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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I went to San Francisco this weekend to a combined conference on digital media. They gave me a free room for a night and a pass to the conference, and all I had to do was talk about FatalEncounters.org for 15 minutes.

I think I figured out a few things while I was there. I heard a lot of thought-provoking things.

So here’s my big takeaway.

In this post-modern world with its internet and all that, you’ve got to decide what you want to be, and be that. I heard a lot of talk about how I’m supposed to appeal to people of all shapes and sizes and ages, and I’ve got to be honest: I just don’t care.

I don’t care about catching them on Pinterest or on Medium or whatever the MySpace of the day happens to be. I don’t care what made-up and irrelevant generational sobriquet they’ve been given. I don’t care if they can read my long-form stories on their cell phone. I do care that they can access our online calendar on their phones, but the truth is, our site is so bad that there’s nothing I can do to enhance their experience. I’m not going to put my effort into a race where I’m the only guy who gets his foot chopped off before the starting gun.

I’ve even given up on Facebook as a promotion for stories in the newspaper. Facebook’s formula for moving things onto news streams is anti-local news.

It’s like this: If you have exclusive local content that nobody else has, it’s not popular across the country, therefore, it doesn’t move onto other people’s news feeds. It’s a losing proposition for those of us with a finite amount of time and resources.

I care about smart people reading our stuff. I’ve been playing this game for a while now, and I have never heard from someone I consider intelligent say, “I refuse to get information from newsprint.” The smart people I know get information anywhere they can find it—it doesn’t matter whether they’re young, old, a TV or internet junkie.

I’d rather throw the race than compete in one I can’t win.

Don’t worry, I’ve been told many times I’m wrong about this.

I’ve been told many times I was wrong about just about everything I’ve ever succeeded at.

Re “Numbers game” (Feature story, Dec. 31): If you look hard, will you find NRA-funded lobbyists focused on killing any bills that support collecting data about incidents involving guns?

Without data, it’s hard for gun control advocates to support legislation that limits the production and sales of guns and ammo.

Carolyn Scott Hannibal, New York

Allowing guns on campus of our school systems will place our students in potential volatile, vulnerable and violent situations. Between 2010 and today, a Wikipedia check of data showing death and injuries inflicted upon children and adults on school campuses nationwide reflects over 300 deaths. Allowing for a campus carry policy would exponentially increase the bloodshed on our campuses nationwide, allowing for ease of access. Nevadans enjoy their Second Amendment rights of access, yet consideration should be given to the volatile collateral damages that occur with accessible weaponry and campus carry. Call your legislator and say no to campus carry today!

Lori Santos Reno

My husband and I retired to the Western United States from Maine.

We wanted to get away from the cold snow, but we certainly weren’t looking to go to the wild, wild west where people walked around with guns on their hips or concealed in their clothing anywhere. Maine is a state where deer hunting is popular, and provides food, as well as controls the deer population. I have nothing against that—I have nothing against the Second Amendment—but I am uncomfortable having individuals who can carry guns on to school grounds or childcare facilities. I don’t think “campus carry” will save lives; it will only endanger more.

How would people involved discern who the bad gun carrier is from the good one? This can quickly get out of hand. To make schools safer, why not increase security with more manpower and scanners to keep guns and dangerous people out? We do this at airports (and when visiting politicians) already, but they’re not the only places that need to be secure. If you feel as I do about guns in our public places, please let your representatives in Carson City know. Say no to Assembly Bill 2!

Helen Paganucci Reno

Happiness is a warm puppy Many people remember the tragedies of school shootings in places like Virginia Tech, or even our local school, Sparks Middle School.

Because of these shootings, the law says that we are not legally permitted to bring a firearm onto a college campus. However, this may be about to change. The Nevada Legislature is considering allowing students to carry concealed firearms on the campuses of public universities. This is a problem.

Universities are one of the safest places to be, with a homicide rate lower than the nationwide rate. Also, the former provost of Idaho State University stated that there had been no case of a violent crime being prevented by the victim brandishing a weapon. Furthermore, if a school shooting occurs, how will the police be able to distinguish the good guy and the bad guy? It’s a bad idea all around. Campus carry can seem like a good idea. However, in reality it is introducing instruments of violence into our learning environments, and would make the jobs of campus security officers tougher than they already are, and could lead to the deaths of innocent people. I urge the Legislature to reject campus carry.

Jackeline Almaraz Sparks Editor’s note: I can see we’ll be getting a lot of letters on this topic. I’m a licensed CCW permit holder and a student at the university. I’m also a long way from buying arguments for or against having more guns on campus. I look forward to being convinced.

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As a University of Nevada, Reno student, I am very concerned about the chance that almost anyone will be allowed to have a weapon on campus, whether it ends up being only in their car, or walking around campus.

Allowing campus carry is very unnecessary in that the likelihood that an average civilian would be able to get to their vehicle, get their weapon, and stop an attack is extremely small. Also, campus security would have no way of telling the “bad guys” apart from the “good guys” in a volatile shooting situation.

This would only cause more injuries and casualties. Furthermore, according to an article in Forbes, trained NYC policeman hit their target an average of 18 percent of the time in a gunfight, which would mean that a civilian in a similar situation would have a lower accuracy rate, and be more likely to hit a bystander than the attacker. Campus carry would only increase casualties and injuries from shootings. I urge you to contact your legislators and ask them to vote against campus carry. No to Assembly Bill 2!

Courtney Kelleher Reno

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Disgruntled students are dangerous As an employee at Truckee Meadows Community College, I am concerned about legislative bill AB-2, which authorizes possession of a weapon locked in a vehicle on the property of certain educational facilities and child care centers. The knowledge that a disgruntled employee or student could, in a moment of intense frustration or anger, simply walk to the parking lot, grab a weapon, and return to take action against the focus of his or her perceived predicament, is not an outlandish scenario. Further, if folks run to their vehicles to obtain their lawfully concealed weapons to defend the innocent, what law enforcement group called to the scene could tell perpetrator from defender? Finally, those not trained as first responders, while well intentioned, can very easily Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Anthony Clarke Distribution Drivers Sandra Chhina, Steve Finlayson, Debbi Frenzi, Vicky Jewell, Angela Littlefield, Joe Medeiros, Ron Neill, Christian Shearer, Marty Troye, Warren Tucker, Gary White, Joseph White, Margaret Underwood General Manager/Publisher John D. Murphy President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Chief Operations Officer Deborah Redmond Human Resource Manager Tanja Poley Business Manager Grant Rosenquist

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act irrationally in emergency situations. More likely is that, while well intentioned, this person would be part of any resulting tragedy. I encourage all to contact your state legislators to let them know your opposition to AB-2. We do not need more guns at our schools and childcare centers.

Any legislative energy directed to Nevada’s education system should be concentrated on supporting efforts to improve state academic standards, not on turning school parking lots into munitions depots.

Carole Chouinard Reno

Incremental improvement Re “Policy myths cause a lot of government’s problems” (News, Aug. 14, 2008): Good article, but I think the author has made a mistake in saying, “In fact, it reflects a practice that has long since passed out of fashion in the business world, which found that it focused workers on process instead of outcome and generated fear in the workplace, low productivity, and customer alienation.” I think he meant to say “focused workers on outcome instead of process.” Swapping those words makes the sentence ring true to Deming’s approach. I think that Deming taught focus on continual improvement of process, and I think Deming believed that focus on outcome is like trying to drive a car by looking out the rear view mirror.

Gary Tracy Sparks

Correction In “Buck Wild” (Green, Feb. 5), Terri Farley was incorrectly referred to as an author and an attorney. She’s an author—and the one behind the Phantom Stallion series—but not a lawyer. We regret our mistake and apologize for any confusion our error caused.

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Did you have your children vaccinated?

Asked in downtown Reno Sandra Vozee Retiree

Oh, yes. It was just the right thing to do, and the doctor recommended it. I didn’t see any reason not to.

Christine Fey Cultural affairs manager

Absolutely, for them and for society as a whole. That’s the only way, I think, that we’re able to control these diseases that used to cripple people.

Rachelle Carinio Homemaker

When ignorance reigns Every once in a while, when wildfires reach urban areas, fire officials ask homeowners in the outlying areas to resist the temptation to use garden hoses to water down their roofs because it reduces the water pressure that firefighters need.

And inevitably there are those homeowners who reject the request and do it, anyway. The needs of the many, as Mr. Spock might put it, yield to the needs of the one.

That’s pretty much what has been happening in the vaccination crisis. Parents who have fallen victim to hoaxes about inoculation have refused to get their children vaccinated, ignoring the risk it poses to all of us, and especially children—their own and those in other families.

Nor is that the only way false information is splitting our society. As noted in our news report this week, with our society becoming more polarized, we are not listening to each other as much. We read only books and magazines we agree with. We watch only television that reflects our own views. We avoid those with whom we disagree. And we fall victim to narrow thinking and junk science.

This way lies disaster. The flow of information should be subject to challenge and debate, but when we become a closed society, subjecting facts to tests of dogma or prejudice or politics instead of the scientific method, the consequences go beyond the immediate effect. It undermines U.S. competitiveness and can even harm national security. A decade ago, when “intelligent design” was in vogue, for instance, University of Nevada, Reno biologist David Zeh told the RN&R, “Modern evolutionary biology has so many fundamentally important practical applications in fields ranging from drug design to conservation biology.

Any attempt to subvert its scientific integrity is, in my opinion, a threat to national security.”

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Yes, I have. That’s what my parents did, and what I’ve been taught.

Kenya suffers from drought and food shortages, and because of false information spread about transgenic foods, the country has outlawed genetically modified food that could be harvested in greater volume on less acreage with less environmental damage.

In 2002, the Bush administration announced a smallpox vaccination program even though the disease had been all but eradicated, because smallpox could become a terror weapon.

If science becomes captive to folklore and hucksters, we will all pay a price in some way.

What is especially disheartening is evidence in studies that the most likely to believe anti-vaccination nonsense are the best educated in our society—the affluent and upscale.

As sociologist James Richardson puts it, they are “educated people who think they have the world by the tail and nothing can hurt them.” But their foolish, dangerous actions can hurt their children and other people. These are people enjoying the benefits this society has to offer, and they respond by endangering that society.

No one likes government compulsion, and we have no wish to see it brought any more into play in this field. But the dangers from parents not getting their children vaccinated are only going to grow unless this trend is stopped in its tracks. Herd immunity will be reduced, more people will fall victim, and the health consequences will snowball.

We may be a society whose people are no longer listening to each other, but we are in this together, like it or not.

When diseases begin sweeping the populace, government will have to speak with a louder voice. Now is the time when vaccination opponents can stop that from happening, by dropping the hokum and con men and starting to listen to science. Ω |

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Absolutely. The public’s safety is concerned with keeping the kids vaccinated. … It’s the right thing to do, to make sure that they are vaccinated early.

Scott Richards Mail carrier

Yes. It just seemed like the right thing to do, obvious thing to do. I didn’t see any reason not to. The autism thing didn’t make any sense to me. That was one reason why people weren’t doing it, and that just didn’t make any sense to me.

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True colors Back in the winter of 1998, I ran into Brian Sandoval in our Southwest Reno neighborhood. We knew each other in the casual, old Reno way, through friendly interactions at various community events and organizations, well enough to exchange pleasantries about the weather, our families, and by jobs but not much more.

Sheila Leslie I told him I was considering a run for the Assembly District 27 seat then held by first-termer Pat Hickey.

Sandoval responded positively to the idea, saying the Legislature needed more people who would advocate for children and families, but quickly noted he couldn’t openly support me as a member of the other party.

I appreciated his candor and kind words, and it factored into my decision. After I announced my intent to file for the office, Assemblyman Hickey decided to forgo the race, citing the need to pay more attention to his family business, although he did run successfully more than a decade later in Assembly District 25.

I recalled this interaction with the governor after his State of the State address as I watched him transform back to the Sandoval of 1998, a man who deeply cared about children and families and wasn’t afraid to say so. And I thought about why I had become so disillusioned with the governor since his 2010 campaign.

I found his anointment by the big business lobbying corps offensive as they “rescued” us from a second term of Gov. Jim Gibbons, someone they were responsible for electing in the first place. The lobbyists couldn’t take a chance on the voters sorting it out, so they recruited Sandoval from a lifetime appointment as a federal judge and sent him out to campaign to the right of Gibbons to make sure he would trounce him in the primary.

Throughout the campaign, it was annoying to hear Sandoval declare himself to be against all tax increases despite the recession-starved budget.

But like many others, I expected him to swing back to the moderate middle after the primary.

Instead he continued to campaign on far-right, anti-tax positions, refusing to consider extending the “sunset” taxes or the creation of any other funding mechanism to pull Nevada out of last place in education. Despite a huge expected deficit, Sandoval told voters he would veto any budget that increased taxes.

Thankfully, once he was in office and was more enlightened about the consequences of cutting an additional $600 million from the budget, he extended the sunset taxes, but not much more was done to alleviate starved education and human services budgets.

I also lost respect for Sandoval when he supported the harsh Arizona immigration law, telling a Univision reporter he wasn’t worried about his own children being stopped and asked for their papers since they didn’t “look” Hispanic. His vetoes of voting rights bills, including ward voting, further cemented my disappointment.

But now, in 2015, Sandoval is proposing the largest tax increase in the state’s history, more than $1.15 billion, by making the sunset taxes permanent ($600 million) and imposing a graduated business license fee based on gross receipts ($438 million). And he seems willing to stand up to the anti-tax Republicans and the businesses whose mantra for decades has been “just say no” to any tax.

Sandoval acknowledges what’s at stake. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s editorial board that he’s “disgusted with our graduation rates being 49th or 50th” and the Legislature’s failure to pass his tax plan would be “devastating” to K-12 and higher education through expected budget cuts of 20 percent.

“I have to embrace the moment,” he said. “I did make up my mind that I’m not going to move backwards anymore. … I’m the governor.

I have to lead and I will lead.”

Welcome back, governor. I’ve missed you. Ω

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Should the state force parents to vaccinate their children? Nineteen states allow parents to opt out of mandated vaccinations required for school attendance for philosophical reasons.

California has upper middle class neighborhoods where as many as 40 percent of children are unvaccinated. by Brendan Trainor The opposition to vaccination centers around its side effects, impurities contained within the vaccination, and distrust of big pharma.

A small percentage of those vaccinated suffer severe side effects.

Statistics show that one in a million develop severe allergic reactions to the measles vaccine. That should be balanced against the studies showing that one in a thousand measles infected children can develop complications from the virus, including even in rare cases brain damage and death. Anti-vaxxers argue that vaccinations lead to depressed immune systems, causing more children to develop serious allergies and yes, autism.

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In 1998 a study appeared linking vaccination to autism. A decade later the study was revoked and the doctor who did it discredited. The issue is further clouded because autism is diagnosed much more often than before, and childhood behavior that once was dismissed as a personality quirk is now called autism.

Serious studies have shown the flu vaccine is ineffective.

Nevertheless, the CDC (Center for Disease Proliferation and People Control) and the medical community push the flu vaccine every year, assisted by a compliant media. The CDC thinks of itself as a progressive body of trained experts who have only the public good in mind. But under its watch the boundaries of “public health” have been expanded to include fussing over purely private health decisions, like tobacco smoking, to the detriment of actual public health. The CDC was caught completely off guard by Ebola and didn’t exactly distinguish itself. Now it is sending its medical minions out

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to aggressively push vaccinations after a measles outbreak that began in California’s Disneyland. To listen to our local newscasts you would think that Washoe County was infested with Ebola instead of what is in reality a few schoolchildren coming down with the measles.

The impurities in vaccines, including very small amounts of mercury and formaldehyde, are not a concern for me. The size of the dose controls the effect of the poison. Trace amounts of mercury in a vaccine are not going to turn you into the Mad Hatter, the personification of mercury poisoning in workers who inhaled the element continuously in early 19th century factories.

It is a legitimate concern that large numbers of the unvaccinated who become ill could infect the very young or immune compromised children and unprotected adults. The idea that unvaccinated children break down the vaccine “herd effect” is often dismissed by freedom lovers, who at the same time proclaim that

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large scale gun ownership protects those who do not own a gun from home invasions.

Our system of compulsory education makes it harder to define individual rights in cases where group rights conflict. School choice would make it easier for parents, not administrators, to control their children’s education and health environments.

The Supreme Court has ruled that only in an epidemic can the state impose drastic health measures on the public. One hundred children in 14 states is hardly an epidemic. But it has raised the vaccination issues for a national conversation, or for trending on Twitter and many likes on Facebook. On television the medical talking heads are all singing out of the same CDC hymnal. We are getting sermons, not dialogue.

The medical establishment may well be mostly right, but one side’s opinion is not a debate. Science is never completely settled, and freedom and science can coexist. Ω

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Political battles over vaccinations leave some children unprotected.

Drought disaster declared The Obama administration last week declared a natural disaster in Washoe, Clark and 10 small counties in Nevada as a result of the drought. This makes farmers and ranchers eligible for low interest emergency loans, which they may need because they face reductions in irrigation. But then, so are ranchers and farmers in the counties not designated as disaster areas—Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Storey and White Pine.

A prepared statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack read, “Our hearts go out to those Nevada farmers and ranchers affected by recent natural disasters.”

VILSACK Similar drought declarations affected more than a thousand counties in 26 states. In a prepared statement on an Idaho drought declaration, Vilsack said, “Our hearts go out to those Idaho farmers and ranchers affected by recent natural disasters.”

Angle aims at GOP leaders Sometime-Republican Sharron Angle is planning to police who can and cannot be a Republican.

In a mailing to her political action committee contributors, Angle wrote that she will try to “remove those Republican imposters. ... These ‘Republicans In Name Only’ have infected all corners of government and are capable of even more damage than Democrats, because a RINO can’t be trusted to do the right thing, ever.”

In 2014, Angle’s PAC raised $474,270 and paid out $513,976.

“Yes, Republicans won last year, but do you have faith that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell won’t cave to the president on tough issues like illegal immigration, the funding of Obamacare, and cutting the outrageous ANGLE government spending?” the mailing read further. “We don’t either. That’s why we are planning an all out assault on the weak-kneed, spineless Republican imposters who have infected our beloved Party.”

Angle is a Republican-turned-Independent American-turned Republican again. The Independent American Party was formed as the Nevada arm of George Wallace’s 1968 third party. Former GOP state chair Bob Cashell has said it is people like Angle who are RINOs. “These people claim to be Ronald Reagan conservatives, and they’re not,” he said in 2010. “I knew Ronald Reagan.

He asked me to join the Republican Party when I was a conservative Democrat, and I’m still a conservative Republican. ... The RINOs are the other people to the far, far right.”

During a 2012 campaign in Pennsylvania, Angle attacked GOP U.S. Senate candidate Steve Welch, who was supported by the state Republican Party, for party switching.

Angle has been a member of the Nye County School Board and the Nevada Legislature. In 2010, with the help of Democrat Harry Reid, she won the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. In that race, Angle was one of the lesser candidates in the GOP primary running against frontrunner Sue Lowden. Reid wanted to run against one of the minor candidates, and his campaign launched fierce attacks on Lowden in advance of the primary.

Lowden’s numbers started falling and Angle was the beneficiary, winning the primary with 40.09 percent of the vote. Reid then won a comfortable 5.74 margin over Angle.

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Bad information spreads like disease Vaccinating parents stay mostly silent in face of anti-vaccine movement State legislators last week were briefed by state health officials on vaccination issues, but say they plan no action by to deal with a decline in the number Dennis Myers of parents getting their children inoculated against various diseases.

Assembly Health and Human Services Committee chair James Oscarson said the session with health officials was held mainly to let the public know that legislators are “paying attention.”

“They grew up in an era when there were no deadly diseases—because they’d been vaccinated.”

Jim Richardson Sociologist One measure, Senate Bill 117, has been introduced that would expand vaccination requirements to include inoculations for human papillomavirus and meningitis.

From Vermont to California, state legislators are considering measures to deal with the failure of a minority of parents to have their children vaccinated. Repeal of religious and personal belief exemptions are being proposed in Maine and California legislatures, while those in Montana and New York are considering making those exemptions more permissive.

A surprise was that Mississippi has

the best record of vaccinations—99.7 percent in both public and private schools. Only 140 students are not inoculated. The state has a very strict law that allows few exemptions— though local legislators are now trying to water that law down.

By contrast, Nevada has a 90.4 percent vaccination rate, according to the legislative briefing last week.

In 2010, 9,120 cases of pertussis—whooping cough—were reported in California, the highest number in 63 years. Initially this outbreak was attributed to factors like “waning immunity of acellular pertussis vaccines and other explanations including large birth cohorts of susceptible infants, increased detection of cases, and the possibility of genetic changes in circulating strain,” but a 2013 study in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics later found that “communities with large numbers of intentionally unvaccinated or undervaccinated persons can lead to pertussis outbreaks. In the presence of limited vaccine effectiveness and waning immunity, sustained community-level transmission can occur, putting those who are most susceptible to communicable diseases, such as young infants, at increased risk.”

Whooping cough, which can cause death, had declined to 20 or 30 cases in the nation each year. In Nevada alone in 2013, there were 22 cases.

The same study of the California outbreak, using census tracts, found that a failure of parents to vaccinate children happens most often in upscale households.

“In California, both NME [nonmedical exemptions from vaccination requirements] and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.”

While there is considerable folklore about the “dangers” of vaccination, there is no scientific basis for it.

Self-deception Why do people buy into dumb stuff?

One reason appears to be that the virtue of listening to all points of view seems to be passing away right before our eyes. In some cases, that means people are never exposed to accurate information—because they shield themselves from it. Nevada sociologist James Richardson said self-reinforcing “enclaves,” whether cultural, political or religious, are developing in society.

They create their own stores of information.

“They get caught up in some cultural subgroup and they can kind of self-actuate there,” said Richardson.

“You get caught up in the group and you only talk to them, and they only talk to you, and they reinforce each other’s beliefs. You get in this culde-sac or enclave and build up these walls and it only gets broken down if something dramatic happens, like this [vaccination crisis].”

Parents who do vaccinate but remain silent—though they represent the majority—have a role in the spread of misinformation. In an interview last week with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Immunize Nevada director Heidi Parker said, “The small amount that don’t believe in that [vaccination] are very vocal, while most parents who are vaccinating don’t speak up. It’s important for those parents to speak up and show their support for vaccinating.

We need those positive voices.”

“If you’re satisfied, you don’t speak up,” Richardson said. “They’ve got other things to worry about until somebody really hits them between the eyes with a two by four, and they find their kids’ playmates are unvaccinated. … Then they become alarmed that their kids are having to interact with unvaccinated children.”

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Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, has written in Scientific American that people responding to anecdotes instead of evidence can cause people to miss health risks—“[W]e have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false positives (believing there is a connection between A and B when there is not) are usually harmless, whereas false negatives (believing there is no connection between A and B when there is) may take you out of the gene pool. … So it is that any medical huckster promising that A will cure B has only to advertise a handful of successful anecdotes in the form of testimonials.” Cue convicted con artist Kevin Trudeau, whose infomercials have played plenty of times on Reno television stations.

People can also be misled by people who deliberately spread bad information. While it may seem unusual or unlikely, Nevada has had plenty of experience with it. Atomic Energy Commission scientists in the 1950s and ’60s trivialized fallout dangers from atomic testing when they knew otherwise. Former U.S. House member Jim Gibbons once put his name on a report that cherrypicked the science in order to describe mercury as more or less harmless (“Mercury rising,” RN&R, Jan. 19, 2006). When she was a member of the Nevada Legislature, Sharron Angle cherry-picked scientific studies on whether there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. She cited the few studies that supported the notion and ignored the far more numerous studies that rejected the claim (“Dr.

“ We have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false positives are usually harmless.”

Michael Shermer Scientific American Angle’s prescription,” RN&R, July 24, 2010).

In the case of vaccinations, a 1998 paper in the British medical journal Lancet suggested a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism and bowel disease. The article gave birth to the anti-vaccination movement, but it was deeply flawed and most of its authors later repudiated it, as did Lancet, but lead author Andrew Wakefield—who had an undisclosed financial stake in the paper’s findings—continued promoting its conclusions and was eventually expelled from the British medical register.

Another reason for acceptance of anti-vaccine folklore is that parents who were born in the 1960s or later have not seen the dramatic impact of vaccines on diseases that were ravaging the population. Those born in the late 1940s, for instance, have vivid memories of polio stricken children in leg braces or iron lungs in the 1950s, something that they watched slowly disappear under the impact of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. It was a powerful lesson. Later generations did not have those experiences.

“They grew up in an era when there were no deadly diseases— because they’d been vaccinated,” Richardson said. Ω

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Meteorologists have a vivid term for the sort of storm we had during the first weekend of February: an atmospheric river. The rain certainly brought Reno a welcome drink, but probably hasn’t made much difference as far by Georgia Fisher as the current drought is concerned.

“These are the kind of events our area really depends on to build up georgiaf@ our water supply,” said Jeff Anderson, a hydrologist with the USDA’s newsreview.c om Natural Resources Conservation Service. “It’s just unfortunate that this one’s a little too warm. The precipitation will certainly help, but it’s probably not going to boost our snowpack numbers too much.”

Both water supply and snow “look pretty dire right now,” he said before the storm rolled in, citing a January which by many accounts was record-breaking.

Since the early 1980s, 24 NRCS data stations have measured snowpack in the Sierra. Last month, 20 of those were the driest they’ve ever been, and the rest showed the second-driest numbers ever recorded.

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Each year Internet hackers steal millions of people’s credit-card info, Social Security numbers, passwords and more.

Why can’t anyone stop them?

BY CHRIS PARKER our cars drive themselves and our appliances are connected to the web, yet even today’s relatively simple networks can’t remain secure.

What’s going to happen when the number of network access points increases a millionfold?

“This is a problem that has been building in magnitude and potential harm for 40 years,” said Julie Ryan, a George Washington University informational security researcher. “It only recently got so tightly coupled and so intertwined in our normal everyday life that it started becoming a problem of enormous significance.”

Good luck trying to apply a comprehensive fix.

“Up until now, there has been very little incentive for commercial businesses to spend an awful lot of time and money getting into security,” Ryan said.

The latest government numbers suggest about 17 million Americans suffered identity theft last year, or about 7 percent of those over age 16—with a total loss at about $25 billion.

Fraud has doubled in the United States over the past seven years, and cybercrime has increased across the board. According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report, the

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number of detected information security breaches globally has increased by half over the past year.

The extent of network security problems has been put into sharper focus over the past 18 months, beginning with Edward Snowden’s revelations on the pervasiveness of state-sponsored spying and cybershenanigans of the sort hinted at by the Stuxnet worm that hit Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.

This was followed by 2013’s series of holiday retail thefts at Michaels, Neiman Marcus, Target and other retailers of more than 40 million credit-card numbers, the largest theft until the Home Depot breach in April.

The Home Depot and Target hackers found their way onto the retailers’ systems by acquiring a third-party vendor’s credentials—in the case of Target, from a Pennsylvania heating, ventilation and air-conditioning company. Once inside, they were able to use vulnerabilities in Windows to load malware onto the point-of-sale terminals that scan personal cards.

Thereafter, every card scan was recorded and secretly published online for the thieves to scoop up.

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open-source researchers see malware that targets the POS terminals that retailers use for swiping cards,” said Richard Stiennon, author of Surviving Cyberwar. “Retailers ignored that information because they weren’t looking for it. They’re just not looking outwards at new threats.”

And it’s no longer just big-box retailers facing such threats. In the past several months other POS malware has been discovered at more than a thousand commercial businesses.

The cyberthreat is hardly limited to retail. In September 2013, a Russian group started holding personal computers hostage with malware dubbed CryptoLocker. The software freezes the victim’s computer unless the correct key is entered.

More than a half-million individuals and companies were struck, including a Massachusetts police station that paid a $750 ransom to remedy the situation before European law enforcement arrested the Russian perpetrators in May. Individuals aren’t the only targets of such cyber-ransoms. In June, Nokia acknowledged that several years earlier, a blackmailer had acquired the encryption key for its Symbian smartphone |

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ast year didn’t end on a high note for Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was famously hacked recently and had sensitive internal files compromised.

Five movies—four of them unreleased—were leaked along with personal data, including executive salaries, release schedules, employee criminal background checks and passwords (kept securely in a directory titled “passwords”). As a result, the company’s entire network was shut down, and employees couldn’t use their computers or laptops for more than a week.

While there were some resulting high-profile scandals—embarrassing emails, shocking financial revelations— the most notable consequence, perhaps, was Sony’s initial decision to delay its theatrical release of The Interview, Seth Rogen and James Franco’s “political” comedy about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, amid fears that its system had been infiltrated by North Korean hackers.

The irony of the Sony Pictures situation, however, is that its leaky security was exposed three years ago by two Arizona men in concert with LulzSec (Lulz Security) leader-turned-stoolie Sabu, a.k.a. Hector Xavier Monsegur.

Then, the group released names, emails and passwords of 75,000 people.

Raynaldo Rivera, 20, and Cody Kretsinger, 24, were convicted in 2013, sent to prison for 12 months and ordered to pay $605,663.67 in restitution to cover Sony’s associated costs, including a full security overhaul that doesn’t appear worth the money spent.

The Sony Pictures mishap is only the latest in a disquieting trend of highprofile computer incursions, from the Home Depot and Target to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Apple’s iCloud.

Nearly everywhere we turn, our personal information, photos and credit-card information are getting compromised.

In September, the Home Depot revealed that a cyber-attack in April had exposed more than 50 million customer credit cards and email addresses.

Consumer information never has been more imperiled, and yet very little is getting done to address the issue. In fact, although identity theft runs rampant, fraud seems little more than an entry in the ledger for companies that write it off as a business expense.

“Identity theft is kind of like flu deaths,” said Mark Patton, a University of Arizona computer researcher. “We freak about one Ebola death, but just accept the fact that 40,000 people a year die of the flu. We’re just so used to identity theft that we’ve stopped putting out screaming headlines.”

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and threatened to reveal the source code. This would’ve been disastrous, making it simple for hackers to find its vulnerabilities and subsequently load customers’ phones with malware. Nokia teamed with the Finnish police, and the code never was released. But the perpetrator still got away with millions in ransom money.

Perhaps the most disturbing revelation came in August when it was discovered that hackers had infiltrated JPMorgan Chase’s computer networks, acquired high-level security access and moved about the system undetected for two months. Nine other financial institutions were also infiltrated, including Fidelity Investments. Only a hacker slipup (using the same IP address for attacks on different Chase servers) outed them and prevented an eventual breach of the bank’s accounts system.

Still, the hackers made off with personal (but not account) information of 83 million individuals and businesses, as well as a catalog of every program run on JPMorgan’s computers.

The hackers can check that list against known vulnerabilities to find other means of access. JPMorgan now is in the process of switching out all its software.

The attackers made use of previously unknown vulnerabilities (also called “zero-day” exploits), which suggests greater proficiency than the run-of-themill hacker, and the possibility of state sponsorship. Indeed, there are indications they’re part of an extensive Russian cybercriminal underground with ties to the Russian government. This and uncertainty over the hackers’ motivations has even the White House spooked.

“The question kept coming back, ’Is this plain old theft or is [Russian President Vladimir] Putin retaliating [for sanctions]?’” a White House senior official told The New York Times in October. “And the answer was, ‘We don’t know for sure.’”

Such news doesn’t exactly fill consumers with shopping confidence.

“I would have to say right now that we’re losing the war in terms of security,” Patton said.

Network war games Every few months, there are reports of newfound software vulnerabilities.

In April, there was Heartbleed, a coding bug that could reveal previous website users’ passwords and encryption keys. Some called it “catastrophic.”

It was patched, but then, in September, came Shellshock, which the National Institute of Standards in Technology rated 10 out of 10 in terms of severity.

You need only access an infected website to be attacked with malware, and there is little that can be done to ensure a site isn’t compromised or to protect yourself if it is.

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How did we get in such a mess?

Some of it is endemic to the complexity of creating computers and software, especially without the same agreed-upon standards and practices.

Not only are there millions of lines of code, but the programs need to be compatible with a whole universe of programs and platforms. In the case of the Shellshock bug, it was legacy code around for years that hadn’t been properly debugged, and the error went unnoticed.

This doesn’t surprise Raynaldo Rivera, one of the original Sony Pictures hackers who lives in Phoenix and now works in game development.

“Who really wants to look at old batch code all day?” Rivera asked.

“That’s what it comes down to. I could create something cool and new, or I could stare at old code and hope I get something.”

Security was an afterthought for most companies through the millennium, in part because there were so few people who really understood network security.

Indeed, security analyst Richard Stiennon reports that the U.S. government has spent the past 14 years developing a network-centered warfare platform with an informational grid, sensors and precision-guided munitions without giving any thought to the network’s security.

“When they started designing it, security by obscurity was good: The Chinese are not going to get a hold of our software. So even if they down one of our jets, it will be hard as hell for them to compromise them,” Stiennon said. “Since then, the Chinese have stolen the design data for a dozen weapons platforms, airplanes and missiles systems. Odds are, if they stole the software, they can find the vulnerabilities.”

Network security really began to change thanks to computer enthusiasts and a predecessor of Anonymous, called Cult of the Dead Cow. The group was deeply involved in network security and released a series of tools around the millennium to probe networks for holes and vulnerabilities.

It also inaugurated a style of network war games where teams would compete to break into each other’s computers.

It’s by now a well-established given in the industry that those best at network security generally have spent significant time trying to break into systems.

Rivera took part in similar network security “games” while in high school.

“Some schools claim they can teach it, but really they don’t for the most part; all they’re doing at best is guiding,” said Rivera, who attended the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Ariz., before his arrest.

“Most people in network security have experimented themselves, or had someone who knew something help them out,” he said.

The tools were released publicly in the early 2000s, with the intent of making them available to any administrator interested in testing their network security. Since then, they’ve also been taken advantage of by those with more nefarious intentions. In fact, the tools have evolved dramatically in the past few years to the point where they’re not only widely available but pretty much point and click, giving rise to what are known as “script kiddies.”

Rivera said, “A script kiddie is an individual who doesn’t understand the underlying technology. They download scripts that can attack these servers without having to know anything about it. They just know that if they put the URL in this thing and push go, they’ll get some outcome if it’s vulnerable.”

Added Ryan, “You can go online and find a virus-creation tool that you can, with zero knowledge whatsoever, simply point and click and design a malicious software tool, and you can find forums that talk about this stuff and enthusiasts who don’t intend to do bad things but are just really interested in understanding how things work and are motivated to share information with each other.”

These are what are known as “gray hat” hackers, because the allegiances aren’t as cut and dried. A white hat works in security, and a black hat typically is motivated solely by profit.

Gray hats often act out of a (perhaps misplaced) sense of justice. They’ve been involved in releasing information about software vulnerabilities and bugs publicly, sometimes rationalizing it as necessary to ensure quick action.

This is an unfortunate riptide in the ongoing security crisis. Gray hats serve a very important function of exposing weaknesses for the sake of it rather than quietly profiting and letting bugs proliferate (essentially the NSA’s approach).

Perhaps because of the difficulty of catching devious black hat hackers, law enforcement has focused more on the gray hats, whose greatest crime oftentimes is little more than criminal mischief.

Meanwhile, an empire has grown up around the illegal exploits of the black hats. It boasts a sprawling infrastructure of hyperspecialized con men offering their skill and wares on underground bays, on sites hidden by Tor, a browser that protects users’ anonymity.

Sites such as Swiped traffic wholesale in credit cards and identities at anywhere from a quarter to 100 bucks for freshly stolen cards. (Indeed, security companies watch these sites to determine whether their clients have been hacked.) An entire production chain has developed to diffuse risk among the bad actors.

From Russia with love Many of those trafficking in stolen cards live in Russia. One of the most notorious hackers, who goes by the name Rescator, is said to have sold over 5 million credit cards between December 2013 and February 2014 alone—all allegedly booty from last year’s Target hack.

Though the FBI knows the identities of some of the perpetrators, it’s had little luck bringing them to justice.

“The reason there aren’t very many criminal prosecutions for cybercrime is that it’s difficult to pursue crossjurisdictional prosecution.”

In 2008 and 2009, the FBI made its own run at Russian hackers, sparked by what was described as “unprecedented cooperation” from the Russians. In the end, nothing came of it—at least for this country.

U.S. officials suspect the Russians used the FBI to identify promising hacking talent that could be recruited to do the state’s bidding, presumably in exchange for looking the other way at felonious activities, which they judiciously keep outside Russian borders.

According to Ryan, many Russian hackers are former scientists and mathematicians who found themselves out of work when the Soviet Union fell.

The rise of state-sponsored cybercrime is a particularly worrisome aspect of the current environment.

Iran created its own cyberarmy, with which it’s expressed a desire to get vengeance on the United States and Israel for their roles in unleashing the Stuxnet worm upon the country’s nuclear centrifuges. A report published recently suggested that Iran’s cyberarmy was involved in at least 50 attacks in more than 16 countries, including a San Diego Marine Corps computer network.

The same uncertainty surrounding state-sponsored attacks afflicts the commercial world as well, because nobody likes to admit that they’ve been hacked. (Note that the eight other financial institutions struck along with JPMorgan remain unnamed.) Banks have conflicting interests in confessing the level of threat.

“They’re very carefully not telling anybody else because they don’t want to make it look too big so that other people are encouraged to jump on the bandwagon,” Patton said. “But they also don’t want to lie and make it sound like it’s smaller than it is.”

While we have a pretty good handle on the amount of identity theft out there, bank-fraud losses are harder to figure.

This fuzziness plays a role in capitalization. If you don’t really know how much potential loss is out there or how much you’re already preventing, then how can you possibly determine your all-important return on investment?

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and retailers use a risk-management approach that examines vulnerabilities and exposure and calculates a number— as they do with the financial markets.

Then they’ll either invest more to change the number or buy more insurance. That’s a problem for Stiennon.

“It doesn’t work that way in cyber.

You can’t know what your exposure is because that attacker is not going to give up. So even if you’re perfectly patched, the attacker will just use a zero-day vulnerability,” he said. “Banks in general in the United States have been focusing too much on risk models and not enough on threat models.”

Maybe that’s because it’s not the hacked institutions that bear the cost of the illegal egress, but their customers. Insurance ultimately covered a substantial portion of Target’s exposure, leaving it with a pre-tax bill of about $140 million, or 0.2 percent of last year’s $73.7 billion in revenue.

“It’s you and me who pay the cost,” Ryan said. “Every time a successful exploit is done, a fraction of a cent is added to the cost of things that we buy, or a fraction of a cent in a credit-card fee. Yeah, there is some bad publicity, but in the end, the cost is a pass-through to the consumer.”

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different attack vectors [so] now it’s back at [the original level],” he said.

“Chip-and-PIN is not the solution.”

Of course, that’s just human nature.

If there’s a way to make money, people will figure it out, and if there’s a way to monetize shady cyberbehavior, certain people will find it.

Whatever the developments, few believe these security problems will be solved quickly. Rather, Patton says most institutions price it into operating costs.

“The stuff that’s happening, it’s expensive, but it’s not like it’s going anywhere. So people are getting creditcard information and they’re selling it.

And the financial institutions have a budget to absorb a certain amount of loss every year,” he said.

Some of the issue is built into the incentive system. If it’s hard to see the advantage, it’s hard to invest.

Unfortunately, those capable of addressing the issue of computer fraud—banks and retailers—have little incentive to make costly changes when the fraud’s already covered by consumers.

“Not only do the cardholders not know what it’s costing them, even if they were able to create savings, it wouldn’t be passed through to [them],” Patton said.

For their part, the credit-card companies herald the incipient arrival of chip-andPIN-style credit, debit and ATM cards.

Instead of just a metallic strip, these cards have an embedded microchip and are authenticated by entering the personal identification number. (Other “smart cards” are chip-and-signature.)

It makes it very hard to clone the card, but it requires merchants to add whole new point-of-sale terminals for all their registers at $500 apiece.

America is the last major country to abandon the magnetic strip. The rollout begins in earnest next year, ahead of the major U.S. credit-card issuers’ October 2015 deadline. Experts say stores won’t be ready in time, but they have an incentive—after the deadline, liability for fraud shifts to the least compliant party, merchants.

Unfortunately, chip-and-PIN is not the panacea it may once have been.

Patton, the University of Arizona computer researcher, saw a British bank’s presentation at a security conference in the Netherlands a couple of months ago.

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Julie Ryan security researcher

This is the idea that resonates most with Ryan. Noting the indifference with which security has been handled and the general unwillingness of companies to heavily invest, she suggests we insist that everyone who safeguards personal information, creates software or operates networks has a little more skin in the game.

“I’m hoping a new generation of lawyers will develop a legal strategy of negligence and liability, because that’s the only thing that I believe will really change the culture,” she said. Ω

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here are fewer than 10 native speakers of the Washo language left on Earth. If one speaker were to die tomorrow, the impact on the language would be approximately the equivalent of 100 million Spanish speakers dying at once, or 20 million German speakers. Words that were spoken for millennia in this part of the world are at risk of vanishing, their pronunciation and use incomprehensible to generations that will continue to live and use this land.

The name of the language has been spelled many different ways over the years.

For simplicity’s sake, we’ll use the one that has historically been the most common, Washo. We’re using the more familiar spelling, Washoe, to indicate the tribe’s name because that’s the tribe’s preference. You can learn how to speak Washo. Classes are held in Reno, Carson City, Gardnerville and Alpine County, Monday through Friday. According to Michelle Dressler, adult attendance has been waning.

“We’re at a critical point,” said Dressler. “We were one of the last tribes to get contacted. A lot was lost in a short amount of time.”

From the Sierra Nevada crest in the West, to the first range east of the Sierra Nevada, the Washo language has been spoken since the Neolithic period.

General consensus points to 6,000 years of residence in this region, predating the Paiutes and Shoshones.

For scale, European settlements have been here nearly 150 years; less than 3 percent of the time that the Washoe have been building their language and culture around this area.

Dressler and Herman Fillmore run the Washo Language Class in Dresslerville, an Indian Colony five miles south of Gardnerville. The room is decorated with colorful drawings, pictures of local flora and fauna. It looks like any elementary school classroom.

The bright construction paper is just as helpful to beginning adult learners as it is to young children.

If you give him the chance, Fillmore will take you on the journey of the Washo language without any hesitation. Part of the mood in his class is an urgency to get the language out into the world, but the other is a genuine love of his culture and a desire to share it. In spite of the grim outlook for the language, the lessons are very lighthearted and fun.

Despite being two of the preeminent teachers of Washo, Dressler and Fillmore consider themselves learners, rather than fluent speakers.

They agree that language and culture are inexorably bound.

If one were to go extinct, the other would follow. To them, Washo culture without the native language would just be a charade, a Native American variety show. Contained within the words of the tribe are not just traditional activities, but key concepts in their cultural outlook.

To Fillmore, the entire attitude of how his people treat one another is contained within the language. He explains that the tribe has nothing of the Western concept of “please” and “thank you.” There are only commands, no requests.

Once someone has fulfilled the demand, the customary response doesn’t include any degree of gratitude. It’s merely stated that the helper has done his or her duty— what’s expected.

“The respect is implied,” said Fillmore. “We don’t express gratitude because, if you did it for me, then it must mean that you respect me. We let the actions speak instead of the words.”

Additionally, words for emotional attachment to people are sparse, relying on demonstration rather than explanation. The Washo word galam, which means “to

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want,” can be modified with suffixes and prefixes, until it becomes mi-galamšemuyi: “the one I prefer the Herman Fillmore most.”

“This encounter is the unfamiliar closest words and word we phrases while have to listening to ‘love,’ d’Azevedo’s because recordings, as we believe well as others love is HERMAN FILLMORE AND MIcHELLE DREssLER made as recently as shown, not the 1950s. spoken,” Fillmore Dressler and Fillmore explained. grew up in a full immersion Many words for human program that allowed them a body parts also double as parts of degree of fluency. They teach the natural world. The word di maš tribal children, as well as others means “my face,” but a form of the from nearby Pau-Wa-Lu Middle word that includes a brief pause (di School who venture there during ma-š) denotes the “pine-nut land” lunch break. where sustenance was gathered.

Dressler says they get some Within this slight distinction lies backlash from tribal youth, who the implication that one should treat want to speak English like their the environment the way one would peers. Some know the words, but treat one’s own face. are too shy to use them. Attempts Washo has countless ways of have been made to introduce a describing the human body as a Washo language program into microcosm of the natural world.

Washoe County schools, but, Children are taught their body according to Fillmore, the papers parts as parts of the tree—arms tend to get lost in the governing as branches, clothes as bark. The system. word for “cheek” also describes “I’m afraid that if I don’t teach the berries of the Pinyon Pine, it, no one will,” said Fillmore.

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For now, the survival of the Washo language hangs by a thread. Its only hope is in finding willing learners. Yet Fillmore The late anthropologist Warren advises caution, after a few experid’Azevedo detailed much of the ences with learners who ignored Washoe relationship to the land the cultural context in favor of while working as a professor at the their own image of the Washoe: University of Nevada, Reno. At women who want to give their the time, there was a limited scope children Washo names, or freeof documentation of the language. spirited types who want to play An early written representation of Indian and capture a minimum of Washo came from Roma James the language in order to fulfill a in the 1920s, in the form of a misguided fantasy. journal of stories that detailed the “If we only worry about tribe’s way of life. There was no preserving the language, then we written form of the language at risk losing the connection to the the time, so he mostly adapted the place and the worldview which International Phonetic Alphabet to Washo represents as a living suit his purpose. language,” said Fillmore.

It was d’Azevedo’s primary Fillmore and Dressler enthugoal to capture sound bites of the siastically encourage anyone language. It wasn’t until UNR to come learn, while stressing linguistics professor William that a respect for the culture and Jacobson Jr. encountered the tradition should be acknowledged Washoe that an official tribal beforehand. alphabet and grammar was “Come and learn,” said devised, which is still used today.

Dressler. “Washo language is at Despite the revitalization the brink of extinction, and you efforts, untold swaths of words and have the opportunity to do somestories are lost to history. Dressler thing to help us strengthen our states that even now, tribal elders communities for the future.” Ω

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Moving images Third Coast Dance Film Festival There is a small cross-section of people who follow dance and study film with the same by degree of tunnel vision. And when these Josie Luciano two art forms intersect, practitioners of the dance film genre always say the same thing. Dance film is an emergent art—it’s neither traditional film nor straightforward performance. Drawing from conventional cinematography, dance film uses the camera to reveal something that’s not possible in real life, then takes it a step further by pairing For more information, the filmmaker’s gaze with the power of visit thirdcoastdance a dancer’s body to evoke feelings that filmfestival.wordpress. often go undetected by language. com. Tickets are $7 or To the layperson who is neither an $5 for students/NMA expert in dance nor a great connoisseur members. of film, dance film is an entry point for both. On Feb. 12 at 6 p.m., the Nevada Museum of Art will screen the Third Coast Dance Film Festival for the first time in Reno.

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When she started Third Coast five years ago in Houston, it was partly a response to the lack of opportunity for small-time filmmakers. Year after year, Trump would watch as local films were passed over for Hollywood productions at major film festivals around the country. It was always something noteworthy when a regional director would make the cut, and Trump couldn’t help but feel that both the filmmakers and audiences were getting a raw deal. Third Coast now encourages entries that value presence over dollars. The resulting line-up is a reflection of this low-budget, highimpact aesthetic.

Of the 150 entries submitted, only 19 shorts will be screened. The films vary in length from 2 to 10 minutes and run the gamut of subject matter.

Highlights include a clever short that simply features a man dancing alone in a German theater, appropriately titled, Alone? In The Theater! Another film,

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In these films, the directors are often the choreographers. Most of them are also new to interpreting dance for the camera. Although there are challenges, there is a certain appeal in adapting dance for film.

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This time-shifting is prominent in the film Nearby Far. This black-and-white picture was shot as a time-lapse sequence against a backdrop of Oregon sanddunes. Throughout the 10-minute feature, dancers rise and fall, at times moving gracefully and at other times tumbling through an imposing environment, never quite getting up to human speed.

Without a screening, these beautiful films are only available online. Being able to view them in person is a treat that the museum was happy to oblige.

Colin Robertson, the museum’s Curator of Education, sees this collaboration as a natural extension of the NMA’s identity as a museum of ideas: “[The festival] combines two art forms that don’t have a platform in Reno, and places them in front.” Ω

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Persistence of memory Still Alice Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease steals the mind of a very smart woman in Still Alice, a movie that is sure to garner Julianne Moore her first Academy Award. She plays Alice, a professor at Columbia University who leads a very organized and regimented life of lectures, dinner parties and runs in the park. Alice starts forgetting words here and there, and by then proceeds to lose her place in lectures.

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At first, Alice thinks she has a brain tumor. But some memory tests suggest to her neurologist (Stephen Kunken) that something else could be causing her difficulties. After a series of brain scans, the conclusion is made: Alice has Alzheimer’s.

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Alice, her husband, John (Alec Baldwin), and her children are horrified to discover their matriarch, a brilliant woman, will rapidly lose her memory, her sense of self, and her ability to recognize her own children. She actually has a rare strain of Alzheimer’s that’s familial, meaning that there’s a good chance she has passed the possibility of the disease onto her three children, Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tom (Hunter Parrish) and Lydia (Kristen Stewart).

As you have perhaps guessed, this is not a fun movie to watch, but it is a remarkable one in that Moore and the entire cast take this one way above the level of your average disease-of-the-week movie. Moore is one of the world’s very best actresses, and she makes Alice a palpable representation of this horrible disease.

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The script, based on a novel by Lisa Genova and written by co-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, avoids most of the melodrama that tends to mar films about illnesses. They present a very real family going through total devastation, but handling the process with dignity, class and love for Alice. It’s all very moving.

The much maligned and highly underrated Kristen Stewart is perhaps the supporting cast standout as the young daughter trying to make it as an actress.

Alice beckons her to attend college, but Lydia steadfastly refuses, an argument that becomes very awkward when Alice becomes ill. Stewart is spot-on in her portrayal of a young woman determined to follow her dreams, but also driven by the need to help her mother.

Baldwin takes a very quiet approach to the husband, a subtle performance that reminds us that he’s a great dramatic actor.

John still feels the need to protect and provide for his family, even if that takes him away from Alice for a new opportunity. It creates one of the film’s central conflicts, and John’s decisions will be a subject for debate for those who see the movie.

Moore and Baldwin have great scenes together, especially when Alice reveals her illness to her children.

Baldwin’s reactions to his wife’s progressive memory loss, a mixture of sadness and shock, are painful to watch. Moore and Baldwin make the image of two people in love sitting in a yogurt shop totally devastating.

Moore gives us a deep, fully realized, multi-dimensional performance that never overdoes the sentiment or feels trite. Alice is a woman who prides herself on her encyclopedic knowledge for teaching, and exhibits nothing but grace as that knowledge is rapidly stripped away. Credit Moore for making every step of Alice’s tribulations seem honest and credible.

So, yes, Moore will get her first Oscar with her fifth nomination, and she very much deserves it. There were some great nominated performances this year—especially Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl and Reese Witherspoon for Wild—but Moore outshines the class. It’s Golden Boy time for Moore. Ω

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American Sniper

While Clint Eastwood’s film has plenty of problems, Bradley Cooper rises above the patchy melodrama and overly slick segments with his portrayal of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Kyle holds the American sniper record of 160 confirmed kills, and was killed by a veteran he was trying to mentor on a shooting range.

The film works best when depicting Kyle at work in Iraq, constructing some very tense battle scenes and sequences as seen through Kyle’s riflescope. There’s a subplot involving an enemy sniper named Mustafa (Sammy Sheik) that feels like an entirely different movie. For some reason, Eastwood employs a showier style in the scenes involving Mustafa, which feel a bit false and artificial alongside the movie’s grittier moments. Saddled with the film’s worst dialogue, Sienna Miller battles hard in trying to make Kyle’s wife, Taya, an intriguing movie character. Cooper, who physically transformed himself for the role, does an excellent job of conveying the difficulties and stress that Kyle’s job entailed. He’s an actor forever taking risks and challenging himself, and he’s a big reason to see this movie.

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A Most Violent Year

While the cast and crew do admirable work, the script and pacing render this movie a near miss rather than the solid outing it could’ve been. Considering the talent on hand, that’s a bit of a shame. The film is a shining example of art direction, and one that boasts a firecracker cast with the likes of Oscar Isaac, Albert Brooks and Jessica Chastain. Set in New York in 1981, it certainly has the look of early ‘80s Manhattan—I lived half an hour outside of Manhattan at the time, so I know—it’s just not a crack example of storytelling. Writer-director J.C. Chandor (All is Lost) takes a slow-burn look at the life of Abel Morales (Isaac), a fuel company owner trying to grow bigger in the face of lawsuits and constant criminal attacks on his truck drivers.

The film opens with one driver (Elyes Gabel) getting hijacked outside an NYC tollbooth, and he suffers through a vicious beating. His story becomes one of the threads that run throughout the movie. I’ve watched the film twice, and it simply doesn’t stand up well on a second viewing. Despite how real it looks, and some credible moments and performances, the film ultimately comes up a little dull and implausible.

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Black or White

Kevin Costner plays a widower fighting for the custody of his black granddaughter (Jillian Estell) in this dopey, misguided and frequently offensive movie. Costner gets to be drunk for most of the movie, and it’s unintentionally funny. He and the rest of the cast are forced to play stereotypes in what adds up to a big pile of embarrassing nothing.

It sometimes flirts with meaningfulness, but it degenerates into your typical courtroom drama where a bunch of jerks fight for the right to raise a precocious child. The whole thing feels dishonest, even straining for laughter in extremely inappropriate ways. Costner stumbles around, Octavia Spencer shakes her head a lot, and we face palm ourselves for over two hours. By the time the Costner character’s dead wife’s ghost goes for a late night swim, the film has become a complete disaster.

It’s surprising to me that anything like this makes it past direct-to-video and actually hits movie screens. The film is as simple-minded as its title.

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Foxcatcher

Steve Carell disappears into the role of John du Pont, the crazy rich guy who took it upon himself to shoot and kill one of the wrestlers on a team he created. Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo are heartbreakingly good as Mark and David Schultz, two Olympic gold medal-winning siblings who, unfortunately, worked for du Pont when he had his breakdown. Down on his luck and living on ramen noodles, Mark gets a call from du Pont inviting him out to his Foxcatcher farm. Mark finds a sense of purpose working with du Pont, and eventually summons his brother and his family to Foxcatcher. What follows is a descent into insanity for the attention-starved du Pont, who lives under the chastising eye of his mother (Vanessa Redgrave) and is obsessed with controlling others. The madness eventually ended with the death of one of the brothers, and du Pont living his final years

in prison. Carell is amazingly good here; one only need watch a few minutes of the real du Pont on YouTube to know that he has nailed the characterization. Tatum and Ruffalo are equally good as the confused brothers. Mark Schultz is currently protesting director Bennett Miller’s portrayal of him in the film, and he might be in the right on a few aspects of that portrayal. Still, it’s a great film that leaves an appropriately sick feeling in the stomach.

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The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, who helped win the war against the Nazis when he and others invented a machine capable of breaking the Enigma code. Morten Tyldum’s film, while a tad cumbersome at times, does do a good job of illustrating the impossible odds Turing and his team were up against in trying to decipher the code. Keira Knightley (who had a nice 2014 with this and Begin Again), Matthew Goode and Charles Dance contribute to a strong supporting cast. Cumberbatch portrays Turing as a disagreeable, unlikeable social outcast who just happened to play a huge part in saving the free world thanks to his talent for solving puzzles. The film also delves into some of the more controversial times in Turing’s life, and sometimes the order of things gets a little confusing. Cumberbatch keeps the whole thing afloat with a typically strong performance.

3

Paddington

This one got pushed out of 2014, which had me worried it was worthy of the junk heap. As things turn out, this mixed animation treatment of the character created by Michael Bond is actually cute. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, a Peruvian bear who travels to England looking for a home. He winds up in the abode of the Browns, where he quickly takes to causing major damage, creating a little marital strife for Mr. and Mrs. Brown (a delightful Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins). Nicole Kidman has a lot of fun as the film’s villain, determined to trap and stuff Paddington. The movie has plenty of British charm, a couple of really good jokes, and the likes of Kidman, Bonneville and Hawkins in top form. As for Paddington himself, he looks pretty good, a solid animated creation mixed in neatly with real actors and actresses.

5

Selma

David Oyelowo portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in director Ava DuVernay’s stunning depiction of the civil rights march on Selma, Alabama, in 1965. It’s one of 2014’s most accomplished directorial efforts. In an attempt to gain equal voting rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the march despite violent opposition from citizens and law enforcement officers. The film covers everything from MLK’s dealings with President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to the bewildering, despicable actions of then Alabama Governor George Wallace (an evil Tim Roth).

Oyelowo delivers a star-making performance as King, while Carmen Ejogo excels in the role of Coretta Scott King for a second time. (She played the role in a 2001 TV movie, Boycott.)

The very British Wilkinson and Roth do well with their accents and create memorable characterizations. This is one of those films everybody should see.

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Things go bad for the sea creatures of Bikini Bottom when the hallowed secret formula for the Krabby Patty goes missing. The undersea home falls into a deep apocalypse with everybody wearing leather, and it’s up to SpongeBob and some of his cohorts to go above water and get the recipe back. The film is typical zany SpongeBob when it’s underwater, rendered in traditional animation (albeit 3-D). When they go above water, it’s a different story. Live action and CGI mix in a way that’s visually fun, but a little spastic at times. Still, there’s a spirit to the movie that’s always alive, and some great random humor (Bubbles the Future Dolphin is definitely a highlight).

Antonio Banderas has some fun as a goofy pirate looking to start his own food truck using his pirate ship. SpongeBob fans won’t be disappointed, although they will probably enjoy the underwater scenes more than the flashier live action sequences.

For the record Buxom Records It’s a scene many musicians might be familiar with. Long nights locked in the basement, microphone cables and instruby Matt Bieker ments crowding the room, working hard to perfect a sound while trying not to disturb the neighbors. Local musicians Chris Bedell and Jake Yoxsimer know this routine well, not as the members of Reno’s newest band, but as the owners of the city’s newest recording studio, Buxom Records.

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The idea for a studio occurred to them several years ago. Bedell and Yoxsimer recognized a need for affordable, high-quality recording resources that weren’t available at the time.

“What do all musicians want to do?” Yoxsimer said. “We wanted to record our stuff and put some music out. We had the idea, ‘Let’s get a space and maybe just by helping other people do what we’re trying to do, maybe we can fund our habit.’”

Residing in a basement suite of a commercial office building on West Second Street, Buxom Records is an atypical studio. Since acquiring the space in 2013, Bedell and Yoxsimer have soundproofed the room and installed new equipment. To avoid disturbing the neighbors, they operate outside of regular business hours, often working through the night when mixing and mastering recordings.

While finding a more traditional space is one of their goals, the owners say that Buxom’s priority is delivering quality recording opportunities to local musicians with few resources.

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to put something out there for a really reasonable price,” said Yoxsimer.

One of those musicians is Molly Seals, a country singer from Carson City who returned from the advanced auditioning stages of American Idol.

Seals recorded with Buxom Records several months ago when Bedell approached her about visiting the studio.

Seals believes that a studio like Buxom Records might serve the population of musicians in Reno that have yet to establish themselves in the local scene—those who are unwilling or unable to book time with a more established studio.

“I think it's perfect for somebody like me,” Seals said. “I feel like I’m going to walk into an established recording studio … and you almost feel like a little kid playing house.

But with Buxom, it gives people that confidence to say, ‘You know what, I could be a part of the music scene.’”

Evynn Tyler, who performs as Franc Friday, was voted the best local rapper by RN&R readers in 2014, and has also recorded several projects with Buxom. Tyler believes that by marketing specifically to Reno’s newest generation of musicians, the studio could potentially find unprecedented success.

“New artists will never stop emerging in this town, and if Chris and Jake are smart, they’ll know to get to them first and help them create their first big successes,” Tyler said.

“This market is relatively untapped by legitimate, non-exploitative people, so I think that these guys will attain incredible success if they play their cards right.”

Bedell and Yoxsimer’s ultimate vision for Buxom Records goes beyond just recording, however. They eventually plan to market themselves as a fully-fledged record label with national aspirations.

“There’s so much music coming out of Reno and we would love to be a part of all of it—whether it’s recording, promoting, anything,” Bedell said.

“We want to be the hub of Reno music culture,” said Yoxsimer. “We want to be in the center of it. If we don’t all work together and we don’t all try to promote each other and try to get music out a low cost and all this stuff, then music in Reno is not going to go anywhere it hasn’t already been.” Ω

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BR e w h a h a Sierra Arts Foundation’s 20th annual benefit features more than 20 microbreweries offering more than 150 types of beer. Funk bands Jelly Bread and Mojo Green will perform at this beer-tasting event and dance party open to those age 21 and older.

The fun begins at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, at the Rose Ballroom inside the JA Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks. General admission tickets are $50. A $65 VIP ticket includes early entry to the event at 7 p.m. and a chance to talk to the brewers about their craft. Ticket prices go up $10 on the day of the event. Call 356-3300 or visit www.janugget.com or http://sierra-arts.org.

Va l e N T IN e ’ s Pa ja m a Ba R C R aw l Enjoy a night out dressed up in your favorite pajamas during the second annual bar crawl presented

by Crawl Reno. A $5 commemorative cup will get crawlers age 21 and older drink specials, entry in costume contests and no cover at 10 participating bars. The crawl begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, at The Waterfall, 134 W. Second St. Call 342-9565 or visit http://crawlreno.com.

m a R dI s quaw The annual event transforms Squaw Valley’s Olympic House into a steamy French Quarter tavern in the Big Easy. The party will feature drinks, costumes, beads and entertainment, including DJs from Reno, Lake Tahoe and San Francisco, dancers and circus performers. The musical lineup includes Love and Light, Planet Booty, J. Boogie, DJ Mancub and Coop da Loop, among others.

Guests are encouraged to wear Mardi Gras attire.

The party begins at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Olympic House at Squaw Valley Resort, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, Calif. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. There will also be pre-party fun on the sundeck from noon to 4 p.m. Visit http://freshbakin.com or http://squawalpine.com.

R e N o P h I l h a R moN IC : C l as s I x F I V e The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra’s fifth concert in its 2014-2015 Classix series offers tribute to the global musical landscape. The program includes French composer Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, followed by American composer Mohammed Fairouz’s violin concerto “Al-Andalus,” as interpreted by guest violinist Chloe Hanslip. The concert closes with Czech composer Antonín Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, op.

88. Performances start at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 15, and 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $27-$82 with $9 student rush tickets available starting one hour before the performance.

Call 323-6393 or visit www.renophil.com.

THE MASK T h e I l lu m INaT I Ba l l Friday the 13th, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day and Mardi Gras all in one extended holiday weekend. What to do? You could skip the slasher flick marathon and Valentine’s Day hoopla and “join the madness” at the Illuminati Ball this Friday the 13th. Inspired by the 1972 Rothschild surrealist dinner party, the event aims to “bridge the gap between local business magnates and creatives” and raise money to support the second annual Reno InstaGrammys, a photography and video competition for all ages. The black-tie formal ball features music, art, drinks, a silent auction and more.

Guests are encouraged to wear surrealist masks. The event is open to those age 21 and older. The party will start at 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, at Reno Provisions, 100 N. Sierra St. Tickets are $50. VIP tickets are $100. Visit www.illuminatiball.com.

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I just moved in with the love of my life. Her former boyfriend from years ago lives in her downstairs “granny unit.” My girlfriend recently revealed that along with financially subsidizing him, she’s still doing his laundry because “it’s just easier.” He is 50 and previously earned a lot of money repairing computers and being a handyman, but he is not “into” working. My girlfriend is a therapist and sees a therapist, who has advised a proper separation. Amazingly, my girlfriend would rather she and I move out than insist he leave (though the home and loan are hers!). I’m worried that this will be one long, frustrating ride.

Kids these days grow up so fast. Before you know it, they’re 50 and back home doing bong hits in the basement.

Though you see your girlfriend as the preyed-upon one here, consider that she’s getting something out of this, too, like feeling needed and conflict avoidance.

Being conflict-avoidant means refusing to experience legitimate adult discomfort—like the ouchiepoo of telling a full-grown, able-bodied man that he needs to go get a job, an apartment, and a roll of quarters to do his own damned laundry.

We evolved to be a social species and to care about how others see us. However, we can take this too far, as your girlfriend has, probably out of an overvaluing of relationships—over self—and an ensuing desperate need to be liked. This leads her to shove away her needs, making her the perfect mark for an aging and

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Life involves making trade-offs. On the one hand, you call her the love of your life. On the other hand, she comes with a man-sized tumor that she seems unwilling to excise from her life and yours. Whatever you decide, avoid telling her what to do (which generally provokes defensiveness, not change). Instead, you can tell her where your “can’t do” point is—like if you ultimately can’t live with a woman who is in a relationship with you but has one foot—and her wallet and a couple of laundry baskets—squarely in the life of her ex.

It’s possible that a real likelihood of losing you could do for her what having a therapist and being a therapist could not—compel her to act assertively. However, you do take a risk in drawing the line. You may decide to just suck it up to keep her, even if it means keeping him.

If so, try to focus on the positives of having an adult toddler around—like how he should only need to be taken to the emergency room for the occasional cardiac event and not because he’s put yet another bean or Lego up his nose. Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you have

someone in your life to whom you can send the following love note, and if you don’t, I trust you will locate that someone no later than August 1: “I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.” (This passage is borrowed from author Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Everything Is Illuminated.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We assume

that others show their love in the same way that we do,” writes psychologist Amy Przeworski, “and if they don’t follow that equation, we worry that the love is not there.” I think you’re on track to overcome this fundamental problem, Taurus. Your struggles with intimacy have made you wise enough to surrender your expectations about how others should show you their love. You’re almost ready to let them give you their affection and demonstrate their care for you in ways that come natural to them. In fact, maybe you’re ready RIGHT NOW.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’d like to be-

stow a blessing on you and your closest ally.

My hope is that it will help you reduce the restlessness that on occasion undermines the dynamism of your relationship. Here’s the benediction, inspired by a Robert Bly poem: As you sit or walk or lie next to each other, you share a mood of glad acceptance.

You aren’t itchy or fidgeting, wondering if there’s something better to be or do. You don’t wish you were talking about a different subject or feeling a different emotion or living in a different world. You are content to be exactly who you are, exactly where you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Want to

infuse your romantic interludes with wilder moods now and then? Want to cultivate a kind of intimacy that taps deeper into your animal intelligence? If so, try acting out each other’s dreams or drawing magic symbols on each other’s bodies. Whisper funny secrets into each other’s ears or wrestle like good-natured drunks on the living room floor. Howl like coyotes. Caw like crows. Purr like cheetahs. Sing boisterous songs and recite feral poetry to each other. Murmur this riff, adapted from Pablo Neruda: “Our love was born in the wind, in the night, in the earth. That’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know our names.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there any sense

in which your closest alliance is a gift to the world? Does your relationship inspire anyone? Do the two of you serve as activators and energizers, igniting fires in the imaginations of those whose lives you touch?

If not, find out why. And if you are tapping into those potentials, it’s time to raise your impact to the next level. Together the two of you now have extra power to synergize your collaboration in such a way that it sends out ripples of benevolence everywhere you go.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The poet Rainer

Marie Rilke said that people misunderstand the role of love. “They have made it into play and pleasure because they think that play and pleasure are more blissful than work,” he wrote. “But there is nothing happier than work. And love, precisely because it is the supreme happiness, can be nothing other than work.” I’m sharing this perspective with you for two reasons, Virgo. First, of all the signs in the zodiac, you’re most likely to thrive on his approach. Second, you’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when this capacity of yours is at a peak. Here’s how Rilke finished his thought: “Lovers should act as if they had a great work to accomplish.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): About 2,600

years ago, the Greek poet Sappho wrote the following declaration: “You make me hot.”

In the next ten days, I’d love for you to feel motivated to say or think that on a regular basis. In fact, I predict that you will. The astrological omens suggest you’re in a phase when you are both more likely to be made hot and more likely to encounter phenomena

that make you hot. Here are some other fragments from Sappho that might come in handy when you need to express your torrid feelings: 1. “This randy madness I joyfully proclaim.” 2. “Eros makes me shiver again … snake-sly, invincible.” 3. “Desire has shaken my mind as wind in the mountain forests roars through trees.” (Translations by Guy Davenport.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the TV

science-fiction show Doctor Who, the title character lives in a time machine that is also a spaceship. It’s called a Tardis. From the outside, it appears to be barely bigger than a phone booth. But once you venture inside, you find it’s a spacious chateau with numerous rooms, including a greenhouse, library, observatory, swimming pool and karaoke bar. This is an excellent metaphor for you, Scorpio. Anyone who wants your love or friendship must realize how much you resemble a Tardis. If they don’t understand that you’re far bigger on the inside than you seem on the outside, it’s unlikely the two of you can have a productive relationship. This Valentine season, as a public service, make sure that everyone you’re seriously involved with knows this fact.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Love and intimacy come in many forms.

There are at least a billion different ways for you to be attracted to another person, and a trillion different ways to structure your relationship. Maybe your unique bond involves having sex, or maybe it doesn’t.

Maybe it’s romantic or friendly or holy, or all three of those things. Do the two of you have something important to create together, or is your connection more about fueling each other’s talents? Your task is to respect and revere the idiosyncratic ways you fit together, not force yourselves to conform to a prototype. To celebrate the Valentine season, I invite you and your closest ally to play around with these fun ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anais

Nin wrote the following passage in her novel A Spy in the House of Love: “As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.”

I recommend that approach for you right now, Capricorn. A quest for tender, compassionate attention doesn’t always have to be at the top of your list of needs, but I think it should be for now. You will derive a surprisingly potent alchemical boost from basking in kindness. It will catalyze a breakthrough that can’t be unleashed in any other way.

Ask for it!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How

many desires do you have? Take a rough inventory. Identify the experiences you continually seek in your quest to feel relief and pleasure and salvation and love and a sense of meaning. You can also include fantasies that go unfulfilled and dreams that may or may not come true in the future. As you survey this lively array, don’t censor yourself or feel any guilt. Simply give yourself to a sumptuous meditation on all the longings that fuel your journey. This is your prescription for the coming week. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, it is the medicine you need most.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The German

word Nachkussen refers to the kind of kiss that compensates for all the kissing that has not been happening, all the kissing that has been omitted or lost. If it has been too long since you’ve kissed anyone, you need Nachkussen. If your lover hasn’t kissed you lately with the focused verve you long for, you need Nachkussen. If you yourself have been neglecting to employ your full artistry and passion as you bestow your kisses, you need Nachkussen. From what I can tell, Pisces, this Valentine season is a full-on Nachkussen holiday for you. Now please go get what you haven’t been getting.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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Center stage Ryan Harris In January, La Vecchia Ristorante owner Alberto Gazzola opened Centro Bar & Kitchen, a new restaurant in the former location of the Blue Plate Restaurant, 236 California Ave. The restaurant’s focus is small-plate food and cocktails. Ryan Harris is general manager, bar director, and resident graphic designer. For more information, visit www.centroreno.com.

How did you get involved?

Tell me about the food.

The food is tapas style, but it’s not actually Spanish cuisine at all—it’s just small plates.

We try to keep it as local and as fresh as possible. Everything is made on the spot.

It’s handed to you as it’s made. We try to keep it very, very fresh. This is new stuff. I think this is nothing that Reno has seen.

What are the inspirations?

Well, we took a trip to Portland a few months ago—six months ago, actually.

And we went to 13 restaurants a day.

And we got our fingers in a lot of things.

We went to a couple of tapas places. We went to Pok Pok, which is a Northern Thai restaurant, and we got a lot of ideas from things they were doing.

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You mean St. James Infirmary and The Loving Cup? Yes, and 1864 [Tavern], our neighbor. And that’s great. I hate to use the word “synergy,” but it really is. We’re all working together. I think California Avenue is a perfect, perfect place for this.

So this is like authentic Portlandia cuisine?

Who’s been the clientele so far?

The clientele has been mixed—so mixed. I thought it was going to be a younger crowd, but it is absolutely everyone. I think that’s really due to La Vecchia too, because all these people who have grown to love La Vecchia, and then they hear that Roberto is opening a new restaurant, and then they come down here and they’re like, whoa!

They’re surprised. Sometimes they’re elated.

Sometimes they’re not. Sometimes they’re turned off by the unusual way to eat food, because they’re so used to eating an entree, a salad, and an appetizer, and not just a bunch of small things and sharing. Sharing is really weird to a Reno crowd, I think.

Well, I try to pull from a lot of Asian cuisine too. I went to Thailand too last year, and our table sauce is a sauce they use called nam prik. And that was their ketchup. Every table in Thailand has this little sauce with chilies in it. I just wanted that comforting, spicy, sweet, savoriness to a lot of the food. … The sticky ribs are pork riblets that are marinated and then smoked in a fish sauce—so, fish sauce, garlic, chili paste and sugar. And we smoke those in the sauce itself, and then we do a quick Panko dusting and then flash fry them, and then throw them in the sauce again.

They’re just awesome. Sticky, savory, sweet, spicy—all those things. The beet salad—I know everyone is doing beets, but we do our beets with California grapes, queso fresco, house-made vinaigrette. And they’re just sweet, tender little gems.

I like it. Where did the name come from?

Centro is Italian for center, bull’s-eye.

Whenever you say I’m going to the centro, it means you’re going downtown, I’m going to the city center, I’m going out. That came from Alberto. We went through a bunch of names, but that was one that stuck with me, and then I started on the logo, and that was it. Ω

What I really like about this location is it’s three blocks from the Reno News & Review office. What do you like about the location?

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I was working with [executive chef] David Stern two and a half years ago at SODO, and David Stern left. And he was approached by Alberto, and they wanted someone to run the front of the house, and David approached me.

Everything. I love the shape of the building. I love its centralized location between two of the most popular bars in Reno, and we’re open late. I still think the younger crowd isn’t understanding that we’re open late, and that this is the thoroughfare between two places where they party. I like that.

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a G4 daring to deny that you’re supposed to be wretched instead of happy, well, then, it says, Dig this—and annually proceeds to bitchslap our asses with the onslaught of Cupidian glories of Valentine’s Day. Cue the harps and find your bliss while munching on the fish tacos whipped up by your soul mate. Fine.

So I just want to give a shoutout to all the G4s out there, those of us who dare to be completed by ourselves and dare to admit that there are lots of soul mates out there. And let’s note that us G4s are getting huge. The number of single person households, according to the last census, was 32 million, while the number of two-person households was 38 mill and 3PHH was 18 million.

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now. I didn’t set out to be in G4, to be sure, it’s just that over time, I realized I was one of these odd birds who really, if I was being honest, sought not a partner, but solitude. After looking for about 30 years, I had to admit that there really isn’t another human being on this planet I want to see every day of the year, year in and year out. Not even close. I spent years looking for a woman who would be content with seeing me, oh, say— once a week? I eventually realized I might as well be looking for a rainbow unicorn. It got obvious I would be much better off by simply embracing the reality inside my cranial hard drive, which was constantly telling me that I’m G4 material, not G1. Ever since I’ve done that, I must admit, things have been pretty darned nice.

America seems to shun this G4 attitude. It doesn’t seem to cotton to it. It’s fine to be single, it says, as long as you’re appropriately miserable and you’re busting your ass to get unsingle as soon as possible. If you’re

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G3 also gets plenty of play in our cultural dialogue. Hell, without G3, 50 percent of all comedy routines would shrivel up and blow away. Without G3, 90 percent of psychiatrists, psychologists and life coaches would be bartenders.

But G4 doesn’t seem to get a whole lot of pub. It’s almost as if the very thought of being single and happy somehow runs against the grain, and that to even acknowledge this group is somehow indecent, unAmerican, and an affront to God. Probably pisses the Koch brothers off, too. Well, if G4 had cards, I’d carry one, having been a member of this murky bunch for many years

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