i m in arcadia, california, seeking a community of chinese women who wish to stay hidden. the facilities are kind of hard to track because they really do a good job of blending in. they choose to not be detectable. detective steve castillo is a ten-year veteran with the arcadia police department. he works gang, vice and narcotics, and in the past few years has added a new beat, a practice that s been hugely controversial in los angeles, chinese birthing centers. it s called birth tourism. dozens of these houses are scattered across california. pay them thousands and, according to their ads, they ll help you obtain u.s. citizenship for your newborn. it finds it s roots in beijing.
Aidin Vaziri January 7, 2021Updated: January 9, 2021, 9:14 pm
Jerry Garcia plays at a Grateful Dead concert at the Oakland Coliseum on Dec. 12, 1992, when the San Francisco native was 50. The adventurous Garcia always enjoyed something new, especially in the music world. Photo: Steve Castillo, The Chronicle 1992
A newly remastered collection of Jerry Garcia studio leftovers, “Front Street Outtakes,” released by his ex-wife Manasha Garcia this month includes recordings from a 1994 session featuring the Grateful Dead guitarist collaborating with Indian American guitarist Sanjay Mishra.
The songs on the set are culled from one of Garcia’s last recording projects at the Grateful Dead’s iconic Club Front Studios, using recordings left behind during the making of his Mishra’s 1995 album, “Blue Incantation,” released the same year Garcia died of a heart attack while in recovery at a drug treatment center.
Dec 16, 2020
By Mark Golden
Yi Cui, a preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability technologies, as well as an educator and entrepreneur, will become the next director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy. Yi Cui, Stanford materials science professor and incoming director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. (Credit: Feng Pan)
Cui, professor in Stanford’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering and professor of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, takes over the helm from co-directors Sally Benson and Arun Majumdar. Cui, one of the world’s most cited scientists, will begin his new appointment on January 1. In 2008 he showed that silicon nanowires can significantly boost the performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. This triggered global interest in nanotechnology for energy storage and resulted in his founding of the startup Amprius Inc. Cui and the large group of student