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$Sekou Carson adjusts the hat on his son Zakai Carson, 4, as they lean up against a community mural titled {quote}How Do You Shine{quote} while the two were out for a walk during Sekou\'s visit to the neighborhood to see his son July 3, 2014 in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood in San Francisco, Calif. {quote}My heart goes out to him and his family,{quote} Sekou said of the shooting, adding that he didn't feel the neighborhood was more unsafe now. {quote}I think it was an isolated incident,{quote} he said. Last Friday, June 27, outreach counselor Allen Calloway was shot and killed while playing dodgeball with children at a basketball court near Herz playground in Visitacion Valley. Since then, the summer program held at the playground has been closed temporarily and the area has had much fewer children and residents using it.$
$Red Rodrigo glances over at his two daughters, Brennelyn, 8, right, and Bryanna, 11, as they sleep in the bed he and his wife (their mother) sleep on in the living room in their transitional apartment Oct. 21, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. Because the children grew up sleeping together, sometimes all five in one bed, the two youngest still like sleeping with their parents. The Rodrigo family has been living in transitional housing for almost a year after staying with a large number of family members in a very small apartment. The family hasn\'t really had a place of their own and have enjoyed having the apartment to themselves but their time allotted in the place is almost up.$
$John Wick walks through invasive weeds before covering the area with compost on Wick\'s ranch, Nicasio Native Grass Ranch, Oct. 18, 2014 in Nicasio, Calif. Wick says that he and local scientists may have discovered a system that could change the world in regards to our emissions problem. According to Wick, if California could compost its current available organic material, it would cover 5% of California\'s range land. And that amount alone would offset the emissions of the entire California agricultural industry.$

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