Airphoto Report: The Vallejo-Mare Island Area

Vallejo Next Stop - This is Carquinez Strait where the northern arm of the bay narrows between Contra Costa and Solano counties and is spanned by the great State-owned bridge

Obituaries: Tom Waddell dead at age 49, founder of S.F.'s Gay Games

The obituary of Thomas Waddell that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on July 12, 1987. There is a photo of him and information on his life and battle with AIDS.Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 - July 11, 1987) was an American Olympic athlete who is best known for founding the Gay Games, a competition modeled on the Olympics for athletes of all sexual orientations. Originally born Tom Flubacher, he changed his last name later in his life. Waddell attended Springfield College, where he competed in gymnastics, track and field, and football. He was co-captain of the Gymnastic Exhibition and Track Teams, and was elected to Kappa Delta Pi. Following the sudden death of his best friend, Don Marshman, during their junior year, Waddell decided to pursue medicine. After graduation, he attended the New Jersey College of Medicine, Georgetown University, and Stanford University. While completing his studies, he traveled on a track and field tour of Africa sponsored by the US State Department and competed in the 1968 Olympics, where he placed sixth in the Decathlon and broke five personal records. Waddell established his private practice in San Francisco in 1974, shortly after which he began serving as medical director of the Whittaker Corporation and as a physician for the Saudi Arabian Olympic team. While competing in a gay bowling league in 1982, Waddell was inspired to create the Gay Games (originally called the Gay Olympics). In 1985, he was diagnosed with AIDS. Waddell lived to see the enormous success of the second Gay Games in 1986 and to win the gold medal in the javelin event

His Chance to Do Something

This cartoon features a man holding a gear and lightening bolts with text His Chance To Do Something.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-cartoons/1186/thumbnail.jp

Understanding Edward Muybridge: historical review of behavioral alterations after a 19th-century head injury and their multifactorial influence on human life and culture

Edward Muybridge was an Anglo-American photographer, well known for his pioneering contributions in photography and his invention of the "zoopraxiscope," a forerunner of motion pictures. However, this 19th-century genius, with two original patents in photographic technology, made outstanding contributions in art and neurology alike, the latter being seldom acknowledged. A head injury that he sustained changed his behavior and artistic expression. The shift of his interests from animal motion photography to human locomotion and gait remains a pivotal milestone in our understanding of patterns in biomechanics and clinical neurology, while his own behavioral patterns, owing to an injury to the orbitofrontal cortex, remain a mystery even for cognitive neurologists. The behavioral changes he exhibited and the legal conundrum that followed, including a murder of which he was acquitted, all depict the complexities of his personality and impact of frontal lobe injuries. This article highlights the life journey of Muybridge, drawing parallels with Phineas Gage, whose penetrating head injury has been studied widely. The wide sojourn of Muybridge also illustrates the strong connections that he maintained with Stanford and Pennsylvania universities, which were later considered pinnacles of higher education on the two coasts of the United States