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Meanwhile, the beverage industry is spending big to defeat the measure.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A History of Activism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters of Measure D see it as the next chapter in Berkeley’s history of social activism. Dr. Vicki Alexander has been working on public health and other social issues in this community for half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley,\" says Alexander. \"The Free Speech Movement the Free Mandela Movement -- just one after another after another -- we were involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was there 50 years ago at UC Berkeley confrontation at Sproul Hall between students and the administration -- a confrontation credited with launching the Free Speech Movement. Berkeley also helped launch an effort toward healthy eating, led by Alice Waters and Berkeley's schoolyard gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, funding cuts threatened some of those gardens, and the seed was planted for the beverage tax, says Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents of the kids who benefited from the gardens in the schools,\" Alexander says, \"and people in the community who benefited from the gardens started [asking], 'How can we have a source of funding that's ongoing?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building A Coalition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They knew they were taking on a tough opponent -- the beverage industry. Beverage taxes have been tried in 30 cities and states. They've all failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposition often successfully argues that this kind of tax would hurt low-income minority communities. So early on Berkeley activists began building a \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\">coalition that included African-Americans and Latinos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol McGruder works with the Berkeley chapter of the NAACP. She says she's involved as part of her focus on health in the African-American community. She says she was \"very disappointed\" when New York City's local NAACP sided against the ban on large servings of soda that was proposed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Richmond I know that big soda hired a lot of people from the community, from minority groups, to do telephone polling against it,“ McGruder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley pro-tax campaign is also tapping into a broad network of\u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\"> community groups\u003c/a>. Take the Ecology Center. It's been around for more than 40 years, and is known for pioneering Berkeley's curbside recycling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ecology Center marshaled resources including campaign foot soldiers like 22-year-old Kad Smith, who works on nutrition programs for the center. He’s spending weekends canvassing, and his evenings phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message is that there is an overwhelming and urgent health crisis in our community,” says Smith. \"We see those disparities especially in south and west Berkeley, which is a low-income community, which is also populated by a lot of people of color. It’s an overwhelming health crisis with obesity, diabetes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"yes\" campaign is also drawing support from outside the community. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried and failed to put a cap on the size of sodas sold in that city, recently donated $85,000 to the Berkeley effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money From a Big Opponent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive around Berkeley and you will see bright red “Yes on D” signs blooming in yard after yard, suggesting the measure's success is at hand. But the beverage industry is very good at fighting this fight, very good at sowing doubt about the benefits of this kind of tax. So far they've \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" target=\"_blank\">spent more than $1.6 million dollars\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ashby BART station, it’s easy to see where some of that money is going. There are signs everywhere that say, “Measure D is not what is seems.” A bunch of them have a big piece of glossy fruit that on the outside looks like an apple and on the inside looks like an orange. The tagline says, “On November 4th, vote no on Measure D.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UB8RkOYJaiQH1WslpAfI0RKMkE32mdwG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Merrill is a democratic political strategist based in Berkeley. She says the beverage industry's tactics work. It’s easier to kill this kind of measure than to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're hearing the measure is flawed, it won't do what it says it will; the money won't be spent in the way that the proponents say it will.” says Merrill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry argues there's no guarantee the tax income will support school gardens or other health programs. Instead it will end up in Berkeley's general fund, where it could be used to pay for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spokesman Roger Salazar says the anti-tax support is coming from some unions and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Kemper owns one of those small businesses, Smokey J’s BBQ on Shattuck Avenue. Campaign fliers for No on D cover the tables in his small restaurant. He says the tax could hurt his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be passed onto the people that buy stuff here,\" Kemper says. \"That’s increasing the cost of the overall food. They’re spending more money when they come here, but I don’t see any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their message out, \u003ca title=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" href=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" target=\"_blank\">the no campaign\u003c/a> is also paying teams of young people, some from as far away as Hayward, who are going door to door, every day until the election. They're articulate and very persuasive. Salazar says they're relying on that kind of street outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go out, share the information that we have,” says Salazar. “Encourage them to read the initiative for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is Big Soda The Next Big Tobacco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley vs. Big Soda” is the official tag line of the Yes on D campaign. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters of Measure D see it as the next chapter in Berkeley’s history of social activism. Dr. Vicki Alexander has been working on public health and other social issues in this community for half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley,\" says Alexander. \"The Free Speech Movement the Free Mandela Movement -- just one after another after another -- we were involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was there 50 years ago at UC Berkeley confrontation at Sproul Hall between students and the administration -- a confrontation credited with launching the Free Speech Movement. Berkeley also helped launch an effort toward healthy eating, led by Alice Waters and Berkeley's schoolyard gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, funding cuts threatened some of those gardens, and the seed was planted for the beverage tax, says Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents of the kids who benefited from the gardens in the schools,\" Alexander says, \"and people in the community who benefited from the gardens started [asking], 'How can we have a source of funding that's ongoing?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building A Coalition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They knew they were taking on a tough opponent -- the beverage industry. Beverage taxes have been tried in 30 cities and states. They've all failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposition often successfully argues that this kind of tax would hurt low-income minority communities. So early on Berkeley activists began building a \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\">coalition that included African-Americans and Latinos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol McGruder works with the Berkeley chapter of the NAACP. She says she's involved as part of her focus on health in the African-American community. She says she was \"very disappointed\" when New York City's local NAACP sided against the ban on large servings of soda that was proposed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Richmond I know that big soda hired a lot of people from the community, from minority groups, to do telephone polling against it,“ McGruder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley pro-tax campaign is also tapping into a broad network of\u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\"> community groups\u003c/a>. Take the Ecology Center. It's been around for more than 40 years, and is known for pioneering Berkeley's curbside recycling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ecology Center marshaled resources including campaign foot soldiers like 22-year-old Kad Smith, who works on nutrition programs for the center. He’s spending weekends canvassing, and his evenings phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message is that there is an overwhelming and urgent health crisis in our community,” says Smith. \"We see those disparities especially in south and west Berkeley, which is a low-income community, which is also populated by a lot of people of color. It’s an overwhelming health crisis with obesity, diabetes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"yes\" campaign is also drawing support from outside the community. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried and failed to put a cap on the size of sodas sold in that city, recently donated $85,000 to the Berkeley effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money From a Big Opponent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive around Berkeley and you will see bright red “Yes on D” signs blooming in yard after yard, suggesting the measure's success is at hand. But the beverage industry is very good at fighting this fight, very good at sowing doubt about the benefits of this kind of tax. So far they've \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" target=\"_blank\">spent more than $1.6 million dollars\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ashby BART station, it’s easy to see where some of that money is going. There are signs everywhere that say, “Measure D is not what is seems.” A bunch of them have a big piece of glossy fruit that on the outside looks like an apple and on the inside looks like an orange. The tagline says, “On November 4th, vote no on Measure D.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Merrill is a democratic political strategist based in Berkeley. She says the beverage industry's tactics work. It’s easier to kill this kind of measure than to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're hearing the measure is flawed, it won't do what it says it will; the money won't be spent in the way that the proponents say it will.” says Merrill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry argues there's no guarantee the tax income will support school gardens or other health programs. Instead it will end up in Berkeley's general fund, where it could be used to pay for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spokesman Roger Salazar says the anti-tax support is coming from some unions and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Kemper owns one of those small businesses, Smokey J’s BBQ on Shattuck Avenue. Campaign fliers for No on D cover the tables in his small restaurant. He says the tax could hurt his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be passed onto the people that buy stuff here,\" Kemper says. \"That’s increasing the cost of the overall food. They’re spending more money when they come here, but I don’t see any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their message out, \u003ca title=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" href=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" target=\"_blank\">the no campaign\u003c/a> is also paying teams of young people, some from as far away as Hayward, who are going door to door, every day until the election. They're articulate and very persuasive. Salazar says they're relying on that kind of street outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go out, share the information that we have,” says Salazar. “Encourage them to read the initiative for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is Big Soda The Next Big Tobacco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley vs. Big Soda” is the official tag line of the Yes on D campaign. The slogan is featured on their t-shirts, their yard signs, and is even the \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com\" target=\"_blank\">campaign's website URL\u003c/a>. Proponents argue that there are parallels between the soda industry and tobacco companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on D campaign even hosted a forum called “Is Soda The New Tobacco,” featuring Stan Glantz, a UCSF professor of medicine who has long fought for public health policies, including tobacco taxes to reduce smoking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political strategist Katie Merrill says those who think they can take on the soda industry should consider it a long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The soda industry is not the tobacco industry, it's not the oil industry,” says Merrill. “People haven't spent 30 years in high visibility battles against the soda industry”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Anyone who walked into the Ashby BART station Wednesday night would have been barraged by “No on Measure D” ads. They were plastered on the walls across from the trains, pinned to spaces near the ticket machine, and laid out on the floor of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s known as saturation advertising and the No on Measure D campaign is using it across Berkeley to get its message across. There are ads in bus shelters. There are ads on Berkeleyside. There are ads in the Daily Californian and on SFGate. There are campaign signs pinned to posts and stuck in medians around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get used to it. Newly filed finance reports show that the No on Measure D campaign has spent $1.675 million so far trying to defeat a 1-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages, which is about $275,000 more than was previously disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When one side has more than 10 times as many resources as another, it starts to make a mockery of what our democracy is supposed to be like.'\u003ccite>Daniel Newman\u003cbr>\nPresident, Maplight.org\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association California PAC, which is funding the campaign, donated $1.4 million but has actually spent more. The campaign is also carrying $947,433 in accrued expenses. The bulk of the money is going to campaign literature, advertising, a website and campaign, and public relations consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes to $21.43 for each of Berkeley’s 78,144 registered voters. In comparison, the beverage industry is spending $15.50 per registered voter in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Soda-industry-spends-7-7-million-to-defeat-SF-5807057.php\" target=\"_blank\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. (The stakes for soda manufacturers are higher in Berkeley, where the measure only needs a simple \"50 percent plus one\" majority to pass; in San Francisco, a two-thirds majority vote is needed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of money spent dwarfs previous Berkeley political campaigns, and distorts the electoral process, according to Daniel Newman, the president and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan research organization in Berkeley that tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When one side has more than 10 times as many resources as another, it starts to make a mockery of what our democracy is supposed to be like,” Newman said. “If one side has 10 times more money to send mailers, and pay people to have conversations with voters, it creates distorted conditions for voters to effectively decide on what laws they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the No on D campaign, would not directly answer whether the amount of money the beverage industry is spending in Berkeley would turn off voters. He pointed out that the Yes on D campaign is also using seasoned campaign consultants and that all the city officials running for re-election are using their bully pulpit to push the tax. The beverage industry must overcome that, he said. In addition, the Berkeley City Council spent $60,000 to conduct a poll about the proposed 1-cent-tax-per-ounce measure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got government sponsorship,” Salazar said. “We are going to be informing voters about the flaws and impacts of this misguided venture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The City Council did spend $60,000 on two polls, but the questions that were posed covered a range of issues, not just the soda tax.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a small portion of the $1.675 million declared recently was actually spent in Berkeley, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustan Batton, who works for Rodriguez Strategies, the Los Angeles-based consulting firm that is running the Berkeley campaign, paid $622 to stay at the Durant Hotel, according to campaign filings. The campaign has paid Wong Property Management $11,040 for rent and $1,020 to Parking Concepts for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two print shops were paid for printing campaign literature: Zee Zee Copy and Alliance Graphic got a combined $4,239. The campaign has paid Berkeleyside $9,393 for advertising. It has also taken out ads that cover two full pages in the Daily Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the major expenditures, according to campaign filings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\" alt=\"Expenditures by the No on Measure D campaign. (Berkeleyside)\" width=\"600\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10343289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures-400x534.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Expenditures by the No on Measure D campaign. (Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to blitzing the Bay Area with ads, the No on D campaign has sent out at least seven mass mailings, defined by Berkeley election law as those going to more than 200 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, the No on D campaign has also been passing out a flyer that features excerpts from two anti-soda tax op-eds that were published on Berkeleyside in the Opinionator section. Berkeleyside’s logo is prominently featured at the top of the page. Many Berkeley residents have been confused by that campaign literature, and have asked Berkeleyside whether the news site has taken a position to oppose Measure D. Berkeleyside does not take editorial positions. The flyer is a production of the No on Measure D campaign. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/10/berkeleyside-does-not-endorse-candidates-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u003c/a>about Berkeleyside’s position on endorsements.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'From our perspective, it’s bad public policy. There are ways you can promote healthy lifestyles. We don’t believe taxing people is the way to do it.'\u003ccite>Roger Salazar,\u003cbr>\nNo on D spokesman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proliferation of campaign signs has also been a problem. The city of Berkeley has sent the No on Measure D campaign two letters informing it that its signs are illegally placed in Berkeley. Berkeley’s sign ordinance does not allow campaign signs on wooden utility poles, public sidewalks, median strips, fire hydrants, curbs, or any traffic control fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 2 and then again on Oct. 6, Berkeley noted that there were No on Measure D signs on at least six different roundabouts or median strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The willingness of the beverage industry to pour close to $2 million into the campaign to defeat the proposed soda tax should come as no surprise. The beverage industry has spent $117 million since 2009 to quash or roll back soda taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/berkeley-officials-outspent-but-optimistic-in-battle-over-soda-tax.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">according to the New York Times\u003c/a>. The beverage industry has defeated more than 30 initiatives around the United States in those years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the fight has been funded by political action committees of the American Beverage Association, a trade organization made up of the world’s largest beverage companies and businesses that sell their products. They include the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Dr. Pepper-Royal Crown Bottling Co., Canada Dry Bottling Co. of New York, the Can Manufacturers Institute, 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, and Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brands include Honest Tea, Snapple, Tropicana, Minute Maid, Aquafina, Mountain Dew, Starbucks coffee drinks, Fuze Tea, Odwalla, Glacéau Vitaminwater, Hawaiian Punch, 7-Up, Coca–Cola and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar said the beverage industry wants to help people reduce their sugar consumption, just not through local legislation. 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He pointed out that the Yes on D campaign is also using seasoned campaign consultants and that all the city officials running for re-election are using their bully pulpit to push the tax. The beverage industry must overcome that, he said. In addition, the Berkeley City Council spent $60,000 to conduct a poll about the proposed 1-cent-tax-per-ounce measure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got government sponsorship,” Salazar said. “We are going to be informing voters about the flaws and impacts of this misguided venture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The City Council did spend $60,000 on two polls, but the questions that were posed covered a range of issues, not just the soda tax.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a small portion of the $1.675 million declared recently was actually spent in Berkeley, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustan Batton, who works for Rodriguez Strategies, the Los Angeles-based consulting firm that is running the Berkeley campaign, paid $622 to stay at the Durant Hotel, according to campaign filings. The campaign has paid Wong Property Management $11,040 for rent and $1,020 to Parking Concepts for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two print shops were paid for printing campaign literature: Zee Zee Copy and Alliance Graphic got a combined $4,239. The campaign has paid Berkeleyside $9,393 for advertising. It has also taken out ads that cover two full pages in the Daily Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the major expenditures, according to campaign filings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\" alt=\"Expenditures by the No on Measure D campaign. 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Many Berkeley residents have been confused by that campaign literature, and have asked Berkeleyside whether the news site has taken a position to oppose Measure D. Berkeleyside does not take editorial positions. The flyer is a production of the No on Measure D campaign. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/10/berkeleyside-does-not-endorse-candidates-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u003c/a>about Berkeleyside’s position on endorsements.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'From our perspective, it’s bad public policy. There are ways you can promote healthy lifestyles. We don’t believe taxing people is the way to do it.'\u003ccite>Roger Salazar,\u003cbr>\nNo on D spokesman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proliferation of campaign signs has also been a problem. The city of Berkeley has sent the No on Measure D campaign two letters informing it that its signs are illegally placed in Berkeley. Berkeley’s sign ordinance does not allow campaign signs on wooden utility poles, public sidewalks, median strips, fire hydrants, curbs, or any traffic control fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 2 and then again on Oct. 6, Berkeley noted that there were No on Measure D signs on at least six different roundabouts or median strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The willingness of the beverage industry to pour close to $2 million into the campaign to defeat the proposed soda tax should come as no surprise. The beverage industry has spent $117 million since 2009 to quash or roll back soda taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/berkeley-officials-outspent-but-optimistic-in-battle-over-soda-tax.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">according to the New York Times\u003c/a>. The beverage industry has defeated more than 30 initiatives around the United States in those years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the fight has been funded by political action committees of the American Beverage Association, a trade organization made up of the world’s largest beverage companies and businesses that sell their products. They include the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Dr. Pepper-Royal Crown Bottling Co., Canada Dry Bottling Co. of New York, the Can Manufacturers Institute, 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, and Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brands include Honest Tea, Snapple, Tropicana, Minute Maid, Aquafina, Mountain Dew, Starbucks coffee drinks, Fuze Tea, Odwalla, Glacéau Vitaminwater, Hawaiian Punch, 7-Up, Coca–Cola and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar said the beverage industry wants to help people reduce their sugar consumption, just not through local legislation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron stickers cover a Donna Powers banner at the corner of Barrett Avenue and Richmond Parkway in Richmond. Powers is among nine candidates \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/02/political-battle-is-waged-on-the-ground-via-campaign-signage/\">running for three spots\u003c/a> on the City Council. (Harriet Rowan/Richmond Confidential)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/4564898781.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-10342264 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/4564898781-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/4564898781-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/4564898781-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/4564898781-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Crawford follows through after hitting a grand slam that put the Giants up 4-0 in their w\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/02/as-and-giants-fans-hail-your-conquering-fifth-place-heroes/\">ild-card playoff game\u003c/a> with the Pittsburgh Pirates. They went on to win the game 8-0 and began their National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals on Friday. (Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-640x370.jpg\" alt=\"SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and fast-food workers occupy a North Oakland McDonalds earlier this month. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-640x370.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-1028x594.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and fast-food workers occupy a North Oakland McDonald's earlier this month. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169374791&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days before Christmas last year, dozens of people marched in circles around a Jack in the Box restaurant on Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give her her job back!” they chanted, protesting the firing of Ilda Amadour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FhsGHGY6V1vaWSBNVZvGuGOHXne92498\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a good employee. 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With unions on a decades-long downslide, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a> President Mary Kay Henry saw a chance to connect with disgruntled workers at companies like McDonald's and Jack in the Box and change the public conversation around stagnant wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What union they become a part of or what membership they have is sort of secondary to the first job, which is to make sure they win $15 and a union,” said Henry. The union has spent a reported $10 million on the campaign, which has spread from New York to Chicago, Detroit and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If San Francisco and Oakland can raise their minimum wage and there can still be job growth and small business growth, it shows that what the right wing is saying is wrong. This is not a job killer. This is a job creator,” Henry added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How a president's remarks and a campaign by fast-food workers has struck a chord in the Bay Area.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/politics/raise-the-bay/\">“Raise the Bay”\u003c/a> regional effort has recruited and trained dozens of fast-food employees to tell their stories in order to change public perceptions of who they are and what their lives are like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance: workers like KFC employee Shonda Roberts, with two daughters in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was probably working (at KFC) six months, and an organizer happened to come in and had a petition there to up the pay — minimum wage $15 — and I signed it [and] went to a meeting,\" Roberts recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then they flew me out to Detroit maybe six months later for a conference. And when I saw 1,500 young adults, all fast-food workers just standing in solidarity, I was hooked. It was like a drug,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama mentioned the minimum wage in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu\" target=\"_blank\">2014 State of the Union address\u003c/a>, calling on “every mayor, governor and state legislator in America\" to take on the issue. UC Berkeley economist Ken Jacobs said Obama’s remarks were a coup for ongoing local efforts in Bay Area communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has really changed the debate.” said Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose was ahead of the wave of Bay Area minimum-wage campaigns, with voters approving \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/09/26/in-san-jose-voters-ponder-raising-minimum-wage-by-25-percent/\" target=\"_blank\">a raise to $10 an hour\u003c/a> (and future increases) in 2012. Earlier this year, both \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/06/east-bay-minimum+wage-conversation-spreads/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> moved to raise minimum wages. And this fall, voters in San Francisco and Oakland will consider ballot initiatives that would raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local chambers of commerce and many business owners have argued against the hefty minimum-wage increases, saying that increased costs for employers will lead to layoffs and hurt workers, not help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael LeBlanc, founder and principal of \u003ca href=\"http://www.picanrestaurant.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">downtown Oakland's Picán restaurant\u003c/a>, voiced those very concerns when he appeared before the Oakland City Council in July to testify against a campaign to raise the city's minimum wage by more than 35 percent. That proposal, placed on Oakland's November ballot through a petition drive led by a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.liftupoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Up Oakland\u003c/a>, would hike minimum pay from $9 to $12.25 an hour, effective next March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the minimum wage increases in the form that Lift Up Oakland has it, I will lose eight or nine people, and I don’t have a choice about that,” LeBlanc told the council as it considered an alternate proposal for a more gradual increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted down the alternative, which would have raised wages to $12.25 next October and $13.50 in 2018. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-148494 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-637x640.jpg\" alt=\"brk00040959b_c\" width=\"637\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-637x640.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-300x300.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-1023x1028.jpg 1023w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/brk00040959b_c.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Savio stands on top of police car in front of Sproul Hall on Oct 1. 1964. (Courtesy of UC Berkeley, The Bancroft Library).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They say that 50 is the new 40, so it’s fitting that the Free Speech Movement, or FSM, is still in great shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Berkeley-born movement marks its golden anniversary on Oct. 1 -- the date in 1964 when students surrounded a police car in Sproul Plaza containing activist Jack Weinberg, who had been arrested for distributing civil rights information on campus -- the university and the community at large are holding commemorative rallies, teach-ins, poetry readings and other events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley has created a website called \u003ca href=\"http://fsm.berkeley.edu/\">FSM50\u003c/a> with the tagline: “Activism is in our DNA.” A \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2014/09/15/fsm/\">new play about the era\u003c/a> debuts at Berkeley Repertory Theatre this weekend with music co-written by Daniel Savio, the son of Mario Savio, one of the most significant activists of the FSM generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three veterans of the Free Speech Movement spoke with Michael Krasny on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> Tuesday about their participation in this formative era: Jack Weinberg, now an environmental activist; Lynnd Hollander Savio, Mario Savio’s widow; and Jackie Goldberg, a former California assemblywoman who spoke to the crowd from atop a police car on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation, however, didn’t linger too long over the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Forum,\u003c/em> Weinberg recounted how he and other young activists in fall 1964 had reached a boiling point over the university administration’s ban on political speech and campus activism. Weinberg defied the ban and set up a table to distribute civil rights literature. He soon found himself under arrest and hauled into a police car. Students, realizing what happened, surrounded the police car. Weinberg spent 33 hours inside as activists turned the car into a podium for what would become a historic rally for free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image of Mario Savio standing atop the car in his blazer and stocking feet (so as not to damage the roof) as he demanded “no arbitrary restrictions of free speech of any kind on this campus” is iconic -- but not just as a media artifact of '60s bravado. Robert Cohen, also a guest on the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program, wrote in \"The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s\" that \"what happened at Berkeley was an authentic political invention -- a new and complex mixture of issues, tactics, emotions, and setting that became the prototype for student protest throughout the decade. Nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show's guests focused on the movement's legacy after recalling the events of Oct. 1 and its aftermath, leading up to the occupation of Sproul Plaza on Dec. 2, the mass arrest of students on Dec. 3 and UC Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr’s speech upholding the university’s right to restrict speech -- culminating in the vote by the Academic Senate on Dec. 8, 1964, finally acceding to student demands and lifting all restrictions on speech. (You can listen to the complete episode \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201409231000\">here\u003c/a>. The events are also chronicled on this \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/pov/berkeleyinthesixties/\">timeline\u003c/a> and in the documentary “\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/pov/berkeleyinthesixties/\">Berkeley In the Sixties\u003c/a>,” available to stream on Netflix.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Way It Was (And Is)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the connections from that time to the present that resonate, the guests said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a mistake to think that all of this is past and ancient history,” Cohen said, mentioning the Occupy protests that swept the nation’s campuses and cities in 2011 as well as today's movement to stop climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Goldberg, most people have a distorted idea that the FSM roared into history with thousands of activists at the ready. She recounted sitting at literature tables on Bancroft Way with a handful of other students as people walked by without a glance. “There’s a mythology that somehow we were different and these kids today are not as good as we were. That’s just baloney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinberg agreed. “Young people today are getting a bad rap,” he said. He denounced growing economic inequality, and said huge tuition hikes have made it necessary for students to work all the time to pay off their loans. “I think that’s coming to a head right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as 2011, riot police used batons to remove students and Occupy protesters from Sproul Plaza, described in\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/uc-berkeley-riot-police-use-batons-to-clear-students-from-sproul-plaza/248228/\" target=\"_blank\"> a piece in The Atlantic\u003c/a> as “the ground zero” of the FSM. The Academic Senate later condemned the police actions, and the administration backed down and apologized. Cohen noted the outrage was recognition that the Dec. 8, 1964 resolution, which said the content of speech should not be regulated, is still crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent comments by UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks might indicate that the debate over free speech issues is far from over. His Sept. 5 email to faculty, staff and students, titled “Civility and Free Speech,” caused an uproar because he seemed to qualify what constituted acceptable speech, writing: \"We can only exercise our right to free speech insofar as we feel safe and respected in doing so, and this in turn requires that people treat each other with civility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Dirks’ email noted that civility is a specious criterion for protecting speech; They say that some spoken dissent is by definition going to be considered uncivil by authorities who generally have the power to regulate it, such as the university administration or the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later Dirks sought to \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/09/12/chancellor-dirks-on-civility/\">clarify his comments\u003c/a>, which he said were not meant in any sense to advocate squelching dissent: “In invoking my hope that commitments to civility and to freedom of speech can complement each other, I did not mean to suggest any constraint on freedom of speech, nor did I mean to compromise in any way our commitment to academic freedom, as defined both by this campus and the American Association of University Professors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, Dirks’ remarks have a distant echo with comments by Robert Gordon Sproul, UC Berkeley president from 1930 to 1958. Cohen, who was a student in the 1950s, wrote in his book that Sproul’s Cold-War era notions that the university should protect students from dangerous ideas \"meant for Sproul ‘freedom within the framework of public good’ and ‘liberty with order.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Robert Cohen, also a guest on the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program, wrote in \"The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s\" that \"what happened at Berkeley was an authentic political invention -- a new and complex mixture of issues, tactics, emotions, and setting that became the prototype for student protest throughout the decade. Nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show's guests focused on the movement's legacy after recalling the events of Oct. 1 and its aftermath, leading up to the occupation of Sproul Plaza on Dec. 2, the mass arrest of students on Dec. 3 and UC Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr’s speech upholding the university’s right to restrict speech -- culminating in the vote by the Academic Senate on Dec. 8, 1964, finally acceding to student demands and lifting all restrictions on speech. (You can listen to the complete episode \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201409231000\">here\u003c/a>. 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She recounted sitting at literature tables on Bancroft Way with a handful of other students as people walked by without a glance. “There’s a mythology that somehow we were different and these kids today are not as good as we were. That’s just baloney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinberg agreed. “Young people today are getting a bad rap,” he said. He denounced growing economic inequality, and said huge tuition hikes have made it necessary for students to work all the time to pay off their loans. “I think that’s coming to a head right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as 2011, riot police used batons to remove students and Occupy protesters from Sproul Plaza, described in\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/uc-berkeley-riot-police-use-batons-to-clear-students-from-sproul-plaza/248228/\" target=\"_blank\"> a piece in The Atlantic\u003c/a> as “the ground zero” of the FSM. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/photo-2-191-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147836 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/photo-2-191-720x480-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"photo-2-191-720x480\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/photo-2-191-720x480-640x426.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/photo-2-191-720x480.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male Zawadi is one of the many spotted hyenas that were part of a 30-year study in the Berkeley Hills. (Natalie Orenstein/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/author/natalie/\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Orenstein\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/15/berkeleys-captive-colony-of-spotted-hyenas-closes-after-30-years/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Tucked away in the Berkeley Hills is a swath of land where females are in charge and always get first dibs on dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">It’s no feminist utopia — just UC Berkeley’s captive colony of spotted hyenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The noisy animals, whose whoops are audible from the fire trails, have been fixtures for decades at the Field Station for the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Reproduction. But when the researchers who study them lost their funding, the animals had to start finding new homes. By the beginning of next year the colony will shutter for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The 30-year project was one of a kind. In 1985, UC Berkeley biologist/psychologist Stephen Glickman and animal behaviorist Laurence Frank brought 20 newborn spotted hyenas from the Maasai Mara region of Kenya to Berkeley. What followed was unprecedented research on hormones, reproduction and social behavior.\u003cspan id=\"more-170976\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Particularly fascinating to the scientists is the female hyenas’ unusual anatomy. Due to exposure to androgens, including testosterone in the womb, females develop large external genitalia that look like the males’ and that similarly become erect when the animal is excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The organs are often referred to as “pseudo-penises,” but that’s not technically accurate, said Mary Weldele, research analyst and colony manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“I think there’s a hesitance for people to say clitoris,” she said. “But it’s on a female. That’s her clitoris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">But unlike any other mammalian clitoris, the organ is used for urinating, mating and — because the vagina is fused shut — giving birth. Because the clitoral opening is so small, firstborns often suffocate during labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The colony provided scientists with a rare opportunity to observe hyenas mating, a process that is quite an endeavor for the male, who has to mount the female and blindly attempt to insert his external genitalia into her similar organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">And when copulation occurs, the female has her pick of mates. Females are always dominant over males in the strictly hierarchical hyena social system. Within the sexes there are also specific social rankings, which determine who gets to eat when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“They start fighting for dominance within seconds of being born,” Weldele said, but the males inherit their mother’s rank until they reach sexual maturity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">When the scientists brought the initial newborn cubs to Berkeley, nobody knew if they’d develop the same kind of linear social system that occurs in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“Here we had 10 hyenas who really hadn’t witnessed adults or knew what their social rank was,” Weldele said. “So what would happen when they came here? Well, when they reached puberty, everything fell into place. The males went to the bottom, the females were on top.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The people who have been involved in the colony for all or some of the past 30 years are saying goodbye not just to the project, but to animals they named and got to know well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Hyenas tend to be portrayed as grungy and conniving creatures, but the researchers describe them as smart and often affectionate animals with highly distinct personalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“They’re just wonderful animals,” Weldele said. “They’re intelligent, they like to make eye contact, and they recognize you. On the other hand, if you do something they don’t like, they remember that, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Hyenas are born with full sets of teeth, which are notoriously capable of crunching through bone. It’s not uncommon for one hyena to seriously injure another. But the animals — all offspring of the original Kenyan cubs — are content to spend most of their time splashing around in pools of water or getting massaged by the wooden backscratchers that the researchers bought in Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The most popular of erroneous hyena representations is, of course, in Disney’s \"The Lion King\" -- whose artists actually visited the Berkeley colony to sketch the hyenas. Ironically, it’s the scientists who can be credited for one of the biggest inaccuracies in the animations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“In the early days of the project, veterinary dentists thought it best to blunt their canines so that if they fought they couldn’t do much damage,” Weldele said. “Well, that was a terrible idea, and in fact it’s against the law now. 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Because it’s the only sizable captive colony of spotted hyenas -- at its largest there were 43 -- requests came from far afield, and the researchers granted permission to most projects that didn’t put too much stress on the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“We picked up a lot of collaborators, many of them at the medical school at UCSF,” Glickman said. “They introduced us to the medical relevance of the hyena research. It took us in directions we’d never anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The implications for human medicine are wide-reaching, he said. The research suggests, for example, that hyena genitalia are produced by a mechanism similar to that which exists in men with hormone-refractory prostate cancer. 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At the beginning of the study, the care cost was less than $5 per hyena per day, but it rose to $14 by the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Several animals have been placed elsewhere already, and the final hyenas will go to their new homes in the next week or two. Locations range from a wildlife refuge in Southern California to Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The 12 hyenas that remain at the colony haven’t quite kept up their typical gibbering and gabbing, Weldele said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“They’re so socially facilitated in what they do, so they’re much more subdued now,” she said. “I’m glad they’re going to good places, but this is going to be hard.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Particularly fascinating to the scientists is the female hyenas’ unusual anatomy. Due to exposure to androgens, including testosterone in the womb, females develop large external genitalia that look like the males’ and that similarly become erect when the animal is excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The organs are often referred to as “pseudo-penises,” but that’s not technically accurate, said Mary Weldele, research analyst and colony manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“I think there’s a hesitance for people to say clitoris,” she said. “But it’s on a female. That’s her clitoris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">But unlike any other mammalian clitoris, the organ is used for urinating, mating and — because the vagina is fused shut — giving birth. Because the clitoral opening is so small, firstborns often suffocate during labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The colony provided scientists with a rare opportunity to observe hyenas mating, a process that is quite an endeavor for the male, who has to mount the female and blindly attempt to insert his external genitalia into her similar organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">And when copulation occurs, the female has her pick of mates. Females are always dominant over males in the strictly hierarchical hyena social system. Within the sexes there are also specific social rankings, which determine who gets to eat when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“They start fighting for dominance within seconds of being born,” Weldele said, but the males inherit their mother’s rank until they reach sexual maturity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">When the scientists brought the initial newborn cubs to Berkeley, nobody knew if they’d develop the same kind of linear social system that occurs in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“Here we had 10 hyenas who really hadn’t witnessed adults or knew what their social rank was,” Weldele said. “So what would happen when they came here? Well, when they reached puberty, everything fell into place. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/1130655563_bd35906972_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147529 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/1130655563_bd35906972_o-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"1130655563_bd35906972_o\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/1130655563_bd35906972_o-640x426.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/1130655563_bd35906972_o-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/1130655563_bd35906972_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Berkeley is looking at expanding its permit parking program to ease the crush in residential neighborhoods. (Chris Makarsky/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/author/emilie/\" target=\"_blank\">Emilie Raguso \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to study whether permit parking might be needed in more residential neighborhoods throughout the city, and whether the cost to buy those permits should increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Parking in West Berkeley, particularly around Fourth Street and the city Corporation Yard on Allston Way, has been an area of concern for officials, as are blocks near Sacramento Street where many city staff reportedly park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The city hopes to learn — via a new environmental study — where it might make the most sense to expand the permit parking program. Berkeley currently has \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RPP_R1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">14 permit (RPP) zones\u003c/a> in central Berkeley, most of which are near commercial areas. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-09-Item-50-Expansion-of-Residential1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Via the staff report\u003c/a> “The existing RPP zones are bounded roughly on the north by Rose, Hopkins and Eunice Streets; on the east by UC Berkeley; on the south by Woolsey and part of 62nd Street; and on the west by Sacramento and Chestnut Streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Residents would have to opt in to the program by garnering the support of at least 51% of homes per block face. In addition, a parking survey would need to show that at least 75% of available street parking is occupied at mid-morning and mid-afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Last year, the city launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/goberkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">pilot program called goBerkeley\u003c/a> to change its approach to metered parking in several commercial areas to improve the visitor experience and cut down on emissions caused by drivers circling for a spot. With the permit parking program, the city now plans to take a closer look at neighborhood parking in residential areas, which was not part of goBerkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Tuesday night, two speakers addressed council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-09-Item-50-Expansion-of-Residential1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">about the proposal\u003c/a>, which was submitted by Public Works director Andrew Clough and prompted by “periodic interest” in permit parking expansion expressed by council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">One local resident told council she wasn’t sure she wanted to have to pay more to park in her own neighborhood, or to host visitors who need to park on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/john-caner/\" target=\"_blank\">John Caner\u003c/a>, who runs the Downtown Berkeley Association, told council the city might want to consider protecting the ability of city staff to park in residential areas around Sacramento Street. He noted that downtown garages are already full, and that many city staff cannot afford to park in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">On the other hand, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/jesse-arreguin/\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Jesse Arreguín\u003c/a> said he’s heard from many residents around California Street and Spaulding Avenue who are frustrated by the number of city staff who park in the neighborhood. He said there needs to be a balance in residential areas between “providing parking for people who work downtown” and “neighborhood character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">As the program currently works, on roughly 1,600 “street segments,” parking for longer than two hours — in most areas — is reserved for permit holders from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. Some blocks also require permits on Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The city hopes expanding the program might push more people who drive to use public transportation, which could decrease congestion and emissions. On the flip side, it may also lead to increased “rotation” as drivers who don’t opt for public transportation would need to move their vehicles more often to comply with the two-hour time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The city estimates that 300 more blocks might be included in the program once the new environmental study is done. Expanding the program to those blocks would lead to additional costs, however, and the program already loses money, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-09-Item-50-Expansion-of-Residential1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the staff report\u003c/a>. (An exact amount was not specified.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Staff estimate that the expansion could cost more than $1 million to implement: nearly $800,000 to hire 7.6 parking enforcement officers; nearly $80,000 for 7.6 vehicles for them to drive; an estimated $150,000 for signage, at $500 per block; and $70,000 in program management costs for staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Additional costs related to permit renewals, printing and postage, citation processing and the adjudication of contested citations have not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Council said, as part of the process, the city should investigate the possibility of raising the annual permit fee so it covers more program costs. Currently, an annual permit costs $45. Officials said it might be wise to look at an escalating fee for households with numerous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">City of Berkeley Transportation Division manager\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/farid-javandel/\" target=\"_blank\"> Farid Javandel\u003c/a> said Tuesday that he didn’t have an estimate for how much the environmental study will cost to complete, but noted that the expenses listed above, particularly for enforcement, would likely be of more significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Javandel said he hopes to return to council in February with a proposed timeline and estimated cost for the environmental study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/susan-wengraf/\" target=\"_blank\">Councilwoman Susan Wengraf\u003c/a> said Tuesday night that the city is going to need to think more broadly about parking going forward. She said there is an “inherent conflict we have about parking,” and that the city needs to build more parking structures downtown to help ease the tension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Wengraf said many people do use BART to get to the city, but that the transit system doesn’t serve all of the surrounding communities. She also noted that the city doesn’t have the staff “to do simple things,” and wondered how an increased workload would be handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“We’re moving in one direction but we’re not doing anything to alleviate the whole problem,” she said. “I think we really do have a citywide problem with parking. And we’re not really addressing it in a comprehensive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/max-anderson/\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Max Anderson\u003c/a> said the situation is only going to get worse as the city increases in density. He said Berkeley’s population rose from 99,000 in 2000 to 114,000 now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“That increase in population alone adds to the problem and, as we build more structures that attract people and are destinations, we’re going to have even more people coming,” he said. “In a sense, there’s a problem that accompanies success, and we have to be able to address the increased demand.\u003cbr>\nI don’t think we’ve done that so far.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Residents would have to opt in to the program by garnering the support of at least 51% of homes per block face. In addition, a parking survey would need to show that at least 75% of available street parking is occupied at mid-morning and mid-afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Last year, the city launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/goberkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">pilot program called goBerkeley\u003c/a> to change its approach to metered parking in several commercial areas to improve the visitor experience and cut down on emissions caused by drivers circling for a spot. With the permit parking program, the city now plans to take a closer look at neighborhood parking in residential areas, which was not part of goBerkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Tuesday night, two speakers addressed council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-09-Item-50-Expansion-of-Residential1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">about the proposal\u003c/a>, which was submitted by Public Works director Andrew Clough and prompted by “periodic interest” in permit parking expansion expressed by council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">One local resident told council she wasn’t sure she wanted to have to pay more to park in her own neighborhood, or to host visitors who need to park on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/john-caner/\" target=\"_blank\">John Caner\u003c/a>, who runs the Downtown Berkeley Association, told council the city might want to consider protecting the ability of city staff to park in residential areas around Sacramento Street. He noted that downtown garages are already full, and that many city staff cannot afford to park in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">On the other hand, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/jesse-arreguin/\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Jesse Arreguín\u003c/a> said he’s heard from many residents around California Street and Spaulding Avenue who are frustrated by the number of city staff who park in the neighborhood. He said there needs to be a balance in residential areas between “providing parking for people who work downtown” and “neighborhood character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">As the program currently works, on roughly 1,600 “street segments,” parking for longer than two hours — in most areas — is reserved for permit holders from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. Some blocks also require permits on Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The city hopes expanding the program might push more people who drive to use public transportation, which could decrease congestion and emissions. On the flip side, it may also lead to increased “rotation” as drivers who don’t opt for public transportation would need to move their vehicles more often to comply with the two-hour time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">The city estimates that 300 more blocks might be included in the program once the new environmental study is done. Expanding the program to those blocks would lead to additional costs, however, and the program already loses money, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-09-Item-50-Expansion-of-Residential1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the staff report\u003c/a>. (An exact amount was not specified.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Staff estimate that the expansion could cost more than $1 million to implement: nearly $800,000 to hire 7.6 parking enforcement officers; nearly $80,000 for 7.6 vehicles for them to drive; an estimated $150,000 for signage, at $500 per block; and $70,000 in program management costs for staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Additional costs related to permit renewals, printing and postage, citation processing and the adjudication of contested citations have not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Council said, as part of the process, the city should investigate the possibility of raising the annual permit fee so it covers more program costs. Currently, an annual permit costs $45. Officials said it might be wise to look at an escalating fee for households with numerous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">City of Berkeley Transportation Division manager\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/farid-javandel/\" target=\"_blank\"> Farid Javandel\u003c/a> said Tuesday that he didn’t have an estimate for how much the environmental study will cost to complete, but noted that the expenses listed above, particularly for enforcement, would likely be of more significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Javandel said he hopes to return to council in February with a proposed timeline and estimated cost for the environmental study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/susan-wengraf/\" target=\"_blank\">Councilwoman Susan Wengraf\u003c/a> said Tuesday night that the city is going to need to think more broadly about parking going forward. She said there is an “inherent conflict we have about parking,” and that the city needs to build more parking structures downtown to help ease the tension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">Wengraf said many people do use BART to get to the city, but that the transit system doesn’t serve all of the surrounding communities. She also noted that the city doesn’t have the staff “to do simple things,” and wondered how an increased workload would be handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">“We’re moving in one direction but we’re not doing anything to alleviate the whole problem,” she said. “I think we really do have a citywide problem with parking. And we’re not really addressing it in a comprehensive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #444444\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/max-anderson/\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Max Anderson\u003c/a> said the situation is only going to get worse as the city increases in density. 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"disqusTitle": "Salvaged Beach Trash Becomes Art in Berkeley Resident's Front Yard",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tom Dalzell, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/04/how-quirky-is-berkeley-mark-oliviers-colusa-avenue-beach-trash-sculpture/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS11949_Cathy-ThirdBuddha1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146922 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS11949_Cathy-ThirdBuddha1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"RS11949_Cathy-ThirdBuddha1\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third Buddha and other sculpture at 1118 Colusa Ave. (Catherine MacNeal/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colusa Avenue between Marin and Hopkins is not well-traveled, but people who have heard about Mark Olivier’s incredible — as in unbelievable — front yard at 1118 Colusa often make a point to go there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivier, a carpenter who found himself as a sculptor, has created a fantastical display from found objects. He walks the Albany Bulb and other beaches to collect trash, mostly plastic, that has washed up. He takes the trash home, sorts it in boxes and bins. And then the magic happens: unexpected animals and masks and figures and machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some pieces, Olivier sticks to one basic trash commodity. Baseball caps wash up on the beaches with some regularity, and one man’s washed-up baseball cap is another man’s material for sculpture:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Nike-of-Samothrace.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146943 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Nike-of-Samothrace-640x488.jpg\" alt=\"Quirky Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nike of Samothrace at 1118 Colusa Ave. (John Storey/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This sculpture is one of the few Olivier sculptures which is an allusion to classical sculpture. The \u003cem>Winged Victory of Samothrace\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Nike of Samothrace\u003c/em> is a second-century B.C. marble sculpture found in the Louvre. It is believed that Pythokritos of Rhodes was the sculptor and that it was erected by Macedonian general Demetrius I Poliocretes after a naval victory at Cyprus. That is quite a bit of heritage for a bunch of washed-up baseball caps in Berkeley.\u003cbr>\nOlivier has created a series of thunderbird sculptures, also made primarily from baseball caps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Thunderbird-series.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Thunderbird-series-640x443.jpg\" alt=\"Quirky Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Thunderbird Series at 1118 Colusa Ave. (John Storey/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of disposable butane lighters that Olivier has rescued and repurposed is staggering. The Zippo lighter was introduced in 1932. Great thought was put into its design and care was exercised in preserving and using a Zippo for years of smoking pleasure. Not so with the disposables. Beaches are littered with them, and Olivier is especially fond of their symmetry and bright colors. He has several intricate bridge sculptures made almost entirely with lighters, as well as this serpent:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Doubleheaded-Aztec-Serpent.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146956 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Doubleheaded-Aztec-Serpent-640x399.jpg\" alt=\"Quirky Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-headed Aztec serpent at 1118 Colusa Ave. (Tom Dalzell/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Braided nylon rope, especially dynamic kernmantle rope, washes up by the mile on beaches. Olivier salvages the rope and builds around wooden frames. Margate, New Jersey may have Lucy the Elephant, but we have Mark Olivier’s Babu:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Sweet-Babu-Cathy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146961 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Sweet-Babu-Cathy-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet-Babu-Cathy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet Babu at 1118 Colusa Ave.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Any one of Olivier’s sculptures is a marvel of color, form and reuse of trash. Seen as a whole in his front yard, the effect is overwhelming in a Dr. Seuss world kind of way. I visit every month or so, seeing old friends and making new ones. I am always amazed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a fuller treatment of Mark Olivier’s beach detritus sculpture, see \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/major-quirky-9-beach-detritus-art-1118-colusa/\" target=\"_blank\">Quirky Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full article and see more photos \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/04/how-quirky-is-berkeley-mark-oliviers-colusa-avenue-beach-trash-sculpture/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tom Dalzell, a labor lawyer, created a website, Quirky Berkeley, to share all the whimsical objects he has captured with his iPhone. The site now has more than 8,400 photographs of quirky objects around town as well as posts where the 30-year resident muses on what it all means. This is the eighth installment in the series.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeleyside publishes many articles every day. 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He walks the Albany Bulb and other beaches to collect trash, mostly plastic, that has washed up. He takes the trash home, sorts it in boxes and bins. And then the magic happens: unexpected animals and masks and figures and machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some pieces, Olivier sticks to one basic trash commodity. Baseball caps wash up on the beaches with some regularity, and one man’s washed-up baseball cap is another man’s material for sculpture:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Nike-of-Samothrace.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146943 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Nike-of-Samothrace-640x488.jpg\" alt=\"Quirky Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nike of Samothrace at 1118 Colusa Ave. (John Storey/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This sculpture is one of the few Olivier sculptures which is an allusion to classical sculpture. The \u003cem>Winged Victory of Samothrace\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Nike of Samothrace\u003c/em> is a second-century B.C. marble sculpture found in the Louvre. 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That is quite a bit of heritage for a bunch of washed-up baseball caps in Berkeley.\u003cbr>\nOlivier has created a series of thunderbird sculptures, also made primarily from baseball caps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Thunderbird-series.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Thunderbird-series-640x443.jpg\" alt=\"Quirky Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Thunderbird Series at 1118 Colusa Ave. (John Storey/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of disposable butane lighters that Olivier has rescued and repurposed is staggering. The Zippo lighter was introduced in 1932. Great thought was put into its design and care was exercised in preserving and using a Zippo for years of smoking pleasure. Not so with the disposables. Beaches are littered with them, and Olivier is especially fond of their symmetry and bright colors. He has several intricate bridge sculptures made almost entirely with lighters, as well as this serpent:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Doubleheaded-Aztec-Serpent.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146956 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Doubleheaded-Aztec-Serpent-640x399.jpg\" alt=\"Quirky Berkeley\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-headed Aztec serpent at 1118 Colusa Ave. (Tom Dalzell/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Braided nylon rope, especially dynamic kernmantle rope, washes up by the mile on beaches. Olivier salvages the rope and builds around wooden frames. 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