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Operational excellence

Additional costsaving proposals will be reviewed

city government

Affordable local housing promoted By Anjuli Sastry | Staff asastry@dailycal.org

Morris expounds on a number of new Operational Check J.D. Excellence proposals to be considered on June 23, Online which include consolidation of several online services. www.dailycal.org

By J.D. Morris | Staff jmorris@dailycal.org One of seven teams within the campus cost-cutting Operational Excellence initiative may soon be another step closer to seeing its proposals enacted. After proposals from the student service initiative team received guidance from the initiative’s program committee, the coordinating committee — composed of one staff member and one faculty member from each of the seven teams and three student and faculty leaders — will now make a recommendation on each proposal to the executive committee, which will then make a final decision. In total, over 40 proposals are slated to be considered by late August as the initiative reviews them in its effort to save the campus $75 million annually. On June 23, the coordinating committee will consider making recommendations on five of seven proposals from the student service initiative. Two of the proposals — tools to reduce the costs of residence hall meal plans and a car share service for campus — have already been approved by the executive committee because they required no investment to launch, according to Bill Reichle, communications manager for the program office. Among the remaining proposals is the creation of an “Academic Commons” that would present one web interface for students to access certain campus services which are now separated, including financial aid, academic standing and class registration. According to Reichle, this proposal is requesting $7.3 million in funding from the initiative, coupled with another $5 million from outside funds. It will purportedly generate $400,000 in short-term savings through the retirement of old systems and an annual $540,000 in “run-rate savings” by allowing those employees previously dedicated to maintaining old systems to direct more focus elsewhere. Reichle said many of the cost savings stemming from

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A proposed project on University Avenue and Walnut Street is being developed with money from the Housing Trust Fund, which is managed by the city and receives federal funds.

Berkeley real estate developers now have more of an incentive to build affordable housing units after the Berkeley City Council voted to pass an ordinance at its meeting Tuesday that would impose a fee on developers who do not meet the required percentage of affordable units. First introduced in Berkeley after a 2009 Los Angeles court ruling made it illegal for California cities to require developers to provide inclusionary housing — which required 20 percent of the units in new development be set aside as affordable — the affordable housing mitigation fee gives developers an incentive to fund affordable housing units. If developers choose not to build affordable housing units in complexes, they will be required to pay a yet-to-be-determined fee of anywhere between $20,000 and $34,000 per unit. “The ordinance will require developers of market rate housing to pay fees on new housing, or would give them the option to provide housing,” said Amy Davidson, senior management analyst for the city’s housing and community services. “If developers chose to provide units, there would be more affordable units, and there would be housing for incomes at or below the 50 percent median income for families in that area — 50 percent being about $45,000.” All funds raised from the fee will go into the Housing Trust Fund, which is managed by the city and has been sustained primarily by federal funds in order to provide assistance for nonprofit developers to develop projects around Berkeley, according to Jane Micallef, the city’s director of housing and community services. The funds produced from the ordinance will offset a projected 12 percent decrease in funding during the 2012 fiscal year to HOME, the largest federal

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City Government

state budget

Board of Education votes to continue preschool funding

State Democrats approve additional cuts to UC, CSU By Allie Bidwell | Senior Staff abidwell@dailycal.org

By Tiffany Chiao | Staff tchiao@dailycal.org

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Pablo Paredes and his daughter pose at Franklin Preschool. The Board of Education voted to continue funding certain preschools.

Following the Berkeley Unified School District’s proposal to eliminate extended day care programs to offset budget cuts to preschool funding, concerns from low-income families who rely on the programs to watch their children prompted further discussion between city and school officials. At the school district’s June 8 Board of Education meeting, the board voted to keep three of four existing 9.5-hour preschool classrooms open for an additional year. Councilmembers Jesse Arreguin and Laurie Capitelli had planned to raise the issue again at the Berkeley City Council meeting on Tuesday, but in light of the school board’s decision, the council postponed discussions to plan for how they could raise the $60,000 needed to save the fourth classroom as well. Pablo Paredes, chair of the School Governance Council and a parent of a child who attends one of the preschools, said the extended-hour preschools are extremely important to low-income families. “They’re the only way that a lot of low-income, working families, or families that are full-time students, are able to access preschool in Berkeley,” he said. “Most families cannot afford quality family care.” Paredes added that the purpose of the 9.5-hour

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Budget bills approved by state Democrats Wednesday to close the state’s remaining $9.6 billion deficit include a combination of tax and fee increases, spending cuts and revenue assumptions, as well as an additional $300 million in cuts to California’s higher education institutions. Among the cuts in the Democrats’ plan is an additional $150 million cut to both the UC and California State University systems. The plan, introduced Tuesday, avoids the tax extensions and increases sought by Gov. Jerry Brown and delays some payments to schools, makes further spending cuts and raises certain fees, such as car registration fees and local sales tax rates. The bills now move to Brown’s desk for final approval. State legislators voted Wednesday afternoon to pass the main budget bill in a 23-15 vote. Both houses met Wednesday to take up a series of bills related to the budget package, including the Democrats’ proposed plan. If state legislators had not passed a balanced budget by midnight on Wednesday, their pay would

have been docked for every day the plan was late. In addition to further cuts from the UC’s budget, the plan proposes delaying the payment of $540 million in UC bills until the next fiscal year. A statement released by UC President Mark Yudof and UC Board of Regents Chair Russell Gould called the budget proposal “unacceptable” and said it would impair the university’s ability to provide access to affordable education while “preserving academic excellence and allowing students to complete their degrees in a timely way.” Yudof has said the university could absorb the current $500 million cut it faces without raising tuition but that any additional cuts would likely mean fee hikes throughout the system. If the proposed plan pushes through, the likely result will be a double-digit tuition increase on top of the 8 percent hike already approved for next year, according to UC officials. “The world-class education, research and public service provided by the University of California fuel the economy and contribute to the well being of millions of people throughout the state,” the statement reads. “This budget plan would be bad for

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Online Exclusives Fee hikes at Berkeley Adult School raise concerns In response to recent funding reductions, the Berkeley Adult School will increase class fees for the fall semester — an issue that has raised concerns regarding the future well-being of senior citizens and adults with disabilities. For the fall semester, additional costs will be placed on what had been free classes just a few years prior. Along with reducing classes, the fee increase will go toward combating a $90,000 reduction in funding that the school receives from a block entitlement grant. Prior to February 2009, the Berkeley Unified School District received varying amounts of funding every year depending on average daily

attendance. But after February 2009, the district began receiving a set amount of funding from the grant that the superintendent and a budget advisory committee doled out to the district’s programs every year at his or her discretion, according to Burr Guthrie, the adult school principal. According to district Superintendent Bill Huyett, the $90,000 reduction for the adult school came in response to a study done by a graduate student from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy which compared fees charged by surrounding adult education programs. ...

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” a delight for kids only The consistencies between the novel and the film are few and far between, which may disappoint anyone expecting an accurate retelling of the story they read in school. While the novel tells the amusing story of the Poppers, a wholesome family who turns their twelve penguins into a circus, the film tells the heart-warming story of a man who has no time to mend his broken family until they bond together through their mutual love for the penguins. Though Jim Carrey acts as his trademark character driven by quirks, the acting by Carla Gugino (Mr. Popper’s ex-wife Amanda), Madeline Carrol (his daughter Janie), and

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Police officers meet up after planned protests in Oakland. Some thought protests would spring up in Oakland and Los Angeles after the release of Johannes Mehserle.

Mehserle’s release from jail passes by quietly By Katie Nelson | Senior Staff knelson@dailycal.org

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Maxwell Perry Cotton (his son Billy) is less spectacular and somewhat cheesy Ophelia Lovibond, who plays Mr. Popper’s assistant Pippi, however, put on an amusingly eccentric. ...

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Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant III in 2009, was quietly released from jail early Monday morning. At approximately 12:01 a.m., Mehserle was released from the Los Angeles County Jail after serving 11 months for the involuntary manslaughter of Grant, the 22-year-old Mehserle shot and killed on the platform of the Fruitvale BART station on Jan. 1, 2009.

The Daily Clog damn you, irvine, damn you!: Brand-new Clogger Ricardo Barton expresses his profound disappointment that Cal lost out on the opportunity to play the Omaha Eaters — if only for what would have been some fabulous puns. streetcolor knits big: BART may be infested with all kinds of unimaginable diseases, but at least the mysterious Streetcolor has found a way to make bacteria look good.

Arts & Entertainment Blog grow well rocks: Grow Well hail from the Coachella Valley and play music that is as sunny as the locale that spawned them.

News Blog first lady visits bay area: Those who were able to spend $1,000 or more on admission dined with First Lady Michelle Obama earlier this week. The Daily Californian was, regrettably, not fortunate enough to attend.

Correction The photograph accompanying Monday’s article “Omaha! Cal heads to College World Series” was incorrectly credited to Eugene Lau. In fact, the photograph should have been credited to Allyse Bacharach. The Daily Californian regrets the error.

A Los Angeles jury convicted Mehserle in July 2010 of involuntary manslaugter in the death of Grant. Throughout the case, Mehserle claimed he thought he was reaching for his taser and not his gun when the incident occurred. In November 2010, following a racially charged case that sparked riots and protests throughout Oakland, Mehserle was sentenced to two years in prison — the minimum amount of time that can be served for someone convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Last Friday, Los Angeles County

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block grant exclusive to affordable housing around the country and in Berkeley, making the city’s Housing Trust Fund invaluable for financing Berkeley’s affordable housing in the future, according to city officials. “When you develop market rate housing, when you develop any housing, you’re bringing more people into the city. When you do that, there is a higher demand for all kinds of things — book stores, apparel stores,” said City Councilmember Linda Maio. “We need to mitigate demand, or there will be a ripple effect in the housing market, and some people in lower level income sectors will be priced out.” The council will set the ordinance fee amounts based on what it heard from the Bay Area Economics firm, which presented a nexus study in January 2011 supporting a $34,000 per market rate rental unit, while city housing staff from both the Housing Advisory Commission and Rent Stabilization Board recommended a fee of $28,000 per unit. However, city staff suggested at a Feb. 15 meeting that the council set the fee at $20,000 per unit, mimicking the cost of inclusionary housing and raising money for affordable units without affecting the development climate. “New housing development created an indirect demand for affordable housing, and the city had a right to order developers to mitigate the impact,” said Steve Barton, deputy director of the Rent Stabilization Board. “The rent stabilization board has strongly supported the idea of having such a fee, but there is controversy over the amount of the fee.” Council members also unanimously adopted a resolution at Tuesday’s meeting to approve a number of allocations from the Housing Trust Fund, including $890,000 for the Resources for Community Development — a Berkeley-based nonprofit development housing corporation — to acquire and rehabilitate 47 units of family housing at the University Avenue Cooperative Housing. “Over the years, we have built affordable housing using funds from the Housing Trust Fund,” said Susan Friedland, executive director of Affordable Housing Associates, a nonprofit Berkeley developer that was allocated $60,000 from the fund. “Most recently, we are just finishing construction on a new building on Sacramento Avenue that will be home to 15 homeless youth.” Although the resolution to adopt the specific fee amount is set for July 12, Councilmember Jesse Arreguin said he feels it is crucial to have the amount finalized before the council adjourns for summer recess July 19. “Whatever happens should generate the most affordable housing in the community, whether it means getting money into the Housing Trust Fund or getting units into a project,” Arreguin said. “It is good to have inclusionary projects and economic diversity in the buildings with diverse neighborhoods, but it fundamentally comes down to what’s the best way to get affordable housing in a community.” Anjuli Sastry covers housing.

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Preschool Spanish program to open in fall

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By True Shields | Staff tshields@dailycal.org

ell, you know when you pedal, and you don’t go anywhere?” my friend answered when I asked her what was exactly wrong with my fashionably functional bicycle. Though I had ridden it to her house only the night before, I had a feeling there was something slightly off with my bike, but I thought it was just me. How could I blame my bicycle-induced huffing and puffing on the faultlessly yellow 1983 Schwinn ridden through the streets of Los Angeles by a history grad student who sold it to me only two semesters ago? Anna tried to raise my seat with her wrench a few days before, but couldn’t do so without somehow twisting the brakes. Since Anna was late to class, I couldn’t help but think that she probably got hit by a car as I wrestled with the handout I would’ve tag-teamed with her. If only I hadn’t been so lazy last night, and rode my bike home instead of taking the bus back to Berkeley ... But I had just spent three hours working on a problem set with her that night and wanted to enjoy my triumphant buzz soaking up an album in my iPod while watching bicyclists, drivers and pedestrians dodge me and fellow lone riders on the F bus. My childhood infatuation of dodge-free bike-riding has met the practicality of adulthood, as I often only ride my bike when I’m in a hurry. Though riding my bike downhill and through the streets is a release that lifts my head above and body back down-to-earth, these hills were made for walking. Floating down memory lane in the suburbs of my childhood seems to justify my country-bumpkin bewilderment of Berkeley’s urban landscape. My friends and I rode our bikes as carelessly as the identical rows of houses and picturesquely barren sidewalks let us, speeding through road bumps and past elderly couples as if they weren’t there at all. While the middle-class gated communities of Metro Manila granted us the freedom to be the kids we read about in our American chapter books, tinted automobiles carried us to the potholes and paupers of the main road even more often. hough my address seemed to change as often as my hormones, the isolated freedom of suburbia was consistent. While iron gates don’t barricade most American suburbs, mazes of road do instead. Convenience is stretched all along freeways and highways, encouraging an escape at every exit. Car talk and radio waves fill the silence between destinations, but the landscape we see through the window is nothing more than a picture worth thousand-

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Pilar Huerta phuerta@dailycal.org year-long stares and petty words. We don’t pedal and go everywhere. A journey from Oakland to San Diego is less than a two-hour dream suspended in the clouds, lucid with plans set in the ground before landing. Just as my twentyminute bus ride down Shattuck afforded me the leisure of projecting my music to the scene around the bus, as well as thinking of what I was going to eat when I got home, the perks of stationary traveling seem to outweigh the release of riding downhill. ut as I watched the passengers get on and off the bus, I couldn’t help but wonder what they were like, or where they were going. When I took off my earphones to answer someone’s question about the bus route, the background noise was not the art I heard in my head, but that of the engine’s murmurs and a man’s unconscious words to the stoic bus driver. The commotion of human interaction is reduced to the small-talk of daily routine that we miss what’s going on right in front of us, or what we could be a part of. I was so stuck in my routine grocery shopping at Safeway freshman year, that I only rode the bus on College to get there, and forgot my foolish desire to venture into the windows I only gazed at from the bus. Natives of land-locked suburbs are acclimated to Berkeley’s urban landscape with the rational transaction between money and transportation, as day trips to the City are a default weekend getaway. Though modern migrants are confined to BART’s colorful routes, Berkeley’s land stretches beyond downtown, campus and Telegraph, as the hills behind Clark Kerr are only a heart-pounding hike up Dwight, and the Marina a friendly bus ride or bike trip away. Anna got to class an hour late, but not because of a bike accident. She figured out that my brakes were actually rubbing against the front tire as she rode, so changing the gears for speed and ease was essentially useless. Though I felt dumb for not thinking of that myself, I rode my bike up to work that day knowing I was in better shape than I originally thought.

Championing the words of the ancient French king Charlemagne — “to have another language is to possess a second soul” — an East Bay Spanish immersion preschool program is opening a new branch in Berkeley. Kids Into Speaking Spanish is set to finalize arrangements to transfer ownership of a West Berkeley property formerly owned by another preschool program called The Snuggery Thursday, bringing the program’s total East Bay locations up to three. The program is set to open by Sept. 19. The program is designed to offer 2-to-6-year-olds the opportunity to learn Spanish language and culture through activity-based curriculum taught almost entirely in Spanish. In addition to strict academic and professional requirements, each of the program’s instructors must be a native Spanish speaker. Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, executive director of the Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement Inc., said au-

thenticity is key to maintaining a successful immersion program. “Parents have intentionally sent their children (to immersion programs) to be exposed to Spanish in a natural environment,” she said. “The flavor of the programs, from the food that we eat to the celebrations we have, are infused with natural culture.” The program was founded in 2000 after owner Chris Clark found a multicultural language program for his own children based on French-Canadian preschool programs. The program — one of the first total-immersion preschool programs in the East Bay — began in Clark’s own Orinda, Calif., home, where two children with “brave parents” and two of his own children received Spanish lessons taught by a native-speaking instructor. “Education has always been very important to me,” he said. “Kids are so much more open to new experiences and ideas (when immersed), and it’s an enrichment that lasts a child through its entire lifetime.” Since then, Clark has founded programs in Walnut Creek and Oakland’s

Montclair district. The whole program now teaches roughly 110 students, according to Clark. Former Berkeley PTA Executive Vice President Mark van Krieken — a native Dutch speaker and father of two — said he believes bilingual programs help children become more openminded and receptive to cultures other than their own. “I’ve got nieces and nephews ... in a bilingual program, and it’s amazing what they’re coming away with,” he said. Clark purchased the West Berkeley building — which was part of a family trust — that formerly housed The Snuggery after learning that the owner of the building passed away last year. Upon finding out that the family wanted to sell the building, the owner of The Snuggery — who ran the preschool for about 30 years — decided to retire. Clark bought the building with the help of an investor, and final arrangements will be made Thursday. He estimates that a new program will be able to accommodate about 26 students but hopes that future construction will allow more children to attend.

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CLASSROOMS: Similar programs have been cut in recent years From Front classrooms coincided with the city’s 2020 Vision plan — which seeks to eliminate the racial achievement gap in schools by the year 2020 — and that cutting the programs would move away from this goal. According to Paredes, between 12 and 14 of these programs originally existed, but due to budget cuts, the total number of programs has dwindled in recent years. Because preschools receive most of their funding from the state, district Superintendent Bill Huyett said it is not unexpected that preschools are being hit hard by cuts. But keeping the preschools open is “absolutely critical” to students’ success, as the school district is one of few that continues to have 9.5-hour programs, he said. According to Huyett, money for preschools will rely heavily on what other

program funding the school district can tap into. Paredes said one area district members are looking into for keeping the preschools afloat is the city’s child care mitigation funds, which are specifically designated for subsidizing low-income child care opportunities. Paredes said the 9.5-hour classroom fits those requirements perfectly. Paredes added that the School Governance Council receives $70,000 from Berkeley Schools Excellence Project funds — a parcel tax from city taxpayers used for enrichment programs. After planning a budget for this year, Paredes said roughly $25,000 remained, which was offered to the school district to fund the 9.5-hour classrooms. According to Arreguin, keeping the preschools open for next year is only

a “one-year proposal.” Future discussions will be needed to figure out how to align the limited resources with the city’s goals, but the main goal is to keep what they already have open and “maintain the status quo.” “Even cutting one classroom, that’s going to affect 24 families and their ability to work and their children to succeed,” he said. Though discussion on the proposal has been delayed, Capitelli said he hopes the issue will be resolved soon for parents’ sake because parents need to start planning for their children’s school year. “We’ve got 30 kids basically hung up, not knowing if they’re going to have child care, and all of them from lower-income families and working parents who don’t really have an alternative,” Capitelli said.

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BUDGET: Not all state

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Katie Nelson elaborates on the implications of the new research regarding fear and the brain.

By Katie Nelson | Senior Staff knelson@dailycal.org A tantalizing twist in the understanding of how emotions impact memory formation was revealed in a study published Tuesday by a team of UC Berkeley neuroscientists. In the study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers were able to explain that the brain’s center for processing emotional information — called the amygdala — triggers the brain’s center for memory creation — called the hippocampus — to generate new neurons. These neurons, in turn, create pivotal impressions that the brain remembers when it is reintroduced to an environment that, for example, it recognizes as a place of fear. Along with graduate student Elizabeth Kirby, the lead author of the study, graduate student Aaron Friedman and others, Daniela Kaufer, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of integrative biology, used rats to monitor the influence of fear on the body — fear being a “robust emotion” and one of the easier emotions to monitor, according to Friedman. Researchers were able to see how rats reacted to an environment they recognized but that they feared. The rate at which new neurons were created, they discovered, was greatly increased based on the rats’ reaction to fear. “We monitored a rat’s response based on how they reacted to being in the environment they were afraid of,” Friedman said. “The research suggests that these new neurons that are formed as a result of being afraid play

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a role not only in the formation of memory but also in helping to create the emotional context of memory.” Kirby and Kaufer’s finding comes on the heels of brain researcher Fred Gage’s research which demonstrated that the formation of new memories is linked to increased activation of newly formed nerve cells in the hippocampus that are derived from adult stem cells. Gage, a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., revealed that adult stem cells appear to differentiate continually into new nerve cells, and if they are highly activated — such as in

learning new complex information — more of them could likely survive and help in establishing new memories in the brain. “The new angle with the study (at UC Berkeley) is to totally highlight this new role for adult stem cells in the brain,” Kaufer said. “We can now say new neurons directly get input from the amygdala, and we now know there is an emotional response such as fear or stress and how those emotions create interactions with new neurons.” The findings from the study have implications on how to better understand post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems caused by faulty

regulation of emotional memory. Going forward, the team of researchers now plans to try to find out whether other negative stimuli, such as stress and anxiety, similarly cause amygdala activity to formulate or alter the formation of neurons in the hippocampus. “We’re not necessarily interested in the initial fear but the memory of the fear and the way we kind of relive fear or other emotions in our memory,” Friedman said. “The challenge is to really understand how neurogenesis affects human health.” Katie Nelson is an assistant news editor.

From front all Californians. That’s why we will fight it.” Gould urged lawmakers to avoid more cuts to the UC and to try to find a more reliable, long-term solution. “(Lawmakers) always need to make choices,” Gould said in a statement. “That’s leadership, and we need the leadership to stand up and say the University of California is a priority — it’s a priority for California’s future.” According to Lakesha Harrison — president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 — continued cuts to the UC could have “devastating” consequences for students and employees. AFSCME Local 3299 represents roughly 20,000 UC workers in the 10 campuses and five medical centers. “Legislative leaders in both parties must continue to play a role of making sure UC’s scarce State resources prioritize its core educational and patient care missions, rather than executive bloat, intercollegiate athletics and management bonuses,” Harrison said in a statement. “This greater legislative accountability should not come, though, at the expense of the public support for UC that is required to fulfill its core mission for students and patients.” State Democratic legislators and officials spoke out against the approved budget, stating the additional cuts have resulted from Republicans’ refusal to work towards a budget compromise. “These cuts are penny wise and pound foolish and threaten to further damage a stretched-to-the-limit public university system that was once the envy of the world,” Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “In volatile economic times, we should be investing in our universities to ensure we are producing the highly-skilled, educated workforce California needs to compete in the global economy.” Allie Bidwell is the news editor.

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Jonathan Tam comments on the development of the world’s first foot-controlled computer, which occurred at Keith McMillen Instruments on Fourth Street.

By Jonathan Tam | Staff jtam@dailycal.org A private Berkeley company is making strides to push computers toward a hands-free era with the announcement of its new product — the world’s first foot-controlled interface device. Developed nearby at the offices of Keith McMillen Instruments on Fourth Street between Channing Way and Bancroft Way, this device allows the user to open and close software applications, enter text, zoom in and out, browse between different folders and control the mouse and other operating system functions — all without lifting a finger. The SoftStep Foot Controller is operated with KeyWorx software and can be used by those of the disabled community, gamers, programmers and data entry professionals, among many other specialized groups, but was initially designed for an alternative purpose. According to Jon Short, vice president of sales for the company, the device was originally developed for musicians in recording studios as a way for them to integrate music with their computer while keeping their hands on the instrument. “We ended up getting requests from people that wanted to do additional things in collaboration with the SoftStep Foot Controller and the computer, so Keith McMillen, (owner of KMI,) and some other people implemented KeyWorx in conjunction with SoftStep Foot Controller, which allows you to control functions with your feet,” Short said. The installation of the KeyWorx software allows users to program the controller with specific commands. The device is designed with 10 pressure- and directionsensitive keys, including a navigation pad, and weighs only 1.3 pounds, allowing the option of portability for its users. “It’s a way to transfer tasks to your feet while working

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Bjorn Hartmann, above, believes the interface device will not be popular among typical computer users. alongside your keyboard and mouse,” Short said. The device can also be an assisting technology that could reduce the strain from common computer-related injuries such as Carpal tunnel syndrome. “I doubt that the device will replace the mouse or touch-based interfaces but will serve as a complement,” said Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft Research. “Most people will view the device in terms of how we can use our feet at the same time.” Although the device can be beneficial for specialized groups, Bjorn Hartmann, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, said he doubts its popularity among everyday computer users. “Many of these devices are for specific niches, but it will be hard to be an interface for everyone,” Hartmann said. Hartmann said he attributes this to the

product’s potential learning curve. A foot-based interface may incur a potential challenge, because most people do not experience footbased precision in their everyday lives, he said. It takes hundreds of thousands of hours to be truly skilled in a new interface device, Hartmann said, especially if the device requires precision in an area many people are unfamiliar with. “Human beings will invest the time to learn a new interface device, if the payback is substantial enough,” Buxton said. “It is not that different from operating a car. A driver must work the gas and brake without looking down at their feet.” Buxton said that the device’s creation is moving toward a society in which computers become a larger part of everyday life. “This is an example where computing is becoming ubiquitous,” he said. “The more devices in our repertoire, the more likely we can approach a jack-of-all-trades situation.”

From Page 2 Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry ruled that Mehserle would be released on June 13 because of his credits for time served and good behavior. Mehserle was given one day of good time credit for each day he served, totaling 366 days of credits. The trial has been marred by protests in both Los Angeles and in Oakland, including a rally and march Sunday afternoon to protest his release. On Sunday, a group of about 150 people gathered at the Fruitvale BART station at 3 p.m. to protest Mehserle’s release. From there, the group — which grew to about 200 people — marched peacefully along International Boulevard to Downtown Oakland, according to major media outlets. Beginning at approximately 5 p.m., protesters gathered in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Downtown Oakland to continue the protest, and according to major media outlets, there was one report of Oakland police arresting one protester near International Boulevard and 2nd Avenue for vandalism. The protest had concluded by 8 p.m. on Sunday after police gave protesters a dispersal order. Many believed protests would be held in both Los Angeles and Oakland the day of Mehserle’s release. However, following Mehserle’s release, predicted protests did not occur. Going forward, it remains unclear what Mehserle will do or where he will live. It also remains unclear what type of parole Mehserle will be given. According to reports, some have said Mehserle will be given the most lenient parole available in the state, which does not require him to take drug tests, check in with a parole officer or remain a resident of California. Katie Nelson is an assistant news editor.

PROPOSALs: Focus will be on efficiency and student awareness when considering suggestions From front the student services proposals are not “capturable,” instead representing gains in efficiency by allowing staff to focus on certain “core activities,” such as advising students as opposed to filling out paperwork. “OE is not as fiscal as it’s been portrayed in the public perception thus far — it’s trying to create improvements and efficiencies,” he said. “Many things

on the Berkeley campus have been held together but have not been kept up in the best improvements on technology.” Later in the summer, student services will present additional proposals to the initiative, including a physical one-stop service center for currently separated transactions on campus. In regard to analyzing the proposals, Bahar Navab, president-elect of

the Graduate Assembly and a member of the coordinating committee, said she looks at a proposal’s impact on students and whether it can achieve its intended goal. “Sometimes we get a lot of proposals that by themselves might be great, but we only have a limited pot of money to distribute,” she said. To bolster student involvement in

the initiative, the establishment of a DeCal COURSE for undergraduate students and a stipend system for graduate students are being discussed, she said. Badr Albanna, initiative liaison for the student government, said the goal behind such measures is to allow students serving on initiative committees to be accessible to the campus

at-large. “We appreciate the openness of the Operational Excellence programming office to include students,” Navab said. “But students aren’t always the top priority in Operational Excellence — we’re not always included in all the conversations.” J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.

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Bad Meets Evil HELL: THE SEQUEL [Interscope]

f Kanye West is the David Bowie of hip hop, then rappers Eminem and Royce da 5’9 can best be described as his Dylan and Cash counterparts. The Detroit natives have rekindled their chemistry and collaborated on a new record under the moniker Bad Meets Evil, the same name as the second-last track on Em’s first major label release, The Slim Shady LP. The nine-track EP marks the first collaborative effort between the rappers since Royce da 5’9’s much publicized beef with Eminem’s group D12. The seasoned rappers display their lyrical finesse on the new record, titled Hell: The Sequel, which opens with the hard-hitting single “Welcome 2 Hell.” The subject matter the duo explores is not revolutionary by any means, but the cohesive feel of the album shows the maturation of both artists. Eminem swaps his verbal diarrhea of life’s lemons for a less proximate but more philosophical approach. The transformation is far from complete though Em reverts to his crude, misogynistic rhymes most noticeably in the song “A Kiss,” in which he spits, “Hoes all over the ride like it’s an ice cream truck, I can see why they fret / I already ran over two hoes and I ain’t get up the fucking driveway yet.” Much like the song, Hell: The Sequel oscillates between deft lyricism and compilation to just plain douchebaggery. It is enriched by a plethora of guest vocalists, from comedian Mike Epps to pretty boy Bruno Mars. The ebb and flow of tracks is well-coordinated, with aggressive tracks sandwiched between more soulful and melodic tunes. Likewise, Em’s sporadic rhyme spitting is counterbalanced by Royce’s slower drawl, pacing the record and giving it a more dynamic, comprehensive range. — Belinda Gu

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Junior Boys IT’S ALL THAT [Domino]

Owl City ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL [Universal Republic]

eg warmers and parachute pants may be lost in the ’80s — or so we hope — but Junior Boys persevere through the glam metal haze to bring an electropop album with a nostalgic ’80s coating. With It’s All True, the Canadian duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus have concocted a sparkling synth-powered record with an upbeat attitude. Unlike past records, the mellow, almost haunting beats are few and far between on It’s All True. Greenspan’s reverb-rich vocals cascade over the digi-pop effects and snare hits. The album opener “Itchy Fingers” sets the mood as Greenspan drearily sings of a teasing lover with lyrics like “So patient so kind/it’s never easy to tell if you are playing with my mind.” The fast-paced bass and tremolo beats found in the album opener characterize the majority of the album, as you can’t help but nod your head to the catchy, cheerful beats circling throughout your head. There are a few instances, though, where the album’s positive demeanor falters. Immediately after the the spiritlifting opener, “Playtime” brings the duo back to their somber roots, with beats reminiscent of cavelike murmurs. The raindrop-style samples back Greenspan’s vocals as they list lazily over the melancholy melody. Thankfully, this is the only major setback, as the rest of the album mostly keeps to its beaming soundscape, if only slightly dipping into the duo’s downbeat past. Through It’s All True, the Junior Boys have managed to keep their electronica vibe pulsing throughout a gleaming dance groove (quirky track titles like “Banana Ripple” don’t hurt either). While the duo occasionally delve back into their solemn styles, the boys mostly keep it fresh with beats that reverberate through techno souls. — Ian Birnam

wl City’s All Things Bright and Beautiful is a cotton candy confection totally at home on a 12-year-old girl’s iPod. The songs are steeped in electro strings and canned beats, making All Things familiar territory to anyone who has heard Owl City’s breakout single “Fireflies.” Owl City (aka Adam Young) is sonically the sound of laptops replacing a band, giving the effect of someone very adept at using GarageBand but not at rocking out. The overall lyrical arch of the album is just as cliched, endless boy-meets-girl shlock reiterated ad nauseum. The occasional humorous bits of self-deprecation thrown in break up the tedium, like “Her pepper spray made it rather hard for me to walk her home.” Light as a feather and catchy like chlamydia, All Things is as homogeneous an album as they come, with synthpop strings saturating every track. Evoking nostalgia for ’80s electropop bands, Owl City draws comparisons to much better contemporaries the Postal Service. Unfortunately, All Things never reaches the musical heights of Tears for Fears or modern disco-ers Daft Punk. If you can take lines like “Let’s leave the weeping to the willow tree,” then maybe you have the vacuous-pop-culture fortitude to bear such an album. Filled with “Da da das” aplenty, Young’s smooth-as-a-baby’s-bottom tenor leaps through the album in all too familiar and repetitive ways. Lead single “Alligator Sky” keeps up Owl City hit-single-about-animals tradition, albeit with Shawn Chrystopher rapping, adding at least a little variety to the affair. Hip-hop indulgences aside, All Things shows Owl City sticking to the recipie that brought him success: Helium-light pop that makes for the perfect prepubescant summer soundtrack. ­ — Philip Julius

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Alone onstage, Marissa Nadler soothes the audience with her lulling vocals.

Folk artist Marissa Nadler delivers grace Local artist the Bins, aka Clark Barclay, remixes past trends with a modern edge. By David Getman | Staff dgetman@dailycal.org

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Amelia Taylor Hochberg ataylor@dailycal.org

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happily embraced veganism with few looks back to an omnivorous diet. I intended on sustaining my choices upon reaching Copenhagen, but not to the point of prohibiting any experimentation with traditional Danish dishes. After one week in Copenhagen: cut to the same choreographed gnomes-at-work body metaphor. Things are in complete disarray, there seems to be some coup d’état being staged against one of the larger gnomes who is weeping from what only can be sheer terror. Oil and steam spurt erratically from the pipes, which emit a low-pitched drone that is punctuated only by the occasional gnome-swear. Things are not going smoothly. This delicately composed image of my internal digestive system is meant to convey how even the slightest change in consumption can radically disrupt the ecology of the stomach. Cuisine is a biological art form designed to cultivate and preserve the internally digestive and externally cultural citizens of its nation. In Denmark, this means pumping them full of dairy. In my privileged position inside the Berkeley cornucopia, I had fashioned a completely non-national food identity that was (through the magic that is the San Joaquin Valley) based on informed choice rather than regional necessity. Denmark is not seen as such a land of bounty and has been historically stigmatized by a food culture that relied keenly upon sweet and milky “baby food” flavors. Geographically, Denmark’s latitude had limited its viable crops and encouraged the preservation techniques of smoking and pickling. What emerges is a largely colorless, sweet and salty food culture, based on lots of fish, dairy and rye bread. An increasing immigrant population and rapid globalization gives Copenhagen a special culinary position amongst a blithely banal national food culture. Within the past 20 years, the capital city has undergone a staggering amount of public works projects, transforming

its infrastructure to support more of a social and cultural community. Its tourism image shifted from the Scandinavian Fairy Tale to urbane hipsterville, pushed along by a rumbling electronic music subculture and fairly active social democratic radicals. But cuisine is not a selling point for Copenhagen. Recent public droolings over the restaurant Noma, a portmanteau on the Danish words for Nordic food (Nordisk mad) and the recipient of two Michelin stars as of 2009, are more of an exception than the rule. Noma has managed to utilize local Scandinavian ingredients in a contemporary stylish way, that is small portions that focus on fresh ingredients, but this is after all the tenth most expensive city in the world. The majority of citizens subsist off of the same conservative cuisines of their parents’ generation and seem to view food less as an individualistic creative and social endeavor and more as a utilitarian fuel for the body. So given the social democratic welfare state that is this bustling, masterfully planned world city, why doesn’t food receive more of its citizens’ attention? The focus seems to be more (financially and popularly) on external accouterments of status, that is, clothing and household goods. Dropping $160 on a pair of jeans is unremarkable, whereas the crappiest industrially produced snack-bag is fretted over for its price. Since arriving in Copenhagen, I have slowly managed to get the gnomes (to reinforce an already tired metaphor) back to work. After scouring the city’s supermarkets and specialty stores, I have collected the basic nutritional necessities of an animal-free diet. It is remarkably easy to become complacent in a city where the cost of living is so high, to sacrifice food choice in order to save some dough (pun intended). But I’d gladly buy another bag of overpriced quinoa in order to savor that occasional indulgence of liver paste on rye bread. It’s a matter of asserting personal taste.

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t’s fitting that folk artist Marissa Nadler’s fifth album is her first self-titled one. She recorded it on her own label, funded it with cash investments from fans using the Internet funding platform Kickstarter and now owns all of the rights to her material. All it takes is a quick look at her profile to see Nadler’s recording costs ($11,000), number of “backers” (390) and a closing plea from an artist who “truly needs your help. Working a series of odd jobs and struggling to make ends meet, she has no other way to get into a studio, and sincerely wants to continue making records.” Now, she’s raised $17,037 and is touring the West Coast. It’s a welcome milestone for a musician who has struggled with the creative constrictions imposed by major labels, including early demands to add more drums and rhythm section to songs. Playing alone onstage at the Swedish American Hall last Friday night, Nadler cradled her acoustic guitar with a hurried grace, ramping up the reverb for each ballad. She possesses an ethereal soprano and manages to suck the air out of a room and make the crackling applause following each of her songs an unwelcome presence. Nadler’s live voice was just as silken as in her studio recordings. In front of a crowd she is fair-skinned and wide-eyed, her wavy black hair cascading down a simple cotton white dress. There was a rapturous energy in the concert hall when she sang, and the fantasy only dissipated between songs. Interestingly, her relationship with the crowd echoed that Kickstarter dynamic of fan-propping-up-artist. There’s the abiding feeling that Nadler has taken a thorny sidestep past intimacy and into vulnerability. As she tuned her guitar and tossed out jokes and song explanations, a grinning man in the audience earnestly yelled, “Excellent stage banter!” and the crowd broke into another round of supportive applause. In a phone interview, Nadler admitted that she struggles with balancing this artistic persona and her off-stage identity, particularly because of the dichotomy between her intimate

songs of “love and loss” and the logistical demands of putting out an album on her own. “Doing the Twitter and the label and all these things, I have to keep a barrier up a little or else there is no personal life,” Nadler explained. “Especially because my real name is also my performing name, so it gets confusing who’s the real me and who’s the performing person sometimes.” Onstage, Nadler explained that this album is a revisitation of old characters from her previous albums, and she can swiftly unspool the meaning and inspiration behind any of her tracks. Before one song, she charged into a description of its meaning before hesitating to reconsider. She settled on going straight into the music: “Come talk to me after if you want to know,” she added. Trained in the fine arts, Nadler collaborated with boyfriend, Ryan Walsh, for her vintage-collage-style album artwork. The eponymous album’s cover features what looks to be a sepia cutout of Nadler burying her hair in her hands as paper flowers curl around her. Fulfilling her Kickstarter promises turned into a monthlong process, a rollout that “add(ed) a lot of stress to what should be a really beautiful thing.” An investment of $10 yields a month-early digital download of the album, while a $5,000 pledge is rewarded with multiple editions of the music, original artwork by Nadler, a song crafted specifically for the investor and performed in his home. Despite these challenges of self-release, Nadler believes that the Kickstarter project was well worth it, though she hopes to move on to a new model for her future work. “With this process, nobody owns these songs but me, and when you’re writing songs about all these things that are so dear to you, the concept that somebody else owns them is a very strange thing.” Whichever direction she moves in, Nadler is done working with music labels. In the midst of her performance, as she swaps guitars, Nadler says she’s “sorry for the switchover time; one of these days I’ll have tech!” But it seems like less of an apology and more of a progress report for an independent artist.

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he fellas of Miami Horror are very nice boys indeed — wellspoken, sunny men you could bring out for brunch with grandma. With hit singles such as “Sometimes,� they have perfected the art of synthpop. I sat down with the Melbournebased disco pop quartet before their Thursday night show at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco to discuss their influences, their ambitions and some tough life choices. It all started before everything began. Benjamin Plant had been mixing on his laptop and producing at home for five years, earning himself the Pitchfork stamp of approval almost overnight. Wanting to steer Miami Horror away from the dance/ electronica DJ typecast, Plant reinvented the project into a beguiling live act: Keyboardist Daniel Whitechurch, Plant’s high school friend, joined the project along with drummer Aaron Shanahan and guitarist/vocalist Josh Moriarty to fill out the skeleton of Plant’s vision. Their first full-length album, Illumination, dropped in 2010, uniting the efforts of the current band

harmonization from MAI and Kimbra. Despite the plethora of musical ventures, however, Illumination still retains a distinctly unostentatious flavor. The self-produced record seasons ‘70s disco with weighty bass lines and deftly woven licks to give the finished product a revived sonic hue. Polished and finely honed, Illumination displays the musicianship and meticulous approach of the ensemble with its interesting technical composition and seamless transitions. Even through its delivery of pop anthems and summer ballads, the nine-track LP relies on hazy dreamlike sequences and mind-warming swells of harmonies to teleport listeners to a niche in recent memory littered with a few wistful smiles and elusive yearnings of unremembered passions. Miami Horror’s live set doesn’t quite translate the contemplative nostalgia that shines periodically in their record. Instead, each track is undressed to an abrasive rendition of a generic dance tune: catchy, but insubstantial. Their set at the DNA Lounge followed one-man band Jeffery Jerusalem, who roused the

everyone feel at ease, while his lively hip thrusts won him a fair few lipstick-sealed napkins. The boys delivered tracks off of both Illumination and their 2008 EP Bravado, including the single “Sometimes� to a fresh chorus of cheers. Not much was said, as not much needed to be said. Moriarty did announce a brief intermission, during which he requested that everyone in the audience shout in unison “Shut the fuck up, San Francisco� — and then proceed to make as much noise as possible. An expected encore — following 30 full seconds of anticipation — capped off the evening, as concert-goers poured into the streets of San Francisco with ringing ears and soaring hearts. Plant and Co. are planning to relocate to the City of Angels to see what America will throw at them. Their follow-up album is not yet in the works, but upon their return to the other side of the Pacific, the boys are anticipating long hours in the studio as they explore other avenues of music.

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money of the United States) At the Fallon Street emergency exit to the Alameda County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA. All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 060 2411 001 02. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1209 SANTE FE AVENUE, BERKELEY, CA 94706. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $636,632.76. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's Trustee. The beneficiary or servicing agent declares that it has obtained from the Commissioner of Corporations a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to California Civil Code Section

2923.53 that is current and valid on the date the Notice of Sale is filed and/or The timeframe for giving Notice of Sale specified in subdivision (s) of California Civil Code Section 2923.52 applies and has been provided or the loan is exempt from the requirements. Date: 06/01/11, First American Title Insurance Company First American Trustee Servicing Solutions, LLC 3 First American Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707 Original document signed by Authorized Agent, Chet Sconyers -FOR TRUSTEE'S SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916) 939-0772. First American Trustee Servicing Solutions, LLC May be Acting as a Debt Collector Attempting to Collect a Debt. Any Information obtained may be used for that purpose. NPP0182249 06/09/11, 06/16/11, 06/23/11 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 08-0081218 Title Order No. 08-8-301656 APN No. 066-2795-005 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 05/11/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by PETER LEAHY, AN UNMARRIED MAN, dated 05/11/2005 and recorded 05/25/05, as Instrument No. 2005215120, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Alameda County, State of California, will sell on 07/07/2011 at 12:00PM, At the Fallon Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, Alameda, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced

Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 612 ADAMS STREET, ALBANY, CA, 947061108. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $564,448.68. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an “AS IS� condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office. DATED: 11/05/2008 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., SV2-202 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/ Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FEI # 1006.98333 6/16, 6/23, 6/30/2011

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toe-tapping was still only mild-mannered. As Khatib stepped off, a black curtain was raised, and from within its confines (after an unbearable hour of transition time), a bewitching beast was ready to pounce. Suddenly, she floated on stage clad in a billowy array of transparent green cloth. Like her persona, it was simultaneously harsh and soft. As the morbidly sardonic lyrics to “My Boy Builds Coffins” percolated through the atmosphere, Florence’s robust voice cut through the air like a merciless knife. She was unafraid, uninhibited and unfettered by both the colossal crowd and her dress, which was precariously close to tripping her but never did. Whether it was during the pulsating beats of “Drumming Song” or the interstellar sets of “Cosmic Love,” Florence + the Machine delivered a strong, entrancing performance of both their album (Lungs) material, their song “Heavy In Your Arms” off the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” and an exclusive new track, “What the Water Gave Me” (a familiar sound with a synthy overlay). All throughout, Florence was aggressive with her powerful vocal range. Searing and smooth, her lungs carried the material (already nearly two years old) to new heights as songs like “Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)” slowly built up their tempo until Florence dealt the final, cataclysmic howl. But, without the equally commanding backing of the electric equipment, Florence’s acoustic set felt off-balance amidst her vigorous vocal abilities. However, despite a somewhat lackluster interim of tranquil tunes, the sultry goddess rebounded with a resounding encore of “Dog Days are Over,” resulting in a spontaneous stage dive from an audience member. With a subtle sense of humor, a demure demeanor and a killer set of pipes that cut like a knife, the fiery goddess reigned supreme over her Grecian kingdom.

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