Week 3 @ EOTB

It was a quite busy week (at least for me and the interns who worked on the same days as I did) at EOTB. On Tuesday, I came to work for the "Friday Flea Market" team, for those who don't know what "Friday Flea Market" is, it's a weekly segment showcasing people's unusual and fascinating items, and not just showing their items, "Friday Flea Market" is also a great place to sell them out. We post the contact phone numbers and email addresses of the seller or sellers on our website, anyone who is interested in buying any of those items mentioned on the show can contact the seller or sellers directly. What did I do on Tuesday? I sent out emails to all the guests and informed each of them how to get to the shooting location, which was Sparky's Hot Rod Garage for this week. After thout at, I checked the email responses from the guests to see if they received the direction or not. I also helped searching new items for another week's "Friday Flea Market" and sent out emails to the potential sellers. After finishing the "Friday Flea Market" assignment, I helped the producer on scanning and resizing the images, as well as an hour of video logging.

Thursday was quite tough day for myself, all other interns were out because they helped shooting at the Sparky's Hot Rod Garage. I was again the only intern for the most of the day, before I came to the office, I received the instruction that I had to work on logging footage for Liam before doing anything else. Then I started to work on logging them all by myself for 7 hours, Liam wanted all A-Rolls to be logged, but it was a really slow process as I had to listen the sound-bytes and type them line by line. Even there was not a lot of A-Rolls, I could only finish a few of them. Another intern later also worked on the logging to speed up the process, but there were still a lot of unfinished clips.

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State Lawmakers Pass New Budget Ending 100-Day Stalemate

Meg Whitman

State Lawmakers Pass New Budget Ending 100-Day Stalemate

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Story posted 2010.10.08 at 07:27 AM PDT

State lawmakers have sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the main bill in a legislative package aimed at ending California's record budget impasse and closing a $19 billion deficit.

The Senate's vote early Friday comes more than three months after the start of the fiscal year, as the state was preparing to issue IOUs to state contractors.

The Senate's approval came hours after the Assembly acted Thursday.

The $87.5 billion general fund spending plan lawmakers sent to the Republican governor is nearly $16 billion less than the general fund just three years ago. It's a stark indication of the economic conditions in the nation's most populous state.

Schwarzenegger helped negotiate the budget deal, which includes no new taxes or fees, and is likely to sign it quickly.

Story posted 2010.10.08 at 07:27 AM PDT

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Bicyclist Killed In Collision With Muni Vehicle

Coldwell Banker

Bicyclist Killed In Collision With Muni Vehicle

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Story posted 2010.10.08 at 07:04 AM PDT

A bicyclist was killed Thursday evening in a collision with a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus in the city's inner Richmond District, a police spokesman said.

Police received reports of the collision at 4:59 p.m. at Sixth Avenue and Clement Street, Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.

Responding officers found the bicyclist unresponsive, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Andraychak said.

Police have not released the man's identify but have reported he was a white man in his late 20s. He was riding a road-style bicycle that became trapped under the bus after the collision.

The bus that collided with the bicyclist was traveling north on the 44-O'Shaughnessy line, according to officials.

The bicyclist was also going north and contacted the front right corner of the bus, according to police.

Police said the driver appeared to have been shaken by the collision and was cooperating with officials.

The bus operator will be suspended pending an investigation into the accident, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Paul Rose said.

The bus was towed and is being inspected for possible mechanical defects, police said.

Inbound service on the 44-O'Shaughnessy line was rerouted from Geary Boulevard to Seventh Avenue to California Street for about three hours after the crash, the SFMTA said.

Outbound service was rerouted from Clement Street to Seventh Avenue to Geary Boulevard.

Story posted 2010.10.08 at 07:04 AM PDT

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Historic Watertfront Restaurant Destroyed By Fire

Sincere Decor

Historic Watertfront Restaurant Destroyed By Fire

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Story posted 2010.10.08 at 07:37 AM PDT

A historic Oakland waterfront restaurant nestled next to Alameda's Park Street Bridge was destroyed by a spectacular three-alarm overnight fire, authorities said.

Firefighters responded to an 11:13 p.m. call reporting a fire at 300 29th Avenue, the location of Tiki Tom's.

Upon arrival, crews found the fire shooting through the structure's roof, and the one-alarm fire was quickly bumped up to a three-alarm blaze, Battalion Chief Edward Kilmartin said.

Approximately 80 firefighters responded to the blaze, with 17 engines and two trucks brought to the scene. Crews were still on the scene as of 6 a.m., tending to hot spots that continued to flare up.

No one was injured in the blaze, and the building was unoccupied when the fire began, which created its own set of problems, Kilmartin said.

"We had access problems: it was closed, it was chained, and it was on the water."

To access the estuary side of the restaurant, a fireboat was brought in to lay boom, Kilmartin said.

The American Red Cross, PG&E, and the Alameda Police Department, which dispatched a bridge operator to provide access to a fireboat, also played roles in the response.

The restaurant, which was heavily damaged, will most likely have to be destroyed, Kilmartin said.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Story posted 2010.10.08 at 07:37 AM PDT

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Wireless industry holds conference in SF

Wireless industry holds conference in SF

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Wireless industry holds conference in SF
Updated on: 2010-10-05 22:52:01

Story posted 2010.10.05 at 07:51 PM PDT

The cell phone industry's annual conference is just getting underway in San Francisco and while we all wait to see what's next for those devices we seem to be able not to live without, the dire warnings about them are already circulating. That is one reason cell phone makers say they won't be coming back to San Francisco.

Brain cancer patients and people who've lost loved ones to the disease demonstrated outside the CTIA; The Wireless Industry Association's trade conference at Moscone Center. The protesters believe cell phones caused the cancer.

"My own husband has a brain tumor that has been linked by the experts to his long-term cell phone use," says Ellie Marks from Environmental Health Trust.

But association spokesman John Walls says there's no scientific evidence of a link between cell phones and cancer.

"You look at organizations like the World Health Organization, NIH [National Institutes of Health], or the National Cancer Institute, FDA, FCC, American Cancer Society -- a pretty long list of conclusions by those agencies that say there's no evidence if any concern, any risk," says Walls.

"When you take away some of the telecomm industry-funded studies, the weight of the evidence is conclusive that cell phones are causing gliomas and acoustuic neuromas," says Marks.

UC Berkeley physicist Richard Muller, Ph.D., says cell phones are not powerful enough to produce harmful radiation.

"The small bit of microwave radiation you can get from a cell phone, we know of no mechanism that can hurt the body or can cause cancer or any of those things," says Muller.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted this year to require cell phone radiation levels are to be disclosed wherever they're sold in the city. Stores will have to start displaying emission ratings in February; chain stores have until 2012.

Walls says what the board has done is irresponsible and misleading, because all phones meet the same federal standard.

"That standard by science tells us there's not a safe, safer, safest. They're all safe," says Walls.

CTIA is suing the city over the law and will not be coming back to San Francisco for its convention.

"We think the city has sent us a very clear message that we weren't wanted here," says Walls.

Mayor Gavin Newsom has said the new law is a modest, common sense measure makes already-available information more accessible.

Story posted 2010.10.05 at 07:51 PM PDT

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Pregnant blue whale found dead on beach

Pregnant blue whale found dead on beach

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Pregnant blue whale found dead on beach
Updated on: 2010-10-06 01:47:25

Story posted 2010.10.05 at 11:37 PM PDT

Researchers are trying to figure out what happened to a pregnant blue whale that washed up on the beach at Bean Hollow State Park in San Mateo County.

The massive, 85-foot whale was found washed up on the beach on Monday, with her male fetus just 50 feet away.

"And then to have the fetus over there, it's really unusual," says park ranger Frank Balthis.

The whole scene is extraordinary. The last time a dead blue whale came to shore in this area was more than 30 years ago.

Normally, the only way to see a blue whale is during a whale watching trip in the open ocean. They're too big to hold in captivity and the only blue whale skeletons on display in the state, are in Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara.

"I have always wanted to see the biggest animal that's ever lived. It's quite a specimen," says naturalist Jeff Parry.

"It's a rare event, especially to see one, a female -- and a very big female -- and then one that is carrying a fetus, that makes it even more special and unusual," says Pacifica resident Paul Jones.

Someone spotted the carcasses floating in the water on Saturday. U.C. Santa Cruz researchers got their first up close look on Monday, once the bodies came up on the beach.

Preliminarily, scientists don't think the female died naturally. Because she's so healthy, they think a ship's propeller may be to blame, but it'll be several days before they know for sure.

"It's upside down, so if a ship hit it, we can't see the back to know to look for a wound of that. It's so large you can't move it and so it's real difficult to tell," says Balthis.

Blue whale calves are born after 12 months and this fetus was only six months old. The whale was likely swimming south to Baja California for the winter.

According to state rangers, the scientists will take tissue samples of the whale and also do a necropsy to figure out how she died.

After that, no one is going to remove the bodies because the whale itself is just too big, so the plan is to let nature take its course. Animals in the water will eventually break down the carcasses, even though that will take several months. The ranger says that he doesn't expect that to be a problem because that part of the beach where the whale is isn't very popular.

Story posted 2010.10.05 at 11:37 PM PDT

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