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WK A tribune 1 vfi S' I 50 cents Serving Oakland for 133 years oaklandtribunecom 6 October 23 2007 isw to you Elliott's Barcelebrates 100th anniversary I Jf BUSINESS Don't laugh pro players can make up to $35000 in sport competitions living SP0RIS Michalek scores twice to lead San Jose A' tfi bnarKs can uai taarv: fi rv '7 4 A 1 7 3SKBKB i ris Bfafi 4 sw Ml is News 6 orecast ft i ffi tt Los Angeles Times photos by ROBERT GAUTHIER (top) KEVORK DJANSEZIAN (right) and WALLY SULU (above) 1 By Mike Swift STA WRITER To judge from the images on network television ana corpo rate advertising lesbians and gay men share the same demo graphic niche affluent edu cated urban and usually white Wrong wrong wrong and wrong says a new national dem ographic study which suggests lesbians and gays are more likely to be older "responsible" suburbanites sharing a mort gage payment and listening to country music than young turks partying in the Castro or Chelsea "We wanted to bust some said David Morse president and chief executive of Please see GAYS News 7 Sunny Highs: lower 80s Lows: lower 50s Details on Living 8 A 1 have literally the perfect firestorm going on a long ways from Research busts gay CREATIVE MIND: Vincent DeDomenico co inventor of rancisco dies at 92 Metro 8 Six story development is expected to oe completed in 2009 By rancine Brevetti STA WRITER OAKLAND Promising a public bazaar to rival the erry ct rs in ui ir i rviii ririi i hiuui the Pike Place Market in Se an Ip dpve oners and citv leaders broke ground Monday 1 I Hundreds of homes lost to unchecked wildfires more than 250000 forced to evacuate in south state By Allison Hoffman and Gillian laccus ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO Hundreds of homes were reduced to ashes Monday as wildfires blown by fierce desert winds raced across a huge swath of Southern Cali fornia extending from Malibu to the Mexican border forcing a quarter of a million people to flee' At least one person was killed and dozens injured by more than a dozen blazes that formed a hellish spidery pat tern of luminous orange cov ering at least 521 square miles of the drought stricken regon The news got worse as the day wore on: Soon after night fall fire officials announced thati 500 homes and 100 commercial properties had been destroyed by a fire in northern San Diego County that exploded to 145 000 acres said Roxanne Pro vaznik a spokeswoman for the California Department of or estry The fire inj ured eight people including seven fire fighters and was spreading un checked irefighters who lost valu able time trying to persuade some stubborn homeowners to leave were almost completely Please see IRES News 7 HOMES (top) in Green Valley Lake burn as firefighters work to keep the flames under control on Monday Patients (above) wait to be evacuated from Pomerado Hospital in San Diego County as a fire approaches and a Super Scooper firefighting plane (right) dumps water on a wildfire near Magic Mountain in Valencia Thousands begin classes without texts district reports say By Shirley Dang and Katy Murphy STA WRITERS Richmond High School senior Marvin Salazar arrived in? economics class this fall and im mediately learned a lesson in scarcity: He had no textbook for a month because they were or dered late Taylor Poulin stuck out weeks in freshman biology at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill without a book she could take home to study Junior India Green struggled in algebra for two months at Oakland High School because she had no book at all She re lied on photocopies from teachers or borrowed the book from friends hoping to cram enough before the first batch of Without a book of her own she said she suffered on tests "I in fact got As in every single subject except the subject Please see BOOKS News 4 r' A 'Al 1 4 1 Jack London Market moves closer to reality i rp f7 HIGH WINDS: Unusually' MULTIMEDIA: or videos maps ferocious Santa Anas fuel fires and photographs of the fire line visit: insiaeBayAreacom Students 1 1 lacking books in schools Legals 1 Class 4 Lottery News 2 Obituaries Metro 6 Opinion Metro 7 Scores: Sports 5 TV Living? Market will be constructed on the Embarcadero between Web ster and Harrison streets 4 across from the Amtrak station When completed in early 2009 it will occupy' 170000 square feet of retail restaurant and office space The first floor i win leature an uuen aii lai intis market with local produce ar ttenn nnrl mnnr UULU iwuuo neon AAAvau uu fish halls Bistros and restau rants are nlanned for the on the much anticipated Jack second floor while culinary London Market the cor businesses and a professional nerstone of efforts to rejuvenate kitchen are planned for Oakland's historic waterfront the third floor The top floors London Square will be wall include space for offices the biggest public market on A parking garage structure die West Coast" promised Jim win be finished within 18 alaschi managing partner of months developers said project developers Transbay Developers including Ellis rariiitra iicUibUdy nuiiiiiigb ELLIS PARTNERS LLC Sqo7medvSdubbed Hakest 311(1 Jack London Investors see an rendering depicts the completed Jack London Square Market Hall the six story Jack London Please see JACK News 4 which is expected to open in early 2009 Batt hnq Armaqeddon 4 iSipW iV 39k 1 "Ai ST jlAr 4' iJ' i oV st I fi" JV fit 1 MlBIBBBHil a i 3 i Kififfire rSia fit? 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