Music Festivals and Events for the month of July in the Northern California

July is one of the months I enjoy the most because of all the Music Festivals and events going on in the South Bay cities like San Jose, Campbell, Morgan Hill, Los Gatos and Saratoga. I put together a list of festivals and events that you may enjoy going to. Get out there and enjoy the hot summer days and nights in July!

Maxx Cabello Jr. (Blues) - Music in the Park, Los Gatos July 14, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441745708/Maxx_Cabello_Jr_Blues_Music_in_the_Park_Los_Gatos

Kenny Washington - Jazz on the Plazz Los Gatos Town Plaza July 17, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441745516/Kenny_Washington_Jazz_on_the_Plazz

Isis and the Cold Truth (Rock, R&B) - Campbell Summer Concert Series July 18, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441751009/Isis_and_the_Cold_Truth_Rock_RB_Campbell_Summer_Concert_Series

Ladies Night Out in Downtown Willow Glen July 18, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441754175/Ladies_Night_Out_in_Downtown_Willow_Glen

Dave Koz & Friends at Montalvo Arts Center July 19, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441743816/Dave_Koz_Friends

Sexy Back (Party Music) - Morgan Hill Friday Night Music Series July 19, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441751197/Sexy_Back_Party_Music_Morgan_Hill_Friday_Night_Music_Series

Music in the Park 25th Anniversary Concert with Ozomatli St. James Park - Downtown San Jose

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441750438/Music_in_the_Park_25th_Anniversary_Concert_with_Ozomatli

Mary Wilson - Jazz on the Plazz at Los Gatos Town Plaza July 24, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441745534/Mary_Wilson_Jazz_on_the_Plazz

Solar Activity and Other Stellar Phenomena - Presentation and Stargazing at Campbell Library July 24, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441752520/Solar_Activity_and_Other_Stellar_Phenomena_Presentation_and_Stargazing

Entourage (R&B, Soul) - Morgan Hill Friday Night Music Series July 26, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441751201/Entourage_RB_Soul_Morgan_Hill_Friday_Night_Music_Series

Gilroy Garlic Festival 2013 July 26-July 28, 2013

http://www.livesv.com/event/detail/441737266/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_2013

Camping and concert extravaganza. Where ever you are in the world you don't want to miss this California experience
Reggae On The River Aug, 1-4 2013

http://www.reggaeontheriver.com/

The Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival

MORGAN HILL, CA – The Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival, now in its 33^rd year of turning Memorial Day weekend into a celebration of the mushroom, has unveiled its plans for the free May 26-27 festival in south Santa Clara County.

            The two-day festival of family-fun includes live entertainment on two stages, arts and crafts, gourmet offerings, mushroom educational exhibit, chef demonstrations, strolling musicians, street performers, and several city blocks of booths with “finds” that include everything from carved wooden mushrooms to news that you can use. Munchkin Land is on track to captivate kids with rides, games and continuous entertainment.

 

            The mushroom is the festival star, which can be tasted in soup, stuffed, sandwiched, deep-fried, marinated, over rice, and much more. Local mushrooms growers are hosting educational exhibits on how mushrooms grow and the latest nutrition research and the availability of just-picked, locally grown Portabella, Crimini and white mushrooms – the ultimate take-home souvenir.

California ranks second in the nation in mushroom production, and more than 60% of those mushrooms are grown in Santa Clara and Monterey counties.

            Wide ranging food choices, such as local BBQ and fruits hand-dipped in chocolate, are available in food booths throughout the festival and in nearby restaurants.

Entertainment headliners will be Evolution, with their Journey tribute; and the popular Joe Sharino Band. Music, on two stages for listening or dancing, will include zydeco, classic rock and the blues of the local favorite Red Beans & Rice.

 

Back by popular demand is the announcement of Ms. Mushroom and Mr. Fungi winners of a broadcast competition sponsored by MHAT local cable access. Street performers include the Mama’s Wranglers (formerly Kid Fiddlers), who will roam the town with Jimbo the Clown, Monty the Mushroom, minstrels, jugglers, jesters and a walker.

Shoppers can entertain themselves for hours browsing fine arts, handmade crafts, jewelry, clothing, home and garden wares and marketplace vendors. Specialty shops and merchants in Morgan Hill’s charming downtown area are only a short walk.   

Saturday morning will also feature the fruit and vegetable stands at the weekly Morgan Hill Farmers Market from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Depot St., between Main & Second Sts.

Munchkin Land has planned entertainment for kids of all ages. Youngsters will have rides, games, a petting zoo and pony rides, as well as children’s entertainment on the Munchkin Land Stage. Older kids are more likely to gravitate to the rock climbing wall or Eurobungy trampolines. The children’s area is located on Depot St., between Second and Third Sts.

Merchants in the Commercial Exhibit on Depot St. will offer special rates, deals and giveaways on their services.

In addition to no charge for admission, parking is free in surrounding parking lots and throughout downtown Morgan Hill. Hours are 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Sunday. For information call (408) 778-1786 or go to www.mhmmg.com.

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Located in downtown Morgan Hill, California, the Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival is held Memorial Day weekend each year. Attendance estimates are about 70,000 visitors over the two-day event. The mission of the Mushroom Mardi Gras Festival (a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation), is to provide a fun and entertaining family festival with an emphasis on promoting the mushroom and educating consumers about the health benefits of mushrooms, all while financially awarding scholarships to high school seniors living within the boundaries of the Morgan Hill Unified School District and monetary donations to local non-profit clubs and organizations. The Festival has awarded over $700,000 in scholarships and over $350,000 to local non-profits over the past 32 years.

 

A Media Center with news releases, fact sheets and images for download is available to the news media from the home page of www.mhmmg.com.

San Jose Number One Healthiest City for Women by Self Magazine

I was watching the Doctors television show the other day, and they had a segment on there about women. The publication Self Magazine released a list of the healthiest cities in America for women. San Jose California was the number one healthiest city for women. Self magazine found that 84% of the women in San Jose exercise and out of that 84% only 8% smoke. The women in San Jose eat more fruits and vegetables then the national average, which leads to a healthier life. There is one thing that impressed me about this study. Is that the average lifespan for a women living in San Jose is 84 years. This is three years longer than the national average. There are different kinds of activities you can do in San Jose to keep you in shape that are free. There are flash mobs around the city. In San Pedro Square they have the big Zuma fitness flash mob. If you have never attended a flash mob it is exciting. Hundreds of people get up the start moving. You can also go to the world's largest flea market in San Jose which 8 miles and 2000 vendors walking around the flea market will keep you in shape. You can also catch a flash mob dancing to be some Latin beat. There are a number of bike trails in San Jose. Coyote Creek trail is one like because it’s about a three and a half mile ride. Just enough to get your heart rate up and it goes all the way to Morgan Hill. Growing up in San Jose has been a terrific experience, because of how centrally located it is. You can go for a hike in the mountains of Yosemite or along the many beaches California has to offer. With these outdoor activities you can’t help but be fit. Women of San Jose California keep up the good work. I know I’m trying to do my part.

LM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/healthiest-cities-for-women_n_2126264.html

What Not To Do During An Earthquake

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You may have already read Streetwise blogger LM's fantastic article on earthquake survival in the Streetwise Courier, which details how to stock-up and prepare for life after a horrific quake.  Now, I'm going to re-inform you on how to reach that point, in other words....how to survive during the initial moments of destruction and the collapse that follows, as happened in Haiti last month.

As school children we were all taught to "duck and cover", by getting under our desks to protect ourselves from falling debris....or to stand in an open doorway under the frame, which is the strongest part of the building.

However, according to Doug Copp, one of the top disaster rescue experts in the world, this is exactly what NOT to do, and is in fact....is dead wrong! Literally!

Copp is chief of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI),  the most experienced disaster rescue team in the world, and claims his information in this article is both factual, and will save lives in an earthquake:

"I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, and worked in every major disaster since 1985.  The first building I crawled into was a school in Mexico City during the '85 quake.  Every child was under its desk, and every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones.  They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles", said Copp.

"SIMPLY STATED,  when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceiling falling on objects or furniture crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them.  This space is what I call "the triangle of life". The larger and stronger the object, the less it will compact.  The less it compacts, the larger the void and the greater the probability that the person in that safety void will NOT be injured."

The following is a list of Doug Copp's VALUABLE TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY:

1-Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" when buildings collapse are crushed to death. Do not get under objects like desks or automobiles.

2-Cats, dogs and babies often curl up into the fetal position.  You should too during an earthquake.  It is a natural safety/survival instinct that allows one to survive in a small void.  Get next to an object, sofa or large bulky object that will compress and leave a void next to it.

3-Wooden buildings are the safest to be in because wood is flexible, and moves with the force of the quake. Wood also has less concentrated, crushing weight.  Brick buildings will break into individual bricks causing many injuries, but far less squashed bodies than with concrete slabs.

4-If you're in bed during an earthquake, simply roll off the bed.  A safe void will exist around  it.  Hotels should all post these rules on the back of every room door, insuring a greater survival rate.

5-If an earthquake occurs and you can't escape by door or window, lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa or large chair.

6-Don't get under an open doorway frame during a building collapse. Why?  Because if the doorjam falls forward or backward, you'll be crushed by the ceiling above.  If the doorjam falls sideways, you will be cut in half by the doorway. Either way, you will die!

7-NEVER go to the stairs!  Stairs swing separately from the main part of the building, and continually smash into the other parts of the building until structural failure takes place.  People on stairs are chopped up and mutilated by the stair treads.  Even if left intact, stairwells may collapse when overloaded by fleeing people. Stay off the stairs!

8-Get near the outer walls of buildings, or OUTSIDE  of them if possible. It's better to be outside the building than inside, because the further inside the perimeter, the less chance of escape.

9-People inside their cars during a quake are crushed to death when the road above caves in on them.  This is exactly what happened between the decks of the 'Nimitz Freeway' in the Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area during the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.  The victims all stayed inside of their vehicles and were killed.  They could easily have survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their cars, because all of the crushed cars had voids 3-feet high next to them.

10-It was discovered that a collapsed newspaper office, and other offices with lots of stacked paper were much more earthquake safe, because paper does not compact!  Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper!

Finally, Mr. Copp made a film 14-years ago that proved his survival methodology correct, by collapsing a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside, and then simulating with scientific detail....an actual earthquake.

Ten mannequins did "duck and cover", while the other ten used Copp's "triangle of life" survival method. After sifting through the rubble, Copp's ten mannequins had survived.  The remaining ten....did not.

We should all be dummies not to want to save thousands of lives by sharing valuable information like this regarding earthquakes, and the many other natural calamities that threaten our existance.

Thank You, and stay safe,

PeteCam4

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HAITI’S CHALLENGES

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HAITI’S CHALLENGES


The country of Haiti has had serious challenges throughout it’s past and present. The years between 1791 through 1803 there was the Haitian Revolution, this was a violent time in Haiti’s history. In the 1900s, U.S.
Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 through 1934, another violent and bloody part of Haiti’s past. Haiti once was the richest colony in the New World, with the man made and natural disasters it is one of the poorest of the Caribbean. With this last earthquake on January 12, 2010 Port-au-Prince is in ruins, with the Hundreds of thousand of lives lost and millions of homeless is going to take years to rebuild Haiti. It’s going to take help from the international community, to help rebuild this poor country. We can all help by going www.redcross.org to find out what we can do to help this country to heal. If everyone donated 50 cents that would be a great start.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution


http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jan/25/the-sad-history-of-how-poor-haiti-got-that-way/


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/2010125173052160977.html


http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=dd1c3004ae666210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD


LM