51st Annual Meeting & ToxExpo - Society of Toxicology

Society of Toxicology 2012
General
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9. Nightlife in San Francisco is a
constantly changing scene. The
“hottest” clubs currently are in the
South of Market and Mission districts,
with live and recorded rock and Latin
music. Jazz, blues, swing, and “oldies”
music can be found all over town. For a
complete list of nightlife options, visit
www.sanfrancisco.travel.
10. A visit to San Francisco would not be
complete without a cultural experience.
The city is home to internationally
recognized symphony, opera, and ballet
companies. Playwrights such as Sam
Shepherd and Tom Stoppard introduce
their works in San Francisco and avantgarde
theatre and dance companies dot
the city. The San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, the Asian Art Museum,
the de Young Museum, the Palace of the
Legion of Honor, and other museums
and galleries are devoted to the finest
of classical and contemporary arts.
For a complete museum guide, visit
www.sftravel.us/groups/sot.asp.
San Francisco Fun Facts
• Levi’s denim jeans were invented in
San Francisco—gold miners needed
durable clothes.
• Chinese fortune cookie were invented at
the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco
by Makato Hagiwara.
• It is here that the famous Irish coffee was
invented.
• Z is for ZigZag—San Francisco is famous
for its bendy streets. Vermont Avenue
between 22nd and 23rd is “crookedest,”
and Filbert between Hyde and
Leavenworth is steepest at 31.5 degrees,
but neither fact discourages tourists from
flocking to Lombard Street’s seductive
curves.
• At Angel Island, the Ellis Island of the
West, 175,000 Chinese immigrants and
Japanese “picture brides” once waited to
enter the country. Poems of hope they
carved into the walls are still visible at
Immigration Station.
• Alcatraz means pelican in Spanish. The
rocky pelican’s island was a military fort
before it became a prison.
• In 1850, gold seekers abandoned over 600
vessels in the bay. Some became landfill,
now lying beneath the Jackson Square
Historic District where the city’s few
surviving nineteenth century commercial
buildings include Ghirardelli’s first
chocolate factory.
• Sutro Baths was an extravagant public
bathhouse built by the eccentric former
mayor, Adolph Sutro, who is also known
for building the Cliff House. The vestiges
of Sutro Baths are located at Ocean Beach,
where a massive crowd of 7,000 people
once gathered on the occasion of its
official opening.
• The computer mouse was invented in
Silicon Valley and the picture of a rolling
hill against a blue sky, which is the default
wallpaper in Windows XP, was shot in the
Napa Valley.
• In 1909, San Francisco’s postal service
wanted to make the streets easier to
navigate. Starting with 27th Avenue, it
was decided that the streets would be
designated, alphabetically, by male or
female saints, starting with San Antonio
and ending with Santa Ynez at 47th
Avenue. Unable to find Spanish saints
with names beginning with K, Q, W, X, or
Z, they chose Ayala for 48th Avenue and
La Playa for 49th Avenue.
• Portions of Mount Lassen in Northern
California still resemble an active volcano,
with boiling mud pots, hot springs,
and steam rising from the side of the
mountain. Mount Lassen last erupted less
than 100 years ago with a seven-mile high
plume of ash.
• With more than 3,500 restaurants
offering cuisines from around the globe,
San Francisco has more restaurants per
capita than any other city in the United
States.
• San Francisco recycles and composts 77
percent of its waste stream, more than any
other city in the nation.
Satellite Meetings
Each year, SOT endorses several Satellite
Meetings that are held in conjunction with
the Annual Meeting. Satellite Meetings are
organized around scientific topics related
to toxicology and are scheduled at the end
of the Society’s program. The 2012 Satellite
Meetings will be held in and around
the San Francisco area. Proposals for a
Satellite Meeting should be sent by email
to heidi@toxicology.org to the attention of
William Slikker Jr., SOT Vice President
and Scientific Program Committee Chair.
Requests approved by December 16, 2011,
will be published in the Program. All requests
must be received by January 6, 2012.
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SOT’s 51 st Annual Meeting