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BiG turnout: Overflowing into a backroom and out the side doors, the crowd at Tuesday night’s school board meeting applauded district communications coordinator Barbara Keyani (left, standing) as she read a resolution declaring Santa Barbara schools as safe zones against all stripes of prejudice.

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by Keith Hamm ust minutes after being sworn in before a jam-packed crowd Tuesday evening, the three newly appointed trustees of Santa Barbara Unified School District’s Board of Education — Laura Capps, Wendy SimsMoten, and Dr. Jacqueline Reid — found themselves shaken emotionally as a revolving dais of students, parents, and educators described campus life since the November 8 presidential election of Donald Trump.

The stories were striking: grade-schoolers with undocumented parents wondering if their families are going to be torn apart; nonwhite kids yelled at by fellow students to “Go back to where you came from!”; political disagreements turning violent; an increase in female and male students being groped by classmates; and, in general, a lot more racial slurs and hate speech getting thrown about.

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who arrived in the states from Mexico without legal documents before gaining citizenship and an advanced degree from Columbia University. He and the other public speakers and dozens in the audience urged the board to approve a resolution declaring the district a safe zone for all walks of student life and to uphold federal law guaranteeing a free K-12 public education to all children, including those brought to the country without legal status.

That approval was a foregone conclusion, but it received a standing ovation nonetheless as the board voted its unanimous support.

The document, which was spearheaded by outgoing boardmember Monique Limón— elected in November to a State Assembly seat —minces few words, setting the stage with “Sadly, the highly charged negative discourse taking place at the national level is being felt locally in our schools,” before specifying that students who “identify as LGBTQ, female, disabled, Muslim, or as a person of color” see the

results of the presidential election through a very different lens and will be protected as equally as any other students. Lastly, the resolution states that the district “will keep immigration authorities off our campuses to the fullest extent provided by law.”

At the dais, Limón reminded the new boardmembers that they “were not just approving words on paper tonight … this is upholding the Constitution of the United States, particularly the 14th Amendment.”

The board is scheduled to appoint Limón’s replacement mid-January.

While Superintendent Cary Matsuoka made it clear that teachers would “need some guidance” in the coming months as they face classroom challenges brought on by fear and animosity, the new boardmembers took the opportunity to thank the crowd for shedding light on the district’s dark side.

“It breaks my heart that students are feeling fear every day,” said Capps, a Santa Barbara native and district alum, whose son is now

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Kyle Barbre (pictured), charged in June with animal cruelty after fatally injuring his one-year-old Chihuahua named Floyd, was sentenced 12/13 to three years of felony probation. Barbre is also not allowed to own an animal for 10 years and continues to undergo mental-health and anger-management counseling. Prosecutors had asked that Barbre, 21, be sentenced to a year in jail in addition to probation, but Judge Clifford Anderson, citing Barbre’s progress in counseling and lack of criminal history, suspended the jail term.

Animal-rights activists protested the sentence as too lenient.

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news Briefs cOnT’d frOm p. 9 Police arrested Montecito resident Isaac Vega, 21, for a hit-and-run that left Drew Daly, 23, on Cabrillo Boulevard on 12/2 “gravely injured, for approximately two hours before being discovered by a passerby,” Sgt. Riley Harwood said. Vega was out on bail on a robbery arrest and allegedly fled the scene in a white 1999 Honda CR-V. Daly, a City College student, is in critical condition at Cottage Hospital, reportedly in a coma with significant brain injury.

Public assistance was instrumental in identifying Vega, said Harwood, and public help is being asked to determine Vega’s movements before and after the collision — the number to call is 897-2322. Vega was booked in County Jail on numerous felony charges with bail set at $75,000.

Goleta A need for story poles, laundry on-site to provide gray water for landscaping, height limitation of 35 feet, and perhaps fewer than the proposed 148 rooms were all comments made 11/29 at the second Design Review Board meeting for a hotel project at 5955 Calle Real.

With four others within blocks, the as-yetunbranded hotel would be one of the largest in Goleta. The proximity of third-story elements to the property line concerned boardmembers, as did the overall size of the building. This early conceptual review will be followed by planning and environmental review before the application is considered complete and heads for the Planning Commission.

county Over the repeated objections of environmental leaders and, notably, three of seven councilmembers, the city and county of Santa Barbara voted to move forward with a $122 million project to construct a Costco-sized facility at the Tajiguas Landfill to sort, recycle, and process the trash generated by more than 210,000 area residents. Critics objected to further industrializing the Gaviota Coast and suggested that better ways to manage waste streams exist. Supporters acknowledged the tons of trash the project will divert from the landfill and how it will reduce greenhousegas emissions, the equivalent of taking more than 22,000 cars off the road a year.

The two outgoing county supervisors, Salud Carbajal and Doreen Farr, received immense praise at the last meeting of the year. Carbajal is advancing to Congress, and Farr is retiring.

Though the Board of Supervisors often splits 3-2 on ideological issues, the five distinct personalities seemed as though they would actually miss each other. Their farewells were convincingly kind, and many packed the hearing room on Tuesday to listen to the lengthy remarks. Carbajal was deemed the resident jokester, while Farr was lauded for being excellently prepared. “[I]t is difficult to see you go,” said Board Chair Peter Adam. “I hate to say that, but I admit it.”

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tions with California Forensics Medical Group (CFMG), the county supervisors decided on Tuesday. Earlier this year, the supervisors hired a consultant to search for a new provider, and they chose CFMG (the state’s largest) over two others, including Corizon.

Before negotiations, the $6.5 million contract is priced about $1 million more than its current one. That can mostly be attributed to higher salaries and the fact that CFMG has a “track record of extremely low staff turnover,” which has been a problem here, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The 101 Highway–widening project has reached its public-comment period, again, as its second draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is now available at Caltrans’ website. To start the conversation, Caltrans has scheduled a meeting for 12/15 at Chase Palm Park Center (236 E. Cabrillo Blvd.), 5:30-7:30 p.m. to discuss the addition of a carpool lane to the north- and southbound 101 between Carpinteria and Santa Barbara. Copies of the draft EIR are also held at the libraries in Carp, Montecito, and S.B.’s Eastside and Central branches. The comment period ends 1/31.

Should the draft successfully jump all hurdles, a final EIR is expected to come out in spring 2017 and construction to begin a year or two later at a cost of $380 million.

Citrus trees on properties within 400 meters of commercial citrus groves are being targeted by state Food & Agriculture in the ongoing fight against Asian citrus psyllids, which can carry huanglongbing (HLB) disease, responsible for decimating Florida’s citrus industry. Affected properties have been tagged with blue notices that include dateof-treatment information, a phone number to opt out of the free program (1 [800] 4911899), and information about the pesticides being used (Merit and Tempo). The psyllids have been found on 532 properties in Santa Barbara County; DNA studies on the leaves of the trees they infested found them free of HLB. Foodbank and its 300 nonprofit partners are able to turn $1 into eight healthy meals, said Erik Talkin, the CEO for Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. With an operating budget of $4 million cash and $10 million of in-kind food donations, the group needs to raise $888,282 to reach its goal for 2017’s programs.

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education Dos Pueblos High School Principal Shawn Carey has been approved as the Santa Barbara Unified School District’s new assistant superintendent of secondary education. Dos Pueblos Assistant Principal Bill Woodard will act as the school’s interim principal. Carey replaces Dr. Ben Drati, who starts January 1 as the superintendent of Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. n

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by Kelsey Brugger n an effort to tackle disparities for defendants in North and South County, a group of Santa Barbara officials have been meeting regularly to standardize the way defendants are released on their own recognizance (OR), or without bail.

People involved in the justice system talk privately about the supposition that South County defendants are much more likely to be let out of jail for free than their North County counterparts. Many reasons for this anecdotal discrepancy exist. For starters, two cases with similar charges—one in the south, the other in the north — are never identical. The defendants have their own set of circumstances, including criminal histories and living situations, both factors that come into play when authorities with PreTrial Services determine who is released and who isn’t.

That makes it difficult to compare “apples to apples,” explained Tanja Heitman, deputy chief probation officer. Moreover, crime in North County tends to be more serious; South County has many petty offenses committed by tourists and university students.

Mag Nicola, chief deputy district attorney overseeing North County, asserted, “Defendants who are similarly situated receive the same treatment.” But there is a certain amount of subjectivity involved: Others spoke about longstanding cultural differences in the north and south parts of the county.

Darrel Parker, CEO of the Superior Court, explained the Pre-Trial Services departments have historically not acted uniformly: “The South County was doing more creative things in pretrial, and the North was unaware of those things going on,” he said. This included using supervised release more frequently. “For the first time we were recognizing there were opportunities to do better things,” he said. Last year, he appointed a countywide head of Pre-Trial Services.

Today, Parker said, the discrepancy is less likely to be true. Exact figures are not currently available, but the courts hired a consultant to dissect the pretrial population more closely. That hasn’t clearly happened in the past. Parker said individuals arrested for domestic violence, for instance, are ineligible for OR and may spend several days in jail before appearing before a judge. “Are those counted in the pretrial?” he asked. “I’m not certain they are.”

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The workgroup, which has met a halfdozen times this year, has launched a “risk assessment tool” in a pilot program, which is expected to be formally adopted in the first half of 2017. The tool—modeled after the Virginia Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument — allows OR investigators to more objectively determine whether or not an inmate should be released without bail. It is essentially a checklist “to help inform a decision for our Pre-Trial offices,” Parker said.“It is not an end all, be all.” There is also potential to release more people on supervised release, Parker added, but “we don’t know what that impact will be.”

That the effort parallels the nation’s broader goal of getting people out of custody is promising, supporters stress. Doing so, proponents say, also makes fiscal sense.

In Santa Barbara, it costs $47,000 to keep an inmate in County Jail each year.

A new third-party report, which studied ways to spend state money from realignment (also known as AB 109), found the county has “a very high number of misdemeanor arrests as compared to other jurisdictions.”

Specifically, arrests for disorderly conduct increased 30-fold in roughly the last decade.

About 20 percent of the roughly 1,000 total inmates are misdemeanor offenders.

What’s more, 73 percent of Santa Barbara detainees are awaiting trail, higher than the statewide average of 63 percent. According to Sheriff’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover, the custody staff has a new way of calculating the percentage of inmates who are “pretrial,” now at 51 percent. She explained that some inmates have multiple cases so they should not necessarily count as “pretrial” as they could be serving a sentence in another case.

Meanwhile, state lawmakers unveiled last week new legislation to abolish bail amounts, arguing they disproportionately affect people in poverty. Compared to the rest of the nation, California has a high bail schedule, which varies by county. The legislators argued research shows bail money does not necessarily compel defendants to appear in court.

Martin Basaldua, a bondsman with Superior Bail Bonds, disagreed. Bail money is effective at getting defendants to show up in court because a third party is involved, he stated. But he added that the amounts should be reduced as they are much higher n than they were a decade ago.

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first day on tHe JoB: pictured are new school boardmembers (from left) Laura capps, Wendy Simsmoten, and Jacqueline reid, with board president Kate parker and Superintendent cary matsuoka.

Safe Zone cont’d from p. 9 at Roosevelt Elementary School. “It’s so ing the need to disassociate themselves meaningful as new boardmembers for from it. this [resolution] to be our first action.”

“I am proud to be part of this board Capps, widely considered an experi- and to bring forward this resolution,” Reid enced navigator of political realms, comes said Tuesday night. into the position as a former speechwriter Sworn in by her son RJ Moten, who for President Bill Clinton, communica- graduated from Santa Barbara High tions director on John Kerry’s presiden- School in 2013, Sims-Moten became the tial campaign, and the daughter of the district’s second African-American school late-congressmember Walter Capps and boardmember (after Eugene Harris, who current U.S. Representative Lois Capps, served in the early 1970s). Lauded as who retires next month after 18 years of approachable and fair and a good listener, Sims-Moten has worked for 17 years at continuous service.

Reid, who has served four years on First 5—a nonprofit focused on school the board of the Santa Barbara Educa- readiness—primarily as its business mantion Foundation and ager, which requires her to prepare and will act as the school present budgets, board’s liaison to the nonprofit, told The a skill she’s bringSanta Barbara Indeing to the district. pendent she is com“Bringing that eye mitted to combating for numbers is an bullying with consisimportant piece to tency district-wide. what I want to do, She will also place a working with the lot of emphasis on money we have and making sure students being transparent as are academically we do so,” she said.

Originally from challenged and college-ready. “[The disTexas, Sims-Moten — trustee t l capps laura trict needs to] focus came to Santa Baron ensuring that all bara 35 years ago, students have access and with her son to achievement and and nieces and getting the most advanced coursework,” nephews, she was involved with PTAs and she said in an earlier interview. often volunteered in classrooms. “Parent Reid, whose son was a quarterback at involvement is crucial for you own kids’ San Marcos High School, is the codirec- success, and it’s important to advocate tor of Teachers for the Study of Educa- for others, as well,” she said in an earlier tional Institutions and points to her work interview. “Students need to feel that the in Oxnard’s Rio School District, where community is behind them.” she helped students gather oral histories She added: “Do all three of us [new from migrant farmworkers, empowering boardmembers] have the best interest of kids from such families to more strongly the children in mind? Yes, I think so.” identify with their heritage instead of feeln

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For more than an hour, state water experts — led by Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and Bill Croyle, deputy director of California’s Department of Water Resources’ emergency preparedness—met with representatives from every water agency in the county and elected officials, including County Supervisor Salud Carbajal, Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider, and Councilmember Bendy White, for a behind-closed-doors exchange of information and opinions that was described by one participant as “frank, honest, but positive.”

That such a high-octane gathering took place reflects interventions made by State Senator Hannah Beth-Jackson, who met with Ghilarducci just last week. Local water agencies—the City of Santa Barbara in particular —had recently expressed frustration at state red tape preventing them from even applying for state water bonds that have $100 million set aside for desalination projects. By Monday’s gathering, that tune had decidedly changed. Schneider highlighted the successful multi-agency collaboration that secured $5.5 million state grants to move the emergency pumping barge located on Lake Cachuma.

State officials said they expected local water interests to meet weekly to identify three short- and long-terms solutions that enjoyed regional buy-in. It appears much focus will be on expanding the capacity of the city’s desalination plant and running it far more regionally than currently planned. To expand production from 3,125 acre-feet a day to its maximum licensed capacity of 10,000 will require massive infrastructure investments. To operate the facility regionally would require the installation of new pipelines running from the city’s waterfront to the Cachuma delivery pipes running along Highway 192. It remains an open question how much money such a facility could attract from state agencies, but based on — Nick Welsh Monday’s event, the answer seems clearly some.

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ate last week, at the same Isla Vista apartment complex where mass evictions in 2006 prompted county supervisors to update Santa Barbara’s relocation ordinance, notices were stuck on doors informing tenants their rent would increase at the end of their leases by as much as 24 percent. In addition, the landlord of Breakpointe Coronado — sandwiched between Abrego and Picasso roads — would no longer pay cable or Internet bills.

While the tenants have until next summer to look for a new place to live, if they wish to stay, they must re-sign their leases with Meridian Group, the property manager, by December 31.

Most students have already left town for winter break.

Ethan Bertrand, who was elected to the Isla Vista Community Services District, received one of the notices. He and his four roommates each pay roughly $500 to cram into a twobedroom apartment, which is a good deal for Isla Vista. Many of his neighbors pile even more people into two bedrooms. There are 150 units in the complex, which is made up of three buildings.

When Bertrand approached the on-sight manager, he said she told him rent was being raised so much to discourage tenants from re-leasing. (A Meridian spokesperson denied this and said rents increase every year.) The owners hope to do minor renovations such as install faux hardwood floors and replace kitchen appliances. Bertrand added that tenants who choose to stay will not have their apartments renovated. The county ordinance would trigger relocation fees only if more than 10 percent of the complex is renovated before the lease expires, forcing tenants to move out.

The property manager told Bertrand that the owners behind The Hive bought the complex in cash, which the property-management company denied. When asked, David Pio of The Hive, which manages several properties owned by M&A CP Fresno LLC, said, “All I can tell you is no sale has happened. I think that would be premature to even speculate.” According to the tax rolls, a sale of the complex, valued at $46 million, had not been recorded.

Though most of Breakpointe Coronado is inhabited by college students — not the lowincome families who live nearby— nearby Bertrand lamented that such actions will ultimately spill — Kelsey Brugger over to apartments in the relatively affordable slice of Isla Vista.

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he California Transportation Commission voted unanimously last week to fund two new bikeways proposed as part of the City of Santa Barbara’s recently approved Bicycle Master Plan to the tune of $7.173 million. The two new bikeways, when combined, will create a continuous route from the city’s Westside on Chino Street to the lower Eastside on Nopal.

Changes made to the proposed bike lane in response to Micheltorena Street neighborhood concerns and the threat of a lawsuit ultimately helped persuade the commissioners to fund the project. That’s because partisans on both sides of the debate — Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, Micheltorena Neighborhood Association, and City of Santa Barbara —showed up in significant numbers at last week’s commission meeting, held in Riverside, to voice their support. Initial plans called for the creation of a green-striped bike lane along Micheltorena Street from Castillo to State streets, but this entailed the removal of as many as 80 on-street parking spaces. When affected businesses and residents objected, city traffic planners went back to the drawing board and proposed a bicycle boulevard on Sola Street instead.

Transportation Commission staff were impressed the Sola Street alternative connected a bigger gap in the city’s bikeway network. They were also impressed by the extensive changes made to the plan in response to community concerns. That entered into deliberations because a small group of vocal and energetic opponents objected to the creation of a bicycle boulevard on Chino Street. Opponents argued the bike lane should be located on Gillespie instead, and they flooded the California Transportation Commission with “a cyber flurry” of emails in opposition. In fact, 115 pages of the commission’s 700-page staff report for last week’s meeting came from these opponents.

Although funding was approved for the new bikeways, actual disbursement won’t take place for five years because state gas-tax revenues have dipped to historic lows due to increased fuel efficiencies and lower gas prices.

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he Hope School District Educational Foundation has committed $255,000 to save the jobs of 27 employees who received pink slips in October as the district copes with an $800,000 budgetary shortfall. Three intervention teachers, 19 instructional aides, three librarians, and two health clerks will keep their jobs through the end of the school year.“Our community really came together in a big way,” said foundation president Holly Leck, who, along with foundation members and their children, presented an oversized check during Monday night’s board meeting. “We’ve never raised this much this quickly.”

In September, district administrators announced they had discovered a shortfall of nearly $400,000, which roughly doubled as they factored in the district’s state-mandated reserve fund. At a town hall meeting at the time, parents and teachers were informed that the district had been caught off guard by spiking costs in special-education services and also accounting errors made by its former business manager. Shortly thereafter, the district’s educational foundation, which had been inactive for some time, scrambled to reconvene its board and launch fundraising efforts “to raise money for positions that most impact the kids,” Leck said. According to current business manager Sandra Knight, five positions—including two special-education aides and a night custodian—have not yet been restored and others have been reduced. A recent $20,000 allocation will help pay for one special-education aide from January to July, she added.

The foundation pulled together funding through the traditional spectrum, from lemonade stands and bake sales to family donations and corporate philanthropy. Operating on a $10 million budget, nearly 90 percent of which is funded through property taxes, the district serves 1,000 kids at three elementary schools—Hope Elementary, Monte Vista, and Vieja — Keith Hamm Valley.

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PILInG on: Dario Pini claims city inspectors are looking for any pretext to shut him down. Here he shows a water-heater pipe — one-quarter inch in diameter too small, according to city building codes — that got his Alamar hotel closed. Pini said it took only half an hour to make the fix.

City Hall, Pini claimed, has been on a personal vendetta to get him. His 21-room, beachfront hotel, the Alamar, was shut down, not because of rats or roaches, but because the hot water heater needed a three-quarter-inch pipe instead of the half-inch pipe it had. Calonne declined to engage in what he described as “cross talk” with Pini, stating only, “Mr. Pini will have an opportunity to explain his version of the facts when and if the city files an enforcement action against him.”

Should that happen, Pini said he would deploy his considerable resources to resist. Pini isn’t saying exactly how many properties he owns, but he’s willing to acknowledge 100-150 rental properties within city limits.

That doesn’t include holdings in Kern County, Las Vegas, Ventura, and Santa Maria. With this portfolio, Pini is easily rich enough to hire a management company and retire to the beach. “I could do that,” he agreed. “I could probably buy an entire island if I wanted to. But I’m committed to providing housing for these people.”

By “these people,” Pini means Spanish-speaking immigrants. Over the years, Pini has been quick to accuse his accusers of racism and elitism. When it comes to providing housing for Santa Barbara’s immigrants and working poor, Pini insists, he’s the biggest game in town.

Whether that’s their blessing or curse, however, remains the subject of intense debate.

Pini is quick to point out that both his parents were Given Pini’s long legal history, that’s one defiantly Italian immigrants who immigrated to the United States audacious T-shirt joke. when they were infants. Pini grew up in the Bay Area, his But Pini’s demeanor is strictly deadpan. To the extent father a butcher who worked eight hours a day in a freezer box, his hands regularly cut to ribbons. His grandfather irony is intended, none is betrayed.

For Calonne, there’s nothing remotely amusing about cleaned San Francisco’s streetcar tracks. As a kid, Pini was Pini or the unsafe housing conditions to which Pini’s a standout baseball player and was drafted out of college tenants are routinely subjected: rats, cockroaches, faulty in 1972 by a minor league farm team for the Oakland wiring, backed-up toilets, garbage spilling over, cold Athletics. When baseball didn’t pan out, Pini moved to hot-water heaters, wires exposed, and people sleeping in Santa Barbara, where he worked 19 years as a specialquarters too tight for human habitation: children in closets, education instructor for the Santa Barbara School District. adults on balconies under thin plastic tarps, families in There, he recalled, he handled the unruliest of kids.“I guess crawl spaces. Overcrowding is everywhere: 16 beds in a that’s why I’m so tolerant,” he said.“I dealt with these types two-bedroom apartment, 20 people in another. of people. I have more patience. I try to resolve problems.”

All this, Calonne said, city inspectors expected. What Pini’s detractors are quick to dismiss such claims as wasn’t expected, he said, was the sheer volume of children nauseatingly self-serving. Former educators who claim living in what he termed “21st-century slum conditions.” to have worked with Pini remember a man absolutely Fifty percent of the people at driven to make money.

Pini’s properties were kids.

They are no doubt Calonne was struck by the correct, and make effect they had on him. But money he absolutely then, he added, even streetand spectacularly did.

But over the years, many hardened cops who assisted attorneys representing in the sweeps were shaken tenants in landlordby what they encountered. tenant disputes have “When the public sees what the inspectors saw,” Calonne conceded — however predicted, “it will shock the privately — that Pini has conscience of the community.” been unusually willing Calonne, in the meantime, to strike a deal with has been strategically selective problem tenants. And for with what information and SAMe oLd, SAMe oLd: Pini properties have long been notorithose unable to provide what images he’s released thus ous for overcrowding and dilapidated conditions. City inspectors the financial paperwork far. That’s been necessary, he found tenants living on balconies tented with plastic tarps. needed to pass muster said, for inspectors to maintain with other landlords, the element of surprise and also to protect the integrity of Pini’s doors — albeit dilapidated — have always been open.

Late rents are not forgiven, but they are accommodated, any legal action City Hall may eventually take against Pini.

But Pini claimed that Calonne took liberties with some of evictions initiated only when tenants got four to five the photographs he released to the media in a press release months late. Pini claims he’s owed about $160,000 in late early last weekend. One photo, for example, showed a dead rent by some of his current tenants. Normally, that figure rat in a trap placed on top of a neatly folded News-Press. is closer to $100,000. “Things are getting worse,” he said.

“That’s from my own house,” Pini exclaimed. Likewise, he Pets and kids were never an issue for Pini. Neither were claimed, a photograph showing a partially built bathroom sheets and blankets used to divide a one-room unit into — described in the press as being in use — was from the two. Dining rooms and living rooms, as Pini reads state building codes, qualify as habitable living space. guest quarters of his own Mission Ridge home.

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by Nick Welsh f Dario Pini is nervous, he doesn’t show it. And if he’s joking, he’s not letting on.

For the past 40 years, Dario Pini has loomed large in Santa Barbara’s urban folk mythology as the city’s single most notorious landlord. Twenty-two years ago, City Hall succeeded in putting Pini in jail for a slew of slumlord building-code violations. In 2011, a statewide tenants-rights organization declared Pini “slumlord of the year.” One year later, City Hall threw the book at Pini with a 67-count complaint alleging wholesale building safety violations, and today, City Hall is after Pini again for all the same reasons. But this time, City Hall is pursuing the legal steps necessary to wrest control of Pini’s vast rental empire — home, Pini says, to at least 1,000 Santa Barbara city tenants.

That makes it a very big deal.

City Attorney Ariel Calonne, not given to theatrics, called the city’s latest action “unprecedented.”

Last week, Calonne stated Pini could not be trusted to bring his properties up to basic safety standards. More to the point, Calonne charged, Pini lacked “the capability” to do so. That’s when Calonne took the first step to end the interminable game of cat and mouse he contends Pini has been playing with building code inspectors for the past 20 years. That’s when the city attorney dispatched a team of 20 cops, firefighters, and city inspectors — armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Jean Dandona allowing the use of force if need be — to inspect 164 of Pini’s whoknows-how-many rental units.

In an interview with The Santa Barbara Independent last Sunday, Pini accused Calonne and City Hall of strongarm tactics that served only to terrify his tenants — largely poor, Mexican immigrants who speak little English — when less draconian methods were readily at hand. If City Hall succeeds in its mission, Pini claimed, “hundreds and hundreds” of his renters will find themselves without a home. Given the harsh realities of Santa Barbara’s rental market, he argued, few of these displaced tenants will find new landlords anywhere as accommodating as he’s been.

At the conclusion of the interview — held at Pini’s Villa Rosa hotel by the city’s West Beach waterfront — Pini stood up and turned around, revealing in the process the words written on the back of his black T-shirt: “If a man says he’ll fix it, there’s no need to remind him every six months.”

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All but a small handful of tenants there are Latino, many from Mexico. Many have lived there for years.

As much as Pini has become a poster child for Occupants of 10-15 units have already been notified overcrowded units, he insists he does not charge tenants that their tenancies have been terminated — due to per head as has widely been reported. Instead, he insists, he late payments or calls for police action — and have clearly delineates how many tenants are allowed in his leases. been given 60 days to move out. The rest will be If tenants violate the written lease by subletting space, how is allowed to reapply for housing and will be allowed he to know? Pini claims his managers try to keep track of the to stay if they can pay the new rents and meet the number of tenants in each apartment, but it’s not always easy new financial requirements. Rents will be going unless people complain.“A lot of the time, they’re opening up up from $1,300 a month for one-bedroom units to extended family,” he said. “They’re entitled to be together. to $1,925-$1,975. Ivy Apartment Homes requires tenants earn two and a half times their monthly rent, We can’t separate families.”

Calonne, for one, isn’t buying it. To the extent Pini rents which means those renting a one bedroom need to immigrants, he commented, it’s because he can take to make $5,000 a month. Tenant-rights advocates advantage of their legal vulnerability. “They can’t insist on with groups like CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance eVIctIonS And Rent hIKeS: Pini and tenants-rights organizers have their rights, because of their legal status,” he said. Whatever United for a Sustainable Economy) and the Santa targeted the $600 rent increases — and Christmastime evictions — now Pini’s true motivations are remains open to debate. But Barbara Rental Housing Roundtable are gearing up taking place at an apartment complex managed by Ivy Apartment Homes, undeniably, he provides a dramatic bellwether for the most for a protracted showdown over the gentrification owned by Barton Stern of Ventura Investment Company. vulnerable forced to seek shelter of the Lower Westside. “They’re in Santa Barbara’s unkind housing changing the demography of the highlights the worst-case consequences of a don’t-ask, don’tWestside,” declared tenants organizer Frank tell inspection policy. In the meantime, what’s striking is the market.

Pini insists that if City Hall Rodriguez. extent to which the language of City Hall’s 1994 criminal What CAUSE can do about this remains complaint against Pini—led by the Police Department—is takes him to the wall, hundreds to be seen. Pini claims he’s already dealing almost identical to Calonne’s remarks and equally identical of his tenants will be rendered homeless. As it is, he noted, private with the fallout.“All these people are getting to the 2013 lawsuit against Pini filed by Calonne’s predecessor, management companies — like pushed out,” he said. “They’re moving in Steve Wiley. with their relatives. Where do you think “We’re not saying there isn’t room for improvement,” Ivy Apartment Homes — have — Dario Pini their relatives live? They live with me.” said Pini. “Clearly, there is.” He is hoping to strike a new been gobbling up large, multion tennants evicted from Ivy Apartment Homes City Attorney Calonne made it clear he understanding with City Hall to hash out safety-code issues family complexes on the city’s lower Westside and converting them to upscale rental units has no interest in shadowboxing with hypotheticals. “I have in the future. If the city tries to take his property and give it no information to indicate that anyone will be displaced to a court-ordered receiver, Pini said he will fight. Whether targeting City College students.

Ivy Apartment Homes — owned by Barton Stern, owner because of the city’s enforcement action,” he stated. Calonne there’s a deal to be made is up to Calonne to decide. If the of Ventura Investment Company—has taken over seven insists the fatal fire that killed 36 at Oakland’s illegal artists’ answer is yes, it will be up to Pini to prove he doesn‘t need properties in the past few years, the most recent being a lofts had no bearing on the city’s action, but it starkly “to be reminded every six months.” n

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Fighting Back New State AG Xavier Becerra Poised to Lead Nation’s Anti-Trump Struggle

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ust two months ago, Representative Xavier Becerra made a star turn on The Daily Show to predict confidently — amid Trevor Noah’s inevitable jokes about “pussy grabbing” and “Vladimir Putin’s nipples”— Hillary Clinton’s election as president.

“What we’re watching is reality TV for Donald Trump,” said Rep. Becerra, chair of the House Democratic Caucus. “But on November 8, reality will set in for Donald Trump, when we show him who we really are.”

Time for Plan B. Today, the 58-year-old Becerra faces a very different post-election reality than he or anyone else (outside, perhaps, of Russia) expected.

Just appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to replace state Attorney General Kamala Harris, who moves to the U.S. Senate in January, Becerra now stands as the progressive vanguard of opposition to Trump, a unified Republican Congress, and the president-elect’s cabinet, packed with right-winger ideologues, plutocrats, and kleptocratic cronies.

“I believe with this nomination, I have a chance to let California know I got their back,” the 12-term Los Angeles congressmember told reporters the day his nomination was announced. “If you want to take on a forward-leading state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then come at us.”

immigrants and the first in his family to attend college.

As California’s first Latino attorney general, Becerra will be instantly positioned as a national leader of anti-Trump progressive forces, as the 46 percent president and his Star Wars–cantina-scene posse prepare to attack Clinton-country California over its immigration, health care, climate change, abortion rights, and other liberal policies.

As the state’s chief legal officer, his antifirebrand style could be a valuable and beneficial good-cop counterpoint to Senate President Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, both fellow L.A. Latinos who already have set an aggressive and defiant tone in introducing early antiTrump policy measures on immigration.

Back in Washington, Brown’s pick was immediately seen as a shot across Trump’s broad-beamed bow, as made clear in this report from NBC News: “Outside the Beltway, as the state’s lead lawyer and law enforcement official, Becerra will be instantly on offense.

Becerra is likely to quickly find himself in a fight with the Trump White House and Republicans in Congress over sanctuary cities, municipalities that refuse to prosecute people here illegally on immigration violations.”

“I don’t think California is looking to pick a fight,” the attorney general-designate said.“We’re just ready to fight… .”

InsIder ovatIons. Brown’s nomination of Becerra, which requires pro forma approval from the Capitol’s Democrats, who own supermajorities in both legislative houses, was hailed among the cognoscenti as a sagacious and superb choice.

“It’s a shrewd pick,” said veteran Democratic consultant and erstwhile Lois Capps’ strategist Bill Carrick, who described Becerra as “really smart, politically savvy, and somebody who can manage that office.”

A well-traveled surrogate for Clinton, Becerra is not widely known outside his district and the Beltway, but he enjoys a well-earned reputation as an extremely talented politician: Rarely a grandstander, he’s down-to-earth and pragmatic and a master of both policy and process who steadily and smartly ascended the ranks of House leadership.

Among Democrats and fellow Latinos, one frequent knock is that he can be too low-key and cautious, but allies say his personal modesty and political prudence belie a passionate and principled commitment to social and economic justice that traces to his background as the son of Mexican

there’s always a local angle.

Another facet of Becerra’s political identity: He’s served as a mentor to Santa Barbara’s newly elected Rep. Salud Carbajal.

Over pastries and coffee at Jeannine’s this week, Carbajal recalled that he and Becerra had been “chatting quite a bit about different issues” in D.C. while Carbajal recently attended freshman orientation activities.

At that time, Becerra was making a play to become the Democrats’ Ranking Member on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, an intraparty bid he suddenly dropped when Brown offered his new gig (the appointment unfolded so swiftly that Becerra has not yet reactivated his law license with the State Bar).

“It was a surprise. … until the very last day, he was advocating for votes” for the Ways and Means slot, Carbajal said.

“I’m thrilled — not only for him, but for us,” he added. “I think it’s great in light of this climate; it’s great for the state of California. He’s someone who knows Washington very well—if anybody knows how to push back to a Trump Administration, it will be him.”

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LuAnn Keithley 06/07/29 – 12/07/16

LuAnn Keithley, a longtime resident of Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, passed away peacefully December. 7, 2016 at the age of 87.

Lucille Annette Armstrong was born on June 7, 1929 in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. Her father, Guy Armstrong, quickly realized the name he had bestowed upon her was far too big for such a petite child and shortened her name to LuAnn. LuAnn moved to Santa Barbara 64 years ago with her first husband Richard Praul. She quickly embraced Santa Barbara living: days spent at Butterfly Beach, lunches at El Paseo, cocktails at Plow & Angel, Fiesta celebrations and swimming at Miramar Beach.

LuAnn was an accomplished cook and gave many memorable dinner parties at the family home on Islay Street. Her children fondly remember homemade dinner and dessert every night of the week.

New recipes were critiqued and the familiar question asked by LuAnn would be, “Does it make the box (recipe)?”

Together with her second husband, Irwin ‘Dutch’ Keithley, LuAnn enjoyed traveling the world to places both near and far. She felt traveling was an important personal experience and something she was very passionate about, making sure to share her passion and love of adventure with each of her four grandchildren.

Always a great reader LuAnn decided to take up writing. She worked diligently, attended writing classes and workshops and submitted many of her short stories.

LuAnn’s book I Was There is a collection of her stories which range from her first job as an elevator operator at the Empress Hotel during her summer break from college to her experience starting a one woman catering business.

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the Blind, Meals on Wheels, Food From the Heart and her church, Carpinteria Community Church.

A longtime member of The Monday Group LuAnn always enjoyed the opportunity to learn & share among friends.

LuAnn will be missed by her children, Christine Campos(Carlos) and Martin Praul, her four grandchildren, Eliza Campos, Molly Campos, Carla Campos and Robin Campos, and her three great-grandchildren.

The family would like to thank the staff at Casa Cambria (Katerina Gulira, Anton, Dario, Olga) for their wonderful care & compassion and Aretha and Laurence from Assisted Hospice for their care, support and guidance and Melanie Farmer for her long time care and friendship.

A memorial service at Carpinteria Community Church is planned for January 2017. In lieu of flowers please consider memorial gifts to the Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara www.mypasb.org

Ksenija was also well known by all her neighbors. She had a gift of remembering names and she would remember something important about everyone she met.

Her neighbors would always see her gardening, walking or bargain hunting at a garage sale and local thrift stores.

Ksenija’s real joy was her Grandkids. She loved taking care of the grandchildren and spoiling them. She is survived by her 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Hospice and Dream Foundationwho both were amazing throughout her illness or plant a flower in your yard in her honor. Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary.

Patricia Everett Lacks 02/22/41 – 12/03/16

Ksenija (Kay) Oberlander 04/24/37 – 12/07/16

Ksenija (Kay) Oberlander died on December 07, 2016 after a long illness.

Ksenija was born in Riga Latvia April 24, 1937. Ksenija’s family immigrated to the United States in 1950 after spending 7 years in a ref refugee camp. As a young woman she met her husband Larry Oberlander at a YWCA dance. They married in 1958 and had three daughters (Linda, Anita & Anne).

The Family relocated from Wisconsin to Santa Barbara in 1973 when Delco Electronics moved their headquarters to the West Coast. They were married for 47 years until Larry passed away in 2005.

Ksenija was best known as a yoga instructor in Santa Barbara who taught at the Santa Barbara YMCA for 35 years. She was ahead of her time, teaching yoga before it was mainstream. She also taught meditation and the importance of unprocessed and organic food for health.

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Dr. Patricia Lacks, age 75, passed away peacefully in Santa Barbara on December 3, 2016 after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Pat has been a resident of Santa Barbara for almost 25 years. She and her husband Paul moved to Santa Barbara after she retired from her job as a clinical psychology researcher and college professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she worked for 18 years. During her professional career, she had two books published as well as many articles in her field. Her research focused on the areas of testing for brain dysfunction and the treatment of insomnia.

Pat grew up moving around a lot as her father was transferred between Air Force bases. She lived in Japan for some time as a young girl, and graduated from high school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pat attended Washington University as an undergraduate and a graduate student, receiving her PhD in 1966, before she began working there in the Psychology Department.

In Santa Barbara, Pat worked as a sleep therapist for The Sleep Disorders Center of Santa Barbara, as a teacher at UCSB and Antioch University, and as a volunteer for Planned Parenthood. She is

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Cresenciano Hernandez (Chano/Joe) Vazquez 07/18/33-11/27/16

Rita; Franky; Brenda; Teresa; Joseph; Roger; Tony; Albert; and Michael.

He will be missed but never forgotten. His love, laughter and great memories will live on forever in our hearts until we meet him again.

Memorial Services will take place on Saturday December 3rd 2016, at 12:30pm at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church on 21 E. Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests to please consider sending a contribution to Garden Court, 1116 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 on behalf of Cresenciano H Vazquez.

Thilo Juschka We have lost an amazing, kind and loving man that touched so many lives. He left us peacefully with family surrounding him with continuous love and prayers. He is now with God in Heaven where he will continue to watch over us.

Cresenciano, also known as “Chano” and “Joe” was born in the small town of Tenamextlan in Jalisco Mexico and came to the United States at 15 years old for a better life. Joe started working in the agriculture fields across the United States until he began working in the restaurant business in North Hollywood, CA. Quickly proving to be a hard-working and dedicated employee, he became a cook and then worked his way up to become a chef. At the age of 24, he became an entrepreneur by opening his first restaurant in North Hollywood called Casa Roja. At the age of 34, he decided to move to Santa Barbara to raise his new family. He accepted his first position working for Harry Davis who, at the time, owned Joe’s Café. He then was quickly given the opportunity to become the chef of a new venture called Harry’s Plaza Café. Joe was the chef at Harry’s Plaza Café for 22 years under the ownership of Harry Davis and then with Bob Rose. He then retired as a chef the age of 66 but remained active in the restaurant business for a few years just because of his love and passion for it. He truly loved being a chef and was proud of his accomplishments.

More so than his accomplishments, Joe was most proud of his family. He was married twice, first to Cleo Reyes and then to Mary Ruelas Vazquez. He is survived by his wife Mary, his brothers: Eliseo; Jose Angel; Jesus; Juan; his sister: Lucrecia, and all 9 of his children:

08/05/62 – 11/17/16

Thilo Juschka, born Aug 05,1962 passed away while surrounded by his family after a battle against cancer in Houston Texas on Nov 17,2016.

He was born and raised in Darmstadt, Germany and moved to Miami, Fla. in 1980 where he graduated from High School. After traveling through 22 US states with 3 of his best friends from Germany, Thilo settled down in Santa Barbara, CA in the fall of 1982. In 1998 he moved to Las Vegas where he married Martha Roman-Juschka in 1997 and raised a family. He worked at the Aria Resort and Casino as a facility manager and recently relocated his family to Houston, Texas.

Thilo is survived by his loving wife Martha and their 2 daughters Sophie Isabelle (16) and Lillian Crisy (13) as well as his Mother Ruth Juschka and sister Sabine Bock of Heidelberg, Germany.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, December 17th at 4pm. Kraft Sussman Funeral Services, 3975 S. Durango Drive STE#104, Las Vegas NV 89147 In lieu of flowers the family has created an account to help with funeral arrangements. www.

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Mike Moses 1957 – 2016

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By Pat M c E l r o y hen Mike Moses left us last Tuesday,

he did so with his wife, Pat, at his side.

He died in his bed, in his room, in the Hawaiian-plantation-style house he had designed and built himself at the top of Rincon Mountain, with a window that gave him a view of the lineup at Rincon every morning. His home was surrounded by the organically certified avocados that he and Pat nurtured. As he had told Pat, “All I want to do is plant things and watch them grow.” In the far too brief 59 years Mike was here, he did a few other things, as well.

Mike had a lifelong love of the water. He started competitive swimming at the age of 10. He attended Venice High School and was a star swimmer there and at Santa Monica College, where he was an AllAmerican under legendary Coach John Joseph.

He also swam at the NCAA level at Cal State Northridge.

Mike began lifeguarding for Los Angeles County in 1977. He passed the rigorous United States Lifeguarding Association (USLA) test for an astonishing 38 years in a row. In 1978, Mike was one of three guards honored for Rescue of the Year for performing a record-breaking 48 rescues at Malibu during a single shift! In 1984, he was named Lifeguard of the Year. He loved working the northern beaches of Malibu, Point Dume, Nicholas Canyon, and especially Zuma. On his last trip to the Big Island, Mike and his daughter Shauna were swimming when he came to the aid of a woman who was six months pregnant and drowning offshore. He was in Hawai’i convalescing from chemotherapy.

Mike began work at the Santa Barbara City Fire Department (SBFD) in 1984. While continuing to work enough shifts as a lifeguard to keep certified, Mike carved out an extraordinary career as a firefighter, working his way to captain in 1997. He worked as the ladder truck captain, a highly coveted position, for most of that time. During his illness, Mike formed and trained a USLA-certified Ocean Rescue Team for

the SBFD. He was a mentor and leader to a generation of firefighters. Between his lifeguarding and firefighting, Mike had over 60 years of public service.

One of Mike’s fellow lifeguards, Greg Pfeifer, described him like this: “When we think about our friend Mike Moses, the first thing that comes to a lot of our minds is ‘He was just a great guy.’ It is cliché but true. What was it about Mike that made him such a great guy? Well, he was friendly, kind, generous, compassionate, intelligent, and funny. He also had the gift of equanimity. He had the uncanny ability to remain cool, calm, and graceful, even in the most stressful, challenging situations.

“You can say Mike was cool, but ‘cool’ often has the connotation of false ego and cockiness, and Mike was as devoid of that as anybody I have ever known. In an age dominated by insecure, egotistical narcissists, Mike was an anomaly; he was so secure in who he was that he was able to be sincerely humble. He was who he was, and that was that. This attitude allowed him to take his work seriously when he had to, but not to take himself too seriously. Even when he knew he was not long for this world, Mike was able to maintain his sense of humor and was a joy to be around.”

Mike loved the ocean. He was a great surfer and paddler. He loved the break at Mahai‘ula on the Big Island, and during his illness, his trips to surf in Baja would result in cancer cell counts that would drop by 200 to 300 points. He was a fearless waterman who would jump in the Blowhole near South Point and let the ocean drag him well offshore. He was a believer that if you lived a good life, the karma gods would take care of you, and this was a test to prove it.

A few weeks ago, Mike was able to walk Shauna down the aisle at her wedding. He then took to his bed, where Pat took loving care of him until he passed. In addition to Pat, he is survived by his daughters Katie and Shauna, and granddaughters Isabella, Madeline, and Samantha.

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t Planned Parenthood, we are committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate reproductive health care to everyone who walks through our doors, no matter what. As a women’s health advocate, I am deeply concerned with President-elect Trump’s decision to appoint Dr. Tom Price as his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

If appointed, Dr. Price has pledged to prevent individuals covered by Medicaid from receiving care at Planned Parenthood health centers, which would cut off access to life-saving services such as birth control, sexually transmitted infection screenings, and breast and cervical cancer screenings for millions of women.

Planned Parenthood patients are concerned about what appointments like Tom Price will mean for their access to no-co-pay contraception. That’s why we have seen a huge increase in requests for long-acting birthcontrol methods like IUDs since Election Day. Our patients’ fears are not unfounded. As a congressmember from Georgia, Rep. Price routinely voted in favor of dangerous legislation that restricted access to safe, legal abortion, voted for defunding Planned Parenthood, and supported bills that interfered with the doctor-patient relationship.

The Senate must decide whether a man who would deprive low-income women of basic health care is the right choice for HHS Secretary. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood will continue to work to ensure that everyone has access to the basic health care they depend on, no matter what.

On behalf of the 36,000 individuals who rely on Planned Parenthood California Central Coast for basic health care, I urge Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Senatorelect Kamala Harris to make the full examination of Price’s record a top priority.

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Soon after, Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation behind construction of DAPL, officially announced it expects to complete pipeline construction under Lake Oahe, likely once Trump takes office.

While the oil industry insists that pipelines are safe, between 2010 and 2015, more than 3,300 incidents of more than seven million gallons of crude oil and liquefied natural gas leaks or ruptures have occurred on U.S. pipelines, leaving 80 people dead and 389 injured.

DAPL remains a threat, as does the recently approved Trans Mountain Pipeline project in British Columbia to transfer 890,000 barrels/day (37.38 million gallons) by tanker to China. Also controversial are the Trans-Pecos in Texas and Sabal Trail Pipeline projects through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, and the battle to stop Arctic oil development.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained the battle was “over the transition from an old energy economy to a new energy economy,” adding, “Today, wind and solar are much cheaper than traditional, old energy fuels.”

One of the most powerful actions anyone can take is to divest from the 38 banking institutions funding DAPL. Since November 25, divested funds reportedly come to more than $78 million. Tell your bank to stop funding dirty oil and to shift financing toward clean, renewable energy. Find out more at defunddapl.org and bit.ly/2gZ9Ejb. —Peggy Oki, Carpinteria

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CAPITAL MERRY-GO-ROUND: Turning real

film titles into Washington ups and downs:

• Swamp Thing—D.C. bureaucrats come and

• And Then There Were None—Michelle and •

go. Swamp gets deeper and stinkier.

• The World, the Flesh and the Devil—Demo• • • • •

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crats stage noisy demonstration protesting Donald Trump takeover.

The Devil to Pay—They send the breakage bill to Trump.

Libeled Lady — Hillary Clinton has blues, sues over fake news.

Arsenic and Old Lace—The Trumps invite the Clintons to tea. Someone steals the Lincoln doilies.

The Crying Game—Who lost the Rust Belt?

Dr. Kildare Returns — Ex-candidate Ben Carson reluctantly takes Housing and Urban Development post. Will perform brain surgery in the West Wing. Obamacare patients excluded.

The Lady Vanishes—Hillary and Bill move to Hawai‘i, run luau concession. Launch Hawai‘i independence movement.

Babes in Toyland — Trump administration runs rampant, wrecking Obama leave-behinds.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari—Dem burglars break into Trump bankruptcy files. Find Putin has already been there.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles—Victory snatched from the jaws of certain defeat. (Hold for recount.)

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Barack and all Democrats move out of the White House; Trump counts the spoons.

Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen clone attempts romantic profile of new administration but runs into writer’s block after first paragraph.

Gone with the Wind—Hillary’s proposed memoir: My First Year as President. Publisher suggests new title.

Kiss of the Tarantula — Senate GOP and Dem leaders embrace after the inauguration. Screening to be followed by the traditional bury-the-hatchet ceremony, with real hatchets.

King of Kings—President Trump assumes unconstitutional powers. Supreme Court ties 4-4 on the issue.

Creature from the Black Lagoon—Trump nominates new Supreme Court justice.

They Were Expendable—Trump fires Civil Rights Commission members. They flee in a WWII torpedo boat.

One Million Years B.C. — Raquel Welch models scanty “new morals” sunsuit. President grabs her in Senate cloakroom.

Thirteen Women — Hillary’s hoped-for Supreme Court.

From Here to Eternity—Trump abolishes all future elections, “since this one was rigged.”

Petticoat Fever—Proclaiming an open marriage, President Trump begins dating.

The Best Years of Our Lives—Trump dons general’s uniform, flies over Iraq, and

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declares war over. Putin pins a medal on him.

Drag Me to Hell — Trump evicts elderly woman from her HUD-funded home and finds himself hit by a supernatural curse.

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As a community, we have worked hand in hand to accomplish many things over the last 18 years, and we can and should be proud of the progress we have made at both the local and national levels.

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While I am extremely proud of our work together, in the end, what has meant the most to me are the people: the constituents I encounter on a daily basis who share their stories and concerns for our country with me; the schoolchildren I have had the pleasure of greeting on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during their first visit to Washington; the hardworking staffers and public servants who work every day to make our country just a little bit better; and the service members, veterans, and their families who sacrifice so much for our country and often don’t get the recognition they deserve.

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rowned ro owned the Queen of the Prom on the night of May 21, 2016, Blue Nebeker stepped into the spotlight and into Santa Barbara history. The first transgender prom queen at Santa Barbara High School (SBHS), Nebeker’s coronation signaled a momentous cross-generational shift taking place. To many it looked as though the traditional rules and roles of gender and sexuality were being dethroned.

Hardly anyone at school seemed surprised by Nebeker’s victory. To most SBHS students, theirs was not only a vote for a popularity contest but also a vote for change. Nebeker was selected as queen, her classmates told reporters, because they knew her as brave and bold, disarmingly charismatic, and downright hilarious, a leader among her peers.

Nebeker herself didn’t seem terribly surprised with her election.“Once I got nominated, I was like, we know who’s actually going to win this,” she said.

The prom brought Nebeker a moment of joy on a sometimes difficult journey. Growing up Mormon, she admitted that she experienced a lot of anxiety during her struggle to understand her true self, especially when some family members expressed disbelief and disapproval. In the 9th grade, Nebeker began to realize she perhaps wasn’t a gay boy, as she had first thought, but someone else. Nowadays, the dazzlingly confident and selfaware Nebeker can usually be seen in ’40s and ’50s pinup-girlinspired ensembles. “I’m taking something and flipping it,” the aspiring cosmetologist said of her look, a way of redefining what it means to be feminine. A youth advocate leader for Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF), Nebeker walks her queer classmates and allies to PPF youth groups after school, assuring them it is not only okay but great to be who they are. Patrick Lyra Kearns, the outreach advocate at PPF, saw “her courage and her visibility” as giving younger kids a feeling of safety. This feeling of safety is increasingly important, transgender advocates have said, because of remarks from some within the new presidential administration, such as the recently appointed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who called transgender identity “the height of absurdity.”

Nebeker’s coronation, however, came at a time when the lives of transgender individuals in Santa Barbara and across the nation were not being treated as an absurdity at all, but as part of nature and a fact of life. Thanks to the work of the Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network (SBTAN) and PPF, S.B. county schools, churches, hospitals, and workplaces have made huge strides toward understanding and acceptance. In early December, the Fund for Santa Barbara awarded SBTAN a grant to run the S.B. Transgender Center, a by-trans, for-trans gathering place hosted by the First Congregational Church. As the whole country braces for a sharp shift to the ultraconservative right, Santa Barbara has a chance to become a crucial model for how a community can embrace and protect transgender lives.

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That there is more to human life than being strictly male or female is not even a new idea for Santa Barbara societies. The Chumash traditionally recognized a third gender, called ’aqi, biological men who wore women’s clothes and performed women’s roles. Throughout all of human history, in fact, societies have had varying ideas of what makes a person a man or a woman or both or neither — whether chromosomal pairings or bodily traits or societal roles. Today a person is transgender (or gender variant or gender nonconforming) if their inner lives and sense of self do not correspond with their biological sex. The term “trans,” which comes from the Latin meaning “across” or “over,” applies when the gender glove doesn’t fit a person.

Transgender people often describe similar emotions that they experienced before transitioning: You can feel dislocation, disconnection, and dispiritedness in yourself and the world around you or just a vague agitation, like your skin is too tight, the clothes you are meant to wear make you ill, or the word that people use to refer to you makes you feel invisible. There’s a longing for an unlived life you carry inside you or for a person as yet unseen. Gender dysphoria is the

name for that experience. It is very deep, very physical, very emotional, and very real.

As someone who doesn’t identify exclusively with either gender myself, the gender journey has meant unfurling new horizons, expanding my heart and mind, finding a lightness that had long alluded me. Many little puzzles of my inner life now feel solvable, and I make a little more sense with my soul. In my so-called height of absurdity, I have felt closer to people and more human as I’ve come to understand that I’m not just masculine but feminine in my ways, too — on a deep level. So as Nebeker and I and so many others have discovered, to be transgender or gender nonconforming can be a freeing, liberating, wonderful experience.

When I spoke with Deja Nicole Cabrera — PPF community outreach associate, one of Santa Barbara’s most celebrated performance artists, and a woman who was assigned male at birth — she agreed that transitioning is a life-affirming experience. Cabrera said she always knew she was attracted to men, but she didn’t identify as a gay man. “I tried to pray the gay away.” When she became a performance artist working in Las Vegas, trying on femininity allowed her to realize her true self; as a religious woman, transitioning also allowed her to feel in sync with her spiritual role on Earth. “I felt normal. I felt like I was no longer living in sin.”

For many, crossing the gender divide means going by a new pronoun: no longer “he,” but “she,” or even “they,” if neither feels fitting. If you once knew a person as a “she” and they are now identifying as a “he” or going by a new name, the most respectful thing you could do is honor their request. Though it can be a difficult process to readjust, using the wrong word can be devastating.“It invalidates everything you’re trying to do,” Nebeker said.

It’s an adjustment for all involved, with some serious mental rewiring required. Even the most supportive and well-meaning of parents, such as Blue’s mother and father, Jo and Eric Nebeker, admitted there were moments of guilt and unintended hurt as they adjusted to the correct pronouns and emotional acknowledgements. To other parents, Blue’s mother advises, “Support and forgive yourself. Talk to your kids and apologize to your kids. As long as your kids know you’re trying, there’s a lot more leeway.”

Finding the right word and identity for oneself isn’t an easy or clear process. “I didn’t have the vocabulary,” Blue said of her early years. As a kid, she felt a pang of recognition in Disney princesses and pinup girls, a beauty she wanted to emulate. “She always liked girl things from when she was a baby,” Eric remembered. Both parents recalled Blue testing the waters of gender expression and self-identity until she fully presented as a woman in dress and manner.“Her whole personality changed; she was much happier, socially much less timid. She had been very shy before—something which seems unbelievable to people now,” Jo said.

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Genevieve Le Duc, owner of Segway of S.B. and an athlete who has swum in a relay race across the S.B. Channel, recalled the profound sense of loneliness she felt growing up in the ’60s. Assigned male at birth, she was raised in an Irish-Catholic household with five brothers. “I knew pretty quickly my behavior and desires were different and not super acceptable,” she said. “I always felt that I was trying to be a person I was having to manufacture, not me.” Back then, only the language of adult stores, with their crates of “transvestitism” and “female impersonation,” offered some slight semblance of self-definition.“Growing up, there was no middle. If you were trans, you were perverted.”

Le Duc, who is now married to the Olympic cyclist Avalon JenkinsBalker, described their wedding day this April as Santa Barbara’s firstknown transgender marriage. It was, for both athletes, an incredibly joyous occasion, the kind of joy earned only after decades of turmoil.

Le Duc demonstrates what kind of happy rewards can await a life with enough endurance and strength, and while not all of us can set world records swimming from Santa Cruz Island to East Beach, there is something very universal in her life’s interpersonal hurdles. “We’re all trying to achieve the same end, which is to be yourself,” she said. When Le Duc came out as a woman in her first marriage years ago, it was a torturous and shaming experience. “It takes a lot of balls to come out as a woman,” said Le Duc. But perhaps it will not be as devastating for today’s younger, more gender-versed generation. People such as Blue Nebeker and Sabrina Dabby, a bisexual and gender-fluid individual who was elected SBHS’s King of the Prom this year, are helping to normalize identities. PPF’s Kearns believes that “they are helping map what it means to be human.”

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“A lot of the families that come to our group are just terrified. There’s so much media narrative, with a realistic lens, about violence toward trans people — a lot of families know that narrative, and they’re scared,” Rachel Gloger said.

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BY TRANS, FOR TRANS: Members of SBTAN join representatives of the Fund for Santa Barbara at the December 5 ceremony granting the funds for the new Transgender Center.

a need for greater Care Health care remains perhaps the biggest institutional barrier for transgender individuals in Santa Barbara. To address this need, UCSB hosted the first-ever medical conference in early October on providing sensitive clinical care to transgender children, adolescents, and young adults. Doctors are becoming fluent in the medical needs of people who, not long ago, were completely ignored. Three primary care providers in Santa Barbara now offer transgender-sensitive services, and Cottage Hospital emergency personnel and the S.B. Police Department staff alike have been trained to ask an individual’s preferred pronoun.

However, crucial services are lacking, not just in Santa Barbara but throughout the state, particularly hormone replacement therapy and surgery. One of the closest medical facilities offering such treatment is the Santa Paula West Medical Clinic in Ventura County. In order to undergo a sex change surgery— surgery an operation not every transgender person needs or desires, and one even fewer can afford— afford a patient must have as many as three letters of approval: one from a hormone replacement therapist and two from mental-health officials.

“Historically, trans patients have had to prove to the medical system that they are trans in order to get care,” said Dr. Jake Donaldson, a physician at the Santa Paula clinic.

This “gatekeeper model” means the doctor, not the patient, knows the patient’s core identity and can pose “all these hoops and protocols to get the care the patient needs.”

Donaldson sees the system evolving to an informed-consent model, in which the patient is informed about the risks and benefits of surgery but is assumed to understand their own identity. Because such procedures still require adult consent in order to get a doctor’s approval, young people who know they are trans must often wait years to become themselves.

Aydin Olson-Kennedy, director of the L.A. Gender Center (where many S.B. families have visited), is a huge advocate for early transitioning methods, even if a child cannot consent to surgery until 18.

For the most vulnerable members of Historically, the transgender population—those trans patients have who are homeless or in the sex trade —their chances of getting proper had to prove to the medical support are almost nonexmedical system that istent. They are most likely particithey are trans in order pating in “survival sex” because they were thrown out of their homes or to get care. otherwise emotionally and financially abused due to their identity.

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a neW normal But school by school, business by business, a new normal is setting in. Spearheaded by PPF and SBTAN, institutions countywide are changing. Gender-neutral bathrooms have popped up at UCSB and Dos Pueblos High School (DPHS). After some initial curiosity and confusion, DP’s bathrooms are a nonissue. “The novelty was short-lived and benign,” said DPHS Principal Shawn Carey. “And meanwhile, what it means to our gender nonconforming students is … it’s on a whole other scale. You take this little inconvenience of doing something a little different and compare that to the benefit we are conferring practically, psychologically, and sociologically, and there’s just no argument. … There’s no reason to not have this be the practice at all of our schools.”

While so many have been shunned for their identity on account of their family’s religious beliefs, Santa Barbara has a number of churches that offer sanctuary to all. At Isla Vista’s United Methodist Church, Rev. Franklyn Schaefer, who became an international icon when he was defrocked for officiating at the wedding of his gay son, said, “In my book, [transgenderism] has never been a problem. We have always emphasized the soul over the body. …

Why as a church should we not stand behind it?” he asked. “You finally get to be the person outwardly that you feel inside. That transition is a beautiful, wonderful, joyous thing.” Reverend Julia Hamilton, at the Unitarian Society of S.B., echoed these sentiments.“To be a human being is to have worth. There is no gender attached to divinity in our belief … There are only incarnated differences between heads and hearts,” she said.

And then there are the role models, the transgendered community leaders themselves.

There are role models such as PPF’s Patrick Lyra Kearns, striving to elucidate the multifold, nuanced nature of humanity.“The world is a little more in the gray, on a lot of levels,” Kearns said.“People are really kind of getting more fluid and more plastic in the way they think about everything. It’s okay for people to be in between.” There are role models such as SBTAN’s Phillippa Bisou Della Vina, who, in her KCSB radio program, showcases the artistry of the liminal space and the subconscious mind, through the creativity and courage that is uniquely trans. There are role models like Deja Nicole Cabrera, who shows her Latina sisters in the trans community that they can be empowered, like her, as she holds down a full-time job by day and delights at drag brunches on weekends.“Stay confident in who you are and who you want to be. The right time will come around, and things will flourish,” Cabrera said. There are role-model business owners like Genevieve Le Duc, who show that in the long race of life, they can still find their happiness and live in harmony with themselves. “I hope people realize we are just people,” Le Duc said. “We’re just like anybody else. We’re people that love our children and want the best for our friends and community. We all have to help each other; we need to be together, regardless of who we are.”

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12/15: Chanukah & Chirality Comedy Night Enjoy a night of comedy from headliner Shawn Pelofsky and featuring Dana Eagle. This PG-13 CompleTe guide show will be complemented To This year’s with yummy latkes and holiday happenings, drinks. 6-9pm. Jewish Federation of Greater S.B., check out 524 Chapala St. $5-$10. Call ’Tis the season aT 957-1115. jewishsanta independent.com/

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12/15: Eastside Neighborhood Clinic and Family Dental Open House The S.B.

Thursday 12/15 12/15: Caltrans Open Forum Have your voice heard at this public hearing on the newly Revised Environmental Impact Report for Caltrans’ project to construct a part-time high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV), or carpool, lane in each direction on the U.S. 101 from Bailard Avenue to Sycamore Creek. There will be a brief presentation on the revised report, followed by a Q&A and a chance to provide written comments. The report is available for public review at the S.B. Central, Eastside, Montecito, and Carpinteria libraries.

5:30-7:30pm. Chase Palm Park Ctr., 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call 542-4663.

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12/15: Third Thursday Film Series: Lucky People Center International This Swedish 1998 flash-cut film unspools a montage of images, conversations, rants, interviews, performance art, and dance set to music in an attempt to examine world culture. It’s a must-see for admirers

Stadium, S.B. City College, 721 Cliff Dr.; Tue.-Thu.: 5:30pm.

Shoreline Park, 1237 Shoreline Dr. Free-$99. Call (970) 314-3021.

of experimental film or time-based media art. Enjoy food and drink for purchase, or explore the gallery’s walls before the outdoor screening. Event: 6pm; screening: 7:30pm. SBCAST, 513 Garden St. Suggested donation: $5.

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Learn top-secret tips for designing gift baskets with materials provided by the store, all while sipping a glass of wine or pint of beer. Once you’ve crafted the perfect basket, fill it with gourmet goodies for purchase, or bring your own items to add a personal touch, such as gift cards, framed photos, handmade treats, or artwork. 5:30-7:30pm.

S.B. Gift Baskets, 230 Magnolia Ave., Goleta. $25. Ages 21+. Call 689-7561

12/16: Little Women This 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel stars Winona Ryder as Jo, the second oldest of the four March sisters dealing with the transition from childhood to womanhood in post-Civil War America. 2-4pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Rated G. Call 564-5641.

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12/15: Festival of Lights Celebrate and embrace the many traditions of light observed in our community such as Hanukkah, Christmas, Eid al-Adha, Kwanzaa, and more. 6:30-8:30pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free.

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12/16: Una Noche de las Posadas Take part in this

12/15-12/16, 12/19-12/21: Train for Life Burn off those holiday treats with

time-honored reenactment of Joseph and Mary’s search for shelter in Bethlehem Celebrate the Holiday as it was once celebrated on Ice Celebrate the in early California and is season by watching champion ice skaters still observed throughout such as 2014 Olympic Bronze Medalist Gracie Mexico and South America.

Gold and area skaters put on a show on ice.

Experience firsthand the way There will be a meet and greet after the 5 in which Santa Barbara’s p.m. show for an additional $15. Noon and earliest Spanish and Mexican 5pm. Ice in Paradise, 6985 Santa Felicia Dr., residents gathered together Goleta. $20-$30. Call 879-1550. and celebrated the Christmas tinyurl.com/HolidayShowOnIce season with music and food.

7pm. Begins at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. their kingdom in eternal winter. 1-3pm.

Canon Perdido St., and concludes at Casa de Island Rm., S.B. Central Library. Free. la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call Rated PG. Call 564-5603. sbplibrary.org 965-0093. sbthp.org

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interval classes combined with nutritional guidance that’ll uplift, motivate, and challenge you to reach your personal fitness goals. Your first two classes for the grand opening are free, so why not give it a try?

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Neighborhood Clinics have been providing health-care services to all, regardless of ability to pay, since 1998. Take a guided tour of the medical and dental facilities on the Eastside to learn about its primary and preventive care, women’s health, chronic illness management, pediatrics, and behavioral health programs available to the community, along with a brief presentation at 6:15 p.m. and light refreshments. Tours: 5:45, 6:30, and 7pm. Eastside Neighborhood Clinic, 915 N. Milpas St. Free. Call 963-6616.

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12/16: A TOTEM Prom: Back to the Future Dance the night away to your favorite ’50s and ’80s tunes with food and drink specials from the café. Prom attire is encouraged, so dust off those dancing shoes.

Proceeds will benefit TOTEM, an arts-based leadership program for area teens. Brasil Arts Café, 1230 State St. $10. Call 845-7656.

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Monthly Public Telescope Night Stargaze for a spectacular view of the sky as this night’s full moon idles in the sky above the observatory next to the baseball field. 7pm. Westmont College, 955 La Paz Rd. Free. Call 565-6272. westmont.edu/observatory

12/17: Family Movies: Frozen The whole family will delight in this tale inspired

by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen. Anna, alongside Kristoff, his pet reindeer, and a naive snowman, sets off on an epic journey to find her estranged sister, Elsa, whose ice powers have trapped

12/17: Wreaths Across America Ceremonies around the world will be laying wreaths on veteran gravestones at the same moment with the mission to remember, honor, and teach. 11:30am.

Post 49, Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 199 N. Hope Ave. Free. Call 636-7961.

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11/17: An Evening of Melodious Kirtan All are invited to a relaxing evening filled with vegan dining and meditative song based on ancient chants.

Dress comfortably; chairs are provided, but you can bring a cushion if you prefer to sit on the floor. Please bring a friend or two, but do not wear perfume or cologne.

7pm. Montecito Library, 1469 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Suggested donation: $7. Email mantraloungesb@gmail.com.

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22nd Annual Kids’ Day Kids are able to get free eye exams and glasses at this fun community event as part of the Eyeglass Factory and SEE International’s Kids Right to Sight program. While the retail store offers free services year-round, the Clinic on Wheels will be on-site to provide an array of services, including flu shots administered by Walgreens. There will also be crafts, face painting, a visit from Santa Claus, and wholesome snacks from the S.B. Unified School District’s Mobile Café.

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sunday 12/18 12/18: Family Jazz Music Workshop: Charged Particles A trio of members from jazz group Charged Particles will introduce you to keyboards, acoustic and electric bass, and the drums. The entire family will enjoy this entertaining and educational workshop. 2-3pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5603. sbplibrary.org

bands on tap 12/16: Velvet Jones Latin Night, 9pm. 423 State St. $10. Call 965-8676. velvet-jones.com 12/15-12/17: The Brewhouse Thu.: Ventucky String Band. Fri.: Stiff Pickle. Sat.: Little Big Here. 8:30-11:30pm. 229 W. Montecito St. Free. All ages.

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Ages 21+. Call 967-0907.

12/17: The Good Life Cellar Dan Cressler, 8pm. 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang.

Free. Ages 21+. Call 688-7111. thegoodlifecellar.com 12/20: Pickle Room Live Soul Jazz: Cougar Estrada and John Schnackenberg, 7pm. 126 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call 965-1015.

12/21: Blush Restaurant + Lounge Bruce Goldish, 7-9pm. Blush Restaurant and Lounge, 630 State St. Free. Call 957-1300. blushsb.com

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12/16-12/18: Cold Spring Tavern Fri.: The Paradise Road, 7-10pm. Sat.: Arwen Lewis, 2-5pm; Claude Hopper’s Annual Hollerday Party, 6-9pm. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, 1:15-4pm; Cadillac Angels, 4:30-7:30pm. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

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12/15-12/21: The James Joyce Wed.: Victor Vega and the Bomb, 10pm1am. Thu.: Alastair Greene, 10pm-1am. Fri.: The Kinsella Brothers, 10pm-1am.

Sat.: Ulysses, 7:30-10:30pm. Tue.: Teresa Russell, 10pm-1am. The James Joyce, 513 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call 962-2688. sbjamesjoyce.com

monday 12/19 12/19-12/21: Winter Crafts If you’re looking for something to entertain the kids over winter break, drop in to create a variety of crafts inspired by the festive season.

10am-7pm. Children’s Area, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 962-7653. sbplibrary.org

12/19: Tikkun Olam II: The Healing Center In this time of uncertainty and confusion, take part in the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam by participating in random acts of kindness to repair the world. Join Jewish Family Service staff for an afternoon of healing and expression through art, music, conversation, and movement. 3:30-5pm.

Jewish Federation of Greater S.B., 524 Chapala St. Free. Call 957-1116.

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Tuesday 12/20 12/20: SBYBP 1st Annual Holiday Party and Toy Drive The S.B. Young Black Professionals (SBYBP) will get you in the holiday spirit with charity, music, and appetizers. There’ll also be a raffle ticket for each donated unwrapped toy, along with great prizes to give away. Purchase your tickets before December 20 for a free glass of wine at the event, or simply donate a toy for children of families experiencing homelessness in the S.B. community. All toys will benefit kids in Transition House’s Family Housing. 6-9pm. Oreana Winery, 205 Anacapa St. Free-$20. Call (912) 271-6094.

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12/20: Build with Legos Let your child’s imagination soar with these interlocking plastic bricks loved for generations.

3:30-4:30pm. Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Ages 5+. Call 964-7878.

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12/20: Locals Night Holiday Party Whether you’re new to the Santa Ynez Valley or have been a resident for years, celebrate the holiday season with a potluck, live music from Nataly Lola, and wine and beer specials. Bring a tasty treat to share, and you’ll

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12/17: S.B. Music Club: Holiday Concert and Reception Area pianists will play dual pieces for two pianos from French romantic composers Chabrier and SaintSaëns, French impressionists Debussy and Ravel, and late-romantic era Russian Rachmaninoff. 3-4pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Free.

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12/17: Velvet Jones 16th Year Anniversary Party: Alien Ant Farm, Æges, Easy Bear Celebrate the iconic venue’s super sweet 16 with a rock show featuring Alien Ant Farm, known for its cover of M.J.’s “Smooth Criminal,” L.A.’s Æges, and area indie band Easy Bear. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $18-$22. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676.

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12/19: Windham Hill Winter Solstice 30th Anniversary Concert Celebrate the winter solstice with a concert of original and traditional acoustic music selections from the multi-platinum–selling Winter Solstice series of Windham Hill Records.

This classical concert will feature composer Alex de Grassi, Grammy Award–winning guitarist Will Ackerman, and Grammy Award–nominated singer, fiddler, pianist, and songwriter Barbara Higbie, along with Ellen Sanders of the Oberlin Conservatory. 8pm.

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12/19: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott Sit back and relax while enjoying a dinner and jazz show from area musicians alongside master trumpet player Jeff Elliott. 7:30pm.

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12/19: Diners, Cave Babies, Honeymaid When Phoenix’s pop rock band Diners play a show with lo-fi pop band Cave Babies and pop-punkers Honey Maid, it’s sure to be a fun time. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 8pm. Funzone, 226 S. Milpas St. $5. sbdiy.org

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Wednesday 12/21 12/21: Basketry Group Whether you’ve been basket weaving for years or are simply interested in the craft, join this fun workshop where you’ll meet fellow basket weavers and learn how to master the technique. 3:30-5pm. Community Hall, Montecito Library, 1469 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Free. Call 969-5063.

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12/15-12/17, 12/19-12/21: December Show View and buy art from area artists in an exhibition titled All Santa Barbara All the Time, featuring picturesque landscapes of our coastal town. Available for purchase will be oil paintings by Potter, Patterson, and Dempwolf and sculptures by Dammeyer, Duby, Kirsch, Provenzano, and Tepper. The exhibit runs through December 31. Mon.-Fri.: 10am-5:30pm; Sat.: 10am4:30pm. Distinctive Art Gallery, 1331 State St. Free. Call 845-4833.

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After trading most of my clothes for the soft robe and slippers provided in my locker, I stepped into the poolside tent, where Ashley welcomed me and turned around, which I took as the cue to drop my robe and skivvies and hop on the massage table. (Naked, if you didn’t know, is how you should be massaged, although usually the masseuse leaves the room entirely for that process, which should have been a clue of what was to transpire.)

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“Whatever makes you comfortable,” she responded, with complete poise.

And that’s how I fell into my first facial, a procedure I’ve paid for frequently for the Author, post-facial women in my life to endure but have avoided personally because, it appears, I’m an ignorant male. For the next hour, Ashley, who explained that the oxygen-rich environment allows her products to better seep into my pores, lavished my mug with creams, cleansers, exfoliators, scrubs, and all of the other epidermal magics that are involved in an esthetician’s palette.

“This is nourishing and calming,” she explained of one treatment, noting that others were “hydrating and relaxing,” “firming and toning,” and so forth. But the words didn’t matter— matter as her fingers fluttered over my cheeks and forehead, I realized that the face is probably our body’s most frequently flexed set of muscles and yet one that, at least for most men, we don’t give much focused care. Facials feel quite good, I quickly learned, and they even include a bit of head and shoulder massage.

As I started to slip toward sleep — my longtime indicator of a good massage — Ashley piped up again. “Is it tingling?” she asked, as a papaya-laced exfoliator sizzled my skin. I groggily replied in the affirmative, happy to have that be the afternoon’s peak of intensity, instead of the squeezing and picking that I had mistakenly assumed were part of facials. (That is so yesteryear, I’ve since heard.) Soon, all was rinsed off, and Ashley— Ashley who, it turns out, was a supermodel in her prior career— left the tent while I re-robed. career I didn’t mention the mix-up to the valet as I left, nor did I reveal my secret the following day to the dudes who peddle that suspicious winebased cream on the corner of State and Figueroa streets. “What do you use on your face?” asked one in a heavy accent as I hurried by. “You’ve got great skin!”

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“Wet-suit manufacturers have relied on neoprene for years, despite the fact that it’s nonrenewable, petroleum-based, [and has] an energy-intensive manufacturing process,” said Hub Hubbard, Patagonia’s wet-suit development manager. “Neoprene is nasty stuff, but for a long time we had no alternative. Through our partnership with Yulex, we’ve invested in a plant-based game changer.”

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GettinG Lucky After GettinG cAncer

Immunotherapy Treatment, Now Available in Santa Barbara, Saved My Husband

by Julia McHugh and Scott Orlosky courtesy photos

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y husband, Scott, lies in bed at Cottage Hospital, so weak he can’t lift his head. He’s hallucinating, convinced that ants are marching across the ceiling.

But I sob with joy. Our oldest daughter dances around the room. The doctor grins. The nurse must think we’re insane.

It’s February 2016, one week before Scott’s 61st birthday, and this was his “breakthrough event,” the turning point of his cancer treatment.

Amazing new immunotherapy drugs, approved by the FDA just months before his diagnosis, have given Scott’s T cells superhero powers. They’ve eaten away the malignant tumor that had been growing behind his right ear, putting pressure on his brain. Now, without cancer to battle, his amped-up immune system is attacking his adrenals, causing hallucinations. It’s a serious side effect, MIRACLE CURE: The authors, Scott Orlosky and Julia McHugh, were preparing for hospice but treatable. when a new cancer drug opened the way for life.

Trained as a mechanical engineer, Scott does marketing and business development for a company that makes automation sensors. how to help me. In the space of 10 minutes, I went I am the Santa Barbara Zoo’s public relations director and from planning hospice to the possibility of living a teach PR at City College. We’ve been married more than 30 normal life.

As I left the exam room, I was suddenly overcome years. Until this point, Scott had never spent the night in the with grateful sobs. A woman in the waiting room came hospital. up to give me a hug. Ironically, she probably assumed Scott: I’m an active guy. In 2015, at age 60, I climbed Mt. I had been given bad news. I was too overcome to Whitney for the third time and set personal records in both the explain, but her instinct was right — I needed a hug.

Pier-to-Peak half-marathon and a full marathon.

In November while getting a massage, the therapist pointed *** out a bump above my ear. “I noticed that,” I said. “A tight Cancer fools the immune system into thinking that muscle?” it is part of the body. To oversimplify, the new drugs “This is not muscle,” she said firmly. “You need to see a doctor. Now.” By the next day, I had seen two doctors and had a flip a switch in the cancer cells so the immune system can recognize and attack them. biopsy.

Scott’s treatment plan was composed of four infusions of Weeks later, the results came in, and they were dire: spindle the two drugs, three weeks apart. Then we’d re-evaluate. cell melanoma. Rare, fast-growing, it was already too large to be surgically removed. Traditional chemotherapy or radiation weren’t usually effective. We had few options.

Scott: After my first treatment, I felt a slight burning sensation at the tumor site. The nurses assured us that this could happen. *** But by the time I got home, it felt as if fire ants were swarmBy then, it was Thanksgiving. We told our two daughters, ing on my skull. I could not keep my eyes open, and the pain aged 16 and 21, and tried to stay positive. But we were fright- became unbearable.

An MRI the next day was astonishing. The tumor had ened. rapidly disintegrated after just 24 hours. My enhanced T cells Then we got lucky.

On December 6, former president Jimmy Carter was all were fighting the cancer, faster than we expected. I just needed over the news. His brain cancer, a metastatic melanoma, pain medicine. was completely gone, thanks to a new immunotherapy drug Dr. Gupta was upbeat.“This means the treatment is working,” treatment.

Inspired by this, we met with Dr. Bartosz Chmielowski, a he said, lightly touching Scott’s arm. “It’s working.”

UCLA specialist involved with immunotherapy drug trials. *** He told us that spindle cell melanoma is one of the few cancers approved for this treatment and suggested a “cocktail” of Once Scott’s pain was under control, life slowly returned to normal. He worked, took a business trip to Boston, and two drugs, Yervoy and Opdivo.

Better yet, Scott could be treated here, at the Cancer Cen- resumed running. The headaches stopped, as did the need ter of Santa Barbara with Sunsum Clinic, under the care of for painkillers. We celebrated my birthday in January and planned for his in March. oncologist Dr. Mukul Gupta.

In his State of the Union address last year, President Scott: After weeks of searching, I finally had a team that knew Obama announced MoonShot 2020, a new cancer initiative,

spurred in part by immunotherapy advances. “For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save,” he said, “let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.”

But the costs are staggering — the drugs alone are $250,000. After paying our $5,000 deductible, Blue Cross/Blue Shield covered the rest.

Scott: While I am immensely grateful for the timing and the availability for these drugs, the cost shocked me. The company I work for changed ownership during my treatment, and our insurance changed, as well. Without Obamacare protecting my pre-existing condition, I would have been facing bankruptcy or a death sentence. ***

Scott’s second treatment three weeks later was uneventful, leaving only a lingering fatigue.

The third left him exhausted.

Two days before the fourth was scheduled, Scott collapsed in the bathroom. I called 9-1-1, which brings us to Cottage Hospital ER and his breakthrough event.

Steroids replenished his adrenals, his raving ceased, and he was released after five days. After staying home a week, he went back to work and started running moderately.

A month later, a PET scan could find no cancer anywhere. Follow-up scans in June and September were also clear.

“It’s a great time to be an oncologist,” I recently joked to Dr. Gupta. He nodded, serious. “It certainly is.” *** Scott: They won’t say I’m “cured,” but my odds are very good. Of Dr. Chmielowski’s drug-trial patients, 90 percent with complete response, like mine, are alive five years later. Jimmy Carter is still going strong.

My failed adrenal system is managed with a few pills each day. Other immunotherapy patients have it worse and become diabetic and have liver damage, or colon issues. “You missed out on the explosive diarrhea,” Dr. Gupta noted. Yes, we’re lucky.

We’re lucky that life-saving drugs were available just when I needed them. Lucky that Santa Barbara has a cutting-edge Cancer Center and an outstanding staff. Lucky to be alive.

The Cancer Center is building a modern, new facility, bringing their physicians and support programs under the same roof. They are raising money to complete it, and we’ve written them a check.

Scott: I hope we never have to step inside the place.

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Launched in November 2011, NatureTrack has guided more than 9,000 students on free, volunteer-led outdoor field trips aligned with their classroom study. NatureTrack pays all costs, including transportation, to fulfill its mission of giving Central Coast students a first-hand opportunity to embrace our natural world and become stewards of our natural resources.

Limited school transportation budgets make it difficult for teachers to take students on field trips, especially outdoors. NatureTrack fills that gap.

Every K-12 student in Santa Barbara County is eligible to participate in volunteer-led NatureTrack field trips with their class. Ventura County schools, as well as two junior high schools located in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood, also engage us for field trips.

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THE ‘POST-TRUTH’ PACT

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ome, now. Don’t act so surprised. You didn’t really think it was going to be free, did you? You didn’t believe the extraordinary privilege of being alive and plugged in during the digital era would come without a cost — that having a handy portal to the sum of all human knowledge in your jeans pocket would be devoid of downsides.

You know how this works: Just as puppy kisses are edged with needle teeth and peanut-butter cheesecake brownies require a penance of kale and burpees, all exquisite things demand something unpleasant in return.

So in the wake of a heinous election that may very well have been won by the viral spread of fake news articles — and insomuch as Oxford Dictionaries just named “post-truth” the 2016 Word of the Year — it’s payback time. Ye Pitiless Gods of Ubiquitous Information and Pervasive Propaganda have come to collect their debt. Their pound of flesh.

Their click-bait kickback.

Consider Paul Horner, who creates fake news for a living — including the story about the guy paid $3,500 to protest at a Trump rally (never happened). Horner told the Washington Post, “I think Trump is in the White House because of me” and “[his] followers don’t fact-check anything.”

Consider the dude who fired shots in a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. on December 4 after reading fake news online that the restaurant was sex-trafficking children (it isn’t). Or the woman arrested last week for making death threats to the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook in 2012; she believed fake news reports that the Newtown massacre was a hoax (nope). email: starshine@roshell.com Consider even the Santa Maria police department, which admitted last week to having issued a fabricated press release — and fooled local media into reporting it as fact — to protect two men from gang hits.“The false, ruse press release worked brilliantly in our favor,” said the police chief.

The lesson, my friends? Don’t believe everything you read — including the hip new assertion that the truth is irrelevant. If we’re to navigate the murky waters of a “post-truth” news lagoon, we must remember that no matter how good it feels to share a too-good-to-be-true headline with Facebook friends or cite a delicious-but-questionable statistic during a contentious debate, facts are never truly squishy. Evidence is never immaterial. And reality, like climate change, just isn’t up for debate. There’s what is, and there’s what someone is trying to sell you — and it falls to us now to distinguish the two.

So join me in making the following pledge from this day forward:

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• I will not make knee-jerk social shares of posts I haven’t actually read but whose headlines I find amusing, enraging, or otherwise engaging.

• I will check the source of all news stories I read. If I don’t recognize it, I will Google the details to see if anyone else is reporting them. If not, I will be crazy-skeptical and unlikely to shoot up a pizzeria over them.

• I will point out to my friends when they’ve shared an erroneous fact or false story — even the friends with whom I agree politically. And when my friends point out my own sharing of misinformation, I will thank them and correct it immediately.

• I will not assume that everything I see on video is factual. Starshine’s 11-year-old son can create, edit, and upload videos, and he’s no Gwen Ifill.

• I will make the time and effort to find and support sources I trust, keeping in mind that true journalists follow a strict ethical code of reporting the truth accurately, acting independently of outside influence, and being accountable for and transparent about their methods. They don’t do this because they’re elitists or control freaks; they do it because without these safeguards, journalism fails, and no one trusts the media, and they’re out of jobs.

This list is the price we pay for the magic of being mere fingerswipes away from search results for “synonym for ubiquitous” and “wtf is pizzagate?” (both of which benefited this column). These vows are our miserable, vital burpees. They’ll make us stronger. More resilient. And, my friends, we need it.

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DEFENDS HUSKIES AGAINST CRIMSON TIDE S.B.-Raised Defensive Coordinator Takes U of Washington Against Alabama

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The junior went on a five-goal scoring rampage, netting two goals against Foothill Tech and recording a hat trick in a 4-1 victory over St. Bonaventure.

DAWGS’ DEFENSIVE DUDE: Santa Barbara native Pete Kwiatkowski is coach of the Washington Huskies’ defense that will face mighty Alabama in the Peach Bowl.

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rying to stop the unstoppable is the task Pete Kwiatkowski will face on New Year’s Eve in Atlanta. He is the defensive coordinator of the Washington Huskies, who will go up against one of college football’s all-time juggernauts, top-ranked Alabama, in the Peach

Bowl. It is one of the semifinals leading to the national championship game.

Kwiatkowski has been coaching for 29 years, always on the defensive side of the ball. It is no coincidence that the 1975 Super Bowl was the first football game that captivated the Santa Barbara native.

“I was 7 years old, living on the Mesa, and I got hooked watching the Steelers beat the Vikings,” he said. Those Steelers were known for their defensive line, the Steel Curtain, which led Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl wins.

Kwiatkowski was destined to be a lineman. “I was big,” he said. “I played people two years older in youth football.”

He entered Santa Barbara High in 1980, and when he started playing varsity football a year later, the Dons had a nasty defense with such players as Billy Brace, Jaime Melgoza, and Paul Nicholson. Kwiatkowski was a big, quiet kid in the trenches.“I didn’t talk,” he said.“I just played. That was my disposition.”

“He was intelligent, strong, and easy to coach,” said Lito Garcia, the Dons’ head coach. “He had a great attitude and a great, big smile.”

The Dons missed the play-offs in Kwiatkowski’s senior year, and he was hungry for more football. He went to Boise State, and in four years he became one of the Broncos’ most decorated defensive linemen. At 62 and no more than 255 pounds—on the small side among college linemen —he was named the Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year and earned four first-team All-America honors in 1987.

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Kwiatkowski was inducted into the Boise State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996, at the end of a nine-year stint as a defensive assistant on the Broncos’ coaching staff. The next decade found him coaching at Snow College in Utah, Eastern Washington, and Montana State.

Chris Petersen, hired as Boise State’s head coach before the 2006 season, brought Kwiatkowski back to his alma mater. “[Petersen] was the quarterback at UC Davis when we played them my sophomore year,” Kwiatkowski said.“The first time we met, I told him I was pretty sure I sacked him.”

Petersen hired him as defensive line coach.

Their first season together came to an unforgettable conclusion. Boise State was invited to the Fiesta Bowl against a heavily favored Oklahoma team. It appeared the Sooners would escape with a victory when they held a 35-28 lead with 18 seconds remaining and Boise State facing a fourth-and-18 situation at midfield. But the Broncos unleashed a brilliant hook-and-lateral play to score a game-tying touchdown. In overtime, after Oklahoma went back ahead 42-35, Boise State scored a touchdown and executed a Statue of Liberty play for a two-point conversion and an amazing 43-42 victory.

“I was glad we went for two,” Kwiatkowski said of the allor-nothing gamble.“We were running out of gas on defense.”

Petersen elevated Kwiatkowski to defensive coordinator in 2010, a year Boise State finished second nationally in both total defense and scoring defense. When Washington coach Steve Sarkisian departed for his ill-fated tenure at USC after the 2013 season, the Huskies were quick to hire Petersen, and Kwiatkowski brought his family—a wife and three daughters—to Seattle.

“I came here because of Coach Petersen,” Kwiatkowski told the Seattle Times.“We love football and we love doing it.

When you’re working with dudes you consider friends, that’s where it’s special, and you hope that rubs off on the team.”

In their 11th season together and third at Washington, Petersen and Kwiatkowski have massaged the team into

Cory Blau, Westmont basketball

The senior guard scored 28 points, including the last five points of regulation to send the game into overtime, as Westmont won at The Master’s University, 84-78.

Pac-12 champions. The Huskies rebounded from their lone defeat at the hands of resurgent USC to snag the final spot in the four-team national play-off. Their defense led the Pac-12 in points allowed (17.8 per game) and ranks 10th nationally.

Washington made a statement early in the season when it whacked Stanford, 44-6.“That was awesome,” Kwiatkowski said. “It was a big-time, physical game. It was our coming out.” The Huskies punished Christian McCaffrey, the heralded Stanford back, limiting him to 29 yards of offense.

“The culture of the team is a big reason for our success,” Kwiatkowski said. “It’s as close to a family as you could be.

Everybody’s working to do their best at whatever job they’re responsible for.”

After the players take their final exams this week, he said, they will start preparing for Alabama’s undefeated Crimson Tide. Kwiatkowski is not getting carried away by the enormity of the occasion. “It’s a job; stay focused,” he said. “After it’s over, I’ll sit back and reflect.”

He said the bowl game will be “similar to the first game of the year. We’ll have had a long layoff. It comes down to fundamentals—tackling, turnovers, special teams.” He noted Alabama has scored 14 touchdowns on defense and special teams. “Teams have been in games with Alabama until they turned the ball over.”

Kwiatkowski will be in the upstairs booth, scheming to stem the Tide’s efficient offense. Coach Nick Saban’s team is a two-touchdown favorite—just as Oklahoma was over Boise State 10 years ago. Whichever defense has the biggest say in the game will go on to play for the championship on January 9, 2017, in Tampa. No. 2 Clemson will face Ohio State in the other semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl. n

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Santa BarBara Paella

Tenure: In January 2015, Benjamin and Carol Schuster

launched Santa Barbara Paella Catering, bringing a new flavor to the party food scene. Born and raised in Spain, Executive Chef Benjamin Schuster learned paella from the locals and has been refining it since he was 5 years old. In 2001, when Schuster first arrived to America, it was with nothing more than a suitcase and a paella pan that had been in the family for almost 30 years.“I was sitting in economy, and my paella pan was sitting in business class,” Schuster recalled.“This paella pan has been around quite a lot. Just think of it as grandma’s cast-iron skillet.”

Dish he digs: Of the six different types of paellas that

can be prepared, the most popular, the most traditional, and Schuster’s favorite is the mixed paella, a combination of meat and seafood.“For a lot of people, sometimes this is a difficult concept to understand because we have the tendency to separate the two. But this is the dish that in itself has never failed because it has the ability to bring all the flavors together,” Schuster said. “When you bring all these different ingredients together, there is a flavor pattern that I have not found elsewhere in any other dish.”

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hen they told me I had cancer— cancer and before light, he looked younger than he had at Joe’s, but that is I was led into the muddled forest where the why there is such light. He ordered a Long Island Iced wild things are inscrutable chemotherapy Tea, which, by any standard, is a cry for help or at least strategies, radiation assaults, and outlandish attention; the sombrero was another. He drank the collateral damage — I sold my car and booked passage vile thing in a three heroic gulps, and his eyes were no to Australia, there to float above the largest living thing longer so blue. on the planet. That trip to the bottom of the world What’s with the hat? ended with me in a coma somewhere in Bali, waking It’s a sombrero up at an unheralded dawn, strapped to a gurney, naked I know. You know Mexicans don’t wear those things except for the sort of diaper in which Jesus and Gandhi unless they’re in a parade or a mariachi band. died. I was in Singapore, and why had the nurses hidYou sure? den my wedding ring? And then all the other things I I am. Did you go to school in Vegas? What was that missed suddenly, desperately— desperately my passport, my cash, like?

No, I worked in Henderson. I was a blimp repairman. my youth, my health. But then, my wife appeared with some luck and some true friends who saved what is Of course you were. now the rest of my life.

They are beautiful things, blimps. A triumph of I learned to walk again in Santa Barbara— Barbara to take chemistry and architecture. They make these colossal to the alleys and the backstreets, avoiding the rare shadows in the desert that fool snakes and prairie dogs hill and identifying the sunny side of into thinking that evening is gathering. the street. Or I took the bus. There is They start hunting at the wrong time. much to be learned on the bus. Here, Blimps have all the attributes of grace. it is democratic and popular with the They’re quiet and clean. poor, working men and women, the He ordered another lethal cocktail.

The walls of the Cliff Room are red, disabled, tired cyclists, and hopeful pilgrims like myself on their peculiar punctuated by black-and-white phoway to the oncology floor at a hospital tographs of athletes, old fishermen, and the Mission in the ’30s. The stools called Cottage. The drivers are invariably helpful and happy. People leave the weren’t anchored, the Christmas lights front seats empty for the elderly and the still up. There was a joke about credit indisposed. There is an unarticulated and how it didn’t exist here. How many comradery among the riders. Maybe days until St. Patrick gets his. The barBy ralph lowe the same brotherhood exists among tender hung at his end of the bar by owners of BMWs, but I doubt it. the trivia machine and a suitably buttI went down to the ugly depot and scarred pool table. caught the number 13 to the Mesa, there The Former Blimp Mechanic took a to meet with my mad philosopher at the Cliff desultory but considerable swig of the cocktail Room, sandwiched between a fine used book and said he was going out back “for a smoke.” I store, a Taco Bell, a sushi restaurant named Ichpaid the machine a dollar, and it played “Gimme Shelter,” “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” and iban’s, a liquor store, and a tapas bar. Inside, it’s “Season of the Witch.” I went back to the Times. as dark as it should be, so I paused by the jukeI wasn’t all that surprised when he didn’t come box to let my corneas do their job. There was a back. For reasons I don’t understand even at deafening hair band playing on said machine.

Since no one else was in the bar, I asked the bartender this moment, I felt obligated if not compelled to settle if he would turn it down. He did. I ordered a glass of his bill with the mostly mute bar man.

It was very bright outside on Cliff Drive. There were house red and a tumbler of ice. He brought it over, and I pulled out the New York Times but kept my right eye wired-in teenagers on skateboards, old people crabbing along in their walkers, business guys, and students sayon the door.

He came in, as I suppose I did, wrapped in a nimbus ing, “Awesome.” And the girls in their summer dresses. of glare and the sounds of traffic on Cliff Drive. He It was hot and bright, and my corneas were challenged nodded to me and sat to my right, nearer the door again. I moved toward the bus stop. I was ready for a that closed and sealed off the light and sound. He was nap and another of the afternoons where I sit with a wearing a sombrero and a UNLV T-shirt. His hair was book on a balcony, waiting for the next flip-flop to drop. n still dyed. His eyes were spooky blue. In the beer sign

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“This unconventional, casual approach has surprisingly shown us great results, which has proven to us that a lot of people are looking for something untraditional, something unique, something intimate,” said Schuster.

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hen I first met Benedicte Maudet, a native of Brittany, France, earlier this year to write about 6-20 packs, her new crêpe-making business on East Haley Street, she was $8-$25; working on expanding from tramaudets.com ditional wheat-based crêpes to include a gluten-free, buckwheatbased option, as well. Those crêpes, plop it onto your plate, and then finish with a which are also known as galettes, recently light vinaigrette. It works great as either breakfast landed on the shelves of Whole Foods, so I or lunch and goes well with some chilly sips of decided to work them into my brunch over the grassy sauvignon blanc.

You can also go sweet — I tried a lavenderpast weekend.

Though they heat up easily in the microwave, honey chèvre version, drizzled with more honey, I opted for a lightly buttered pan, which gives the as well — but the slightly yeasty tang to the buckslim pancakes a crispy touch. After a gentle flip, wheat seems to pair better with savory styles. If I dropped in a couple of chunks of brie cheese you’d prefer something more sugary, go for Mauand allowed it to start melting. At the same time, det’s organic traditional crêpes. Or just cut to the I fried an egg in another pan, to about three- chase, and order her premade chocolate-hazelnut quarters done, and then dropped that into the version. There’s a small world of cooking in just galette. Top with arugula and Parmigiano-Reg- these three types of crêpes that she offers, so give giano, fold the sides over as much as possible, them a try yourself.

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Case in point: The new MagicCandy Factory.com Magical Mix & Make 3D candy printer, created by Katjes Magic Candy Factory, is now customizing the sweet stuff at Go! Games & Toys in La Cumbre Plaza, where all of your wildest confectionary concepts come to delicious life via computerized cookery along an X-Y grid. Bring in your favorite selfie, shape, pet photo, statuette, Christmas ornament, or even your business logo, and watch in awe as it appears before your eyes in the form of a vegan gummy.

Go! Games owners Rose and CK Goyal recently shared their enthrallingly futuristic device and its unique creations with me, from gummy octopi to

vibrant sours. I watched as the machine squeezed out a perfectly shaped Santa Barbara Independent logo, which tasted wonderfully of passion fruit with a more wholesome mouthfeel than your usual synthetic gummies (these are 100 percent natural fruit and vegetable extracts). Far tastier than my business card, the gummy logo disappeared quickly from our break room.

With the holidays here and Valentine’s Day not far away, now is the perfect time to create candy to your heart’s content and is a chance to impress your loved ones or coworkers with the candy of —Richie DeMaria their dreams.

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The produce is sustainably grown, ingredients are conscientiously sourced, and sauces are made fresh daily. The beef burgers are a 100 percent allAngus custom blend of chuck, brisket, and short rib, served on a locally baked brioche bun. There is also a selection of turkey, chicken, fish, and vegetarian sandwiches and “farm-inspired salads.” The 75-seat space includes indoor and outdoor seating, three big-screen TVs, and a roomy, heated patio.

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“Upon entering, you are immediately transported to another time and place,” says Hermann.

“The interior is both classic and modern simultaneously, with references to a grand restaurant one would find in London or Paris. Boasting deep chesterfield sofas, polished zinc tabletops, and ’50s modern vintage chairs and lighting, the space comfortably mixes mid-century and art deco influences.”

As beautiful as the interior is, however, the courtyard is the “pièce de résistance.” A large stone fireplace draws you toward the patio with 100-year-old olive trees that are situated in rubble stone planters. The patio was designed to be like an old courtyard in Tuscany, but that Old World feel is complemented by modern touches, including a custom soundtrack developed specifically for Somerset by one of Hôtel Coste’s deejays in Paris.

Since food is the most important aspect of any restaurant, Somerset brought in star chef Lauren Herman. “After doing dozens of tastings with top chefs across the country and not finding what I wanted, I knew what I needed to do,” said Hermann, who approached this celebrated chef from two of his favorite restaurants, AOC and the James Beard Award–winning Lucques.

“She defines what is right about California cuisine, effortlessly producing progressive dishes with rustic southern European influences. She is joined in the kitchen by her wife, pastry and sous chef Christina Olufson, who is an incredible talent in her own right.”

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he sour beer revolution is in full swing nationwide, and Telegraph Brewing Company is flying that funky flag high over its Obscura series of barrel-aged ales fermented by Lactobacillus bacteria and Brettanomyces yeast. This is the latest release under that umbrella, featuring more than 25 pounds of organically grown peaches per barrel, which are then aged for 18 months. The resulting ale, which is the first version of this brew since 2014, is being sold in 375ml cork-and-cage bottles, as well as a few pony kegs. An orange hay in color, the ale has flavors that are typical of a sour beer, with the puckering acidity and tangy tartness of a cider vinegar. But the peaches round out the palate with a bakedstone-fruit character, making for a refreshingly unique and approachable sip.

Like many of Tele418 n. Salsipuedes St.; Club. Members receive seven bottles of graph’s and other brewerObscura releases, 15 percent off telegraphbrewing.com 2017’s ies’ sour beers, the Obscura all purchases, a T-shirt and growler, an Pêche can only be made in invite to the Collective Madness event, small batches; a mere 280 and a free ticket to the annual Día de las Obscuras Experimental Beer Festival on cases were produced. And it started selling in mid-November, May 6, 2017. Pre-release purchase options also so supplies are going fast. But if you don’t want come with the club, which is limited to just 100 to miss the next sour release, consider join- members. The cost is $150. ing Telegraph’s new Obscura Collective Beer —Matt Kettmann

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his Wednesday, DecemThe benefit concert has become ber 21, warm yourself at a holiday tradition for the night’s the hearth of homegrown performers, who have hosted music so that others can winter fundraising shows for the sleep through the night. last three years. “We like to be of Join friends Kirstin Candy-McFarservice,” Candy-McFarland said, land and Billy Mandarino of Le having played at a warming center Reve Nouveau, Jesse Rhodes, Cory one rainy night around last year’s Sipper, George Friedenthal, and Thanksgiving. “It’s about gratiShaun Oster as they sing at SOhO tude, to be grateful for the things that I have … and to be able to use Restaurant & Music Club (1221 State my gifts to bring about goodness St.) to stoke the warm atmospheres of the Freedom Warming Centers for others.” “It’s something we’re of Santa Barbara, where those who all called to do — to shine light cannot find a place to sleep at night on love, giving, and inspiration can find shelter during these colder through music,” Mandarino said. winter nights.

Guests are invited to bring extra socks, coats, and other Funds from the evening’s event will help provide beds and supplies clothes to the concert. at the warming centers, provided as Attendees can expect some a last-resort refuge for the unshelnew musical gifts along with the tered homeless, open to all regardusual holiday favorites. Rhodes, less of condition. Christened after a who this year penned the music homeless man named Freedom who for the Channel Islands docuWARM WINTER NIGHT: Kirstin Candy-McFarland (pictured) and Billy passed away in downtown S.B. in mentary West of the West West,, is in the Mandarino of Le Reve Nouveau will help others sleep through the night with 2009, the warming centers help promidst of composing new works, their Freedom Warming Centers benefit. vide thousands of beds across South and Sipper will unveil some new songs along with the vocal talents and North County. Warming centers can be found at First United Methodist thanks to Village Properties, who will add of her 8- and 10-year-old daughters, who Church in S.B., University United Method- $100 per table reserved to the total dona- will sing carols onstage with her. Mandaist Church in I.V., the Veterans’ Memorial tion.“It’s a very easy, communal, and fun way rino, meanwhile, is finishing up his book, Building in Carpinteria, Peace Lutheran to give. I think there is always more excite- The Nowist Nowist, about the power of embracing Church in Lompoc, and the Salvation Army ment around a benefit concert because the the present moment, and its spiritual themes in Santa Maria. audience and the performers are bonded suffuse his lyrics.

When some have to decide upon a sleepThe night’s musical offerings will be a together in giving to something outside themselves, ” Sipper said.

“We’re all one mix of Christmas carols and stripped-down ing location at a moment’s notice, there is no acoustic arrangements. Kids can attend the being—just different versions of it,” Rhodes better time than the present to embrace the show for free, and if you reserve a dinner said, and banding together as a community spirit of giving. Head to SOhO, help others, table for eight or more, your reservation allows us to be “part of something bigger and have fun doing so. See sohosb.com. can help raise bonus funds for the cause than yourself.”

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Holidays and the arts a The nights may be long during December, but fortunately there are plenty of Yule-themed events with which to fill the moonlit hours — especially in the realm of dance and theater. The following is a shout-out of a few goings-on to satisfy the culturally inclined and represent the holiday season. For all holiday events, see independent.com/tistheseason2016.

The Nutcracker. State Street Ballet takes over the Granada Theatre for its annual, resplendent production of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet. Accompanied by the Opera San Luis Obispo Grand Orchestra, the performances feature State Street Ballet’s professional dancers, international guest artists, and students of Gustafson Dance.

Sat., Dec. 17, 2 and 7:30pm, and Sun., Dec. 18, 2pm, at Granada Theatre, 1214 State St.;899-2222; granadasb.org.

Holiday on Ice. Grab your hat, scarf, gloves, and a hot cocoa, and settle in to watch Olympic bronze medalist Gracie Gold take the ice in this second annual holiday event. The evening also includes performances by Ice In Paradise instructors and skating school students.

Sat., Dec. 17, noon and 5pm, at Ice in Paradise, 6985 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta; 879-1550; iceinparadise.org.

Chanuka Comedy Night. Get your giggles on with the comedy stylings of Shawn Pelofsky, Dana Eagle, and Louise Palanker, with special teen performances.

Includes latkes and drinks.

Thu., Dec. 15, 6-8pm.

Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, 524 Chapala St.; 957-1115; jewishsantabarbara.org.

Elf: The Musical. In 2011, a musical adaptation of Will Ferrell’s Christmas comedy film Elf premiered on Broadway. Now the Ojai Art Center’s theater program is taking on the clever show, which offers laughs and whimsical tunes such as “Sparklejollytwinklejingley.”

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Revels exploRe old scoTland The mid-18th century in the Scottish Highlands has long benefited from the romantic visions of artists and novelists. The rebellious Jacobites and their leader, the exiled Bonnie Prince Charlie, dared greatly and suffered dearly, and the legend of their wild Highlands rebellion lives on in myriad popular forms, from the various clan’s tartan plaids to the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve, a tradition that originated as part of the distinctively Scots holiday known as Hogmanay. The scholarly performers behind Santa Barbara Revels’ The Christmas Revels always do their homework, so you can expect that when they bring this season’s Scottish version of their annual show to the Lobero, the details of these folkways will be observed and cherished. Set at the height of the tension between the Highlanders and their British colonizers, Revels will show a whole community gathering at the mansion of the Laird (Rich Hoag) and resolving their differences through song, story, and celebration.

Revels is part of a network that includes dozens of such celebrations throughout North America. The organization’s aim is to inspire seasonal goodwill through performances that reflect the communal and historical centrality of winter solstice celebrations from around the world and across the centuries. Each year the group picks a specific time and place in which winter holiday traditions are particularly strong and develops an elaborate program around historically accurate songs, dances, sing-alongs, and playlets.

Director Susan Keller has a great eye for talent and knows how to weave a whole evening around such star turns as that of Emma Schiff (pictured above), an Agoura native who also happens to be a Junior World Champion Highland Dancer.

The S.B. Revels perform Friday, December 16, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, December 17, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, December 18, 2:30 p.m., at the Lobero Theatre (33. E. Canon Perdido St.). Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com for tickets and information.

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he sounds of trumpets, guitars, and violins filled the Granada Theatre last Saturday night as Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández and the all-female mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles performed an evening of seasonal songs At the Granada and traditional merriment.

Theatre, Sat., The internationally Dec. 10. acclaimed, Grammy-nominated group Mariachi Sol de México gave an exuberant performance that celebrated the passion of the musical genre that finds its roots in 19th-century Western México.

Reyna de Los Angeles, the Grammy-nominated troupe from Southern California,

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The historic music of mariachi is primarily male dominated, so it was an honor to hear Reyna’s take on the cultural significance of the music and the excitement of the holiday season. Reyna’s violinist/vocalist Laura Peña echoed the audience’s assessment of the evening when she said, “It’s a pleasure to start December with such an amazing show, the Merry-Achi Christmas.”

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While she didn’t talk much, Birkenes did recall how her last show in the area was the only one her mom has seen. “Last time I was here at this venue, I had a really good time,” she said.

The set highlight was her cover of Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs,” simply because people already knew the words. Still, the crowd danced and swayed to her ’80s-inspired synth-pop jams the entire night.

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Newfield, a professor of literature and American studies at UC Santa Barbara,

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The Great Mistake is likely to become a seminal work. One can only hope that the book is read and discussed by policy makers, politicians, students, parents, and anyone else who believes that developing educated, creative, and engaged citizens is our best chance to solve our collective problems.

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The American Funding Model that Newfield describes in detail is “producing the worst of both worlds — costs for students that are too high and spending on instruction and research that is too low.” In Newfield’s view, today’s students need more personalized instruction and direct feedback than public universities are able to provide; while this situation hurts all students, it is particularly hard on students of limited financial means.

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Alexander contributed three substantial works, each in a different genre. Her “Party of One,” a solo set on dancer Kyndal Vogt, opened the hour-long concert, and “Slant” — another Alexander composition — gave Martha Bartchy, Claire Masterson, Abigail Pryor, Robyn Takeshita, and Vogt a chance to show what they can do in a more abstract and lyrical vein. The piece “360°” brought back Pryon, Takeshita, and Vogt to the stirring sounds of the USC Drum Corps.

Two sisters contributed a pair of works each. Westmont student Sarah Sutherland set “Rise” on herself and her sister, alum Bethany Sutherland, and it was a highlight of the program. Bethany Sutherland’s “Tribal Instinct,” a hip-hop quintet, took the penultimate spot and provided a lead-in to the finale, “You &

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The quality of the performances was reflected in the warm response the program received and in the delighted faces of the dancers as they returned to the stage to take their bows.

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This Hollywood biopic about Desmond T. Doss — a Seventh-Day Adventist conscientious objector who never carried a gun during the bloody WWII Battle of Okinawa— Okinawa was meant for the big screen. As gruesome, gory, and stressful as the battle scenes are, the film is balanced out with Andrew Garfield’s quirky Southern charm and the epic love story of Doss and his wife, Dorothy, portrayed by the beautiful Teresa Palmer. This retelling of the story of one of America’s greatest war heroes combines genres to create one unforgettable film. (SM) Metro 4

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O Miss Sloane (132 mins., R) In a way, it’s the old story of prostitutes with the proverbial heart of gold, but Miss Sloane surprises as a well-made and superbly acted piece of advocacy filmmaking, a concept worth cheering in this tragic political year. As the plot unwinds and unravels, even the most seasoned filmgoer, who might sigh at each foreshadow, will find the twists and turns worth hanging on for. Writer Jonathan Perera crafts the eponymous lead, played with chilly intensity by Jessica Chastain, as increasingly mysterious such that answers to origin questions are begged for by the end. Chastain is just the starting point of a cast that includes Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Mark Strong (last seen opposite Sacha Baron Cohen in The Brothers Grimsby), the brilliant Michael Stuhlbarg (alien unicorn Griffin in Men in Black 3), and the smokin’ Gugu Mbatha-Raw, not to mention John Lithgow and Sam Waterston, all directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and partially produced in France. (JY) Paseo Nuevo/Fairview

Moana (113 mins., PG) Disney’s latest animated feature tells the story of a young girl named Moana, daughter of a chieftain, who sets sail to find the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) to help her unite her people. During their adventure, she meets a giant crab, a lava witch, and various other characters.

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Moonlight (110 mins., R) This coming-of-age story about a young gay man living in a tough Miami neighborhood and struggling with his identity is told during three important periods of his life.

Plaza de Oro Nocturnal Animals (117 mins., R) The not-especially-enjoyable, masculine-revenge fantasy Nocturnal Animals tells two parallel tales: one of a man whose family gets embroiled in an encounter with abusive highway ruffians, another of a woman whose ex sends her a manuscript— manuscript and their intertwining is wholly underwhelming. It’s a violent and bloody movie that shoots itself in the foot by undoing its own thrills, a meaningless cinematic seppuku of the itwas-all-a-dream sort. (RD) Fiesta 5

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Office Christmas Party (105 mins., R) This film has “coulda-shoulda-woulda” written all over it. It could’ve been an awesome display of what we all secretly wish office work parties were actually like; it shouldn’t have had a plot that was so unfocused and convoluted. Maybe then it would not have wasted an hour and 45 minutes of my day. (SM)

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O Seasons (97 mins., PG) The directors of Winged Migration and Oceans have created yet another stunning nature documentary that is a sensory experience of the highest order.

The film follows Europe’s changing weather from the ice age to the present and how it affects the animals and, to some extent, humans. After 80,000 years of winter, the continent is covered in a massive forest where, for many thousands of years, fauna such as bison, horses, hedgehogs, wolves, foxes, and squirrels thrive, and the life cycles of mammals and birds are followed through the changing seasons. Once humans enter the picture, however, the landscape changes quickly, geologically speaking. People begin hewing the forest trees for homesteads and firewood, thus ridding the bigger mammals of their environment and creating a new ecosystem of grasslands where insects and birds dominate. The last part of the film — i.e., present time — shows the damage done by human’s abuse of nature, but the filmmakers are hopeful that it’s not too late to reverse the damage if folks invest in conservation. The film’s soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission, but paired with the breathtaking cinematography, Seasons is a clarion call and an ode to nature.

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how,” said dancer Agnes De Mille. “We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” As true as her words might be for most of us much of the time, I suspect they don’t apply to you right now. This is one of those rare moments when feeling total certainty is justified. Your vision is extra clear and farseeing. Your good humor and expansive spirit will ensure that you stay humble.

As you take leap after leap, you’ll be surrounded by light.

(June 21 - July 22): Why are Australian sand wasps so skilled at finding their way back home after being out all day? Here’s their trick: When they first leave the nest each morning, they fly backward, imprinting on their memory banks the sights they will look for when they return later. Furthermore, their exiting flight path is a slow and systematic zigzag pattern that orients them from multiple directions. I recommend that you draw inspiration from the sand wasps in 2017, Cancerian. One of your important tasks will be to keep finding your way back to your spiritual home, over and over again.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange,” wrote author Carson McCullers. Are you ready to give that adage a twist, Taurus? In the coming weeks, I think you should search for foreign and strange qualities in your familiar world. Such a quest may initially feel odd but will ultimately be healthy and interesting. It will also be good preparation for the next chapter of your life, when you will saunter out into unknown territory and find ways to feel at home there.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): “If you don’t use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you,” said writer Ronald Sukenick. That’s always true, but it will be especially important for you to keep in mind in 2017. You Geminis will have an unparalleled power to enlarge, refine, and tap into your imagination. You’ll be blessed with the motivation and ingenuity to make it work for you in new ways, which could enable you to accomplish marvelous feats of creativity and selftransformation. Now here’s a warning: If you DON’T use your willpower to take advantage of these potentials, your imagination will be subject to atrophy and colonization.

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LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): Vault 21, a restaurant in Dunedin, New Zealand, serves sautéed locusts. For $5, patrons receive a plate of five. The menu refers to the dish not as “Oily Sizzling Grasshoppers,” but rather as “Sky Prawns.” Satisfied customers know exactly what they’re eating, and some say the taste does indeed resemble prawns. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it illustrates a talent you will have in abundance during 2017: re-branding. You’ll know how to maximize the attractiveness and desirability of things by presenting them in the best possible light.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): The literal translation of the German word Kummerspeck is “grief bacon.” It refers to the weight gained by people who, while wallowing in self-pity, eat an excess of comfort food. I know more than a few Virgos who have been flirting with this development lately, although the trigger seems to be self-doubt as much as self-pity. In any case, here’s the good news: The trend is about to flip. A flow of agreeable adventures is due to begin soon. You’ll be prodded by fun challenges and provocative stimuli that will boost your confidence and discourage Kummerspeck.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable,” wrote journalist Brenda Ueland. Pause

for a moment and fully take in that fact, Libra. It’s breathtaking and daunting. What a huge responsibility it is to be absolutely unique. In fact, it’s so monumental that you may still be shy about living up to it. But how about if you make 2017 the year you finally come into your own as the awesomely unprecedented creature that you are? I dare you to more fully acknowledge and express your singular destiny. Start today!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): “To dream … to dream has been the business of my life,” wrote author Edgar Allan Poe. I don’t expect you to match his devotion to dreams in 2017, Scorpio, but I do hope you will become more deeply engaged with your waking fantasies and the stories that unfold as you lie sleeping. Why? Because your usual approaches to gathering useful information won’t be sufficient. To be successful, both in the spiritual and worldly senses, you’ll need extra access to perspectives that come from beyond your rational mind. Here’s a good motto for you in 2017: “I am a lavish and practical dreamer.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): Physicist Stephen Hawking is skeptical of the hypothesis that humans may someday be able to travel through time. To jokingly dramatize his belief, he threw a party for time travelers from the future. Sadly, not a single chrononaut showed up to enjoy the champagne and hors d’oeuvres Hawking had prepared. Despite this discouraging evidence, I guarantee that you will have the potential to meet with Future Versions of You on a regular basis during the next nine months. These encounters are likely to be metaphorical or dreamlike rather than literal, but they will provide valuable information as you make decisions that affect your destiny for years to come. The first of these heart-to-hearts should come very soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): During these last few weeks, you may have sometimes felt like smashing holes in the wall with your head or dragging precious keepsakes into the middle of the street and setting them on fire

or delivering boxes full of garbage to people who don’t appreciate you as much as they should. I hope you abstained from doing things like that. Now here are some prescriptions to help you graduate from unproductive impulses: Make or find a symbol of one of your mental blocks, and bash it to pieces with a hammer; clean and polish precious keepsakes, and perform rituals to reinvigorate your love for them; take as many trips to the dump as necessary to remove the congestion, dross, and rot from your environment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Singer/songwriter Tom Waits has a distinctive voice. One fan described it this way: “Like how you’d sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and swallowed a pack of razor blades. Late at night. After not sleeping for three days.” Luckily, Waits doesn’t have to actually do any of those self-destructive things to achieve his unique tone. In fact, he’s wealthy from selling his music and has three kids with a woman to whom he’s been married for 36 years. I foresee a similar potential for you in the coming weeks and months. You may be able to capitalize on your harmless weirdness … to earn rewards by expressing your charming eccentricities … to be both strange and popular.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): Was punk rock born on June 4, 1976? A fledgling band known as the Sex Pistols played that night for a crowd of 40 people at a small venue in Manchester, England. Among the audience members was Morrissey, who got so inspired that he started his own band, The Smiths. Also in attendance was a rowdy guy who would soon launch the band Joy Division, despite the fact that he had never played an instrument. The men who would later form the Buzzcocks also saw the performance by Johnny Rotten and his crew. According to music critic David Nolan, these future pioneers came away from the June 4 show with the conclusion, “You don’t have to be a virtuoso or a musical genius to be in a band; anyone can do it.” I see parallels between this seminal event and your life in the coming weeks.

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UNIVERSITY CENTER FOOD SERVICE Responsible for assisting the Event Manager in the execution of catered events. UCen Catering is a full service catering department serving the needs of campus clients, campus guests, and conference services. Responsible for Event Planning, On‑Site Event Management, Purchasing, and Employee Training and Supervision.

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Must have a current California Physician Assistant license. Experience in procedures such as laceration repair, extremity splinting, incision and drain‑ age of abscesses, wound care and insertion and management of IVs is highly desired. Notes: This is a 10 month per year position at 100% time with furlough taken during quarter breaks and summer months. Hours vary during quarter breaks. Works hours as assigned, which may include evening hours. Fingerprint back‑ ground check required. Clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and creden‑ tialing process before the employ‑ ment start date. Must have a cur‑ rent CA Physician Assistant license at all times during employment in order to practice and function in this clinical role. Any HIPAA or FERPA viola‑ tion is subject to disciplinary action.

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OFFICE OF RESEARCH The Research Development divi‑ sion in the Office of Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) seeks an Academic Coordinator to serve as Associate Director of Research Development for Science and Engineering. The Associate Director advises faculty and researchers in science and engineering on funding opportunities and strate‑ gic planning for extramural research proposals. The main focus of efforts are 1) single investigator proposals from early career faculty, 2) major large scale, multidisciplinary and/or multi‑investigator research projects, and 3) training, institutional program development, and outreach proposals focused in engineering and the sci‑ ences. The Associate Director serves as a strategic funding advisor and pro‑ posal reviewer for early career faculty in science and engineering in develop‑ ing competitive proposals to grow their research programs. The Associate Director works with faculty to facili‑ tate the preparation of successful major grant applications, including the coordination of large multi‑investiga‑ tor, multi‑disciplinary research propos‑ als. This position develops workshops to support proposal development, and understands how campus priorities and information needs fit into the larger national education, research, and funding contexts in order to pro‑ vide advice to faculty and research‑ ers. This is a full‑time Academic Coordinator 2 position, with the initial appointment for one year, subject to renewal based on performance.

The annual salary range is $84,044 ‑ $111,536, depending on qualifi‑ cations and experience. Minimum Requirements: Graduate degree in science or engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experi‑ ence. Desired Qualifications: Ph.D. in science or engineering and experience with proposal writing. For primary consideration, applications should be received by January 16, 2017. This position has an anticipated start date of March 1, 2017. To apply, please submit your application to UC Recruit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb. edu/apply/ JPF00888. The Department is espe‑ cially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excel‑ lence of the university community through research, teaching and ser‑ vice. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employ‑ ment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gen‑ der identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR

POLICE DEPARTMENT Provides analytical, financial manage‑ ment and organizational support on a wide range of business matters.

Acts independently and with a high degree of initiative. Coordinates a variety of special projects. Interacts with department managers and staff, other UC campuses, UC Office of the President, and governmental and commercial entities. Supervises the Bike Safety operations, Police Financial Administrative and CSO Financial Assistant. Reqs: Experience with financial and accounting opera‑ tions. Excellent written and oral com‑ munication skills. Proficiency in MS Excel, including financial and procure‑ ment systems. Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy. Notes: Must undergo an extensive background check. Fingerprinting required.

Maintain a valid CA driver’s license. $21.86‑$30.59/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive con‑ sideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, pro‑ tected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20160303

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Reqs: Demonstrated experience in Drosophila melanogaster embryo col‑ lection, staging and live imaging prep‑ aration. Demonstrated skill in sample preparation for SPIM microscopy, including precision mounting of sam‑ ples in agarose. Strong organizational skills to coordinate multiple concur‑ rent activities determining the time, place and sequence of actions to be taken. Familiarity with CAD software, Autodesk Illustrator is a plus. Skill in prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely manner, with dead‑ lines, fluctuating workloads, and last minute changes. Demonstrated ability to work independently and carry out assignments with minimal instruc‑ tions. Skill on organizing material and information in a systematic way to optimize efficiency. Notes: Position is currently funded through 8/31/19; possibility of continuation beyond 8/31/19 is dependent upon future funding. $20.36/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive con‑ sideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, pro‑ tected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20160526

PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER

POLICE DEPARTMENT Monitors/operates all equipment and accesses all resources within the Dispatch Center. The majority of each shift is at the console monitoring radios and alarms, radio dispatching personnel, answering phones, com‑ puter input/retrieval using specialized software, including CLETS, alarm soft‑ ware, and 911/telephone software in addition to common Microsoft Windows‑based programs. This posi‑ tion may also require the release of emergency messages and commu‑ nications to the UCSB community in the event of an emergency. Reqs: Proficient typing/data entry. Familiarity with computer operations. Excellent communication and customer service skills. Ability to deal well with stress and stressful situations. Read, write, speak and understand English flu‑ ently. Strong multi‑tasking abilities.

Ability to type 35 WPM. Notes: Must be able to pass a comprehensive pre‑employment background inves‑ tigation/medical examination. Must work rotating shifts (days, nights and evenings) 4 days per week and 10 hour shifts. Able to work in con‑ fined work environment until relieved.

Mandated reporter for requirements of child and adult dependent abuse.

Multiple positions available. $23.58 ‑ $28.06/hr. + $.72 ‑ $.75/hr. shift dif‑ ferential for evening and night shifts.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employ‑ ment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gen‑ der identity, national origin, disabil‑ ity status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply by 12/19/16, thereaf‑ ter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu. Job #20160612

qualified applicants will receive con‑ sideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, pro‑ tected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHAEL MARGARET STEWART CASE NO: 16PR00449 To all heirs, ben‑ eficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MICHAEL MARGARET STEWART A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: ANASTASIA ARABELLA STEWART in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that NORMAN COLAVINCENZO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codcils, if any be admitted to probate.

The will and any codils are avail‑ able for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal repre‑ sentative will be required to give notice to interested per‑ sons unless they have waived notice or consented to the pro‑ posed action.)The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an Interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 02/09/2017 AT 9:30 am Dept: 5 Room: Judge , located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objec‑ tions with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attor‑ ney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court an mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mail‑ ing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Susan H. McCollum, Hollister & Brace 1126 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑6711 Published Dec 15, 22, 29 2015.

tion or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Steven Rosebro 1025 Holly Ave. Carpinteria, CA 93013; (805) 684‑2013.

Published Dec 8, 15, 22 2016.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DONALD WILLIAM ROSEBRO NO: 16PR00535 To all heirs, beneficiaries, credi‑ tors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DONALD WILLIAM ROSEBRO A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: STEVEN ROSEBRO in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): STEVEN ROSEBRO be appointed as per‑ sonal representative to adminis‑ ter the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal repre‑ sentative will be required to give notice to interested per‑ sons unless they have waived notice or consented to the pro‑ posed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as fol‑ lows: on 1/19/2017 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the grant‑ ing of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appear‑ ance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent cred‑ itor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal deliv‑ ery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any peti‑

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MANUEL FIGUEROA ROMAN NO: 16PR00526 To all heirs, beneficiaries, credi‑ tors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MANUEL FIGUEROA ROMAN A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: TERESA L. PEREZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): TERESA L. PEREZ be appointed as per‑ sonal representative to adminis‑ ter the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal repre‑ sentative will be required to give notice to interested per‑ sons unless they have waived notice or consented to the pro‑ posed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as fol‑ lows: on 1/12/2017 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the grant‑ ing of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appear‑ ance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent cred‑ itor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal deliv‑ ery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any peti‑

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tion or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Peter Eastman 1745 Calle Boca del Canon Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑689‑3879.

Published Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FBN Abandonment S TAT E M E N T OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being aban‑ doned: Santa Barbara Baby Company at 1701 Anacapa Street #11 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 08/05/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara.

Original file no. 2013‑0002447.

The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Beach & Baby Equipment Rental LLC (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 16 2016, I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Sheaff. Published. Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

S TAT E M E N T OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Weddings By The Sea, Kim Marie Photography at 3175 Serena Ave. Carpinteria, CA 93013 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 09/21/2015 in the County of Santa Barbara.

Original file no. 2015‑0002772.

The person (s) or entities aban‑ doning use of this name are as follows: Kimberly Marie Colombini (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 23 2016, I here‑ by certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Sheaff. Published. Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 2016.

Fictitious Business Name Statement F I C T I T I OU S BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Presidio Fencing Club at 372 Valdez Ave Goleta, CA 93117; T imothy Robinson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 6, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis . FBN Number: 2016‑0003317. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

F I C T I T I OU S BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: We Buy Gold & Jewelry at 3122 State St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; State Street Jewelry & Loan (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 25, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2016‑0000029.

Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J And C Services at 651 SO. San Marcos Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Senaida Moran (same address) This business is con‑ ducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 15, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003139. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elegant Nails & Spa at 5915 Calle Real #F Goleta, CA 93117; Andy Nguyen 30 Winchester Canyon Rd #28 Goleta, CA 93117; Anh Truc Nguyen (same address) This business is con‑ ducted by a Married Couple Signed: Santa Barbara County on Nov 15, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by. Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003140. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Franciscan Inn & Suites at 109 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Franciscan Motel Corporation 361 Valley Vista Drive Camarillo, CA 93010 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This state‑ ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 09, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jessica Sheaf. FBN Number: 2016‑0003119. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TM Auto Repair at 526 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Erasmo A Salinas Sanchez 728 E. Haley Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This busi‑ ness is conducted by a Individual Signed: Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by. Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003161. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The follow‑ ing person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: Butterfly, Redsand Wines, Sanan Redmond Wines, St Sebastian, Into Temptation, Saint Sebastian, Sananredmond, Redsand, Sanan Redmond, Sananredmond Wines at 2825 Santa Ynez St CA, 93460; Sananredmond, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Santa Barbara County on Nov 04, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by.

Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2016‑0003074. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Surge Electric at 2890 Foxen Canyon Rd. Los Olivos, CA 93441; Sergio Medina (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by.

Tania Paredes‑Sadler FBN Number: 2016‑0003166. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: Deep Tissue Diva Company at 546 Central Ave. Buellton, CA 93427; Courtney Koprowicz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Courtney Koprowicz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 09, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003122.

Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: Sativa Compliance, Sativa Consulting at 5667 Cielo Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Morris Sherwood (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This state‑ ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003158. Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Taqueria Los Chinelos at 435 Mills Way Goleta, CA 93117; Eva Sarai Umejido 330 Hollipat Center Dr #24 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Santa Barbara County on Nov 16, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by. Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003150.

Published: Nov 23. Dec 1, 8, 15 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sunderland Art at 2835 Gibraltar Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Curtis D Baldwin (same address) This business is con‑ ducted by a Individual Signed: Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by. Christine Potter.

FBN Number: 2016‑0003192.

Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: Coachella Organic Farms at 410 Palm Ave Ste B4 Carpinteria, CA 93013; MJH Enterprises, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This state‑ ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2016‑0003181. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Genuine Chiropractic at 123A El PaseoSanta Barbara, CA 93101; Jacob M Stuebs 34 Los Patos Way D Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conduct‑ ed by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 29, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003247. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sport Clips Haircuts at 5801 Calle Real Suite B Goleta, CA 93117; Conlon Holdings, LLC 5501 Kinross Drive Plano, TX 75093 This business is conduct‑ ed by a Individual Signed: Mike Conlon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003245. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Restorative Deep Tissue Massage at 21 E Arco Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Freeman Jones (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This state‑ ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 28, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2016‑0003245. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wayfinder’s Path, Welmoet Glover at 416 E. Valerio St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Welmoet (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 28, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2016‑0003241. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hometek Handyman Services at 4591 Cathedral Oaks Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; William John Martin (same address) This busi‑ ness is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 22, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003200. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Performance Search, Pure Spirit Crystals at 606 Alamo Pintado Rd Ste 3‑189 Solvang, CA 93463; Paul Custer (same address) This business is con‑ ducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2016‑0003193. Published: Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Night Lizard Brewing Company at 607 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sanddancer, LLC 4445 Golf Course Drive Westlake Village, CA 91362 This business is con‑ ducted by a Corporation Signed: John F. Nasser This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 2, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes.

FBN Number: 2016‑0003298.

Published: Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pacific Books at 2573 Treasure Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michael Zolkoski (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 14, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN Number: 2016‑0003133.

Published: Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zaytoon at 209 E. Canon Perdido St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; SB Zaytoon, Inc. (same address) This business is con‑ ducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 5, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2016‑0003301. Published: Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: Glow California at 20 West Valerio Street Apt D Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chantel Wagon (same address) This busi‑ ness is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 30, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2016‑0003260. Published: Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brunner Leasing, Dean Brunner Rentals at 6778 Pasado Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Dean R Brunner (same address) Penny S Brunner (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 09, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2016‑0003364. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sun Potion, Sun Potion Transformational Foods at 430 East Gutierrez Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sun Potion, LLC 27 West Anapamu #408 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Scott Linde This state‑ ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 02, 2016. This state‑ ment expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2016‑0003289. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Grease Monkey at 145 Walnut Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Tami Hill (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 09, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Cristine Potter.

FBN Number: 2016‑0003363.

Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016.

Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The follow‑ ing person(s) is/are doing busi‑ ness as: Arnett Gunson Facial Reconstruction, The Center For Corrective Jaw Surgery at 9 E Pedregosa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Michael J Gunson DDS MD Professional Medical Corporation 260 Cinderella Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conduct‑ ed by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 09, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2016‑0003357. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J & J Photobooth at 7190 Davenport Rd #205 Goleta, CA 93117; Janet Briseno (same address) Javier Castro Jr (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Janet Briseno This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 30, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer . FBN Number: 2016‑0003263. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Designs By Laura Ashley at 355 Oak View Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Laura Ashley Mimms (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: L. Ashley Mimms This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 6, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Melissa Mercer . FBN Number: 2016‑0003325. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Auto Spa, SBAS Santa Barbara at 26 South Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Blancy W Adams (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2016‑0003163. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MCLUB at 1010 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Montecito Bank & Trust (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Maria E. McCall‑Agent This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 08, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2016‑0003348. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Roque Florist at 3623 State Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Mario David Amador Diaz 6688 Picasso Rd Apt G Goleta, CA 93117; Ana Theresa De Munoz Diaz (same address) This business is conduct‑ ed by a Married Couple Signed: Mario Diaz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 08, 2016.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jessica Sheaff . FBN Number: 2016‑0003346. Published: Dec 15, 22, 29 2016. Jan 5 2017.

independent.com

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF EMILY CLAIR LORD‑KAMBITSCH TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 16CV05058 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: EMILY CLAIR LORD‑KAMBITSCH TO: EMILY CLAIR CHOW‑KAMBITSCH THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the peti‑ tion for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 18, 2017 9:30 am, Dept 1, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 Anacapa Division A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hear‑ ing on the petition. Dated Nov 28, 2016 . by Judge James E. Herman of the Superior Court.

Published. Dec 1, 8, 15, 22 2016.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF WENDY LINDA CHAN TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 16CV04817 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: WENDY LINDA CHAN TO: WENDY LINDA LUC THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the peti‑ tion for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 04, 2017 9:30 am, Dept 1, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 Anacapa Division A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hear‑ ing on the petition. Dated Nov 07, 2016 . by Judge James E. Herman of the Superior Court.

Published. Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 2016.

Public Notices Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing busi‑ ness as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless, is proposing to con‑ struct a new telecommunications tower facility located at 3495 Foothill Road, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, California.

The new facility will consist of 65‑foot Stealth Structure/ Pine Tree Telecommunications Tower. Any interested party wishing to submit comments regarding the potential effects the proposed facility may have on any historic property may do so by sending comments to: Project 6116005011‑MB c/o EBI Consulting, 3703 Long Beach Boulevard, Suite 421, 2nd Floor, Long Beach, CA 90807, or via telephone at (781) 418‑2325.

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