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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John Well...those are my 7 choices. You know, if I were sent to my room for a year and couldn't come out. Those are the albums from the 70's I'd want to have with me. Now, if I could have more...Boston's debut, Sticky Fingers, Songs in the Key of Life would certainly be nice to have. What about you. What is your list?
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People's Park (Berkeley)
Coordinates: 37°51′56″N 122°15′25″W / 37.86556°N 122.25694°W
People's Park in Berkeley, California, US, is a park located off Telegraph Avenue, bounded by Haste and Bowditch streets and Dwight Way, near the University of California, Berkeley. The park was created during the radical political activism of the late 1960s.[1][2][3][4]
Today, People's Park is a free public park. Although open to all, it is mainly a daytime sanctuary for Berkeley's large homeless population who, along with others, receive meals from East Bay Food Not Bombs. Public toilets are available, and the park offers demonstration gardens, including organic community gardening beds and areas landscaped with California native plants, all of which were created by volunteer gardeners. Students use the basketball courts. A wider audience is attracted by occasional rallies, concerts, and hip-hop events conducted at the People's Stage, a wooden bandstand designed and built on the western end of the park by volunteers organized by the People's Park Council. Nearby residents, and those who try to use the park for recreation, sometimes experience conflict with the more aggressive homeless people.[1][2][3][4]
The local Southside neighborhood was the scene of a major confrontation between student protesters and police in May 1969. A mural near the park, painted by Berkeley artist O'Brien Thiele and lawyer/artist Osha Neumann, depicts the shooting of James Rector, a student who died from shotgun wounds inflicted by the police on May 15, 1969.
Early history to May 1969[edit]
In 1956, the Regents of the University of California allocated a 2.8-acre (11,000 m2) plot of land containing residences for future development into student housing, parking, and offices as part of the university's "Long Range Development Plan." At the time, public funds were lacking to buy the land, and the plan was shelved until June 1967, when the university acquired $1.3 million to take the land through the process of eminent domain. After taking control of the land, neighborhood residents were evicted and demolition of homes began.[5]
By 1967, the university had altered its plan; the new plan was to build a student parking lot and a playing field on the land. Demolition of the residences took more than a year, and the university ran out of development funds, leaving the lot only partially cleared of demolition debris and rubble. It remained in this state for over a year, and as winter began the muddy site became derelict with abandoned cars.[5][6]
On April 13, 1969, local merchants and residents held a meeting to discuss possible uses for the derelict site. Michael Delacour presented a plan for developing the under-utilized, university-owned land into a public park. This plan was approved by the attendees, but not by the university. Stew Albert, a co-founder of the Yippie Party, agreed to write an article for the local counter-culture newspaper, the Berkeley Barb, on the subject of the park, particularly to call for help from local residents.[5]
Michael Delacour stated, "We wanted a free speech area that wasn't really controlled like Sproul Plaza [the plaza at the south entrance to UC Berkeley] was. It was another place to organize, another place to have a rally. The park was secondary."[7] The university's Free Speech microphone was available to all students, with few (if any) restrictions on speech. The construction of the park involved many of the same people and politics as the 1964 Free Speech Movement.[8]
On April 18, 1969, Albert's article appeared in the Berkeley Barb, and on Sunday, April 20, over 100 people arrived at the site to begin building the park. Local landscape architect Jon Read and many others contributed trees, flowers, shrubs, and sod. Free food was provided, and community development of the park proceeded. Eventually, about 1,000 people became directly involved, with many more donating money and materials. The park was essentially complete by mid-May.[5][6][7]
Frank Bardacke, a participant in the park's development, stated in a documentary film called Berkeley in the Sixties, "A group of people took some corporate land, owned by the University of California, that was a parking lot and turned it into a park and then said, 'We're using the land better than you used it; it's ours'".[8]
On April 28, 1969, Berkeley Vice Chancellor Earl Cheit released plans for a sports field to be built on the site. This plan conflicted with the plans of the People's Park activists. However, Cheit stated that he would take no action without notifying the park builders. Two days later, on April 30, he allocated control over one quarter of the plot to the park's builders. On May 6, Chancellor Heyns held a meeting with members of the People's Park committee, student representatives, and faculty from the College of Environmental Design. He set a time limit of three weeks for this group to produce a plan for the park, and he reiterated his promise that construction would not begin without prior warning.[5][9]
May 15, 1969: "Bloody Thursday"[edit]
During its first three weeks, People's Park was used by both university students and local residents, and local Telegraph Avenue merchants voiced their appreciation for the community's efforts to improve the neighborhood.[6][10] Objections to the expropriation of university property tended to be mild, even among school administrators.
Governor Ronald Reagan had been publicly critical of university administrators for tolerating student demonstrations at the Berkeley campus, and he had received enormous popular support for his 1966 gubernatorial campaign promise to crack down on what the public perceived as a generally lax attitude at California's public universities. Reagan called the Berkeley campus "a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants."[11] Reagan considered the creation of the park a direct leftist challenge to the property rights of the university, and he found in it an opportunity to fulfill his campaign promise.
Governor Reagan overrode Chancellor Heyns' May 6 promise that nothing would be done without warning, and on Thursday, May 15, 1969 at 4:30 a.m., he sent 300 California Highway Patrol and Berkeley police officers into People's Park. The officers cleared an 8-block area around the park while a large section of what had been planted was destroyed and an 8-foot (2.4 m)-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence was installed to keep people out and to prevent the planting of more trees, grass, flowers, or shrubs.
Beginning at noon, about 3,000 people appeared in Sproul Plaza at nearby UC Berkeley for a rally, the original purpose of which was to discuss the Arab–Israeli conflict. Several people spoke; then, Michael Lerner ceded the Free Speech platform to ASUC Student Body President Dan Siegel because students were concerned about the fencing-off and destruction of the park. Siegel said later that he never intended to precipitate a riot; however, when he shouted "Let's take the park!,"[12] police turned off the sound system.[13] The crowd responded spontaneously, moving down Telegraph Avenue toward People's Park chanting, "We want the park!"[1]
Arriving in the early afternoon, the protesters were met by the remaining 159 Berkeley and university police officers assigned to guard the fenced-off park site. The protesters opened a fire hydrant, the officers fired tear gas canisters, some protesters attempted to tear down the fence, and bottles, rocks, and bricks[14] were thrown. A major confrontation ensued between police and the crowd. Initial attempts by the police to disperse the protesters were not successful, and more officers were called in from surrounding cities. At least one car was set on fire.[14]
Reagan's Chief of Staff, Edwin Meese III, a former district attorney from Alameda County, had established a reputation for firm opposition to those protesting the Vietnam War at the Oakland Induction Center and elsewhere. Meese assumed responsibility for the governmental response to the People's Park protest, and he called in the Alameda County Sheriff's deputies, which brought the total police presence to 791 officers from various jurisdictions.[11] Under Meese's direction, the police were permitted to use whatever methods they chose against the crowds, which had swelled to approximately 6,000 people. Officers in full riot gear (helmets, shields, and gas masks) obscured their badges to avoid being identified and headed into the crowds with nightsticks swinging."[15]
Alameda County Sheriff's deputies used shotguns to fire at people sitting on the roof at the Telegraph Repertory Cinema. James Rector, a student, was fatally wounded by a police shotgun loaded with "00" buckshot. Carpenter Alan Blanchard was permanently blinded by a load of birdshot directly to his face. The University of California Police Department (UCPD) claims Rector threw steel rebar down onto the police; however, according to Time Magazine, Rector was a bystander, not a protester.[16] As the protesters retreated, the Alameda County Sheriff's deputies pursued them several blocks down Telegraph Avenue as far as Willard Junior High School at Derby Street, firing tear gas canisters and "00" buckshot at the crowd's backs as they fled.
At least 128 Berkeley residents were admitted to local hospitals for head trauma, shotgun wounds, and other serious injuries inflicted by police. The actual number of seriously wounded was likely much higher, because many of the injured did not seek treatment at local hospitals to avoid being arrested.[5] Local medical students and interns organized volunteer mobile first-aid teams to assist the many protestors and bystanders injured with buckshot, nightsticks, or tear gas. One local hospital reported two students wounded with large caliber rifles as well, while other local hospital logs show that 19 police officers or Alameda County Sheriff's deputies were treated for minor injuries; none was hospitalized.[17] However, the UCPD claims that 111 police officers were injured, including one California Highway Patrol Officer Albert Bradley, who was knifed in the chest.[14]
Authorities initially claimed that only birdshot had been used as shotgun ammunition. When physicians provided "00" pellets removed from the wounded as evidence that buckshot had been used,[18] Sheriff Frank Madigan of Alameda County justified the use of shotguns loaded with lethal buckshot by stating, "The choice was essentially this: to use shotguns—because we didn't have the available manpower—or retreat and abandon the City of Berkeley to the mob."[15] Sheriff Madigan did admit, however, that some of his deputies (many of whom were Vietnam War veterans) had been overly aggressive in their pursuit of the protesters, acting "as though they were Viet Cong."[19][20]
Governor Reagan declared a state of emergency in Berkeley and sent in 2,700 National Guard troops.[11] The Berkeley City Council symbolically voted 8–1 against the decision.[17][19] For two weeks, the streets of Berkeley were patrolled by National Guardsmen, who broke up even small demonstrations with teargas.[15] On Wednesday, May 21, 1969, a midday memorial was held for student James Rector at Sproul Plaza on the university campus, with several thousand people attending.
During the People's Park incident, National Guard troops were stationed in front of Berkeley's empty lots to prevent protesters from planting flowers, shrubs, or trees. Young hippie women taunted and teased the troops, on one occasion handing out marijuana-laced brownies and lemonade spiked with LSD.[16] Some protesters, their faces hidden with scarves, challenged police and National Guard troops. Hundreds were arrested, and Berkeley citizens who ventured out during curfew hours risked police harassment and beatings. Berkeley city police officers were discovered to be parking several blocks away from the Annex park, removing their badges and donning grotesque Halloween-type masks (including pig faces) to attack citizens they found in the park annex."[15] Law enforcement would soon introduce a new form of crowd control with pepper gas, in its first use on American soil after being tested on the fields of Vietnam. The editorial offices of Berkeley Tribe were sprayed with pepper gas and had tear gas canisters fired into the offices, injuring underground press staff.
In a university referendum held soon after, UC Berkeley students voted 12,719 to 2,175 in favor of keeping the park.[16]
On May 30, 1969, 30,000 Berkeley citizens (out of a population of 100,000) secured a city permit and marched without incident past the barricaded People's Park to protest Governor Reagan's occupation of their city, the death of James Rector, the blinding of Alan Blanchard, and the many injuries inflicted by police.[6] Young girls slid flowers down the muzzles of bayoneted National Guard rifles,[17] and a small airplane flew over the city trailing a banner that read, "Let A Thousand Parks Bloom."[6][21] But over the next few weeks, National Guard troops broke up any assemblies of more than four persons who congregated for any purpose on the streets of Berkeley, day or night. In the early summer, troops deployed in downtown Berkeley surrounded several thousand protestors and bystanders, emptying business, restaurants, and retail outlets of their owners and customers, and arresting them en masse. On May 20, 1969, National Guard helicopters flew over the campus, dispensing airborne teargas that errant winds dispersed over the entire City, sending schoolchildren miles away to hospitals.
In an address before the California Council of Growers on April 7, 1970, almost a year after "Bloody Thursday" and the death of James Rector, Governor Reagan defended his decision to use the California National Guard to quell Berkeley protests: "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement."[22] Berkeley Tribe editors decided to issue this quote in large type on the cover of its next edition.[23][24][25][26]
The May 1969 confrontation in People's Park grew out of the counterculture of the 1960s, pitting flower children against the Establishment.[16] Among the student protests of the late 1960s, the People's Park confrontation came after the 1968 protests at Columbia University and the Democratic National Convention, but before the Kent State killings and the burning of a branch of Bank of America in Isla Vista.[27] Unlike other student protests of the late 1960s, most of which were at least partly in opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the initial protests at People's Park were mostly in response to a local disagreement about land use.
After the peaceful march in support of People's Park on May 30, 1969, the university decided to keep the 8-foot-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence and maintain a 24-hour guard over the site. On June 20, the University of California Regents voted to turn the People's Park site into a soccer field and parking lot.
In March 1971, when it seemed as though construction of the parking lot and soccer field might proceed, another People's Park protest occurred, resulting in 44 arrests.
In May 1972, an outraged crowd tore down the perimeter chain-link wire fence surrounding the People's Park site after President Richard Nixon announced his intention to mine North Vietnam's main port. In September, the Berkeley City Council voted to lease the park site from the university. The Berkeley community rebuilt the park, mainly with donated labor and materials. Various local groups contributed to managing the park during rebuilding.
In 1979, the university tried to convert the west end of the park, which was already a no-cost parking lot, into a fee lot for students and faculty only. Significantly, the west end of the park was (and remains) the location of the People's Stage, a permanent bandstand that had just been erected on the edge of the lawn within the no-cost parking lot. Completed in the spring of 1979, it had been designed and constructed through user-development and voluntary community participation. This effort was coordinated by the People's Park Council, a democratic group of park advocates, and the People's Park Project/Native Plant Forum. Park users and organizers believed that the university's main purpose in attempting to convert the parking lot was the destruction of the People's Stage in order to suppress free speech and music, both in the park and in the neighborhood south of campus as a whole. It was also widely believed that the foray into the west end warned of the dispossession of the entire park for the purpose of university construction. A spontaneous protest in the fall of 1979 led to an occupation of the west end that continued uninterrupted throughout December 1979. Park volunteers tore up the asphalt and heaped it up as barricades next to the sidewalks along Dwight Way and Haste Street. This confrontation led to negotiations between the university and the park activists. The park activists were led by the People's Park Council, which included park organizers and occupiers, as well as other community members. The university eventually capitulated. Meanwhile, the occupiers, organizers, and volunteer gardeners transformed the former parking lot into a newly cultivated organic community gardening area, which remains to this day.
People's Park Annex/Ohlone Park[edit]
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In the immediate aftermath of the May 1969 People's Park demonstrations, and consistent with their goal of "letting a thousand parks bloom," People's Park activists began gardening a two-block strip of land called the "Hearst Corridor," located adjacent to Hearst Avenue just northwest of the university campus. The Hearst Corridor was a strip of land along the north side of Hearst Avenue that had been left largely untended after the houses had been torn down to facilitate completion of an underground subway line by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District.
During the 1970s, local residents, especially George Garvin, pursued gardening and user development of this land, which became known as "People's Park Annex." Later on, additional volunteers donated time and energy to the Annex, led by David Axelrod and Charlotte Pyle, urban gardeners who were among the original organizers of the People's Park Project/Native Plant Forum.
As neighborhood and community groups stepped up their support for the preservation and development of the Annex, BART abandoned its original plan to build apartment complexes on Hearst Corridor. The City of Berkeley negotiated with BART to secure permanent above-ground rights to the entire five block strip of land, between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Sacramento Avenue. By the early 1980s, this land had become a city park comprising 9.8 acres (40,000 m2), which residents decided to name "Ohlone Park" in honor of the Ohlone band of native Americans who once lived there.
Today, the Berkeley Parks and Recreation Commission mediates neighborhood and community feedback concerning issues of park design and the maintenance, operation, and development of Ohlone Park amenities. These amenities—which include pedestrian and bicycle paths, children's playgrounds, a dog park, basketball and volleyball courts, a softball/soccer field, toilets, picnic areas, and community gardens—continue to serve the people and pets of Berkeley.
Subsequent history[edit]
The People's Café, a house trailer configured and decorated as a café, was mysteriously installed in People's Park overnight in 1988, with no one claiming responsibility. Volunteers from the Catholic Worker Movement and elsewhere began serving food from it the next day, distributing approximately 100 breakfasts per day. It lasted a few months, until the university removed the trailer early one morning after an inspection by the Berkeley Health Department.
The university built sand volleyball courts at the south end of the park in 1991, which set off demonstrations. After the university police began trying to clear the park of protesters and arrested some demonstrators, riots began. Opponents saw the building of volleyball courts as yet another attempt by the university to transform the park's open space into eventual housing, parking, or other projects. The courts were dismantled in 1997. There had been little use by the public, and the maintenance costs were very high.
Current events[edit]
People's Park is now co-managed by the university and various community groups. During subsequent years, the 2.8-acre (11,000 m2) plot of land known as "People's Park" has remained a focus of controversy between the university, and disparate elements of the Berkeley community. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates has stated that "over time, people have come to realize that the park has not become what they had hoped it would be... I love the idea of having some kind of memorial recognition there, but right now it is not a place that a lot of people are comfortable going to."[1] Current UC Berkeley students experience People's Park in a much different way than did UC Berkeley students from the 1960s and 1970s.[28] Now, during welcome orientations, freshmen students living in dormitories in the vicinity of People's Park are warned to stay away for safety concerns, especially at night.[citation needed]
Dan Siegel has said that the park "has now become this somewhat forlorn urban park... It's a place that no longer reflects the will for independence of the campus community. I think today if the university turned off its Wi-Fi, they'd get bigger demonstrations than they would for People's Park."[1]
In an April 2000 referendum, UC Berkeley students reaffirmed their preference for People Park remaining a park rather than having another use such as housing.
In October 2005, some park supporters attempted to rebuild the Free Box, a clothes donation box, after it had been burned down for the second time in two years by unknown vandals. They were videotaped by the university police and threatened with arrest. The supporters started rebuilding anyway, and no arrests were made, although the university police returned during the early hours of the morning and destroyed what had been built. Subsequent rebuilding attempts were also dismantled. A group of interested community members are working towards improving the children's play area.[29]
On January 8, 2007, at his retirement ceremony celebrating more than 50 years in law enforcement, outgoing Alameda County Sheriff Charles Plummer remained unrepentant about his role as a Berkeley police officer during the People's Park riots:
"I wish I would have hit some people harder during the riots," said Plummer, speaking of the riots in Berkeley in the late-1960s. "I regret that."[30]
In 2007, the university hired consulting firm MKThink to assess the park, and its draft report was published in October 2007.[31]
In a San Francisco Chronicle article on January 13, 2008, People's Park was referred to as "a menacing hub for drug users and the homeless" and also as "perfectly safe, clean and accessible". The article quotes Irene Hegarty, UC Berkeley director of community relations, as saying, "A lot of people's attitudes about the park have changed, and we wanted (referring to the MKThink report) to take a fresh, comprehensive look at the issue," as well as Jason Colson, a park regular, as saying "I've been here at all hours of the day and night, and I don't think it's unsafe at all. I don't have any problem with the park as it is. Additionally, Arthur Fonseca, a Berkeley/East Bay Food Not Bombs activist, was quoted in the same article: "Rich people are welcome here as much as poor people, but if rich people want to change the park to make poor people feel uncomfortable, that's obviously a problem."[32]
Bulldozing of the west end[edit]
On December 28, 2011, UC Berkeley bulldozed over the west end of People's Park, tearing up the decades-old community garden and plowing down mature trees in what a press release issued by the school described as an effort to provide students and the broader community with safer, more sanitary conditions.[33] This angered some Berkeley students and residents, who noted that the bulldozing took place during winter break when many students were away from campus, and followed the administration-backed police attack on students at Occupy Cal that occurred less than two months prior.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Tempest, Rone (December 4, 2006). "It's Still a Batlefield". L. A. Times. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ a b Meyers, Jessica (2006-09-12). "A Portrait of People's Park". Northgate News Online. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ a b Wagner, David (May 5, 2008). "Hip-Hop Festival Takes Over People's Park". The Daily Californian.
- ^ a b Gross, Rachel (January 26, 2009). "Residents, Homeless Try to Coexist by People's Park". The Daily Californian.
- ^ a b c d e f Brenneman, Richard (April 20, 2004). "The Bloody Beginnings of People's Park". The Berkeley Daily Planet. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Lowe, Joan. "People's Park, Berkeley". Stories from the American Friends Service Committee's Past. Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ a b Wittmeyer, Alicia (2004-04-26). "From Rubble to Refuge". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ a b Kitchell, Mark (Director and Writer) (January 1990). Berkeley in the Sixties (Documentary). Liberation. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ "Chronology of People's Park – The Old Days". peoplespark.org. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ "What's Next – Bombs? author=Winner, Langdon". Archived from the original on September 2, 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ a b c Rosenfeld, Seth (June 9, 2002). "Part 4: The governor's race". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
- ^ However, another source claims that what he said was, "I have a suggestion. Let's go down to the People's Park–". Retrieved November 6, 2008.
- ^ "People's History of Berkeley". Barrington Collective. Retrieved February 26, 2007.
- ^ a b c Jones, John, UCPD Berkeley: History Topic: People's Park, UCPD Berkeley, retrieved 2008-11-06
- ^ a b c d "Sheriff Frank Madigan". Berkeley Daily Gazette. May 30, 1969.
- ^ a b c d "Occupied Berkeley". Time Magazine (Time Inc.). May 30, 1969. Retrieved January 14, 2007.
- ^ a b c Smitha, Frank E. "The Sixties and Seventies from Berkeley to Woodstock". Microhistory and World Report. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
- ^ "The Battle of People's Park". Archived from the original on August 30, 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ a b "People's Park". Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- ^ "California: Postscript to People's Park]". Time. February 16, 1970. Retrieved July 23, 2008.
- ^ "UC Berkeley Grapples Again with a Troubled People's Park". North Gate News Online. September 21, 2006. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- ^ Lou Cannon (2003). Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. Public Affairs. p. 295. ISBN 1-58648-284-X. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Rips, Geoffrey. "The Campaign Against the Underground Press". History is a Weapon.
- ^ Peck, Abe (1985). Uncovering the Sixties: the life and times of the underground press (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. pp. 278–279, 288. ISBN 9780394527932.
- ^ Armstrong, David (1981). A Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America (1st ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. p. 175. ISBN 9780896081932.
- ^ Zald, Anne E.; Whitaker, Cathy Seitz (1 January 1990). "The underground press of the Vietnam era: An annotated bibliography". Reference Services Review 18 (4): 76–96. doi:10.1108/eb049109.
- ^ Lodise, Carmen (2002). A People's History of Isla Vista.
- ^ Keith, Tamara (April 14, 1999). "People's Park Is Melting in the Dark...". The Berkeleyan (The Regents of the University of California). Retrieved 2007-02-11.
- ^ Merryday, Dana. "New Play Area Planned for People's Park". People's Park News. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
- ^ Metinko, Chris (January 8, 2007). "Sheriff Charles Plummer calls it a career". Contra Costa Times (MediaNews Group). Retrieved 2007-02-11.
- ^ "People's Park Assessment and Planning Study" (PDF). MKThink, Inc. October 1, 2007.
- ^ Jones, Carolyn (January 13, 2008). "UC Berkeley seeks public's views to plan new path for People's Park". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Denney, Carol (December 28, 2011). "Flash: UC Berkeley Bulldozes People's Park to Make It More 'Sanitary'". The Berkeley Daily Planet.
- California Governor's Office. The "People's Park" - A Report on the Confrontation at Berkeley, California. Submitted to Gov. Ronald Reagan. July 1, 1969.
- Gruen, Gruen and Associates. Southside Student Housing Project Preliminary Environmental Study. Report to UCB Chancellor. February 1974.
- People's Park Handbills. Distributed May–April 1969. Located at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Pichirall, Joe. The Daily Californian. Cover Story on People's Park. May 16, 1969.
- "Reagan's Reaction to Riot: Call Park Here 'Excuse'" The Daily Californian. May 16, 1969.
- Statement on People's Park. University of California, Berkeley – Office of Public Information. April 30, 1969.
- Weiss, Norman. The Daily Californian. "People's Park: Then & Now." March 17, 1997.
Further reading[edit]
- Compost, Terri (ed.) (2009) People's Park: Still Blooming. Slingshot Collective. ISBN 9780984120802. Includes original photos and materials.
External links[edit]
- People's Park at the official City of Berkeley website
- People's Park homepage
- What Really Killed Rosebud? By Claire Burch
- Collection of articles in local media about free box[dead link]
- Funky Nixons - House Band of People's Park
- Photographs of People's Park protest, 1969
- UCPD History
- Long Live People's Park! Showdown in the Counterculture Corral by Ron Jacobs
- Parks in Berkeley, California
- University of California, Berkeley
- Visitor attractions in Berkeley, California
- Culture of Berkeley, California
- Crime in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Police brutality in the United States
- Military history of California
- Military in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Politics of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Guerrilla gardening
- 1969 in California

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MAB and 3VB offer first defence in Barclays test case
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Swap missold to me, barclays, was a condition of loan, £2200 per quarter turned out to be £43,000 per quarter, £22,000 get out fee turned out to be £739,000.... Ruined my business, complained for 4 yrs, but threatened by barclays of facility withdrawl if i did anything.........
the selling of these products which are investments is subject to BIPRU and COB and gives rise to claims under s150 FSMA
If Barclay's are denying any wrong doing in a case prepared by QC - I assume they know what they are doing then what chance does a normal small business stand in the FSA redress scheme supervised by they friends at KPMG.
The whole agreement with the Government and FSA is a con to defer the matter for a long time by which time most of the public will have forgot about the bank's mis-selling.
I was one of those small businesses that Barclays put into Administration, I lost a lot more than my business and intend to fight Barclays all of the way with the strong evidence I have.
Barclay's Bank has a wonderful system of transferring any business who complain about Interest Rate Swap into their Business Support Department.
The Director from Business Support sidelines the normal Relationship Director and takes control of handling the complaint with their Solicitors. Thus acting as a pseudo Relationship Director, Business Director from Business Support team and in charge of the complaint. He then puts on the pressure to have property valuation etc to intimidate the customer.
I know one client who complained and the pseudo Relations Director, Business Director and complaint handlers in one has confirmed that his Solicitors MAB have confirmed that it is quite right for him to continue in this role which seems contrary to any normal common sense logic.
This is a ludicrous situation and flies in the face of the pledges Barclays gave to the parliamentary select committee.
These chickens are slowly coming home to roost. Just from those people I know personally, I know of £50m in redress being claimed from Barclays, and in all cases they seem to fit the profile of a successful complaint perfectly (I am not a lawyer, this is my personal opinion)
If the redress scheme ends up being a sham (from KPMG, heaven forfend) then I suspect a significant class action will emerge, which will have deep enough pockets to obtain suitable redress.
Several of the banks may regret their miss selling, but I think Barclays may be in the most invidious situation.
They have the Libor issue which boosted break costs, making clients less likely to break the agreement, and in some cases causing covenant breaches, and they have the miss selling itself. These are potentially separate claims, and will allow some clients who would have been excluded to make successful partial claims that would otherwise have failed.
They could even be named as defendant in cases where they didn't sell the actual swap where the libor distortion caused problems.
Only 6months ago i had a visit from Barclays business support team, who's solution was to re finance me over a longer term, but surprise surprise wanted an extra 1% margin on the loan..mmm.. All i had asked for was a 10k overdraft.. Just been asked by their lawyers for a 'stay' in my case pending the outcome of the FSA review of my case.....sigh.. Still considering .. Any opinions most welcome ..
Do not fall for that trick. Just carry on with your legal action. The "Stay" is a delaying tactic and I will be very surprised if you get anything in the end without legal action
This is a standard request by the banks and nothing special for your case
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Update: Last week, we told you about a live event at which KHOW's David Sirota called KOA's MIke Rosen a "motherfucker;" see the clip below. For our original post, we managed to contact Sirota, but a communication mix-up delayed our efforts to reach Rosen. Now, however, the conservative radio vet ha ... More >>
Denver blog posts keep it real. Big Media's Jason Salzman is over Scott Gessler's "Republican attack dog" tactics, but Mike Rosen seems okay with them. Denver Egotist offers a snowboarding video for a hot summer day. You're welcome. Plants & Animals Denver: If Martha Stewart were vegan....
Denver blog posts bleed orange. Broncos Report defies the conventional wisdom that Peyton Manning is one hit away from a career-ending neck re-injury. Colorado Ed News: Jessica Keigan feels teachers must lead policy. Square State's Zappatero on criticism of Mike Rosen's Denver Post birther column ... More >>
Denver blog posts stop at all railroad crossings. Big Media's Jason Salzman thinks Mike Rosen's I'm-not-a-birther defense of Mike Coffman makes him a birther. At Colorado Peak Politics, Dave Diepenbrock gets granular about the latest presidential poll in this here state. Denver Frank asks: "Do yo ... More >>
David Sirota.Last October, a public debate involving KOA's Mike Rosen and AM 760's David Sirota went national after Rosen called for hijackers to crash a plane into the so-called Ground Zero mosque; he insisted that he was being satirical. But Sirota says Rosen didn't let loose with any simil ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Denver blog posts? Got three right here. BigMedia.org's Jason Salzman asks for proof of media bias against folks like Mike Rosen and Cory Gardner, and doesn't get it. Things to Do in Denver When You're Broke: Want a free backpack? This Lively Earth's Rocky Mountain National Park ... More >>
Mike Rosen.We bring you more Denver blog posts. BigMedia.org's Jason Salzman has more reaction from KOA's Mike Rosen about the question of him republishing an old Rocky Mountain News column in the Denver Post. Denver PR Blog: The 9/11 Freedom Rally is seeking pro bono public-relations help. ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Our item yesterday about KOA talk-show host Mike Rosen seeing nothing wrong with recycling one of his old Rocky Mountain News columns in the Denver Post stirred a lively debate. Given that Nevada's Righthaven LLC has been suing news agencies for unauthorized use of Post material, o ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Update below: This week, a tipster informed yours truly (and Colorado Pols) that KOA talk show host Mike Rosen had basically copied a 2008 column he wrote for the Rocky Mountain News and republished it in December as a Denver Post piece. Rather than simply running side-by-side exce ... More >>
David Sirota.Jared Loughner's murderous attack in Arizona last weekend has prompted soul searching among assorted media types, who wonder if the polarized political climate somehow made such an act not just likelier but inevitable. That includes columnist and AM 760 radio host David Sirota, ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Update below: An item on the DenverRadio.net message board reveals that last week, veteran KOA radio host Mike Rosen used a variety of racial slurs on the air -- and claimed that his new boss, Greg Foster, head of AM programming for Clear Channel's Denver cluster of stations, gave ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Our item yesterday about a Denver Post-related copyright-infringement lawsuit against a blogger for re-publishing an entire Mike Rosen column drew some snarky remarks. For instance, one reader thinks Rosen does pretty much the same kind of thing in his role as radio host for KOA.
Dean Singleton.Last month, we noted that Denver Post and MediaNews Group execs weren't eager to discuss a copyright-infringement warning published by the paper. At the time, we asked these three questions: "So... what prompted the Post to rattle this saber? Are lawsuits imminent? And against ... More >>
Isaac Sirota.Update: Yesterday, we shared with you AM760 host David Sirota's announcement about the birth of his son Isaac. As for who'll be filling in during his current leave, we know who'll be rockin' the mic today and tomorrow: Flobots frontman Jonny 5. Jonny is so progressive that he mak ... More >>
KOA's Mike Rosen accused AM 760's David Sirota of being humorless after Sirota circulated a Rosen line from a debate about crashing a plane into a thus-far-unbuilt mosque near Ground Zero -- a joke, according to Rosen, but one that still led to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann branding him the worst p ... More >>
Mike Rosen.There's been some lively back and forth over the question of whether Mike Rosen's comment about crashing a hijacked plane into an Islamic center near Ground Zero could be considered satire: Rosen argues that it was, while AM 760's David Sirota doesn't buy Rosen's explanation. Here ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Last week, AM 760's David Sirota circulated a comment made by KOA's Mike Rosen during a debate, in which the latter appeared to call for hijackers to crash a plane into a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero -- a bon mot that later prompted MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to brand Rose ... More >>
David Sirota.KOA's Mike Rosen unloaded on AM 760's David Sirota earlier today, arguing that Sirota's claims about Rosen's comment regarding an Islamic Center near Ground Zero, which got Rosen branded the worst person in the world by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, twisted what was obviously a satiri ... More >>
Mike Rosen.Last week, we told you about KOA host Mike Rosen's call for a hijacked plane to crash into a proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero -- a remark from a debate with fellow Clear Channel yakkers Peter Boyles and David Sirota, of KHOW and AM 760, respectively. Sirota spread the audio ... More >>
Mike Rosen.AM 760 host David Sirota and KOA longtimer Mike Rosen are both part of the Clear Channel empire, but there doesn't appear to be any love lost between them. Two days after a public debate in Centennial that also involved KHOW's Peter Boyles, Sirota is publicizing an exchange in whic ... More >>
Baby April, not Baby W.C. Fields.As part of its cutest baby photo contest, KOA is asking listeners to pick the best baby snapshots of station personalities. The pics are alternately adorable and hilarious, with April Zesbaugh's drunk-on-milk image and Jon Caldara's aggressively sullen shot s ... More >>
Tom Tancredo has gone from fully intending to run for governor to entertaining the possibility of backing Scott McInnis.A lot's happened in Tom Tancredo's world during the past week. Last Thursday, Tancredo said in this space, "I fully intend to run" for governor in 2010, adding that he plan ... More >>
Mike Rosen.In April, KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM 760 liberal David Sirota participated in a debate of President Barack Obama's first hundred days in office that was simulcast on both stations. And while those with ideological axes to grind disagreed about who won, the general consensus ... More >>
The last bill of the legislative session has been signed, and it's all over but the shouting -- particularly in front-page stories over the governor's vetoes of union-friendly bills (and likely when the governor is on Mike Rosen's show at 9:15 a.m.). But Bill Ritter also managed to please at least ... More >>
A blog yesterday teased a KOA/AM-760 simulcast of conservative host Mike Rosen and progressive yakker David Sirota debating Barack Obama's first 100 days as president -- and the program itself, broadcast earlier today, turned out to be diverting. Rather than an imbalanced back-and-forth of the sort ... More >>
A Flickr photoThis little primate would like you to keep your mitts off his privates. These days, every online news operation, including this one, is desperately searching for ways to increase its number of page views -- and one approach is to insert links to other stories on their respective sites ... More >>
An editor's note by editorial-page editor Dan Haley, featured in the op-ed section of today's Denver Post print edition, reads: "Good news from the right, and left. KOA radio talk show host and former Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Rosen will begin writing his column for The Denver Post Friday. ... More >>
KOA radio host Mike Rosen has had his fill of talking about serious losses he sustained in relation to investments he made with Boulder-based Agile Group, a firm he used to advertise. As he said on the air and during an interview with Westword late last week, he believes that he was "caught in the c ... More >>
This here's the booty from our daily quest for local blogging treasures. Send links here. Yes, Senator Bennet, I have a question: Who the hell are you? (Colorado Pols) When it comes to writing about the stimulus package, Mike Rosen and Chuck Green are not exactly getting intimate with the truth. ( ... More >>
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This morning, both Denver dailies feature page-one stories about Agile Group, a Boulder wealth-management firm with a couple of notable local clients -- KOA talk-show host Mike Rosen and former congressman Tom Tancredo -- who say they've lost a bundle. Predictably, the Rocky Mountain News focused on ... More >>
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While the interwebs were abuzz over the latest H&M ad featuring David Beckham showing off his assets, some Debbie Downer felt the need to reveal something shocking.
Apparently, according to the Today Show, H&M used a body double for some parts of the video shoot. Then H&M actually confirmed it:
"David was very involved in the advert, including doing most of the stunts. Due to his tight schedule, a body double was used in smaller parts of the video."
Is that PR-speak for "his butt isn't tight enough?" Is Beckham's body not perfect enough for H&M? I know body doubles are used in movies all the time, but this man is a professional athlete. If even HIS body isn't cutting it for H&M in "smaller parts" of the video, what hope do the rest of us have?
Victoria's Secret does the same thing, and maybe it is just a reality we need to expect. In advertising, we always see products in their best-case scenario, which is probably why H&M chose to use Beckham to hock their underwear to begin with.
It's not surprising that H&M would want to use the best male body they could, but when even Beckham isn't good enough, it makes me worry.
I guess will start calling this butt-syncing and It's amazing that there are acually butt models out there.
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His butt is fine. I was hoping to see more of his "stuff" in swollen glory, but he musta been sucking in up into his body. It was nowhere man. Like ... he was a Ken doll down THERE.. yeah. Nothing even for the imagination. Its a pity, really. Just a pity.
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RHINELANDER, Wis. (WXPR) - The state Natural Resources Board is set to decide Wednesday on a plan for the Van Vliet Hemlocks. DNR officials are recommending the mostly old-growth parcel be managed with as little involvement as possible.
The agency had originally planned to do some cutting on part of the site that didn't fit the old-growth profile. But after overwhelming public comment, the DNR changed its plan to passive management for the entire site.
Chief DNR state forester Paul Delong says he doesn't know whether the Natural Resources Board will approve the recommendation. "There's a fair percentage of what we take before the board that they approve as recommended. But they do not infrequently modify what we recommend, as they fulfill their responsibilities as a board."
One supporter is Tom Olson, President of Friends of the Van Vliet Hemlocks. He and a few other members are heading to Madison to voice support for the plan. "We're very hopeful that it's going to go through, and we're not organizing a large group of people to go to Madison. We felt that we would best be served by making a brief statement in support."
Friends of the Van Vliet has also submitted a letter in favor of the DNR's new recommendation.
The Friends group was established in March 2011 to help protect and preserve the unique ecology of the Van Vliet Hemlocks on the Presque Isle site owned by the State of Wisconsin. The 400-acre parcel has more than 1 1/2 miles of shoreline. Its forested stand represents a rare remnant of the northern hardwood–hemlock forest which once dominated northern Wisconsin.


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Midwinter Bald Eagle Count
February 19, 2013
Even as their numbers continue to increase nationwide, there may be signs of declining populations of bald eagles in the midwest. Wildlife biologist, Kelly McKay from Hampton, just participated for the 25th year in the National Midwinter Bald Eagle Count. And he says for the 4th year, the numbers along the Mississippi River, from Clinton to Keithsburg, are down compared to the previous years - 1,000 versus 2 to 4,000 several years ago.
"If something is happening here, then that's something we really need to pay attention to. Because if you do something that hurts the midwest population, that's going to have a severe impact on the species as a whole because this is such a major concentration point of wintering eagles."
McKay has a theory, but it's only a theory so far. Something is limiting the availability of gizzard shad - a fish that makes up at least 90 per cent of a bald eagle's winter diet in the midwest.
The good news, he thinks, is that nearly half the eagles he counted last month were young, showing that reproduction is not the problem for bald eagles in the midwest. Instead it's more likely a problem of winter survival.


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Social enterprise plays a vital part in Scotland's financial landscape
In today's economic climate, with plummeting budgets and many areas of the public and private sector facing an uncertain future, social enterprise is more important than ever. Described as a business with a primarily social objective, social enterprises trade in all markets, selling goods and services to individual consumers, local authorities, government and private businesses. They exist to make a profit just like any private sector business, however, profits or surpluses are always reinvested in their social and environmental purposes.
With hundreds of social enterprises operating all over Britain, some high profile examples include The Big Issue magazine, The Wise Group, Divine Chocolate, Cornerstone, Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op, Glasgow Housing Association and the Homeless World Cup.
In March last year First Minister Alex Salmond pledged that Scotland would become an international hub for social enterprise, announcing a scheme to support global social business. He said: "The announcement of an annual programme to support global social enterprises, to be headquartered in Scotland, is a world first and a strong message of support for the third sector from Scottish ministers. Scotland is already the global headquarters for the Homeless World Cup and the International Network of Street Papers. The provision of a grant to encourage other enterprises to come to Scotland is a demonstration of our strong support for the work that international social enterprises carry out, both in Scotland and around the world."
The Scottish Government said Scotland has played a leading role in developing the social enterprise model around the world. The programme announced by the First Minister is designed to encourage social enterprise with a genuine global reach to be based in Scotland. It features three key elements, including a headquarters grant of up to £20,000 per year, ministerial ambassadorial support and a referral to appropriate business development support.
Social Enterprise Scotland (SES) is an independent, Scottish, membership-led organisation, built and controlled by social enterprises. Duncan Thorp, parliamentary, policy and communications officer, said the organisation works to raise the profile of social enterprises among decision makers, whether that is at local or national level.
SES also organises the world's biggest social enterprise event, the annual Social Enterprise Exchange, which is a trade fair and networking event and is taking place in Glasgow in March this year.
Thorp said people, pushed by the economic situation, are looking at different ways of working, which is leading to more thought around social enterprise. He said: "In terms of legislation, there are two big issues coming up. One is the Procurement Reform Bill and the other one is the Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill.
"With procurement, we've been talking about community benefit clauses for a long time and we want them to be made the norm in public sector contracts. Hopefully this is what the new Bill will do. When the public sector is considering contracts, they could use a community benefit clause and therefore employ a social enterprise and other third sector organisations. We are very pleased with this Bill and the potential it has and we want to ensure it is robust. Everyone talks about culture changes in [the] public sector and this is a big challenge but it is in their interest as well. If, for example, a council employs a social enterprise, it will have a wider social and economic impact on the community. It is not just about the on-paper costs, we are trying to get beyond that. We understand how difficult this is for public sector workers in the sense that they have budget challenges by department and it is hard for them to work with that and the bigger picture. We want community benefit clauses to be the norm, they should be used as a matter of course, there are exceptions to the rule but that should be the starting point."
A major new initiative was launched recently to encourage and support social and public service innovation in Scotland. Social Innovation Scotland is a collaborative venture that has been formed as a partnership between the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde University, Social Value Lab, and CEiS (Community Enterprise in Scotland). Having now become established as a not-for-profit centre, Social Innovation Scotland will embark on a programme of policy research, networking events, learning programmes, and collaborative challenges to help rethink the delivery of public services. Its particular emphasis is the role that communities and enterprising third sector organisations can play in supporting public service design and delivery.
Local Government Minister Derek MacKay said: "The Scottish Government is committed to reforming our public services to make sure they meet the needs of communities up and down the country and Social Innovation Scotland is a great example of how policy makers, social entrepreneurs and business leaders can join together to help inform the debate."
The establishment of Social Innovation Scotland has been driven by the need to find more effective solutions to the pressing social challenges facing Scotland, and to address the associated pressures on its public services. Commenting on the focus of Social Innovation Scotland, Jonathan Coburn, founding director of Social Value Lab and Social Innovation Scotland, commented: "For me it's about reshaping public services based on value rather than cost – radically redesigning services to deliver better outcomes with less resource. This is really tough, but the answers are already all out there. It's often just a case of bringing together people from different backgrounds to look at these social challenges from new angles – local residents, third sector organisations, service designers, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, technologists, and frontline staff in our public services."
Gerry Higgins, chief executive of CEiS and founder of the Social Enterprise World Forum, added: "There is [a] huge untapped reserve of ideas and learning from across the international community. This important initiative will help to systematically source and share new thinking from around the world. It will also help to reinforce Scotland's international reputation as being at the forefront of social enterprise and social innovation."
Run Native, the UK's first social enterprise marketplace, is the innovative brainchild of Community Enterprise and has been up and running for about a month. It features social enterprises from all over the UK. For 25 years Community Enterprise has worked with community projects all over Scotland to help them grow into confident, creative, financially-viable organisations.
Douglas Westwater, executive director of Community Engagement, said: "A lot of the social enterprises we support have really fantastic products and services, all sorts of things from soap in Inverness to furniture in Edinburgh. The real problem they were having was selling them. Our marketing company was helping to a certain extent but lots of people were interested in online sales. Those two thought processes came together. We started to think that what was needed was a national online sales platform.
"Rather than people selling locally to a tiny audience, we wanted to increase the market for these people because they have very high quality products and the stories they are telling, the social change they're bringing about by selling the products, is amazing. The growth in online sales is still high and the growth in ethical purchasing is increasing exponentially.
"The site went live about two weeks before Christmas and we've had a hugely positive response, every vendor on the site has made sales.
What is important to us, having gotten to know these organisations, is the huge human story behind them. The first thing people see is quality but we want customers to be buying into the story so they see the immediate difference their purchases make."


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NEW YORK Prices for secondary aluminum alloy A380.1, primarily used in automotive production, weakened slightly over the past week, with major consumers lowering quotes by about a penny.
One producer source indicated that he would no longer concede to pricing pressure from consumers. "I dont know what the other guys are doing, but we are drawing a line in the sand and saying we are not going to sell domestic production alloy below a certain level," he said. "We are not doing huge quantities, but we are making deals at higher levels than we have in recent months."....
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No great indicator of that lovely mind at work — but have a little giggle, as we did, at Benedict's insight into the fashion of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy's Peter Guillam in this interview for the BIF Awards nominations.
From 3:02 on, when he's asked about the production expense on his wardrobe:
"I think Jacqueline (Durran), our brilliant costume designer, she spent a bit of money on Guillam because the rest of them had to look like — you know — they smelt of wet wool, basically, and wet dog and all things autumnal and gray and slightly uncolourful. And so yeah, I was the one, sort of, glamourpuss in it, so she went to town on me. Which I didn't complain about!"
And at around 3:24, the very tactful interviewer (and we say that with tongue firmly in cheek) then teases him about his hair (the blonde `do for Parade's End): "I know poor Peter Guillam was slightly in the closet, as he had to be at the time. I'm seeing you now, you've got a lovely kind of rent-boy, kind of touch of blonde going on there."
And Benedict laughs and says: "Yeah, everyone says it's a very gay haircut! But I'm playing another character who has blonde hair and it's a short-back-and-sides, so it does have a kind of `80s (look)."
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On the strange attraction of spheres that like to stick together
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Take a dozen marbles, all the same size, and squeeze them into a compact, three-dimensional cluster. Now count the number of points where the marbles touch one another. What is the maximum number of contact points you can possibly achieve with 12 marbles? What geometric arrangement yields this greatest contact number? Is the optimal cluster unique, or are there multiple solutions that all give the same maximum?
When I first heard these questions asked, they did not seem overly challenging. For a cluster consisting of two, three, four or five equal-size spheres, I was pretty sure I knew the answers. But I soon learned that the problem gets harder in a hurry as the size of the cluster increases. Over the past three years, the maximum contact number has been determined for clusters of up to 11 spheres. Finding those answers required a variety of mathematical tools drawn from graph theory and geometry, as well as extensive computations and, at a few crucial junctures, building ball-and-stick models with a set of toys called Geomags. For clusters of 12 or more spheres, the answers remain unknown.
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The World Cup is a four-day elite-level synchronised swimming competition held every four years with Solo, Duet, Team (divided into Technical and Free Routines) and Free Combination on the programme.
Each Member Federation may enter no more than one swimmer or team per event, with a maximum of 12 athletes. The Federation with the highest sum of all final results from the various events is the World Cup winner.
The 12th edition of the World Cup was held in Changshu (CHN) on September 16, 2010 where China pocketed the title, ahead of Canada and Ukraine. The next edition of the World Cup will be organised in Quebec City (CAN) from October 2-5, 2014.
SSWC 2010, Day 4: FINA Synchro World Cup concludes with Russia's win in the Team event
Russia proved one more time they are unbeatable when they dominated the last event at the 12th FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup in Changshu (CHN), winning the Team title for a total of three gold out of four on offer. The powerful but flexible Russians overshadowed the rest of field in the water ballet, taking the Team victory by 98.150 points while China finished second in 96.500 and Canada third in 95.600.
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Performing like the grateful cranes, the Jiang sisters showed their elegance and difficulty in the duet free routine finals, winning the title with 96.650 points. Canadian pair Marie-Pier Boudreau-Gagnon/Chloe Issac came to second in 94.750 and Japan's Yukiko Inui/Chisa Kobayashi third in 93.300, respectively.
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By BOB CHRISTIE
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PHOENIX (AP) - A House bill that would have Arizona join a compact with other states to push a federal constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget has failed in committee.
The bill pushed by Republican conservatives failed Monday after some Republicans joined Democrats in the Rules Committee to vote it down by a 6-3 margin.
The bill failed after questions were raised by some members and House attorneys about locking future Legislatures into the compact.
House speaker Andy Tobin voted for the bill and said he generally supports a constitutional amendment to force the federal government to get its fiscal house in order. But he said the questions resonated with him and other committee members.
Bill co-sponsor Adam Kwasman of Oro Valley says he's disappointed but won't stop pushing the idea.
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Commentary: The honeymoon is over; Mayor slammed for cuts
On Thursday evening, Dec 18, Mayor Nutter brought his mea culpa dog and pony show to the academic halls of Martin Luther King High School on Stenton Avenue — literally. In one of the most stunningly insensitive displays of political hubris, the Mayor's staff had the meeting set up in the entrance hall of the school. According to one City Hall worker, a staffer chose the location because of a wall mural that would serve as background for the Mayor's podium.
"They thought it would be a good backdrop for the TV cameras," was the explanation.
If the setting was not enough of a slap in the face to the hundreds of people who came out that night, the fact that an empty auditorium was on the other side of the painted wall was even more galling.
As the Mayor took to the podium to begin to explain how he and his top administration officials decided to carve the $108 budget deficit for the current fiscal year out of the recreation department and library system, the crowd bellowed at him, insisting on an answer as to why they were seated in the hall. "Why we out here?" the crowd yelled over and over again until the Mayor responded as best he could.
"I don't know," he said.
The Mayor said that since everything had been set up already, the event would stay in the hall and not move into the adjacent auditorium. It was a bad start on a night that would prove full of recriminations and criticism for a Mayor whose election was one that signified promise, transparency and —– most of all — restoring integrity to city hall.
As Nutter stood at the podium, in front of the mural, the image of the man entrusted to return the city to its residents and not the political elite gave way quickly to the image of a man suddenly overwhelmed with the responsibility of a city in distress and an administration that appears too far removed from the life of ordinary Philadelphians.
Nutter explained that the budget gap occurred after the city's real estate transfer tax fell more than halfway below the expected amount. The city's pension fund tumbled 12 percent last month and the forecast for further economic indicators, namely property tax collection in early 2009, is bleak.
"It happened very quickly," Nutter said of the impact on the city.
Since his Nov. 6 announcement, the budget projections have gotten worse. Nutter called the deficit a moving target, describing the situation as rapidly changing.
"We tried to make the best decision we could in an emergency situation," he said. "That is what you elect leaders to do"
Nutter further said such a massive mid-year budget change" almost never happens.
To begin the process, Nutter said he and his staff cut as much from administrative costs as possible. They cancelled bonuses, took pay cuts, raised fees and fines, eliminated inefficiencies, reduced the city's fleet of vehicles, and mandated five furlough days for all exempt employees.
"It was still not enough," Nutter said.
And it was then that the Mayor and his team devised a plan to cut back each city department. The Free Library's decision to shutter 11 branches has garnered the most attention by far at previous town hall meetings. Even though the meeting at King was the last of eight such meetings with the Mayor, it was no exception.
Residents and students crowded the hall, standing in lines where space permitted and even on a second floor balcony above the entrance. Siobhan Reardon, director of the library system, attempted to explain the process behind the decision. The Mayor asked her to cut $8 million out of the library's budget. Reardon said that the library budget is comprised of staff, which accounts for 85 percent, and materials, which accounts for 12 percent.
After cutting $2 million from the materials budget, there was still $6 million more to find. She cut back Saturday hours, eliminated 111 positions and still had to cut more. Reardon said there were two main thoughts on how to close the gap. One was to reduce hours across the system, taking the branches from six days of service to just three. But that would mean the libraries were closed more than they were open, she said. The second idea was to close 11 branches entirely.
The library system has been underfunded for years," Reardon said. "The budget crisis was the straw that broke the camel's back."
For many in attendance at the meeting, the closing of their neighborhood libraries, namely the Wadsworth and Cohen branches, may be the straw that breaks the back of their community, they said, leaving their youth with few if any alternatives to street violence and crime.
"The library gave me a safe place to stay," said one student, a junior at King. "Instead of joining a gang or staying on the street, I took it upon myself to go there and educate myself further."
The crowd was further dismayed by news that the library closures are to be permanent. Nutter said the administration is working "everyday" to relocate many of the services and programs to other locations in the same neighborhood.
"We are working on it everyday, everyday," Nutter said.
Another student at King took her turn to stress the importance of the library to her and her friends.
"This is not a minor change" she said. "We need places to go to get on the computer to do research. We don't have computers at home. You want us to get A's and B's and to do what we got to do. Please don't shut it down."
Reardon defended the choice of which 11 libraries to close. She said the decision was based on proximity to another branch and usage. Each library that is closing is within two miles of another branch.
There were also some ideas coming from the disenchanted crowd, which at times erupted into more of a screaming match and had to be quieted down. One older gentleman reminded the Mayor that once upon a time the city decided it wanted to restore the William Penn statute that adorns City Hall.
"They went and they got Julius Erving and they started a campaign to raise the money," he said. "They put kids out in the streets to collect change, and we raised the money for Willie Penn. Declare June Free Library Month and put people out to collect money to save the libraries."
Another Germantown resident urged the Mayor to abandon his pragmatic approach to leadership and lead Philadelphians in a march on Washington.
"It's unacceptable," he said." Organize a march on Washington to demand a bailout for the city. If the banks can get it, we should get it. It would be a better message to young people than to come here and say 'I'm sorry. '"
Nutter told the crowd that he was in Chicago that morning meeting with Valerie Jarrett from the Obama transition team to discuss bailout funds for the city.
"I listened for a while to them talk, and then I'd had enough and I said to her I only have two questions: 'How's it going to work, and how do we get the money?'" he said.
But Nutter has other ideas as well. First he said he intends to come to the people before the budget is written in the spring, not after he's made all the decisions. He also called for the restructuring of the City Charter, an idea I first raised in an editorial in the Local following the November budget address. As the Mayor pointed out, the charter was created in the 19th century and it's time to reexamine it.
"We need to look at the items causing some of these issues," he said.
According to the Mayor, 24 percent of the city's budget involves the criminal system — police, courts, prosecutors. Another 21 percent is made up of health and pensions. Many of the departments and programs are not even under the executive branch of government.
It is time for that to change, to provide the city with more choices when it is facing an economic crisis of historic proportion. And to prevent future generations for paying for the mistakes of previous ones.


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