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The San Francisco Bay Area Portal.svg)  TheSan Francisco Bay Area (referred to locally as theBay Area) is a populous region surrounding theSan Francisco andSan Pabloestuaries inNorthern California. The region encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas ofSan Jose,San Francisco, andOakland, along with smaller urban and rural areas. The Bay Area's nine counties areAlameda,Contra Costa,Marin,Napa,San Francisco,San Mateo,Santa Clara,Solano, andSonoma. Home to approximately 7.68 million people, the nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, andnational parks, connected by a network of roads, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels, andcommuter rail. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest inCalifornia (after theGreater Los Angeles area), the fifth-largest in theUnited States, and the43rd-largest urban area in the world with 8.80 million people. The Bay Area has the second-mostFortune 500 companies in the United States, after theNew York metropolitan area, and is known for its natural beauty,liberal politics, entrepreneurship, anddiversity. The area ranks second in highest density of college graduates, after theWashington, D.C., metropolitan area and performs above the state median household income in the 2010 census; it includes the five highestCalifornia counties by per capita income and two of the top 25wealthiest counties in the United States. Based on a 2013 population report from theCalifornia Department of Finance, the Bay Area is the only region in California where the rate of people migrating in from other areas in the United States is greater than the rate of those leaving the region, led by Alameda and Contra Costa counties.(more...) Selected article In the late 1960s, few professional football games took longer than two and a half hours to play, and the Jets–Raiders three-hour television time slot was thought to be adequate. However, in this instance, a high-scoring contest between the two bitterAmerican Football League rivals, together with a number of injuries and penalties, caused the game to run long. Although NBC executives had originally ordered thatHeidi must begin on time, as 7 p.m. approached, and it became clear the exciting game would run long, they decided to postpone the start of the film and continue football coverage. However, when they tried to call the studio to implement their decision, they were unable to get through because so many members of the public were calling NBC to inquire, complain, or opine about the scheduled 7 p.m. cutoff that the NBC switchboards were jammed. As a result, the change could not be communicated, andHeidi began as scheduled, preempting the final moments of the game in the eastern part of the country—to the outrage of viewers there, who missed two Oakland touchdowns that turned the game around. TheHeidi Game led to a change in the way professional football is shown on network television; ever since then, games have been shown to their conclusion before evening programming begins. The experience also led television networks to take steps to ensure that network personnel would be able to communicate with each other under similar circumstances in the future: special telephones (dubbed "Heidi phones") were installed that connected through a separatetelephone exchange. In 1997, theHeidi Game was voted the most memorable regular season game in U.S. professional football history.(more...) Selected biography  Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influentialAmerican documentaryphotographer andphotojournalist, best known for herDepression-era work for theFarm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs("Migrant Mother", 1936, pictured, left) humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development ofdocumentary photography. Lange was educated in photography atColumbia University inNew York City, in a class taught byClarence H. White. She was informally apprenticed to several New York photography studios, including that of the famedArnold Genthe. In 1918, she moved toSan Francisco, and by the following year she had opened a successful portrait studio. She lived across the bay inBerkeley for the rest of her life. In 1920, she married the noted western painterMaynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons.(more...) Selected city San Bruno is located at37°37′31″N122°25′31″W / 37.625288°N 122.425266°W /37.625288; -122.425266. The city is located betweenSouth San Francisco andMillbrae, adjacent toSan Francisco International Airport andGolden Gate National Cemetery, and is approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of downtown San Francisco. According to theUnited States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14 km2), all of it land. The city spreads from the mostly flat lowlands nearSan Francisco Bay into the foothills of theSanta Cruz Mountains, which rise to more than 600 feet (180 m) above sea level in Crestmoor and more than 700 feet (210 m) above sea level in Portola Highlands. San Bruno City Hall sits at an official elevation of 41 feet (12.5 m) above sea level.(more...) Selected image Fog over the Bay Area. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite acquired this view of fog encroaching on the city on August 16, 2012. The fog is part of the marine layer, a mass of cool, dense air from the sea that was sandwiched beneath a layer of warmer air as part of a temperature inversion. Fog is often present in the lower part of the marine layer, whereas wispy stratus clouds form in the upper part. image credit:NASA The Bay Area by year1904 
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PreviousDid you know...   • ... thatIna Coolbrith(pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in theBohemian Club, was also the firstCalifornia Poet Laureate? July 2009 Selected periodic event TheFestival del Sole is an annual ten-day jazz and classical music, food, wine, and art festival held inNapa Valley. Founded in 2006 by Richard Walker and Barrett Wissman, the festival attracts over 8,000 attendees annually. Performers at the festival have includedMonica Mancini,Pinchas Zukerman,Dmitry Sitkovetsky andArturo Sandoval(pictured, at a White House performance). Quote
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