A difficult year in the US, but we diverted ourselves with foreign travel, highlighted by a summer trip to Italy, Sicily and Malta, where Adrian and Alice had conferences.

Alice finished her sabbatical this year, is busy teaching classes again at Berkeley, working on research in micro and nano technology, green design and energy conservation. She got elected to the European Academy of Sciences, but hasn't figured out what that is. .

Dale travelled to Albania and the European Parliament in Brussels speaking about the DEA's war on medical mari- juana for the International Anti-Prohibitionist League. A grim situation - the government has arrested more people we know for medical marijuana than terrorism here in Cali- fornia!

Adrian has returned to California to finish his dissertation, working for NASA at Moffett Field We followed him to Bologna, where he delivered a paper on autonomous software agents.

Arianne is finishing 8th grade at Bentley, preparing for a new school next year, into guitar and blues harmonica.