is: "has it been cited already?". Relevance is merely a
secondary filter.

This paper pointed out the effects of this phenomena: the vast majority of
published scientific papers are _never_ cited again; a moderate number are
cited only a few times, and the remaining few -- having reached a
bibliographic critical mass -- are cited thousands of times. The authors of
the paper made a strong case that this was not a good reflection of the
quality of research. In many cases, the process of reaching bibliographic
critical was simply based on the almost random chance of acquiring those first
few citations. The authors provided several examples of important scientific
ideas which had been lost for decades, arguably because they had not attracted
a critical mass of citations in the years immediately after publication.

In other words, humans suck atwomen wanted ten plates. They asked a clerk if there were more in the back. There were not. So one of the women handed her smaller stack of three plates to the other woman who was holding six and she proceeded to check out with her nine plates. The other woman and I continued sorting through the merchandise on clearance. She found a tenth plate. She handed it to me and told me to hang on to it as she rushed out into the mall and chased down the woman who returned and was delighted to buy that tenth plate. She thanked us both profusely (I did nothing). The woman who chased her down was so pleased that she was able to do this nice, albeit small, favor


story of a Dublin family called the Walshes, through the lens of a primitive video camera operated by an unseen uncle. The series had five episodes and was set between 1987 and 1990. It was directed by Alex Gill and produced by Michael Donnelly.

In 2010, the group moved from sketch to long form theatre. They presented the play "Strollinstown" at the Dublin Fringe Festival.  The show was nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award. In 2012, the story and characters were re-worked into a live radio production called "The Strollinstown Radio Hour" which was presented as part of the 10 Days in Dublin Festival.

In 2011, they produced a play called "Cult" at the Lir Theatre in the Dublin Fringe Festival which the Irish Times called "sharp andincreasing to $870 million annually by 2026.

Each province and territory will receive $2 million in base funding, with the remainder of the funding allocated on a per capita basis.

In the coming months, the federal government will work with each province and territory to sign three-year bilateral agreements to flesh out the details of the funding.

The spending has been criticized for being less than what the Paul Martin Liberals offered provinces more than a decade ago in a deal that was scuttled when the previous Conservative government came to office.

As part of their campaign platform in the 2015 federal election, the Liberals pledged to meet with provinces, territories and Indigenous communities to develop a new national framework to provide affordable, high-quality and flexible child care.


Sam is a demon and is belived to be the spawn of Satan himself, Sam was sent to Earth alonge with Desmen and Angelica in order to help Desmen hunt down and kill escaped demons, she assist him by imboding herslef into his soul and amplifing his demon powers, she also attempts suduce him to try to fully consume his body to the demon, she is also sometimes called the demon of lust, and for good reason, she has probably done everything you can think of, I mean everything.. she has long black hair and blood red eyes.Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Peaceful Morning

I wandered out this morning to put some scraps on the compost pile; as I walked across the driveway I heard a crunching in the forest to the south.

I wandered over to the edge and peered into the trees, where I saw three deer making their way through the brush down our gulley. The mom and little one glanced up but continued on, the father kept his eyes on me until the others were safely beyond a small ridge. He and I stared at each other for five minutes, neither moving, neither feeling the need to end the moment.

But I had kids to get to school, and so I flinched first, walking back to finish the compost job and pick a few ripe tomatoes


on the way back.

It was a peaceful, magical moment, and another reminder of why I'm glad we moved out into the woods, on the peninsula, across the water from the Big City.

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On another note, today was a momentous day - Clara's first day of preschool. And so it begins. And so it ends.Austin district CTO on why schools should plan even further ahead

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Kevin Schwartz has spent much of his 20-plus year career as a CTO and technology leader looking as far off into the future as he can. Schwartz is currently the lead technology officer for learning and systems at Austin Independent School District, overseeing information and network systems for 130 schools serving approximately 84,000 students.

Prior to joining Austin ISD a year and a half ago, Schwartz led large-scale tech initiatives at other Texas districts and galvanized his peers around issues such as digital equity – all of which helped him win the prestigious Withrow Outstanding CTO Award from the Consortium for School Networking in 2016.

At the recent TCEA conference, Schwartz and his team turned heads and packed sessions relating


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Like all good commanders, Myrrdin wanted that fight on his terms, not the enemy's, which was why he'd assembled his men along the crest of the hill while the Romans attempted to set up camp in the valley below. He hadn't been able to choose the field on which they would meet, but he'd be damned if he wouldn't choose the time.

And that time was now, before the enemy got themselves organized and settled in.

He brought his


thing his people knew, it was not to disobey his orders.

Shaw pointed to one of them, a man named Trevor Jackson, and the former SAS commando and current Red Hand Defenders strike team leader followed him into his inner office, shutting the door behind them.

"I've got a job for you," Shaw began as he took his seat behind his desk and waved Jackson into the chair before him. "A particular artifact was uncovered at an archaeological dig in the West Midlands last night. I want it."

He handed the other man a thin folder. Inside were an assortment of documents, including aerial photographs and topographical maps of the surrounding area, dossiers on Stevens, Novick and other personnel they could expect to encounter at the dig site, as well asthat could just as easily have ended up with Anderson clamming up as much as it could with him relaying the rest of the tale.

Not wanting to lose what was turning out to be a star witness, Beresford said, "So far everything you've told me fits squarely into the category of self-defense. They attacked you on the road and, being afraid for your life, you defended yourself. Pretty cut-and-dry to me."

The best part about his statement was that it was true; it did sound like self-defense. Of course, depending on what happened next, that could quickly change, but he hadn't lied to the man. If that kept him talking...

Anderson considered that for a moment, nodded as if he'd realized the wisdom of the detective's statement and then continued.

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to job performance turned out to be irrelevant to the everyday duties of the people interviewed by McClelland and Dailey. To validate his conclusions about which competencies were necessary, McClelland tested them on another group of staff who had been identified as outstanding and a group who fell into the mediocre category. Using psychological tests that had been developed to assess an individual's degree of social sensitivity, as well as tests for other key competencies, he and Dailey found that the officers identified as outstanding consistently performed very well on such tests, whereas those rated mediocre performed poorly. Thus it became clear that social sensitivity and the other key competencies they had identified were indeed relevant to job performance.

In 1973, McClelland wrote about hiring practices for civil serviceunequal society encourages them to do. In a society that disproportionately criminalizes, impoverishes, imprisons, and generally oppresses African-Americans, an ideology of racism which understands African-Americans as ‘underclass’ criminals readily flourishes. Zimmerman looked at the world around him, one in which African-Americans are disproportionately criminalized and impoverished, and the ideology of racism made sense. When he saw Martin walking home, his instincts sprung to action and he committed racist murder.

Most of the outraged responses fall short because they fail to address these root causes of racist violence. If racist violence such as Zimmerman’s were an isolated phenomenon, a mere conviction would be sufficient. Racist violence—physical, economic, and psychological—is, however, an every-minute occurrence in America. Discussion of racism in America is vital, but discussion is only worth the action it


Taylor Momsen heartbroken by tour-mate Chris Cornell's death

Actress-turned-rocker Taylor Momsen postponed a concert on Friday night as she is still reeling from the shock death of her tourmate Chris Cornell.

The 23-year-old and her The Pretty Reckless bandmates had been opening for Cornell's group Soundgarden on select tour dates and performed as scheduled at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday night - hours before Cornell committed suicide in his hotel room.

Tributes from the late singer's rock peers have been pouring in since news of his death broke early on Thursday, and now Momsen, who has long considered Cornell one of her idols, has broken her silence about the tragedy.

Sharing an Instagram photo of the Fox Theatre awning bearing the two band's names, she wrote, "My heart isRussia lost three games in a row and will be unable to take a place in the top four of its Group A to proceed to the next stage

MONTPELLIER (France), September 9. /TASS/. Finland’s 88-59 victory on Wednesday over Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2015 FIBA Eurobasket scrapped Russia’s chances of travelling for 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Russia lost three games in a row and will be unable to earn enough points in the remaining two matches to take a place in the top four of its Group A to proceed to the next stage.

The Russian women’s national team, who are the 2003, 2007 and 2011 European Champions, also failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.


It may seem superfluous to fuss about literary fiction and its fate in the fractious political climate Indians are living in, but the genre has, since its inception, held a mirror to social change, capturing truths that slip through the cracks of hardwired non-fiction. This year, in particular, has witnessed the triumph of women debut novelists. A series of powerful books by them have disrupted the familiar landscape of English-language publishing in India, usually filled with established names and stars. Thematically daring, crafted with precision and forging distinctive linguistic registers, these books help us experience our political and social realities more keenly. They also capture the collective desires and despairs that complicate our engagement with the India we are living in at the moment.

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Themost remarkable among these fresh voices is the Bengaluru-born Madhuri Vijay, whose first novel, The Far Field, won the JCB Prize for Literature 2019, India’s richest literary prize, and featured on other shortlists. Moving between Bengaluru and Jammu and Kashmir, the novel feels poignant, especially in light of the turmoil that has been unleashed since the Centre effectively revoked Article 370 of the Constitution in August.

The Far Field, as Vijay told Lounge earlier this year, “began from a kernel of rage" against the injustice inflicted by the Indian state on generations of Kashmiris. But the political thrust of the narrative is offset by strong characters. People whose inner lives are scarred and unmoored come vividly alive in her luminous prose. An alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in


its edge even in the age of professional agents and editors, who offer their services to fix manuscripts and pitch them to potential publishers.

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Amrita Mahale, who published her debut novel, Milk Teeth, with Westland last year, is still finding herself in shortlists of prizes this year. She says her manuscript was rejected by 13 agents—before she sent it to two publishers directly, through the intervention of friends. Luckily, both made offers. “Publishers saw the potential in it and were willing to place a bet that they could help me fix the parts that were not working," she says. “Agents probably did not see the value in investing time and effort in an unknown writer."

Set in Bombay in the 1990s, before the city became Mumbai,UPDATE: Courtesy of CNN International:

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has maintained the majority in the United Kingdom's third general election in the past five years, exit polls find. That means he will still in the driver's seat to deliver on Brexit and take the UK out of the European Union, three years on from when Brits voted to leave.

Had Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party prevailed, he would have likely insisted on a second referendum.

Brexit derailed the prime ministership of Johnson's predecessor Theresa May, whose negotiation with Brussels failed in Parliament a historic three


Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will join the next televised Democratic presidential primary debate in two weeks, replacing a California congressman who recently dropped out.

Bullock, a latecomer to the crowded primary race, had been shut out of the previous debate.

The debate will be aired by CNN on July 30 and 31 in Detroit, with 10 candidates featured each night.

Bullock replaces Rep. Eric Swalwell of the Bay Area, who dropped out following the first debate after making a poor showing in the polls. CNN viewers will otherwise see 19 of same the 20 candidates they saw in the first debate, which was hosted in Miami and broadcast by NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo.

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Would haveBOSTON -- It was deep into the night, maybe 4 a.m. by his recall, when the phone of Carolina Hurricanes forward Justin Williams rang. It was his former teammates on the Washington Capitals, raging through the night in Las Vegas, having just won the Stanley Cup. Their faces popped up on his screen, the FaceTime showing their joy and exhilaration at the ultimate goal, accomplished.

"That team has just been so good for so long and to see them finally win -- albeit I would have loved to be there and I was jealous I wasn't -- I never really openly rooted for another team as much as I did with them," Williams said Monday at the Hurricanes' hotel in Boston. "They found a way to do it. They


found a way to get a little bit more out of each other."

It was fitting, then, that they called Williams that night. The three-time Stanley Cup winner, who played for the Capitals from 2015-17, left his mark on the team that would go on to win the Stanley Cup the season after he signed with Carolina as a free agent, where he is now trying to alter the leadership and the culture in much the same way he did in Washington.

"Even though we didn't win when he was here, he brought a lot to the table," Capitals forward Tom Wilson said. "It didn't happen that year, but it instilled that in the locker room and left that impression even after he was gone on how you act, howyou play. We didn't get a bounce those years, but we went on to [win]. For the young guys, for everyone, I think learning from him was huge."

Video: CAR@BOS: Williams hammers home one-timer to tie game

This season, it has worked in Carolina. The Hurricanes (36-23-7) are one of the hottest teams in the NHL, having gone 21-6-2 in their past 29 games. They enter their game against the Winnipeg Jets at PNC Arena on Friday (7:30 p.m. ET; FS-CR, TSN3, NHL.TV) holding the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.

This was the plan when Williams signed a two-year, $9 million contract with the Hurricanes on July 1, 2017. They knew it. He knew it. He was turning 36 that October, and he understood


his position.

"I knew exactly what I was getting into when I signed back in Carolina," said Williams, whose first stint in Carolina began in 2003-04 season and ended after he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings late in the 2008-09 season. "I was going to be an older guy. I was going to be a guy who is going to be leaned on for leadership -- but at the same time, talking and doing are two different things and it's a lot better if you can do both."

And at 37, a difficult age to succeed in the current NHL environment, Williams is doing each, not just acting as a figurehead captain in Carolina. He has 43 points (19 goals, 24 assists) in 66 games and is onright?" said Williams, who is skating on the team's top line with Sebastian Aho and Nino Niederreiter. "He knows what I am. He knows what I can do. I know what he is and I know what he's going to preach and I know what kind of coach he's going to be. … He trusts me. He's given me opportunities to succeed playing in a lot of situations whereas you might not play if it was another coach, who didn't know you as well."

Williams, like Brind'Amour, has seen what Carolina can be when it is playing well. They were teammates on the 2005-06 Hurricanes who won the Stanley Cup, the first of three times Williams won the Cup (Los Angeles Kings, 2012, 2014).

Back then, Brind'Amour was the 35-year-old


captain and Williams was 24.

Now, Brind'Amour is the coach and Williams the 37-year-old captain.

The Hurricanes have been to the Stanley Cup Playoffs once since that run, a trip to the Eastern Conference Final in 2009. They are trying to bring back what the Hurricanes once were, after an absence from the playoffs of almost a decade.

That's why Williams is out front leading the Storm Surge, the postgame celebrations that have ranged from a limbo line to a game of Duck, Duck, Goose, to a sparring match between Evander Holyfield and Jordan Martinook.

Video: STL@CAR: Evander Holyfield celebrates with Hurricanes

This, from a player who used to slip into the dressing room almost before his teammates had finished the stick salute to the crowd in Washington.

They didn't need him then. TheyLOS ANGELES — “Miss Saigon” is revived and on tour again, playing in a theater near me. This is exciting news for some fans of Broadway musicals, and for Asian and Asian-American actors with the chance for important roles. For others, to whom “Miss Saigon” perpetuates deeply held notions of Asian inferiority, this is bad news.

“Miss Saigon” is about a Vietnamese prostitute in Saigon during the war years who falls in love with a white male American G.I. He leaves for America without knowing that she is pregnant. She bears his son and when he returns, gives up the child to him so that he can save the boy and take him to the United States, far from Vietnam. Left behind, our prostitute kills herself.

I saw the musical


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Established in 1980, Jenesse Center is celebrating 35 years of service to the Southern Los Angeles community. A nationally recognized non-profit organization, Jenesse is dedicated to the prevention and intervention of domestic violence. Jenesse's mission is to nurture victims and their children with a holistic, comprehensive, centralized base of support that isis built on sand.GDP for a year is often revised numerous times, so what counts as GDP for the purposes of the BBA?In a year in which spending is 18% of GDP and the GDP number is later revised downward, part of the budget based on that year's GDP might be deemed unconstitutional.Which part?This requirement could plant a bacterial trace of chaos in the budgetary system of the United States, one that could infect the whole of the federal budget.

Moreover, 18% is an entirely arbitrary number.According to the Office of Management and Budget, 1966, before Medicare really came into effect, was the last year where federal spending was below 18% of GDP.Moreover, every presidential administration since the end of World War II had years where federal spending was


greater than 18% of GDP.It is unclear why this number should be set in stone.

History has another rebuke for the BBA: almost every presidential administration since 1900 would have had budgets that would have required a Constitutional override of a 2/3 vote.The only exceptions to this would be the presidencies of Harding and Coolidge, which ran surpluses for each of their years in office---though Coolidge’s presidency was also followed by the worst economic collapse in the twentieth century.The only Republican president in the postwar era whose policies led to at least one year with a balanced budget was Eisenhower. With the exception of 2001 (which was a partial carry over from Clinton-era budgets), every year of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II would run afoul ofthe BBA.

I cite history not because the past should always be the example for the future.But the past does have a significant role to play for traditional conservatism as it considers its policy aims.Federal debt has pretty much inexorably increased from 1900 to 2000, but the United States did not become poorer or radically less fiscally sound over this period.Provided they are sufficiently small, deficits do not seem likely to break the fiscal health of this nation.Moreover, the embrace of the principles of the BBA would seem to entail the rejection of the policies of every Republican and Democratic administration in the modern era, with the possible exception of Eisenhower, the only president in the modern era who ever ran a surplus and also presided over a federal


A bye week before a road game at Rutgers might give Illinois a chance. They host Purdue for homecoming, then travel to Wisconsin and Maryland, then home for Minnesota, off to Nebraska, home for Iowa, and the season finale at Northwestern.

3. Wisconsin Badgers (40.2)

A non-conference slate of Western Kentucky, New Mexico, and BYU is colorful, but not exciting. Big Ten season gets underway in week four at Iowa, which won’t be easy. The Badgers’ crossover games are ridiculous in a bad way with road games at Michigan and Penn State, and a home game against Rutgers. Wisconsin also plays Northwestern and Purdue on the road. Home games against Nebraska, Illinois, and Minnesota are manageable. The Badgers may have the most talent in the division, but the schedule couldis the norm for Northwestern, so expect it here as well. After a bye week, they host Michigan in week five, then play at Michigan State, home with Nebraska, on the road at Rutgers, and then home again for Wisconsin. Notre Dame then comes to town, which is then followed by road games at Iowa and Minnesota. Illinois closes out the season in Evanston. There are no unwinnable road games here, which means every game can be won.

6. Purdue Boilermakers (43.6)

Hosting Northwestern on a Thursday to open the season is one hell of a tone setter. The entire non-conference schedule takes place in West Lafayette, as the Boilers host Eastern Michigan, Missouri, and Boston College. Road games at Nebraska and Illinois follow, and then Ohio State comes to


Victor L lives in Arizona, USA. He was 60 when he was diagnosed in February, 2016. His initial PSA was 4.27 ng/ml, his Gleason Score was 7a, and he was staged T1c. His choice of treatment was Surgery (Robotic Laparoscopic Prostatectomy). Here is his story.

It's something that happens to other people, not me. Even with a PSA of 4.27 the denial was strong. This PSA was one that resulted from a redo of an annual physical PSA in April 2015. Then it was 4.08. The redo in October 2015 came back as 4.27. A visit to a Urologist was recommended so I chose to see one just before the holidays in mid December 2015. We talked about family history (father had PC in his 80s and mother andVA Urologist had told us and the wife and I really got to like him in the short time we were with him. So I got down to it. Almost like a job interview. He told us that he performs a procedure known as a "Nerve Sparing, Robotic Assisted, Radical Prostatectomy". The key here is "Nerve Sparing". I asked him how many procedures he had performed and he stated that he stopped counting after 250 but he does 30 - 50 per year. He then leaned forward and looked me straight in the eyes and said "I'm really good at it too". That won me over. I scheduled surgery for March 29, 2016.

Nerve Sparing. Huge! The wife and I are still sexually active. Under the nerve sparing procedure


Compressive syndrome of internal jugular veins in multiple sclerosis: does it matter?
Condition known as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) is characterized by insufficient cerebral vein drainage in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and internal jugular vein (IJV), vertebral and/or azygos veins stenoses. However, external compression on the IJV was not clearly described as a potential cause of CCSVI. We aim to present a case of CCSVI in a patient with MS caused by bilateral IJV inverted valves combined with IJV external compression by carotid bulb. A 31-year-old female patient was admitted to our institute for IJV and vertebral veins morphological and haemodynamical assessment after being treated for MS for the last 14 years. Colour Doppler ultrasonography showed right IJV prestenotic dilation and inverted valves in both IJV. Computerizedgathering, this son of the living God assembly grew and grew and the congregation of Jesus was born.

III. Paul

A. Saul (Paul) tells us his story, his encounter with Jesus. Acts 9

• Paul is impossible to explain away.• His writings are documented to 25 or so years from the crucifixion. His epistles predate the Gospels. He knew Peter and James and the other apostles

B. He traveled around the Mediterranean for 30 years. In his wake, he left little ekklesias.

• He traveled all over the known world.• It was on one such journey that he visited Athens, where our series began.• I’m not saying he did it all, remember His letter to the Romans

C. Everything Jesus promised came true.

• There is a Church in almost every major city in every


earlier, was jabbed by the tip of an umbrella while waiting for a bus in London and died four days later.

Wicker, 61, was first appointed by former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour to the U.S. Senate in December 2007 after the resignation of then-Sen. Trent Lott. He was then elected to the seat in 2008 and won re-election in 2012 to a second term.

Before joining the Senate, he was a U.S. representative in the House from 1995 to 2007. Before that, he served in the Mississippi Senate.viewers will have made the memorable journey with him.

The dramatization is based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 novel, one of the most penetrating father-and-son and growing-up stories I know. It is about a family's lonely struggle to farm a piece of land. Jody - an only child who lives with his father, Penny, and mother, Ora - adopts a fawn. As it grows older it begins to destroy the family's crops, and the conflict between Jody's love for the animal - which symbolizes his fleeting youth and innocence - and its threat to their livelihood is the basis of the story.

I recall reading ``The Yearling'' years ago and being drawn into the rich, rustic setting and the universal themes that it so brilliantly evokes. I also


plunged into and out of arresting moments. And the new players make the roles their own, giving meaning to the sometimes guttural exchanges that are the vital communication of everyday physical survival.

As Penny, Peter Strauss nicely handles the back-country manners of a settler. His campfire bonding scenes with Jody are treasures. They set off into the forest - shot on location in South Carolina -

in pursuit of a marauding bear they call Slewfoot that has become their nemesis. The sun glints through the trees to create a half-lit world that reflects Jody's young soul, only half-seen to himself. Jean Smart offers a potent performance as the hard-pressed mother - clipped of speech, grieving underneath for earlier children she has lost. Tellingly, she shows us the impact of naturalevents on their emotional lives. Near the end, when she tearfully tells Jody she loves him, she is truly affecting.

Fourteen-year-old Wil Horneff goes to the heart of Jody's character, eager to prove himself and desperately attached to the fawn, Flag. It is a leaping, skittish, uncontrollable thing. When at one point Jody is seen lying in bed - with Flag standing on the bed towering over him on stiltlike legs - the fawn seems out of place and destined to disappear, like Jody's boyhood. When Jody has to make a harsh decision about the fawn to save the family from starvation, his searing emotion is almost too much to watch.

Afterward, Jody briefly runs away from home, then returns, hungry, to be greeted by his understanding father. Penny says,


``Ole man starvation has a face meaner than ole Slewfoot, ain't he?'' It's a hard truth, but Strauss delivers the line laughing - a brilliant touch. The compassionate Penny's laugh is a joyous realization: His son has navigated the passage from youth. Now he is a man.2012 Submission to the UN Commission on the Status of Women: The Legal Category of Sex and Understanding the Status of Women

This communication represents a fundamental shift in the framing of feminist concerns about the legal codification of “gender identity.” It refocuses attention on the experiential realities of being born female by demanding that sex be prioritized as independently significant to both understanding and improving the status of women.

An important announcement follows the text.

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specific group, which then serves as moral justification for the enforcement of sex-based social roles that limit women’s autonomy and right to self determination. These heteronormative social roles are inherently unequal because they prescribe male control of the public sphere–including governmental participation and ownership of all public spaces– while simultaneously relegating females to the unpaid private sphere where women are responsible for virtually everything, but are actually in control of almost nothing. Largely shocking to many modern Western minds, even human rights champion Gandhi was once convinced that he, as a man and as a husband, was morally entitled to beat his wife.[vii]

To quote feminist Gloria Steinem:

…Olof Palme, the great former prime minister of Sweden, [] said that gender roles are the deepest cause of violence on earth,Full Text

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The City Council voted Tuesday to send a housing safety ordinance – called for after the deaths of three people in accidental fires over the last year – back to a subcommittee for fine tuning.

The council requested the ordinance after the November deaths of UC Berkeley student Azalea Jusay, 21 and her parents, Francisco and Florita, both 46, in a house fire at 2160 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The following January, UC student Brad Evans, 23, died in a house fire in Oakland.

The council approved the motion to send the ordinance, known as the Rental Housing Safety Program, back to a Housing Advisory Subcommittee by a vote of 5-4 with Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek and councilmembers Dona Spring, Kriss Worthington and Linda Maio voting in opposition.

The


affix his signature to a $1.35 trillion dollar tax cut.

Only 125 days into office and the President has pushed through a bipartisan tax cut that slashes taxes across the board for every single tax paying American. That kind of all-inclusive tax cut hasn’t taken place since Ronald Reagan provided similar relief to the taxpayers.

President Bush told us during the campaign that he was going to lower our taxes, and now he has. He also told us he was going to change the tone in Washington, and he is doing that as well.

The president signed this tax cut flanked by both Republicans and Democrats providing a model for bipartisan government that is void of mean spirited politics.

The President honed his approach to open honest bipartisan politics as the successfulRoyal Family of the Guitar (L. John Harris and Bill Hayes), In Between the Notes (William Farley and Sandra Sharpe) and KPFA On The Air (Veronica Selver and Sharon Wood). 2220 Shattuck 486-0411

Bernard Maisner: Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings. Through Aug. 8 Maisner works in miniature as well as in large scales, combining his mastery of medieval illumination, gold leafing, and modern painting techniques. Flora Lamson Hewlett Library 2400 Ridge Rd. 849-2541

The Berkeley High crew varsity four-man boat finished fifth at the U.S. Rowing Youth Invitational Championships in Cincinnati last weekend, the school’s first appearance at the national competition.

Although the team entered both the two- and four-man events in Cincinnati, the overlapping members decided to concentrate on the four-man, according to Mick Renner, the organization president.

“It was apparent that


it was impossible to do well in both events,” Renner said. “The two rowers (sophomore Jordan Bice and junior Yoshi Katsuura) had to make a decision on their own out on the water. They decided to reserve their strength for the four-man boat.”

The members of the four-man had to make a big adjustment in the final event of their season. Their regular boat has the coxswain positioned to the rear. But they were unable to take their own boat, and the boat they used at the nationals had Renner in the front, unable to see his rowers.

The change nearly proved disastrous in the first heat, as Berkeley took an early lead but steered into a lane marker and struggled to the finish line. But by the second heat,to have rented by next fall, when UC Berkeley students return to class. The futon shop and the former barbershop below are also getting a thorough facelift and retrofit.

The second part of the project, however, remains illusive. The transformation of the UC Theatre is a dream in progress.

“It’s a piece of Berkeley culture,” Bobrovitch said of the theater, whose doors closed at the end of March.

Bobrovitch and Sarafaty have been talking to Gary Myers, who opened the UC Theatre in 1976 and left the operation four years ago, about how best to reuse the old 1,300-seat elephant.

Some people – one who even posted an essay on the box office of the old theater – say the reason for the closure of the theater is that Myers had stopped


from southern California in January 1999 to help oversee the creation of Village 9, a “school within a school” intended to ease the transition into high school for Berkeley High freshman.

Patterson’s background is in middle schools, however, and she came to Berkeley with the understanding that she would have an opportunity to move back into middle schools should an administrative position open up.

Before she got to Berkeley High, Patterson, 38, had accumulated 14 years of experience in middle schools, working as an English and history teacher and then as an administrator at the Fontana Unified School District in San Bernardino County.

She said she prefers working in middle schools because, more than just teaching required subjects, middle school teachers must often play a critical role in students’ emotional development.

“Middledistrict’s central office in the middle of the year and was not replaced.

Even before Willard lost one of its three on-campus safety personnel in the most recent round of school district budget cuts, the school had gone a year and a half without the benefit of a school resource officer from the Berkeley police department, Nakamura added. (Both Longfellow and King middle schools have Resource Officers assigned to them.)

The absence of the officer “makes a big difference,” Nakamura said, “not only in prevention (of violence) but also in counseling.”

Unlike the high school, Willard has no counseling staff on campus to help students work through emotional problems, a fact Patterson said the school district may need to rethink in the years ahead.

As for the other staff shortages, Patterson said:


they need from their very first day on campus. To often, Patterson said, the poor flow of information between the high school and middle schools impedes this process.

“We need very close communication (between middle schools and the high school),” Patterson said. “We can make that transition much smoother.”

Junior Walter Chun has been named an All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America.

Chun, who served as co-captain of the Bears this past season, is majoring in business administration at Cal. During the just-completed season, he averaged 74.1 strokes per round. Chun's best finish was a tie for ninth at the Cleveland Golf Classic.

All-America Scholars are recognized for their performances athletically and scholastically. To qualify for the honor, student-athletes must be a junior or senior academically, maintain a minimumgrade-point average, compete in at least 75 percent of his team's varsity competitive rounds, and maintain a minimum stroke average.

As a team, the Bears advanced to the NCAA Western Regionals for the fifth consecutive season.

UC Berkeley graduate, Adam Varat, has been selected from over 100 students to participate in the 21st annual EDAW Summer Student Program.

Varat will be participating as an intern in the redevelopment of the Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colo., at one time the fifth busiest airport in the United States, and the largest urban redevelopment project in the country. The airport will be converted into a thriving community built on smart growth and environmentally sustainable principles, said Sandy D’Elia, Principal and Director of Development of EDAW, San Francisco.

Varat is currently a graduate student at the


Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The internship was created and sponsored by EDAW, a San Francisco based consulting firm in environmental planning, landscape architecture, urban design and economic development.

The Pac-10 Conference has accepted the recommendations of a Cal internal investigation into violations involving the school’s football program and will take away four scholarships over the next two years, the conference office announced Tuesday.

Wide recievers Michael Ainsworth and Ronnie Davenport were given academic credit for a class they did not complete in the spring semester of 1999, violations uncovered last fall. Both athletes have since left school.

The school pre-empted any NCAA investigation by conducting its own five-month investigation into the allegations, making its recommendation to the conference in February. The school has a self-imposed two-year probation period, and was givengovernor said he would sign. Lawmakers also relaxed penalties for possessing small amounts of non-medical marijuana.

Oregon: Attorney general cautioned that “Oregonians engaged in the manufacture and distribution or who are in possession of medical marijuana may be subject to federal criminal prosecution.” But he added that federal prosecution was unlikely.

VACAVILLE — Smoke from a fire near Interstate 505 caused two multiple-car accidents, closed the highway to traffic and forced the evacuation of a mobile home park in northern Solano County Wednesday.

Black smoke from the blaze limited visibility, contributing to the 13-car and eight-car pileups. Several people suffered minor injuries in the crashes, said California Highway Patrol Supervisor Kin Ho.

Firefighters battled windy conditions along with the flames, but the fire was controlled Wednesday night, said a spokeswoman from the


Solano County Dispatch Center.

“The key point is that these winds cause fires to move,” said Vacaville Fire Department battalion chief Gerald Skinner.

The fire began at about 1:30 p.m. in a grove of eucalyptus trees north of Allendale in an area called Gandy Dancer, Ho said. The fire then spread to several other areas.

The fire divided into 25 different blazes, scorching a total of 200 to 300 acres, but no structures were threatened, the dispatch spokeswoman said.

CHP officials closed I-505 between Interstate 80 and the town of Winters.

Both lanes of traffic on I-80 north of Vacaville were moved to eastbound lanes. The fire extended to the factory stores area of Orange Drive near the Vacaville city limits.

SACRAMENTO — In May, Gov. Gray Davis announced a plan to give Californiansstate power buyers to stop shopping for power.

SACRAMENTO — A federal judge is threatening to block the cutting of trees in three Northern California national forests as part of a fire prevention program, unless the U.S. Forest Service submits a better plan addressing regrowth and potential harmful effects.

The agency’s current impact statement fails to properly account for maintaining 320,000 acres of fire breaks in the Sierra Nevada forests and the possible use of herbicides that could harm the environment, ruled U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.

He ordered the Forest Service to offer a revised environmental impact statement for public comment within four months, or stop the project.

“The Forest Service is radically altering vegetation on 320,000 acres of forest without knowing what the ultimate result is going to be,”


said Patty Clary, director of Californians for Alternatives to Toxics.

CATS sued the Forest Service for not exploring how it would control the regrowth of brush and grasses in the fire breaks.

The plan was a product of controversial 1998 federal legislation sought by an unusual coalition of loggers, environmentalists and others that became known as the Quincy Library Group for their meeting place.

The Quincy Act requires construction of a network of fire lines by removing trees and shrubs in strips a quarter- to half-mile wide and several miles long on 40,000 to 60,000 acres each year for five years. The network will ultimately cover one-quarter of the land in the Plumas and Lassen national forests and the Sierraville District of the Tahoe National Forest.

Clary said maintaining those breaks couldgas-electric vehicles are in the works, including hybrid versions of the Honda Civic, the Chevrolet Suburban and the Ford Escape.

Hybrid vehicles could receive a boost from Washington, D.C., if a proposal to give tax credits for the purchase of gas-electric vehicles is approved. President Bush proposed up to $10 billion in tax breaks over 10 years to boost energy supplies, conservation and alternatives.

SAN DIEGO — The online music service Mp3.com added the 1 millionth song to its library this week and introduced a new premium service that allows subscribers to transfer songs to a portable device and burn compact discs from their own music collection.

The company said the milestone track was the song “So Long,” by the band “Lapdog,” which consists of former members of the alternative rock


talks.

The Tenet formula goes hand in hand with recommendations by the international Mitchell Commission, which have been accepted by both sides and require Israel to freeze Jewish settlement construction once a cease-fire is in place.

On the Palestinian side, there has been widespread opposition to a truce.

Islamic militants, who have carried out more than a dozen bombings in Israel in the past nine months, said Wednesday they would continue their attacks.

“The Palestinians will continue the intefadeh (uprising) by all means until it achieves its goals,” including the end of Israeli occupation, said Ismail Abu Shanab, spokesman of the Hamas group in the Gaza Strip.

Militia commanders close to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have also said they oppose ending the uprising without having made political gains.

Under the Tenet plan, Israel andangry.

Maturan told ABS-CBN television that Sabaya ordered his men to tie up the cleric in the form of a cross.

They “immediately chopped off his head,” Maturan said. “Sabaya ordered the beheading of the priest on suspicion that he was spying for the military.”

On May 27, the rebels raided the Dos Palmas resort in the southwestern Philippines, taking 20 people hostage, including Sobero and Martin and Gracia Burnham, a missionary couple from Wichita, Kan. Nine captives later escaped, and two resort staff members were found hacked to death.

In subsequent attacks, the Abu Sayyaf took more hostages in a hospital and a plantation on Basilan.

Abu Sayyaf says it wants a southern Islamic state, but the government calls the rebels bandits. Though Muslims are a minority in the mostly Roman Catholic


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“The Decade of Change: 1900 - 1910” chronicles the transformation of the city of Berkeley in this 10 year period. Thursday through Saturday, 1 - 4 p.m. Berkeley History Center, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. Wheelchair accessible. 848-0181. Free.

Readings

Cody’s Books 2454 Telegraph Ave. All events at 7:30 p.m. June 13: David Sedaris reads from “Me Talk Pretty One Day”; June 14: Ana Menendez reads from “In Cuba I Was A German Sheperd”; June 15: James Ellroy readsretaliatory impulse of blood feuds. Some rape victims and people whose loved ones have been killed have found ways to disengage from the compulsive desire for revenge. They refuse to allow the violence to disrupt their principles. Their moral strength is restraint, and they are heroes. They are our examples of how the cycle can be broken.

PNS commentator Joe Loya is a California writer currently writing a memoir on his experience in prison. His e-mail address is buddhalobo@aol.com.

In an event that was months in the planning, more than 300 members of Berkeley churches packed St. Joseph the Worker Church Monday night to hear school district officials publicly pledge to reform the English Language Learner program at Berkeley High.

The majority in the audience were St. Joseph parishioners of Latino


Orth said the fire started just before midnight in the building manager’s top floor apartment. “She left cooking oil unattended on the stove while she was in the next room working on her computer,” Orth said. The sprinkler contained the small fire in the kitchen until fire fighters arrived, Orth said.

Most the damage to the apartments and ground-floor businesses, estimated at $60,000, was caused by water from the emergency sprinkler system. The newspaper office and next door Oyster Software, Inc. suffered minor damage to computers and furniture.

Memorial service for court judge

There will be a memorial service honoring State Appellate Court Justice Clinton White on June 28. The service is sponsored by the Charles Houston Bar Association, the Alameda County Bar Association and the California Association of Black Lawyers,County.

Health-e-App was developed by the California HealthCare Foundation in partnership with the State of California. The Foundation provided $1 million in funding to develop and test the new process.

The Healthy Families Program is a state and federally funded health coverage program for children in families with incomes above the level eligible for Medi-Cal and below 250 percent of the federal income guidelines ($36,576 for a family of three.)

Some 21,000 community-based assistants who currently provide families with free help in completing the paper version of the joint Healthy Families Program/Medi-Cal for Children application are being trained to assist families with the new online application.

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa — Grace was coughing up blood. Her feet were numb. Her head pounded. Her mouth was full of sores. Her throat burned with


a choking infection. Ulcers riddled her stomach.

She was thin and bedridden and certain she was about to die.

That was two weeks ago – before the AIDS medicine.

Now, she no longer coughs up blood. The sores have cleared up, and the throat infection – treated simultaneously with another medication — is gone. The one meal of thin porridge she struggled to eat every day has turned into six daily meals filled with fruit and meat. She has gained 19 pounds.

The miracle is not Grace’s amazing recovery. It is that an unemployed woman living in a shack with six other people would get the expensive medicine that can turn AIDS from a killer into a manageable disease.

Grace, who is probably the first poor person in South Africa to get freeand draw up guidelines for using the medicine where it is feasible, he said.

“They have a unique opportunity to learn from a project like us,” he said.

The group, which won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize and is known as Doctors Without Borders in English, began giving the medicine to patients last month at its three clinics in Khayelitsha. Only about a dozen people are on the drugs so far, but the program will eventually treat 150 adults and 30 children, Goemaere said.

After Grace, 36, tested positive for HIV in 1999, her boyfriend left her and her health slowly crashed. She and her baby son, who is not infected, moved into a shack with a friend and the friend’s four children.

By the beginning of this year, she was so


recovery.

“It’s very moving, but it makes me angrier that everyone is not on this,” she said.

As Louis spoke, her thoughts kept returning to the tragedy, just two hours before.

A woman in her mid-twenties – in the final throes of AIDS – was inexplicably sent to the clinic instead of the nearby hospital emergency room. Dangerously dehydrated and beyond the doctors’ help, she sat in a wheelchair in the waiting room amid an expanding pool of her own diarrhea. Other patients, in tears, stroked her head and held her hand.

She died within 10 minutes.

Louis hopes the small project will eventually save millions of South Africans from that fate.

SAN FRANCISCO — A new line of business software introduced Tuesday by search engine maker AltaVista Co. will enable employees to scourEl supporters who were present at the June 5 City Council hearing. He should also have included the school children whom Beth El bused in to serenade City Council members and also to the number of young people from the Congregation who appealed to Council on the basis of the value and worth of Beth El in their lives. Beth El has no difficulty in summoning vast numbers of its Congregation to appeal to the emotions of whatever city department happens to be considering its request at the time. However, this is exactly the problem: in appealing to the emotions, Beth El does not address the real issues. Until it does, no consensus can be reached and no progress can be made.

Carol Connolly

Berkeley

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streets.

The project, dubbed the Cerrito Creek Revegetation Project, was planned by a number of organizations including the University Herbarium of UC Berkeley and the Friends of Five Creeks.

The goal of the project is to plant strong populations of selected local native plants that will provide soil erosion and habitat protection.

The culture down under

The city manager is asking the council to amend a contract with the city’s archeological consulting firm, which has been retained to give the Public Works Department advice about projects in the West Berkeley Shellmound Area.

The archeology consulting firm, Garcia and Associates, is asking for an increase in contract fees of $26,000 for a total not to exceed $207,000 for the period beginning June 15 until the end of 2003.

The services are necessary because the citywith the delivery of services such as electricity, water, cable and Internet access.

Spring’s recommendation says that due to the Costa-Hawkins vacancy decontrol, “landlords now have an incredible financial incentive to try and get rid of tenants in rent-controlled apartments.”

The recommendation points to the example of a Berkeley landlord who, it said, recently ripped out one of his tenants’ telephone and cable lines, leaving him without fire prevention services.

Council’s budget recommendations

The council will make recommendations for amendments to the city manager’s budget proposals for fiscal year 2001-2002. The city manager will also answer questions about his May 9 presentation to council.

The two-year budget for fiscal year 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 is about $524 million, a 14 percent increase from the previously adopted two-year budget.

The council will hold a public hearing


on the budget during its June 19 meeting and then adopt the budget on June 26.

Moratorium in the MULI

After being pushed back on the agenda several times, the moratorium on new office development in west Berkeley is on the agenda. The Planning Commission recommended the council enact a one-year moratorium on office development in the Mixed Use-Light Industrial District, also known as the MULI, in west Berkeley.

The staff report on the recommendation says the moratorium should remain in effect until the impact of the growing number of offices on blue-collar jobs, and on artists and artisans can be determined.

Another concern is increased traffic congestion posed by more offices. The council report, approved by Planning Commission Chair Rob Wrenn, said that about 349,000 square feet of office space hasbeen developed in the MULI in the last three years.

Also on the agenda are:

• A transportation pass for city workers

• A passenger pick-up space at the downtown BART station

• Encouraging low income and market-rate housing in the city

• Asking the city manager to study a Sunshine Ordinance, improving on the state’s open meeting laws

In a move some hope will reverse a decline in the school district’s delivery of key services, the Board of Education approved an administrative structure change last week.

In essence, the board moved to bring all its separate departments such as facilities, maintenance, budget and fiscal services and nutrition services under the leadership of one high-level person who will report directly to the superintendent.

The new position, to be known as Associate Superintendent of Business Services and


gunfight broke out and John Evans and his stepbrother, Mickie King, were shot to death.

A third man, Michael Osorio, also was shot in the head, but survived to testify.

Authorities eventually convicted Nickerson and two others.

Evidence prompting Patel to determine that a jury would not find Nickerson guilty today includes the arrest two years ago of William Jahn, who was linked through DNA testing to one of the unsolved mysteries of the murder scene. Jahn’s trial is pending.

One of the three attackers had been wounded during the gunfight, and fled from the condo, leaving a trail of blood.

Jahn, picked up on a drug and weapons charge in San Jose in 1997, was matched to the blood trail; he also has scarring and metal fragments in his body from agunshot wound.

Prosecutors charged Jahn in March with murder in connection to the Evans and King murders. Jahn, while in custody, told Nickerson’s lawyers that Nickerson was not involved.

Osorio, the surviving victim, testified that there were three attackers of average height and weight. At the time, Nickerson weighed 425 pounds. Jahn, however, fits the description given by Osorio, who nevertheless identified Nickerson as one of the assailants at trial, Nickerson’s attorneys said.

SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gray Davis is getting his first glimpse of relief after months under the political cloud of soaring electricity prices and rolling blackouts.

A series of events – from plummeting wholesale energy and natural gas prices to the unexpected shift in the U.S. Senate – has left Davis declaring that the state has “turned a corner”


in its power woes.

But politically, he still must weather the hottest summer months, the arrival of rising electricity bills at homes and a recent dive in his popularity ratings.

“Some irreparable damage has been done to his image and his popularity,” said Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Two statewide polls recently showed Davis’ approval rating plummeted to its lowest marks since he took office while electricity rates climbed.

Meanwhile, Davis fought to shed his image as a middle-of-the-road leader, adopting a new, confrontational style in dealing with the crisis.

He hired high-powered crisis control specialists Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani, trained at the Clinton White House and in the Al Gore presidential campaign. He declared “war” on Texas-based energy wholesalers.

Davis also attackedthe Bush administration for opposing price controls on wholesale electricity.

Soon after, the crisis-weary governor’s fortunes started to shift.

Vermont Sen. James Jeffords announced he would defect from the GOP, handing the majority and committee chairmanships to Democrats who favor price caps on wholesale electricity.

President Bush, who had been criticized for failing to visit the state since he took office, traveled to the state and met with Davis.

On a scorching afternoon in late May, the state came within the brink of blackouts, but dodged them.

The state Energy Commission announced that Californian’s had cut power use by 11 percent in May over the year before, which Davis called a personal victory because he has called for residents and businesses to conserve 10 percent.

Last week, the price of wholesale electricity and natural


him, Secretary of State Bill Jones and Los Angeles businessman William E. Simon Jr.

Plus, Republicans in Washington and a large chunk of the state’s Republican congressional delegation have tried to lure outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan into the governor’s race, afraid that Jones and Simon lack the necessary star power to oppose Davis.

Whoever runs against Davis will find an incumbent with more than $26 million raised for next year and a team of campaign advisers already using focus groups and polling to gauge public reaction to the power crisis.

MARIPOSA — When his wife, daughter and a teenage friend failed to return from Yosemite National Park and meet at a San Francisco airport rendezvous, Jens Sund thought nothing of it and boarded a plane for Phoenix.

It was onlyafter finishing a round of golf the next day that he began worrying, an anxiety that grew all day and lasted more than a month – until his worst fears were realized after the bodies of the three were found outside the park.

Sund was the first witness Monday in Mariposa Superior Court as prosecutors began presenting testimony against motel handyman Cary Stayner to see if enough evidence exists to charge him with murdering the three tourists.

Stayner, 39, already is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty in federal court to murdering a woman who led children on nature walks in the park. He could face execution if convicted in state court in the triple murder case.

Carole Sund, 42, daughter Juli, 15, and family friend Silvina Pelosso, 16, of


Argentina had gone to the park to witness the cascading waterfalls, soaring cliffs of granite and towering trees after Juli competed in a cheerleading competition in Modesto.

Seated only 10 feet from Stayner, Jens Sund avoided eye contact while testifying that the last time he saw the three women was when they left their Eureka home in February 1999.

Despite testimony of his worries, there was hardly a hint of the grisly fate the women met. The words “killings” or “murders” were not uttered by any of the 10 witnesses during the first of the preliminary hearing.

Assistant District Attorney Kim Fletcher moved methodically through testimony to build a foundation for her case, distilling the drama of the disappearances down to the mundane issues of how Cedar Lodge, where Stayner workedand lived, kept records of visitors, copies of receipts and how maids cleaned rooms.

Through the bland testimony, however, a more poignant image began to emerge: These were the last people to see the women alive and well. The clerks who sold them knickknacks at the gift shop and the waitress who served what must have been their last meal of burritos and burgers.

“I had the, uhhh, missing women,” testified waitress Barbara Jane Bonner. She worked at the Cedar Lodge restaurant and said she served the trio on the night of Feb. 15, 1999, when the Sund-Pelosso party was last seen alive. Jens Sund said he last spoke to his wife by phone at the lodge on Feb. 14.

They were supposed to meet Feb. 16 at the San Francisco


airport so he could take Pelosso and his other three children to the Grand Canyon. Sund’s flight was delayed by bad weather, and when he arrived at the airport his wife was nowhere to be found.

“I thought maybe I had misunderstood Carole’s plans, so I just figured everything was fine,” he said.

Jens Sund went ahead and boarded the Phoenix flight without them and played golf the next day in Arizona. But as he continued to try to reach his wife, calling their home and leaving messages with in-laws, Sund said he became increasingly concerned. He flew back to San Francisco the next day and met his brother-in-law. The two then went to the Cedar Lodge to look for the three, to no avail.

Defense lawyer Marcia Morrissey, who hadwas dead.

Organizers said the postponement of the original execution date of May 16, and the timing of the execution just days after the last court battle was dropped, contributed to the low turnout.

Earlier in the day, candles flickered as death penalty opponents, heads bowed, sat in a circle, silently mouthing the names on a list of the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. They remained silent for 168 minutes – one minute for each victim of the bombing.

Protesters on both sides held signs in the glare of television spotlights.

“What have we accomplished by executing Timothy McVeigh now that there are 169 people dead?” asked 49-year-old Bert Fitzgerald of Madison, Ind.

Both groups took buses from city parks to the makeshift protest grounds at the prison.

Russell Braun, 21, of


former Malaysian Sen. Sairin Karno join the negotiating team. Karno helped mediate last year’s kidnapping crisis, where millions of dollars in ransoms were reportedly paid to bring it to an end.

The military has said no ransom will be paid this time. The rebels used the money last year to buy arms and speedboats used in the May 27 abduction of tourists, including the Americans, from a beach resort across the Sulu Sea.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered all-out war against the Abu Sayyaf.

Meanwhile, three Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed and three soldiers wounded in fighting Tuesday, said Col. Danilo Servando, spokesman for the military’s southern forces. He said the clash was near Lantawan town, the area where the hostages are reportedly held.

A day earlier, the rebels stormed a coconutalarming Sobero’s three youngest children.

“They think he’s on vacation,” Chiong said, adding that the children were asleep early Monday evening. “I’m not sure when we’ll tell them.” Sobero, a father of four, is a Peruvian native who makes a living waterproofing homes and decks.

Neighbors and family describe him as a friendly man who loves scuba diving and playing with his children. Yellow ribbons adorn trees in his quiet neighborhood east of Los Angeles.

Sobero, whose children are 2, 3, 6 and 13, moved to California with his family in the early 1980s.

He and his wife of seven years were divorcing when he was abducted from an island resort in the Philippines on May 27. His wife said afterward she didn’t know her husband had left the country, adding that


the nearby Lawrence Hall of Science. He noted that reports of his comments on potential fire hazards had been exaggerated, and he praised LBL for their cooperation.

Once again we are reaching the end of an investigation which has produced the same general results as the five preceding studies.

McKone, Brand, and Shan (1997): the maximum yearly radiation dose to a member of the public from tritium is 0.13 mrem, less than the additional cosmic radiation received during an airplane flight from Oakland to Los Angeles. This is an insignificant fraction of the 200-260 mrem we get every year from background radiation in the Bay Area. This report was approved by the California department of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and Environmental Protection Agency.

Straume (1998): the risk of dying fromLives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña”; June 12: Colson Whitehead reads from “John Henry Days”; June 13: David Sedaris reads from “Me Talk Pretty One Day”; June 14: Ana Menendez reads from “In Cuba I Was A German Sheperd”; June 15: James Ellroy reads “The Cold Six Thousand.” 845-7852

When Ralph Samuel’s parents put him on a plane from Nazi-occupied Germany to London more than 60 years ago, he thought it was the beginning of a great adventure. And in a sense, it was.

In a story he told to people at the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center yesterday morning, Samuel, spoke of being one of 10,000 children saved during World War II during an operation called Kindertransport.

“All of us were under


Refugee Children’s Movement began in London. That movement assured that thousands of Jewish children would be saved. At the age of 7, Samuel arrived in London from Dresdon, Germany in January of 1938 to stay with the family of Samuel Epstein. Samuel learned that Epstein selected him for sponsorship because his last name was Epstein’s first, and Ralph was the middle name of Epstein’s son Peter.

“I came with a placard held with a piece of string around my neck to be collected by Mr. Epstein. I arrived like a package,” Samuel said.

His mother was hired as Epstein’s maid in March of 1939 and soon stayed with him. The Epsteins were very traditional, and while Samuel was allowed to eat in the dining room, his mother had to eatin the kitchen because she was considered hired help and not family.

Within three months, Samuel was speaking English.

When Great Britain entered the war and the bombing of London began in September of 1939, Samuel was evacuated with 3.5 million other British children to Guilford. His mother soon followed and they stayed until after the war.

In 1942, his father sent his last letter from a holding camp in Dresdon. In March of 1943, his father went to Auschwitz and was killed.

Samuel’s mother did not tell him about his father’s death until after the war was over and he was 14.

“It was very interesting. We got a Red Cross letter and I remember my mother calling me into my room. She said, ‘Your father has died. You have to be


a good boy,’” he said.

After the war, the other children went back to London, but Samuel stayed in Guilford with his mother. Until later, he lost contact with the Epsteins.

In 1958, at the age of 27, Samuel came to the United States. He married and has two children. He worked in property acquisitions for Bay Area Rapid Transit and the East Bay Park system. He helped found the NorCal Chapter of the Kindertransport Association and has organized reunions.

The majority of people who survived the holocaust because of Kindertranport have benevolent professions, Samuel said.

“A very high percentage of kinder [German children] went into the helping profession. I did real estate but only for public agencies and when we have our reunions, everyone is a psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker,”neighboring islands in Indonesia. It can grow up to 12 feet and weigh 300 pounds.

SANTA ANA – A Vietnamese refugee is under federal investigation amid allegations that he killed a fellow inmate while serving as trusty at a communist “re-education camp.”

Thi Dinh Bui, 60, of Orange Grove, is a former South Vietnamese army captain who spent 1975 to 1981 in the Thanh Cam camp near Hanoi after the end of the Vietnam War.

Another refugee, the Rev. Andrew Nguyen Huu Le, contends that Bui kicked him unconscious. The Roman Catholic priest also said in a signed affidavit to immigration officials that he saw Bui kill a man.

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is investigating the allegations.

Some want Bui deported if the allegations are upheld, but his fate would be


as state regulators resume the undercover inspections they dropped them more than a year ago. These surprise visits, common practice in almost every state, should highlight careless pharmacists, overworked technicians and confused patients, Board of Pharmacy officials said.

California must do more oversight, because more people go to pharmacists, said Frank Palumbo, director of the University of Maryland’s Center on Drugs and Public Policy. By 2004, Americans are expected to take 4 billion prescriptions, a 33 percent jump from current levels.

After an October incident, Gertrude Krull, an 88-year-old resident of Chico, needs no study to tell her the state must inspect more. In October, Krull sent her daughter to get her prescriptions authorized by a new doctor.

Krull took one pill, collapsed and was rushed to the emergency room. There,in the financial section of the Saudi newspaper As-Sharq al-Ausat (ASAA) of June 3, in a story headlined “Saudis are prepared to cover all shortages in world markets after Iraq halted oil exports.”

This was apparently the first report of a Saudi commitment to assure adequate supplies to all oil markets, a capability they alone have among oil producing nations.

Saudi oil minister Ali ibn-Ibrahim al-Na'eemi made the announcement June 4, on the eve of the formal OPEC meeting in Vienna. So the ASAA must be credited with a scoop.

A fair part of the ASAA piece dealt with the timing of Iraq's action – how Iraq announced on June 2 it would halt all exports the following day, June 3. ASAA cited a Reuters report that all Iraqi oil had


stopped flowing through the major Turkish oil port Ceyhan on the Mediterranean coast which usually handles 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, some 85 percent of which is from Iraq.

Did Saddam really cut the oil flow or only said he would? ASAA reported the Saudi oil minister al-Na'eemi as stating that “all members of OPEC” were in full agreement with the Saudis– though the Iraqi announcement was made before the Vienna conference opened.

The piece quoted al-Na'eemi as saying that even Egypt supported the move – on June 3 he was in the Saudi capital Riyadh meeting with Egyptian prime minister Atef Obeid– but Egypt is not a member of OPEC. And when the ASAA reporter asked how many barrels a day the Saudi oil commitment could amounthalting oil exports would be a silly move and Saddam is not a silly man. He has nothing to gain from such an action. As for the Saudis, they loathe Saddam but are not letting him terrorize them.

What really concerns King Fahd and Prince Abdullah is the U.S. posture in the Middle East. Washington holds the key– either to peace and profits in the world economy or a worsening war and plummeting profits.

The Saudis have always opted for the former. And so the royal family has been close friends of U.S. oil companies for over half a century.

Washington had seen Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak as an uncertain friend despite huge U.S. military aid. However, in recent weeks he has both consolidated his domestic power and moved to the


play about the lives of two actors, considered a metaphor for life itself. Directed by Nancy Carlin. $30-$35. $26 preview nights. Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant 843-4822

Bernard Maisner: Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings. Through Aug. 8 Maisner works in miniature as well as in large scales, combining his mastery of medieval illumination, gold leafing, and modern painting techniques. Flora Lamson Hewlett Library 2400 Ridge Rd. 849-2541

ITASCA, Ill. – When a parent was seriously injured in a melee – hit between the eyes with a yard marker – at a football game in El Paso, Texas, Mayor Carlos Ramirez decided it was time to do something about the city’s growing sideline rage at youth sports events.

Last fall, Ramirez started an anger management class for parents that was expanded into afor beating a coach who took his 11-year-old son out of a baseball game.

– A parent in Reading, Mass., was beaten to death while supervising his son’s hockey pickup game last July. Authorities say another father, Thomas Junta, became upset at rough play and fought with Michael Costin, a single father of four. Junta was charged with manslaughter and awaits trial.

In addition, violence against umpires and referees has prompted many states to get tougher. The Illinois Legislature recently passed a bill mandating penalties for people who assault sports officials, while 15 other states have similar laws.

Everyone in the School Board meeting room seemed excited about the new superintendent at the gathering Friday where district personnel turned out to meet and greet Michele Barraza Lawrence, the new superintendent.

Except one,


to commit early to the Golden Bears. Earlier this spring, Derek Burditt, a 6-5 junior and the New Orleans Metro Area Player of the Year, gave a verbal commitment to the school. Verbal commitments are not binding until players sign a official letter of intent.

Midgely, who is originally from London, was also recruited by Kentucky, UCLA and Utah.

With Midgely and Burditt already committed, Cal head coach Ben Braun could have back-to-back top-10 recruiting classes. Next year’s crop of center Jamal Sampson and forwards Julian Sensley and Erik Bond is considered the best class Braun has gotten in his five years with the program.

La Peña Cultural Center is celebrating its 26th anniversary by throwing a benefit tonight to honor the work of Dolores Huerta and to help raise moneyand La Peña is modeled after the peñas’ tradition of Chile and Argentina where peasants constructed temporary huts to form a communal space for celebrating fiestas and holidays.

La Peña presents a variety of music, theater and dance events. Many of the artists reflect contemporary social issues from multicultural perspectives. La Peña also offers music and dance classes, some of which are free.

The benefit celebration will be held at La Peña Cultural Center at 3105 Shattuck Ave. at 7 p.m. For ticket information call 849-2568.

Until the Bay Bridge opened in 1936, the only way of crossing the bay was by private boat or ferry.

To facilitate travel to the ferry many roads cut a diagonal path to the Ferry terminal, called the Oakland Mole.

The ferry terminal was located on “Long


Wharf” which was near the present approach to the Bay Bridge. When the Berkeley Branch Line of the Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) Railroad began running in 1876, the route from Oakland began its diagonal path along Stanford Avenue named for the man who owned the railroad, Leland Stanford.

In the foreground of the photo are three freight cars located in the triangular island created by the diverging streets.

Originally used for railroad operations, these parcels were later developed when the trains stopped running.

These islands today are the location of a parking lot on the smallest section, a drug store in the middle section and a grocery store (Berkeley Bowl) in the largest section.

The tall house in the middle right is still standing today at 2820 Adeline Street.

Built in the1890s, it remains as distinctive a building in its neighborhood as it did in 1906.

East Bay fire departments will prepare for the early fire season with a training for wild land fires at Tilden Park today.

At 9:30 a.m. the fire departments of Berkeley, Oakland, Moraga-Orinda, Contra Costa County, California Division of Forestry, East Bay Regional Parks, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will come together at the Equestrian Camp off Wildcat Canyon Road.

Although there will not be any actual fire, the drills will include hose development and communications and command tests for large scale incidents, according to a press release from the City Manager Weldon Rucker.

Fire engines will be coming from various stations around the area and while their lights may flash for safety reasons, they will not be


23, 1997, nine days after boarding a connecting flight from New York to Guyana. It was a trip she had made several times before, always carrying the same bag full of medication, court testimony showed.

She was allowed to carry the bag on the flight from Los Angeles to New York, but an unidentified airline agent in New York forced her to check the bag, testimony showed.

Neither the lawsuit nor court testimony gave any rationale for why an airline employee would have prevented Neischer from carrying her medication onto the flight with her.

During the trial, lawyers representing the airlines said that Neischer had a preexisting condition that helped contribute to her death, and that she contracted a respiratory infection during the flight that the missing medication would not haveto analyze FBI tests of a pair of coveralls prosecutors claim links Williams to the crimes.

Burrell did rule, however, that jury selection will begin as scheduled July 17.

LOS ANGELES — A judge dismissed misdemeanor charges Friday against a lawyer for former SLA fugitive Sara Jane Olson after the city attorney’s office conceded she had nothing to do with the improper release of information in the Olson case.

Shawn Snider Chapman said she was pleased to be exonerated but outraged that the charges were filed in the first place.

She had been accused of releasing addresses and phone numbers of two police witnesses in the Olson attempted-murder case.

The information was posted briefly on a Web site, but Chapman said from the beginning she was not involved.

The three counts were filed under


capture in Minnesota.

LOS ANGELES — A Superior Court judge has set a deadline for the Walt Disney Co. to turn over a list of patrons who suffered brain hemorrhages after riding on park attractions.

Judge Madeleine Flier ordered the company to turn over a detailed list by June 25 as part of a civil lawsuit that was brought by a San Diego woman who claims she was injured on the “Indiana Jones Adventure” ride at Disneyland and needed intensive medical care almost two years later.

Flier imposed a $2,500 fine on Disney May 25, accusing the company of repeatedly hindering release of the information. It is the second time Disney has been sanctioned in the case for failing to provide adequate information.

Deborah Bynum, 45, claims she developed an aneurysm andsevere brain bleeding after going on the jarring, rattling ride in November 1998.

Her attorney, Barry Novack, said the injury threatens to destroy her dream of becoming a math teacher.

Bynum and her husband, Curtis, who’s in the Navy, are seeking unspecified punitive damages and reimbursement for medical expenses and loss of earning capacity.

Disney gave Novack a list, with few details, of eight reports of brain hemorrhaging on rides – seven at Disneyland and one at Disney World in Florida.

He said the list differed vastly from his research, which revealed Disney had received 313 report of various injuries on the Indiana Jones ride.

Disneyland spokesman Ray Gomez conceded the list was incomplete, saying the company relied on computer searches of claims made at the theme parks in Anaheim and Orlando.

He said


death uncovered a flawed Riverside County foster-care licensing process that failed to uncover Barroso’s troubled marriage to Robinson and his misdemeanor conviction for vandalism.

Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last September introduced by Assemblyman Rod Pacheco, R-Riverside, after Andy’s killing. It helps fund background checks from the state Department of Justice for potential foster parents.

Andy was in Barroso’s care only two months. The boy had toilent-training setbacks and irritated the couple with his requests for drinks of water. The boy was kicked off a small blue chair by Barroso, who authorities said weighed about 300 pounds at the time. Andy later died when his head struck a dresser.

Andy’s limp body and swollen scrotum were smeared with dirt to make it appear he had fallen while playing outside thehouse. He died Aug. 2, 1999.

Andy lived in Hemet with his parents, Laura Utley and Thomas L. “Cowboy” Setzer as a 1-year-old. When social workers found filth and syringes in the apartment, Andy was removed from the home and was sent to live with a relative in Hemet and later lived with a Menifee couple, Mike and Lynn Henry, who wanted to adopt him. Social workers decided Andy would be better off elsewhere and sent him to live with Barroso and Robinson.

BRADBURY— A couple of bears took off early from the forest Friday and headed into the city for dip and a bite to eat.

The 300-pound black bears began wandering Los Angeles suburbs in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains at midmorning and one paddled around a


Senate Rules Committee who plans to push for federal action on election law changes.

The commission heard from Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University, who analyzed the Florida vote data for the commission — especially in three counties with some of the highest rates of discounted ballots — Duval County (Jacksonville), Palm Beach County and Miami-Dade County.

Lichtman said there was a “tremendous disparity” between the rates at which black and nonblack votes were not counted.

“I was quite amazed by what I found,” said Lichtman. For example, he said, in Duval County about one in five ballots cast by blacks was not counted.

The rate of black votes rejected was sometimes as much as three times or more the rate of nonblack votes rejected.

WASHINGTON — Around the country, topa representative of the family.

Before his original execution date a month ago, McVeigh had given away most of his belongings to fellow death row inmates, including a picture of himself inscribed with the words: “My head has been bloodied, but it remains unbowed.”

A final meal of his choosing will be served at noon on Sunday. U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said McVeigh has not yet selected his meal.

One complication surfaced Friday, when a federal judge in Pittsburgh ordered the execution videotaped for a case alleging the death penalty violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But an appeals judge delayed the order Friday and a panel of judges later overturned it, blocking the videotaping.

Also, one of the people McVeigh selected to witness his execution, author


Gore Vidal, announced that he would not be coming to Terre Haute. Vidal is writing a story about McVeigh for Vanity Fair magazine.

The magazine released a statement Friday saying that Vidal is unable to make the trip from his home in Italy because he didn’t have enough advance notice.

Jim Cross, special assistant at the federal prison, said McVeigh had to submit his list of witnesses 30 days before the execution. He said it will be up to the warden whether McVeigh is allowed to substitute another witness.

McVeigh was convicted of murder and condemned for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building that killed 168 people in the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.

In Oklahoma City, about 300 survivors and bombing victims’ relatives willballots abroad.

Illam Province in western Iran gave Khatami 80 percent of the vote, according to officials at the Interior Ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity. They added Qasr-e-Shirin, a town on the Iraqi border, went nearly 90 percent for Khatami.

Khatami faced nine challengers who ranged from hard-liners to those seeking to fight corruption and improve the economy.

Ahmad Tavakoli was running a distant second – with tallies ranging from 2 percent to 18 percent in the six districts and one province, according to IRNA. Tavakoli, an economist, had campaigned on pledges to improve the economy.

Interior Ministry sources predicted that turnout from Friday’s election would surpass 70 percent – or 30 million of the 42.1 million Iranians who have reached the voting age of 16.

In 1997, Khatami received nearly


old — too young to have direct connection with the revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed monarchy.

JERUSALEM — CIA chief George Tenet brought together Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs Friday in a high-level joint effort to stabilize a cease-fire and prepare the way for resuming peace negotiations.

The three-way security meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah came a day after Tenet met separately with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and security commanders.

Tenet’s mediation sparked angry rallies by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, during which the CIA chief was burned in effigy. Hamas accused Tenet of trying to pit Palestinians against each other amid Israeli demands for a crackdown on militants, and it vowed the intefadeh, or uprising, would not stop.

The European Union has also taken a direct role: placingsecurity experts at two West Bank friction points to help keep the cease-fire, EU and Palestinian officials said.

Israel has rejected the presence of any international observers, and EU officials were careful to say the experts were not observers.

Twenty-four Europeans are working to guarantee the cease-fire, particularly in the West Bank town of Beit Jalla and the Gaza Strip areas of Nitzarim settlement and Rafah, a Palestinian political official said on condition of anonymity. The EU teams have met regularly with Palestinian security and reviewed patrols on the ground, where Palestinian police have been trying to keep gunmen from nearing flashpoints, Palestinian officials said.

Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire on May 22.

Arafat called for an end to violence June 1, after a suicide bomber killed 20 Israelis in an attack


the conflict must not be separated, according to a participant, who insisted on anonymity. The Palestinians want Israel to commit to confidence-building measures, especially a freeze in Jewish settlement construction. Israel demands a full stop to the violence first.

IKEDA, Japan — In 15 minutes of horror, a man brandishing a kitchen knife walked into an elementary school Friday and wordlessly began slashing at students, killing eight young children.

The attack, during which the man made his way through four classrooms before being subdued by a teacher and a vice principal, was the worst mass killing in Japan since a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subways six years ago.

Fifteen people – 13 children and two teachers – were wounded, and eight remained in serious condition Saturday. The suspect, areleased sarin gas on the Tokyo subways in 1995, killing 12 people and sickening thousands.

The attack came as children were anticipating a day off Saturday for the annual local iris festival. The festival was canceled and classes were suspended indefinitely.

Police identified the attacker as Mamoru Takuma and said he used a kitchen knife with a six-inch blade. After his arrest, he was taken to a hospital with what were reportedly self-inflicted wounds, then turned over to police, a blue hood hiding his head, blood splattered across his legs.

It was not clear what might have led to the attack. Police said the suspect told them he had taken 10 times the daily dose of an unspecified anti-depressant.

Takuma told police he was “sick of everything” and wanted to be caught


and executed, a police official in Osaka said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He told police he had tried to kill himself repeatedly but always failed, the official said.

Authorities said Takuma told police he’d been having trouble sleeping and considered trying to kill himself Friday morning, but then got in his car, put a bag holding the knife on the seat next to him and drove into Ikeda from his home in nearby Mino.

Takuma was arrested in March 1999 and accused of putting a tranquilizer in the tea of four teachers at a school where he worked as a janitor, but he was never prosecuted because he had psychological problems, said Nobuharu Sugita, a police official in Itami, near Osaka.

Two of the children stabbed Friday died at thealways fighting from behind against the bigger private clubs, and it makes me proud because we’re so tough.”

As California and the nation mark the 20th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS on June 5th, Assemblywoman Dion Aroner (D-Berkeley) expressed concern that California is failing to do all it can to prevent new HIV infections among its residents, and urged support for Assembly Bill 1292, the Pharmacy Sale and Disease Prevention Act (Aroner), which would allow for the sale of syringes at licensed pharmacies without a prescription.

“Studies show that broadening access to sterile syringes helps prevent the spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C, and yet California continues to be one of only six states that require a prescription to purchase syringes,” stated Aroner, who


exchange program, they may exchange used, potentially contaminated syringes for new ones in order to protect themselves from disease transmission. However, needle exchange programs are not available statewide due to California law that requires the declaration of a local emergency in order to legalize syringe exchange.

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Since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of AIDS on June 5, 1981, more than 120,800 Californians have been diagnosed with AIDS, the most advanced form of HIV disease, and nearly 74,000 have died. The California State Office of AIDS reports that 19 percent all AIDS cases were related to injection drug use with contaminated syringes. The link between injection drug use and HIV is particularly strong for women. In California, 37 percent of cumulative AIDSissues.”

Sarah Syed, the project manager for Berkeley’s Safe Routes to School program, said staffing problems and lack of coordination between the Department of Public Works and the Planning Department nearly lost the city a $450,000 grant from the state.

The SRTS program examines traffic flow in the vicinity of Willard Middle School and LeConte Primary School and is mandated to create safe routes for students to walk and bicycle to school, according to Syed.

“We are trying to improve crossings around the schools, provide cages for secured bike parking and develop walking and biking education programs,” she said.

Syed said the program nearly lost its funding because plans that required input from the two departments weren’t sufficiently prepared to submit to the state. She said at the last minute, the Planning


organizations in the tax code. Yet, project supporters repeatedly commodify good deeds and suggest that Beth El has "earned" a use permit, regardless of the consequences to the natural and social environments. Concern for project impacts should inform discussion and decision-making, not the goodness of Beth El or of its works.

In 1992 the ZAB protected Codornices Creek. It limited The Chinese Alliance Community Church’s development of the Landmark Byrne site to the site’s southern portion. ZAB also required 26 on-site parking spaces for a project that was less than one-fourth the size of Beth El. In March 2001, the ZAB reversed itself, violating city ordinances and policies including those for creeks, Live Oaks, and parking. Why did Beth El rate such unusual treatment? Did its deeds count moreprotecting the environment.

The other question is why does Beth El insist on building where there exists so much communityopposition? This is supposed to be a community center, but the community opposition is strong, so I suggest Beth El look for someplace less controversial. Has Beth El looked into buying an existing building? There are many churches in Berkeley that appear to be under-used.

The Berkeley school board approved the hire of three new principals Wednesday and expects to announce the appointment of two more early next week.

The three appointments announced Wednesday were for Thousand Oaks, Rosa Parks and Jefferson primary schools.

Jesse Ramos, currently vice principal at Shore Acres Elementary School in the Mount Diablo Unified School District, will take over for Kevin Wooldridge as principal at Thousand Oaks School.

Ramos


has taught English as a second language in San Francisco for the last six years. In 1997, he was voted Humanitarian of the Year by Contra Costa and Alameda County teachers unions for his work in helping to bridge cultural differences in local schools.

Betty Delaney, who has served in Daly City’s Jefferson Elementary School District since 1992, has been appointed principal of Berkeley’s Jefferson School starting next year. She served as the first principal of the district’s new Susan B. Anthony school since 1998, helping to create policies for academics, discipline, safety and budgeting.

At Rosa Parks, Alison Kelly, who came to the school six years ago to lead the school’s Dual Language Immersion program – today one of the most popular programs in the district – will replaceAndrea Colfack. Kelly has been a key member of the school’s leadership for years, helping to implement the school’s early literacy program, its Federal Science Magnet grant and its innovative Family Resource Center.

At a time when there is a national shortage of principals, the Berkeley District lured 22 candidates to apply for the five positions – a respectable number, said Associate Superintendent for Administrative Services David Gomez.

The search began with committees of teachers and parents at each of the five schools working to determine what characteristics each school community would like to see in its next leader. Finalists were interviewed the week of May 28.

Gomez and other district administrators visited the schools of each finalist to interview parents, students and others in an effort to make sure the