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perfect. brutally perfect. Helen Helen was was tthe he last last b rutally honest, honest, fearless fearless reporter reporter in in the the whole whole crowd. crowd. When When you you are are fearful fearful of of losing losing your your job job for for doing doing the the right right thing thing as as an an investigative investigative journalist journalist then then the the free free speech speech era era is is over over as as we we knew knew it. it.

Corporate-owned Corporate-owned media media controls controls it it all. all.

Helen Helen is is a hero hero but but she she went went up up against against wrong wrong adversary. adversary. Sixty Sixty years years of of brilliant brilliant journalism journalism should should not not be be marred marred by by a disagreeable disagreeable statement statement blown blown up up by by media media hysterics. hysterics. We We will will miss miss her her fidgeting f idgeting and and waving waving her her hand hand trying trying to to get get presidentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; presidentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attention attention while while they they look look everywhere everywhere in in the the room room but but in in her her direction. direction. She She went went out out with with style byy d daring question motives.

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packages once used best. p ackages tthey hey o nce u sed tto o llure ure tthe he b est.

In In Santa Santa Cruz, Cruz, those those efforts efforts are are made made much more pressing byy tthe tthat hat m uch m ore p ressing b he ffact act tthat hat 40 percent tthe he ccity ity ccontributes ontributes aabout bout 4 0p ercent more off tthe m ore tthan han eeach ach o he aaforementioned forementioned neighbors one nearly n eighbors ((in in o ne ccase, ase, n early ttwice wice aass much) order offer percent m uch) iin no rder tto oo ffer tthe he 3 p ercent plan.

And with aatt 550 0p lan. A nd w ith tthe he ccity ity sspending pending $6.1 million on police $ 6.1 m illion o np olice aand nd ffirefighter irefighter plans out off a rretirement etirement p lans llast ast yyear ear o ut o $73.9 million budget, $ 73.9 m illion b udget, tthat hat ttranslates ranslates $1.8 million orr sso iinto nto aan n eextra xtra $ 1.8 m illion o o tthat hat Santa Cruz pays other S anta C ruz p ays ffor or tthe he ssame ame tthing hing o ther would ccities ities ggetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a etâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a ssum um tthat hat w ould ffit it ssnugly nugly $2 million budget hole iinto nto tthe he $ 2m illion b udget h ole ccity ity plug. lleaders eaders aare re ccurrently urrently sscrambling crambling tto op lug.

City City Manager Manager Dick Dick Wilson Wilson (also (also soon soon to to but rretire, etire, b ut aatt tthe he â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;miscellaneous miscellaneous eemployeeâ&#x20AC;? mployeeâ&#x20AC;? off 2 p percent off h his off rrate ate o ercent o is ssalary alary ffor or eeach ach o his 28 model h is 2 8 yyears) ears) ssays ays tthe he m odel iiss â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;completely completely unsustainable. u nsustainable.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;For â&#x20AC;&#x153;For cities cities especially, especially, public public safety safety is is a best off ttimes, ssubstantial ubstantial ccost ost eeven ven iin n tthe he b est o imes,â&#x20AC;?

Wilson. pension ssays ays W ilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Th he p ension aand nd rretirement etirement huge part off tthat.

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Cops p in Rockers R ers Rock The T he reason reason for for the the sky-high sky-high rrates ates tthe he pays ccity ity p ays for for its its retirement retirement plans plans is is a bit bit of of mystery am ystery to to many many city city officials, officials, including including Wilson W ilson and and Mayor Mayor Mike Mike Rotkin.

Rotkin. But But aaccording ccording to to Finance Fiinance Director Director Jack Jaack Dilles, Dilles, tthe he eexplanation xplanation lies lies mostly mostly in in the the fact fact that that Santa Cruz S anta C ruz has has more more retired retired cops cops and and ffirefighters irefighters than than it it has has working working ones. ones.

Like L ike the the overwhelming overwhelming majority majority of of public p ublic employees employees in in California, California, Santa Santa Cruz Cruz workers ccity ity w orkers use use the the CalPERS CalPERS pension pension aand nd rretirement etirement program. program. Under Under the the massive m assive 1.6 1.6 million-member million-member system, system, both both eemployer mployer (e.g. (e.g. the the city city of of Santa Santa Cruz) Cruz) and and eemployee mployee (e.g. (e.g. Chief Chief Skerry) Skerry) contribute contribute a ccertain ertain percentage percentage of of the the employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ssalary alary into into the the program program over over the the course course of of personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tthe he p ersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career; career; when when that that employee employee rretires, etires, he he or or she she stops stops being being paid paid by by tthe he ccity ity or or other other public public employer employer and and sstarts tarts being being paid paid by by the the CalPERS CalPERS system. system.

CalPERS, C alPERS, in in turn, turn, analyzes analyzes what what an an aagencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retirees retirees are are costing costing the the system system and and bills b ills eeach ach employer employer accordingly. accordingly.

Santa Cruz, IIn nS anta C ruz, tthe he rrates ates tthat hat eemployees mployees pay program have been p ay iinto nto tthe he p rogram h ave be en mostly percent, m ostly sstable table aatt 9 pe ercent, tthough hough tthe he bump ffirefighters iref ighters aagreed greed ttemporarily emporarily tto ob ump

their ccontribution their ontribution rrates ates tto o 1111 pe percent rcent llast ast $123,432. yyear, ear, saving saving tthe he ccity ity $ 123,432.

The The rates Th rates that that employers employers pay pay into into the the CalPERS C alPERS system, system, however, however, are are determined determined byy a ccomplex matrix, b omplex ccost ost m atrix, not not the the lleast east how many iimportant mportant factor factor of of which which iiss h ow m any how rretired etired employees employees tthere here are are versus versus h ow many working.

Santa Cruz has m any are are still still w orking. S anta C ruz h as 88 who 1104 04 retired retired police police officers officers versus versus 8 8w ho working 655 rretired aare re still still w orking and and 6 etired ffirefighters irefighters working.

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John John Bartel, Jo Bartel, an an actuarial actuarial consultant consultant hired byy tthe h ired b he ccity ity tto o aanalyze nalyze tthe he eemployer mployer Cruz ccontribution ontribution rates rates that that Santa Santa C ruz ccan an eexpect xpect iin n tthe he ffuture, uture, says says Dilles Dilles iiss ccorrect orrect blaming part off tthe high iin nb laming a big big p art o he ccityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s h igh number off ccontribution ontribution rates rates on on iits ts llarge arge n umber o rretirees. etirees. He He aalso lso offers offers a ssimple imple rreason eason aass why many off tthem. tto ow hy tthere here are are so so m any o hem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a byproduct byproduct of of a mature mature city, city,â&#x20AC;? he he Cruz been ssays. ays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa C ruz has has b een aaround round a llong ong havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ttime ime aand nd ccity ity boundaries boundaries h avenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ggrown, rown, off tthat sso o a byproduct byproduct o hat iiss tthat hat iiff yyou ou had 90 police officers h ad 9 0p olice o fficers 330 0 years years ago ago yyou ou probably This problem p robably sstill till have have 90 90 ttoday. oday. Th his p roblem wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t llikely ikely w ouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen happen iin n a ccity ity tthat hat iiss eexpanding. xpanding.â&#x20AC;?

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retirement reform. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That,â&#x20AC;? Rotkin says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;will come later.â&#x20AC;?

When it does, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt it will be dominated by whether to include whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;two-tier systemâ&#x20AC;? for all employees, public safety and otherwise.

Under this plan, current workers would keep the retirement plans theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been promised, but new employees would begin to get skimpier offers. It would mean savings, but it would take decades to realize them, and members from labor groups like SEIU Local 521 and Association of Firefighters Local 1716 say it would devastate morale by creating two classes of employees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A two-tier system is a divide-andconquer strategy where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have two groups doing the same job, one getting lower benefits,â&#x20AC;? says Rob Oatey, president of the local firefighters union. (Full disclosure: Oatey is married to Santa Cruz Weekly graphic designer Jenny Oatey.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe there are better and more immediate steps to take.â&#x20AC;?

Wilson, nevertheless, argues in a letter to the City Council that â&#x20AC;&#x153;it would be unconscionable to leave the current (retirement) plans in placeâ&#x20AC;? and that advancing a two-tier system is imperative.

Rotkin also supports a two-tier system, though he goes one step further, saying the minimum retirement age for all employees should also be delayed by five years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently age 50 for public safety workers and 55 for all other employees.

Both options have the potential to lower the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employer contribution rates. Yet not all the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workers have the

abnormally high rates that its public safety employees do. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 934 nonpublic safety employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;its maintenance workers, record clerks, IT specialists, attorneys, city manager, etc.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;cost about the same as every other surrounding cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s miscellaneous workers do. The city pays 12.8 percent of each employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salary into the CalPERS fund; the employees themselves contribute 7 percent. The result is a rate of 2 percent of salary for every year of service, compared with copsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and firefightersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3 percent. Yet by the sheer number of employees they represent, city leaders are still looking for major concessions from them as well, to the tune of $1.3 million in cuts. SEIU members have been attending recent city meetings in full purple-shirt-clad force, asking that cuts be made â&#x20AC;&#x153;from the topâ&#x20AC;? and not from the rank-and-file workers.

Whether any savings will come in the form of pension reform or not remains to be seen. And whether a left-leaning city like Santa Cruz has the political will to slaughter such a progressive sacred cow is certainly in doubt. But with a new forecast by Bartel himself saying that this year the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employer contribution rates will climb from 36 percent for police and 39 percent for firefighters to nearly 44 percent and 48 percent, respectively, the penny-pinching city manager is now of the mind that reform is less of a choice than a necessity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Something has to be done,â&#x20AC;? says Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Statewide reform is politically impossible. Local municipalities just have to do it themselves.â&#x20AC;? 0

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N FRIDAY, June 11, former Assemblymember John Laird left his home in Aptos at 6:45am and drove three hours south to San Luis Obispo, did an editorial board meeting, stopped by his campaign office there, raced 2 1/2 hours north to Monterey for two more editorial board meetings, stopped at the Monterey campaign office, and then spoke for an hour and a half at a live radio town hall before driving home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m barely recovering,â&#x20AC;? he says the next day, which is, by comparison, a cakewalk: Greet a group of 100 California Young Democrats at the Santa Clara campaign office and send them off to knock on doors, walk the east Los Gatos precinct with District 10 San Jose City Councilmember Nancy Pyle, meet with the residents of a mobile home park in Los Gatos, then head up to San Francisco for a 5pm fundraiser. Above all the appointments on his iPhone calendar is a counter that reads â&#x20AC;&#x153;10 D.U.E.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;10 days until election, when he faces off with 33rd District Assemblymember Sam Blakeslee (R-San Luis Obispo) for the District 15 state Senate seat.

Mark Hinkle, a Libertarian, and Jim Fitzgerald, an independent, are the small dogs in the fight.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hardest thing about this,â&#x20AC;?

Laird says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is that there are just under 500,000 voters in the Senate district and my opponent wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree to any joint appearances.â&#x20AC;? (Though Blakeslee acknowledges he has not tried to arrange joint appearances, he claims heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not heard from Lairdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s camp.)

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the only challenge.

Overshadowed in the press by the June 8 primary and squashed into just 53 days by an order for a special election from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the inevitably tiny June 22 turnout does not diminish the significance of this race. Democrats are just two seats away from a twothirds supermajority in the state Senate. If Laird should pick it off of the Republicans, breaking up the yearly budget logjam could be that much easier. So as the final days tick down, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little wonder that Laird says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run up almost 10,000 miles on his car in two months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of our top priorities,â&#x20AC;? says CYD president Alissa Ko, who has brought in volunteers from as far away as Sacramento to stump for Laird. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is really frustrating that they rushed this election. They really did disenfranchise people.â&#x20AC;? The special election, ordered by Schwarzenegger after Abel Maldonado

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Santa Clara County is in some ways a principal battleground, since voters in Almaden, Monte Sereno and Saratoga have never been represented

by Laird nor his opponent. Early polling indicated that 32 percent of voters districtwide will go with Laird, with support concentrated in his home turf of Monterey, Santa Cruz and South Santa Clara counties, and 33 percent will go Blakeslee, mostly in San Luis Obispo County and Santa Maria.

Though the district was gerrymandered for Republican control in 2001, its voters went for Obama and against Proposition 8 in 2008. Laird will capture the seat if those voters turn out for him. If neither candidate captures 50 percentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a possibility since two others are competing in the contestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it will go to an August runoff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any extra minute I talk is a minute youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not talking to voters,â&#x20AC;? he tells the Young Democrats before sending them out the door. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a real shot at winning this if we turn out our voters.

Santa Clara is in part the swing area.â&#x20AC;?

The students troop out to their cars with a map and list of every Democrat in their assigned area, followed by Laird.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough keeping up with himâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both while following his silver Hybrid Camry with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;A 27â&#x20AC;? license plates as he races toward east Los Gatos and after he arrives in the precinct, beating a path up the hills between the plush homes in heavy-sounding dress shoes.

For the most part, the people who are home recognize Laird as he approaches, clearing his throat with a little â&#x20AC;&#x153;ahemâ&#x20AC;? at each door. One woman spraying her plants stops to take Lairdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s f lier and says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen the negative ads. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been pretty nasty, so you can tell theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not true.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bless you for that,â&#x20AC;? says Laird. The barrage of ads blasting Laird as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;train wreckâ&#x20AC;? for taking pay raises while in the Assembly and voting for taxes hit the airwaves last week, an indication, Laird believes, that Blakeslee has seen polling that indicates the race is slipping from his grasp. Laird credits that in some measure to his own ads linking Blakesleeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at a particularly newsworthy

timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to offshore oil drilling and his one-time employment with Exxon.

Blakeslee says Laird is distorting his record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have consistently fought to protect the coast,â&#x20AC;? he says, citing his votes to extend a symbolic moratorium on offshore drilling, and defending his â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? vote on the Tranquillon Ridge project, which he says would have prevented the expansion of some oil drilling platforms.

Both candidates are also playing up their commitment to budget solutions and to saving the California education system. Laird is critical of Blakesleeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard spending-cap proposalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is a cornerstone of Blakesleeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget fix strategy, including a rainy day fundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; saying it would completely freeze any ability to shift money to education, and of his signature on the Grover Norquist Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

For his part, Blakeslee says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;High and punitive taxes we currently exact have been ruinous to our economy and cause many head-of-household jobs to f lee.â&#x20AC;? Blakeslee accuses Laird of wasting taxpayer money by taking a job at the Waste Management Board, which was later disbanded, and his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fâ&#x20AC;? grade from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. But in such a rushed election, the only letter the 15 to 20 percent of likely voters will be paying attention to is the R or D at the end of each candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name.

After tromping around east Los Gatos, spokesman Bill Maxfield hustles Laird back to his car in order to make it to the mobile home park in time, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a problem: no one has directions.

While Laird fusses in his Camry with his GPS, Maxfield says wasted time â&#x20AC;&#x153;is the only time he really gets frustrated.â&#x20AC;? This is not the smooth, well-oiled machine Laird is accustomed to running.

The party finally moves to Bonnie View, where only three residents have turned up. Seemingly unfazed, Laird sits down on the worn couches in the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rec center and talks genealogy before shifting seamlessly into his record of supporting rent control. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a total wash. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really glad he did come, â&#x20AC;&#x153; says Julia Cole, a 28-year park resident whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never heard of Laird before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re grateful we have someone out there fighting for us.â&#x20AC;? The three leave as Laird-boosters.

As the harsh afternoon softens into a milder early evening, Laird takes off for San Francisco. As for predictions about what happens next Tuesday, Laird says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no idea yet. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always assumed itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to a run-off.â&#x20AC;? 0

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One of the most outrageous cell phone scams is really very simple: Charge customers for being forced to listen to 15 seconds of unnecessary voicemail instructions reminding them how to leave a message after the beep. According to New York Times technology writer David Pogue, if Verizon customers leave voicemails or check their messages twice a day, the mammoth New Jerseyâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based telecommunications company takes in around $620 million. In return, you lose wasted hours of your life and have to pay for it.

Speaking of Verizon, one representative refused to shut down a dead manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service, even though his daughter produced a death certificate and needed the account closed so settlement of his estate could proceed. Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the rep who tried to collect an overdue $308 bill from customer Al Burrows by threatening to â&#x20AC;&#x153;blow your muthafucking house up.â&#x20AC;? Do we need to even talk about AT&Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s various controversies, from censoring Pearl Jam to allegedly helping the National Security Agency unlawfully monitor the American peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communications?

The telco giantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest offense, according to a recent Federal Communications Commission report, has been given the blunt name of â&#x20AC;&#x153;bill shock.â&#x20AC;? Which is a misnomer, actually: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly not shocking to the average cell phone user to find, as the FCC explains,

that â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 million Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or one in six mobile usersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have experienced . . . a sudden increase in their monthly bill that is not caused by a change in service plan.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even less of a surprise to learn that â&#x20AC;&#x153;nearly half of cell phone users who have plans with early termination fees (ETFs)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and almost two-thirds of home broadband users with ETFsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the amount of the fees theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re accountable for.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In January, we sent letters to the major wireless providers asking the rationale for their ETFs,â&#x20AC;? FCC spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While the business model of subsidizing phones by the ETFs is the carrierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice, our position is that the ETF charge must be made clear to the consumer when he is signing the contract. And this does not seem to be the case in many instances.â&#x20AC;? ¨ "

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In fact, AT&T just nearly doubled its $175 early termination fee to $325 in May. That cold, capitalist logic is built specifically for bottom lines and earnings reports, not for flawless customer service. ETFs are financial shackles to mediocrity, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just the start.

AT&T just nearly doubled its $175 early termination fee to $325 in May. That cold, capitalist logic is built specifically for bottom lines and earnings reports, not for flawless customer service.

Carriers and Their Carrion According to Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl, the telcos have fortified their industry monopoly with other scandalous pricing. Between 2006 and 2008, the cost of sending and receiving a text message rose 100 percent. The average American consumer pays approximately $500â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$600 a year for wireless service, which is practically more than any other developed nation.

Of course, iPhone addictsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who are chained to Appleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exclusive contract with AT&T until the probably inevitable

Verizon contract arrives in 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201D;pay around twice that annually in various subscription fees. This in spite of the fact that AT&T, Verizon and Sprint continually rank among the worst in the nation when it comes to customer service. Or that such early termination fees are arguably illegal, depending on which judge you ask. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want consumers to know that they can avoid the ETF by using prepaid phones,â&#x20AC;? Kimball adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we have recently released a public notice [PDF] asking for comments from consumers and the industry on how customers can be made aware they are about to incur unexpected charges. We asked whether a model like that used in the European Union, where customers must be alerted when they are about to incur roaming charges, would work in the United States.â&#x20AC;?

Mandating that the wireless industry warn their customers before they variously fleece them is a great start. But bridging the price gaps between the carriers and their carrion is going to take a while. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A big part of the problem is that this country is such a huge landmass,â&#x20AC;? Pogue says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one cell phone carrier can cover it all, unlike in Europe and Japan.

Therefore, people have to buy from the company or two with coverage where they live, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very little competition.

The cell companies can essentially get away with whatever they want.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have equivalent providers in the marketplace,â&#x20AC;? says Consumers Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wireless, phone and Internet policy analyst Joel Kelsey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are tell-tale signs that this is not a competitive market: the ubiquitous existence of early termination fees that have been continually raised; the inability of consumers to bring their smart phone investments with them from carrier to carrier; parallel and consistent price increases in text messaging, despite the fact that the cost to provide that service is declining; the opaque nature of data overage charges.

Everything seems randomly tacked on.â&#x20AC;?

FCC Fed Up Bringing transparency and purpose to that random pricing is a primary objective of the FCC, which seems to have finally come to its senses under the leadership of chairman Julius Genachowski, who was nominated

by President Obama and confirmed

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At the 2008 wireless spectrum auction, Verizon actually sued the FCC for having the temerity to rule in Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor that the five available spectrum blocks remain open to services, applications, devices and networks.

Verizon eventually dropped the lawsuit, and nearly $5 billion on the FCC for the coveted open-access C-block, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a long way from nonexclusivity. And further auctions kicking off in the years to come are sure to be as contentious, especially now that FCC chairman Genachowski has argued that the nation is due for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;looming spectrum crisisâ&#x20AC;? because of the burgeoning desire for mobile broadband. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a number of political undercurrents at play,â&#x20AC;? Kelsey explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The government has been trying to get as much money as possible out of auctions, and that certainly raises the question about what is the most effective use of the spectrum and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account the interest in public use or social good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear what the FCC wants or plans to do, but their actions over the last several weeks have been great. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re showing that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in broadband mobile as a check on current practices.â&#x20AC;?

Which is great, because the bill for current practices is getting larger and more unreasonable by the year. The check is going to need to be a big one.

Those purposefully ridiculous fees and charges from the telcos arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to pay themselves.

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The reissued seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with showy new clip art coversâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is being targeted at a younger demographic than the original release, based on the assumption that preteens who have been steeped in vampires simply wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be interested in an innocent series about baby-sitting.

Meanwhile, references to cassette players have been updated to iPods, cell phones have been added and Staceyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bodacious signature perm has become merely an â&#x20AC;&#x153;expensive hairstyle.â&#x20AC;? Babysitting rates have gone up. And it is these changes that have met with the most vehement criticism from invested older fans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading and all, stupid Internet generation,â&#x20AC;? writes blogger and former reader Nora Leah Sherman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But these arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bastions of fucking literary glory. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re books about teenage girls and I am sad that we have to fucking SPOON FEED them to you so that they are relevant to your lives (OMG WHATS A WALKMAN????).â&#x20AC;?

Ultimately, whether they are carrying cassette players or MP3 players, the BSC girls face the same enduring challenges of early adolescence as any generation: Stacey explores crushes on older boys, Mary Anne struggles to assert independence from her overprotective father and all the girls learn about building and keeping friendships. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many books out there that involve sex and drugs for youngsters that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a good message,â&#x20AC;? Sharpe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of drama and fights in the series, but everything worked out in the end, and the message of true friendship remained. Their impact is evident in the multitudes of fans who grew up on the series who are now blogging and discussing the books on various sites and message boards. I have a friend who is a teacher and she has the entire series in her classroom.â&#x20AC;?

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With otther people With i her fear feear of other people and her strangely unplaceable unplaceablee accent, accent, Ondine turns out to be mystery. be a complete com mplete l mystery.

So the fisherman hides hid f isherman i des her in the cottage cottage once once belonging belongin ng to his mother, mother, where where she swims swims in the t bottle-green bottle-green cove cove waters waters and, in classic cllassic Grimm Brothers tidiies up the house.

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Out on the fishing boat, f ishing i boat, o Ondine brings Syracuse unexpected unexpected luck. As As she sings in an unknown language, langu uage, his traps miraculously fill lobsters, f iill up with w lobsters, his nets with a wealth off fish. f iish. ish We We begin begin to wonder whether she might not actually be be some sort sort of a magical maagical sea creature. creature.

Syracuseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Syracuseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young young daughter daaughter Annie (a wise sprite played plaayed by

by Allison Barry) Barry) certainly certainly believes believes that thaat Ondine is a water selk water creature, creature, a selkie, kie, who has come come ashore ashore to live live amongg the humans. humans.

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Comp Compassionate passionate yet yet p pessimistic, essimistic, Syracuse Syraacuse is a gentle g ves father to Annie Annie,, who liv lives with her mother (a splendidly tough touggh Der v Kirwan) vla Kirwan) and mom â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s b oyfrieend, Dervla momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend, pla yed e with coarse coarse charm b ony o played byy T Tony Curra an. The girl, suf ffeering from from kidney kid dney Curran. suffering failur re, is also wheelchair-bound, wheelchair-bound, ound which w failure, lea aves her plenty plenty of time to read read up p leaves on the th he watery watery lore lore of selkies. selkies. After Affter t a destine meeting g, little little Annie and nd cland an clandestine meeting, Ondi ine b ecome instantly instantly drawn draawn w to o each Ondine become other r, and just as quickly Syracuse and other, Ondi ine fall in love. love.

Ondine Keeeeping the story story crisp are are scenes, scenees, Keeping lac ed d throughout throughout Ondine, Ondine, in which laced Syrac cuse det ails his unfolding unffo olding romance romaance Syracuse details at cconfession on nffession e to the local local priest, priest a wr ylyy cast cast Stephen Rea. Rea. e Here Here the smart sm mart wryly scriptt b ordan ((Breakfast Breakffast a on Pluto, Plutto, byy JJordan The Cr C rying y Game quires sharp ed dges, Crying Game)) ac acquires edges, b one- dry humor and in n oth in its b both bone-dry its rrefusal efusal to ccave ave in to the ssweetness weetneess of thee stor y. Farr ell is ccompletely ompletely story.

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Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nativee IIrishman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s He â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a nativ rishman who â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetry clearly at home in the rugged p oetry islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss sout southwest of the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hw west ccoast, oast, and in the character of a fformer ormer drunk, he o another has ffound ound yyet o et anot ther vvehicle ehicle ffor or o his unconventional gifts. unc onventional gif ftts.

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Cinematographer Doyle Cinemato grapher Do D yle misses no opportunity opp ortunity to eexploit xp ploit the abundant beauty both Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural b eauty b otth of Ir elandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s craggy an craggy coastline coastline and nd of Bachledaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bachledaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opulent curves. curves. Many Maany shots amount to atmospheric lingerie linggerie adsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Viictoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Secret Secr et does does the Emerald Em merald Isle.

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Wed Jun 23 at 10am at 41st Ave.) (TH) 8=</6 63F (PG-13; 81 min.) The disfigured Western antihero from DC Comics arrives on the big screen in a film that combines gunslinging action with supernatural events. Starring Josh Brolin as Hex, Megan Fox as a saloon girl and John Malkovich as archvillain Quentin Turnbull, whom Hex is hired to hunt down.

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min.) Jean-Pierre Jeunet (AmĂŠlie, The City of Lost Children) directs the story of Bazil (Danny Boon), orphaned by a bomb and later wounded in a drive-by shooting. After his release from the

Movie reviews by Sean Conwell, Traci Hukill, Malachi Mulligan and Richard von Busack

hospital, Bazil creates a whimsical underground home where he and his friends plot revenge against the arms dealers who have caused him so much grief. (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) (SC) =<27<3 (PG-13; 111 min.) See review, page 33. @=;p= 3B 8C:73B

(Unrated; 175 min.)

Straight from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York comes a performance of Gounodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shakespearean adaptation, with

soprano Anna Netrebko as Juliette, tenor Roberto Alagna as Romeo and the great Placido Domingo taking a break from singing to occupy the conductorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s podiumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all in high definition. (Plays Wed Jun 23 at 6:30pm at Santa Cruz 9.) (SC) A:7B63@ (2006) In this throwback to B horror movies from the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s through the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, a meteorite falls near a small backwoods town, infecting the residents with space parasites and turning them into

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While struggling to cope with the death of his brother, a kid joins his three friends in search of a dead body. The boys encounter a number of dangers, including a gang of older bullies led by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aceâ&#x20AC;? (Kiefer Sutherland). Directed

by Rob Reiner and based on a short story

by Stephen King. (Plays Thu at 8pm at Santa Cruz 9.) (SC) B=G AB=@G ! (G; 108

min.) With Andy off to college, Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toys are dumped at a daycare center where the little monsters in residence are free to torment them. Escape ensues. With the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack and Don Rickles, among many more. (Opens Thu at midnight at Santa Cruz 9, Fri at 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) (TH) ( / A>/13 =2GAA3G (1968) A

crew of astronauts on a mission to Jupiter must defend themselves when their HAL 9000 computer turns against them. This science fiction masterpiece from director Stanley Kubrick is partly an adventure tale and partly a contemplation of human progress and the relationship between man and technology. (Plays SatSun at 11am at Aptos.)

(SC)

@3D73EA B63 / B3/; (PG-13; 117 min.) In this reboot of the campy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s TV show, a group of army veterans are on the run after being framed for war crimes, and act as mercenaries while trying to clear their names. Starring Liam Neeson as Col. John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hannibalâ&#x20AC;? Smith, Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton â&#x20AC;&#x153;Facemanâ&#x20AC;?

Peck, Sharlto Copley as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Howling Madâ&#x20AC;?

Murdock and Quinton Jackson as B.A. Baracus.

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Director Thomas Balmes studies a year in the life of four babies born in four distinctly different places: Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo. Guess who gets the Robeez f lowered shoes?

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13; 108 min.) Many movies are called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Film That Couldâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Raymond De Felittaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film deserves the name; the tale has tallness as well as heart.

It concerns a tangle of confusion hitting the Rizzos, a suburban family that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how extended it is. Andy Garcia excels as Vince, a prison guard from a hidden waterside enclave in the Bronx. On the job, Vince encounters his own son Tony (Steven Strait) from a long-ago affair in Jersey and he decides to bring Tony home to do some day-labor without telling his wife his true identity. But Vince has another secret: heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been taking acting classes in Manhattan, without informing his hostile, lynx-eyed wife, Joyce ( Julianne Margulies, never better). The rest of the family have secrets of their own: son Vince Jr. (Ezra Miller) is a chubby-chaser with eyes for the 400pound woman next door, and daughter Vivian (Dominik Garcia-Lorido) has been moonlighting as a stripper. The tangle of lies is resolved nicely. City Island has fine waterscapes; Emily Mortimer is very soulful as the acting partner with whom Vince shares a deepening friendship; the ageless Alan Arkin has six very good scenes as a weary acting teacher who has seen generations of Brando imitators come and go. Provoking a family feud at a dinner table, or gazing at a BBW porn site as if it were the Holy Grail, Miller is also outstanding. Noisy

at times but always gentle and likable, the movie comes out in favor of the sins of the f lesh. It celebrates the actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and the actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s luck. (RvB) 3F7B B6@=C56 B63 574B A6=> (R;

87 min.) A highlight of film in 2010. The documentaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actual subject isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t street art per se, or even the career of the director, the elusive graffitist Banksy. Instead, director Banksy narrates a true-life parable about the career of a boutique owner named Thierry Guetta. Guetta is a friendly, muttonchopped (and slightly mutton-headed) L.A. boutique owner whose video documentation of a covert scene led to his becoming a celebrity artist named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Brainwash.â&#x20AC;?

Banksyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art has soul as well as easily accessible political content. He takes on well-guarded subjects of oppression, from the British pound note to the Israeli security wall. Exit Through the Gift Shop is about anonymous craftsmanship eclipsed by the sun-gun of self-publicity, of illegal attacks on consensus reality, elbowed aside by fraudulence and hucksterism on a Dalilevel scale. Inevitably, hype, pandering and foolishness replaced the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sacred tools of silence, exile and cunning. (RvB) 53B 67; B= B63 5@339 (R; 109 min.)

In this spin-off of the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, an ambitious young record company intern ( Jonah Hill) is charged with escorting rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) from London to the Greek Theatre in L.A. for a concert to revive his f lagging career. Aldous is wild, drug-addicted and weary of corporate suits, so getting him there on time may be impossible. (SC) 7@=< ;/< (PG-13;

125 min.) Struck by heavy-metal poisoning from his atomic pacemaker, Tony Stark

(a roguish Robert Downey Jr.) is besieged by enemies: a Russian ex-con with access to his technology (Mickey Rourke), a glad-handing competitor (Sam Rockwell) and last but not least the U.S. government. Despite a middle section that vamps for time, Jon Favreau is successful in making this an invigorating meld of screwball comedy and robot-fighting action; Scarlett Johansson is most decorative as the agent known elsewhere as Black Widow, and Gwyneth Paltrow shows a nimbleness previously unseen (she has to act fast to get up to Downeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speed).

Broad, playful, well-cut and economically done, this movie isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just the first of the summer blockbustersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the model for how they all should work. (RvB) B63 9/@/B3 972

(PG; 140 min.) Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith, plays a child who moves to China with his mother, and is tormented by bullies at his new school. The schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maintenance man ( Jackie Chan) takes the boy under his wing and teaches him martial arts. This remake of the 1984 coming-of-age tale shows that self-control, not violence, is the key to maturity. (SC) 97::3@A (PG-13; 100

min.) Ashton Kucher and Katherine Heigl star in this comedic action film about a government spook who settles into a happy suburban marriage. Things seem to be going fine, until he and his wife learn they are being targeted for assassination. As their neighborhood becomes a danger zone where everyone is suspect, the couple must uncover their enemies while maintaining the appearance of an average family. (SC) ;/@;/2C93 (PG; 88

min.) The big, lovable Great Dane from the newspaper funnies wreaks unintentional havoc after moving

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zombies. Directed by James Gunn, writer of the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake, as well as the two liveaction Scooby-Doo films. (Plays Fri-Sat at midnight at Del Mar.) (SC)

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by Judy Greer, Lee Pace and William H. Macy.

(SC) >:3/A3 57D3 (R; 90 min.) Minor NYC comedy about Kate (Catherine Keener), the propertied owner of a boutique making scads of money reselling furniture she got cheap. She also has a tenant, Andra (Anne Guilbert), an exasperating old lady whose apartment Kate is planning to annex as soon as the crone dies. Director Nicole Holofcener hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t developed much as a visual filmmaker in the past 15 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she still favors the walkingand-talking shot. The story spirals to include Andraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toxically grandparented offspring: Rebecca (Rebecca Hall, constrained by the part) and Mary (Amanda Peet) as a romantic interest to Kateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distracted husband. The doughy husband (Oliver Platt) is drawn by Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

refreshing curtness.

So are we. Since there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a traditional Keener character in this comedy, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more taken with her surrogate, in the form of Peet and her ruthless energy. (RvB) >@7<13 =4 >3@A7/( B63 A/<2A =4 B7;3 (PG-13; 116 min.)

Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton are rival royals who join forces to stop an evil ruler (Ben Kingsley) bent on destroying the world by unleashing a massive sandstorm.

Set in medieval Persia, based on the video game. (TH) >@7<13AA 9/7C:/<7

(PG; 130 min.) The true story of a Hawaiian princess (played by Qâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Orianka Kilcher) and her struggle to maintain her nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freedom in the late 19th Century. After a childhood in Hawaii, Kaiulani is sent to Victorian England for her education.

However, when she learns that an American-backed coup dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ĂŠtat has occurred in her homeland, she sets out to convince the United States to restore her kingdom. (SC) @=07< 6==2 (PG-13; 130 min.) Robin Hood

looks like three long movies spliced into one unwieldy feature.

This prequel concerns Robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in the end of the crusades, the civil war and the little-known French invasion of England in the early 1200s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robin Longstrideâ&#x20AC;? (Russell Crowe) decamps from Richard the Lionheartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s army and goes into the countryside to pose as a dead knight; the father-in-law of the deceased (Max von Sydow) decides to do a Martin Guerre on this imposter, as does the widow Marian (Cate Blanchett in a wig nearly as tall as she is). This has to be the least-sylvan Robin Hood ever made. Crowe looks less like a fox and more like a logy, depressed pit bull as the film tries to chug around him with more montages of burning villages and more meetings of angry Plantagenets. (RvB) B63 A31@3B 7< B637@ 3G3A (R; 127

min.) Elegant but staid murder mystery nibbles around the edges of the Dirty War. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forget it, Jacobo, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Argentinatownâ&#x20AC;? view: the search for justice evaporating in 1974 Buenos Aires,

with present-day sequences to frame a reopened investigator.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leavened by a fine Mulder and Scully anti-romance between an attractive female criminal investigator for the government, Irene (Soledad Villamil), and her attractively crumbling, Mastroiannish male assistant, Benjamin (Ricardo DarĂ­n).

Director Juan Jose Campanella is a regular director of House M.D. The film is as restless and jokey as a cop procedural show; every scene is on the mark, but there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough counterpoints to the assured f low of the story. The slick, vengeance-is-mine punch line isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very impressive either, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably why the Academy preferred this to the far better White Ribbon, where the fascist culprits got away.

Saying that, though, would be assuming the voters didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have eyes for Villamil, an assured 40ish beauty whose performance is the secret in this movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success; her covert smile is the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature piece. It won the Oscar for best foreign film.

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com.

American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles.

Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, lunch 11am-2pm, dinner 5-9pm.

Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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By Rob Brezsny

For the week of June 16 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): Istanbul is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only mega-city that spans two continents. Many Turkish commuters take the 15-minute ferry ride across the Bosphorus Strait, traveling from their suburban homes in Asia to the urban sprawl in Europe. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m seeing a comparable journey for you, Aries: a transition that happens casually and quickly, but that moves you from one world to another.

Prepare yourself, please. Just because it unfolds relatively easily and benevolently doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean you should be nonchalant about the adjustments it will require you to make.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): When you want to get rid of a weed thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impinging on the autonomy of your growing tomato plant, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just tear away its stalk and leaves; you yank it out by the roots. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the approach I urge you to take with the saboteur that has inserted itself into your otherwise thriving patch of heaven. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need to express hatred or rage. In fact, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to be lucid and neutral as you thoroughly remove the invasive inf luence and assert your right to care for what you love.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): A lot of people never got the mothering they needed in order to grow up into the confident, secure lovers of life they have the potential to become. But even greater numbers suffer from a lack of smart fathering. And that happens to be the deprivation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important for you Geminis to address right now. If there was anything missing in the guidance and mentoring you got from your actual daddy, I urge you to brainstorm about how you could make up for it in the coming months.

For starters, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one idea: Is there any father figure out there who could inspire you to become more of your own father figure?

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): In 1965, two Russian cosmonauts orbited the Earth in the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Due to equipment problems, they had to land the vehicle manually. Instead of hitting the target area, they mistakenly set down in rugged mountainous country covered with deep snow. While they waited overnight inside their capsule, wolves gathered outside, howling and pacing. But the next day their recovery team reached them and scared off the hungry predators. Soon they were safely on their way back home. Let this little tale be an inspiration to you, Cancerian, as you come in for your landing.

Even though you may not end up quite where you intended, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a happy ending as long as you wait for your allies to be ready for you and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to rush your re-integration. :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): The ancient Greek philosopher Plato advocated the use of dogs in courtrooms. He thought that canines were expert lie detectors; that they always knew when deceit was in the air. I suspect youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll display a similar talent in the coming days, Leo. You will have a sixth sense about when the truth is being sacrificed for expediency, or when delusions are masquerading as reasonable explanations, or when the egoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obsessions are distorting the hell out of the soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authentic understandings. Harness that raw stuff, please. Use it discreetly, surgically, and with compassion.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been aligned with cosmic rhythms these past few weeks, Virgo, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been rising higher and feeling bolder.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken a stand on issues about which you had previously been a bit weak and cowardly. You have been able to articulate elusive or difficult truths in graceful ways that havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t caused too terrible a ruckus. Your next challenge is to rally the troops. The group that means the most to you is in need of your motivational fervor. I suggest that you think deeply about how to cultivate more dynamic relationships among all the parts, thereby energizing the whole. :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Human beings are in a state of creativity 24 hours a day,â&#x20AC;? wrote Raoul Vaneigem in his book The Revolution of Everyday Life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed by everyone a thousand times a day?â&#x20AC;? I say â&#x20AC;&#x153;amenâ&#x20AC;? to that. All of us are constantly generating fresh ideas, novel feelings, unexpected perceptions, and pressing intentions. We are founts of restless originality. But whether we use our enormous power constructively is another question. Typically, a lot of the stuff we spawn is less than brilliant and useful. Having said that, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased to announce that

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering a phase when you have the potential to create far more interesting and useful things than usualâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;longer lasting, too.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): If you have been engaged in any S&M scenario, even metaphorically, now would be a good time to quit it. Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the person whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whipping or being whipped, the connection is no longer serving any worthy purpose. The good news is that freeing yourself from compromising entanglements will make you fully available to explore new frontiers in collaboration.

You will also be blessed with an inf lux of intuition about how to reconfigure bonds that have become blah and boring. And what if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not currently involved in any S&M scenario? Congrats! Your assignment is to transform one of your pretty good relationships into a supercharged union thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capable of generating life-changing magic.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say that things are about to get darker for you. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re definitely going to get deeper and damper and more complicated. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect there to be any confrontations with evil or encounters with nasty messes, but you may slip down a rabbit hole into a twilight region where all the creatures speak in riddles and nothing is as it seems. And yet thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best possible place for you to gain new insight about the big questions that so desperately need more clarity. If you can manage to hold your own in the midst of the dream-like adventures, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be blessed with a key to relieving one of your long-running frustrations.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): The eulachon is a fish that lives off the Pacific Coast of North America. Its fat content is so high that the Chinook Indians used to dry it, thread it with a wick, and employ it as a candle. The stink was bad, but the light was good. Remind you of anything in your life right now, Capricorn? Something that provides a steady f low of illumination, even if it is a bit annoying or inconvenient? I say, treasure it for what it is and accept it for what it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): When I was growing up in Michigan, playing in the snow was a great joy. As much as I loved the arrival of each new spring, I endured a mourning period as the groundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last patch of dirty sleet melted. Once in late March, though, I talked my mom into letting me store five snowballs in the freezer. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until my birthday in late June that I retrieved the precious artifacts. I was slightly disappointed to find they had become more like iceballs than snowballs. On the other hand, their symbolism was deeply gratifying. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d managed to invoke the tangible presence of winter fun in the summertime. I urge you to attempt a comparable alchemy, Aquarius. Figure out how to take a happiness you have felt in another context and transpose it into where you are right now. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even Norah Jones got bored with Norah Jones,â&#x20AC;? wrote critic Aidin Vaziri in his review of her recent concert in San Francisco.

For years she has tranquilized us with her safe, soothing music, he said, but not anymore. It was like she was fresh from a â&#x20AC;&#x153;makeover reality show.â&#x20AC;? Her new stuff, which included an â&#x20AC;&#x153;indie-rock joltâ&#x20AC;? and quasi-psychedelic riffs, exuded grit and defiance and weirdness. Norah Jones is your role model for the next couple of weeks, Pisces. If there have been any ways in which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been boring yourself, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime time to scramble the code.

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