Candidates for Berkeley City Council Districts 5 & 6 debate.
Revitalizing our Downtown and Civic Center as a lively, attractive, arts-centric heart for the community. Transforming Solano Avenue into a vibrant "Main Street" for North Berkeley. Supporting our small and independent businesses.
Continuing my work to achieve Berkeley's Climate Action Goals, by enacting impactful measures to address climate change.
My parents moved to Berkeley from a neighboring town when I was a young girl. Berkeley citizens had just voted to integrate the public schools, and my parents wanted our family to be part of what was then a groundbreaking movement. Attending "experimental" programs, I was steeped in Free Speech, Civil Rights and the Farmworkers' struggle, participating in marches, protests and boycotts. Thus began my life as an activist in Berkeley - and beyond. My commitment to this community, and to our shared values, has been expressed through continuous leadership, advocacy and service since that time.
I had the privilege of attending Cragmont, Columbus (now Rosa Parks), King, West Campus and Berkeley High School. My Berkeley public education continued at UC Berkeley, where I received a BA in American History, focusing on civil rights and labor. Making a slight detour across the bay, I received a JD from Stanford Law School, where I was Co-Chair of the Women of Stanford Law and participated in immigration and human rights law clinics. I went on to practice law for several years in New York City, where I also studied organizational behavior and labor relations at Rutgers University.
My husband Eric, raised in Norway, works for a company developing therapies to treat cancer. Our three children, Emil, Simon and Sarah, have all attended Berkeley Public Schools, and have embraced the unique education and experiences Berkeley provides.
My mother Ellen, the daughter of Ellis Island immigrants, still lives in the home I grew up in on Santa Barbara Road. A classical singer who is passionate about music, she has been active in many local organizations, serving as President of the Berkeley Piano Club and UC Section Club, and on the Board of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra.
My father, born in Paris, was a refugee whose family fled the Nazi occupation and settled in New York. A devoted academic, he taught the History of Science for 50 years as a Professor at UC Berkeley, researching, writing and teaching about the intersection between science, religion and politics, and mentoring hundreds of students.
I was raised to give back to the community that has provided so much for our family, and to champion equity, participation and opportunity for all.
David Reiley, Principal Scientist, Pandora Media, Inc.
I grew up in District 5, and have raised my own family here. A product of Berkeley's public schools, I am deeply committed to Berkeley's core values of equity, diversity, opportunity, education and environmental action. I have spent my life working for civil rights, human rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, labor, the environment, choice, and more. Passionate about all that makes Berkeley unique, I am running to forge a dynamic future that embodies our progressive values. I wish to take my talents, experience and love for this community to an office that will allow me to solve problems to achieve the broadest positive impact for Berkeley.
The affordability and displacement crisis threaten to change the character of Berkeley forever. I am running to ensure that Berkeley's citizens are lifted up, not pushed out. Affordable Housing and housing for families and long-term residents – as well as for our homeless citizens - must be the drivers of Berkeley's housing policies. We must ensure that our teachers, firefighters, city workers, nurses, police officers, artists, seniors, and single parent families are able to make their homes in Berkeley.
Sustainability, resilience and environmental concerns are equally pressing issues. I am running to put sustainability at the center of everything we do in Berkeley. I am co-Chair of Assemblymember Thurmond's 15th District Environmental Task Force and have been endorsed by the Sierra Club for my environmental leadership. I have spent many years advocating for the greenest possible standards for Berkeley buildings and infrastructure, and I will continue to do so as on the City Council. I am a leader in bringing Community Choice energy to Alameda County and Berkeley, the single most important thing we can do to reduce our GHG emissions and meet our Climate Action Goals. I will continue to champion green buildings, clean energy, urban agriculture and environmental justice.
In 2010, Berkeley citizens approved a Downtown Plan that promised tree-lined streets, parks and plazas, preservation of historic resources, green buildings, dynamic streetscapes, culture, arts, and transit-oriented housing for all income levels and family sizes. I am running to ensure that all elements of Berkeley's visionary Downtown Plan are implemented. Our housing and development policies must put affordable housing – as well as housing for families and for the homeless - at the center of our efforts, not as an afterthought.
Berkeley's schools, libraries, parks, shopping districts and historic civic center require investment to become the dynamic, inviting, community-serving commons they should be. I am running to ensure that our public spaces and institutions are enhanced and enlivened, and that Berkeley as a Place is as dynamic and engaging as the people who live here.
To address potential parking and traffic/congestion concerns, new development must be paired with additional investment in public and alternative transit. I am committed to moving Berkeley forward with safe and complete bike infrastructure, to help us transition from a "car first" community to a "bike and pedestrian first" community. Shuttles, improved AC transit service and other innovative transit options can also help. I support implementing the Transit Impact Fee on newly constructed units, so that developments play their fair share to improve transit.
I urge voters to vote yes on the $100M infrastructure bond on the November ballot, Measure T1. Berkeley has over a half billion dollars in identified infrastructure needs, and these monies will get us started on a variety of critically important projects.
One critical need is for upgrades to our stormwater system. Runoff from storm drains routinely floods South West Berkeley, especially when drain outlets are filled with bay water at high tides. In addition to flooding streets, the back-up fills Aquatic Park with polluted runoff, changing the salinity levels of the water and affecting wildlife and vegetation. Reducing non-permeable surfaces, restoring creek habitats and implementing green stormwater management practices are key to reducing runoff and ensuring less polluted water flowing to the Bay. Pumps should be installed to push excess water into the Bay, as is done in many Bay Area communities. We should avoid using Aquatic Park as back-up for stormwater overflows which occur when discharge pipes are backed up with seawater. The current drainage system is both inadequate to protect residents from flooding, and compromises the Aquatic Park basin. Alameda County's Clean Water Program provides excellent resources for homeowners and businesses and the many measures highlighted on this website should be more actively promoted by the City and put to use in the Community.
Clean air is also a high priority. West Berkeley in particular has bad air quality, due to the freeway and Pacific Steel Casting. Trees are the lungs of the community, and we should continually increase the number of trees planted. I have been a member of the Sierra Club Tree Team and will continue my work to ensure that communities most impacted by air pollution are greened. We must also continue working with PSC to further limit toxic emissions, and transition away from vehicles powered by fossil fuels and towards clean energy vehicles.
The United States has seen enormous growth in wealth and GDP over the last 30 years – so clearly something is working. Few of us would say that we aren't better off with many of the new technologies we all enjoy.
The main problem has been the failure to distribute the huge benefits of this growth equitably, through higher wages and benefits, progressive taxation and public investment in schools, infrastructure, healthcare (including mental health), affordable housing and other public goods.
As a result, we have a shameful, widening gap between rich and poor, and an erosion of the middle class, coupled with the inordinate and dangerous concentration of wealth and power among a very few individuals.
In Berkeley, we often think that our DESIRE to see a more equitable world shields our community from the reality of an unequitable world – a world we know exists elsewhere, but magically hope does not exist here.
Unfortunately, Berkeley has the widest income gap and educational achievement gap of any community in California, and gaps in health, mortality and other indicators of inequality – that fall along economic as well as racial lines.
These are issues of great concern to me nationally, regionally, and right here at home.
While my job on the Council is to make sure our City is addressing the day to day, local needs of District 5 and of all Berkeley citizens, this basic worldview informs my work and aspirations for our community.
For the past ten years, the conversation about housing in Berkeley has been dominated by for-profit developers, who have successfully changed our zoning laws and policies to support the development of market rate and luxury units, with affordable housing as an afterthought. As a result, Berkeley has permitted or built over 200% of ABAG's (Association of Bay Area Governments) market rate housing target, but less than 15% of our target for affordable housing. I will work to put affordable housing at the center of our housing and development policies, and ensure that Berkeley retains its economic, racial and cultural diversity.
Addressing the affordability and displacement crisis will be my top priority on the City Council. For the past ten years, the conversation about housing in Berkeley has been dominated by for-profit developers, who have successfully changed our zoning laws and policies to support the development of market rate and luxury units, with affordable housing as an afterthought. As a result, Berkeley has permitted or built over 200% of ABAG's (Association of Bay Area Governments) market rate housing target, but less than 15% of our target for affordable housing.
It's time to bring the affordable housing experts to the table, and turn our focus to the important task of building housing for the majority of people in Berkeley and the Bay Area, who simply cannot afford apartments renting for over $6,000 for a three bedroom and $3,000 for a tiny studio. I will work to put affordable housing at the center of our housing and development policies, and ensure that Berkeley retains its economic, racial and cultural diversity. A report by Just Cause/Causa Justa, entitled Development Without Displacement, outlines proven strategies to develop housing without displacing existing communities. I will fight to ensure that Berkeley remains a place that teachers, nurses, public safety workers, artists, activists and other working families can call home.
As a member of the Zoning Adjustments Board, I have approved over 2,500 units of housing in Berkeley. I always push for the highest Green building and transit standards, as much affordable housing as possible, and accommodations for residents of a diversity of life stages and abilities. I will continue to champion the creation of additional housing, with an emphasis on finding solutions to support affordable, green and accessible housing.
I have long supported adopting the highest Affordable Housing mitigation fee recommended by a current Nexus Study, and believe Nexus studies should be redone, and fees reconsidered, on a regular basis, so that the City does not miss out on any feasible fees.
I support requiring at least 20% affordable housing in all large developments in Berkeley, as an alternative to payment of the Mitigation Fee. The "Green Pathway" permitting scheme that currently exists requires 30%, but no developer has elected to permit under this scheme. It is possible that 25% might be feasible, or more, on certain projects.
I support Measure U1, the Landlord Windfall profits tax, as proposed by the Community/City Council, that will result in increased funding flowing into our Affordable Housing fund. I oppose the deceptive, landlord-sponsored Measure DD, which would raise less money for Affordable Housing.
I will consider adoption of an alternative local Density Bonus scheme, similar to legislation adopted in Emeryville, to further incentivize the production of affordable housing.
Other features of our Zoning Code may tend to hinder the building of affordable projects, and so we must be open to refining our zoning code to better support the building of affordable housing.
I will approach technology and other industries that have expanded in the past several years and inadvertently contributed to this housing crisis. I welcome the new jobs and prosperity for our region, but believe local companies that are experiencing rapid growth and soaring profits should help mitigate the "unintended consequence" of extreme housing shortages, displacement, and overextended transit systems.
Berkeley residents have significant buying power and want to shop, dine and be entertained in Berkeley. They yearn for an engaging, accessible, aesthetically pleasing and community-serving downtown, with public transit connecting them to their neighborhoods and parking for those times when public transit, walking or biking are not feasible.
Growing up in Berkeley I used to shop with my mother downtown. She would run into friends from other parts of town, and was able to find products and services that met our family's needs. Remaking our downtown into a place that invites and unites all of Berkeley requires vision and sustained action on behalf of the City, in partnership with all stakeholders. Our downtown can and must be a place that serves all of Berkeley and draws us together as one community – not a place that pushes us towards separate neighborhoods and out to bordering communities. This is the vision I will work for!
Every community needs to decide what it wants to be, and to pursue that vision with clarity and commitment, implementing supportive zoning, policies, funding and other initiatives consistently over time.
My choice for Berkeley, and my vision for the Downtown, is for Berkeley to be the Bay Area's multicultural center for the arts, intellect and creativity, with an emphasis on celebration, innovation, experimentation and inclusiveness. Underlying and driving the entire concept should be Berkeley's progressive values of diversity, equity and multiculturalism.
This may sound ambitious, but Berkeley already has many of the elements necessary to make this vision a reality. We are home to thousands of arts organizations, artists, authors, chefs, thinkers, innovators and visionaries. We have an increasing number of fairs, forums and events and many cultural and arts opportunities every week of the year. The next step is to clarify, articulate, plan for and realize this vision in a more comprehensive manner, and ensure that our policies, investments, funding, marketing and all other factors are in alignment.
I am very proud to have co-authored the zoning overlay for Berkeley's Historic Civic Center that reserves our Old City Hall, Veterans Building, Post Office and other buildings in the Civic Center for civic- and public-serving uses including museums, nonprofit cultural and arts, libraries and live performance venues. This legislation was put forward when Berkeley's Historic Downtown Post Office was threatened with sale for commercial development. At the time, developers were eyeing the property for a potential high-rise apartment building or a shopping mall, and the Old City Hall building had been discussed as a possible hotel.
The award winning Addison Arts District is another example of how polices to support the arts in a concentrated manner, through zoning and investments, can yield a critical mass that turns a regular street into a destination. The new University Art Museum, the Book Fair, Berkeleyside's "Uncharted" Festival of Ideas, the Shotgun Players, Chez Panisse, Berkeley Art Center and the Cheese Board to the North, our revitalized Main Library, the Black Repertory Group to the South, the new Habitot (which provides creative play-space for our youngest citizens), and many more destinations create an arts "spine" that reaches across Berkeley, encompassing the entire downtown and also reaching towards northern and southern neighborhoods. The task is to connect these in a meaningful manner. Enhancing our streetscapes and public spaces is key to creating a lively and inviting arts corridor. Berkeley's Streets and Open Spaces Improvement Plan for the downtown (SOSIP) includes many elements that will enhance the public experience of our downtown. I would like to update the plan with a focus on creating public spaces for art and performance, and consider how we can extend an arts corridor that will connect us across the City.
Walnut Creek's downtown is a good example of a community "deciding what it wants to be" and pursing that vision over time. Walnut Creek wanted to be a shopping destination, and adapted its land use and other incentives to achieve that goal, expanding over many years to become a regional destination. While Walnut Creek's vision is far from what I would ever advocate for Berkeley, their model of transformation proves that a community can remake itself around a central theme. Downtown Berkeley should more clearly, holistically and intentionally embrace its special place as a destination for culture, arts, creativity and learning, and align all necessary resources to elevate, coordinate and fully realize that vision.
Small and local businesses are what make Berkeley unique, give our shopping districts character, provide neighborhood services, and build community through personal relationships with shop owners and employees. They are the antidote to generic big box, fast food and chain stores that our community has rightly sought to limit.
Small and local businesses are what make Berkeley unique, give our shopping districts character, provide neighborhood services, and build community through personal relationships with shop owners and employees. They are the antidote to generic big box, fast food and chain stores that our community has rightly sought to limit. As the former co-owner of a small manufacturing and wholesale business that was built from the ground up, I know that owning and operating a small business isn't easy. Owners invest their money, vision and energy to create and maintain the businesses we treasure, and they need our City and citizens' support.
Addressing the needs of Berkeley's small business is one of my top priorities for Berkeley. The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ISLR), an organization with excellent resources to support thriving local commerce, has done research that confirms what we all know intuitively: "places that are home to numerous locally owned businesses are more prosperous, sustainable, and resilient than those in which much of the economy is controlled by a few big corporations." The ISLR, an important resource, helps communities with innovative strategies, models and information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development.
Serving on the Solano Avenue Business Improvement District Board, I have spoken with many small business owners – including former owners who have chosen to close or move away - and am aware of the many challenges they face. I will work to create a Small Business Service Center for Berkeley: San Francisco has its own small business agency – a model we should study and consider. Working with the City, small merchants, customers, residents, property owners and existing business associations, I will undertake an audit of barriers to the establishment and success of small businesses in Berkeley, and propose comprehensive solutions.
Buy-Local preferences are also an important tool to encourage patronage of local businesses. UC Berkeley, in its Settlement Agreement with the City of Berkeley, agreed to implement a local-purchasing program "for prioritizing the purchase of goods and services in Berkeley." I will work with UC Berkeley to ensure that its local-purchasing program is in full force, and urge the City to reach out to organizations of all sizes to and encourage them to prioritize sourcing and purchasing from within Berkeley. The City of Berkeley itself has a Buy-Local preference that was established many years ago. We must review and strengthen this preference to ensure that the City's local purchasing is robust, and that the funds we provide to the City in the form of taxes and fees are reinvested in our local economy. Finally, I will encourage the City to actively support Buy Local Berkeley and similar groups that encourage residents to Shop Local.
Business sustainability is the engine of economic growth. I'll work to create economically lively neighborhoods with city support for small business viability.
To address our critical housing shortage, I'll work for denser green development as smart growth in transit corridors and create environmental benefits by enabling residents to reduce their carbon footprint.
I propose a compassionate, holistic, long-term regional system to address the core issues that cause homelessness, one that follows a "housing-first model" that's case-management focused, and also increased city funding for more resources.
David Shiver, Principal, BAE Urban Economics, Inc.
As a City Councilmember, I will work to create a civil atmosphere at public meetings and in City government. Civility is what will help us reach compromises that are good for our community and will help us confront the complex struggles of our changing city with sensitivity and compassion.
· Lower economic and regulatory barriers to business entry.
· Move the Downtown Area Plan forward in significant ways. I'll advocate for a vibrant downtown with sustainable growth, a green economy, and more housing along transit corridors.
· Consider vacancy tax for long-empty sites to finance redevelopment (e.g. lower economic barriers to business entry).
· Continue my focus on attracting a tenant to the Oaks Theatre site and work to preserve it as a community space.
· Limit Big Box businesses on Solano by fostering a favorable investment environment for small business.
My life's commitment is to live in a diverse community where people have choices for affordable housing and legal aid for the needy, for good jobs and small business ownership, and for excellent public schools. I want Berkeley to remain a city fashioned by all and for all, a community where middle and working class families can establish a home and strong roots.
This means addressing our housing and affordability crisis. I support developments of affordable housing and believe the City of Berkeley should encourage such developments. As a middle-class professional with a family, I also recognize the need for housing that is affordable for people who don't qualify for deeply affordable housing. I believe in development of housing that is available to a diverse population, especially the middle class.
I want to improve public safety and resources for the homeless. Many of the people I work with at the Alameda County Family Justice Center are or have been homeless, and I have seen firsthand how difficult it is to escape homelessness. My work has helped me understand that the vast majority of people who are homeless have been victims of many layers of abuse over the course of a long period of time. These people need a vast network of resources in order to truly get help. This requires a long-term, regional plan, and a collective, housing first, case management focused model. Realistically, the problem can't be fixed right away, but we must work together to make progress. I believe that basic rules coupled with reliably available resources is an important strategy in order to tackle this issue.
I support Berkeley's award winning Downtown Area Plan which aligns with the ABAG/MTC goals and is also balanced with the needs of locals. Many of Berkeley's current races revolve around whether or not a candidate supports the Downtown Area Plan outlined below. Those who are for or against this plan tend to line up with the factions who were for or against Measure R in 2014. I led the effort to defeat Measure R in 2014; 80% of District 5 voters agreed with me and voted "no."
● Build consensus on City Council for sound, reasonable, progressive policies.
● Support the Downtown Area Plan, created after hundreds of public meetings and passed overwhelmingly by voters.
● Work for a vibrant downtown with sustainable growth and a green economy.
● Support a bikable and walkable downtown featuring great shopping and entertainment venues to foster compact and convenient residential life.
● Work for denser "green" development as smart growth in transit corridors to address our critical housing shortage and create environmental benefits by enabling new residents to reduce their carbon footprint.
● Millions of dollars worth of economic development and assessments going toward our general fund.
With regard to air pollution and green house gas emissions, I support quality high-density housing around transit corridors. Residents can more readily walk, utilize clean public transit and shrink their carbon footprint.
I am also very interested in studying how public spaces, such as buildings and thoroughfares might be utilized to supplement residential solar installation. Residential rooftop solar is a wonderful source of clean energy. However, many residents have poor sun exposure or excess shading. One alternative could be enabling residents to invest their solar dollars in community installations whereby solar uses public space but is financed with private dollars. For example, parking spaces at BART could be covered with solar panels. Such installations could reduce lifecycle costs of the system because they are more economical to install and maintain, and they perform more efficiently.
As for clean water discharge into the Bay, deteriorating sewer connections are a major focus for CWA compliance. Since October 2006, property owners have been required to obtain a Sewer Lateral Certificate of Compliance (SLC) prior to transfer or sale of property, or before obtaining a building permit for major construction projects such as remodels. Berkeley also offers a loan program to assist low-income property owners to comply with requirements for private sewer laterals. I support these mechanisms because they allow homeowners to amortize cost over time and there are assistance programs for low-income residents.
We can use all of these ideas to re-imagine other solutions to ever more complex and interrelated issues in a world where global climate change is perhaps our greatest environmental challenge.
My personal and professional work with underserved communiities, how I propose to deal with Berkeley's challenges to address homelessness and my comitment to ease the city's affordable housing shortage.
As Associate Director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center, I work daily with disenfranchised people who are survivors of assault, abuse, and trafficking. Many are homeless. This helps me understand that the vast majority of homeless people have suffered abuse or neglect over time, creating a ripple effect not only on those individuals and families but on the community at large.
● Developing a holistic long-term regional system to address core issues causing homelessness, a system that follows a "housing-first model" that's case management-focused.
● Increasing city funding for more housing and services.
● Engaging other cities and counties to jointly create a system of regional resources, based on Berkeley's model, The Hub, a coordinated entry point for homeless to receive housing and other resources in one place.
● Funding more resources, including intensive case management for the most vulnerable with more housing and beds for homeless individuals and families.
I favor the Community Sidewalk Ordinance -- my opponent opposes it -- the ordinance is compassionate and fair. It sets limits on inappropriate behavior and also provides important services, such as more public bathrooms.
● Homelessness is different than dangerous and unhealthy street behavior.
● It is reasonable to prohibit public urination or defecation and limit the amount of space a person can take up on the sidewalk.
As a member of the Berkeley Food and Housing Project's Capital Campaign, I'm working to realistically address the City's increasing homelessness problem. This topic is personal for me. I work with homeless individuals every day, and I recognize the different sides of the story. I'm committed to finding compassionate and sustainable solutions.
Housing affordability is a challenge. People should be able to afford to live and retire here. As Chair of the Planning Commission, I've worked extensively to ease the affordable housing shortage and will continue identifying effective alternatives.
● Housing in the Downtown Plan creates more density along transit corridors so residents will have easy transit access without needing cars.
● Financing low cost and more affordable housing can be done through Berkeley's Housing Trust Fund, established from fees imposed on developers ($10.5 million slated as a Harold Way project requirement).
● We can use those funds to support development of affordable housing; the City of Berkeley should encourage such projects.
● Housing must also be affordable for people who don't qualify for low cost housing including teachers and other public service professionals. I advocate for extending housing subsidies to working families.
● I support alternatives like Accessory Dwelling Units (or "granny flats"). I was instrumental in making it easier to legalize and create ADUs in Berkeley as a source of low-cost housing -- much less expensive than building a traditional infill unit.
We need leaders who envision a city that works - financially, environmentally, and commercially - and who have rock solid, tangible plans for how to bring this about. If our city works, we can address problems of homelessness and housing more effectively. And if we elect leaders who know how to work together cooperatively and collaboratively, we can move Berkeley forward together.
My goals are to create an economically lively downtown, a reinvigorated Solano Ave., a bustling Gourmet Ghetto, and a delicious Hopkins/Monterey neighborhood.
● Support small business viability in our neighborhoods and downtown. Business sustainability is the engine of economic growth.
● Examine and fix Berkeley's commercial regulations to foster, not hinder, a viable economy. Identify barriers that slow or increase the cost of developing commercial enterprises with the aim of eliminating them.
● Our City's significant unfunded liabilities associated with pension obligations and infrastructure costs.
● Our City budget -- a majority goes towards public safety costs.
● Be fiscally responsible in spending our money.
● I support the infrastructure bond – Measure T1.
● Remain focused on economic development to increase city revenue.
I fully support our Downtown revitalization because it will increase revenue. As Chair of the Planning Commission, as the person who led the ground campaign to defeat Measure R in 2014. I have a proven track record of supporting economic development.
● Support award-winning Downtown Area Plan, created after hundreds of public meetings and passed overwhelmingly by voters.
○ Measure R in 2014, tried to upend it and it lost by a 3-to-1 margin.
○ I led the effort to reject Measure R; 80% of District 5 voters agreed with me and voted NO.
● Work for a vibrant downtown with sustainable growth, a green economy.
● Support a bikeable and walkable downtown featuring great shopping and entertainment venues to foster compact and convenient residential life.
● Work for denser "green" development as smart growth in transit corridors to address our critical housing shortage and create environment benefits by enabling new residents to reduce their carbon footprint.
Provide resources to improve infrastructure in District 5, including parks, streets, and walkways. Solano Avenue is suffering from a lack of small businesses.
● Lower economic and regulatory barriers to business entry. Let's consider an online one-stop shop where new small businesses can start the permit process and recieve faster service.
● Continue my focus on attracting a tenant to the Oaks Theatre site.
● Consider vacancy tax for long-empty sites to finance redevelopment (e.g. lower economic barriers to business entry).
● Work to preserve the Oaks Theatre as a community space.
● Limit Big Box businesses on Solano by fostering a favorable investment environment for small business.
Quality of Life Includes Art, Public Safety, Education Excellence and Equity, and Building Community. Berkeley is famous for education but part of the lifestyle that goes with that is having a culturally vibrant community that celebrates diversity and values human interaction. It can all hang together, supported by a solid economic base, with a feeling of safety and security, if our public services serve us all well.
● Ensure excellence in our public schools so all our children can receive a quality education.
● Support our teachers by placing a priority on finding ways to increase the number of classroom aides.
● Continue to invest in public education through BSEP (Measure E1 on this year's ballot).
● Work with our state Legislative officials to advocate funding for universal Pre-School to narrow the achievement gap, a persistent problem through high school.
● My work at the Alameda Family Justice Center focused on children who endured trauma. I know how important it is to provide these resources for vulnerable children.
● I've witnessed cost savings in keeping these children out of foster care, hospitals, out of a life of crime. We get great social returns.
● Support our teenagers by ensuring full funding for the city-run mental health center inside Berkeley High to support kids facing trauma from trouble at home or bullying and harassment at school.
● Continue the work I began as Vice Chair on the Commission on the Status of Women, working with Karen Weinstein, Heidi Goldstein, and students in BHS Stop Harassing.
Public Safety is a high priority in District 5. I walk down Cedar Street every day with my three young children. and I engage with police and public safety officers every day in my work with domestic violence and sexual assault victims.
● Right now there is only one patrol assigned to all of Districts 5 & 6, and that is not enough. I'll work to ensure District 5 has the patrols and services we need to reduce crime and keep our neighborhoods safe.
● Planning priorities must include pedestrian safety with walkable streets and more bike paths to ease traffic congestion (and to make biking safer and more fun).
● We should align the needs of bicyclists and drivers with street repair and road design.
● I'll improve both police presence and engagement in our community through neighborhood meetings to address fears about crime and to improve community coordination for earthquake preparation.
I am honored that both the Berkeley Police Association and the Berkeley Firefighters Association (who even walked precincts with me!) have endorsed my campaign. They put their lives on the line for us every day as first responders, and I'll make sure that public safety is a top priority in District 5. This strong trust relationship with our police and fire professionals makes me uniquely qualified to work with them to identify pragmatic solutions.
● Arguments about how our public spaces should look and feel.
● Artists can help identify solutions. They can think of ways to make public spaces that are beautiful and captivating for a diverse population, and, perhaps most importantly, they can help us think about how the city's aesthetics affect our collective state of mind and sense of community.
● We must facilitate opportunities to bring artists into the conversation as often as possible.
I helped lead the charge for the 1% for Art project, I'm proud it is law, and I'm excited to see the results.
● The program mandates developers of large new developments in commercial districts to incorporate an art piece worth 1% of construction costs or pay an in-lieu fee to the Cultural Trust Fund.
● The program means that local artists will have the chance to make their mark across the city, and that our public spaces will be as compelling as possible. The program will create new buildings that people love to come to, which will drive economic growth and a stronger sense of community.
● The in-lieu fees for the Cultural Trust Fund also offer an incredible opportunity to increase artists' presence around the city. The funds can be use to finance more projects for public and community spaces.


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Zuma says we have no discernible definition of state capture, but this is exactly what the commission is trying to establish, writes Ralph Mathekga.
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Rob Houwing
HASHIM Amla can look back on his current tour to England knowing he walked on its green and pleasant land, conquering all in sight. It's similar to what Viv Richards did on the 1976 West Indian tour to England, where the men from the islands did anything but grovel, as England skipper Tony Greig predicted.
Considering the difference of 36 years, and the much-altered cricketing landscape, it is not exactly an apples-with-apples comparison.
But I believe it is worthwhile to weigh up the huge impact these two batsmen – Sir Vivian Richards and Hashim Amla – had in seminal English summer tours for their respective international teams, West Indies and South Africa.
Of course, Amla's 2012 visit to England isn't quite over yet. There is still the matter of three Twenty20 internationals, starting at Durham today, before the Proteas pack their bags for the ICC World T20 in Sri Lanka.
Just how much of a role the bearded batting assassin plays in the series remains to be seen, because there is probably a sound case for offering him at least some rest and refreshment opportunity after his plundering performances in the Tests and one-day internationals.
Richards, of course, never got to play T20 cricket because he retired in 1991, but it is possible to measure the individual impact he and Amla made in the other two codes to English seasons where the main goal of the overall raid — duly achieved by both the Windies and Proteas — was to clinch the Test series.
Back in the unusually sweltering summer of 1976, the West Indies won the five-match Test portion 3-0 and the three-game ODIs by the same score-line.
In 2012, of course, the Test series was scandalously restricted to three contests and there was an inevitably greater tally of ODIs (five), although the first was abandoned due to rain.
South Africa inspiringly grabbed the Test series 2-0 and came from 2-1 down to split the ODIs 2-2.
In 1976, the year that heralded the true arrival of the "Master Blaster" from Antigua, a famously incendiary note was sounded in the lead-up by Grieg, England's South African-born captain, who announced: "I intend to make them grovel."
It was in the thick of the apartheid era back in these parts, of course, so the imagery that Greig's brazen statement evoked was obvious.
The cudgels were keenly taken up in response by a West Indies side only considered as "emerging" at the time.
Through the virtually non-stop brilliance of Richards at the crease, the Caribbean marauders instead sparked a new era of iconic dominance.
The dashing right-hander was 24 then, and only some 18 months into his Test career, but it was undoubtedly the tour that established his legend and would remain his best personal series by some distance.
Richards amassed 829 runs in four Tests (he missed one through injury) and only seven innings, at an average of 118.42, his series culminating in a career-best 291 in the fifth encounter at The Oval.
It's fitting that in 2012 Amla launched his own assault on English bowling at the same venue (unusually staging an opening Test), with that withering 311 not out that bettered Richards' score and is his and South Africa's most productive ever knock.
How nearby Hashim Mahomed Amla lurks to Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, named one of five Cricketers of the Century in 2000.
RICHARDS IN TESTS
1st Test, Nottingham: 232 and 63
3rd Test, Manchester: 4 and 135
4th Test, Leeds: 66 and 38
5th Test, The Oval: 291
RICHARDS IN ODIs
1st ODI, Scarborough: 119 not out
2nd ODI, Lord's: 97
3rd ODI, Birming-ham: 0
AMLA IN TESTS
1st Test, The Oval: 311 not out
2nd Test, Leeds: 9 and 28
3rd Test, Lord's: 13 and 121
AMLA IN ODIs
2nd ODI, Southampton: 150
3rd ODI, The Oval: 43
4th ODI, Lord's: 45
5th ODI, Nottingham: 97 not out
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Data Analytics is becoming the main driver of innovation in the financial services industry. A recent report shows that data analytics investments in the banking sector totaled $20.8 billion dollars in 2017 and will certainly continue to rise as credit union executives leverage the wealth of potential that utilizing consumer data and developing successful, sustainable data strategies enables.
While more and more credit unions are realizing the value and future potential of data analytics, they are still grappling with some barriers, including: lack of in-house talent, how to appropriate their analytics budget, and formulating a data analytics strategy that sticks.
In my years of consulting credit unions (and work with organizations in the healthcare, retail, distribution, and government sectors) to help maximize the value of their data, one common thread I see among many is the lack of a strategy and a road map that plots the organization's best course. What is a data analytics strategy?
The strategy allows your organization to establish goals from the starting point to provide direction, alignment and a clear path to success. I've reviewed several of the key benefits of creating a strategy in a past post. Simply put, your strategy will help you create a solid plan, determine your objectives, allow you to bridge the talent gap, communicate the data analytics objectives and mission to your team, set and measure benchmarks, assess technology capabilities and data quality, and so much more.
Additionally, having a data strategy ensures that data is managed and used as an asset and not simply as a byproduct of your organization's processes. By establishing common methods, practices, and processes to manage, use and share data across the credit union in a consistent way, a data strategy ensures that the goals and objectives to use data effectively and efficiently are aligned.
Often, I see credit unions attempt to formulate a data strategy internally using two approaches. The first approach is to assign the task of establishing the data strategy to a line-of-business head. Perhaps, a Chief Lending Officer or Chief Marketing Officer – someone in a strategic position that sees the big picture for the credit union. The second approach is to pass it off to IT or another technologist. This individual tends to build the strategy from the ground-up – focusing on the tactical and technical challenges without necessarily knowing the full strategic picture.
The problem with the first approach – using a line-of-business strategic leader – is that these individuals rarely understand the tactical and technical aspects of day-to-day operations that must be factored into any data strategy. They might be quite adept in their LOB (i.e. marketing, lending, retail, etc.), but they will struggle to adequately understand how the daily use of data and processes must be addressed by a data strategy. The outcome from these individuals tends to be a very strategic and conceptual deliverable for what data analytics could do for the credit union – rarely does it address the how.
The flaws of the second approach – using a technologist or IT resource to formulate the data strategy – is that these individuals do not have strategic insight of the credit union nor the enterprise-wide perspective that is necessary. They may know certain systems or processes inside and out – valuable, no doubt – but lack the big picture for how integration prioritization, deployment and change management planning, and other more strategic decisions need to be factored into the establishment of the strategy. These individuals tend to place too much focus and emphasis on the technology decisions and not enough focus on other critical aspects that a data strategy entails.
What's The Best Resource/Team to Create a Data Strategy ?
The best individual or team to establish your credit union's data strategy is one that balances the strategic business needs of the organization with the technical and tactical requirements that must be addressed. The best team/individual understands that the technology choices you make are no more critical than how you handle cultural change management throughout the analytics solution implementation. Striking the perfect balance between business and technology with the right blend of strategic thought and a tactical mindset are key.
The catch? I rarely see this work using only the credit union's internal resources. Every vendor has a "analytics solution" now and every company that does anything in consulting or IT has a "data strategy service". It's difficult for individuals within an organization who lack the deep understanding of the analytics solution and service marketplace to formulate the right data strategy that isn't heavily dependent on sales material alone.
Unfortunately, many data strategy service offerings are led by either line-of-business strategic leaders (approach one from above) or by pure technologists (approach two). Just like this doesn't work within a credit union, it certainly doesn't work with your consultants.
Find a firm that has the right resources from both the technology/tactical realm as well as those with deep strategic line-of-business expertise. Only with that blend of skills will you yield a data strategy that can guide your credit union to both short-term and long-term analytics success.
Looking for help with developing your data strategy and plan for analytics? The Knowlton Group is staffed by resources with both extensive technical analytics skills and decades of a line-of-business strategic leadership knowledge. We've worked with many credit unions in the past by helping them understand the full impact of data analytics to their business model, define a compelling data analytics strategy and ultimately provide results. From strategy, to conceptualization to full implementation, we are ready to make your credit union a data-driven organization. Contact us today.
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A simple and inexpensive eye test could aid detection and diagnosis of major neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's at an earlier stage than is currently possible, according to new research by UCL scientists.
The research, led by Professors Francesca Cordeiro and Stephen Moss, published today in Cell Death & Disease, demonstrates a new technique that enables retinal, and therefore brain cell death, to be directly measured in real time. The method, demonstrated in an animal model, could not only refine diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders and help track disease progress; it could also aid the assessment and development of new treatments.
The technique uses fluorescent markers that attach themselves to the relevant cells and indicate the stage of cell death. The retina is then observed using a customised laser ophthalmoscope. Until now, this kind of technique has only been used in cells in the lab, rather than in live animals. This research is therefore the first ever in vivo demonstration of retinal nerve cell death in Alzheimer's Disease.
Professor Cordeiro, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, said: "The death of nerve cells is the key event in all neurodegenerative disorders - but until now it has not been possible to study cell death in real time. This technique means we should be able to directly observe retinal nerve cell death in patients, which has a number of advantages in terms of effective diagnosis. This could be critically important since identification of the early stages could lead to successful reversal of the disease progression with treatment.
"Currently, the biggest obstacle to research into new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases is the lack of a technique where the brain's response to new treatments can be directly assessed - this technique could potentially help overcome that."
Although this paper outlines the technique in animal models (rats and mice), Professor Cordeiro's team are further along with work using the same technique to detect and assess glaucoma, and will be conducting their first patient trials later this year.
She added: "The equipment used for this research was customised to suit animal models but is essentially the same as is used in hospitals and clinics worldwide. It is also inexpensive and non-invasive, which makes us fairly confident that we can progress quickly to its use in patients.
"Few people realise that the retina is a direct, albeit thin, extension of the brain. It is entirely possible that in the future a visit to a high-street optician to check on your eyesight will also be a check on the state of your brain."
The research was supported by funding from The Wellcome Trust and The Foundation Fighting Blindness.
The project has also been supported by UCL Business proof of concept funds and two patents have been filed around this technology.
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"BAWDSEY, a parish in the hundred of Wilford, in the county of Suffolk, 9 miles from Woodbridge, its post town, and 12 miles to the S.E. of Ipswich. It is situated on the coast of the North Sea, at the mouth of the river Deben, there named Bawdsey Haven, which offers good anchorage for small craft. The coast is protected by two martello towers. Bawdsey was formerly a market town, under a grant obtained in the reign of Edward I. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Norwich, value £193, in the gift of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was a fine old structure, in the early Saxon style, and its tower served from the most remote times as a well-known sea-mark; but in 1842 it was burned down, and the stone tower has since been reduced to 60 feet in height. The new church is a small but elegant building, quite sufficient for the wants of the inhabitants, who are entirely agricultural. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel in the village. The chief residence is Bawdsey Hall, seated on the cliffs, which are celebrated for their geological and fossil specimens. There is a ferry across to Felixstow, and thence to Harwich."
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Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors
Paul Keating plays Seymour... Hello! Suddenly Seymour he purified everyone...
Tonight I caught Little Shop of Horrors at the Menier Chocolate Factory near London Bridge. Again it is another fantastic production that doesn't put a foot wrong. I have never seen a stage production of this show but this musical has been a long-time favourite of mine... There's a talking plant, a sadomasochistic dentist, a sweet girl and a nerdy boy. Throw in the late Howard Ashman's witty book and lyrics and Alan Menken's music and you have a very entertaining show. I knew almost every lyric in this show and found myself still laughing at the jokes... They still seem fresh and funny even though the show is approaching 25 years of age...
My excitement over Little Shop of Horrors surprised Mk who I went with. He likes the show too and normally we have rather different tastes in musical theatre. For instance he has seen Mamma Mia ten times and I just can't bring myself to seeing it yet... H…
News: Cabbies have it tough
In news that doesn't feature polonium 210, we learned this week that London cabbies have the most stressful job in the UK. Poor things they have a hell of a time earning all that money and having to refuse fares if they take them to places they don't want to go (like South London)...
Everytime I have caught one it has been a rather enjoyable and efficient experience so I could be missing out on the stress and everything...
Then again in September I did see at Cambridge Circus one driver get out and shout to a pedestrian who punched his window (after the driver went through a red light no less), "Come back and do that again you little cunt!" so I guess there could be some anger management issues for drivers...
Music: Dreamgirls (revisited)
As a sometime fan of Dreamgirls since discovering it after the concert recording that was made in 2001 featuring Audra McDonald, I was chuffed to find out that the original Broadway cast recording has been remastered with a few additional tracks included ahead of the movie release (in February in the UK). It arrived today and I have been giving my colleagues a drip-feed on the musical brilliance of this show. This special edition also includes orchestral versions that could become... Karaoke versions... I can just see after a few work drinks me trying to lead everyone in a version of "And I'm telling you, I'm not going".
As for the movie soundtrack... That's out December 11, but thanks to the wonders of YouTube you can see just what Beyonce is like in the movie with the song "Listen" (below). Beyonce performed this last week on Oprah and the copyright lawyers haven't spotted this infringement yet... This movie is going to be huge... It's release …
Scenes from Piccadilly Sunday
All the talk this week has been about polonium-210 so A and I went to Piccadilly to find out what all the fuss was about... The sushi was definitely off the menu so we went elsewhere for a bite...
Meanwhile the police have reportedly updated their investigation from an "unexplained death" to a "suspicious death". Polonium-210 poisoning does sound a bit suspicious as I don't think its a normal filling in a California Roll... It would bring a new meaning to "Asian fusion" cooking if it did...
The Economist this week offers helpful advice for dissident Russians living abroad: for longevity don't investigate the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the mysterious Russian apartment bombings in 1999, or the embezzlement of funds for Chechnya reconstruction. These subjects could soon find you loosing your hair too...
News: Russians and Polonium-210
The death of a Russian ex-spy this week in London from radiation poisoning is causing a bit of a stir given that three London locations have found traces of the radioactive substance...
Tonight the Met reports that "Traces of Polonium-210 have been found at the Itsu sushi restaurant in Piccadilly, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, and at Mr Litvinenko's home in Muswell Hill, London (not prepared to discuss further [whatever that means - Paul]). The sushi restaurant is currently closed, and parts of the Millennium Hotel have been closed while examinations continue."
Itsu Restaurant has been at pains to point out that the poisoning didn't occur from dodgy fish, but dodgy Russians... And to date there are no special deals at the Millennium Hotel for anti-static rooms...
Oh for the days when people were just stabbed with umbrellas or found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge...
Scenes from the Tate Modern Friday 13:59
Scenes from the Tate Modern Friday 13:59, originally uploaded by Pauly_.
As part of a team building half-day away day I suggested that we try out the slides by Carsten Höller at the Tate Modern. Well actually, the away day was fashioned around the desire to go on these monster slides but never mind that...
I tried both slides in the foreground. Starting with the one on the top level I found it to be a bumpy ride that was only improved after yelling a four-letter expletive for the entire journey down. The lower one was more fun and I managed to even enjoy it a little... There was a shorter slide that I even managed to make "wheee" noises for... By that point I had become a slide pro...
The slides will be around until April next year. By then I may try the slide from level four that has you going at speeds of up to 30mph... But not today... Höller may be onto something when he suggests that slides should be incorporated into new buildings as an interesting way of getting about...…
Film: Borat - Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
I luv Borat, originally uploaded by Crystal Pistol.
Finally caught the Borat movie tonight which has been playing for the last month here. The above scene was mild compared to the nude wrestling with a large fat hairy man that happens halfway through the film. Watching it with M she didn't appreciate the finer comic points of a large fat man's hairy ass... Not all the set pieces seemed to work (especially the one making fun of the US national anthem - at a Rodeo in Texas). But a film with frat boys talking about dominating women, hookers at social gatherings and a bear in an ice cream van is my kind of movie...
Overheard at the cafe Wednesday...
Man #1: I'm just bored with it all...
Man #2: Well I know a guy who can get you cheap Viagra...
Man #1: I don't need Viagra, I just need better looking talent...
Film: Physique er Casino Royale
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Tuesday night I managed to catch Casino Royale at the Odeon at Leicester Square. It is a big cinema with a big screen and every inch of screen counts with this Bond outing. There are explosions, there are chases, there is a fantastic free-running stunt and there are those swimming trunks. You need a big screen to take all of that in...
I have to say I was very impressed with this Bond flick. Sure the script had some pretty bad dialogue at times and the direction wasn't always slick, but as a package it all hung together very well. It helps with Daniel Craig in the lead as someone who can act and fight too. This film has set him up very nicely to set Bond in a new direction (if that's what the punters end up wanting).
I have never read any of the Ian Flemming novels and I understand that the film version is fairly faithful to the book as it explains how Bond gets his double-o status. It is what is referred to as a "reboot&qu…
Scenes from Clapham High Street Sunday 02:25
DSC04004, originally uploaded by Pauly_. The messy end of the evening... No vomit, but plenty of fat...
This is the second drunk girl that I have encountered this weekend. The first required two ambulances Friday night after too much white wine. Before they whisked her away she managed to throw up in a jug of cosmopolitan... Well that cocktail was so five years ago anyway...
This one I just tripped over on the way out of an establishment... She wasn't moving for anybody...
Overheard on my footpath Saturday evening...
Girl #1: Aye think aye need a belt for thees dreess...
Girl #2: Aww aye think aye need a belt for meyne too...
Scenes from Carnaby Street Saturday 14:57
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Christmas shopping in full swing... And rather annoying when you are trying to get into Soho quickly...
Scenes from North London Wednesday 22:57
Scenes from North London Wednesday 22:57, originally uploaded by Pauly_.
Quiet night in N4... Only the noise of the traffic and the whir of the CCTV camera could be heard...
News: Bond premiere
Daniel Craig as Bond!, originally uploaded by yahoo_movies_uk.
The new James Bond movie Casino Royale had its premiere tonight in Leicester Square. The early reviews are saying this "reboot" of the series is a good one... But really all the talk is about this particular scene of Daniel Craig emerging from the water... Hmm bit of an upper body workout happenin' there...
(And ok it was a cheap excuse for a bit of flesh on the blog site...)
Cults and wardrobe malfunctions 101
My Monday's have been a lot busier since I joined the London Gay Men's Chorus. Actually I should correct that. My Monday's, Wednesday's, occasional Thursday's and Weekends have been a lot busier. We are preparing for a Christmas concert, but joining a choir is like joining a cult as it takes up all your life...
But it has been fun singing in a community choir. With the exception of tonight. Tonight after some tricky choreography there was a wardrobe malfunction: my trousers split. Not the best of looks in this particular choir. The trousers look like jeans and have been a little controversial in the office as denim is forbidden. Every time I wear them to work I usually end up having to argue that they are not jeans but a "leisure pant". Well anyway, not anymore... They are also a little on the "form fitting" side which probably didn't help things tonight.
There was a fortunate end to the story (and no it wasn't that I was wearing the Aus…
Scenes from Regent Street Sunday 19:29
DSC03968, originally uploaded by Pauly_. The Christmas (not to be confused for winter) lights for the year...
Scenes from the South Circular Saturday 13:36
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Best if you leaf it...
Movie: The History Boys
The History Boys
Originally uploaded by Jo Salmon.
I finally caught the film version of The History Boys. When I saw it staged at the National in April 2005 (with the original cast now in the film version) I thought it was one of the best plays I had ever seen. The best thing about this film is the amazing performances by Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour and the boys including Samuel Barnett and Dominic Cooper are on film.
Set in 1983, it tells the story of eight boys in Sheffield who are preparing to take the entrance exam that could see them get into Oxford or Cambridge. From this premise themes of the purpose of education, sexual and emotional freedom are explored. Above all a series of characters emerge so real and genuine. Their virtues and their fears and limitations are all on display.
For instance, Richard Griffith's character Hector inspires the boys with "general studies". But he also likes to grope the boys if he gets the chance when giving them rides home on…
Theatre: Bent
Today I was mentioning to colleagues how I was going to the theatre tonight to see Bent and they were a little surprised with my excitement in seeing a revival of a play set in Dachau about two gay men. Well Martin Sherman's play is still well regarded, and the reviews from this new revival with Alan Cumming at the Trafalgar Studios have been good. I was also seeing it with A who insisted that we sit up close to appreciate the show, and its full-frontal nudity, without having to rely on opera glasses.
It was not a light night out at the theatre however... Not that it wasn't watchable, but the full-frontal nudity gave soon gave way to blood-spattered walls and trashed apartments. The play opens in Berlin on the "Night of the Long Knives" when Hitler executed Ernst Röhm and his gay stormtroopers. Suddenly it wasn't good to be gay in Nazi Germany. The play then follows, step by squeamish step, the fate of the three main characters.
The first half was a bit distracti…
Scenes from the Southbank Saturday 18:47
News: Climate protest goes mainstream
Originally uploaded by pink_ego_b0x.
Trafalgar Square today was packed with people all waving placards and flags urging for a global treaty to cap global warming. It wasn't just the usual suspects of young impressionable revolutionaries but hoards of what the media are calling a 'mainstream protest'. One wonders if these are the same mainstream people who are enjoying the bonfires and fireworks all this weekend to coincide with Guy Fawkes Day...
Best placard was the one lampooning George Bush (does anybody in London respect that man?). Although it was a little startling to be walking around a find George Bush's head bobbing along right beside you (as above)... Like YIKES!
Overheard at the gym Friday
Brazilian: Do you take Viagra?
Man: No...
Brazilian: How do you expect to keep a boyfriend if you don't take Viagra?
Man: Oh...


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Tri A.McDonaldin viesti jossa hän kertoo useita esimerkkejä joissa borrelia-bakteerin katsottiin aiheuttaneen potilaan kuoleman. Potilailla oli erilaisia diagnooseja kuten Alzheimer, kätkytkuolema, akuutti hengityssairaus; ARD -syndrooma, dilatoiva kardiomyopatia, pahanlaatuinen lymfooma. Hän mainitsee myös, että tri Miklossyn tavoin hän uskoo, että Bb:llä on merkittävä osuus Alzheimerin taudissa. Yksi tarkimmin dokumentoitu borrelia-bakteerin aiheuttama kuolemantapaus on tri Liegnerin raportoima. Hän dokumentoi tarkasti potilaansa Vicki Loganin sairauden kulun. Loganin kohdalla antibiootit eivät auttaneet. Borrelia-bakteereita löydettiin selkäydinnesteestä kuoleman jälkeen.
fluid by culture at the Centers for Disease Control.
borreliosis and Babesiosis----I did the Autopsy.
causing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Initial report by Stanek, G in 1990 in the NEJM.
---I don't know from the published reports.
a case of Multisystem Neurodegeneration due to Neuroborreliosis.
is a major etiologic agent in the development of Alzheimer's Disease."
2001: The most emotional moment of the hearing (that I saw) occurred when Dr Ken Liegner, ILADS member, showed a video clip of his patient Vicki Logan from June 22, 2001. Vicki had sought all kinds of treatment, according to Dr Liegner, in trying to deal with what he reminded the panel is still to be considered a "formidable pathogen." As the result of a misdiagnoses, she had been given coricosteroids early in her treatment. After all her treatment, spirochetes were found in her pericardium (the thin membrane that surrounds the heart).
The video was evidently recorded as Vicki lay dying in a hospital bed. She is so weak with advanced Lyme disease that you can barely make out the words as she says, "I hope that what happened to me will benefit others who wind up in the same situation." She also had words of praise for Dr Liegner, telling him on-camera that without his help she wouldn't even have lived as long as she did. It was a tearful moment for me.
Correction: August 24, 1993, Tuesday An article in Science Times on Aug. 24 about people with chronic symptoms attributed to Lyme disease misstated the first name of a researcher and reported his opinion incompletely. The researcher is Dr. Allen C. Steere; he says that the small percentage of Lyme patients who have inflammation of the brain or nerves despite standard antibiotic treatment do have persistent infection.


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A quick plot synopsis
The seven episodes follow all the characters as they work together to create a movie like no one's ever seen before. The film is financed by a female studio head, features a Black actress in the lead role, the director is half Filipino, the script comes from a gay Black man, I could keep going. It pretty much breaks every backwards rule society had at the time, and the end result is amazing. It's crazy how when you put diverse voices into a project, the final product is better! Who would have thought?!Related StoryThe Problem With 'Hollywood's' Fantasy
The actual ending
The season concludes with the characters attending the Oscars, where they've been nominated for like… basically everything. They sweep almost every category they're nominated in, and they are the stars of the show. For some of them, the ceremony means claiming their place in Hollywood. Camille, for example, asserts her right to be in a predominantly white space by attending the ceremony in the first place, and Rock and Archie walk the red carpet as an openly gay couple. It's crazy, and inspiring!Related Story'Hollywood' Only Tells Part of Rock Hudson's Story
So… what does it all mean?
At first, when I was watching the finale, I thought I was watching a dream sequence. I mean, how is it possible that in 1940s Hollywood, a movie like that would actually get the recognition it deserves when that still doesn't happen today? But the show is supposed to make you think about representation in film, and what Hollywood would be like now if society had broken down some of its barriers earlier on. How many voices would we see on our screens now that never could have been there before? It makes you grieve for all the people who should have had a chance to tell their story and didn't. This is how creator Ryan Murphy described it in the press materials for the show:
We learn life lessons from what we see on the screen. We learn how to act, how to fall in love, how to forge friendships, make enemies. It gets into our permeable membranes. Hollywood has always been a great, great teacher for me, and I think this show offers a world we need to be reminded of — a place where the good guys win and a new day is dawning. At its core, that's what this show is about: happy ending.
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Because today, we're still grappling with an industry where there are far too few people of color on screen, far too few LGBTQ people and women in power. We wanted to show what Hollywood could be today if, back in the 1940s, a movie like Meg had been made and rewarded. It would have reverberated and pushed culture forward in the same way that Black Panther and Moonlight have. But still, even now, we deal with two steps forward, five steps back.
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