Last Call
The producer and webmaster of today’s show was Ian Sherr. Our executive producer was Ben Manilla. The anchors were Kim Geiger and Sierra Filucci. The engineer was Rina Palta.
Stan, the man who can’t stay out of the ER
Good health care often starts with good doctors and nurses. But where can they get the hands-on practice they need, before they get their hands on their first patients?
Vianna Davila goes to the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, where medical students and veteran doctors practice on a different kind of patient, one that’s never going to file a malpractice suit.
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Trainees practice on plastic airway models at UC Davis Center for Virtual Care.
A baby simulation model at UC Davis Center for Virtual Care.
Morgan, the young child simulation model.
Stan, a 185 pound male simulation model, who can blink, has vital signs and, in some cases, can make voice noises depending on how he feels.
From Foreclosures to Shelters
The mortgage crisis is forcing renters and owners alike out of their homes. After almost a year, friends and family face can no longer house them, and so many people are turning to already overextended homeless shelters. Lisa Pickoff-White visited one of San Francisco’s largest shelters and service centers, Glide, to meet the people on the front lines of homelessness.
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For more information on Glide’s services visit their website, here.
For the National Coalition for the Homeless’ report visit their website, here.
Old Fashioned Games? They Really Are.
We all have fond memories of playing Monopoly, Scrabble and Connect Four when we were kids. But when you’re an adult, it’s really hard to find people who can dedicate the time to play. After his friends and family turned him down for a game of Risk, Ian Sherr went in search of more *worthy* opponents at Board Games night at Games of Berkeley.
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For more information about Berkeley Game night, visit their MeetUp page, here.
Rethinking the Front Lawn
Ever since the rise of suburbia after World War 2, Americans have loved their lawns. But with increasing concerns about the environment, the economy and even food safety, people in the Bay Area and beyond are choosing to forego luscious green grass in front of their homes, for something else.
Sierra Filucci takes us to a neighborhood in Oakland where the future of lawns is now.
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Erin Fisher’s lawn has been named a Bay Friendly Garden by Stopwaste.org
Erin Fisher’s Fuji apple tree.
Julie Mills’s sheet-mulched lawn.
Some resources for tearing out your lawn:
StopWaste, Here.
Misty Morning Gardens, Here.
The Old Dominion
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been surging in polls. There’s been a lot of talk about the growing Democratic electorate in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Political reporter Kim Geiger takes us to the southern part of Virginia to explore just how strong Obama’s support really is.
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On this day, 60 years ago…
Our last report takes us to the intersection of Broadway and Telegraph Avenue in downtown Oakland, where a group of actors, historians and labor organizers staged a strike outdoors, based on a worker’s strike that happened here back in the 1940s. Adithya Sambamurthy has the story.
For more information, visit these websites:
The Oakland Museum’s website about the strike, and an exhibit dedicated to the event: here.
An account of the strike from a Libertarian Communist: here.
Some photographs from this year’s reenactment, here.
And Lawrence Michael Bogad’s website, here.
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