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Castlégar News december 1, 1985

CITY OF CASTLEGAR

NOTICE

Public
Hearing

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on
; Tuesday, December 10, 1985 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council
Chambers of City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue
in order to receive from all persons who deem
terest io make’ pi rding the
proposed amendments to the City of Castlegar Zoning Bylaw

160.andamendments thereto. - z

jegar, B.C.
in their in-

BYLAW 445

The intent of Blylaw 445 is to amend the City of Castlegar
Zoning Bylaw 160, to revise the general provisions of the
Specialized Industrial (M3) Zone.

BYLAW 446 : ie

The intent of Bylaw 446 is to amend the City of Castlegar
Zoning Bylaw 160, Section 1501, Subsection 13-B-06(2) clause
(d), and Bylaw 364. ‘

The above bylaws and further information is available at City
Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1G7 during
office hours from 8:30 a. :30 p.m. or phone 365-7227.

R.J. SKILLINGS,
City Clerk

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WEATHER

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eastward allowing milder air to invade from

across the coast early toda;
creas changing to rain i

freezing rain. In the Interior, sno
‘Monday. The outlook calls for shor
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nesday along with mild

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[Stee

Seat belt
program a
success

By CasNews Staff

_ Castlegar RCMP has cor-':
cluded its seat belt. aware-

ness pi 1m one month
earlier. than planned because
of the high user rate in the
community, a news release
from the detachment says.

The program, which began
Sept. 1, gave drivers or pass-
engers ticketed for not using
a seat belt the choice of
paying a $25 fine, going to
court or viewing a film called
Room to Live.. Viewing the
film nullified the fine.

From Sept. 1, the RCMP
issued 114 charges for not
wearing a seat belt. Of that
total, 106 — or 93 per cent —
of those ticketed chose to.
view the film rather than pay
the fine or go to court, the
release says.

The result is five per cent
higher than that of.a similar

in Cran-

. Tonasket,

SAVINGS NOT

ATTRACTING

AMERICANS

By SIMON BIRCH
Staff Writer
Every year at the Trail Regional Hospital, four or five
pregnant American women arrive to have their babies
livered- by Canadian doctors.

seen mutike incentive — hundreds of dollars in potential
savings — isn't attracting the expectant mothers as far
north as Castlegar, where the Castlegar District Hospital

has not recorded any American births.
«No, None at all,” hospital administrator Ken Talarico
said, adding that the probable reason is “we're not that close

to the border.”

‘Talarico said Castlegar Hospital does treat Americans,
put he said they are mostly tourists and not people who

come for elective procedures.

Arecent article in the Spokesman-Review and Spokane
Chronicle said the one reason American women from towns
close to the-border in Washington and Idaho travel to B.C.
hospitals — in Trail, Grand Forks, Creston and Oliver — to

have ‘babies is financial.

‘As an example, the article said North Valley Hospital in

Wash., about 65 kilometres -south of Oliver,

charges $850 U.S. for a normal birth and a 24-hour stay.

When the doctor's fee

of about $600 U.S. — for

prenatal care, delivery and final check-up — is ‘added to the
bill, a normal birth at North Valley amounts to about $1,450

U.S., according to the article.

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December 1, 1985 Castlegar News AS

Briefly

SUSPENSION QUASHED

es VANCOUVER (CP)— British Columbia Supreme
Court has quashed.a one-week suspension imposed on
the president of the Kitimat Teachers Association.
Madam Justice Beverley McLachlan ruled that
the school board's suspension of Steve Cardwell was
invalid because Cardwell had been given no
opportunity to present his case to the superintendent.
Cardwell was suspended for “misconduct” on the
grounds that he had refused to. meet superintendent
Mike Heron to discuss public statements Cardwell had
made about the school system during a controversy
over all ions of sexual h and intimi
of teachers. ote

KILLER OUT SOON?

VANCOUVER (CP) — A 17-year-old who used a
razor to carve his name in a 53-year-old man’s chest,
then slashed and beat the man to death over a period
of hours, may be back on the streets in six months.

The youth, from Kamloops, received the
maximum three-year sentence under the, Young
Offenders Act for the killing on Vancouver's Skid Row
last Aug. 3.

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about dam

VICTORIA (CP) — The

unseasonably cold and snowy
weather in British Columbia
during the last week has

about its massive Revelstoke
Dam.

“The pnergy sector has
been responding to the un-

“If it’ were. not «for the
Revelstoke Dam, we would
have to cut off all of our
export power to the United
States — now running at 960
megawatts and earning us
about $800,000 Canadian a
day,” Rogers said.

British Columbia would
have to buy 400 megawatts of

icity from outside for

P placed
on our electricity, gas and oil
production and delivery sys-
tems with this unusually cold
weather,” Energy Minister
Stephen Rogers told the
legislature Thursday.

The huge capacity of the
Revelstoke. Dam — which
critics have called a white

leph: because it

domestic use in the cold wea-
ther, or curtail power supply,
he said.

The frigid weather shows
how wrong is “the common
misunderstanding that Rev-
elstoke is unnecessary,”
Rogers told reporters.

A record of electrical use

more power than the prov-
ince could lly use — is

was set b 5 p.m. and 6
p.m. on Wednesday at 6,715

higher than the previous
record set Dec. 2, 1983, Rog-
ers said. E

Miner will be

‘At South Okanagan General Hospital in Oliver, the
hospital stay costs $364 and doctor's services amount to
about $600 — all in Canadian funds, for a total of $964.

With the Américan dollar worth about $1.29 Canadian,
the actual price for an expectant American women ey Baye = ” <
SE eae ee espltals loos would be ab i |e MOTEL FIRE . . . Castlegar firemen investigate wall $2,000 damage. The wall caught on fire when a tor-

See ee rae a Se eke ie neh FAMILY BEATEN inside Castlegar. Motel anit which renolied in about ch was used fo thaw out some Waren water lines.
the same, since the fees are regulated by the provincial ter lines.

government and-are not up-to the-individual-hospitals. i

being tapped to meet domes-
tie and export demands, he
said.

Before sentencing, a probation officer said the
youngster had been a “model resident” in jail since his
arrest last August, and could soon be eligible for day
passes, possibly without escort.

brook.

“The program has been
deemed a success and public
awareness of the program
was high and no doubt con-
“The ad, offering out-of-. for three unions on strike tributed tothe high user rate
town work at union rates, against the airline said none experienced,” the release
listed the toll-free number of of the unions did either. ~~ says.” =

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Downtown South Castlegar
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Unions deny bogus ad

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“We want our jobs back
and we don't want to jeopar-
dize chances of reaching a
settlement,” Pam Smith of
the Canadian Air Line Flight
Attendants Association said.

She said she checked with
the United Auto Workers

The release adds, “It was
not uncommon to note dri-
vers and/or passengers belt-
ing up as they noted police
vehicles approach.”

‘The RCMP plans to contact

At Castlegar Hospital, the normal daily rate is $230, but
a surcharge of 35 per cent is tacked on for an American
patient, making the total daily rate $311, he said.

— is $56, Talarico said.

‘The daily rate for a newborn — including the surcharge

in the ‘prog at
random in the near future to.

and the International Asso-/” determine how many are still

ciation of lachinists and
they know nothing of the ad.

Asked if he knew who had
placed the ad, Lawless re-
plied: “There are 1,800 em-
ployees on strike against the
company. I'll give you 1,800
guesses.”

Art Smart, Pacific Press
classified advertising mana-
ger, said the ad was supposed
to run four days but has been
removed.

belting up as a result of
viewing the film.

Room to Live will be
shown to the Castlegar
Kiwanis Club Tuesday and
other groups wishing to view
the film can contact the
Castlegar detachment.

To conclude the program,
the RCMP is inviting the
public to view the film
‘Thursday at the North Fire
Hall.

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Court

news

In Castlegar provincial
court this week, James Gra-
ham. pleaded guilty to being
a minor in a licensed es-
tablishment and was fined

- $100.

.
Vera Kabatoff pleaded
guilty to theft under $200 and
was fined $50 or five days in
jail in default.
- 2
James Doherty received a
14-day jail term after he
pleaded guilty to impaired
driving.
pee eer
George Watson received
80 days in jail after he
pleaded guilty to driving
with a blood-alcohol count
over .08.
. 2 6
William Watson pleaded
guilty to driving while having
a blood-alcohol count over .08
and was handed a 60-day jail
term. Watson also pleaded
guilty to breach of probation
and will serve seven days
concurrent on that charge.
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Frederick Koftinoff plead-
ed guilty to impaired driving
and was fined $50.

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* Marti McCaffrey, 365:
7578.

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RS) MULTICULTURAL

CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP CLASSES
SPONSORED BY THE
Castlegar Multicultural Society

Filling out forms for citizenship will take
place at Castlegar Primary School

Thursday, Dec. 5 — 7-9 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 7 — 10-12 p.m.
Application must be accompanied by:

ADULT $40. MINOR (UNDER $18) $25.
AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

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Downtown Castlegar

Barry Weeks pleaded guil-
ty to driving with a blood-
alcohol count over .08 and
was fined $450 or 30 days in
jail in default. Weeks also
pleaded guilty to one count
each of dangerous driving
and failing to stop and state
his name. He was fined $350
or 21 days in jail in default on
the dangerous driving count
and $100 for failing to stop.

. 8 68

A 55-day intermittent jail
sentence was handed to
Butch Garrett after he plead-
ed guilty to impaired driving.
Garrett also pleaded guilty to
driving while prohibited and
was fined $300 and given a
seven-day concurrent jail
term.

CPR lays
off 51

NELSON (CP) — CP Rail
announced 51 layoffs in the
Kootenay region, including
two in Castlegar, and a
spokesman said they are a
result of the lingering re-
cession in British Columbia.

“We'reisuffering a drastic
loss of millions of dollars not
coming in,” said Wayne Ste-
wart, Kootenay division
superintendent for CP Rail.
“It's (production slowdowns)
at Cominco, (southeastern)
coal, lumber — the whole
system in the East and West
Kootenays.”

The only bright -spot, Ste-
wart, said, is “some good

" movements lately.”

He said the men who were
laid off are permanent. work-
ers high on the seniority list
and they could be called back
to work in the spring for
maintenance jobs.

Shutdown
extended

By CasNews Staff

Citing “deteriorating mar-
kets,” Westar Timber’s Cel-
gar Pulp Operations has an-
nounced it will extend its
Christmas shutdown by one
week.

The mill will be closed from
Dec. 21-Jan. 13. The mill was
initially supposed to start up

+ KARACHI (AP) = Seven people, including—2
four-month-old baby, were beaten to death in their
home Saturday in the latest in a spate of mass
murders being blamed on the so-called Hammer Gang,
police said.

Police authorities said the victims were found in
their two-room home in the Rexor section of the city.
Their heads had been crushed with blows from heavy,
blunt instruments. Gon

The victims were identified as the family of
Ghulam Akbar, an electrician working in the Persian
Gulf country of Qatar, police said. Killed were his
mother, wife, three-year-old and four-month-old
daughters, two sisters and a brother, police said.

HOLY MAN DIES

ISLAMABAD (REUTER) — A holy man reputed

to be 169 years old died Saturday in Islamabad,
Pakistan's official media reported.

Radio Pakistan and The Associated Press of
Pakistan news agency said Abdul Ma'abood Jilani was
169 and a hereditary Islamic divine of the mystic
Chishtia order. They gave no proof of his age.

NO FAULT FOUND

NEW DELHI (AP) — Union Carbide said today
Indian inspectors never found “any significant fault”
with its pesticide plant in Bhopal, which leaked poison
gas that killed more than 2,000 people in 1984.

Union Carbide India Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of
the Danbury, Conn.-based company, also said Indian
authorities refused numerous offers of cash, medical
aid and other relief after the disaster. An'employees'
relief trust, however, provides limited medical aid,
jobs and loans.

GUARD KILLED

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A security guard was
killed with his own shotgun after a crowd wrested the
weapon from him, and blacks ambushed a police
patrol near Cape Town, wounding one officer in a
shootout, police said Saturday.

—it-was the third time in two days that police said—
they came under fire from blacks near Cape Town.
Two blacks were reported killed when police fired
back in incidents Friday in Crossroads and Nyanga,
two large black communities outside the city at the
southern tip of Africa.

In Durban, the Indian Ocean port, hundreds of
black workers from all over South Africa gathered for
a meeting called to launch a multi-racial labor
federation. The new Congress of South African Trade
Unions is expected to be the country’s largest labor
group, with more than 400,000 workers in some 30
affiliated unions.

SENTENCE APPEALED

CRANBROOK (CP) — The Crown is appealing
Linda six-year for man-
slaughter in the death of her 18-month-old daughter:
Dei

“Similar types of crime have earned in the

i hood of a 10-to-12-y .” Crown |
counsel Richard Cairns said Friday. No date has been
set for the appeal.

Deidre Bohnenkamp died Jan. 19, 1984, after she
collapsed in a Cranbrook aj ent she shared with
Linda Bohnenkamp, 22, her husband Cory, 24, and
Linda’s boyfriend, Corey it Soper, 23.

SECURITY POOR .

ATHENS (AP) — The security chief for

J airlines said i security around

ed planes at the Athens airport may have allowed

hijackers to smuggle weapons aboard the Egyptair jet
seized last week.

“The investigation is centring on the ramp area,

which is vulnerable,” said Rodney Wallis, head of

ity for: the based i

‘Transport Association. “There have been instances

where a man disguised as a member of the ground

crew managed to reach the: ramp of a plane
undetected.” -,

| He spoke in a telephone interview after touring
it;

airport security

Firemen put out blaze

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar Fire Depart-
ment put out a small fire
‘Thursday-afternoon at the
Castlegar Motel in the 1300
block Columbia Avenue.

Castlegar fire chief Bob
Mann said a wall -in_be-
tween two suites caught on
fire when a torch was

being used to thaw: out
some frozen water lines.

He said the fire depart-
ment had the fire under
control in about 10 min-
utes.

“It. was going pretty
good when we got there,”
Mann said. Damage is esti-
mated at $2,000.

A total of 14 firemen
responded to the fire with
a first response unit and a
pumper truck.

Mann stressed that in
these extremely cold wea-
ther conditions, people
should take extra. precau-
tions about keeping -com-

bustible materials away
from electrical heaters.

“People should be extra
careful with wood-burning
appliances because heating
systems are overworking,”
he said.

Mann also advised cau-
tion when residents. are
thawing frozen water lines.

Money will

OTTAWA (CP) — The
federal government will not
insult Japanese-Canadians by
offering them money, says
Multiculturalism Minister
Otto Jelinek.

Instead, it will most likely
put whatever money it de-
cides to set aside as a form of
redress for their . displace-
ment during the Second
World War into a fund aimed
at “making certain that these
types of attrocities cannot
and will not happen in’ Can-
ada again,” Jelinek said in an
interview with Standard
Broadcast News.

The redress package,
which Jelinek said lie should
be ready to present to cab-
inet in January or February,
will cover a “much broader
range” than the $6-million of-
fer the government made
earlier this year, but the
principles will be similar.

The offer of a formal
apology and $6 million for an
education fund was rejected
by the Association of Jap-
anese-Canadians.

It has individual

go into fund

and businesses on the West
Coast when the government
moved them to inland intern-
ment camps after the 1941
bombing of Pearl Harbor.
“There just isn't enough
money in ail of Canada to pay
for the atrocities that took
place. In fact, if you're. going
to talk just dollars and cents,
I think it’s an insult to the

not take any further action
until after it consulted with a

_ wide range of Canadians, not
just the Japanese commun-
ity.

“I'm not negotiating with
anybody. We are not negoti-
ating the Japanese redress
issue,” he said in the inter-
view.

Jelinek’s comments echoed

Jelinek met with associa-

st s earlier this
month by a federal advisory

tion repr soon af-

compensation for the more
than 20,000 Japanese-Cana-

dians who lost their homes

ter he d the multi-
culturalism portfolio last
August and made it clear to
them the government would

which said the
government would be better
off trying to prevent future
wrongdoing against ethnic
groups father than merely
compensating the Japanese-
Caneal

added.

board's jurisdication.
Anderson.

Vanderpol.

before the courts.

will be given to regional
the Central Kootenay.
“I

MORESBY

continued from front page
__their culture “and for us to have the in-
credible cheek to suggest it is Crown
land is quite unbelievable.”
“I feel that the natives do have a,
claim that can be negotiated,” he

Directors John Anderson of Silver-
ton and Martin Vanderpol of Area J
both opposed the resolution on the
grounds the issue is out of the regional
“We're too far away from this,” said
“We should stay out of it,” added
Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore

finally advised the board it shouldn't be
discussing the issue because the case is

‘FICTITIOUS:

continued from front pege
the UBCM that special consideration

that, in some i

Cady suggested Pearce withdraw
the proposal on those grounds and

Pearce a:

“I just think it is tantamount to
stupidity” for the. board to take a
position on something that is before the
courts, Moore said.

She claimed the board's position
could be considered “py

Later Bakken proposed inviting R.L.
Smith, publisher of the Red Neck
News, to explain why logging on South
Moresby Island is necessary. ®

But Cuthill challenged the motion,
saying, “That particular publication is
renowed for being racist.” >

Bakken’s suggestion was eventually
turned down, with Vanderpol again
pointing out that the board shouldn't
get involved in the issue.

rejudicial.”

“Moore and

districts like

George Cady will meet with Curtis.
Moore said one method of dealing
with the problem would be to retain

regional béard chairman

its."

the effects will be more significant,”
Curtis says. “In these cases transitional
measures may be necessary.”

Curtis said the government had
planned to phase in the elimination of
the equipment and machinery tax over
three years, ending in 1987.

However, he said a decision on the

ise timing of the phase-in period
has been delayed “pending consultation
with the UBCM and affected iocal gov-

along with Castlegar Mayor Audrey

the
such as the
But any

ment tax.

The Central Kootenay Regional Dis-

wit

Order-in-

existing specified regional services,

Pioneer Arena.

exempt from the machinery and equip-
Meanwhile, Moore said Curtis has

also agreed to discuss taxing -B.C-

Hydro properties when he meets with
the regional district i

Treaty now excluded by a 1969
“Council.

-y and tax on all
Community Complex and

new services. would be

“Placing of a present mon-
etary value on past material
loss occurring more than 40
years ago would place an im-
possible burden on many
Canadian taxpayers who

—were not-yet born when the
past injustices occurred,”
said the Canadian Multicul-
turalism Council. - ©

Too few
high school
grads

VICTORIA (CP) — Too
few students of university
calibre are graduating from
British Columbia's high
schools, George Morfitt,
chairman of the Universities
Council of B.C., said Friday.

The problem of a falling

watched. closely

TORONTO (CP) — Lead-
ers of the United Steel-
workers of America will be
keeping a particularly close
watch on a Sudbury, Ont.,
miner during the next few
years.

Dave Patterson, who lost
the director's job for the
union's Ontario division this
week, plans to return under-
ground at Inco’s Frood mine
when his term expires next
March and it will attract
more than passing attention.

“I think it would only be
natural,” says Gerard Doc--
quier, the union's national
director who clashed regular-
ly with Patterson in the past
four. years. “Certainly. we
would be interested in what
he’s doing but then again, we
also keep an eye on others
who are moving up and
showing skills.”

Patterson, 37, who swept
into office in 1981 after lead-
ing a bitter 8'/-month strike
at Inco, said Wednesday he
will pursue a steward's posi-
tion-at Inco, the lowest rank
of union representation, and
higher positions on the union
ladder — if the members
want him.

“T'll be starting over at the
bottom and I have no prob-
lem with that at all. I'll just
be working again for the
members on the job.”

Patterson's defeat repre-
sents the end of his dream, at
least temporarily, of making
the Steelworkers in Canada
autonomous from _ interna-
tional headquarters in Pitts-
burgh, Pa., and turning it
into a more militant, innova-
tive union controlled by the
rank-and-file.

He won the $51,000-a-year

job on a platform of change
and his image as a tough-
talking leader, a fearless
critic of the big companies.

But a combination of poor
political judgment, the re-
cession and acrimonious re-
lations with staff represen-
tatives left him idling for four
years. .Unofficial results
showed him trailing by about
10,000 votes to Leo Gerard,
a staff representative from
Elliot Lake, Ont.

Homer Seguin, a_ Steel-
workers senior staff repre-
sentative who turned against
Patterson about a year ago,
said if Patterson wants to
make. a comeback, he will
need to work within the sys-
tem.

“He just made too many
enemies,” Seguin said. “His
talk of autonomy didn’t find
any interest among work-
ers.”

Jobn Kervin, an industrial
relations professor at the
University of Toronto, said
activists like Patterson are
good for unions because they
prod the labor bureacracy to
respond to the needs of
workers.

“He stirred a lot of interest
and made the leadership pay
more attention,” Kervin
added. “People like Patter-
son either get co-opted or
bounced. He wasn’t about to
be co-opted . . . ;

Docquier said he would
like to forget his whole ex-
perience with Patterson ape
concentrate on more unity
and progress in’ the union
which is just getting back on —
its feet after dropping to
120,000 members during the
recession. The union now has.
160,000 members.

Poll favors
negotiations

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Three out of five British
Columbians want Premier
Bill Bennett to negotiate
Indian land claims, a prov-
ince wide public-opinion sur-
vey suggests.

“The poll-of 750 people,
d this week for the

ity par rate
in B.C. lies in the schools, he
said. “Not enough people
coming out of the high
schools are of university
quality.”

Much like the rest of Can-
ada, B.C. has a high dropout
rate of secondary students.
Morfitt noted that in the
18-24 age bracket only 60 per
cent have finished high
school.

Of those who do complete
their schooling, not enough
have the marks necessary for
i ity « he said.

“That's. why the colleges
and institutes are there,”
Morfitt said. “With the exist-
ing participation, it is diffi-
cult for universities to argue
for. increased funding from

the province.

Vancouver Sun by Mark-
‘trend Marketing Research,
indicated one-fifth of the
people in B.C. oppose negoti-
ations on aboriginal claims.

Half of those surveyed
supported Haida civil disobe-
dience in the Indians’ at-
tempt to stop logging on
Lyell Island in the southeast
Queen Charlottes. Thirty-
one per cent opposed the
Haida action, with 19. per
cent undecided.

British Columbia govern-
ments have refused since be-
fore Confederation to negoti-
ate native claims, which
cover much of the provi

are a federal responsibility.

However, Attorney Gen-
eral Brian Smith hinted that
the government's position
might change if the voters
demand it.

“I guess if the public was
clearly to say, ‘Whatever the
cost, go out and hegotiate
and we think this is fair and
we want to you do this,’ then
I guess we'll do that,” Smith
said.

NDP Leader Bob Skelly
said the opinion poll reflects
the “basic fairness” of British
Columbians.

Marktrend estimated that
its survey results have a
margin of error of 4.5 per-
centage points.

The responses of men and
women were the same, and
varied little with age.

People outside the Van-
couver area were slightly
less inclined to think the

because most of B.C. was
never surrendered by treaty.
Premier Bill Bennett insisted
this week that Indian claims

PI should

land claims, and were signifi-
cantly more likely to think
that Lyell Island should be
logged