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by Kevin

Get Pr for your Trade Show Exhibit

If your company is planning to exhibit at a trade show and your firm has an intriguing new product or service to showcase, you may be able to generate thousands of dollars in free exposure by hiring a public relations specialist to get national and international media coverage. By hiring a public relations pro, you will be assured of getting releases to the industry trade media about that hot new product you are featuring. The trade show media will also be invited to your trade show booth for an interview with your company executive.

Be sure to keep in mind that a valuable and important publicity task is to create a comprehensive media kit. The kit should include background specifics on your company as well as an outline of your new product features and benefits. You should send this kit out in advance and also have it on hand to give to media trade show booth visitors. The press kit makes it easier for the media to write about the details of your story and learn why your news is meaningful to a broader audience.
Your trade show exhibit publicity campaign must begin with finding the right news hook or news angle.

Your publicity team will help you craft and package your trade show news that makes sense for the trade show media to cover. And, in order to obtain trade show exhibit coverage, you need to plan ahead. Your media relations contact needs time to identify the trade show media that will cover your upcoming trade show.

Sending out media invitations to a specified media list with an invitation to visit your trade show exhibit booth with an offer to interview your firm’s spokesperson is critical. Your publicity person also needs to establish advance contact with the trade show media staff to learn what information they are sending out. It is also helpful to obtain the trade show pr staff’s specific media list that covers trade show online, broadcast and print media.

It’s critical for your publicity person to learn the story angles that the trade show PR staff might be pitching. This helps your pr agent avoid making a duplicate pitch and gives them the opportunity to piggyback your specific news to the general trade show theme. If one of the trade show pr staff’s angles is compatible with your company, product or service, you can hitchhike on the trade show PR efforts. Distributing your company news to the trade show PR staff is also extremely valuable as they often field media requests. They then will be able to refer the trade show media to your trade show exhibit when a reporter is looking for a case study or a specific story.

According to Trisha Britt, owner of Britt & Associates, an award-winning trade show public relations agency based in Mill Valley, California, there are specific steps to follow when working with trade show media. They are:

Begin by preparing a press release to announce an intriguing aspect of your trade show exhibit. Be sure to include your trade show booth number. Give editors and producers specific reasons why they should visit your trade show booth and interview your company spokesperson.

Do you have a new product or service to announce, a new member of the management team to introduce or a point of view that you are taking on an industry issue?

Also, suggest setting up a specific time for an interview with an expert from your company. Prepare a list of topics your executive can cover. At the minimum, make your executive give you a two hour window of time to be available at your trade show booth. Try to schedule interviews about 20 minutes in length, and make sure your executive is suitably attired for a photo or video shoot.
Britt has handled a variety of clients in Oakland, San Jose, Fremont, Hayward, Cupertino, Milpitas, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Foster City, San Pablo, Daly City, San Diego, Sacramento and throughout California.

By having the media cover your trade show exhibit, you will expand your trade show exhibit story to a wider audience and develop ongoing contact with the trade show media for continuing news opportunities. It is a win/win situation.

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Patio Rooms Moving Into Milpitas

When it comes to home improvements or home additions, sunrooms patio rooms are among the most popular. A patio room is a room the whole family can enjoy and is a great room for entertaining. Most people add this type of room overlooking a pool area or gazebo for a great view.

Santa Clara includes the city of Milpitas. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of State Route 237 and generally between Interstates 680 and 880 which run roughly north/south through the city. With Alameda County bordering directly on the north, Milpitas sits in the extreme northeast section of the South Bay, bordering the East Bay and Fremont. Milpitas is also located within the Silicon Valley. The corporate headquarters of Maxtor, LSI Logic, Solectron, Adaptec, Intersil, and SanDisk sit within the industrial zones of Milpitas.

If you live in Milpitas, find a a general contractor that specializes in patio rooms and sun rooms to start a better way of living today. Milpitas patio rooms and sunrooms are growing in popularity because of the value and lifestyle benefits.

Building a patio room enclosure requires an experienced general contractor. A good general contractor should be able to provide remodeling services for both indoor and outdoor projects. Other services that a good general contractor should be able to provide include additions, remodels, deck construction, deck repair, design, plans, engineering, structural repairs, structural engineering, permits, waterproofing, painting, stucco, glass railings, stainless steel railings, kitchens, bathrooms, foundation repairs and replacement, retaining walls, dry rot and termite repair, landscaping, concrete patios, arbors, pergolas, shade structures, and outdoor living products. Many of these skills come togther to provide a high quality project in getting your patio room sunroom completed.

A great patio room can include sky lights and screening which is like being outside without being outside. The room can be as elaborate or as simple as you make it. The simpler end of a sun room can be created with a tiled floor, a table with some chairs and maybe a sofa or television. It can be used for the family in the summer when coming in from the pool or for a dinner that has the feel of being outside. In winter the room is always toasty from the sunlight coming in.

These rooms add value to the home as well as to the life of the family residing in the home. The additional space, creates a whole new vibe and a new place to occupy to read the paper, have breakfast or play some games. It quickly becomes one of the most favorite rooms in the home. If you are ready for one of the best values in home improvement, then consider a patio room sunroom.

by Kevin

Use Your Trade Show Booth to Increase Sales

Your trade show exhibit staff can make the difference between your trade show exhibit being successful or being an unproductive exercise.  The Center for Exhibit Industry Research (CEIR) says that 80% of what visitors remember most about their visit to a trade show booth is their interaction with the exhibit staff.  In fact, CEIR sites that 75% of the effectiveness of any trade show is traceable to the performance of the exhibit staff.  

Although you can find almost any information today on a company’s website, trade shows are popular because, unlike the Internet, they give people a chance to talk face to face.  Your trade show display staff can thus make the difference between trade show attendees having a positive experience or a negative one.    By employing well-rehearsed trade show booth people skills, your staff will be better able to ensure that every visitor to your trade show booth has a gratifying experience.  And, by learning important people skills, your staff will generate better sales.

Visitors come to trade shows to learn what is new in their industry by attending continuing education sessions and by gathering information at trade show exhibits.
Your staff not only needs to have knowledge about your product or service but they
also need to be enthusiastic and know how to professionally and politely handle any situation that may arise. By being prepared, your staff can anticipate the questions they will be asked and thus be better able to manage conversations on the trade show floor.  Being able to control the conversation will help your trade show staff in selling their products or services to the visitor.

According to Matt Hill, a trade show trainer and president of The Hill Group, in San Jose, California, in order to engage and qualify trade show booth visitors, your trade show staff needs to master the following people skills.  How to:

1.    Engage and Greet
By having eye contact, being friendly and approachable, asking opened ended question (one that does not have a yes or no answer, such as “What bought you to our booth today?”) your booth staff can break the ice and easily initiate a dialogue.

2.    Ask qualifying questions to decide whether the visitor is qualified or a time waster
Learn what questions to ask to find out if the visitor has influence in buying your product, has a time frame that is acceptable to you, and has an adequate budget or financing available.  

3.    Either dismiss or present a product demonstration
To end the conversation and to disengage from your visitors, you can shake their hands, thank them for their time, communicate that you need to move on to someone waiting, and then turn away.  This will politely signal that your conversation is over.  It is called pattern interrupt.  Since you are not a talk show host such as David Letterman or Jay Leno who rely on commercial breaks to end their guest ’s appearance, you must learn pattern interrupt techniques to politely end your trade show booth conversation.

4.    Generate a lead
After qualifying the visitor, you need to ask if they want to be contacted further.  If they are a hot lead, they will want to be contacted either right away or within the next 30 days.  Be sure to get the necessary contact information on the visitor and then follow up.

A favorite technique of Hill’s is teaching exhibit staffers how to work with groups.  He cites that when you are presenting at your trade show booth and engaged in a one on one conversation and another person approaches, there are people skills you can use to open up your conversation to include an expanding audience.  First, take a step back or to the side to make room for more people, ask your initial guest if it is acceptable to open up the conversation to others, and then bring those new visitors up to date on the conversation.

If you are not the right staff person to answer your visitor’s questions, Hill advises you to escort that visitor to a qualified staff person in your booth. If he/she is already involved in conversation, you can politely interrupt by asking if it is okay to join the conversation.  If not, ask how long he/she plans to be.  If the conversation will end in a minute or two, then you can wait with your visitor until your staff person is finished the conversation.  Realize that a private conversation at a trade show booth can always be politely interrupted.

Hill has conducted trade show trainings for many companies for shows around the world and close by to home at the Henry J Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and the Convention Centers in Santa Clara and San Jose. He has trained Silicon Valley companies headquartered in Fremont, Hayward, Cupertino, Milpitas, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose and beyond to Sacramento and throughout Northern California.

He believes that people skills training for a specific show is essential for all the trade show booth staff.  After an advanced formal training, a quick refresher before the show helps reinforce the people skills your staff will use over the course of the trade show so that every visitor to your trade show booth has a positive experience.  Your sales will dramatically increase as a result.

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by Kevin

Filipino Girls In Pleasanton, CA, USA ? Where Can You Take Them Out For A Date?

There are more than a handful of Filipino girls in Pleasanton, CA, USA. These are descendants of Filipino immigrants in the late 20th century or expatriates that have ventured for better living conditions and higher pay. Most of these Filipinas are already born and raised in the USA. They are either fully blooded Filipinos or half Filipino-half American individuals.

A lot of foreign men are attracted to the beauty of the Filipina. It is evident even during the occupation of the Americans in the Philippines. Most of these American soldiers brought their war brides with them back to the U.S. and settled there. Another reason for the soaring percentage of having Filipino wives today is the internet. Yes, the internet is a great medium for dating between foreign men and Filipinas. It does not matter where these Filipino ladies may be around the world even Filipino girls in Pleasanton, CA, USA.

The Filipino culture is still apparentin these women despite the influence of other culture and foreign friends. Though, it is slowly ebbing away because the previous generations that are born and raised abroad are not that concerned about teaching their children the Filipino culture anymore.  However, there are quite a substantial number of Filipino ladies that are strictly Filipina in the way they think, move and behave. The outward appearance like dress codes and make-up do not count. As the saying goes ‘when you are in Rome, do what the Romans do”.  It can be superficial for many who are still Filipino at heart.

When dating a Filipina you can bring them to famous Filipino restaurants near and around Pleasanton, California. One of the restaurants that offer good Filipino dishes is the Oak House Restaurant. It may not sound very Filipino but the food is. Another restaurant is the Cherry Garden Restaurant located at Fremont Boulevard which also offers delivery. The Barrio Fiesta Restaurant located at 1790 Milmont Dr, Milpitas, California. This restaurant do not only offers Filipino dishes such as Karekare and Laing, but the establishment has an ambience that is so Filipino because of its decorations. If you want to have a more Filipino feel other than the ambiance, the Taste of Manila is a restaurant that has a very polite and has very affordable prices for its Filipino recipes.  Other restaurants that you would want to visit are Poklat’s Lugawan Republic at Milpitas Blvd; Gerry Grill at courthouse Drive, Union City; Nenengscuisine at Yorton Ln, Hayward; Ka Linda’s Restaurant at Alvarado Blvd, Union City. There are more Filipino restaurants that you can bring your Filipina girlfriend or date to if you want to make an impression.

It is best that you try the food in the restaurant that you are planning to bring your Filipina date to before actually bringing her there. This is so that you will not be embarrassed in case you end up not liking the taste. This simple gesture could take you to great lengths with Filipino girls in Pleasanton, CA, USA.

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Facts About Golden Gate Bridge

Colored in ‘International Orange’, the Golden Gate Bridge is amongst the most amazing architectural marvels of the world. The bridge, being part of both U.S. Route 101 and State Route 1, connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. When it was completed in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge had the longest suspension bridge span in the world and became the global symbol of San Francisco and California. Since its completion, its span length has been outdone by eight other bridges. However, it boasts of the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States. In 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge ranked fifth on the List of America’s Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects. To know more such interesting and fun facts about the Golden Gate Bridge, read on.
Interesting and Fun Facts about Golden Gate Bridge
The actual ‘Golden Gate’ is the strait that the bridge spans. Initially it was named “Chrysopylae” connoting “golden gate” by Captain John C. Fremont in 1846.
The Golden Gate Bridge is colossal. Its total length is 1.7 miles (8,981 feet or 2,737 m), middle span is 4,200 feet (1,966 m) and width is 90 feet (27 m). It is built at a height (average) of 220 feet (67 m) above water.
It weighed 894,500 tons (811,500,000 kg) when it was built. Today, it weighs 887,000 tons (804,700,000 kg); the weight got reduced due to new decking material.
Its strong towers stand 746 feet (227 m) high above the water and 500 feet (152 m) above the roadway. Each leg of the tower is 33 x 54 feet (10 x 16 m) and each tower weighs 44,000 tons (40,200,000 kg). Moreover, there are about 600,000 rivets in each tower.
Only 11 workers died during the construction work of the bridge which is a safety record for the time. Around 35 people were expected to die during the construction by the builders. At the time of the bridge’s construction, a net was suspended under the floor which saved the lives of 19 men.
The total steel used in the bridge was made in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was shipped through the Panama Canal. Its total weight is 83,000 tons (75,293,000 kg).
The bridge has two main cables which pass over the tops of the main towers and are held in concrete anchorages at each end. Each cable is made of 27,572 strands of wire, and there are 80,000 miles (129,000 km) of wire in the two main cables. It took more than six months to spin these cables. Each cable is 7,260 feet (2,332 m) long and its diameter is 36 3/8 inches (0.92 m).
On the bridge roadway, about 128 lights, which are 250-watt high pressure sodium lamps, are installed. While the 24 tower sidewalk lights are 35-watt low pressure sodium lamps. An airway beacon tops each tower, and 24 lights of 400 watts each illuminate both the towers.
Since its establishment, the bridge has been closed only for three times due to adverse weather conditions: on December 1, 1951, due to gusts of 69 mph (111 km/h); on December 23, 1982, due to gusts of 70 mph (113 km/h); and on December 3, 1983, due to gusts of 75 mph (121 km/h). The Bridge was also closed on its 50th birthday.
On an average, about 40 million vehicles cross the bridge every year, including both north and southbound crossings.
The construction work of the Golden Gate Bridge began on January 5, 1933.
On May 27, 1937, the bridge was opened to pedestrians and to automobiles on the consecutive day.
The bridge is painted in orange vermillion color, also known as international orange. Irving Morrow, the architect of the bridge, chose the color because it goes well with the bridge’s setting.
Initially, the bridge was fully painted and then touched up for the next 27 years. In 1965, the original paint was removed due to corrosion and was replaced with an inorganic zinc silicate primer and an acrylic emulsion top coat; the project took 30 years. These days, its paint is touched up regularly.
The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge until the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York replaced the title in 1964.
The bridge was built with a whopping construction cost of million.
The fog around the Golden Gate Bridge is called “advection fog.” Such fog forms when humid air from the Pacific swoops over the chilly California current. The bridge has an influence in directing the fog as it pushes up and pours the fog around the bridge.

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Classic, Electric Or Acoustic

Acoustic, Classical, or Electric?
You can find3primaryvarieties of guitars, as well as thekind you pick will depend on the style of music you want to play.
Acoustic and Classical guitars look prettysimilar, but they feel and sound different. Acoustic guitar strings are produced of steel, and create a big, bright, brash tone. Classical strings are nylon, and sound mellow. Mellifluous. Muted, even. For those whodesire to play acoustic rock, or sound like Bob Dylan or Neil Young or Jack Johnson, you most likely want an acoustic guitar. If all of the songs inside your iPods playlist have Italian names, or youre Sergeant of Arms inside the Andres Segovia Fan Club, youll want a classical guitar. Youll also want a diverse guitar teacherCmy classical music education is limited to dancing to my moms Peter as well as the Wolf record when I was 8. OK, maybe 28.
Also, acoustic guitar necks are narrower and longer than classical guitar necks. This means that its a bitless difficult to fingerpick on a classical guitar (those strings arent as crowded), and simpler to fret some typical folk/rock chords on the acoustic.
Electric guitars come in two main flavors, depending on the kind of pickups they’ve. Pickups are like microphones that “pick up” string vibrations. Theyre the lipstick- or matchbox-shaped things under the strings within theregion where you strum the guitar. You coulddesire topick a guitar that has pickups that match your style of music. Or decide on the guitar with the palm trees painted on the front. Whatever.
Single-coil pickups are the narrow, lipstick-shaped pickups. They tend to have a brighter tone, and are usuallyregarded as to be the best-sounding pickups for clean (un-distorted) guitar playing. Theyre also sort of noisy, specially if youre near a laptop or computer monitor or light fixture, or when youre making use ofa great deal of distortion. Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters (and their less expensive cousins, created by Squier) typically have single-coil pickups. Most of my beginning electric guitar students purchase 0 Squier Stratocasters, but for those who can afford 0, the Fender Stratocasters sound a whole lotbetter and dont fall apart in two years.
Humbuckers are the matchbox-shaped pickups. They got their name (its trademarked, in fact) mainly because they “bucked the hum” that single-coil pickups were susceptible to. Humbuckers sound great with distortion, so theyre the pickups of selection for the tough rockers. Most Gibson (and theless expensive Epiphone) guitars have humbuckers.
Have a look at my electric guitar comparison chart.
What about size?
Getting a guitar is like shopping for a coatCyoull want one that fits your body type. Guitars which are too largereally feel awkward whenever you drape your strumming/picking arm over the top of the body. Guitars which are too little make you feel like Don Ho.
Littleindividualsrequiresmall guitars, so there are actually 1/2 and 3/4 sized guitars for youngsters.
Ask a salesperson to help youdetermine if your guitar fits.

What about color? Its much better to look great than to sound great, correct?
Looks are crucial to most people, myself included. I want my guitars to entice me to play them. They musta minimum of look as appealing as whatevers on Television.
Youngsters are specifically concerned with looks, and I believe thats fine. Luckily, guitars with blue paint jobs or bodies shaped like skulls arent necessarily additionalcostly, so if youre shopping for a child, encourage them to pick a guitar that they feel looks cool. Just ensure they like the sound of it, too.

Just how muchwill need to I invest?
Additionalexpensive guitars have better tone, are simpler to play, and are additional durable. Even so, I bought my first guitar, a Japanese-made Fender Stratocaster, for 0 in 1983, and it held together, additional or much less, by means of two years of high school and five years of college. It even survived my brief flirtation with electronics tinkering, when I utilized my dads 100-watt soldering iron to install a new pickup. When the smoke finally cleared, half the electronics were melted, but that guitar held on.
If youre shopping for a child, Id recommendobtaining a guitar within the 0 to 0 range. They wont have the ability to hear significantlydifference in tone, and by the time the guitar wears out, theyll have saved their paper route income (do children even do paper routes anymore?) for a nicer 1. Keep in mind that if youre getting an electric guitar, youll also will need a practice amplifier (0), cable (), and strap ().
If youre shopping for yourself, follow your instincts. If youre in really like with that 00 Martin shining inside the store window, and can afford it, heck, you can find worse methods tospend your funds. Playing a really nice guitar can be inspiring.
But if youre on a budget like many people, discover a guitar in the 0-0 range that looks beneficial and feels excellent.
Check out my electric guitar comparison chart.

How low-cost is too affordable?
Dont buy a guitar whose strings are high above the fretboard. This condition, called high “action,” is usually correlated with other conditions, like “Carpel Tunnel Syndrome” and “Guitar Homicidal Tendency”. Affordableused acoustic guitars often have high action. If youre a total beginner shopping for a screaming deal on a utilized acoustic, ask a salesperson to uncover you one with great action.

Where can I purchase my guitar in Seattle?
Tip:
Keep in mind to ask, “What price can you give me for this?” Music instruments are virtuallyusually marked high.
Acoustic Guitar Stores
Dusty Strings Duck into a doorway on a busy sidewalk within the heart of Fremont, and descend a flight of stairs into a vast underground acoustic instrument smorgasbord! Pluck “Mary Had a little Lamb” on 1 of the 000 harps! Play “Stairway” on a 00 Martin! Youll neverwant to leave.
Dusty Strings also has moderately priced guitars, along with a friendly, knowledgeable staff, but in general, youll pay a bit more for guitars here.
Guitar Emporium Funky small acoustic guitar shop in old Ballard. Robb, the proprietor, is a nice guy and always eager to talk shop. Very good mix of used and new guitars beginning around 0. I got a fantastic deal on a 1978 Alvarez here. Its meant to be my beach guitar, but I like it so significantly I dont wish to bang it up!
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Stores
American Music These are the people I go to for strings, tuners, cables, etc. Theyve got a wide selection, but they still have a small-shop really feel. Located in Fremont.
Trading Musician Employed equipment galore! If youre looking for a cheapemployed guitar, this could possibly be the place to locate it.
Guitar Center When I cant locate it anywhere else, I get it at Guitar Center, the Costco of music equipment stores. If you dont mind becoming addressed as “dude”, you may get rock-bottom costs on new guitars and amps here.
Classical Guitar Stores
Rosewood Guitars Pardon me, do you’ve any Gray Poupon? Seattles finest new classical guitars are here.
On lineAlternatives (bargain hunters, this is for you!)
Craigslist The common, free of chargeonline classified web site. For those whodefinitely want a screaming deal, you dont have topurchase a guitar right away, and you have a friend who can inspect your prospective purchase, trawl the musical instrument section of Craigslist every day and if you see a promising listing, jump on it. I prefer Craigslist to Ebay or Instrument Exchange because I can inspect the equipment prior to I obtain it.
Ebay The on-line auction internet site. You’ll be able to get some terrific deals on Ebay (I bought my Les Paul there for half the retail price) but you cant preview the goods.
Instrument Exchange Guitar Centers version of Ebay is a greatplace for utilized and vintage gear, but again, its risky.(from <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);” href=”http://www.online-guitar-store.net”>online-guitar-store</a>)

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Who is the father of jeans

When news of the California Gold Rush made its way east, Levi1 decided to emigrate to San Francisco to make his fortune; not by panning gold, but by selling supplies to the throngs2 of miners who arrived daily in the big city to outfit themselves before heading off to the gold fields.   In January of 1853 he became an American citizen, and in March he arrived in bustling, noisy San Francisco, establishing a dry-goods business under his own name and also serving as the West Coast Representative of the family’s New York firm.

The first address where Levi conducted business in wholesale dry goods (that we know of) was at 90 Sacramento Street, and the name of his firm was simply, “Levi Strauss.” In 1863 the company was renamed “Levi Strauss &Co.” Levi moved the headquarters to larger quarters at 14-16 Battery Street in 1866, where it remained for the next forty years.
In his mid-thirties, Levi was already a well-known figure around the city. He was active in the business and cultural life of San Francisco, and actively supported the Jewish community. Despite his stature as an important business man, he insisted that his employees call him Levi, and not Mr. Strauss.

He knew that demand would be great for these riveted “waist overalls” (the old name for jeans), so Levi brought‘Jacob Davis to San Francisco to oversee the first West Coast manufacturing facility3. Initially, Davis supervised the cutting of the blue denim4 material and its delivery to individual seamstresses5 who worked out of their homes. But the demand for overalls made it impossi¬ble to maintain this system, and factories on Fremont and Market Streets were opened.
As the end of the 19th century approached, Levi stepped back from the day-to-day workings of the business, leaving it to his nephews. David Stern had died in 1874 and his four sons-Jacob, Sigmund, Louis and Abraham-came into the business over the next few years. In 1890-the year that the lot number “501 (g)”6 was first used to designate the denim waist overalls-Levi and hi! Nephews officially incorporated the company, though by this time he had be-gun to concentrate on other business and philanthropic7 pursuits.

In 1875 Levi and two associates purchased the Mission and Pacific Woolen Mills from the estate of former silver millionaire William Ralston. Much of the mill’s fabric was used to make the Levi Strauss &Co. “blanket-lined” pants and coats. In 1895 he and a number of other prominent San Franciscans provided funds to build a new railroad from San Francisco to the San Joaquin Valley (a project which unfortunately failed). And in 1897 Levi provided the funds for twenty-eight scholarships at the University of California, Berkeley.

During the week of September 22, 1902 Levi began to complain of ill health but by Friday evening the 26th, he felt well enough to attend the family dinner at the home on Leavenworth Street which he shared with Jacob Stem’s family. He awakened briefly in the night, and told the nurse in attendance that he felt “as comfortable as I can under the circumstances.8″ Then, peacefully, he died. His death was headline news in the Sunday, September 28 edition of the San Francisco Call. On Monday, the day of his funeral, local businesses were temporarily closed so that their proprietors9 could attend the services. The eulogy10 was read at Levi’s home by Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger of Temple 236 Manu-EI; afterward, company employees escorted11 the casket12 to the Southern Pacific railway station, where it was transported to the Hills of Eter¬nity Cemetery in Colman (now Home of Peace), south of San Francisco.

Levi’s estate amounted to nearly million, the bulk of13 which was left to his four nephews and other family members. Other bequests14 were made to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum”, the Home for Aged Israelites16, the Ro-man Catholic and Protestant Orphan Asylums, Eureka Benevolent Society and the Emanuel Sisterhood.

In summing up Levi’s life and the establishment of his business, the San Francisco Call stated; “Fairness and integrity in his dealings with his Eastern factors and his customers and liberality toward his employees soon gave the house a standing second to none17 on the coast.” An even more fitting testimonial was pronounced by the San Francisco Board of Trade in a special reso¬lution18:”the great causes of education and charity have likewise suffered a signal loss in the death of Mr. Strauss, whose splendid endowments to the University of California will be an enduring testimonial of his worth as a liberal, public-minded citizen and whose numberless unostentatious acts of charity in which neither race nor creed were recognized, exemplified his broad and generous love for and sympathy with humanity.”

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Veteran’s Day Dinner

All Veteran’s of foreign wars that are members of Fremont Post 2947, are invited to a dinner being given in their honor on Friday, Nov. 12th.  Cocktail hour will begin at 5:30 and dinner at 7:00 p.m.  Anyone who has never received  your Cross of Malta need call the Post at 334-2551.  Our Commander, Tom Horvath, is interested in making sure that all vet’s are recognized approprately.

If you are a Veteran from Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, or Iran, and have not yet taken advantage of your right to belong to a local post, please come down and join the Men’s Auxilary.  We are encourageing you as we have experience in helping our vet’s hve access to many helps that we have found that vet’s are in need of.  It is a good way to have new friendships with men that understand the experience of becoming battle hardened.

After dinner there will be a program at which time a framed tribute to the memory of General George S.Patton will be dedicated at the post.  The grave rubbing and photographs of the United States Cemetary at Luxembourg were donated to our post by Lt. Col. Mark S. Carroll, Operations Officer of the 910th airwing.  Mark is a Fremont native who graduated from Fremont Ross High School in 1972 and from Kent State University in 1985.

Live entertainment will be provided by Paul Frisch from Toledo, Ohio.

On Veteran’s Day, Nov.11th, our Post will be open for food, fun, and fellwoship following the ceremony at our courthouse.

by Kevin

Sonoma Valley Wine Country & Wine Country Sightseeing Attraction

Sonoma Valley is one of the most beautiful locations in all of California. Nestled next to the equally-wondrous Napa Valley, these two locations create the epicenter for California’s thriving wine business and boast some of the most ruggedly beautiful natural features in the state. Taking its name from the Native American word Sonoma, Sonoma Valley is often translated to mean the Valley of the Moon, a phrase that hints at this location’s mystery and natural splendor.Sonoma has a rich historical tradition dating back to a time when Native Americans controlled California’s coastal regions. Once, the Miwok, Pomo, and Wintun peoples dominated this territory, thriving off of the fertility of the soil and its temperate weather, as well as its proximity to the Pacific Ocean. Not much is known about the lifestyle of these peoples, but their involvement in the conquest of the area by Spanish monks has been widely-documented and researched. Under the leadership of Father Joseph Altimira and Father Junipero Serra, Christian monks set out to venture northward from Mexico up through the then-unexplored California coast in order to convert the native peoples to Christianity and claim the land for Spain. In order to do this, the monks set up a series of 21 missions throughout California, which integrated the monks and Native peoples in a kind of farm and religious collective. One of these was set up in Sonoma Valley at the center of what is now Sonoma, California’s modern town square. Mission San Francisco Solano, as it is called, formed the foundation for the later expansion of the town and county of Sonoma out from the city center it created. The mission was typical in style, with long and low walls as well as a large church built into it, which was necessary for their daily worship. Soon after it was established, however, the mission was secularized by a Mexican general, at which point the El Presidio de Sonoma, or the military barracks, were constructed. Much of these structures, too, still stand in the quaint Sonoma town square, which ranks in at the largest town square in California.

Today, the plaza is still the center of Sonoma’s activity, boasting many cute shops and restaurants that pay homage to its location in the center of California’s incredible viticulture industry. Wine shops around here, with many offering tastings at certain times of their encyclopedia list of local, domestic, and international wines. Also, be sure not to miss the extensive wine selection at many of the cute restaurants that line the edges of Sonoma’s town square, which will surely compliment the sophisticated yet comfortable fare that characterizes this town.

Sonoma Valley itself also has multiple vineyards within its borders, which make for exciting and interesting trips back into the birthplace of wines rich history. The first grapes introduced to the region were allegedly from the Mission San Francisco Solano itself, dating back to when the monks experimented with their gardens and grew grapes. But soon after California gained its independence – which actually happened in the Sonoma town square itself, so be sure not to miss the statue of California rebel John C. Fremont in the town square – the wine industry flourished, with many new United States residents flocking to the area in order to take advantage of the incredible opportunities. Following the invention of the Zinfandel wine variety, which is intrinsic to the Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley areas, Sonoma California zoomed toward its future in international acclaim – all while still retaining its small town charm.

Also located within the town are countless spas for you to take advantage of and relax within. Whether their specialty is hot springs water or mud bath, almost every kind of massage you could want is at a spa in this exquisite resort town. The Sonoma Valley is the perfect location to come to relax, too, as its unspoiled natural splendor and peaceful vibe is a perfect environment in which to forget about the everyday world.

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Getting Around San Jose

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For 1000’s of many years before the arrival of European settlers, the location now recognized as San Jose was inhabited by a number of teams of Ohlone Native Americans.[one] Long lasting European presence in the place came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (one hundred km) to the south. Don Pedro Fages, the military governor at Monterey, handed through the place on his 1770 and 1772 expeditions to take a look at the East Bay and Sacramento River Delta. Late in 1775, Juan Bautista de Anza led the 1st overland expedition to provide colonists from New Spain (Mexico) to California and to locate websites for two missions, 1 presidio, and one particular pueblo (town). He left the colonists at Monterey in 1776, and explored north with a smaller group. He chosen the internet sites of the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco; on his way back again to Monterey, he cited Mission Santa Clara de Asís and the pueblo San Jose in the Santa Clara Valley. De Anza returned to Mexico Metropolis ahead of any of the settlements had been basically founded, but his identify lives on in numerous buildings and street names.
Initial Spanish pueblo in California; The 200th anniversary of the El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe founding in Las California’s: marked by this Commemorative postage stamped Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe (The Town of Saint Joseph of Guadalupe) was founded by José Joaquin Moraga on November 29, 1777, the initial pueblo-town not connected with a mission or a military submit (presidio) in upper Las Californians. (Mission Santa Clara, the closest mission, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles (5 km) from the unique pueblo web page in neighboring Santa Clara. Mission San José was not founded until eventually 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by de Anza, as a farming community to offer meals for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68.[two] In 1797, the pueblo was moved from its unique location, near the present-day intersection of Guadalupe Parkway and Taylor Road, to a location in what is now Downtown San Jose, surrounding Pueblo Plaza (now Plaza de César Chavez). In the ensuing a long time a variety of Mexican Rancho Land Grants Land Grants have been confirmed inside the lands now thought to be San Jose. For instance, the Rincon de los Esteros grant was conferred upon Rafael Alvisa in the 12 months 1859; the identify of this rancho became the moniker for the present day redevelopment undertaking spot.

The early statehood of San Jose, 1875.In the course of the Bear Flag Revolt, Captain Thomas Fallon led a little force from Santa Cruz and captured the pueblo with no bloodshed on July 11, 1846. Fallon received an American flag from John D. Sloat, and raised it through the pueblo on July 14, as the California Republic agreed to join the United States following the commence of the Mexican-American War. Fallon would later become the tenth mayor of San Jose. It’s unclear whether or not Fallon ordered all townspeople of Spanish/Mexican origin out of San Jose, as some regional historians claimed. Immediate descendants of the Spanish founders have continued to make their homes in San Jose, and nevertheless reside there to this day (2010).For the duration of the California Gold Rush period, the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines just south of the metropolis were the biggest mercury mines in North America (mercury was utilised to assist separate gold from ore). The cinnabar deposits were discovered in 1845 by a Mexican cavalry captain, Andres Castillero, when he identified the red powder utilized by nearby Ohlone Indians to embellish the chapel at Mission Santa Clara. Mining operations began in 1847 at what was the 1st working mine in the province, just in time for the Gold Rush. The value of the mercury marketplace at the time explains why the regional newspaper is named the Mercury News. On March 27, 1850, San Jose grew to become the 1st included metropolis in the U.S. state of California; the very first mayor was Josiah Belden. It also served as the state’s 1st funds with the first and second periods of the California Legislature, acknowledged as the Legislature of a Thousand Drinks, getting held there in 1850 and 1851. The legislature was unhappy with the place, as no buildings suitable for a state authorities had been available in the metropolis, and took up State Senator Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s offer to create a new cash on land he donated to the state in what is now Benicia.

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