Depressing job search

For more than half a century, one of the most beloved attractions at the San Francisco Zoo was a man-made simian playground called Monkey Island. Visitors were enthralled by the antics of dozens of spider monkeys that scampered about the moated island, cavorted on trapezes, rang a bell, pushed each other into the water and lay in the sun. Children were particularly enchanted by this endlessly entertaining mini-universe, which looked like a huge pile of enormous toy blocks dumped into a haphazard pile. As a visitor to the zoo in the 1960s, I always had to be dragged away from it by my parents. I assumed then that Monkey Island was unique to San Francisco. But in fact, dozens of monkey islands were created in zoos all across the country during the Depression by the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. All of them were wildly popular. All of them reflected the well-meaning but limited zoological concepts of their time. And almost all of them have been demolished. The Depression was the … [Read more...] about SF Zoo Monkey Island: Depression jobs and fun for humans, mixed bag for animals

For more than half a century, one of the most beloved attractions at the San Francisco Zoo was a man-made simian playground called Monkey Island. Visitors were enthralled by the antics of dozens of spider monkeys that scampered about the moated island, cavorted on trapezes, rang a bell, pushed each other into the water and lay in the sun. Children were particularly enchanted by this endlessly entertaining mini-universe, which looked like a huge pile of enormous toy blocks dumped into a haphazard pile. As a visitor to the zoo in the 1960s, I always had to be dragged away from it by my parents. I assumed then that Monkey Island was unique to San Francisco. But in fact, dozens of Monkey Islands were created in zoos all across the country during the Depression by the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. All of them were wildly popular. All of them reflected the well-meaning but limited zoological concepts of their time. And almost all of them have been demolished. The Depression was the … [Read more...] about SF Zoo Monkey Island: Depression jobs and fun for humans, mixed bag for monkeys

Robert Nott The Santa Fe New Mexican Published 5:56 PM EST Nov 25, 2018 Pain from the knife wound remained intense long after the altercation that Colin Tenorio was involved in at a Santa Fe park in the summer of 2015. The 23-year-old from Santo Domingo Pueblo said he was defending himself against an unknown assailant when he suffered a bloody wound to his left arm that required two surgeries. Two years later, Tenorio was still in pain. He tried various medical remedies, including the highly addictive oxycodone, but nothing quite worked. In February, after studying the benefits of various strains of medical marijuana, he received a license to legally use it to combat the pain. "It calmed me down, relaxed my body," he said. The pain diminished. But a new agony awaited: Tenorio couldn't get a job because so many local employers required him to take a drug test as a condition of employment. "I figured I could get a job, no problem," he said. "It didn't even come to mind that I … [Read more...] about Medical pot can disrupt job searches in New Mexico