Are You Leaving Facebook in 2015 ? New Poll on Seen.is #leavingfacebook #byebyefb

Happy New Years!   A new poll for All Facebook Users has been posted on the new, icelandic Social Network site called 'Seen.is'.   It's a clean place for Groups, Forums, Polls, Events, Classifieds and much, much more.

    More than just an alternative to Facebook and other bloated, mega profit, top down, control freakin sites that we've become accustomed to over the past decade.

     It's the opposite of Facebook, in that it does not have any known government contracts;  history of spying or behavioral testing of its users;  almost no advertising;  no collection of personal data;  no tracking of movements, et cetera.

    It's also a great social network model.

 They haven't done much advertising of their own, but it's growth, by word of mouth of our peers who've moved over to Seen.is - has been astounding.

    On November 7, 2014,  Seen.is had about 2,500 Members.    By December 15th, they had over 50,000 New Members.

    And as of today, the last day of 2014, two months later - Seen.is now has over 80,000 New Members!    WOW!

Are You Leaving Facebook in 2015 Poll on Seen.is

   So, we pose the all important, everyone needs to know question, for All Facebook Users to answer, in the form of a New Poll  posted on Seen.is - https://www.seen.is/polls/view/403/leavingfacebook-are-you-leaving-facebook-in-2015

   Yes, you do have to join to SEE it live and take the poll.

 You can see a picture of the poll here on this page, it's very simple, but the answers are important to us all.   If you don't stay with seen.is, for any reason, that's cool, but please join up to take the poll, at a minimum.

  And Seen.is does not CARE what name or nicknames you use to self identify your presence on their networks.... that says alot about their operations, right there.

Your presence there and your content posted is more important to them, then who you 'really are' or what your 'Real Name' or 'Legal Name' is..... a site that is like a breath of fresh air after being online on sites that suffocate us and try to control & track our every move !

 Postscript:   Tip for leaders, organizers, network builders - If you need a very secure, ad free, more private social network site - to use to build up your working groups, teams and more with secure video, voice, text, chat, use your name or group name to Join their sister site called UnSeen.is

Go to UnSeen.is here:   https://unseen.is 

Happy New Year 2015 Everyone!

Story Teller Memorial for Poet Alfonso Texidor - La Leyenda de La Misión

CrowdFund Memorial and Laptop Story Telling Project Started in Honor of Alfonso Texidor - La Leyenda De La Misión:

  Many of you know our friend, Alfonso Texidor.   Most recently he was a columnist for El Tecolote Newspaper in the Mission District of San Franciso.    He was my friend and a bit of a Mentor.

Alfonso Texidor - La Leyenda de la Mision!

     I was working on getting him a laptop to write His Life Story with, when he passed away this Christmas Day, December 25, 2014.

   Truth be told, I've been crying all day, in part for losing such a friend; in part losing such a community treasure and because I feel guilty, like if I could have gotten the laptop together for him faster, maybe he would still be here... typing his story for us all to read.

     Like all the negatives that come my way in this life, this sadness in my heart is being transformed, with your help, into something that may absolve me of guilty feelings and be of tremendous benefit to us all and to our children and their children.

        Alfonso's life was vast. He lived in New York in the 60's during the riots and was as radical as being an original member of the break away group known as 'Up Against The Wall MotherFucker', notorious for community support and advocacy.

     He was also a poet, story teller and made me and my peers laugh, almost every day at El Cafetazo. He would play devils advocate and tell us our lawsuits against the City in the Supreme Court and all the rabblerousing and shelter standards of care laws, etc., wouldn't change nuthin!

     We think he did that to push us into fighting harder and more fiercely with more conviction.

      As Tribute to what this man has brought to our brothers and sisters on the East Coast & The West Coast, we're organizing a two fold Memorial Fund in his Honorable Name.

     The 1st goal is to have a wake or tribute to him and feed our fellow poets, rabblerousers with.

  The 2nd goal is to create an ongoing fund to purchase used laptops and get them into the hands of our beloved elderly, disabled and other folks with stories to tell.

     As I've painfully learned in this ordeal with Alfonso, time waits for no one, so, the faster we can fund laptops for all the poor folks in need of laptops and support to learn how to use word processing programs... the faster we can increase our awareness of our own people & history, from the minds and hearts of the folks around us who are walking history books that don't lie.

PLEASE SHARE TO ALL POETS, WRITERS, RABBLEROUSERS, ADVOCATES & ACTIVISTS.

    CROWDFUNDING NOTE:

     Since we're already testing CrowdFunding for several of our other projects (fraud, cannabis, cell phone drivers, mortgage fraud, et al.) we're going to ALSO post funds in Alfonso's Name, in order to see how well one fund site does or operates over another and publish the results.  

      Also, we have an attorney working with us and will set up a web site for all donors of all our funding projects to go to to SEE exactly how their donation was spent, with real life stories, pictures and video where possible, etc.

BLESS YOU ALL!

MAY ALFONSO REST IN PEACE AS WE CONTINUE TO HONOR & REMEMBER HIM.

s/James Leonard

Community Advocate

Former SF Shelter Monitoring Committee Member (for ID only)

sfawareness@gmail.com

Here is supposed to be an embedded link to the GiveForward CrowdFunding Site for Accepting Your Donations for this Memorial - Project.

 If it fails, we'll post a better one later today. 

CLICK HERE TO DONATE OR USE THE GIVING FORM BELOW: 

  https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/gs47/story-teller-memorial-for-alfonso-texidor-la-leyenda-de-la-mision

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How Many Uber Drivers Are in San Francisco ? Seen.is Research Poll-Public Safety Task Force

How Many Uber Drivers Are In San Francisco ?    If this were a properly licensed and regulated people moving service, all of us would have access to all driving, incident complaint and accident record involving the movement of people on public & private roads.

This is why it costs more to use taxis.... but, if one needs to check up on cabbies, there are publicly available records, being licensed as a public transit service.

Click on Photo To Go To The Poll on Seen.is

With Uber, Lyft, you and I have no idea how many, who or how many complaints or accidents are being caused by their drivers, because its a privatized cheap service operating as a valuable, verifiable public transit service.... a biz model doomed to fail.

  That's why we have regs to stop these kind of cheaters from starting businesses without full respect for existing conditions, people, laws, businesses and regulations and their intent because they don't care.

   They do this for money over a time window of opportunity, until its about to fail or get too expensive to operate safely and legitimately, then they bail with all the cash and leave all the victims, employees, stockholders, pension holders behind, as they move onto to their next target market area, in your community or town soon.

  We created a Poll on the cool, ad free Social Network Site called Seen.Is (in iceland).

http://www.quora.com/How-many-Uber-incidents-are-there-per-drivers-and-how-does-that-compare-to-normal-taxi-drivers

Help us answer this Research Poll to find out our collective best guess as to how many actual Uber Drivers are in San Francisco.   Thank you for your help...

SF Traffic Safety Task Force for the SFAwareness Group

49 Alternatives To Facebook- Unseen.is & Seen.is are Secure Social Sites in Iceland. WE LOVE THEM BOTH! #Leavingfacebook #byebyefb

Day After Election Day - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - #Leavingfacebook #byebyefb

   A BIG Congratulations to everyone helping us to find New Alternative Social Network and Group Web Sites that are not commercialized and intrusive (i.g. facebook, google+, others).

We're finding LOTS OF ALTERNATIVES where we can feel safe, be more productive and focussed on what really matters to us;  and not be burdened or distracted by all the charming stuff the for profit & control concerns online want us to be, for their benefit, not ours.

We started with a list of 49 Alternatives to Facebook and established our first "primary' anchor site on LifeKnot.com - as our first stop to freedom & privacy our way.

 Then as time passed, we came across the most awesome, ad free, secure site called Unseen.is - located in Iceland. 

   Unseen.is is made for people and groups who wish to connect in a non-intrusive, non-commercial environment with secure email and voice, text, video chat and file

sharing and group building. 

  Unseen has apps, and currently requires most browsers

to be near up to date, and there are some Tor issues (may

have to do with common use of Firefox 27.0+ versions) but it works well, once you have it together.

And take heart, our techs have been working with their techs to hammer out making sure 'technology' on the cutting edge, does not cause us all to drop off or stop using Unseen.

   So, the future looks bright if they listen to us, otherwise we'll go find other secure spots that don't change every 90 days.... like the ones we're all trying to escape from, in the first place. 

           Many of us are tired of having to update every browser, every operating

           system, patches, fixes and new hardware to keep up with basic social 

           network and file sharing sites in non-commercialized, ad free environments.

          Environments that we control, not vice versa.

So we can spend more time using existing technology than we do making burdensome changes and learning or down time that stops our flows and ability to stay connected, on a realiable, consistent basis.   

We and our peers are there on Unseen.is (and many folks on the same paths as we are from around the globe and San Francisco already), in addition to LifeKnot.com

UNSEEN.IS's MORE PUBLIC TWIN SISTER SITE:   SEEN.IS

Seen.is is Unseen's Sister site that is made for more private, but outwardly public presence and social networking online, with ability to set up groups, forums, chat areas and even Classified ads in a no-ads or personal data collecting environment.

      Both are ideal for anyone who wants to be free of burdens, privacy intrusions and

data collection activities on for profit web sites that even have government defense

contracts and resell data to foreign security forces and intelligence and job screening concerns around the world. 

GET YOUR SELF & YOUR FACEBOOK PEERS FREE ON SEEN.IS AND UNSEEN.IS

San Francisco PG & E Truck Collides with Car on 16th Street-Mission District. No Injuries. Cell Phone Driving?

Tuesday Oct 7, 2014 - 11AM PST - Mission District - San Francisco, CA
 

About an hour ago, (10am this beautiful Tuesday morning) we were standing out front of El Cafetazo having a smoke.  

We noticed a white Pacific Gas & Electric Van parked in the No Parking-Construction space at corner of 16th Street & Rondel Place (between Valenica & Mission, directly across from Mission Bank).     

Not sure if he was working or picking up a burrito at Pancho Villas (many city workers park in the Red Fire Zone and block the alley to 'run in' and pick up food at Pancho Villas because there is NO parking often due to Valet Parkers for upscale restaurants who STEAL MANY SPACES for hours at a time, rotating client vehicles which means no locals can park near local mom & pop's -safely- to pick up food - as we all could a couple years ago, before this community destroying gentrification scheme went into effect) or not, but he was parked in a space marked No Parking for Construction Zone, in the first place.

This PG&E Van started to pull out, a bit sharp & fast, of where it was parked. 

We could not see if he was on his cell phone or not.   The Security Officer at the Mission Bank across the street may have seen as he is on the look out for unsafe drivers in this zone, as we are.

At that moment, we saw a small red car coming down 16th in the same direction, travelling at a normal rate of speed.  

Then we heard the crash and crunch, as the van tried to move out into the lane, as the other car was already in motion, approaching.   

We hate that area because there are tons of close calls every day, as uber, lyft, big fast trucks from dolores park construction crews (driving too fast, chatting on cell phones) converging fast. 

All driving bad, blocking traffic and it outrages drivers that causes them to break more laws & take more chances out of frustration.  

This is what unplanned, short sided gentrification and density increases gives your community. Chaos.

 

So, we went over and took pictures. 

 The P G & E Driver was stressed, trying to get others to agree with him that he had 'the right of way'... 

Which he may or may not have, but the way we saw it... 

Unless he was able to see the other car at a dead stop,  he should never have tried to 'beat the car out' if he even saw it at all.  

Since he said he 'had the right of way' it looks like he saw the car, moving down the streets and 'took' his right of way, by gunning up the engines and tried to cut off the approaching car.

 

The woman's car, the red one, was in a perfectly straight line, on the proper side of the double yellow, yet his van angle is VERY SHARP and a bit of a distance from where he started out from. 

 So, it looks like he did not see or did not care about the approaching car.

Here are the pictures..  Looks like she (red car) was in motion -before- the van pulled away from the curb... likely she was in a 'blind spot' or perhaps one or both drivers were on their cell phone, ipod of other Distracting & Deadly Device -right before- or -during- the impact.

Have a safe day!

Anonymous Poster on SFAwareness Group

FYI - Top 25 World Banks - Example of Public Documents on Zoho.com

Here's an example of some of the public documents, spreadsheets, list, et cetera, you may find when you search at Zoho.com.