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6 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"Arriving with all of the fanfare that a corporate-designed cash grab can reasonably expect to muster, the Giants’ new uniforms somehow manage to be uninteresting, uninspiring and underwhelming all at once," writes Dave Tobener (@gggiants.)
sfgate.com/giants/article…
"As far as I know, no team has attempted to represent fog on a jersey before, and with good reason.

What’s supposed to be curling wisps of fog rising up onto the jersey instead looks like an unfortunate accident with bleach."
"What’s most unfortunate is that for a jersey program meant to connect the fans with the city and the team’s history, Nike couldn’t have asked for a better canvas than San Francisco and the Giants."
Writes @gggiants, "The City has an incredibly rich baseball history dating back over 100 years.

Nike could have easily done something to honor the San Francisco Seals, Mission Reds, or San Francisco Sea Lions. 

Nope, they went with fog."
sfgate.com/giants/article…

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2 Jul
Two airplane pilots were rescued early Friday morning in the waters off Hawaii after a Boeing 737 cargo plane "went down," according to the U.S. Coast Guard. 
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The incident occurred at 1:40 a.m. about two miles off Kalaeloa Airport and a boat, helicopter and C-130 plane all responded, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West.

Both individuals were rescued.
"I'm not sure of their medical condition but they were taken to Queen's Medical Center," West said.

The plane made an emergency landing after the pilots reported engine trouble.
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sfgate.com/travel/article…
Bill McGee, aviation and travel adviser for Consumer Reports’ advocacy arm, said most of the blame rests with one group in particular.

"Most of blame goes to the airline industry and it's important to remember the context," he said.
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The airline industry really failed abysmally here."
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Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists. 
sfgate.com/weather/articl…
Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala, said the North American Lightning Detection Network sensed 710,177 lightning events across British Columbia and northwestern Alberta in about 15 hours, between 3 p.m. on June 30 and 6 a.m. on July 1.
Of those, 597,314 were in-cloud pulses, meaning the strikes didn't hit the ground. There were 112,803 cloud-to-ground strikes detected over the same area, he said. 

"As a whole, Canada doesn’t generally see a lot of lightning — about 90% less than the United States."
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30 Jun
Regional fire specialist Chris Adlam said the sky darkened and the sun gave off an eerie orange glow over southern Oregon on Monday as a smoke plume from the Lava Fire burning in Northern California passed over the area.
sfgate.com/california-wil…
Adlam said that while the smoke stayed aloft in the atmosphere, ash fell to the ground where he lives in Jackson County, which includes the communities of Medford and Ashland.
The Lava Fire and the nearby Tenant Fire both produced pyrocumulus clouds, or fire clouds, shooting up to 35,000 feet into the air again Tuesday.

People in Medford, Oregon, reported falling ash.
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If you ever visited the Nut Tree, two words will bring all the memories flooding back: Marshmallow sauce.

From 1921 to 1996, the fanciest place to grab a bite and a souvenir on the drive between the Bay Area and the Sierra was the Nut Tree. 
sfgate.com/food/history/a…
That soft, fluffy sauce, draped over fresh fruit, was the epitome of the high-end roadside stand.

According to legend, the first seeds of the Nut Tree were planted by migrating pioneers passing through Vacaville in the 1860s.
A single black walnut tree sprung up near the side of what would become the Bay Area’s main thoroughfare, marking the property of the Harbison family.

Helen Harbison grew up on that farm, and in the late 1910s met a man named Edwin “Bunny” Power at a tree-trimming class.
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Both chambers of the California legislature approved Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to send additional $600 stimulus checks to residents across the state late Monday night, sending the legislation to the governor's desk.
sfgate.com/california-pol…
First proposed in May, Newsom's "Golden State Stimulus II" expands on the first round of payments that went out in April.

In the first round, individuals with incomes of $30,000 or less received payments.
In this second round, taxpayers who make up to $75,000 a year and did not receive payments in the first round will receive $600.
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