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Merchants, restaurateurs, city of Santa Barbara discuss Coast Village Road’s future Parklets vs. parking
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The launch, which took place during good weather, marked the 56th Starlink mission and SpaceX’s 36th launch in 2022.Atjust under one minute into the launch, the Falcon 9 exceeded the speed of Atsound.approximately 1 minute, 15 seconds into the launch, the Falcon reached MAXQ (the maximum dynamic pressure it will feel during flight). At approximately 2 minutes in, the Falcon was soaring at almost 5,000 kilometers per hour. MECO (main engine cut off) occurred at approximately 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the launch. At approximately 2 minutes, 40 seconds, stage separation was confirmed, and again there was cheering and applause from the control room. At approximately 2 minutes, 50 seconds in, the second engine startup or (merlin vacuum engine startup) occurred. At approximately five minutes in, the reusable, first stage was coasting back to Earth, with the second stage accelerating under power of the merlin vacuum engine.
The rocket’s reusable first stage has previously launched 10 times with “quite a repertoire of launches under its belt,” according to the announcer. At approximately 6 minutes, 30 seconds, the start of the first stage entry burn began. This was approximately a 20-second burn, where three engine burn slows the first stage down as it enters the upper parts of earth’s atmosphere. The speed of the first stage decreased significantly as it entered the earth’s atmosphere. At approximately eight minutes in, the first stage’s speed reached speeds near or below speed of sound.Thefirst stage landed on a drone ship, and that was at 8 minutes, 30 seconds after the launch — to more cheers and applause.“Thatwas an amazing view of the first stage landing, thanks to our Starlink satellites,” said the announcer. It was the 57th first stage landing on the ship Of Course I Still Love You and the 56th overall Starlink mission landing. email: kzehnder@newspress.com launches satellites low-Earth orbit
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By DAN MCCALEB CENTER SQUARE EXECUTIVE EDITOR (The Center Square) — The U.S. House passed a $740 billion package Friday that raises taxes on large businesses, funds green energy initiatives, allows the federal government to set caps on certain prescription drugs and doubles the size of the Internal Revenue Service to expand audits. The measure, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, passed strictly along party lines, 220207, with Democrats in support and Republicans opposed. In its analysis, the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model reported it would actually increase inflationary price hikes over the next two years. The Senate added amendments to the measure on Sunday before passing it along party lines and sending it back to the House for Friday’s concurrence vote. The bill now heads to President Joe Biden, who’s said he would sign it into law.This “is a robust cost-cutting package that meets the moment, ensuring that our families survive and that our planet survives,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said moments before the individuals.$35drugs,theHumanDepartmentinflation.andspendingelectricgreenpanels,creditsmoreclimatebillionactIRS.”taxes700-pageDemocratsMcCarthy,House“RememberRepublicansvote.disagree.thisday,”MinorityLeaderKevinR-Calif.,said,“whenjammedthroughabillthatraisesyouranddoublesthesizeoftheAmongotherprovisions,theauthorizesspendingof$386forcleanenergyandinitiatives,includingthan$270billionintaxformanufacturingsolarwindturbines,batteries,energytechnologiesandvehicles.RepublicanssaytheincreasediscorporatewelfarewilladdtoelevatedTheactwouldallowtheofHealthandServicestosetcapsonpricesofseveralprescriptionincludingamonthlycaponinsulincopaysforCriticssaythecaps
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By JARED DANIELS NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER City officials and more than a dozen individuals representing retail, restaurants, and residents met in a conference room at the Montecito Inn on Friday to discuss the ongoing debate surrounding restaurant parklets on Coast Village Road. At the heart of the morning conversation was the impact that the COVID-era parklets are having on the already scarce parking availability of Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle, which has also been exacerbated by ongoing construction on Highway 101. While the atmosphere of the hour-long forum remained civil, retail store owners and restaurateurs were clearly divided over whether the parklets should remain. Retail owners said they supported the parklets when indoor dining was restricted due to the pandemic. But they added that the time had come to remove the parklets to free-up parking spaces that help bring in customers to retail and other business establishments along Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle. The Montecito streets are within the city limits of Santa Barbara. “Overall, my impression is that the city in establishing the parklet program at the time they did during the pandemic was absolutely the right decision, and I think it helped and saved a lot of restaurants, and that was great to see,” K. Frank clothing proprietor Kevin Frank told the News-Press after the forum. “But now as tourism has returned and the street and our town are significantly more busy, the loss of parking has created a hardship on the community and all the businesses, with the exception of those restaurants (with parklets), for equal access to theHowever,street.” despite his stance, Mr. Frank also expressed disappointment in the fact that there didn’t appear to be a readily available solution to the parklet issue short of their removal.
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By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER A Falcon 9 rocket was launched Friday afternoon from Vandenberg Space Force Base, prompting the first round of cheering and applause from the control room.More reasons to cheer would come minutes later. The rocket brought 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex 4 East.
KENNETH SONG /NEWS-PRESS Merchants and restaurateurs are looking at whether the future of Coast Village Road lies with parklets or the restoration of parking spaces. a parklet at Jeannine’s Restaurant & Bakery. PHOTOS Speaker Nancy Pelosi Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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They told the MTD that the suspensions made it difficult to make it to work and other morning obligations. Taking this feedback, MTD staff worked to identify specific trips to reinstate on these lines. The following trips will be added to the schedule for August: — Two Line 12x weekday morning outbound trips departing the Transit Center at 6:05 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. — One Line 12x weekday AM inbound trip departing Hollister & Storke at 7:58 a.m. — One Line 24x weekday AM outbound trip departing the Transit Center at 7:25 a.m. Additionally, a minor routing change will happen for Line 17 (Lower West/Santa Barbara CityDueCollege).tocirculation improvements at the San Andres and Carrillo intersection in Santa Barbara, the inbound Line 17 route will now turn left on Canon Perdido Street from San Pascual, then right on San Andres before turning right on Carrillo Street to head to the Transit Center. This one block change does not affect any stops or schedules for the Line 17, according to MTD.This change now means the inbound and outbound routes are identical. The new schedule guide reflecting these changes is available at availableavailablecomplete.pdf.uploads/2022/07/August-2022-Schedule-Guide-sbmtd.gov/wp-content/TheprintedversionoftheguideisalsoattheTransitCenterandonbuses.Customerservicerepresentativesareforassistanceat805-963-3366.
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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Zoo now has California’s first licensed outdoor preschool. The zoo’s Early Explorers program, for ages 3-5, recently received its license from the state.“We are really proud of what we’ve created with our Early Explorers preschool, which offers a one-of-a-kind preschool experience for children that is rich with hands-on learning, provides kinder readiness, and most importantly is at the zoo!” J.J. McLeod, the zoo’s director of education, said in a news release. “Children are surrounded by wildlife that they get to learn about, visit regularly, and develop a natural appreciation for their conservation. Where else do you get to hear the roar of a lion while you’re at school?” With a student-teacher ratio of six to one, Early Explorers students learn academic and social skills in a program that features zoo walks, sustainability and garden education, art and zoo train rides. Participants must be a zoo member to Registrationenroll.isnow open for the preschool at the Zoo. A T-shirt is included with registration.. Schedule options vary from full-time to part-time. To register, go to zoopreschool. org.
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In addition to the installation of the new Hi-Lo siren on police vehicles, the Santa Barbara Police Department is utilizing another intuitive way of policing. Prior to Old Spanish Days Fiesta 2022, Santa Barbara police added e-bikes to their fleet. Interim Chief Marylinda Arroyo and Commander Charles Kasapis saw the bikes in action at a recent conference and felt like they would be a great fit for the city and its policing needs.
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Santa Barbara Police Department Public Information Officer/Sgt.Ethan Ragsdale has first-hand experience with the Police Department’s additional way of “I’vepatrolling.beenable to ride the e-bikes and they’re a great addition to the department. I can see why the officers love riding them. They’re a more modern and effective tool in our inventory and that helps officers cut down response times and get to calls quicker,” Sgt. Ragsdale said in a pressResidentsrelease.are likely to see these bikes in action, patrolling State Street, the Waterfront and even on the Mesa and Milpas Street. Officers ride in partners and are able to patrol a larger geographical area. The electric bikes last longer than a pedal-only bike, traveling at speeds up to 28 miles per hour. The police department would like to highlight the special touches and added lights provided by Bicycle Bob’s in Goleta. With three e-bikes currently in rotation, officials hope they are able to add additional bikes to the fleet soon.
The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District makes service changes to local bus service every year in mid-August. This year’s service changes will go into effect at the beginning of the day on Monday. Due to a shortage of bus operators, temporary schedule reductions were made on April 25 to improve system reliability, according to the MTD. The majority of these temporary reductions will remain in effect through Monday, according to a news release. After the April reductions, MTD staff heard from regular riders about specific early morning trips on the Line 12x (Goleta Express) and Line 24x (UCSB Express) being suspended.
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By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE STAFF REPORTER (The Center Square) — A bill authored to preserve the Golden State’s status as a home for innovation by offering full sales and use tax exemptions for manufacturing and research and development equipment cleared another major legislative hurdle thisAssemblyweek. Bill 1951, sponsored by Assemblyman Tim Grayson, would expand California’s existing partial sales and use tax exemption to provide a full exemption for purchases of manufacturing and research and development equipment up to $200 million for five years. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the bill on Thursday. Its next destination is the Senate floor. “Every Californian wins when manufacturing grows,” Assemblyman Grayson tweeted Thursday after the bill was passed. “AB 1951 will not only help us keep manufacturing jobs in California where they belong, but also create new ones.” California has the nation’s highest state-level sales tax rate and – after accounting for local rates, sales and use tax rate –can reach 10.75% in the state, according to the bill’s text. Thirty-eight other states fully exempt manufacturing equipment from sales and use tax, meaning that “taxpayers pay more to buy equipment in California than they would elsewhere, creating a competitive disadvantage for the state,” the billUnderstates.existing law, a person can receive a partial sales and use and tax exemption for qualified “tangible personal property” primarily for manufacturing, research, and development, as previously reported by The Center Square. Grayson’s bill alters that provision by offering a full exemption for equipment purchases up to $200 million from Jan. 1, 2023, to Jan. 1, 2028. After that, the state would return to the partial exemption untilManufacturers2030. in California account for more than 10% of the state’s total output and employ 7.5% of the workforce, according to data from the National Association of Manufacturershigh-payingCaliforniansinnovation,exponentially,helpingindustry.California’ssimultaneouslysupportlegislationfirms,more1.2ManufacturingManufacturers.jobsemployaboutmillionCaliforniansthroughthan35,000manufacturingaccordingtothestate.SupportersofthesaythebillwillCaliforniajobswhilebolsteringmanufacturing“AB1951iscriticalinourcompaniesgrowincreasingstateandprovidingmanywithhigh-quality,jobs,”California&Technology
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By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE STAFF REPORTER (The Center Square) — Reports that a California school teacher who was aligned with Antifa was paid $190,000 to resign this year are sparking outrage, leading critics to say it reveals the strength of California’s teacher unions on public education in the state. Information obtained by the Sacramento Bee revealed that former Inderkum High School teacher Gabriel Gipe was paid $190,000 to resign from his post. According to the Bee, the payout was taxed, and the final check totaled $100,000. Mr. Gipe, an AP Government teacher, was secretly recorded, saying he had 180 days to turn his students into “revolutionaries,” as revealed in a Project Veritas video released in September 2021. The conservative organization’s video release sparked intense backlash, and the district announced that it planned to fire Mr. Gipe within a few days of the video’s release and started compiling a dossier outlining evidence against him, according to multiple news reports at that time.The school’s investigation revealed that Mr. Gipe rejected the regular AP Government curriculum and “instead led freewheeling lectures about communism,” the Bee reported. School district Supt. Chris Evans told the Bee that the decision to pay Mr. Gipe came down to “basic math.” “California is not an easy place to fire a teacher,” Mr. Evans told the Bee. “I think everyone knows that.” The school district’s costly payout for Mr. Gipe to resign sparked backlash as reports began circulating. Critics say that the situation highlights how difficult it can be to fire teachers in California due to the power of unions.“Foryears, teacher union bosses have manipulated their government-granted monopoly control over schools to shield bad teachers from any sort of accountability to parents or taxpayers,” National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix said in a statement to The Center Square. “In such an environment, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when school districts have to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to oust teachers who are flagrantly abusing their power to harm students.” Mr. Mix claimed that the case is an example of “why it is time to eliminate the monopoly bargaining power enjoyed by teacher union officials.”TheRight to Work Foundation was one of two legal nonprofits to usher through the lawsuit that eventually became the landmark U.S. Supreme Court opinion Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. The opinion found that forced public union dues, and fair share fees, were a violation of a worker’s 1st Amendment right of association. The California Teachers Association and Natomas Unified School District did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Center Square.
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Association President and CEO Lance Hastings said in a statement.Thebillwon support from the California Taxpayers Association and the California Chamber of Commerce as it moved its way through the legislature. No organizations registered in opposition to the measure. A fiscal analysis of the bill estimates taxpayers would keep approximately $695,000 in utilizing the full exemption instead of the partial exemption. Local governments would see an annual $533 million drop in tax revenue due to the same shift in taxpayer behavior. The bill will be heard next on the Senate floor in the coming weeks, where lawmakers will decide whether or not to send it to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The last day for the Senate and Assembly to pass bills is Aug. 31. Madison Hirneisen covers California for The Center Square. Barbara, CA
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By STEVE BITTENBENDER THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR (The Center Square) — Attorneys general from 23 states have filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court urging judges to uphold a ruling from earlier this year that struck down the mask mandate for interstate travel.Four months ago, Florida U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle sided with the Health Freedom Defense Fund and two Florida residents. They claimed the restriction the Biden Administration announced Jan. 29, 2021, as part of its COVID-19 guidelines exceeded federal authority.LedbyFlorida Attorney General Ashley Moody, the states’ attorneys general say in their 37-page filing that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pursued “expansive” measures in its handling of the pandemic. Officials from the states also remind the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that federal judges set several other CDC guidelines aside. The states “share an interest in protecting their sovereign authority to enact quarantine measures of their choosing to combat the spread of disease in the manner best adapted to their distinctive local conditions – authority historically reserved to the states, as CDC’s own regulations reflect even today,” the brief states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends passengers in such places as airports and airplanes wear masks, but the mandate is no longer in effect. Still, the Biden administration has asked the circuit court to intervene. “It’s astonishing that Biden continues to fight to force mask passengers,” Attorney General Moody said. “We are once again pushing back, in court, against his unlawful federal overreach.” The states also claim the mask mandate is unlawful because it goes beyond the CDC’s ability to enforce sanitation measures. They also claim the federal government failed to review what steps states were taking or determine if those measures were sufficient. Besides Florida, other attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia signed on to the brief. “The district court’s ruling here correctly ended the Biden administration’s mandate requiring all travelers to wear masks at airports, train stations, and other transportation hubs,” said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. “We joined this brief to support the court’s important ruling and ensure this mandate is not reinstated.”
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COURTESY PHOTO Attorney generals from 23 states have filed a brief in support of a court ruling striking down a mask mandate for interstate travel.
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Another restaurateur added that expanding their space with the use of parklets had allowed them to bring on more employees to the benefit of the local economy, and that their removal would necessarily result in staffing cutbacks to accommodate a smaller space. Also at the forum was Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse, who said that city enforcement regarding regulations such as uniform building codes, ADA accessibility and crossing public right-of-ways with open food — which have been laxly enforced since the onset of the pandemic to accommodate restaurants — will eventually begin to play a role in regards to how the city moves forward with parklets. “All of those standards at some point in time are going to start filtering back in, and we’re all going to have to pay attention to them,” Mayor Rowse said during the“Whetherforum. we like it or not, or whether (the City Council) is making decisions or not, all of those (regulations) are going to come back into play, and everybody should be aware and prepared for that. We just can’t confer public right-away on anybody we feel like doing so, there’s got to be a logic process and legal process behind that.”
THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR (The Center Square) — The war of words between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott escalated this week as buses of foreign nationals who’ve entered the U.S. illegally arrived in Mr. Adams’ city. The buses arriving at the Port Authority generally carry between 50 and 100 people. Gov. Abbott says that’s compared to the more than 5,000 apprehended a day in the five Border Patrol sectors in Texas at the southern border.Border Patrol data for July indicates that 141,513 people were apprehended or recorded as gotaways illegally entering Texas. Gov. Abbott last week invited Mayor Adams to visit the southern border in Texas to see firsthand the impact of what he calls “Biden’s border crisis.” To date, Mr. Adams hasn’t accepted the invitation.“Ialready called all my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their votes,” Mayor Adams said. “And I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to, for the good of America, we have to get him (Gov. Abbott) out of Inoffice.”response, Gov. Abbott told Fox News, “I kind of feel like Clinton Eastwood. Go ahead, make my day.” His campaign spokesperson told The Center Square, “We welcome the mayor of New York City coming to Texas to help his friend Beto O’ Rourke.” Democrat O’Rourke, who faces Mr. Abbott in the race for governor, is trailing in the polls. He previously ran for U.S. Senate in Texas and lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Gov. Abbott called Mayor Adams’ complaints a “rank hypocrisy” because of New York City’s “sanctuary city” status, in which Mr. Abbott said city officials are supposed to “welcome illegal immigrants. And now, once they have to deal with the reality of it, they’re suddenly flummoxed, and they cannot handleMayorit.”Adams, who’s tweeted pictures of himself greeting the buses as they arrive, said, “Greg Abbott used innocent people as political pawns to manufacture a crisis. New Yorkers are stepping up to fix it – that’s our city’s values. But we need the federal government’s help – money, technical assistance and more.” In response, Gov. Abbott tweeted, “Mayor Adams has no idea what Texas deals with every day at our southern border. Despite its sanctuary city policy, NYC can’t handle even a fraction of the chaos Biden has created. This should be a wake-up call to the Biden administration to do its job and secure the border.” He also said, “Biden’s open border policies have led to record levels of illegal crossings, deadly drugs and human smuggling.” Texas has so far bused more than 6,500 people to Washington, D.C., and now New York City, sinceTheApril.Democratic mayors of New York and Washington, D.C., Gov. Abbott said, “have now seen a fraction of what Texas faces daily. They should call on Biden to honor his duty and preserve America’s national security.” Gov. Abbott’s press secretary, Renae Eze, told The Center Square, “What’s horrific is the thousands of illegal immigrants overrunning and overwhelming our border communities with populations smaller than a New York City borough, and Mayor Adams is hypocritically upset about welcoming a few dozen into his sanctuary city.” Ms. Eze said everyone on the buses “willingly chose to go to New York City, having signed a voluntary consent waiver, available in multiple languages, upon boarding that they agreed on the destination.” And if the mayor “wants a solution to this crisis,” she said, “he should call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border. “The Biden Administration is allowing historic levels of illegal immigrants, weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to surge into our state and dumping migrants in our border towns with little to no help provided,” she added. “Texas continues stepping up to respond to this crisis by deploying Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers, building our own border wall … and now sending illegal immigrants back to the border.”
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“Our sidewalks are for the most part pretty narrow on Coast Village Road, and we have no facilities for a lot of cars as State Street does with the (public city lots and garages),” he said. “So the solutions I think are unfortunately pretty limited. I would love reimagining the street with wider sidewalks and public spaces for the restaurants to enjoy outdoor dining and have that aspect. But that’s obviously a huge capital project that’s not going to happen anytimeRestaurateurs,soon.” however, respectfully pushed back on the idea that parklets were no longer necessary for their businesses to continue to thrive. They noted that inflation and economic uncertainty has followed the pandemic — to the detriment of the industry’s notoriously tight profit margins.“Thecircumstances have changed a lot since two years ago,” Pierre Henry of Bree’osh Café explained during the forum. “Food costs increased, (city) tax costs increased, operating costs increased, and it’s more expensive to hire people. “We are doing good business, but because everything increased. If we get rid of our parklet, it’s like cutting the business (in half),” he said. “If we cut the business (in half) right now, it would make the situation very very tricky for us and most of the businesses (on Coast Village Road).”
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Angela Perko’s art on view at Sullivan Goss gallery
Angela Perko’s “Cat Cradle” (2021).
In her new catalog, the artist writes that her paintings and icons are “an attempt to make sense of the long history of human joy and suffering. Often they start with an interesting visual, a poem or a piece of literature. Then the idea grows, like a vine stretching out its tendrils, creeping into different worlds and times. There is perhaps a story hidden within each painting, about things like love and death, faith and redemption.”Writingabout her suite of 17 fertility figures, Ms. Perko explains, “The idea to paint a series was inspired in part by Kehinde Wiley’s “Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan.’ I admired the painting when it was displayed at our local (Santa Barbara) museum. “For me, it seemed that Wiley was attempting to visually fill a gaping hole in our mythology in a most grand and dramatic fashion . . . The little women are not grand, but together they tell an absolutely essential human story.” Conceived as an enlarged exhibition catalog for the current exhibition, the slender volume contains all 17 of the artist’s female fertility icons and all of the symbolist/ allegorical works from “The Place of Hidden Things.”
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ancient Mexican village of Tlatilco (1200 to 200 BC), which means “The Place of Hidden Things.” And that’s the title of Ms. Perko’s ninth exhibition on view through Sept. 26 at Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery.“Andthere are many hidden things in Angela’s paintings — things that are partially buried or veiled by leaves, things that are both plainly significant and yet somehow inscrutable,” said Susan Bush, curator of contemporary art at the Santa Barbara gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St.
At top, Angela Perko’s “The Chocolate Pot” (2021). Center, Ms. Perko’s “Infi nitudes and Hypocrisies” (2021). Above, “Tlatilco I” (2022).
“It also traces the roots of these works all the way back to 2007 with important works from all of the major exhibitions in between surveyed as full-page images,” said Ms. Bush. “Ms. Perko has been represented by Sullivan Goss since 2005. Although she took plein air painting lessons from Michael Drury and continues to do figurative drawing in a classroom setting, she is essentially self-taught. “She and her husband own the Lost Horizon bookstore in Montecito, where she is exposed to an almost endless stream of ideas for her work.”
“The Birds Must Survive” (2022). FYI “The Place of Hidden Things,” an exhibition by artist Angela Perko, is on view through Sept. 26 at Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. For more information, visit www.sullivangoss. com.
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More than 70 employees from Seek Thermal gathered at its warehouse in Goleta recently to surprise 38 members of the Goleta United Boys & Girls Club with personalized free bikes. The youth members who received bikes were selected based on the criteria that they did not already have a bike at home and were asked to submit a short essay stating “what a new bike would mean to me.” Seek Thermal was originally only planning to give away 20 bikes in total, but after receiving 38 heartfelt essay submissions, Debbie Horne, vice president of human resources and administration at Seek Thermal, and the rest of her team were determined to hand out bikes for all 38 “Themembers.letterswere very impactful, filled with the innocent honesty of a child,” said Ms. Horne. “Many of the children shared that they’ve never had a bike before or that their families could not afford one. One comment – ‘I just want my parents to be happy’ – was so unselfish andInsweet.”addition to receiving a bike, each child was given a decorated poster with their name and their original essay they had submitted to Seek Thermal a few weeks before.Themorning of the grand reveal, Seek Thermal personnel went to work building each of the bikes by hand with a technician on site to do the final safety checks. However, before the bikes were given out, one of the engineers gave a demo about Seek Thermal’s innovative technology that aids first“Weresponders.areverymoved by the support we received from Seek Thermal. The impact it had on our members will not soon be forgotten,” said Michael Baker, CEO of United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com
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COURTESY PHOTO Art historian Alexander Alberro will give a talk Aug. 31 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. At right is Jesús Rafael Soto’s “ Homenaje al humano,” wood and aluminum work from the series, “An American Portrait, 1776-1976” (1975). The work is in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art collection and is a gift from Transworld Art (© 2021 Atelier Soto / DR).
Kids at the Goleta United Girls & Boys Clubs received a bike and a poster from Seek Thermal. Art historian Alexander Alberro will present “Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op, Kinetic and Participatory Art at Mid-Century” at 3 p.m. Aug. 31 in the Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Mr. Alberro will explore the development of a researchbased artistic practice that fused abstract art with mathematics, science and technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stated goal of the artists involved was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of visual phenomena. Mr. Alberro will address how and why these experiments evolved into a greater concern with the participation of art spectators. Mr. Alberro is a professor of art history at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. His writings have been published in a broad range of journals and exhibition catalogs, and he is the author of “Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity “ (MIT, 2004) and “Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Midtwentieth Century Latin American Art”(Chicago, 2017). He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Howard Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and Whitney Museum of American Art. Currently, Mr. Alberro is completing a book-length study of the newly-formed transnational web of individuals and institutions that has in the past three decades fundamentally changed the nature of contemporary art, exploring not only what has led to this complex transformation but also the impact it has had on the current conditions of artistic practice.Admission for the talk is free for SBMA members and $5 for students and nonmembers. Tickets are available at tickets. sbma.net.Visitors who plan to attend the event must show proof of being fully vaccinated with a booster (if eligible) or, in some cases, supply a negative COVID-19 medical test result (taken within 72 hours before each event), along with an official photo ID, before entering the venue. All visitors must also follow SBMA’s mask policy and wear a mask while attending events in SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com
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ARIES — Some vast changes in your community could take place, Aries. They’re positive, for the most part. Today the news should spread widely, and you could be hearing about it from all sideslocal newspapers, neighbors, and conversations on the street.
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VIRGO — New ideas for your career could be on your mind, Virgo. You might be thinking not only about getting a new job but also entering an entirely new field. This could be a positive development, but don’t be too impulsive and leap without thinking. List your options, cross out the unworkable ones, and do some research on the rest. Even though you may feel some urgency, there is none.
TAURUS — Taurus, you might choose to do some volunteer work today or help a friend. This could make you aware of a talent you didn’t know you had. It could pave the way to more income. You could feel very proud of yourself and decide to do more with this ability, leading not only to financial benefits but also to increased self-esteem. Go for it. GEMINI — Today you might wake up feeling that you can move mountains - and this might be exactly what you set out to do, figuratively speaking. Your physical energy, enthusiasm, and self-confidence are very high, Gemini. Your own and others’ creative projects could take up a lot of your time. CANCER — Today you could recapture the joy in life that you had as a child, Cancer. You’re serious by nature, and feelings of joy are to be lived and treasured. You could be experiencing true flow. There might not be any real reason for it, so don’t try to find one. Your imagination and your relationships with others could be enhanced as a result. Relish the moment. LEO — Projects involving a group, perhaps your entire community, could take up a lot of your time, Leo. Interesting news and stimulating conversations could come your way. Expect a lot of activity around you. You could be running around in the car, seeing people, getting errands taken care of. You could also find yourself changed somewhat - for the better, of course.
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The order directs all executive agencies to include provisions in all future contracts and solicitations with PBMs. It prohibits spread pricing and reimbursement clawbacks for all PBMs. It directs agencies to include data transparency and reporting requirements, including a review of all rebates, payments, and relationships between pharmacies, insurers, and manufacturers; and directs all impacted agencies to amend all contracts to the extent feasible with these same provisions.Thegovernor and state legislature also took action in 2019 and 2020 to lower prescription drug costs for Floridians through its landmark Canadian Prescription Drug Importation program. But it’s been held up by the Biden administration, under review by the FDA for nearly 600 days. In 2019, Gov. DeSantis and the state legislature created the program to lower prescription drug costs for millions of Floridians. In November 2020, the AHCA submitted its proposal to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to allow the state to import pharmaceutical drugs from Canada. Once HHS approves the program, Florida could begin importing a few drug classes from Canada, including maintenance medications for individuals with chronic health conditions like asthma, COPD, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. AHCA would contract with a vendor to manage and oversee all aspects of the program and ensure Canadian suppliers and eligible importers comply with all federal and state laws. Eligible importers would be limited to wholesalers and pharmacists that dispense prescription drugs to consumers served by certain state and government programs. Florida’s Program also would comply with Title II of the Federal Drug Supply Chain. In late July 2020, HHS published its Safe Importation Action plan outlining measures it and the FDA would take to allow for the safe importation of certain prescription drugs. Its final rule on the matter was published last November.
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ROBERTS & SPIEGEL LLP 412 Marsh Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805) DATE:542-9900(Fecha) 07/12/2022 Clerk (Secretario), by /s/ Narzralli (Adjunto) Supplies, Clothing, Desks, Office Furniture, and much much more SALE Saturday, August 13, 9am-1pm 5712 Cathedal Oaks Rd, Goleta Ford 4x4 SuperCab 9400mi. 6.2L V8-Gas. Exc. $52,500 805-688-6302 South Dakota is one of the few states that send profits from abandoned property to their generalAboutbudget.3%ofthe state’s general fund revenues come from unclaimed property, according to state budget officials. Some states, including Wyoming and Wisconsin, hold on to the property indefinitely.“Otherthan Delaware, in no state is unclaimed property a major source of funding,” said Jeremy Dawson, director of the National Association of Unclaimed unclaimeduseconstitutionallyunclaimedstatewereunclaimedhowever,remittedamountinAdministrators.Property“InIllinois2018,therewasarecordofunclaimedpropertytothestatetreasurer;transfersfromthepropertytrustfundapproximately0.3%ofrevenues.InLouisiana,thepropertytrustfundisprotectedfromforanythingotherthanpayingpropertyclaims.”Avarietyofthingsareclassified as unclaimed property, from uncollected utility deposits to a trust.“All business associations, government entities, public corporations, public authorities, estates, trusts or two or more persons having a joint or common interest must report abandoned funds to the state of South Dakota after a certain dormancy period, which is typically one to three years depending on property type,” said Jason Williams, South Dakota’s deputy treasurer in an email interview with The Center Square.When the property isn’t claimed, the money reverts to the state.“Keep in mind that, by the time the property has come to UCP, a substantial amount of time has passed and the originating holder has already tried unsuccessfully to contact the individual,” Mr. Williams said. Every state advertises a free, online searchable database that can be searched by residents who think they may have a rich relative that left them an inheritance. The NAUPA also has a national database (missingmoney.com). “The vast majority of states ‘fast track’ simple claims for small amounts,” Mr. Dawson said. “A growing number of states now utilize state databases to find owners and mail them a check –without even requiring a claim to beAlmostfiled.” $2.9 billion was returned to residents of 48 states, according to NAUPA’s annual report for fiscal year 2020. Some states have dedicated funds for unclaimed property. In Arizona, the funds support mentally ill housing, according to NAUPA.InAlabama, the money goes to the public school fund. In South Dakota, Treasurer Josh Haeder supports legislation that would create a trust for unclaimed property, but those bills have not made it through the Legislature, Mr. Williams said. Haeder initiated a campaign that included social media to let South Dakotans know they could have unclaimed property. “Prior to initiating the current advertising strategy, UCP processed 12,755 claims in 2019,” Mr. Williams said. “After implementing the current advertising campaign, claims climbed to 31,162. It is also extremely important for individuals to know this is official and not a scam and for UCP to build trust.
— While Senate Democrats moved to place price controls on some prescription drugs, a step some say will lead to actual cost increases in health care overall, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature took a different approach.Beforethe Inflation Reduction Act passed the U.S. Senate last weekend on a strictly party line vote, Gov. DeSantis issued an executive order last month to drive down prescription drug costs and ensureExecutivetransparency.Order22-164 was issued to ensure reforms are put in place to hold pharmacy benefits managers accountable when managing prescription drug benefits for insurance companies. “Florida continues to lead the nation in ensuring accountability in the healthcare industry and in introducing reforms to combat rising prescriptions costs,” he said when he issued the order July 8. “This executive order requires accountability and transparency for pharmaceutical middlemen when doing business with the state, thereby reducing the upward pressure on prescription drug costs.”
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Florida, Democrats in Congress take different approaches to drug costs
