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SUNDAYApril 23 2006 LOCAL THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE 2 METRO Cloggers share Oakland experiences online CHAIR from Metro 1 6k i I fulflllingaivear she said Lee saisVie found Mills welcoming and under standing Child cafe facilities dMnot exist sl often took hepids tnc1afflM affi Tlieroamed the cdggmmtad other students would said Oakland farmers market delights in diversity ARM from Metro 1 RWANDA frojn Metro 1 Annalee ALLEN Submissions can be' text audio or video Mattern and Bryne have been especially interested to see how the stories can be downloaded from the site to PDA (personal digital assistant) de vice so they may be accessed while out in the environment you want to hear the story about how the lake's wildlife refuge came about while walking past it you can use this to do that" explains Bryne Bryne's background is in so ciology and music (the music pieces heard on the Web site are his compositions) and was drawn to CSUEB because it has one of the few graduate pro grams currently offered that is exploring interdisciplinary and multimedia connections past experience in cludes work in the environ mental sciences field Her undergraduate degree is from UC Davis worked in environ mental planning and compli wait till fruit season kicks in CWe'll really be Because this market also2draws customers from the population In CChinatown a broad of fering of exotic Asian produce2and herbs Leeks Lemon grass Jumbo salted duck eggs for X75 cents The Aslan crowd Is theX reason Crain isheries Is here Is the only farmers2market 1 go said Cram wearing a yellow Gorton ftsh erman style coat and pulling a Xflopping catfish from a largeZstalnless steel water cooler "I Cjnostly do grocery stores But I come to this market mainly be cause of the Aslan population and the demand for really fresh But cultural variety runs the gamut Billal Sldiq was vigor ously working the crowd of fering free samples of spinach flatbread with garlic cheese and sweet jalapeno sauce at the East and West AfghanItalian Gourmet ood booth The East and West crew from Concord works about 35 farmers markets a week he said He likes this one but says' timing is everything depends on the day he said I can pull 'em in good Would you like to try a free In a blink holding an Afghan baklava place to explore With a 35 mile pathway around the pe rimeter a variety of birds (it is the oldest wildlife refuge) a fairy tale theme park a bandstand gazebo a lawn bowling center museum and a wealth of historic buildings just for starters Lake' Merritt has inspiration enough for even the most reticent dogger it would seem The site contains an interac tive map allowing visitors to pinpoint where the stories poems and what have you take place They came up with the term as a way to show how this digital community of storytellers is growing as word spreads that there is a place to share experiences The team hopes to demonstrate the online framework can be used for other towns and cities as well Since going in De cember the site has collected 100 stories from posters with themes that fit a variety of genre categories says Mattern There are 18 different categories to chose from including action ad venture mystery nature comedy love and historical (in the interest of full disclosure video clips of walking tours I lead are now on the site) There Is even an abstract category for those posters who are not cer tain how their contributions fit in the mix says Byrne the same but made with pistachios" he said "No butter just olive oil And just honey No sugar like some Mmnjm Mang ooo mewle muff (Translation: Thank you very much) Past a stand of fennel leeks and kale a booth of beautiful orchids that pos sibly be real but are Whoops watch out for the little kid wad dling along with a bag of kettle corn as big as he Is At th? midway point in the intersection at Ninth and Wash ington 1116 Season of Us is playing a soothing combo of flute and guitar Nearby is the Crepe ioche Bakery stand from San rancisco The white Italian bread with mixed dried fruit is one of the most popular items call fruit pretzels" the vendor said Back at the Roll Roti truck the one with the giant chicken on top little golden naked chicken bodies are spinning on the rotisserie Don and Marie Kloss of Wis consin in town to visit their daughter are in orbit around the mutant big as your fist strawberries at the arms strawberry stand shaking their heads grow them this way in Don said or more information on the Old Oakland market call 745 7100 ARAH Mattern and Seamus Byrne sec ond year students in Cal State East Multimedia Graduate Program want you to know about the latest Internet lingo is blogging and now there is says Byrne Irish born Bay Area new comer is a community blog for people who want to talk to each other about where they live and what that means to or their thesis project Mat tern and Byrne created a Web site wwwtheorganiccltycom where stories about Oakland abound and new posts are ap pearing daily project Is allowing us to explore what It means to tell stories these days through new technology espe cially the personal mobile de vices more and more people have access The Organic City project fo cuses on Lake Merritt and downtown as a framework for this new collection of narra tives The duo zeroed In on the lake because of its central loca tion in the city and because so many people gravitate to it is a popular outdoor public space with such a diverse array of people culture history and scenery" says Byrne The lake serves as a unifying element for stories Their research showed Oak eland is among the most ethni cally diverse cities in the country and a significant por Jj tlon of the population Is techni Xcally savvy In addition says Byrne Oak Xland has an active arts commu X' nity The park surrounding the lake includes an interesting va riety of sights and sounds which makes it an excellent Rwandan hero criticizes peace process ance for five years Now 1 am exploring my creative inclina tions towards graphic arts story telling and public educa tion by using the Web and mo bile Ultimately the duo hopes the project will allow them to ex plore the relationships between place story and community as well as the ways in which new technologies are going to en hance our experience of these important components of human identity "We are hoping the new media can reconnect neighbors and encotfrage per sonal reflection even for those who do not usually consider themselves to be writers they say The Organic City project wwwtheorganiccitycom is uo for Best Student Web site at the upcoming Webby Awards to be presented in New York City June It is one of five sites nominated in the student cat egory Without providing specifics he lamented the amount of time it takes for the United Nations to step up to its respon sibilities The 100 day massacre tn which 800000 were killed reached a worldwide audience when Rusesabagina's life story was adapted into the critically acclaimed film Rwanda" in 2004 Rusesabagina sheltered 1200 Tutsis from being slaughtered by the Hutus in the hotel he managed the people who saw the movie cried and said 'I'm sorry we did not know' Rusesabagina said His new memoir Ordinary Man" is about how an av erage person can make a difference by taking a stand rather than standing by His heroism inspired people across the globe made evi dent by the 300 plus in attendance at the Marines' Memorial Club and Hotel Among them were high school and middle school students from across the Bay Area one of whom raised funds for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina ounda tion Piedmont Middle School students presented Rusesaba gina with a check for $1325 and a sweat shirt designed by 12 year old Jack Taylor with the words an upstander the on the back Joci Kelleher a seventh grade English and social studies teacher at Piedmont Middle School attended an event last October at which Rusesabagina spoke and mentioned the term wanted to inspire (the students) to be as opposed to bystanders who sit back and do said Kelleher who taught her 27 students about the genocide in Rwanda and heroism Mrs Kelleher told us about it we wanted to help said Katherine Lin 12 The decision was announced riday night at a reception at Mills A committee to conduct a national search for candi dates has been established On Saturday a reporter interviewed Lee who was in the midst of hurrying her grandchildren into her car on the way to a succession of Earth Day events She said that when she arrived at Mills as a single mother with two small children ore than 30 years ago she had no idea how her life would unfold She never imagined that a chair at the college would be named in her honor is not about Barbara she said about Mills College trying to provide the best academic foundation for young women so they can become civic leaders Tm convinced that Mills women will be able to change the world I think this chair will be a step in that she said Mills is a nationally prominent liberal arts col lege located on the edge of the Oakland hills It offers many degree programs for undergraduate women and graduate women and men Lee native pf El Paso Texasi grfcw up in the San er Mills College honors Lee with professorship JULIAN BECERRA Staff SARAH MATTERN AND SEAMUS BYRNE second year students in Cal State East Bay's Multimedia Graduate Program are developing a new website about Oakland VMills with her young boys and it was a happy landing she fsajd I alwOTsWffftwto go toja women's college Education is fso in terms of helping young women develop and live i flllHIlinCfllVAA? Ohp SAlfl JUUA ROBINSON Staff BILL STANIELD PLAYS GUITAR as the crowds pass by at the Old Oakland farmers market take them uadecUhir She' became interested in politics in 1972 when as presi dent of the college Black Students Unionshe met Shirley Chisholm the New York congresswoman who was trying for the Democratic presidential nomination Chisholm was the first woman and first African American to seek the nomi nation Mills became a center of support for the dynamic con gresswoman and Lee as well as Sandra Gaines Sandre Swanson and Wilson Riles Jr became strong Chisholm supporters After graduating from Mills in 1973 she earned a mas degree in social work from the University of California Berkeley She worked as an intern then as an aide to Con gressman Ron Dellums When he retired in 1998 she was elected to the seat She is the senior female Democrat on the House International Relations Committee where she serves on the Africa and Western Hemisphere Subcommittees Mills awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1999 W'wr jiando jdgh school sjie jpent fiyo years in Eng land then movedTO the Bay Area in 1967She landed at 1 Mill with her young boys and it was a happy landing she ts tfi nt A i MD I Cal panel: Big change is needed to halt warming EARTH from Metro 1 is a revolution" said Harrison raker dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environ mental Design to the nearly 50 students and attendees of the panel discussion yours" The Berkeley institute was formed last year to cross polli nate the science of the environ ment with the goal of addressing some of these problems in new and innovative ways raker was among the loudest to denounce the status quo But he was also the first to note the technology that needs to change is already on the shelf (just) developed the political and market sys willing to apply that tech nology he said What will it take? year with four or five (hurricane) Ka trinas" That may not be too far off Inez ung co director of the in stitute and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has spent 20 years crunching numbers frying to predict cli mate change one Of the fore most global warming theoreti cians And what startles her today is that worldwide observa tions perfectly mimic her pre dictions The five warmest years on record since humans began recording the temperature were 1998 and 2002 through 2005 she said And the way Mother Nature deals with that heat the panel noted to really stir up the weather" She says it's unfortunate the predictions are coming true is no lopger a theoretical problem when we look at Ka trina" she said In the past 200 years the sea has risen about 5 inches In the past decade risen another 5 If ice cap melts something ung and other scientists say is quite possible the sea could rise 220 feet That would turn the Napa Valley into an arm of San ran cisco Bay But the loss of a fine Char donnay is the least of our wor ries China in the next 30 years needs enough housing to equal about half of everything hu mans have built Over the past 1000 raker said Right now building new homes fol lowing the model developed here with the assumption owners will have automobiles to cart them from home to store and school and work a model that needs the construction of three 300 mega watt power plants per week to meet energy demands have very difficult deci sions to said Cymie Payne a former United Nations attorney who now is the asso ciate director of the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy TtPuffiu 2004 510 581 6750 www beckroofingonline com 21123 MEEKLAND AVE HAYWARD BECK ROOING INC amily Owned And Operated Since 1957 DPCT" BEST WWW MM Lie 696009 Insured SENIOR DISCOUNTS! 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