More Summer Birds for San Francisco County

The Condor ◽  
1916 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Milton S. Ray
2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (9) ◽  
pp. 1571-1574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brinton C. Clark ◽  
Ellie Grossman ◽  
Mary C. White ◽  
Joe Goldenson ◽  
Jacqueline Peterson Tulsky

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
sandra cate

In many jails and prisons, inmates devise a cuisine that supplements –– or replaces –– the official meals provided them. Nearly every evening in the San Francisco County jails, inmates make ““spread,”” the generic term for this cuisine, out of dried ramen noodles and ingredients saved from their meal trays or purchased on weekly commissary orders. Based on a series of over thirty interviews, inmate's recipes indicate wide ethnic variations in spread, as well as skills in inventing pies and other desserts. Obtaining ingredients and sharing spread establishes bonds between individuals and groups within the jail setting. As both product and practice, spread's significance emerges out of its oppositions –– in appearance, taste, and origins –– to jail food. According to the inmates, despite its adherence to nutritional standards, the jailhouse diet represents monotony, insufficiency, and a lack of autonomy; spreading thus provides a creative and social outlet that counters the constraints of incarceration.


1929 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Wallace B. Smith presiding ◽  
Dohrmann K. Pischel

The Condor ◽  
1917 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Harold E. Hansen ◽  
Walter A. Squires

1999 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1727-1731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. York ◽  
Laurel Gibbs ◽  
Francoise Perdreau-Remington ◽  
G. F. Brooks

During 1994 and 1995, 157 isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes from patients with invasive disease were consecutively collected in the San Francisco Bay area to determine the frequency of antimicrobial resistance. Susceptibility testing was performed according to the guidelines of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards by the disk method and by broth microdilution. For comparison of susceptibility patterns, an additional 149 strains were randomly collected from patients with pharyngitis. For San Francisco County, 32% of the isolates from invasive-disease-related specimens but only 9% of the isolates from throat cultures from the same period were resistant to erythromycin (P = 0.0007). Alameda County and Contra Costa County had rates of resistance of ≤10% from isolates from all cultures. When the data were analyzed by hospital, the San Francisco County Hospital had a statistically higher rate of erythromycin resistance (39%) among the strains from serious infections compared to those from other counties (P = <0.0003). For tetracycline, high rates of resistance were observed in San Francisco County for both isolates from patients with invasive disease (34%) and pharyngitis (21%) in the same period. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, two clones, one at the San Francisco County Hospital and a second in the entire area, were identified. The latter clone exhibited resistance to bacitracin. Of 146 strains that were tested by microdilution, all were susceptible to penicillin. Clindamycin resistance was not seen among the erythromycin-susceptible strains, but two of the 39 erythromycin-resistant strains were also resistant to clindamycin. An additional 34 strains showed resistance to clindamycin when exposed to an erythromycin disk in the double-disk diffusion test, suggesting that the mechanism of erythromycin resistance is due to an erm gene. This study demonstrates a high rate of resistance to macrolides and tetracycline among S. pyogenes isolates in San Francisco County and shows that macrolide resistance is more common in strains from patients with invasive disease than in strains from those with pharyngitis.


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