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@@@ Lee, on a two-day trade mission to Mexico City, will announce Tuesday the launch of LatinSF, an economic development program designed to promote business ties between San Francisco and Latin America. The aim is to attract Latin American businesses to San Francisco and help local companies <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php> cheap gucci</a> expand into Mexico, Central America and South America. The program, a joint initiative between the city and San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, is modeled on ChinaSF, which has brought more than 45 Chinese companies to San Francisco since it was founded in 2008. Lee sees San Francisco not only as an attractive technology hub for Latin American companies, but also as a gateway to Asian markets for those businesses. 鈥淭his is part of an expanded international economic outreach plan鈥?that will only bolster the city鈥檚 status as a 鈥済lobal gateway,鈥?Lee said before he departed for Mexico on Sunday. San Francisco is not necessarily trying to supplant Miami, the long-standing U.S. nexus for Latin American business, or other hubs, like Houston and Los Angeles. Instead, the focus is on attracting business interests tied to the Bay Area鈥檚 leading industries 鈥?tech, bio-tech and clean energy 鈥?while opening up a region with a growing consumer class to San Francisco companies.

Lee is to make the announcement at Silicon Valley Day in Mexico City, a conference organized by San Francisco technology companies such as customer service聽 software company Zendesk. 鈥淚nterest in Latin America keeps growing within San Francisco technology companies, and this event is proof of it,鈥澛?Fernando Franco, trade and investment deputy commissioner at ProMexico, that country鈥檚 foreign trade and investment agency, posted in comments online. LatinSF is primarily focused on Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru 鈥?members of the Pacific Alliance trade bloc 鈥?as well as Brazil and Argentina, said Una Fannon, San Francisco鈥檚 director of international business development. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a growing region right on our doorstep,鈥?Fannon said. Getting there is not necessarily that easy though. San Francisco International Airport has nonstop flights to Mexico but currently none to South America. That could change if there is more business demand for routes. 鈥淟atinSF will improve connections to the region,鈥?Fannon said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a chicken-and-the-egg problem. You have to build the business need to make it attractive to the airlines.鈥? San Francisco taxpayers are kicking in $100,000 <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/anel.php> Christian Louboutin Shoes Outlet</a> for the initiative, with the private sector expected to match that. So far,聽 the Mita Institute and Tech Accelerator has committed $15,000, <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/guccioutlet.onlinesalecc.php>Gucci Outlet Store</a> and Aeromexico has donated two free flights for the program, a city official said. Unlike ChinaSF, which has an office in Beijing and Shanghai, no overseas office is planned yet for LatinSF, which will operate out of space from the Chamber of Commerce. San Francisco has identified a director for the program but would not yet release the person鈥檚 name. He or she is expected to start in 鈥渁 month or so,鈥?Fannon said. While in Mexico, Lee met with U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne on Monday to discuss the influx of undocumented youth. Lee is also meeting Mexican business leaders from the financial and technology sectors. Lee is not the only U.S. politician with eyes on Mexico. President Obama earlier this year made his fifth trip to Mexico as president. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was there last week, as was potential rival 2016 presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. Gov. Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti each visited earlier this year. John聽Cot茅 is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: jcote@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @johnwcote

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-In addition to being the first of the company's watches that you can use without a smartphone, this is also Samsung's biggest wearable to date. With a curved screen that measures two inches diagonally, it absolutely dwarfs my (admittedly dainty) wrist, as you can see in the above hands-on photos. Even so, some of my bigger-boned male colleagues also tried on the watch, and they too found it rather bulky. Not that style was a top priority here. The key selling points -- making calls and responding to emails -- require extra space, and frankly, even two inches is pushing it. The kind of 1.63-inch display used on the Gear 2 and Gear Live (a big, honking watch face in its own right) wouldn't have cut it here.
+Lee, on a two-day trade mission to Mexico City, will announce Tuesday the launch of LatinSF, an economic development program designed to promote business ties between San Francisco and Latin America.
-Other than the fact that it's quite conspicuous, the design isn't what I'd call fancy. Certainly, it's no , nor even a . True, it's marked by metal accents around the clasp and edges, but my guess is that you're more likely to notice the removable plastic band, available in white and black. It's comfortable on the wrists, no doubt thanks to the curved screen shape, but ultimately, it feels more functional than it does stylish. When you're ready to swap bands, for instance, you basically just pop out the watch face like a piece of . The design feels functional, but also like an afterthought.
+The aim is to attract Latin American businesses to San Francisco and help local companies <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php> cheap gucci</a>  expand into Mexico, Central America and South America.
-Although Samsung recently came out with its first Android Wear watch, the Gear S runs Tizen OS, just like the Galaxy Gear, <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Handbags-Outlet-Discount-Belts-Fashion-Cheap-Belts.html>Gucci Fashion</a>  Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. That means getting around is much the same as it is on those older devices. If you want to navigate backward out of a page, for instance, you swipe down from the top. Likewise, you can swipe up from the bottom of the Super AMOLED display to see a full menu of apps, including the settings menu. Otherwise, the watch only allows up to five home screen widgets. In addition to notifications, the defaults include things like calendar appointments and news headlines, but you can, of course, customize all that to your liking. Ditto for watch faces: There are around a dozen preloaded watch faces, with <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Outlet-Online-Boxer-Briefs-Aviator-Aviators.html>Gucci Outlet Online</a>  a mix of new ones, as well as some that were included on older models.
+The program, a joint initiative between the city and San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, is modeled on ChinaSF, which has brought more than 45 Chinese companies to San Francisco since it was founded in 2008.
+Lee sees San Francisco not only as an attractive technology hub for Latin American companies, but also as a gateway to Asian markets for those businesses.
+鈥淭his is part of an expanded international economic outreach plan鈥?that will only bolster the city鈥檚 status as a 鈥済lobal gateway,鈥?Lee said before he departed for Mexico on Sunday.
+San Francisco is not necessarily trying to supplant Miami, the long-standing U.S. nexus for Latin American business, or other hubs, like Houston and Los Angeles.
+Instead, the focus is on attracting business interests tied to the Bay Area鈥檚 leading industries 鈥?tech, bio-tech and clean energy 鈥?while opening up a region with a growing consumer class to San Francisco companies.
-Because things like emails and calls are a big part of the story here, they're always within easy reach: Just swipe to the left of the main home screen to see a list of your messages, emails and fitness stats from Samsung's S Health app. Once you're in the emails page, you can read the full text of a message, as well as see the rest of the conversation listed below it. From there, you can reply using an on-screen keyboard. As it happens, the keyboard allows for both traditional pecking, as well as Swype for dragging lines between letters.
+Lee is to make the announcement at Silicon Valley Day in Mexico City, a conference organized by San Francisco technology companies such as customer service聽 software company Zendesk.
-I had the chance to test the feature on multiple test units in various stages of development, none of them final. In some cases, I had an easy time both typing and swiping out letters, with very few typos to speak of. With certain cruder devices, I had trouble getting it to register an "H" instead of a "J." Either way, the word prediction is hit-or-miss: Sometimes it was spot-on; other times it served up the most unhelpful word possible ("My name is...'included'"?) Obviously, the precision here is something we'll have to revisit in our full review. Until then, I'm quite sure it would have been easier for me to just pull out my phone and type out "My name is Dana" with two thumbs.
+鈥淚nterest in Latin America keeps growing within San Francisco technology companies, and this event is proof of it,鈥澛?Fernando Franco, trade and investment deputy commissioner at ProMexico, that country鈥檚 foreign trade and investment agency, posted in comments online.
-Another thing we'll have to save for our eventual review: the whole phone call thing. Samsung wasn't demonstrating this feature when we saw the watch in its non-final state. Sorry, folks.
+LatinSF is primarily focused on Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru 鈥?members of the Pacific Alliance trade bloc 鈥?as well as Brazil and Argentina, said Una Fannon, San Francisco鈥檚 director of international business development.
+鈥淚t鈥檚 a growing region right on our doorstep,鈥?Fannon said.
-Elsewhere on the device, there's a heart rate sensor built into the watch's underbelly. So, in addition to tracking your steps and recording workouts, the watch can give you a beats-per-minute rating. Of course, some older Samsung devices like the , Gear Fit and Gear 2 had similar capabilities, and none of them gave particularly accurate readouts. So I don't have super-high hopes for the Gear S when we eventually try out a more polished unit, but I'm ever hopeful that Samsung has continued to tweak its algorithm.
+Getting there is not necessarily that easy though. San Francisco International Airport has nonstop flights to Mexico but currently none to South America. That could change if there is more business demand for routes.
-As you <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Outlet-Online-Black-Backpack-Man-Purse-Pink-Perfume.html>Gucci Pink Perfume</a>  can see, there are all sorts of things we can't fairly test until we take home a final unit, like the kind you'd buy in stores. That won't happen until sometime in October, when the Gear S becomes available. No word on price yet, or whether any mobile carriers will be selling it, but all will be revealed eventually. For now, check out our video walk-through if you haven't already -- it might be the closest you get to the device for a couple months yet.
+鈥淟atinSF will improve connections to the region,鈥?Fannon said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a chicken-and-the-egg problem. You have to build the business need to make it attractive to the airlines.鈥?
-Ben Gilbert and Zach Honig contributed to this report.
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+Unlike ChinaSF, which has an office in Beijing and Shanghai, no overseas office is planned yet for LatinSF, which will operate out of space from the Chamber of Commerce.
+San Francisco has identified a director for the program but would not yet release the person鈥檚 name. He or she is expected to start in 鈥渁 month or so,鈥?Fannon said.
+While in Mexico, Lee met with U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne on Monday to discuss the influx of undocumented youth. Lee is also meeting Mexican business leaders from the financial and technology sectors.
+Lee is not the only U.S. politician with eyes on Mexico.
+President Obama earlier this year made his fifth trip to Mexico as president. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was there last week, as was potential rival 2016 presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. Gov. Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti each visited earlier this year.
+John聽Cot茅 is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: jcote@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @johnwcote