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It employs 17 instructional specialists, a part-time clerical program coordinator and a three-quarter-time supervisor. (The districtwide program is separate from the internationally acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://edibleschoolyard.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Edible Schoolyard Project\u003c/a> at King Middle School. That program is integrated with King's curriculum but funded and operated through a nonprofit foundation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to raise significant outside resources to fund the program have not been sufficiently fruitful. Thompson said a grant writer was hired last year but that fundraising was not successful. She said reaching out to donors is complicated by the fact that the program is now part of educational services and requires a commitment by BUSD to provide regular financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has traditionally been bolstered by significant parent and community support. On hearing about the proposed cuts, parents at Willard Middle School expressed alarm at the idea of doing away with what they say is “at the heart of what they want their children to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They shared a statement with Berkeleyside, part of which read: “We request immediate establishment of a committee to look at the BUSD budget and come up with a solution that avoids program closure. You do not dismantle a national model; it would take at least a decade to rebuild. The short and long-term costs to our children in terms of poor food choices, lack of environmental education, and the scholastic and physical repercussions of greater immobility during the school day are unacceptable.” [\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Willard-statement-re-cooking-and-gardening-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full statement\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is urging the community to sign a \u003ca href=\"http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-public-school-cooking?source=c.fwd&r_by=1152075\" target=\"_blank\">petition urging the federal government to reinstate funds for the program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Thompson said the need to act now is imperative. “If we don’t come up with something, this program is going to die next year,” she said. “The proposal helps give us a baseline and we can build from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD board meets Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Council Chambers, Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, in downtown Berkeley. \u003cstrong>At press time, the item on the cooking and gardening program is no longer expected to be on the agenda.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But the next campus in the district to go on lockdown may not face the same challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Unified School District will immediately begin to implement a nearly $2 million school safety improvement plan approved by the school board to install new PA systems, increase the use of surveillance cameras, conduct armed-intruder training for staff — and replace classroom locks so that the doors can be bolted from the inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of those improvements were ones we desired,” Deibel said. “I would’ve liked to be able to lock my door from inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 children at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the district last year hired two consultants, Edu-Safe Associates and Dimensions Unlimited, to visit all BUSD schools and assess their preparedness for violent intruders. The Board voted 2-1 to adopt some of the consultants’ recommendations Jan. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants identified several “obvious weaknesses” in campus safety, said Susan Craig, director of student services. Craig will oversee the staff training program in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Armed-intruder training, developed shortly after the Columbine High School shooting massacre in 1999, “is nationally accepted and recommended these days,” Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools already hold lockdown drills to prepare for intruders. “Where the armed intruder training takes it to the next step is preparing for something you hope you never have to use, which is, God forbid, if the armed intruder breaks through the barricade and gets into the room,” Craig said. “It’s training for how to respond to that, how to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facility improvements recommended in the safety audit reports will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of summer 2015, said Director of Facilities Lew Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both consultants recommended the installation of comprehensive PA systems in all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every principal at each site visited in BUSD advised that their public address, warning and campuswide communication systems were either nonexistent, not operating or deficient in some way. Administrators demonstrated that they could not cover the entire site with an emergency alert, a warning, or vital response information,” the Dimensions Unlimited report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved the increased use of surveillance cameras at the schools and the potential use of a live video feed during an incident, but the district will not move forward with the plan until the board develops a policy to address privacy concerns. Cameras were first installed in Berkeley schools with the caveat that the footage would be used only after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an armed intruder gets into Berkeley High School, it’s really an advantage to be able to broadcast to the entire community the exact location of an individual and what they’re doing,” Craig said. “We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the use of a live feed is far from definite, some board members were adamant that there be guidelines in place that prevent its abuse, should schools begin to use the feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the value in the case of an emergency to monitor what’s happening, but we also want to have very clear guidelines for when we’re not going to use that,” said Judy Appel, the BUSD board’s vice president. “Of course, the safety of our students is a paramount concern to the board, and we just want to make sure we’re doing that in the best way that protects our students all around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly $2 million in safety improvements is financed by $15,000 from the general fund, $100,000 in Measure H funds and $1,220,000 from bond measures AA and I. The installation of interior locks in classrooms could add $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $15,000, the armed-intruder training is the least expensive piece of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD did not adopt all the recommendations made by the consultants, including a suggestion to station a police officer at each school. Currently, there is one police officer at Berkeley High but none on other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s costly and we have safety officers that are Berkeley Unified staff,” Craig said. “They are not armed, they are not police officers, but they have a lot of training around de-escalating incidents. We needed to prioritize what we felt would leverage our dollars to maximize the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 137 fatal school shootings since 1980, according to the Edu-Safe report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no reported gun-related incidents within Berkeley schools since there was a rash of them at Berkeley High School in 2011. One day in February \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/02/04/another-gun-incident-at-berkeley-high-today/\" target=\"_blank\">two students brought firearms onto campus\u003c/a>, and on March 11 a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/03/22/gun-shot-fired-at-berkeley-high-school-no-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\">gun was fired in a bathroom\u003c/a>. A bullet went through the wall of a portable classroom but nobody was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools are put on lockdown multiple times each year, often in response to violence in the surrounding area. The LeConte lockdown, prompted by gunfire during an attempted robbery in the neighborhood, was the first of 2014. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants identified several “obvious weaknesses” in campus safety, said Susan Craig, director of student services. Craig will oversee the staff training program in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Armed-intruder training, developed shortly after the Columbine High School shooting massacre in 1999, “is nationally accepted and recommended these days,” Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools already hold lockdown drills to prepare for intruders. “Where the armed intruder training takes it to the next step is preparing for something you hope you never have to use, which is, God forbid, if the armed intruder breaks through the barricade and gets into the room,” Craig said. “It’s training for how to respond to that, how to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facility improvements recommended in the safety audit reports will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of summer 2015, said Director of Facilities Lew Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both consultants recommended the installation of comprehensive PA systems in all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every principal at each site visited in BUSD advised that their public address, warning and campuswide communication systems were either nonexistent, not operating or deficient in some way. Administrators demonstrated that they could not cover the entire site with an emergency alert, a warning, or vital response information,” the Dimensions Unlimited report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved the increased use of surveillance cameras at the schools and the potential use of a live video feed during an incident, but the district will not move forward with the plan until the board develops a policy to address privacy concerns. Cameras were first installed in Berkeley schools with the caveat that the footage would be used only after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an armed intruder gets into Berkeley High School, it’s really an advantage to be able to broadcast to the entire community the exact location of an individual and what they’re doing,” Craig said. “We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the use of a live feed is far from definite, some board members were adamant that there be guidelines in place that prevent its abuse, should schools begin to use the feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the value in the case of an emergency to monitor what’s happening, but we also want to have very clear guidelines for when we’re not going to use that,” said Judy Appel, the BUSD board’s vice president. “Of course, the safety of our students is a paramount concern to the board, and we just want to make sure we’re doing that in the best way that protects our students all around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly $2 million in safety improvements is financed by $15,000 from the general fund, $100,000 in Measure H funds and $1,220,000 from bond measures AA and I. The installation of interior locks in classrooms could add $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $15,000, the armed-intruder training is the least expensive piece of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD did not adopt all the recommendations made by the consultants, including a suggestion to station a police officer at each school. Currently, there is one police officer at Berkeley High but none on other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s costly and we have safety officers that are Berkeley Unified staff,” Craig said. “They are not armed, they are not police officers, but they have a lot of training around de-escalating incidents. We needed to prioritize what we felt would leverage our dollars to maximize the recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 137 fatal school shootings since 1980, according to the Edu-Safe report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no reported gun-related incidents within Berkeley schools since there was a rash of them at Berkeley High School in 2011. One day in February \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/02/04/another-gun-incident-at-berkeley-high-today/\" target=\"_blank\">two students brought firearms onto campus\u003c/a>, and on March 11 a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/03/22/gun-shot-fired-at-berkeley-high-school-no-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\">gun was fired in a bathroom\u003c/a>. A bullet went through the wall of a portable classroom but nobody was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools are put on lockdown multiple times each year, often in response to violence in the surrounding area. The LeConte lockdown, prompted by gunfire during an attempted robbery in the neighborhood, was the first of 2014. 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The group’s complaint argues that poor and minority students in California are being denied their right under the state Constitution to equal access to public education because they are more likely than affluent white students to be taught by “grossly ineffective” teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law School Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/william-koski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Koski\u003c/a> says proving that argument hinges on whether the attorneys can link the laws to student underperformance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Are teacher tenure laws denying students their right to an education?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The fundamental argument that they’re trying to make is that the conspiracy between tenure laws, teacher dismissal laws and teacher layoff laws have worked together to deny certain children their fundamental right to an education,” Koski said. “What they would have to prove is that these laws actually do work to tie the hands of administrators in ways that cause them to keep underperforming teachers in the classroom. That these teachers in turn create underperformance among the students. And also that students who suffer from these teachers are denied that fundamental right to an education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boutrous said he will present experts and studies showing that achievements in later life can be measured by interactions with good teachers. One study showed that students taught by ineffective teachers had their lifetime income reduced by $2 million, Boutrous said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the unions say eliminating such laws would erase a vital support system for a profession that is already losing talented people to higher-paid positions in the private sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boutrous said the granting of tenure, which amounts to lifetime employment protection, after 18 months on the job is inadequate to guard against accepting unqualified teachers. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the UC Regents’ agenda this week was a progress report on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The project, to be built in Hawaii, will be a partnership between UC and Caltech, as well as Canada, China, India and Japan. But as the University of California is committing to the TMT, it’s divesting from a much smaller operation closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week University of California President Janet Napolitano announced her intention to cut the budget of the UC Office of the President, to “lead by example.” Of course, UC’s budget is massive: $24 billion this academic year (2013-2014). 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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has put in $250 million. UC and Caltech are raising $50 million each. But even as UC is committing to the TMT in Hawaii, it’s divesting from a much smaller operation closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, the Lick Observatory is home to the oldest professional telescope in California. In 1888 it was the most powerful telescope in the world, built from pieces brought up the mountain by mule train. Now there are nine telescopes, but the “Great Lick Telescope” is the one that draws the big crowds. Garth Illingworth is an astronomy professor at UC Santa Cruz and an astronomer at the UC Observatories, which operates Lick. Staring up at the Victorian wonder, Illingworth says, “Astronomers worked very differently in those days. We’re so used to looking at digital images from cameras. But in those days, a lot of the work was done actually looking through an eyepiece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astronomers at all 10 UC campuses have access to the telescopes here. The money for this ancient refractor came from a Gold Rush-era real estate baron in San Francisco. James Lick lies buried underneath the telescope, as part of the deal for his investment in 1874. In the years that followed, much of the planet Mars was mapped from this building, among other things. But the Lick Observatory is not just a museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342486\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10342486\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500-400x457.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeMeter500\" width=\"291\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500-400x457.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Three-Meter Shane Reflector, commissioned in 1959. (Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, technology improved, refractors gave way to mirrors, and other telescopes popped up on this mountaintop. Standing next to one from the 1950s called the Three Meter, Illingworth says a good mirror can stay scientifically relevant for decades, as long as the instruments attached to it are cutting edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mirrors collect light in the same way, but the way we analyze that light is just dramatically different,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example, he notes that the Three Meter mirror is fairly similar in size to the Hubble, but unlike the Hubble, the Three Meter has to contend with the Earth’s atmosphere. Adaptive optics technology now in development would shine a laser up at the sky, make an artificial star, and then correct the aberrations to sharpen the image. “So we can make this telescope generate images as sharp as Hubble,” Illingworth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be an astronomer had to put on long underwear and camp out on or near a telescope to research the heavens. Nowadays, researchers from all over the UC system dial into telescopes digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a really clear day, you can see San Francisco to the West and Half Dome in Yosemite to the East. In recent years, a couple of review committees recommended that UC’s Office of the President stop spending $1.8 million a year to operate Lick in favor of other more modern facilities in Hawaii, like the Thirty Meter Telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, this upsets Professor Illingworth. “It is unfortunate that even professional astronomers fail to recognize at times that one can do cutting-edge science on modest telescopes at very reasonable cost when they are properly equipped.” He also notes, “There are a lot of younger people who come and use this, and this is how they learn about astronomy. They get hands-on experience. So the results here attract a lot of scientists. And of course, there are 35,000 visitors a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/LickObservatory.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/LickObservatory-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the top of the Shane dome at the Lick Observatory east of San Jose. (Guy Marzorati/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/LickObservatory-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/LickObservatory.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the top of the Shane dome at the Lick Observatory east of San Jose. (Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Compared with the $50 million UC will have to raise to build the TMT, $1.8 million may not seem like that much. But, as Illingworth points out, that operations budget funds the operation of assets like the Automated Planet Finder, the newest telescope at Lick. Completed just last year, the Planet Finder cost $12 million. Steve Vogt is a professor of astronomy and astrophsyics at UC Santa Cruz and an astronomer at the UC Observatories. Illingworth calls Vogt “Mr. Exoplanets,” because of his work finding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with some of the older telescopes at Lick, the dome of the Planet Finder looks diminutive, but there’s no wasted space inside. The equipment is newer, and of course astronomers don’t need to camp out overnight the way they used to. If anything, it’s better they don’t, given the human body heat they emit. Air conditioning keeps the temperature inside where it would be at midnight. 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There is also a substantial potential for private funding as has been the case for Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, both of which were previously operated entirely by one organization (Mount Wilson by the Carnegie Institution and Palomar by Caltech) and now obtain all or most of their operating funds from other sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lick is hardly the only UC facility facing a painful and possibly existential cut, but Illingworth and his colleagues have something going for them. Lick is located within sight of Silicon Valley, a region full of wealthy people … who love science.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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James Lick lies buried underneath the telescope, as part of the deal for his investment in 1874. In the years that followed, much of the planet Mars was mapped from this building, among other things. But the Lick Observatory is not just a museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342486\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10342486\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500-400x457.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeMeter500\" width=\"291\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500-400x457.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/ThreeMeter500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Three-Meter Shane Reflector, commissioned in 1959. (Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, technology improved, refractors gave way to mirrors, and other telescopes popped up on this mountaintop. Standing next to one from the 1950s called the Three Meter, Illingworth says a good mirror can stay scientifically relevant for decades, as long as the instruments attached to it are cutting edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mirrors collect light in the same way, but the way we analyze that light is just dramatically different,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example, he notes that the Three Meter mirror is fairly similar in size to the Hubble, but unlike the Hubble, the Three Meter has to contend with the Earth’s atmosphere. Adaptive optics technology now in development would shine a laser up at the sky, make an artificial star, and then correct the aberrations to sharpen the image. “So we can make this telescope generate images as sharp as Hubble,” Illingworth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be an astronomer had to put on long underwear and camp out on or near a telescope to research the heavens. Nowadays, researchers from all over the UC system dial into telescopes digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a really clear day, you can see San Francisco to the West and Half Dome in Yosemite to the East. In recent years, a couple of review committees recommended that UC’s Office of the President stop spending $1.8 million a year to operate Lick in favor of other more modern facilities in Hawaii, like the Thirty Meter Telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, this upsets Professor Illingworth. “It is unfortunate that even professional astronomers fail to recognize at times that one can do cutting-edge science on modest telescopes at very reasonable cost when they are properly equipped.” He also notes, “There are a lot of younger people who come and use this, and this is how they learn about astronomy. They get hands-on experience. So the results here attract a lot of scientists. 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Vogt is quite pleased after 10 years of working designing this telescope and its housing. It has one purpose: to find planets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would happen without an operating budget? A “tragedy,” Vogt says. “It needs power. It needs people around that can look after it, that can fix it when it breaks.”\u003cbr>\nIt might not come to that. There is a group trying to raise money, and/or change people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Montiel, a spokesman for the UC Office of the President, wrote in an e-mail the UCOP expects Lick to find alternative funding sources as the office pulls out gradually, over five years or so: “Lick is used primarily by a small number of UC campuses that may be interested in funding it for their educational purposes. There is also a substantial potential for private funding as has been the case for Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, both of which were previously operated entirely by one organization (Mount Wilson by the Carnegie Institution and Palomar by Caltech) and now obtain all or most of their operating funds from other sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Her cardiopulmonary function has been sustained by a ventilator since then. Dolan won a court order on behalf of Jahi’s mother, Latasha Winkfield, preventing the hospital from removing the ventilator, and Jahi was transferred last week to another facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There are several documented cases where there have been individuals who have been diagnosed with brain death who have evolved from that.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Christopher Dolan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dolan acknowledged after the move that Jahi “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/06/brain-dead-jahi-mcmath-removed-from-childrens-hospital-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is in very bad shape\u003c/a>.” But \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cbdlaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he later reported via Twitter\u003c/a> that doctors had performed a tracheostomy and insert a feeding tube, and that physicians “are optimistic that her condition has stabilized and that her health is improving from when she was taken from CHO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Jahi is legally dead, Children’s Hospital had refused to perform those procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolan argued today that the case can’t be fully understood without considering the religious faith of Jahi’s family and the New Testament’s story of Jesus Christ:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I don’t think you can separate the family’s beliefs from the family’s hopes. And I think that the context of this case as it happened during the holiday season, the Christmas season for them, is important, because we were praying to a god who brought his son here by a miracle, who then committed miracles including raising of the dead, who died and was resurrected by a miracle. So when you bring in their beliefs as Christian beliefs, you have to call your own beliefs into question and wonder, ‘Do we practice a fiction, which is that miracles happened only once, a long time ago? Or do we practice a real belief?’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Asked what the family’s “end game” is in the case, Dolan said: “Well, I think if there’s not a radical recovery, the family’s going to evaluate what the condition of Jahi is and have an opportunity to then make a decision. The mother has publicly stated that if her daughter deteriorates or if her daughter becomes in pain, that she will make the decision as any responsible parent would to remove her from the ventilator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors consulted about the case inside and outside Children’s Hospital have said the condition of the girl’s body will degrade over time despite any intervention. 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(Courtesy of the Alameda County District Attorney's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday 3 p.m. From Bay City News:\u003c/strong> Thursday's BCN story incorrectly states that the faces of former child sex trafficking victims are shown as part of a new public awareness campaign. A district attorney's office spokeswoman has clarified that only quotes from survivors are used in the campaign; the images are stock photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAKLAND (BCN) -- Billboards and posters bearing the faces of former child sex trafficking victims and the stories of how they escaped a life of sexual exploitation will be popping up around Oakland as part of an extensive public awareness campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign was launched by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley at a news conference at the \u003ca title=\"Alameda County Family Justice Center\" href=\"http://www.acfjc.org\">Alameda County Family Justice Center\u003c/a> in Oakland Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our message is loud and clear,\" O'Malley said. \"Our community will not tolerate the sale and purchase of children for sex. Every citizen must be informed about the crisis and understand how to be part of the solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign, which is set to continue through Feb. 2, is part of the district attorney's ongoing efforts to combat child prostitution in Oakland, a persistent and highly visible problem that continues to grow each year, according to O'Malley. Since 2006, the district attorney's office has prosecuted more than 325 local sex traffickers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said the new campaign is intended mainly to educate the community about the \"staggering number\" of children who are victims of sex trafficking in Oakland. Nola Brantley, executive director of the Oakland-based group \u003ca title=\"MISSSEY: Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth\" href=\"http://www.misssey.org\">Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth,\u003c/a> or MISSSEY, estimated that the organization helps about 250 local victims of child sex trafficking annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MISSSEY, which collaborated with the district attorney's office on the campaign, provides a drop-in recovery center and case managers to work with sexually exploited minors and help connect them with housing, jobs and educational resources. Other local agencies that help child sex trafficking victims include \u003ca title=\"BAWAR\" href=\"http://www.bawar.org\">Bay Area Women Against Rape,\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"Covenant House California (CHC) : Bay Area\" href=\"http://covenanthousecalifornia.org/bay-area-pg.php\">Covenant House\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"West Coast Children's Clinic\" href=\"http://www.westcoastcc.org\">West Coast Children's Clinic.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for help from local victims has only grown in recent years, Brantley said at the news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city of Oakland is known throughout the state and the nation as a red-light district for the buying and selling of children,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to O'Malley's office, the FBI has deemed the Bay Area a \"high-intensity child prostitution area\" and identified Oakland as a hub for the crime. But the district attorney emphasized that the minors involved in this type of crime are victims, not criminals -- an important distinction she hopes the billboard and poster campaign makes clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The posters will be put up in bus shelters, and the billboards will be displayed along major thoroughfares. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The perception of child sex workers as criminals \"is what allows some societies to keep them invisible,\" O'Malley said. \"Here in Oakland ... we don't make these children invisible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley said many of the child sex trafficking victims MISSSEY sees were sexually abused before being prostituted and have long family histories of domestic abuse. A large percentage are foster children or have come from otherwise unstable home environments and are extremely vulnerable targets for pimps, who may lure their victims with promises of a safe home and a loving relationship, according to MISSSEY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley and O'Malley said today that they are hopeful the new public awareness campaign will reach both current victims and children who are at risk of becoming involved in sex trafficking in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads are also designed to reach victims who may be hesitant to accept help from outreach workers on the street where their pimps may be watching, said Bhavna Sharma, who helps oversee MISSSEY's mentorship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The posters, in addition to featuring survivors of child sex trafficking, show a picture of a hotel bed alongside messages such as \"Being a prostituted teen isn't a choice. It's slavery.\" Many of the ads also list numbers victims can call for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The posters will be put up in bus shelters, and the billboards will be displayed prominently along major thoroughfares in Oakland. A team of graphic designers and copywriters donated their time to design the images and messages on the posters and billboards, and Clear Channel Outdoor donated the advertising space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of child sex trafficking are urged to call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at (510) 645-9388 or (888) 373-7888 for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members are also encouraged to report anonymous tips about child sex trafficking in their area by calling the Alameda County District Attorney's Human Exploitation and Trafficking Watch tip line at (510) 208-4959.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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