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By ED LEVINE
Published: December 31, 2003
PARIS has its baguettes and Dublin its soda bread. San Francisco trades heavily in sourdough, while New Orleans greets each morning with beignets. It wouldn't be Philadelphia without soft pretzels and it couldn't be Bonn without pumpernickel. But no city, perhaps in the history of the world, is so closely identified with a breadstuff as New York is with the bagel.
The bagel is to a Sunday in Manhattan as the mint julep is to Louisville, Ky., on the first Saturday in May — an indispensable accompaniment to ritual, whether that be a brunch on the Upper West Side or the Kentucky Derby itself. Whether eaten plain or with a "schmear" of cream cheese, with whitefish salad or a slice of Nova, with sesame seeds or salt, toasted or untoasted, by Jew, gentile, Muslim, Buddhist or agnostic, the bagel has, for more than a century, helped define breakfast in New York.
But what is a bagel, really? What makes it more than simply, as an article in The New York Times declared in 1960, "an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis"? And, most important to anyone with even a passing interest in the subject, where can you find the best bagel in New York City?
It was with these questions and more in mind that I set out, scarcely a month ago, to eat bagels in all five boroughs and to determine, to the best of my palate's ability, what makes a great and authentic New York bagel. I visited more than 50 establishments. I ate more than three times that number of bagels. In the process, I both horrified practitioners of the carbohydrate-phobic Atkins diet and discovered no less than half a dozen varieties of bagel so good they need no cheese, butter or smoked fish to accompany them.
Absolute Bagels on the Upper West Side, I salute you! Terrace Bagels, in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, huzzah! Cheers to Bagel Oasis, in Fresh Meadows, Queens, and to Murray's Bagels in Chelsea. Hot Bialys in Jamaica, Queens? Bagelry in Murray Hill? They are all superb.
But I also had bagels so despicably bad the people responsible for baking them should be incarcerated. New York may be the nation's bagel capital, but street vendors selling rubbery steamed bagels abound, not to mention local McDonald's franchises selling bagels topped with egg, cheese and bacon. Even such Midwestern depredations as blueberry bagels have gained a stronghold in certain precincts of New York City. The bagel as concept is ubiquitous in New York. But not all bagels are the same. Some are to be derided.
A definition of terms, then. A bagel is a round bread made of simple, elegant ingredients: high-gluten flour, salt, water, yeast and malt. Its dough is boiled, then baked, and the result should be a rich caramel color; it should not be pale and blond. A bagel should weigh four ounces or less and should make a slight cracking sound when you bite into it instead of a whoosh. A bagel should be eaten warm and, ideally, should be no more than four or five hours old when consumed.
All else is not a bagel.
A few more stipulations. Bagels do not need six ounces of cream cheese on them. They only need a schmear. Cream cheese made without guar gum is optimal, but it is hard to find. (You can still find fine natural cream cheese at the Fairway markets and Russ & Daughters in New York, and Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Mich., makes a great, larger curd cream cheese that is available by mail.) On the subject of salmon, it should be Nova, and it should be sliced to order. A good bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon does not have to be toasted, as contrast with the fat and salt will be provided by the crunchy crust of a properly made bagel exterior.
But a buttered bagel should almost always be toasted, so that you get that great, rich melted butter taste. Better yet, you can achieve the same effect if you buy your bagels fresh, still warm from the oven. No toasting needed!
THE derivation of the word bagel is unclear. Joan Nathan, the author of "Jewish Cooking in America" (Knopf, 1998), says it comes from the German verb "biegen," "to bend." The late Alan Davidson wrote in his "Oxford Companion to Food" that the word arose from the Yiddish "beygel," itself taken from the German "beugel," meaning ring or bracelet. One bit of bagel lore has it that the bagel was invented in 1683, when a Jewish baker in Vienna baked a hard roll in the shape of a stirrup — "bügel" in German — as a thank-you gesture to the cavalry-leading King John III Sobieski of Poland, who had saved the city from Turkish invaders.
But no matter the etymology, it is indisputable that Eastern European immigrants arriving in the United States at the turn of the 20th century brought the bagel with them to the streets of the Lower East Side, where they were baked and sold on the street stacked on sticks.
And it is likewise indisputable that in the manner of so many great American movements, the rise of the bagel is inextricably tied to that of a trade union, specifically Bagel Bakers Local 338, a federation of nearly 300 bagel craftsmen formed in Manhattan in the early 1900's.


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OAKLAND -- Pension costs have more than doubled over the past decade, leaving Oakland with fewer police officers, more potholes and a growing threat of insolvency, City Auditor Courtney Ruby warned in a report released Sunday.
Oakland's payments to the state pension system jumped from $37 million in 2003 to $89 million in 2012, the report found.
That $52 million gap is enough to pay the salaries of 300 police officers, according to city budget estimates.
Unlike most private sector workers, government employees in California receive guaranteed annual retirement income that can approach their final year's salary.
Oakland's pension problem is emblematic of a statewide crisis caused in large part by governments guaranteeing workers unaffordable pensions based on overly optimistic investment projections, Ruby wrote. As investment returns fell short of expectations, governments have had to pour more money into pensions plans at the expense of providing basic services.
Because Oakland is a member of the state's pension system, it has few options to tackle its pension burden alone other than asking employees to pay more toward their retirements, the report found.
With Oakland's pension costs forecast to keep rising, Ruby recommended city leaders work with union officials and pension experts to devise a strategy for funding pensions without further eroding services or risking bankruptcy.
"Oakland has to get its head out of the sand and be very clear that we have significant unfunded liabilities and we have to have a plan to deal with this," Ruby said. "It's such a complicated problem that there is no prefabricated solution."
Ruby's audit report actually underestimates the city's plight, pension experts said.
Her finding that the city has a $1.5 billion unfunded liability for employee pensions and retiree health care benefits is based on figures that do not take into account losses the state pension fund incurred during the Great Recession.
Ruby said she used the same figures that California Public Employees' Retirement System has used to determine the city's annual pension payments.
But former Assemblyman Joe Nation, who teaches public policy at Stanford University, said CalPERS has told public agencies to use the less rosy market-based valuations it also provides.
"You have what the market says you have," he said. "The other number just provides a lot of excuses for actuaries to argue that (pension funds) are in better shape than they are."
The market-based figures provided by CalPERS shows that Oakland's pension plan is only about two-thirds funded, well below the 80 percent level recommended by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. And total unfunded liabilities jump to about $2 billion -- roughly double the city's annual budget.
Unfunded liabilities soar even higher if one includes recent borrowing by the city to fund a separate pension system for police and firefighters hired more than three decades ago. Property owners have been paying a special tax since 1981 to help fund that system. The tax, which amounts to $788 a year for a $500,000 home, expires in 2026.
Ruby's report is her first since announcing her intention to run for mayor in November. She said it would be inappropriate for her to discuss how she would deal with the pension crisis as mayor while acting in her official capacity as city auditor.
In a written response to the audit, City Administrator Fred Blackwell accepted Ruby's recommendation for high-level pension talks and cited employee concessions to pay more toward their pensions and reduce benefits for new hires.
Renee Sykes, a city employee and vice president of IFPTE, Local 21, said in a prepared statement that members of her union had picked up nearly 90 percent of increased pension costs while the city struggled through the financial crisis.
"City employees have been part of the solution in the steps the city has taken so far," she wrote.
The state's pension crisis, Ruby wrote, is rooted in two landmark laws: The passage of Prop. 13 in 1978 that severely curtailed tax revenue and a 1999 state bill that allowed public agencies to retroactively boost employee pension benefits.
At the time the 1999 law was passed -- during the dot.com boom -- Oakland's pension costs were minimal.
By 2017, however, the city anticipates having to pay $148 million to cover employee retirements, according to budget forecasts. That would amount to nearly 40 percent of what the city expects to spend on employee salaries.
"There is no doubt that Oakland is already in the danger zone," Nation said. "But virtually every entity in California is in the danger zone."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.

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I want the copy large files (bit for bit) without any transcoding being done. What I did was I went to the "transcoding settings" and disabled all of the video file engines. But now when I browse on the PS3, it basically doesn't find anything.
How can I do a bit for bit copy, without any transcoding?


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- Jan 21:
- Thompson: No question Colin Kaepernick is the man for the 49ers
- San Francisco 49ers promote Paraag Marathe to president
- NaVorro Bowman will need surgery, other 49ers banged up
- 49ers' Lattimore on course for debut next season
- 49ers' Harbaugh: League investigating sideline incident
- Jim Harbaugh says 49ers assistants might be Cleveland Browns head coach candidates
SANTA CLARA -- Coach Jim Harbaugh looked back on the 49ers' NFC Championship game loss through a positive prism Tuesday, even praising Colin Kaepernick's effort as "fabulous."
Harbaugh said he and Kaepernick met Monday, and although the nature of the talk remained private, it's safe to say Harbaugh remains a staunch supporter of the third-year quarterback after Sunday's 23-17 defeat at Seattle.
"I thought he played fabulous, I really did," Harbaugh said. "There's things that happen both sides of the ball, special teams. You can point to a lot of areas I feel the players just really acquitted themselves as well as they could on both sides of the ball, both teams."
Kaepernick committed turnovers on each of the 49ers' final three possessions, including an interception on his final pass toward Michael Crabtree in the end zone with 22 seconds remaining.
Harbaugh said Kaepernick made the correct pre-snap read in targeting Crabtree.
Asked if Kaepernick was right in blaming himself for the loss, Harbaugh replied: "No, that's not accurate. Colin played his (butt) off. All players in the game did."
Kaepernick ran for 98 yards on eight carries in the first half, but he had just three scrambles after halftime and finished with 130 rushing yards, only 23 less than his passing total.
Harbaugh is pleased with Kaepernick's offseason plan and cited no dissatisfaction with the quarterback's busy 2013 offseason, which included a highly visible presence through award shows and commercial endorsements.
"I thought he was A-plus in the way he trained, prepared," Harbaugh said. "As coaches, as players, you could see it. It was hourly, it was daily that we were with him in the offseason. He was preparing to prepare for the season. Talking to him, that's the plan again this year."
Kaepernick has not spoken with the media since shortly after Sunday's game. He was at the 49ers' facility Monday and Tuesday, however.
Wideout Quinton Patton said of Kaepernick: "Of course he's going to feel he let the team down, but we're a team, and we win as a team and lose as a team."
The 49ers endured several physical casualties from Sunday's game: linebacker NaVorro Bowman tore two ligaments in his right knee, guard Mike Iupati fractured his left fibula, running back Frank Gore fractured his right ring finger, and left tackle Joe Staley played through a compound dislocation of his right thumb.
Harbaugh did not blame injuries for the defeat or how they may have impacted play calls.
Instead, Harbaugh praised the Seahawks, as was the case in his postgame handshake with coach Pete Carroll.
"I congratulated him and his team moving on, wished him good luck," Harbaugh said. "He had some very nice things to say, as well."
Harbaugh said the 49ers-Seahawks rivalry is making both teams better, adding about Seattle: "They had a phenomenal year. So far, they've done it better than anybody else has."
Does that mean he's rooting for the NFC's representative in the Super Bowl?
"The team that plays the best, the team that plays the hardest is the one I root for," Harbaugh said. "That will play out a week from Sunday."
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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how 1
adverb[usually interrogative adverb]
1In what way or manner; by what means: how does it work? he did not know how he ought to behave [with infinitive]: he showed me how to adjust the focus
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- No more is said in that witness statement as to precisely how or in what manner service had been effected.
- It is not clear from the available data how these findings ought to be interpreted.
- Such checks require that we choose what to monitor, when to monitor, and how to adjust treatment.
2Used to ask about the condition or quality of something: how was your vacation? how did they play?
More example sentences
- How are things going?
- How are your kids doing when it comes to social graces at the dinner table?
2.1Used to ask about someone's physical or mental state: how are the children? I asked how he was doing
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- How Is Your Inner Child?
- How are you doing? I had a friend ask me that simple question today, and I wasn't really able to answer it.
3 [with adjective or adverb] Used to ask about the extent or degree of something: how old are you? how long will it take? I wasn't sure how fast to go
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- There is a political question about how fast fares ought to be allowed to rise.
- You'd be forced to hook up with all manner of unsuitable partners just to show how popular you are.
- After the initial shock, he was surprised to find out how easily he adjusted to it.
3.1Used to express a strong feeling such as surprise about the extent of something: how kind it was of him how I wish I had been there!
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- How I wish I could always see my children the way I do today.
- How I wish I had my childhood back!
4 [relative adverb] The way in which; that: she told us how she had lived out of a suitcase for a week
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- It's amazing how you can see the personality of the examiner coming out in the tests.
- It is amazing how we can all be so familiar with something and not know its history or its origin.
- Could that be done in this case without telling juries how they ought to go about fact finding?
4.1In any way in which; however: I'll do business how I like
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- Because he had been head teacher for so long he had obtained the mentality the school was his and he could run it how he liked.
- I just want to do it how I like thanks.
- I do what I want to do and do it how I like to do it.
and how!
- informal Very much so (used to express strong agreement): "Did you miss me?" "And how!"More example sentences
- 'This'll do for a start… 'The Grinch said, 'and how!'
- LaBute was thrilled - 'people were listening and responding and how!'
here's how!
- dated Said when drinking to someone's health.
how about
- If there are problems as this man states how about offering solutions instead of criticism?
- There are bigger and better storage systems than you'll see here, and if you have them at work, how about offering me a job?
- If they want to make racing more exciting and slow speeds then how about these suggestions.
- Even if it's too late for this Christmas, how about a New Year resolution to do at least 20 minutes' exercise three times a week.
- Or how about editing and simplifying the entire physical universe?
- If one set of masts may be safe, how about two or three?
the how and why
- The methods and reasons for doing something: tonight's edition demystifies the how and why of television ratingsMore example sentences
- To find out the how and why - and whether - we have to go further back, to the 1880s, when London's and Europe's intellectuals were beset with doubt and anomie.
- That confidence has to be regained, and lengthy explanations about the how and why of Manila's response to the hostage crisis won't be enough.
- When I had finished reading the letter I was no more informed of the how and why of it all than when I'd stepped off onto the platform, but at least I knew the order of play now.
how come?
- see come.
how do?
- An informal greeting.Example sentences
- He wrote: "In instructing its Yorkshire public what not to do if meeting The Queen at the races, it warned: a cheery:" How do, missus? '
- She greets nearly everyone with warm intimacy, calls "How do?"
how do you do?
- A formal greeting.Example sentences
- 'There hasn't even been a preliminary 'Hey, how do you do?'
- In Eliza's first venture into polite company, she comes off as an automaton relegated to a handful of standard phrases and topics: the weather, people's health and 'how do you do?'
- He used to kick off his act with 'Hello, playmates, how do you do?'
how many
- What number: how many books did you sell?More example sentences
- Among other things, it can be used to find how many days old you are and the weekday you were born.
- On Unix systems, there is a limit set in the kernel on how many open file descriptors are allowed on the system.
- We would like to know how many calls does it take to evaluate the n th Fibonacci number if we follow the given recurrence.
how much
- What amount or price: just how much did it cost?More example sentences
- A company's decision on how much to give to charity can be influenced by its annual profit levels, long-term strategic giving goals, business priorities, and a host of other factors.
- Tell us how much you make, how much you've got for a downpayment, and your debt, and find out how far to stretch when home hunting.
- Mass is a measure of how much inertia an object displays.
how now?
- archaic What is the meaning of this?Example sentences
- How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead
- How now, a conduit, girl?
how so?
- How can you show that that is so?Example sentences
- 'So I didn't know you knew his dorm room,' I grinned, ignoring the flush rising up his face I continued. 'In fact you seem to know him and his room fairly comfortably, how so?'
- No. All I did was approach her casually, and say, 'Really, how so?'
- Her forehead wrinkled in puzzlement, 'Oh, how so?'
how's that for ——?
- Isn't that a remarkable instance of ——? how's that for stereotypical thinking?More example sentences
- How's that for saving memory?
- How's That For Customer Service!
- Maybe I won't give you any dessert, how's that?
1Used to make a suggestion or offer: how about a drink?
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2Used when asking for information or an opinion on something: how about your company?
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KENSINGTON -- Singer/songwriter Jackson Browne will play a return engagement at the Coventry Grove amphitheater in Kensington at 3 p.m. May 12 to benefit Wavy Gravy's Camp Winnarainbow.
The outdoor venue at a private amphitheater in a residential neighborhood in the West Contra Costa town will be a chance to see the top-selling performer with his full band and backup singers in an intimate setting, and Wavy Gravy, who will be the master of ceremonies, acknowledges that the up-close-and-personal aspect is reflected in the ticket price of $200 general admission. A $500 VIP ticket includes "priority seating, a limited edition event poster and access to the intimate post-concert reception with the artists."
Proceeds help underprivileged children leave the city and attend the summer performing arts camp that has been run for 35 years by Gravy and friends on his property in Laytonville in Mendocino County.
"It's a pricey ticket, but heck, I don't want the camp to end up being for rich and middle-class kids only," Gravy said from his Berkeley home.
As of Friday, about 60 percent of the tickets had been sold.
The show, the second benefit Browne has performed for the camp, will also mark Gravy's 77th birthday, which falls three days later. Gravy was 33 when he served as master of ceremonies of the legendary Woodstock festival in upstate New York in 1969.
"I have every intention of making it to when Woodstock is 50, because they are going to go nuts," he said.
For details and tickets for the Kensington show, go to http://campwinnarainbow-efbevent.eventbrite.com. To learn more about Camp Winnarainbow, go to ¿www.campwinnarainbow.org.
Contact Chris Treadway at 510-262-2784 or email@example.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/christreadway. Stay up to date on West Contra Costa news at www.IBABuzz.com/westcounty.
More information about Jackson Browne's benefit concert, including ticket purchases, can be found at http://campwinnarainbow-efbevent.eventbrite.com


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The Jewish Museum's exhibitions narrate eras and episodes of Jewish life in Germany. But the capacities of our vitrines are limited. Where they end, the publications begin.
A new Museum Guide documents and provides details on the objects and themes presented in our permanent exhibition.
Janine Lehmann
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Fax: +49 (0)30 259 93 409
Christine Marth
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Our catalogs supplement and illustrate special exhibitions with academic, essayistic or anecdotal contributions from relevant authors.
The series comprises firstly the new studies of the Jewish Museum Berlin, and secondly historical documents which illuminate different aspects and eras of Jewish life as well as material for schools.
Twice a year, the bilingual JMB Journal looks at current themes, analysing, discussing and shaping topical debates on politics and culture.
Additionally, here you may find posters and postcards (in German).
All publications may be ordered online.


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When firefighters predict the bad things that could happen when fewer of them protect a community, they cite industry standards to make their case.
But they rarely mention how few fire agencies actually meet the voluntary national staffing and response time benchmarks, or whether they are reasonable.
Of 17 East Bay fire departments, only Oakland meets all four key national measures of adequate fire protection set by the International City/County Management Association and the National Fire Protection Association, according to a review by this newspaper.
Seven districts, or just less than half, fall short on all four counts.
At a time when many fire departments have depleted reserves, postponed equipment purchases, sought firefighter pay concessions and even shuttered stations, the gap between the industry's best practices and local service levels will almost certainly widen.
The mismatch begs the question: Should residents worry for their lives and property, or are firefighters promoting service levels communities couldn't afford even when times were good?
The answer depends on whom you ask.
Public safety advocates say it is fire, accident and natural disaster victims and firefighters who will pay the price when the region disregards the industry's best and brightest.
"The standards are based on firefighter and public safety, and so they will be high," said Contra Costa Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho, whose husband is a firefighter. "That doesn't mean they shouldn't be our goals, but we obviously have to marry that with available revenues.
"We will evolve somehow, but I'm still frightened by the situation. I don't think residents are keyed into the risks we face in this county."
Taxpayer groups, however, say the benchmarks primarily benefit those who wrote them and promote a financially unsustainable fire service model.
"They are firefighters' unaffordable wishes and dreams," said Contra Costa Taxpayers Association Executive Director Kris Hunt. "In a perfect world, we would have all these things. Unfortunately, we are trading services for firefighters' high salaries and benefits."
Here's a look at the specific industry recommendations and how local agencies stacked up in the survey:
The 24-page National Fire Protection Association standards sparked acrimony when the industry membership organization adopted the first version in 2001. The National League of Cities fought the movement, characterizing it as a labor-driven intrusion into local control.
Not true, an association spokesman said.
The science-based standards are meant to "educate each community about its level of risk and allow people to make policy decisions," said National Fire Protection Association spokesman Ken Willett.
A 2010 National Institute of Standards and Technology study found four-person firefighting crews completed 22 key tasks in a typical house fire 25 percent faster than three-person crews.
Time is critical. The average structure fire doubles in size every two minutes and will "flash over" within eight minutes. Flashover is the point at which heat-generated gases ignite and dramatically reduce anyone's chances of survival.
"Fires spread very fast, and when minutes count, you need enough trained firefighters to do the job," Alameda city fire Capt. Jim Colburn said.
Had a fourth firefighter been on the first Contra Costa Fire engine to arrive at a 2007 San Pablo house fire where two firefighters and two residents died, investigators said the individual could have acted as an incident commander and saved time and perhaps lives.
In other examples from Contra Costa fire Chief Daryl Louder:
Incidents like these drive firefighters' ongoing and thus far unsuccessful push for fire districts to formally adopt the voluntary thresholds.
"Saying we can't reach these goals when we haven't tried is like saying you want to be the world pole-vaulting champion but you never practice," said California Professional Firefighters President Lou Paulson, a former Contra Costa Fire District firefighter.
But are those benchmarks realistic?
No, say other firefighting experts who call them too generic and costly for most East Bay fire departments.
The standards make no distinctions between population densities in rural or suburban communities and cities, said Stewart Gary, a fire services consultant with Citygate Associates and a retired Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department chief.
Oakland meets the broad standards because much of the city is flat and accessible from multiple points, but suburban districts with non-grid streets, widely spaced stations and varying topography cannot afford it, Gary explained. City fire departments also have access to a larger pool of money than special districts, which rely almost solely on property taxes.
"I wish agencies would stop applying one-size-fits-all national recommendations," Gary said.
The San Ramon Valley district, for example, meets none of the four benchmarks, but it is one of only a dozen California fire agencies accredited by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International. It is a voluntary but rigorous external review its fire chief said bypasses broad measurements and focuses the district's resources into populated Danville and San Ramon.
"I don't argue that four firefighters on an engine is great, and I'm sure it's safer and more effective than three," San Ramon Valley fire Chief Richard Price said. "But if my board said, 'We want to meet NFPA standards,' I bet it would cost me another $30 million on top of my $50 million budget. It's not reasonable."
Contact Lisa Vorderbrueggen at 925-945-4773, http://politicswithlisav.blogspot.com or Twitter.com/lvorderbrueggen.
Just less than half of the East Bay s fire agencies meet the minimum staffing level of one sworn personnel member per 1,000 people in the population, recommended by the International City/County Management Association. Here s the breakdown:
Alameda (city)* 1.29 Yes
Alameda County 0.95 No
Albany* 1.06 Yes
Berkeley* 1.06 Yes
Fremont 0.64 No
Livermore-Pleasanton 0.69 No
Oakland 1.07 Yes
Piedmont* 2.43 Yes
Contra Costa County 0.44 No
East Contra Costa 0.30 No
El Cerrito 1.26 Yes
Kensington 1.26 Yes
Moraga-Orinda* 1.62 Yes
Pinole 0.56 No
Richmond 0.85 No
Rodeo-Hercules 0.40 No
San Ramon Valley* 0.87 No
* Also operates ambulance service staffed with sworn personnel.
Source: Staff research, Contra Costa and Alameda County fire agencies


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Mindful that great American road trips occur in all sorts of vessels -- heck, Huck Finn rode a rickety raft -- we're on a Greyhound bus heading up California's flat, slender belly.
"Why?" you ask.
That's a sensible question, but let us open our hearts and heads to this for a few seconds:
By the time we're done, we will meet a vagabond grandma and a former prostitute, an impish computer genius and just maybe the ghost of Jack Kerouac, who looked at Greyhound and California's wide-open roads as gateways to the finest American right of all: the right to wander.
Still skeptical? What if I told you that a trip from San Jose or Oakland to Los Angeles could be booked for a buck, making this Greyhound trip the best bargain in all of travel? Might be the best bargain, period.
So, climb aboard. No security checkpoints and no luggage fees. No pillows or drink service either, but also no charge. A few of my fellow passengers, some more hollow-eyed than even I, have prison on their faces. A few are students, but most look like the same sorts you see on commercial airlines these days.
I don't take much comfort in that.
This isn't so much a road trip as a Paul Simon song. "Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh ... Michigan seems like a dream to me now."
On a Thursday morning, the bus moans out of its barn in downtown Los Angeles, past the glorified freshmen dorms that pass for apartments in Little Tokyo and onto the Hollywood Freeway, where I can peer down into the laps of commuting drivers, my first indication that this 380-mile jaunt from L.A. to Sacramento will be anything but just another road trip.
We pass by California drylands the color of concrete. In two hours exactly, we're in Bakersfield, where we break for lunch.
A ride with a view
This year, Greyhound started offering these Express tours in California, aboard sleekly painted dark-blue buses with leather seats and big windows that -- unlike in a 737 -- you actually can see out of.
The Express includes four quick pit stops on my eight-hour jaunt to Sacramento.
Unlike standard Greyhound buses, the Express has free Wi-Fi and outlets for your laptop, phone or, in the case of some of my neighbors, electric razors.
That's not to say that this is luxury travel; that's not the vibe. The bus stations tend to be clean but dreary. The clientele is a little shaky, me included.
However, now and then there is the sense that you are doing something special. The ride is gentle, softly rocking, the pace steady and true. The bus is three-quarters full on the journey up. Legroom is plentiful.
Only $1 to ride?
Keep in mind that if you manage to snag one of the limited number of $1 seats (the rate is best found a few weeks in advance), you will be traveling for about a third of a cent per mile -- about what it costs to vegetate on your mother's couch.
That alone puts a shine on the face of Marie Allen, gracious and gorgeous at 86. She's on her way home to Walla Walla, Wash., the town so nice they named it twice. ("It means 'many waters,' " she says.)
This Greyhound great-grandma travels solo by bus all the time, for trips to Miami, for trips to New York. She has a sanguine outlook; she's one of those improbably upbeat people who makes you feel like a slacker even if you're not.
"Greyhound is my favorite way to travel," she says, nodding a little as she talks. "You get to see things, you get to meet locals. On a plane, you don't have that.
"We can definitely afford to fly and the best of everything, but I go Greyhound and stay in hostels," she says. "It's an adventure."
What am I going to do, argue? Allen is one of the most amazing people ever. (Weeks later, we still chat by phone.)
Besides, I'm about to meet an ex-hooker and a computer visionary-rascal. Not the same person, but they share the same seat, within moments of each other.
Yep, this Greyhound is an adventure all right.
"I went into a chili joint and the waitress was Mexican and beautiful. I ate, and then I wrote her a little love note on the back of the bill. ... She read it and laughed. It was a little poem about how I wanted her to come and see the night with me."
-- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
Kerouac saw the days and nights of America from the open road, sometimes hitching, often catching a Greyhound. From this he explored a forgotten side of the American soul, describing California fields "the color of love and Spanish mysteries."
You don't spot that from 30,000 feet.
'A sense of place'
Trips like this also serve as a reminder that we hurry too much when we travel, stare too much at clouds, worry ourselves to the airport three hours before flights just so we can be hassled by security.
If airports are like big cities, buses feel more like small towns. You don't see so many faces that they become inconsequential. There is a sense of place.
On the return trip from Sacramento, the 50-passenger bus is nearly full except for the adjoining seat, and I'm wishing -- please God, please -- that the spot stays empty for the half-day journey back, when the cutest blue-eyed former hooker you ever saw plops down next to me.
"It's my birthday," she says.
"Lucky you," I say.
"Thanks," she says.
"Twenty-two," she says, brightly.
We won't get into how she chose her former line of work, or the two weeks she once spent in an L.A. jail. The important thing is that my seatmate is turning her life around, has a steady boyfriend and a job as a receptionist, and a baby on the way.
Redemption is in the air. And probably the ghost of Kerouac himself.
The doctor said she's about three months pregnant, but she thinks it's probably really four. Yes, she's taking her prenatal vitamins. Yes, her boyfriend needs to man up and quit playing video games and decide whether he wants to be part of this baby's life. If not, her family is there for her, and she doesn't want to spend the next 60 years with someone who doesn't really love her.
Not bad for 22.
When she de-buses in Stockton, I thank her for her candor and hand her a few bucks for baby shoes.
Most times you chase the stories; occasionally, they chase you.
Interesting travelers
In her place sits Ron Blake, a big, pony-tailed Texan who raked in a lot of money in computer databases, blew a bunch of it on three marriages and is now traveling for a month on Greyhound's $461 30-day pass.
"You better be interesting, dude," I tell him as he sits down.
I tell Blake about the tough act he follows.
Up for a challenge, he begins to serenade me with stories about life on the road, the great stay he just had at Yosemite, the magnificent future of computer-based titanium manufacturing and about any other subject you could possibly name.
'In touch with ... souls'
I won't get into specifics on Blake; that would take a book. But the 65-year-old is sold on bus travel, too, on his way this evening to L.A. just for a Dodgers game, then back on the bus at midnight for a trip to San Francisco, and eventually, Portland, Ore., Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, then across to the Canadian Rockies and down into Glacier National Park in Montana.
By the time Blake takes his first breath, somewhere near Bakersfield, I have a serious case of travel envy.
I'm not so sure that, one day, I might not try just what he's doing -- soaking up 4,000 miles of North America for less than a round-trip air ticket to Philly.
Of a bus, he says, "You don't just get in touch with your own soul. You get in touch with the souls of everyone around you."
And even a few souls to come.
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When Arhoolie Records reached its 50th anniversary in February 2011, it celebrated in grand style.
The acclaimed roots-music label in El Cerrito, founded by the great music documentarian Chris Strachwitz, invited several talented friends and admirers to mark the occasion during a weekend-long music festival at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley. The cast of performers included Ry Cooder, the Treme Brass Band, the Campbell Brothers, the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Laurie Lewis, Peter Rowan, Country Joe McDonald and Suzy and Eric Thompson. The performances were representative of the label's diverse back catalog, which includes everything from blues and folk to Cajun and Zydeco to Tejano and regional Mexican music.
Now, fans can relive the magic with "They All Played for Us: Arhoolie Records' 50th Anniversary Celebration." This gorgeous set consists of a 192-page book, with more than 175 color photos and text from the artists who performed at the concerts. It also includes four CDs, which deliver nearly five hours of music from the performances.
The set retails for $59.95 and is now available at www.arhoolie.com.
Latin jazz live: Pete Escovedo is a marvel on the live stage. San Francisco's annual Stern Grove Festival is one of the most cherished cultural institutions in the Bay Area.
The two local treasures came together last season, when the Pride of Pittsburg performed at the admission-free festival. We now have a document of that moment -- Escovedo's newly released "Live From Stern Grove Festival" ($16.98).
The set, which hit stores Tuesday, features the legendary Latin jazz percussionist leading his fine band through such favorites as Tito Puente's "Picadillo Jam," Wayne Wallace's "Take Some Time" and the standard "Fly Me to the Moon."
Of course, it's usually a family affair whenever Escovedo takes the stage. Included in the Stern Grove musical mix are Escovedo's sons, Juan and Peter Michael, as well as his daughter, Sheila E., the percussionist known for her work with Prince, Ringo Starr and George Duke.
The album also features appearances by guitarist Ray Obiedo, saxophonist Dave Koz and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who shows up on the closing number, "Suenos de los Torreros."
Psychedelic singles: Contrary to what the Phish "Phans" might tell you, there is such a thing as radio-friendly psychedelic rock.
Don't believe me? Well, the proof can be found on "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-68," a new CD compilation from Rhino Records.
OK, so it's sort of "new." This same collection was first released in 1972 by Elektra Records. However, it's new on CD -- and it's been remastered from the original analog tapes.
The collection consists of 27 (roughly) three-minute-long songs, originally tailored to appeal to the AM radio stations of the day. Most of those stations abhorred "long" songs, so psychedelic rockers had to limit their jams if they wanted airtime. Thus, the electric-guitar odysseys (and oddities), which were so much a part of the psychedelic-rock concert experience, often were kept to a minimum on the singles.
There are some true "Nuggets" on this collection, which was originally compiled by the legendary Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye. Expect some major flashbacks as you listen to the Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)," the Strangeloves' "Night Time," Mouse's "A Public Execution," the Remains' "Don't Look Back" and all the other treasures.
"Nuggets" is a trip, that's for sure. But it's one well worth taking. The disc retails for $18.98 (www.rhino.com).
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Teresa Victor (26 September 1943 – 29 December 2005; age 62) has had small roles in three Star Trek movies. She was also the assistant to actor Leonard Nimoy, beginning in 1966. [1]
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