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“ When it hit the ground, a small man-like creature, backlit and completely silhouetted, lumbered down the ramp and, in a raspy, otherworldly voice, asked, point blank: ‘Are you Editor-in-Chief Matthew Mazza?’”

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t was dark. I remember that. There was a moon, a bright one, but the thicket and bramble and old-growth forest all around and even above the narrow country road I was flying down at break-neck speed in my old station wagon blocked it for all intents and purposes, leaving only thin slivers of moonlight and ghostly shadows that played tricks on tired eyes.

I was late, as usual, but this time for a good reason. I’d spent the day with a friend deep in Carmel Valley exploring a remote and fairly dilapidated and deserted Cold War-era NASA facility with the capability of beaming earthly information to the heavens and beyond – of actually communicating with extraterrestrial life forms way beyond our wildest imagination.

Let’s just say the hours sort of slipped away.

So there I was, rocketing over winding country roads in the middle of nowhere. No cell service. Not a soul for miles. Radio stations slipped in and out, jumping between an NPR talk show on domestic spying programs, old country music and, occasionally, some urban rap. ...continued p.3

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...continued from COVER Then, after I came up over a high ridge and down into yet another deep hollow, the radio cut out completely.

The lights in my normally trusty wagon seemed to dim slightly, almost imperceptibly, but enough to make the treacherous night drive even worse. I banged on the dash.

“Come on,” I shouted, exasperated, to no one, “not now, damnit.”

I breathed deeply, took a few hairpin turns too fast, slowed, and tried to calm down.

Music. Music always helps me relax.

I glanced down to the radio and hit the scan button. And when my eyes came back to the road, my life changed forever.

I literally had to slam on my brakes with both feet to avoid smashing directly into… it.

By the time I stopped, the object was just eight feet from the hood of my Volvo.

It was hovering, apparently, and brightly lit. Round, maybe twenty feet in diameter and eight feet at its tallest in the center, it took up the entire span of the roadway. It was silver, metallic and reasonably large, but it emitted only the slightest humming noise. (I remember being surprised at the relative lack of sound, sort of like the first time I watched a Prius take off from a stop sign.)

What I’m about to say may seem ridiculous now, but there’s no other way to describe it.

This was how I found John at the main gate to Jamesburg – another tough day at the space office.

As God is my witness: There was a flying saucer blocking my path forward.

I opened the car door slowly and exited, one leg at a time, gaping jaw scraping in disbelief on the gravelly roadway below my feet, and never took my eyes off the thing.

And just as I thought it might fly away, somehow navigate the seemingly impossible tangle of tree limbs and moss above – I still don’t know how the pilot maneuvered the thing in front of me that quickly – a red light flashed and a door opened, slowly, from the underside of the saucer.

When it hit the ground, a small manlike creature, backlit and completely silhouetted, lumbered down the ramp and, in a raspy, otherworldly voice, asked, point blank: “Are you Editor-in-Chief Matthew Mazza?”

Oh shit.

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was just minding my own business, I swear, enjoying another beautiful evening with the family – weather’s been terrific lately, right? – when I saw old friend John Livergood walk across the lawn with his kids, Ryan and Knox.

“John! What’s going on, my friend, haven’t seen you in ages.”

“Yeah man, I’ve been busy, you know, touring with the Winchester Rebels quite a bit, dabbling in a bit of real estate, driving jeep wine tours up in the Valley, facilitating communications with extraterrestrial beings, surfing, skating, whatever.

How are the girls?”

He had me. I bit.

“Wait a second, man, what do you mean ‘facilitating communications with extraterrestrial beings?’ I mean, you’re not serious, right?”

He was. And he soon launched into a wild explanation of a privately-held mammoth satellite dish hidden in a remote part of Carmel Valley that is being used to beam text messages and code and pictures and all sorts of other content to a faraway star called Gliese 526. ...continued p.5

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Mazza’s Missive – Editor-in-Chief Matt Mazza visits Jamesburg Earth Station and beams the Sentinel to unexpecting extraterrestrials living on Gliese 526.

(Seriously.) Oh, and he’s abducted by aliens too.

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I t’s Crime Time – Drunken screamers on probation are not particularly good neighbors; Oxnard man sets beer guzzling record before passing out in dirt patch behind big box store; angry old guy should smoke more pot; juvenile delinquents vandalize SB skate park to get what they want (and it actually works!); and some purported “water employee” testing “water quality” is an amateur scam artist (at best).

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L etters to the Editor – Pork Palace Pig-Out, DMV Age Discrimination, more on Lennon’s Imagine and the Beatles (yawn, stretch); American Ale is terrific, the government is not and it spies on us while violating the constitution, Ross Douthat is a moron; and some non-profit volunteers are different than others (we think). Another meaty letters section.

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E ight Days A Week – There’s a lot happening over the next 8 Day Week, so get out your day planner and sharpen that No. 2 pencil before carefully reviewing Jeremy Harbin’s calendar rant. You never know, you might actually want to do something he’s listed.

Beer Guy – After Zach Rosen’s summer beer picks last week, this week he brings us P.10 The the skinny – wait, is he doing LOVEmikana now too? Are they calling him the Beer Bird?

– on the summer’s impending beer festivals. There’s a lot here so read and make plans early… these beer drinking festivals inexplicably sell out quickly. (We don’t get it… why do people want to have fun and drink beer outdoors all day during summer?)

Barbara View – Sharon Byrne has something against dilapidated shopping carts P.12 Santa parked indiscriminately around the neighborhood; Ray Estrada gets prolific and covers

everything from a painted beachside metallic rainbow – sorry, the “Chromatic Gate” – to Surf Air, financial services and vegan nutritionists. (Something for everybody, right Ray?)

alley Girl – Jana Mackin is back (in?), this week walking the Crooked Path to Dutch P.14 Vmusic master Bent Myggen’s home studio-cum-music sanctuary in Los Olivos. (He’s from Holland, everybody, isn’t that veird?)

Sports – Former Don Jeff Paschke is crushing the baseball in the California P.16 Presidio Collegiate League and is soon heading for USC (congrats, Jeff, hit the ball hard down there

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Science – Mapping the brain ain’t easy (or cheap) but a collaboration of government and P.18 Mad private scientists and sources might just get it done. Will Obama’s BRAIN initiative succeed?

Rachelle Oldmixon’s guess is that it will… even if it isn’t exactly the typical science project.

Rant – Katie Cusimano returns with SB driving habits and a guide to four-ways in P.20 The Montecito. No, not that kind of Montecito four-way (weirdos), four-way stop signs. (Terrific,

Katie, just the kind of insane – but strikingly accurate – babble we like here at the Sentinel.

Keep it coming.)

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Faces of Santa Barbara – The Pilgrim. Santa Barbarian Sage Parker has started walking El Camino de Santiago, and Patricia Clarke brings Sage Sets Out to the Sentinel. (Great happy shot, Patricia, and we wish you well on your journey, Sage).

About Town – Julie Bifano hits a well-deserved party at the old Milpas Post Office P.24 Girl celebrating the neighborhood’s national award for Neighborhood of the Year. Everybody who’s anybody was there, and Julie was right in the thick of it (as usual).

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This is pretty much mission control right here, and much of the technology is straight from the ‘60s. Like John (in spirit, anyway).

That’s the whole enchilada, from behind. John is actually moving it with a remote control at this point, to get the damned thing pointed in the general direction of Gliese 526. I’m flabbergasted.

My jaw was resting firmly on my salad plate by the time he finished.

“Want to know the coolest thing about it?” he queried, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. (The kind of twinkle that interests me, still, even at 37 years old. Pathetic, maybe, but true.)

“Yeah, man, the whole thing blows my mind but let it rip.”

“I’ve skated it.”

“Skated what?”

“The dish man! I skated it while we were prepping it for beaming a few weeks back.”

“No way.”

“Yes way.” Dead serious.

With that, I quickly made plans to see the whole damned thing for myself.

Wendi and the kids and I would drive up, camp at Big Sur, and I would take a day up at the dish with John.

And my skateboard.

John Wasn’t Lying

Everything went according to plan, initially. Wendi, Lily, Kate and I arrived at Big Sur Campground and Cabins (wonderful campground buried in

redwoods, by the way) and got our whole camping situation set up. We spent a restful night by the riverside and I woke up early to make the ninety minute drive north and east to meet John at Jamesburg Earth Station.

I’d done some research, of course, and everything John had told me checked out. Our government had in fact built a massive satellite dish and research facility at the height of the Cold War – and our national interest in space exploration – in Carmel Valley. That dish, Jamesburg, was finished in 1968 and, just a year later, was instrumental in bringing some of the first pictures and videos of the Apollo 11 moon landing. (It also later captured and disseminated widely-known images of the Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989 – think of a man standing in front of a line of tanks, in black and white).

For over thirty years, the dish served as the West Coast hub for AT&T global communications transmissions, until it was retired after fiber optic cable became the new standard in the early 2000s.

Eventually, the dish – together with the entire 20,000 square foot 1960s-era government facility and surrounding 160 acres – was sold to a private buyer, who purchased it for use as a hunting ranch and home site.

But that never happened.

Instead, the present owner leased the facility to a new company called Lone Signal, whose mission is “to target stellar systems suspected to have potentially habitable planets orbiting in their circumstellar habitable zones – otherwise referred to as ‘goldilocks zones.’” And, once a target is identified, Lone Signal uses the Jamesburg Earth Station to beam content to the target planet(s) – in short, to “facilitate communication with extraterrestrial beings.”

Just like John told me at Padaro.

A Three-Hour Tour

I arrived at Jamesburg late in the morning, and had to navigate three locked and unmanned (but videoed) gates. I finally made my way up to the sprawling compound and was dumbfounded.

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A variety of crimes are committed every day in Santa Barbara; most of these crimes are petty but they do offer a window into if not the soul of the perpetrator, at least his or her thought process. Our following (and totally unsolicited) thoughts, observations, and comments are put forth for your consideration.

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Santa Barbara man called SBPD and reported that his 35-year-old neighbor had been “drinking for several days and would not stop screaming,” so he wanted officers to come and arrest him for disturbing the peace – especially since it was “impossible to relax during the screaming.” (Do people actually get drunk and scream… for days? That’s some serious stamina and likely results not only in a failed liver but also substantial and painful hoarseness.)

Officers appeared and made contact with the neighbor, who was, in fact, drunk.

Quite drunk indeed. He was also on probation with “no alcohol” terms. (Uh-oh.)

Despite denying consuming any alcohol (by shaking his head rather than speaking in response to questioning, we’d guess), the neighbor blew a .369 – that’s not a tremendous batting average, folks, that’s a BAC figure nearly five times the legal limit (quite an accomplishment in its own right, frankly). Further challenges to the arrest could not be understood since the man had long ago lost any ability to speak. Slurred and hoarse drunk talk is next to impossible to understand.

Oxnard Man Dazzles Local Store Employees with Giant Beer Guzzling Display A 51-year-old man visiting from Oxnard wanted a beer one afternoon last week but had no money to pay for it. So he walked into a local big box store, pulled a tall, cold one off the refrigerated shelf, popped the top and straight guzzled it before store employees could stop him. (Must’ve been a former Gaucho.) By the time employees were able to confront him – “Hey man, how’d you drink that beer so fast? Oh, and how are going to pay for it?” – the man simply told him that he had no money and was leaving.

SBPD quickly arrived at the scene and crack detective work led to officers finding the man, passed out, in a “dirt patch” behind the store. He was arrested for felony theft.

Man, that must’ve been a giant beer. (On second thought, maybe he wasn’t a Gaucho

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CRIME TIME QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I don’t give a [expletive].”

- A 53-year-old transient male in response to the dreaded “In Case Of Emergency” notification question, just before he was arrested for too many outstanding warrants to list here. after all – ex-UCSBers generally have the ability to handle their booze… and earn at least enough to pay for a cheap tall boy at a big box store. Generally, anyway.)

Angry Local Man Fails to Smoke Marijuana and Gives the Double Bird Indiscriminately SBPD was patrolling the downtown area at around 9:30pm one night last week, when they came across a truck stopped in the middle of the intersection at State and Gutierrez.

Officers watched as a man jumped out of the truck and “aggressively” approached a second male – a 61-year-old SB resident on his knees in the street, blocking traffic, “displaying both his hands in an offensive manner.” (We bet.) According to the police report, “It appeared that the [perpetrator] was giving the driver the middle finger.”

The double middle finger, if we have the story right. And that’s twice as bad.

When the perp saw officers, he quickly rose to his feet and walked away from the scene, but was unable to stop yelling and generally displaying his middle finger(s) toward others. He was eventually arrested, and SBPD found a small amount of marijuana in his pocket, which, obviously, he hadn’t smoked but probably should have before going out.

Juvenile Delinquents Trash Skate Park When It’s Open and When It’s Closed; So, Then, Leave It Open!

We think it’s basically common knowledge at this point that Santa Barbara’s popular skate park, Skater’s Point, was closed recently as a consequence of, ah, untoward behavior by users. But a few pieces of plywood and some chains weren’t stopping local youths hell-bent on skating the park during its short-lived closure – and SBPD is looking for the kids that “vandalized” the place (i.e., cut the chains and kicked down a couple plywood gates).

Here’s the interesting thing: Despite the misbehavior, the City reopened the park, explaining that every time they closed it, skaters just effectively reopened it themselves by “vandalizing” it. So then, just to be clear, the message to local youths is break the law, break more laws, keep breaking laws, and eventually the law will just change. Nicely done.

By the way, we are all for the skate park, 150%. Just use it responsibly, y’all, and it will be around for a long, long time. If you don’t, and it is eventually shut down as a bastion of hooliganism, then you may be forced to have your parents drive you up to the satellite dish mentioned in Mazza’s Missive this week for a session. And nobody wants that. Especially not your parents.

Purported “Water Employee” Scam Is Patently Ridiculous, So Please Don’t Fall For It SBPD is warning residents about a “possible” scam targeting elderly Spanish-speaking folks in the Eastside and North End neighborhoods that involves a man posing as a “water employee” and seeking entry to homes to test “water quality.” First, from a taste perspective, water quality sucks in Santa Barbara, you don’t need a “water employee” – legit or not – to tell you that. (Bob Dylan comes to mind, especially for those who actually drink tap water regularly: “You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.”) Second, Public Works doesn’t have the resources to implement a program like this, so don’t be fooled. Third, if you fall victim to the scam, just go get Arrowhead and save yourself the headache next time.

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Although you might not believe it, we actually want to hear from you. So if you have something you think we should know about or you see something we've said that you think is cretinous (or perspicacious, to be fair), then let us know. There's no limit on words or subject matter, so go ahead and let it rip to: Santa Barbara Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, 133 East De La Guerra Street, No. 182, Santa Barbara, California 93101. You can also leap into the 21st century and email us at letters@santabarbarasentinel.com.

Pork Palace Pig-Out

of friends, recently cooked one of his pigs up for a Fourth of July celebration and had a blast doing it. The ensuing feast was terrific… so, thanks Randy and the Pork Palace for a great holiday!

Thanks also to the Sentinel for telling the kinds of stories that others don’t, in a way that is fun, informative and engaging. Keep going.

Ryan Schmitz Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the note, Ryan, I really appreciate the kind words and the fact that you clearly get what we’re trying to do (doing?) over here. The County 4H programs are well worth saving and we’ll do anything we can at the Sentinel to provide support. Perhaps most importantly, though, please call me up next time you barbecue a pig and smorgasbord of meat products… the grill looks great, man! Thanks again for taking the time to write. – MSM)

DMV Age Discrimination?

The Pork Palace filled the grill on Independence Day. Wish I was there.

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att, I enjoyed Jana Mackin’s column last week about 4H programs in the County (Future Farmers Foil Fiscal Fiasco, Vol. 2, Issue 26). I grew up in rural northern California and really know the benefits such programs provide to the youth and

community-at-large.

I couldn’t help but notice the mention of Randy Jones and his Pork Palace in the column as well. Randy doesn’t only do show pigs but roasters too. In fact, my family, together with Tarik Khashoggi and his family and a bunch

Dear Matt, I want to know why I can’t get a driver’s license. I have been driving for 65 years and haven’t had a ticket or accident for 50 years. And I have never had a DUI. Being single and living out in the country, I know driving is not just a privilege. It is survival.

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number 80 means for all of us? That’s what it’s meant for me.

I’m not sure but my overwhelming feeling is that the new DMV slogan may just be, “Let’s get this bitch off the road.” I hope it’s not the same for all older women but I fear it is.

Maxine Davis, 82 Los Alamos (Editor’s Note: First of all, Maxine, it’s great to hear from somebody up in the Valley.

We’ve recently expanded our distribution and it’s good to know that a few folks are already reading. Thanks for picking us up and taking the time.

As for the DMV and age discrimination, well, I can’t say I have tons of experience or much to say. Age shouldn’t be a factor, I suppose, assuming that the driver in question can pass the various tests that everybody else needs to pass to help ensure at least some safety on the roads. (It’s an open question as to whether the tests actually do that, but I digress.) In no event should the number 80 alone be the deciding factor. I don’t think that seems too controversial but maybe I’m missing something.

Terrific slogan, by the way. I wonder whether the DMV will adopt it someday.

(I’m not holding my breath.)

Thanks again, Maxine, please do keep reading, and let me know if you’re able to get that license again soon. – MSM) ...continued p.11

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Back after a 24-year break is the Buddhist Church of Santa Barbara’s Japanese Obon Festival. With its roots in a scripture passage that has a message of gratitude, the festival will feature tea offerings, games, crafts, a flower arrangement demonstration, martial arts, traditional music, Japanese drumming and folk dancing. Japanese food will be served by Chef Kamal. 1015 East Montecito Street; 1pm to 6:30; www.buddhistchurchofsantabarbara.org; 805.483.5948; free.

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Pop-rockers The 88 will make an in-store appearance today at 4pm at Warbler Records and Goods (131 East De La Guerra Street). If their name isn’t immediately recognizable, their music might be; they’re responsible for the theme song to the NBC fan-favorite Community, they’ve been featured in Grey’s Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother, they soundtracked a Target commercial and they scored the 2012 film Friends with Kids – to name just a few of their credits. With a kind of song-centric rock you might put alongside fellow craftsmen and industry-courters Fountains of Wayne, The 88 descends from a musical lineage of canonical pop musicians like Paul McCartney and the Kinks. In fact, the L.A. group both opened for and backed Kinks frontman Ray Davies on a couple of tours. The 88 has made a habit of keeping good company; they’ve shared stages with greats like Elliot Smith, Jackson Browne, and The B-52s. Now it’s your turn to keep them company today at Warbler. You can pick up their new album The Fortune Teller while you’re there. More at www.the88.net and www.warblerrecords.com.

– Beer Garden

Call up your connections: this one’s sold out. The Sentinel’s very own Beer Guy Zach Rosen has curated a heady night at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (1212 Mission Canyon Road) that pairs beers with select garden environs. If you can get in today at 5:30pm, you’ll get a commemorative glass and appetizers to go with your beer. Let’s hope this event – christened A Midsummer Night’s Drink – becomes reoccurring so those of us who missed out can get a taste. Hey, Zach, got a plus-one for a fellow Sentinel writer?

•Sunday July 21

– Reds Got Agreeables

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It’s the most you can do.

You know what you don’t see enough of onstage? Acoustic bass. It’s like a big ol’ hollowed-out, woodgrain acoustic guitar, but with four fat strings ripe for the non-electric plucking. Local balladeers The Agreeables make good use of this instrument, as evidenced by their YouTube uploads. The show flyer accuses the band of “chillaxin’ great music;” navigate your browser to YouTube or to www. theagreeables.com to evaluate the veracity of that description (to see if you AGREE, get it?!). They play a free gig tonight at Reds (211 Helena Avenue) from 4 to 7pm.

•Monday July 22

– Hungry for Jazz

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remain open through a loop-hole having to do with the music club part). They’ll open their doors at 6:30pm and the Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliot begins an hour later. As made clear in this event’s title, local jazz musicians will do what jazz musicians are wont to do – that is, jam. Find SOhO virtually at www.sohosb.com and in reality at 1221 State Street.

•Thursday

•Tuesday

Cadiz Tapas and Seafood joins forces with Stolpman Vineyards tonight to offer you a four-course prix fixe dinner. Stolpman vineyards is an estate that crafts wine in the Ballard Canyon hills, here in Santa Barbara County. Cadiz and Chef John Pettitt purvey fusion cuisine inspired by Italian, Sicilian and Spanish styles. Together, they’ll serve up perfectly paired courses that culminate in a smoked peach ice cream with hot fudge and a 2011 La Cuadrilla. Call 805.770.2760 to make your reservation.

Find the restaurant at 509 State Street. $75 per person.

July 23

– #NoFilter

On display now until September 29th at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is Un/Natural Color: Shifts in Time, Shifts in Color. On display will be nineteenth century photography chosen for its quality of change, not what it has captured to remain the same. Composed of work from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibit will inform the nostalgia-ondemand made possible and popular by social photography applications like Instagram while calling into question the assumption that photography is a faithful replicator of reality. The museum is located at 1130 State Street and open Tuesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm. Call 805.963.4364 or visit www.sbma. net for more information.

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– The Perfect Pair

•Friday July 26

– More Hitchcock

Last week in this spot I told you about the North

by Northwest Screening at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens. At the same place tonight, UCSB Arts & Lectures will roll the classic Psycho at 8:30pm. This 1960 horror movie finds a secretary turned fraudster making a pit stop at a motel with a real momma’s boy for a proprietor. Bring your blankets, food and low-backed beach chairs.

This free event is part of the Alfred Hitchcock Night: Eight Classic Films of Obsession, Mystery and Suspense series.

•Wednesday

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– Worldwide, World-class Dance

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The ADaPT Festival begins this morning at 9:30am with a master class

by New York-based artist Barbara Mahler at the Montecito School of Ballet (529 East Gutierrez Street).

The rest of this “moving arts and emerging genres” event takes place mostly at the Center Stage Theater in the Paseo Nuevo Mall. Going until August 4, the festival features dance, physical theater performances, classes and films. It’s proven to be popular and well-received wherever it’s held – be that here in California, in New York or in Austria. See the sprawling schedule of events and get tickets at www.adaptfest.com. Prices vary by performance.

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September 2013: California Beer Festival

Beer Fest Lineup

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ell, beer festival season is in full swing and fortunately the Central Coast has something to offer each month. Here is an overview of some of the different festivals that will be taking place this summer. Make sure to get tickets early as these events seem to sell out quicker and quicker each year.

Imagine that.

July 2013: 4BSB This Saturday, July 20, Elings Park will be hosting a beer festival called 4BSB. In this case, the four Bs stand for Beer (of course), BBQs, Bikes and Blues.

Guests can grab a beer, relax at gorgeous Elings Park and listen to the different Blues bands or check out the souped-up motorcycles that will be on display. There will be a BBQ cook-off with with samples available of the different grilled goodies prepared by local restaurants, caterers and home enthusiasts. (I hear that Editorin-Chief Matt Mazza has been asked to serve as one of the judges of the cook off – now that should be interesting.) Tokens will be sold and can be exchanged for a beer tasting (1 token) or a BBQ sample (2 tokens) with all profits going to benefit Elings Park. Not a bad day out.

Zach Rosen is a Certified Cicerone® and beer educator living in Santa Barbara. He uses his background in chemical engineering and the arts to seek out abstract expressions of beer and discover how beer pairs with life.

Date: Saturday, July 20 Time: 12:00 – 6:00pm Website: 4BSB.nightout.com

August 2013: Surf ‘N’ Suds Beer Festival If you are busy this Saturday, don’t fret. There are still plenty of festivities happening this summer (although, admittedly, Matt won’t be judging all of them). Many people in the beer community are excited for the first Surf ‘N’ Suds presented by DEEP Surf Magazine. This surf-infused beer festival is on Saturday, August 10, and will feature

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35 different brewers in the backdrop of Carpinteria’s luscious, beachfront Linden Field. The event will blend craft beer with surfboard shapers, beach-friendly live music and, of course, fish tacos.

Proceeds will benefit five different organizations, including the Avocado Festival Youth Scholarship Fund and SB Surfrider Foundation. Some of the groups will have booths where representatives from different nonprofits will be on hand to answer questions and let you know how you can help out. Andres Nuño, director of DEEP, hopes that this event will bring attention to Carpinteria’s thriving surf culture, local businesses and the Central Coast’s blossoming beer scene. VIP tickets are available and will get you in one hour earlier as well as a chance to meet with Paul Wright, owner of Island Brewing Co. Also, make sure to check out Saint Archer Brewing Co., whose crew includes professional surfers and other extreme athletes.

If you feel like a break from the sun then pop into the Sundance Surf Beach Flick Tent. Six different surf videos will be playing on a loop throughout the day.

Each segment is 10 minutes or about the time it takes to drink one beer taster (convenient), which allows guests to briefly relax while sipping on a beer and watching the world’s top surfers.

Safe transportation to the festival is easy if you are coming from Santa Barbara or Goleta. Linden Field is next to the Amtrak Station, and the 20 and 21x bus lines will deliver thirsty attendees just a few blocks away from the festival. And if you want to arrive in style, then Lowrider Taxi will be offering a $30 flat fee to the festival from Santa Barbara.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, yes, they will have Cornhole (bean bag toss).

Date: Saturday, August 10 Time: 12:30 – 5:00pm Website: Deepfest.com

As fall is beginning there will be a Ventura County Beer Week happening from September 15 – 22. This eight-day affair is being organized by the producers of the California Beer Festival, which will take place on Saturday, September 21, at the end of Beer Week. The festival is held in Ventura’s downtown Mission Park and features over 100 different beers. On Sunday, September 22, Mission Park will take on a mellower pace with the Blues and BBQ Festival. The area will be filled with live music and smoking meats, and there will be samples of each chef ’s offerings with craft beer available for purchase.

VIP tickets are also available and provide entry to both events plus a seat at the CBF Brew with a View Invitational. This Friday night pre-festival event takes place at the beachfront Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach. Guests will get to take in ocean views while being dazzled with six beer and food pairings presented by their respective brewmasters and chefs.

Date: Saturday – Sunday, September 21 – 22 Time: 12:30 – 5:00pm Website: Californiabeerfestival.com

October 2013: Santa Barbara Beer Festival In the beer world, October is synonymous with Oktoberfest (even if the majority of the 16-day festival takes place in September, ending on the first weekend of October). The spirit of this Munich-based festival has spread throughout the world and these days you can find Oktoberfest celebrations in most every town. The Brewhouse hosts Santa Barbara’s most popular homage to this German tradition and Firestone Walker has its Oaktoberfest further north at the Avila Beach Golf Resort.

October is also when the Santa Barbara Beer Festival takes place. Santa Barbara’s oldest beer festival is held every year in Elings Park during mid-October.

The heat of the summer is just beginning to fade and the fall’s crisp air is taking its place, making a perfect environment for drinking beer. Full proceeds go to benefit Elings Park and the Santa Barbara Rugby Association, which helps in the festival’s organization.

Tickets are not on sale yet but keep an eye out for them on their website (below).

Date: Saturday, October 19 Time: 12:00 – 4:00pm Website: Sbbeerfestival.com As you can tell, there are plenty of chances to grab a brew at one of these wonderful festivals. So work on your Cornhole skills and I’ll see you there.

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Imagine We’re Getting Bored With This Topic Dear Editor, I don’t want to beat a dead Beatle with this, so I’m actually going to respond to that last David McCalmont letter (Vol. 2, Issue 26) about your comment (Matt) about my comment (Alan) about Larry’s comment (Anarchical Cable Guy), going all the way back to why the damned Beatles broke up in the first place – either David’s parents, or Paul and John, or society… I’m not sure.

Mr. McCalmont, let me see if I understand you correctly. I think you are saying that “Imagine” is a hippy song and that being a hippy was a lame trend like disco. John Lennon was probably embarrassed soon after he wrote it because the song was naive in retrospect, and he was too young to really know about the real world. You argue that Lennon actually became more conservative closer to his death (at forty), and may have even gone to a church. Lennon, you said, became a family man, which you think is somehow at odds with the idea of peace and love – which is the message of “Imagine.”

David, you literally scourge the paper’s poor editor, and a whole generation in fact, when you say he doesn’t appreciate what his parents have handed down to him. You call this handed-down stuff “real” and “true,” as opposed to the dreams of people like Lennon, or Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi – and a lot of others who got assassinated because they stuck their necks out to promote a worthy and imaginable goal for all of humanity: An end to war, and people simply getting along.

But do you really think that we outgrow peace?

Is it an awkward and silly phase we go through right before we get a job and then turn in all our dreams? Furthermore, you make sure to get a dig in against our friend, Eightball Shifter – who, as you know, has written to the Sentinel in always positive tones saying how free and happy he feels and how wonderful it is to enjoy every beautiful day existing here in God’s lovely garden of Santa Barbara. Eightball apparently doesn’t get your vote for the poster boy of life… so who, I ask, does?

Who is real and true in your post-forty eyes? A distinguished banker? A CEO? The President of the United States of America? A celebrity? A sports star? Even if it is your wise father, why don’t you tell us about this hero of yours whose ideals are so solid, and who has discarded hope and love for something more mature and realistic.

Now I do agree with you that Matt took up a lot of space re-printing the lyrics to “Imagine.” Everybody knows the famous words and the tune. But, Dave, do the lyrics represent such a bad or hopeless idea, especially in this day and age? This generation now has a chance to choose a new and hopeful direction.

I think it should start by getting rid of our bitterness and negativity. Everybody is complaining more and more.

Unemployment, homelessness, the NSA, the TSA, the government, the economy, the bankers, the immigrants, the climate, etc. are all bringing us down. Where are the solutions? I’m pretty sure it was John Lennon himself who said, “There aren’t any problems, only solutions.”

So my advice is that we all try to have the rosy optimism of Eightball Shifter and appreciate the great life we have now, coupled with visions of a more perfect future a la John Lennon. Forget about the bickering, which is not solving anything.

Also – let’s forgive Yoko finally. Can we do that? Thanks.

One more thing: Imagine good, then we will get good. Just do that every day, please. That’s the message, that’s the song; that is what is real and true, if we want it to be.

Alan Hurst Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Imagine me not responding to this, Alan, although the old hippy soul in me agrees with much of it, idealistic or not. I’ll defer to my previous comments on Eightball and his “independence.”

But otherwise, I see this topic as closed (or rapidly closing). And I will never, ever print the lyrics to any song ever again. (Publisher Tim, you were right about this one, my friend.) Thanks Alan, thanks David, thanks Larry the Anarchical Cable Guy and thanks John Lennon. Peace. – MSM)

to Doha, Qatar. A lot different than my last job (no warzone) and I will actually get a day off every week so I’ll be able to explore the local (and international) food scene. But I digress!) Thanks for the great tip.

I will miss the Sentinel immensely; my Fridays won’t be the same without it. But I’m having a friend collect a couple of months’ worth so she can send them to me. There’s just nothing like having an actual newsprint copy in hand.

Lastly? I’ve enjoyed the conversation.

Keep up the good work and keep enjoying all of the wonderful food and beverage Santa Barbara has to offer.

(P.S. Handlebar Coffee is a nice little hole in the wall that you should check out too!)

Michelle Miller Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks, Michelle, for the letter; talk about reader loyalty! Glad you enjoyed American Ale, I continue to believe it’s quite a place. My wife and kids were out of town for a night last week and I hit it again for an Old Fashioned and American Burger with garlic fries. (I lived in San Francisco for a number of years too, and agree that the American Ale garlic fries put Gordon Biersch – whether at the brewery or at the ballpark – to shame.)

Best of luck with the job in Qatar, sounds like a terrific opportunity to learn about a different culture and experience something

unique. Very cool. I will make sure to save you a few issues for when you get back – I agree, there’s just nothing like a paper and coffee in hand.

Be safe, be well, and come home soon.

We’ll be waiting. (And if you want to pick us up online and write occasionally, we’d love to hear from you.) Oh, Handlebar is a frequent stop for me. I know it well! – MSM)

A Precarious Balancing Act Hi Matt, thanks for printing my last letter. I had not yet had a chance to read Jeff Harding’s piece in (Vol.2, Issue 25), when I submitted mine.

I thought Jeff’s column was in depth, spot on, and terrific. I also thought Celeste Barber’s letter (Vol.2, Issue 26) contained many cogent points. I can identify with her frustration at not getting any response to her concerns from the politicians who are supposed to be representing us. I gave up trying to get a response from Lois Capps a long time ago, considering it an aggravation I didn’t need and an exercise in futility anyway.

So it’s bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too?

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American Ale Is Awesome Matt, I had to share with you – and not necessarily with the Sentinel, just between you and me (LOL) – but I finally made it to American Ale. You were right, it’s fantastic.

I got there right at 5pm and was the first (and only) customer there. (That’s not exactly true, I dragged my roommate along.) The two guys behind the bar were super friendly and I so wanted to try all of their arsty and infused cocktails. There was fresh basil and mint on the bar and lots of other freshly cut and prepared drink ingredients. Grapefruit, lime, oranges and even brown lumps of raw sugar. Ah, but a place with the word “ale” in the name? I figured I’d better go with a draught to pair with my burger.

I had the Mission Heffeweizen and went with the “Baron Von Burger” – caramelized onions, muenster cheese and fresh stone ground mustard. I was simply taken aback by the delightful homemade garlic fries. My word. Ten times more supreme than Gordon Biersch! (I used to live all over the Bay Area, so I know my garlic fries.)

Anyway, this was my last Saturday in Santa Barbara and I wanted to do it right.

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Shopping Carts Source of Neighborhood Blight

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Sharon Byrne is executive director for the Milpas Community Association, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the Salvation Army Hospitality House and Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Problems.

sbview.com Shopping carts can be found all around the Milpas neighborhoods. What’s it going to take for this problem to cease?

with a cart and then abandon it on the sidewalk. Theft is hard to prove, as someone could easily say they found the cart. Two people moved in Sunday night using an abandoned shopping cart to ferry furniture up the street. On the other hand, a $1,000 penalty for pushing a shopping cart on a sidewalk away from a store would probably cause people to avidly avoid being seen anywhere near one off store property.

If we truly need temporary pedestrian haulage capabilities nowadays, there are adequate ones found online, and they come in different colors.

Why not buy one, instead of taking shopping carts from stores?

Los Angeles’ cart retrieval costs that city some $3.9 million per year. Their ordinance has generated some controversy.

Who’s to blame, the store, or the cart thief?

It’s an odd state of affairs for a shopping convenience that was once fairly innocuous. But another one of those conveniences, plastic bags, just got banned, so maybe it’s just a sign of the times in crowded, coastal California cities.

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ou see them all over the city, abandoned on sidewalks, congregating at corners, urban ruins of wires and wheels. They often appear mysteriously overnight.

One could be forgiven for wondering if shopping carts are just born on the side of the road.

Shopping cart theft is a big problem for stores. They cost around $175 each, so having that walk off on a daily basis is a substantial loss to markets. On the Eastside, Trader Joe’s, Rite Aid, Petco and Fresh & Easy carts reside on sidewalks throughout the neighborhood.

In West Downtown the carts are often from Office Max and Smart & Final.

Homeless sometimes procure them after abandonment, and use them to transport cans for recycling and personal possessions. Sometimes abandoned carts just catch urban flotsam, serving as a temporary clothing rummage bin.

Shopping carts were designed for the suburban family. You drove to the large supermarket to do your weekly shopping.

Convenience reigned as you pushed your shopping cart down the aisles. That cart clearly needed filling, encouraging you to

knock out all your shopping in one place.

A helpful clerk would load your purchases for you in your auto. Shopping carts were a necessary part of store marketing ambitions meeting shopper needs and psychology.

Emerging demographics and smaller parking lots have changed shopping cart usage. You still trolley them around in the store, but now also they transport the purchases to a car parked on the street, bus stop, or home sans car. When you’ve reached your destination, unload the shopping cart, and leave it there on the sidewalk. Someone will collect it.

Indeed, someone does. In the City of Santa Barbara, you can call the Shopping Cart Hotline at 1-(800)-252-4613 to have one picked up. A company called CART administers shopping cart retrieval for the city. Stores pay for CART to run a flatbed truck through shopping cart congregation hot spots. CART loads the carts up, and returns them to the store of origin.

Not all markets are enrolled in the CART service, so the city pays around $3 per cart for the non-signed-up businesses

when carts are called in to the hotline.

Public Works then stores those carts on a city lot and calls businesses for pick-up.

They’re very polite about it.

Sometimes carts end up in sad states.

Neighborhood clean-ups have pulled them out of creek beds.

Some stores have taken steps to deal with cart theft. Santa Cruz and Ralphs’ carts lock when you try to leave the parking lot with them. Tilting the cart up over the barrier line can subvert the system. Some people also manually disable the wheel locks. CVS carts can’t even leave the store – a big metal pole in the cart hits the door on attempted exit.

Ventura now requires every store to install a full cart theft-prevention system, and those cost up to $40,000, no small expense. Further, stores must sanitize carts returned to them after paying the city a fee to cover retrieval costs. Ventura has a hotline too, and expects to be reimbursed for retrievals. They can also fine stores if they retrieve a store’s carts more than three times. If you don’t bother to pick up your retrieved carts, the city can sell off or destroy them as it sees fit. That’s a lot of penalty for stores for theft of their property.

Shopping carts now fill a temporary need to ferry things from the store to another destination, even if that wasn’t their original intent. A social contract is being broken when people take off

fter two decades of neglect, one of Santa Barbara’s most colorful landmarks finally has a new paint job.

Contrary to some folks who offered to get a ladder and can of spray paint to restore the 22-year-old Chromatic Gate across the street from Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Hotel & Resort, it took a fundraising drive that amassed $78,000 to restore the metal sculpture and ensure it will be maintained.

“It was really gross looking,” Rita Ferri said of the rusting Herbert Bayer-designed rainbow sculpture. Ferri, County Arts Commission visual arts coordinator and collections curator, made that comment before a crowd of about 100 art fans and passersby who attended a sun-drenched Monday afternoon ceremony at the foot of the Chromatic Gate.

The restoration effort was a seemingly endless public-private collaboration that started years ago, but really took off last year when Montecito art fans Gene Sinser and Patty DeDominic led a concerted effort to bring private donors together to put up most of the $78,000.

The couple also brought together more than 40 young people who staged a fundraiser.

City officials brought in workers from Michael Fitzpatrick Auto, 411 N. Quarantina St., to sand, fill, prime and repaint the rainbow while dodging moisture and blowing sand. Ferri said spray can paint was not used. Restoration was more like repairing the metallic body of a vintage car.

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Mayor Helene Schneider told the crowd the restoration was “a community effort to preserve public art,” which involved small and large monetary contributions, key volunteer efforts and government cooperation to line up the necessary permits.

The family of Santa Barbara art enthusiasts also backed the effort, along with such local art buffs as David Jacobs.

But the rainbow gate restoration is just the start of the city’s effort to upgrade the oceanfront park, which includes the Cabrillo softball field, said Nancy Rapp, Parks & Recreation director. “The park will really come to life,” she said of future improvements.

SBA-to-Silicon Valley Flights Resume

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t was about two years ago that daily flights from Santa Barbara Airport to Silicon Valley ceased, much to the chagrin of tech-business people. But this week, Surf Air will offer flights from SBA to San Carlos, which is a small town in the middle of Silicon Valley.

Surf Air co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Wade Eyerly answered a few questions about why he thinks it’s a good time for another airline to start flying from Santa Barbara to Silicon Valley in an e-mail interview with the View.

“There may not be enough demand to fill an eighty-seat plane, but we’ve modeled plenty of demand for us,” Eyerly said. “There are many places we will fly that have good, existing service, but many under-served areas will be within the scope of what we can do. We are excited to prove that connecting a great city like Santa Barbara to Silicon Valley is a route that makes economic sense.”

Surf Air flies the Swiss engineered Pilatus PC-12 executive aircraft. “It’s an extremely efficient and comfortable plane with an exceptional safety record,” Eyerly said. “The 330-cubic-foot pressurized passenger cabin can seat up to nine, but we use a six-seat configuration, which allows us to put four seats facing each other.”

This set up encourages conversation and allows members to network and get to know one another if they desire, Eyerly said. “Community plays a big role at Surf Air,” the CEO said. “Ninety-two percent of our members currently run and operate their own businesses, based on member feedback,” Eyerly said. “We have found that the networking on board has been one of the biggest and most valuable advantages of membership; we may, however, experiment with eight seats down the road.”

The price for unlimited flights for $1,600 a month may seem high, but for some frequent commuters that fare seems fair since some airlines charge about $900 for a roundtrip to and from Southern California to the Bay area.

But why fly to San Carlos?

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“San Carlos is conveniently located between Palo Alto and San Francisco and doesn’t run into the same traffic issues that SFO might,” Eyerly said. “It’s also further down the bay just enough that it gets less fog.”

For example, Eyerly said, following the recent tragic accident at SFO, many area flights were diverted to other airports – some as far away as Los Angeles. “Our flights, however, continued to operate,” he said. “We had one member who was flying home from vacation and saw his SFO-bound flight was canceled. He wrote to tell us that he simply took another flight to LAX, and was able to book on us, while walking down the jetbridge, his flight north. He made it home to San Francisco before his initial flight wound up taking off.”

Corrine Barroso Joins AmeriFlex

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anta Barbara-based AmeriFlex Financial Services has added a team member: wealth manager Corrine Barroso.

Barroso is a graduate of San Diego State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in business administrationfinance with an emphasis in financial services. She received a Master of Business Administration in finance from California Lutheran University.

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See www.AmeriFlex.com for more information.

Barrosos brings more than eight years of financial services industry experience to AmeriFlex. Her investment knowledge and expertise in financial planning and client relationship management will help AmeriFlex continue to deliver a platinum level of service to clients, company officials said. She is a key part of the team focusing on the financial needs of women and the launch of the new Woman Investor program (www. thewomaninvestor.com).

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Vegan Nutritionist to Present Cooking Demonstration

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anta Barbara resident Melissa Costello, founder of Karma Chow and creator of “The Vital Life Cleanse,” will demonstrate her plant-based recipes at 7pm July 25 at Granada Books, 1224 State Street.

A certified nutritionist and wellness coach, Costello also will discuss benefits of vegan and vegetarian cooking and sign copies of her book, The Karma Chow Ultimate Cookbook, which sold out quickly after Granada Books opened June 20. The store has since restocked the book.

In the cookbook, Costello shares more than 125 recipes for anyone who is vegetarian or vegan and for the growing number of people who want to eat more plant-based meals. Costello’s recipes appear frequently on SBview.com.

Costello was featured on TV Guide’s Secrets of the Hollywood Body as well as CNBC’s How I Made My Millions with Tony Horton.

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Serendipity led me down The Crooked Path to hear Bent’s music, especially that wonderful resonating F#.

by Jana Mackin

A journalist and a poet, Jana has lived everywhere from New Orleans and Butte, Montana to Saudi Arabia, where she taught English to children.

Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post and San Francisco Examiner. She now lives in the Valley.

Walking The Crooked Path (In F#) Bent Myggen, right at home on the piano (both literally and figuratively).

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erendipity drew me through the trellised arch on The Crooked Path toward the resonant F# played on the fine Hornung & Møller piano by Bent Myggen at his home, which doubles as a music sanctuary in the heart of Los Olivos where he hosts and performs with other local musicians at free summer weekend concerts in his garden.

Seated at his piano bench back lit by afternoon light, Myggen’s F# segues to an improvisatory etude that evokes an “Angel in the Clouds,” a cut on his recent CD Entheos: Spontaneous Piano Compositions. A miniature hourglass is perched on the windowsill. Claude Debussy and C.L. Hanon: The Virtuosos Pianist in Sixty Exercises piano music lay on top of this instrument that emigrated with his parents from Denmark. No ticktock metronome here, that dreaded task master of classical and aspiring pianists alike. Just a tall, regal Dane improvising on the ivories – a momentary apparition of Franz Liszt.

Some call it “music-channeling.”

Some call it “com-position.”

I call it F#.

“There is nothing like a piano; the piano is the ultimate antenna to God,” said Myggen, 64, a Danish singer, song-writer, composer, video producer, writer, instrumentalist, reverend, father, healer, philosopher and blogger, to wit.

“The piano captures the phenomenon of music doing its magic. The note floats way out in the air, it changes minute to minute (or perhaps minuet to minute), second to second like the aurora borealis.”

F#. (See what I mean?)

Bent and his mother, Lillian, formerly a concert pianist, have been playing music together for a few years now.

A Life Long Love Affair If all this seems a little too ethereal, well, no worries.

Long ago the Boogie-woogie siren led the then-teenage musician down Bebop road to the Storyville of his own creations. Jazz, blues, folk, rock, fusion, funk, classical – you name it and Myggen can play it, much as the many languages he speaks (Danish, Swedish, English, German, French and Spanish). His home is a mecca of acoustic instruments as well as electronic recording studio equipment – “electronic intoxicators” as Bent calls them – and computers. He also has a “Kurzweil that mimics a whole symphony orchestra or single oboe.”

Still his first love is acoustic, whether his grand piano or Porfirio Delgado acoustic concert guitar.

“I com-pose (put-together) and have been influenced by every bit of music, every bird and train whistle I have heard.

Hence the music I write, you can hear traces of classical music starting with Mozart to rhythm and blues, samba, reggae, zydeco, djembe, shakers and cabassas, flute, and the floor of an old VW (great kick-drum sound),” he told me.

“In the world of sound, everything can become a musical instrument if you figure out how to play it, and everything can become music if you know how to listen.”

F#.

From a toddler crawling under that Hornung & Møller to a Danish teenager cutting his first album at 17, to his early band the Quacks (two members were medical students), he knew music was his path. Myggen came to the East Coast with another band, Break of Dawn, in 1972, launching his decades-long career as singer, songwriter, performer, composer and video producer, shuttling back and forth across the United States.

He settled in Los Angeles in 1976 then came to Santa Barbara in 1993. Next, he moved to the Santa Ynez Valley in 2003 and settled in Los Olivos in 2010. He has been staging the free summer concerts since around 2011.

Prolific hardly justifies his creative output – performances in Europe, Denmark, Germany and the United states as well as compositions, songs, CDs, albums, videos (etc.), with hundreds of titles and songs in more than 30 countries.

His music has been heard on TV shows from Sesame Street to Beverly Hills 90210, and films (Burt Reynolds’ Hooper, for example) and countless commercials.

He has 12 albums and CDs including Captain Bentley’s Wild Adventure, I Could Be Crazy (But Then Again It Could Be You), Photograph, and Apotheosis.

“I have roughly three hundred of what they call ‘titles’ and songs. Millions have heard my music on commercials, films, elevators, whatever, but they would never know it,” he said.

With his family pedigree, however, this Danish singer-songwriter talent is hardly surprising.

“In Denmark my great grandfather built (and played) violins. Grandfather (mother’s side) conducted symphony orchestras and played first violin. Great grandmother was a ballerina. My father’s father played drums, piano and sang for countless events. My father (Arne Myggen), a writer (nationally known Danish radio host and journalist),

also played instruments. My mother was a concert pianist. She told me she practiced continuously during her pregnancy with me.

Hence from my first heartbeat – apparently – I heard music,” he advised.

Myggen’s 88-year-old mother, Lillian, who lives with him said, “I’m sure he inherited it from the family. He showed a talent at two years old. He started to sing before he could talk, on pitch. I love how he just sits down and plays anything.”

F#.

One Great Dane Myggen also founded VisionEars, an all-digital full production service.

His first video (produced with his exwife) was Arielle, a water-birthing film in 1986. Since then, he has produced and usually composed the narrative, schemata, script and music for an array of videos, documentaries and web clips for commercial, non-profit, historical, artistic and other clients, including Trikke Model 36 V, Maynard Ferguson Jazz Band, Grove Street and other wineries, American Wild Horse Refuge and videos for Adventures in Caring, a compassionfocused, SB-based non-profit client since 1997.

In fact, Myggen’s Medicine of Compassion, a video for Adventures in Caring, won the 2004 International Health & Medical Media Award for best video in the category of patient care.

The award, known as the “Freddie,” is an Oscar-equivalent for media productions in the field of health and medicine.

“Bent has got the gift,” said Simon Fox, Adventures in Caring Executive Director.

“He gets it. That is why he has worked for us so long. He is a vital partner of our mission because he has the sensitivity to make compassion visible to the audience.”

F#.

••• Serendipity led me down The Crooked Path to once again hear the music.

“Music. It is a gift,” said Myggen. “My life has always been a spiritual journey, and music has always been where I go to find inspiration. My garden is a sanctuary, my religion is music. People tell me that they didn’t know places like this exist.”

But alas, at least one does.

And it’s right here in Los Olivos.

F#.

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Paschke Thriving in CCL Summer League

by Kristen Gowdy

Former Santa Barbara High School baseball player Jeff Paschke heads to USC as an invited walk-on.

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ormer Santa Barbara High School baseball standout Jeff Paschke has been tearing up the California Collegiate League for the Santa Paula Halos just as he did the Channel League last year for the Dons.

Paschke, who was named Presidio Sports’ All-City High School Field Player of the Year this spring while playing for the Dons, held the CCL’s best batting average at .400 up until last weekend’s series with the Santa Barbara Foresters.

The performance earned Paschke a place in this week’s CCL All-Star Game, a rarity for a player who has never played a college game.

Originally from Arizona, Paschke moved to Santa Barbara for his senior year of high school and excelled while with the Dons, earning First Team All-Channel League honors while sporting a .606 slugging percentage.

“I’m actually glad I moved to Santa Barbara,” Paschke said. “I really enjoyed my experience [with the Dons]. The competition was great and it helped me improve a lot as a ballplayer.”

Though Paschke led the Dons with 41 hits and 28 RBI last season and currently holds a .925 OPS for the Halos, hitting is only a third of his game. When Paschke is not flashing his glove at third base – he has committed just three errors in 30 games this season– he is on the mound for the Halos. Paschke has pitched in eight games for Santa Paula including one start, and holds a 1.96 ERA.

“He’s an unbelievable baseball player,” Santa Paula head coach Jimmy Walker said of Paschke. “If I were a college coach, it would be great because I could use him just about anywhere.”

According to Paschke, he will be used just about anywhere next year when he attends the University of Southern California as an invited walk-on.

“My goal for next year is to earn a starting spot as a freshman, either as a relief pitcher or a corner infielder,” Paschke said.

Paschke was committed to USC before he moved to Santa Barbara, and he said that he always knew he wanted to come to Southern California for college.

“USC has always been my dream school ever since I was little,” Paschke said.

“When I got the opportunity to play for them next year, I jumped on it as soon as I could.”

But next season will not be the first time Paschke suits up for a team called the Trojans. He played his first three high school seasons for the Valley Christian Trojans, a private high school in Chandler, AZ. Paschke led Valley Christian to a 2A state title during his sophomore year, batting .620 and setting the state record with 72 RBI. He was named the sophomore baseball Player of the Year by ESPN’s Rise magazine.

Paschke hit .412 during his junior season at Valley Christian, but struggled during his pitching outings, posting a 9.98 ERA over just 13 innings pitched.

However, he excelled on the mound for the Dons last season, compiling a 2.39 ERA over 44 innings pitched.

Impressive statistics aside, Paschke admits he still has some areas of his game that need improvement before he suits up for USC – most prominently his patience at the plate. Paschke has struck out 11 times in 82 at bats for the Halos.

Walker, however, said that Paschke’s aggressiveness at the plate also works to his advantage.

“I’d say maybe being a little more selective at the plate is something he needs to improve on,” Walker said. “But that’s also a plus for him because he can go up there and be aggressive and swing the bat.

It’s tough to tell a kid not to go up there and swing the bat.”

Paschke said that his summer with the Halos has helped him become more selective at the plate. He also credits Santa Paula with helping him adjust to college pitching and playing every day, which will be critical to his success at USC. The versatility that Paschke displays on the field, however, is what Walker says will help him become an impact player for the Trojans just as he did for the Halos and the Dons.

“He’s like three players in one,” Walker said. “Having just graduated high school and being able to compete at this level is tough. He does things on the field that are just amazing, and his future is bright.”

High School Football Teams Taking Shape

By Barry Punzal

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ith the start of high school football season less than six weeks away, Presidio Sports checked with several local teams to see how their preparations are progressing. Regular seasons begin on Friday, August 30. Season schedules are available at PresidioSports.com.

Vacation’s Over, Royals Hard At Work With the first scheduled game at the end of August, most high school football teams are electing to take the CIF-mandated three-week “dead period” during the month of July.

Not at San Marcos.

Coach Anthony Linebaugh decided to take an early dead period, when teams are required to be off from supervised workouts.

“No free time in July,” Linebaugh told Presidio Sports. “No free time when you’re coming off a 1-9 season.”

While the varsity team took its lumps in Linebaugh’s first season at the helm, the lower level teams did well. The sophomoreled JVs went 7-3. He chose to keep the sophomore class together, creating stability and laying the groundwork for a program on the rise.

Linebaugh said the spring “was very productive. It allowed us to accelerate our learning curve and set a fundamental

foundation for our summer program.

Senior leadership will be a strength for us as well as a maturing group of incoming juniors.”

One of the senior leaders for the Royals will be returning quarterback Wes GhanGibson. The 6-3, 190-pounder suffered a shoulder injury in the fourth game last year and missed the rest of the season.

“He has fully recovered from last year’s shoulder injury,” Linebaugh said.

After a scrimmage at Santa Ynez on Aug. 23, the Royals open the season at Cabrillo on Aug. 30.

Caines Breaking In New Group Of Players At SBHS

Santa Barbara High coach Doug Caines will be looking to build off last year’s Channel League championship season with several new players. “[There are] plenty of new faces as we graduated a large, talented senior class,” Caines told Presidio Sports.

The Dons completed their early summer workouts on July 12 and take their threeweek dead period for the rest of the month. They’ll begin official practices for the upcoming season on Aug. 5.

In evaluating the team off the spring and early summer practices, Caines said, “Our strength is our conditioning, football IQ and our gumption.”

As the Dons head into their break, the starting quarterback position for the season opener at St. Joseph on Aug. 30 remains up in the air.

“There is still a two-headed dragon at quarterback with Eli Hale and Brent Peus,” said Caines.

Hale took over for Shawn Ramos in the big win over Dos Pueblos last season and started in the CIF playoff game against Cathedral. Peus was the starting QB on the JV team last year and saw action with the varsity in the playoff game, throwing a 47-yard touchdown pass.

Santa Barbara’s offense will get a big boost with the return of running back Cherokee Cunningham from a knee injury he suffered early last season.

“Cunningham is back to full strength and ability,” said Caines.

There was some sad news in the Santa Barbara football family this month.

Michael Jimenez, a football and baseball standout for the Dons in the early 1980s and an avid supporter of the school’s athletic program, passed way on July 3 after a long battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

His son, Jason, was a star player on last season’s league championship football team.

Early Workouts Productive For Bishop Diego Football Team

Spring and early summer football workouts have gone well at Bishop Diego.

The Cardinals return several starters from last year’s team that went 121, won the Tri-Valley League title and reached CIF semifinals. And, they have added a talented group of newcomers to

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San Marcos quarterback Wes Ghan-Gibson.

the varsity.

“Spring and summer workouts were productive with good attendance and effort,” Bishop head coach Tom Crawford said. “I was very pleased with the development of our new varsity players who got lots of repetition, which will add to our depth as we go into the season. We may have 35 or 36 players on varsity, which is also a plus over the long physical year.”

The Cardinals have been in training since June. They’ll start their three-week dead period on July 14 and resume workouts on Aug. 5. Their season opener is Aug. 30 against Santa Maria at SBCC. Experience is at the top of the list of strengths at Bishop. There are returning starters on both sides of the ball.

“We have many returning starters on both offense and defense and their playoff experience should help us in terms of dealing with our challenging schedule,” Crawford said. “I think we also have a diverse group of play makers on both offense and defense which we hope will make it hard for teams to defend us or score.”

Bishop has the luxury of having three experienced quarterbacks: Gabe Molina, Anthony Carter and Nunzio Billotti.

“They have all received lots of repetition during passing league workouts and we are comfortable they can all run the offense,” said Crawford.

An added boost to the 2013 Cardinals is the healthy return of starters who suffered injuries during last year’s record-setting season. Center Jack Braniff (who missed the playoffs) and linebacker Christian Pearson (injured for the CIF semifinal game) have looked strong in workouts.

“Guys banged up at the end of last year have recovered, so hopefully we’ll be healthy at the starting gate,” said Crawford.

Veterans Help with Warriors’ Preparations

After missing the playoffs last season, Carpinteria’s football team is working through the summer to make sure it

doesn’t happen again.

The Warriors took their three-week dead period in June, so they’ll be getting in plenty of reps before their Aug. 30 season opener at Templeton.

Coach Ben Hallock was pleased how the team looked during its spring workouts.

“We had a good spring,” he told Presidio Sports. “Our guys demonstrated that they can focus, work hard and show some enthusiasm.”

Hallock said the veterans have set the tone during training sessions.

“Our returning players have really stepped up; they seem ready to lead and to work,” he said.

The Warriors have a trio of three-year starters in quarterback Ian Craddock, receiver-lineman Duncan Gordon and QB-linebacker Kevin Stein. Peter Ramos and Jonathan Esqueda return at running back.

Joel Montes and Oscar Mejia bring experience to a rebuilding offensive line and defense.

“Our offensive and defensive lines have shown some good progress and we have some young guys (Jorge Arroyo, Greg Elizarraras) playing at the inside linebacker spots that really improved and look like they can be tough,” said Hallock.

New Pieces To Chargers’ Puzzle The Dos Pueblos football team is hard at work, looking to fill some big holes left by a talented senior class.

“We got a lot of holes to fill,” said coach Nate Mendoza, who guided the Chargers to a Channel League cochampionship and a 7-4 record in his first season. “Anytime you lose 30-plus seniors there’s a lot of shoes to fill. Our team understands that. We were pretty even with the amount of juniors and seniors last year. Now those juniors are seniors and they’re working their butts off. They understand they might be a little green as far as playing time on the field goes, but they know this is their team. They’re ready to step up and fill the void.”

The Chargers took their mandatory

Cherokee Cunningham is back at full strength for the Dons after missing most of last season due to injury.

Dos Pueblos is looking to reload after graduating 30 players from last year’s team.

three-week dead period once school ended in June. They’ll take a short break for Fiesta during the first week of August then come back for regular training camp on Aug. 7.

Their season opener is Aug. 30 at Santa Ynez.

With so many new players, Mendoza said he did a lot of evaluating during spring workouts.

“The kids put in a lot of time and effort in the whole program,” he said. “They’ve worked their tails off the last six months to get stronger, so they can get a better opportunity to compete on the field come football season.”

At this early stage, Mendoza has been impressed with his receiving corps and running backs.

“We feel we have some big receivers this

year and a confident group of running backs that are able to push each other to do a really nice job with the running game,” he said.

Senior and returning starter Matt Sessler leads the group at receiver.

Running backs include senior returners Tyler Welch, Ryan Nuno and David Blevins. Leshon Bell returns at quarterback. On defense, Welch is a returning starter at safety and Nuno and Blevins play linebacker. Liam Stinson and Micah Ruiz are experienced linemen.

Mendoza likes the attitude and enthusiasm of the new varsity players.

“We had a hungry JV team from last year, and it has an extremely strong work ethic,” he said. “That junior class will be pushing the seniors.”

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by Rachelle Oldmixon

BRAIN Drain?

“If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas. Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy. Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation.”

–President Barack Obama

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t’s been six months since President Obama stuck that small nod to neuroscience into his State of the Union address, and I still get excited when I think about it. Especially since the National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed what many thought the President might have been alluding to: A national research initiative directed at mapping the brain.

Scientists have already mapped the brain, of course. The physical brain, anyway.

We know where the frontal lobe is, what the cerebellum does, how to manipulate the motor cortex and how the occipital lobe is divided into different regions. So, then, why should the honorable POTUS want to dump money into discovering something we already know?

Because we don’t really know. We don’t really understand how the brain does what

Dr. Ralph Greenspan is not only handsome but also leading the charge on the brain mapping initiative.

He’ll go to the private sector if he needs to.

A self-professed science nerd, Rachelle has her B.A. in neuroscience from Skidmore College in upstate New York, and is working towards her Master’s in psychology at UCSB. In her free time, she blogs at www.synapticspeculations.com.

She never could quite understand why she had to choose just one area of science; they are all fascinating. Especially when paired with some classic rock.

it does. Sure, we understand how neurons “talk” to each other and how certain brain regions “control” certain functions. But we don’t really understand how the entire brain functions as a whole.

Here’s some good news: Obama’s pet science project really has been adopted. It started as a dream shared by six guys in lab coats. In September 2011, scientists from the fields of neuroscience and nanoscience met and, to hear Dr. Ralph Greenspan, talked at each other for two days. Until, that is, someone stood up and said something like, “I want to record from every neuron in the brain at once.”

That likely brought the room to a momentary standstill as the people within it wrapped their heads around the enormity of that statement.

Trust me, it’s a biggie.

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The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, each with hundreds of connections to the neurons surrounding it. The technology and data-analysis required to record from each and every neuron at once simply does not yet exist.

(Like I said, the foregoing statement is a biggie.)

During his visit to UCSB on June 27th, Dr. Greenspan – Director of the KALVI Institute at UCSD and one of the original six scientists behind the initiative – explained where the research is and why we need the POTUS’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) program to push neuroscience to the next step.

Today’s neuroscientists have two great tools at their disposal: Electrophysiology, or single-cell recording, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). On the one hand, electrophysiology allows a researcher to record the activity from up to 1,000 neurons at a time. Unfortunately, 1,000 neurons is barely enough to build up a corner of an image of the activity in one minute area of the brain. Even so, the multi-electrode arrays that collect and record the data from electrophysiology research produce such a large quantity of data that it is difficult to process and interpret it all in a meaningful way.

On the other hand, fMRI is the

absolute best tool we have for creating an anatomical image of the brain and is capable of recording the changes in blood flow to different areas of the brain during cognitive tasks. But the data is not real-time and, like any imaging data, it is based on small digital units of information, which, in this case, are called voxels. Each voxel is a three-dimensional pixel that is, at best, representative of one square millimeter. Depending on which section of the brain any particular voxel represents, it can show the averaged data from hundreds or thousands of neurons.

But even with the most fine-grain detail our best technology can manage, we are still missing most of the nuanced activity going on within our brains.

Science Synergies Obama’s initiative would provide funding for research and technological development that bridges the gap between electrophysiology and fMRI. Of course, in today’s tough economy, the realists wonder how we are ever going to pay for this. (It is estimated that the entire project might cost as much as $100 million.)

Luckily, both parties agree that this is an important aspect to the future of research in the country, meaning that they are willing to find feasible ways to pay for it.

However Congress ultimately decides to pay for the BRAIN initiative, though, it appears that it is going to happen.

Indeed, if the government cannot find the money to fully fund the project, then the scientists who hatched the initial plan intend to find private funding.

They believe that, much like the “War on Cancer” of the ‘70s and the Human Genome Project (HGP) of the ‘90s, the advances that come from the BRAIN project will lead to a great social reward.

And, apparently, they are willing to put some money where their mouths are.

Many researchers and politicians expect that the BRAIN initiative will return on the monetary investment: The HGP returned approximately $141 to the economy for every $1 spent on it. Dr. Greenspan postulated, however, that the greatest returns are still unknown. The technology developed for BRAIN may lead to new, more sensitive diagnostic tools for neural and psychological disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease or schizophrenia.

Discoveries made may lead to new treatment therapies or medications. And the data-crunching power that must be developed will benefit every area of science and technology, pushing forward advances in every sphere.

And so, even though a “Big Science Project” like BRAIN does not follow the typical hypothesis-based methodology of science, every other such project that has been undertaken has lead to serious, quick, directed advances in not only the intended field, but those surrounding it too.

So what are we waiting for?

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...continued from p.11 of the Internet and collection of our telephone logs is a mass of contradictions.

Officials have said the disclosures are (1) old news, (2) grossly inaccurate and (3) a blow to national security. It’s hard to see how any two of these can be true, much less all three.

Snowden exposed the government’s indiscriminate snooping because, besides it being morally wrong, it violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and he had no other recourse.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says Snowden should have used established channels to raise his concerns, but there are no effective channels. Members of the congressional intelligence committees are prohibited from telling the public what they learn from their briefings. Two members of the Senate committee, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, for years have warned – without disclosing secrets – that the Obama administration is interpreting the Patriot Act and related laws far more broadly than was ever intended by those who voted for those pieces of legislation.

Their warnings have made no difference.

A court challenge wasn’t open to Snowden either. Glenn Greenwald, who published Snowden’s leaks in the Guardian, notes that for years the ACLU has tried to challenge the surveillance programs in court on Fourth Amendment grounds, but the Obama administration has blocked the effort by arguing that the ACLU has no standing to bring the suit. It’s a classic Catch-22. Since the surveillance is secret, no one can know if he has been spied on. But if no one knows, no one can go into court claiming to be a victim, and the government will argue that therefore the plaintiff has no standing to challenge the surveillance.

Well played, Obama administration.

The administration should not be allowed to get away with the specious claim that telling its secrets to a few privileged members of Congress is equivalent to informing the people. It is not. It’s merely one branch of government telling some people in another branch. Calling those politicians “our representatives” is highly misleading. In what sense do they actually represent us?

Equally specious is the assertion that the NSA can’t monitor particular people without court authorization. The secret FISA court is a blatant rubber stamp.

When Obama ran for president in 2008, he said Americans shouldn’t have to choose between privacy and security. Now he says that “one of the things that we’re going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some tradeoffs involved.”

Indeed, it seems there are. Have a good one.

Larry Bond Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for writing, Larry.

It’s a tough issue, and an important one, for sure. The Catch-22 you mentioned swings both ways, of course, and, to me, the real question is whether the type of surveillance Snowden leaked actually does us any good in the first place. Perhaps the Obama administration would get more traction (sympathy?) if it would plainly (1) identify the risks the population faces, as specifically as possible, in the absence of such privacy invasions, (2) explain how mass collection of information helps mitigate that risk and (3) describe basic analytical framework and protections for average US citizens and legal immigrants.

You know, like Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

It’s a tough issue, like I said, and history will judge our actions and the present political, economic and social environment (perhaps harshly). What are the boundaries of our Constitution and when is it OK to push them? Never? Well, spoiler alert, it happens all the time in lots of different arenas and in lots of different ways. Interpretation is an art as much as anything else, so let’s just hope we have the right artists with the right colors and brushes standing in front of the canvas here. Great to hear from you, Larry, as always. – MSM)

Douthat? Don’t Do That!

Good afternoon, I write in response to Sharon’s Take last week (“What’s the Difference, Anyway?” Vol. 2, Issue 26).

Sharon, you would be well advised not to take Ross Douthat’s word for anything.

He has a habit in his New York Times columns of constructing elaborate straw men – usually by pointing out all the errors and evils of liberalism – that he then gleefully destroys. Then the readers writing comments about his columns, with equal glee, point all the errors, overreaches, and fabrications in his shaky pile of evidence, and destroy his argument.

I was truly astounded when he managed to write an entire column, complete with background information, about the problems with the funding situation of California State without even once acknowledging Prop 13. Apparently its existence did not suit his hypothesis, so he ignored it. Or maybe he didn’t even know about it. Either seriously compromises any claim he might have to influence public opinion.

Douthat’s an intellectual lightweight.

He’s predictable, shallow, and meanspirited. You don’t want to follow him

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there.

F. Drouin Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the letter, F. Drouin, I’m glad for it. Ms. Byrne simply used a few definitions from Douthat’s book Privilege: Harvard Education and the Education of the Ruling Class to frame up a broader point she makes, based on her own experience, regarding political affiliation and labels. (I remain firmly uncommitted to any particular label, by the way.) And her point, I think, is a good one: There’s nothing wrong with “talking to the (political) enemy” and learning a bit more about his or her thinking before completely dismissing (embracing?) any particular view. Who knows, that perceived enemy “might actually have something to offer.” Thanks again. – MSM)

Some Volunteers Are Different Than Others Matt, as you note in your comment on the letter from John “JB” Bowlin, the Volunteer Coordinator for Casa Esperanza Homeless Center (“Volunteering Definitely Helps the Homeless,” Vol. 2, Issue 26), my previous letter published in the Sentinel did not suggest that Casa Esperanza would not benefit from the efforts of volunteers.

I had only suggested that tasks such as the non-supervisory preparation and serving of food and staffing of the front

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desk should be handled by “Resident Members” in order to instill in them a sense of responsibility for their own welfare and to reduce a sense of entitlement and hopefully move on to regular employment and self-sufficiency.

Mr. Bowlin’s response states, “For reasons of confidentiality, Resident Members are unable to volunteer at the front desk.” I can understand why there can be legal reasons why some tasks at Casa Esperanza must be performed by an employee of Casa Esperanza rather than a volunteer. But why can a community volunteer perform a task, while a “Resident Member” volunteer cannot?

Would someone at Casa Esperanza please explain the basis of this distinction? Matt, I understand you are also a lawyer, so does this distinction make sense?

Donald E. Polk Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the follow-up, Donald, the first thing that comes to mind for me is that there may be confidential information about residents (e.g., certain health issues, criminal background issues, etc.) that other residents should not have for safety or other reasons. Thus, an independent, disinterested third party may be better suited for the types of positions that require knowledge and understanding of such information. But that’s just a kneejerk reaction, and I’ve been wrong before.

I welcome a response to clarify, if one is needed. Thanks again. – MSM)

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California Roll

by Katie Cusimano

Four-Way

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don’t get it. When I learned to drive, I learned that a STOP sign meant stop the car. My mom told me to stop completely, until I felt my body fall slightly back into my seat. A friend of mine was told by his religious father to stop and not accelerate until he uttered the words, “Jesus Christ” to himself.

Most of the time, the length of a stop need only be long enough to survey the intersection and determine who has the right of way to proceed. Anyone who ever played the Milton Bradley lightup game, “Simon,” has the memory capacity to figure out the order of three other cars arriving at the same intersection. But clearly, the batteries of most people’s “Simon” game wore out around 1991.

According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (http:// www.dmv.ca.gov), the law on intersections

Katie Cusimano is a Los Angeles-born, 4thyear college dropout and longtime Santa Barbara resident who revels in exposing the absurdities of everyday life around town. She worked and volunteered for numerous local establishments before finally settling on the glamorous career of co-parenting her two daughters to be ungrateful teenagers.

Currently she serves as president of the SBHS Theatre Foundation and manages promotions for the program.

with a four-way stop states: 21800. (c) When two vehicles enter an intersection from different highways at the same time and the intersection is controlled from all directions by stop signs, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-ofway to the vehicle on his or her immediate right.

Simple, right?

Wrong.

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Over the past 30 years driving throughout SB and beyond, I’ve witnessed a lot of creative maneuvers. Santa Barbara drivers rank highly on my “WTF were you thinking?” list. But I try to cut them some slack. We host a lot of tourists, and these out-of-towners are forced to navigate roundabouts, swerve to avoid bulb-outs and run the labyrinth-gamut of one-way streets downtown.

And the whole Cabrillo/Castillo/Carrillo thing?

Poor mid-westerners. My heart aches for you.

That’s Santa Barbara. It ain’t no picnic.

But Montecito?

The worst.

The kicker is that most of these people, save for famous families stalking potential wedding locales, have lived here long enough to know there are merely three stop signs between their villas and the Starbucks on Coast Village Road. But many Montecitans just can’t be bothered with nuisances like, say, stopping. Or courtesy. Or the law.

While being flipped the auto equivalent of the bird at intersections awaiting my turn, I began to notice a trend. It’s an unspoken hierarchy that governs the Montecito four-way stop intersection. A dimension in which the right-of-way is rarely given to middle-aged women in filthy Priuses. (Prii?) Rather, right of way is taken by those of varying levels of wealth and importance.

Do I sound bitter? Nah. My stop sign spirit was broken long ago. Now I just sit at the sign and wait for everyone to blow through the intersection – then get honked at by the agro lady straddling the Sequoia behind me.

Got a Mercedes? Please! Roll through.

The rest of us will wait.

Airing out the Audi? Don’t let me delay you. Please cut me off and be on your way.

And, hey, you in the BMW, it would be my honor to slam on my brakes so you can get to your Pilates class a few minutes early.

For those of you new to the area, or those not privy to the Illuminati who govern these intersections, I’ve compiled a pocket guide for your driving pleasure. Should you ever find yourself in Montecito at a four-way,

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Without further ado, then, I present:

The Rant’s Guide to Montecito Four-Ways: 1. Most expensive car wins. If two or more stopped cars are of equivalent dollar value, proceed to #2.

2. Bigger wins. Just as rock beats scissors, SUV beats Mercedes coupe.

3. Old men trump everyone, regardless of make or model.

4. People in a visible state of manufactured distress, whose business is clearly more important than yours – running late, on cell phone, etc. – win. Your errand cannot compare in grandeur.

5. Anyone turning right needn’t ever stop or use their turn signal. That’s a ridiculous waste of time.

6. If someone doesn’t make eye contact, they are more important than you and may proceed.

See #4.

7. Contractors in large, white trucks are on route to a very important job. Most likely, they are working at an old man’s estate, therefore they win by proxy. See #3.

8. If an Audi pulls up very closely behind a BMW, the Audi needn’t wait for its turn to proceed, but may proceed in the wake of the BMW without stopping. This top-secret maneuver, aka “Double-Dipping,” is an unspoken but wellpracticed rule, similar to the way some items on the secret menu at In-N-Out are known but never verbalized.

9. The sign says “STOP.” Therefore, if a Range Rover stops, that is sufficient. No need to yield to others. The sign makes no mention of yielding.

Rover stops. Rover goes. Prius waits. See #2.

10. Stopping for a pedestrian? No one should be walking. They should be driving. See #1.

Too much to remember? Go ahead.

Don’t stop. Pull up a car and indulge yourself in a helping of California Roll at Hot Springs and Sycamore Canyon Roads.

It’s Montecito’s most popular drive-through.

(Well, except for The Bottle Shop, but most everybody stops there for a minute or two.)

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with Mark Léisuré

Mark spends much of his time wandering Santa Barbara and environs, enjoying the simple things that come his way.

A show here, a benefit there, he is generally out and about and typically has a good time. He says that he writes “when he feels the urge” and doesn’t want his identity known for fear of an experience that is “less than authentic.” So he remains at large, roaming the town, having fun. Be warned.

Get Thee to MAW

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t’s already been an astonishing year at the Music Academy of the West, even though the summer festival won’t complete week five of its eightweek season until this Saturday. But we’ve already heard some remarkable performances from faculty, visiting artists and the fellows alike.

Take this last week’s Tuesdays@8 concert, for example, which began with percussion faculty members Ted Atkatz and Michael Werner playing Atkatz’s “Turn Key Hotel,” written just last year and scored for percussion and guitar – the instrument Atkatz plays when he pursues his other profession, as the lead singersongwriter of the rock band he left a cushy job as principal percussionist at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to pursue.

But that was just the opening salve on a five-work program that next found Jerome Lowenthal, in his 44 th season at the Music Academy and still absurdly spry at the age of 81, offering a reading of Ravel’s Sonatine that was so evocative it nearly brought some in the audience to tears, followed by two true superstars of modern classical music – New York Philharmonic principal violist Cynthia Phelps and Jeremy Denk, the brilliant pianist whose introspective yet worldly blog “Think Denk” is rivaled only by his keyboard artistry – teaming up for Benjamin Britten’s Lachrymae, a “reflection” on the late 17 th century song “If My Complaints Could Passions Move.”

And that was only before intermission.

Post-break, Debussy’s groundbreaking Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp – which spawned a body of work for the inspired instrumental – found Phelps revisiting a piece she played with faculty flutist Timothy Day more that 15 years ago, this time accompanied by faculty harpist JoAnn Turovsky. Then an extra-long silence after a quick stage change was broken by backstage shouts and finger snaps, as faculty pianists Margaret McDonald and Natasha Kislenko strode down the outside aisle at Hahn Hall trailed by the page turners, all snapping their fingers and moving with attitude. The reason? They were setting the mood for the twopiano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, the classic Leonard Bernstein music adapted for orchestra and then arranged for dueling keyboards. We’d heard the full orchestral version during the Santa Barbara Symphony’s last season; the piece was all the more elucidating for the contrast.

And that was just one concert in a schedule that is so packed it feels like a full academic year jammed into just two months. If you haven’t yet heard any of the marvelous music, this Saturday would be a good place to start. It’s the fellows’ turn to shine, as just about all of the 130-something young musicians – save for the solo pianists – will perform in one 12-hour period. The vocalists

Cellist Joshua Roman will perform a solo recital at 240 Studios on Monday, July 22 (photo by Jeremy Sawatzky).

will offer three songs each in the annual Marilyn Horne Song Competition all day at Hahn Hall, with first prize including the opportunity for a major recital. The instrumentalists return to the Granada for another concert from the nearly 100-member strong Academy Festival Orchestra, but this week is special because it’s also Concerto Night, when five soloists who bested their colleagues in an earlier competition get the chance to perform in front of the full orchestra in the magnificent theater.

Other highlights at the Music Academy this week are a solo recital from cellist Joshua Roman, the Academy’s first Alumnus in Residence, who will perform in the intimate space at 240 Studios on Calle Cesar Chavez, the annual Percussion Ensemble concert at Hahn Hall on Monday, July 22, and the Vocal Chamber Music concert, a relatively new addition to the MAW calendar, back at Hahn on Thursday.

It’s Wine Time Drinking really good wine, eating all kinds of tasty appetizers and desserts, listening to music outdoors and strolling near the ocean are all high on a man of leisure’s it’s-not-that-hard-to-do list.

That’s why he’s very fond of the California Wine Festival, which concludes Saturday with the annual beach side bash at Chase Palm Park across from the carousel, and – not coincidentally – combines all of those elements in a single afternoon. You can sample hundreds of different wines, check out some craft brewed beers, indulge in sliders, shucked oysters and a slew of other sumptuous treats, and lay back on the ocean breezecooled lawn and listen to reggae/tropical band Upstream in the area’s largest wine-and-dine event of the year. And the 4pm finish leaves you plenty of time for a sobering nap before heading out for a night on the town.

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The Weekly Capitalist

by Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding publishes The Daily Capitalist, a blog on economics and finance. He is the president of Montecito Analytics, LLC, and is a real estate investor who lives in Montecito.

Shovel Ready

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ll we need to do to revive the economy is spend more, and that includes the government. The idea is that since the economy is consumer driven (i.e., that 70% of the economy is based on consumer spending), more spending will revive the economy.

This was the Bush and Obama Administrations’ mantra when they passed the various spending bills to revive the economy. Since we consumers weren’t spending, the government, they thought, should take up the slack and engage in massive spending to kick start the economy.

President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a $787 billion bonanza to lift the economy out of its mire.

Well, spend they did. Recover they didn’t. The reason it didn’t work is that their economic premises are wrong.

The rationale behind the Recovery Act was to kick start the economy and create jobs. According to an AP news report after the Recovery Act was passed: Mr. Obama’s expensive and ambitious package of federal spending and tax cuts is designed to revive the economy and save or create 3.5 million or more jobs. It would inject cash into transportation, education, energy and health care, while aiming to help recession victims through tax cuts, extended unemployment benefits and short-term health-insurance assistance.

I think we all remember the term “shovel ready.” It’s funny we don’t hear

much about that anymore. Since the bill’s passage, $797.6 billion has been spent.

Supposedly there were all these projects ready to go but for the lack of funding.

That was a big joke. But, if you dangle $800 billion in front of people out there, I can assure you they will find ways to spend it. Since the money was spent it is safe to assume that it went somewhere and created a lot of jobs. Right? Not exactly.

California was probably the biggest recipient of this federal largesse. In fact Santa Barbara was awarded $239,428,391 for County projects. I’ll get into those in a minute, but I know you are dying to find out how many jobs were created. I don’t know. The data at www.Recovery. gov is constructed so that you can only get information on jobs for the current quarter. That is, you can’t go backwards and total up how many jobs were created from the Act’s start to the present. For example, 107 jobs were created in Santa Barbara during the first quarter of 2013.

But that’s it. Perhaps they have something to hide. If you Google this question, you will find the experts wildly divided on the answer. No one really knows.

To give you an idea of how the money was spent in our county, here are a few examples. About $20,000 was awarded to Accu-Bore Directional Drilling for “infrastructure.” $1,450,000 was awarded to Asylum Research for mostly R&D in atomic force probe microscopy. Cal Pro Painting got $500,000 for painting projects at Vandenberg. Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara

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got $1,843,482 for “weatherization” resulting in energy savings. The County of Santa Barbara got $1,843,482 for bike and pedestrian facilities. Frank Schipper Construction got $1,407,404 to rebuild “greenhouse bays” at UCSB. And many millions more went to city and county projects, school districts, utility districts, nonprofit contractors, UCSB and Los Padres National Forest. These figures come from the federal government and can be found at Recovery.gov.

I am sure the recipients of these projects were glad to get the funding. Perhaps it did some good.

“Spending is not the key to a growing economy; production and savings is.”

But the point is that after almost $800 billion spent and four years, the economy still suffers from high unemployment and flounders. Obama said back in 2009 that we would feel the positive impact of this stimulus “soon.” He was wrong. Congress was wrong. Most economists were wrong.

Despite the massive weight of evidence to the contrary, most economists insist that the key to economic recovery is more government spending. We hear economists like Paul Krugman and Joe Stiglitz say that the government needs to spend even more and that to cut back now would be harmful to the economy.

Krugman says that we haven’t spent enough, but he always says that.

Many readers will recognize this line of thinking as “Keynesian economics.”

John Maynard Keynes wrote back in the 1930s during the Great Depression that since consumer spending had collapsed, the government should step into the breach and spend. The idea is that the more money you have chasing goods, the more production will be ramped up to provide more goods, thus creating jobs and prosperity.

Keynes was wrong. And even if you think his theory holds water, where is the empirical evidence that it works?

The answer is that it has never worked anywhere, ever. Clearly, after four years we can say that the Recovery Act has failed to revive the economy. If you want longer term proof look to Japan; they have been doing this for the past 20 years and their economy has been stagnant for 20 years.

I certainly don’t see the jobs in Santa Barbara. The County unemployment rate is now at 8.4%, down from a high of 10.5% in 2010. The last employment report for the County showed that employment grew, but if you look at the data you will see that it was mainly in agriculture and professional services. This is not where the Recovery Act money went.

Spending is not the key to a growing economy; production and savings is.

Savings is what funds production. If we just consumed (spent) everything, and had no savings, then there would no capital to fund future production. This is the status of most poor countries where subsistence economies don’t produce enough to create savings.

In our modern economy, the effect of the Recovery Act is for the government to allocate capital to things that the market (i.e., consumers) don’t want. Thus it is just a waste of capital. None of these so-called jobs are lasting. As soon as the Recovery Act money dries up, we have nicely painted facilities at Vandenberg, but no jobs. Nicely painted walls will not lead to future economic growth.

The sad thing is that “we” didn’t pay for it. The government borrowed the money and thus saddled future generations with the burden of paying for it. Which means our children and generations of grandchildren will be forced to pay for something that gave us no job growth or economic recovery and will certainly not benefit them.

That means they will have less capital (savings) available to them to create new market-based businesses. That means that their economic opportunities will be less and their standard of living will be lower than our generation’s.

Forget the spending already. The government should encourage us to save to protect ourselves for the future.

Such savings provide the capital for future economic growth and, ultimately, economic recovery. Saving – not spending – is the key to recovery.

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Faces Of Santa Barbara

Fitness Professional/Life Motivator Jenny Schatzle runs the popular Jenny Schatzle Bootcamp right here in Santa Barbara. N.A.S.M , Cardio Kickboxing and SPIN Certified, Jenny was recently awarded Best Outdoor Fitness Program in town. Her motivation, energy and enthusiasm have created a community and program of all ages and fitness levels that cannot be described. It has to be experienced! Free on Saturdays at 8:30am. Go to www.jennyschatzle.com for details.

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The Pilgrim

Tough Love

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o there you have it. You’ve reached the print version of Bootcamp Week 6. It’s quite an accomplishment, really, and I mean it when I say congratulations.

For those of you reading this (everyone, I assume), you might think (or wish) that you’ve reached the finish line but, in my program, it’s actually just the opposite.

This is a beginning, you see, the start of the rest of your life. For if you truly followed the last six weeks, you would be seeing – and perhaps more importantly feeling – the effect of your awesome new (healthy) lifestyle!

Yes, people, this is a lifestyle I’m bringing here. When you start every day not only looking fabulous but more importantly feeling fabulous, why would you want to stop?

Reality check: I know there will be days you slip, eat and drink too much, can’t or don’t work out, whatever. But here is what is important and it’s what I most try to impart: Accept the occasional shortcoming, embrace it, pay attention to what happened and then get back on it. It’s how you respond to adversity that matters and, trust me, adversity will surely come. So don’t let it stop you. Not now.

My program is NOT about all or nothing, win or lose. That’s why it’s a lifestyle, something that stays with you for the long haul.

Remember that your body and your health are the most important things you have – period. I know those with children may challenge this (and I understand) but if you are not there to be the best role model possible, to be active and healthy with those kiddies, well…

You have one life, friends, live every day to the fullest. Be healthy, be fit.

Be happy.

Here is your final workout in this round. Do it and give it everything you’ve got; like I said, you’ve only got one life to live, so you might as well make it the one you want it to be.

Warm-up:

Jumping jacks – 30 seconds Squats – 30 seconds Run in place (kick your butt) – 30 seconds Toe reach (stretch down, hands touch feet and hold) – 30 seconds Plank (on your forearms, hands apart, legs together) – 30 seconds (Repeat three times)

Sage Sets Out, 2013

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ilgrims walked the Way of St. James, often for months, to arrive at the great church in the main square of Compostela and pay homage to St. James. So many pilgrims have laid their hands on the pillar just inside the doorway of the church that a groove has been worn in the stone.”

The beautiful and soulful Sage Parker, friend and inspiration to many, has begun her dream of a lifetime: She’s walking El Camino de Santiago – The Way of Saint James – in Spain. Teacher, seeker, lecturer/writer, blogger, mentor, Sage has set out to make an ancient pilgrimage that will take her across many (many) miles and through a multitude of challenges and opportunities. Her quest has lit a flame in the hearts of all who know her.

To follow Sage’s adventure, go to http://itpicksyou.blogspot.com shape or form. I just aim to improve, to be better than I was before. That’s me and I’m free.

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I am in Competition with no one.

I run my own race. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone, in any way,

The Famous Leg Routine Alternating Front lunges (24) Squats (24) Jump squats (24) Jump lunges (24) Push-ups (15) Crunches (20) Tricep dips (20) Plank hold (45 – 60 seconds) Shoulder slaps (50) Tricep push-ups (12)

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Beginners should do one round; intermediate people should do two. Advanced folks who are feeling strong should do three. Everybody should be tired after this one, even with the past five weeks under your belt. Check back next week for more – I want everybody to keep going and really build on the healthy foundation we’ve laid!

As always, if you have any questions about anything (or you want more or need a little motivation), please feel free to contact me directly at 805.698.6080 or jenny@ jennyschatzle.com.

Write Jenny a letter (letters@santabarbarasentinel.com) or contact her directly with any questions at jenny@jennyschatzle.com. And go get ‘em, the Sentinel is rooting for you.

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with Julie Bifano Ms Bifano is Drawn to micro-fiction and is currently writing her first novel – “The Grace Below.” She has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in writing from the University of San Francisco and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, also from the University of San Francisco. More of Julie’s stories and poetry can be viewed on her website juliebifano.com.

Milpas Renaissance

Danny Meza, one of the artists who contributed his work to the event, pictured with Jessica Grant.

Amie Kang (right), John Dixon and Victoria Ordin are excited to celebrate in the old Milpas post office.

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s I entered the old Milpas post office, I was surprised to see the room filled with smiling, delighted faces and distinctive artwork covering the walls. Wasn’t this post office abandoned? I had driven by it on my way to Trader Joe’s many times before, and now, suddenly there was a spark of joy in the air, a feeling that filled the room with optimism.

The cheerfulness exemplified the well-deserving Milpas neighborhood, which recently won a 2nd place National award for Neighborhood of the Year, due in large part to the hard work of many individuals and groups including the Milpas Community Association (MCA), Milpas business owners, residents from the Eastside neighborhood, SB police, Principals Lito Garcia (SB Junior High), John Becchio (SB High School) and Casie Killgore (Franklin Elementary), the Boys & Girls Club, La Casa de la Raza, and Father Marin, head of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. The efforts of these folks helped turn a previously run down and beaten up neighborhood into a safer, cleaner environment. I learned everyone had one focus: To simply fix the neighborhood.

On entering the post office for the Neighborhood of the Year Award ceremony, I was immediately greeted by enthusiastic Executive Director of the MCA (and Sentinel stalwart), Sharon Byrne. She explained, “We wanted to host the event at the post office because we are taking a dead space and making it vibrant as quickly as possible.” Pedro Nava, who was standing nearby, added, “We are picking the neighborhood up by the heels,

Monique Limon, Jeremy Tittle and Enrique Ruacho get together for a group shot.

Executive Director of the Milpas Community Association, Sharon Byrne, with Pedro Nava.

shaking it, and making it better.”

It occurred to me that the Milpas neighborhood did feel different than it had a couple of years ago. There was an energy shift; much like what I felt entering the old post office, but the whole neighborhood encompassed that sentiment. Sharon Byrne said, “We took a neighborhood that was facing urban decay and turned it around.” She informed me of the first neighborhood victory, the Eastside baseball field. It was once ridden with graffiti, loitering and drug use. Those issues have virtually vanished. Other victories in the neighborhood include: the parking lot at Panaderia Veronica, the area in front of Chapala Market, and the Little Caesar’s parking lot, which are all now clear of drug and alcohol use, as well as loitering.

I looked around the post office, and observed the original artwork on the walls

Danny Meza poses with his artwork.

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Rick Feldman and Frank Hotchkiss are happy to be celebrating the Milpas Community Association Neighborhood of the Year award.

Jarrett Gorin and Paul Gifford take pride in the Milpas Neighborhood of the Year Award.

President of the Milpas Community Association, Alan Bleecker, poses with Bea Molina.

District Attorney Joyce Dudley recognizes the MCA for its National Neighborhood of the Year Award.

Orlando Guerra celebrates with his daughter, Sofia Guerra.

Milpas neighborhood resident Yolanda Padilla and Catherine Steininger from Domestic Violence Solutions get together for a quick shot.

by local artists including Danny Meza.

Danny told me, “The old Milpas post office is a perfect spot for an art gallery.”

Announcements at the event alluded to other new art galleries popping up in the Milpas neighborhood.

As the 2nd place Neighborhood of the Year award was handed to Sharon Byrne from District Attorney Joyce Dudley, I was overcome with pride for Santa Barbara and all of its community

activism and vibrant neighborhoods. It is the city I was born and raised in, and a city in which I hope one day to raise my children. It is our community, and each neighborhood and its residents have the right to feel safe. As Sharon described on my way out, “You can decide what kind of community you want and you can make it happen.” This award should inspire other neighborhoods to “clean up their act.”

Santos Guzman, owner of El Bajio and provider of delicious appetizers at the event, poses with Olivia Uribe.

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Firing up the amplifier. Get ready to rock, Gliese 526 aliens!

small natural valley. There was nothing around. No houses, no farms, no nothing, just gorgeous rolling hills and mountaintops. And nobody was there.

Nobody, of course, except John.

“You’re up here all alone, John?”

“Yep, just me and the dish. Let me show you around.”

I don’t really know how to describe the place. It’s huge, first of all. I’d bet it housed hundreds of scientists at any given time in its heyday. And it’s, ah, governmental.

Think quasi-institutional, with pale hues on the walls and long corridors with double doors at both ends and zero natural light. It’s totally and completely silent, except for the wind and the sound

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And it’s straight out of the 1960s, as if nothing ever changed. The technology, the furniture, the posters (awesome government shots of rocket launches and mission control and all sorts of cool stuff), the no smoking signs, everything. It’s like stepping back in time to Goldmember’s lair in an Austin Powers flick, but a bit nerve-wracking. It’s a massive, eerie, governmental and technological time capsule. (For you gamers out there, it’s sort of like being in Half-Life or one of those bizarre first person shooter games. That’s probably the best description I can give.)

The weird thing about the place is that it feels, in some places, like ancient ruins filled with our ancestors’ artifacts, sort of like hallowed ground.

And John and I were literally skateboarding around the place – both the dilapidated interior and exterior – to expedite the tour.

It was wild, seriously, and I totally dug the whole thing. Especially when John took me up to the base of the dish.

The thing is gigantic – 30 meters in diameter, hundreds of feet off the ground – with truly massive gears and motors and all sorts of equipment moving it around constantly, directing informational beams to whatever area of deep space the target planet is in on any given night.

John offered me the chance to skate it but I couldn’t, the totally exposed hairy climb to the dish was too much with skateboard and camera in hand. (I think he was a bit disappointed but, trust me, I’m no push over… it was a frickin’ suicide mission to go skate a massive satellite dish in the middle of nowhere. I have kids now, man, and no climbing gear, so go easy.)

After a couple of hours of exploration, it was time for John to get to work.

“I’ve got to fire it up now,” he told me, very matter-of-factly and with a straight face, “Gliese 526 is just about within beaming range.”

“Beaming range, huh?” I was, admittedly, skeptical. “Let’s go fire it up and check it out.”

Fire in the Sky

“It takes about an hour to warm everything up,” John advised, “and then, in a perfect world, I program the satellite dish to track Gliese 526 across the sky all night, as Lone Star beams information from paying customers to the planet.

But the world is not always perfect, and sometimes the dish malfunctions or misfires or whatever.”

Yeah, right. Whatever.

“When I turn that giant amplifier over there on,” John pointed across the room, totally unphased by my furrowed brow, “some serious power comes out of the dish. Because of that, there are certain limits on where Lone Star can beam information. And if we encroach on the geo-plane that we are obligated to avoid, well, that would be bad. My ...continued p.30

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A longtime writer, editor and film critic, Jim has worked nationwide for several websites and publications – including the Dayton Daily News, Key West Citizen, Topeka Capital-Journal, Las Cruces Sun-News and Santa Ynez Valley Journal. California is his seventh state. When he isn’t watching movies or sports around the Central Coast and Los Angeles, you can find Jim writing and reading while he enjoys coffee and bacon, or Coke and pizza.

On the Rim

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acific Rim’s deceiving trailer leads would-be audiences to think this is just another Transformers-esque mess from Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay. But there’s more than meets the eye in the masterful hands of Guillermo del Toro – who has boasted his uncommon directorial skills not only with Pan’s Labyrinth and Mimic (still his zenith) but also as executive producer for this past spring’s impressive Mama.

This monster mash’s perpetual beauty and breathtaking visuals (I saw the 3D version and don’t regret it) form an ideal foundation for a surprisingly profound, humanistic tale. Contrary to what a few jaded critics lazily claim, this isn’t a garbage disposal in search of a story. Rim, let me be clear, isn’t a rehashing of washed-up Godzilla remnants without substance.

It starts with a brisk preface and voice-over reportage to give filmgoers the lay of the land: Monstrous creatures rising from the ocean won’t leave well enough alone. Hence the special weapons, huge robots known as Jaegers, controlled by a pair of pilots, Charlie Hunnam (from Children of Men) and Rinko Kikuchi, the latter of whom gets introduced by the approaching camera – her lovely face covered – until she gently pulls down a black umbrella. (Who says movies don’t stage entrances like they used to?) During their combat training, the duo spars but in a playful way, and it’s refreshing the heroine needs neither a sword nor a loud voice – just a softspoken “Better watch it.”

Will their skills and drive prepare them for the relentless, massive foes? Can they overcome the leading lady’s intense flashbacks to her childhood?

The good guys stand united as “mankind’s last hope” against a mounting apocalypse.

Traces of technical mumbo-jumbo come into play, but the scientific geeks inject comic relief – even when they encounter the nasty Hannibal Chau (played with relish by the filmmaker’s favorite ramrod, Ron Perlman). The electrifying fights, which rekindle memories of Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots, get messy but never overextended.

When a winged creature swoops in to carry away another, the striking image recalls a similar shot in Mimic, when the giant insect takes off with Mira Sorvino.

Pacific Rim needs an anchor, and our pilots’ commander (Idris Elba) proves strong and admirable without being overbearing. It’s a fine touch when the leader – not unlike Tom Hanks sporting a shaky hand in Saving Private Ryan – downplays his chronic nosebleed with a rhetorical question: “What is to tell?”

What’s to tell is that Guillermo del Toro has demonstrated, once again, he can punch his weight in the big ring.

The Heat Isn’t On

The Heat is a ludicrous buddy-cop comedy with female leads who may as well be wearing signs that read “Man haters.” Virtually every male in this abomination gets insulted, threatened and emasculated: Even the police chief is reduced to being portrayed as a paper tiger with “tiny” privates.

With scene after scene constructed strictly to make guys look like heartless and gutless idiots, it’s hard to pinpoint whose agenda is more to blame: that of director Paul Feig or novice screenwriter Katie Dippold.

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by Mara Peters Former editor for the fashion/lifestyle section of the New York

Post, Mara moved to London and worked as a contributing editor for the Daily Mail’s You Magazine, freelancing for Look Magazine, NY Post and the Style Magazine for The Sunday Times. To remain sane during diaper years she writes a mommy blog, You Have Your Hands Full – www.handsfullsb.com.

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’ve slipped through one of Einstein’s wormholes into a crazy parallel universe. Mondays feel like Saturdays.

Sundays feel like Wednesdays. 10pm is the new 7pm. 9am is the new 7am. We are floating through time and space with not much grounding us.

This is the rhythm of the endless summer.

Four kids seem to have multiplied exponentially. They’re everywhere. Some go to Jr. Lifeguards, others to swim lessons, but always a few opt to stay home.

And if the neighborhood sniffs activity at our house, we are the place to be. On any given day, there can be eight kids in the pool, easy.

“Why are you so tired?” Alpha says at night when we finally get a free moment.

Clearly he’s remained in the other world, the normal world; his rhythm hasn’t shifted. He still leaves at 7 and returns home at 7, completely unaware that the seasons have changed. He’s oblivious to what’s been going on in my world, where we have been to Santa Claus or Campus Point, held a pool party and played tag in the yard all while he has been in an office working.

“We are on vacation,” I tell him.

Physically, there has been transformation. We’ve browned like natives on a tropical island. Our bellies are tighter (Jackson’s starting to talk about his 6-pack), our arms stronger (Olivia’s showing off her biceps) and our endurance is longer (Teddy can run for miles). Every

day is a new triathlon. We bike, swim, surf and hike, enjoying every last moment that Santa Barbara offers.

Academically Anesthetized But something is suffering. I didn’t really take notice until I watched the kids do Kumon math packets at the kitchen table. What would have taken them ten minutes during the school year is now clocking in at an hour.

It’s hitting me too. “I am asking for ten minutes of time to think,” I lecture myself as I stare blankly at the book I am supposed to be reading. I realize I’ve read the same paragraph over at least three times and I still don’t know what I’ve read.

The fumes from suntan oil and chlorine have combined into some kind of anesthetic. We lack any kind of discipline to think through any issue other than what flavor of ice cream to buy. At night, I’ve started to fret that maybe I will not be able to check in – I may never again have one creative thought passing through my head during the day.

I started to make some goals for myself.

Father’s Day: A book a week. July 4th: Ok, maybe a magazine a week. Bastille Day: Whatever. An article a week. Just one. In The New Yorker. That’s not hard.

It’ll take 30 minutes. Then I can go to a dinner party and sound like it’s all working up there, like I’m thinking about something other than coordinating four

Just another summer day at the Peters’ place… wait, whose kids are those?

kids’ summer life.

But it’s too hard. The New Yorker isn’t working for me, so I’ve opted for the Daily Mail online, where I could read about Courteney Cox’s newly puffed up face. Or Kate Middleton’s impending baby bliss. (I’m still not convinced that the last choice is helping my brain recharge, by the way.)

At this point, even my habits have changed. When Alpha comes home, I’m shot. I smile at him, give him a pile of books to read to the kids, pour myself a tall gin and tonic, walk into the TV room, grab the remote and fall onto the coach.

I used to take pride in the fact that I was not a television watcher. We don’t even have cable.

But we do have Apple TV. And now I’m a TV binger.

Mother’s Little Helper I started out with respectable shows.

Breaking Bad was incredible. Most people that I admire and respect love Breaking Bad. It’s complicated, so to speak, with grit and drama. Then it was

Kevin Spacey and House of Cards. He is a legitimate actor bringing amazing talent to a well-written script. I still felt good about myself.

“You’re watching TV now?” my friends asked me. “You should watch Scandal!

OMG, so good.”

Scandal? First of all, I am not a television watcher (I need to say that again). Secondly, I am never watching a show called Scandal. How dumbed down can I make my life this summer?

Well, um, never say never, as they say.

I’m two episodes from finishing Kerry Washington’s pained life as the mistress of the President. Will he give up his run for re-election? For her? Or won’t he?

These are the things I think about.

Like any addict, I’ve become adept at justifying my behaviors and denying how serious my problem has become. “Alpha, you are not allowed to judge me,” I turned to him the other night over dinner. “You don’t know what my days are like. I need quiet time to recharge.”

“It won’t always be like this, I swear, the summer is almost over. And I’ve only got two more episodes…”

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First there is the fantastic public library program, “Dig Into Reading,” where kids get rewards for reading books (like free passes to Los Banos). The best part of that program is the beloved librarians that work in the kids’ section. Their suggestions are always spot on.

You can also pick up a passport at Granada Books (1224 State Street) and search 20 local shops all over town looking for Waldo. You see, that’s what we do when we can’t focus; we search for Waldo. And that can take hours. Helping pass our endless summer.

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...continued from p.26 understanding is that we could interrupt other signals and face fines and, perhaps, litigation. So I have to keep a close eye on what’s happening. I’m basically the fail safe.”

Fail safe, uh-huh. Is this actually happening? Am I having this conversation with a surf buddy?

But, again, it turns out John is right on the money.

Lone Signal basically wants to “social network” the cosmos, from what I gather.

Anyone with a few bucks can go to their site, www.lonesignal.com, and beam whatever content s/he wants toward Gliese 526 (that’s the planet du jour, but it will eventually change). Beamed information I saw included everything from simple quotes like “Please come in peace, we want only to learn and explore” to musical lyrics and files, descriptions of various modes of earthlings’ transportation, Morse Code, mathematics, texts of symbols carefully

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My guess is that there was row after row of desks filled with government scientists and astronomers (astrologers?) back in the day. Now it’s gutted and really provides a terrific street skating venue.

Ok, I admit it. John was braver than I was. Here he’s on a rusty old ladder climbing up to the main bowl – er, I mean, the satellite dish – with a skateboard tucked into his pants. (Don’t worry, his shift hadn’t started yet.) He’s literally looking at around 150 – 200 feet of exposure, a straight shot to the parking lot below. And I’m asking whether the ancient welding is reliable. (Seriously.)

arranged to approximate a woman’s breasts and other interesting earthly communications.

In fact, the first thing sent up as a test to Gliese 526 was a song by John’s band, the Winchester Rebels, called “Down” (from the Three Sheets to the Wind album). The Rebels are playing Fiesta, so you might want to go check out the first galactically relevant rock band (since the Beatles, anyway) on the Mercado del Norte Stage on Saturday, August 3, 2013, from 6 – 7pm. I’m just saying.

Anyway, the whole thing is pretty cool, and it’s actually happening.

Seriously.

And Santa Barbara’s own John Livergood is, in fact, the fail safe up at Jamesburg.

Really.

So next time ESPN cuts out inexplicably just as mighty Casey walks to the batter’s box in the bottom of the ninth, you’ll know who to look to for answers.

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With all of that said, however, the Lone Signal project is not without its detractors.

There are lots of critics, to be sure, but perhaps the most recognizable one is none other than the illustrious Stephen Hawking himself, who apparently believes that the alien nomads that might pick up Lone Signal’s, ah, signal, might not be particularly friendly. He’s been quoted as saying, “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”

Indeed, Stephen, indeed. But what if a texted image of a woman’s breasts is the first communication they see, with a Winchester Rebels’ rock and roll single playing in the background? Come on, look me in the eye and tell me that they wouldn’t come in peace. (Perhaps they’d come for a piece, Stephen, eh? I digress.)

I asked John, specifically, about this whole Stephen Hawking detractor/alien attack issue, and he put it plainly (like he always does). “I’m not involved in the politics here, this just is an interesting job for me. I’ve been building and working on satellite dishes all over the world through my father’s company, Foundation Telecommunications, Inc., for nearly 20 years now, so it’s a good fit. And I’m an astronomy fan – I even got an A in the class back at SB City College – and I’m curious, like most others humans, about what might be out there. But that’s about it.”

You know what they say about curiosity, John, it led to the abduction and significant alien probing of the cat.

Be careful up there, man, I mean that.

Too Close for Comfort

I stayed up at Jamesburg way too long, beaming old copies of the Sentinel to Gliese 526 and talking with John about the finer points of alien abduction and extraterrestrial life. (“I think I could handle just about anything,” he told me, “except for the probing. No probing here.” Agreed, John, alien probing is likely a painful and traumatic experience that should be avoided at all costs. Right with you on that one.)

That’s why I was rushing back over those Carmel Valley country roads to the campsite at Big Sur. And that was where, many thousands of words ago, I came face to face with the flying saucer and alien life form.

“Are you Editor-in-Chief Matthew Mazza?”

“Y-y-yes, I am,” I stammered, heart in my throat, terrifying thoughts of probing running rampant in my mind, “but I mean you no harm. I come in peace, baby, with mad respect and much love for all living things, human or otherwise.” (What can I say? I talk a lot, and in a vaguely urban dialect, when I get nervous.)

“Yes, Matthew, we know. We’ve been reading back issues of the Sentinel all day, and we have only one question for you before you can return to your beloved wife and beautiful daughters.”

The being paused (for effect?). And I braced myself for the single most challenging question of my life. The one to which the answer would define me then and forever more.

“Why do you speak so frivolously about alcoholic homeless people in your paper?”

Damnit man!

I can’t get away from that one anywhere I go.

STUFF I LIKE

First, I like John Livergood and the absolutely wild Jamesburg Earth Station.

I genuinely appreciate the opportunity to check it out, John, and I owe you one.

Thanks for being such a great sport and showing me the place, it was something I will definitely never forget. For anybody who is interested in beaming content to Gliese 526, go to www.lonesignal.com and make it happen. And go see John rock the bass hard with the Winchester Rebels during Fiesta. I will be there, for sure. Oh, I should mention that the Earth Station and 160 surrounding acres is presently for sale for a cool $1.5 million – that’s a ridiculously low price, trust me (I’d buy it if I could) – so hey, any of you wealthy space enthusiasts out there, please give me a call and I’ll tell you more about it. Wild.

Second, I like Elings Park. And this Saturday, July 20, 2013, 4BSB – part BBQ competition, part beer festival, part bike show and part blues music venue – will make Elings quite the spot to hang for an afternoon of fun. All proceeds benefit the park, so get up there and support a terrific local resource. And, ah, I’ll be judging the BBQ cook-off with a few other (waaaay more qualified) folks… should be a blast. Get your tickets early (and pre-buy drink and food tokens) at http://nightout.com/events/4bsb. The fun starts at noon and goes late. See you there.

Third, and last, I like Fiesta. A lot. And it’s coming soon. Brace yourselves.

Nanu-nanu, everybody, enjoy the week.

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