser Geschäft darin, Tänze zu verkaufen. Und wir müssen immer noch unseren Lebensunterhalt verdienen. Aber wo ist gleichzeitig der Anreiz?“</p>
<p>Einige Tänzerinnen befürchteten außerdem, dass sie als Angestellte nicht mehr auswählen könnten, welche Kunden sie bedienen.</p>
<p>Joe Carouba, ein Eigentümer von BSC, wollte wegen eines laufenden Rechtsstreits nicht mit dem Examiner über diesen Artikel sprechen. In einer Aussage im Oktober im Zusammenhang mit einer von Olivia Doe eingereichten Klage sagte er jedoch, er sei „fest davon überzeugt“, dass Tänzer unabhängige Auftragnehmer sein sollten, damit sie mehr Kontrolle darüber haben, welche Kunden sie bedienen und welche nicht.</p>
<p>„Ich finde, sie sollten ihre Sexualität selbst bestimmen, sie sollten ihren Körper selbst bestimmen“, sagte er. „Der Unterschied besteht natürlich darin, dass man als Angestellter nicht wählen kann, für wen man auftritt, als unabhängiger Auftragnehmer kann man hingegen wählen, wie man auftritt, für wen man auftritt und auf welchem ​​Niveau man sich wohlfühlt.“</p>
<p>Tänzer gaben an, dass viele von ihnen schlecht informiert waren und von der Einführung der neuen Verträge überrascht wurden.</p>
<p>Jane sagte, sie sei eine der ersten Penthouse-Tänzerinnen gewesen, die inmitten großer Verwirrung den neuen Vertrag unterzeichnet habe, und sie habe weder eine Kopie noch Zeit bekommen, ihn durchzusehen.</p>
<p>Im Gold Club, so Mary, rief das Management Tänzerinnen mitten in ihrer Schicht ins Büro, immer noch in Bikinis und 20 Zentimeter hohen Absätzen, und forderte sie auf, sich einen neuen Vertrag auf einem Computerbildschirm anzusehen und ihn sofort zu unterschreiben. Einige Tänzerinnen hätten während ihrer Schicht getrunken, sagte sie.</p>
<p>„Wir hatten keine Gelegenheit, die Verträge vorher anzusehen oder uns Papierkopien zu besorgen“, sagte Mary. „Es gab wirklich keine Kommunikation, keine Transparenz.“</p>
<p>Sang bestritt die Vorwürfe und sagte, die Kameras seien installiert worden, um die Vereine vor juristischen Einwänden im Zusammenhang mit den neuen Verträgen zu schützen.</p>
<p>„Es gab deutliche Schilder, die darauf hinwiesen, dass die Bereiche per Video und Audio überwacht wurden. Jede Vertragsunterzeichnung auf Video und Audio zeigt deutlich, dass jeder Entertainer den Vertrag vor der Unterzeichnung vollständig lesen musste“, schrieb Sang in einer E-Mail. „Vor laufender Kamera wurde jedem Entertainer eindeutig eine Kopie der Verträge ausgehändigt, die er unterzeichnet hatte.“</p>
<p>Tänzerinnen sagten, die Moral sei in Clubs in der ganzen Stadt im Keller. Viele sind unzufrieden damit, wie das Management die Veränderungen angekündigt und umgesetzt hat, fürchten aber, ihren Job zu verlieren, wenn sie sich beschweren.</p>
<p>Da BSC praktisch ein Monopol auf die Stripclubs in San Francisco hat, befürchten Tänzerinnen, dass sie nirgendwo anders in der Stadt arbeiten können, wenn sie in einem Club auf die schwarze Liste gesetzt werden.</p>
<p>Während Tänzerinnen im ganzen Land Clubs verklagt haben und behaupten, sie hätten als Angestellte und nicht als unabhängige Auftragnehmer eingestuft werden sollen, sagten diejenigen, die mit dem Examiner sprachen, dass nicht jeder Angestellter sein möchte. Es gibt Vorteile, unabhängige Auftragnehmer zu sein – solange sie tatsächlich als Auftragnehmer behandelt werden.</p>
<p>Mary sagte, dass die Behandlung als Vertragsnehmerin bedeuten würde, dass sie die Tanzgebühren direkt mit den Kunden aushandeln könnte, anstatt dass der Club die Preise festlegt, und dass sie auch die Tage und Zeiten ihrer Arbeit selbst bestimmen könnte. Zuvor konnten Tänzer als Vertragsnehmer zwar die Tage auswählen, an denen sie arbeiteten, aber nicht die Stunden.</p>
<p>„Auftragnehmer sollten Autonomie haben“, sagte sie.</p>
<p>Ein oft angepriesener Vorteil der Anstellung ist der Zugang zu Zusatzleistungen wie Krankenversicherung. Aber um sich dafür zu qualifizieren, müssen die Angestellten genügend Stunden arbeiten, um als Vollzeitkräfte zu gelten – was für die meisten Leute, die in einem Stripclub tanzen, nicht praktikabel ist. Tänzerinnen sagten, selbst drei Tage die Woche zu arbeiten sei körperlich anstrengend.</p>
<p>„Man tut, was man tun muss, um seine Grenzen zu wahren und gleichzeitig dafür zu sorgen, dass die anderen Spaß haben. Das erfordert viel emotionale Arbeit“, sagte Mary. „Ich glaube, die Leute erkennen nicht, dass das der schwierigste Teil unseres Jobs ist. In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung des Strippens wird darüber nicht wirklich gesprochen.“</p>
<p>Aufgrund der drastischen Lohnkürzungen und der Verfügbarkeit von Billigflügen suchen sich manche Tänzer Arbeit außerhalb von San Francisco. Sie reisen ein oder zwei Nächte pro Woche bis nach Las Vegas und Reno, bleiben aber weiterhin in der Stadt.</p>
<p>„Mädchen versuchen verzweifelt, einen Job zu finden, der zu ihrem Lebensstil passt oder mit dem sie zumindest über die Runden kommen“, sagte Jane.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Als etwa 30 Tänzern eines Abends Anfang November die ersten Mitarbeitergehaltsschecks überreicht wurden, die ihnen der Penthouse Club jemals ausgestellt hatte, erfasste eine Welle der Panik den beliebten Stripclub in North Beach. „Ich habe meine in der Umkleidekabine geöffnet und war schockiert“, sagte eine ehemalige Penthouse-Tänzerin, die darum bat, als Jane identifiziert zu werden. „Alle &#8230;</p>
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<p>Als etwa 30 Tänzern eines Abends Anfang November die ersten Mitarbeitergehaltsschecks überreicht wurden, die ihnen der Penthouse Club jemals ausgestellt hatte, erfasste eine Welle der Panik den beliebten Stripclub in North Beach.</p>
<p>„Ich habe meine in der Umkleidekabine geöffnet und war schockiert“, sagte eine ehemalige Penthouse-Tänzerin, die darum bat, als Jane identifiziert zu werden.  „Alle anderen Mädchen sind auch ausgeflippt.  Meine Freunde und ich entschieden sofort, dass wir fertig waren.  Das war der letzte Tropfen, der das Fass zum Überlaufen brachte.“</p>
<p>Früher galten die Tänzer als unabhängige Auftragnehmer und waren es gewohnt, jeden Abend nach Schichtende mit Bargeld – oft Hunderten von Dollar – aus dem Club zu gehen.  Das änderte sich schlagartig, als Clubs in der ganzen Stadt damit begannen, ein Urteil des Obersten Gerichtshofs von Kalifornien vom April in einer unabhängigen Branche durchzusetzen, das neue Maßstäbe für die Bestimmung festlegte, ob Arbeitnehmer als Angestellte eingestuft werden sollten oder nicht.</p>
<p>Die Entscheidung hat die Gig-Economy durcheinandergewirbelt, zeigt aber auch unerwartete Auswirkungen, beispielsweise in Friseursalons und in der Erotikbranche, wo Arbeiter traditionell nicht als Angestellte gelten.</p>
<p>In örtlichen Clubs führt der Schritt, Tänzer in Angestellte umzuwandeln, zu einer Abwanderung, und viele von ihnen verlassen die Einrichtungen in San Francisco.</p>
<p>„Dieses ganze Geschäft wird völlig ruiniert sein.  Der Sinn einer Stripperin besteht darin, dass man hineingeht und schnelles Geld bekommt, niemand weiß, wie man es bekommt, es ist nicht dokumentiert und es wird einem nicht weggenommen“, sagte eine alleinerziehende Mutter, die ihren Namen als Darla angab habe kürzlich die Verbindung zum Penthouse Club abgebrochen.  Wie andere Tänzer, mit denen The San Francisco Examiner für diese Geschichte sprach, bat sie aus Angst vor Vergeltung um Anonymität.</p>
<p>Clubbesitzer sagen, dass die Änderungen auch sie kosten.</p>
<p>Auf einem Schild, das Mitte Oktober in der Umkleidekabine der Tänzer im Gold Club im Viertel South of Market angebracht war, stand, dass der Club „das Gefühl habe, er schütze Ihr Recht und Ihre Freiheit, ein unabhängiger Auftragnehmer zu sein.“</p>
<p>„Aufgrund der Klagen und anhaltenden Forderungen der klagenden Tänzer und ihrer Anwälte ist der Club nun jedoch per Gerichtsbeschluss gezwungen, die Option als unabhängiger Auftragnehmer abzuschaffen und alle Tänzer zu verpflichten, Angestellte des Clubs zu werden“, hieß es auf dem Schild.</p>
<p>Axel Sang, Marketingleiter von BSC, bestätigte in einer E-Mail an den Examiner, dass die Tänzer früher Auftragnehmer waren, jetzt aber „Clubangestellte sind, denen ein Stundenlohn und eine Provision für Tanzverkäufe gezahlt wird“.</p>
<p>„Die von BSC verwalteten Clubs haben jetzt zusätzlich zum Stundenlohn entsprechende Lohnsteuern, Arbeitslosenentschädigung, Arbeiterentschädigung, Kosten für Healthy San Francisco, Kosten für erschwingliche Pflegeversicherung und SF-Krankenurlaubsgeld für mehrere hundert neue Animateure“, schrieb er.</p>
<p>Er schätzte, dass seit der Änderung in BSC-Clubs, darunter Penthouse und Gold Club, 200 Tänzer ihre Jobs gekündigt haben, und sagte, dass die Änderung „dramatische Auswirkungen auf das Geschäft und die Rentabilität“ habe und die Clubs „mehrere Millionen Dollar“ pro Jahr gekostet habe.</p>
<p>„Ein erheblicher Rückgang der Anzahl der auftretenden Entertainer sowie die erheblich gestiegenen Lohn- und sonstigen Kosten machen es sehr schwierig, Gewinne zu erzielen“, sagte Sang.</p>
<p>Die Entscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshofs von Kalifornien, mit der die Veränderungen im Unternehmen vorangetrieben wurden, ging auf eine Klage zweier Fahrer von Dynamex zurück, einem Liefer- und Logistikunternehmen am selben Tag, das seine Fahrer im Jahr 2004 in unabhängige Auftragnehmer umgewandelt hat. Nach dem Urteil können nun Arbeitnehmer berücksichtigt werden Arbeitnehmer, wenn sie Arbeiten im Rahmen des üblichen Geschäftsverlaufs des Unternehmens verrichten, sagte David Peer, ein Arbeitsrechtsanwalt in Carlsbad, der über das Dynamex-Urteil geschrieben hat.</p>
<p>„Wenn Sie einen Stripclub leiten, würden Sie denken, dass die Tänzer ihre Arbeit im üblichen Rahmen ausführen“, sagte Peer.  „Wenn die Clubbesitzer auf Nummer sicher gehen wollen, sollten sie auf jeden Fall den Mindestlohn zahlen und sich an die Lohn- und Stundenregeln halten, die die meisten Organisationen befolgen, wenn sie einen Mitarbeiter einstellen.“</p>
<p>Laut Harold Lichten von Lichten &#038; Liss-Riordan, einer Bostoner Anwaltskanzlei, die Uber-Fahrer vertritt, die behaupten, das Mitfahrunternehmen habe sie falsch klassifiziert, gab es schon vor dem Dynamex-Urteil Klagen wegen falscher Klassifizierung exotischer Tänzer.</p>
<p>„Wenn man jemanden fälschlicherweise als unabhängigen Unternehmer einstuft, muss man keine Sozialversicherungssteuer, Arbeitslosensteuer, Mindestlohn oder Überstunden zahlen“, sagte Lichten und fügte hinzu, dass die Anreize für Unternehmen „unglaublich groß“ seien, „Personen falsch einzustufen, weil sie …“ Wir haben so viel Geld auf Kosten der Arbeiter gespart.“</p>
<p>Lichten sagte, das Dynamex-Urteil sei zu einem Hebel in einem laufenden Rechtsstreit gegen Uber geworden und wies darauf hin, dass es auch ein Vorteil für die Tänzer sein sollte, die nun Anspruch auf den Schutz haben, der allen Mitarbeitern gewährt wird.</p>
<p>„Die Sorge besteht darin, dass einige Unternehmen den Betrag, den sie ihnen zum Ausgleich ihrer Verluste zahlen, senken könnten“, sagte Lichten.  „Das wäre bedauerlich.  Aber alles in allem ist es viel besser, ein Angestellter zu sein, weil man rechtlichen Schutz genießt.“</p>
<p>Allerdings sagten die vom Examiner befragten Tänzer, dass sie zwar nun Anspruch auf Mindestlohn, Sozialleistungen und die Möglichkeit einer Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft hätten, die Neueinstufung aber mehr Schaden als Nutzen gebracht habe.</p>
<p>„Keines dieser Mädchen hatte zwei Wochen lang einen Scheck über 300 Dollar.  Es gab viel Aufregung.  Viele Mädchen packten ihre Sachen, um an diesem Abend aufzubrechen.  Ich war eines dieser Mädchen“, sagte Darla.</p>
<p>„Ich kann für 15 Dollar pro Stunde bei McDonald&#39;s arbeiten gehen, ohne mich ausziehen zu müssen und mir den Mist, den ich als Tänzerin ertragen muss, nicht gefallen zu lassen“, fügte Darla hinzu und bemerkte, dass alle Penthouse-Tänzer „überlegt haben, zu gehen.“ ”</p>
<p>Die überwiegende Mehrheit der Stripclubs in San Francisco – 10 von 12 – sind Eigentum von BSC Management oder werden von BSC Management verwaltet.  Die einzigen Ausnahmen sind das Mitchell Brothers O&#39;Farrell Theatre und The Crazy Horse.</p>
<p>Sang sagte, das Unternehmen zahle den Tänzern nicht mehr als den Mindestlohn, weil sie „Provisionen für Tanzverkäufe erhalten, die in den meisten Fällen weit über dem Stundenlohn liegen“.</p>
<p>Aber auch die Provisionsstruktur für private Tänze sei erheblich gekürzt worden, sagten Tänzer.</p>
<p>Die Richtlinien können für jeden Club unterschiedlich sein, aber vor der Neuklassifizierung sagten Tänzer, wenn sie früh genug zu ihrer Schicht kamen, würden sie 75 Prozent ihrer Tanzverkäufe behalten – womit sie den Großteil ihres Geldes verdienten.</p>
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<p class="tnt-summary">Der demokratische Abgeordnete Adam Schiff und der Republikaner Steve Garvey gehen bei den Vorwahlen im März als Sieger hervor</p>
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<p class="tnt-summary">Die landesweite Maßnahme würde die Dienste für psychische Gesundheit und Drogenkonsum ausweiten und gleichzeitig Wohnungen für Obdachlose bauen</p>
<p>Eine Tänzerin im Gold Club, die darum bat, Mary genannt zu werden, sagte, es sei üblich gewesen, dass Tänzer pro Schicht durchschnittlich etwa 1.000 US-Dollar an Tänzen verkauften und 750 US-Dollar behielten.</p>
<p>Im Rahmen der neuen Provisionsstruktur im Gold Club gaben die Tänzer jedoch an, dass sie von den ersten 150 US-Dollar, die sie bei privaten Tänzen verkaufen, nichts behalten, sondern 40 Prozent der nächsten 250 US-Dollar, die sie verkaufen, und 60 Prozent der darüber hinausgehenden Verkäufe.</p>
<p>Einige Tänzer sagten, sie müssten außerdem eine Gebühr von 100 US-Dollar für die Anmietung des Privatraums zahlen.</p>
<p>Tänzer im Gold Club sagten, dass sie jetzt mit nur 60 US-Dollar für den ersten halbstündigen Privattanz, den sie verkaufen, davonkommen.</p>
<p>„Wenn ich einem Kunden 400 US-Dollar zahlen lasse und 60 US-Dollar davon sehe, ist das für mich keine Rechenaufgabe“, sagte Mary.  „Wir wollen unseren Job machen, und bisher bestand unser Geschäft darin, Tänze zu verkaufen.  Und wir müssen immer noch unseren Lebensunterhalt verdienen.  Aber wo ist gleichzeitig der Anreiz?“</p>
<p>Einige Tänzer befürchteten auch, dass die Einstufung als Angestellte bedeuten würde, dass sie sich nicht aussuchen könnten, welche Kunden sie bedienen möchten.</p>
<p>Joe Carouba, ein Eigentümer von BSC, lehnte es aufgrund anhängiger Rechtsstreitigkeiten ab, mit dem Examiner zu dieser Geschichte zu sprechen.  Aber in einer Aussage, die er im Oktober im Zusammenhang mit einer von Olivia Doe eingereichten Klage abgab, sagte er, er sei „fest davon überzeugt“, dass Tänzer unabhängige Auftragnehmer sein sollten, damit sie mehr Kontrolle darüber haben, welche Kunden sie bedienen und welche nicht.</p>
<p>„Ich denke, sie sollten ihre eigene Sexualität kontrollieren, sie sollten ihren eigenen Körper kontrollieren“, sagte er.  „Der Unterschied besteht natürlich darin, dass Sie als Angestellter keine Wahl haben, für wen Sie auftreten. Als unabhängiger Auftragnehmer können Sie entscheiden, wie Sie auftreten, für wen Sie auftreten und auf welchem ​​Niveau Sie auftreten.“ fühle mich wohl bei.“</p>
<p>Tänzer sagten, viele von ihnen seien schlecht informiert gewesen und hätten es nicht bemerkt, als die neuen Verträge eingeführt wurden.</p>
<p>Jane sagte, sie sei eine der ersten Penthouse-Tänzerinnen gewesen, die den neuen Vertrag inmitten von Verwirrung unterzeichnet habe, und habe weder eine Kopie noch Zeit gehabt, ihn durchzusehen.</p>
<p>Mary sagte, dass das Management im Gold Club mitten in ihrer Schicht Tänzer ins Büro rief, die immer noch Bikinis und 20 cm hohe Absätze trugen, und ihnen sagte, sie sollten sich einen neuen Vertrag auf einem Computerbildschirm ansehen und ihn sofort unterschreiben.  Einige Tänzer hätten während ihrer Schicht getrunken, sagte sie.</p>
<p>„Wir hatten keine Gelegenheit, die Verträge einzusehen oder vorher Papierkopien zu erhalten“, sagte Mary.  „Es gab wirklich keine Kommunikation, keine Transparenz.“</p>
<p>Sang wies die Vorwürfe zurück und sagte, es seien Kameras installiert worden, um die Vereine vor rechtlichen Anfechtungen wegen der neuen Verträge zu schützen.</p>
<p>„Es waren deutliche Schilder angebracht, dass die Bereiche video- und audioüberwacht waren.  Jede Vertragsunterzeichnung auf Video und Audio zeigt deutlich, dass jeder Entertainer den Vertrag vor der Unterzeichnung vollständig lesen musste“, schrieb Sang in einer E-Mail.  „Vor der Kamera wurde jedem Entertainer deutlich sichtbar eine Kopie der von ihm unterzeichneten Verträge ausgehändigt.“</p>
<p>Tänzer sagten, die Moral sei in Clubs in der ganzen Stadt gesunken.  Viele sind mit der Art und Weise, wie das Management die Änderung angekündigt und umgesetzt hat, unzufrieden, haben aber Angst, ihren Arbeitsplatz zu verlieren, wenn sie sich beschweren.</p>
<p>Da BSC praktisch ein Monopol auf Stripclubs in San Francisco hat, sagten Tänzer, wenn sie in einem Club auf die schwarze Liste gesetzt würden, hätten sie Angst, dass sie nirgendwo anders in der Stadt arbeiten könnten.</p>
<p>Während Tänzer im ganzen Land Clubs verklagt haben, mit der Begründung, sie hätten als Angestellte und nicht als unabhängige Auftragnehmer eingestuft werden sollen, sagten diejenigen, die mit dem Examiner sprachen, dass nicht jeder Angestellte sein möchte.  Es gibt Vorteile, unabhängige Auftragnehmer zu sein – solange sie tatsächlich als Auftragnehmer behandelt werden.</p>
<p>Mary sagte, als Auftragnehmerin behandelt zu werden, bedeute, dass man die Tanzgebühren direkt mit den Kunden aushandeln könne, anstatt die Preise vom Club festlegen zu lassen, und die Termine und Zeiten für die Arbeit auswählen könne.  Bisher konnten Tänzer als Auftragnehmer die Tage, an denen sie arbeiten wollten, nicht jedoch die Arbeitszeiten auswählen.</p>
<p>„Auftragnehmer sollten Autonomie haben“, sagte sie.</p>
<p>Ein oft angepriesener Vorteil eines Angestelltenverhältnisses ist der Zugang zu Leistungen wie einer Krankenversicherung.  Um sich zu qualifizieren, müssen die Mitarbeiter jedoch genügend Stunden arbeiten, um als Vollzeitbeschäftigung zu gelten – was für die meisten Leute, die in einem Stripclub tanzen, nicht praktikabel ist.  Tänzer sagten, selbst drei Tage in der Woche zu arbeiten sei körperlich anstrengend.</p>
<p>„Sie tun, was Sie tun müssen, um Ihre Grenzen zu wahren und gleichzeitig sicherzustellen, dass sie eine gute Zeit haben.  Das erfordert viel emotionale Arbeit“, sagte Mary.  „Ich glaube nicht, dass die Leute erkennen, dass das der schwierigste Teil unseres Jobs ist.  In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung von Strippen wird darüber nicht wirklich gesprochen.“</p>
<p>Die drastischen Lohnkürzungen und die Verfügbarkeit billiger Flüge haben einige Tänzer dazu veranlasst, Arbeit außerhalb von San Francisco zu suchen und ein oder zwei Nächte pro Woche bis nach Las Vegas und Reno zu reisen, während sie weiterhin in der Stadt leben.</p>
<p>„Mädchen kämpfen darum, einen Job zu finden, der zu ihrem Lebensstil passt oder überhaupt über die Runden kommt“, sagte Jane.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Late yesterday, the Coalition on Homelessness and seven individual plaintiffs filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco and Mayor London Breed for their efforts to criminalize homelessness through an array of brutal policing practices that violate the constitutional rights of unhoused San Franciscans. The plaintiffs are also seeking a preliminary injunction to &#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify">Late yesterday, the Coalition on Homelessness and seven individual plaintiffs filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco and Mayor London Breed for their efforts to criminalize homelessness through an array of brutal policing practices that violate the constitutional rights of unhoused San Franciscans.  The plaintiffs are also seeking a preliminary injunction to stop these practices on an emergency basis.  Plaintiffs are represented by the Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, as well as the global law firm Latham &#038; Watkins LLP.</p>
<p>For years, San Francisco has claimed that it is taking steps to address the City&#8217;s homelessness crisis.  But in fact, the City is forcing unhoused people out of sight—destroying their survival belongings and citing and arresting them for sleeping in public when they have no shelter to go to.  San Francisco has more laws penalizing homelessness than any other place in California, and possibly America.  These regressive mass incarceration era policies only perpetuate San Francisco&#8217;s homelessness crisis and scapegoat unhoused people for the City&#8217;s egregious failure to support affordable housing for San Francisco residents.  </p>
<p>San Francisco lacks—and has always lacked—adequate affordable housing and shelter for thousands of unhoused San Franciscans.  San Francisco&#8217;s threats, citations, arrests, and removal of unhoused residents from public spaces therefore violate the Eighth Amendment&#8217;s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.  The City is also engaged in a practice of illegally seizing and destroying the personal belongings of unhoused residents in violation of the Fourth Amendment.  These practices help San Francisco claim that it is solving the homelessness crisis—when it has actually just swept it under the rug.</p>
<p>San Francisco&#8217;s homelessness crisis is one of unaffordability.  When longstanding residents can no longer afford to stay in their homes, they are forced out onto the street.  San Francisco&#8217;s politicians have understood this for years, but they have failed to act.  Instead, the City has consistently relied on tough-on-crime policies to respond to homelessness instead of addressing the root cause of the problem: the clear lack of permanent affordable housing.</p>
<p>This is immoral, cruel, costly, and ultimately counterproductive—not to mention unconstitutional.  The City knows this because it constantly violates its own policies that purport to require a humane, services-first approach to the homelessness crisis.  The reality is that unhoused San Franciscans wake up to find their survival belongings seized and destroyed as they face criminal penalties for sleeping outside even though the city has little to nothing to offer San Francisco&#8217;s unhoused residents in terms of shelter, housing, and services.  This lawsuit combines massive amounts of public data with eyewitness accounts to expose the City&#8217;s unlawful conduct, which makes it almost impossible for the thousands of affected San Franciscans to exit homelessness.  </p>
<p>Those experiencing homelessness in San Francisco are disproportionately people of color due to decades of discrimination in housing, education, healthcare and the criminal justice system. Today, for example, Black people comprise 6% of San Francisco&#8217;s general population but make up 37% of the City&#8217;s unhoused population.  Black renters in San Francisco still face some of the worst housing discrimination anywhere in the country.  That targeted exclusion has only exacerbated the homelessness crisis for people of color.</p>
<p>San Franciscans deserve real solutions to homelessness.  That starts and ends with the City actually investing in affordable housing.  This lawsuit seeks to hold the City to account for its unconstitutional attack on unhoused San Franciscans.  The City cannot punish unhoused people for a housing crisis it created.</p>
<p>Client statements:</p>
<p>Plaintiff Nathaniel Vaughn, a life-long San Franciscan who recently became unhoused, reflects: &#8220;We do not deserve to be treated like criminals and to have our belongings thrown in the trash when we are at our most vulnerable.&#8221;</p>
<p>Plaintiff Toro Castaño notes the impact this has on unhoused people: “The City&#8217;s sweeps [are] a dehumanizing disruption to the small ounce of stability that I was trying to build for myself during one of the hardest times of my life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Plaintiff Sarah Cronk says the same: “We are just trying to scrape by and build as much of a life for ourselves as possible—with both dignity and safety.  The City makes that impossible for us.”</p>
<p>Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness: “San Francisco&#8217;s homelessness crisis is its affordable housing crisis.  Instead of investing in permanent affordable housing, the city has spent millions of dollars to rid our neighborhoods of visible signs of homelessness.  Punitive approaches make homelessness worse, as it only makes it harder for people to access already limited services, find employment and secure stable housing.”</p>
<p>Attorney statements:</p>
<p>“The City is using unhoused residents as the scapegoats for a crisis of economic and racial justice that it helped to create.  San Francisco should fight to end homelessness.  But the only real solution to San Francisco&#8217;s homelessness crisis is housing.  Instead of solving homelessness, the City has invested in carceral policies that make the crisis worse.  That&#8217;s not only unconstitutional, it&#8217;s also just bad policy.  We should expect better far better from our political leaders.”  &#8211; Zal Shroff, Senior Staff Attorney, Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area</p>
<p>“Racism is embedded in the criminalization of homelessness in San Francisco as people of color are disproportionately targeted by anti-homeless ordinances.  The current system is complaint-driven, allowing housed residents to dictate traumatizing enforcement against unhoused people who attempt to live in whiter, gentrifying neighborhoods.  This suggests that the City is doing more to appear wealthy homeowners than it is to support the health and wellbeing of the most vulnerable with real opportunities out of homelessness.  Through the lawsuit, we aim to lay bare the City&#8217;s illusory shelter options and end the racist results that criminalization produces.”  &#8211; John Do, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>San Francisco&#8217;s 47-year-old mayor, London Breed, grew up in this city of postcard views, but much of that was not part of her youth. &#8220;I grew up in poverty,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I grew up in public housing, so I wasn&#8217;t really exposed early on to all of the beauty that you see now. I didn&#8217;t &#8230;</p>
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<p>San Francisco&#8217;s 47-year-old mayor, London Breed, grew up in this city of postcard views, but much of that was not part of her youth.  &#8220;I grew up in poverty,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;I grew up in public housing, so I wasn&#8217;t really exposed early on to all of the beauty that you see now. I didn&#8217;t know some of these neighborhoods even existed in San Francisco.&#8221;</p>
<p>For this mayor who has risen from poverty, fighting the city&#8217;s inequality is one of her major challenges.  In an area that&#8217;s home to many of the world&#8217;s most valuable companies, San Francisco now counts 8,000 homeless people, the fourth highest rate of any US city, and that has been made worse by some of the country&#8217;s highest housing prices.</p>
<p>Smash-and-grab robberies, along with car break-ins, have become their own postcard, underscored by the fact that police solve less than seven percent of those property crimes, infuriating both residents and the city&#8217;s more than $6 billion tourism industry.</p>
<p>Correspondent John Blackstone asked Breed, &#8220;You said yourself, many people in the city don&#8217;t feel safe here any longer.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, and I think that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re working on it,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;with making sure we&#8217;re able to add more police officers. We&#8217;re working on it by having alternatives to policing, to respond to people who are dealing with mental health challenges.&#8221;</p>
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<p>          <span class="embed__caption">San Francisco Mayor London Breed with correspondent John Blackstone. </span></p>
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<p>After Breed was elected four years ago, she picked up a broom and planned to spent tens of millions of dollars a year cleaning the streets.  In total, San Francisco is spending one billion city, state and federal dollars on homelessness. </p>
<p>&#8220;Every single morning there are people who work for the City and County of San Francisco cleaning up where you wouldn&#8217;t even know it&#8217;s the same neighborhood,&#8221; Breed said.  &#8220;And even before noon, we&#8217;re dealing with some of the same challenges of the litter and the feces and the urine and some of the other issues that many of us are frustrated over.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those frustrations, particularly over crime, may be making this famously liberal city a little less liberal.  In a recall this month, <span class="link">voters threw out the district attorney</span> whom critics called &#8220;soft&#8221; on crime.  That followed <span class="link">the recall in February of left-leaning school board members</span> who&#8217;d focused on <span class="link">renaming buildings</span> rather than reopening them during the pandemic. </p>
<p>On the national stage, politics here are a juicy target for critics on the right.  On Fox News, conservative commentator Jesse Watters described San Francisco as &#8220;a tech mecca surrounded by a filthy moat of degeneracy, lawlessness, criminals and drugs.&#8221; </p>
<p>It is rhetoric with a long legacy, that was amplified in 2007 when a San Francisco Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, became the first female Speaker of the House.  Republicans talked disdainfully about &#8220;San Francisco values.&#8221;  On &#8220;The Bill O&#8217;Reilly Show,&#8221; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, &#8220;I mean, Nancy Pelosi represents a San Francisco values ​​system.&#8221;</p>
<p>Blackstone asked Breed, &#8220;What are San Francisco values?&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;I think San Francisco values ​​really consist of pushing the envelope and willing to try things that may make people uncomfortable for the purpose of really turning people&#8217;s lives around,&#8221; she replied. </p>
<p>&#8220;But it seems to me the problem that San Francisco faces is that, for people on the right, it&#8217;s become shorthand for &#8216;liberal crazies.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, and again, there&#8217;s nothing I can do about that, other than to make sure that we&#8217;re taking care of our city,&#8221; said Breed.  &#8220;We&#8217;re cleaning it up, we&#8217;re keeping people safe, and we&#8217;re doing the things that make the people who live, work, and visit here happy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In December the mayor broke from the city&#8217;s often-lenient policies when she announced plans to get tough on crime: &#8220;And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies , and less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city.&#8221;</p>
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<p>          <span class="embed__caption">San Francisco has been struggling with homelessness, and a rise in car break-ins and other property crimes. </span></p>
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<p>Blackstone asked, &#8220;I looked at the police dashboard. The retail theft, that&#8217;s up this year. Is your crackdown on crime working?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a fair assessment, to take statistics and then to equate them to a major headline around San Francisco being dangerous,&#8221; she said, &#8220;especially in light of when you look at our homicide rate, in particular, and when you look at the number of cases we&#8217;ve been able to solve, and the number of people that we&#8217;ve been able to hold accountable.&#8221;</p>
<p>FBI violent crime statistics confirm: at least 65 other cities have higher rates of murder, rape and assault than San Francisco.  But highly-visible crimes, like car thefts and shoplifting, are up nearly 17% so far this year compared to last year. </p>
<p>Breed said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think numbers mean anything when something happens to you. And so, ultimately, we&#8217;ve gotta do a better job with improving how people feel in the city.&#8221;</p>
<p>Among the improvements the mayor is proud of is a transformed corner in a tough neighborhood.  &#8220;The corner of Hyde and Turk, this used to be a notorious area where there was a lot of drug-dealing and drug-using and all kind of things going on there. You go there today and there&#8217;s a park, a brand-new park there, and kids are now using the park.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Blackstone asked, &#8220;Let me ask you just to explain San Francisco to an outsider.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ooh, that&#8217;s a hard one!&#8221;  Breed laughed.  &#8220;Complicated. Unique. Beautiful. Crazy. Wild. Fun. Innovative. Challenging. All of those things and more.&#8221;</p>
<p>Like any other American city, San Francisco has plenty of problems, but much like any other big city mayor, London Breed is her city&#8217;s biggest fan: &#8220;I love San Francisco, even though it&#8217;s a complex city with all of its challenges, its issues . But it&#8217;s a place of beauty. It&#8217;s a place of hope. It&#8217;s a place of opportunity.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Metropolis’s HVAC program to open Jan. 10</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; The City of Fort Wayne&#8217;s Heating &#038; Air Conditioning Program will open for applications on Jan. 10. Through the program, qualified residents can get an interest-free loan for the replacement and installation of new heating and air conditioning systems, a release sent by the city says. City officials say the &#8230;</p>
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<p class="text | article-text">FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; The City of Fort Wayne&#8217;s Heating &#038; Air Conditioning Program will open for applications on Jan. 10. </p>
<p class="text | article-text">Through the program, qualified residents can get an interest-free loan for the replacement and installation of new heating and air conditioning systems, a release sent by the city says.  City officials say the loans will be secured by a mortgage and repayment will be required through monthly installations over a 10-year period. </p>
<p class="text | article-text">To qualify, applicants must own their home, it must be their primary residence, the home must be located within City of Fort Wayne limits, and have a household income at or below 80 percent of the Area Median Income. </p>
<p class="text | article-text">Those interested in applying can submit their application online here, or by calling 260-427-8585.  Applicants will be asked a series of brief questions and then will be asked to leave their contact information on a voicemail system. A representative from the Office of Housing &#038; Neighborhood Services will call them back in the order the calls are received to determine their eligibility.  Residents in need of language assistance should contact Language Services Network at 260-426-6764.  </p>
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		<title>&#8216;It Seeks to Diminish Us&#8217;: San Francisco LGBTQ Teams Protest Metropolis&#8217;s Redistricting Plans</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Edward Wright, president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said the task force must listen to queer and trans residents. &#8220;We are here today because we have not been heard, and it&#8217;s critical that the task force knows as they move forward in this process that they cannot divide the LGBTQ community,&#8221; Wright said &#8230;</p>
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<p>Edward Wright, president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said the task force must listen to queer and trans residents.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are here today because we have not been heard, and it&#8217;s critical that the task force knows as they move forward in this process that they cannot divide the LGBTQ community,&#8221; Wright said at Wednesday&#8217;s event.</p>
<p>&#8220;That potential separation would also divide the Transgender District, which is again the first recognized transgender cultural district anywhere in the world, from the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District, which is also the first of it&#8217;s kind recognized anywhere in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Staff members of the Transgender District listen to speakers outside the site of the Compton&#8217;s Cafeteria riot, San Francisco, March 30, 2022, during a press conference calling for the Transgender and Leather and LGBTQ districts in the Tenderloin and Western SOMA to remain in District 6 .(Beth LaBerge/KQED)</p>
<p>The press event took place at the site of the Compton&#8217;s Cafeteria riot, a historic area for queer history and the LGBTQ civil rights movement.</p>
<p>Compton&#8217;s Cafeteria served as a meeting place for drag queens, trans women, sex workers and other marginalized individuals in the 1960s.  In August 1966, a riot occurred in response to police harassment against the trans community.  After the riot, local LGBTQ advocacy gained a stronger foothold, and more support services for the community were established.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Vincent Yuen likes to talk trash. He walks around the city every day, picking it up. He keeps trash logs, documenting how much he found and where. He peppers his conversation with words like “garbology,” the study of garbage. His wife calls trash his greatest passion. Lucky for Yuen, he lives in San Francisco, a &#8230;</p>
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<p>Vincent Yuen likes to talk trash.</p>
<p>He walks around the city every day, picking it up. He keeps trash logs, documenting how much he found and where.  He peppers his conversation with words like “garbology,” the study of garbage.  His wife calls trash his greatest passion.</p>
<p>Lucky for Yuen, he lives in San Francisco, a filthy city that offers him a case study on just about every sidewalk.  Lucky for San Francisco, Yuen is determined to see our city sparkle.</p>
<p>Yuen is the founder of Refuse Refuse — meaning reject trash — which has gone from a one-man cleanup operation outside his Inner Richmond home to a citywide effort, attracting legions of volunteers with their plastic bags and garbage pickers.  Since its founding in March 2021, Refuse Refuse has collected 58,136 gallons of garbage.</p>
<p>I added a few more gallons to the tally Sunday in a cleanup of North Beach.  Yuen tweeted a few months ago that he&#8217;d love former Giants star Hunter Pence;  his wife, Lexi Pence;  chronicle culture critic Peter Hartlaub;  and me to join him.</p>
<p>After schedule conflicts and rain delays, we finally pitched in along with scores of other volunteers organized by Together SF, a civic engagement and volunteering group that helps Refuse Refuse coordinate its events.  Before we picked up garbage, I asked Pence — known as the Reverend for his inspiring locker-room sermons — for a 2022 pep talk as the pandemic slogs on.</p>
<p>“&#8217;Finding Nemo&#8217; is our mantra — just keep swimming, just keep swimming,” he said.  “Pick up trash, plant trees, love on each other, be kind.  We&#8217;ve just got to keep doing the best we can with what we&#8217;ve got.”</p>
<p>Yuen gave the crowd some tips before we started.  Namely, stick to beginner trash and leave the needles, feces and dead animals to the professionals.  On that cheerful note, we set out.</p>
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<p>Former Giants right fielder Hunter Pence works with other volunteers during a community trash cleanup in North Beach and Chinatown organized by Refuse Refuse.</p>
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<p>It turns out you notice new things about your city when your eyes are trained on the ground.  For example, despite seeing very few cigarette smokers this day, San Francisco is blanketed in cigarette butts.</p>
<p>Yuen said they compose 35% of the garbage he finds citywide and even more in some neighborhoods.  He said Hayes Valley is the No.  1 neighborhood when it comes to butts;  there, they make up 60% of litter.</p>
<p>Other often-spotted pieces of litter on Sunday were disposable masks, coffee cups and their cardboard sleeves, candy wrappers, chip bags, banana peels and napkins.  One-offs included a thank you card, a windshield wiper and a coconut with a straw in it.</p>
<p>Yuen said the biggest problem when it comes to trash is single-use products that companies churn out endlessly and that consumers use mindlessly and toss away — too often on the ground.</p>
<p>Ineffective city trash cans and their pallet number are another factor, he said.  They&#8217;re easily broken and rifled through, spilling trash around them.  In the city&#8217;s endless saga of building a new and improved city can, the manufacturing firm charged with making the prototypes should have them placed for testing on city streets in June, according to a spokesperson with Public Works.</p>
<p>In addition to lackluster city bins, another culprit in San Francisco is the wind that grabs trash, including from overstuffed, unlocked household bins, and sends it flying.  Yuen said he&#8217;s found far more trash on the western sides of streets than the eastern sides because of wind patterns.  The dirtiest street in the city, he said, is Brighton Avenue in the Ingleside neighborhood, which sits in a wind tunnel.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t help they have a McDonald&#8217;s on one end and a liquor store on the other,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Overall, though, Yuen said the dirtiest neighborhoods are the usual suspects: the Tenderloin, South of Market and the Mission.  He said the homeless population does add to the city&#8217;s trash problem, but that they&#8217;re unfairly blamed for having an outsized role in the matter.  Instead, he said, people of all income levels in all neighborhoods are responsible for our dirty city.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="landscape" src="https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/23/44/54/21908273/3/1200x0.jpg" alt="Volunteers clean up North Beach during a community effort organized by Refuse Refuse."/><span class="caption"></p>
<p>Volunteers clean up North Beach during a community effort organized by Refuse Refuse.</p>
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<p>Yuen&#8217;s garbage fascination is a new development.  So is his commitment to community service and his devotion to San Francisco despite living here since 2003. The 40-year-old Pasadena native worked as a self-employed sales consultant for years and saved enough money to take time off during the pandemic.  His wife, Megan Yuen, works as a director of account operations for a retail consultant.</p>
<p>In seeking out safe, outdoor activities for his daughters, aged 5 and 7, he turned to picking up trash outside their inner Richmond home each day.  Slowly, the block grew so clean, their trash walks got longer.  Neighbors spotted them and joined, and their area grew notably cleaner.  A post about his efforts on Nextdoor took off, and still more people tagged along.</p>
<p>In March 2021, he formalized the effort, though Refuse Refuse is just a community service group with a website.  It&#8217;s not a nonprofit, and he accepts no donations.  He is making $35,000 through a six-month contract with Together SF and Shine On SF, another new civic group committed to cleaning the city&#8217;s streets.</p>
<p>After a few hours of picking up trash with Yuen, I felt tired but satisfied.  There aren&#8217;t very many civic problems in San Francisco that you can tackle on your own and see an immediate difference.  I&#8217;ll certainly participate in more cleanups this year, and you can, too, at refuserefusesf.org.</p>
<p>Yuen doesn&#8217;t know what comes next.  Friends have urged him to enter politics, but he&#8217;s not convinced he could make more change at City Hall than he can with his trash picker.  So he&#8217;ll keep at it until one day, he hopes San Francisco&#8217;s reputation shifts from being dirty to pristine.  He figures he owes it to the city.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have not been a very civically engaged person,&#8221; Yuen admitted.  “I really haven&#8217;t done much for my city.  I couldn&#8217;t name the supervisor of my district if my life depended on it until recently.</p>
<p>“I&#8217;m a homeowner in San Francisco, which elevates me to the top 1% of the world.  Talk about privilege,” he said.  &#8220;It only took a global pandemic to shake my head loose.&#8221;</p>
<p>San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Wednesdays.  Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — This week, San Francisco&#8217;s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to acquire Gotham Hotel near City Hall to convert into permanent supportive housing (PSH). Last year, District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston called for the site to be acquired for supportive housing and has been working with the Department of Homelessness and &#8230;</p>
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<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.  (KRON) — This week, San Francisco&#8217;s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to acquire Gotham Hotel near City Hall to convert into permanent supportive housing (PSH). </p>
<p>Last year, District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston called for the site to be acquired for supportive housing and has been working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to finalize the acquisition. </p>
<p>&#8220;This type of acquisition is absolutely essential and we are thrilled to see it come to fruition,&#8221; said Preston. </p>
<p>“With 114 large units all with private bathrooms, 835 Turk is an excellent building for permanent supportive housing that will help people move from homelessness to housing with the services they need.”</p>
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<p>The acquisition of the site at 835 Turk Street will add 114 new PSH units — building on Mayor London Breed&#8217;s goal of creating 1,500 PSH units by July. </p>
<p>According to the Mayor&#8217;s Office, the City has acquired 828 PSH units to date.</p>
<p>&#8220;The City is leveraging unprecedented resources of local, state, and federal funding that provide the unique opportunity for significant investments in new permanent housing,&#8221; said a press release. </p>
<p>The building is located in District 5 and will provide affordable homes with onsite social services to help tenants gain and maintain housing and stability. </p>
<p>According to the City, the site will have staff, professional property management, and support services onsite. </p>
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<p>“We know housing stability is the solution to homelessness,” said San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing executive director, Shireen McSpadden. </p>
<p>“As we continue to address our city&#8217;s homelessness crisis, implementing the Mayor&#8217;s ambitious Homelessness Recovery Plan, the largest expansion of Supportive Housing in over 20 years, is foundational to making a life-changing difference in the lives of people struggling to exit homelessness.”</p>
<p>The Turk Street site adds to the City&#8217;s three recent PSH acquisitions: </p>
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<li><strong>5630 Mission Street</strong>a 52-room motel formerly known as the Mission Inn, will provide<br />Affordable units with onsite social services to help Transitional Age Youth gain and maintain<br />housing and stability.</li>
<li><strong>3061 16th St</strong>a 25-room hotel formerly known as the Eula Hotel, will provide Transitional<br />Age Youth (18-24) affordable units with onsite social services to help tenants gain and maintain<br />housing and stability.</li>
<li><strong>1321 Mission Street</strong>a 160-unit building formerly known as the Panoramic, will provide<br />affordable units with onsite social services to help adults and families gain and maintain housing<br />and stability.</li>
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		<title>Why are Salt Lake Metropolis’s airport transferring walkways so sluggish? Is there something that may be achieved about that?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There’s nothing better than having a small gripe. With a small gripe, you get to feel aggrieved for reasons that don’t really make your life worse. You can blow it out of proportion. You can, with a constant tinge of irony, rant and rave about a tiny beef. Crotchety old men have it right — &#8230;</p>
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<p class="body-raw">There’s nothing better than having a small gripe.</p>
<p class="body-raw">With a small gripe, you get to feel aggrieved for reasons that don’t really make your life worse. You can blow it out of proportion. You can, with a constant tinge of irony, rant and rave about a tiny beef. Crotchety old men have it right — complaining just feels good.</p>
<p class="body-raw">I have a small gripe: The moving walkways at the Salt Lake City International Airport are too slow.</p>
<p class="body-raw">At my last trip walking through the airport, watching as those off the moving walkway were moving faster than those on it, I decided to pursue this story. Frustrated as I was by my small gripe, I did the only thing I know how to do: I researched it. I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time recently learning about moving walkways. I learned about the moving walkway industry as a whole, the way in which the walkways work, the laws governing them, and, critically, the speeds at which they operate. And I learned about some potential solutions to the problem.</p>
<p class="body-raw">I figured I’d share that information with y’all, because I know I’m not alone in my frustration. In doing so, I think I’ve written the definitive moving walkway story available anywhere. Is this too much detail about such a small gripe? Perhaps. But I want you to know what I know.</p>
<h2>Intro to moving walkways</h2>
<p class="caption-credit">(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) Travelers use moving walkways at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.</p>
<p class="body-raw">It turns out that the airport moving walkway industry is a big one: one source estimated that about $2 billion worth of moving walkways were sold to airports in 2020, and that there would be about $3 billion by 2030.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Salt Lake City’s airport was a portion of that. All in all, the airport has spent $19 million on the contracted moving walkways, which are located in the gateways, the bridges, the parking garages, and of course, the terminals. That $19 million includes the currently installed moving walkways, and the ones to come in the Concourse A East expansion, the central tunnel, and the first phase of the Concourse B East expansion.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Those walkways are all made by Schindler, an originally Swiss company that also has an American division. They’re all model 9500 walkways, between 170 feet and 300 feet long, all 48 inches wide. All but four of them require substantial pits underneath the entrances and exits of the walkways, where the machinery pulls the walk along on one end and creates tension on the other.</p>
<p class="caption-credit">Diagrams of the Schindler 9500s — the moving walkways at Salt Lake City International Airport — and how they operate. (https://us.schindler.com/content/dam/website/us/docs/moving-walks/schindler-9500-horizontal-moving-walks-brochure.pdf/_jcr_content/renditions/original./schindler-9500-horizontal-moving-walks-brochure.pdf)</p>
<p class="body-raw">You’ll notice the 4-foot pit depth required at the edges, and about 13 inches in the middle — that’s more than I would have thought, but is pretty typical of moving walkways in general.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Four of the airport’s moving walkways are called “pitless” versions, in which a minimal pit is required, and the walkways are somewhat raised. Those four are all in the bridges connecting the airport with the passenger pickup locations, because a 4-foot pit in a bridge just can’t work. But pitless systems are more expensive and require more upkeep.</p>
<p class="body-raw">All of the airports’ currently installed moving walkways combined use about 310 kilowatts per hour when being operated. They do, though, have energy-efficient sensors that turn them to lower speeds when no one is either on or approaching the walkway.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Last week, the airport posted a picture of one of the new walkways being installed in the new Concourse A East.</p>
<p class="caption-credit">(Salt Lake City International Airport) Installation of a moving walkway in January of 2022 in the Salt Lake City International Airport&#8217;s Concourse A east expansion.</p>
<p class="body-raw">They move these walkways into the building before it is closed. They come fully shipped, so they’re too big and wide to move in through the doors.</p>
<h2>The problem</h2>
<p class="body-raw">As has been endlessly documented, the new airport is much bigger than the old one, which has meant a lot of walking. This is a bummer for most travelers but especially the old, the young, the disabled and so on. It used to take just a couple of minutes to get to your gate when flying out of Salt Lake City. Now, you might have to walk two-thirds of a mile.</p>
<p class="body-raw">This takes time. The airport put together these estimates of how long it takes to walk from the terminal to the farthest gates.</p>
<p class="caption-credit">(Christopher Cherrington  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)</p>
<p class="body-raw">Here’s my gripe: The moving walkways hardly help at all. To the end of Concourse A, they save the moving-walker less than a minute. To the farthest point at the end of the airport in Concourse B, it saves just about a minute and a half.</p>
<p class="body-raw">That’s because the moving walkways just don’t move that fast. Indeed, they move quite slowly. The speed of Salt Lake City’s moving walkways is 100 feet per minute — or, in terms you’re actually likely to recognize: 1.13 mph.</p>
<p class="body-raw">That’s also about the speed that icebergs travel. It is roughly a fifth the speed of a swimming crocodile, a fourth the speed of a jellyfish. Koalas climb trees about 50% faster than the moving walkways move horizontally.</p>
<p class="body-raw">But wait, it gets worse.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Seth Young, director of the Center of Aviation Studies at Ohio State University, conducted a 1999 study at the San Francisco and Cleveland airports to watch how people were using moving walkways. He found that people generally walked 3 mph in the airport when not on a moving walkway (a number that correlates really well with the results of a 1978 study that found a 3.01 mph walking speed in New York City transit situations).</p>
<p class="body-raw">But when people got on the moving walkway, their walk slowed down: They walked only about 2.2 mph. The walkways that Young studies were moving at a brisker 1.4 mph pace, which means that these passengers traveled at 3.6 mph. It’s clear, though, no matter the speed of the walkway: Even when ignoring the people who stop and stand, most get only a marginal benefit from the moving walkway.</p>
<p class="body-raw">There is a clear inverse correlation between the speed of the walkway itself and the speed that people choose to walk; the faster the moving walkway goes, the slower people will choose to walk on average. One industry study — I found this in a ThyssenKrupp brochure — found the peak capacity of moving walkways occurs when they move 145 feet per minute. Still, that’s 1.64 mph, significantly faster than Salt Lake City’s moving walkways.</p>
<p class="caption-credit">Estimated passengers/hour on a moving walkway as a function of how fast the moving walkway goes. (https://sweets.construction.com/swts_content_files_nas/43184/432947.pdf)</p>
<p class="body-raw">So why are the airport moving walkways so slow? I’ll let Cal Smith, deputy program director of implementation at the airport, explain.</p>
<p class="body-raw">“In airport use, where you have a lot of people with children or baggage, getting on and off the moving walkway are a safety concern — for the moving walkway companies like Schindler and ThyssenKrupp, and moving walk consultants,” Smith said. “They try to limit the speed for those areas due to safety concerns.</p>
<p class="body-raw">“People are fumbling. They’re trying to get their grip on the entries and exits,” Smith added. “Particularly for elderly or for challenged people who are trying to use those moving walkways — moving walkways are there for everybody, able-bodied and not so able-bodied.”</p>
<p class="body-raw">Now, what kind of accidents happen? Sometimes, the walkways can grab loose clothing. In 1960, a 2-year-old girl died on a moving sidewalk when her coat got trapped at the edge.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Safety measures clearly have improved since then. There’s a somewhat humorous example diagram in the Schindler 9500 brochure of a high-heel shoe tip getting caught — an incident that the manufacturer said was now a thing of the past, thanks to additional safety measures along the walkway’s edge.</p>
<p class="caption-credit">The moving walkways installed by SLC&#8217;s airport have preventative measures against high heels — or other loose clothing — getting stuck. (https://sweets.construction.com/swts_content_files_nas/43184/432947.pdf)</p>
<p class="body-raw">Trips and falls do still happen, though. In 2017, a Dallas airport passenger fell when a walkway stopped, causing a dislocated shoulder. It appears that, in 2010, a 58-year-old woman fractured her wrist exiting a walkway.</p>
<p class="body-raw">There’s no database for moving walkway injuries, but I did think it was notable that searching for the phrase “moving walkway accidents” led to more results for attorneys who will help you sue a moving walkway company than for actual published accounts of moving walkway accidents.</p>
<p class="body-raw">I haven’t been able to find any data regarding the relationship of walkway speed to walkway injuries, either. I suspect that such a relationship would be tenuous, given how few moving walkway injuries seem to occur. Truthfully, what I believe is that the companies’ and consultants’ recommendations to set the walkways at 1.14 mph is more about avoiding those attorneys than avoiding those injuries — but that’s guesstimated commentary, not research.</p>
<h2>Is the solution coming?</h2>
<p class="body-raw">So I asked the airport: What if I get Utahns on board with the idea of speeding up the walkways? After all, we weren’t afraid to boost Interstate 15′s speed limits. Couldn’t we raise the speed of these walkways?</p>
<p class="body-raw">And just imagine what would happen if we could get more people through the airport more quickly. It’d be great for those travelers’ lives, sure, but it could also lift the economy. Imagine having a couple of extra minutes to get a snack, a drink, or to spend a moment browsing at an airport store. Heck, we can’t afford not to speed up the walkways!</p>
<p class="body-raw">Well, Smith told me, not so fast. While the Schindler 9500s that the airport has can operate faster — Smith threw out a 130 feet per minute speed, or about 1.5 mph — they would need new parts to do so. The motors and drive units that power the walkways currently perform at the slower 1.13 mph, and it’s not a matter of turning a knob to speed them up. It would be an expensive and time-consuming project to replace those motors, and, of course, we’d have the walkways not work at all while those changes were being made.</p>
<p class="body-raw">If you’re like me, you were probably disappointed with even the idea of 1.5 mph being the “fast” setting. That’s all we can do? Actually, It turns out we can do better.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Introducing the accelerated moving walkway. These, manufactured by ThyssenKrupp go that same slow speed on the edges, so that people can easily enter and exit the walkway, but then accelerate in the middle to a maximum of 7.4 mph. The video shows how they work: basically, the walkway inserts little pallets in the middle that accelerate the person to top speed as they walk. It is exceptionally cool.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Toronto Pearson FAST Moving Walkway" width="1220" height="686" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GvfF4TeXz7U?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p class="body-raw">Turns out that there’s only one of these in North America: at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, where there’s a 1,000-foot bridge that needs to be traversed. I’ve had the privilege of riding this. It’s a game changer. It turns a 10-minute walk into a 3- to 4-minute one. It also just feels neat to be whisked from one place to another safely.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Smith, our Salt Lake City airport source, was familiar with the project. He had worked in Toronto’s airport, and met his wife there. She worked on the team that installed the accelerated moving walkway. What a love story!</p>
<p class="body-raw">I asked him: Why not install this in the 1,200-foot central tunnel between the A and B concourses?</p>
<p class="body-raw">Well, turns out that it isn’t legal by most U.S. standards. Code regulations say that a moving walkway can only go up to 180 feet per minute, or about 2 mph. But even if the code were to change — and I think a lobbying effort could succeed — there are other considerations.</p>
<p class="body-raw">For example, code also states that people can’t be trapped on a walkway where they have to move in more than 200 feet in either direction to get out. That’s one reason why the walkways at the airport are all limited to under 400 feet. The accelerated walkway at Toronto actually has movable arms at the entrance, almost like a railroad crossing, that prevent people from getting on the walkway in case of a fire or other emergency.</p>
<p class="body-raw">From the video, you can see the accelerated moving walkway’s handrail is a bit wonky — it works less smoothly than the underfoot tread, creating hand pinching opportunities. It’s also pretty noisy, and breaks more often, thanks to all of those moving parts.</p>
<p class="body-raw">“When we travel to Toronto,” Smith said, “we’re very excited because we love (the walkway). “It’s like, ‘Oh, we get to use the high-speed moving walkway, this is fantastic! Sometimes we’re really happy and we’re on that thing and we’re speeding down there. And sometimes that doesn’t work and you’re just going, you know, 1.4 miles an hour and you’re like, ‘Oh, I wish it was working today.’”</p>
<p class="body-raw">It reminds me of another advance in air travel technology that seemed like the wave of the future: the Concorde. Remember the supersonic aircraft, of which 20 were built? It could fly people from Paris to New York in under 3.5 hours, when a normal flight takes eight. It clearly was a step forward. Just like Toronto’s accelerated moving walkway, it also was noisy, expensive, and broke often, and so didn’t get widely adopted after the initial aircraft.</p>
<p class="body-raw">The more likely solution to Salt Lake City’s biggest walkway speed problem, though, is an automated people mover — essentially an underground train connecting the concourses. At the moment, that’s not scheduled to be built until decades down the road, when the airport needs to expand to a future Concourse C.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Debate continues, however, and airport officials acknowledged that it’s possible it could be built sooner if the public demands it and funding can be established.</p>
<p class="body-raw">But for now, the plan is plain and slow Schindler 9500s moving at 1.13 mph through the central tunnel. Those walkways would be wider (56 inches) than the others at the airport, and a bit longer. Still, it’s not the improvement I desired.</p>
<h2>Some other fun moving walkway facts</h2>
<p class="caption-credit">(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man uses the moving walkway at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.</p>
<p class="body-raw">While we’re here, I might as well tell you some other moving walkway facts that I learned while reporting on this article.</p>
<p class="body-raw">First, Young’s study on the speed on which people walk on moving walkways was full of fascinating results. Some likely won’t surprise you. Business travelers, on average, walk faster than leisure travelers. Men, on average, walk faster than women.</p>
<p class="body-raw">But do people walk faster when entering the airport or leaving the airport? Turns out, those moving away from the gates move faster on average than those going to their gates — despite the few folks who are running, trying to avoid missing their flights. Everyone else, seemingly, is in less of a mood to move quickly when they’re about to board a flight.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Meanwhile, people with bags actually move faster, on average, than those without bags. This may have to do with the tendency of those who would be burdened by bags to check them before using an airport’s moving walkway.</p>
<p class="body-raw">In Young’s study, about 20% of people just stood on the moving walkways — remember, his traveled at the faster 1.4 mph speed. However, among those who do walk, most (80% of walkers) won’t go out of their way to pass a stopped traveler if he or she is blocking the walkway.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Finally, a sad note: Some airports have actually removed their moving walkways altogether in the past decade, usually because they’re simply using too much space in airport terminals that are becoming more crowded. In trouble spots, they intersect with lines of people at gates waiting to board, causing havoc. For these reasons, Chicago’s O’Hare removed moving walkways in one United concourse, as has Las Vegas’ airport. Cincinnati’s airport removed some of its, simply saying that they were too expensive to replace.</p>
<p class="body-raw">But there are still moving walkway fans out there. A group of seniors, for example, complained when Orlando’s airport proposed removing them, calling them a “godsend” and a “saving grace.”</p>
<p class="body-raw">I’ll join them. Bless moving walkways. I hope for their continued existence in our lives. I just also hope that they start to high-tail it.</p>
<p class="body-raw">Andy Larsen is a data columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune. You can reach him at alarsen@sltrib.com.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8211; Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco&#8217;s people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago. But after repeatedly clearing used needles, other drug paraphernalia, and human feces outside of the bar she manages, and having many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the &#8230;</p>
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<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8211; Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco&#8217;s people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago.  But after repeatedly clearing used needles, other drug paraphernalia, and human feces outside of the bar she manages, and having many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the city has been tainted.</p>
<p>“It was a goal to live here, but now I&#8217;m here thinking, &#8216;Where should I move now?&#8217;  I&#8217;m over it, &#8216;”said Foster, who runs the Noir Lounge in the hip Hayes Valley neighborhood.</p>
<p>A series of headline-grabbing crime stories &#8211; crowds breaking windows and snatching luxury purses in downtown Union Square, and daytime shootings in touristy Haight-Ashbury &#8211; only added to the feeling of vulnerability.  Residents wake up to the news of attacks on Asian-American seniors, broken-in restaurants and boarded-up shop fronts in the city&#8217;s once-vibrant downtown area.</p>
<p>		San Francisco Chronicle photographer robbed at gunpoint	</p>
<p>The San Franciscans pride themselves on their liberal political leanings and generously approve tax measures for schools and the homeless.  They accept that garbage roads, tent camps and petty crime are the price one has to pay to live in an urban wonderland.</p>
<p>But the frustration of Foster, who moved from Seattle in search of more sunshine, is growing among residents who are now seeing a city in decline.  There are signs that the city, famous for its tolerance, is losing patience.</p>
<p>The pandemic has emptied parts of San Francisco, highlighting some of its drawbacks: human and dog droppings smeared on sidewalks, break-ins into homes and vehicles, overcrowded bins, and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug trafficking.  Parents were desperate as public schools remained closed for most of last year as nearby counties welcomed the children back into the classroom.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, residents and visitors scurry past scenes of lawlessness and misery.  Just steps from the Opera House and Symphony Hall, drug dealers carry translucent bags with crystal-like stones or stand outside the main branch of the public library while haggling on heroin and methamphetamine.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a widespread feeling in San Francisco that things are going the wrong way,&#8221; said Patrick Wolff, 53, a retired professional chess player from the Boston area who has lived in the city since 2005.</p>
<p>As a sign of civic frustration, the San Franciscans will vote in June on whether to remove District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a former public defender who was elected in 2019 and whose critics say he is too lenient about crime.  Its supporters say there is no spike in crime and that corporate wage theft is a more pressing issue than cases like that of a San Francisco woman who was eventually arrested after stealing more than $ 40,000 in goods from a target in 120 visits had.  She was released by a judge and arrested again on suspicion of shoplifting after failing to show up to retrieve her court-ordered ankle monitor.</p>
<p>“Where is the progress?  If you say you&#8217;re progressive, let&#8217;s get the homeless off the streets and get them mental health care, ”said Brian Cassanego, a native of San Francisco who owns the lounge where Foster works.  He moved to Wine Country five months ago because he was tired of seeing dealers selling drugs with impunity and worrying that his wife would be out alone at night.</p>
<p>The day before his move, Cassanego came out to take his dogs for a walk and saw a man who &#8220;looked like a zombie&#8221; with pants up to his knees and bleeding from a syringe in his hip.  Nearby, a woman screamed in shock.</p>
<p>“I went upstairs and said to my wife, &#8216;We&#8217;re going now!  This town is ready! &#8216;”He said.</p>
<p>Theft reports &#8211; shoplifting from a person or a company &#8211; increased by almost 17% to more than 28,000 compared to the same period last year.  Inquiries about cleaning dirty streets and sidewalks are most calls to 311, the city&#8217;s service number.</p>
<p>Overall, however, crime has been falling for years.  More than 45,000 incidents have been reported so far this year, compared to the previous year when most people were locked in closed rooms, but fewer than the roughly 60,000 complaints in previous years.</p>
<p>San Francisco&#8217;s well-publicized problems have served as fodder for the conservative media.  Former President Donald Trump recently stepped in again, releasing a statement saying the National Guard should be sent to San Francisco to prevent robberies.</p>
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<p>Elected officials say they are grappling with deep societal problems that are common in every major US city.</p>
<p>A high percentage of an estimated 8,000 homeless people in San Francisco are struggling with chronic addiction or severe mental illness, usually both.  Some people are romping on the streets, naked and in need of medical help.  Last year, 712 people died from drug overdoses, compared to 257 people who died from COVID-19.</p>
<p>LeAnn Corpus, an administrative assistant who enjoys figure skating, eschews the downtown ice rinks and won&#8217;t bring her 8-year-old son there after dark because of his overt drug use.  Still, the city&#8217;s urban problems have crept into its Portola neighborhood far from downtown.</p>
<p>A homeless man used a bicycle and a sheet to pitch a makeshift tent in front of her house and relieved himself on the sidewalk.  She called the police, who came two hours later and cleared him out, but a homeless man camped in the back yard of her aunt&#8217;s house for six months after trying to get the authorities to remove him.</p>
<p>“This town just doesn&#8217;t feel like it anymore,” said Corpus, a third generation local.</p>
<p>San Francisco residents, who are generally uncomfortable with government surveillance, have installed security cameras and bolts to prevent break-ins and have begun to suspect outsiders.</p>
<p>Last night, on an otherwise warm evening, Joya Pramanik&#8217;s husband saw someone wearing a ski mask on their quiet street.  She worried that the masked man was up to no good &#8211; and it pains her to say that because what she loves about San Francisco is the easy hug of all kinds of characters.</p>
<p>Pramanik, a project manager who moved to the US from India as a teenager, applauds Trump&#8217;s failed re-election but says she realized too late that democratic activists had kidnapped her city.</p>
<p>&#8220;If I say I want law enforcement, I&#8217;m racist,&#8221; she said.  “I say, &#8216;No, I&#8217;m not a racist.  There&#8217;s a reason I live in San Francisco. &#8216;&#8221;</p>
<p>Last year Wolff, the retired chess player, helped start a new political organization that aims to elect local officials who focus on solving urgent problems.  Families for San Francisco will vote Democrats, but it will be organized outside of the city&#8217;s powerful Democratic Party&#8217;s establishment, he said.</p>
<p>Wolff hopes to change a bourgeois way of thinking that no longer expects much from basic services.</p>
<p>		Thieves break in, throw a party at the San Francisco restaurant before the opening	</p>
<p>In hip Hayes Valley, for example, business owners who are fed up with trash lying around and the city is doing nothing to address the problem have come together to lease closed trash cans from a private company, said Jennifer Laska, president of the neighborhood association.  After the lease expired, the association managed to get the city to buy and install new public garbage cans designed to keep rubbish in and thieves out.</p>
<p>That was four months ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still struggling to actually buy the trash cans,&#8221; Laska said.</p>
<p>In the Marina, an affluent neighborhood with breathtaking views of the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, dozens of residents recently hired private security after an increase in car break-ins.</p>
<p>Lloyd Silverstein, a native of San Francisco and president of the Hayes Valley Merchants Association, said companies are considering hiring security guards and installing high-resolution security cameras.  He rejects the idea that a single city official is to blame for the situation and is optimistic that the city will recover.</p>
<p>“We&#8217;ve been through big earthquakes and depression and a lot of other things, but we have a pretty good attitude about recovering.  We have some problems but we will solve them, ”he said.  &#8220;It can only take a while.&#8221;</p>
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