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There are many cool adjectives to describe The Indy’s new Calendar and Listings editor, Terry Ortega. Broadway fanatic. Deadpan joker. I Love Lucy fan (her Lucy Halloween costume rocked). Fashion Institute (FIDM) alum. Muralist. Before she joined our team in early October, Terry worked for a travel agency, with perks that included trips to Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, and parts of Europe. She has been all over the world, but this fourth-generation Santa Barbaran and mom of two knows that her hometown, with its great beaches and “old-time community,” is world-class in its own way. “It’s still a small town — that’s what I love about it.”

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Sheriff’s detectives arrested three men on 11/10 on charges of murder and conspiracy for a September assault of a homeless man who never regained consciousness from his injuries. Roman Romero, 18, Jonathan Andrade, 20, and Carlos Medina, 44 — all area residents who often went to Granny’s Field behind the Turnpike Shopping Center, where the alleged assault took place — were booked into County Jail, each on $1 million bail. Richard Alden Boden, 51, was found unconscious in the ﬁeld on 9/16. Boden, who was also known to frequent the site, was taken to the hospital but never regained consciousness after weeks of treatment. He died last month after his family asked that he be removed from life support. COU RTESY SB PD

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DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Santa Maria resident Walt Mankins argued before the supervisors Tuesday in support of Santa Maria Energy’s 110 proposed new wells.

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oday, we’re here to talk about a number of things,” said Nathan Alley, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Center. From jobs and taxes to oil leaks and environmental disasters, including the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara and the recent typhoon in the Philippines, supporters and opponents of Santa Maria Energy’s proposed 110 new oil wells did talk of many things Tuesday, all in their efforts to convince the Board of Supervisors to reject or uphold an appeal of the project’s permitted greenhouse gas emissions. But after nearly six hours of impassioned comments from 110 members of the public, pointed arguments from representatives for the Environmental Defense Center and Santa Maria Energy, and heated deliberation among themselves, the supervisors voted 3-2 to require Santa Maria Energy to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions — down to 10,000 metric tons per year from the previously approved 62,000, at an estimated annual cost to the company of $500,000. “We are very disappointed that the Board of Supervisors chose to not follow the recommendation of their staff, and we need to analyze this decision further because we have to live in the real world of economics,” said Bob Poole, Santa Maria Energy’s public and government affairs manager, after the vote. “The project has to work for us, or we can’t do it.” The company, Poole added, has 30 days to decide if it wants to sue the county over the decision. Tuesday’s meeting wasn’t so much a question of if the project, proposed in 2009, would become reality, but how much it would cost the company and the environment. The EDC’s appeal asked that the 110 new cyclic steam injection wells — there are 26 pilot wells on site — be held to a more stringent standard than approved 10

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by the county’s Planning Commission, on a 3-2 vote, in September. While the commissioners had voted to hold Santa Maria Energy to a 29 percent greenhouse-gas emissions threshold — meaning the 136 wells’ projected yearly emissions of 88,000 metric tons would be reduced to about 62,000 — the supervisors’ decision will nail the company to a far stricter flat limit of 10,000 metric tons per year. That 10,000-ton figure was one of the requests of the EDC’s appeal. The law firm had maintained that the 29 percent figure is unprecedented and lower than the long-standing 10,000-metric-tons-per-year threshold the county has borrowed from other jurisdictions since the passage in 2006 of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB ). Under the law, which aims to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, such energy projects are to be held to at least a 15.3 percent emissions threshold, although local jurisdictions can be stricter. The 136 total wells, projected to produce 3,300 barrels per day, would sit on 32 acres of the company’s Orcutt Oil Field property and would come with two steam generators — the main emissions contributors — as well as an oil pipeline and a water pipeline that would transfer 300,000 gallons daily of recycled wastewater from the Laguna County Sanitation District. The steam would be injected into the porous diatomaceous earth, thinning the oil and releasing it from the pores. It’s not fracking, Santa Maria Energy officials have said, because it doesn’t break the rock. The EDC’s appeal claimed that the company could negate its emissions entirely, for about $1 a barrel. But Poole has called that claim unfair given the company’s 7.5 percent return-oninvestment — Apple makes 20 percent, he said — or about $7.50 per barrel. Nonetheless, Alley said he was pleased with the decision: “We are

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satisfied with what happened today,” he said. “We’re satisfied that the status quo has been maintained. Ten thousand metric tons is a heck of a lot better than 50,000 or 60,000 metric tons.” The 3-2 vote — Supervisors Steve Lavagnino, who gave an impassioned speech, and Peter Adam, who made a failed motion to ease the threshold to the state’s prescribed 15.3 percent, voted no — means that if the project’s emissions exceed 10,000 metric tons per year, Santa Maria Energy will have to employ on-site mitigation measures or buy reduction credits, which county staff said cost anywhere from $2-$8 per metric ton, or the aforementioned estimated $500,000 a year. That amount could fluctuate year to year based on the quantity of emissions the company produces and how the credits market varies. In what one of the public commenters said seemed like a “civil war between North and South County,” Santa Barbara County residents — from climate-change deniers and science teachers to Santa Maria Energy employees and millennials concerned about the planet they’ll inherit, and for many seniors, the one they’ll leave behind — argued to the supervisors the project’s benefits and drawbacks. Proponents of the project, many of whom wore yellow in line with the company’s honeycomb logo, invoked jobs (50-75 permanent full-time positions, according to Santa Maria Energy officials), as well as property-tax revenues ($3 million a year) for the county’s general fund and schools, and a yearly economic spurt ($170 million) for the county. Opponents of the project, however, cited concerns about what could go wrong in the wake of what could go right. They worried about everything from oil seeps — a subject the supervisors looked at earlier in their meeting — and the detriments to farmland and cont’d page 17

Santa Barbara police have linked a series of crimes — drug dealing, grand theft, robbery, and felony assault — that have occurred downtown in recent weeks to Andrew Holmberg, 22, Charles Taylor, 25, and Justin Moore (pictured), 30. Holmberg and Taylor are booked in County Jail on a slew of felony charges, and authorities are currently looking for Moore. The incidents they were reportedly involved in include the 9/19 theft of a BMW from a Paseo Nuevo parking lot; the beating of a homeless man on State Street on 9/26; multiple and ongoing drug deals at De la Guerra Plaza involving psilocybin, LSD, marijuana, and ecstasy; an assault and theft on 10/11 and 10/12 that left the victim with a broken jaw and eye socket; the assault of a 59-year-old man in De la Guerra Plaza on 10/12; and another beating of a homeless man on Anacapa Street on 10/15. At around 5:30 p.m. on 11/11, a woman pushing a stroller with a 20-month-old infant inside across Cathedral Oaks Road at Santa Marguerita Drive was hit and killed by an 18-yearold motorist. The woman, who was not the child’s mother and whose name has not been released, was declared dead at the scene; the infant remains in critical condition. The Sheriff’s Ofﬁce is investigating the incident and has not released any additional information. A long-stewing project to install pedestrian safety devices along the crosswalk at the historically dangerous intersection — blinking lights, curb extensions, and a median curb — will be put out to bid in December, with construction expected to start later in the winter. The council is scheduled to hear an update on the project at its 12/17 meeting.

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SO HAPPY TOGETHER: City Councilmember Cathy Murillo and election winner Gregg Hart shared a moment last week.

With the final tabulation in for last week’s Santa Barbara City Council election, firsttime candidate Megan Diaz Alley — the most outspokenly progressive of all the 10 candidates — improved her showing, coming in fifth rather than sixth. While Alley managed to eke out a 17-vote advantage over Lesley Wiscomb, another first-time challenger, it was still nowhere near enough to place her in the winning circle. The top three candidates remain unchanged: incumbent Bendy White with 8,884 votes, former councilmember Gregg Hart with 7,829, and incumbent Frank Hotchkiss with 6,570. Liberal challengers David Landecker and Alley came in fourth and fifth with 5,642 and 5,489, respectively, followed closely by Wiscomb and Jason Nelson with 5,472 and 5,274 votes. Democrats gathered last Thursday night to celebrate and lick their wounds simultaneously. The celebrating was for maintaining the four-to-three edge they currently enjoy on the council, the latter for blowing their chance to defeat the more conservative Hotchkiss. Four Democrats ran for three open seats, thus splitting the vote. Mayor Helene Schneider posted the most lopsided reelection win in recent history by beating challenger Wayne Scoles 73 percent to 26 percent. With no defining issues or clear slates of candidates, turnout was a lackluster 38 percent, with 4,700 of the 17,659 votes cast turned in the last two days of the election. That’s typically a time dominated by — Nick Welsh Democratic Party operatives.

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Santa Barbara peace activists observed Veterans Day by hosting what may be the last installation of Arlington West, the symbolic graveyard honoring those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. One thousand crosses were installed and 1,000 candles lit as the sun went down Sunday afternoon while politicos and activists delivered speeches marking the event. Actress, author, and pop-culture powerhouse Oprah Winfrey will be presented with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Montecito Award this year, organizers announced this week. The award will pay tribute to her performance in Lee Daniels’ The Butler and recognize her overall acting career, which began in 1985 with The Color Purple. The Santa Barbara Interna-

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tional Film Festival runs January 30 - February 9, 2014. For more info, visit sbfilmfestival.org. The Santa Barbara Airport began repaving one of its three runways on 11/12, removing the current surface, filling cracks, and laying down new asphalt along the 4,184-foot airstrip. The $1.74 million project was awarded to Granite Construction, and work is expected to finish by January 2014. The financially beleaguered Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics just won a federal grant of $812,500 to open a new clinic in the City of Goleta, where low-income health-care consumers are currently not served. After the first year, the grant — issued by the Department of Health and Human Services — will fund the clinic to the tune of $650,000 a year. According to a press statement from Congressmember Lois Capps’s office, it’s estimated the new clinic will serve 19,000 people a year.

COUNTY Goleta’s Design Review Board (DRB) took the first look Tuesday at a proposed Taco Bell restaurant for the corner of Hollister Avenue and Pacific Oaks Road, in the University Village shopping center. The fast-food joint would come with a drive-through for eight cars, indoor and outdoor seating, 11 new parking spots, bike racks, and a three-foot wall along Pacific Oaks cont’d page 12 Road, to block the view of

PERPETUALLY PERSISTENT: The veterans court may have seemed an obvious thing, but had recently retired judge George Eskin taken no for an answer, it never would have happened.

Judge Eskin’s Last Hurrah

Veterans Court Holds First Graduation

BY N I C K W E L S H lthough Judge George Eskin officially hung up his black robes nearly a month ago, last Friday’s event — the first graduation of Santa Barbara’s budding veterans court program — may have been the proudest moment of his 10-year tenure on the criminal bench. Looking at the ceremony strictly by the numbers, it was an exceedingly modest affair. Five men who’d served in the armed services and subsequently got themselves in trouble had managed to stay clean and sober, attend therapy, and stare their demons in the eye for about a year each. For so doing, the criminal charges against them were either dropped outright or reduced. The four graduates — one could not attend — stood at the front of the main hall at the Veterans Memorial Building along Cabrillo Boulevard. Celebrating with them — and bearing witness to their success — was not just Judge Eskin, who got the veterans diversion court off the ground, but a veritable who’s who of Santa Barbara’s political class. There was Eskin’s wife, State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, District Attorney Joyce Dudley, Judge Jean Dandona, three county supervisors, three Santa Barbara city councilmembers, Goleta’s mayor, the Public Defender, representatives from a host of other elected officials’ offices, and a handful of city cops, many in white gloves and their dress blues, bursting with pomp and solemnity. The rhetoric of the event, as one speaker put it, was all about “compassion not condemnation, rehabilitation not retribution.” As group hugs go, it doesn’t get more high-octane than this. Veterans courts, like drug courts and other diversion programs, are not particularly new or even novel. There are at least 200 throughout the country, including one in Santa Maria that is about two and a half years old. What distinguishes veterans courts from other diversion programs is that there are actually resources — money and programs — available to help

returning servicemen and women struggling with mental health and substance-abuse issues. The threat of criminal prosecution is brought to bear to induce vets to avail themselves of the help they might not otherwise seek. But even so, Santa Barbara’s court personnel — facing sustained budget woes — have been hard-pressed to take on unwieldy new programs requiring the active collaboration between a wide array of agencies with conﬂicting missions in the face of chronic shortfalls. Getting all these parties — prosecutors, defense attorneys, probation oﬃcers, mentalhealth caseworkers, law enforcement, and the Veterans Administration — on the same page was Judge Eskin. He never served, having blown his knee out in high school playing football. But his father served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army during World War II and was stationed in Europe. His uncle was part of the D-Day invasion of Omaha Beach.“This is my way of trying to pay back,” Eskin said. It took a lot of stubbornness on his part to do so, recalled prosecuting attorney Michael Carrozzo. “I can’t tell you how many times I heard him told,‘No, it can’t be done,’ ” said Carrozzo, who served as the District Attorney’s point person in the program. “And he’d say, ‘We’re going to do it anyway.’” It was Eskin who interviewed judges who presided over successful veterans courts elsewhere in the country. It was Eskin who brought in experts in the special care required by combat vets. And it was Eskin who shoehorned Carrozzo — who served four years as a judge advocate general as an Army captain at Ft. Irwin — to get involved. Eskin is quick to heap praise on Carrozzo for making the program work. Carrozzo functions as the point person and gatekeeper who weeds out vets who got into trouble well before their years of service from those whose service contributed to their problems with the law.“I never deployed, but I know what some of the consequences of deployment are,” Carrozzo said.

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Development Near Freeway to Be Curbed New residential development within 250 feet of Highway 101 will be significantly restricted for the indefinite future if a new ordinance proposed by planners at Santa Barbara City Hall is adopted. This Tuesday, the City Council’s ordinance committee voted 3-0 to initiate the process of enacting such an ordinance. Driving the issue is concern by the state Air Resources Board that the exhaust particulates EXPLAIN YOURSELF: Councilmember Frank generated by diesel trucks can cause Hotchkiss questioned the proposed ordinance. more than 10 additional cancers per 1 million residents. The state board has recommended a 500-foot buffer, as has the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District. City planners insist that higher threshold was based on emissions generated from much wider freeways that get far more diesel truck traffic than Highway 101. The new rules will not apply to parcels of land buffered by sound walls or to industrial or commercial development. City planners estimate that 90 parcels could be affected. Remodels will be exempted if the new building footprint is less than 50 percent bigger than the existing structure. And if developers install filtration systems — or plant broad leafy trees that absorb the diesel particulates — city planners will consider their applications. The new ordinance is designed only as an interim measure and will be abandoned if and when new diesel exhaust regulations curb carcinogenic emissions. “We’re saying there’s a line in the sand, but we just don’t know where it is?” asked Councilmember Frank Hotchkiss. The line, he was told, was 10 new cancer cases per 1 million residents. — Nick Welsh

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EDUCATION Hundreds of UCSB faculty and staff rallied last week for the second time to oppose University of California’s recent restructuring of its health-care options. The approaching changes terminate Anthem plans and an existing Health Net HMO Plan and establishes UC Care, a threetiered PPO plan and a Blue Shield Saving Plan. UCSB employees are angry because UC Care’s Tier 1 program is essentially not an option for them because UC Care was created with the idea to utilize UC medical centers, which UCSB does not have. Further, UC officials say they have been unable to strike a deal with Sansum Clinic and Cottage Health System. “Our interest in this is to insist that the UC Office of the President take conditions in Santa Barbara into account,” said Nelson Lichtenstein, president of the UCSB faculty association. Read more at independent.com/news. Army brass announced late last week that UCSB’s ROTC program will be spared for the time being, along with the officer training programs at 13 other schools across the country. The UCSB program, which dates back to 1947, was slated to be cut as of September 2015 in response to budget concerns. Campus administrators reacted with quiet — and not so quiet — outrage at the suddenness with which the cuts were announced as well as the cuts themselves. In response to the political backlash, military brass has reconsidered and is placing the UCSB program — as well as the other 12 — on probation instead. “We don’t know exactly what that means now and what we’ll have to do to get off of it, but probation is better than closure,” commented Lt. Col. Greg Davis, commander of the campus ROTC program. Davis said 65 students are currently enrolled in the ROTC program, which graduates about 10-12 commissioned cont’d page 15 officers a year.

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to detail the increased congestion the freeway expansion would exacerbate at interchanges between Mission and Las Positas and on the city streets in that area as well. The commissioners also insisted Caltrans needed to incorporate the widening of the railroad bridge by the Andrée Clark Bird Refuge as part of the project definition if Caltrans wanted City Hall to sign off on the permits. Without that bridge widening, city traffic engineers have expressed alarm that southbound traffic on Cabrillo Boulevard will back up to an unacceptable degree. Caltrans — and officials with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments — have insisted that the bridgewidening work will get done but have refused thus far to include it into the official project description, explaining that to do so would cause more delay. Shivers said Caltrans officials will be meeting this week with city and county officials on the proposed project, as well as with representatives of Common Sense , which represents Montecitans intent on preserving the existing left-lane on- and off-ramps by the Cabrillo-Hot Springs interchange. This summer, Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider went to Sacramento with a Common Sense  delegation, threatening to withhold support if these changes weren’t made. Last week, Goleta Mayor Roger Aceves went to Sacramento — accompanied by S.B. Chamber of Commerce executive Ken Oplinger — urging Caltrans to proceed with the freeway widening posthaste and to resist further delays. Shivers said that Caltrans would meet this week with Common Sense  representatives to hash out reports detailing accidents and collisions taking place at the debated interchange. Caltrans insists the left-turn off-ramps are inherently unsafe because they defy driver expectation. Common Sense  insists that few of the accidents taking place near the Cabrillo off-ramp had anything to do with it ■ being a left-lane exit.

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It took more than a year and a half of legal and logistical wrangling, but the deal to save Hot Springs Canyon above Montecito for public use is finally done. On Friday, November 15, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County will pass the deed for 422 acres of the 462-acre property to the U.S. Forest Service, which will manage the property as part of the contiguous Los Padres National Forest. The Land Trust will retain ownership of the remaining 40 acres, as they were “unsuccessful in negotiating a water well agreement on terms that would be acceptable to the Montecito Water District,” according to the trust’s director Michael Feeney, who had to spend about $60,000 in unexpected legal costs to get to this point. “Who would have thought it would be so challenging to buy and donate a key piece of land to the American people?” he later said in a prepared statement. The Land Trust had launched a fundraising campaign in 2011 to buy the 462 acres from the property’s longtime owners — the McCaslin Family — for $7.9 million. Zoning in the area would have allowed the development of six homes, as well as a private resort and spa. “Historically, we have not wanted nor intended to be in the land-ownership business,” Feeney said of the remaining 40 acres. The most notable exception is the Arroyo Hondo Preserve on the Gaviota Coast, which the trust manages solely. The other properties it owns, the Coronado Butterfly Preserve in Goleta, and part of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, are managed jointly by a number of agencies. The eagerly awaited Hot Springs deal will be celebrated during a ceremony next Friday, at which Land Trust President Warren Miller, Los Padres National Forest Supervisor Peggy Hernandez, Santa Barbara County Supervisor Salud Carbajal, and Montecito Trails Foundation President Bobbi King will be present among those who contributed to the fundraising campaign. “The story does not end here,” Feeney said in his statement, explaining that as new property owners of an area popular with hikers, the Land Trust is looking to raise $100,000 and create an annual revenue stream for trail maintenance, creek protection, fire prevention, and other management tasks. — Tyler Hayden and Matt Kettmann

Santa Barbara City College received national recognition this week as Prof. Manou Eskandari, chair of its Political Science department, was named Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Eskandari, the only professor in California to receive the award, will head to Washington, D.C., to accept the honor. “It’s another feather in the cap for the college,” Eskandari said, adding he would like to receive the award for City College, not just for himself. Eskandari is a big believer in SBCC — both of his children attended — because of the “high level of education in a relaxed atmosphere.” During his 20 years there, he founded the Middle East Studies program and brought a chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges, to the campus. Anxieties surrounding the renewal process of Santa Barbara Charter School were all but quelled at Tuesday’s school board meeting. After considerable tension plagued the two October meetings, ongoing discussion between district officials and charter school directors is “making great progress,” Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education Emilio Handall said in an update. Conditions outlined in district staff’s recommendations included better financial projections, a Common Core transition plan, examining the school’s admission process, and balancing its ethnic demographics. Per these discussions, both sides agreed to postpone the vote until the next board meeting on 12/10. County public health administrators are advocating to get e-cigarettes off of school campuses. Dawn Dunn, who runs the county tobacco-prevention program, brought Hookah Pens to Tuesday’s Santa Barbara school board meeting to show boardmembers that the bright colored gadgets look like flashy pens. “Students have these on campuses … They’re not harmless,” she said. Dunn added that the products are

relatively odorless, are difﬁcult to identify, and can be used to vaporize other substances. Like normal cigarettes, e-cigarettes can be purchased over the counter by anyone 18 years old or older. Boardmembers will discuss adding e-cigarettes to their antitobacco policy at their December meeting. PAU L WELLM AN FI LE PHOTO

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Though Santa Barbara school district administrators hoped to distribute more than 1,000 iPads (pictured) before winter break, the oneto-one pilot program will now likely begin in January. Logistics including installing additional access points and requesting agreements with parents still need to be put in place. Students at the four schools chosen to participate — Washington, Adams, and Franklin elementary schools and La Cuesta High School — will have three options: lease a tablet for $20/month for 3 years, provide their own tablet, or use one purchased by the district. Recent surveys found that Washington was the only school in which a majority of parents indicated they wanted their student to use a district-purchased tablet. A few of the boardmembers expressed concern over the discrepancy because Washington has a higher-income population. ■

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Carrozzo said he’s screened 70 veterans for the South Coast Veterans Court thus far; aside from the five who graduated, 32 are still in programs and treatment. Some wash out, he said, others decline participation, reasoning that they’d serve less time in Santa Barbara’s overcrowded jail than they would in treatment. The typical offender is looking at county jail time, not state prison. No sex offenders are considered, nor are individuals charged with violent crime. The more serious the offense, Carrozzo HELPING AND HEALING: Gulf War vet Steven Lopez explained, the more weight he places (left) provided Judge Eskin (right) the lightbulb moment about the need for a veterans court many years ago. Last on the individual’s service record. For Eskin, the lightbulb moment week, Eskin got to congratulate Lopez for graduating came in 2006 when presiding over following a year of sobriety and treatment. the case of Gulf War vet Steven Lopez, who pled guilty to carjacking after having a psy- looking at 25 years to life. “That’s a hell of a pill chotic break while confronting his boss, who’d to swallow,” he said. just fired him. When police tracked Lopez to his Then in 2011, Lopez got in a fight with his residence in Isla Vista, they claimed he resisted brother. He claims his brother punched him arrest. Lopez said he was on his knees with his first and that he didn’t want to fight. So he pulled arms in the air trying to surrender. But when a knife as a defensive maneuver. And he also one of the officers executed “a flying knee” to his smashed the windshield of his brother’s car. By the time Lopez’s case made its way to Judge back, Lopez said, “It was on. We fought. It was bad.” Combat vets, he cautioned, don’t respond Eskin, the veterans court had been established. “normally” to displays of police authority. “It’s Eskin — when first announcing the formation fight or flight,” he said. “In my case it was both.” of the new specialty court — had cited Lopez’s There was no veterans court at the time. But case in particular as one of his inspirations. Now, Eskin was struck that Lopez, then 33, had no Lopez was actually before him. But Carrozzo criminal history, not even a misdemeanor. His had second thoughts. As far as violent offenses, high school record was so exemplary he’d been Lopez’s actions were on the “upper end,” Caroffered a “full ride” scholarship to UCLA. But rozzo said.“He was a risk.” Lopez chose the military. He’d served in high At Eskin’s insistence, Lopez was invited to school ROTC and, as a child of immigrant par- participate. He was sent to a treatment facility ents, said he wanted to do his patriotic duty. And in L.A.’s Koreatown — Bimini Recovery Home being a young dude, Lopez acknowledged, he — known for its boot-camp, no-second-chances was looking for action. discipline. There he stayed one year. Treatment He found it. And then some. Eskin would there wasn’t cheap — $1,500 a month — but later say of Lopez’s wartime experience,“Some- the feds picked up the tab. “I was finally forced thing happened.” Of the 250,000 troops who to face the things I didn’t want to face before,” served during the Gulf War, Lopez says only one Lopez said. “Mental illness is so taboo,” he said. percent saw actual combat. “I saw it every day “If you don’t talk about it, it comes out,” he caufor about a year,” he said. When Lopez was dis- tioned,“but it doesn’t ‘come out.’ It explodes.” What made the difference for Lopez was that charged one year later at age 19, he was deemed 30 percent disabled. “I was involved in some he went through the program with other comshit,” he said in a recent interview.“I was messed bat vets. “When I got out in 1992, I was the only up.” Friends would wonder what happened. one. I was really lonely. Now guys like me are “How about two decades of night terrors,” he a dime a dozen, and I’m not alone anymore,” answered. Lopez said he sought help from the he said. Indeed not. During Friday’s graduation, VA half a dozen times but was never told there were programs available. For 15 years, he held Fred Lopez, a retired brigadier general with the it together, sort of, drinking too much, getting Marine Corps, reminded those in attendance high, and not getting along. Then he got fired that an estimated 20 percent of the 2.3 million from his job and everything exploded. men and women who served in Afghanistan “I was looking at five years in state prison,” and Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress Lopez said of his first offense. Over the objec- disorder. Many will wind up homeless; some tions of the prosecuting attorney, Eskin said will become enmeshed in the criminal justice he sentenced Lopez to five years felony proba- system. Of the veterans court, Fred Lopez said, tion on the condition he obtain mental health “This is a great start, but we need to do more,” treatment. Based on the calculus of California’s adding,“They fought for us. Now it’s our turn to three-strikes law, Lopez got his first strike. fight for them.” Since his most recent run-in with the law, Four years and six months later, something else happened. Lopez and his girlfriend at the military authorities have reclassified Steve time got into an argument. 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health to the overall effect the emissions would have on climate change. According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, 62,000 metric tons per year — the figure approved by the Planning Commission — is the equivalent to the emissions from 12,900 cars. Ten thousand metric tons equals just over 2,000 cars. “There’s certainly no doubt in my mind that global warming is real and has been accelerated by human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels,” said rd District Supervisor Doreen Farr, who voted in favor of the stricter threshold. Farr noted that she has visited the proposed site and understood the economic incentives, but that greenhouse-gas emissions’ environmental toll required the county to “pick up the pace.” First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal and nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf, who each voted for the 10,000-metric-tons figure, both stressed the need for the county to “balance” its economic interests with its environmental concerns. In arguing the case for Santa Maria Energy, Beth Marino, the company’s vice president of legal and corporate affairs, said imposing the 10,000-tons-per-year threshold would make Santa Barbara County seem inhospitable to business. “We live in this community, and we take our responsibilities seriously,” she said, referring to the berms surrounding the facility and its live monitoring system and environmental protections. “No single project can be held solely responsible for climate change,” she said. On Wednesday morning, Poole expanded on his previous statement, highlighting the vote’s effect on the project. “We do know that the rate and number of jobs created will be impacted, the amount of taxes paid will be reduced, and the amount of supports for worthy community causes will also be reduced,” he said. Joining Adam in voting against the stricter limit was Lavagnino, visibly tweaked by the EDC for not reaching out to him. “I didn’t get a phone call; I didn’t get an email; I didn’t get a

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PEEVED: “We are process kings and queens,” said Supervisor Steve Lavagnino (below), one of the dissenting votes, in a speech in which he said the EDC didn’t communicate with him but Santa Maria Energy followed county guidelines. Above is one of Santa Maria Energy’s existing wells.

contact from anybody at the EDC,” he said. “They just felt like, ‘It doesn’t matter. We’ve got our votes. We’ve got this thing in the bag. We’re not going to talk,’” Lavagnino continued, saying he believes in climate change. “I think we do need alternative energy. But how many wind projects have been brought before us? How many solar projects? How many wave technology projects? “You’re not hurting an oil company today. You’re hurting a community,” he went on, noting several of the nonprofits that Santa Maria Energy contributes to. Lavagnino also admitted that he has “softened considerably” on social issues like programs for the homeless and mentally ill, but that those services require funding that revenue from the project could generate. And forcing the company, Lavagnino said, to spend $500,000 a year on reduction credits — which don’t have to be purchased from California companies and aren’t currently available in-county — isn’t right. “Don’t cost this county millions of dollars so we can go plant trees in another state,” he said. Tuesday’s vote didn’t set an official county standard, but it could make the case for the 10,000-ton mark stronger for future projects. For instance, before the supervisors dealt with Santa Maria Energy, they discussed 85 emergency 15-foot-long seep cans recently installed by Pacific Coast Energy Company, an oil company whose own 96 cyclic steam injection wells — approved in 2006 — sit right next door to Santa Maria Energy’s proposed wells at the Orcutt Oil Field. According to the county, steam injection is believed to exacerbate the occurrence of naturally occurring seeps, and although Pacific Coast Energy Company has since taken action to prevent 90 percent of new leaks, some supervisors questioned if Santa Maria Energy’s new wells could seep, too. Buried under that discussion was Pacific Coast Energy Company’s recent application for 96 more steam injection wells. ■

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guys clearly won at Tuesday night’s marathon showdown over the biggest oil development project to hit Santa Barbara County in eons. What wasn’t nearly so clear was who the bad guys were. When it was over, I almost felt sorry for Santa Maria Energy, which has made the most convincing case imaginable that it’s not really a big bad oil company at all, but “just folks.” Corporate vice president Beth Marino came across so down-home, so real, and so refreshingly un-slick that I wanted to reach through my TV set and give her a hug. And the company’s logo — which featured an amber sun-infused honeycomb — got my warm-andfuzzies tingling. But like many an oil company trying to do business in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria Energy found itself undone by fatally bad timing. First, it should be noted that nobody is stopping Santa Maria Energy from pumping up to 3,000 barrels of oil a day out of the 110 new oil wells it’s gotten approval to sink on an already industrialized patch of land near Orcutt. It can and it will. (For details, read Lyz Hoffman’s news article on page 10.) The only dispute was how much air pollution — speciﬁcally greenhouse gases — the project should be allowed to emit without doing anything about it. The project will generate about 87,000 metric tons of such gases a year. That’s a lot. Santa Maria Energy is proposing to mitigate and to oﬀset about 25,000 tons

worth. It should be noted that’s twice as much as the company is legally required to under California’s 2006 climate-change law AB 32. But the glass-is-half-empty crowd was hardly impressed, pointing out that the proposed project would have the same effect on the county’s air as 17,000 additional cars on the road. Led by the Environmental Defense Center, a coalition of environmental groups insisted that Santa Maria Energy had to do more. They pointed out that the county’s line-in-the-sand threshold for greenhouse gas emissions has traditionally been 10,000 metric tons a year. That’s not just what Santa Barbara has used, they noted; it’s what San Luis Obispo County and the Bay Area air pollution control district have insisted upon, as well. Not since Venoco put its ill-fated oil initiative on the Carpinteria ballot a month before the BP oil disaster exploded in the Gulf of Mexico a few years ago has any oil company been afflicted with such disastrous timing as Santa Maria Energy. There probably is no “good” time to seek special dispensation to dump 62,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases into our air basin. But now is about the worst. Greenhouse gases don’t make people cough and wheeze as do pollutants like diesel particulates or ozone precursors; instead they fuel climate rage, euphemistically referred to these days as “climate change.” The wholesale violence just inflicted by Über Storm Haiyan on the people of the Philippines makes it a whole lot harder to pretend climate change

is some hoax perpetrated by the Chicken Littles and eco-hysterics out there. It’s true the Philippines have always served as the trailer park of the South Pacific, constantly getting laid to waste by one typhoon or another. But this one is bigger and faster — with speeds clocking in as fast as 230 miles an hour — than anything in recorded history. As the oceans absorb more heat, the meteorologists tell us, the frequency and ferocity of such storms will only increase. The biggest reason an engaging slob like New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie is considered presidential material is his heroic response to last year’s Hurricane Sandy — yet another celebrity über storm.Yes, nature has always been prone to volatile mood swings. But now it’s positively bipolar and very much oﬀ its meds. Nor did it help Santa Maria Energy’s case that the hundreds of scientists making up the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released yet another report detail-

ing how dire the situation has grown. Since the 1880s, the planet’s temperature has risen about 1.5 degrees because there’s more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere than any time in the past 800,000 years. If the global thermometer rises by 2.7-8.1 degrees, we’re looking at a sea-level rise of 10-32 inches. Since 2011, the United States has experienced 25 extreme weather events that cost $1 billion or more each. The drought in Russia wiped out one-quarter of its 2012 grain harvest. And according to a think tank commissioned

by the German government, extreme weather killed 530,000 people worldwide last year. Supervisor Steve Lavagnino’s passionate soliloquy on behalf of Santa Maria — so desperate, so eloquent, so raw — was undeniably one of the most compelling speeches I’ve ever seen in the supervisors’ chambers. But when I heard it will only cost the company an extra 60 cents a barrel to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions down to the 10,000-ton threshold, I suddenly became a lot less mesmerized. The total price tag tossed around at the supervisors’ meeting was half-a-million bucks a year. That sounds like a big number. But not nearly as big as the $110 million a year in revenues that Santa Maria Energy could generate at maximum production so long as oil sells for $100 a barrel. When the vote ﬁnally came down to require Santa Maria Energy to do more, I still wanted to give Beth Marino a hug. She seemed like a nice person. Her project can still go forward, creating much-needed jobs and generating muchneeded tax revenues. But sadly, climate change is not a ﬁgment of anybody’s imagination. To give Santa Maria Energy a pollution break in this context would have been insanity and would have set an insane precedent for subsequent energy proposals. The supervisors needed to draw a line in the sand by drawing a line in the sky. Like I say, there were no bad guys. Maybe there were no good guys either. Maybe this once, we all won. — Nick Welsh

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Nicholas Carl Reich // – //

Nick Reich was born in Chicago, IL to George and Helen Reich on Feb. , . He passed away on Oct. ,  after a twoyear battle with cancer of the esophagus. Nick and his sister, Toni, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Tennyson High School in Hayward in  and served in the US Army during the Vietnam War as a medical corpsman, delivering babies and tending the wounded at Ft. Huachuca, AZ. Nick was known for his love of animals, his extensive collection of popular music, and his love of reading, particularly the works of Stephen King. In , he married Lynn Beach and they had one daughter, Heather. In , Nick moved to Santa Barbara to enter the men’s residential recovery program at the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission. Nick credits this program with saving his life, and through it he renewed his faith in Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Nick celebrated over  years of sobriety from his alcohol addiction. After graduating from the program, Nick worked at the Rescue Mission for a number of years as the night security guard. The Rescue Mission was his home and his family for almost  years. In , Nick was diagnosed with cancer. His sister, Toni Percival, and her husband, Frank, cared for him through his surgery and treatments until

August  when he relocated to Mokelumne Hill in northern California, a town he quickly grew to love. He was also happy to be closer to his wife, Lynn, daughter, Heather McCoy, sonin-law Shilo McCoy, and two granddaughters, Chloe and Madylin McCoy. Nick’s death came less than a year after the passing of his mother, Helen Reich Williams. His father, George, passed away in . Nick is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Memorial services in Santa Barbara will be held at Christ the King Episcopal Church,  Hollister Ave., on Saturday, November  at : pm. Donations in Nick’s memory may be made to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission,  E. Yanonali St., Santa Barbara, CA .

Katherine Laughlin Isaacson // – //

Herbert William Fredlund  – 

Katherine Laughlin Isaacson passed away on Sunday, November rd surrounded by family and close friends. She was born December th,  in Keene, New Hampshire to Rosemary and Herbert Laughlin and attended Castilleja girls school in Palo Alto and Marymount of Santa Barbara. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and earned a teaching credential at San Francisco State University. Katherine grew up spending her summers at her family’s cabin on the remote west side of Fallen Leaf Lake on the border of the

Death Notices AQUIRRE, Carmen; of Santa Barbara; died November ,  (Born //); age . Graveside service / at Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements by Welch-RyceHaider -. CORRAL, Manuel Villanueva; of Santa Barbara; died November ,  (Born: //); he was . Rosary / at Our Lady of Sorrows Church and Mass / at Our lady of Sorrows Church. Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -.

Desolation Wilderness. In , after a few weeks of courtship, she accepted a marriage proposal from R. Deming Isaacson and they were married at All Saintsby-the-Sea Episcopal Church. Katherine devoted her time to raising her three children, John, Thomas, and Holly. She returned to teaching at All Saints-by-theSea Parish School and taught first grade at the Isla Vista School for  years. Katherine was a lifelong learner who held a passion for music, literature, and the arts. She sang in the All Saints church choir and the Santa Barbara Opera Chorus. Throughout her life, Katherine gave selflessly to her family, friends, and students. She is survived by her husband R. Deming Isaacson, three children John, Thomas, Holly, four grandchildren Anton, Ibbie, Katherine, Candice, her mother Rosemary R. Laughlin, and siblings Herbert Laughlin Jr., Margaret (Peggy) C. Laughlin, and Nancy Laughlin. A memorial service for Katherine will be held at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church on Saturday, November th at pm.

RIVAS RODRIGUEZ, Jorge, , died unexpectedly at work in Carpinteria on November , . The Rosary Service will be held on Sunday, //, : pm, and the Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, /, : am, both at Holy Cross Church, followed by burial at Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Pueblo del Rey Funeral Services () -.

Herbert William Fredlund, , was born in Alhambra, California, on August , . His family moved to Santa Barbara where he attended McKinnley Elementary, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High Schools. While in school he excelled in instrumental music and it was music that he made his life’s work. When he was  the United States went to war and he joined the Coast Guard. He was put into the band and was transferred to San Francisco. During a rehearsal he was asked if he could play piano for the women’s choir and he fell in love with the lead soprano even though she couldn’t keep the beat. When he told her that, she smacked him, and that was that. They met in April, were

engaged in August, and Herb and Dorothy Lillian Selina were married in October of . In November, Herb set to sea with the Coast Guard where he was clerk to the ship’s Chaplain on a Hospital vessel. He played piano for services. He was a natural sailor and spent his time on the ship while not working walking the decks and hanging over the edge. He was never seasick in his life and from that time loved being on the water. After his war time service Herb collected his wife and new daughter, Nancy Jean, from Bristol, CT, and returned to Santa Barbara. He returned to college on the G.I. Bill and graduated from the Riviera campus of Santa Barbara College which later became the University of California, Santa Barbara. While in Santa Barbara they lived at Hoff Heights where, second daughter, Ann Elizabeth was born. He began teaching in Calistoga, California, where son, Herbert William, Jr., was born; then Barstow, California, where daughter, Meredith Selina, was born; San Bernardino; and returned to Santa Barbara where son, James Brewster, was born. He taught at La Cumbre Jr. High School for  years, retiring in . While the family was in Barstow, Herb commuted to Redlands University, where he earned his Master’s Degree in clarinet performance. Teaching music was Herb’s job and he did it with grace and fun. He had so much to say about being a music teacher that he wrote a book about the experience. But, first and foremost, Herb was a musician and there was not an instrument he could not play within a few hours. He was much in demand as a pianist and played with many ensembles on clarinet and sax. He was offered a job with the Johnny Carson band but turned it down because he didn’t think it would last and he had  children to support. For years he played every Saturday night at the Cabrillo Recreation Center dances with “Joe, and the Kilowatts” dance band. Herb was a man of many talents. He was a visual artist as well as a musician and he was a gifted writer. He had many passions one of which was sailing and being on the ocean. He was the proud owner of several boats and spent most of his leisure

time on the water with his family. He had the true Viking mentality and would sail off into the horizon, not returning until he just happened to return. He was very active and rode his bicycle every morning well into his ’s. He loved the out of doors and he loved any kind of travel. He made it his goal to take his children to every State and he would plan cross country trips accordingly. He was active with both his sons in the Boy Scouts and was part of the leadership of Boy Scout Troop  where he participated in all the activities. After his retirement from teaching he became increasingly involved in the local chapter of the American Federation of Music where he served as VicePresident for many years and as President for a few months before retiring. Herb is survived by four of his five children; Nancy Jean McCradie from Green Valley Lake, and Santa Barbara, California, Herbert William Fredlund, Jr., of Orcutt, California; Meredith Selina Sedgwick of Santa Barbara, California; and James Brewster Fredlund of Buckeye, Arizona. Preceding him is his wife of  years, Dorothy Lillian Fredlund, who passed on in , and his daughter, Ann Elizabeth Staffeld of Seattle, Washington, who passed on in . Herb is also survived by his  grandchildren, and  great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on November ,  at : at the Goleta location of Welch-Ryce-Haider;  Ward Drive; Santa Barbara, CA . In lieu of flowers Herb was a supporter of the Arts - next time you donate to a non-profit Art organization, please remember Herb.

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receiving his master’s degree in dramatic arts from UCSB, he began teaching and writing. Like many, I feel a tremendous loss with Cork’s passing, but I’m filled with gratitude, too. Because of Cork Millner, I am a professional writer and an author. Cork believed in me and championed my work, even when I doubted it myself. If it hadn’t been for Cork’s red pen filled with love, support, and generosity, I’d still be dreaming about being a writer instead of actually becoming one. Feeling nostalgic, I pored through piles of manuscripts Cork had edited for me, smiling at the comments he had scrawled in the margins with his red pen. Sometimes it was just a word or two like “clever lead” or “powerful imagery.” Sometimes it was a full page. One of his most meaningful comments, written when I was just starting out, simply said,“You write in pictures.” It forever changed the way I thought about my writing. I am certain that the hundreds, if not thousands, of writers who took Cork’s classes or workshops at Santa Barbara City College or the Santa Barbara Writers Conference during his more than 30 years of teaching were inspired by Cork and the encouragement he wrote in red in the margins of their manuscripts. After the throat-catching “Taps” during his Military Honors and the presentation of the flag to his family, as a final homage, I placed a red pen in his memorial plot in the Sunrise Urn Garden. My note to him simply said, “Cork, The love and generosity that filled your red pen will never be forgotten.” Two fellow writers, Kaye Walters and Nancy MacMillan, similarly moved, added small cards with covers of their recently published books, thanking him for his support. Afterward, a group of us hugged, cried, laughed, took pictures, then joined his family for a wake at his beloved polo fields in Carpinteria, where we all popped the cork for Cork. Here’s to you, Cork Millner, for making a profound difference in all of our lives.

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he California Naturalist Program, developed by the UC Cooperative Extension, is here oﬀered only by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. I am a docent and graduated in the ﬁrst class in 2012. We learned about being volunteer naturalists and citizen scientists taking an active role in conserving our natural resources, educating visitors, and restoring our ecosystems. The Botanic Garden trains volunteers not only for itself but also for organizations such as Lotusland, Sedgwick Reserve, and Arroyo Hondo Preserve. To become a well-trained naturalist and citizen scientist, check out sbbg.org. You’ll be surprised at all the wonderful activities that go on at the Garden.

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long-running The Sixties Revisited radio show had a theme that went: “It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning since you’ve been gone …” From 1976 to 2001, Gerry’s show aired on local airwaves, first on KTYD, with the Four Tops’ 1965 Motown theme providing bittersweet memories of wonderful music and turbulent times. “The show lasted two-and-a-half times as long as the ’60s did,” Gerry reminded me when we talked the other day. He’s collecting copies of those shows and sent me one featuring Walter Cronkite’s sounds of the 1960s, including what Gerry terms Cronkite’s “heart-wrenching collage of the sounds of that weekend in November” when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The 50th anniversary of the November 22, 1963, day of infamy looms next week, bringing a “potpourri of pain” for those doomed to remember those horrific events “and the psychological impact they would have on a generation whose youthful ideals were shattered in the course of a few short seconds,” Gerry said. ELECTION, SMELECKSHUN: Someday they’ll have an election, and no one will come. Look, all you had to do to vote in last week’s Santa Barbara City Council election was put a couple of marks on the ballot the city mailed you, sign your name, and stick it in the mail. But only 38.3

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arly one October morning, hours before the sun and most of California had risen, a small boat with a few bundled, coffeesipping souls onboard skipped across invisible swells into the blank horizon. Above in the pitch-black sky, the stars shone so brightly that they didn’t twinkle, proving a brilliant contrast to the earthly streetlights of Santa Barbara, which glowed a muted yellow. But the most magical illumination suddenly came into view a few miles away on the surface of the sea, at first looking like a castle made of diamonds, but eventually emerging as the floating skyscraper that it was. The Sapphire Princess, one of the many cruise ships that now visit Santa Barbara every year, was the early-morning target for the crew of the R/V Channelkeeper, the research vessel owned and operated by Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, a clean-water advocacy organization. The goal was to remind the Sapphire’s bridge that they’d breached the City of Santa Barbara’s 12-mile boundary and entered the zone where all cruise ship captains promise to not dump any waste. The city’s Waterfront Department set new precedent by demanding that cruise-ship captains sign that agreement — which is much stricter than the threemile no-dumping zone demanded by state law — but the only group making sure that the ships adhere to the contract so far has been Channelkeeper, which quietly started testing the wake of the ships a few years back, recently added a thermal camera to its expanding toolkit, and is now focused on making its presence even more known.

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“Sapphire Princess, Sapphire Princess, Sapphire Princess. This is R/V Channelkeeper,” beckoned Ben Pitterle, marine program director, into the radio. “We’d like to welcome you to the Santa Barbara Channel, and politely remind you that you have entered the voluntary no-discharge zone.” “Yes, we are 100 percent aware,” replied the Sapphire’s captain immediately and pleasantly.“All of our discharges are closed and our incinerators are oﬀ.” As the ship — a temporary vacation home for more than 2,600 people and 1,100 crew members, along with the 160,000 or so gallons of sewage generated each day — began picking up speed toward the coastline, the R/V Channelkeeper crew followed closely behind, stopping sporadically to dip empty vials into the ship’s wake and collect seawater that would be analyzed for any evidence of dumping. No one actually expects the Sapphire or other ships to violate the agreement — the conse-

quences of being banned from Santa Barbara and enduring the ensuing marketing nightmare would be severe — and Pitterle readily admits that finding such a violation is close to impossible. “Track a cruise ship’s discharge in the middle of the night in the middle of the ocean?” asked Pitterle, as his colleagues Penny Owens and Jenna Driscoll worked on getting more samples.“It’s not an easy thing to do.” That’s why now, as cruise ships’ presence skyrocketed to 22 visits in 2013 with nearly 30 already planned for 2014, Channelkeeper is shifting to become a visible and vocal watchdog of these floating cities, all the while balancing the overwhelming sentiment that the ships are a perfectly timed blessing for all types of commerce throughout downtown Santa Barbara and beyond.“The point is not to drive away cruise ships or the business that comes from them,” said Pitterle. “It’s more so that they know people do care about the ocean here and that we’re watching them.” As such, Channelkeeper finds itself on the front lines of what’s quickly become one of Santa Barbara’s most talked-about developments in recent years. Right now, with a rather stunning degree of unanimity for a region rarely tepid about civic debates, the increased presence of cruise ships is getting a nearly universal thumbs-up. The enhanced tourism is good for business, in part because the Waterfront Department has handled its scheduling so strategically, restricting visits to the “shoulder seasons” of spring and fall and on otherwise slower weekdays. And even though cruise-ship visitors don’t stay in hotels, often don’t eat in town (because meals tend to be free onboard), and spend less than the average tourist, the region’s tourism boosters

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level, Santa Barbara’s Waterfront Department is wholly in charge of evaluating, approving, and scheduling these visits, according to its director, Scott Riedman, though his staff does consult with the city administrator and relies on the help of Visit Santa Barbara (which promotes the destination), the Downtown Organization and Chamber of Commerce (which staff the hospitality desks), the Metropolitan Transit District (which handles transportation), SEA Landing (which handles the unloading and loading of tenders), and other city departments and businesses. “What differentiates Santa Barbara from so many other communities is that there is an incredible amount of collaboration,” said Kathy JanegaDykes, head of Visit Santa Barbara.“It has really served us well.” The Waterfront Department receives $5 a head for all people on each ship (passengers and crew, regardless of whether they disembark or not), amounting to more BIG BOATS AHOY: The presence of cruise ships in Santa Barbara more than doubled than $500,000, according to records over the last year in 2013, with 22 visits, which Visit Santa Barbara’s Kathy Janega-Dykes from 2004 to the present. About a believes is a much-needed boost for the economy. “Each brings thousands of passengers third of that money is dispersed to and prospective future customers to our harbor and downtown and surrounding areas for the partnering organizations to cover a day of touring and shopping and exploring,” she said. their costs, and the rest goes into the Waterfront Department’s enterprise fund.“We use that as needed for operating expenses and are gushing with excitement at the exposure Santa Barcapital expenditures,” said Riedman, explaining that the bara is getting, with high hopes that these day-trippers cruise-ship visits do not require any extra staffing or will come back for overnight trips in the future. impacts to his department. And yet even the most pro-business resident can’t Of course, the benefits flow much deeper into town, help but wonder what impacts these floating cities might have on the ocean, the air, the traffic, and, perhaps as well, as anyone strolling State Street, the harbor, Stearns Wharf, or the Funk Zone can readily notice on visit one day, even the soul of Santa Barbara. Today, most days.“You can tell when there’s a cruise ship in town,” seem comfortable with the frequency and function of reports Mayor Helene Schneider, who appreciates the cruise ships in our already tourist-friendly town. But in the years to come, if visits multiply as they have in recent strategy of scheduling the visits mostly during weekyears, will Santa Barbara ever grow weary of the massive days in the spring and fall.“That’s a big deal for the local economy.” ships dominating our shoreline? That notion is supported by the preliminary results of a cruise-passenger survey that Visit Santa Barbara commissioned for 2013. Though final results won’t be released until the end of the year, of the first 454 responSanta Barbara’s first cruise ship arrived in 2002, thanks dents, most were first-time Santa Barbara visitors, more to rising violence in Mexico that prompted the industry than 60 percent shopped while here, just under 50 perto rethink its West Coast offerings.“Once they started cent ate at a restaurant, and more than three-quarters visiting other ports, especially Santa Barbara, people were “very satisfied” with their visit. On average, they started responding in such a positive way that this spent $92 each. (See sidebar for more statistics.) idea of a regional itinerary really stuck,” explained the Visit Santa Barbara’s Janega-Dykes, whose outreach Waterfront Department’s Mick Kronman, who has been was integral in attracting cruise ships here, is enthused involved with organizing the visits since the beginning. with these early results, especially by how many are So for the next eight years, the boats — which are first-timers.“It is Visit Santa Barbara’s goal to bring them usually on three- to seven-day tours with additional back again for longer stays in our lodging facilities along stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the South Coast,” said Janega-Dykes, who also explained Ensenada — returned at the rate of about one or two per year. In 2011, in the wake of the 2009 swine-flu scare, that there is immeasurable value in having Santa Barbara included in the itineraries that the cruise compaseven cruise ships anchored here. In 2012, that number nies send to millions of customers around the world. crept to 10, before more than doubling this year, with 22 visits, including the Golden Princess, the last ship of 2013, But the results are already tangible for businesses like Santa Barbara Trolley and winery tour guides and anywhich came and left this past Tuesday. Next year, there are 29 visits tentatively scheduled, although that number one else involved in offering shore excursions.“It’s been an amazing opportunity for many of our local busiwas actually 34 before a few cancellations. nesses to work with these cruise ship passengers and The steady rise is evidence of the cruise liners’ “fanprovide exposure for future visits by these passengers as tastic” response to Santa Barbara, said Mike Hubbard well as their family and friends,” she explained. of Quay Cruise Agencies, which books the West Coast Mayor Schneider credits the hospitality tents down for Princess Cruises. “It’s just a great place to go,” he said. on Cabrillo Boulevard with making those return visits “People seem to really enjoy it.” even more likely.“They are doing great,” she said.“What Cruise liners plan itineraries far in advance, first they’re saying is,‘You are here for a few hours, but we coordinating with the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Cuswant you back for a few days.’ ” toms and Border Protection. 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So if the rise of cruise ships in Santa Barbara is like the goose that lays the golden eggs on steroids, what in the world should anyone be concerned about? Plenty, according to Kira Redmond, who, before becoming the executive director of Santa Barbara Channelkeeper in 2004, worked for Bluewater Network to tighten environmental regulations on cruise ships at both the state and federal level. That was a major cause in the 1990s, due to whistle-blower cases against some of the major cruise lines for dumping their oil and wastewater illegally, and Redmond was eventually successful in getting California to pass stricter regulations than the rest of the country. But problems didn’t disappear overnight, and, in 2002, Carnival’s Crystal Harmony was found to be dumping 36,000 gallons of treated bilge, treated sewage, and gray water into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, despite the captain signing a declaration, much like Santa Barbara’s, promising not to. It wasn’t technically illegal, but sanctuary oﬃcials barred the ship

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Cruise Captain Contract Here is the wording of the “Environmental Declaration” that all cruise ship captains must sign if they would like to land passengers in Santa Barbara:

I declare that no discharge of garbage, treated sewage or grey water (TSG) effluent, nor any conventional sewage or grey water shall occur within twelve nautical miles from the City of Santa Barbara. l also declare that the ship’s incinerator will not be used within such limits. I further declare that should any such discharge of garbage, sewage or grey water occur, or should the incinerator be operated within said limit, whether intentional or accidental, I will notify Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol at (805) 564-5530 within 24 hours as to the nature, volume, time, duration and location of the discharge or incinerator operation. from ever returning and won’t be letting any Carnival ship return until 2017. When Redmond was hired by Channelkeeper in 2004, the cruise ships had just started coming to Santa Barbara, but the issue was already a topic of interest for the nonprofit’s supporters.“That was my expertise, so I looked into it,” said Redmond, who applauded the city for making the captains sign a declaration, but explained, “There was no one monitoring, so the Waterfront Department is never going to know if there was a violation unless the cruise ship company tells on itself, which is where Channelkeeper came in.” Currently, Channelkeeper does not receive any money from the city for their efforts, though everyone asked thought that was an interesting proposition. It wouldn’t be unlike the City of Goleta paying the organization to monitor its creeks or the County of Santa Barbara funding the beach bacteria counts, except that the city’s been sued by Channelkeeper in recent years, so the bad blood lingers a bit. That said, the Waterfront Department readily shares the schedules with Channelkeeper as well as additional info, like coordinates and radio channels. Said Pitterle,“We view the city and, from what they’ve told us, they view us as partners.” To date, Channelkeeper hasn’t caught any ships violating the agreement, and the Waterfront Department has also ensured that anything questionable gets evaluated. For instance, when a plume of smoke was visible atop one of the cruise ships a couple of months ago, the Air Pollution Control District was called to investigate. “The technician went onto the ship, into the engine room, met with the engineer, looked at all the gauges, and found the emissions to be in compliance,” said Kronman, who also had someone from the county’s Public Health Department check out a possible virus on another ship, a completely different type of environmental issue that also turned out to be a false alarm.“We take this stuff very seriously,” said Kronman. Altogether, Redmond believes that the industry as a whole has greatly improved their environmental record over the past decade. “No question about it,” she said. “At first it was more greenwashing, but they have actually done quite a bit to improve their environmental performance.” In agreement is David Pelkin, director of public affairs for the Cruise Lines International Association, who explained in an email that many of the industry’s practices, from their advanced wastewater-treatment systems to the gas scrubbers they use to fight air emissions, are actually “more protective” than what’s required by law.“The industry has a vested interest in protecting the global ocean environment not only because it is the responsible thing to do, but also because clean oceans

and beaches are essential to the cruise experience,” said Pelkin. Nonetheless, disasters happen — see: recent and repeated headlines about 2012’s Costa Concordia crash oﬀ the coast of Italy — and environmental violations do still occur, according to Friends of the Earth, which publishes an eco-report card on the cruise industry every year. In 2013, the cruise ships coming to Santa Barbara in 2014 posted a pretty mixed record: Princess Cruises scored a B overall, with an A for water-quality compliance and a B− in both sewage treatment and air-pollution reduction; Celebrity scored a C+, with an A for sewage and D for air pollution; and Crystal got Fs across the board. A fourth liner coming in 2014, the comparably small and ultra-luxury Azamara Quest, is not tracked. Despite the advancements in recent years, it seems that there may still be room for improvement, at least according to Friends of the Earth, which actually took over Bluewater Network after Redmond left. “We are not outright opposed to these cruise ships coming here, but we do want to ensure that they are not having an increased impact on the channel,” said Redmond. “We want to be sure that we are present and watching, and we’re thinking and hoping that has a deterrent eﬀect. Ideally,” she continued,“we would detect anything illicit that might happen if it did. I don’t think it will, and I hope it won’t, but we need to be out there making sure and doing the best job we can to do that.”

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With business booming and the environmental concerns being cared for, the only lingering concern that may one day arise over cruise ships could be the aesthetics of having such beastly boats dominate the views of our shoreline. Though thoroughly pleased with the present state of aﬀairs, Mayor Helene Schneider appreciates that could develop as an issue in the years to come, explaining, “If there was one there all the time, it would get a little tiring to see such a huge ship in the channel.” It would probably be a much more pressing concern if Santa Barbara’s harbor was like its sister city, Kotor, Montenegro — where the mayor witnessed cruise ships pull right up to the dock, essentially dropping a 12-story building in town.“That shocks you,” said Schneider. Like everyone else’s, her concerns revolve around more practical issues, like occasional cruise-related traﬃc on Cabrillo Boulevard and the potential for accidental spills. “The Santa Barbara Channel is a unique, special, and very biologically important place,” said the mayor. “The last thing we want to do is spoil it.”

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n “The Hollow Men,” T. S. Eliot famously recast modern expectations for the apocalypse by proclaiming that the world would end “not with a bang but a whimper.” While the style of Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner is far from that of T. S. Eliot’s poetry, the sentiment ODD UNIT: The characters in The Designated Eliot expressed Mourner — played by (from left) Brian so memorably Harwell, Jenna Scanlon, and Tom Hinshaw makes an apt — display some unusual family values. description of what happens to the world occupied by these three characters: Jack (Brian Harwell) occupies the position described in the play’s title, as he loses both his wife, Judy (Jenna Scanlon), and his father-in-law, Howard (Tom Hinshaw), to a mysterious sequence of mass arrests and political purges in the unnamed police state where The Designated Mourner takes place. The problem is — or at least one of the problems is — that Jack doesn’t always sound so mournful about it. His whimpering, which now and again rises to the level of a scream, revolves around not the loss he feels in their absence, but rather the strange ambivalence he felt when they were still around. Playwright Shawn artfully taps into the myriad of ways that contemporary society licenses, perhaps even encourages, resentment and its uglier, more feral German cousin, schadenfreude. The performances in this Designated Mourner are uniformly spectacular. Shawn’s distinctively digressive manner demands the utmost focus from actors and, under the skillful direction of Maurice Lord, Harwell and company deliver the goods. The play’s many cerebral epiphanies bubble and burst with astonishing vigor. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and it feels ﬁne. ■

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ne good reason to stage Top Girls, Caryl Churchill’s masterpiece from the Reagan/Thatcher era, is to discover how little the rhetoric has changed 30 years after the supposed Conservative Revolution. The government-suspect, anti-labor, greed-is-good, do-for-yourself arguments in Girls’ third act can be found in nearly identical form on Fox News today. Equally enduring is our cultural ambivalence toward the female executive, esteemed as the apotheosis of women’s lib on the one hand, and stereotyped on the other as the ruthless shrew who seems to have purged all nurture from her nature. Top Girls explores this tension within and between a dozen or so female characters, but none more than Marlene (Marley Frank), an executive within a women’s employment agency. Churchill’s unusual structuring of the work includes a fantasy ﬁrst act where Marlene, on the verge of promotion, shares a table with strong, persecuted women from history in what begins as a celebration but devolves into frightening disclosures as layer upon layer of pain is penetrated by drink. Marlene’s torn heart simmers throughout the rest of the play, boiling over with a terrible revelation in the ﬁnal act. The brilliance of this production and the solid performances by seven undergraduate women owe much to the sure direction of Anne Torsiglieri, who knows Top Girls well, having performed the show on Broadway. An impressive variety of convincing dialects adds to the color. Portrayals of strong-headed girls by Dani Hernandez, Mariah Goolsby, and Zurian Zarate underscore the knotty question: At what ■ age and under what form do even women value strength in women?

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he trials of high school would seem to be one of the most overfarmed fields in all of the vast territory of theatrical cultivation. After so many crops, musical and otherwise, what nutrients could possibly be left in this well-ploughed soil? And yet along comes Carrie — not the movie, or the new movie, or even the original musical, but instead the new musical, recently revised by its original team of writers and presented at Center Stage HOMESCHOOL: Carrie’s Theater in an engaging new production mother (Deborah Bertling, by Out of the Box Theatre Company. right) applies the Bible to The premise remains the same — Car- the problems Carrie (Julia rie is a lonely teen whose overprotective Kupiec) is having at school. mother has filled her head with the ﬁre-and-brimstone visions of an unhappy fundamentalism, while her peers are, for the most part, typical teenagers preoccupied with dating, dances, and dishing dirt on those less popular. When Carrie fails to recognize the onset of puberty in the form of menstruation, most of the girls make fun of her, while only her gym teacher, Ms. Huggins (Nastassja Huggins), steps in to defend the traumatized girl. In subsequent developments, the empathetic Sue Snell (Katherine Bottoms) becomes Carrie’s sole advocate among the students, while mean girl Chris Hargensen (Taylor Courtney) spirals further and further into a devious spitefulness. The whole thing comes to a head when Sue convinces her boyfriend Tommy (Julian Comeau) that taking Carrie to the prom instead of her will alleviate the situation, rather than leading to the inevitable catastrophe. As Carrie White, Santa Barbara High student Julia Kupiec delivers a fullbodied performance that’s subtle, dramatically powerful, and poignant. Her duets with her mother, Margaret White (Deborah Bertling), are nearly operatic in their emotional depth and complexity. Overall, the production is impressive, and the result is excellent musical theater and a new triumph for Out of the Box.

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any Americans confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and only register at some level that these two holidays have something to do with men and women in uniform. The more thoughtful might read a book or watch a TV special. Actor and playwright Casey Caldwell has raised the thoughtfulness bar much higher. The artistic director of Ratatat Theater Group interviewed nearly two dozen area veterans and then carefully meshed their words with a skeletal edit of Shakespeare’s Henry V. The result is Happy Few, a full-body immersion into the passions and vagaries of war as experienced through the hearts and shattered nerves of those who know it best. This Friday-evening performance, on Veterans Day weekend, at the Santa Barbara Veterans Memorial building, was certainly the most meaningful observance of the holiday that I have ever known. In accord with Ratatat’s vision of theater as a community encounter, Caldwell and five other actors have been taking Happy Few to various locations about town. Critics have long been divided regarding Shakespeare’s intent in Henry V — a play which follows the buildup, the conflict, and the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt (1415) — some reading an antiwar message, others seeing a vindication of national sovereignty. One of the remarkable things about Caldwell’s creation is its transcendence of politics, its refusal to put the messy, bloody business of warfare into a tidy package. Happy Few doesn’t pretend to do your thinking for you. Instead, it gives audiences an existential encounter with the raw emotions and candid reflections of veterans who are compelled to wrestle with their memories. And like war itself, that inner battle for meaning can be a ■ matter of life or death. november 14, 2013

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’m always into alternative ways of performing and places that aren’t on the rock ’n’ roll schedule,” says Andrew Bird. The acclaimed violinist is speaking specifically about a recent show near Joshua Tree, California. Dubbed “The Quietest Show on Earth,” the event paired Bird with singer/songwriter Tift Merritt, a camera crew, and 10 lucky contest winners for an intimate concert in celebration and support of America’s national parks. “It entailed doing a three-mile hike through the desert with 10 strangers from all across the country,” recalls Bird. “I got to chat with all these folks, and then we finished the hike and played a show. It was really cool.” Fans of Bird’s music will know that he is no stranger to the takeaway show format. In his 17-plus years of professional music making, the singer, songwriter, violinist, and avid whistler has played just about everywhere — from the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall to the streets of London. On Thursday, November 21, Bird will land at UCSB’s Campbell Hall for an intimate solo performance with openers The Handsome Family. We recently caught up with Bird from his new home in Los Angeles to discuss nature, architecture, and his first West Coast Christmas. STRING THEORY: Newly minted West Coaster Andrew The Joshua Tree show is just one of many Bird heads to UCSB on November 21. performances you’ve done in nature. Do you feel like location informs your songwriting? Oh yeah, totally. It first hit me when I start to feel like you’re making it sound like a way more started writing songs when I was 18. My folks bought a farm in western Illinois when I was 12, and I started going out there and writing songs on the front porch of their farm. What was significant about it was, on that porch, you could see a weather system come into the valley.You could watch it approach you for 30 or 40 minutes and then rain on you and go on its way. It does something to your sense of time and space that calibrates your brain in a good way for music, I think. When you’re in an urban environment and always looking only two or three feet in front of you, you’re going to hear different kinds of music. That dawned on me a long time ago.

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How does your barn studio space fit into that paradigm? Well, it’s a barn, so you’re committed to that

kind of structure. The biggest thing in any space that I live or work in is the higher the ceilings, the more hope you have. And the better it sounds, I think. If you’ve ever seen those old soundstages from Columbia Records or Capitol Records, you never see the ceiling. I always think of that shot of Sinatra with the RCA microphone. There’s just something about vocals in a high-ceiling space. It makes you sing out; it makes you do that echolocation thing where you have to ﬁll the room. I’ve also written music in little boxy apartments in Chicago and that tends to lead to a more intimate vocal. But I’m more a fan of pushing it out, of feeling the space.

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Holsapple, had the idea of doing this Measure for Measure thing, and I guess I was on his list. I don’t write that much, and the writing I do goes into my songs, but when I’m asked to write, I actually enjoy it. I like having assignments.

After two decades of music making, it must be difficult to break down your process. It is, and you

deliberate process than it really is because suddenly you’re working in the realm of journalism. That’s sometimes the disconnect with the discipline of journalism and the discipline of music; sometimes journalists assume that it’s as deliberate as what they’re doing. That’s where the most miscommunication happens. But then I started writing about it, and I’m like,“Oh, yeah. That’s what happens when you try to write about it.” There are times where I asked myself, “Is this silly? Is this healthy? Am I demystifying all this stuﬀ?” But in the end, you have to work harder to really demystify it. And I was learning something from the whole process, so … That’s another thing that I use to gauge whatever I’m doing, whether it’s playing in the desert or whatever. If I’m learning from it, it’s worth doing.

You’re bringing your Gezelligheid show to the West Coast for the first time this year. Are you worried that 85-degree weather is going to wreck the vibe? Good question! That dawned on me

after I booked it. The whole point [of those shows] was to combat the darkness and the cold of Chicago, and I never really expected it to go on the road. But I think we all need some communal warmth during the holidays. It’s a rough time of the year wherever you are, or it can be, so I’m counting on that.

Have you given any thought to the next record? Yes, but it will be a while. I’ve got some things that I still haven’t nailed on a record that I’d like to nail, mostly regarding vocals. It’s a good feeling that after 10 records, I still don’t feel like I’ve quite got it right.

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Hump Night Diane Coffee. At Muddy Waters Café, Saturday, November 9. Reviewed by Aly Comingore

ever mind for a second that Diane CofSTAR POWER: fee mastermind Shaun Fleming has spent Diane Coffee laid the theatrics on thick the better part of the last year behind the during Saturday’s kit for psych-rock auteurs Foxygen. Taken on his headlining set at own merits, the SoCal native and his new band Muddy Waters. of music-making buddies are already worthy headliners. Truth be told, the few that were in attendance on Saturday night at Muddy Waters saw three groups that are surely destined for bigger and better sooner, rather than later. Opening act Gothic Tropic made a strong return showing, dishing up an eclectic and ear-wormy mix of garage rock, post punk, and world music–indebted rhythms that cautiously vacillated between chaos and control. Occupying the night’s middle slot, Portland’s Aan gave audience members a set that was about as sonically tight as one gets; guitars and drums started, stopped, and seemed to turn on a dime before sputtering forth in new directions, and frontman Bud Wilson Jr.’s high and nuanced vocals rang out strong and confident. Still, the night belonged to Diane Coffee, and it didn’t take long for Fleming to drive that point home. At the helm of his newly minted band (seriously, they’ve been playing together for less than a month), Fleming looked like a man possessed, flailing his limbs and whipping his hair as he belted through cuts off Diane’s newly released debut. (The spaghetti western–conjuring “Tale of a Dead Dog” was a hands-down highlight.) Still, the theatrics only heightened what was easily one of the best-sounding sets to come out of Muddy in ages. Whether it was the band, the mix, or a magical combination thereof, Fleming’s jaw-dropping vocal range hit every cue that was asked of it and then some. That he’s got another gig waiting in the wings may simply mean that Fleming has even more talent up his sleeves — and we can’t wait to see what he busts out ■ next.

Wu-Tang Forever GZA. At Velvet Jones, Friday, November 8. Reviewed by Jake Blair

hen GZA, of the Wu-Tang Clan, took the stage at Velvet Jones on Friday night, he didn’t waste much time posturing. All told, the beginning of his set was pretty lackluster — understandable given the distractedness of the crowd and the technical issues being dealt with by DJ Symphony. But as the set wore on, the music built, and the crowd started delivering the lyrics of Wu-Tang classics and cuts from GZA’s critically acclaimed Liquid Swords with a rising ferocity. It all eventually came to a head when GZA asked the age of a Wu-Tang-shirt-adorned member of the pit, prompting the following exchange: “How old are you?” “19.” “19? How long you been listenin’ to the Wu?” “Like, ﬁve years.” “Since you were 14? This man wasn’t even born when we made this music, and he knows it by heart. That touches me.” A “family photo” was taken from the stage, with GZA posing against a wall of fans, and then a call went out into the crowd: “Who here knows the lyrics to ‘Triumph?’” The evening ended with one of the Wu’s signature ballads, a tribute to GZA’s fallen comrade and cousin ODB, as the microphone was passed among a handful of the dozen-or-so fans brought up to the stage. GZA stayed afterward and signed hats and shirts, took pictures, and generally talked story with a fan base who have had to discover his music on their own. It’s the type of intimacy that only happens when an artist and an audience know each other, helped tremendously by the fact that the now 47-year-old GZA clearly knows himself. ■

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Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Freedom Now!, Year of Rebellion by Joe Melchione, Art and Its Discontents, and Ambiguous Histories: Selected Works from the Exit Art Portfolios, through Dec. ; POP: Politics of Place, through Dec. ; Fran Siegel: Translocation and Overlay, through Apr. , .  University Rd., -. Casa Dolores – Multiple permanent installations featuring Mexican folk art.  Bath St., -. The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts – Allison Newsome: Post-Neolithic Figurines & The Anthropomorphic Vessel, through Dec. .  Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, -. Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Mark Twain exhibit, through Dec. . Multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -. Lompoc Museum – American Needle Arts Pre-1950: History Through the Eye of a Needle, through Jan. , . Multiple permanent installations.  S. H St., Lompoc, -. Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara – Limuw: An Ode to the Sea, through Nov. ; Bloom Projects: Ro Snell, All That Is Left, and Call for Entries 2013: Julia Hickey, M. Helsenrott Hochhauser, Katy McCarthy, Marco Pinter, and Christopher Ulivo, through Dec. .  Paseo Nuevo, -. Rancho La Patera/Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society.  N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, -. S.B. Historical Museum – Lockwood de Forest: Luminescent Santa Barbara, through Mar. ; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission.  E. De la Guerra St., -. S.B. Maritime Museum – Photography by Jack London, through Dec. ; Lost Surf Art Posters of Santa Barbara by Rick Sharp, through April .  Harbor Wy., #, -. S.B. Museum of Art – Totally 80s: Gifts to the Permanent Collection, through Jan. , ; John Divola: As Far as I Could Get, through Jan. , ; Delacroix and the Matter of Finish, through Jan. , ; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions.  State St., -.

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NOV. 14–21 S.B. Tennis Club – Encore: Angel, Nov. Dec. .  Foothill Rd., -. Santa Maria Country Club – Artwork for the Animals by Margie Bowker, through Dec. .  W. Waller Ln., Santa Maria, -. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Nicole Strasburg: New Terrain, through Dec. ; Tonalism Now, Tonalism Then, through Dec. .  E. Anapamu St., -. Trowbridge Gallery – Landscape paintings by Richard Schloss, through Nov. .  E. Ojai Ave., Ste. , Ojai, -. wall space gallery – Lori Vrba: Anthology, through Nov. ; Heads Up, through Dec. .  E. Yanonali St., C-, -.

LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL Trinity Episcopal Church –  State St., -. SUN: The French Connection: Dr. Ray Urwin (-pm) Ojai Ctr. for the Arts –  S. Montgomery St., Ojai, -. SUN: Romantic Viola (pm); First United Methodist Church –  E. Anapamu St., -. SAT: Santa Barbara Master Chorale Sings Berlioz and Schumann (pm) SUN: Santa Barbara Master Chorale Sings Berlioz and Schumann (pm)

POP, ROCK & JAZZ Adama –  Chapala St., -. THU: Greg Harrison (pm) Brewhouse –  W. Montecito St., -. THU-SAT, WED: Live Music (pm) Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -. FRI: Kalinka (-pm) SAT: SBCC Songwriters (-pm); The Excellent Tradesmen (-pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm); The Trainhoppers (:-:pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -. MON: Karaoke with Dyno (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -. THU: Dannsair (:pm) SAT: Traditional Irish Music (:pm) TUE: Karaoke (pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café –  Harbor Wy., -. FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (:pm) EOS Lounge –  Anacapa St., -. THU: Huge Thursday with Mackie and Bix King FRI: Live Music (-pm); DNA Presents SAT: DJ Calvin and Kohjay WED: Salsa Night Granada Theatre –  State St., -. FRI: An Acoustic Evening with Ben Harper (pm) Indochine –  State St., -. TUE: Indie Night (pm) WED: Karaoke (:pm) The James Joyce –  State St., -. THU: Alastair Greene Band (pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (pm) SAT: Ulysses (:-:pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) TUE: Ben Markham and Brian Cole WED: Open Mike Night Lobero Theatre –  E. Canon Perdido St., -. THU: Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60, featuring Anat Cohen, Randy Brecker, Karrin Allyson, Mark Whitﬁeld (pm) Marquee –  State St., -. THU: Thursday Jazz Night (pm) WED: Open Mike Night (pm) Moby Dick Restaurant –  Stearns Wharf, -. WED-SAT: Derroy (pm) SUN: Derroy (am) Monty’s –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, -. THU: Karaoke Night (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -. THU: College Night with DJ Gavin

Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, -. FRI, SAT, WED: Karaoke Night (:pm) Palapa Restaurant –  State St., -. FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:pm) Ranch and Reata Roadhouse –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -. FRI: Just Dave Band (:pm) SAT: Kat Devlin (:pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar –  Helena Ave., -. THU: Music Thursdays (pm) SAT: Bullfrog Blues Band (pm) Roundin’ Third –  Calle Real, -. THU, TUE: Locals Night (pm) S.B. Maritime Museum –  Harbor Wy., #, -. SAT: Ukulele music and singing (-:pm) Sandbar –  State St., -. TUE: ’s Night (pm) WED: Big Wednesday (pm) THU: College Night (pm) Seven Bar & Kitchen –  Helena Ave., -. THU: Winchester Rebels (pm) FRI: Orlando Napier (:pm) THU: Throwback Thursday wiith DJ Barla Bae (:pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club –  State St., -. THU: Quasi (pm) FRI: Bill Callahan (:pm) SAT: Vanessa Carlton (pm) SUN: Allison Adams Tucker (pm) MON: Slaid Cleaves (pm) WED: The Rainbow Girls with Marty O’Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra and Honeysticks (pm) THU: Autolux (pm) Statemynt –  State St., -. THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., -. FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -. THU: Red Bull Play & Destroy (pm) FRI: Country Night (pm) SAT: The Turn Up, featuring Commiion (pm) MON: Monday Night Football (:pm) THU: Taylor Gang Invasion with Berner (pm) Whiskey Richard’s –  State St., -. THU: The Bloodtypes and Mongo (pm) MON: Open Mike Night (pm) WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) Wildcat –  W. Ortega St., -. THU: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B SUN: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (pm) TUE: Local Band Night (pm) Zodo’s –  Calle Real, Goleta, -. THU: KjEE Thursday Night Strikes (:-:pm) MON: Service Industry Night (pm)

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Gideon Raff, creator, writer and director of the award-winning Israeli television drama series, Prisoners of War (Hatufim), which served as the inspiration for its critically acclaimed US adaptation, Homeland, shows clips from and explores the connections between what The New York Times has called “two TV siblings.”

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Great Expectations. Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, and Ralph Fiennes star in a ﬁlm written by David Nicholls, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, and directed by Mike Newell.

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hen Dickens hits the big screen, you naturally get a lot of plot for your money, which can be a mixed blessing. Ultimately, the substantial and often involving aspects of director Mike Newell’s adaptation of Great Expectations tends to get bogged down by the knotty entanglements of a grand and complicated tale, crammed in not always graceful ways into a twohour time frame. Even so, the new Newell version of Great Expectations, the seventh screen adaptation to date, is — thanks to David Nicholls’s screenplay and attention to period detail — a faithfully Dickensian encounter. It serves as a fine young person’s guide to the classic, especially compared to the modernized Alfonso Cuarón number from 1998, with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. Pity and savor our hero Pip (played by Jeremy Irvine and his younger brother, Toby), a poor young blacksmith in training swept up into the lavish and evil scheme of his landed gentrification in London. Lurking in the margins of our young and naïve hero’s fate are the machinations of heavily backstoried adult manipulators Miss Havisham and Abel Magwitch, the convict who would be hero. At the core is Pip’s unquenchable love for the pale, lovely, and emotionally cool Estella (Holliday Grainger), whose affections may or may not be won in the purposefully vague finale here. Alas, the plots thicken, and sweeten, and thicken some more. In this film, some of the more pleasurable parts are on the supportive sidelines, principally in the form of Hel-

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ena Bonham Carter, brandishing her deliciously sinister side as Miss Havisham, and Ralph Fiennes as believably scraggly and noble Magwitch. With their raggedy and game character-actor powers, Carter and Fiennes gruﬄy outshine the solid but young leads in a story where the starkly contrasting milieus of social stations, morals, and manners play critical roles. For all its worthy and working strategies, though, things fall short in the latest Great Expectations, and expectations are short-sold. Locations and production values are true to the period, but the musical score is all distracting modern movie lip gloss, amid other compromising factors. This BBC-funded ﬁlm too often feels like its dramatic dimensions narrow down to the cozy and glossy qualities of BBC television miniseries, packed into a too-small and too-smug box. ■

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 BRO-DOWN: Thor: The Dark World stars Chris Hemsworth (left) and Tom Hiddleston as siblings/nemeses Thor and Loki opposite Natalie Portman as the hammer-wielding hunk’s mortal honey. What you can’t deny about this cornball feast is that it spans time and space without a lot of cosmic lingering. Walking out of the theater, you’ll be shocked to realize the epic took a mere two hours. Of course, in a pitched battle like this you can’t rule out even the most insignificant players, so keep your eyes fixed on the seemingly crazy. And don’t walk out of said theater too fast either; the credits offer two stingers, one points the way toward a new comic franchise, another includes an escaped space monster. Sure, it may be junk food, but the ■ portions are enormous!

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ew Thor director Alan Taylor made his bones creating truly great television like The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones. And based on this venture, he clearly knows how to turn a big unwieldy film around fast, from funny to tragic and back again; he’s light on his superhero feet. Like The Avengers, titanic reversals seem to be the new way to make a tentpole Marvel movie feel like the splashy pulp art of a comic book. (Computer graphics and auteur directors don’t work — remember the Hulk films?) When the master of slurpy expostulation Kenneth Branagh directed the first Thor installment, he turned most people off with his speechifying immortals echoing in the halls of Asgard. It was a mythic-scale warrior world somehow made boring, even though it was ruled by Anthony Hopkins and Rene Russo. If anything, this sequel wallows deeper in sci-fi fantasy realms, yet the net effect is kind of awesome. The whole thing is presented on an immense scale, but there are still neat and unexpected turns, begot mostly by evil bro Loki (played with consummate smarmy grace by Tom Hiddleston). Somewhere on a darkling plane ruled by darkling elves, Thor (the hunky Chris Hemsworth) and Loki hack away at each other brutally and then … surprise! Good people do die in this film, but resurrections happen, too, this being fanboy fantasy.

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Screening of Bidder 70, the inspiring story of a climate activist Plus Joan Gregory, Environmental Ministry Leader, First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, speaking via Skype Friday, November 15, 8–10 p.m. Faulkner Gallery Santa Barbara Public Library 40 E. Anapamu St. “At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow.” –Excerpt from climate activist Tim DeChristopher’s statement to the judge at time of sentencing

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FIRST LOOKS Great Expectations (128 mins.; PG-13: some violence, including disturbing images) Reviewed on page 55. Plaza de Oro Thor: The Dark World (112 mins.; PG-13: sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, some suggestive content)

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Houseless (69 mins.; NR: sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, some suggestive content)

Houseless presents us with a view from Isla Vista’s Anisq’Oyo Park and a documentary look at a half-dozen men — mostly in late middle age — who, the filmmakers report, have drifted into semi-permanent residence under the stars and the influence there. Most prominently, as anyone from Isla Vista can tell you ought to be the case, is Pirate, whose real name is Raymond Lucero, widely reported to have died over the summer, though there has been no official recording of the fact. Sometimes naïve documentaries cut in several directions at once. Houseless is a good example of a film that manages to patronize its topic while making the documentarians and the students pictured seem heartless. In one scene, a group of young men taunt Pirate in the cruelest fashion while he appears to be performing a drunken shtick. Other correspondents seem just callous; a young Bible thumper, some female passersby, and a foot-patrol officer offer nothing more noble than condescending words. One Isla Vista collective feeds the men fruit salad, which seems nice. To be fair, some interviewing takes place, and the stories ought to move audiences, but the connection between the student population and the homeless does not seem as enlightened as the film wants us to believe at first. Some of it seems awful and intrusive. In one scene, a homeless man is filmed having a heart attack. The interviewers clearly call for an ambulance, but he’s photographed clutching his chest alone on the ground. The poor, the Bible unpityingly says, we will always have with us. This film seems to add to that notion, for our edification. (DJP) Thu., Nov. 14, 5pm, Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar

PREMIERES The Best Man Holiday (129 mins.; R: language, sexual content, brief nudity)

Fifteen college friends reunite over the holidays and quickly come to ﬁnd that

past relationships, good and bad, are not easily forgotten. Fiesta 5 Dallas Buyers Club (117 mins.; R: pervasive language, some strong sexual content, nudity, drug use)

Matthew McConaughey plays a hardand fast-living electrician living in Dallas in the 1980s who is diagnosed with HIV. Paseo Nuevo

Delivery Man (103 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, sexual content, some drug material, brief violence, language)

An aﬀable loser discovers that he’s fathered over 500 children through anonymous sperm donations. He then must decide whether or not to come forward when a group of his kids ﬁles a lawsuit to reveal his identity. Paseo Nuevo (opens Thu., Nov. 21)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (146 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation, language)

Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) are named targets of the Capitol after their victory at the 74th Hunger Games incites a rebellion. Arlington/Camino Real/Metro 4 (opens Thu., Nov. 21)

SCREENINGS A Clockwork Orange (136 mins.; R: graphic violence, rape, sexual abuse)

Stanley Kubrick’s classic sci-ﬁ drama takes place in future Britain, where a charismatic criminal (Malcolm McDowell) signs up for experimental aversion therapy that the government hopes will rid the country of its crime problem. Actor Malcolm McDowell will be present for a postscreening Q&A. Tue., Nov. 19, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater

Girl Rising (101 mins.; PG-13: thematic material including disturbing images)

This documentary follows nine girls from around the world as they struggle to earn an education. Sat., Nov. 16, 7pm, Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Wy.

The Hunger Games (142 mins.; PG-13: intense violent thematic material and disturbing images, all involving teens)

Set in a future world where the ruling powers send 24 teens to ﬁght to the death, a young woman volunteers to take her sister’s place in the battle. Suzanne Collins’s brilliant novel clearly indicts government that fosters economic injustice with media controls. Unfortunately, the movie version is a somewhat less complex moral mirror. (DJP) Thu., Nov. 21, 5pm, Camino Real

Medium Cool (111 mins.; R: nudity, sexuality, language, violence)

A cameraman gets dragged into the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Writer/ director Haskell Wexler will appear postscreening for a Q&A. Thu., Nov. 21, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater

mance of Chiwetel Ejiofor. (JW) Paseo Nuevo/Riviera

About Time (123 mins.; R: language, some sexual content)

A 21-year-old man discovers he can timetravel and change the outcome of his life. His ﬁrst move: to get a girlfriend. Fairview/Paseo Nuevo

Mountainfilm in Telluride Tour

✯ All Is Lost (106 mins.; PG-13: brief strong

(120 mins.; NR)

Watch a curated collection of 14 short ﬁlms, animations, and digital media from this year’s Mountainﬁlm Festival in Telluride, Colorado. (See more on p. 45.) Wed., Nov. 20, 7:30pm, UCSB’s Campbell Hall

Seven Chances (56 mins.; NR) Buster Keaton directs and stars in this 1925 comedy about a man who learns he’ll inherit a fortune, as long as he gets married by nightfall. Sun., Nov. 17, 2pm, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St.

✯ The Spectacular Now (95 mins.; R: alcohol use, language, some sexuality, all involving teens)

A party-boy high schooler has a change of heart — and lifestyle — when he meets an atypical “nice girl.” It’s not necessarily a profound ﬁlm, or even a very unusual take on the high-school-romance coming-ofage melodrama, but it is exquisitely executed — and that counts for a lot. (DJP) Fri. and Mon., Nov. 15 and 18, 7pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte

Still Mine (102 mins.; PG-13: some thematic elements, brief sensuality, partial nudity)

An older couple battle against authorities in rural New Brunswick over plans to build their ﬁnal home. Sun., Nov. 17, 4:30pm, Ojai Playhouse, 145 E. Ojai Ave.

✯ The Way Way Back (103 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, language, some sexual content, brief drug material)

Fourteen-year-old Duncan befriends the manager of a water park during a particularly troublesome summer break. This refreshingly smart and subtle number is blissfully oﬀ to the left of the summer-ﬁlm formula, with its blend of coming-of-age angles, family dysfunction, and emotional/ existential riptides. (JW) Fri. and Mon., Nov 15. and 18, 10pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte

We Are What We Are (105 mins.; R: disturbing violence, bloody images, some sexuality, nudity, language)

A reclusive family is forced out of hiding when a nasty storm heads into their neck of the woods. Screens as part of SBIFF’s Showcase Film Series. Wed., Nov. 20, 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro

Who Killed Vincent Chin? (87 mins.; NR)

language)

A sailor’s ship collides with a shipping container, forcing him to ﬁght for his life in the open ocean. Robert Redford stars. Redford handles every obstacle ﬂung his way with a quiet and steady competence that feels more heroic than anything we’ve seen Marvel’s The Avengers do to date. (KS) Metro 4

✯ Blue Is the Warmest Color (179 mins.; NC-17: explicit sexual content)

Adèle’s life is changed when she meets a blue-haired young woman who teaches her to assert herself and understand desire. In the end, what makes this one of the year’s best ﬁlms is its unique and personalized spin on the ageless challenge of a convincing love story, whatever the gender particulars or polarities. (JW) Plaza de Oro

✯ Captain Phillips (134 mins.; PG-13: sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images, substance use)

Tom Hanks stars as real-life ship captain Richard Phillips, who was manning the U.S.-ﬂagged MV Maersk Alabama when it was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. Hanks summons up a kind of modest mastery here, armed with believability and vulnerability in the lead role of the captain in crisis. (JW) Camino Real/Metro 4

✯ Ender’s Game (114 mins.; PG-13: some violence, sci-fi action, thematic material)

The International Military trains a young soldier to lead Earth’s army in a battle against aliens. This big-screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s famed novel has a wonderfully complicated plot, and it makes you think. It just doesn’t leave you feeling comforted about our future. (DJP) Camino Real/Metro 4

Free Birds (91 mins.; PG: some action/peril, rude humor)

Two turkeys from diﬀerent neighborhoods travel back in time to try and get their species oﬀ America’s holiday menu. Fairview (2-D)/Fiesta 5 (2-D and 3-D)

✯ Gravity (90 mins.; PG-13: intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images, brief strong language) A medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) and an astronaut (George Clooney) struggle to survive after an accident leaves them ﬂoating in space. Gravity is a beautifully realized, spare, yet genuinely spacious ﬁlm, teeming with references to modern science and modern existential angst. (JW) Camino Real (2- D and 3-D)/Fiesta 5 (3-D)

This 1987 documentary recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer who was mistakenly identiﬁed as Japanese and slain by a co-worker who blamed him for the competitive nature of the Japanese auto industry. Wed., Nov. 20, 6pm, UCSB’s MultiCultural Center

NOW SHOWING ✯ 12 Years a Slave (134 mins.; R: violence/ cruelty, some nudity, brief sexuality)

Set in antebellum America, a free black man from New York is abducted and sold into slavery. This ﬁlm is a coolly and beautifully crafted piece of work, given a special intensity through the lead perfor-

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (92 mins.; R: strong crude and sexual content throughout, language, some graphic nudity, brief drug use)

An 86-year-old man journeys across the United States with his 8-year-old grandson. Camino Real/Fiesta Five Last Vegas (105 mins.; PG-13: sexual content, language)

Three sixty-somethings travel to Vegas to throw their last remaining single friend a bachelor party. Playing only in the ﬁeld of safe assumptions, this septuagenarian pub crawl hedges all its bets by never going near anything terrifying or outrageous. (DJP) Fairview/Fiesta 5 november 14, 2013

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LIBRA

(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): There’s something resembling a big red snake slithering around in your mind these days. I don’t mean that literally, of course. I’m talking about a big red imaginary snake. But it’s still quite potent. While it’s not poisonous, neither is it a pure embodiment of sweetness and light. Whether it ends up having a disorienting or benevolent inﬂuence on your life all depends on how you handle your relationship with it. I suggest you treat it with respect but also let it know that you’re the boss. Give it guidelines and a clear mandate so that it serves your noble ambitions and not your chaotic desires. If you do that, your big red snake will heal and uplift you.

can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life,” he added. The coming days are likely to bring you none of the former kind of experiences and several of the latter, Cancerian. It’s a numinous time in your long-term cycle: a phase when you’re likely to encounter beauty that enchants you and mysteries that titillate your sense of wonder for a long time. In other words, the eternal is coming to visit you in very concrete ways. How do you like your epiphanies? Hot and wild? Cool and soaring? Comical and lyrical? Hot and soaring and comical and wild and cool and lyrical?

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): You’re not being swept along in a ﬂood of meaningless distractions and irrelevant information and trivial wishes, right? I’m hoping that you have a sixth sense about which few stimuli are useful and meaningful to you, and which thousands of stimuli are not. But if you are experiencing a bit of trouble staying well-grounded in the midst of the frenzied babble, now would be a good time to take strenuous action. The universe will conspire to help you become extra stable and secure if you resolve to eliminate as much nonsense from your life as you can.

ward, American author Edward Bellamy wrote a passage that I suspect applies to you right now: “It is under what may be called unnatural, in the sense of extraordinary, circumstances that people behave most naturally, for the reason that such circumstances banish artiﬁciality.” Think of the relief and release that await you, Capricorn: an end to pretending, a dissolution of deception, the fall of fakery. As you weave your way through extraordinary circumstances, you will be moved to act with brave authenticity. Take full advantage.

TAURUS

LEO

SCORPIO

(July 23 - Aug. 22): There’s a new genre of erotic literature: dinosaur porn. E-books like In the Velociraptor’s Nest and Ravished by the Triceratops tell tall tales about encounters between people and prehistoric reptiles. I don’t recommend you read this stuﬀ, though. While I do believe that now is a good time to add new twists to your sexual repertoire and explore the frontiers of pleasure, I think you should remain rooted in the real world, even in your fantasy life. It’s also important to be safe as you experiment. You really don’t want to explore the frontiers of pleasure with cold-blooded beasts. Either travel alone or else round up a warm-blooded compassion specialist who has a few skills in the arts of intimacy.

(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): Sweetness is good. Sweetness is desirable. To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis. But you can’t ﬂourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be oppressive or numbing. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically: To be balanced you need all of the other tastes, including saltiness, sourness, bitterness, and savoriness. From what I understand, you are headed into a phase when you’ll thrive on more bitterness and savoriness than usual. To get an idea of what I mean, meditate on what the emotional equivalents might be for bitter tastes like coﬀee, beer, and olives, and for savory tastes like mushrooms, cheese, spinach, and green tea.

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): “I have your back” is an American expression that could also be rendered as “I’m right behind you, ready to help and defend you” or “I’m ready to support you whenever you’ve got a problem.” Is there anyone in the world who feels that way about you? If not, now would be an excellent time to work on getting such an ally. Cosmic conditions are ripe for bringing greater levels of assistance and collaboration into your life. And if you already do have confederates of that caliber, I suggest you take this opportunity to deepen your symbiotic connection even further.

VIRGO

SAGITTARIUS

(Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): The saxifrage is a small plant with white ﬂowers. It grows best in subarctic regions and cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The word “saxifrage” is derived from the Latin word saxifraga, whose literal meaning is “stone-breaker.” Indeed, the plant does often appear in the clefts of stones and boulders. In his poem “A Sort of a Song,” William Carlos Williams celebrates its strength: “Saxifrage is my ﬂower that splits the rocks.” I nominate this darling little dynamo to be your metaphorical power object of the week, Virgo. May it inspire you to crack through blocks and barriers with subtle force.

(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): When you procrastinate, you avoid doing an important task. Instead, you goof oﬀ, doing something fun or simply puttering around wasting time. But what if there were a higher form of procrastination? What if you could avoid an important task by doing other tasks that were somewhat less important but still quite valuable? Here’s what that might look like for you right now: You could postpone your search for the key to everything by throwing yourself into a project that will give you the key to one small part of everything.

(Apr. 20 - May 20): In my astrological opinion, almost nothing can keep you from getting the love you need in the coming days. Here’s the only potential problem: You might have a mistaken or incomplete understanding about the love you need, and that could interfere with you recognizing and welcoming the real thing. So here’s my prescription: Keep an open mind about the true nature of the love that you actually need most, and stay alert for the perhaps unexpected ways it might make itself available.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind,” asserts novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Your assignment, Gemini, is to work your ass oﬀ to fall out of love with your pain. As if you were talking to a child, explain to your subconscious mind that the suﬀering it has gotten so accustomed to has outlived its usefulness. Tell your deep self that you no longer want the ancient ache to be a cornerstone of your identity. To aid the banishment, I recommend that you conduct a ritual of severing. Tie one side of a ribbon to a symbol of your pain and tie the other side around your waist. Then cut the ribbon in half and bury the symbol in the dirt.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22): “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again,” said painter Joan Miró.“You

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): In his utopian novel Looking Back-

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PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): Over a hundred countries around the world celebrate a holiday called Independence Day, memorializing a time when they broke away from another nation and formed a separate state. I encourage you to create your own personal version of this festival. It could commemorate a breakthrough moment in the past when you escaped an oppressive situation, a turning point when you achieved a higher level of autonomy, or a taboo-busting transition when you started expressing your own thoughts and making your own decisions with more authority. By the way, a fresh opportunity to take this kind of action is available to you. Any day now might be a good time to declare a new Independence Day. Homework: At what moment in your life were you closest to being perfectly content? Re-create the conditions that prevailed then. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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OPAL RESTAURANT & Bar 1325 State St. 966‑9676 $$.Open M‑S 11:‑ 30a & 7 nights 5p. V MC AE Local’s Favorite, Eclectic California Cuisine fuses creative influences from around the world with American Regional touches: Chile‑ Crusted Filet Mignon to Pan‑ Seared Fresh Fish & Seafood, Homemade Pastas, Gourmet Pizzas, Fresh baked Breads, Deliciously Imaginative Salads & Homemade Desserts. OPAL radiates a friendly, warm atmosphere graced by our fun efficient Service, Full bar, Martinis, Wine Spectator award‑winning wine list, private room. Lunches are afford‑ able and equally delicious.

PETIT VALENTIEN, 1114 STATE ST. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open M‑F 11:30‑ 3pm (lunch). M‑Sat 5pm‑Close (dinner). Sun $24 four course prefix dinner. In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Dixon presents classic French comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restaurant. Petit Valentien offers a wide array of meat and seafood entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list specializing in amazing quality at arguably the best price in town. A warm romantic atmosphere makes the perfect date spot. Comfortable locale for dinner parties, or even just a relaxing glass of wine. Reservations are recommended.

PIERRE LAFOND Wine Bistro 516 State Street 962‑1455 $$ Open Every Day M‑F 11a‑9p Sat/ Sun 9a‑ 10p Brunch Sat/Sun 9a‑3p Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. A local favorite since 1993. California cui‑ sine showcasing the best local prod‑ ucts. Steamed Mussels, Flatbreads, Grilled Duck Breast, Vegetarian dishes, Sherry Wine cake, Wines from around the world. Happy Hour Mon‑Sat 4:30‑6:30. Sidewalk patio. www.pierrelafond.com

Chinese American BEACHBREAK CAFE, 324 State St, 962‑2889. $ Open 7a‑2:30p 7 days a week. Covered outdoor patio on State. Great Breakfast & Lunch.

Bistro/Cafe JACK’S BISTRO & “FAMOUS BAGELS” 53 South Milpas (In Trader Joe’s Plaza) 564‑4331; 5050 Carpinteria Ave, Carpinteria 566‑1558. $ Extensive menu, beer & wine, on site catering ‑ Call Justen Alfama 805‑566‑1558 x4 Voted BEST BAGELS 16 years in a row! www.bagelnet.com

Cajun/Creole THE PALACE Grill, 8 E. Cota St., 963‑ 5000. $$$. Open 7 days, Lunch 11:30a‑ 3p, Dinner 5:30p, V MC AE. Contemporary American grill w/ a lively, high‑energy atmosphere & fun, spon‑ taneous events. Featuring fine grilled steaks, fresh seafood, delicious pastas, select American Regional specialties, like Blackened Crawfish‑ stuffed Filet Mignon, Louisiana Bread Pudding Souffle. Cajun Martinis, unique beers & well selected wine list. Lunch starts early enough for a late breakfast & ends late enough for an early supper. Voted “Best Team Service” since 1988. Rave reviews in Gourmet Magazine, Gault‑Millau Travel Guide, Zagat & Sunset Magazine.

YEN CHING 2840 De La Vina St. 682‑ 7191 7 days/wk M‑Sun 11a‑9p, ALL YOU CAN EAT Buffet: Lunch M‑F 11‑2 Sat & Sun Lunch 11‑2:30, Dinner Buffet 5:10‑8:30 incl all you can eat steak, shrimp & crab legs‑ Discounts for kids. Owner /Chef Joe Tzeng‑ Master Chef 25+yrs serving traditional Mandarin & Szechuan delicacies. All day take out‑ FREE delivery after 5pm

Coffee Houses SB COFFEE Roasting Company 321 Motor Way SB 962‑5213– NOW WITH FREE WI‑FI! Santa Barbara’s premiere coffee roasting company since 1989. Come in for the freshest most deli‑ cious cup of coffee ever and watch us roast the best coffee in town at our historic Old Town location ‑ Corner of State & Gutierrez. Gift baskets, mail order & corporate gifts avail. sbcoffee.com.

Ethiopian AUTHENTIC ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Featured at Petit Valentien Restaurant 1114 State St. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open Sat‑Sun Lunch ONLY 11am‑2:30pm. Serkaddis Alemu offers in ever chang‑ ing menu with choices of vegitarian, vegan, and meat options. Catering Avaliable for parties of up to 40 people.

RENAUD’S PATISSERIE & Bistro, 3315 State St. in Loreto Plaza, 569‑2400 & 1324 State St. Ste N 892‑2800 $$ M ‑ Sat 7‑ 5, Sun 7‑3 & M‑Sun 7‑ 3 Wide selection of wholesome French pastries. Breakfast & lunch menu is composed of egg dishes, sandwiches & salads repre‑ senting Renaud’s favorites. Our Brewed coffees & teas are proudly 100% Organic.

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Irish DARGAN’S IRISH Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. (next to lot 10) SB, 568‑0702. $$. Open 7 days 11:30a‑ Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC V Disc. Authentic Irish food & atmosphere in downtown SB. Specialties from Ireland include Seafood & Meat dishes. Informal, relaxed pub‑style atmosphere. Live music Thursday nights. Children welcome. Avail. for private parties. Pool & Darts.

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KYOTO, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$. Open 7days M‑F 11:30a‑2p; Sat Noon‑ 2:30p Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Dinner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, original Japanese appetiz‑ ers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s only TATAMI Rooms reservations sug‑ gested. Beer, Wine & Sake.Take Out. Birthday customers get FREE tempura ice cream & photo on our website! KyotoSB.com

NATURAL CAFE, 508 State St., 5 blocks from beach. 962‑9494 Goleta‑ 5892 Hollister 692‑2363. 361 Hitchcock Way 563‑1163 $. Open for lunch & din‑ ner 7 days. A local favorite for dinner. Voted “Best Lunch in Santa Barbara” “Best Health Food Restaurant” “Best Veggie Burger” “Best Sidewalk Cafe Patio” “Best Fish Taco” all in the Independent Reader’s Poll. Daily Specials, Char‑Broiled Chicken, Fresh Fish, Homemade Soups, Hearty Salads, Healthy Sandwiches, Juice Bar, Microbrews, Local Wines, and the Best Patio on State St. 9 loca‑ tions serving the Central Coast. www.thenaturalcafe.com SOJOURNER CAFÉ, 134 E. Canon Perdido 965‑7922. Open 11‑11 Th‑Sat; 11a‑10:30p Sun‑Wed. SB’s natural foods landmark since 1978 Daily soups & chef’s specials, hearty stews, fresh local fish, organic chicken dishes,salads & sandwiches & award winning dessert . Espresso bar, beer, wine, smoothies, shakes & fresh juices sojournercafe.com

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Mexican PALAPA 4123 State St. 683‑3074 $$ BREAKFAST 7am daily. Big Breakfast burritos, machaca, chorizo & eggs, chiliquiles, Organic mexican cof‑ fee & Fresh squeezed OJ, pancakes, omelets & lunch specials. Fresh sea‑ food dinners.

HOLDREN’S 512 State St. 965‑3363 Lunch & Dinner Daily. Featuring $20 Prime Rib Wednesdays‑ USDA 12 oz Prime MidWestern corn‑fed beef char‑ broiled over mesquite; or try from our selections of the freshest seafood. We offer extensive wine & martini lists & look forward to making your dining experience superb! Reservations avail.

RODNEY’S Grill, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at The Fess Parker – A Doubletree by Hilton Resort 805‑564‑ 4333. Serving 5pm – 10pm Tuesday through Saturday. Rodney’s Grill Menu is Fresh and New. Featuring all natural hormone‑free beef and fresh seafood, appetizers, and incredible desserts. The place to enjoy dinner with family and friends by the beach. Private Dining Room for 30. Full cock‑ tail bar with specialty cocktails. Wine cellar with Santa Barbara County & California best vintages by‑the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com

Thai BANGKOK PALACE 2829 De la Vina St. 687‑1828 $$ Open M‑F 11a‑9p Sat 5‑9p Fine Thai Cuisine in an intimate authentic setting. $15min.+ $3 fee for deliveries. Beer/Wine/Sake.AX/Disc/ VC/ MC.WI‑FI www.BangkokPalace.co YOUR PLACE Restaurant, 22 N. Milpas St., 966‑5151, 965‑9397. $$. Open Mon 4‑9:45pm Tues‑Thurs & Sun 11:30a‑9:45p, Fri/Sat 11:30a‑10:30p. V MC AE. Your Place ‑ The One & Only. Voted “BEST THAI FOOD” for 26 years by Independent and The Weekly read‑ ers, making us a Living Legend! Lunch & dinner specials daily. Fresh sea‑ food & tasty vegetarian dishes. Santa Barbara Restaurant Guide selected us as the Best Thai Restaurant for excep‑ tional dining reflected by food quality, service & ambiance.

WINE GUIDE Save The Date Our 27th Annual

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Beer of the Week To Øl Black Maria Ale This take on the American black IPA craze is crafted by “gypsy” brewers in Copenhagen, Denmark, where they borrow the equipment of existing beer factories to focus on special and small bottlings. Not quite as overly malted as the New World versions, the 750 ml Black Maria is chocolate‑laced and grapefruit‑tinged with very present yeastiness and pronounced hoppiness, offering an intense, bitter, and wholly unique ale experience. Available at Bin 2860 in Los Olivos. See bin2860.com and to-ol.dk.

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RENEGADE WINES: 417 Santa Barbara St. Ste A‑6, 805‑568‑1961. Tues‑Fri 11a‑6p, Sat. 12‑6p. Sun‑Mon by appointment. SB’s oldest wine shop, over 23 years same location. We are Santa Barbara’s premier wine retailer, offering a wide variety of local and imported wines. Our diverse assortment of wine comes from the world’s finest vineyards with prices starting around

$9. View our full inventory @ www.renegadewines.com. We store your wine. 3000sq feet of temp. controlled wine lockers; 8 case lockers‑300 case rooms. Off‑street parking. 2 blocks from State St. (2nd driveway @ 126 E. Haley) Monthly tastings & pri‑ vate tastings available. We ship wine. Keep in touch: Facebook, Google+, Twitter

Wineries/Tasting Rooms BABCOCK WINERY & VINEYARDS. 5175 HWY 246 Sta. Rita Hills. 805‑736‑ 1455 Open 10:30‑5 p.m. daily. For 30 years Bryan Babcock has been honing his craft. Venture into beautiful wine country and savor his extraordinary collection of highly expressive single‑vine‑ yard Pinot Noirs rarely offered outside of the winery. Sample highly acclaimed Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. Cabernet and Syrah sourced from warmer SB Co. locales are volup‑ tuous. Taste wine and shop for eclectic gifts in a newly renovat‑ ed, vintage inspired atmosphere. www.babcockwinery.com

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The Restaurant Guy by JOHN DICKSON

KA-CHING: Julienne secured $10,000 for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County by winning a national contest sponsored by the James Beard Foundation.

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he James Beard Foundation put up $10,000 as prize money for its Taste America Challenge, which ran September 1 - October 31. Participating restaurants throughout the country were asked to come up with a dish that best reflects their local food scene as well as select a local charity to compete for. Restaurant Julienne ( E. Canon Perdido St.) represented Santa Barbara and won first place, securing $10,000 for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. Run entirely through Instagram, this contest asked diners to “vote” by dining at participating restaurants, taking pictures of their meals and uploading them with the hash tag #JBFTasteAmerica followed by a hash tag of their city. At the end of the two months, the city with the most uploads and hash tags wins. Julienne was Santa Barbara’s only participating restaurant and held a second-place spot on the vote sheet for most of the eight weeks, trailing only Chicago (which had 11 restaurants competing for #Chicago). At times, Julienne trailed by as little as seven votes and at other times by as many as 32 votes. With three days to go in the competition, Julienne needed 15 votes to overtake Chicago. They got 40 and finished in first place, securing a $10,000 donation for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. One dollar from every bouillabaisse sold during this competition was also donated to the James Beard Foundation to fund their educational programs. “When the competition first started, we didn’t think that there was any chance we would be able to compete with the restaurants in the big-city markets,” says Chef Justin West. “We only have 40 seats, and Santa Barbara doesn’t have the diner volume that a big city has. There were nights that we only served five bouillabaisses. We just made sure we got them all to vote. That was the goal every night … get a vote from every bouillabaisse that goes out.”

PALOMA OPENS IN GOLETA: Rudy’s Restaurant at  Calle Real, Goleta, has completed the transformation to Paloma Restaurant and Tequila Bar. Rudy Alvaro, owner of Rudy’s, is also the owner of Paloma. The eatery has a new chef, a new menu serving authentic Mexican cuisine, and a new, large front dining patio. Paloma oﬀers sit-down table service in the evenings

and walk-up ordering during the lunch hour. For more information, call 681-0766 or visit palomagoleta.com.

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ter Avenue in Goleta and The French Table at  East Anapamu Street recently changed ownership. I am told that Cal Taco was purchased by the liquor store next door. Thanks to readers Joe, Michelle, and Anonymous for the tips.

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MESA VERDE UPDATE: Reader Dustin stopped

by Mesa Verde, a new café coming to  Cliﬀ Drive (formerly Cliﬀ ’s & Co). He spoke with a contractor and was told that the new eatery will be a vegan restaurant.

GOLDEN TICKET: Arch Rock Fish restaurant at 

Anacapa Street has started a new promotion. Several lucky recipients each week will ﬁnd a golden ticket tucked inside the napkin at their place setting. This golden ticket is redeemable for two free entrees and is valued at up to $100.

SAVOR SANTA BARBARA: A new service called

Savor Santa Barbara Food Tours is oﬀering a two-mile, 3½-hour walking adventure while tasting food, beer, and wine and also exploring some of the area architecture, history, and sights of Santa Barbara. All food and drink tastings, enough for lunch, are included in the ticket price of $79. For more information, call (800) 979-3370 or visit savorsantabarbarafoodtours.com.

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CHUCK’S CROWNED CHOWDER CHAMP:

Chuck’s Waterfront Grill took home top honors at the th Annual Santa Barbara Chowder Fest held at the Montecito Country Club. Competing against 17 other restaurants in a blind tasting, Chuck’s received a unanimous vote of confidence from the three judges: Chef Michael Hutchings, Chef Jamie West, and George Yatchisin. Winners of the Clam Chowder Category are as follows: first place, Chuck’s Waterfront Grill; second place, Museum Café; and third place, Three Pickles. Lazy Acres is the first-place winner in the Creative Category, followed by Montecito Country Club, and in third place, Hungry Cat. La Cumbre Country Club won the People’s Choice award.

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com. Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com.

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Legals ABC Permit NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of filing application: Oct 12 2013. To Whom it May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: BALLEE LLC The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 38 W Victoria St Ste 109 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the following type of License: 41‑ ON‑SALE BEER AND WINE‑EATING PLACE and Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 1000 South Hill Road Ste 310 Ventura, CA 93003. (805) 289‑0100. Published. Oct 31. Nov 7, 14 2013.

FBN Abandonment STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Informaco at 316 Stevens Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Oct 25, 2010. in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2010‑0003238. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Donald J Cobb 316 Stevens Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 16, 2013 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. Published Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Hostel Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Tourist Hostel, Santa Barbara Tourist Hostel Hotel, SB Tourist Hotel at 134 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Oct 24, 2013. in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0001849. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Lo‑Cost Lodging, Inc. (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2013 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. Published Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Art & Soul of Santa Barbara at 1221 State Street #7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Mar 14, 2013. in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑ 0000839. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Krista Jean Willhite 4136 Via Andorra #B Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2013 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. Published Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2 013.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gordon And Grant Hot Tubs And Spas at 628 East Haley Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gordon And Grant Redwood Tanks, Inc. 423 North Quarantina Street Santa Barbara, 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gary Gordon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luperello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002974. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wonderful Wine Co at 35 Industrial Way Buellton, CA 93427; BWSC, LLC 795 Folsom Street, 1st Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Partnership Signed: Alexander Oxman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002887. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 Cellular 1434 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ashley’s Money Services Inc 1434 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Edgar E. Hernandez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003412. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Ashley’s Dollar & Up at 216 N. Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Ashley’s Money Services Inc 1434 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Edgar E. Hernandez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003414. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blue Moon Creations at 820 W Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; LeeAnn Sarah Mooney (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: LeeAnn S Mooney This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003374. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: East of Eden Supply, Goodland Supply, EOE Supply, Good Land Supply at 7396 Freeman Pl. #B Goleta, CA 93117; Save Our Skin, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Caren Paulson, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003164. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Van Wickle Chiropractic at 306 East Cota Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jacob Van Wickle 6176 Stow Canyon Road Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jacob Van Wickle This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003406. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Oldtown Cellular at 5730 Hollister Ave. #6 Goleta, CA 93117; Ashley’s Money Services Inc 1434 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Edgar E. Hernandez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003413. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cliff Room Cocktails at 1828 Cliff Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Milhouse Productions, LLC 114 E. Haley St. Suite O Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: John Bennett, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 15, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003151. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Your Best Self Consulting at 1515 Lingate Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Jennifer Elizabeth Stierwalt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer E. Stierwalt This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003244. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: El Patio Gardens Senior Section at 4011 Via Lucero Santa Barbara, CA 93110; William L Wagner Sr 1026‑D Senda Verde Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: William L. Wagner Sr This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 08, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑0003422. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Bike Peddler at 442 Ellwood Beach Drive #13 Goleta, CA 93117; Layton Paul Reneer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Layton Reneer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003179. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Montecito Photo & Design at 841 Chelham Way Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Heidi Bergseteren (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Heidi Bergseteren This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 08, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003421. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes to Protect the Vandenberg monkeyflower as Endangered and Designate Critical Habitat On October 29, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to protect the Vandenberg monkeyflower as endangered and a proposal to designate approximately 5,785 acres of critical habitat for the species under the Endangered Species Act. The Vandenberg monkeyflower is a small annual herb with one to several yellow flowers on purple-tinted stems. The plant is only known to occur at nine locations on Burton Mesa, a distinct geographic region located in western Santa Barbara County. Of the approximately 5,785 acres proposed for critical habitat that are essential to the conservation of the species, 4,674 acres are on state lands within the Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve and La Purisima Mission State Historical Park that account for 84 percent of the area proposed. The remaining areas proposed for critical habitat consist of 796 acres on private lands, 38 acres on local agency lands, and 277 acres on Federal Department of Justice lands at the Lompoc Penitentiary. The primary threat to Vandenberg monkeyflower and its habitat is the continued invasion of nonnative plant species, which are occurring within or adjacent to all locations where the species is found. Comments on the proposed rule will be accepted through December 30, 2013. Comments may be submitted electronically at the Federal eRulemaking Portal: www. regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments to Docket Numbers FWS–R8–ES–2013–0078 and FWS–R8–ES–2013–0049. Comments can also be sent by U.S. mail or hand-delivery to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: FWS–R8–ES–20130078 and FWS–R8–ES–2013–0049; Division of Policy and Directives Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS 2042-PDM, Arlington, VA 22203. Requests for a public hearing must be submitted in writing by December 13, 2013, to the Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office, 2493 Portola Road, Suite B, Ventura, CA 93003. The Service is preparing a draft economic analysis of the proposed critical habitat that will be made available for public review and comment at a later date.

For more information about Vandenberg monkeyflower, please visit the Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office’s website at http://www.fws.gov/ventura. Published Nov 14, 2013

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Custom Events For You at 1908 El Camino De La Luz Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Donya Victoriana Diamond (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Donya Diamond This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 15, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003149. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Andrea Veronica Incorporated, AVI Events at 2510 1/2 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Veronica Carson 5555 Harlod Way #305 Hollywood, CA 90028; Andrea McGee 2510 1/2 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Andrea McGee This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 15, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003153. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Frame at 901 De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Elaine Esbeck 135 Morada Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elaine M. Esbeck This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003160. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: California Hobbies at 5118 Holister Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93111 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Sep 29, 2009. in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2009‑ 0003128. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Elizabeth Ruckle 109 W. Padre St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2013 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. Published Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Nakali Esthetics at 5085 San Bernardo Place Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Natalie Taylor (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003059. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Real Time Staffing Services, Inc, Select Trucking Services, Inc, Remedy Intelligent Staffing, Inc, Westaff (USA) Inc, Remedy Temporary Services, Inc at 3820 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Koosharem LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 24, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002968. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Amora Heart For Humanity at 519 W Quarantina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Benicia Grace 5815 La Goleta Road Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Benicia Grace This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑0003010. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fresh Coat Location #91285 at 5142 Hollister St., Suite 123 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; M. J. Painters, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Justin Engelbach This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003185. Published: Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Full Spectrum Recovery & Counseling at 601 E Arrellaga Suite 102 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Leonard Van Nostrand 7420 San Bergamo Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Adult Entertainment Oct 15, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office Curious About Men? Talk Discreetly of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, with men like you! County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Try FREE! Call 1‑888‑779‑2789 www. Number: 2013‑ 0003156. Published: Oct guyspy.com (AAN CAN) 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: International Realty of Santa Barbara, Keys International Realty, Santa Barbara International Realty at 811 Romero Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Albert Louis J Keys (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Albert Louis Keys This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003212. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Star Nails at 5801 Calle Real Suite F Goleta, CA 93117; Thao Nguyen 5155 Tabano Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Thao Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003088. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Art & Soul of Santa Barbara at 1221 State St. #7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David Shane Dresbach 4136 Via Andorra #B Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Dave Dresbach This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003216. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Funk Hostel Santa Barbara Tourist Hostel, Hostel Santa Barbara, SB Hostel, Santa Barbara Hostel, SB Tourist Hostel at 134 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Funk Youth Hostel, LLC 315 W. Haley Street Suite 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jared Filippone This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑0003261. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Amy’s Edits at 7386 Calle Real #17 Goleta, CA 93117; Amy M Smith (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Amy M. Smith This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003233. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: David Thomas & Associates at 55 Hitchcock Way Suite 107 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; David Thomas & Associates 4310 Via Esperanza Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: David C. Thomas This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 15, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0003143. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Club West, Club West Track & Field, Club West’s Montecito Youth Track & Field, Montecito Youth Track & Field Club, Club West Junior High Schools Cross Country Championships, Club West Youth Track, Club West’s Santa Barbara Pole Vault Club, Santa Barbara Club, Club West Masters Track & Field, Club West Youth Track & Field, Club West’s Santa Barbara Youth Track & Field Club, Santa Barbara Youth Track & Field Club at 937 Arcady Road Montecito, CA 93108; Club West, Inc PO Box 5730 Santa Barbara, CA 93150 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Beverley E. Lewis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003275. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solutions Janitorial at 5061 San Julio Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Roxana Petty (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Roxana Petty This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003284. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tamsen Gallery at 3888 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Frank L Tobe 3463 State Street #602 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Frank L. Tobe This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003239. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Paving Stone People, Santa Barbara’s Paving Stone People at 129 Santa Ynez Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Santa Barbara’s Paving Stone People, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lorna Applefield, Secy/Treas This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003248. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Julia McHugh Public Relations at 3805 Center Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Julia Elizabeth Orlosky (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Julia Orlosky This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003083. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Milpas Chiropractic at 811 E Mason Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Luis R Diaz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Luis R Diaz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑0003273. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Tapatia #3 at 5764 Hollister Ave. Goleta, 93117; Isabel J Vela 2636 Calle Real Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Isabel J. Vela This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003234. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: California Hobbies at 5118 Hollister Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Ken Chalfant 185 Lassen Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Pauline Chalfant (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Ken Chalfant This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003204. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Unneth at 211 West Pedregosa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Geoffrey Austin Glenister (same address) Jonathan Takashi Quan (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Jonathan Quan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 21, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003206. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hardey Wankum Team at 3868 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Gordon Williams Hardey 2222 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gordon Williams Hardey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 22, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003228. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

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THE INDEPENDENt

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EXCELLENCE, INTEGRITY, COMPASSION …Our core values

JOBS TO SUPPORT

EQUAL RIGHTS Raise $$ for the nation’s top progressive organizations:

$9 – $15.00/hr. Base pay & bonuses 16-40 hrs/wk Having a positive impact on others, and feeling fulfillment in return, is a cornerstone of the

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Cottage Health System culture. As a community-based, notfor-profit provider of leading-edge healthcare for the Greater Santa

Admin/Clerical

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DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, REGIONAL GIVING

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT MANAGER

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Serves as the primary initial contact for two or more Directors of Development and provides essential administrative and financial support that is critical to the successful operation of a complex fund raising program. Reqs: Excellent grammar, composition and proofreading skills. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills. Excellent computer skills including strong proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet and e‑mail. Ability to work independently and maintain strict confidentiality. Ability to prioritize duties and work under tight and shifting deadlines. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Occasional evenings and weekends. $19.60/hr. Apply by 11/17/13 AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130500

OFFICE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY Involves collaboration, conceptualization, planning, and designing to establish and maintain an Enterprise Architecture which enables UCSB to efficiently apply technology to achieve its near‑term and long range academic and business goals. Work is based on implementing the vision and strategies of the campus and the UC system to establish IT conceptual architecture that is time independent and extensible allowing for implementation of specific technologies over time with ability to smoothly transition technology changes. Researches and prototypes emerging technologies and approaches. Works on issues that impact the success

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Barbara region, Cottage emphasizes the difference each team member can make. It’s a difference you’ll want to experience throughout your entire career. Join us in one of the openings below.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

• Security Officers • Senior Administrative Assistant • Systems Security Coordinator

Nursing

Allied Health

• Anesthesia

• Diet Specialist – Temp.

• Cardiac Cath Lab

• HIM Coder III – Remote Coder

• Cottage Residential

• Neurodiagnostic Tech II

• Emergency

• Patient Care Techs – Multiple Departments

• Med/Surg – Float Pool

• Personal Care Attendant – Villa Riviera (Temporary)

• PACU • Pulmonary, Renal

• Support Counselor

• SICU

• Surgical Technicians

• Surgery

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital

• Telemetry • Utilization Management Case Manager

• Patient Care Techs

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital • Clinical Nurse Coord. – ICU • CNA – Per Diem • RNs – Emergency, Med/Surg, ICU

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • Clinical Lab Scientists • Certified Phlebotomy Techs • Lab Assistant • Lab Supervisor – Patient Serv. • Laboratory Manager – Microbiology • Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com

• Physical Therapist – Per Diem

Management

• Recreational Therapist – Per Diem

• Environmental Services Supervisor

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital

• Manager, Purchasing

Non-Clinical

• RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT

• Patient Care Tech – ED

• Cook – Part-Time • Environmental Serv. Rep.

For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact:

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November 14, 2013

Branch Manager – Goleta

Immediate opening for an experienced Branch Manager to build and expand relationships and increase profitability by generating, evaluating and successfully closing on a wide range of consumer and business deposit and loan activities. The Branch Manager will also lead, manage, direct and motivate branch associates to maintain standards of high performance and deliver exceptional customer service. Successful candidate will have Bachelor’s degree, or commensurate banking experience. Candidate must have a minimum of four years sales and supervisory experience; along with the ability to be registered as a Mortgage Loan Originator (MLO) through the NMLS agency.

Customer Service JOBS TO Representative (Teller) – Full Time Float Position SUPPORT Immediate opening for an experienced Customer Service Representative to provide

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World Class Customer Service to customers of the Bank while supporting the staffing needs of our all our Branches. Successful candidate must be able to support any branch as needed and provide own reliable transportation. High School diploma or GED required. One year of previous teller experience, including teller cash handling and drawer balancing, is also required.

Immediate opening for an experienced Customer Service Representative to provide World Customer Service to support the Bank’s La Cumbre Branch. Successful $9 – Class $15.00/hr. candidate must have High School diploma or GED, along with a minimum of one Base pay & bonuses year previous cash handling experience in a high volume environment. In person customer service and banking experience preferred. 16-40 hrs/wk

We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back?

Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

Come join our team in providing a World Class Experience for our community, our customers, and our associates while making Montecito Bank & Trust the BEST place to work and the BEST place to bank!

Raise $$ for the nation’s top progressive organizations: Customer Service Representative (Teller) - Part Time

• RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem

Cottage Health System, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.

Montecito Bank & Trust, a premier performing, privately-owned, community bank, serving the tri-county area for more than 38 years, is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to lead and manage the Goleta Branch, as well as support the Banking Services Department and Community Banking Branches.

Excellence, Integrity, Compassion

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To fill out an online expression of interest, please visit our website at 805.564.1093 www.montecito.com/careers or call our HR Office at 805-564-0261. EOE/AA, M/F/D/V

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employment of complex enterprise projects or address future concepts, products or technologies. Reqs: Proven knowledge of technical architecture approaches, concepts and components such as SaaS (software as a service), SOA (service oriented architecture), n‑tier architectures, current and emerging frameworks, enabling middleware such as service buses, abstraction layers/ approaches, identity (authentication/ authorization) enablers as well as proven hands‑on experience implementing complex systems and leading implementation teams. Minimum BA/BS preferably in Management Information Systems, Computer Science or related field. Strong presentation skills. Note: Fingerprinting required. $81,700 ‑ $110,000/yr. For primary consideration apply by 11/26/13, thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https:// Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130527

OPERATIONAL DATA STORE ADMINISTRATOR

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE Responsible for the setup, administration and on‑going performance management of the development, test and production instances of the complex, mission critical Administrative Services Operational Data Store (ODS) databases that serve the administrative and financial needs of UCSB. Responsible for researching and recommending technology infusions which will lead Administrative Services technology and business processes into an efficient future. Reqs: Must have detailed knowledge of MS SQL Server and database engines including physical and logical database design and support, security, long range version upgrade planning, installation, configuration, backup and recovery, tuning, availability techniques, and implementation of stored procedures, triggers, and functions as necessary. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work both independently or as part of a team. Note: Fingerprinting required. $71,100 ‑ $90,000/yr. For primary consideration apply by 11/26/13, thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20130528

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Professional AIRLINE CAREERS – Become an Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA approved training. Financial aid if qualified – Housing available. Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877‑492‑3059

CAREER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Oversees the Career Development, Employer Relations, and Alumni Relations programs. Provides vision, strategic planning, direction and leadership for a program focused on the professional development of graduate students leading to careers both within and outside of academia. Conducts independent research and engages with staff and faculty to establish priorities, set goals, and develop program best practices for graduate student professional development services. Oversees budgets and resources, sets the strategic direction, and develops, trains, motivates unit staff involved. As part of the Senior Management Team provides strategic planning, direction and leadership for TMP’s graduate degree programs and assists in running the day to day operations of the graduate degree program. Reqs: Master’s degree in a technical or management field or

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equivalent combination of education and work experience. Strong supervisory and leadership skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, and previous academic program administration experience and/or related industry experience. Notes: Fingerprinting required. $75,000 ‑ $90,000/yr. Based on education and experience. For primary consideration apply by 11/19/13 thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https:// Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130513

COMMUNICATIONS/ DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

COLLEGE OF CREATIVE STUDIES Plays an integral part within a small and dedicated team, providing essential analytical and administrative support to the CCS Deans as well as the Director of Development in order to ensure the effective and accurate dissemination of information about the College. Provides assistance with fundraising operations. Conducts research and analysis of donor, prospect and gift data. Assists with planning donor and other College events. Engages in conceptualizing, planning and implementing of promotions and media relations using the web, social media, press, newsletters, events, etc. Provides administrative, financial and analytical support to the Director and Deans. Maintains departmental website, including restructuring and redesigning when necessary. Reqs: Excellent writing and editing skills, as well as strong interpersonal and communications skills. Familiarity with website management and website architecture. Previous experience with databases and data analysis. Note: Fingerprinting required. $19.60/hr. For primary consideration apply by 11/18/13, thereafter open until filled. Job #20130507

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Leads, supervises and oversees Facilities Management Information Technology (FM IT). Provides direct technical, analytical and administrative support to the Director of Administrative & Residential Information Technology (ARIT) as it relates to all FM IT activities. Serves as Project Manager for capital expenditure FM IT initiatives and oversees a wide range of activities in support of FM operations and planning for the Directors of Facilities Management (Design, Construction, and Physical Facilities). Reqs: Bachelor’s in computer science or related field and at least five years of experience in technical operations management and/ or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Experience managing an annual IT departmental budget, including personnel, project, and Supplies and Materials expenses. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. $71,100 ‑ $96,700/yr. For primary consideration apply by 11/25/13, thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https:// Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130523

Social Services PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS needed at Nuvelles Developmental Services Hollister Day Program. We seek creative, energetic applicants to work w/individuals with developmental disabilities. Duties include leading activities such as arts & crafts and games, leading community outings & providing personal care assistance. If you want a position which will make a difference in the lives of others, this is the job for you. What we offer: M‑F day shift, paid training, CPR cert., health ins. Apply in person at Novelles Developmental Services, 7300 Hollister Ave. Goleta, CA 93117. Please call 805‑ 968‑5360 for more info. Fax resumes to 805‑968‑8008.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lovin’ Oven Mediterranean Bakery & Cafe at 6578 Trigo Road, Suite # A Isla Vista, CA 93117; Kenny Nasser (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kenny Nasser This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003259. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crystal Chiropractic at 310 Pine Avenue, Suite B Goleta, 93117; Crystal Ann Galvan 464 Vereda Del Ciervo Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Dr. Crystal Galvan, DC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003306. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: R&R Motorworks at 336 S. Fairview Avenue Street #A Goleta, CA 93117; Nancy E. Gold 1037 Cambridge Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ralph Gold This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 24, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003249. Published: Oct 31. Nov 7, 14, 21 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rock Rose Provisions at 2315 Cliff Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Lucas Ryden (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lucas Ryden This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003344. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Fireline Factors Consulting at 3905 State Street #7‑160 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bradley Mayhew (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bradley Mayhew This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 31, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003327. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Twisted Twig at 2315 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jennifer Nally (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer Nally This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003298. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pretty Fetes at 235 Nogal Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Shannon Neels (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Shannon Neels This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003270. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Blue Tavern at 119 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Big Red Wagon, LLC 22035 Saddle Peak Road Topanga, CA 90290 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Sean Comer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0003308. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hgrosse Woodsmiths at 714 Gayley Walk Apt 103 Goleta, CA 93117; Hunter Grosse (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Hunter Grosse This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0003296. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simply Redesigned, Home Staging & Design at 1127 North Patterson Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Karin Ucer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Karin Ucer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 31, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003330. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dragonfly Design at 2124 Holly Lane Solvang, CA 93463; Diana Boland Burt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Diana Burt This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003318. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mizuba Tea Company at 1209 Bel Air Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Mizuba Corporation (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lauren Danson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003316. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: National Commercial Realty at 735 State Street, Suite 104 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jennifer Lynn Stokes‑Pena 380 Woodley Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer Lynn Stokes‑Pena This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 01, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003341. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Adelina Bello Cleaning at 82 Mallard Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Adelina S. Bello (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Adelina S. Bello This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0003300. Published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DMH Properties 336 North Calle Cesar Chavez Santa Barbara, CA 93103; DMH Properties Inc (Same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003363. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Watergardens, Santa Barbara Watergarden Care, Santa Barbara Watergardens at 1623 Mountain Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Dean Cornell (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Dean Cornell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003294. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Watershed Environmental, Inc. at 3324 State Street, Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Watershed Environmental, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Mark de la Garza, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003245. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Consumer Alerts, Neighborhood Alert, Sexual Predator Protection, Family Safety Alert, Protect Your Family, KLS, Sex Offender Alerts at 3905 State Street, Suite 7‑228 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Scalable Commerce, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Sven Klein, Manager This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003320. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Interiorspace at 310 East Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Bonnie Bache (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bonnie Bache This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0003403. Published: Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF NADINE GROSSO and RONALD GROSSO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1438238 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: JAYDEN MAERIE ROBINSON TO: JAYDEN MAERIE GROSSO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Dec 4, 2013 9: 30am, Dept 6, 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Oct 4, 2013. by Terri Chavez; Deputy Clerk for James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF BROOKE SHAWN COBURN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1416734 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: BROOKE SHAWN COBURN TO: BROOKE SHAWN EBNER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Dec 4, 2013 9: 30am, Dept 6, 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Oct 25, 2013. by Terri Chavez; Deputy Clerk for James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 7, 14, 21, 27 2013. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DAVID LEE FRETZ ASCH ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1438202 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: DAVID LEE FRETZ ASCH TO: DAVID LEE FRETZ THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Dec 18, 2013 9: 30am, Dept 6, 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 8, 2013. by Terri Chavez; Deputy Clerk for James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

Summons SUMMONS: (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): MOLLY C JOHNSON AKA MOLLY JOHNSON; DOES 1 to 10 Inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): DISCOVER BANK NOTICE! You have been sued.The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff a letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.There may be a court form that you can use your for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/espanol/) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. CASE NO:1418545 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Superior Court of California, Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St., 2nd Floor Santa Barbara , CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Winn Law Group, A Professional Corporation, The Chapman Building 110 E Wilshire Ave Ste 212 Fullerton, CA 92832; (714) 446‑6686; File No: 13‑ 04657‑0‑DAS‑JPG (3006‑01) la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Aug 23, 2013. Gary M. Blair, Executive Officer, By Renee Bradley, Deputy (Delegado) Published Oct 24, 31. Nov 7, 14 2013. SUMMONS: (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JOANNA NEWTON, an individual, GEORGIA PULOS, an individual, MEL SARTAIN EMERGENCY PLUMBING CO.,INC a California Corporation, CRITERION ENVIRONMENTAL, INC., a California

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Corporation, and DOES 1‑100, inclusive, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): SEINN SCHLIDT individually and Guardian Ad Litem of TILLY SCHLIDT, NICOLE BROCKING, an individual, and TILLY SCHLIDT, an individual and minor, JOANNA BARD NEWTON Cross‑Complainant, v. MEL SARTAIN EMERGENCY PLUMBING CO., INC. a California Corporation, CRITERION ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. a California Corporation, QWIKRESPONSE DISASTER CONTROL, a Business enitity, form unknown, SEINN SCHILIDT, an individual, NICOLE BROCKING, an individual DOES 1‑ 100, Cross‑Defendants CRITERION ENVIRONMENTAL, INC., a California Corporation, Cross‑Complainant, V. JOANNA B. NEWTON, an individual; GEORGIA PULOS, an individual: MEL SARTAIN EMERGENCY PLUMBING CO., INC., a California corporaton; QWIKRESPONSE DISASTER CONTROL, a business entity, form unknown; SEINN SCHLIDT, an individual and as Guardian Ad Litem of TILLY SCHLIDT; NICOLE BROCKING, an individual; and TILLY SCHLIDT, an individual and minor, and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive, Cross‑Defendants NOTICE! You have been sued.The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff a letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.There may be a court form that you can use your for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/espanol/) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. CASE NO:1417316 Ex‑Parte Hearing Date: Nov 7, 2013, Time: 8:30 a.m Dept: 3, Complaint Filed: May 29, 2013, Trial Date September 23, 2014 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Santa Barbara Superior Court 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara, CA 93121, The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Matthew Da Vega. Da Vega & Fisher 351 351 Paseo Nuevo 2nd Floor Santa Barbara CA, 93101 (805) 232‑4471 la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: May 30, 2013. Gary M. Blair, Executive Officer, By Renee Bradley, Deputy (Delegado) Published Nov 14, 21, 27. Dec 5 2013.

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