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URGENT ALERT! DEFEND CODE PINK! Berkeley and UC Police at John Yoo's House
Original at Bay Area Indymedia
• Sun, Jun 28
By Pride4Peace Urgent - Defend Code Pink! Police officers from UC Berkeley and City of Berkeley forces are at John Yoo's house to engage Code Pink. 4PM John Yoo's House, 1241 Grizzly Peak Blvd., Berkeley
Berkeley Police Squad!: People's Park Epic Trance
Original at Bay Area Indymedia
• Thu, Jun 25
By Oaks4Peace Trance Crew Cops in Berkeley? The latest episode of Berkeley Police Squad! Cop: "It's a shame, uh, in some countries you can't even video-tape protests. Have a nice day sir. Enjoy the beauty of Berkeley and all it's fine citizenry"
UC Berkeley Police Squad!: Hungry For Free Speech
Original at Bay Area Indymedia
• Sun, Jun 21
By Oaks4Peace Digital Entertainment By popular demand, the latest episode of UC Berkeley Police Squad!. The battle for the stage continues in HUNGRY FOR FREE SPEECH.
Opinion: Regan Smurthwaite: UC BerkeleyOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Jun 5
By rss@youtube.com (RidgeReview)
Recent restaurant reviews
Original at Inside Bay Area
• Fri, May 29
CA HHH½ on 11/28/08) Henry's, 2600 Durant Ave., Berkeley. Last year, this UC Berkeley haunt adjacent to the Hotel Durant received a facelift. With a new dining room, menu and internationally-minded chef, it will likely bring in a more sophisticated crowd ...
Prop. 8 Challenged in Federal Court; Ted Olson & David Boies to ... - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• Wed, May 27
Mr. Olson received his law degree in 1965 from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) where he was a member of the California Law Review and Order of the Coif. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of the Pacific, ...
Colleges, universities face big cuts after propositions fail
Original at Daily Democrat
• Mon, May 25
CA That's like eliminating the whole University of California system, and then another UC Berkeley on top of that," Lay said. The UC and California State University systems also are preparing for steep cuts. Federal stimulus money may offset some of the ...
Alice Waters 'preaching to the saved' on gardens
Original at latimes.com
• Wed, May 20
CA That experience and her work at her Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, combined with a stint as a schoolteacher, she said, helped lead to her interest in school gardens. She started an "Edible Schoolyard" project at a middle school in Berkeley that now ...
Three world leads in Berkeley – Brutus Hamilton Invite Day 1
Original at iaaf.org
• Sat, Apr 25
Liberty News Monaco Berkeley, CA, USA - Kenyan Sam Chelanga held off a furious finish by Collis Birmingham of Australia in the Men's 10000m as both runners dipped under the 27:30 mark to highlight the first day of the Brutus Hamilton Invitational on Friday (24) in ...
Podcast: Oakland Copwatch, By Any Means Necessary, & Dellums media consultant
Original at Bay Area Indymedia
• Mon, Apr 20
By dave id audio 32:48) Kelly from Oakland Copwatch speaks about what they are doing to monitor police activity. There is a training on April 29th at the Intertribal Friendship House. Yvetter from BAMN talks about their upcoming Public Tribunal at UC Berkeley on April 22nd. Chuck, a media consultant...
TB case reported at UC Berkeley
Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Mon, Apr 20
CA A UC Berkeley student has contracted tuberculosis, potentially exposing about 225 students and faculty members to the disease, city health officials said. The 225 people are classmates and instructors who have had close contact with the infected ...
Opinion: Tissues that Build Themselves
Original at MIT Technology Review
• Tue, Mar 10
MA This bottom-up approach to tissue engineering, developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, provides a new solution to one of field's biggest problems: the creation of multicellular ...
Why California should consider Australia's 'prepare, stay and defend' wildfire policy
Original at Science
• Thu, Feb 26
By BJS Berkeley -- Even as debate rages over the safety of Australia's "Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early" policy of wildfire defense, fire researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Australia say that the strategy is worth consideration in California and other reg...
How To: E4K Mud DamOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Feb 21
By rss@youtube.com (shadowchef117) Engineering for kids held at UC Berkeley, teaching kids how to build dams out of mud Author: shadowchef117 Keywords: UC Berkeley E4K Engineering for Kids Added: February 21, 2009
How To: Healthy Food Choices for the Shangri-La DietOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Feb 5
By rss@youtube.com (livestrong) The Shangri-La Diet was created by Seth Roberts, an associate professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Learn how to make healthy food choices for the Shangri-La Diet from a licensed dietician and nutritionist in this health and nutrition video.
Sacramento Bee: UC Berkeley economists playing key role in new administration
Original at California Golden Bear Football
• Mon, Dec 22
By Dave(noreply@blogger.com) If Berkeley brings anything to Washington, it's that there are times when the government must intervene in the economy," said graduate student Jonathan Rose, who has studied under Romer. Berkeley's influence extends to other fields. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, directo...
John Yoo: The Bete Noire of Berkeley?
Original at WSJ.com
• Fri, Dec 5
By Ashby Jones Next week, Berkeley’s City Council is slated to vote whether to demand the United States charge Yoo with war crimes. Yoo, as many of you likely recall, wrote the memos offering legal justification for torture while he worked in the Bush White House from 2001 to 2003. Here’s the story from the...
Sports Network: Washington (0-11) at California (7-4)
Original at California Golden Bear Football
• Wed, Dec 3
By Dave(noreply@blogger.com) FACTS & STATS: Site: Memorial Stadium (71,799) -- Berkeley, California. Television: FSN. Home Record: Washington 0-7, Cal 6-0. Away Record: Washington 0-4, Cal 1-4. Neutral Record: Washington 0-0, Cal 0-0. Conference Record: Washington 0-8, Cal 5-3. Series Record: Washington leads...
Companies push biking to work
Original at usatoday.com
• Mon, Dec 1
Julie Sheu, an employee at the Clif Bar food company in Berkeley, Calif., started biking to work this year, thanks to a one-time benefit her company offers to its employees: $500 to either buy or repair a bike if they pledge to use the bike a minimum of two times per month. "It was the incentive a...
Opinion: Peter Schrag: Give up the lie that all UC campuses are equal
Original at Sacramento Bee
• Tue, Nov 25
Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's proposal for a University of California tuition policy that would allow Berkeley to charge nearly $2,000 a year more than other campuses is another reminder of the worst-kept secret in California education: Some UC campuses are more equal than...
Opinion: The perils of cheap oil
Original at Salon
• Tue, Nov 18
By Andrew Leonard My kids and I drove to Southern California (from Berkeley) and back this past weekend to visit my grandmother. Three tanks of gas in total -- averaging roughly $2.35 a gallon. At 16 gallons a tank, the cost of gasoline for the whole trip came to about $113.
Street renaming honors UC ag pioneer
Original at UC Davis
• Fri, Nov 7
In addition, he is the namesake of Hilgard Hall, home of the Department of Soil Science at Berkeley, and the Hilgard Chair at Berkeley’s Greek Theater. “And others, including the dairy industry, took up the cause to create the farm”—referring to the University Farm that accepted its firs...
Four Local Children Cast in Berkeley Rep's 'Come and Gone'
Original at Broadway World
• Tue, Oct 14
At Berkeley Repertory Theatre, acclaimed actor Delroy Lindo is returning to the powerful play that earned him a Tony nomination - Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson - and, as the show's director, he has chosen four local children to perform with a cast of accomplished profession...
Recipe: Room for Sleepers
Original at Citynoise.org Latest Articles
• Mon, Sep 8
By joey Posted in: Berkeley, CA by joey. if you can't ...
Recipe: Updated Box Contents for July 22nd and 23rd, 2008
Original at community.icontact.com
• Tue, Jul 22
If you're cooking with children, you can entrust them with the job. Their little fingers are ideal for this type of work Chef Russell Moore Chez Panisse, Berkeley, CA Ingredients: 1 spring onion, sliced 2 tablespoons olive oil ...
Recipe: 033 Smart A+ Alec's - Berkeley CA (in Irish and the Crustacean's Ride)
Original at rateitall.com
• Wed, Jun 11
Cheap, plentiful, good and fast, with an imaginative selection of salads and sandwiches. Had a chicken and avocado sandwich which was excellent and less than five bucks. The plac...
A Smarter Supercomputer - MIT Technology Review
Original at MIT Technology Review
• Tue, May 13
A Smarter Supercomputer MA - But now, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, CA, have designed a new type of supercomputer that could be powerful enough to ...
How To: Shooting emergencies: UC police are trained to respond; learn what ... - UC Berkeley
Original at UC Berkeley
• Wed, Feb 20
Shooting emergencies: UC police are trained to respond; learn what ... CA - Feb 20, 2008 At UC Berkeley, the UC Police Department is trained for such emergencies, and offers online tips for the campus community on how to respond if a shooting ...
Recipe: Warm Spinach Salad with Lentils and Feta
Original at Underhill
• Thu, Jan 31
By erik_flannestad When I used to work at the Westside Bakery Cafe in Berkeley, CA, one of my favorite lunch items was a warm spinach salad with lentils and feta. You’ll need: 1 cup of lentils, an onion or two, a carrot, a can of tomatoes, some garlic, ...
Podcast: Environmental Impact Report Public Healing for Helios/EBI Building 12/17/07
Original at Bay Area Indymedia
• Tue, Dec 18
By www.StopBP-Berkeley.org An Environmental Impact Report Hearing was held for UC Berkeley's planned Helios Building and the EBI (Energy Biosciences Institute) on December 17th, 2007, at the North Berkeley Senior Center. The building will be established with $500 million of Bloody Profits from British Petrole...
Opinion: Tree-Sitters Celebrate One-Year Anniversary - Berkeley Daily Planet
Original at Berkeley Daily Planet
• Tue, Dec 4
Tree-Sitters Celebrate One-Year Anniversary CA - The mood was festive, if at times surreal: UC Berkeley police had two officers videotaping the proceedings, while tree-sit supporters photographed the ... Tree protesters mark one year Daily Review Online
Opinion: the photon has two faces
Original at Cocktail Party Physics
• Mon, Nov 12
By Jennifer Ouellette There's a lot of really big ideas contained in those two sentences, more than we can even attempt to discuss intelligently in a single blog post. Vast tomes have been written about this, countless papers are published each year in academic journals -- including the one describing the late...
Opinion: Admissions statistics illuminate trend - The UCLA Daily Bruin
Original at The UCLA Daily Bruin
• Mon, Nov 5
Admissions statistics illuminate trend CA - UCLA modeled its version of holistic review after UC Berkeley’s, and the year after Berkeley implemented holistic admissions, academic achievement declined ... Increasing racial diversity is not enough The UCLA Daily Bruin
Podcast: Building Academic Library 2.0
Original at webcast.berkeley
• Thu, Nov 1
By webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Meredith Farkas) Keynote Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian Norwich University, Northfield, VT: "Building Academic Library 2.0" Academic Library 2.0 A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division
Podcast: Protesta indígena en la Universidad de California Berkeley
Original at Bay Area Indymedia
• Mon, Oct 15
By Radio Zapatista Entrevista con Morning Star, del Intertribal Friendship House, sobre las protestas contra la Universidad de California, Berkeley, donde 13,000 cuerpos de ancestros indígenas se mantienen, sin consulta o diálogo con la comunidad indígena, en el museo Hearst. (3:45 min)
Recipe: A Tale of Three Tastings
Original at Dessert First
• Mon, Aug 20
By pastrygirl The winning recipe will net its creator $5000 and will be featured on the menu at Scharffen Berger's Cafe Cacao in Berkeley, CA for month. So if you fancy having your recipe served at one of the most famed chocolate factories around, ...
Seth Roberts: A Student's Unlovely View of UC Berkeley
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jul 24
By Seth Roberts I recently met an undergraduate named Samantha who is majoring in Economics at UC Berkeley. She is almost done. I asked her a few questions about her education: SR: Did UC Berkeley help you figure out what you were good... SR: Did UC Berkeley help you figure out what you enjoy doing?
Seth Roberts: A Student Adviser's Unlovely View of UC Berkeley
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jul 10
By Seth Roberts One recent Dean of the College of Letters and Science (also a professor) began his tenure as dean, she told me, by giving a talk in which he emphasized his belief that students were "gaming the system." He acted on this belief by rigidly enforcing the rules, with few exceptions. (Many Berkele...
Jay Rosen: Twilight for the Curmudgeons
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jun 5
By Jay Rosen Henry teaches journalism at UC Berkeley, after a distinguished career at the Washington Post. He has a new book out, American Carnival ("Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media.") According to this account, Henry almost became dean at the Berkeley J-School.
Podcast: Audio of Forum on Proposed BP-UC Berkeley Deal
Original at SF Bay Area Indymedia
• Sun, Jun 3
By Anonymous Part 1 of 2 audio clips from a forum held at UC Berkeley on March 19 2007 in which people supportive of the proposed BP-funded Energy Biosciences Institute made presentations and responsed to selected questions. The forum was announced on in an email by Chancellor Birgeneau. The pdfs of the...
Evicted: Berkeley's Shipyard maker community
Original at Boing Boing
• Fri, May 11
By David Pescovitz David Pescovitz: The Shipyard is a unique collective for artists and makers in Berkeley, California where the residents build out shops inside shipping containers. Over the years, the city of Berkeley has given the Shipyard lots of problems, even denying them access to the electrical g...
CA to Conduct Unprecedented Review of Voting Systems with UC Berkeley - Wired News
Original at Wired News
• Wed, May 9
CA to Conduct Unprecedented Review of Voting Systems with UC Berkeley - Working with UC Berkeley, the state is putting together three teams composed of academics from the university and professionals from the private sector to ...
Podcast: UC Berkeley British Petroleum Protest and Custodian Living Wage Solidarity
Original at SF Bay Area Indymedia
• Tue, May 8
By dj Questionmark UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff demonstrated against a proposed half billion dollar deal between British Petroleum and the university. Campus custodians also marched for a living wage.
Podcast: Students and UC Faculty oppose UC Berkeley-BP Partnership
Original at SF Bay Area Indymedia
• Tue, May 8
By Christina Aanestad UC BERKELEY STUDENTS AND FACULTY RALLIED ON CAMPUS TODAY TO OPPOSE A NEW MULTI MILLION DOLLAR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH UC BERKERLY AND BP, ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST ENERGY AND OIL COMPANIES. THE PARTNERSHIP WILL CREATE the ENERGY BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE, TO research AND DEVELOP NEW FORMS...
Podcast: Partial recording of UC Berkeley academic senate deliberation on proposed BP deal.
Original at SF Bay Area Indymedia
• Tue, Apr 24
By the laughing cow This is a partial recording of the historic UC Berkeley Academic Senate meeting of April 19, 2007, in which pro-corporate faculty packed the room and voted down a proposal for faculty oversight of huge corporate sponsorship deals like the $500 million BP-funded research institute tha...
Recipe: 'Alice Waters and Chez Panisse' by Thomas McNamee - Los Angeles Times
Original at latimes.com
• Sun, Apr 22
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse' by Thomas McNamee Los Angeles Times, CA - She went to UC Santa Barbara, then transferred to Berkeley in 1964 and graduated in 1967. Waters was active in the Free Speech Movement. ...
Podcast: Stephen Dunifer speaking at the 12th annual Anarchist Bookfair
Original at SF Bay Area Indymedia
• Sun, Mar 18
By George Cadman Stephen Dunifer spoke on 3-17-07 at the 12th annual Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco. Stephen Dunifer is the founder of Free Radio Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed micropower pirate radio station, was involved in a protracted legal case with the F...
How To: GREEN STUFF / EAST BAY
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Wed, Mar 7
Green stuff Art in the Garden Karen LeGault teaches how to draw and paint flora and fauna while traveling or hiking. Registration is required. 1-4 p.m. Sat. $35. UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Dr., Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley. (510) 643-2755....
Opinion: UC Berkeley professor shows how smart can be sexy
Original at San Mateo County Times
• Mon, Dec 5
CA - 28 issue names Manga, an associate professor in earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the "sexiest men alive.". ... Cal professor shows smart can be sexy Daily Review Online People magazine hot for Cal volcano expert Alameda Times-Star
UC Berkeley invites comment on renovation
Original at Daily Review Online
• Sat, Dec 3
CA - The University of California, Berkeley, will hold a public scoping session Thursday on the environmental impact report associated with plans to renovate the ... UC Berkeley holds public meetings on renovations Tri-Valley Herald