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Berkeley Hills Living

Berkeley Hills Living Jessica Laser (bio) This is not virtue in the current sense of moral rectitude but in the older sense of effectiveness, as when one speaks of the healing virtues of a plant. —alan watts 1 Eliot's window. The glorifiedhallway that served as his room.His bed with one pillow. Another night, it was raining too hardto drive home and his bed had twobecause a woman had visited.Eliot and David talked upstairswhile I slept to the cadenceof their voices through the ceiling.When I woke, I put on my jeans. From his window, I could seethe eucalyptus trees' wildgestures punctuate the fog.The green, the gray, and nothingbeyond it. You could look ator write something like it.Something you could paint. When I woke, I put on Lucinda Williams.Eliot said, Aren't you happyto spend your birthday with me? [End Page 103] I'll remember this with sadness, I thought,because of what a nice moment it was:Lucinda playing, the trees waving, tea,but I remember it now and feel happy. 2 Outside, the air thicker, San Franciscoblinked through the trees. David rolledcigarettes on Berkeley Hills Living.A couple in khakisand cashmere graced the cover. I was practically their neighbor, cometo earn an English PhD, for five yearsof stable health insurance, to makethe two friends I did. I can honestly sayI learned nothing. Everything I learnedin California, I learned from a plant. 3 Cameron and Ari led ceremonyat Cameron's, north of Berkeley.You signed a waiver and, as the sun sankover his alpacas, you drank three cupsof cactus tea, taking turns, each time you'd drink,to pray out loud at an altar they called a highlytechnical machine, able to take from youall that you didn't need. There was a feast after, and instructionin the beginning, where the goodand bad news were always the same.The good and bad news is: Everyoneis innocent. The good and bad news is:There's nothing to fix. How do you know [End Page 104] you're really praying? Because it's arresting.For the writers among us, eloquencewon't be necessary. We're hereto heal, not be Dostoevsky. 4 The English department had fashioned itselfafter the kind of revelation the English departmentcould no longer provide. This revelation waswrought by literature; it involved discomfort,confusion, recognition, surprise. The departmentwouldn't be moved. It got its discomfortfrom critical methodology, found recognitionin new truths made of history. But ceremony had already taught mesomething about history I couldn't forget:everyone messing each other up—theywere all just doing their best. My ancestorsdid more than flee the Tsar, sell used clotheson Maxwell Street. The whole time, they werepraying me into being. That I liveis the sign of their success. 5 Cameron led meditationfrom the altar in the center of the circle.The waning daylight made my eyelids gauzeit could shine through. Think of a timeyou felt unconditionally loved, he said.It doesn't matter who. We spent timeliving in that memory and I weptthe California light back out of my eyes.I had sudden, irrevocable accessto so much love, I thought I might die. [End Page 105] That was how ceremonytaught you to be happy.Before, you thought allhappiness was conditional. 6 After the tea, I couldn't eat.I leaned against a counter,asked Max if he rememberedsomething we once did togetherwith olive oil. He showed me a pictureof his children. Someone passed mebread and I was asked to slice it.I don't know where a knife is.I took a knife out of the indicated drawer.I don't hate the program, I told Michael,who'd asked. It's something I've chosen.Then Michael came up to ask about the program.I don't hate it, I said. I just have to figure out howto be better. How's yours?OK...

The uneasy heirs of acquaintance

Philosophical IssuesVolume 29, Issue 1 p. 348-365 ORIGINAL ARTICLE The uneasy heirs of acquaintance† Susanna Siegel, Corresponding Author Susanna Siegel ssiegel@fas.harvard.edu Harvard University Correspondence Susanna Siegel, Harvard University. Email: ssiegel@fas.harvard.eduSearch for more papers by this author Susanna Siegel, Corresponding Author Susanna Siegel ssiegel@fas.harvard.edu Harvard University Correspondence Susanna Siegel, Harvard University. Email: ssiegel@fas.harvard.eduSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 October 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12159Citations: 4 † The main ideas here emerged on two walking discussions in California in 2017: with John Campbell in the Berkeley hills and Christopher Peacocke in San Diego. I thank them for many discussions and for their writings on perception from which I've learned much over the years, as I have from my interlocutors here. For helpful comments and criticism on this paper, I thank Ned Block, Justin Broackes, Alex Byrne, David Chalmers, Jane Friedman, Matthew McGrath, Zoe Jenkin, Geoffrey Lee, Jessie Munton, Katia Samoilova, Umrao Sethi, Nico Silins, Maja Spener, and Scott Sturgeon. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume29, Issue1October 2019Pages 348-365 RelatedInformation

Examination of Nutrient Sources and Transport in a Catchment with an Audubon Certified Golf Course

Water bodies in the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), California, United States, provide aesthetic value and critical ecosystem services, but are often adversely affected by the activities and infrastructure of the intensely urban environment that surrounds the parks. EBRPD leases a golf course (Tilden Golf Course (TGC)) in Tilden Regional Park, one of its most popular parks located in the Berkeley Hills, which was certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary in 2013. Nonetheless, application of nutrients and pesticides (fungicides, plant growth regulators and herbicides) are commonly used to maintain turf systems and may be transported via surface runoff or through subsurface drainage to surface waters, leading to the concern that golf courses are a major contributor to water pollution. We studied the possible contribution of nutrients (NO3-N and PO4-P) and pesticides transported via storm-generated surface runoff and via groundwater from TGC to the primary drainage in the watershed, Wildcat Creek. Lake Anza, a popular open water swimming lake, is located downstream from TGC and experiences occasional nutrient-driven algal blooms that have caused swim beach closures. Measured NO3-N and PO4-P in the stream, at times, exceeded concentration limits of 1 mg/L (as N) and 0.05 mg/L (as P), respectively, considered protective of aquatic ecosystems by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (1986). We found that phosphorous likely has a dominant natural source, but nitrogen is primarily derived from a golf course fertilizer source and its concentration increases in the stream during runoff events, while other soluble species decrease. Analyses of pesticides in water reveal the presence of Azoxystrobin in stream water at the golf course, but with concentrations well below the regulatory limit. These results indicate that all other pesticides applied on TGC are not likely transported to the stream, suggesting future reactive transport research must treat contaminant species independently based on their specific transport behaviors.

Miocene marine macropaleontology of the fourth bore Caldecott Tunnel excavation, Berkeley Hills, Oakland, California, USA

Author(s): Powell, II, Charles L.; Clites, Erica C.; Poust, Ashley W. | Abstract: Excavation of the new fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel in the Berkeley Hills, Oakland, California reveals two faunas attributed to an unnamed glauconitic mudstone (=Sobrante Formation and mapped as Tsm) and the Claremont chert (both of Graymer 2000). The fossil assemblage from the unnamed glauconitic mudstone, referred to here as the Tsm Caldecott Tunnel fauna, consists of 32 taxa: one bryozoan, 22 Mollusca (16 Bivalvia, five Gastropoda and one Scaphopoda), two Arthropoda (one Decapoda and one Maxillopoda), two Echinodermata (one Crinoidae and one Echinoidea), and five Chordata. Mollusks indicate a middle Miocene age based on the co-occurrence of the provisionally identified bivalves Acila empirensis, Anadara osmonti, Yoldia submontereyensis, Y. supramontereyensis and the gastropod genera Bruclarkia and Trophoscyon. This fauna was likely deposited at water depths between 350 and 400 m. Although several taxa from shallower depths are present, these are assumed to have washed in from shallower depths. Only one taxon was found that typically occurs in deeper water. The fauna lived in a methane-rich environment based on the occurrence of vesicomyid bivalves and on a vesicomyid/lucinid bivalve association shown elsewhere to be associated with cold seep environments. Vertebrates include great numbers of small, pelagic fish and the piscivorous sharks and marine mammals which likely took advantage of them for food. The Tsm Caldecott Tunnel fauna represents the second fauna from a methane-rich environment from the greater San Francisco Bay area and the first attributed to a methane seep environment. In addition, this fauna contains the first reported Cenozoic crinoid from California and the new species Dentalium (Fissidentalium?) mcganna (Mollusca: Scaphopoda) is described. The fauna from the Claremont chert includes two bivalve mollusks, one scaphopod, one barnacle and three vertebrates. These taxa are all represented by single specimens. They represent a marine environment likely at continental shelf or slope water depths. The occurrence of the shark Carcharhinus obscurus may indicate water temperatures warmer than off the central California coast today.

The collected poems of Philip Lamantia

The collected poems of Philip Lamantia

Farm Incomes, Wealth and Agricultural Policy: Filling the CAP's Core Information Gap by Berkeley Hill 4th edition, CABI, Oxfordshire, UK, 2012 (327 pages), ISBN:13: 978 1 84593 8475

Farm Incomes, Wealth and Agricultural Policy: Filling the CAP's Core Information Gap by Berkeley Hill 4th edition, CABI, Oxfordshire, UK, 2012 (327 pages), ISBN:13: 978 1 84593 8475

Five Poems

Five Poems Jan Zwicky (bio) Into the Dark Was there a time I did not know you? The continents had other names and shapes, perhaps; the days before the feather was invented; before the sea was blue. Even then the muscles of your shoulders could not lift the world. Though I think you tried: this scar, here; the long bruise you never talk about that never fades. How beautiful you must have been then, bronze and flashing, for how beautiful you are: though now the birds are falling from the sky, the terrifying rain has washed the cliff away. This back of yours, what it still bears. You are the one I’ve always walked towards, the one I’ve sensed as salt, as wind, as answer. Now, at last, you turn from me, the soft whuff of your sleeping self, the white wisps of your hair like tufts of silk, like so much that I love: strewn, fragile, mortal, gleaming. [End Page 62] Late Love At the end, far into the afternoon, I’d walk the same trail, when I could, up to the ridge. For often then, but only at that time of day, there would be sun. The creeks still overflowing and the path still slick, but what gushed among the rocks and deadfall was alight, the droplets flashing in the firs—gold, emerald, rose—their sharp glint echoed in the polished tangle of the overgrown salal. And I saw that it was true, what you had taught me: beauty insists: it is connexion with the real. Even on the days I couldn’t tell my sorrow from the world’s: the sudden calm that was your touch, how I was trued inside your glance. The long and level shaft of light at day’s end, reaching from the planet’s edge beneath its lid of cloud. That clarity. Brief brightness on the earth. Securing the House What is it we are trying to achieve? That we will learn before we die to make our leaving orderly? Imagine turning down the heat and walking out, not even locking up, imagine coming back weeks later. Ah, the list of failures: unpaid bills, the missing jewellery, plant leaves browning on the window sills. And the dust. What of the dust? [End Page 63] Meditation Looking West from the Berkeley Hills Then, even the work dissolves— whatever it was. The great ships motionless in the enormous bay, gone the next time you look up. And have you ever really wanted anything except that disappearing act, the open ocean, all horizon, just the other side of the bridge? Its vastness makes it comprehensible, frames the restlessness, reduces it to stationary shimmer. Who wouldn’t want to let go. Who wouldn’t choose those distances. They’re too big to get the mind around, too big even for the heart. Though we try each day, falling more and more silent. It’s love, in the end, that we learn, learning also that it isn’t ours. Inexplicably, unsummoned, the world rises to fill its own emptiness. You feel it reaching through you—a voice, a hand, a greenness not your own— and are buoyed up momentarily, amazed, before you find your feet again, or drown. Desire Desire, you who lift us each morning, rough as the disc of the sun, you who bind us, who drag us half senseless through the gift of our pain, who leap without thought, who climb with the climber who seizes the air in the fists of his lungs, drinking the light with the lungs of his eyes, [End Page 64] tell me: even the dead do not know, even those who are ashes and sleeping now under the lake, their extravagance earns them no answer. You, who live high in the mountains, where being itself empties down like the falls, sometimes in tumult, here glassy with weight, its pour as though motionless: see how the air, the melodious air, fills the clearing: floating the grass and the palm-bright leaves. Their breathing like sleep, and the year that completes itself in them. If I go down on my knees, if I go down in the burnt...

Geology, geochronology, and paleogeography of the southern Sonoma volcanic field and adjacent areas, northern San Francisco Bay region, California

Recent geologic mapping in the northern San Francisco Bay region (California, USA) supported by radiometric dating and tephrochronologic correlations, provides insights into the framework geology, stratigraphy, tectonic evolution, and geologic history of this part of the San Andreas transform plate boundary. There are 25 new and existing radiometric dates that define three temporally distinct volcanic packages along the north margin of San Pablo Bay, i.e., the Burdell Mountain Volcanics (11.1 Ma), the Tolay Volcanics (ca. 10–8 Ma), and the Sonoma Volcanics (ca. 8–2.5 Ma). The Burdell Mountain and the Tolay Volcanics are allochthonous, having been displaced from the Quien Sabe Volcanics and the Berkeley Hills Volcanics, respectively. Two samples from a core of the Tolay Volcanics taken from the Murphy #1 well in the Petaluma oilfield yielded ages of 8.99 ± 0.06 and 9.13 ± 0.06 Ma, demonstrating that volcanic rocks exposed along Tolay Creek near Sears Point previously thought to be a separate unit, the Donnell Ranch volcanics, are part of the Tolay Volcanics. Other new dates reported herein show that volcanic rocks in the Meacham Hill area and extending southwest to the Burdell Mountain fault are also part of the Tolay Volcanics. In the Sonoma volcanic field, strongly bimodal volcanic sequences are intercalated with sediments. In the Mayacmas Mountains a belt of eruptive centers youngs to the north. The youngest of these volcanic centers at Sugarloaf Ridge, which lithologically, chemically, and temporally matches the Napa Valley eruptive center, was apparently displaced 30 km to the northwest by movement along the Carneros and West Napa faults. The older parts of the Sonoma Volcanics have been displaced at least 28 km along the Rodgers Creek fault since ca. 7 Ma. The Petaluma Formation also youngs to the north along the Rodgers Creek–Hayward fault and the Bennett Valley fault. The Petaluma basin formed as part of the Contra Costa basin in the Late Miocene and was displaced to its present location along the Rodgers Creek–Hayward and older faults. The Tolay fault, previously thought to be a major dextral fault, is part of a fold-and-thrust belt that does not exhibit lateral displacement.

Roadmap to Indian psychiatry.

Byline: E. Mohandas Introduction We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act . - Swami Vivekananda With all its alluring contrasts and remarkable features, India has a grand heritage of 34,000 years. Down the traditional lane, it has evolved into a pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society. It is quite striking that while India is the second-most populous country, it has the largest democracy in the world. The second fastest growing economy and the third largest military force are also her golden quills. Seventy-four per cent of the 1.14 billion population of India live in rural areas. India has 28 states, seven union territories, 612 districts, and 6, 38,365 villages. The fact that there are 22 official languages in a single country is ample evidence for the heterogeneous nature of the society it represents. Having a literacy rate of about 64.8%, India has 80 million internet users. With all this, I do not mean to say that India is not without its lacunae. Even while India is the world's twelfth largest economy, we cannot close our eyes to the grim truth that 22% of the population exists below the poverty line.[sup] [1],[2],[3] With regard to the academic scene, India is proud to have 289 institutions providing undergraduate medical training (196 MCI recognized, 77 MCI permitted, and 16 in the danger zone). The postgraduate training in psychiatry includes Doctor of Medicine (MD) (83 centers, 159 seats), Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM) (46 centers, 107 seats), and Diplomate of National Board (22 centers, 36 seats). Strikingly, 25% of the medical colleges in India do not have a Psychiatry Department.[sup] [4],[5],[6] Apparently, there are only around 4000 psychiatrists in India to serve the five crore mentally ill population currently. Mental Health Scenario in India Obviously, in a vast country like India, the threat posed by the psychiatric and behavioral disorders is just inexplicable. A meta-analysis of 13 epidemiological studies consisting of 33,572 persons reported a total morbidity of 58.2 per 1000. Another meta-analysis of 15 epidemiological studies reported a total morbidity of 73 per 1000.The saddest aspect is that the bulk of the affected falls in the 15 to 45 year age group. The existing facilities in the country fall short of the required norms, which makes the situation still worse. The number of psychiatric beds in the country is only about 0.2 per 1, 00,000 population and there are only two psychiatrists per 10 lakh population. The major share of psychiatric facilities lies with the government sector (especially mental hospitals), which is centered on certain areas of particular states. The psychiatric services have not yet been integrated into the primary health care system and this leaves large populations in dire need of such facilities, with no hope of effective treatment. Therefore, they seek help from the private sector and there are no clear policies regarding treatment of the mentally ill in the private sector. A significant population in India cannot afford private hospital care and the insurance system in the country is in its infancy. The rehabilitation of psychiatric patients is also given little importance in the existing mental health framework. The integration of psychiatric services to primary care needs a public-private partnership to enable comprehensive mental health care.[sup] [7],[8],[9],[10] Indian Psychiatric Society Evolution Our society sprouted from the Indian Association for mental hygiene founded in 1929 by Berkeley Hill. In 1935, the Indian division of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (RM-PA) was formed, due to the efforts of Dr. …

The postbiological universe

The Drake Equation for the number of radio communicative technological civilizations in the Galaxy encompasses three components of cosmic evolution: astronomical, biological and cultural. Of these three, cultural evolution totally dominates in terms of the rapidity of its effects. Yet, SETI scientists do not take cultural evolution into account, perhaps for understandable reasons, since cultural evolution is not well-understood even on Earth and is unpredictable in its outcome. Thus SETI programs typically assume the existence of flesh-and-blood intelligence considerably older than our civilization, a paradigm part of what I have termed the biological universe [S.J. Dick, The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996].Yet, the one certainty for technical civilizations billions, millions, or even thousands of years older than ours is that they will have undergone cultural evolution. Cultural evolution takes place in many directions, but in sorting priorities I adopt what I refer to as the Intelligence Principle: the maintenance, improvement and perpetuation of knowledge and intelligence is the central driving force of cultural evolution, and that to the extent intelligence can be improved, it will be improved. Applying this principle to life in the universe, extraterrestrials will have sought the best way to improve their intelligence, and may have long ago advanced beyond flesh-and-blood to artificial intelligence, constituting a postbiological universe. MacGowan and Ordway [Intelligence in the Universe, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1966], Davies [Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life, New York, Basic Books, 1995, pp. 51–55] and Shostak [Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life, Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, CA, 1998, pp. 103–109] have broached this subject, but it has not been given the attention it is due from its foundation in cultural evolution. Nor has the idea of a postbiological universe been carried to its logical conclusion, including a careful analysis of the implications for SETI. SETI scientists, social scientists, and experts in AI (such as Hans Moravec, who has spoken of a postbiological Earth in the next several generations) should consider the strengths and weaknesses of this new paradigm.

The New Rural Economy: Change, Dynamism and Government Policy

This book charts the development of the new rural economy and considers whether government policy has similarly developed. In the rural economy, tourism now employs more people that agriculture, and the agricultural sector itself has become much more diverse. But the government bodies charged with delivering countryside policy very often seem wedded to a view of the rural economy and the traditional agricultural sector as synonymous. In The New Rural Economy, Professor Berkeley Hill of Imperial College London analyzes the appropriate roles of the public and private sectors in the developing rural economy and questions whether evidence of 'market failure' necessarily justifies government intervention, if 'government failure' imposes greater costs than the problems intervention was intended to remedy.This book is an essential reading for those concerned with the development of the countryside and the proper role of government in creating a sustainable, long-term future for those living and working in rural Britain.

The Human Cloning Debate (review)

Reviewed by: The Human Cloning Debate Mary B. Mahowald The Human Cloning Debate, 4th ed.Edited by Glenn McGee and Arthur Caplan. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2004. Pp. 306. $15.95 (paper). The back cover of this new edition of The Human Cloning Debatedescribes it as "the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to these and other questions surrounding . . . 'the kitchen sink of bioethical debates.'" As is common in such blurbs, the first part of this statement exaggerates the book's merits; the second part suggests that the issues addressed arise from a topic that needs to be cleansed or separated from its undesirable components so that further progress can be made. With regard to the book's updatedness and comprehensiveness, a plethora of significant tomes and articles on human cloning have appeared since the first edition was published in 1998. Among those contributing to the debate from different perspectives are a collection that examines scientific and medical aspects of reproductive cloning (Peat 2003), another devoted to religious positions on cloning and stem cell research (Waters and Cole-Turner 2003), and the President's Council on Bioethics reports on human cloning, stem cells, and reproduction (see this issue). Most books on human cloning are single-, multi-authored, or edited texts covering scientific, ethical, and policy aspects of the topic with varying degrees of expertise and comprehensiveness; The Human Cloning Debatealso exemplifies these features. [End Page 307] If human cloning is the "kitchen sink" of bioethics, the topic is thus construed as mired in messiness, and the messiness, as the blurb further maintains, "cuts across the fields of science, politics, philosophy, law, and religion." The goal of the editors, therefore, is to clear away the messiness by clarifying the issues and presenting relevant arguments about different positions as cogently as possible. They succeed admirably, but not wholly, in both tasks. The need for successive editions of this book has been precipitated by the pace of scientific development, especially the successful development of blastocysts through human somatic cell nuclear transfer and progress in research with stem cells derived from blastocysts. That the issue of stem cell research is inevitably connected with that of cloning was not widely recognized six years ago. Since then, however, realization of this connection has persuaded many who previously opposed human cloning to reexamine their position in light of the therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cell research. While remaining opposed to cloning for reproduction, they support it as a means by which people with otherwise incurable diseases may eventually be treated effectively. A widespread confusion that the editors of The Human Cloning Debatehope to clarify is that human cloning inevitably entails baby-making. This is the meaning of cloning that most of the world deplores. Admittedly, the same process (somatic cell nuclear transfer) that has already led to the development of human blastocysts in vitro may eventually lead to the birth of an infant who is genetically identical (except for mitochondria) to but one adult. However, because retrieval of stem cells from blastocysts destroys their potential for further development, the objective of embryonic stem cell research obviously precludes baby-making. Consequently, this objective is supported not only by stem cell researchers, but also by many members of the public and by many governments (e.g., the United Kingdom). To promote the therapeutic potential of stem cell research, some prominent scientists have proposed that the term "human cloning" be used only for the process by which cloning is done to produce children, and the term "nuclear transplantation" be used instead for the process through which blastocysts are derived from adults cells for research purposes (pp. 299–302). This edition of The Human Cloning Debateretains strengths of the first edition by incorporating some of the better articles contained therein. Some of these (e.g., Robertson's support of cloning for reproductive choice) seem outdated because they were written prior to the authors' awareness of the connection between cloning and stem cell research. Other scholarly articles have apparently been jettisoned in favor of recent opinion pieces or remarks by President George W. Bush on cloning and stem cell research. A useful addition, however, is the...

"The literature of this nation": LaVonne Ruoff and the Redefinition of American Literary Studies

LaVonne neither asks for nor needs adulation in this volume, and whatever words I may provide could hardly add luster to her already luminous reputation in the history of Native American literary studies. I don't even feel that she would want us to claim that she, as much as or more than any other scholar, helped to establish the field. Native voices established the field. "The literature of this nation originated with the native peoples," as she wrote in the opening of her landmark work, American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography. They called for readers, and a global readership responded—with her tutorship. That's what I'd like to address here briefly. LaVonne's immense service to Indian country and to the non-Indian world, in bibliography, in editing and publishing, in institution-building, and in community-building, has been to listen to Indian voices, directing others how and where to listen as well. How and where or who to listen to—those are fundamental questions of native literary studies to which LaVonne has devoted her life's work. I'd like to put those questions into perspective from my personal experience that links to the work of this profession. My master's degree from the University of South Dakota (USD) served well as an entrée for teaching English in higher education for American Indian students at USD, then at the University of Montana, and eventually at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) on the Flathead Reservation. That work brought me further into Indian communities where the stories that are Native American literature live. In the 1980s at SKC as I began to read early native literary studies to strengthen my teaching, studies by scholars [End Page 63] such as LaVonne Ruoff, Kathryn (Vangen) Shanley, Arnold Krupat, and others. I felt challenged by what I read that did and did not make that link between the literature and the communities I was a part of. So I thought about doctoral work, and because my godfather (in the self-proclaimed Church of the Lesser Known Saints), Thomas Parkinson, was a professor of English at Berkeley, I sought him out for advice on returning to graduate school. Sitting in his living room in the Berkeley hills, he fixed me with his earnest and ironic stare, looming from above his beard and his six-foot-nine-inch frame, and he pronounced the following dictum: "You have to understand, David, that the heart of this profession is bibliography!" I think he was trying to dissuade me. Indeed, it gave me pause. At the time, it sounded terribly dry. I was full of questions about native literature and native communities, and he wanted me to think of dusty libraries and archives as where the action is. Certainly, my love for libraries and books themselves carried me on his grim advice into an exciting crossroads between text and context, story and community. But it was LaVonne who made me really understand the significance of Tom's words. Bibliography, simply listing books, is indeed the scholar's fundamental service to both readers and writers. Everything textual spins from that scholarly act across the generations. How many lost or neglected writers, how many lost manuscripts, how many lost voices have been brought to light by devotion to bibliography? (LaVonne herself, working from Daniel Littlefield's and James Parins's 1981 bibliography and Annette Van Dyke's 1992 recovery article in SAIL, is largely responsible for, among many other firsts, editing and bringing (back) to light the 1891 first novel by an American Indian, Wynema: A Child of the Forest, by the Creek writer S. Alice Callahan.) Stories in the blood may be resurrected from stories on the shelves. On a less dramatic level, the dissemination of collected bibliographic information in classrooms and journals serves the basic tasks of...

Identification and calibration of structural dynamic models from experimental data

ABSTRACT In this paper, the structural identification theory is used to derive and calibrate discrete and continuous models of a multi story steel building (Alta Bates hospital at Berkeley) and a concrete beams bridge (Boumerzoug, Constantine, Algeria). A discrete modal model and a finite element model are identified and calibrated for the building. While for the bridge, a discrete and a continuous models are identified and calibrated. The structural identification is based on a parametric correlation of structural response characteristics predicted by a mathematical model with analogous quantities obtained from experimental measurements. The building suffered two recent earthquake events (Berkeley Hills 1986 and Loma Prieta 1989). The bridge was subjected to a heavy vehicle traffic (10 tons vehicle with different speeds). The free vibrations are extracted from the experimental measurements and used to identify discrete and continuous modal models of the bridge.

Identification and calibration of structural dynamic models from experimental data

ABSTRACT In this paper, the structural identification theory is used to derive and calibrate discrete and continuous models of a multi story steel building (Alta Bates hospital at Berkeley) and a concrete beams bridge (Boumerzoug, Constantine, Algeria). A discrete modal model and a finite element model are identified and calibrated for the building. While for the bridge, a discrete and a continuous models are identified and calibrated. The structural identification is based on a parametric correlation of structural response characteristics predicted by a mathematical model with analogous quantities obtained from experimental measurements. The building suffered two recent earthquake events (Berkeley Hills 1986 and Loma Prieta 1989). The bridge was subjected to a heavy vehicle traffic (10 tons vehicle with different speeds). The free vibrations are extracted from the experimental measurements and used to identify discrete and continuous modal models of the bridge.

Franciscan subduction off to a slow start: evidence from high-precision Lu–Hf garnet ages on high grade-blocks

Lu–Hf analyses of garnet from metabasic amphibolite, glaucophane schist and eclogite facies blocks from the Franciscan complex give highly precise ages that allow us to place new constraints on the early thermal history of the Franciscan subduction zone. Garnets yield 176 Lu/ 177 Hf ratios ranging from 1.5 to 28 with the highest ratios from garnets with high spessartine/pyrope ratio. Sulphuric acid leaching (SAL) of garnets revealed the presence of inclusions with significantly higher Lu/Hf ratios than those of garnet itself (most likely apatite). Their removal by SAL brings the 176 Lu/ 177 Hf ratios in garnets down by as much as 40%. This suggests that 176 Lu/ 177 Hf ratios of apparently pure garnets can be greatly overestimated due to the presence of such inclusions. Sm–Nd garnet analyses were dominated by inclusions (mainly sphene), and failed to provide precise and accurate age information. The oldest Lu–Hf ages are 168.7F0.8 and 162.5F0.5 Ma on plagioclase-bearing garnet amphibolite from Panoche Pass and the Berkeley Hills, respectively, which suggests initiation of the subduction zone at about 169 Ma, coeval with the formation of the tectonically overlying Coast Range Ophiolite. Relatively high temperature conditions persisted for about 14 Ma as indicated by 153.4F0.8 Ma garnet growth recorded in epidote amphibolite and 157.9F0.7 in eclogite from Ring Mountain and Jenner, respectively. A 146.7F0.7 Ma age was obtained from garnet glacuophane schist, metamorphosed at around 400 jC. The sequence of ages from central and northern California shows a younging trend with decreasing metamorphic grade, which supports previous suggestions that the high-grade metamorphic blocks and slices resulted from progressive underthrusting and underplating in a cooling subduction system. Combining geothermometry with geochronological data allow us to estimate cooling rate along the subduction zone interface from amphibolite to blueschist facies conditions as ca. 15 jC/Ma. The thermal history requires high initial geothermal gradients within both the footwall and the hangingwall of the subduction zone and a relatively slow subduction rate of the order of 10 km/Ma during the initial stages of Franciscan subduction. Such conditions are consistent with initiation of the subduction zone at or close to an oceanic spreading centre. The data also suggest slow exhumation rates and significant residence time at depth of the earliest Franciscan rocks.

Ned K. Johnson, 1932–2003

Ned K. Johnson, for many years Curator of Birds at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, died on 11 June 2003. He had served as President of both the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society. He was America's foremost authority on the taxonomy and biogeography of the birds of western North America and his research and expertise extended from the field to the museum and into the molecular laboratory. Ned Johnson was born in Reno, Nevada, on 3 November 1932; he grew up in Reno and attended the University of Nevada, graduating in 1954. By that time he was already enamoured of birds and had begun publishing his natural history observations in journals such as Condor and the Great Basin Naturalist. He served with the US Army Medical Service in Germany from 1954 to 1956 and subsequently entered graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. For his doctoral research, Ned worked on determining species status in sibling species of New World tyrannid flycatchers in the difficult genus Empidonax. His was one of the first studies to involve tape recordings and playback experiments on the breeding grounds. Upon completion of his PhD, Ned was hired as a faculty member at the University of California and its associated Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Ned took up the path of his predecessors, Joseph Grinnell and Alden Miller, the latter his doctoral dissertation advisor. Like them, he felt a deep affection for the fauna, flora and landscapes of the western United States, and especially for those of the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin ranges. At the end of each academic year, he would pack up his truck and spend much of the summer collecting specimens at localities carefully chosen to elucidate taxonomic or biogeographical problems. Ned was also an avid fly fisherman, and so the summers in the mountains gave him the opportunity to pursue this pastime. Ned continued studies of Empidonax and other tyrannid flycatchers throughout his career. More generally, however, he was interested in taxa that were morphologically or vocally differentiated across the western US. He was never a prisoner of the past; as new techniques were developed and shown to be useful, Ned adopted them. Thus, his second monograph on Empidonax in 1980 included multivariate morphometric analyses, a computer-based technique that had not been available at the time of his PhD dissertation. Allozyme studies of intraspecific variation became feasible at about this same time, and Ned incorporated them into his research. This led to the inclusion of liquid nitrogen dewars on his field trips. We both remember his stories of misadventures in South America with authorities confronted with ‘smoking’ nitrogen tanks for the first time. By 1990, mitochondrial DNA studies became feasible and Ned pursued this research for all his favourite groups. Incorporation of molecular techniques led to an interest in higher level systematics, something he had not shown much interest in beforehand. In all these studies Ned made lasting contributions; our knowledge of variation and speciation of the avifauna of western North America was profoundly affected by his unflagging and technologically evolving attention. For his research, Ned was awarded the AOU's Brewster Medal, the highest honour that the society can bestow. In addition to his research, Ned was very active in academic ornithology at local, national and international levels. He taught the undergraduate ornithology course at UC Berkeley throughout his tenure and earned the affection of students with local field trips; in the spring, for example, he required his natural history class to meet before first light at Tilden Park in the Berkeley Hills to experience the dawn chorus. Although Ned did not take on large numbers of graduate students, many of those who received their degrees under his guidance also worked on problems in speciation and geographical variation in birds and subsequently went on to occupy major academic and museum positions. Ned took on many leadership roles in American ornithology in addition to serving terms as President of its two major professional organizations. For three decades he was an active force in the AOU's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature – the arbiters of the official Checklist of North American birds. He enjoyed travelling to the International Ornithological Congresses every four years and served as a permanent member of the International Ornithological Committee. At meetings he was gregarious and especially complimentary to students and beginning ornithologists; consequently, his friendships extended to every generation of active researchers. Ned was an outstanding figure in twentieth century North American ornithology. His legacy includes a coterie of well-respected students, a series of classic papers, and a much-revised understanding of the biogeography and species status of western North American birds.

There Really Is A There There!

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Information on Host City and Meeting HighlightsFull AccessThere Really Is A There There!Kate MulliganKate MulliganSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:21 Feb 2003https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.38.4.0036Gertrude Stein was talking about Oakland when she made her famous remark, “There’s no there there.”Actually, the author was commenting on the fact that her childhood home in Oakland seemingly had vanished when she tried to find it during a lecture tour of the United States in the 1930s.The Bay Bridge, spanning more than eight miles, connects San Francisco with Oakland. (Photo courtesy of SFCVB, photo by Phil Coblentz)But, the phrase became linked with the city and contributed to its reputation as a mere adjunct to the glamorous San Francisco and the notorious Berkeley.Oakland has a great deal to offer, however, and much of it is available without the crowds of San Francisco.Perhaps in a spirit of “trying harder” than its more famous neighbors, the city of Oakland offers free 90-minute guided tours, which leave every Wednesday and Saturday at 10 a.m. from different downtown locations. Each covers one of these areas or themes: Old Oakland, City Center, Preservation Park, Chinatown, Uptown, Jack London Square; churches and temples; and African-American heritage.The Old Oakland Historic District is a four-block area of restored Victorian commercial buildings that house shops, galleries, and restaurants. It is between Eighth, 10th, Clay, and Washington streets.Jack London Square is a waterfront attraction in an area with an appealing mix of produce markets, upscale restaurants, waterfront bars, clubs, and artists’ lofts. Ferries to the square leave San Francisco from Pier 39 of Fisherman’s Wharf and the Ferry Building. A water taxi offers service to nearby Alameda Island and to dockside restaurants. There’s a Farmer’s Market every Sunday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.Lake Merritt at Grant and Bellevue avenues is the largest urban saltwater lake in the United States. See it while floating in a gondola, complete with serenading gondolier.The 122-acre Lakeside Park offers formal gardens, walking trails, and a children’s amusement park. Rotary Nature Center at 552 Bellevue Avenue offers educational programs and a chance to view migratory waterfowl that visit the lake.Built in 1876, Camron-Stanford House is a restored Victorian-era home open for tours on Lake Merritt at 1418 Lakeside Drive.The Oakland Museum of California at 1000 Oak Street houses works by such well-known California artists as Richard Diebenkorn and contains permanent exhibitions portraying California’s history and art. The building is a three-tiered blend of galleries, terraces, patios, and ponds. From the sculpture garden, visitors can see views of the Oakland and Berkeley hills.“Quizzical Eye: The Personal Photography of Rondal Partridge” will be on view until June 22. The exhibition features approximately 100 photographs of Yosemite National Park, the San Francisco Bay Area, and images from rodeos, junkyards, and flea markets.Oakland has its own zoo in the 525-acre Knowland Park at 9777 Gold Links Road. Highlights include a trip on the Sky Ride to view American bison and elk grazing below. The chair-lift ride also offers a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay. And, as for the animals, there are more than 400 of them, representing 100 species in 58 exhibits.For an offbeat pleasure, visit the Paramount Theatre at 2025 Broadway. Built in 1931, it is an Art Deco landmark and presents classic films accompanied by live organ music. It is also home to the Oakland Ballet and Oakland East Bay Symphony.For a more conventional treat, try the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses. Opened in the 1930s, this eight-acre municipal rose garden features more than 6,000 rosebushes of all varieties. Fortunately for APA meeting goers, the bloom season starts in May. ▪ ISSUES NewArchived

There Goes the Transnational Neighborhood: Calypso Buys a Bungalow

I live in a place where, in the early 1900s, the Craftsman ideal took hold as it did in few other places in North America. Today, a good seventy years after its heyday and its eventual eclipse by postwar ticky-tacky, the California Bungalow is still the state's pre-eminent style of domestic architecture. From one end of California to the other, craftsman cottages blanket the urban and rural landscapes; in Pasadena and the Berkeley Hills, Greene and Greene's showpieces—apotheoses of the genre—have become holy shrines for Arts and Crafts pilgrims; and in my small college town, way up north behind the Redwood Curtain, well-preserved bungalows are so prized by a certain breed of middle-class refugee from the south that they fetch sums well above their already-inflated asking prices. From its inception in William Morris's industrialized England, of course, the Arts and Crafts movement was about nostalgia for a lost organic past; and so the bunga- low, avatar of this Arcadian never-neverland, has for several generations symbolized an escape, albeit a rather compromised and disingenuous one, from the depredations of the modern world. Its calculatedly homey appeal may be largely what my new neighbors (not to mention those legions who were so recently snapping up Mission Oak repros everywhere from upmarket Restoration Hardware to downscale K-Mart) are buying into, then. Still, the northerly flight of these migrants of means—from something they euphemize vaguely as congestion, or if pressed, crime—points indirectly to another, less homespun, of California's late distinctions: its much- ballyhooed ballot measures of the 1990s restricting immigration, rolling back affirma- tive action, and (briefly) ending bilingual education. Thus, with the Golden State in the vanguard, did the American nation begin working through another in a series of demographically-inspired identity crises. 1 The nature of the work being carried out here, and the sometimes hysterical tone of its execution, invite us to be careful readers of similar moments in the past. Since the underlying anxieties of this latest crisis are often expressed publicly as worries over broadening (and, it's implied, divisive) cultural differences, for instance, it

The 2002 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. Back to the Hearth: "The Politics of Reflexivity and Representation in Context"

It is an honor and real pleasure to be able to present the Archer Taylor memorial lecture this afternoon. The title of this talk, Back to the Hearth, first of all is intended to remind us that at every meeting of the California Folklore Society we are in some ways going back to Archer Taylor's own hearth, since the very first meeting of this society took place at his home in the Berkeley hills in 1940. In commemorating his leadership both in the society and in the field of folklore, this lecture has also provided me the opportunity to go back to my own folkloristic hearth in reflecting on my career in the discipline of folklore over the last thirty years. For, in fact, it was on this very date thirty years ago that I mailed my application for graduate school to the folklore program at the University of Texas. And in much more literal way, today I have the opportunity of putting those thirty years in the context of work I began just last summer with women who live on the islands of Roaring Water Bay off the southwest coast of County Cork, Ireland. While I must admit that Archer Taylor has not been daily companion in my classrooms or in the field over the last thirty years, I certainly found myself wishing I could consult him as I sat by the hearth of Lizzie Minihane on Heir Island. As I found with every other woman I spoke with later that summer, Lizzie at first insisted that she didn't remember any proverbs or old sayings at all. Even though I knew Taylor had collected his proverbs primarily from literary sources, oh how I wished he were there to nudge me in the right direction. And it was just at that moment that Lizzie, unable to recollect single proverb, sighed and said, You just forget them until you really need them. That night as I sat writing about the day's events, I had to laugh to myself that there so far away from the Texas classrooms where I had first learned about Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking, where Bauman and Paredes had published Toward New in Folklore in 1972, the same year I entered graduate school, I was learning again the importance of context in any folklore performance-this time from woman who had rarely been off this tiny island in Roaring Water Bay. And so today I want to use this occasion to reflect on the important theoretical and methodological moments that have shaped and indeed continue to shape my own understandings as folklorist. In doing so, I want to try to understand and situate my Irish homecoming within the framework of three major theoretical developments in ethnography (one for each decade of my life as folklorist): the context and performance approaches of the 1970s, the contributions of the Culture scholars, led by James Clifford and George Marcus in the 1980s, and the matrix of methodologically exciting innovations by folklorists and other ethnographers of the 1990s that revolve around the politics of representation. There were certainly other important illuminating developments in the field during these decades, and many, like feminist ethnography, have shaped my theoretical and methodological perspectives dramatically. Still, it is the relationships between and the trajectory of these three particular disciplinary shifts that have profoundly influenced my own positioning as folklorist, ethnographer, and writer that I wish to focus on today as I begin this new and compelling project. I consider it especially fortuitous that my own entry into the profession of folklore coincided so dramatically with the development of performance-based, contextual approaches to the field. Writing in the 20-years after Towards New Perspectives issue of Western Folklore published in 1993, Amy Shuman and Charles Briggs observed that Toward New was a volume that set out the premises for what became known as performance theory, the paradigm that currently dominates thinking in folklore. The incisive essays published in Toward New shaped folklore research by anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and literary scholars as well as folklorists for generation (1993:110). …