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Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

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Rage Against the Machines

Who’s Zooming who? Due to unusual events you’re watching more TV... and it’s watching more of you, p. 12

Where Are They Now?

Stella Pierce finds herself in her childhood home after cutting her second year at St. Andrews in Scotland short thanks to COVID, p. 28

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We are Open!

Editor’s Letter

Montecito residents have their final chance to voice their desal opinions to MWD; Arno Jaffe offers two additional Haikus after our misstep

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On the Record

Montecito trying to nail down water security for the next half century

Letters to the Editor

A collection of communication from readers John Perry, Deirdre Hanssen, Diana Thorn, Sue Burk, Arthur Merovick, and Alice P. Post; plus Corrections & Omissions

Tide Guide 12 Rage Against the Machines

Les Firestein wasn’t sure if the “internet of things” is kind of funny or kind of creepy – so he wrote both pieces

14 On Entertainment

Kenny Loggins takes the Lobero stage sans audience; how Lobero’s Pay-Per-View came to fruition; CADA virtual fundraiser features Michael McDonald and other artists; OSB begins ticket sales for upcoming productions; KotorArt International Music Festival goes online; Crystal Swan discussion; SB Central Library hosts virtual Game Night

16 In Passing

Remembering George T. Chelini, former director of the Santa Barbara Boys and Girls Clubs

18 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Thoughts on what we can and should do to begin fixing the criminal justice system

19 Bob Hazard

A twofold “Hazard” Plan for President Trump to implement to begin to unite the nation

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28 Where Are They Now?

MUS-Crane-Laguna grad Stella Pierce trades Montecito’s Mediterranean climate for the Scottish moors… and Neuroscience!

29 Library Mojo

Montecito Library inches closer and closer to reopening

Local grassroots group “5G Free SB” seeks to rein in the toxic aspects of telecom

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Editor’s Letter

by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

Will Desal Have its Day?

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ater supply has historically been one of Montecito’s (and California’s) most critical and controversial issues, and Montecito’s current Water Board has boldly taken it on. In his multi-part dive into the complicated nature of Montecito’s proposed “Water Sharing Agreement” or WSA, MJ writer Nick Schou has attempted to demystify Montecito’s historical relationship to Santa Barbara’s desalination project and how the MWD has finally been able to reach a deal with the city.

If passed by MWD and Santa Barbara’s City Council, this 50-year binding agreement for desal water will represent an historic moment in the annals of California environmental policy. According to the final draft of the WSA, Santa Barbara will provide Montecito with 1,430 acre-feet per year for the next 50 years at a price of about $4 million per year, which represents a total cost to MWD’s rate payers of about $200 million over the course of the agreement.

Eventually, desal water from Santa Barbara will get cheaper, according to the terms of the contract. Currently, MWD’s agreement with Santa Barbara provides that Montecito will help the city pay off the desal plant’s initial price as well as its ongoing costs. However, Santa Barbara’s low-interest state loan only needs to be serviced for another 17 years, so once the debt is paid, Montecito will pay a much lower price for desalinated water for the roughly 30 years left on the contract.

As reported by Nick Schou, according to the Montecito Water District’s latest available figures, should its deal with Santa Barbara go forward, MWD’s customers will be divided into three new categories, or tiers, depending on the volume of water they use. Tier 1 consumers, who use up to 6,750 gallons per month, represent nearly half of MWD’s customer base. They will see a reduction in their monthly bill, Water Board Chair Floyd Wicks said, adding that the total bill will amount to $105.90 including service fees, which works out to just $3.50 per day, or 1.5 cents per gallon.

Heavier users of water will be charged more, depending on how much they consume each month, a cost-spreading system that has been held over from the previous Water Board’s emergency conservation measures. As Schou points out, even Tom Mosby, the MWD general manager who left the water district as a result of the agency’s drastic response to the last drought, supports the board’s new proposed rates.

“I have to give credit to this board,” Mosby said. “Their new rates represent a big change in how we bill for water. Most users are going to pay less or the same as they used to, but larger consumers will be charged more, as they should be.

It’s a reasonable solution.”

On June 25, Montecito’s water customers and the general public will have a final opportunity to voice their opinions about the proposed water supply deal with Santa Barbara. That’s when the agency will host an online public hearing about the water rate changes and the desalination proposal. As a member of the public, this will be your last opportunity to weigh in on the proposal. So speak now or forever hold your peace.

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In the Category of “The Right to be Imperfect…”

The Montecito Journal awarded 1st Prize in its Haiku Creative Writing Contest to an imperfect Haiku. A Haiku is a three-line descriptive form of poetry, intended to be read in one breath leading to a sense of sudden illumination. A traditional haiku would have five syllables, or sounds, in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the last. Though these rules are sometimes broken, our intention was to stick to the traditional form. But alas, our counting was off and our winning Haiku was 5-8-5, not 5-7-5. Rather than be stripped of his title, local poet Arno Jaffe has generously opted to write an apology Haiku – not once but twice… One humble and true, one wry. Thank you, Arno!

Santa Barbara Did I forget how to count An honest mistake And… Santa Barbara Did I forget how to count I ate my reward 25 June – 2 July 2020

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Nicholas Schou

Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net

Which Way Water Security?

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nyone carefully watching the progress of MWD’s “Water Supply Agreement” (WSA) with Santa Barbara already knows that it is almost a foregone conclusion that the agency’s board of directors will have already approved this deal by the time you’re reading these words. Yet as historic as today’s vote is, or was, there are still several important questions about Montecito’s complex relationship with water that remain to be fully answered.

In this, the sixth article in the Montecito Journal’s water series, we hope to do just that.

So what exactly is water security? It sounds like a basic question, but it turns out there’s more than one answer. In water jargon, the phrase translates into making sure you have a reliable and preferably local supply of water. The problem is there really isn’t anything fitting that description in our neighborhood, at least not underground. Although certain nearby areas uphill from us, including Slippery Rock Ranch, sit on top of sizable water aquifers, they aren’t currently allowed to sell their water to anyone. So, in practical terms, water security for Montecito means purchasing water from Santa Barbara’s 1980s-era desalination plant.

Although the Funk Zone facility is licensed to provide up to 10,000 acre feet of water per year, it is currently only operating at one-third capacity. By selling desalinated water to Montecito, however, the city can help pay down the plant’s $70 million price tag and perhaps expand its production of desalinated water.

Local environmental activists oppose the deal over concerns about the plant’s impact on ocean wildlife (more on that in a minute). However, the rest of Montecito’s water board: groundwater sustainability director Cori Hayman, finance director Ken Coates, and strategic planning director Brian Goebel, all support the desal deal. So does Carolee Krieger, president of the California Water Impact Network (CWIN), who has been following the debate over Montecito’s water policy for decades and has often clashed with the board’s leadership. “I approve of the deal MWD is trying to craft with the city,” said Krieger. “I think it’s the most reliable source of water for Montecito.”

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Longtime critics of MWD’s current board, including former manager Bob Roebuck and former board member Dick Shaikewitz, see the deal as a waste of money – a lot of money. They have a point: Desalinated water is about as expensive as water gets, unless you purchase it on the spot market during a state-wide drought; for Montecito, it is estimated to start out costing $3,194 per acre foot per year, which is enough water to cover an acre of land with one foot of water. California is no longer in an extreme drought, however, so opponents of the deal argue that it would be far wiser for MWD to rely on water from the State Water Project (SWP), which brings water from Lake Oroville in Northern California all the way to Lake Cachuma, our local reservoir.

The argument in favor of the Oroville source is we’ve already paid for this water and assuming that Montecito can continue to conserve water, we don’t really need desal. “MWD has a significant opportunity to reduce the need for supplemental water supplies by increasing water conservation,” Roebuck argued in a recent editorial. “Presently only 15 percent of MWD water is for interior use. The remaining 85 percent is for exterior use, primarily landscaping.

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to letters@montecitojournal.net

Not Missing After All

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icholas Schou’s article in the 18-25 June 2020 edition of the Journal is a deeply flawed and misdirected screed against private wells disguised as an “investigation” of “Montecito’s Missing Water.” An alliterative headline to be sure, but missing? It may be unknown, but it hasn’t gone missing. At the outset, when he discussed the groundwater basin, he defined the term “highly permeable” as “leaky and almost useless.” Permeability in fluid mechanics and the Earth sciences is a measure of the ability of a porous material to allow fluids to pass through it.

Water movement in aquifers is highly dependent on the permeability of the aquifer material. The greater the permeability, the better the flow of water an aquifer can provide. A basin is the sum of its aquifers. Far from being a useless property, it is an essential property of an aquifer. He continues by writing that the basin has been subject to “decades of degradation by property owners drilling private wells.” Does nature have any bearing on the recharge of wells? Do the management practices of MWD have any bearing on local well drilling decisions and usage? Does population density affect this in any way?

Of the ten hydrologic regions in California, the Central Coast stands out the one that uses more ground water as a percentage of total water use (86%) than any other. The next highest groundwater use is in the South Lahontan region that uses 66%; and this declines to a low of 30% in the Sacramento River region. Stated otherwise, without groundwater, the Central Coast would not be able to support habitation. This is why there are over 11,000 wells between Montecito and Goleta. It is also why the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is directed toward governmental entities and not private citizens. Intelligent well owners, as individuals, will manage their wells within the limitations of the aquifer feeding those wells. It is what is in their best interest and therefore in the best interest all of all well owners who share that aquifer.

Mr. Schou continues by making the ignorant claim that any Montecito resident who drills a well “is therefore paying either nothing for municipal water or as little as possible to meet their needs.” All but a few well owners in Montecito pay for municipal water for their household needs

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(because of its excellent quality) and for the difference between what their wells produce and what they need for outdoor use. Well flow varies with the quantity of water in the aquifer, a quantity that lags between six and eighteen months from the rainfall that produces it. Wells are known to go dry. For those people who have decided to reduce their costs by drilling a well, something that is patently offensive to Mr. Schou, but is a practice he surely engages in when purchasing goods and services, Mr. Schou conveniently neglects the cost of drilling, operating and maintaining those wells. Going back to the data on hydrologic regions, he somehow does not understand that these wells provide water that serves to reduce the water supply burden on the MWD. With no private wells scattered across Montecito accessing different aquifers at different depths, where would MWD obtain the water to substitute for those wells? And how high would the price of that water be? The unalterable fact is that private wells, well managed, benefit MWD and its customer base. Poorly managed, the private well owner will add to the demand on MWD and push up the price of its sole product.

The MWD is a utility that sets its own rates for a product that is necessary to life. The upheaval in board members didn’t happen because the District was being run to the satisfaction of Montecito residents. Of course, the problem has always been supply and the cost of that supply.

Today we are being asked to accept a rate card from MWD that shrinks the available quantity of the lowest cost tier of water and substantially increases the cost of the next tier(s) of

water. This is driven by the expensive nature of desal water from a 20+ year old plant that will cost $75 million to reactivate. In the teeth of the last drought in 2015 there was another alternative. The Central Coast Water Authority was exploring a pipeline (the “bypass project”) that would connect the State Water Project pipeline with the water intake tower at Lake Cachuma. This would have also allowed carryover water from other areas to be piped to Santa Barbara.

The anticipated cost back then to complete the bypass project was $2 million. Tom Mosby was against this approach because, as he stated at the time, “If the entire state’s going dry, there won’t be any state water to deliver next year.” Yet, in 2016 the entire state didn’t go dry and it hasn’t since. And that rationale was the basis behind the desal water idea. Back then, Montecito was planning its own desal plant and that didn’t happen either. To compensate, Mr. Mosby doubled MWD’s groundwater pumping to 600 acre feet a year in an aquifer Mr. Schou ascribes to Mr. Mosby as saying is “paltry.” That increase in pumping groundwater in a paltry basin equates to providing a year’s worth of water to over 1,700 average suburban homes every year. Since the number of homes didn’t increase by that much it is a sure bet that homeowners in Montecito increased their water usage by that amount. Yet, for Mr. Schou, this wasn’t degradation of the aquifer. Maybe this was because he remembered Mosby’s words, “if you have two solid years of rainfall, the basin [and its aquifers] fills up and then you can pump water from your well.” Decades of degradation?

Hardly.

John Perry

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Unlike one of your other readers, I do NOT miss all those long letters from the same people every week, nor Jim Buckley’s often snide responses.

Deirdre Hanssen

King Newsom?

On Thursday, California Gov. Newsom mandated that face masks be required for all of California via the California Department of Public Health. Although there is public support, there is a lot of resistance to the mandate. People resent being told what to do and many are skeptical about the science because of conflicting messages by health officials and doctors. What about people getting sick from wearing masks over long periods of time? There are other questions. Was Newsom’s mandate political? Was it done to inflict fear, maintain control or react to conservative Orange County that recently gave the public the choice to wear face masks?

Furthermore, who will enforce the order and do we really want to criminalize Americans over face masks?

The Tulare Police Department says it will opt for education and encouragement of the order, rather than outright enforcement. Instead they will focus on crimes and criminals. Other police departments agree, especially with attacks on police and a lack of resources. Californians, does this mandate make sense? Does one size fit all?

(Rural / cities) Why are we allowing Newsom to control our lives so much?

It is time to stand up for our rights.

Diana Thorn

Don’t Print Anonymous Ads

If the MJ does not accept anonymous “letters to the editor” then I think submitted ads should also reveal who authored and paid for them. One rather annoying ad, which attempted to make people feel guilty about eating rack of lamb, appeared in the last MJ issue. The ad showed no taste and was offensive to farmers, ranchers and those who enjoy eating meat. It was a low attempt to push their own personal eating agenda and choice onto others in a shameful manner. The “eating-babies-themed” ad was probably inspired by PETA and paid for

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by an affluent local vegetarian/vegan.

The cycle of life involves death and eating things, be it vegetables, insects, fish or animals. No one relishes the death aspect of our food chain and no one wants to see animals suffer and when it comes to processing livestock in the meat industry. It is much more humane than a wolf tearing a lamb to shreds or a shark massacring a tuna.

I refuse to be shamed into changing my choice of meals by an ad posted by someone who would not sign their name and I hope the MJ will require “named” ads in the future.

Sue Burk Santa Barbara

Library Plaza Praise

Kudos and sincere thanks to our City Council who recently voted unanimously to restore the Measure C funding for The Library Plaza. Their favorable vote will be a major factor in completing this project which is crucial to the revitalization of our unique downtown.

Now is an important time for our town and support from the City and generous citizen donors is essential in realizing the many and varied benefits of this wonderful project. The Library Foundation is leading the charge and envisions the reimagined Library Plaza as a community center where all are welcome for literacy, learning and adventure. This project has been a dream for many years and, with renewed public-private partnership, and the support of the community it will be an enormous asset to the rebirth of Santa Barbara’s downtown.

Arthur Merovick Retired Headmaster Laguna Blanca School

Meaningful Reform

Dear City Council, what would meaningful reform look like?

I have a litmus test: “Is it good for children?” If the answer is “yes,” then it’s a good policy. If the answer is “no,” then scrap it.

Housing, homelessness, and elementary schools are the biggest problems facing children in Santa Barbara.

Our City Council is failing the community with regard to all three.

The homeless. Protect the mentally ill and veterans. It is completely hypocritical to pretend that allowing a mentally ill person to sleep on the sidewalk is some sort of compassionate solution. Stop deceiving yourselves. It is completely inhumane for the mentally ill homeless person.

And it is also completely unacceptable for the public (read children) to whom the streets and parks and sidewalks belong and which the City has a duty to maintain for the use of children.

It’s a disgrace and it’s completely unacceptable. Find housing for every 25 June – 2 July 2020

mentally ill homeless person in Santa Barbara.

Veterans. These people put their lives on the line for your freedom. Are you kidding me? Veterans are sleeping on the streets and in the parks?

Find housing for every homeless veteran in Santa Barbara.

Cops. Do we have bad cops in Santa Barbara? Fire them. That would require meaningful reform to the police union.

The role of a police department with integrity is one of the most important roles in a civilized society. Our City Council must push back against the police union’s ability to protect bad cops from censure and punishment.

Police Station. Don’t build a police station at Cota Street. Give that land back to the school district for the use of children. In 1870, Lincoln School was built. It served the children of Santa Barbara for over a hundred years. It must be rebuilt: on that Cota Street site, its historic site, to once again serve families in the downtown neighborhood. That’s something that would actually be meaningful reform.

Budget collapse from a global pandemic compounded by civic unrest calling for meaningful reform of society.

Who would have thought that those might just be the unlikely catalysts to actually shake up the status quo and do something bold and beautiful. Citizens for Neighborhood Schools has been advocating for the rebuilding of Lincoln School for over 20 years.

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Corrections, Omissions, & Apologies

In last week’s piece on the Montecito Planning Commission’s approval of the San Ysidro Roundabout, we inadvertently omitted that the project was approved with the addition of several new conditions, which may ultimately affect some aspects of the design of the project.

These new conditions may affect the original plan to “mound” the roundabout, the type of trees and landscaping that may be used, and other design elements. One of the conditions imposed sets forth that the highest area of the roundabout, including plantings, shall not reduce the present view corridors looking north towards the mountains and south to the ocean. Specific details on the design will be discussed and determined by the Montecito Board of Architectural Review. A list of conditions on the project can be found at www.countyofsb.org.

Earlier this week, the project’s approval was appealed by an individual living in Buellton. The project will now go before the Board of Supervisors on appeal before going back to MBAR for design.

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This represents a significant opportunity to conserve more water.”

According to MWD, the desal deal will provide 100 percent reliable water that will meet 38 percent of Montecito’s annual water needs. That’s an impressive figure, given that, as previous stories in this series have revealed, SWP water has become notoriously unreliable in recent years. In fact, according to Ray Stokes, executive director of the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA), which represents more than a dozen water agencies including MWD, the reliability of SWP water is expected to continue going down in future years. “It’s anyone guess with the long-term reliability of SWP water,” Stokes said. “Right now, they say they can provide us with water 60 percent of the time.” However, Stokes added, because of environmental regulations relating to state water’s effect on fish populations and other factors, that percentage is expected to go down in coming years. “There will be downward pressure on state water,” he explained. “So I am telling all my member agencies that we need to plan for a number of 50 percent or lower reliability. Who knows how low that number will go? But for planning purposes, I wouldn’t be surprised if that number got as low as 41 or even 40 percent reliable.”

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The answer has to do with another debt MWD still owes: the cost of constantly upgrading Montecito’s aging water pipes and other infrastructure, much of which was built nearly 100 years ago. Back in the 1990s, MWD acquired a substantial debt by paying for upgrades to its water system. Then, in 2010, it refinanced that debt with $13,360,000 in bonds. So far, MWD has just been making interest payments of $690,462 each year for the past decade, but starting in 2023, the agency estimates that it must pay anywhere between $1,385,000 and $1,990,000 each year until 2035. So much for a budget windfall, right?

Not so fast, according to Turner, who says water customers actually will see a windfall, just not for 17 years. That’s when Santa Barbara will have paid off its low-interest loan to build the plant. “After the capital is paid off in 17 years,” said Turner, “the annual cost of the water supply agreement will drop by half, from $3,194 per acre feet of water to just $1,575. “That’s about half the cost that we are paying now,” added Floyd Wicks, president of the Montecito Water District.

Why Such a Large Surcharge?

If you look closely at your monthly water bill, you’ll notice that service fees and other surcharges account for a hefty portion of your pain. With MWD planning to pay for desalinated water by raising rates by 2.8 percent per year for five years, some residents worry that those surcharges will also increase. Not so, Wicks insists. “The ‘surcharge’ was imposed by the prior board as a means to recover the ‘lost revenue’ from much lower water sales resulting from the board’s imposition of penalties,” he said. To make up for the loss of revenues, a “surcharge” was added to all water sold by the district. “Hence, even those customers who used a small amount of water had to pay the surcharge.” Although

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Thanks To the Internet of Things, It’s Always Open Mic Night at Su Casa

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umanity may never have been more disjointed, tribal, and disconnected but our stuff, thanks to the Internet of Things, is thriving wirelessly and virtually everything has been Wi-Fi enabled, or, in today’s parlance, is “smart.”

It’s my observation that most things with the “smart” moniker are now made of “metal look” plastic instead of sturdy metal so they’re less expensive to ship from Saipan to Santa Barbara. And because these things are metalized plastic in addition to being overly complicated, they are cheaper (for you) and fail sooner (for them). So, to review: lower price point, delivered to you by drone, failing one day out of warranty so you buy them twice – that’s what Alexa calls smart.

Moreover, all our stuff talking to each other has formed a gossipy U.N. of things that works, sadly, much better than our hominid United Nations. And what is the result of all our devices communi-

cating in the same language with a shared goal, without the petty human conflicts of race, border, and religion? I mean other than putting out enough EMF in your living room to cook a hot dog with additional radiation left over so you can toast s’mores indoors?

The result is our stuff has open mics and cameras and location trackers everywhere, creating little satellite branches of the NSA under our roofs.

It’s a dystopic Pixar movie written by Orwell and directed by Putin, where the things have taken over and the E in Wall-E stands for Evil.

You’d be surprised how much networking you’ve inadvertently opted in to and how much sensitive info you may not know you’re sharing. You may also not realize how much stuff you needed to actively opt out of, lest your silence be interpreted as legally binding tacit approval.

If you think I’m some Luddite or paranoiac, let me tell you what happened just the other day.

Upon waking, I go to swipe open my iPad but noticed it had updated a few apps, which I decided to check out because maybe I lied about not being paranoid. Amongst the various apps that updated, one was Pinterest which I took a closer look at because I’m let’s say adequately versed in the Nerd Arts & Sciences.

Going back through my iPad’s time machine, I learned that in the dead of night Pinterest had given itself permission to open my camera so it could take pictures of my home. “This will allow us to greater customize the marketing we send your way,” enthused the Pinterest bot. That certainly aroused my Pinterest! Ever wonder how you browse a new pillow or just talk about a new pillow… then suddenly you’re being carpet bombed through all platforms with pillow ads with timebomb discount codes? Thanks to passive opt-in permissions, it’s always open mic night... and day… and open camera… at su casa. The Internet of Things says party at your house!

Ever wonder why good flat screen TVs dropped in price from thousands of dollars to just a few hundred? Was it the economy of scale? Or did we win a trade war or something? If only.

Turns out the TV manufacturers changed their business model. To, like, the way cell phone subscriptions used to work. They’ll basically give you the TV for near free in exchange for the right to access your private info plus the infotech mother lode: easy access to the rest of your web enabled Things. That means your inexpensive TV has access to your profile as a consumer, your spending habits, viewing habits. It’s info they sell again and again yes to other corporations but really to anyone who’ll pay for it – it’s a little like The Producers – they’ll sell as many shares as there are buyers.

So, yeah, maybe you only paid a few Benjamins for a decent quality TV. But your TV is getting the better end of the deal and they’ve probably got you on at least some form of low-grade subscription – so they can track you going forward.

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That’s a situation famed Santa Barbara singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins will face when he performs at the venerable Lobero Theatre on Sunday, June 28 – with absolutely

no one in the audience. Of course, the only reason the show wouldn’t fill the historic theater’s 600 seats is because of restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic that still forbids concert halls and other performance spaces from reopening to cut down on the

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The Loggins show kicks off a series of low-priced live, pay-per-view concerts that will be streamed on the Lobero’s website (lobero.org) with proceeds supporting the venue and the National Independent Venue Association, which has similar oneoff theaters and halls as its members, all of whom are hurting during the closures.

Q. You’ve played just about every venue in town over the years not to mention huge arenas around the country back in the day. What made you say yes to this solo show alone on stage at the Lobero?

A. It is a weird thing to be playing at a theater with no one in the audience and just a few camera people hanging out. It’s because I see the Lobero as the sort of musical heart of Santa Barbara.

At least it has been all the time since I moved here in 1973, with a lot of cool concerts, and the things Hale Milgrim and Sings Like Hell have brought, a unique level of artists to Santa Barbara. There’s just something very rootsy about the theater that feels like a hometown to me. I think it’s really important that these kinds of venues that are struggling, especially one here where I live, are able to make it through the pandemic. When they asked me, it was an immediate yes.

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eorge T. Chelini, Santa Barbara native and former director of the Santa Barbara Boys and Girls Clubs, passed away on June 17, one day short of his 89th birthday.

George grew up just off Milpas on Alphonse Street; graduated in 1949 from Santa Barbara High School, where he played basketball and football; served with the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War; and attended Santa Barbara City College (where he was Student Body President) and UC Santa Barbara.

He started working for what was then the Santa Barbara Boys Club in 1956. He spent 37 years with the organization, eventually unifying all the Clubs in Santa Barbara County and becoming their overall director. George mentored many well-loved staffers at the Clubs who became local legends in their own right, including Sal Rodriguez, Pat Wargo, and Donnie Yee. He also drummed up lots of donations, including many from generous souls in Montecito, improved the Clubs’ facilities, and ran sports leagues, all while keeping in close touch with the children who came to the clubs for entertainment, exercise and guidance. He was one of the first directors in the country to invite girls into the Clubs, leading to a renaming of the organization as the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara.

Even long after he retired in 1993, there weren’t many times when George went out in public in Santa Barbara when he wasn’t recognized by several people who’d been kids at the Boys Club during his years there. Nearly all, now grownups, would express how much George and the Boys Club had meant to them in guiding them into leading worthwhile lives.

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Truth, Justice, and the American Way

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riting this column on Juneteenth, I am reminded of Bryan Stevenson’s fabulous 2014 book Just Mercy. In it, he observes that “Capital punishment means, ‘them without capital get the punishment’...” Stevenson ends the description of his first experience with prisoners on Georgia’s death row with this musing, “My short time on death row revealed that there was something missing in the way we treat people in our judicial system, that maybe we treat some people unfairly.” Well, folks, this is the understatement of the century. The truth is that our criminal justice system is racist from top to bottom. And, the cost to our society is tremendous.

America is by far the most punitive nation in the world. Today we have the highest rates of incarceration in the world – at least three to seven times higher than most other advanced economies, and 20 times higher than some.

Currently, the United States with only five percent of the world’s population houses more than one half the global prison population. And huge numbers of those in prison are there for offences that would provoke fines, or alternative punishments at worst in most other developed countries. Writing a bad check, committing a petty theft, or being caught with a small amount of marijuana can lead to years or a lifetime in prison. Three strikes and you’re out! No hope of parole. Retribution and punishment dominate; education and rehabilitation are politically unpopular. We’d rather spend billions of dollars subsidizing the private prison industry putting people in prison for the rest of their lives, than investing a fraction of those tax dollars on the human potential trapped under individual trauma and societal breakdown as an alternative to our penal system.

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e are writing this piece on June 19, 2020, and wanted to wish everyone Happy Juneteenth! For many of our readers, this might be the first year you’ve heard about the holiday called Juneteenth, but it’s been celebrated around parts of the United States since 1886, with more and more people celebrating it each year.

Until this week, only Texas had made it a paid holiday, but now more states are joining in. Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia all recognize the date, and a few are moving to join Texas in making it a paid holiday for state workers. Twitter, NFL, and other major organizations are also joining in the celebration this year. According to media outlets, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) plans to introduce legislation to make Juneteenth a Federal holiday and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced Thursday that he too will introduce a bipartisan bill in the Senate to the same effect. And, we here at the World Business Academy think this is tremendous! Celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S. is something everyone, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or country of origin, can celebrate.

June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas was the day that the last state to retain slavery, Texas, declared all slaves free – 33 months after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

The Fourth of July, Independence Day, is our national holiday celebrating the political independence of the United States from England. As we all learned in elementary school, that revolution began with the Declaration of Independence which contained this immortal sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

At that time, an additional 18 percent of the American population in 1776 was in fact enslaved, and counted only as part of a “man” for census purposes to calculate House of Representative districts.

So Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, Liberation Day, or Freedom Day, celebrates the end of legal slavery, and the beginning of our struggle to fully embrace the idea that all men (and women) means precisely that: ALL. The dark shadow of slavery and racism began to recede on that first Juneteenth, even as it continues to hang on in our society as one of America’s “original sins.” Just like the Declaration of Independence, Juneteenth is an aspirational holiday and will not be truly “Liberation Day” until the scourge of systemic racism is finally eliminated.

It is way past time to finally make good on the promise of equality and freedom that sits at the center of our democracy. By making Juneteenth a National Holiday and celebrating it in our national consciousness, we will bring truth at last to the belief that we are all created equal, and begin to move into a future of true justice. A future of harmonious racial peace and of a genuine belief that achieving equality for all means a rising economic, political, and moral society that will enjoy the fruits of that harmony.

We end this article with this observation from the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.”

Happy Juneteenth!

•MJ punitive systemic changes in our criminal justice system over the past five decades. In 1970 there were 300,000 Americans behind bars. Now that number is over 2.3 million – that’s a 760 percent increase! This doesn’t even count the close to five million people who are on probation or parole. That’s 7,300,000 people, or four percent of our entire adult population is under correctional supervision. In some states (Georgia) that number rises to approximately ten percent. These numbers are even more staggering when race is taken into consideration: African-Americans are five times more likely to be incarcerated than White Americans. African-Americans make up 40 percent of those in prison and 30 percent of those on parole or probation but just 13 percent of the U.S. adult population. Another common statistic you’ve likely heard: one of every three Black boys born in this century is likely to spend time behind bars. The flip side of that statistic: Only one in five Black boys is likely to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Make no doubt about it, being convicted of a crime has a lasting impact on a person’s life – it makes it harder to get a job, it makes it harder to find a place to live. In many cases it results in a person being barred, sometimes for life, from receiving food stamps or any form of public assistance, or from living in public housing – even if that’s where everyone else you know lives. And in many states, being convicted of a crime means losing your right to vote, even after

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you have fully paid your debt to society. In several Southern states, disenfranchisement of African-American men is higher now than at any time since the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.

There are additional aspects that underscore the problem with the American style justice system. But we should start by talking about what we can, and should do to begin fixing this broken, immoral, and in some cases unlawful criminal justice system.

1. Get rid of mandatory minimum sentencing. Let judges judge what is best for the individual as well as for society after hearing all the evidence. Sentencing guidelines can be useful but mandatory sentences eliminate the scales of justice in favor of just locking more folks up. Diversion could better serve their situation (e.g. drug addiction), and the cost to the individual and to society is far greater by incarcerating. At a minimum we must get rid of “three strikes” types of laws in the 28 states and the Federal government where they still exist. There is some movement on this in California lately, but we have a far way to go.

2. Invest in schools, teachers, libraries, community development programs, mental health and wellness in distressed communities (give social support BEFORE incarcerating) and thereby end the school-to-prison pipeline! This use of civilian resources as an alternative to policing is what folks mean when they talk about “defunding” police. It isn’t that anyone wants to eliminate police, but we do need to begin using better trained, less confrontational, and less violent means to help create community safety. The police should not be expected to do everything when so many current police functions could be handled more humanely and far more inexpensively than heavily armed police.

The linkage between education, or a lack thereof, and incarceration is powerful. Instead of incarceration, which diminishes economic prospects, public investments in employment assistance, education and vocational training, and financial assistance would help mediate the conditions that lead marginalized individuals to police contact in the first place. This is just a smart investment decision.

According to the US Department of Education: “If our states and localities took just half the people convicted of nonviolent crimes and found paths for them other than incarceration, they would save upwards of $15 billion a year.”

3. We must redefine drug addiction and drug use: not as a criminal offence, but as a public/mental health issue, better treated with counselling, addiction treatment, out-patient, and harm reduction programs.

4. We have to restore voting rights to those who are done serving their time. We need to start treating former felons as former and fully restore their civil rights so they can be fully reintegrated into society.

Even individuals charged with misdemeanors or violations often end up incarcerated, creating disastrous long-term consequences for the individual and society at large. Rather than investing in public health and community-driven safety initiatives, cities and counties are still pouring vast amounts of public resources into the processing and punishment of these minor offences. The societal cost of this approach is insanely expensive. It’s time to reform our approach not only to policing, but to the entire spectrum of criminal justice. It is time to reduce our society’s use of incarceration, reimagine justice and create a more productive society. This how we can enjoy Truth, Justice, and the American Way. However we approach it, we must bring sanity to the criminal justice system that is destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and bankrupting the rest of us to pay for the broken distortion of what passes for criminal justice today. •MJ DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS

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Divided America The Importance of National Unity

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he glue binding America is coming undone. Every aspect of life is becoming strained by growing divisiveness. Which media do we trust?

Who is worthy of federal aid? How can we ever put this country back together as “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”?

Trust in our political leadership has crumbled. Leaders at all levels are held up for ridicule – the president, Congress, governors, urban mayors, corporate CEOs, union bosses, and even police chiefs – all have approval ratings that have reached all-time lows.

Character Counts

During his lifetime, painter Norman Rockwell turned out 323 covers for the Saturday Evening Post depicting the most decent qualities in our national character through the eyes of the ordinary working stiff. In defense of civic virtue and American exceptionalism, none stood greater than his depiction of the Four Freedoms. He focused first on freedom of speech, characterized as a plain man in workmen’s clothes, hands hard and calloused, calmly having his say at a New England town meeting, while his neighbors, each of whose expressions Rockwell captures with marvelous exquisite detail, listen to him respectfully.

Similar covers depicted his version of freedom of worship; freedom from fear; and freedom from want, as seen through the eyes of the common man.

Today, Norman Rockwell’s portrayals would be derided as corny and trite, and perhaps even racist.

Partisan Gridlock

Are we losing the America that once earned our praise? Are we permanently divided between “red” and “blue”; rich and poor; Black, White, Brown, Red, or Yellow? How far have we fallen since our 44th president Barack Obama pledged back in 2008 that “America is a place where all things are possible”?

Soon, this country will choose either Joe Biden or Donald Trump as our 45th or 46th President of the United States. Whatever the outcome, nearly half the country will feel cheated. The greater risk is hatred and rage. As President Abraham Lincoln warned us, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

A Frightening Trend

Has America become too racist, too smug, and both too poor and too rich?

Are we united in common values, that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order and the right to peaceful public protest? Do we collectively believe in the dignity of every single man, woman and child, and the need for accountability when it comes to our government?

I believe citizens undervalue the unity effort it takes to keep a nation glued together. E. Pluribus Unum – from many, one – looks quite different when the emphasis is shifted from Unum (one nation) to Pluribus (many groups) each competing for the power to correct past grievances.

Big corporations and wealthy donors have pumped more than $400 million into lobbying organizations like “Black Lives Matter” to demonstrate their sensitivity and social concern for the less privileged. Some of these dollars have been funneled to agitators, whose goals are to set up cop free zones in major cities, rewrite the history of America and tear down all statues and monuments that they find offensive. Arson, looting of private property, burning of churches, spitting on police, throwing Molotov cocktails, inciting violence – that is anarchy, not peaceful protest.

There has also been a meltdown in free speech allowed on college campuses, in the nation’s newsrooms and in the social marketplace of ideas.

Conservative messages are discouraged, if not quite prohibited. Accusations like “racist” and “xenophobic” are purposely used to generate fear, stop discussion, and paralyze debate. That same technique of using the word “heretic” by those in power, paralyzed discourse and debate in the 16th century.

How Do We Start to Rebuild Unity?

We seem to have lost the ability to sit down together, listen, disagree without being disagreeable and fashion solutions built on common themes, not differences. There are a number of issues that are overwhelmingly supported by Americans of different races, colors and creeds. Collectively, they form a good basis to begin: Nearly 100% of Americans condemn the brutal killing of George Floyd

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on your network can get to any other device on your network because they get along nicely. Which means your TV, among other things, can access your purchase history, browser history, search history, and passwords – from anything within range that’s “smart.” Maybe a better word than “smart” would be “spy.” As Aretha Franklin sang presciently in a song, ironically, written in 1984, “Who’s Zooming Who?”

Apoca-clicks Now!

If you think it’s a benign problem that you have an easy-to-hack network inside your home tying together all your sensitive info, to give you an idea how things can get epically out of hand, consider the Mirai botnet.

“Botnet” is Nerdu for a network controlled by an invisible, typically malevolent source without your knowledge.

The Mirai botnet works exclusively through your highly vulnerable (meaning hackable) Internet of Things.

When I say “easy to hack” I mean like a child could do it with a flip phone.

The Mirai was first detected on October 21, 2016. Its test run was crashing a million Deutsche Telecom users. Soon thereafter it went to work on other networks of things, crashing Twitter, Spotify, PayPal, Netflix, eBay, and Reddit. The reason we know all these attacks came from the Mirai is that botnets leave a digital “snail trail” of code as the worm attacks different targets.

Scaling up, on October 24, 2016 Mirai crashed the entire electronic infrastructure of Liberia.

In an article in UK’s Telegraph, it was theorized this shutting down of the entirety of Liberia was a tune up for something much bigger and that Mirai’s ultimate goal was… wait for it… likely presidential election interference in the U.S. later that month.

The Telegraph article that espoused the U.S. election interference theory was published on November 4, 2016 by a reporter named Cara McGoogan.

Our presidential election took place four days after the appearance of McGoogan’s article. And I think you know what happened from there.

Kinda makes you think twice about making your network code 123456. Or rolling the dice with a factory default.

Wi-Fi Backlash

Call me a curmudgeon, but personally I prefer information privacy to a printer that gossips with Alexa and all my other things, and orders the most expensive thing on the menu when it’s hungry. You see, my printer happens to be a picky eater and only likes HP premium toner that’s priced like caviar run through a wine press.

And it rats me out to HP when I order off-brand toner refills. Again, who’s Zooming who?

Excessive Wi-Fi has actually spawned an industry of “dumb” appliance revival: premium reconditions of old school appliances with no smart connectivity whatsoever. I’m talking $400 for a “dumb” Sunbeam two-slice toaster from 1954, and $300 for a stout Panasonic “Point-O-Matic” pencil sharpener that’s built like a tank and just fricking works. Of course, it won’t send a warning to your phone that your point is getting dull, or that your pencil is getting too short, nor is it enabled with geotracking to let you know where you left it. That’s kind of the point.

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No Wi-Fi, but you could sharpen a fireplace tool with this beast

I recently had to go clean out my folks’ place. Their appliances, 40 years old on average and still functioning, only did what they did. The only thing they connected to was a wall outlet. Things were built to be durable and hearty – remember that term, “durable goods”? “Durable goods” meant a consumer good that would last more than three years.

How many of those do we have today? Your phone? No. Computer?

No. Blender? Maybe. Today’s business model is to sell you a product that’s adequate but continuously in need of upgrades, updates, and “optimizations.”

More importantly, the goal today

“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.” – Naguib Mahfouz

of many manufacturers of the things one finds on the Internet of Things is to re-sell your info and ultimately get you to be a long-term subscriber to a brand. Then if you don’t keep up with your subscriptions, updates, patches, and occasionally throw down a credit card or update your info, Big Brother may throttle back your phone or router or printer or no longer support an old operating system. On the Information Highway, it’s information highway robbery.

Compare this to all the dumb stuff my folks bought… You’d buy these products once, and they’d work forever. Now that’s my definition of “smart.”

•MJ 25 June – 2 July 2020

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Raab Writing Fellows Program Inspires Student Voices

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by Zach Rosen

college education consists of more than just a degree and a major. University time allows a student to discover which issues are meaningful to them and develop the voice that will continue into their career. The Raab Writing Fellows Program within the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara is helping students find that voice. Funded by UCSB Trustee and esteemed writer and poet Diana Raab, this program offers an opportunity of collaboration and mentorship to a select group of students in a variety of majors.

Each student is free to choose their topic of interest and receives oneon-one guidance as they develop their idea over the course of a year.

This program culminates in a final project that presents an interdisciplinary body of writing in a variety of mediums including websites, research papers, and zines, among other formats. Twenty-four students participated this year, representing the largest group the program has ever seen. The love and support the students have for each other’s work was apparent as they met this past week on Zoom to present their final projects to a group of professors, mentors, and peers. The teleconference format was a sign of the times but so was the broad range of meaningful topics the students chose to focus on. Topics spanned from gender and sexual identity issues to racial injustices, the harmony of voices represented in these projects reflected the complexity of the conversations currently taking place in the country, with the well researched, data-oriented reasoning one typically finds in academic writing.

Given that the students came from a multitude of majors and were free to choose their own topic, the projects covered various subjects from a variety of angles. While the role of cultural identity, race, and effects of immigration were common topics, the different projects exhibited the intricacy of these conversations. Sheila Tran produced a longform journalism project unearthing the origins and impact of Vietnamese Culture Night, a notable part of the Vietnamese cultural identity. In “Metamorphosis” by Emily Nguyen, the history of Vietnam War immigrants and their experiences in America are explored through a collection of introspective essays that place these topics in both a personal and broader context. Melody Roth

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Seeing the Future of Health Johns Hopkins is offering a free online course in psychological first aid.

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solation, combined with health concerns, social justice frustrations, and economic uncertainty, has taken a toll on all of us. To help people become better mental health supporters, Johns Hopkins University is now offering a free online course in psychological first aid.

The course has a 4.8/5 rating from the nearly 8,000 people who’ve reviewed it and is taught by psychologist George S. Everly, PhD who teaches students his RAPID model for dealing with emergency mental health situations: Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition.

Reflective listening and assessing needs are critical for determining whether someone just needs a shoulder to lean on or more professional help. A significant portion of the course is also dedicated to making a plan for further action to make sure the interaction is followed up with necessary action.

We all want to help in times of need, but knowing where to start when it comes to mental health issues can be difficult. For more resources, check out our article on creating a company culture that supports mental health.

And, for our Santa Barbara locals, make sure to check out the Santa Barbara Response Network which supports fellow community members through traumatic experiences and toward resilient recovery.

UCSB Trustee, esteemed writer, and poet Diana Raab

focused on the idea of liminality, the ambiguous state of identity, of mixed-race individuals growing up in America. Ebelechukwu Veronica Eseka explored the role of immigrant and international students’ names and how these have affected their experiences here.

Jaymes Johnson crafted a series of poems and essays that weave a personal story of his experiences with life and death, the racial injustices he has witnessed, and his memories of growing up as a gay black man.

Many of the projects had this personal or family influence, reflecting the messages that mean the most to their creator. Emma Demorest produced a scripted comedy series about an 80-year-old and recent graduate living as roommates in the Bay Area.

This unlikely duo stems from her own experiences of living with an 80-year-old, who has become one of her closest friends. Growing up with a younger sister on the autism spectrum, Jocelyn Lemus-Valle chose to focus her project on support for students on the autism spectrum in higher education, identifying the silent needs of these students in colleges. Her website addressed these topics, examining professor awareness and thoughts on the issue, as well as directing viewers to resources and information.

The program encourages an interdisciplinary approach with students incorporating several art forms and writing styles into their finished work. Hannah Jackson combined data and shared stories in a three-

New bionic eye could restore sight and even offer night vision.

Prosthesis technology has come a long way in recent years, but the human eye has always been difficult to replicate. Now, scientists have designed a prototype for the first 3D artificial bionic eye, which could let users see better than with the real deal.

Developed by a team of scientists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the Electrochemical Eye (EC-Eye) is modeled after the human retina and, instead of using a 2D camera, the surface is studded with an array of tiny light sensors designed to mimic the photoreceptors on a human retina.

Current bionic eyes have already been implanted in patients and show potential for restoring sight or even giving it to people who never had it in the first place. These existing models use a pair of glasses to capture imagery data, send it to an implant in the retina, and then transmit the signal to the visual centers of the brain. The cameras in the new model are actually located inside the implant, offering a much more high-tech version of these original models.

The team has a ways to go, but we can definitely see the potential for this revolutionary technology!

•MJ part blend of essays and an accompanying zine that focused on the financial and emotional impact of reproductive health and menstrual hygiene services and the presence of slut-shaming within the campus and its healthcare facilities. Various forms of media were present and the popularity of the podcast format was apparent with several projects using this platform to bring meaningful conversations to a wide range of topics. Kisakye Naiga even wrote a musical, complete with a musical score, titled “More Than This” that details the lives of four young black women as they enter college. Ector Flores-Garcia chose the unique form of a choice-based video game directed towards helping students and

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.” – Natalie Wood

young adults with suicidal impulses to garner support and understanding from those around them. Once completed, the video game will be accompanied by artwork and music. The students’ projects remain in varying levels of completion due to the extra layer of complexity the quarantine has brought to everything, however the program website will be updated as their work is completed. One thing is clear, these students are well equipped to meet the challenges the world is currently facing and will bring their own voices and style to the conversation.

Visit raabwritingfellows.com for more information and to see each of these twenty-four impressive projects.

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from a knee-in-the-neck on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis.

Nearly 100% of Americans support the 1st Amendment right of all Americans to peacefully protest, but not to rob, loot, assault local storekeepers and burn down their private property without penalty, and without promised police protection.

The primary role of government at all levels is to protect and preserve the safety and security of all citizens, regardless of color, race, or creed.

Nearly 100% of Americans favor bi-partisan leadership and cooperation in Congress. What happened to the days when two affable Irishmen – Ronald Reagan and “Tip” O’Neill – could debate by day, then sit down over dinner with a bottle of port and craft legislation that both leaders could live with? Today, red and blue voters may live in the same neighborhoods, but political discourse among friends too often descends into acrimonious and distasteful bitterness.

Nearly 100% of Americans believe that the proper pathway for disadvantaged minorities is a strong educational experience, coupled with teaching traditional American values and principles.

Nearly 100% of Americans support legal immigration but disagree as to how many slots should be based on merit vs. family relationships. Nearly all oppose open borders for drug dealers, terrorists, sex slaves, and criminals.

Nearly 100% of Americans support robust job growth, which allows minority workers to escape the binding chains of welfare and lifetime imprisonment in urban ghettos.

Rodney King got it right back in the 1992 when riots and looting shook Los Angeles. He asked, “Why can’t we all just get along?” It is important to view the world through the windshield rather than through the rear-view mirror. We show weakness when we do not work together, or function as a team, or adhere to the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility as laid down by our forefathers who went to war to create and preserve this less-than-perfect union.

What to Do to End the Rioting and Pull this Nation Together Again

Here is a twofold “Hazard” Plan for President Donald Trump to implement tomorrow: As president of all 331 million Americans, including 44 million African Americans, Donald Trump needs to arrange a nationally televised meeting at the White House, for a listening conversation with selected Black activist protestors and agitators to find out exactly what it is they specifically want. He also needs to invite and include high-profile successful conservative Black leaders like Dr. Ben Carson and Senator Tim Scott of SC, plus a selection of conservative Black military leaders, Black CEOs, and Black sports heroes and coaches.

With America watching, the president should serve only as moderator and a listener; his panel of conservative Black leaders would offer alternative ideas to protestors to meet their specific demands. The president needs to avoid telling the group how great he is, or what he has done for Black America. Let other Black conservatives carry that message.

Secondly, as a follow-up, I would encourage the president to invite former President Barack Obama to the White House for a televised friendly “fireside chat” with the American people. Barack’s message would focus on promises he made to the American people during his terms in office: “We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the past several decades. I’ve witnessed that in my own life. And to deny that progress I think is to deny America’s capacity for change.”

“We should all be thankful for folks who are willing, in a peaceful, disciplined way, to be out there making a difference,” but in addition, “We need to condemn the criminals and thugs who tore up the city of Baltimore on Monday night, after rioting and looting. When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting. When they burn down a building, they’re committing arson.”

Inclusion of your foes in delivering unified messaging plays to concepts of inclusion, caring and fairness. For Americans of both political persuasions, and most especially for independent voters, unity of message numbs the differences between red and blue and encourages all voters to think more of the greater good of the nation over party loyalty. Unified messaging also provides a more hopeful platform for meaningful economic and social change.

That same message of inclusion and unity has been reiterated by presidents throughout our history. Theodore Roosevelt said the one sure way to bring down America would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, each insisting on their own identity.” George Washington said that “the bosom of America was open to all, but only if they were willing to be assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws; in a word, soon become our people.”

Woodrow Wilson said flatly, “You cannot become Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group has not yet become an American.”

•MJ 25 June – 2 July 2020

Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Good Brief

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hen General Sir Charles Napier captured, for the British Empire, the Indian province of Sindh (now a part of Pakistan) in 1844, he reportedly announced this achievement in a one-word telegram. That single word was not English, but, in those days, when every upper-class Englishman received a classical education, the message would have been intelligible to any reader who knew Latin. But even if they understood the word, they wouldn’t have grasped its meaning in this context, unless they also realized that it was a pun. The word was, “PECCAVI,” which in Latin means “I have sinned.” (“Sinned” – “Sindh” – Get it?)

The only problem with this anecdote – which I actually learned as fact, in History class at school – is that it is not true. The truth appears to be that the story was first printed in Punch Magazine, which had received the idea, by mail, from a 16-year-old English girl named Catherine Winkworth.

There may also be a moral dimension to this tale, in that it was felt by many at the time, and by far more since, that the entire British conquest of India was ruthless, reprehensible, and certainly sinful. And it is worth noting that Catherine Winkworth herself went on to have a distinguished career as a translator of hymns.

May I also remind you that it was another young woman, Annie Ellsworth, who (in the same year, 1844) suggested to Samuel Morse the first words (quoting the Bible) which Morse sent publicly by telegraph: “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.” I might further point out that Punch, in its report, while crediting General Napier, and not Miss Winkworth, also compared the General’s alleged telegram, in terms of concise reportage from a military leader, to its only notable predecessor – Julius Caesar’s famous statement (which was also in Latin, of course) after a Roman victory, in what is now northern Turkey, in 47 BC: “Veni, vidi, vici.” This has much more pizzazz than the English translation: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

And it is validated by more than one Roman historian.

While we’re in the foreign language section, Ripley (“Believe It or Not”) relates that a French artist named Charles Hue was once arrested in a place called Peku, and informed his friends with a telegram reading:

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“O P Q R S T.” This was correctly interpreted to say, in French, “Au Peku arresté” (“Arrested at Peku.”)

Another celebrated wartime report, using only one more word than Caesar’s three, was radioed, in January 1942, by Donald Francis Mason, the pilot of a U.S. coastal reconnaissance light bomber, after an encounter in the North Atlantic with a surfaced German submarine. It said: “SIGHTED SUB, SANK SAME.” This received wide publicity, at a time when America had just entered the war, and morale-boosters of every kind were much in demand. (Which makes me wonder if any special haiku were written in Japan, celebrating the successful attack on Pearl Harbor.)

The only problem with that sub story is that, according to official German records, no U-boats were reported missing that day. However, as has often been said, in war, Truth is the first casualty.

Then let us leave war, and bring brevity a little closer to home. It was a two-word telephone message, which a friend took down for me in 1965, which changed my own life dramatically. I had been waiting anxiously to hear whether my application for a teaching position on board a cruise ship, converted into a “floating university,” had been accepted. The message, from the Director of the program, was: “ANCHORS AWEIGH!” You may know that, since that experience, my career has been primarily based on writing epigrams limited to seventeen words. But seventeen is a maximum – there is no minimum, and some of these expressions have been as short as two words. One of them says, “Happy Everything!” – a pleasant and useful enough message – which has been very popular as a postcard – but perhaps only a little more original than “Happy Birthday” or “Merry Christmas.” There is another one, however, for which, although it has been part of my published series since 1978, I cannot take complete credit. It was left by a friend, not as a “submission,” but simply as part of a note on my front door. I suppose I can claim credit for seeing this two-word message as a piece of literature which deserved whatever literary immortality it was in my power to bestow. It simply says: “HELLO FOREVER!” •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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by Claudia Schou

LOCAL EATERIES REOPEN, TOUTING NEW MENU HIGHLIGHTS

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hile a handful of Santa Barbara dining venues are preparing to amp up service to 50% capacity, al fresco dining and limited hours, some of the city’s popular dining venues are taking first steps back at dine-in service. Business owners and chefs are eager to share their latest creations. Here’s a look at what’s new on their menus.

SANTA BARBARA PISTACHIO CO. LEADING THE HEALTHY SNACK REVOLUTION

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o one understands the new snacking culture more than Santa Barbara Pistachio Co. The organic pistachio grower – founded by the Zannon family in 1991 and situated on a 440-acre ranch in Santa Barbara’s northern Cuyama Valley – lures snack lovers away from mainstream brands with flavored artisan nuts made with natural ingredients. Gail Zannon started the business with her husband, Gene, in 1991. The couple, along with their family, run a vertical operation – growing, processing, and packaging on-site – to ensure the quality of their product. Sons Tristan and Josh do the farming and pistachio production, while daughter-in-law Melissa attends farmers markets and runs community events.

The brand’s ready-to-eat, flavored pistachios as well as pistachio oil, butter and ground meal are popular staples at local farmers markets as well as Tri-County Produce, Lazy Acres and Whole Foods. We recently caught up with Gail to learn more about pistachio farming and the “smiling nut.”

Besides being one of a few organic pistachio growers, Santa Barbara Pistachio Co. is known for offering the widest range of flavors. What are your best sellers?

Our current best sellers are lemon zing, onion garlic, hickory smoked, chili lemon, hot onion garlic, and habanero. There is always some discussion about bringing in new flavors.

Our staff collaborates on flavor profiles, which makes it easier to sell as a team.

SB Pistachios Co. is available at Montecito Farmers Market on Fridays 8 am - 12 pm; Santa Barbara Farmers Market on Saturday 8 am - 1 pm

GAIL’S PISTACHIO PESTO Ingredients: 2 cups basil leaves 1/2 cup olive oil 2 garlic cloves 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese 1 cup Santa Barbara pistachio raw kernels 1 grind black pepper

Q. I’m embarrassed to admit that I just learned pistachios are classified as a fruit.

A. Not everyone knows this. A pistachio is a seed that has a husk and protective shell.

By definition this is a fruit. The major nuts are categorized as fruit. Peanuts, on the other hand, are legumes and fall under the same category as beans, chickpeas, lentils, and peas and therefore a vegetable. The pistachio is a fibrous fabric that envelops the shell and the meat is inside the shell. It’s pale yellow with a little bit of purple in it. People think the nuts look incredibly beautiful in the early stages, but after a few days the appearance changes and they begin to look moldy. The outer hull of the shell has to be removed, then the shell and the nut are dried down to a certain level of moisture so they don’t grow mold. It’s a lot of work to handle that.

How are pistachios harvested?

There isn’t much contact with the pistachios when we harvest them. We employ the use of a machine that clamps onto the trunk of the pistachio tree. The machine has a platform that is leveled underneath the branches. The machine shakes the tree wildly and the nuts fall onto the platform and then they roll down into a large bin. So the nuts aren’t handled by people – it’s all machine harvesting. The nuts are then hulled, lightly dried and then put into cold storage. Then they’re roasted. The initial drying process and cold storage reduces the danger of mealy bug infestations. The nuts are strong and healthy because we fertilize with organic compost.

How has California’s landscape of pistachio farms changed since you planted your first harvest almost three decades ago?

Since then the number of commercial pistachio growers has increased in Bakersfield, Porterville, and Kern Counties. There are still small farms that are around 40 acres or a couple hundred acres. The San Joaquin Valley, which sits farther north than the Cuyama Valley, is home to the bulk of the Golden State’s pistachio farms. Some aspects of the business have not changed: some farms continue to offer fruit stands or roadside stands that continue to do very well. It’s hard work, so I applaud them. We’re in a remote location, in the northeastern corner of Santa Barbara County, sharing borders with Ventura, Kern, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Our farm offers a general store, which sells gas, food, beverages and of course, pistachios, to travelers. The store’s traffic comes mostly from campers and hikers. We’re not the largest grower in California but we’re one of the largest producers of organic pistachios.

For a time Iran was the largest producer of pistachios until an embargo paved the way for U.S. farmers to grow the crop. Now the U.S. rivals Iran in pistachio production. How do California

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pistachios compare to the flavor and texture of pistachios in the Middle East?

Iran grows a lot of pistachios. I’ve tasted them, and they’re very good. Instead of a bulb shape they’re a long, narrow shape. They’re more flat and brown or a pale tan. The Iranian pistachio is a little oiler and has a lovely flavor. One variety I enjoy is the calagucci pistachio.

The Central Valley pistachio variety are called Kerman; they are Manila in color and also delicious.

To make 1 cup of pesto, place about 2 cups of basil leaves, 2 garlic cloves, and 1 cup of Santa Barbara pistachio kernels in a food processor. Process until smooth, leaving just a bit of texture.

With the motor running, slowly sprinkle in 1/2 cup olive oil through the feed tube. Add 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese and a grind of black pepper. Process to combine and serve with cooked orecchiette or penne pasta. Pesto will keep fresh covered in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.

TASTING NOTES WITH LUCKY’S STEAKHOUSE WINE DIRECTOR LARRY NOBLES

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aul Lato is the perfect contender for the Central Coast’s innovative wine offerings. He was a former sommelier at several fine restaurants in Toronto before taking the leap to work with seasoned wine maker Jim Clendenen, of Au Bon Climat in Santa Maria. Lato had several breakthroughs, including several 95+ point ratings from wine critic Robert M. Parker and private label wines. With encouragement from the local wine community, Lato soon purchased Zotovich Vineyard and partnered with founder Steve Zotovich to produce the wine I love – Seabiscuit 2017 Pinot Noir. Lato and Zotovich noticed the unrealized potential in the vineyard, just like Seabiscuit, the racehorse. Situated in the center of the Sta. Rita Hills, the vineyard had been misunderstood, neglected in its youth, and bought when it was old. But with love, nurture, and repair it became a winning winery and one of my favorites.

Take a sip of Seabiscuit 2017 Pinot Noir and you will immediately notice the perfume on the nose and red fruit. The light and sandy soil contribute to its velvety texture. This light and aromatic pinot noir pairs nicely with fresh fish. At home, pair it with a pan-fried medium rare salmon over leafy greens or a Niçoise salad with seared ahi, lettuces, green beans, boiled egg, fingerling potatoes, cherry tomatoes, shallot, mustard and thyme vinaigrette, garnished with Kalamata olives. The next time you find yourself at Lucky’s, I recommend pairing Seabiscuit with our fresh, grilled salmon dressed in a lemon caper butter sauce and served with sautéed spinach. Recommended film pairing: Seabiscuit.

•MJ

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Oh, I thought it was just you, a solo acoustic thing.

No, I’ve got Rick Cowling, who played bass and backing vocals with me back in the 2000s, and Tariqh Akoni, the guitarist I met last year during the Footloose project at the Marjorie Luke. There aren’t a lot of players like him who can pretty much do anything with a guitar. For me it’s a lot better, something more alive than just one person alone in your living room like you see on Facebook.

That’s more my style. I like to have the harmonies. I like to feel the energy of other players. Especially since there’s no one to connect with in the audience. I can play alone if I’m in a room with five or more people. But truly alone is not my thing anymore like it might have been 40 years ago. We all started that way, just alone in your bedroom, writing and singing songs.

But ever since the duo with Messina it’s been about connecting with an audience and having that back and forth.

For this show, the trio is perfect, because we can easily be six feet apart and still hear each other. With no audience, we can just play for each other. And we enjoy each other so much that the energy will be almost like watching a home jam session. My plan is to be very, very loose with it.

So if something goes wrong, we may stop and start again. It’s going to be very loose and that’s what I like about it. And we’re trying to kind of bring new flavor to some of the tunes, have a level of spontaneity that whoever’s watching knows they’re in for something unique. That’s what the times seemed to be demanding.

That does seem special. Can you give me a sneak preview of some of the songs?

We’re reworking “Whenever I Call You Friend” because I’ve never done it as a trio. That’s going to be a lot of fun. We get a lot of requests for “Danger Zone,” but you really can’t do it acoustically because it’s a rocker and it just falls flat. But ironically “Footloose” works really well because it’s more of a countrified rock song.

It works great as an acoustic guitar song. We’re working up “Danny’s Song,” of course, and “House to Pooh Corner,” “Conviction of the Heart.”

“I’m Alright” I wrote on acoustic gui-

tar anyway, so that’ll be great. I’m planning on getting into less wellknown songs, deeper cuts, they call it, maybe even adding “A Leap of Faith.”

But we’ll see where it goes. They want 60 minutes and I’m sure I’ve worked up way too much already. I always do that. Plus a lot of talking and stories.

Sharing stories about the Lobero and why it matters, or how it’s been sheltering at home?

Mostly about how the songs were written, who did what and when, and how they came to be. I’m trying not to tell Rick and Tariqh those stories before so that they’ll have genuine surprise looks on their faces when they hear them on stage. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

Pay-Per-View Pivot

Byl Carruthers remembers exactly where he was the moment that he heard about the lockdown orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic in mid-March. That would have been onstage at one of the clubs where Cafe R’n’B, the band he co-leads with his wife, singer Roach, often plays, this time in anticipation of a big summer tour. “The owner came over to the side of the stage and told us the government just shut everything down,” Carruthers recalled. “We had maybe 35 minutes left in the show, and he said if you want to go home I’ll still pay you. But there were all those people out there listening and drinking so we kept going. But for that half hour, it was like everybody in the band and all the people in the audience were thinking this could be the last time we’re going to be able to do this for a while. It was a very weird communal moment just trying to process what was about to happen.”

More than three months later, that moment was the impetus for Carruthers to create the new Live PayPer-View series for the Lobero Theatre that kicks off with Kenny Loggins on Sunday night.

“Right after everything shut down, my mind immediately went to not only the bands and the artists but also those venues who have very thin margins,” said Carruthers, whose credits include myriad record production and film directing projects. “A lot of these

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beautiful stages and very iconic places won’t make it ‘til they can have full audiences without some help.”

Choosing Loggins to lead off the planned four-concert series was a no-brainer, he said.

“He’s obviously one of America’s most beloved singer-songwriters, one who stands apart from his contemporaries because he represents positivity.

He brings a certain dimension that felt like it resonated and could be upbeat with what is going on in the world.”

Avoiding exposure to COVID, of course, is a prime concern, despite the absence of an audience. But Carruthers said his “safety-centric” production exceeds every standard put out by health professionals by employing a “forensically small crew” using staggered entrances, staying in an individually assigned space for the entire event and even using just one of the eight assigned bathrooms and stalls. On show day, no one other than the artists walk on to the performance stage. They will arrive through stage doors and take their place on-stage, perform, and exit, without making any contact. In other words, it’s anything but a Danger Zone.

Charging just $15 for the PPV concerts made the events a win-win-win, he said. And if successful, it might serve as a pilot for other theaters and venues around the country.

“It wasn’t about how much we could charge, but how little, because people are out of work, everybody’s struggling. So we’ll make a ticket the same as it was back in 1978.”

And those who tune in will be getting a view that’s not available in normal times, he said.

“Usually you have to place your cameras where they’re not intrusive for the audience. But we can have them go anywhere. So we’re getting great, very intimate shots and cool angles.”

Takin’ it to Zoom

If the novel coronavirus hadn’t brought the world to a halt this spring, Michael McDonald wouldn’t have been available to participate in the concert for the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) taking place this Thursday evening, June 25. That’s because the longtime Santa Barbara resident would have been out on the road as part of the long-awaited Doobie Brothers 50th-anniversary tour, which would have reunited the band with McDonald, its keyboardist and singer in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, along with co-founders Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons and guitarist John McFee. McDonald wrote and sang several of the Doobies biggest hits, including “What a Fool Believes,” “Minute By Minute,” and “Takin’ it to the Streets,” before departing for a solo career that

“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” – Norman Wisdom

Michael McDonald is one of the performers featured at the CADA Cares virtual fundraiser on Thursday, June 25

spawned more successful singles such as “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)” and “Sweet Freedom,” plus a sizeable catalog of hit duets. But with the reunion tour postponed for a year, the singer-songwriter-keyboardist has been sheltering in place in town and will join Alan Parsons, Peter and Natalie Noone, Dishwalla lead singer Justin Fox, Ambrosia’s David Pack, and other special guests for the 7 pm online interactive evening to raise funds for CADA’s efforts to help those struggling with addiction and mental health concerns that have only been exacerbated by pandemic-related isolation, job loss, and financial hardship. (Visit https://cadacares.cadasb. org for details and reservations.)

We caught up with the still soulful singer over the phone last weekend.

Q. I know you are very generous with your time and your music in helping out these causes both in town and around the country. CADA, it seems, might matter more to you. Is that true?

A. It does, because it’s a source of information and awareness for problems that societally we tend to hide.

As in all areas of mental health, one of the biggest stigmas is to bring awareness to it and to get rid of the stigma so that people can actually communicate with each other in positive and productive ways. It doesn’t need to be a thing where you need to keep a deep dark secret or hide from the rest of society, because alcoholism and drug addiction are mental health issues.

Society as a whole has been ashamed to openly discuss these issues, and instead it’s always been relegated as some moral deficiency or a lack of morality, and that’s really not good.

Overcoming addiction takes a certain amount of willpower, but what it really takes is a large amount of acceptance. The first biggest hurdle is accepting the truth so that you can actually look it in the face. What CADA does is to help people take that one day at a time, not trying to fix your whole life ahead of you. You really just have to look at it from what am I going to do about this today? The amazing part is that this is how whole lives are given back to people: one day at a time becomes 30 years, and your

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Where Are They Now?

by Stella Pierce

I’m Stella, a third-year student at St Andrews in Scotland. Before college I attended MUS, Crane Country Day School, and Laguna Blanca. My AP courses from high school (English Lit., Psychology, Biology), and a year-long stint as a research assistant at UCSB motivated my interest in human behavior.

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We grew up in and around Montecito. We were given so many opportunities to learn and explore and grow. This community invests so much in us, and we want to keep in touch to let you know how and what we’re doing. Mine is the first letter in a series of letters from Montecito Kids who are writing home to report back from the front of their life journeys.

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’m back in my childhood bedroom, eating omelets that my parents cook for me, and watching old VHS tapes. This was not how I expected to be celebrating the end of exams, having now made it halfway through my bachelor’s degree. If I were back in St Andrews, Scotland – where I have attended university for the past two years – a friend of mine surely would’ve insisted that we celebrate this two-year milestone with “a trip down to the pub.”

I insist to my relatives that it really isn’t all that different over there. By most definitions, Scotland is an English speaking country with some of the loveliest

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people and even lovelier landscapes – it’s hard not to miss my home away from home.

The Gothic appeal of Scotland’s countryside could charm even the most apathetic indoor cat, and to a California native, the almost non-existent occurrence of wildfires is an added bonus. Considering this, it is additionally strange to be back in the hometown I broke away from shortly after a series of devastating natural disasters, including the mudslides.

Now I’m home, with my parents, wading through this time a political debris flow as the world attempts to write a protocol and tackle COVID-19.

This all sounds rather pessimistic, but like many others, the pandemic has given me an opportunity to pause and The author (Stella) waiting outside a lecture hall appreciate what it feels like to enjoy a in Cambridge University lifestyle pivot. Two months ago, my time was split between lectures, labs, and theatre. Now I spend my mornings working at Avasol, the local earth-friendly, sunscreen company, and my afternoons are divided between writing sessions on my laptop and an increasingly elaborate hygiene routine for my 165 pound dog – she smells great, by the way. With any luck, this respite from the normal schedule has given me a chance to evaluate where I’m headed now that I am, in fact, two years shy of graduation.

I entered the University of St Andrews as an English Literature major. A love of the subject and fondness for the aged stone buildings inspired one entire academic year of denial before I officially redeclared my course of study: Neuroscience. The truth is, I was spending more of my time dreaming up and proposing new pieces of research to the university ethics board than I did on any of my assigned work; it was clear my heart belonged to the brain. The material is more challenging, the students are more nerdy, and the science buildings – constructed in the archetypal ‘70s pallor of stucco and questionable design initiatives – are less attractive than those of the English department. But what can I say? I’m happy!

There is no doubt in my mind that studying Biology and Psychology at an undergraduate level was the right choice, even though now that I’m a hardcore science convert, my free time is occupied with writing. This is sort of the mullet of lifestyle compromises. Upfront I have to be realistic; I like science, and it might just be the correct professional choice. But in the back? Anything goes. I’m writing a manuscript. I’m writing sappy poetry. I’m trying my hand at a translation piece (a poorly received play by Federico Garcia Lorca). As it happens, this was the work-life balance I needed. Now I have a more structured education in research design and a less restricting space to read and write.

You’d think now that I’ve sorted what I want to do, the natural next step would be to think about the future, but as it is, I’m just enjoying the present.

Even though the novel coronavirus has more or less shut down our lovely community, I enjoy being back in the Santa Barbara air, squinting through the afternoon sun at our ocean. While I do miss Scotland’s brooding coastline, it’s also delightful to be back in the land of avocados and flip-flop footwear.

Yours truly, Stella Pierce •MJ

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been a longtime tradition that we just can’t let go. This might be an available option with our current limitations.

Stay tuned!

by Kim Crail

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Contact her: kcrail@santabarbaraca.gov

On the Same Page

Baby Steps

T

he burning question on everyone’s mind is, “When is the library going to open?”

Currently, our book drops are open to accept returns on Mondays from 2:30-5:30 pm.

We will be rolling out Sidewalk Service to check out holds at this location in early July. This service is currently available at the Central Library for all Santa Barbara Public Library patrons.

Unfortunately, we don’t have firm plans to reopen our building. Please check SBPLibrary.org for the most current updates.

Kids Programs

Each summer, library staff get a chance to spend time with our young patrons and their caregivers through amazing performances (by professional musicians, jugglers and magicians), story times, sharing our favor-

Fingers crossed that Stuffed Animal Sleepover may be able to resume in the near future

ite books, and giving out prizes. We also visit the Montecito Y Preschool each week to read to that absolutely adorable group. It is always such a treat!

Last year we piloted a Garden Storytime at Upper Manning Park, which was a great collaboration between Explore Ecology, the Friends of the Montecito Library, and local businesses.

Our Stuffed Animal Sleepover has

This summer, our amazing Youth Services team working out of Central created a new Summer Reading Program (SRP), making the most of reading at home and still providing lots of incentives and virtual programs for kids.

Now you can get a library card for yourself and your family to use digital resources this summer while we’re closed without having to present ID in person.

If your family prefers holding books in their hands or listening to audiobooks, you can place items on hold in our catalog to pick up at Central until we get our Montecito Sidewalk Service going.

Another great option is the SBPL Book Match program for kids and teens. You can choose to have a ready made bundle of books available to pick up or you can have a librarian curate a stack based on your reading interests.

This is all available on our main website and we hope you check it out.

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Getting Through This, Together.

The Case for Hope One of the many challenging parts of the library being closed to the public is not being able to have our monthly book discussions. With all of the turmoil people are facing these days, it would feel good to be face to face and get a chance to have civil discourse as well as comfort each other in tough times.

If you are interested in learning more from the perspective of a young, well known civil rights activist, check out On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson.

Mckesson is a charismatic, persuasive, and passionate former schoolteacher and also hosts the weekly podcast Pod Save the People, which is an incredible resource in its own right.

Until We Meet Again

Is there a more beloved place than the library? I feel more sure than ever that we are lucky to have a gem like the Montecito Library in our community.

Please get in touch by email if I can be of assistance. I’m still helping in a Public Health capacity, but will be back in full library mode come July, in time for our curbside services.

Be well, Library Friends! You are appreciated and dearly missed. •MJ

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life has turned much more productive and enjoyable.

It’s moving to hear you speak about this from that personal point of view, from your own experience. You’ve always been open about your own issues in the past, and it seems that it’s still in your heart to help others transcend addictions.

It’s probably the most important thing in my life today, to be of service to another alcoholic or addict.

It’s not like I’m some great sage or selfless, but it is a priority for me.

It’s the most important thing in my life. I’m still one of those people who has to think about “how much of this do I have to actually do to get what I need?” I think most of us who are addicts find that one of our biggest hurdles is that we tend to be self-centered to the extreme because we live in our own heads. So being of service to other people is the real key to actually finding sobriety for any length of time.

Can you say anything about the format for the event, and what you will be doing?

I think we’re each doing one song apiece. It’s all very homespun, to say the least, I mean literally from each of our homes. My wife (singer Amy Holland) and I did a version of one of my old songs. We’re all going to be performing stuff that you’re probably familiar with, but you’ll be hearing it in closer to the way it was written, originally at the piano on a ukulele. That makes it kind of interesting for both me and the audience. And we’re all doing a Beatles song at the end of “All You Need is Love,” with everybody participating all edited together so we’re in sync.

How has it been going for you in terms of coping with the pandemic? And how have the recent protests over racism resonated with you?

COVID is obviously something none of us have ever dealt with before. We’ve been staying at home, of course, and for a while I was doing a lot of writing, but I don’t think I’ve written anything in two weeks because I’ve been mostly just kind of catching up with video projects and music content projects that have been coming in. I would like to just slow down and work on something new of my own, but it’s been sitting on the shelf (during the pandemic). I’ve done some recording at home, but right now it’s on the back burner.

A friend of mine was saying that the protests and this particular movement, the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, probably couldn’t have happened but for the pandemic. Here’s the injustice happening before our

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eyes and it really got our attention more so than ever because a situation where most everybody’s at home and people are out of work…

If we would have brought the attention to the right perspective when those football players were taking a knee at the first game, if the news media had explained to us what it is these young men were doing and how in many ways it’s a positive thing, we probably wouldn’t have needed all these protests now.

But really society hasn’t really changed since the ‘60s. When I wrote “Takin’ it to the Streets,” it was about those times that we lived in Atlanta and a projection of the future. There were demonstrations and physical altercations on the street coming periodically since then, but unfortunately we seem (as a society) to learn at the speed of pain. Law and order is important, but not at the expense of freedom…

How does this country that supposedly is the representative of democracy and personal freedom and liberty to the rest of the world not understand the importance of that? How is the very day of emancipation where a large percentage of our population finally became free from the bondage of slavery not a national holiday? It’s beyond me that we don’t honor it as an important milestone for all of us, not just for Black people, but for the fact that we actually are standing up for our constitution and for freedom.

OSB’s Optimistic Offer

Opera Santa Barbara is not only eagerly anticipating a return to live performances in front of audiences, the company has already begun taking reservations for its planned production of La Traviata at the Granada Theatre on September 25 and 27. Due to the likely government guidelines about social distancing in public performances, fewer than 500 tickets will be available for each performance, and the organizations have not as yet worked out the arrangement to begin assigning seats.

But… You can still subscribe!

Early bookers will not only reserve a spot for the production of the Verdi classic – the world’s most popular opera – that OSB expects to sell out due to the limited capacity, but both new and returning subscribers will also receive an additional 30 percent off the regular series prices, resulting in three-play deals as low as $99. The catch is that the offer ends on Wednesday, July 1.

The series also includes OSB’s planned new productions of an American classic Little Women and the delightful comedy The Daughter of the Regiment. Visit lobero.org/series/opera-santa-barbara to grab a set of tickets, or email info@ operasb.org.

Sister City Support on Zoom

COVID-19 can’t conquer the community created by the Santa BarbaraKotor Sister City Committee. While at this point nobody is able – or willing – to cross the ocean to meet and make music in person, the organization that fosters cooperation between our seaside city and the coastal town in Montenegro has booked a fundraising event in support of the KotorArt International Music Festival, slated to be held this summer with a limited program due to financial issues resulting from the pandemic. The program, which will be live on Zoom at 3 pm on Sunday, June 28, will include a review of the Santa Barbara-Kotor collaboration, videos of Kotor Festivals and performances from the roster of musicians who have performed at prior festivals and here in Santa Barbara.

Visit www.sbkotorsistercity.com for details on how to access the program via Zoom.

‘Crystal’ Visions

UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center, which has been posting video recordings of discussions with directors, writers and other filmmakers that were held at the Pollock Theatre on campus following live film screenings, along with links to watch the movies available on streaming sites on your own time, is joining the ranks of organizations offering hybrid events. The center will be conducting a live chat between Film and Media Studies professor Hannah Garibaldi and Darya

Zhuk, the director of Crystal Swan, a fictional film set in the immediate aftermath of Belarus’s independence that follows the path of Evelina, a young woman who dreams of moving to Chicago and pursuing her passion for music. Registered attendees for the free event will receive a link enabling them to screen the film in advance of the 4 pm Zoom chat on Thursday, June 25. Visit carseywolf. ucsb.edu.

Picture This: Virtual Game Night

Virtual meetings continue to blossom at Santa Barbara Central Library, with a wide variety of programs for kids, families, and adults.

Now there’s also Game Night, which is nothing new to the experienced online gamers or even those new to Zoom, but this one gives you a chance to compete against a lot of locals. From 7-8:30 pm this Thursday, June 25, people will be playing Pictionary, the charades-inspired word-guessing game that involves drawing representations of the word or phrase being silently communicated while teammates try to get on the same page with you.

Participants will be separated into two competing teams so you’ll have lots of help. And don’t worry if you can’t even draw a straight line: all artistic levels are welcome as ingenuity coupled with speed often wins out over pretty pictures.

As with all library events, there’s no admission charge. Visit www. santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/lib/ events/default.asp to enroll.

•MJ

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As set forth by Resolution No. 2020-924 Adopted by the Governing Board at its meeting on June 11, 2020 Published June 24 and July 1, 2020 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Health and Healing Center, 2099 Refugio Road, Goleta, CA 93117. Amy Hazard, 4124 Modoc Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 9, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200001413. Published June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Theme and Variations, 1769 San Leandro Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Pamela Thiel, 1769 San Leandro Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 10, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001435. Published June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lagoon Designs, 410 Nicholas Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Leah Yahyavi, 410 Nicholas Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 8, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001405. Published June

24, July 1, 8, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Turn Key Realty & Mortgage, 801 S. Broadway Suite 16, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Kenneth Lee Batson, 920 W. Apricot Unit 103, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001470. Published June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eva Terces, 3067 Paseo Del Descanso, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Jean Gatewood, 3067 Paseo Del Descanso, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200001368. Published June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dos Carlitos Restaurant & Tequila Bar, 3544 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. CLH Enterprises, Inc., 1212 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the origi-

“A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.” – Oliver Herford

INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5849 DUE DATE & TIME: JULY 16, 2020 UNTIL 3:00P.M. COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL STREET SWEEPING Scope of Work: Contractor shall furnish all materials, labor, supervision and equipment necessary to perform all work required for the sweeping of streets in the commercial & residential area street sweeping program in the City of Santa Barbara in accordance with Best Management Practices established by the Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov A pre-bid meeting will not be held. Bidders are recommended to pose all questions thru Planetbids.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

BONDING If the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. __________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

nal statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200001328. Published June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAVA Restaurant & Bar, 1212 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Blue Serrano Group, LLC, 1212 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County

Published: June 24, 2020 Montecito Journal

Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200001327. Published June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Scout Du Jour, 636 Oak Grove Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Travis Chauvin Lee, 636 Oak Grove Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200001156. Published June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 2020.

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Our Town

Telecom Facilities (WTFs), there will be no escape for anyone, including other living organisms. [References: 5G Summit Report by Dr. Martin Pall, PhD Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University, June 1 - 6, 2020 and www.ehtrust.org.]

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

Interview with 5G Free SB

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G Free SB is a local grassroots group whose mission is, “To advocate for wired technology known as Fiber Optic To The Premises (FTTP) in Santa Barbara County. To stop unnecessary and excessive densification of wireless microwave radio frequency radiation which science has proven to be harmful to our health and the environment. Wired technology is safer, faster, less expensive, more energy efficient, private and secure.” It has 472 people via Facebook with over 2,400 signatures on their petitions.

Representing 5G Free SB for this news interview are Miriam Lindbeck and Lesley Weinstock: Q. Is 5G Free SB working with the SB City Council Members and/or City Attorneys?

A. The draft Telecommunications Ordinance is being reviewed within the city departments. The City Attorney has offered to meet with 5G Free Santa Barbara to go over the ordinance line by line. We look forward to working together to make it the best and most protective ordinance it can be.

What are the most pertinent issues 5G Free SB wants everyone to know before any ordinance, public policy or contracts with telecom is established?

With 3G/4G/5G the issues are serious health effects to humans, animals and nature, an increased risk of fires, it adds huge financial cost to the city and county, could result in increased surveillance, is a threat to our safety, well-being, privacy and choice.

Lloyds of London research into the science proves that RFR is harmful and in 2018, in Exclusion Clause 32, they eliminated any coverage to claims of any kind related to EMFs/ RFR. Exclusion Clause 32 is standard across the industry, leaving the Telecom Communication Industry uninsurable.

Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Microwave Radiation (RF-EMR), is a man-made, toxic agent that causes systemic biological damages at frequency levels thousands of times lower than the current, extremely outdated FCC radiation exposure guidelines. Per new scientific evidence, former World Health Organization advisor Dr. Anthony Miller said RF radiation from any source, such as cell phones and wireless devices, fully meets criteria to be classified as a Group 1 carcinogen. Thousands of 25 June – 2 July 2020

5G at Garden & Los Olivos Streets

scientists and medical doctors around the world are calling for a halt to 5G. Countries like Switzerland, Italy, France, Israel, Russia and China have set RF exposure limits 100 to 10,000 times less than the USA. Over 10,000 Supreme Court admissible medical studies show negative health effects of pulse modulated microwave radiation, supported by 26,000 scientists and doctors who have signed petitions to oppose 5G. Thousands of peer reviewed scientific studies link RF Radiation to cancer, DNA damage, metabolic dysfunction, headaches, insomnia, dizziness, irritability, fatigue, nausea, cognitive impairment, depression and anxiety. In the US alone, over 13 million people are severely affected by radio frequency radiation. 5G cellular technology is dangerous because it emits pulse-modulated microwave radiation, at ultra high intensities, compared to earlier technologies, and because of the limits of the frequencies used, in order for users to have good reception with 5G, it is estimated they will need to put a mini cell station every eight to ten houses, instead of the current average of 3,000 feet. This would multiply the amount of radiation we will be exposed to by 10 to 100,000 times. If we cover the planet with densely placed Wireless

Are there the same concerns with 2G, 3G, and 4G? What most people do not know is 5G is dependent upon 4G. Because the 5G millimeter wave is too short to travel any distance yet can pack in exponentially more data, it relies upon the longer, wall penetrating 4G microwave to reach its destination.

When 5G itself is deployed, it will use a narrow beam formed wave, that is accelerated and steerable, so that it can reach the user. 5G is “on demand” while 4G transmits 24/7/365. With 4G as the backbone of 5G, all the 4G frequencies will be in close proximity 24/7/365. In the recent past, the 4G towers were anywhere from one half mile to two miles away. Now they will be within feet of us. Given that 4G transmits without ceasing, and 5G will be on demand by countless users, these over laying, pulsed, modulated, multi-level frequencies will be penetrating our bodies in varying degrees, from within our airways, our homes, cars, buildings, everywhere, non-stop, for as long as 5G is broadcast. It will also penetrate our animals, plants, bugs and bees. It is the pulsed (meaning there are very high, fast, frequent spikes or peaks in the frequencies), modulated, data packed over-laying frequencies that interfere with delicate biology and are therefore harmful.

Recommendations from 5G Free SB 5G Free Santa Barbara is for safe technology and striking a balance between how this technology is operated and made available. It is unreasonable to remove all wireless service.

We need to have phone/text service in our public rights of way, (PROW).

It is essential to First Responders and everyone else. GPS, also necessary, is provided via satellite. The distinction 5G Free Santa Barbara makes is the fact that we need very little power to provide wireless phone/text service in the PROW: 0.01 Watts will provide a half-mile radius of five-bar cell service. The towers now being erected all over town and in your area, transmit up 22,000 Watts per tower and are being placed anywhere from every 1,000 feet or every eight to ten buildings depending upon the terrain and density of buildings.

5G Free Santa Barbara recommends Fiber Optics to The Premises for health concerns and it is the best engineering option: it’s the fastest, safest, the most reliable, secure, and

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the most energy-efficient broadband that exists. It eliminates the problem of fires where wireless facilities can explode, and their very transmissions can cause fires in trees due to the trees’ increased production and secretion of Terpenes, being above high power lines and being near foliage that has been sprayed with VOC pesticides, to name just a few of its benefits.

What are the key positions from pro5G-ers, telecom and the FCC? Are there legal options for cities and towns to work with?

Industry is promising with 4G/5G, faster download speeds, (or blisteringly fast download speeds), low latency, and fewer dropped calls all of which falls into “Connectivity.”

4G/5G will allow for higher levels of Artificial Intelligence (AI), real-time autonomous driving, and robotics.

The technology itself behind these services is extremely complex and is yet evolving as they work to find how it can be made more efficient.

Technology is the purview of telecom. The FCC auctions off the frequency bands that each carrier purchases for their intended use. Some carriers purchase lower frequencies, some purchase frequencies in the mid band, and some purchase those in the high band. Only one company thus far will be using all three bands.

It is against Federal Law to outright prohibit the telecom industry.

However, the Federal Government did provide and is providing even more of a level of local power to all municipalities that if exercised to its fullest extent, could potentially strike a balance between the telecom companies and every city in the U.S. The problem that exists is the overreach of the FCC and telecom that is currently being challenged in the Federal Courts. Many cases are coming before the courts to produce a greater balance in power.

It is our hope that wisdom and insight prevail in the judges, and better outcomes will be achieved. But until that time, it is up to the people to move their cities into a much more enlightened position. This is most difficult due to the fact that telecom has persuaded 40,000 municipalities for over 24 years that their way is the right way. It’s up to the people to say what is right for them. It is after all, our lives that are being impacted, and the sovereign right to protect them and the lives of those we love, is in our hands right now.

•MJ 411: www.5gfreesantabarbara.org www.facebook.com/groups/5GFreeSantaBarbara; https://nextdoor.com/g/zk6byo7wx and www.youtube.com/channel/ UCWfzHNb2kmAAjUOBpo8DB9g MONTECITO JOURNAL

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The Montecito Pivot Raoul Textiles

by Megan Waldrep

The NEAT Method not only organizes your home and office, but can also help with moves and relocations – we’re talking packing and unpacking, too!

The Raoul Textiles store is located around the corner from their factory. “The store acts as the creative headquarters of Raoul’s.”

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hough Raoul Textiles can be found across the nation and across the pond, this company is as Santa Barbaran as you can get. “Our family is from here, we all live and work here, and the store is our most personal reflection of our aesthetic and how we live in Santa Barbara,” designer and founder Sally McQuillan said. The family-owned

design firm, which began in downtown SB in 1981, stands out because of the hand-pressed-in-Santa-Barbara designs on luxurious Belgian linens and signature prints on fine fabric from Scotland, Belgium, and France. “We have a new collection of hand-printed linen pillows and one-of-a-kind accessories for the home,” Sally said. “Our clients are excited about brand new

colors of our hand-printed tea towels and lavender sachets.” (Side note: their remnants would make for some killer faces masks, too.)

Speaking of, they’ve adapted to the new normal through online sales. “We have just launched our e-commerce site. It is a reflection of some of our favorite things at the moment,” Sally said. “We are also lucky to represent many fantastic local artists, whose work enhances everything we do.” On raoultexti lesstore.com, you will find the signature textiles, antiques, art, and other curiosities like the Oaxacan Ropero basket or “splatterware” mixing bowls for your reinvigorated home cooking. With numerous features in House & Garden, Elle Decor, and even a mention in The New York Times, Raoul Textiles is the epitome of “think global, act local.”

Raoul Textiles 136 State Street, Santa Barbara (805) 899-4947 www.raoultextilesstore.com

NEAT Method Designer Sally McQuillan (pictured) and her husband, Tim, started Raoul Textiles in Santa Barbara in 1981

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So. The stay-at-home order gave you time to organize and clean out your home? Good for you! Oh, what’s that? You stopped mid-way because all that stuff gave you more anxiety than the virus itself? Or, maybe you just thought about cleaning up but never got around to it? It’s ok, my friend. You are not alone, and Kat Pettey from the NEAT Method is here to help. The NEAT Method is an international company that specializes in home and office organization aiming to transform a space, “from chaotic to composed for an array of clientele.” Kat runs the Santa Barbara franchise, and services not only Montecito, but Carpinteria, Hope Ranch, Ojai, Santa Ynez, Summerland, and Ventura County. Not comfortable having someone in your home or prefer the DIY route? No problem.

“Man has his will, but woman has her way.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

If the NEAT Method’s SB franchise owner Kat Pettey had to choose, kitchens are her favorite space to organize

Virtual organizing will be arranged where Kat will “provide a personalized shopping list and step-by-step instructions on how to make your space NEAT.” Besides home organizing, moving and relocation services are available too, including pre-move preparations, managing logistics, and creating customized solutions to get you off on the right foot. “NEAT Method Santa Barbara specializes in organizing, unpacking, and downsizing luxury homes and offices across Santa Barbara,” Kat says. “We make the space you have functional for the life you live.” If you’re sold on the Method, but afraid your family will mess up the newly organized space, accept that it will happen. Life goes on. But the good news is, with the NEAT Method already in place, a quick five- to ten-minute clean up will bring you back to a moment of Zen. Call Kat to book a consultation. •MJ NEAT Method Kat Pettey (805) 705-1437 w ww.neatmethod.com/pages/san ta-barbara 25 June – 2 July 2020

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Wicks said heavier water users will have to continue pay more for their water, customers who use the least amount of water will no longer be subjected to a surcharge and will actually see a reduction in their monthly water bills.

Debating Desal’s Environmental Cost

Although officials are determined to continue operating the plant as long as possible and even hopefully triple its annual production, local environmental groups can be expected to make that as difficult as possible. Instead of safer (to sea life) subsurface intake and release pipes, the plant’s 1980s-era technology features open-intake water pipes which environmentalists say unnecessarily kill tiny ocean organisms.

“The city has had problem after problem with the intake system,” complained Kira Redmond, executive director of Santa Barbara Channelkeeper. “They tried to fix a 30-year-old plant that was just sitting there for all these years,” she added, referring to the fact that the plant shut down after just three months in 1991 and wasn’t brought back online until three years ago. “They need to replace the weir box on East Beach and move it back inland so it’s not so vulnerable to rising sea levels.” (A weir box is a water flow measuring device.)

Redmond and other activists are pressuring to force the city to apply for a new coastal development permit, arguing that the plant’s original permit only allowed it to be used to supply water during a drought emergency. They also want to force officials to complete a new Environmental Impact Report (EIR) focusing on whether the plant’s technology from 30 years ago is sufficiently advanced. “They need to do an EIR that looks at desal from the perspective of the modern day, as well as the energy impacts, and climate change impacts,” said Redmond. “We also need a more open public process where we look at all this moving forward.”

AHA! Update

Ever since the COVID-19 era unceremoniously ended the 2020 academic year in March, local educators and nonprofit groups have been redoubling their efforts to help young people deal with the added stress they’ve been experiencing. AHA!, whose mission is to reduce emotional and physical abuse on campus and has provided counseling to more than 20,000 teens and youth care providers since 1991, is no exception. Since May, AHA! has offered 11 online workshops attracting participants from around the world, offering guidance on everything from self-awareness and emotion management to relationship skills and responsible decision making.

In addition, the group’s summer session, which started on June 15 with morning and afternoon sessions featuring a combination of in-person (with social distancing) meetings and online sessions via Zoom. On June 30, from 10-11 am, Amber Phares, an associate marriage and counseling therapist, will hold a workshop focusing on the “gifts and challenges of self-care” during uncertain times, and on July 14 at 1-2 pm, Dr. Jennifer Freed and Melissa Lowenstein, M.Ed, will explore the challenges of parenting “in the midst of a pandemic and social justice revolution.”

Weekly workshops and teacher trainings will continue into the fall. Preregistration is required at https://tinyurl.com/ahataller1. For more information contact Leonisa Caporal at leo.ahasb@gmail.com or visit www.ahasb.org. •MJ

Recycled Water, Anyone?

Despite all the debate about desal, the final draft of Santa Barbara’s 50-page term sheet outlining the details of its water supply agreement with Montecito explicitly specifies that it is only obligated to sell Montecito a certain amount of water each year for the next 50 years, and makes no particular promise that any much less every single ounce of that water will be created by its desalination plant. The legal Water, Beautiful Water? Montecito’s water may someday loophole might just sound like come from recycled wastewater. typical contract blather in case aliens blow up or steal Santa Barbara’s plant (in which case, water will no longer be our biggest problem).

But 50 years is a long time. It’s entirely possible that Santa Barbara will end up providing just part of the water it will owe Montecito from its desal plant, or perhaps none at all. It all depends on science, economics, and political will. While wave-motion energy based desalination still seems like a pie-in-the-sky notion, proposed innovations in water desalination technology such as reverse osmosis nanomembranes which might radically reduce the energy needed to desalinate water are entirely within the realm of reason. Remember, once upon a time, all efforts to make mass amounts of seawater drinkable by humans were considered pie-in-the-sky. So, you know, Science moves us forward and things can change.

Meanwhile, depending on political trends, Santa Barbara might eventually junk the plant and figure out how to recycle wastewater for landscaping. Or, someday even –cringe alert – we might have mass recycling of waste water into potable household water. “I am a big fan of recycled water,” said Redmond, noting that it has been successfully implemented by water agencies in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. “It’s also local and drought proof and is water that you will always have no matter what. And you are bettering the environment by dumping less treated sewage into the ground.”

Mass scale wastewater recycling, while still a remote possibility, isn’t something that even desal’s biggest proponent, Wicks, necessarily opposes. In fact, says Wicks, he and fellow board member Tobe Plough had initially tried to urge MWD to build a project that included recycling water back in 2015. “We made a proposal to the MWD to do just that,” he said. “We proposed a combined desal and recycled water project, the whole nine yards.”

According to Wicks, the recycled water idea went nowhere thanks to the competing egos and conflicting agendas that typify local water politics. “The important thing about this deal is that, for the first time, we will finally have a reliable local source of water,” he concluded. “No matter how much of it comes from desalination, it will be there and we will have it when we need it.”

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Summerland Buzz

by Leslie A. Westbrook A third-generation Californian, Leslie, currently resides in Carpinteria but called Summerland home for 30 years. The award-winning writer assists clients sell fine art, antiques and collectibles at auction houses around the globe. She can be reached at LeslieAWestbrook@gmail.com or www.auctionliaison.com

Bella DePaulo on Living Single (and Together) in the time of COVID-19 Bella DePaulo on the deck of her Summerland home

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ella DePaulo is an author, speaker, columnist, and authority on being single who has lived in Summerland for 20 years. She coined the word “singlism” which is “the stereotyping and stigmatizing of single people” and is the author of several books on single people, including The Best of Single Life and Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. Bella’s true passion is for the practice and study of single life. Her TEDx talk on the subject has been viewed over a million times and she has been quoted on the subject in national media ranging from The New York Times to CBS News. What better person to check in with during the pandemic?

Q. So many people are suddenly thrust into singledom. Have you taken a look at that and do you have any advice for those not accustomed to living alone?

A. Here’s what I would say to the people who are unaccustomed to living alone: You’ve got this.

Solitude is a profound opportunity. We’ve all read or heard the advice that we can use this time for projects we’ve been wanting to get to, or to write books, or just watch Netflix guiltlessly for hours on end. All that is fine. But solitude is also an invitation to step away from the ordinary preoccupations and distractions of everyday life and think about what really matters to you. What is most important to you? What have you always wanted to do with your life?

The hardest thing to do in answering that question is to set aside all the shoulds – the messages that you have been pelted with relentlessly your entire life.

Don’t just reach for the answers that come pre-packaged and are dangled in front of you relentlessly, messages insisting that, of course, you want to be part of a couple. Lots of people who are coupled are now pulling their hair out, stuck inside with someone who is not the knight or the princess they imagined.

Maybe living in lockdown on your own, for all this time, is making you doubt yourself or your single life. It is fine to have doubts. But remember two things.

First, many couples are having doubts, too. Togetherness may be fine when all is well and you can walk out the door anytime to go to work or do some errands or do anything else you want, but it may be a whole different story when you are cooped up with that person for months on end. Those quirks, that once seemed endearing, may now be annoying. Not to even mention the more serious issues often brewing.

Second, this will not last forever. We are living through a world-historic event.

Remember how you felt before all this started. If you loved being single then, you will probably love it again when this is over.

What has personally surprised you most about living in isolation imposed by a virus and not one by choice?

A few weeks into this experience, I was worried. I am 66 and I have lived alone my entire adult life – by choice. I love living alone. But I wondered, would I still be as happy with my solitude as the weeks of enforced lockdown went on and on?

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Here’s the surprising thing: If anything, it has gotten easier. I still love my time alone. I’m less worried that I will change my mind about that.

Living alone is different from being isolated. It is especially different when we are not all being urged to stay home.

But even now, there are so many ways to be connected to other people. They don’t need to be in the same home with you.

I have spent the last several decades of my professional life using research to challenge myths about people who are single. One of those myths is that they are isolated or alone or unattached. Often the opposite is true. Lots of research shows that single people, on the average, are actually more connected to other people. They have more friends than married people do. They do more Summerland resident Bella DePaulo’s to stay connected with their parents, sib- first book, Singled Out: How Singles Are lings, friends, neighbors and colleagues Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still than married people do. In contrast, Live Happily Ever After, debunks myths about when couples move in together or get singlehood and marriage married, they typically become more insular. They start focusing mostly on each other. Calls to their parents decrease. They spend less time with their friends. That often happens even with couples who do not have kids.

Not all single people live alone, but those who do are some of the most socially connected adults. And, counterintuitively, they can be among the least lonely people. My favorite study about this included more than 16,000 adults, ranging in age from 18 to 103. The researchers found that when the people who live alone were compared to people of comparable means who were living with other people, it was the people living alone who were less lonely. They are used to making the effort to reach out to other people and stay connected, rather than just assuming that their social needs will be met by the person next to them on the couch.

For me personally, there’s another important reason why I have been doing reasonably well during this pandemic: I live in one of the most spectacularly beautiful places on earth. My home has a peek of the ocean. I go out, nearly every day, to walk one of the beaches or one of the many enchanting trails. I’m more careful now – I really do try to maintain the six feet of distance, I always have a mask, and I try to find times and places to walk where there are hardly any other people around. I can usually manage to do that. The stretch of beach that I can get to from Hammond’s Trail is one of my favorites. I also love the boardwalk in Carp. Or, when there are too many people on the beaches, I try the trail facing the ocean on Ortega Ridge Road. That offers a great view, too.

Summerland never gets old. I wake up every single day and marvel at my great good luck at getting to live here and to be on my own. Happily, the pandemic hasn’t changed that.

Do you think there will be more people embracing single life after living 24/7 with their husbands/wives/partners, other family members, roommates or others?

I love this question! Thank you for asking it. I have been interviewed by lots of reporters and far too many of them start with the assumption that it is single people who will be bound and determined to change their status once this is over. In fact, though, I think you are right that the reverse is likely to be true.

There are going to be many people who are living with other people during this pandemic who just cannot wait to escape into their own space. Maybe it took an extended spell of enforced togetherness for them to realize how much they appreciate being single or having a place of their own.

I’ve been thinking about the day-to-day getting on each other’s nerves that happens when people are stuck together in the same place for too long. But much more serious issues can arise, too, including intimate partner violence and child abuse.

Governor Newsom recently noted that there are 1.2 million seniors living alone in California. What about our single seniors?

There are many seniors who really are isolated and many who are living in poverty. It is so important for the Governor and everyone else to be attuned to their needs. But it would also be wise to keep in mind that there are other seniors who are happy and healthy and doing fine. Some of them already loved living alone before the pandemic and they are probably coping even better than most other people during it. Ask how they are doing – that’s a nice gesture. But do not mindlessly serve your gesture with a dollop of pity – some of them are not feeling sorry for themselves in the least.

•MJ

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