TREE RINGS STUDIES CONFIRM GLOBAL COOLING

By Chriss Street

The prestigious Nature Journal recently published a major climate change study named Orbital Forcing Of Tree-Ring Data that proves through analysis of over 2000 years of tree ring evidence that current climate models substantially underestimated ancient Northern Europe temperatures levels during the Roman and Medieval Periods.  The fact that temperatures have trended down for the last two centuries debunks theories that anthropogenic (man-made) global-warming is caused by a rising CO2 gas levels associated with industrial burning of “fossil fuels.”

Researchers from Germany, Finland, Scotland, and Switzerland examined tree-ring density profiles in trees from Finnish Lapland.  In this extremely cold environment, trees often collapse into one of the numerous lakes, where they remain well preserved for thousands of years.  The international team was able to conduct high reliability calculations of tree ring density from the cold water preserved Scandinavian pine trees, which correlate very closely with annual summer temperature patterns. 

The United Nations’ endorsed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for interpreting studies of ice cores and ocean sediments to “conclude” that Europe was about to suffer catastrophic anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.  But new Tree Ring Data allows precise measurements of annual climate variability.   The results reveal there has been a cooling trend of -0.3°C (0.54°F) per millennia (1000 year periods) “due to gradual changes to the position of the sun and an increase in the distance between the Earth and the sun.”  The high-resolution graph shown above demonstrates that temperatures ancient periods were much warmer than predicted by IPCC.  The study also documents the extreme temperature phases that occurred during Europe’s “Little Ice Age” that resulted in a general cooling trend between the 1150 and 1460 AD and extremely cold climate between 1560 and 1850 AD.  According to lead researcher Jan Esper:

“We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low” … “Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy, as they will influence the way today’s climate changes are seen in context of historical warm periods.”

The results are a huge embarrassment to IPCC, which has acknowledged it did not carry out its own original research to monitor climate and related phenomena.  But their extrapolated conclusions regarding a recent warming trend served as justification for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to demand Western industrialized nations implement the job killing Kyoto Protocol treaty to achieve “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”

In a direct broadside against global-warming doomsday alarmists, Esper noted:

“This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant.  However, it is also not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1°C. Our results suggest that the large-scale climate reconstruction shown by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate this long-term cooling trend over the past few millennia.” 

The Tree Ring study proves the recent warming trend we are experiencing is not exceptional, because temperatures have been exceeded for at least two periods over the last 2000 years. Paleoclimatologists describe the warming of the earth over the last 12,000 years as theHolocene inter-glacial of the current Ice Age.  The prior Eemian interglacial period, which began 130,000 years ago and ended 114,000 years ago, was much warmer.  Scandinavia was an island, hippos swam in the Thames at the site of London, and the raised beaches of Alaska & fossil reefs of the Bahamas were formed.

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Orange County, CA Judicial Misconduct Tracker Status

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - I spoke to Public Affairs Spokesperson Gwen Vieau September 24, 2012  with a request for information about allegations of judicial misconduct in the Orange County California Small Claims Court System.

The good news is that the General Counsel for the Superior Court of California County of Orange Jeff Wertheimer,  quickly responded to my request and was gracious enough to treat my request pursuant to California Rules of Court Rule 10.500. The bad news is that for whatever reason, Mr. Wertheimer’s response was dismissive, derisive, condescending and clearly not responsive.

 Mr. Wertheimer unequivocally states that in the 21^st Century, the mulit-billion dollar behemoth of the California Court Case Management System (CCMS)  cannot handle  mundane functions such as exporting  data from and to a simple Excel spreadsheet. 

But wait, there is more.  Mr. Wertheimer primary excuse is budgetary constraint, even though

just some eight months ago or so, 52 hotel rooms were booked at the San Francisco Holiday Inn for court officials from across California to discuss the CCMS- Expense records for the conference show the AOC spent $13,220.10 for the hotel, meals and airfares. Price tag for the CCMS is more expensive than building the Space Shuttle Endeavor, which cost $1.7 billion according to NASA!

What is more troubling is Mr. Wertheimer’s  closing statement:  “ For this reason, even if you were willing to pay the considerable cost of generating the documentation, we are unable to provide you with the information you are requesting,”  which I take it to mean: “while I bother to write you a response, it is simply to shut you up, as I had no intention of being compliant with to California Rules of Court Rule 10.500, in the first place”

So, for those interested in getting to the bottom of the allegations of judicial misconduct in the Orange County Small Claims Court System, based on Mr. Wertheimer’s  response, guess what the next logical step may be?

NEW ISLAMIC CALIPHATE CHALLENGES WESTERN CRUSADERS

By Chirss Street

This week marks the second anniversary of the birth of the “Arab Spring”, which began when President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled to Saudi Arabia after only a month of protest against his rule.  Egypt, Libya, and Yemen dictators have been overthrown and rebels now control most of Mali and Syria.  Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan are also suffering protests

.  The United States and Europe directly and clandestinely encouraged this revolutionary fever with the naive expectation that these countries could be pacified by evolving into European-style welfare states.  Unfortunately for the West, these people have a common heritage as a series ofCaliphate Empires that from 622 AD to 1258 AD were the most powerful, wealthy and cultured nation on earth.  Arab Spring revolutionaries understand it took 200 years for Islamic forces to defeat the Crusaders.  They have demonstrated by invading Mali and attacking Algeria that they are embarking on a protracted war of liberation to reestablish Caliphate of the Moors to control of North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe.

Western academics have championed an educational common core curriculum for history; economics and sociology that emphasizes the importance of nation states wither away as the world moves toward global decision making, resource management, stakeholder inclusion and role of international institutions.  But Vladimir Lenin, founder of Communist Russia, said:

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

Since the 1979 take-over of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, the U.S. and its Western allies have been engaged in fighting a proxy wars to prevent the rise of a new and powerful Persian Empire, while the rest of the Middle East remained relatively quiet.  That is why the beginning of the Arab Spring is so momentous.  Tunis sits on the ruins of ancient Carthage, which underHannibal in 218 BC marched 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants over the Alps and almost conquered Rome.  The people of Tunis, Morocco, Algeria and Libya are called theMaghreb and referred to as the “Moors“.  The Arab Spring heralds the rise of a new war of liberation to reestablish the Caliphate of the Moors.

Moslems reached their point of greatest world domination from 909 AD to 1171 AD under the Moorish Caliphate of Fātimid, which controlled the Maghreb, Egypt, Mauritania, Sicily, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Levant, Spain, Portugal and Southern France.  The Fatimid’s built the City of Cairo as their capital and dominated trade in salt, gold, ivory, andslaves they captured from the neighboring Sahara desert (Mali) and from Europeans as pirate booty.

The Moors came into major dispute with Christians when their Persian Seljuk Turks allies decisively defeated army of the Byzantine Empire in 1071 AD, cutting off Christian access to the Holy Land in and around Jerusalem.  Pope Urban II rallied Christians for the First Crusadeby declaring “It is the will of God“.  The Crusaders set off with an army of 700,000 men with 100,000 were knights in armor.  They besieged the Syrian City of Antioch for two years until the Crusaders scaled the walls and slaughtered inhabitants.  In 1099 the Crusaders captured Jerusalem and massacred 10,000 Muslim men, women and children who sought shelter in theAl-Aqsa Mosque (Dome of the Rock).  The Crusaders also slaughtered the thousands of Jewish defenders in Jerusalem who had sought refuge in their synagogue by burning them alive.  The fall of Jerusalem to the Crusades emboldened the Christian Reconquista rebellions in Spain and Portugal that undermined the Caliphate and eventually led to the Moors decline.  Nine centuries later to contextualize 9/11, President Clinton recalled the massacre “is still being told today in the Middle East, and we are still paying for it.”

The Arab Spring follows three generations of revolutionary jihadism led by Salafist Muslims from the Maghreb and Egypt, who are “striving” to expel all foreign influences and create a new world-wide Islamic Caliphate.  The Salafist movement was encouraged and financed by Americans and Europeans, because of their willingness to tenaciously battle and even conductsuicide attacks to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan and Serbs in Bosnia.  But as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States would report, Al-Qaeda Salafists turned against their Western allies with the 911 terrorist attacks in the U.S., bombings across Europe and Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

When the revolt against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi began in February 2011 the Western powers intervened with a NATO military “no fly zone”.  The CIA covertly armed theSalafists warriors steamed back from Afghanistan and Iraq to join the revolution.  When the rebels defeated Libyan army, the Salafists captured a spectacular amount of sophisticated weaponry, including 20,000 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.  In February 2012, Al Qaeda military chieftain Ayman al-Zawahiri declared war on Syria.  With covert aid from Western nations, the Salafist took military control of the Free Syrian Army and overran 1/2 the country.

But the new Salafist working relationship with the West crumbled after Salafists also seized 2/3 of neighboring Mali led violent U.S. Embassy protests across the world on the 10^thanniversary of 911 and murdered of U.S. Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.  This week French war planes and troops, supported by U.S. and NATO logistics, intervened on the side of the Mali government and started bombing the Salafists.

The Salafists replied with 20 members of their “Masked Brigade” taking 41 Western hostages at a foreign owned oil facility in Algeria as retribution against the Algerian government for allowing French “infidels” to use their airfields to bomb Salafists.  When Algerian forces tried to free the captives, it has been reported that 35 hostages were slaughtered.

Earlier this year, I wrote the “Arab Spring Turns To Winter” to warn that putting the full-force of America’s military and diplomatic clout behind leveraging “Arab Spring” protests to transform the Middle East would lead to a disaster.  Recent events confirm that the West is in a new protracted war to prevent the establishment of a new Caliphate of the Moors.

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ALGERIA SACRIFICES HOSTAGES TO KILL AL-QAEDA

By Chriss Street

The four-day Algerian hostage crisis ended with the death of another 23 foreign hostages, bringing the total foreign dead to 53, and all the Salafist-jihadi kidnappers after Algerian special forces blasted their way into the sprawling Tigantourine gas complex and indiscriminately killed everyone in sight.

 In 2000, Algeria won a brutal decade long Civil War against Islamic Salafist rebel groups, which cost as many as 200,000 lives in the relatively small nation.  Algeria is willing to suffer the rebuke of foreign governments over the loss of hostages, because they understand that the European and American intervention in neighboring Mali is the start of a war of attrition that with al-Qaeda that will spread across all of North Africa.

In July 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy heightened awareness of Al-Qeada in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) by declaring war on the group, and AQIM reciprocated by declaring war on France.  As outlined in my recent report, New Islamic Caliphate Challenges Western Crusaders, the kidnappers are imbued with dreams of reviving the glory days of the 11th century when Berbers launched Islamist revivalism in the Sahara and marched northward to conquer the North African coast and most of what is now Spain.  The group seeks to cleanse North Africa their colonial master in France and the Americans who have armed their enemies. 

AQIM has staged a series of kidnappings against European employees of multinational corporations that have resulted in some big ransom payoffs, some hostage deaths, and successful prisoner swaps.  The tens of millions resulting from revenue generated by kidnap operations allowed AQIM leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar to buy a .50 caliber anti-aircraft heavy machine gunsthat gave AQIM the power to defeat the Mali army on the ground and neutralize the Mali air force in the sky.  The ferociousness of the Islamist offensive to overrun Mali, a country the size of France and Spain combined offensive, shocked all its neighbors.  But AQIM’s real goals are not to just conquer Mali; they sought and now have accomplished enticing Africa’s former colonial masters into a protracted war of attrition across the continent.      

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called on Western Powers  to join the war by sending financial and logistical support to 2000 Mali soldiers; 2300 French troops; and 5700 allied soldiers from Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal.  French Mirage war planes and Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters have been bombing and strafing Mali Islamists for over a week to prevent the last quarter of the country from falling into the hands of the rebels.  The United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Germany, Denmark and Belgium pledged transport aircraft to fly equipment into Mali.

AQIM has abandoned large-scale offensive and are assimilating among the indigenous population to use their superior knowledge of the terrain and guerrilla tactics to inflict casualties on their enemies.  According to Stratfor Reports, the Jihadists:

“until now have been able to employ highly mobile formations of roughly company-sized units using trucks with mounted weapons — and also armed with assault rifles, heavy machine guns — and light to medium mortars and rockets. These jihadist formations succeeded against a demoralized and ill-equipped Malian force with negligible air support. The jihadists are fully aware, however, that their formations are highly vulnerable against a French force that can mass enormous firepower, especially when supported by air power.

A military coup in March led by American trained “Captain Sanogo” overthrew Mali President Toure.  The speed of the advances by AQIM backed rebels had demoralized the army and created a humanitarian crisis involving 800,000 refugees.  Sanogo was part of six “training missions,” conducted by U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton from 1989 to 2000.   Over that period, the U.S. invested $1 billion in military training into Mali.

AQIM’s allies, 1.5 million member Sharan Tuareg tribe, for centuries survived in the Sahara by controlling trade in ivory, gold, salt and slaves.  They fiercely resisted French colonialism and continue to demand independence.  But as Stefan Simanowitz wrote: 

“A key reason that the governments in Mali and Niger are not keen to give the Tuareg greater autonomy is that the areas that they inhabit are home to vast natural resources… [with] the world’s third largest uranium reserves as well as substantial oil reserves.”

Nuclear power supplies over 75 percent of France’s electricity and allows the country to be the world largest net exporter of electricity, with 3 billion euros in annual revenue.  Most of the uranium to fuel the nuclear reactors comes from Mali, so France has much to lose if AQIM gains power and ejects French interests.  But the military intervention is already being heavily criticized by former French Prime Minister Villepin.  He complains the intervention is “ill thought-out” and “This unanimous enthusiasm for war, the haste with which we are doing it, and the deja-vu of ‘war on terror’ worries me.”

Algeria understands that the Islamist strategy is to bleed and wear down the French and their allies over the long-term in order to reinstate an Islamic Caliphate that lasted for almost 800 years.  France, the United States and Europe will find it much easier to get into a fight with these Salafist Islamic warriors, than ever getting out a winner.

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Contrary to popular belief, HOA directors cannot do as they please

Association's board members wrongly think they can't be sued

No law in California prevents a homeowner association's board or individual members from being sued. The court decides whether such lawsuits are justified.

By Donie Vanitzian, re-published with permission

January 20, 2013

QUESTION: My homeowner association board acts with impunity because, the members say, they "can." The reason the board gave me for its untenable actions was that "a person serving on an HOA board cannot be sued." Is that so?

ANSWER: There is no law in California that prevents an association's board of directors, the association or even its employees and vendors from being sued in any court. Whether or not such lawsuits are justified is decided by the court.

The board cannot act with impunity merely because members believe they "can," and efforts to do so usually result in the board's removal or a lawsuit.

All titleholders need to be vigilant in documenting their board's actions and comparing those actions with what is required or permitted by the Davis-Stirling Act, Civil Code sections 1350-1378, or the association's governing documents, covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs), bylaws and rules and regulations. When the board does something it is not permitted to do or does not do something it is required to do, there may be a basis for a lawsuit. Such violations should be presented at an open meeting during the speaker's forum, making sure they are documented in the minutes.

Titleholders must take care when bringing legal actions. In most instances, to be able to recover attorney's fees, the lawsuit must allege and prove a violation of the governing documents or some other area of law that specifically allows for recovery of attorney's fees. Additionally, the plaintiff probably will be responsible for paying his or her own attorney's fees up front whereas the board probably will be defended by the association's insurance company, which typically hires and pays for attorneys to defend such actions. But the insurance company might later demand that it be reimbursed the money it spent on defending the board's actions.

Boards are warned that having insurance in place does not justify unlawful actions or omissions, nor does it act as a blank check for reckless and willful behavior. Board members' actions beyond the scope of what they are legally permitted to do may mean the insurance coverage will not extend to them and they will not be covered in the event of a lawsuit.

If individual members of the board engage in acts that cause harm to others, they can be sued by whoever they have harmed. In those cases, it is also likely that the association's insurance policy will not cover them, and they may be compelled to pay for their own lawyers and for any damages adjudicated against them.

Starve the Beast - R. Reagan

REAGAN WAS ALWAYS FOR STARVING THE BEAST

By Chriss Street

Ronald Reagan understood that Congress is in the business of growing the size of government.  Raising taxes to supposedly cut government deficits is the scam that politicians use to increase their ability to borrow more money to spend.  As President Reagan famously said: “The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”

 Reagan as a true conservative would have supported “starving the beast” by passing the “fiscal cliff deal” that the liberals will forever lament as the largest “permanent” tax cut ever passed in American history.

Reagan rode to victory in his 1980 Presidential campaign on the back of the 1978 California voter-approved Proposition 13.  The initiative permanently cut the state’s property tax rate and required a two-thirds majority of both houses of the state’s legislature to pass for any future tax increase.  The popular sentiment that drove Proposition 13 was that older Californians should not be priced out of their homes through higher taxes.  The proposition’s popularity quickly became the “third rail” of California politics, an “untouchable subject” for politicians to try to rescind.

Milton Friedman served as Reagan’s key economic advisor during his Presidential campaign and for the next eight years in the Reagan Administration.  Friedman understood that due to the politics of the budgetary process, any attempt to cut a particular program will provoke intense opposition from a minority and only indifference from the majority.  Friedman thought it was unreasonable to expect politicians to be willing pay the high political costs involved in cutting spending.  He argued that only after permanent tax cuts, like Proposition 13, will politicians have no alternative but to cut spending.  He reasoned that a cut in taxes, even without accompanying spending cuts, should not be a matter of long-term concern for conservatives:

“There is an important point that needs to be stressed to those who regard themselves as fiscal conservatives.  By concentrating on the wrong thing, the deficit, instead of the right thing, total government spending, fiscal conservatives have been the unwitting handmaidens of the big spenders. The typical historical process is that the spenders put through laws which increase government spending.  A deficit emerges. The fiscal conservatives scratch their heads and say, “My God, that’s terrible; we have got to do something about that deficit.”  So they cooperate with the big spenders in getting taxes imposed.  As soon as the new taxes are imposed and passed, the big spenders are off again, and there is another burst in government spending and another deficit.”

True fiscal conservatives should have been viscerally afraid of “falling off the fiscal cliff,” because expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts would have essentially allowed liberals to bring back President Richard Nixon’s monstrous Tax Reform Act of 1969.  After President Lyndon Baines Johnson launched his 1965 War on Poverty spending lollapalooza, the Federal debt rose 14% over the next five years.  Appalled by the growing national debt, conservatives passed the largest tax increase since World War II.  Besides raising tax rates dramatically, the Act created the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), which permanently eliminated tax exemptions and deductions as income rose.  But rather than curtailing the debt, liberals leveraged the larger tax base over the next ten years to increase spending by 95% and the national debt by 127%.

When Reagan entered office, interest rates were at 20%, unemployment was headed to almost 11% and effective tax rates were headed higher as the AMT wiped out middle-class tax payers’ mortgage deduction and child exemptions as their wages rose due to inflation.  When Reagan fought for his huge income tax cut, he was opposed by liberals and many conservative deficit hawks.  But when he ran for reelection in 1984, the economy had added 5.7 million jobs and the new prosperity was actually shrinking deficits by generating more private sector profits and wages.

The “fiscal cliff deal” makes permanent $350 billion per year, or 82%, of the Bush tax cuts.  More importantly for the future, Nixon’s AMT and other tax rates also now permanently indexed against any rise in inflation.  There is a $60 billion increase on the top 1% highest earning taxpayers, but it is the other 99% of taxpayers who are going to be hammered with $165 billion of new payroll and Obamacare taxes that will be sucked out of their paychecks each week.

President Obama claimed in his weekly radio address that the “fiscal cliff deal” reduced the deficit by $737 billion over the next ten years; but in November he had demanded $1.6 trillion of tax increase and refused the Republicans’ initial offer of $800 billion.

Ronald Reagan was known as the “Great Communicator“, but his real nickname should have been the “Great Negotiator”.  Whether it was movie moguls in Hollywood, liberals in Congress or communists in the Soviet Union; Ronald Reagan negotiated spectacularly favorable permanent deals.  Reagan would have backed Boehner’s and McConnell’s effort to starve the beast, because he appreciated that passage of permanent tax cuts means that Congress have no alternative but to cut spending.

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On time for New Year's Resolutions: Free Concert Series at Saddleback College

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - .   The Music Department at Saddleback College presents Concert Hour, a variety of individual and ensemble performances on Thursdays from Noon to 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Room 101 and the McKinney Theatre.  Admission is free.

January 31.  New Music by Joey Sellers and Norman Weston

Saddleback faculty members Joey Sellers and Norman Weston present a concert of their recent music.

March 7. Guest Chamber Recital

A guest recitalist will perform to the delight of Saddleback students and the community.

                                                                                                               

April 4. The Ariel Alexander and Jon Bremen Electro-Jazz Project

Faculty member Ariel Alexander’s newest project combines her jazz roots with the timbres and textures of modern electronic dance music. 

May 16. Saddleback Students in Recital

Voice, instrumental, piano and jazz students perform in recital. Come see why Music at Saddleback College is so highly regarded – it’s our very talented students!

Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo, just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit.  Parking is available in Lot 12.  Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Parkway turn left to the second traffic light, which is Saddleback’s Marguerite entrance. Turn right into the campus and take the second left to “Theatre Circle,” turning right into Lot 12.

The Music Department has established a comprehensive program which is considered to be one of the finest in California:  a complete lower-division curriculum for transferring music majors, numerous performance groups, private and group lessons, a full concert series with faculty and guest artists, and general music courses.  The nationally recognized faculty is dedicated to performance and to teaching in all areas such as vocal, instrumental, jazz, guitar and piano.  Other music classes include harmony, musicianship, composition, history and appreciation of western art music, rock, jazz and world.

Located in Mission Viejo, Saddleback College provides quality higher education and training to the greater south Orange County community.  Having served more than 500,000 students since 1968, Saddleback College offers over 300 degree and certificate programs to help students reach their personal, career, and educational goals.  For more information, please visit www.saddleback.edu and for Fine Arts information, please visit www.saddleback.edu/arts.  

Management Co Owner Pleads Guilty to Embezzling from HOAs he managed

Embezzled more than $750,000 from dozens of homeowners associations.

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Kansas City, MO - infoZine Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Kansas City, Mo., business pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $750,000 from dozens of homeowners associations.

Dale Palmer, 53, of Kansas City, Mo., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Larsen to a federal information that charges him with mail fraud. 

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Jazz Faculty Opens Spring Semester at Saddleback College

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA -   The Saddleback College Jazz Faculty kicks off its spring semester on Monday, January 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the McKinney Theatre. The jazz faculty plays original music by Saddleback College’s student composers.  Come hear this concert celebrating the creativity of current and former Saddleback jazz students!  This wonderful ensemble features the entire jazz Faculty: Jerry Pinter on saxophone, Ron Stout on trumpet, Jamie Rosenn on guitar, Luther Hughes on bass, Paul Johnson on drums and Director of Jazz Studies Joey Sellers on trombone. 

Tickets are $10 general; $7 students/seniors.  Call the ticket office at 949-582-4656 (Wednesday through Saturday, noon-4) or order your tickets online at www.saddleback.edu/arts.

  

           

Jazz Studies at Saddleback College emphasizes creativity through improvisation and ensemble performance. Focusing on the historical, theoretical and intuitive aspects of this American music, Director Joey Sellers and an outstanding cadre of nationally recognized musicians comprise the jazz faculty. Curricula include Improvisation, Jazz Composition and Arranging, Jazz History Syllabus, Jazz History Audio, Jazz History Podcast, Jazz Piano, Saddleback Big Band, Jazz Lab Ensemble, and Combos.  Students in Jazz Studies at Saddleback College have transferred to prestigious institutions including University of Southern California, Eastman School of Music, Berkeley School of Music, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, University of California at San Diego, and other regional institutions.  Some of our alumni have gone on to play professionally with Frank Zappa, Diana Ross, and other high-profile artists and organizations.

           

Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo, just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit.  Parking is available in Lot 12.  Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Parkway turn left to the third traffic light, which is Saddleback’s Marguerite entrance. Turn right into the campus and take the second left to “Theatre Circle,” turning right into Lot 12.

Located in Mission Viejo, Saddleback College provides quality higher education and training to the greater south Orange County community.  Having served more than 500,000 students since 1968, Saddleback College offers more than 300 degree and certificate programs to help students reach their personal, career, and educational goals.  For more information, please visit www.saddleback.edu.  For Fine Arts events, visit www.saddleback.edu/arts. 

Centennial Work of Art Celebration, Rite of Spring at Saddleback College

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA  – To celebrate the centennial of The Rite of Spring, a seminal 20th-century work of art,  Saddleback College will showcase Igor Stravinsky’s epic score. This live performance of his two piano version will be played by Norman Weston and Kirill Gliadkovsky, accompanied by a premiere of new choreography by Deidre Cavazzi February 4^th and 5^th at 7 pm in the McKinney Theatre.  The large cast of dancers brings the passion, violence, and power of the music to life, re-envisioning this historic tale of tribal ritual and sacrifice.  

The performance will be preceded by a short presentation about the hundred-year history of The Rite of Spring in the fields of both music and dance. 

Excited about this opportunity for her dancers, Cavazzi stated, “We are thrilled to bring the dance and music departments of Saddleback College together for this production, in the spirit of the original 1913 Ballets Russes piece, which also brought the visions of artists like Igor Stravinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Nicholas Roerich together. The students are passionate about this project, and they’ve been really excited to learn more about the history of the piece in the process of creating this new version of choreography.  It’s also such a treat for the dancers to perform with live music.”  The Stravinsky score is incredibly complex, with the dancers switching time signatures and concentrating to keep count in ever-changing tempos.

The extraordinary score, coupled with Nijinsky’s new movement vocabulary and a tale of ritual sacrifice and primitivism, has been inspiring artists in many fields for one hundred years; this spring, Saddleback College will celebrate the legacy of this piece in its February production.  General admission $10/students and seniors $7/students with ASB cards and faculty free.   Call (949) 582-4656 (Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 4 pm) or online at www.saddleback.edu/arts for tickets.

The Saddleback College Dance Department offers several technique classes at all levels for ballet, jazz, modern and tap. In addition, courses are offered in the history of dance, exercise for dancers, rehearsal and performance, dance production and choreography. College-wide dance concerts are put on each semester and promoted as a major theater event.

The Music Department has established a comprehensive program which is considered to be one of the finest in California:  a complete lower-division curriculum for transferring music majors, numerous performance groups, private and group lessons, a full concert series with faculty and guest artists, and general music courses.  The nationally recognized faculty is dedicated to performance and to teaching in all areas such as vocal, instrumental, jazz, guitar and piano.  Other music classes include harmony, musicianship, composition, history and appreciation of western art music, rock, jazz and world.

Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo, just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit. Parking is available in lot 12. Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Pkwy turn left to the third traffic light, turn right into the campus and take the second left to the Theatre Circle turning right in lot 12.

Located in Mission Viejo, Saddleback College provides quality higher education and training to the greater south Orange County community.  Having served more than 500,000 students since 1968, Saddleback College offers over 300 degree and certificate programs to help students reach their personal, career, and educational goals.  For more information, please visit www.saddleback.edu and for Fine Arts information, please visit www.saddleback.edu/arts.