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From our local SF Chron:

SF’s landmark tower for rich and famous is sinking and tilting

Photo: Michael Noble Jr., The Chronicle

The Millennium Tower, a leading symbol of San Francisco’s new high-rise and high-end living, is sinking — setting the stage for what could be one of the most contentious and costly real estate legal battles the city has ever seen.

Rated by Worth magazine as one of the top 10 residential buildings in the world, the Millennium at 301 Mission St. is home to such A-listers as Joe Montana and Hunter Pence. Until his recent death, it’s where venture capitalist Tom Perkins owned a penthouse. Condos sell for anywhere from $1.6 million to north of $10 million.

However, since its completion in 2008, the 58-story building has sunk 16 inches, according to an independent consultant hired to monitor the problem. It has also tilted 2 inches to the northwest.

“That’s significant … and of concern,” said Professor Greg Deierlein, director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University, who has been called in to evaluate the designs of a couple of San Francisco’s newer downtown high-rises.

Deierlein noted that the 88-story Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia — which were the world’s tallest buildings when they opened in 1998 — have sunk less than 3 inches. Their tilt, or “differential settlement,” is less than half an inch.

This isn’t just an issue for the Millennium’s owners and wealthy inhabitants: It could be a headache for taxpayers as well. There are potentially big public dollars at stake, with the owners alleging that the massive hole dug next door for the new Transbay Transit Center is to blame for the building’s issues.

The problem first came to light in 2010 when the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, the public agency constructing the transit center, hired the consulting firm Arup to gauge how the excavation could affect the tower.

According to the consultant’s initial report, by the time excavation began — two years after the $350 million Millennium was completed — the tower had already settled 10 inches. That was 4 inches more than its builders had predicted for the life of the high-rise.

Since then, “the building has continued to settle vertically, now 16 inches,” representatives of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority said in a statement in response to questions from The Chronicle.

At the same time, geotechnical reports show that since 2009, the settling has been uneven — resulting in the 2-inch tilt.

And while Stanford’s Deierlein doesn’t consider the sink or tilt a safety issue, he did say, “I would be concerned for my investment.” That’s because a shifting building can cause walls to crack, elevators to malfunction and all manner of other annoyances.

P.J. Johnston, spokesman for tower builder Millennium Partners and its principal owner, Sean Jeffries, said a nine-month, independent structural safety review in 2014 “determined the settlement has not significantly affected the seismic performance of the building, and does not represent a safety risk.”

An attorney for the Millennium homeowners association’s board, John Gill, recently sent a confidential letter to some of the more than 400 residents saying the board was “actively engaged in negotiations with Millennium Partners to resolve building settlement issues.” The letter also said the association was “sensitive to the concerns of everyone about any issue which could impact the value of their units.”

In a statement Friday, homeowner representatives said they had “retained a number of engineering consultants to investigate the causes and long-term impact of these settlement conditions” and were evaluating their legal options. They cited any number of parties that could be held “legally accountable” — including the developer, the high-rise’s designers, the contractors and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which is run by San Francisco, AC Transit, Caltrans and the agency that operates Caltrain.

For his part, Millennium spokesman Johnston wasted no time blaming the transit center authority. He insisted that the tower’s settling had been within normal range until excavation began on the bus and rail center next door.

“They built a half-mile tunnel 60 feet underground and next to our building, and they were supposed to (protect the Millennium) — and they didn’t,” Johnston said.

The authority also signed an agreement with the Millennium developer in 2008 “to repair, at its own cost and expense … any damage to the development substantially caused by TJPA’s construction activities,” according a copy of the agreement on file at San Francisco City Hall.

Records show the Transbay Joint Powers Authority pumped more than $58 million into an underground buttressing system to shore up the Millennium before beginning excavation in 2010. That’s one of the many reasons for the new transit center’s spiraling costs, which are now at $2.4 billion and counting.

In its statement, the transit center authority said it “bears no responsibility for the tilt and excessive settlement.”

Unlike some downtown high-rises, the Millennium isn’t steel-framed. Instead, the developer chose a concrete design more common to residential buildings. It relies on huge columns, shear walls and beams, and it’s much heavier than steel. What’s more, the building is located on unstable mud-fill, just off the bay’s original shoreline.

The Millennium’s engineers anchored the building over a thick concrete slab with piles driven roughly 80 feet into dense sand. “To cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock,” or 200 feet down, the transit center authority said in its statement. Had it done so, the agency said, “the tower would not be tilting today.”

Johnston countered that “virtually all other buildings in that part of the city have their foundations at the same subterranean level,” citing skyscrapers that include the St. Regis and Intercontinental hotels.

He added that the Millennium’s design was state of the art for residential buildings and that concrete can be preferable to steel for several reasons, including sound insulation.

“In any case, this was not a cost-saving decision, but the preferred design,” Johnston said.

While there have been reports of cracks appearing in the Millennium’s underground garage, there’s no word of residents complaining about damage to their condos. Instead, the shifting and sinking of the concrete platform beneath the building has necessitated what Johnston called “minor repairs to sidewalks and connections at the ground level.”

Experts tell us it’s uncertain exactly what, if anything, can be done to fix the problem or straighten the tower. There has been talk of pumping cement underneath the base and drilling new piles — complicated and expensive undertakings.

An assessment, no doubt, that offers little comfort to those living in the building.

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Readers: Don’t you love how the Millennium spokesman Johnston is blaming the excavation of a tunnel as being the reason the tower is settling? I’m not an architect or a builder but it seems pretty clear to me that if you needed thick concrete slabs driven down 200 feet into bedrock, and you only went down 80 feet into dense sand (Hello!) to save costs, it really doesn’t matter if a tunnel was excavated next to the building, because it seems pretty obvious it’s probably gonna sink sooner than later.

The bottom line is, what was required wasn’t done. Whether it was out of a cost-saving decision (aka: greed) or preferred design (I hope the “beauty” was worth it!), someone is going to pay for the stupid mistake.

It didn’t take long. About 10 days after this write was written, another article was written about the law suit filed:

And they’re seeking a big pile of cash: $500 million at least, if a judge grants the lawsuit class- action status on behalf of the building’s 400-plus residents.

What’s your opinion?

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Good morning!

Josie: I’ve read stats on black men being incarcerated but not much on the women. Much of what you posted was all new news to me. Thank you for enlightening me. Absolutely horrific. This needs to be in the media more.

Helena 1, Juanita, Cynthia, Anonymous, et al:  Thanks for posting some really good reminders (delighted some were past blog comments that stuck with you till this day) about white privilege and just who truly is the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. Good stuff worth repeating.

Rebecca:  You know me well. :)

Patty:  Sorry you have trouble being the first. I have no control of that. As you can see it is not always regulars who post the first comment. Just happy you are here commenting too.

Danielle:  My pleasure.  Thanks, I’m with you – I would most like to meet Michelle Obama too, not to mention her darling husband, who fascinates me. :)

Doris: Right? Let’s not focus on that. So sick of the media saying this and that about her. Also, get off the fact that she’s not as warm and fuzzy, or relatable, or authentic, blah blah. They scrutinize her so much more than a man, down to her looks and how she dresses. Hell, I’m in the style business and everyone I dress tells me they want to be more relatable and authentic to the world It’s not the easiest thing to be when you aren’t in the limelight 24/7 so you can imagine how Clinton feels when all eyes are on her.  I want to focus on her talents, her commitment, her tenacity to hang in there when hate surrounds her. What about her ability to work across party lines, stay strong under pressure, her years and years of support of women and girls. Sorry no man is going to be as a strong of a supporter when it comes to the rights of women. 40 years in politics. I’m putting my trust in her.

Gwen: I have no doubt. I’d like to read that book. I say, “Write it.” Hmmm… Just read your added comment. Interesting that “…her biggest beef with white men was that they discriminated against her because of her sex...” yet she believes that “…OTWs are not as civilized as whites,“ if I’m understanding your comment correctly.

Terri: Ditto on much of what you said. I have way more to say here and perhaps I will later.

Frankie: I definitely see that as a good thing. I supported Obama’s goals as they were my goals too, along with many others in this country that supported him. And yes, I will admit that I too wanted Obama for a third term. But as I know that is impossible, I totally support Hillary - it is her turn now. And quite Frankie (Corny but I couldn’t resist :),  I like that Hillary is continuing the process that Obama started. That is the problem that we come across when parties switch back and forth in elections and agendas are changed, real change is hard to advance.

Skipping around today, and Alycedale, your comment caught my eye. First of all, thank you. Secondly, I was just reading an article, one that I decided was going to be my write for the day. Sometimes when I have time I read the comments on a particular article just to see what their audience is thinking. During my reading I came across exactly what you brought up: “Symbolic Annihilation.” Interesting. We must be on the same thought wave.

That was a new term for me so I “googled it” as you and the person who left the comment suggested.

Here’s the write from Vulture.com:

BURN IT ALL DOWN AND LET’S START OVER

Constance Wu Slams Matt Damon’s Great Wall Film for Perpetuating a ‘Racist Myth’

Constance Wu isn’t here for your excuses, equivocations, or apologies for Matt Damon’s upcoming film, The Great Wall, in which he stars as a heroic dragon-slayer defending the Great Wall in ancient China. (No, really.) “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world,” Wu writes in screenshot of her Twitter drafts. (Side thought: Is Twitter drafts the new Notes app?) “Our heroes don’t look like Matt Damon. They look like Malala. Ghandi. Mandela. Your big sister when she stood up for you to those bullies that one time.”

She doesn’t mince words when she says that Hollywood needs to step up and do better. Wu told Vulture something similar about executives who say that they “try,” when she said, “Boo fucking hoo, a lot of shit is hard. Care more, make it matter.” Wu isn’t about to let Hollywood executives off the hook:

Rather, it’s about pointing out the repeatedly implied racist notion that white people are superior to POC and that POC need salvation from our own color via white strength. When you consistently make movies like this, you ARE saying that. YOU ARE. Yes, YOU ARE. YES YOU ARE. Yes, dude, you fucking ARE. Whether you intend to or not. We don’t need salvation. We like our color and our culture and our own strengths and our own stories. (If we don’t, we should) We don’t need you to save us from anything. And we’re rrrreally starting to get sick of you telling us, explicitly or implicitly, that we do.

And yes, that goes for the “money” argument:

Money is the lamest excuse in the history of being human. So is blaming the Chinese investors. (POC’s choices can be based on unconscious bias too) Remember it’s not about blaming individuals, which will only lead to soothing their lame “b-but I had good intentions! but…money!” microaggressive excuses.

After all, actors of color should have the chance to make box-office bombs — just like white ones!

Think only a huge movie star can sell a movie? That that has NEVER been a total guarantee. Why not TRY to be better? If white actors are forgiven for having a box office failure once in a while, why can’t a POC sometimes have one? And how COOL would it be if you were the movie that took the “risk” to make a POC as your hero, and you sold the shit out of it?!

Here’s the full statement:

And here is what I found in the comments section of this write from someone named “Johnny Division:” 

There is a word for these kinds of limited opportunities – it’s called a “Glass Ceiling.”

And as long as we are stereotyped and underrepresented in the media, we are generally seen in the public eye as a monolith (and less as individuals). There’s actually a word for that in the social sciences: “Symbolic Annihilation” (Google it), hence why we can’t get more complex roles – Hollywood thinks it’s too “unreal” for the general public. 

Did you know the very first international male sex symbol EVER – was an Asian man? His name was Sessue Hayakawa, of the silent era (1910s/20s). He was the first, and to this very day, the LAST – internationally recognized male Asian sex symbol. Obscure today, he was as huge and mainstream as Chaplin! A DiCaprio of his time; his roles were mainly forbidden heartthrobs, and dashing villains – the essence of “tall, dark and handsome”.

His career went to shambles as Yellow Peril ideals/propaganda (anti-Chinese immigration and anti-Japanese WW2 sentiments) and anti-miscegenation laws set in (if you were non-white, you could even lose your citizenship entirely for marrying an Asian man). It was about this time that many of today’s Western stereotypes against Asians were born from and continue today… and to this day, Asian women are fetishized, while Asian men are portrayed as geeky nerds/martial artists, asexual/desexualized, short, and the butt of small penis jokes… imo, it contributes to why Asian men are the least desirable in interracial relations (but notice how that all goes out the window with non-Asians who absorb Asian media like anime, J-rock/Kpop, etc), and otherwise never get leading heroic roles (unless martial artist, of course). There has never been another Hayakawa since. 
Some TV shows are fixing it today (like The Walking Dead), but movies are still a farcry behind. 

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 12:02 PM Readers: Oops PS…I forgot to add in my commentary.  In response to Wu’s comment, “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world,” This continues to be perpetuated, and yet we know that in reality this isn’t true because it was only about 8 years ago that a black man, Barack Obama saved the world from a financial meltdown. He did that in spite of efforts by a determined racist bunch of American politicians planning to sabotage his every effort.

An act of treason by anyone against a sitting POTUS if that POTUS were white, but this hero saving the world is black. And yet no one has been arrested for treason even though it is widely known that the republican party’s main goal was to bring Obama down with little care for what happened to the country in doing that. Does that mean it didn’t happen or that perpetuating the myth that only a white man can save the world means history can’t recall it that way? At least as long as the white man controls what history accounts.

What say Wu? (Lol – bear with me – Looks like I’m in that kind of mood today) Agree with Johnny D? Other comments?

Blog me. 

Peace out.

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 Good Morning!

Whew – what a night, right?

Congratulations Hillary Clinton for breaking the glass ceiling! 

I’m so proud. I loved last night…I loved the last 4 days. Clinton is so smart, tenacious, committed, compassionate, competent, and completely qualified to be our president. She will not quit on us. I will not quit on her. #GirlBoss

If there is anyone reading this blog (and there were many in yesterday’s blog) that still needs convincing, read this:

Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am

by Hillary Clinton

What the fuck is your problem, America??

I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16. I have an insane network of powerful friends. I’m willing to spend the next eight years catching shit on all sides, all so I can fix this fucking country for you. And all you little bitches need to do is get off your asses one goddamn day in November.

“Oh but what about your eeeemaaaaillls???” Shut the fuck up. Seriously, shut the fuck up and listen for one fucking second.

Here’s all you need to know about me:

• In 1992, I said I was proud to have followed my career instead of baking cookies.
• The GOP fucking dragged me for it. They made me bake cookies. They’re scared of me.
• Every time I have a job, y’all love me. Every time I run for anything, the GOP breaks out the big guns again and fucks me up good. And apparently it fucking works.

But you know what? I don’t fucking care. If I gave two shits about the haters I would’ve dropped the game decades ago.

You know why I keep fighting? Because we all want the same shit. We want economic and racial justice, we want to seriously attack climate change, we want everyone to be able to afford college and health care and housing and food, we want women to be treated like humans, yada yada yada.

And I’m the only person in this goddamn country who knows how to do it.

Because of course I do. Because I’ve been preparing my whole fucking life for this job. So stop making me dab on Ellen and just give me a fucking chance already.

If it seems like I have contempt for the American voter, it’s because I do. Frankly, most of you are fucking stupid. Most of you have no goddamn idea what it takes to run a country. I mean god damn, almost half of you think God created the Earth 10,000 years ago!

What the actual fuck????

Look, this is the big leagues. If you think any problem has a tweetable solution, you’re just wrong. If you think “border wall” or “muslims = bad” is gonna solve our problems, I don’t have time for your shit.

This is literally why we have a representative government. I know you don’t want to read long, boring things. So I do it for you, and I ask a bunch of smart people, and we come up with shit that works. Here’s my solution on energy. Here’s my solution on Wall Street. Here’s my solution on jobs. I have fucking binders full of this shit and you know it. I’m so fucking ready, America.

The GOP just spent their entire convention fantasizing about literally imprisoning me. They are terrified. They know what I can do.

I’ve spent my life clawing my way into a system that’s terrified of change. A system that just wants to let rich white dudes be rich white dudes. And holy shit, you guys, I could not have picked a better opponent for my final boss battle.

So lemme sign off with the same Nancy Scheibner poem I quoted back in 1969 (when I gave the commencement speech at my own fucking graduation, btw).

My entrance into the world of so-called “social problems”

Must be with quiet laughter, or not at all.

The hollow men of anger and bitterness

The bountiful ladies of righteous degradation

All must be left to a bygone age.

And the purpose of history is to provide a receptacle

For all those myths and oddments

Which oddly we have acquired

And from which we would become unburdened

To create a newer world

To translate the future into the past.

We have no need of false revolutions

In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds

And hang our wills up on narrow pegs.

It is well at every given moment to seek the limits in our lives.

And once those limits are understood

To understand that limitations no longer exist.

Earth could be fair. And you and I must be free

Not to save the world in a glorious crusade

Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain

But to practice with all the skill of our being

The art of making possible.

(Flip flop my ass.)

GIRL♡♀♡POWER

Lol. I’m having so much fun this morning.

This is for you Hillary and all us girlz and guys who are in this fight with you:

******

Readers: On a serious note, we have 101 days left to make this happen. Let’s do this. #GoHillary

Happy Friday! Flap your lips. Blog me. 

✌🏽& ❤️

PS: Loved her all in white. That’s my stylist side talkin’ 😘

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

I know that probably every one of you saw Michelle Obama’s speech last night during the first evening of the DNC. In my opinion she is the quintessence of intelligence, grace, style, and beauty. I was so drawn in by her words…so moved by her honesty, and inspired by her optimism. This girl is REAL.

I loved that her speech was all about the children and the future of our country and how Hillary is the girl who will stick in there and persevere, no matter what. Michelle Obama: I hear you. I’m with her too.

Her speech, as many have already stated, will be anthologized, quoted, and replayed for years to come. Let me begin by replaying it for you right now. Unlike the featured article, I am posting the full speech. Enjoy it again.

From the Huff Po:

FLOTUS LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A BEE

Michelle Obama: Who Do You Want For Your Children’s Role Model?

The Democratic Convention crowd went wild.

PHILADELPHIA ― First lady Michelle Obama on Monday asked Americans to decide who they want serving as a role model for their children ― Donald Trump orHillary Clinton.

This election, Obama said during her speech at the Democratic National Convention, “is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.”

The crowd waved purple signs that read simply, “Michelle.”

Obama made clear that this election will determine who will give hope to the next generation, or instill fear.

“Every word we utter, every action we take, we know they are watching,” Obama said. “We as parents are their most important role models.”

That responsibility, Obama said, carries into her role as first lady, and her husband’s job as president.

“We know that our words and actions matter not just to our girls, but to children across this country,” she said.

Taking a jab at Trump and others who have questioned the president’s citizenship and his faith, Obama repeated the advice she and the president have shared with their children.

“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” she said. “No, our motto is: ‘When they go low, we go high.’”

Obama recalled a simple but telling moment her husband shared with a little boy to tell those in Wells Fargo Center and watching across the U.S. that this election comes downs to more than party divisions stirring Democrats as the convention begins.

“Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband with eyes wide, and he wondered, ‘Is my hair like yours?’” Obama said. “Make no mistake about it, this November when we go to the polls that is what we are deciding. Not Democrat or Republican. Not left or right.”

And the only person she trusts with the future of her daughters and other American children is Hillary Clinton.

“I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters,” she said. “I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life work shows our children that we don’t seek fame and fortune for ourselves.”

A president “can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out,” she said. “You need to be steady and measured and well informed.”

In a nod to disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters, Obama noted Clinton’s loss to her husband in 2008. “Hillary knows this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments.”

Instead, Obama said, Clinton decided to keep coming back to put “cracks in the highest and hardest glass ceiling” and take the country along. It’s that story of America, she said, that brought her to Philadelphia to deliver her speech.

It’s the story of generations who lived their lives in the U.S. feeling the “lash of bondage … the sting of segregation,” but who kept “striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today, I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

“And I watch my daughters, two beautiful and intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”

Now, because of Clinton, Obama said her daughters will “take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.”

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President Obama: You must be so proud. Michelle Obama is a Wonderful Woman Of The World.

Readers: I’m 👉🏼 With Her.

Mike, TM: Thanks for the very informative post. You answered many questions that I had as I was perusing online. As usual the stakes are high. I’m looking forward to hearing how Putin arranged to get the UK out of the EU. I find it fascinating that hours after the Brexit vote, many British frantically googled:  ”What is the EU?” and “What will Brexit mean for the UK?” I couldn’t understand why people voted to leave the EU when they weren’t quite sure what their vote to leave would mean. Or was it just Big L, littla a…when it came to getting to the polls to vote or ? Perhaps your revealing of Putin’s antics will expose the truth.

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Good morning!

I hope everyone is enjoying celebrating with family and friends during this long holiday weekend!

In light of keeping it light, I loved reading about two of my favorite men getting together for a little fun and a great cause!

Watch Obama Help Steph Curry With His Jump Shot, Destroy Him In Connect Four

Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors may have both had a record-breaking season, but that doesn’t mean the NBA superstar isn’t above getting a little help.

In a video released by the White House Saturday, Curry got a little assistance from President Barack Obama on his résumé, a science project and even his jump shot.

But even though he president seems like he’d be a pretty good mentor, he wasn’t above showing off a little bit for Curry. After beating him in a game of Connect Four, he mimicked one of Curry’s signature dance moves — something Obama has previously described as “clowning.”

The video was released to encourage Americans to mentor young people as part of Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper“ initiative, an effort the White House launched in 2014 to prepare youth for college and the workplace.

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Curry: I’ll go dancing with you any time!

Obama: You know how I feel about you.

But seriously ever thought of being a mentor? Do it.

Happy Sunday – Make it a fun day!

✌🏽& ❤️

Blog me. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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