How's your City , Fine or Sh*tty ?

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by bloke57

I've lived here 59 years on and off - and in all that time there has been a public telephone box by the bus stop.





This very morning a truck arrived and within 45 minutes it was no more. Sign of the times with everyone having a mobile phone I suppose.

And if you live in a rural area or a small city and one night your mobile phone is malfunctioning.... you are in trouble.
It already happened to me.

[tsunamiSD]

The Scripps Research Institute ranked first worldwide in science

The Scripps Research Institute ranks first worldwide in the quality and impact of its science, besting world-renowned research centers such as MIT, the National Institutes of Health and Stanford University, according to a report by the top-tier scientific journal Nature.Privately held TSRI scored the highest impact for its research on semisynthetic life, Ebola and HIV, according to the report.
Further boosting San Diego’s science reputation, the University of California San Diego placed 14th on the report’s list of the top 200 public and private institutions. Two other California institutions, Stanford and UC San Francisco, placed in the top 20, giving California a total of four spots.

[MaxJoker]

People reserve their seats for when the binmen come a collecting

[TLN]

London, UK.

Lots of fine, lots of shitty. All of it too expensive.

[MaxJoker]

Well in Norfolk (Sorry for swearing) they sell prepared for cooking Ducks at eight pound a pop



Which considering how many randomly puttering about loud beaked Ducks I see (Hear) around the riverside on my stomp to the train station , seems a mite excessively priced.
So that`s kinda shitty. Especially when we factor in how darn tasty those Quackers are once fried/roasted/broiled/ eaten raw etc
Then again Rabbits are even more pricey
Exactly , why
As those floppy eared fackers outnumber Ducks a 1000 to 1 in this here Eastern V.E.F outpost

[tsunamiSD]

A long standing problem for San Diego, unfortunately, that city officials have done little about alleviating. I did a search on the words 'San Diego Homeless' at the Union-tribune website and came up with 2076 'hits.' Here is a column from today's paper and an article from two days before that:

Column: In San Diego, inaction becomes deadly

In an April column, I wondered which politician, judge or police chief thought it was OK to allow a surging population of disabled homeless people to defecate, use drugs and even die in broad daylight on the sidewalks of San Diego.Based on the evidence so far, the most correct answer is all of them. The inaction buck stops with Mayor Kevin Faulconer, but he has plenty of enablers.
For the well-housed rest of us, the ramifications of leadership failure go well beyond the simmering offense to the human decency of leaving our poorest people to fend for themselves. We have full-blown crises of public safety and public health, the twin imperatives of any functioning government.
San Diego has lost control of many of its streets.

'Hepatitis A' scare: shame on city, county of San Diego

A week ago, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board advocated for a faster, broader response to the horrendous Hepatitis A outbreak plaguing San Diego that had led to 352 cases, 264 hospitalizations and 14 deaths since late November. Ten of those deaths had come in the past two months.By Thursday, as questions multiplied about what it’s increasingly clear has been an inadequate response from city and county officials, the tally had grown to at least 379 cases and 15 deaths.
Finally on Friday, after damning media reports in The Guardian and Voice of San Diego shone a light on government agencies’ lack of urgency and a bungling bureaucracy that has made a terrible situation worse, the first of 30 hand-washing stations began to appear on city streets to improve sanitary conditions in places where the at-risk homeless population has become the epicenter of this public health disaster.

[MaxJoker]

Home of the hardest Hopscotch game in the country ,



Which is why all Norfolk folk grow up tougher than a titanium thumbtack ,



Well the five percent who don't break their necks as infants that is

[sparky10]

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

Well in Norfolk (Sorry for swearing) they sell prepared for cooking Ducks at eight pound a pop



Which considering how many randomly puttering about loud beaked Ducks I see (Hear) around the riverside on my stomp to the train station , seems a mite excessively priced.
So that`s kinda shitty. Especially when we factor in how darn tasty those Quackers are once fried/roasted/broiled/ eaten raw etc
Then again Rabbits are even more pricey
Exactly , why
As those floppy eared fackers outnumber Ducks a 1000 to 1 in this here Eastern V.E.F outpost

The Sharks & Spendmore food hall by looks .....

Around here regardless of their hyper high prices they are always busy and a new one is proposed next door but one to a large Sainsburys .

[tsunamiSD]

First off, something that probably surprises no one:

Washington Post - Study: Benefits of San Diego weather extend to personality is the print title of this article...

We know anecdotally that weather affects our mood. Summertime temperatures seem to lift our spirits, while the coldest weeks of winter put us in a funk. The study, which was published in Nature on Monday, says it does more than that in the long run.
All else being equal, the kid in San Diego is more likely to grow up to be friendlier, more outgoing and more willing to explore new things, the study suggests.

*****

I'm putting these next two articles here because there hasn't been reason to set up a UCSD athletics thread for it's NCAA Division II teams (and, I want to be able to find the articles easily in the future...) I want to say up front that I'm not sure about this being a good idea for most of the sports. In the 'timeline to Division I' sidebar, it mentions that (from 2020 to 2023) the teams cannot compete in post season sports (except for the 4 sports that only have one division, instead of the three that most have) - how is that not supposed to affect recruiting in a negative way?

UCSD Officially Joins Division I

Call it the biggest pep rally in UC San Diego history.The small school band belted out the fight song, dressed in their uniform of Hawaiian shirts. Peppy cheerleaders performed, not in front of athletes, but dignitaries in suits.
Two massive television monitors played slick, goose-bump inducing videos about athletic excellence and ambition.
This was a momentous day on the massive campus in La Jolla, and UCSD didn’t hold back its pride or joy.
“A great day for the university, and a great day for San Diego,” Mayor Kevin Faulconer said from the stage erected on the floor of RIMAC Arena.
UCSD on Monday announced it will begin a journey to join the Big West Conference in 2020 and become a participant in NCAA Division I athletics. It will be the third university in the county with that status, joining San Diego State and the University of San Diego.
The Tritons’ fate was determined two weeks ago, when the Big West’s board of UC chancellors and CSU presidents voted to invite UCSD and Cal State Bakersfield to join the nine schools already in the conference.

A frequent contender for national championships in numerous Div. II sports, UCSD now can aspire to the lofty heights of March Madness in men’s basketball and the College World Series in baseball, though realizing those kind of goals could be years or decades away.
UCSD Athletic Director Earl Edwards doesn’t lack the confidence that they’ll get there.
“The thing that’s exciting for me,” Edwards said, “is that we’re a little different. We’re not the new kid on the block who’s trying to crawl up. We’re the new kid who is setting the standard in terms of financial stability, in graduation rates of student-athletes. We’re going to go into the league as more or less the standard than the new kid on the block.”

UC San Diego is the nation’s fifth-largest research school. But it isn’t well known beyond Southern California, partly because campus life is very low key.
Students have long joked that the school’s initials stand for University of California Social Dead.
“I want us to be University of California for the Socially Dynamic!” UCSD’s fifth-year chancellor, Pradeep Khosla, said Monday. “I think this change is going to add energy and vigor to the campus. It will create things to talk about. It’s going to pump up our alumni base.”
The school has 185,000 alumni, including J. Craig Venter, a seminal figure in the Human Genome Project, and Nick Woodman, the founder of GoPro. But the campus has historically struggled to connect with alumni. Only two years ago, it lacked a comprehensive, up-to-date list of its alumni.
The situation has started to improve; the campus received two huge private donations from alumni this year, including $75 million from Taner Halicioglu, who helped create Facebook.
The move into the Big West could eventually result in more gifts — something the university covets. The school is suffering growing pains. Enrollment has soared by more than 7,500 over the past five years, hitting a record 36,624 this fall. The campus will have 40,000 students by 2021.

Kevin Acee Column - College Athletic' Top Level Should Suit Tritons

The founding chancellor of UC San Diego helped develop the first atomic bomb.Members of the university’s faculty have won or shared three Nobel Prizes. One alumnus has done so.
One of UCSD’s professors co-founded San Diego’s first biotech company. The school’s hospital was the county’s first Level 1 trauma center. Its research on the ocean, cancer, autism and AIDS are ranked among the world’s finest.
It is almost an insult to cut so short a list of the exploits of the county’s largest employer.
The place is all about excellence, only embraces achievement at the highest level.
And now, finally, that can truly be the case in its athletics program.

This won’t be easy. The Tritons are going to eat some humble pie served up by schools with more athletic resources but fewer research grants. This is a bigger jump than when UCSD went from Division III to Division II in 2000, especially in its core sports of men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball.
But striving against the best is the only way to be the best.
“When you change levels, everyone is bigger, faster, stronger,” men’s basketball coach Eric Olen said. “It will be a long process.”
This needed to happen.
The large size of the school, the staggering quality of the education, pretty much everything about San Diego’s bluff-top university screams Division I.
“This move will significantly increase our visibility and will align us with similar universities with which we already compete,” Khosla said. “…This move demonstrates UCSD’s continued growth and trajectory as one of the globe’s leading universities.”
When you’re the best, you want to go against the best.
UC San Diego is tied with UC Irvine and the University of Florida as the ninth-ranked public university in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings. (Those three comprise a tie for 42nd among all universities.)
Among public schools, UC San Diego is the only one in the top 28 that does not sponsor a Division I athletic program. That’s not a principal criterion, but neither is it a coincidence.

[tsunamiSD]

I think that in California only the San Francisco area has higher costs (and that is in part because of all of the techies working up there that are driving up prices of rentals, condos, and homes.) But as you can see below, there are a lot of cities with more crowded conditions that San Diego.

More San Diegans are taking on a roommate

Roughly 38 percent of adults in San Diego County lived together in 2016, up from 28.6 percent in 2000, said research from real estate website Zillow.
The change follows a national trend. Zillow, using U.S. Census numbers, said 30 percent of adults were living with a roommate or parent in 2016, up 8 percentage points since 2000.

The rise of adults living together occur the most in markets with the highest rent.
More than 45 percent of adults in Los Angeles County were living with a roommate in 2016; Riverside County, 44 percent; Miami; 41 percent; New York City, 40 percent; San Jose, 39 percent; and San Francisco, 39 percent.
Less expensive cities meant more people were living alone. In Kansas City (Mo.), 23 percent of adults had a roommate; Cleveland, 24 percent; Cincinnati, 24 percent; Minneapolis, 24 percent; and Pittsburgh, 25 percent.