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Conservation Kept Lights on During Electricity
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Conservation Kept Lights on During Electricity CrisisLab report says weather, downturn of economy were not factorsBy Allan Chen BERKELEY, CA— It was California consumers – not mild weather or the cooling economy – who should get credit for avoiding blackouts and keeping the lights on in summer 2001. By embracing energy efficiency and conservation, consumers reduced their peak demand by 3,000 to 5,500 megawatts (MW), according to research by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This is the conclusion reached in a new analysis of the consumer response to the California electricity crisis by Charles Goldman, Joe Eto and Galen Barbose, researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division. “Many observers predicted that California would face widespread rolling blackouts in the summer of 2001,” says Goldman. “In April 2001, the North American Electric Reliability Council predicted that the state would have about 250 hours of rolling blackouts. Others predicted that the cost of these blackouts would range from $2 billion to $20 billion. But the blackouts never happened last summer. Our research addresses the question of what role customer load reductions played.”
The report analyzes the effects of six factors on the reduction in load: (1) role of the media in increasing public awareness of the crisis; (2) electricity and natural gas price increases; (3) utility energy efficiency programs; (4) the 20/20 rebate program; (5) utility and California Independent Systems Operator (ISO) load management/ demand response programs; and (6) other state programs, such as energy use reduction by Federal, state, and local government facilities and partnerships with the private sector. “Each of these factors contributed to customer load reductions to varying degrees,” says Goldman, “although separating the effects of one from another is difficult. For example, many customers may have qualified for a rebate through the 20/20 program by simultaneously taking advantage of an incentive for high efficiency appliances. The synergies between these various factors were an important reason that customer load reductions were as great as they were.” In response to the state’s offer to rebate 20 percent on utility bills if consumers achieved a 20 percent use reduction – an offer that has been renewed for this summer — scientists in the Lab’s EET Division created the savepower.lbl.gov web site. It identifies energy-efficiency measures and their predicted percentage savings. Goldman says customers responded to the electricity crisis through a variety of means: installing energy efficient equipment, installing onsite generation, and modifying their electricity consumption habits or patterns. “We estimate that energy efficiency measures and clean distributed generation will save the state about 1,100 MW when all the installations are completed from projects initiated during 2001,” says Goldman. Some amount of the conservation behavior and changes in energy management practices will persist, depending on the continued awareness of energy issues and the sensitivity of customers to the increases in their electricity rates, he adds. Eliminating Weather and Economic Factors A central conclusion of the study is that consumer actions to reduce their electricity consumption were the driving force behind the load reductions observed in summer 2001 (load reduction means reduced demand for electricity). “Some analysts argued that cooler than normal temperatures in 2001 lowered electricity use and peak demand compared to 2000,” says Goldman. “We analyzed hourly temperature data from 122 weather stations throughout California, aggregated by county, and weighted according to population of the county. The analysis indicates that summer temperatures in 2000 and 2001 were almost indistinguishable, suggesting that weather was not a factor.” Other analysts have suggested that the downturn in the California economy, including the collapse of the “Internet economy,” contributed to decreasing electricity use in 2001. “Economic indicators do not support this hypothesis,” says researcher Joe Eto. “Gross State Product is estimated to have grown 2.3% in 2001, and average employment during the summer months increased 0.8% compared to 2000. Impacts of the Load Reduction The researchers estimated the potential impact that these load reductions had on avoiding rolling blackouts in the state by combining detailed information on customer load reductions (reduced demand for power compared to the previous year) with information from the state ISO on aggregate demand (total demand for power in the state at any moment) and generation capacity (the amount of power available to California at any given moment), including the approximately 2,000 MW of generation capacity added during summer 2001 . Rolling blackouts are usually ordered when the state’s excess power reserve to serve current demand falls below 1.5 percent. This is called a Stage 3 Emergency. “We calculated the available operating reserve margin greater than 1.5 percent for every hour of the summer of 2001,” says Eto. “Our analysis showed that the customer load reductions maintained the operating reserve margin over 1.5 percent for between 50 and 160 hours, potentially avoiding rolling blackouts.” Preventing Future Crises An important lesson to take from this, according to the report, is that a pre-existing energy efficiency services infrastructure can help the state’s policymakers respond quickly to short-term power shortage emergencies. California was able to undertake massive energy-efficiency projects quickly because the underlying services were already there, due in part to the fact that the state’s policymakers and regulators have historically supported and funded energy efficiency programs. “Another important lesson is that utility load management, demand response and retail pricing programs need to be re-designed well in advance of restructuring the electricity markets,” Goldman says. “California regulators and utilities essentially mothballed these programs during the transition to the restructured market. “However, if a region does find itself facing a short-term crisis, the effectiveness of the load reduction programs in California demonstrates that such initiatives can contribute significantly to maintaining the reliability of the electric system,” he adds. “The $1.3 billion that California taxpayers and ratepayers invested in energy efficiency and demand response programs in 2001 was a good investment compared to the estimated $2-to-$20 billion in potential losses from rolling blackouts, not to mention the savings associated with avoided wholesale power purchases.” This research will be published in the Journal of Industry, Trade and Competition. It is also available as an LBNL report 49733, “California Customer Load Reductions during the Electricity Crisis: Did They Help to Keep the Lights On?” by Charles Goldman, Joseph Eto and Galen Barbose.
Director to Present State of the Lab Address
Berkeley Lab Director Charles Shank will present his State of the Laboratory address to employees at noon on Tuesday, June 25, in the Building 50 Auditorium. The program will include a review of scientific highlights for the past year, plus a look into the future as it relates to budgets and programs. The talk will also be accessible via Internet broadcast. The Director’s Address is the second event in this year’s Summer Lecture
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Lee Schroeder Returns to Research RootsBy Ron Kolb Lee Schroeder, during his seven years as Division Director in Nuclear Sciences, has seen the completion of some of the most significant projects in the field – the Solenoid Tracker at RHIC (STAR), the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, even the Spallation Neutron Source now under construction for which he did some early work.
Now he puts a “period” on all of this with his own completion – he will step down as Berkeley Lab’s top manager in nuclear sciences. When Lab Director Charles Shank appoints his successor after a national search, Schroeder will return to his roots in accelerator-based research, where he first joined the scientific staff in 1971. “The Nuclear Science Division has been enormously productive since Lee began as Division Director,” Shank said. The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was successfully completed and began recording events, a major accomplishment for Berkeley Lab as well as for Brookhaven. “Similarly,” Shank continued, “Berkeley Lab played an essential role in the development of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which recently reported remarkable results verifying our understanding of energy production in the sun, and confirming that neutrinos have mass.” He cited Schroeder’s positive influence on encouraging partnerships within the general sciences – Accelerator and Fusion Research, Nuclear Sciences, and Physics. Schroeder calls the nexus “making inroads at the intersections of particle and nuclear physics.” When the three division administrative offices physically merged in Building 50 a few years ago, he ordered a cake with the inscription “Grand Unification” on the top. He said he sees this as an expanding area, one he will explore in the next chapter of his career. “Lee has been a wise leader, well respected throughout the nuclear science community, and he leaves a broad and strong legacy of accomplishment,” Shank added. Schroeder points with pride to his pre-Director days, too. Some of his early work that he and others performed at the Bevatron/Bevalac eventually led to the broader scientific community’s interest in relativistic nuclear collisions at higher energies – the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven, the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, and the dominant program at RHIC. “Tremendous advances in instrumentation and innovative uses of existing accelerator complexes allowed this to happen,” he said. He also remembers a time back in the 1990s, following a 14-month assignment as Assistant Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the White House under Allan Bromley. When he returned to Berkeley, he was asked by the Department of Energy to assemble a group that could develop a “green” site design for a new neutron source. Today, a decade later, Oak Ridge is clearing ground for the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source, the front end for which was just completed at Berkeley Lab. What will he miss as he departs from the senior management team? “The dynamics of daily change,” he said. “But I look forward to being able to focus on one activity. I hope to find interesting science cases that can be carried out here at Berkeley with suitable accelerators, since these activities have been the legacy of this place.” “I am confident,” Shank said, “that Lee will bring the same dedication and enthusiasm that has marked his term as Division Director. I greatly appreciate his service to the Laboratory and to the Nuclear Science Division.”
Chemla Steps Down from Materials Sciences DivisionBy Ron Kolb
Daniel Chemla, who for the last few years has been Division Director for both Materials Sciences and the Advanced Light Source, has announced his intention to step down from the Materials position while continuing to lead the ALS Division. Berkeley Lab Director Charles Shank will begin a search process in the next few weeks to find a successor for Chemla in Materials Sciences. “Since his arrival at Berkeley 12 years ago, Daniel has had an extraordinary impact on the Laboratory’s scientific programs and directions, in materials sciences and beyond,” Shank said. “From the beginning, he recognized the promise and importance of research on structures of nanometer dimensions, and he set a course to transform MSD into a world leader in the field.” Shank called Chemla a “pioneer” in the exploration of nanoscience and said he will continue his role as visionary for the Department of Energy’s nanoscience initiative, including Berkeley Lab’s proposed Molecular Foundry. “Despite the burdens of leadership, which Daniel has carried for the Laboratory, he is internationally recognized for his research accomplishments, and he is an active member of the Berkeley Campus Department of Physics,” Shank said. Chemla took over the ALS Directorship in 1998 and since that time has been instrumental in developing the facility into a major international research center. Shank now has the task of searching for four Division Directors in the next few months – in Materials Sciences, Nuclear Sciences, Genomics and Life Sciences.
Washington ReportLLNL’s Role in Homeland Security Unclear“Our Lab has been cited in a number of media stories today relative to President Bush’s proposal to create a new Homeland Security cabinet level agency. We have not yet received any official details on this proposal.” That was the official response of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to the proposal for a Department of Homeland Security in which, as stated in the published version, only about four-percent of LLNL’s 7,500 employees but 80-percent of its $1.5 billion annual budget would be transferred to the new department. “Over the past few years, our Lab and our sister NNSA laboratories have played important roles in the war on terrorism and we look forward to enhancing our future contributions to this cause,” said out-going LLNL director Bruce Tarter. “At the same time, we remain committed to executing our core responsibilities of Stockpile Stewardship and our other federal programs.” LLNL, like Berkeley Lab, is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. This makes it a GOCO, a government-owned/contractor-operated facility, which is common in DOE but would be the only one of its kind in the proposed Department of Homeland Security. At a recent press conference, Tom Ridge, the president’s director of homeland security, was unable to clarify what the Administration meant for LLNL in its proposal. He did, however, say that DOE for now would continue to oversee the LLNL research that pertains to nuclear weapons systems. “We are not going to take over the traditional relationship DOE has had with Lawrence Livermore.” Supreme Court Ruling Favors University Patent RightsIn a legal battle dubbed “the patent case of the decade,” the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision scaled back a lower court ruling that would have made patents held by research universities vulnerable to wholesale copying. This battle focused on a 150-year-old legal concept called the “doctrine of equivalents” which bars inventors from making minor changes to a patented technology and then claiming it as their own. The decade-old case involved a small company in New York that claimed a Japanese firm had infringed on its patent for a mechanical cylinder. Two years ago, a federal appeals court ruled that the doctrine of equivalents doesn’t apply to patent claims which were narrowed by the government during the review process, a common occurance for university patents. The Supreme Court ruled that the appeals court went too far and that holders of narrowed patents should still be able to employ the doctrine of equivalents to fight infringement. Despite putting more of a burden on inventors to prove that a competing invention infringes on their discovery, the Supreme Court’s ruling is widely viewed as good news for university patents because it restores to judges the leeway to decide infringement claims on a case-by-case basis. — Lynn Yarris
Michael R. Anastasio Named Director of
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Anastasio has spent virtually his entire career at Lawrence Livermore, starting as a weapons designer in 1980. He climbed through the ranks and is currently serving as the lab’s deputy director for strategic operations. He is scheduled to officially take the reins as the lab’s ninth director when the current chief, Bruce Tarter, retires July 1. However, he got to work even before that on June 11 when he and the directors of the other two U.S. nuclear labs will testified before a congressional subcommittee about the safety, security, reliability and performance of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
“Throughout a 22-year career at Lawrence Livermore, he has distinguished himself as both a brilliant scientist and skilled administrator with the right combination of theoretical and practical experience to maintain the laboratory’s historic place on the cutting edge of science,” said UC President Richard C. Atkinson.
“Mike Anastasio has a stellar reputation as a leader of the Lawrence Livermore weapons program,” said Lab Director Charles Shank. “He has a solid physics background and will be an asset to the Nation in certifying the stockpile. I look forward to working with him as part of the University management team of the laboratories.”
Recently, Anastasio, 53, has been a leader in the national Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) designed to sustain the safety, security and reliability of America’s nuclear weapons stockpile. He also has served in Washington as a scientific adviser at the Department of Energy, providing advice to senior members of the department on a variety of SSP issues.
In nominating Anastasio, Atkinson was advised by a committee of regents, research scientists and research administrators, which in turn was advised by an application screening committee consisting largely of the scientific leaderships of the Livermore laboratory and several UC campuses.
“I am honored to accept this appointment,” said Anastasio. “I have spent nearly 22 years at Livermore and I feel enormous pride in this institution and the people who work here.”
Anastasio and his wife, Ann, are residents of Livermore. They have two daughters in college, Alison and Alexandra. A sports enthusiast, Anastasio also plays the cello.
As director, Anastasio will oversee an operation with 7,500 employees and a $1.5 billion budget. He will earn $315,700 per year as director, the same as director Tarter’s salary.
On Saturday, June 22, friends and colleagues from around the world will gather at Bechtel Engineering Center for a day-long symposium marking Professor Chang-Lin Tien’s retirement from the university and honoring his research legacy and contributions to education and society.
For more than 40 years, as both a Mechanical Engineering professor and the former chancellor of the Berkeley campus, Tien has enriched the educational experience of the University of California while strengthening the University’s reputation around the globe.
Tien, who underwent brain tumor surgery in September 2000 and is receiving home care, will not be able to attend the event.
Those paying tribute to Tien during the afternoon program will include Chancellor Berdahl; UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry Yang; UC President Richard Atkinson and former President J.W. Peltason; Dan Mote, president of the University of Maryland and former Berkeley professor and vice chancellor; and the heads of the National Academy of Engineering, the Asia Foundation, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.
Members of the campus community are invited to attend the symposium. To register, or to submit a tribute to Tien, see http://www.me.berkeley.edu/tien.
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W. Geoffrey Owen, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named dean of the Biological Sciences Division in the College of Letters & Science. He will assume the position July 1, taking the reins from Paul Licht, who held the post for the last eight years.
With about 105 faculty members in two departments - integrative biology and molecular and cell biology - the division houses researchers studying everything from entire organisms to the human genome. It graduates some 800 students each year who embark on careers in the health sciences, veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental science and academia.
“What Berkeley offers is a tremendous breadth of biology and a world-class faculty,” Owen says. “Our faculty really are tops; that’s why people come here.”
Owen, whose research involves how the visual system makes sense of the world around us, expects to spend much of his time raising funds to expand and improve biological research on campus.
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A single instrument aboard SNAP, the proposed SuperNova/ Acceleration Probe, will make it unique among satellites: its billion-pixel astronomical camera, the GigaCAM. Built from an array of revolutionary Berkeley Lab CCDs developed by Stephen Holland and his colleagues in the Lab’s Engineering and Physics Divisions, the GigaCAM will be the largest and most sensitive astronomical CCD imager ever constructed.
Standard astronomical CCDs are fragile affairs, and their ability to obtain high-quality images degrades quickly in the hostile radiation environment of space — one reason why astronauts have already replaced all of the Hubble Space Telescope’s original imaging instruments.
“The Hubble and many other satellites were designed to be maintenance friendly, but SNAP is going to be placed in an unreachable orbit,” says Engineering’s William Kolbe, noting that once the GigaCAM is carried aloft on its five-year-plus mission, it can’t afford to fail.
At 300 microns (millionths of a meter) thick, the Berkeley Lab “high-resistivity, p-channel” CCDs are much more rugged than conventional astronomical CCDs measuring only a few tens of microns thick. In recent months Kolbe and Armin Karcher have been conducting tests at the 88-Inch Cyclotron to see just how well the new CCD can stand up to radiation damage.
Outer space in the lab
In space the culprits are cosmic rays, high-velocity particles packing a tremendous energetic punch that destroys pixels, increases “dark current” (a source of background noise), and worst of all degrades the efficiency of charge transfer from the pixels to the amplifiers at the edges of the chip. A few cosmic rays are massive atomic nuclei like iron, nickel, or zinc, but the majority are protons and electrons.
The 88-Inch Cyclotron simulates the cosmic ray environment with both heavy ions and protons, to test spacecraft components ranging from memory chips to transistors to entire computer systems, and to calibrate detectors used in compiling space “weather” reports. CCD chips and solar cells are particularly prone to degradation from large numbers of protons generated during high solar activity.
“At the Cyclotron, protons are delivered to target components at the Light Ion Irradiation Station located in Cave 3,” says Peggy McMahan, research coordinator for the 88-Inch Cyclotron. “We owe this station to a group from the Life Sciences and Engineering Divisions, who worked with our operations staff to develop it in order to maintain a small radiation biology program here after the closure of the Bevalac in 1993.”
In the station the dose is measured and the beam is “blown up” to four inches in diameter to uniformly irradiate silicon wafers (and the Petrie dishes used in Life Sciences experiments too). The Materials Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Advanced Light Source divisions have also used the irradiation facility when the cyclotron is not busy with nuclear science experiments, its primary mission. Companies who have tested components for space applications on a fee basis include Eastman Kodak, Aerospace Corporation, Lucent Technologies, and Mitsubishi Electronics.
Test CCDs for the SNAP project are bombarded with beams of protons ranging in energy from 10 to 55 MeV (million electron volts); by testing several wafers, each at a different dose — from a few billion to a hundred billion protons per square centimer of surface — dosage can be scaled to equal what CCDs would receive after several years in orbit.
Performance check
Before irradiation, Kolbe and Karcher assess the test wafers in their laboratory for dark current, charge transfer efficiency, and “cosmetic” defects. Computer processing and other electronic tricks can compensate for cosmetic flaws like a few damaged (“hot”) pixels, endemic to all CCDs, but dark current and charge transfer efficiency pose more serious challenges.
Dark current is electronic noise caused by thermal motion of the atoms that make up the chip; the colder the chip, the less the dark current. The Berkeley Lab CCD is much thicker than ordinary astronomical chips so there is more material in which dark current can be generated, but its high purity, negative “doping,” and low operating temperature work to suppress dark current. In space, SNAP’s GigaCAM will operate at about 140 degrees Kelvin (by comparison, nitrogen under normal atmospheric pressure liquefies at 77 deg K).
Typically the most serious radiation damage to CCDs is a steady reduction in charge transfer efficiency. Photons from distant objects like stars are focused on pixels in the CCD, and the brighter the object, the more photons are converted to charge. Negative electrons or positive “holes” are collected and transferred to the edge of the chip along specific channels, like buckets of water in a bucket brigade. The chip’s electronics reconstruct the image of a star by associating the precise amount of charge and the precise location of the pixels that generated it.
“When you irradiate a CCD with protons, silicon nuclei are knocked out of their lattice position, and what was fairly perfect material develops defects,” Kolbe says. “These form electron or hole ‘traps’ that can grab charge that’s being transferred, hold onto it for a time, then let it go later.”
 SNAP’s 2-meter telescope will serve the billion-pixel GigaCAM, more efficient at all wavelengths than existing astronomical cameras. |
Armin Karcher notes that these inefficiencies in charge transfer “can affect the apparent brightness of objects in the sky and the interpretation of their spectra.” The success of the SNAP satellite will greatly depend on its ability to measure supernova spectra with extreme accuracy.
To characterize the test CCDs, Kolbe and Karcher create star fields by exposing them to a small x-ray source. “Each x-ray photon deposits an artificial ‘star’ every 50 to 70 pixels, generating a cloud of charge,” says Karcher. “We know how many electrons it takes to represent each of these, so when we read out the data we know what the reading should be.”
And the winner is . . .
After irradiation at the 88-Inch Cyclotron, Kolbe and Karcher take the test wafers back into the laboratory to measure radiation effects from different doses. In the three batches tested so far they found that, while radiation dosage increased dark current, the effect was important only at high temperatures — and the impact of radiation on charge transfer efficiency was remarkably small. Available studies indicate that the charge transfer efficiency of conventional CCDs falls off rapidly with increased radiation, while the Berkeley Lab CCDs are little affected even at very high doses.
These results were not unexpected; after all, the Berkeley Lab CCD descends from a long line of detectors designed to withstand radiation from colliding beams of particles in giant research accelerators — “much more hostile than outer space,” Kolbe remarks.
“The high-resistivity p-channel CCDs exhibit extremely low dark current at the operating temperature,” the researchers concluded in their latest report. “Radiation damage proved to be much less detrimental than in conventional CCDs. . . . Their potential lifetime in space is measured in decades, not years.”
Kolbe and Karcher have devised new instruments to test larger CCD wafers, to measure the efficiency of their response at all wavelengths, and to investigate what effect pixel size, different levels of doping, and other manufacturing variables may have on their performance after radiation exposure.
“We’re expanding our capabilities constantly,” Karcher says. “We plan to keep going till SNAP flies.”
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For more on the Berkeley Lab CCD, visit the web at http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ccd-infrared.html; technical details can be found at http://design.lbl.gov/ccd/. For more on the SNAP satellite, visit http://snap.lbl.gov/. For more on Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron, visit http://www-nsd.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/nsd/user88/. And for the latest space weather report, see http://www.spaceweather.com/.
While his work in accelerator modeling on supercomputers definitely puts his professional life in the fast lane, Andreas Adelmann and his family are finding it a challenge to adjust to the fast-paced Bay Area lifestyle.
Selected as the first recipient of NERSC's Luis Alavarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Science, Adelmann, his wife and three children recently moved into a home in North Berkeley. In their native Switzerland, they lived in Lenzburg, a town of about 8,000, 15 miles west of Zurich.
 Image Alvarez Fellow Andreas Adelman (left) with Rob Ryne, the leader of the project on accelerator design in AFRD |
"This area is so busy, with everybody rushing around," Adelmann said. "It's kind of a culture shock."
"Although he is an early-career scientist who just finished his dissertation this past summer, Andreas is already one of the leading researchers in Europe developing the tools for large-scale simulation of accelerators using parallel computers," said NERSC Division Director Horst Simon. "With his background and experience, he is a perfect match to connect NERSC the Accelerator Modeling SciDAC project and we expect him to make contributions to the progress of this project."
Adelmann is working with Robert Ryne and Esmond Ng in NERSC's Scientific Computing Group to model next-generation accelerators as part of DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Accelerator Physics Project. Ryne had developed codes for modeling linear accelerators, while Adelmann has modeled circular accelerators.. Their codes have the same goal of accurately modeling beams and they are using the two models to try to achieve the same results.
Adelmann did his doctoral thesis at the Eidgenoessischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) while working at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. The institute-comparable to a national laboratory-operates proton cyclotrons and an electron light source. Adelmann earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the ETH.
In the previous issue of Currents, our article on the Friends of Science program contained an error. As Eva Nogales has pointed out to us, the work that ended with the atomic structure of tubulin was not carried out in her lab, rather in the lab of Ken Downing where she worked as a postdoc under Downing’s supervision. We apologize for the confusion.
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Neville Smith, Director of Science at the Advanced Light Source, escorts a group of Norwegians on a tour of the ALS. The 16-member group consisted of representatives from the Norwegian Research Council, which is convened under Norway’s Department of Medicine and Health. Their five-day Bay Area tour focused on molecular biology in medicine, ranging from basic research to patient treatment. At the Lab they learned about protein crystallography and cell biology research at the ALS. The group also met with Dr. Thomas Budinger, Head of Nuclear Medicine and the Center for Functional Imaging, and learned about Berkeley Lab’s research in positron emission tomography (PET) and functional imaging.
David Bailey, chief technologist at NERSC, will kick off Berkeley Lab’s annual Summer Lecture Series on June 18 with a presentation on “Are the Digits of Pi Random?” The series will continue the following five Tuesdays at noon in Building 50 auditorium, including Director Shank’s State of the Lab address on June 25.
The one-hour lectures are geared to a general audience and are open to all Lab employees, summer students, teachers, and visitors. Audience members are welcome to bring their lunches to the talks.
Bailey’s research has included studies in parallel computing, numerical analysis, fast Fourier transforms, multiprecision computation, supercomputer performance, and computational number theory. Bailey, along with his colleague Richard Crandall, director of the Center for Advanced Computation at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, has taken a major step toward answering the age-old question of whether the digits of pi and other math constants are “random.” Their results were reported in the Summer 2001 issue of Experimental Mathematics.
Following the State of the Lab, the Summer Lecture Series will continue on July 2 with physicist Peter Nugent of NERSC speaking about his research using the Hubble telescope. Next up is Keith Jackson, leader of the lithography programs at the Center for X-ray Optics, on July 9 discussing the deep-etch lithography technique known as LIGA and its role in nanotechnology advancements. The lecture on July 23 will feature Ashok Gadgil and his recent work developing a Building Occupant Protection Guide as one of the Lab’s efforts to assist DOE’s Homeland Security efforts. The July 16 speaker will be announced in the next issue of Currents.
Berkeley Alert! Berkeley Lab scientists worked with Livermore Lab to prepare this realistic — but completely fictitious — map of a plume of toxic chemicals spreading east northeast across part of the city of Berkeley and the University of California on the morning of June 6, after a crop-duster loaded with pesticides supposedly crashed into a building at Shattuck and Center. Emergency personnel from five agencies including the Lab, the city, the university, Alta-Bates Summit Medical Center, and the Bayer Corporation — who also suffered a simulated hostage situation during the busy morning — participated in a two-hour exercise to practice joint response to a terrorist strike against the Bay Area. “This is the first time so many agencies have worked together to practice coordinated response management to a terrorist threat,” according to Berkeley City Manager Weldon Rucker. Throughout the months-long development of the Berkeley Alert exercise, Berkeley Lab’s participation was coordinated by Valerie Quigley of the Environment, Health, and Safety Division. — Paul Preuss
In the May 31 issue of Currents, the new Performance Review and Development (PRD) personnel evaluation process was discussed. Throughout PRD’s development over 18 months, a number of staff representatives contributed time, energy and ideas to the successful evolution.
The human resources liaisons, and their represented divisions, are: Colette Gooch, Accelerator and Fusion Research, Physics, Nuclear Sciences and the Directorate; Sherri Harding, Advanced Light Source, Earth Sciences, Environmental Energy Technologies, and Environment, Health and Safety; Diana Attia, Administrative Services and Financial Services; Ann Lawhead, Chemical Sciences and Materials Sciences; Leslie Cobb, Engineering; Kathy Richards, Facilities; Chris Diesch, Genomics, Computing Sciences, Information Technology Services, and NERSC; Nancy Talcott, Life Sciences and Physical Biosciences; and Karen Ramorino, Diversity.
Points of contact within the Divisions and programs included Bill Barletta, Ben Feinberg, Elizabeth Saucier, Angela Gill, Mike Chartock, Linda Wuy, Steve Weil, Robin Wendt, Vic Karpenco, Bill Llewellyn, Andre Bell, Michael Banda, Cynthia Coolahan, Rosemary Evanoff, Mary DiFranco, Phil Ross, Francesca Verdier, John Freeman, Heinz Frei, and Kathie Hardy.
According to the calendar, summer arrives on Friday, June 21. And although recent hot weather might convince you otherwise, Berkeley Lab’s musicians and car enthusiasts will do their best to pay homage to the official solstice, as Nature intended.
During the noon hour on the first day of summer, Lab employees are invited to celebrate the vacation season. Kevin Bradley of Engineering has assembled almost two dozen classic cars and hot rods for display in the lower Cafeteria parking lot. And Steve Blair of Facilities has pulled together the Berkeley Lab Rhythm and Blues Band to offer sounds of the summer on the cafeteria outdoor stage.
As further evidence that the picnic season has arrived, the cafeteria catering service will offer outdoor barbecue specials on hamburgers, hot dogs and ice cream sundaes.
Bradley, a classic car enthusiast, said he and his lab colleagues will line up the polished, historic cruisers and coupes for inspection by employees – in most cases, hoods up and doors open. They will be on display from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Today’s the last day to register a car for inclusion in the rally; call Bradley at X4319, or e-mail him to arrange an exhibition spot.
“First Day of Summer” is sponsored by the Berkeley Lab Employee Activities Association.
On Friday, June 28 at Noon in the 50 Auditorium, the Berkeley Lab Breast Cancer Research Awareness Forum will host its June installment entitled, “Breast Cancer and Aging.” The event will feature two prominent breast cancer investigators, Lab Staff Scientist Judith Campisi Ph.D. and Christopher Benz M.D. of the Buck Institute.
Campisi recently joined the faculty of the Buck Institute while maintaining her research lab on the hill. The primary focus of her research is to understand the cellular and molecular basis of aging. Additionally, she is studying the mechanisms responsible for the normal, premalignant and malignant phenotypes of breast epithelial cells.
An internationally recognized expert in the field of breast cancer research, Christopher Benz joined the Buck Institute in September of 2000 from UCSF. As the Director of the Program on Cancer and Developmental Therapeutics at the Buck Institute, Benz focuses on identifying molecular strategies to improve cancer diagnostics and therapy, giving special emphasis to breast cancer. He is also an active member of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Breast Oncology Program and remains clinically involved at the UCSF Breast Care Center.
Visit http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences/BCancer/index.html for more information.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Friends (GLBTF) Association will celebrate Gay Pride month in June with several activities. First up is a video presentation of “Beauty Before Age, Growing Older in Gay Culture” on Friday, June 21st at Noon in Bldg. 50 Auditorium. There will also be a potluck Pride Luncheon on Friday, June 28 from 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Perseverance Hall. For more information, check out the website at glbtf.lbl.gov or contact Paul Harris at ext. 4650.
Health Services is conducting its annual free skin cancer screening on Friday June 28 from 8:00 a.m. until noon. Berkeley Dermatologist Elizabeth Ringrose M.D. will join the Health Services medical staff this year as part of the skin cancer screening. All employees who believe they may be at risk are encouraged to make an appointment by calling Health Services at ext. 6266. This is a popular event so please sign up early.
UNIX and Linux system administrators—are your systems secure? Are you aware that the LBNL RPM requires you to take security training once a year? To help you in your effort to secure your UNIX and Linux systems, the LBNL Computer Protection Program is sponsoring another full-day course on UNIX security. This course will cover the following topics:
This course will be held in the Bldg. 66 auditorium from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25. The instructors will once again be Jim Mellander and Gene Schultz. There is no charge for attending, but space is limited. Enrollment is on a first-come, first served basis. To register, go to the Employee Self-Service Web page (https://hris.lbl.gov/) and log in using your LDAP user name and password (the one used for logging into the Lab’s central email system).
Choose the “Training Enrollment” option from the list on the left, then check Computer Security.
The summer LBNL softball league is scheduled to start in late June or early July. Because the normal field on campus is closed this summer, games will be played in the City of Alameda. If you would like to start a team or join an existing team, please contact Steve Blair, ext. 5927.
New Dance Class
The LBNL Dance Club will begin a new dance series, Cha-Cha, on June 24 at noon in Building 31. Please contact Joy Kono (x6375) for more details, or visit the LBNL Dance Club website at www.LBNLdance.org.
A retirement party will be held for Engineering’s Fred Perry to celebrate his forty-four years at the Lab. Fred started at the Lab in 1958 and is currently supervisor of the 88” Cyclotron machine shop. His retirement party will be held at H’s Lordship’s Restaurant at the Berkeley Marina on Thursday, June 27 from 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. The cost is $30 and includes buffet and a gift for Fred. Please contact, Peggy McMahan at ext. 5980 for more details.
The Employee Activities Association is sponsoring two events for Lab employees. The first is a baseball day with the Oakland A’s vs. the Texas Rangers on Sunday, July 21 at 1:05 p.m. The cost for Lab employees is $7 per ticket discounted from $16. Tickets will be on sale every Wednesday from Noon to 1 p.m. in the cafeteria lobby on a first come, first served basis. For more information contact Lisa Cordova at X5521.
The second event is a Family Fun Weekend at Six Flags Marine World on Saturday and Sunday, July 13-14. The cost for Lab employees is $15 per person. Tickets can be purchased every Wednesday from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the cafeteria lobby or by mail to EAA Coordinator, MS 937-0600. For more information e-mail at EAACoordinator@lbl.gov.
San Francisco City Hall has often been referred to as the “Crown Jewel” of the finest ensemble of classical architecture in America. Its dome is one of the largest in the world, rising 306 feet above the civic center national historic district. To take advantage of our proximity to such a treasure, the Employees’ Arts Council has arranged for a tour of San Francisco City Hall on July 20 at noon. The cost for the docent led tour is $2.50 per person. The tour will last about an hour and a half. The building opens at noon and closes at 4:00 p.m. You will be free to wander the part of the building open to the public after the tour.
Additional information on SF City Hall can be found at http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/cityhall. If you would like to join this tour, please send e-mail to Mary Clary (mmclary@lbl.gov) for reservations.
ON-SITE REVIEW
ON-SITE REVIEW
SUMMER LECTURE SERIES
David Bailey: “Are the Digits of Pi Random?”
Noon, 50 Auditorium
INFANT/CHILD CPR CLASS
6-8 p.m., Bldg. 48 room 109
SHOEMOBILE
FIRST DAY OF SUMMER PICNIC AND CLASSIC CAR SHOW
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
lower Cafeteria parking lot
VIDEO: “BEAUTY BEFORE AGE, GROWING
Older in Gay Culture”
Noon, 50 Auditorium
CHA-CHA DANCE CLASS
Noon, Bldg 31
UNIX AND LINUX SECURITY COURSE
9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Bldg. 66 Auditorium
STATE OF THE LAB ADDRESS
Noon, 50 Auditorium
POTLUCK PRIDE LUNCHEON
11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Perseverance Hall
SKIN CANCER SCREENING
8:00 a.m. – Noon, Health Services
BREAST CANCER RESEACH AWARENESS FORUM
“Breast Cancer and Aging”
Noon, 50 Auditorium
Send us your announcements
Announcements for the General Calendar and Bulletin Board page may be sent to MSFriedlander@lbl.gov. Seminar & Lectures items may be mailed to currents_ calendar@ lbl.gov. You may also fax items to X6641 or mail them to Bldg. 65B. The deadline for the May. 31 issue is 5 p.m. Monday, May 27.
CENTER FOR BEAM PHYSICS SEMINAR SERIES
Vacuum Laser Acceleration
Speaker: Yu-Kun Ho, Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University (China)
10:30 a.m., Bldg 71-264 Albert Ghiorso conference rm
Refreshments served at 10:20 a.m.
CENTER FOR BEAM PHYSICS SEMINAR SERIES
A Recirculating Linac-Based Source for Femtosecond X-ray Pulses
Speaker: John Corlett, Accelerator & Fusion Research Division
10:30 a.m., Bldg 71-264 Albert Ghiorso conference rm
Refreshments served at 10:20 a.m.
The LBL Fire Department will be offering a series of Infant/Child CPR classes between now and the end of this year. Classes are free and open to family members. A current Adult CPR certificate, from the Lab or any other training program, is required. This class is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18, Wednesday, September 25 and Wednesday, December 4. Pre-registration is required. For more information, call the EHS training program at X2228 or visit their web site at http://www.lbl.gov/ehs/html/training.htm.
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Date |
Course |
Time |
Building |
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6/14 |
EHS 432 |
Radiation Protection-Lab Safety |
8:00 - 12:30 |
51-201 |
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6/17 |
EHS 260 |
Basic Electrical Hazard Awareness |
10:00 - 11:30. |
66-Aud |
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6/18 |
EHS 256 |
Lockout/Tagout |
10:00 - 11:30 |
66-Aud |
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6/18 |
EHS 20 |
ES&H for Supervisors |
9:30 - 11:30 |
51-201 |
|
6/18 |
EHS 735/738/ |
Pathogen |
1:30 - 2:45 |
51-201 |
|
6/18 |
EHS 125 |
Infant/Child CPR |
6:00 - 8:00 |
48-109 |
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6/19 |
EHS 275 |
Confined Space Hazards |
8:30 - 11:00 |
51-201 |
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6/19 |
EHS 530 |
Fire Extinguisher |
10:00 - 11:30 |
48-109 |
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6/19 |
EHS 274 |
Confined Space-Retraining |
11:00 - 12:00 |
51-201 |
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6/19 |
EHS 330 |
Lead Hazards Awareness |
1:00 - 2:00 |
51-201 |
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6/20 |
EHS 60 |
Ergonomics for Computer Users |
10:30 - 12:00 |
51-201 |
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6/20 |
EHS 10 |
Introduction to ES&H at LBNL |
1:00 - 3:00 |
51-201 |
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6/25 |
EHS 604 |
Hazardous Waste Generator |
9:30 - 11:00 |
51-201 |
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6/25 |
EHS 622 |
Radioactive & Mixed Waste |
11:00 - 12:00 |
51-201 |
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6/26 |
EHS 210 |
Hoist Safety |
10:30 - 12:00 |
51-201 |
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6/26 |
EHS 260 |
Basic Electric Hazard Awareness |
1:30 - 3:00 |
51-201 |
To enroll, contact Valarie Espinoza at VMEspinoza@lbl.gov or enroll via the web at https://hris.lbl.gov/self_service/training/. Preregistration is required for all courses except EHS 10. For a full, updated schedule, see http://www-ia1.lbl.gov/schedule/.
Magic School Bus Video Festival
Join Mrs. Frizzel and her class for seven exiting adventures, shown on the big screen in the LHS auditorium Saturday, June 15. Children age 6 and up are invited. One adult must accompany every 3 children. For information call 510-642-1016, or visit the LHS events page.
Circ Do Somethin’
Families are invited to clown around with Circ Do Somethin’ on Wednesday, June 19, at 12:30 p.m. Join an expert clowing team for juggling, acrobatics, and musical acts.
The A-Maze-ing Maze!
A new exhibit, the A-Maze-ing Maze, opened June 8th. It features a 35’ x 35’ maze constructed of colorful 8’ high panels and mirrored walls to keep you guessing which way to turn.
For more information, go to the website at http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/.
‘95 FORD TAURUS, grn, a/t, 4 dr, 6cyl, 3.0L, 97K mi, am/fm/cass, dual airbags, ac, pwr win/locks, newer tires, very clean, runs very well, $4,400/bo, Chuck, X4461, 521-6368
‘95 CHEVROLET CORSICA, dk blue, 4 cyl, 2.2L, a/t, ac, pwr steer/locks, am/fm, 129K mi, exc cond, bought from dealer in Sept & big tune-up since, smog check OK, runs great, very reliable, $2,990, Marilyne, X4928, 849-8583
‘93 TOYOTA COROLLA deluxe sedan, ng 1.8L 16v, 4 dr, a/t, ac, am/fm/cass, airbag, pwr steer, exc cond, well maint, $4,300, Voya, X4793
‘93 SUBARU LOYALE WAGON, 5 spd, 4 dr, 119K mi, awd, am/fm/cass, ac, all pwr, silver/grey, perf body, clean int, runs great, well maint, new clutch & tires, just smogged, $3,500/bo, Johanne, X4368, 649-7603
‘93 HONDA DX sedan, 4 dr, 5 spd, ac, blue, exc cond, 140K mi, Kelley Blue Book $4,200/bo, Tamas, X5808, 222-4127
‘92 NISSAN MAXIMA GXE, 125K mi, gold, 4 dr, V6, a/t, ac, am/fm/cass, all pwr, tilt wheel, cruise, alloy, very good cond, $4000/bo, Chaim, X4249, 525-7259
‘90 PLYMOUTH ACCLAIM, V6, a/t, 94K mi, pwr win/locks, ac, airbag, new brakes, runs well, $900/bo, Neil, X5265, 848-7968
‘90 BMW 535i, 137K mi, blk w/tan leather, a/t, ac, fully loaded, premium sound sys am/fm/cass/cd, car phone, sunrf, ABS brakes, alloy wheels, $7,999/bo, Tennessee, 612-6289
‘89 SAAB 900S 16V, 4 dr, 114K mi, a/t, pwr win/lock, cruise, sunrf, alloy wheels, am/fm/cass, good cond, $2,200/bo, Ralf, X7590
‘65 SEL MERCEDES, silver/grey, 2 dr, 4 spd, sunrf, $18,000, Margo, X6480, 964-1646
’62 FORD T-BIRD, good body & running cond, 125K mi, cream, clean, $6,500. Ron, (925) 837-3914
BERKELEY furn rm in beautiful brown-shingle Julia Morgan circa 1909, quiet, lge, comfortable, walk to campus, pub trans, & parks, ideal for visiting scholar, non-smoking, ltd kitchen priv, $500/mo, Rob, 843-5987
BERKELEY HILLS exquisite, architect-designed home on edge of Tilden Park w/ sweeping views, gardens, decks, hiking/jogging trails, golf course, Lake Anza nearby, 2 bdrm+, 2 ba, 2 kitchens, study, din rm, dkrm, furn, sec sys, DSL, cable TV, near bus, no smoking/pets, $2,000/mo, short-term 7/1- 8/5 flex, Evan, X6784
BERKELEY HILLS, fully furn rm w/ sep entry, full kitchen priv, w&d, quiet neighborhood, lovely backyard, near bus, avail Aug, $890/mo incl util, Jacob, 524-3851, Labartists@aol.com
BERKELEY lge 2 bdrm summer sublet approx 6/15 – 8/15, newly furn to accommodate 3 people, upstairs unit in small apt house located near Piedmont Ave & Dwight Way, $1,450/mo incl util, Phila, 848-9156
BERKELEY scenic Elmwood District, furn bdrm in Arts & Crafts-style flat to share w/ Lab employee & short-haired cat, 15 min walk to campus & pub trans, avail Jul/Aug, short or long-term lease OK, laundry facilities, cable TV, fully equipped kitchen, shared ba, perf for quiet visiting scholar, no smoking, $750/mo + 1/2 util, Susan, SAberg@lbl.gov
BERKELEY, 1bdrm in 4-unit house, Grant St (cross streets Virginia & Cedar), quiet, nice neighborhood, 15 min walk to campus, close to pub trans, off-street parking, Shelly, 548 9869, shellymandel@attbi.com
BERKELEY, residential community of UC scientists, Lab personnel & grad students, Hearst Commons, 1146-60 Hearst near University & San Pablo, close to pub trans & bike path, reserved parking incl, studio townhouses w/ decks, hardwood floors, skylights, dw, ac, intercom, sec, $895-$995, Alan, 666-1150, editeur@earthlink.net
EL CERRITO sunny 1 bdrm in-law cottage, full ba, freshly painted, deck, no pets/smoking, $720/mo incl util, Mike, 528-5526, fmalamud@socrates.Berkeley.edu
NORTH BERKELEY HILLS, beautiful home approx 7/3 – 7/22 on double lot, secluded w/ filtered view of Bay, walk to campus, incl cleaning & phone service, electricity & daily paper, $1,750, our dog for company is opt, Mona, mkafoury@attbi.com
NORTH BERKELEY near Grizzly Peak, sm prvt studio, nice view, 10 min to pub trans, sep ent, detached, $700/mo, util incl, avail in Jul flex, Pinky, xcxc333@yahoo.com
NORTH BERKELEY, charming sunny 1 bdrm, shared backyard w/ creek, furn, w&d, great neighborhood: across the street from jogging field, pool, tennis courts, close to market, no pets/smoking, avail 7/1, $1,300/mo, min 1 yr lease w/ sec dep, Mayya, 527-5143 for appt
NORTH BERKELEY, furn 1 bdrm apt for sublet in July, close to campus, dates flex, 1 person only, $300/wk, Steve, X6941
NORTH BERKELEY, sublet bdrm & ba in great neigborhood, 10 min walk from campus and shuttle, rm in 3 bdrm apt with 2 male grad students, avail now – 2/03, flex, $800/mo or b/o, Maya, X2908
PARK HILLS studio, 400 sq ft, close to Tilden Park, close to pub trans; sep ent, ba, & kitchenette, util incl, equipped w/ cable & broadband internet service, quiet, garden view; no smoking/pets, avail now, long or short-term, $1,000/mo, Lisa, X6268 days, 841-4855 eves, lsnow@lbl.gov
RICHMOND ANNEX, 3bdrm 2 ba, spacious, clean, light-filled house in quiet & safe neighborhood, 2 car garage, back yard, deck, w&d, 20 min drive to campus, avail 7/15, $1,450/mo, Ursula X4338, 215-7617
WALNUT CREEK, 1601 Alvarado Ave, lge 1 bdrm apt on ground floor of 4plex, patio, carport, pool, avail after 6/10, $850/mo, Bob, (925) 376-2211, rrs@value.net
VISITING SCHOLAR seeks furn 1 bdrm apt or shared housing in Berkeley for Jul - Aug, pref near campus or pub trans, Javier, jdiaz@condmat01.geol.uniovi.es
YOUNG COUPLE seeks 1 bdrm apt in Berkeley for sublet or mo-to-mo from now until Dec, quiet, non-smoking, good credit & refs, Maya, X2908
5-PIECE “PREMIER APK”, birch shells, 10”, 12”, 14” toms, 22” kick drum, Tama 14”x6”snare, Zildjiian 16” & 20”cymbols, 14” hi-hat, aLL hardware incl, less ear plugs, swirl-pearl wht, $500, Tom, X6025, (707) 426-0717
BICYCLE Men’s Diamondback hybrid 21”, $150; motorcycle boots, BMW, men’s size 44 (American 10-10.5), b/o; vacuum, looks old looking but runs good, Kenmore canister w/ power head, $20; laser pointer w/ extra batt, $8, Ken, X7739, 482-3331
HIMALAYAN KITTENS, M & F, wht w/ dark markings, 8 wks old & have 1st shots, Sharon, 799-2043
OFF-STREET PARKING in Berkeley’s Elmwood District during summer months, walking distance to campus, $15/wk, $50/mo, Susan, X5437
PANASONIC TV-VCR $150, AIWA stereo chain w/ 2 tape deck, 3cd & radio, $70; microwave, new, $40; cannon printer/fax/scanner, $80, Rana, X4368
VINYL RECORDS, 78 rpm, early 1900s on, classical & pop, approx 150 records, $50, Maggie, (925) 837-3914
TAHOE 2 bdrm 1.5 ba house on Truckee River, sleeps 6, 1 mi from downtown Truckee, great views, 2 sunny decks, short walk to fishing & hiking/biking trails, $700/wk, avail
6/21 – 7/16 & 8/2-12, will consider house swap, photos avail, Chris D, X4134, (775) 232-9001
TAHOE KEYS at S. Lake Tahoe, 3 bdrm house, 2-1/2 bth, fenced yard, quiet, sunny, close to attractions, great view of water & mtns, $195/night, 2 night min, Bob, (925)376-2211
MISC COMPUTER & SPORTS equipment: Apple Multiple Scan 15” color monitor, Mac ext keyboard, HP Deskwriter b&w printer, sm Radio Shack tape player; rollerblades: purple Bravoblades, women’s size 25.5, sm wrist guards & elbow pads incl. 2 ext frame backpacks: Jansport & Camp Trails, Margot or Pierre, 524-8672
Ads are accepted only from LBNL employees, retirees, and onsite DOE personnel. Only items of your own personal property may be offered for sale.
Submissions must include name, affiliation, extension, and home phone. Ads must be submitted in writing via e-mail (fleamarket@lbl.gov) or fax (X6641). Ads run one time only unless resubmitted, and are repeated only as space permits. They may not be retracted.
The deadline for the June 14, 2002 issue is Thursday, June 6.
