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OAKLAND -- It was more than a tree to Pat Cashman.

He passed through the shade of the towering manna gum eucalyptus thousands of times, by his estimation, on runs and bicycle rides around Lake Merritt. When he and his wife, Naoko, decided to marry, they held their wedding beneath its canopy. They could see it from their home across the lake.

Then, on the night of Nov. 21, came word that a large tree near the Lake Chalet restaurant had fallen during unusually high winds that buffeted the Bay Area.

"I was hoping it wasn't our tree," Cashman said. "It wasn't clear at first. In the morning, when it cleared up, we looked out and said, 'Yeah, that was our tree. It's gone.'"

Though smaller limbs and most of the leaves have been removed from the tree, the trunk, root ball (weighing 47 tons) and stumps of several branches remain. On Saturday, Oakland's Public Works Agency held a ceremony to honor the tree that once stood 120 feet tall and served as a landmark to generations of Oakland residents.

"We felt it was really important to honor this beautiful tree that has been here for over 150 years," said Brooke Levin, interim director of Oakland's Public Works Agency. "Oakland was born in 1852, so it's been here most of Oakland's existence."

Monte Coyote, an Oakland city employee who asked to be identified by his Native American name, officiated what he said was not so much a ceremony as it was "an offer and a blessing." Coyote told about 50 onlookers that he was drawn to the fallen tree after seeing it had been targeted by graffiti artists. Coyote said he has visited the tree every day since it crashed to the ground, painting over the graffiti and talking with passers-by.

"This tree has seen beatniks, hippies, disco, punk rock, Occupy," he said. "Now it's bringing people together. It's like a UFO landed here."

Against the backdrop of burning sage and soft tribal drums, Coyote moved around the crowd singing a Native American song. After the event, onlookers were offered cuttings from the tree as mementos.

Levin estimated it will cost $20,000, possibly more, to remove the tree. The city soon will begin accepting bids from contractors.

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An undercover sting operation by the Contractors State License Board resulted in 10 citations, including one to a man found to have a previous rape conviction in another state.

The suspects were cited Tuesday during an undercover operation at a Sacramento home. The operation targeted unlicensed contractors seeking jobs that require a state contractors license. State investigators contacted most of the suspects through cragislist.org, asking them to bid on landscaping, floor covering, electrical, painting and fencing projects. Two suspects were targeted because they had failed to pay civil penalties for previously issued citations, according to a Contractors State License Board news release. They face new charges for failing to comply.

Gerald Mattie of Elk Grove received citations for contracting without a license and illegal advertising. During the interview process, investigators discovered that Mattie had a previous felony rape conviction in another state, which could make him ineligible for a California contractor license, authorities said.

Another suspect, Ricky Dwight Myers of Sacramento, provided investigators an estimate for new flooring. He was then cited and transported to jail on an outstanding no-bail warrant for failing to complete the requirements of a previous DUI conviction, officials said.

A total of 10 suspects received notices to appear in Superior Court. Nine face misdemeanor charges for contracting without a license. In California, all home improvement jobs valued at $500 or more in combined labor and material costs must be conducted by a company or individual with a state-issued license.

All but one of the suspects also face an additional misdemeanor charge of illegal advertising. State law requires contractors to place their license number in all print, broadcast and online advertisements. Those without a license can advertise to perform jobs valued at less than $500, but the advertisement must state that they are not licensed contractors.

One of the biggest risks property owners face with unlicensed contractors is that they rarely carry workers compensation insurance for their employees, authorities said. If someone is hurt while on the property, the property owner may be financially liable.

Receiving notices to appear, the license classification and alleged violations are:

Timothy Michael Koch Karr of Loomis, painting and decorating, contracting without a license and illegal advertising.

Anthony Shamel Williams of Sacramento, flooring and floor covering, contracting without a license and illegal advertising.

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When the U.S. Capitol dome was built in the 1860s, cast iron was the high-tech building material of its day, lighter and easier to erect than stone, more fireproof than wood. But if the peoples business never stops below, neither do the wind and rain above and now, after 150 years of duty as Washingtons all-weather symbol of democracy, the dome is getting an overdue metal makeover.

Preparations for the long-planned $60million restoration project got underway this week as officials suspended tours of the upper structure and prepared to string protective netting in the vaulted and vaunted space above the Rotunda. Capitol architects took reporters for a final climb to show where leaks coming through the battered dome are beginning to threaten the historic interior. Some massive metal parts have already been removed to keep them from plunging to the always-crowded floor below.

Its like having a bridge as the roof of your building, Kevin Hildebrand, of the Architect of the Capitols office, said Thursday as he climbed through the web of girders and braces lacing the domes upper reaches. The space is like a concave Eiffel Tower sandwiched between two sloping sheets of metal. On some of the softball-size bolts, the name M.C. Meigs can still be seen beneath multiple coats of paint, a bit of stamped graffiti from the legendary Army captain who supervised the building of the dome.

Today, this would never be made of cast iron, Hildebrand said. It would probably be made of steel and glass. Its an archaic material. But it is the symbol of our country. Its an icon that has to preserved.

Access to the Rotunda floor will continue mostly uninterrupted (for a few weeks in February, a covered walkway will be installed during some dicey aerial work above).

In the spring, a towering web of scaffolding will encase the entire top of the 288-foot edifice, transforming the skyline of the Mall for at least two years. LED lights attached to the scaffolding will provide some nighttime visual interest, however. And the recent repairs of the Washington Monument, which was damaged in the 2011 earthquake, showed that tourists can take these national excuse-our-dust periods in stride. Some residents even petitioned the White House to make the monuments temporary lights permanent.

Im just glad they are taking care of [the dome] its so beautiful, said Janice Bradley of Pennsylvania, who was touring the Capitol during a holiday visit. I just wish they would fix our roads.

Moviemakers may be more put out, according to John Latenser, a local location scout who has set up shots of the Capitol for The West Wing, Veep and other productions.

Its one of the shots that tell you youre in D.C., he said. It will change some scripts, change some angles. Some people may try to take out the scaffolding in post-production.

Workers will deploy a range of newly developed techniques and materials to fix more than 1,000 cracks in the 9 million pounds of cast iron, almost every piece of which was cast in New York and shipped to Capitol Hill during the Civil War.

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By Lisa Vorderbrueggen Contra Costa Times

OAKLAND -- In a quiet close to a tumultuous chapter, contractors on the new Bay Bridge on Wednesday completed the $25 million repair of those infamous broken bolts that nearly derailed the span's opening on Labor Day.

Just before noon, crews tightened the last of the 142 concrete-encased steel rope tendons inside the massive fabricated steel saddles. They replace the clamping force lost when anchor rods snapped in critical seismic stabilizers just east of the main tower.

After the tendons were adjusted to the proper tension using hydraulic jacks and their casings grouted and capped, contractors removed the temporary steel shims inserted into the stabilizers last summer to make the bridge safe enough to open during repairs.

Crews prepare to complete work on the new eastern section of the Bay Bridge Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, tightening down the last 10 of the 142 concrete-encased steel tendons designed to replace the clamping force lost when giant anchor rods snapped in critical seismic stabilizers last March. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

While the embarrassing bolt repair chapter may be over, the book on the Bay Bridge is far from finished, with hearings scheduled in Sacramento early next year into why the span was a decade late and cost nearly fivefold what engineers estimated.

Wednesday's announcement comes three weeks after engineers originally estimated the work would be done but several weeks ahead of Caltrans' latest schedule.

Completion means the $6.4 billion span's structural protections against collapse or major damage in the next big earthquake are fully operational, said Caltrans field engineer Pamela Gagnier during a Tuesday boat trip out to the pier where the repairs were done.

Engineers designed the bridge to meet California's most stringent seismic standard: Remain open or reopen within hours following the strongest temblor engineers predict in the next 1,500 years.

But when contractors pulled out the shims, motorists didn't feel or see a thing.

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