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Pioneer Valley High senior to sing national anthem at Mid-State Fair By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Pioneer Valley High School senior Makai Copado has been selected to sing the national anthem before the Live To Rock Concert at the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles on Monday. The show will start at 7:30 p.m. and features Skid Row and Warrant, with special guests Quiet Riot and Kip Winger Unplugged, said fair officials. “I am super excited to be able to participate in such an exciting event. This is a very big accomplishment for me and I couldn’t be more ecstatic. I had seen a post on Instagram about how spots were open for local singers and I decided that it would be a great opportunity for me to audition. So, I sent in a video,’’ Mr. Copado said in a press release. Mr. Copado recently took on the role of Danny Zuko in the classic musical “Grease” at the school’s outdoor amphitheater. The performance included Santa Maria Joint Union High School

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Grace Fisher, also shown at left, views the progress of students’ paintings at a Kyle’s Kitchen in Goleta on Saturday.

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Kyle’s Kitchen partnered with the Grace Fisher Foundation to host a “Paint With Grace” class for the community on Saturday at 11 a.m. The adaptive art class was geared towards school-aged children. Grace Fisher guided participants through creating their own piece of art that they were able to take home while promoting awareness, compassion and inclusivity for people of all abilities. Ms. Fisher 24, was an able-bodied teenager

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until her senior year of high school, when her spinal cord was attacked by a virus which paralyzed her from the neck down. She was diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis, and received treatment at the Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in Denver. “After my diagnosis I went to a rehab hospital and was introduced to adaptive art and I was able to experiment with art and it took me out of a place of feeling loss and sadness and I channeled that energy into art,” said Ms. Fisher. About 25 children between the ages of six Please see ART on A5

Dana Murray assumed her new position as Goleta’s new sustainability manager on Monday. Her position will include overseeing Goleta’s Sustainability Program and its stated vision of a cleaner and greener Goleta. She will manage projects that help Goleta address climate action, sustainability, community resilience, renewable energy and shared mobility. “I think we will keep up on the best practices, cutting edge environmental science and state guidance while collaborating with Please see MURRAY on A5

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A cryptic plan, Russian intelligence and the code name SPLINTER prince. “If he’s serious,” sneered Sergey, “there’s much we can do. The prince has much trouble to deal with in Monaco.” I replied, “At the risk of sounding immodest, that’s why I’m here.”

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PROVERB AND PRETEND PROFUNDITY Sergey swaggered into the bar of Hotel Hermitage in Monte Carlo just before 11 p.m. He had a gruff, formidable presence, if comically garbed in white slacks and shiny white loafers, and was accompanied by Oksana, his interpreter — also his lover, it would soon transpire. The Russian spoke little English. He had jet-back (dyed) hair and misaligned eyes that eluded contact. He’d look away when spoken to, affecting aloofness, as if he could care less what anyone had to say. When he spoke, he alternated between cliché, proverb and pretend profundity. As MI6 told me later, “He’s exspecial forces. To get where he’s gotten, you must crawl over broken glass and hot coals.” We ambled across Place du Casino to Café de Paris and sat in the open-air for a very late supper. When the waiter tried to pour a glass of wine for Oksana, Sergey snarled at her, “No wine.” To further impress MI6 and me with his command, Sergey told us he’d met the French prime minister earlier in the day. I outlined what we — our service — had in mind for a liaison relationship. Sergey said, “Yeah, that’s fine, but I need to hear it from the

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Robert Eringer above, sits on a boat on the Mediterranean Sea with Russian agent Sergey, whom Mr. Eringer gave the code name “SPLINTER.” Mr. Eringer, who oversaw intelligence gathering for Prince Albert of Monaco, was looking into the possibility of intelligence sharing with the Russians.

come November in Moscow. (My previous counterintelligence missions for the FBI precluded attendance.) He treated me like his new best friend but hadn’t told me anything he didn’t want me to know.

A SUNDAY DRIVE Oksana, Sergey’s interpreter, invited me to lunch the following day, a Sunday, requesting I plant myself outside the grand Hotel Negresco in Nice at 12:10 p.m. precisely. I was on time; they were 20 minutes late (so much for punctuality, a tenet of good intelligence work). Their driver, Olivier, a Frenchman (and probably DST informant) drove a large black Mercedes with Monaco tags. I climbed into the backseat with Oksana, and, to the soothing strains of Rachmaninoff, we rolled toward St. Paul de Vence. Sergey turned to face me. “Are you comfortable?” (This is what KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov would ask traitors, in person, at their prison cells, the night before their execution.) “Yes, thanks.” Sergey was less concerned about Oksana’s comfort. Although she wore stiletto heels, Sergey made her walk the perimeter of St. Paul, up and down stairs, on mostly cobblestoned streets, as he serenaded me with more phony profundity. We drove on to Bacon, a Michelin-starred restaurant on Cap d’Antibes. Sergey told me he’d been a customer there for 10 years. Here was a Russian government official living like an oligarch, paying everything in cash, which Oksana produced from her purse in thick wads. He bossed the restaurant’s staff to a point where I was sure they would sabotage his meal. I ordered ravioli stuffed with Loup (sea bass) and truffle in a pepper cream sauce, followed by bouillabaisse, which may be the best I’ve ever had, perfectly paired with Montrachet chardonnay. I asked Sergey if he thought he was under surveillance. He told me they (the French) watched him only the first day. “The driver thinks we are rich Russians who want to buy a villa.” What if the driver is a French agent? I posed. “If he’s a problem,” Sergey growled with bravado, “he’ll end up in a forest. Or a desert.” Sergey cracked spiny lobster shells with his teeth and revealed “the two biggest threats facing Albert and Monaco”: 1) Prominent Monegasque families. 2) The French. Corrupt deals, he added, were intermingled between both categories. It seemed to me that he knew what he was talking about, as I had deduced the same after two years in service to the prince. He told me the French special services kept close tabs on Albert wherever he traveled, whatever he did. “Someone with a very close position to the prince reports everything to the French — and very fast,” he added. (I knew by this time to guess who.) Sergey grew solemn and told me that “one-third of Monaco’s government wants to see Albert fail.” And he specifically requested I convey this message to the prince: “The danger comes from those closest to you.” It is vital, he added, that the prince demonstrate strong leadership early on to prevent

the French government and prominent Monegasque families from running Monaco. (On that point I wholeheartedly agreed, but motivating Albert to grow a backbone and take control was a vastly different story.) We drove silently in dense traffic back to Hotel Hermitage, where I got out and said goodbye. Sergey said he’d call, and we’d meet again soon. As I turned to leave, Olivier the driver pressed to take me where I wanted to go. I said, “No thanks, I’ll walk,” at which point he became very insistent, offering twice more to drive me onward — almost a demand. I declined— and dry-cleaned my trail all the way back to our safehouse.

THE REUBEN CONSPIRACY A few weeks later, at Sergey’s request, I flew to Frankfurt for the day. He and Oksana met me at the airport with a large black Mercedes and we were driven to Schlosshotel Kronberg. Posturing himself as a lover of nature, Sergey insisted on a long stroll through the grounds, part landscaped, part wild. About our Serbian target, he said, “Bad man, arms deals. I can get rid of him in two months if you want.” I did not want Sergey to get rid of anyone on our behalf, though his Mafiosi-like language amused me. Although I would have been happier with a frankfurter and sauerkraut, Sergey took charge of ordering a gourmet meal of scallops and cucumber followed by veal with foie gras, lubricated with a bottle of fine Riesling. Sipping on carrot juice and cream, Sergey told me he had not seen President Vladimir Putin between our first meeting in Monaco and now, “but he knows and approves.” Next, Sergey told me that Simon Reuben (a British national of dubious character who resided in Monaco) connects to “those Reubens in the United States.” “What Reubens in the United States?” I asked. “The State Department and the finance minister,” replied Sergey. Huh? He seemed to be suggesting that former State Department spokesman James Rubin and Treasury Secretary Robert Ruben were both related to one large Reuben Conspiracy. Is Sergey wacko or what? I scribbled into my journal. (MI6 later explained it as an expression of old school Russian antiSemitism.)

“THE PLAN” In Washington, one week later, former CIA spymaster Clair George expressed astonishment when I recounted my experiences with Sergey. He said every intelligence service in Europe was now placing a question mark after my name. “Keep the mystery spinning,” he counseled. Less amused was the highlevel CIA team I met for dinner in a private room at Dante Ristorante in Falls Church, Va. They tried to talk me out of having anything more to do with Sergey (or Russians in general) and promised to set up a briefing for me on the overlap shared by Russian intelligence and organized crime. But this Russian soon returned to Monaco with Oksana, and we Please see INVESTIGATOR on A8

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Columnist Robert Eringer photographed his then-boss, Prince Albert of Monaco, at a time when they were checking on the possibility of intelligence sharing with the Russians.

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he most curious liaison relationship I created for Prince Albert of Monaco while directing his intelligence service was with a Russian introduced to me as representing the FSB (Russian internal security), supposedly with a direct line into President Vladimir Putin. Soon after Albert ascended the throne and became the ruling sovereign (mid-2005), we commenced a program of creating liaison relationships with intelligence services beyond the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. I had in mind the French, Italian and other European services, which I hoped were willing to share intelligence and cooperate with us. “Why stop there?” asked my close confidant, a former senior officer of Britain’s MI6. “Would you like to meet somebody very senior in the Russian FSB?” Why not? My MI6 friend (who, for the purposes of this column I shall henceforth refer to as MI6) phoned me a few days later to report that “Sergey swooped on it like a hawk.” From the Russian’s perspective, he said, much was happening in Monaco. Sergey wanted to meet Prince Albert as soon as possible.

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When Prince Albert arrived at our safehouse next morning, I deferred to MI6 for briefing him on Sergey, whom we expected to arrive at any moment, before providing my own “Talking Points”: “1) We wish to open a secret, unofficial liaison with Russian special services to address our mutual concerns: organized crime, money laundering and terrorism. “2) Robert Eringer is my intelligence adviser. Everything goes through him, and he reports only to me. Eringer’s role, and his relationship with me, is separate from Monaco’s government structure. When you speak with him, it is like speaking with me. “3) We have no tolerance for terrorist finance in Monaco. If you have information that terrorists from Chechnya keep money in Monaco, we will work with you and take measures.” MI6 offered this addendum: The Russians should not try any “wet stuff” against oligarchs on Monaco territory before descending to greet Sergey, leaving Albert and me to discuss other matters. Soon Sergey sauntered into the living room and, as he shook the prince’s hand, finally smiled. Around our conference table, Albert ran through my talking points. Sergey grunted. I mentioned our interest in a particular Russian national who had become resident in Monaco. Sergey confirmed that he was rotten, but added, “He has no blood on his hands — he can be controlled.” I mentioned a Serbian target. Sergey remained quiet and poker-faced until we provided him room to fill the silence. “We can tame these people,” he finally said. “Or deal with them conclusively if you wish.” The prince and I exchanged glances and, miraculously, kept straight faces. Two hours later, we reassembled (minus the prince) on the port for an afternoon cruise. Sergey had worn a coat and tie for his meeting with Albert but now reverted to his casual look, including a jazzy silk shirt with blue stripes and black fish unbuttoned halfway down his husky chest. We cruised into Villefranche and berthed for lunch at La Mere Germaine for pouilly fume, lobster salad and grilled turbot. Sergey warmed up significantly, mostly because he’d met the prince. In typical Russian tradition, he initiated about a dozen toasts to the success of our new relationship. He finally made eye contact, more of an eyeball grip, a challenge I always welcome. We finished with flaming crepes splashed with Grand Marnier and snifters of a 1975 Armagnac. During a stroll at our last stop, Menton, Sergey draped his arm around my shoulder and invited me to his 50th birthday party

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June 25, 1942 - July 18,2022 Linda C. Anderson, 80, of Lecompton, KS, passed away surrounded by her family on Monday, July 18, 2022. She was born June 25, 1942, in Santa Maria, California, the daughter of Linder Westfall and Martha (Whitehead) Husted. She graduated from Carpinteria High School and went on to Vidal Sassoon Technical College where she obtained her Beautician License. Linda owned and operated her own beauty salon in Carpinteria, CA for over 50 years. She was proud of the business she created for herself and her family. She was a member of the House of Judah, Santa Barbara, CA for over ten years and served as an elder of the church. Linda considered the people of the church part of her family. Linda adored and loved her daughters and her three grandsons, Nicholas, Michael and Isaac. She also shared a special bond with her sonin-law and would often see who could be more ornery, especially when out shopping at the store. She also enjoyed painting, crocheting and baking. She is survived by her daughter, Stacy (Teddy) Anderson Sumner; her grandsons, Nicholas Moore, Michael (Felicity) Moore, Josh Voigt, Martha Voigt and Isaac Voigt; siblings, Bobby (Clare) Westfall, Judy (David) Honeyman and David Husted. She was preceded in death by her parents and daughter, Cindy Osinga. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, PO Box 42040, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-3000. To leave a message for the family online, please visit www.DoveTopeka.com.

MC KERNAN, Emily “Dolly”

Emily Jane (Crosby) McKernan “Dolly”, 90, passed away at Villa Alamar in Santa Barbara, California, on July 15, 2022. Dolly courageously endured a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Bravery was a way of life for Dolly as she used courage, determination and humor to move on after blindness struck a blow to her active, busy and colorful life at the age of 64. After briefly mourning her loss of sight, she went on to find ways to live life fully again. She began to visit the Braille Institute of Santa Barbara, remarkably becoming a teacher there. She taught classes on cooking and craft making. She was included in one of their advertising campaigns, both video and poster media. She assisted the Institute with the Christmas fundraiser and she and her husband Tom attended many of their activities and events. She wrote a cookbook, Cooking Without Looking. Dolly was also able to continue with hobbies such as bowling, activities with the Model A Club of Santa Barbara and at the Goleta Elks Lodge. She continued traveling with friends and family. Dolly has a lovely way of putting others at ease with her blindness, never making it seem like a disability or handicap. She set up her household and her life in an admirable fashion, inspiring so many unsighted people to have courage with their own difficulties or discouragements. Dolly Crosby was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1931, to Margaret and Gordon Crosby. She married Tom McKernan in 1949 and they started a family there, moving to Goleta in 1962 with Delco Electronics. They lived in Goleta for the next 60 years. Dolly worked at McDonalds at the beginning of their hostess program, charming both customers and staff. She was employed there for 9 years. She also cared for her granddaughters, Brie and Nicole when they were little and became a big part of their lives. Family was everything to Dolly. She and Tom helped each of their children and grandchildren in ways big and small. When Dolly had to be admitted to Villa Alamar, Tom visited her every day until he, too, became ill, and then their oldest son Dan faithfully drove Tom to see Dolly daily for the next several years. Their devotion to each other was a love story of a bygone era and an inspiring model for their children and their families. Dolly is survived by her three sons, Daniel (Lisa), Michael (Janine), and Kenneth (June) as well as granddaughter Brie Milligan (Ryan) and many grandchildren. Remembered with love, smiles and happy times, Dolly McKernan will live on through those who knew her and loved her. A graveside service will be held at the Goleta Cemetery on Friday, July 29 at 10:00 am. Contributions to the Braille Institute of Santa Barbara may be made in Dolly’s memory.

LATHAM, Richard Thomas Paul April 15, 1934 – June 26, 2022

We are very sad to announce that Richard Thomas Paul Latham passed away in Santa Barbara, California on June 26, 2022. He will be deeply missed by his wife Patricia, daughters Nicola (Colin) and Alison, granddaughters Adrienne and Christina, sister-in-law Beverley, and many other family members and friends. Richard was born in England. He grew up in Sussex and attended Eton College, followed by the University of Cambridge, where he completed his master’s degree in math and science. In 1957 he immigrated to Vancouver, BC in Canada, where he met and married Patricia. He bought and managed a dairy farm in Mission, B.C. They had 2 daughters, Nicola and Alison. In 1970 the family relocated to Santa Barbara, California. Richard was a loving husband and a wonderful father. He was also a successful businessman and served on the board of directors for the United Way in Santa Barbara for many years. He loved the challenge of solving a difficult puzzle, played an excellent game of chess and was a terrific golfer (club champion)! He was a true gentleman, as well as kind, thoughtful and generous. Richard will be greatly missed by all who loved him. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made (in Richard’s memory) to the United Way, the American Heart Association or a charity of your choice.

JOHNSON, Clevonease Williams

Clevonease Williams Johnson was born March 25, 1932 in Monroe, Louisiana to Jessie and Eliza Williams. At the age of 6, she joined True Vine Baptist Church. She attended all her public school years in Monroe before furthering her education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Clevonease, along with her three children, relocated to Santa Barbara in 1961. In August, of that same year, she joined Second Baptist Church, where she served faithfully until its demise. She was a member of the Sanctuary Choir, Deaconess Board, Finance Committee, and Trustee Board; also served as Chairperson of the Scholarship Committee, Director of Christian Education, Sunday School teacher and Superintendent, as well as, Youth Department Director. She also took it upon herself to organize “A Day of Praise and Fellowship: 100 Women in White.” In 1962, she married Matthew Johnson, who preceded her in death. She resumed the journey of furthering her education by attending Santa Barbara City College where she earned an Associate of Science degree in Early Childhood Education in 1972. Determined to extend her knowledge, she earned a Bachelors of Arts degree from University of California, Santa Barbara and a Teaching Credential from Pacific Oaks University in Pasadena, CA. In 1966, she began her teaching career at the Head Start Program of the Santa Barbara City Schools. While there, she developed, introduced, and implemented certain curriculum to enhance the program. In 1972, due to her outstanding performance and leadership skills, she was promoted to Head Teacher of the Santa Barbara City College Children’s Center, a position she held for 20 years until her retirement in 1992. As a dedicated member of her community and strong advocate for children’s education, her work was “just getting started.” Upon retirement, she worked as a substitute teacher in many local early childhood development schools. She served as Lincoln Elementary School’s PTA Vice President (1964-1966), Franklin Elementary School’s PTA Secretary (1970-1971), as well as a very active member within both Santa Barbara Junior High School and Santa Barbara Senior High Schoool’s PTA. Her community work also included being a member of the Board of Directors of the California Association for the Education of Young Children; while on this board, she also served as chairperson of both the Membership Committee and Multicultural Awareness committee; she was once President of the Tri-County Association for the Education of Young People (19801982), member of the Board of Directors for the California Youth Authority (1981-1985), treasurer of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee (1987-1990), Vice President of the Endowment for Youth Program (1996-1998), President and Secretary of the George Washington Carver Scholarship Club (1978-1995), and was also a member of the local NAACP chapter. In her later years, she volunteered at Catholic Charities. Whatever you needed, she would be exactly that and more. She lived her life righteously; always taking heed to the voice of God and His will. She often encouraged those she knew, even strangers, to be a blessing to others any chance they got. She was a living testament of Matthew 5:16 - for her light shined so bright. She was always ready to lend a helping hand, give a listening ear, and fill every necessary gap she could. Her legacy is filled with unconditional love; faith to weather any storm; standing as a tall pillar of light in such a dark world; being intentional and genuine in all things; and most of all, the wisdom to lean on God, for He knows all things and makes no mistakes. She is preceded in death by her parents, Jessie and Eliza Williams-Alexander; her husband, Matthew Johnson; sister, Jessie Lee Beal; and son, Jason Oatis. She leaves to cherish her memory three daughters, George Etta Milam, Bernadette Larson, and Carla Marcinkus; 5 grandchildren, Malcolm Milam, Aaron Milam, Matthew Oatis, Rachel Oatis and Karina Dixon Guron. 4 great-grandchildren, Da’Von Milam, Justin Milam, Mya Milam, and Elijah Milam; her 8 siblings, Wanda Lambert, Vergie Scott, Debra Alexander Reed, Annie Booker, Carl Williams, Alfred Williams, Wayne Williams, and Michael Alexander; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, many adopted children, and all those who she took under her wing. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 1 p.m., at Family Baptist Church of Carpinteria, located at 5026 Foothill Rd, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

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AYALA, Dolores Connie

Dolores Connie Ayala passed away peacefully on July 6th, 2022, with family by her side. She loved caring for her grandchildren, working in the garden, and humming to herself while she cleaned. Her love was unconditional, and no matter what you did, she was always there for you with a hug and a homemade butter tortilla. She is and will continue to be missed by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. We invite anyone who knew her to attend her celebration of life on Tuesday, July 26th at 1501 Cravens Lane in Carpinteria. The burial starts at noon, and the celebration of life starts at 1:00 pm.

COOK, Glen Sanford Born in the family home in Santa Barbara January 16, 1925. Entered heaven’s gates welcomed by his Lord Jesus on July 1, 2022 at age 97. At age 18, Uncle Sam called him into service in WWII. He entered the Navy and spent almost his whole term of duty from one end of the Pacific to the other end. When his tour ended, he came back home and became an upholsterer. But, he had always wanted to be a school teacher, so at the age of 34, married and with three children, he started college while working a full shift at juvenile hall. He started teaching sixth grade at Santa Barbara public schools at the age of 40 and continued until age 65. Glen was married to Eugenia for 73 years. They have three sons: Randy (Marilyn), Mark (Margo) and Chris; five grandchildren: Alex, Lydia (Hugo), Ranay (Travis), Cassie (John) and Andrew. They have five great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Shoreline Community Church, 935 San Andres St. on Saturday July 30th at 2:00 p.m.

ZRELAK, Theodore Gregory

Theodore “Ted” Gregory Zrelak was born November 9, 1936, in East Liverpool, OH to Rudolph and Kathryn Zrelak. When he was twelve, the family moved to San Bernardino, CA. Ted graduated from High School in San Bernardino and attended college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for two years. He worked part time for the U.S. Forest Service and eventually attended Utah State University in Logan, UT graduating in Forest Management. He worked summers in Southern Utah. After college, Ted’s career took him to California working for the San Bernardino National Forest as Junior Forester, timber management, resource officer and fire management. He was District Ranger on the Los Padres National Forest two different times: Frazier Park on the Mt. Pinos district and King City on the Monterey district. He was then transferred to Riverside as fire coordinator at the South Zone lnteragency Center. In 1979, Ted transferred to Santa Barbara to take the position as Fire Management Officer for the Los Padres NF. In 1984, Ted transferred to Pennsylvania to become Assistant Director of fire and aviation working with 20 Eastern states. In 1990, Ted was transferred to San Dimas, CA working as fire specialist at the Technology and Development Center where he retired in 1992. Ted and his wife Sharon moved back to Santa Barbara for their retirement years. After his Forest Service career, he worked for Rezek Emergency Equipment going to forest, state, and county fires setting up lights, kitchen equipment, etc. for the fire crews. Ted was a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge. He is preceded in death by his parents, a sister and brother. He is survived by his wife Sharon of 63 years, a son, Chad of Paso Robles, daughter, Julie George of Bowie, MD, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Services will be held at St. Raphael Church in Goleta, CA on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 10:00 AM. Arrangements entrusted to Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels.

DEPAOLA, Charles

Charles Depaola, devoted husband, father, brother, son, uncle, and friend, passed away on Friday, July 15th, 2022 at the age of 53. Charles is survived by his mother, Joan Depaola; his wife, Veronica Depaola; his children, Clara, Sofia, and Charles Depaola; his siblings, Michael and Maria Depaola, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Charles was born on December 3rd, 1968, in Arlington, MA, to Emilio and Joan Depaola. At the age of 12, Charles and his family moved to Santa Barbara, CA. Charles went on to graduate from Santa Barbara High School in 1986. In 2004, he married Veronica in Santa Barbara, CA. In 2004 and 2009, respectively, Charles and Veronica welcomed their two beautiful children, Sofia and Charles. Charles embraced every moment to the fullest through simple pleasures. He opened a Pizzeria in New York with his cousin Mark and went on to work as a Stock Broker. He proudly served in the US Army National Guard and was deployed on active duty to support Enduring Freedom in 2007. Upon his return home from Iraq, Charles dedicated himself working in construction and raising his children and spending time with family and friends, as his greatest honor was being a family man. You could find Charles joyfully showing his kids his boxing and martial arts moves, two sports he loved, or enjoying a beach sunset walk with his family. His infectious laugh and warm personality would immediately bring a smile to anyone’s face. Family and friends whose lives Charles touched are invited to a rosary at Welch-RyceHaider Mortuary, Tuesday, July 26th from 5:30 - 8:00 pm and funeral service at Our Lady of Guadalupe, Wednesday, July 27th at 10:00 am to reminisce, grieve, and support each other.

GAINES, Nancy Elizabeth 1919-2022

Nancy Elizabeth Gaines was born on October 22, 1919 to Walter and Nancy Gaines in Alabama. Shortly after Nancy entered the world, her family relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio where she was raised. Growing up in Cincinnati, Nancy loved the outdoors. She spent most of her childhood alongside her four siblings, hiking, swimming, and “rough housing” with the boys. Though she may sound like a tom boy, Nancy still enjoyed playing dress up and loved playing with dolls. After high school, Nancy decided she wanted to attend nursing school and give back to her community, from which she graduated in 1943. Nancy enjoyed many hobbies in her adult years. She was very artistic and had many creative endeavors. She loved to paint, carve wood, knit, and was the “Master Basket Weaver.” She even taught basket weaving classes in Santa Barbara, where she retired. Nancy also loved to collect antique dolls. She belonged to the Santa Barbara Doll Club for many years. If Nancy wasn’t weaving baskets or painting, you could ﬁnd her in her beautiful garden. She was a talented gardener. Some would say she had an incredible “Green Thumb.” She loved to take care of her rose bushes and citrus trees. Nancy loved to travel. Her adventures took her to many different places such as British Columbia, Death Valley, Alaska, etc. On December 13, 2013, she ﬁnally decided to say, “I do,” after 90 incredible years of life, to her one and only love Glen in Yerington, Nevada. Together they shared many laughs and incredible memories together. After 102 full and happy years of life, she leaves behind her loving husband Glen, and a countless number of friends, who will miss her dearly.

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California unemployment dips to 4.2%, just 19,900 new hires By SETH SANDRONSKY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) – California’s employers added 19,900 nonfarm payroll jobs in June, a decrease from a downward revised (-2,100) gain of 40,800 jobs in May, according to the state Employment Development Department. In June, the Golden State’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.2% from May’s 4.3%. Meanwhile, the nation’s unemployment rate remained at 3.6% in June, matching May. Nationally, employers’ payrolls added 372,000 new jobs in June compared with 390,000 in May. According to the state EDD, California has regained “93.6% (2,582,900) of the 2,758,900 nonfarm jobs lost during March and April of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” In June 2022, the Golden State had its sixth straight month of job growth and the 12th consecutive month with a decline in unemployment. In June, seven of California’s 11 industry sectors gained nonfarm payroll jobs versus eight sectors with employment growth in May and April. Trade and transportation led the way in June, with 9,600 new jobs. The information sector had the most new jobs added in May with 8,800 hires. Leisure and hospitality employers added 4,900 new hires in June versus 8,800 in

May. Leisure and hospitality employment plummeted sharply during the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, professional and business services and construction lost 6,100 jobs each in June. A drop for the former in accounting and employment services and decreases in building foundation and exterior contractors for the construction sector (which had added 7,100 new hires in May) was the cause of June’s job losses in the two sectors, according to the EDD. In May, trade, transportation, and utilities employers topped the industry sector list for largest month-over job loss of 3,700 employees. There were 18,544,500 Californians employed in June, up 75,000 from May’s figure of 18,469,500, and a rise of 1,027,100 from the employment total in June 2021, according to the state EDD. There were 819,500 unemployed Californians in June, a drop of 9,800 over the month and a decrease of 684,400 versus June 2021. Against the backdrop of slower job growth in California, the Dept. of Labor reported that inflation, a general rise in prices, is at a fourdecade high. To slow inflation, the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, is hiking interest rates, or the price of borrowing money. That monetary move runs the risk of spurring a recession, a decline of gross domestic product for two straight quarters.

LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

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Mostly sunny and Mostly sunny and Mostly sunny and Nice with clouds pleasant cool cool and sun INLAND

INLAND

Nice with periods of sun

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91 53

92 53

91 52

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95 55

71 56

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68 57

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COASTAL

Pismo Beach 66/51

COASTAL

Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 104/73

Guadalupe 65/53

Santa Maria 68/53

Vandenberg 66/54

New Cuyama 103/60 Ventucopa 99/66

Los Alamos 82/54

Buellton 79/52

Solvang 84/53

Gaviota 72/55

SANTA BARBARA 71/56 Goleta 73/57

Carpinteria 71/59 Ventura 68/57

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

Source: airnow.gov Unhealthy for SG Very Unhealthy Unhealthy Not Available

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Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

TEMPERATURE High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low

73/57 74/59 93 in 2006 51 in 1987

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. Month to date (normal) Season to date (normal)

0.00” 0.00” (0.01”) 10.53” (17.18”)

City Cuyama Goleta Lompoc Pismo Beach Santa Maria Santa Ynez Vandenberg Ventura

STATE CITIES Bakersfield Barstow Big Bear Bishop Catalina Concord Escondido Eureka Fresno Los Angeles Mammoth Lakes Modesto Monterey Napa Oakland Ojai Oxnard Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Monica Tahoe Valley

104/73/pc 105/78/pc 79/49/pc 103/60/pc 74/58/pc 90/57/s 83/64/pc 64/54/pc 104/71/s 83/62/pc 83/48/s 98/63/s 67/55/pc 81/54/s 69/55/pc 86/56/s 68/57/pc 106/83/pc 85/63/s 88/52/s 97/59/s 72/66/pc 69/55/pc 81/57/pc 74/52/pc 72/62/pc 87/44/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 101/59/s 72/56/s 67/54/pc 67/50/pc 71/52/s 92/53/s 68/53/pc 68/57/pc

90/73/t 96/77/pc 86/66/t 102/81/s 83/60/t 98/77/s 90/80/t 78/60/s 95/80/s 100/81/pc 104/84/t 92/64/s 98/73/t 97/72/pc 82/60/s 99/80/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind west-northwest 7-14 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet; south swell 2-4 feet at 12 seconds. Visibility under a mile in areas of morning fog.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind west-northwest 7-14 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet; south swell 2-4 feet at 12 seconds. Visibility under a mile in areas of morning fog.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time July 24 July 25 July 26

9:30 a.m. 7:38 p.m. 10:05 a.m. 8:16 p.m. 10:33 a.m. 8:52 p.m.

LAKE LEVELS

3.5’ 5.7’ 3.6’ 5.8’ 3.7’ 5.9’

Low

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0.1’ 2.8’ -0.1’ 2.9’ -0.2’ 2.8’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 102/74/s 103/77/t 77/50/t 99/63/pc 73/57/pc 85/56/s 83/60/pc 65/54/pc 102/72/s 80/61/s 82/46/pc 98/63/s 67/57/c 79/54/pc 70/56/pc 85/53/pc 69/56/pc 106/83/t 84/63/s 87/54/s 94/60/s 73/65/pc 69/56/pc 81/59/pc 75/52/pc 69/61/pc 88/47/s

NATIONAL CITIES Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Houston Miami Minneapolis New York City Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, Ore. St. Louis Salt Lake City Seattle Washington, D.C.

Wind west 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a west-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 7-second intervals. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 103/60/s 73/57/s 68/53/pc 66/51/pc 68/53/pc 91/53/s 66/54/pc 68/57/pc

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

90/73/t 88/69/t 78/62/pc 105/82/s 93/64/c 97/77/s 91/80/t 81/67/pc 92/72/t 93/74/t 98/84/t 96/66/s 81/68/t 99/74/s 85/63/s 92/74/t

At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 80,372 acre-ft. Elevation 704.98 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 50.4 acre-ft. Inflow 2.9 acre-ft. State inflow 10.2 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -136 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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WORLD CITIES

Today 6:04 a.m. 8:07 p.m. 2:28 a.m. 5:27 p.m.

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Mon. 6:05 a.m. 8:07 p.m. 3:11 a.m. 6:22 p.m.

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Today Mon. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Beijing 96/75/s 96/78/t Berlin 80/64/pc 93/65/pc Cairo 99/74/s 99/76/s Cancun 91/77/c 91/77/pc London 79/63/pc 74/57/c Mexico City 74/57/t 74/58/t Montreal 86/71/t 79/62/pc New Delhi 92/81/t 90/81/t Paris 89/68/s 82/60/pc Rio de Janeiro 80/68/s 79/68/s Rome 89/70/s 91/72/s Sydney 64/51/pc 65/53/pc Tokyo 88/79/pc 89/79/pc W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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Kids get opportunity to learn how Grace Fisher creates art art

Continued from Page A1 and 13 participated in the event. Art supplies for the event were donated by Art Essentials. “It went really well, there were a lot of kids that I hadn’t met before, so that was really great and they responded really well to the lesson. I taught them how to paint with their mouth so it was great to see the results and how some of the kids stuck with the

mouth painting. It got pretty hard so some of the kids went back to painting with their hands right away, which was fine as long as everyone tried it,” Ms. Fisher told the News-Press during an interview. Ms. Fisher addressed how she hoped the event would inspire children with disabilities to pursue art: “Art has given me a way to stay present with myself when I have a challenge that I am facing or something is bothering me, and it gives me a way to channel that into something

good. I hope kids with disabilities will see that if something is hard for them to do, there are many ways to complete a task you might just have to think outside the box.” The event began with a welcome from Ms. Fisher, who shared her story and her mission to help other children with disabilities through art and music. She then led the group through creating their own piece of art as she demonstrated how she creates her artwork by painting with her mouth.

Afterwards guests enjoyed a delicious lunch courtesy of Kyle’s Kitchen. “It was outside on the patio and there were alot of kids that knew each other. It was great to see the friendships already there, but also introducing kids that hadn’t met before which was good for everyone and everyone was able to chat while they were doing art. It was a very inviting atmosphere. I’m very open to questions from kids about my disability, because with kids there is no filter,” said Ms. Fisher.

“I wanted to bring what I learned at the hospital in Colorado to our community in Santa Barbara. I really like outreach and talking to kids without disabilities and encouraging them to approach those that might look different from them,” she said. “We are a lot more alike than we are different and I think it’s important to treat people with disabilities just the same as you would anyone else. I think that’s something that I would have appreciated learning in middle school as well.

Sometimes you don’t know if you should approach someone or not. I think people have different opinions on whether they want to be approached or not, but I always invite the opportunity to learn. For more information on the Grace Fisher Foundation, go to https://www. gracefisherfoundation.org. To donate, go to https://www. gracefisherfoundation.org/ donation. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS

A group of children paint their respective pieces of artwork while attempting to hold their paintbrushes with their mouths - the same style used by Grace Fisher, who led the class - at a Kyle’s Kitchen restaurant in Goleta on Saturday. Above and below, while some children found painting with their mouths difficult and finished with their hands, Ms. Fisher said the important thing was that they tried the method first.

Finished paintings are displayed.

Kyle’s Kitchen founder Jay Ferro helps collect finished paintings at the event.

‘I really believe in ensuring that Goleta and our part of the coast is sustainable for the future’ MURRAY

Continued from Page A1 other jurisdictions,” said Ms. Murray. “I really think the key to furthering sustainability is through collaboration with jurisdictions, city officials and stakeholders.” “This is an important role for the city and a great hire for Goleta,” said Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte. “We are thrilled to have someone with this caliber of experience to help Goleta achieve its ambitious sustainability goals. We proudly welcome Ms. Murray to our team and wish

her great success ahead and a rewarding time serving our City.” Ms. Murray brings over two decades of professional experience in the conservation, sustainability and environmental field and broad international experience including the Peace Corps. She is coming from her last position where she served as Environmental Sustainability Manager of Manhattan Beach for the past five years. Ms. Murray accomplished a great deal during her time there, including helping the city move to 100% renewable energy. “I have spent my career working for

the environment and sustainability and I used to live up here in Goleta, the only reason my husband and I left was because of jobs. Ever since we left Santa Barbara County we wanted to come back. I really believe in ensuring that Goleta and our part of the coast is sustainable for the future. When we lived in Goleta, I was a really active research diver and Santa Barbara volunteer coordinator. I trained scuba divers in underwater research for Reef Check. Everything we do is connected to the sea. I love the position because it is holistic and looks at the big picture,” Ms. Murray told the News-Press in an

interview. Prior to working in local government, Ms. Murray was the Senior Marine Scientist and Coastal Policy Manager at Heal the Bay, where she worked on science and policy issues related to coastal habitats and marine wildlife in California. Before that, she lived and worked in Goleta. Ms. Murray earned her master’s degree in environmental science and management from UCSB’s Bren School, where she specialized in Conservation Planning and Coastal Marine Resource Management. She earned her bachelor’s in geography and environmental studies

from UCLA. “I am looking forward to working with the community, stakeholders and the city council while moving Goleta into the future with sustainability by taking action on things that are already in the city’s work plan. In addition, I look forward to identifying future work we can do to prioritize what those future projects will be,” said Ms. Murray. Residents can meet her in person at the City’s Solar Photovoltaic Ribbon Cutting Event on Wednesday at 10 a.m. at City Hall. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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BUSINESS MANAGER Department of Film and Media Studies

Responsible for the full range of management functions of the Film and Media Studies Department, and the Carsey-Wolf Center. Management responsibilities encompass budgeting, academic and student support services, technical support services, contract, grant, and gift/donation administration, purchasing and financial management, payroll, staff and academic personnel, facilities maintenance and renovation, space management, safety program, as well as long-term planning in the areas of financial management and instructional resources. Develops and implements operating policies and procedures as they relate to overall departmental and center goals and objectives. Interprets policies and procedures. Requires considerable initiative, independence, judgment, and problem-solving abilities as well as effective management and supervisory experience, and a strong knowledge of university and departmental policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training. Note: Satisfactory completion of conviction history background check. $75,800 - $94,750/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/1/22. For more information and to apply, visit https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39233

HOUSING ANALYST/ MORTGAGE ORIGINATION PROGRAM (MOP) COORDINATOR Santa Barbara Housing Authority, UC Santa Barbara

Serves as the liaison to the UC Office of the President, Office of Loan Programs. The Housing Analyst will administer system-wide mortgage assistant programs developed by UCOP for UCSB employees. Collaborates with Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, Academic Personnel on matters relating to the relocation, recruitment, and retention of UC Santa Barbara faculty. Processes and underwrites UC Santa Barbara’s $41+ million mortgage loan allocation from application through close of escrow in the University-wide loan program. Provides financial counseling and loan prequalification to eligible applicants, and offers support to resolving issues relating to the UCSB Housing Program and its participants. Provides mortgage loan analysis and comparisons of available loan products to faculty. Analyzes governing documents and negotiates to resolution of all issues and complaints relating to the Faculty Housing Program. Reqs: Demonstrated skills in working with budgets, financial systems, and administrative practices and procedures. Excellent judgment and keen problem-solving skills. Excellent organization skills, with close attention to detail, and sufficient to establish and maintain program practices, procedures, and records; proven ability to set priorities, maintain schedules, and meet deadlines. Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, apply and convey complex policies and procedures. Demonstrated ability to work with real estate brokers, title companies, underwriters, appraisers, and inspectors of real property. Demonstrated ability to communicate with professionalism, patience, and diplomacy when working with faculty, staff, and others from a variety of cultural, financial, and ethnic backgrounds. Note: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license; clean DMV record. Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. $75,000 - $89,900/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/1/22/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 38598 Advertising in the Classified Section Really Works.

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LEAVE OF ABSENCE SPECIALIST 3 Human Resources

Manages, plans and administers the leave processes for staff. Participates in the ongoing development of centralized leave services within Human Resources. Utilizes a case management system to counsel employees and supervisors/managers on a wide range of leave entitlements, including but not limited to, medical and pregnancy leaves, and the available options to continue health and welfare benefits. Meets and collaborates with other HR representatives and campus representatives to manage moderate to complex disability cases. Assists with designing and conducting workshops for employees and supervisors/managers on leave policies and processes including applicable state and federal laws, such as Family Medical Leave (FML) and California Family Rights Act (CFRA), pregnancy disability and union contracts. Creates and maintains web based educational material. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. 2-5 years experience working with FMLA, CFRA, PFL, PDL. Ability to handle difficult and complicated issues with professionalism and sound judgment. Ability to build relationships, collaborate and problem solve across all levels of the organization. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite. Demonstrated ability to successfully work with diverse populations. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $62,300 - $67,138/yr. University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/1/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39112

SENIOR PLANNER Campus Planning & Design

With guidance, implements the Regents’ certified campus Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) to approve, permit, and gain entitlements for all campus capital development projects. Process environmental regulatory permit requirements and track physical and environmental development constraints as described in the LRDP and other regulatory codes. Help determine the level of environmental review of campus capital projects and the processing of environmental regulations and submittals. Ability to develop expert knowledge of the campus and community planning and be consulted by all levels of University staff. Possess knowledge of the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Coastal Act, Army Corps of Engineers, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Regional Water Quality Control Board, and other regulatory agencies. Serve as a University representative and liaison with the California Coastal Commission and its staff and other environmental regulatory agencies. Prepare Notices of Impending Development (NOID) and LRDP Amendments to submit to the California Coastal Commission. Prepare maps and exhibits that support document preparation. Reqs: Thorough working knowledge/ skill in city and environmental planning, architecture, or other planning-related fields. Strong analytical skills. Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including political acumen. Strong organization skills. Thorough knowledge of the organization, including its architectural history, short and long-range development plans, infrastructure, and current, ongoing, and proposed design and construction plans. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record, and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull-Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $75,800 - $112,700/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 07/29/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 38791

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FINANCIAL & PERSONNEL ASSISTANT Geography Department

Supports the Sustainability department in the Enrollment Services Cluster in the areas of administration, financial and travel processing, and personnel/payroll support. The Financial Assistants in the Enrollment Services Administrative Unit are primarily responsible for financial processing, but are also cross-trained on all administrative and financial functions and duties. The functions of this position require strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, exceptional interpersonal skills working in team situations, ability to pay attention to detail and an ability to work within a multicultural environment. Must be able to work under the pressure of deadlines and a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. Reqs: Highschool Diploma. 1-3 years of administrative or payroll experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61 - $25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/29/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 37437

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ASSISTANT Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

Supports Academic Programs and provides administrative support to Bren faculty, visitors, and students to ensure smooth and successful instruction. Helps faculty and visiting instructors with room and equipment scheduling, GauchoSpace access, textbooks and readers, entering grades, and course evaluations; tracks upcoming academic activities and notifies faculty and students; alerts students to upcoming deadlines for registration, Master’s Projects and other program requirements; posts and updates the schedule of classes and electronic calendars for courses, events, and resources; maintains accurate and engaging content on Academic Programs webpages; participates in promotional and recruitment activities. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training.1-3 years of experience working with students. Strong communication, active listening, and interpersonal skills. Ability to work with diverse populations, and multicultural competencies. Good organization skills. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61 - $25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/28/2022. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39184

SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM ASSISTANT Chemical Engineering

Responsible for the administrative functions for the Mellichamp Sustainability Cluster. The Cluster consists of four faculty members from various UCSB departments. The Sustainability Program Assistant assists these faculty with various tasks as needed. This position is responsible for coordinating and managing various workshops, seminars, summits and conferences. Is responsible for managing the cluster’s operating budget, assistance in contract & grant submissions and content management of the cluster website. Reqs: Thorough knowledge in administrative procedures and processes including word processing, spreadsheet and database applications. Good verbal and written communication skills, active listening, critical thinking, multi-tasking and time management skills. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61 - $25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 35946

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BUSINESS SERVICES MANAGER Business and Financial Services

Directs and coordinates key core campus business processes and operations through subordinate managers, business units, programs, and systems that are accountable for accomplishing UC and UCSB operational goals. Has significant responsibility for formulating and administering UCSB’s strategies for UC Procurement, AP Payables, Equipment, and Sustainability activities, systems, programs, and policies. The Business Services Manager is responsible for establishing objectives, directing programs, developing strategies and policies, managing human, financial, and physical resources. Proactively assesses risk to establish systems and procedures to protect organizational assets Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor’s degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Management skills required to lead the department, including management of staff performance and development, team building and communications, resolution of issues and conflicts, review and approval of work, and hiring and training employees. Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills required in interacting with both internal and external resources. Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills. Notes: Form 700 Statement of Economic Interests Filer, Satisfactory conviction history background check. $91,300 - $116,400/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/26/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 38333

FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC PERSONNEL ANALYST Phelps Administrative Support Center

Responsible for financial matters and academic personnel processes for the departments and programs that the PASC serves. Manages payroll reconciliation and audits general ledgers. Projects and monitors expenditures across all funding sources. Advises faculty on policies regarding budgets. Serves as primary UCPath initiator for all staff and selected academic appointments including requesting position control numbers and initiating the funding entry. Is responsible for the visa aspects for visiting scholars. From preliminary analysis, extensive communication with applicants and OISS, to submission of documents, ensuring accurate tracking of status and follow-through. Coordinates annual summer research additional compensation. Provides administrative back-up and possesses the ability to work under pressure of deadlines. Serves as back-up for academic personnel actions for permanent faculty and continuing lecturers including faculty retentions, merits and promotions, lecturer reviews, leave requests, and retirements. Provides consultation and advice to the department Chair. Collaborates on financial matters and academic recruitment cases. Serves as backup to the Financial and Academic Personnel Manager. Reqs: BA/BS degree in related area or equivalent training and/or experience. Note: Satisfactory completion of conviction history background check. $24.62 - $27.96/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 32120

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County of Santa Barbara Elections Division NOTICE OF ELECTION AND DATE FIXED FOR SUBMITTING ARGUMENTS MEASURE Y2022 – COLLEGE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, COUNTY CLERK, RECORDER AND ASSESSOR & REGISTRAR OF VOTERS OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THAT AT THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, THE 8TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022, THE FOLLOWING MEASURE WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS OF COLLEGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: Y2022 – COLLEGE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE To repair aging classrooms/school facilities to meet health and safety codes; ﬁx deteriorating roofs, plumbing and electrical; remove asbestos/lead pipes; and upgrade, construct and equip classrooms, labs, facilities to support student achievement in science, math, technology, engineering, and arts; shall the College School District measure authorizing $23,000,000 in bonds at legal rates be adopted, levying 3 cents per $100 assessed value ($1 million annually) while bonds are outstanding, with citizen oversight and all money staying local? Bonds - Yes___________

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Date Fixed for the Submittal of Direct Arguments – August 4, 2022 by 5:00 p.m. This timeframe for filing direct arguments has been determined by the county elections official to be a reasonable period based upon the time necessary to prepare and print the arguments. Direct arguments in favor of or against this measure may be filed during the period of July 26, 2022 through August 4, 2022. Method of Submittal: Arguments may be filed at the County of Santa Barbara Elections Division, Main Office, 4440-A Calle Real, Santa Barbara, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding holidays or the Santa Maria Branch Office, 511 E. Lakeside Parkway Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to Noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding holidays. Arguments may also be filed by mail to the County of Santa Barbara Elections Division at PO Box 61510, Santa Barbara CA 93160-1510 or by overnight delivery to 4440-A Calle Real, Santa Barbara CA 93110. Arguments/Signature statements may be submitted on regular paper or may be submitted using the Argument Form provided by our office at sbcvote.com under the Current Activities page for the election.

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“Argument In Favor Of Measure Y2022” or “Argument Against Measure Y2022”

Text of The Argument. All arguments shall be typed and in paragraph form using upper and lowercase format. Limited use of bolding, capitalizing, underlining, italics, centering text and bullets are permitted. Arguments may be changed until and including the date ﬁxed by the county elections ofﬁcial. Signature Statement. The argument text shall be followed by the signature statement shown below: “The undersigned proponent(s) or author(s) of the direct argument (insert one: “in favor of” or “against” Ballot Measure Y2022 at the General Election for the College School District to be held on November 8, 2022, hereby state that such argument is true and correct to the best of his/her/their knowledge and belief.” Printed Name

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Authors/Signers of Arguments The governing board of the school district or a member or members of the governing board, or any individual voter who is eligible to vote on the measure, or bona fide association of citizens, or any combination of such voters and associations may file a written argument in favor of or against any school measure. All arguments shall be accompanied by the printed name(s) and signature(s) of the person or persons submitting the argument, or, if submitted on behalf of an organization, the name of the organization and the printed name and signature of at least one of its principal officers. In order to enable the county elections official to determine whether it qualifies as a bona fide association of citizens, an organization or association submitting an argument in favor of or against a school measure must submit with its argument a copy of one of the following: (1) Its articles of incorporation, articles of association, partnership documents, bylaws, or similar documents. (2) Letterhead containing the name of the organization and its principal officers. (3) If the organization or association is a primarily formed committee established to support or oppose the measure, its statement of organization filed pursuant to Section 84101 of the Government Code. No more than five signatures are allowed on the argument. If more than five persons sign any argument, the signatures of the first five shall be printed. If more than one direct argument for or more than one direct argument against the measure is submitted, the county elections official shall select one argument in favor of and one argument against the measure for printing and distribution to the voters. In selecting the arguments, the elections official shall give preference and priority in the order designated in Section 9503 of the Elections Code. Date Fixed for the Submittal of Rebuttal Arguments – August 15, 2022 by 5:00 p.m. When both an argument in favor and an argument against a measure have been selected for publication in the voter information guide by the county elections official, a copy of the argument in favor of the measure will be sent to the authors of the argument against the measure and a copy of the arguments against the measure will be sent to the authors of the argument in favor. The rebuttal arguments shall be submitted to the county elections official conducting the election no later than the date designated by the county elections official by the method of submittal shown above. Format of Rebuttal Argument Word Limit: Shall not exceed 250 words. Title not included in word count. The text of the Rebuttal Arguments should follow the same rules as the text of the direct argument. Title: “Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of Measure Y2022” or “Rebuttal to Argument Against Measure Y2022” Signature Statement. The rebuttal argument text shall be followed by the signature statement shown below: “The undersigned proponent(s) or author(s) of the rebuttal argument to the argument (insert one: “in favor of” or “against” Ballot Measure Y2022 at the General Election for the College School District to be held on November 8, 2022, hereby state that such rebuttal argument is true and correct to the best of his/her/their knowledge and belief.” Printed Name

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Following each ﬁling deadline, the measure, direct arguments for and against, rebuttal arguments, and the impartial analysis will be posted for a ten-day public examination. These items may be viewed at our ofﬁce or online at www.sbcvote.com by selecting the election under the Current Activities. The Local Measure Calendar is also available online, and shows the respective deadlines for these items. Date:

July 20, 2022

JOSEPH E. HOLLAND Clerk, Recorder and Assessor & Registrar of Voters

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Workers advance road work on the Padaro segment between N. Padaro Ln. and Santa Claus Ln.

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Santa Barbara MTD 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 Aug. 15. Due to a shortage of bus operators, temporary schedule reductions were made on April 25 in order to improve system reliability. Because the bus operator shortage continues, the majority of these temporary reductions will remain in effect through Aug. 15. After the April reductions, MTD staff heard from regular riders that specific early morning trips on the Line 12x (Goleta Express) and Line 24x (UCSB Express) had been suspended, making 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 morning inbound trip departing Hollister & Storke at 7:58 a.m. • One line 24x weekday morning outbound trip departing the Transit Center at 7:25 a.m. Additionally, a minor routing change will happen for Line 17 (Lower West/SBCC). Due to circulation improvements at the intersection of San Andres and Carrillo in Santa Barbara, the inbound Line 17 route will now turn left on Canon Perdido from San Pascual, then right on San Andres before turning right on Carrillo to head to the Transit Center. This one block change does not affect any stops or schedules for Line 17; it simply makes an operational improvement for the buses. This change now means the inbound and outbound routes are identical. The new schedule guide reflecting these changes is available online at https://sbmtd.gov/wp-content/ uploads/2022/07/August-2022-Schedule-Guidecomplete.pdf. The printed version of the schedule guide will be available at the Transit Center and onboard buses at the beginning of August. Customer Service Representatives are available for assistance at (805) 963-3366.

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Construction update Northbound Highway 101 Sunday nights from 9 p.m. - 7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Bailard Ave. to Sheffield Dr. with onand off-ramps at Bailard Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Linden Ave., Santa Monica Rd. and N. Padaro Ln. Monday - Thursday nights from 8 p.m. - 7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Bailard Ave. to Sheffield Dr. with on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Linden Ave., Santa Monica Rd. and N. Padaro Ln. The northbound on-ramp at Ortega

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Hill Rd., closed for up to eight months and is anticipated to reopen Feb. 14. Until then, drivers can use the onramp at Sheffield Dr. The off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. will be closed for up to six months and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 3. Until then, drivers can use the off-ramp at San Ysidro Rd.

Southbound Highway 101 Sunday nights from 10 p.m. - 7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Sheffield Dr. to Bailard Ave., onand off-ramps at Carpinteria Ave., Reynolds Ave., Linden Ave., Casitas Pass Rd. and Bailard Ave. Monday - Thursday nights from

8 p.m. – 7:30 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Sheffield Dr. to Bailard Ave, with on- and off-ramps at Carpinteria Ave., Reynolds Ave., Linden Ave., Casitas Pass Rd. and Bailard Ave. The off-ramp at Evans Ave. will be closed for up to nine months and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 24. Until then, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. The off-ramp at S. Padaro Ln./ Santa Claus Ln. will be closed for up to seven months and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 19. Until then, drivers can use the off-ramp at Carpinteria Ave, to Santa Ynez Ave,, Via Real, and S, Padaro Ln.

N. Jameson Ln. by Sheffield Dr. From 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. flaggers will direct traffic on N. Jameson Ln. by the northbound on-ramp at Sheffield Dr. to allow crews to remove temporary safety barriers and fencing. Drivers are asked to be mindful of sharing the lane with bicyclists during this time. On S. Padaro Ln. under Hwy. 101 from 9 p.m. - 6 a.m., flaggers will direct traffic as needed during bridge work. Trucks over 40’ will not be able to turn right onto S. Padaro Ln. from Santa Claus Ln. during this stage of bridge construction. - Katherine Zehnder

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County of Santa Barbara Elections Division

NOTICE OF ELECTION AND DATE FIXED FOR SUBMITTING ARGUMENTS MEASURE S2022 – HOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT PARCEL TAX

NOTICE OF ELECTION AND DATE FIXED FOR SUBMITTING ARGUMENTS MEASURE R2022 – BUELLTON UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE

NOTICE OF ELECTION AND DATE FIXED FOR SUBMITTING ARGUMENTS MEASURE A2022 – LOMPOC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, COUNTY CLERK, RECORDER AND ASSESSOR & REGISTRAR OF VOTERS OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THAT AT THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, THE 8TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022, THE FOLLOWING MEASURE WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS OF HOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT:

S2022 – HOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT PARCEL TAX To support academic excellence; maintain low staff-to-student ratios, and provide stable funding the State cannot take away, shall the Hope Elementary School District’s measure be adopted renewing, without increasing the tax rate, its existing $79 annual parcel tax for ﬁve years, providing approximately $323,110 annually, provide a senior citizens’ exemption, have an independent citizens’ oversight committee, with no funds for administrators’ salaries, and require all funds to be spent locally? Yes___________ No___________

R2022 – BUELLTON UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE To improve the quality of education; upgrade, modernize, and renovate classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; repair/replace leaky roofs; and upgrade inadequate HVAC systems; shall Buellton Union School District’s measure be adopted authorizing $8,800,000 of bonds at legal interest rates, generating on average $731,600 annually as long as bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 2.6 cents per $100 assessed value, with annual audits, independent citizens’ oversight committee, NO money for salaries and no money taken by the State?

A2022 – LOMPOC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND MEASURE To construct and modernize classrooms and vocational and career training facilities, upgrade science labs, replace portable classrooms, make safety and security improvements at all sites, improve student support facilities and provide the local match for State grants, shall the Lompoc Uniﬁed School District measure issue $125,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, raising on average approximately $6,400,000 annually, with levies projected at 6 cents/$100 of assessed valuation, an oversight committee, audits, and no money for administrator salaries, be adopted?

“Argument In Favor Of Measure S2022” or “Argument Against Measure S2022”

Text of The Argument. All arguments shall be typed and in paragraph form using upper and lowercase format. Limited use of bolding, capitalizing, underlining, italics, centering text and bullets are permitted. Arguments may be changed until and including the date ﬁxed by the county elections ofﬁcial. Signature Statement. The argument text shall be followed by the signature statement shown below: “The undersigned proponent(s) or author(s) of the direct argument (insert one: “in favor of” or “against” Ballot Measure S2022 at the General Election for the Hope School District to be held on November 8, 2022, hereby state that such argument is true and correct to the best of his/her/their knowledge and belief.” Printed Name

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Authors/Signers of Arguments The governing board of the school district or a member or members of the governing board, or any individual voter who is eligible to vote on the measure, or bona fide association of citizens, or any combination of such voters and associations may file a written argument in favor of or against any school measure. All arguments shall be accompanied by the printed name(s) and signature(s) of the person or persons submitting the argument, or, if submitted on behalf of an organization, the name of the organization and the printed name and signature of at least one of its principal officers. In order to enable the county elections official to determine whether it qualifies as a bona fide association of citizens, an organization or association submitting an argument in favor of or against a school measure must submit with its argument a copy of one of the following: (1) Its articles of incorporation, articles of association, partnership documents, bylaws, or similar documents. (2) Letterhead containing the name of the organization and its principal officers. (3) If the organization or association is a primarily formed committee established to support or oppose the measure, its statement of organization filed pursuant to Section 84101 of the Government Code. No more than five signatures are allowed on the argument. If more than five persons sign any argument, the signatures of the first five shall be printed. If more than one direct argument for or more than one direct argument against the measure is submitted, the county elections official shall select one argument in favor of and one argument against the measure for printing and distribution to the voters. In selecting the arguments, the elections official shall give preference and priority in the order designated in Section 9503 of the Elections Code. Date Fixed for the Submittal of Rebuttal Arguments – August 15, 2022 by 5:00 p.m. When both an argument in favor and an argument against a measure have been selected for publication in the voter information guide by the county elections official, a copy of the argument in favor of the measure will be sent to the authors of the argument against the measure and a copy of the arguments against the measure will be sent to the authors of the argument in favor. The rebuttal arguments shall be submitted to the county elections official conducting the election no later than the date designated by the county elections official by the method of submittal shown above. Format of Rebuttal Argument Word Limit: Shall not exceed 250 words. Title not included in word count. The text of the Rebuttal Arguments should follow the same rules as the text of the direct argument. Title: “Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of Measure S2022” or “Rebuttal to Argument Against Measure S2022” Signature Statement. The rebuttal argument text shall be followed by the signature statement shown below: “The undersigned proponent(s) or author(s) of the rebuttal argument to the argument (insert one: “in favor of” or “against” Ballot Measure S2022 at the General Election for the Hope School District to be held on November 8, 2022, hereby state that such rebuttal argument is true and correct to the best of his/her/their knowledge and belief.” Printed Name

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met in the Bar Americaine of Hotel de Paris. The French, he said, had been monitoring his movements since his first trip to Monaco in early June. This trip, he added, they tailed him all the way from Nice Airport to Monaco. Sergey insisted on hosting me for dinner in The Grill Room atop Hotel de Paris, where we were served four courses: lobster ravioli with truffles, Le Loup, a selection of cheese and chocolate soufflé — and two bottles of an excellent Chablis. He provided a report, which I had requested, on Gocha Arivadze, ex-operator of ARSI gas stations in Russia, which validated what we already knew about him. Mr. Arivadze’s infiltration of Prince Albert’s social orbit had

recently intensified as he strove to use the royal court as his own playground while attempting to choreograph a back channel to Vladimir Putin. This was Sergey’s strategy for dealing with bad guys: “If you can’t stop them, become head of them.” It was such a role, as Godfather, to which Sergey aspired. He would solve all our problems in his own version of a Faustian pact. The prince agreed to a second meeting with Sergey, which again took place in our safehouse. The Russian announced that he had a plan. He asked for a pen and a single piece of letter-size paper onto which he drew three squares in a row, like a cartoon strip. Sergey titled the first square “Politic,” beneath which he drew two circles attached to each other, one large and the other small. Inside the small circle he wrote

“Monaco.” Inside the large circle he wrote “F” and a question mark. (I assumed this stood for France.) Inside box No. 2 (he used Roman numerals), Sergey wrote “Bisiness” (his spelling). Next to that, he scribbled a dollar sign with an arrow pointing downward. In box No. 3, Sergey drew a circle within which he scribbled an arrow pointing — as if it were a numberless clock — at 2:30. Beneath the circle, he drew a diamond shape inside which he wrote the fraction for one-half. I hope one day either a symbolist or a psychiatrist will explain to me what these three boxes mean. I’ll venture a guess that Sergey’s “plan” was that he would handle all the prince’s problems for half of the profits, as he seemed to be angling for an unspecified deal, and finally said, “It’s up to you — you’re in charge.” I saw Prince Albert out to the elevator. “Do you like the plan?” I asked, straight-faced. Albert nodded and said simply, “I’m going to strangle you.”

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Next day I went cruising the Med again with Oksana and Sergey, who sat ramrod straight, staring ahead, expressionless. We berthed at Cannes and strolled the Croisette, settling for lunch at Hotel Carlton’s buffet by the beach. I invited Sergey to attend the party we had planned to celebrate the prince’s investiture. “Nyet,” he replied. (That went for Oksana too.) However, said Sergey, he would like to meet my newest friend, the interior minister of Latvia, with whom I’d just created a liaison relationship. Could I arrange that? “If he wants to meet you,” I said. The highlight of this cruise took place upon berthing in Monaco’s port. As Sergey walked the wooden plank, he suddenly squealed in pain. Something had pierced his foot and, the way he carried on for several minutes, I was certain he must have severed a toe. But on inspection, all Sergey suffered was a tiny splinter. Teary-eyed, he demanded a needle, antiseptic ointment and bandages. This tough guy, supposedly from “special operations,” was a crybaby — or perhaps a hypochondriac. (On two occasions inside restaurants he’d ordered a table change due to a mild draft, worrying aloud that he might catch a cold.) From that point on our codename for Sergey was SPLINTER.

“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY” Next evening, MI6 and I joined SPLINTER and Oksana, along with Latvia’s interior minister, Erics Jacobsons (EJ), for dinner at Hotel Metropole. Over excellent Bordeaux, sautéed foie gras and pork belly, we toasted mankind and mutual objectives against bad guys, until conversation turned philosophical, and I asked each to identify their childhood hero. “Ah, Robert is playing psychological games,” said SPLINTER. MI6 referred to himself as something of a nerd as a child. His hero had been Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher. Mine was Mighty Mouse. And SPLINTER chose, instead, to talk about how he found God while being held hostage by Chechen terrorists. Perhaps he did this for the benefit of EJ, an ordained Lutheran minister — for it seemed SPLINTER’s mission this evening was to cultivate the Latvian for possible recruitment. On my next trip to Washington, my first meeting (as usual) was with Clair George. I tried my best to explain SPLINTER’s “Three Box” Plan. Clair sighed. “It’s all about money,” he said. “The mystique around your prince is akin to a billion-dollar treasure hunt.”

A HORSE WITH NO NAME (FILLED WITH COGNAC) Back in Monaco, SPLINTER showed up again (having discovered Monaco, he could not stay away). I meant to take him out to a casual dinner of sushi, but he took control and insisted I manifest myself at Hotel Metropole for foie gras, truffles and caviar — and $600 bottles of wine. On his agenda: A meeting between the Prince and President Putin in Moscow. This would be a favor to the prince, he added, for the purpose of “elevating his stature.” “He’d probably be more interested in meeting the female gymnastics team,” I said tonguein-cheek though, sadly, it was true. (Plus, I knew, from an intelligence service, that Mr. Putin had recently embarked on an affair

with a Russian gymnast.) My quip was lost on this humorless Russian, who suddenly became paranoid about the number of “Hindus” (Indians) on the Metropole restaurant’s wait staff. Their “hovering” bothered him terribly. It became a kind of game for me to needle him with humor. “The prince needs a princess,” I’d say. “Choose a dozen of your most beautiful women, and I’ll interview them myself.” (To which he later responded, through MI6: “Please tell Robert that Putin will not supply women for the prince.”) SPLINTER confided that corruption in the Russian government “is now 99%.” (He implied that he was struggling to remain in the un-corruptible 1%.) “Anything new on the Serbian?” I asked. “Why are you so focused on him?” “What about the Chernoy brothers?” SPLINTER grew irritated. “Why are you interested? They’re not in Monaco.” “Simon Reuben bought his way back into Monaco, and he connects to the Chernoys,” I replied. “We discussed this in Frankfurt, remember?” SPLINTER waved this topic away and brought up an interest of his own: Jean-Paul Carteron from Switzerland, resident in Monaco where he ran a mini-Davos type annual summit. What did we know about him? “He learned humanitarianism from Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier in the Dominican Republic,” I said. “It goes downhill from there.” Would I mind sending him a report on Carteron? Sergey asked. Maybe, I said — what about the Serb and the Chernoys? It went on like this, greased by fine cuisine and superb wine. Next day, SPLINTER insisted on taking me to the Grill Room for dinner on my birthday. We changed tables twice due to a “draft” — and SPLINTER complained to our server when a woman seated nearby sneezed into a handkerchief several times. That evening I saw a different side to him — thoughtful yet talkative. He postured himself as democratic believer in God. He expressed disillusionment and unhappiness with President Putin and his corrupt cronies in Moscow and St. Petersburg, adding that Mr. Putin himself was corrupt. To get the job of president, said SPLINTER, Mr. Putin had been forced to compromise himself by granting deals that made assorted Russians very, very wealthy. Now they blackmailed him and closeted him away from the “good” people (such as himself), SPLINTER said. Everyone in Moscow focused on the Putin/crony-get-rich paradigm, he added. Boris Berezovsky, the exiled oligarch, knew much about the corrupt crony deals that allowed Mr. Putin to succeed President Boris Yeltsin, and that was why President Putin and his gangsters wanted Mr. Berezovsky dead. (They eventually succeeded.) SPLINTER told me that Mr. Putin had personally ordered the FSB to poison Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. “Why was Yukos Oil targeted by Putin for prosecution and not Lukoil or Sibneft?” I asked. “They are equally to blame and share guilt,” SPLINTER replied. “It is not fair that Khodokovsky (the Yukos chief) was singled out (and jailed) while the others go free.” SPLINTER divulged the reason for his interest in JeanPaul Carteron: He believed that Carteron, through the Bulgarians, connected to the Chechens — and the Chechens were SPLINTER’s worst nightmare. SPLINTER had been expecting a promotion. Was he bitter this hadn’t happened? Was he angling for recruitment by a Western intelligence service? “I’ve discovered democracy,” he had said. “But it’s expensive.” We ate our way through sautéed foie gras, Le Loup, and a Grand Marnier soufflé, climaxed with a 1962 Armagnac. As usual, Oksana paid with cash. For my birthday, SPLINTER gifted me a glass horse filled with Napoleon cognac. It went un-drunk.

ENDGAME Soon thereafter, SPLINTER breezed into town yet again. MI6 and I met him in Hotel de Paris. SPLINTER had delved into Jean-Paul Carteron and determined he “reports to the French,” adding that Mr. Carteron has been “a French intelligence agent for 20 years.” It would have made sense for the French DGSE to recruit Mr. Carteron while he was handling the affairs of Papa Doc, then Baby

Russian intelligence representative Sergey handed Robert Eringer this sketch of his plan for a collaboration with Monaco. In the first box, he wrote an “F,” presumably for “France,” and a question mark. In the second he wrote “Bisness” and a dollar sign. In the third, he drew a numberless clock and wrote the fraction for one-half. Mr. Eringer writes in today’s column that to this day, he doesn’t know what Sergey was trying to say.

Doc Duvalier. The DGSE would have encouraged Mr. Carteron, while at the United Nations, to ingratiate himself with Central European and Balkan leaders. Furthermore, it would be in DGSE’s interest to sponsor Mr. Carteron’s summits secretly, first in Switzerland, later in Monaco — as a way of trying to recruit individuals they hand-picked for Carteron to invite. We could therefore assume that whatever DGSE, and therefore the French government, knew and believed about Monaco, much of it came from Mr. Carteron. SPLINTER went on to say that Dan Francu, a corrupt Romanian we were investigating after he became a resident of Monaco using false paperwork, had been a CIA agent for 10 years before returning to Romania to help reform his country; that CIA was behind Mr. Francu’s presence in Monaco “because of his connections to Arabs.” This made no sense. I must take pause to point out that intelligence collection is only the first phase of what an intelligence service must do. The ongoing evaluation of sources, the questioning of their motives and assessment of their reporting, is next. And after that, one must analyze what has been collected. Sometimes, like life itself, raw intelligence simply does not make sense. But that doesn’t mean one disregards the nonsensical because it doesn’t fit into a paradigm or theory or slot. This isn’t a novel or a movie, where all the pieces must fit and ultimately provide resolution with all loose ends neatly tied. A source like SPLINTER may be right about one thing and wrong about another, either because he has been misled by others or because he’s trying to mislead — or he’s trying to inject his own opinion disguised as fact. Collection, assessment and analysis are an ongoing process with the objective to cross-source, eliminate duplicate sourcing, try to nail down the facts and, ultimately, provide informed judgments and recommendations to those who make decisions. SPLINTER also told us that Prince Rainier had supported Italian money laundering. Based on my knowledge (and I knew an awful lot by now, emphasis on “awful”), I would suppose this to be true, as part of Rainier’s strategy to transform his principality from a Mediterranean backwater into a thriving financial center and tax haven. The money laundering from Italy stopped after Prince Rainier’s death, SPLINTER added. I would also concur with this. The money launderers had indeed paused, temporarily, to assess what Prince Albert meant by introducing a “new ethic” to the principality. I left SPLINTER and MI6 so they could chat privately on matters that did not concern me. Afterward, MI6 reappeared at our safehouse. “SPLINTER has the jitters,” he said. “He asked me, does Prince Albert really want to know this stuff?” This was a very astute question. More and more, it seemed to me, Albert did not want to know; that he was more preoccupied with his social life, his next date, than knowing stuff about which he would then be expected to do something. I countered that SPLINTER, on certain topics, was either lying or crazy. “What’s frightening,” replied MI6, “is that the Russians may really believe this stuff.” Which may partly explain why Russians in Russia now buy into Mr. Putin’s so-called “denazification of Ukraine” campaign. Alas, we eventually discovered that SPLINTER had misidentified himself to us. How? At our request, the French DST provided us with copies of Russian

passports used by SPLINTER and Oksana — in their real names — to France. Of all our 20 liaison relationships with foreign intelligence services, only the Russians were deceptive.

GAVIN NEWSPEAK Gavin is lying again. Gov. Newsom is running ads in Florida, trying to rustle up a presidential campaign (while disingenuously claiming he isn’t to Joe Biden’s beleaguered orderlies) against that other Sunshine State governor, Rick DeSantis, whom he clearly perceives as his main Republican rival in 2024. In these ads, glib Gavin absurdly claims that the state he misgoverns — ours — is the nation’s real “free” state. However, according to World Population Review, the truth is the exact opposite: Florida ranks No. 1 as the freest of our nation’s 50 states. And Gavin’s state — ours — ranks, well, almost last, at No. 48. But let’s be fair and utilize another resource. The Cato Institute publishes its own “Index of Personal and Economic Freedom.” Based on Cato’s calculations, Florida is the penultimate freest, behind New Hampshire. And California? Third from last: No. 48. Cato accompanies its ranking with this succinct analysis: “California is one of the least free states in the country, largely because of its long-standing poor performance on economic freedom as one of the highesttaxed states in the country.” We know politicians have no shame. But goofy Gavin takes the cake — and, ever maskless, eats it too. Meantime, the DA he appointed for San Francisco, Chesa Boudin, has been recalled; the DA he appointed for Los Angeles, George Gascon, is about to be recalled — both for rolling out a red carpet to criminals — a definite freedominhibitor for law-abiding citizens. Meantime, California’s freeways are the worst in the nation as infrastructure (literally) crumbles. Which means freedom to drive safely is out the window. Meantime, Gavin hosts half the country’s homeless population. There goes freedom to walk safely. Meantime, California public schools produce the worst test scores in the nation. Freedom from literacy? Makes sense since Hollywood is the dumbing down capital of the U.S.A., making movies that glorify stupidity. Meantime, though faced with destructive wildfires in drought conditions, Gavin capitulates to radical environmentalists and won’t clear highly flammable brush because of the disruption it causes to bugs and birds. Bottom line: If Pinocchio can’t even run one state correctly, how the heck is he supposed to run all 50? As Fleet Street’s John Junor used to say, “Pass the sickbag, Alice.”

READERS’ RESPONSE TO OUR ITEM ON ALASKA AIRLINES T.H. wrote: “I pray every time I take off in a plane these days, hoping the mechanic showed up that morning and especially that he was hired for merit instead of equity. G.F. wrote: “Tragically, the airlines story is very common, just change the names, places, and dates. Along with everything else, it makes one wonder just what the country is coming to.” K.R. (a travel agent) wrote: “This is the truth of what is going on daily with many flights across the country and worldwide. Great article!” Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

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Marcello Ricci stands inside the Funk Zone’s former Surfing Museum, where a two-part art show “Double Up” features works by approximately 20 artists from Santa Barbara, New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Seattle.

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Former Surfing Museum setting for two-part art show in Funk Zone

At left, Giordanne Salley’s “See Through,” oil and paper on canvas. Center, Bradley Biancardi’s “Hot (Set),” oil, acrylic, graphite, spray paint on canvas. At right, Dan Levenson’s “Frankl Lochre,” oil on linen.

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anta Barbara summers are dreamy, with hot days, cool water and moments suspended — elements that Marcello Ricci hopes to evoke in a two-part show he calls “Double Up” at what was formerly the Surfing Museum, a legendary space just a half block from the beach in the Funk Zone. Featuring approximately 20 artists from Santa Barbara, New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Seattle, the exhibitions honor the long surfing legacy of the building and refer to the geometric abstract designs throughout the space. “Double Up First Wave” is on view through July 31, and the “Second Wave” will take place from Aug. 5 through 28. A reception is planned from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug.12.

The group exhibition, which showcases painting, sculpture and photography, references the history and aesthetics of the Surfing Museum, and “Double Up” refers to what happens when two swells merge to form a single unpredictable wave, according to Mr. Ricci, who grew up in Santa Barbara and now makes his home in New York City, where he owns My Pet Ram Gallery. Explaining the unusual name for his art gallery, the 2006 graduate of Santa Barbara High School said, “A ram felt like a good totem. They are distinctive and have good qualities but don’t make good pets, so I thought it was kind of quirky. I wanted the gallery program to be lighthearted but also be taken seriously. I imagine starting a gallery on the fly like I did is akin to raising an unruly pet, never quite knowing where it will take you.” Mr. Ricci earned his bachelor’s

filled this beach-adjacent location degree in international relations with his unique collection of surf studies in 2012 at UC San Diego. memorabilia. The museum housed From 2013 to 2017, he ran The rare surfboards, including a oneArts Fund, an arts organization of-a-kind ‘hot rod surfboard,’ that was until recently based in vintage skateboards, skate the Funk Zone. He was also very competition trophies, guitars, involved in the neighborhood’s art ukuleles, scene through photographs and programs like surf magazines our Community in a PolynesianGallery, the The “Double Up” exhibits are on inspired setting Funk Zone Art view through July 31 and Aug. 5 with reed-lined Walk and the through 28 at 16 Helena Ave. in Santa walls and handPublic Art/Mural Barbara’s Funk Zone. Hours are from painted designs,” Program. noon to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Before the “I moved to Sunday. For more information, email district became New York City Marcello Ricci at info@mypetram.com. known as the in 2017 and last

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year started My Pet Ram. I am very excited to be back in Santa Barbara this summer to do a pop up gallery-exhibition at the former Surfing Museum,” he told the News-Press. “For almost four decades, the museum’s founder, Jim O’Mahoney,

Funk Zone, Mr. O’Mahoney dubbed the Surfing Museum’s aesthetic “tribal funk.” Included in the “Double Up” shows are works by Merrick Adams, Sean Anderson, Bradley Biancardi, Jes Cannon, Nicholas Cueva, Matthew Fischer, Matthew

F Fisher, Damien Hoar de Galvan, Nick Irzyk, Amy Kim Keeler, Dan Levenson, Brian Lotti, Giordanne Salley, Jake Sheiner, Sarah Schlesinger, Gillian Theobald, Zuriel Waters, Todd Weaver and Aaron Wrinkle. “The domain of surfing possesses many potential streams of comparison for abstraction.” said Mr. Ricci. “In the paintings of Nick Irzyk, wavy cells of gritty color blanket a shallow three-dimensional space with skin reminiscent of the surface tension of the ocean. Aaron Wrinkle’s ‘POT’ confronts us with a biomorphism resembling a monster wave doubling over onto itself with crushing force. “In Dan Levenson’s ‘Frankl Locher,’ translucent circles seem to rotate around one another like tide-altering celestial bodies. The appendages in Zuriel Water’s ‘Fever Bloom’ may evoke a metamorphosing surfer’s

balancing limbs, and Jes Cannon’s work conveys the transcendence of surfing through a shell-like logarithmic spiral.” Alongside these abstract works are realistic images of waves, surfers and beach life. “In a tiny work on paper, Matthew F Fisher depicts a wave’s crash frozen in flat space. Surfers in Todd Weaver’s 35mm photographs seem to revel in their imminent pictorialization. Big sets looming offshore in Sarah Schlesinger’s seascapes rumble with a sensitive materiality, and a quintessential beach scene is rendered with breezy panache in Brian Lotti’s ‘Evening at Surfrider,’” said Mr. Ricci. Despite being involved in the art world for the past decade, he began only recently to create his own work, which he creates under the Instagram name “@basketbology.” Please see RICCI on B4

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Horoscope.com Sunday, July 24, 2022 ARIES — The next two weeks bring plenty of confidence and creativity into your life when Mercury enters Leo and your pleasure zone on Tuesday. This is a great time to voice your ideas and opinions because any major projects you start right now can be very successful. TAURUS — Be careful. Family issues could get heated when Mercury enters Leo and your home zone on Tuesday. If your family is coming in hot with the drama, don’t blow up and create a bigger mess. Remember, you can stand up for yourself without burning any bridges. GEMINI — Get ready to have some fun when Mercury enters Leo on Tuesday, moving through your communication zone for the next two weeks, making you even wittier and more sociable. CANCER — While you’re enjoying the dog days of summer, don’t let the heat affect your sensibilities when Mercury enters Leo and your value zone on Tuesday. Over the next two weeks, you’ll feel more impulsive when it comes to spending, so make sure you think twice before you complete any purchase. LEO — It’s your time to shine with three different celestial bodies in your sign this week. Kicking things off is Mercury, which moves into your sign on Tuesday. You can move through life with confidence as you meet new people and make an excellent first impression, Leo. VIRGO — You’re a service-oriented sign, Virgo, but, for the next two weeks, you’ll be thinking about yourself and your feelings after Mercury enters Leo and your subconscious zone on Tuesday. LIBRA — Over the next two weeks, you’ll be making a big splash on the social scene once Mercury enters Leo and your social zone on Tuesday. From making important networking connections to going viral online, you have the confidence to effortlessly move through your social circles. SCORPIO — You have some big goals to reach before summer ends, Scorpio, which means you’ll have to make some big power moves when Mercury enters Leo and your career zone on Tuesday. Use this boost of confidence to get what you desire. SAGITTARIUS — You’ll be doing plenty of traveling over the next few weeks, which means you’ll have tons of creative stories to tell after Mercury enters Leo and your expansion zone on Tuesday. You might be very popular relating your travel adventures. CAPRICORN — You won’t be afraid to cause a little drama over the next two weeks after Mercury enters Leo and your transformation zone on Tuesday. Mercury encourages you to stir the pot, especially if you’re trying to get to the truth of an important issue. AQUARIUS — Be bold, Aquarius, especially when it comes to your relationships when Mercury enters Leo and your partnership zone on Tuesday. This is a great time for declarations of love, signing contracts or just spending some one-on-one time with the people you care about most. PISCES — Communication with colleagues and clients becomes even easier over the next few weeks once Mercury enters Leo and your habit zone on Tuesday. However, while it might be fun goofing off with your coworkers, it could lead to a drop in productivity and an increase in drama.

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And the darkest hour is just before dawn

hen things get very complicated and upsetting, feeling low is understandable, and things aren’t going so well in the larger world right now. It’s also that time of year again — July and August — when suicide rates are higher than at any other time of year. The thing to remember is that there’s always a better option. I’ve been very low at times in my life, but I’ve never been a candidate for suicide, because I know for a fact that the world can change for the better in a New York minute. I have also worked closely with very suicidal patients who had a means and a plan, and had to be watched. None of them hurt themselves or anyone else, and they all now wonder how they ever imagined taking their own lives — every single one of them.

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Medication, talk therapy and personal growth can help you get into a better state of mind and find emotional balance. If you’re feeling bad, make an appointment to see someone and set up a daily plan to get better quicker. Daily self-care will help you stay in a good emotional place. Simple tools like these have saved many people from taking their own lives or living with unmanaged depression for the rest of their days. The world is in a rough spot right now, which is only going to make it harder if you also battle with depression. Don’t let yourself believe that depression is “normal” because of the state of the world; that’s no way to go through life. You have to learn to let some light and lightness into

your emotional space. Maybe the way you are looking at things is inaccurate. Feelings, which can be caused by biochemical reactions, are not facts. What you are going through emotionally may be the result of bodily changes you are unaware of, so get a medical and psychological check-up if you are feeling very sad. Life is never perfect. Mine isn’t. I go through my own stuff just like everyone else, but I also work on myself, which is important to do if you are going through a hard time. If you want to make an investment that pays real emotional dividends, put some time, energy and money into yourself. I promise you that it will pay off better than Crypto.

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St. Vincent’s has appointed Dr. Regina Ruiz the first-ever chief development officer in the organization’s 164-year history in Santa Barbara. She joined St. Vincent’s in 2019 as the vice president of development and marketing. In her new role, she will use her extensive leadership experience from the private and nonprofit sector to craft a targeted development, marketing and communication strategy for all St. Vincent’s programs and oversee all St. Vincent’s public relations. Dr. Ruiz earned her doctor of education in organizational change and leadership from USC. Her recent doctoral dissertation titled, “A Strategy to Thrive During a Crisis for Nonprofit Organizations,’’ is published in the USC Library. Included are interviews with the top nonprofit leaders in Santa Barbara. The study is a basis for promoting improved services and policies in nonprofit crisis response efforts. As an accomplished broadcast journalist, Dr. Ruiz has anchored and reported at top-market television stations across the country for more than a decade, including New York, New Mexico, Las Vegas, Santa Barbara and most recently, for NBC in San Diego. She has also worked at ESPN writing sports highlights and at the Olympics in Greece with NBC Sports. In addition, she earned her master of science

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Telling your story to a friend, a family member or a therapist can lighten your emotional burden and perhaps help you see some light at the end of the tunnel. If you are doing fine, but you know someone who could possibly be depressed, a great way to pay it forward is to take them out for coffee and just let them talk. Also good to know, the Suicide Prevention Hotline changed its number on July 16 to a simple three-digit code: 988.

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players, numbers, team names, basketballs, crowds, players’ names and more.” He creates whimsical drawings by using his left/non-dominant hand in order to lean into the childlike aesthetic of his work, which is a reflection of his own playful personality. His primary tools are crafty art materials such as construction paper, cardboard,

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is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. “These flea markets are cherished community events, which have grown through three decades to become one of the premier local venues for both vintage goods and artisan makers’ market,” said Museum Director David Griggs in a release. The museum’s exhibit galleries and historical displays will be open for extended hours during

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Gas prices are shown Wednesday at Educated Car Wash, which also sells gas, at 3735 State St. in Santa Barbara. Average prices have fallen below $6 a gallon in Santa Barbara County after peaking in June but remain above the $4.31 gallon average from 2021.

Biden’s war on fossil fuels

ry as they might to mitigate the severe energy crisis plaguing the U.S., the Biden administration’s attempt to shore up supply is a few wellheads short of an oil rig. With gasoline prices averaging over $4.60 per gallon nationally ($5.82 a gallon in California) and several electric grid operators warning of rolling blackouts, increasing the supply of America’s most critical energy sources is vital. Fossil fuels account for 80% of America’s energy usage, yet the administration is intent on curbing oil and gas supply, cutting gasoline refining capacity and making it more challenging to meet rising electric demands. Oil prices are hovering around $100 per barrel, and millions of barrels per day of Russian oil are exiting the market due to

significantly increased royalty unwilling buyers, international fees. sanctions and contracted Western The situation is no different oil companies abandoning drilling for drilling on private land. The sites. Environmental Protection Agency With this dip in the lacks the authority to international oil market, ban fracking, but is the U.S. ought to be Jacob considering regulating preparing to increase Puckett America’s most domestic oil supply, but the Biden administration The author is productive and cost effective oil field into is simply not interested with in that. Instead, it’s RealClearWire irrelevance. The Permian Basin in Texas and New moving to block oil and Mexico accounts for 40% gas production on federal of America’s oil production and lands, where roughly a quarter of 15% of its natural gas production. American oil is produced. Undeterred by the Supreme The Interior Department’s Court’s recent rebuke of its recently proposed five year industry-remaking regulations, offshore lease plan would block the EPA is contemplating using offshore drilling in the Pacific ozone standards to force Texas and Atlantic oceans and offer and New Mexico to curb oil a small number (possibly zero!) drilling, potentially jeopardizing of leases in the Gulf of Mexico. 25% of America’s gasoline supply. Onshore, the administration cut And yet even if the available leased land by 80% and

administration encouraged more domestic drilling (in contrast to the president’s repeated calls for OPEC to pump more oil), that oil must be refined to turn it into gasoline and diesel fuel. However, in the face of increasing renewable fuel mandates, gasoline and diesel refining capacity in the United States has been declining for years, as many refineries are either closing or converting to biofuel refineries. No large refinery has been built for 46 years, in part because of the EPA’s ratcheting up of biofuel blending requirements to unsustainably high levels. Moreover, the EPA’s recent decision to end its longstanding practice of granting biofuel waivers to small refiners will only lead to more refineries closing under those mandates’ costly weight. Regulating refineries out

of business is not the way to lower gasoline prices. Nor is the electric grid immune from attention. A new EPA power plant emissions proposal is so aggressive that four of the nation’s seven electric grid operators have opposed it citing threats to grid reliability. Without changes, the rule would force reliable fossil fuel generation out of service at a time when ready-at-hand electric generation is rapidly declining throughout the country. With rising electric demands as the economy electrifies, shutting down needed power plants will make it harder to keep more than just the lights on. Nor is this challenge a far-off possibility. Several grid operators and regulators have issued warnings that maximum electric Please see PUCKETT on C4

Today’s obsession with personal pronouns

n a recent “Gutfeld!” show (8 p.m. weekdays on Fox News Channel, Channel 25 on Cox cable), there was a discussion about the use of personal pronouns. I heard both regular guest Kat Timpf and host Greg Gutfeld say (I’m paraphrasing here), “Well, I’ll call someone anything they want me to call them” and expressed the notion that by doing so would be a sign of “respect.” Why? What gives anyone the right to insist you call them by some made-up word and that if you don’t use it you may be sued, fired or canceled? How is that respectful? What kind of respect are you being shown if you simply don’t want to go along with this idiocy? Don’t misunderstand. I am a big fan of “Gutfeld!” I also like Ms Timpf, though she should laugh

Apparently, a lot. less (shades of Kamala!) and opine Here’s one thing I learned and more. Her sharp wit and biting now know. Many in the academic commentary often hits the bull’s community are extremely sensitive eye. And there is no one like Greg and regularly waste a great deal of Gutfeld on TV. He is smart, funny, time on advising people often self-deprecating, PURELY how to use a person’s abusive, snotty, annoying, POLITICAL “chosen” pronouns. opinionated, and most of all Along with “he,” “she” terribly entertaining. and “they,” are “ae,” The discussion of “per,” “ve,” “xe,” “ze” or personal pronouns, “zie.” And that’s just the however, did lead me to beginning. There are, wonder how it ever got this apparently, 78 preferred crazy. When I enrolled in pronouns to choose UCLA Health on Coast from. Why anyone would Village Road, for example, James Buckley want to be referred to the form I filled out as anything other than included the questions of “he,” “she” or “they” is what my personal pronouns beyond my ability to understand. were. But these people take this stuff Huh? seriously. Who has or cares to have Very seriously. “personal pronouns?” It’s called And despite absolutely no grammar: He, she, it, him, her, they, evidence whatsoever, you’ll we, us, them. What else is there to be informed by those who do know?

take this stuff very seriously that if you intentionally or even unintentionally use the wrong pronoun when referring to or speaking to someone who has informed you of their preferred pronoun, you are bound to make them, they, xe or zie feel less than whole. You will be disrespecting, invalidating, dismissing, alienating them, they, xe and zie. You may even bring on a deadly bout of dysphoria to them, they, xe and zie. Virtually every college, university, private school, institution and business has a protocol in place dealing with personal pronouns. If someone’s preferred pronouns are they/them/theirs, most sites will offer advice as to how to use they/them/theirs properly. (Xenon ate their food because they were hungry.) “They” is an often-used so-called gender-neutral pronoun

and is used as both a singular and plural pronoun. In fact, “they” was voted Word of the Year in 2015 by the American Dialect Society. Here’s more: Ze/hir/hir (Yeti ate hir food because ze was hungry.) Ze is pronounced like “zee” and can also be spelled zie or xe, and replaces she/he/they. Hir is pronounced like “here” and replaces her/hers/him/his/they/ theirs. Some people prefer not to use pronouns at all, using their name as a pronoun instead. (Bozo ate Bozo’s food because Bozo was hungry). I do believe “Seinfeld” covered someone referring to himself in the third person in a particularly hilarious episode of the TV show. At Santa Barbara City College, you’ll find this list of “common gender pronouns” on its website: Please see BUCKLEY on C4

hile we acknowledge the current police station is inadequate to meet the needs of 21st-century Santa Barbara, we eye with caution just exactly what the style and quality of the actual building will ultimately become as it passes through the scrutiny of the various architectural commissions. We are relieved to see that the new plans conform more to the quality and tradition of Santa Barbara architecture. Certainly, it’s better than the original proposal, which was ominous, dreary and foreboding. While the new station, planned for 601 Santa Barbara St., goes through this process, we want to make sure that the high standards remain intact. We encourage the present city council and the architect to take a cue from the newly resumed S B Architectural walking tour, which includes all the gems throughout the downtown corridor — and the histories of their great architects. The downtown sites vary from De La Guerra Plaza to El Paseo. Meridian Studios, the Lobero Theatre, the Santa Barbara County Courthouse and the U.S. Post Office. And not to forget, there are the Santa Barbara Public Library, The Granada and the Arlington Theatre, as well as thevarious courtyards and fountains. Think Julia Morgan, George Washington Smith, Lutah Maria Riggs, Reginald Johnson, James Osborne Craig and Mary Craig. Regarding the opposition to the overbuilding of the Modoc Preserve with plans to remove 63 mature trees: Did you know that Santa Barbara area residents are not allowed to remove trees from their private property without first obtaining a permit, which often is denied? However, the city, state or Santa Barbara County can remove any tree or grove of trees without regard to environmental concerns. For example, approximately 30 trees will be removed from the Castillo/Carrillo Commuter lot, and 35 trees will be removed for the new police station. That is at least 122 just for three projects. Eucalyptus and other trees in this area attract more than 90 species of birds, in addition to a variety of rare migrants that have been found where eucalyptus stands grow. For example, the large blue gum is also well situated to attract migrant birds. Several bird species choose eucalyptus for nesting to a greater degree than native trees in the urban and agricultural areas. These include redshouldered Hawk, red-tailed Hawk, great horned owl, great blue heron, great egret, along with western tanager, Bullock’s Oriole, western tohees and a variety of truly rare winter land birds. It is possible that some of these species would not nest in our developed areas in the absence of eucalyptus. The tall growth pattern and large limb structure are the most important features for these birds, compared to the native trees. We hope the Santa Barbara area will rally support for the Community Association for the Modoc Preserve to save this valuable and unique haven of wildlife. How many actually read Please see DONOVAN on C4

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anta Barbara with our Black and Latinx County supervisors communities, and others who received another find themselves on the fringe update on their plan of society, to denounce racism to create equity in in all its forms.” our criminal justice system. Meanwhile, the county What does that mean in erected a security gate at the actuality? They believe entrance of their building, like criminals are first and that which you use to enter foremost victims! the secure area of an airport, Hence, the chief aim of the complete with buckets for program, with few exceptions, your personal belongings, a is to keep as many criminals, hands-over-your-head X-ray of both accused and your body, and a little convicted, out of jail. wand over your booty This has to do with to finish you off! For the premise that our the time being, you criminal justice system can keep your shoes is a product of racism. on. Compounding There is only one this problem is the reason they would fact that our state implement this Andy Caldwell downgraded felonies system. Officials to misdemeanors and don’t feel safe in misdemeanors to citations. the halls of government. What that means is that all Why is that? Simply put, the California crime statistics supervisors are confounded have been skewed to deceive hypocrites. and delude the public For more than a decade, regarding actual crime rates every board meeting was and the dire situation we find protected by an armed ourselves in. Our local source sheriff’s deputy. But our of this problem is woefully woke supervisors wanted magnified by this woke county the deputy removed because supervisor’s declaration: having a deputy in uniform “We acknowledge that could be considered longstanding decades of threatening to people of color, repeated individual and presumably. What to do? Well, systemic racism and violence the meeting is now guarded against People of Color are by a security professional in contributing to a climate of plain clothes, in addition to intense sadness, fear and the new security gate manned outrage throughout the nation by uniformed guards no less. and in our Santa Barbara I feel better now; how about County community. Harmful you? consequences over many Here is a shout out to the generations have roots in “public servants” in their historic, structural racism stucco tower: If you don’t that have created societal feel safe with armed guards barriers to opportunities, patrolling your building, how resources, and wealth, do you think we feel? resulting in disproportionate Are we racists because we damage to Black, Latinx and want criminals arrested and other Communities of Color. locked up until they pay their We seek to reduce racial debt to society? disparities across our law There are thousands enforcement and criminal of gang members in our justice systems. All residents community and various other need to have trust that our organized theft rings, not to justice system is unbiased and mention homeless people, that our County is committed committing crimes every day to equitably advancing the against the people you are safety and well-being of all supposed to be representing. community members. The criminal justice ideology “As County leaders with a driving your agenda treats moral obligation to promote every criminal as a victim, equal protection and equal but your behavior tells us justice, we must sharpen you yourselves don’t feel safe our focus and harden in the community you were our resolve to implement elected to serve and protect. programs that are fair, just Maybe you should focus on and address racial bias that moral obligation. throughout the criminal justice system. In this national Andy Caldwell is the COLAB moment of reckoning, we executive director and host of join with our colleagues, “The Andy Caldwell Show,” partners, collaborators, and airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on the entire Santa Barbara KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press County community to stand radio station.

Editor’s note: Charles F. Beauchamp, PhD, CTP, is an associate professor of finance at Mississippi College. Vance Gin, Ph.D., is the chief economist at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and is the policy director for the foundation’s Alliance for Opportunity campaign, a multistate poverty relief initiative. This op-ed initially appeared at thecannononline.com

Zombie firms are those that are fragile as debt mainly funds their operations. They rose in the U.S. since 2008 as the Federal Reserve held interest rates too low for too long and Congress passed numerous bailouts and spending packages. Congress’ recent actions of even worse deficit-spending packages that led to a 20% increase in the national debt since January 2020 to a whopping $30.5 Charles F. nly a bolt trillion — or $90,000 Beauchamp of lightning owed per American — and Vance Gin or a dose of helped prop up many radiation more zombie firms. The authors are can awaken Thankfully, the Fed is a professor and finally fighting the 40zombies in the movies. an economist year high inflation rate The same isn’t true for an economic zombie. by (slightly) reducing its In the latter’s case, it took balance sheet to raise its federal many years — especially the last funds rate target. But it’s welltwo years — of deficit-spending behind the curve as it should be fueling excessive money printing tightening much faster according to get this day of reckoning for to the well-respected Taylor rule. the U.S. economy with frequent It’s also good news that mentions of “stagflation” and Congress doesn’t look poised to “recession.” pass any more reckless deficitEconomic zombies are harder spending packages — thanks to to kill than in the movies, as Senate Republicans, Democratic they last as long as the policies Sen. Joe Manchin, and Sen. that raised them, causing much Kyrsten Sinema — but a new avoidable pain to Americans – attempt is brewing. especially to those who can least When these bad policies stop, afford it. Bad policies must stop there will be a correction of these so this scary movie disrupting our government failures that created lives ends. zombie firms to turn to dust.

Evidence of this is small businesses – which are the most sensitive to these escalating costs – cutting 91,000 jobs in May, making it three out of four months with job losses at small businesses. And according to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, six out of 10 smallbusiness owners expect the economy to be worse in the next year, matching the record low in April 2020. Dying zombie firms will put downward pressure on labor markets as they cut workers and drop open positions to stem higher costs, which will reduce the inflated number of job openings exceeding unemployed workers. With so many workers not looking for a job, there are also many zombie workers. Millions of workers haven’t returned since the recession and others are jumping from one job to another to keep up with rapidly rising inflation and to find the “best” match. The handouts without work requirements – such as “stimulus” checks, child tax credit payments and expanded Medicaid over the last two years — contributed to this situation as the personal savings rate jumped to a historic high Please see RECKONING on C4

Senate drug bill could end up hurting patients Editor’s note: Judy Pearson is an award-winning writer, a cancer survivor, and founder of A 2nd Act, an Arizona nonprofit that supports women survivors of all cancers.

as soon as the details emerged, and it became apparent that the Senate ignored the flat tire. Medicare Part D, which cancer patients use for everything from certain chemotherapy drugs to f you took your car to the anti-nausea and pain medications, mechanic to fix a flat tire is extremely popular among and were told that the seniors and has actually come auto shop was instead in under budget year after year. going to replace your So, of course, the Senate thinks perfectly good engine, while that disrupting that popular leaving the flat tire as it is, you program is the smart move. would be dumbfounded Senators are proposing and stunned at the price controls in Part Judy incompetence. D, which sound good in Pearson Sadly, this is happening theory, but would actually in real life with the U.S. The author is be extremely disruptive Senate and drug pricing. the founder od to access, innovation The Senate is and groundbreaking A 2nd Act currently trying to “fix” research, all of which drug pricing through were critical in the reconciliation. It’s an honorable creation of lifesaving vaccines and much-needed goal. For too for COVID-19 and will continue long, patients have been hurt at to be at the forefront in treating the pharmacy counter with rising disease. costs, resulting in many having Just ask the foreign countries to decide between everyday that have price controls. Every necessities and prescription one of them has fewer options medications. The sooner we fix when it comes to treatment. Or ask drug pricing, the sooner we’ll the University of Chicago, whose stop hearing the heartbreaking report stated that price controls stories of seniors cutting their would likely lead to anywhere medications in half or simply not from 162 to 342 new drugs hitting treating their chronic conditions the market over the next two due to cost. decades. So when the first draft of the The Senate bill has a whole Senate prescription drug bill was bunch of other bad things in it released, hopes were high in the as well, like removing the $35 patient community. co-pay cap on insulin, as well as Sadly, those hopes were dashed allowing Part D health insurance

premiums to rise. But what stands out the most is seeing what they decided NOT to fix, like the shady practices employed in the pharmacy benefit manager industry. The fact is that the net price for drugs, after accounting for rebates/discounts/fees, is dropping while everything else is rising. So why are we not seeing the benefit of that at the pharmacy counter? It’s because pharmacy benefit managers are keeping drug manufacturer rebates for themselves and raking in billions of dollars in the process. It’s not like the Senate does not know this. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Indiana, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., recently introduced legislation to hold them accountable and make their industry more transparent. Was any of that language in the Senate reconciliation bill? Sadly, the answer is no. There is still time for the Senate to correct their mistakes in this reconciliation bill. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly, both D-Arizona, are very influential and can lead the charge on behalf of patients. They simply need to get back in the shop with their colleagues; fix what is broken, and keep what is working. It’s not a difficult task when looked at from that perspective. The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism, provided this commentary to the News-Press.

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Parking difficult at Hot Springs trailhead

have been hiking with the Sierra Club for over five years. Recently, we have encountered problems being

able to park at the Hot Springs trailhead. Several loop hikes start at this trailhead, and we can no longer do these hikes. The problem seems to be that people have been putting big rocks where the parking used to be. Santa Barbara County has tried nicely to ask the property owners to

remove these rocks, but many property owners have refused. As a hiker, I want to support the county’s efforts to restore the parking so we can hike these trails again. Guofang Wei Professor of mathematics UCSB

Biden’s Mideast trip promising

resident Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia highlights the stark contrasts between two very different, very important nations in the Mideast. The former, our closest ally in the region, is a democracy with tremendous assets. The latter is a fragile entity, entirely dependent on one asset — petroleum. President Biden was effective in referencing the grotesque murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi, without publicly insulting the Saudi government. The radical regime in Iran reinforces U.S. ties for both nations. Regional instability, reinforced by terrorist groups, plus U.S. self-interest makes the Mideast especially challenging. The 1956 Suez Crisis remains particularly important. President Dwight Eisenhower used leverage to end a secretly planned old-style colonial military invasion by Britain, France and Israel to recapture the Suez Canal, nationalized by Egypt’s new military regime, and seize the Sinai Peninsula. Ike’s instincts were on target, as usual, and our alliance relationships survived. In Britain, Harold Macmillan succeeded Victorian Prime Minister Anthony Eden, who belatedly acknowledged that the U.S. is the principal diplomatic and strategic leader, source of military as well as productive foreign aid, and other capabilities, in the Mideast and around the world Approximately two years after Suez brought strategic disaster for the three invading nations, President Eisenhower decided the United States should intervene directly in Lebanon with a sizable military force. Given the volatile nature of the region, the intervention was risky. American troops suffered only one soldier killed by hostile fire. Our forces were concentrated in Beirut’s city center, the port and the airport. The crisis did not escalate, and President Eisenhower withdrew our forces. In Washington, opposition to the operation was largely partisan in nature. Disciplined decision-making by President Eisenhower contrasts sharply with the undisciplined, arrogant manner in which the George W. Bush administration in 2004 invaded and structurally destroyed Iraq. Our forces went to Lebanon in 1958 to occupy specific, potentially vulnerable areas, on a mission strictly limited in time as well as space. In 1973, disciplined hard work of the Nixon administration was crucial to Israel’s successful defense against a combined attack by Arab states. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger led follow-up efforts to ease tensions in the region. This led to major peace agreements. President Jimmy Carter’s own determination and discipline achieved the historic 1978 Camp David peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. In 1990-91, President George H.W. Bush and associates orchestrated an enormous international effort to drive invading Iraq forces from Kuwait. Immediately thereafter, the U.S. pursued Please see CYR on C4

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A transplant miracle that defied COVID tyranny

eilani Lutali and Jaimee Fougner are alive, giggling and ready to fight for truth, justice and faith. I visited them this weekend at Baylor University Medical Center’s aptly named post-kidney transplant surgery center called the Twice Blessed House. If not for their stubborn resistance and persistence, Leilani most likely would not have survived COVID tyranny — and Jaimee would be in mourning for her sister in Christ. Instead, we laughed, cried and wolfed down Texas barbecue along with friends and family. Last October, I wrote about how University of Colorado Health officials cruelly and arbitrarily kicked Leilani off their transplant list after both she and Jaimee refused the COVID-19 vaccine on religious and scientific grounds. “UC Health gave me a death sentence,” Leilani reflected on Sunday. “Baylor gave me a chance” at life. Leilani’s kidney function

immediately skyrocketed from “The two of us are stubborn as 5% to 73% just days after surgery. all get out,” Leilani effused. “We Baylor University doctors told don’t take no for an answer.” Leilani and Jaimee, who each Both objected vehemently to the underwent a three-hour-long use of aborted fetal cell lines for procedure, that triathlete and production and manufacturing of former Air Force medic COVID vaccines. Leilani Jaimee’s kidney was an had COVID two summers “overachieving” marvel. ago and possessed longThe future is bright, and lasting antibodies, giving these charismatic women her natural immunity give all glory to their right up through surgery. Creator. Jaimee, a medical “Without faith in Christ, professional, conducted we would not be sitting copious research on Michelle Malkin the legal, scientific, here today. We were either going to listen to regulatory and ethical men or listen to God, and issues surrounding the we chose the path of God,” Leilani experimental mRNA vaccines. told me. The dynamic duo wants After UC Health kicked them to the world to know their COVID the curb, they found a surgeon at vaccine defiance and survival Medical City Healthcare in Dallas story. They are now committed willing to consider their case. to battling religious and medical Hopes were high until Jaimee was discrimination against Christians informed that a few vessels found nationwide. on her left kidney (most often Leilani and Jaimee met at a used for transplants) disqualified Bible study group. They learned her from surgery. Yet both of her they had the same blood type and kidneys were perfectly healthy. forceful personalities to match. Flummoxed but undeterred,

Leilani suggested applying to nearby Baylor University, whose building signs Leilani had taken note of — providentially, she believes — during their stay. That was five short months ago. Baylor’s compassionate and excellent medical providers moved quickly to enroll the duo. They confirmed Leilani’s natural immunity and Jaimee’s perfect match as a living donor. Their unvaccinated status was never an issue. (Contrary to what UC Health told me in October, COVID vaccine mandates are not de rigueur at transplant clinics. In fact, an American Journal of Transplantation survey published in March found that the majority of clinics in the U.S. — 60.7% — did not require vaccination as a condition of surgery.) Fortified by faith, Leilani and Jaimee now sat before me at the Twice Blessed House joking about Jaimee’s super kidney. Leilani named her life-saving organ “Baby Baylee” in honor of the Baylor team that lives by the

Hippocratic Oath abandoned by UC Health. In March, the law firm of civil rights lawyer and anti-medical mandates hero Aaron Siri sent a devastating 22-page letter to UC Health regarding its violation of Leilani’s First Amendmentprotected freedom of religion, violation of the Colorado AntiDiscrimination Act and arbitrary removal of Leilani from the transplant list despite her longlasting natural immunity to COVID-19 and despite numerous studies showing that: • Those with natural immunity pose less risk of spreading COVID-19 than the vaccinated. • The risks of the COVID-19 vaccine far outweigh any benefit for those with natural immunity; • COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective against current variants. • Organ transplant recipients benefit less from COVID-19 vaccines.

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Writer Justin Owen praises the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Supreme Court’s EPA ruling is not about the climate

hile the abortion debate is front and center, climate change alarmists are all fired up about another recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion. In West Virginia v. EPA, the court struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to pass rules aimed at curbing emissions from power plants. This may sound like it’s about the debate over how to deal with pollution, but it’s much bigger

than that. The court didn’t rule was a good thing. Unfortunately, the way it did because it doesn’t federal agencies stepped in to fill like what the EPA was doing. the void, adopting thousands and It is saying that the thousands of rules that Justin EPA doesn’t have the have the force of law. Owen authority to do it in the There are now so many first place. federal regulations that The author Throughout U.S. one civil rights attorney is with The history, people have and author famously elected their members of Beacon Center proclaimed that the Congress to enact laws average person commits addressing major federal issues. three felonies a day. Indeed, the But over time, Congress began Federal Register that publishes passing fewer and fewer laws. For all of these rules passed by nonthose of us who think we have elected bureaucracies now totals too many laws already, that part more than 70,000 pages. Stacked

up, that would be higher than a two-story house. It’s literally impossible for the average person to understand how these rules impact them, much less try to comply with them all. That’s why the recent EPA case is so important. The Supreme Court essentially said that on major questions that impact our lives, our elected representatives in Congress must pass laws or expressly grant administrative agencies the authority to regulate us in place of a federal law. Thus, agencies like the EPA

can’t just “pass” their own laws without congressional approval. This comes on the heels of similar decisions restraining federal agencies, such as the case striking down the CDC’s mask mandate in airports and on airplanes and other forms of public transportation. In both instances, these agencies overstepped their authority and were put in their place by the courts. The growing number of Please see OWEN on C4

Lessons learned from Wimbledon

t the 100th anniversary of Wimbledon, watching Rafael Nadal play the 9 years younger, 5 inches taller Taylor Fritz, serve 15 mph faster, inspired a kaleidoscope of my emotions and thoughts. Mr. Nadal, at age 34 when many players’ skills fade, was fighting through a chronic foot problem while also calling for a doctor for stomach problems. That caused me to dash off a text to Rex of “this appears to be mara’s swan song.” My typo of “mara” instead of “rafa” for Rafael led to our discussing the nature of swan songs. A “swan song” is a metaphysical phrase for a final gesture, effort or performance given by swans just before their death after having been silent (or alternatively not so musical) during most of their lifetime. Another phrase conveying the

concept of the end of the ability directed by John Ford and starred to perform is the “last hurrah,” Spencer Tracy. which is described in the poem of The plot of “The Last Hurrah” the same name: was that the fictional, aging at This is my last hurrah, once I 72, Mayor Frank Skeffington start (Mr. Tracy) was trying I ain’t going to stop ‘till I to use his power as the go too far incumbent and recipient Last hurrah and it’s of his party’s political okay machine, to have his last Maybe tomorrow I won’t hurrah being to win one feel the pain. final election. His loss to While there are many the novice McCluskey was poems entitled the “last meant to symbolize that hurrah,” this one is my even the party machines Brent E. favorite because it also could not overcome Zepke has the humor of its being a politician with agewritten about breaking a related declining skills. The author diet for a piece of cake to At Wimbledon, perhaps lives in Santa illustrate an important it was thoughts of “maybe Barbara. concept. tomorrow I won’t feel Indeed, the concept of a the pain” that kept Mr. last hurrah is not only applicable Nadal going through the fourto tennis, or even sports, as Edwin and-a-half-hour match while the O’Connor’s book by the same name typical ladies match at Wimbledon applies the concept to politics, lasted an hour and a half and as did the award-winning 1958 Novak Djokovic won the other movie of the same name that was gentlemen’s semi-final match in a

little over two hours. At Wimbledon, some players’ attempts to avoid it being their last hurrah were thwarted by the combination of age and the medical issues that frequently accompany it, including 35-yearold Andy Murray and 41-yearold Serena Williams. While tennis players’ primary medical issues are age-related loss of physical abilities, in politicians the physical issues associated with aging may include stiffness in movements and loss of balance on stairs or bicycles. They may also include failures in cognitive functions, such as ability to understand and/or remember or follow directions, which is why the Medicare tests seniors for these abilities. For example, President Donald Trump passed the test. But neither the physician nor President Biden, will confirm that he passed the test although his speeches, such as the one on July

8 gave an indication when he read the directions someone wrote for him to follow but not read out loud with: “It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who are registered to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of men who do so. End of quote,” Biden read, followed by his saying “repeat the line,” which he dutifully did. When Mr. Nadal’s father saw him struggling with pain, he signaled him to quit. When first lady Jill Biden saw her husband embarrassed when her tweet “For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies,” received the response of “Glad to see that you know what a woman is” by Ret. Lt. General Gary Volesky. Mrs. Biden caused the general to be suspended from his counseling the U.S. military and ordered the FBI to “investigate” Please see ZEPKE on C4

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Where’s the beef?

ow can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat? At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers. “How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in my new video. “They (Wendy’s) were out of hamburger, yet you could see cattle from the drive-through!” It happens because of stupid government rules. Rep. Massie owns a small farm in Kentucky. “I’d rather deal with cattle than congressmen,” he jokes. “At least (cattle) exhibit learned behavior.” But politicians often don’t. “You’re born with the right to eat what you want,” says Rep. Massie. “Why is the government getting in the middle and saying, ‘No, you can’t buy that’?” “To keep you safe,” I push back. “They’re not keeping you safe,” Rep. Massie responds. “They’re keeping you away from good, healthy food.” American meat regulation began after activist Upton Sinclair worked undercover at a meatpacking plant and then wrote the book “The Jungle.” It became a huge bestseller. Mr. Sinclair’s goal was to advance socialism. But his book became famous for exposing unsanitary conditions, like rat infestations and rotting meat carcasses, at packing plants. The outcry over that led Congress in 1906 to declare that any meat sold must get a stamp of approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. What did the inspection entail? An absurd technique called “poke and sniff.” To find tainted meat, federal bureaucrats stuck little spikes into carcasses and then smelled the spikes. If they smelled something spoiled, they ordered that meat discarded. The process was ridiculous. The inspectors used the same spikes over and over, plunging them into multiple animals. Poking and sniffing sometimes made things worse by spreading disease from one Please see STOSSEL on C4

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‘We made our food supply brittle’ STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 carcass to the next. Of course, governments often do ridiculous things, and regulators, once they start doing them, keep doing them. The feds didn’t stop “poke and sniff” until the late 1990s. Today, USDA inspectors do a better job. They test for bacteria. But the inspection process is so cumbersome and expensive, many small companies can’t afford it. The result, complained President Joe Biden recently, is too much market concentration: “Four big corporations control more than half the markets in beef, pork and poultry!” His remedy, sadly, is to give

your tax money to some smaller meatpackers. Of course, such subsidies and regulations increase market concentration. “The bigger the government, the bigger the corporations,” Rep. Massie points out. “People who don’t like big corporations haven’t figured that out.” During the beginning of the pandemic, it was that market concentration that caused meat shortages when a few big meat processing plants shut down due to COVID infections. “We made our food supply brittle,” says Rep. Massie. “One small disruption throws the whole thing off.” When the processors shut down, some ranchers who couldn’t get to a federally approved

slaughterhouse ended up killing their own animals. If only they’d been able to go to a local processor. Rep. Massie takes his cattle to one. There, he can see the conditions himself. His local slaughterhouse meets state inspection standards. But since it is not USDAcertified, Rep. Massie and other ranchers who have their cattle processed there may not sell you a steak. He can, however, give it to you or eat it himself. But he may not sell it. To fix that, Rep. Massie proposes a new law: the PRIME Act, which would let farmers sell meat processed by state-approved slaughterhouses, with no federal meddling. “You’re self-dealing,” I tell him.

“Just trying to help yourself.” “I’ve got 50 cattle,” he replies. “This is the most inefficient selfdealing any politician has ever engaged in.” Rep. Massie says he’s doing it because Americans ought to have a right to eat whatever we want to buy. “It boggles my mind why Washington, D.C., needs to be involved in a transaction between me ... and a customer who’s my neighbor.” John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

There are competitors who are no longer able to compete ZEPKE

Continued from Page C3 him. Why? To protect her husband from embarrassment at having nominated for the Supreme Court Judge Kentanji Jackson, who testified under oath that she could not define a “woman” since she was not a biologist. That was the general’s reference. In tennis, Mr. Nadal, the night after he defeated Mr. Fritz, indicated that the medical tests confirmed that the issue the doctor was treating during his match, was a 5-millimeter tear in his stomach muscles that required him to withdraw with the message “I don’t want to go out there and not be competitive” so his beating

Mr. Fritz was his last hurrah for this Wimbledon. Should President Biden hear that call during his first term, his replacement will be Vice President Kamala Harris, who is known, to be kind, for her “word salads” of repeatedly using the same word in a confusing way. For example, when CBS News correspondent Robert Costa asked why the Democrats in both the White House and in Congress “failed’ to codify the federal abortions in the nearly 50 years since the precedent was established, Vice President Harris responded: “I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but certainly believe that certain issues are just settled.” Apparently thinking she had hit

on a point worth repeating, she continued, “Certain issues are just settled.” “Clearly were not,” Mr. Costa replied, to which the nation’s second-in-command emphasized her “believes” with “No, that’s right. And that’s why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.” Wimbledon illustrated many messages that extend beyond tennis, such as: The vast majority of players never possessed the ability to qualify although a few of these are permitted to enter. There are competitors who are no longer able to compete due to the effects of injuries that become more relevant with age, such as Andy Murray and Serena Williams, although there are exceptions, such as Novak

Djokovic winning this year’s Wimbledon at age 35. Some pause to heal injuries, such as 41-yearold Roger Federer; and sadly some continue unaware that they will force others to sing their swan songs for them. Is politics any different? Brent E. Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. His website is OneheartTwoLivescom.wordpress. com. Formerly, he taught law and business at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One Heart-Two Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for NonLawyers.”

That worn-out solution results in over-taxation DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 the details of U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal’s letter that he sent to his constituents last week: how he “really feels the inflation in his home, too”? Sure, it’s just like the Santa Barbara City Council, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors et al, with the car allowance they receive, while the rest of us pay dearly at the pump. The blatant hypocrisy is staggering which pervades every single point Rep. Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, makes in this letter. The congressman’s premise is to help curb those “rising costs of inflation right here on the Central Coast ” — now at 9.1%, a 40-year high. Did you know that inflation now costs the average worker an extra $3,400 per year? This all happened within two years! Also, remember the Federal Reserve target for inflation is 2%. How did it get to 8% before taking any action? Rep. Carbajal’s voting record is consistent with lockstep globalization. How does he expect to increase investment in U.S. manufacturing with globalization policies firmly in place? Another suggestion he offers is

clearing up ports, railways and supply chains so shipments can move quickly. Really? Gov Gavin Newsom continues to hogtie the trucking industry with regulations, which promise to put about 70,000 truckers out of business, and the only trucks used by the year 2023, can be no older than 2011 models. Funny, because the Amtrak train cars currently in use, (government-run, of course) were built between 1987-1993. How efficient is that? Another of Rep. Carbajal’s points is the need to curb big corporations from taking advantage of pandemic conditions, by raising prices and squeezing consumers even more — yet during the shutdown, “momand-pop” stores folded while the state allowed the big box stores to remain open and to flourish. He proposes cutting taxes for people in the middle and working classes “so folks can have some relief.” That worn-out solution results in over-taxation on high income populations who leave the state and retreat to offshore production of goods, which completely thwarts the idea of locally produced commerce. How bout we put a tax on hypocrisy? Another idea is to “accelerate the transition away from global volatile energy markets

by investing in clean energy production as well as alternative and renewable fuels.” Yet, President Joe Biden last week, showed up “hat in hand” to the Saudis begging for more oil. Sadly, we are not investing in American energy, which is cleaner and carries higher standards than any country that produces oil. Oil industry executives lament that no new refineries are being built in the U.S. The irony is that this country sits on abundant oil and natural gas fields, while we pander to the volatile foreign market. Rep. Carbajal cannot control inflation within California. It is not only a national matter, but also a worldwide issue. The only way out of this fastgrowing inflationary mess is to significantly reduce government spending on giveaways and by cooling the economy with rising interest rates. Most prominent economists and bank presidents are now projecting either a cessation in the growth of the economy or an outright recession for 2 -3 years. And there is nothing Rep. Carbajal or his cronies can do about any of this, except to make it worse under the false cover that they are trying to make it better.

“Of all forms of injustice, none is more flagrant than that of a hypocrite who, at the very moment when he is most false, makes it his business to appear virtuous.” — Cicero Did You Know? would like to clarify its position regarding the presence of parklets along State Street. The main objection was the rampant construction with few guidelines provided by the previous mayor and city council. We support a uniform and scaleddown version of parklets, which are portable, safe and follow some protocols for aesthetics. Perhaps there are some Santa Barbarans who don’t care so much about the rich traditions of our State Street parades — Fiesta, Summer Solstice, Christmas, Fourth of July. However, many thousands in this town do care. “There is nothing more deceptive, than an obvious fact.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

The Fed is way behind the inflationary curve RECKONING

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of 33% in April 2020 and stayed elevated for a while. But now that rate is dropping like it’s hot, as people are running through their savings—with the latest rate of 5.4% in May 2022 being the lowest in nearly 14 years. If zombie firms begin to crumble and zombie workers don’t search for a job, the resulting zombie economy will hit

BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 “Most commonly, individuals use she/her/hers or he/him/his. However, increasingly, people are self-identifying with genderneutral pronouns like these: “They/them: Melissa walked to their car because they needed to leave for work. (Note: In this context, ‘They’ and ‘them’ are used to refer to a singular subject). “Ze/hir: Max walked to hir car because ze needed to leave for work. (Note: ‘Hir’ is pronounced ‘here,’ and “ze,” which is also sometimes written as ‘zie’ or ‘xe,’ is pronounced ‘zee’). “Name only: Max walked to Max’s car because Max needed to leave for work. (Note: Some people choose not to use pronouns).” Got it?

a wall. The result will be a rising unemployment rate, soaring inflation and stagnating economy, which would extend this costly period of stagflation. This weakens President Joe Biden’s argument that the strength of the labor market can mitigate the effects of inflation, as inflationadjusted hourly earnings remain negative. The Fed is way behind the inflationary curve, and it’s the primary entity that can correct this walking dead inflation situation.

Instead of blaming “corporate greed” or “Putin’s price hikes,” President Biden, Congress and the Fed must cut regulations, spend and tax less, and print less money. The zombie economy’s reckoning is likely a recession with real GDP declines of in the first quarter and another likely decline in the second quarter. No wonder President Biden’s approval rating is hitting record lows and his disapproval rating hitting record highs. To awaken the zombie economy,

there needs to be responsible fiscal and monetary policies in Washington. This includes progrowth spending, regulating, and taxing reductions to support expanding supply and aggressive quantitative tightening to deflate demand. Until then, the zombie economy will continue to bring deeper, longer-lasting pain.

Good. But if you don’t get it, Walden University can help. Walden is an accredited on-line learning center based in Minneapolis that claims it has nearly 50,000 students. It offers undergraduate — master’s (can we still use that term?) and doctoral degrees in a number of fields of study including education, nursing, psychology, criminal justice, public health, social work and others. Here is what they advise: “In the past, gender pronouns were separated into masculine (he/him/his) and feminine (she/ her/hers). This separation of masculine and feminine is called gender binary and only recognizes men and women. Many people identify outside of the gender binary. Gender-neutral pronouns such as they/them or xe/xer/xers allow individuals to use pronouns they feel fit with their identities.”

Here’s what the folks at Walden believe would be an appropriate response if you tell them you don’t agree with the concept of sharing your pronouns and don’t want to go along with this stuff: “I understand where you are coming from, but to me pronoun visibility really is necessary. Many people have a name and gender that corresponds with traditional pronoun usage; however, this is not the case for all. Some of our staff, faculty and students have continually been referred to by the wrong pronoun, which makes them feel disrespected. Rather than just asking those individuals to share their pronouns, we can be inclusive and all embrace this practice. It removes any ambiguity and the potential to hurt.” At Walden, as at SBCC, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Berkeley and most other colleges and universities, this pronoun

agenda has taken a firm hold. In many cases, it’s considered an infraction, an assault even, to refuse to address a student by his or her chosen pronoun. So Jim is going to get up from Jim’s chair because Jim has finished writing Jim’s column and Jim is going to watch Tucker. Oh wait, sorry. They is going to get up from their chair because they has finished writing their column and they is going to watch Tucker. Got it? If not, get it. Or else.

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James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com. Readers are invited to visit jimb.substack.com, where Jim’s Journals are on file. He also invites people to subscribe to Jim’s Journal.

Fossil fuels are vital for economic activity PUCKETT

Continued from Page C1 generation may not be enough to meet this summer’s demands in more than half the country due to early coal and gas plant closures. Incorporating clean energy is important, but going too green too fast means summer blackouts may no longer be confined to California. Despite the urgency of the situation, there are few policy moves that would bring down energy prices overnight. In industries where billion dollar investments take years to pay off, long-term certainty and consistency of the kind the Biden administration refuses to provide are needed. Fossil fuels are vital for economic activity and global power projection, and the administration should strategize accordingly. Periodically releasing oil from the Strategic

Petroleum Reserve is not a strategy, especially when that oil ends up in China. Nor is the EPA’s consideration of eliminating half of America’s liquified natural gas exports or federal regulators slowalking permits for a new LNG terminal, at a time when increasing more environmentally friendly, less emissions-intensive American exports can help wean European allies off Russian gas. But these strategic and economic casualties are not accidental. Across the board, the Biden administration has placed fossil fuels in its crosshairs. Americans stuck with high energy prices are simply collateral damage. Jakob Puckett is an energy analyst. Follow him on Twitter at @jakobrpuckett. This RealClearWire commentary was provided to the News-Press by The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism.\

Leilani and Jaimee refused to be bullied MALKIN

Continued from Page C3 • COVID-19 vaccines are novel therapies with known and unknown risks. Mr. Siri, who spearheaded successful litigation forcing Pfizer to disclose thousands of pages of COVID-19 licensing data it wanted to hide from the public, noted Pfizer’s admission of 158,893 internally reported adverse events after administration of its COVID-19 vaccine. Of course, he informed UC Health, “the magnitude of underreporting is unknown.” UC Health, which did not respond to my request for comment, told Mr. Siri’s law firm in March that its “position remains the same.” In other words: Comply or die. Leilani and Jaimee refused to be bullied, intimidated or deceived. “The Bible tells us 365 times, ‘Do not fear,’ ‘Do not be afraid,’” Jaimee reminded our

gathering. The duo started a Facebook group cheekily titled “Medical mandates: Are you kidney me?” (https://m.facebook.com/ groups/597575861374347/) for transplant patients facing vaccine discrimination or adverse outcomes after being coerced to take the COVID jabs as a condition of surgery. “It’s been one gift, one opportunity for joy after another,” Leilani said of their miraculous transplant journey. “We don’t want people floundering in despair thinking there’s nowhere for them to go. We know our job’s not done. It’s just begun.” Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.

Today, scholars rightly respect President Eisenhower, always revered by average Americans CYR

Continued from Page C2 efforts for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Secretary of State James Baker demonstrated extraordinary energy and dedication in sustained diplomacy that followed. The Madrid conference at the end of October 1991 led to the Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians. This in turn facilitated the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan in 1994. Today, scholars rightly respect President Eisenhower, always revered by average Americans. The rarely discussed Lebanon intervention deserves review any time our forces may become directly engaged in the explosive, unpredictable Middle East. After the Suez crisis, the Soviet Union cemented ties with

Arab states. This ended with the end of the Cold War; President George H.W. Bush cemented American leadership. Today Iran, Russia and Turkey expand Mideast influence. The first is hostile to stability; the second, our principal enemy during the Cold War; the last, our formal ally but antagonistic. The Trump administration deserves credit for brokering recognition between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, plus Bahrain. The Biden administration can build on this. Arthur I. Cyr is author of “After the Cold War - American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia” (NYU Press and Palgrave/Macmillan). He is also the director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and a Clausen Distinguished Professor. He welcomes questions and comments at acyr@carthage.edu.

Your vote should matter on major policy issues OWEN

Continued from Page C3 examples of judges imposing restraint on federal agency overreach represents a huge victory for average Americans. We elect people to Congress for a reason. They are the ones who should be held accountable for passing the laws that we have to live under. We are entitled to know who voted to impose regulations on our lives and why, so that we can hold them accountable at the ballot box. When we allow unelected bureaucrats to lord over us, there is very little we can do to hold them accountable for their actions. Even if you agreed with the

EPA’s actions on pollution or the CDC’s mask mandate, you should applaud rulings like these. Regardless of where you stand on them, your vote should matter on major policy issues. Now hopefully more and more issues will be debated and voted on in Congress, not delegated to a faceless bureaucracy. At least reducing all those pages of federal regulations will save us some trees. Justin Owen is president and CEO of the Beacon Center of Tennessee, the state’s premier free market think tank. This commentary was provided to the News-Press by The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism.