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rations to sue the United States s constituents and and its states over any law or members of the regulation which could reduce Santa Cruz and their future profits and therefore Monterey County potentially rob our county and organizations encities of needed protections for dorsing this letter, we are asking our people, local businesses and you to vote NO on the TPP. Our environment. groups represent over 13,000 citis 400 lNANCIAL RULES WOULD WEAKzens in your district. en or prevent regulation of We realize that you are in risky financial products such favor of trade, but the TPP is about as â&#x20AC;&#x153;interest rate swapsâ&#x20AC;? thereby much more than trade, and surely threatening the financial stabilnot about fair trade. It gives global ity of our government and more corporations the power to undo enbroadly the stability of our vironmental, financial, health, and overall economy. other important regulations, and s 5 3 STATE AND LOCAL FOOD SAFETY even to sue us for having them. rules could be challenged by In particular, we would like foreign corporations as â&#x20AC;&#x153;illegal to bring the following negative trade barriersâ&#x20AC;? if higher than consequences to your attention: standards in the TPP, unsafe s 4HE )NVESTMENT #HAPTER OF THE seafood could be imported, and TPP would allow foreign corpo-

End Corporate Rule - Defeat the TPP! February 4 is the date set for President Obama to sign the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership "free trade" deal). Then it will go to Congress, which has a maximum of 90 days to vote on it. Some free trade bills have been pushed through on Fast Track in 7 days. After February 4, we are in the high danger zone.

If we defeat the TPP, we can defeat the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement). These are the trifecta of secretly negotiated free trade agreements being used to advance GLOBAL CORPORATE RULE that favors profits over the common good.

Actions to take NOW: Call your Reps to oppose the TPP. Farr, Eshoo & Thompson (Napa) are key. Â Write letters to editors. (see Citizen.org/trade or Flush theTPP.org for info.)

February 4: Join the Nationwide Mobilization to STOP the TPP. Plan a "TPP is Betrayal" action for February 4 (see FlushtheTPP.org for info) and put your city on the map with location, time, and contact person.

Pass a â&#x20AC;&#x153;NO TPPâ&#x20AC;? Resolution in your city or county councils. We are working on this in Santa Cruz, CA. When a City or County Council passes a â&#x20AC;&#x153;NO TPPâ&#x20AC;? Resolution, it can influence the vote of the local Congress member.

Join the Buycott for Trade Justice. (see FlushtheTPP.org/buycott for info.)

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GMO labelling banned, thus threatening the health of our residents. s 4HE 400 WOULD PROVIDE LARGE pharmaceutical firms with new rights and powers to increase medicine prices and limit access to cheaper generic drugs, which would impact our residents. s 4HE 53 WOULD AGREE TO WAIVE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buy Americanâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buy Localâ&#x20AC;? procurement requirements which enhance our local economy and create local jobs. s 7E WOULD HAVE NO RIGHT OR ABILITY to represent our interests before the foreign tribunals which

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We know that you care about the environment, climate change, equality, and other issues important to all of us. We appreciate the many times you have voted to support those issues. Now we urge you to represent us on this extremely important decision and vote NO on TPP:

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ALERT!!!!! Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is Ramping Up Wireless Tech in A Massive Way! Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is ramping up wireless tech in a massive way!

They want to become part of the New Tech School franchise that started in Napa, California (www.knowledgeworks.org/impacting-schoolscommunities/new-tech-network) They’re working now to get community approval of the idea.

What’s even worse is that they’re exploring building their own private cellular network – cell towers targeting the low-income kids in the three cities in the district—Monterey, Seaside and Marina. The towers will

be on schools and in the cities. This is massive.

The research and actions by other governments doesn’t matter to them. No one from the district attended the $12. Mountain View Symposium, entitled “Wireless Technology and Public Health”.

But, they budget thousands to attend tech workshops. One board member—an engineer—thinks that Wi-Fi radiation is different than cellphone radiation, and that Wi-Fi is perfectly fine (which is not true!).

These children are going to be destroyed by them—their willful

ignorance and smugness is absolutely shocking. They rubber stamp everything presented to them without question.

I learned tonight that the e-rate system to fund telecom and tech in schools, libraries, etc. is now pretty exclusively for wireless. It will not fund voice over landline!

A word to the wise: pay attention to your local school district.

Cell towers on school property don’t need city approval. They can do what they want!!

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Google’s redacted application for sky-based internet covering the entire US is being fast-tracked before the FCC. Drones or balloons? Redacted. Google denies there will be any environmental impact despite crashes of Project Loon balloons onto powerlines and a home, universal microwave exposure, and interference with aviation. Mass surveillance potential as Google uses frequencies used for Homeland Security scanning equipment. www.StopGlobalWifi.org

THE DAY YOU CAN HELP CHANGE THE WORLD!!! FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Fukushima radioactive waste continues to accumulate on the west coast and all over the world! So far, three pilot studies have shown over a 10% decrease in radiation when people mentally focused on reducing it. This indicates that the idea in physics of a fixed decay rate for radioactivity is incorrect. This may be a way to reduce the ever-accumulating radioactive Fukushima waste to a safer level by simply using the power of our

thoughts!

Please join us, and 1000’s more, on 2/22/16 as we take 15 minutes to pray/meditate/focus our thoughts on lowering the background radiation levels on Earth. Any time of day will do!! http://FukushimaUpdate.com Thank you to Buryl Payne for bringing this to our attention; to Theodora Kerry for summarizing it for the magazine!

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by Augustina Ursino t the age of one, on October 19, 2015, Michael Whitesell was injected with the MMR, varicella, hepatitis A, and flu shot vaccines. This is six vaccine doses given to him, in four injections. He let out a scream never heard before. Three days later, he had a fever and was given Tylenol. He went to bed that night and died in his sleep sometime the following morning. After he was found, his Uncle Thomas Whitesell performed CPR on him, until EMS showed up and took over.

Investigators left baby Michael on the floor, on his back, with his little arms out to his side, turning more blue and darker by the minute, while waiting more than 2 hours for the coroner to show up. Investigators didn’t even cover baby Michael up with a sheet.

People on the scene, including Michael’s three year old brother Keegan, were walking over Michael’s uncovered deceased body. The doorway where Michael lay connected the children’s bedroom to the living room. Three year old Keegan didn’t know what was going on; he offered his brother some goldfish crackers in his mouth, because he thought he was hungry. He knew something wasn’t

done on them, they even drug tested them on the spot and they came back clean. There was no evidence Michael was hurt by them and yet Keegan was taken by DCF. Both Michael and Keegan were being raised by their Aunt Brittney and Uncle Thomas Whitesell since birth.

Their biological mother, Thomas’s sister, lives with some medical issues associated with epilepsy and the children’s biological fathers haven’t really been around to take on the parenting role, so the boy’s mother entrusted her brother Thomas and his wife to raise these children. Everyone was loved and happy and the chil-dren’s birth mother has always been in their life.

The autopsy results came in revealing Michael was not abused at all and Thomas and Brittney had Keegan returned to them, but they must file for guardianship, which they have since done.

The autopsy report showed Michael Whitesell’s liver and vascular system was congested. The coroner ruled one year old Michael’s cause of death as Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, due to natural causes and the specific vaccines were not listed on the autopsy report.

right but didn’t understand what happened.

While this was happening, the Indiana State Department of Families and Children (DCF) were notified and Michael’s three year old brother Keegan was then removed from the home and placed with Brittney’s grandmother, who lived about 25 miles away. Thomas and his wife Brittney Whitesell were told Keegan would be returned, once the autopsy results came back, to prove they didn’t hurt Michael. They were treated like criminals and the vaccines were never looked at.

Thomas and Brittney were fingerprinted, had background checks

The medical examiner confirmed Michael had vascular congestion in his Brain, Thymus, Heart, Lungs, Liver, Spleen, Kidneys, Adrenals, Urinary Bladder, Gastrointestinal Tract, Pancreas and Thyroid.

Petechiae of the thymus and lungs were noted, along with pulmonary and visceral congestion. The toxicology report came back negative and mentioned his urine was positive for glucose.

There was no mention on Michael’s autopsy report of the specific MMR, varicella and Hep A vaccines Michael received just before he died.

On the entire autopsy report and pathology report, the only mention of

the vaccines Michael received shortly before was in this sentence the coroner wrote, “Brittney also told me that Michael had received his 12 month

while trying to detox his body from what was injected into him. He was healthy and fine before those vaccines.

His family knows the vaccines took his life and they will fight for justice until

Michael and Keegan Whitesell vaccinations and flu shot on October 19th at the office of Doctor ----------.”

As mentioned in Michael’s original story, it is unacceptable that a medical examiner doesn’t have to list recent vaccines on the autopsy report, or the child’s recent hospital or emergency room visits associated with a vaccine reaction occurring just before the child died.

If Michael’s grandmother Tina did not put pressure on the coroner numerous times each week, he most likely would not have even mentioned the vaccines at all.

The immune response brought on from the vaccines was too great for Michael’s developing body to handle and it appears very clear, based on these autopsy findings that Michael suffered a cytokine storm, initiated from the vaccines he was given that caused his immature immune system to over compensate,

Michael’s death is acknowledged.

It is rather concerning that all of the ingredients injected into baby Michael could be so positively ruled out. This makes no sense at all. Please take a look at the ingredients listed on the CDC’s website, showing what went through those needles and ask yourself how this could not kill a child, especially when the CDC and vaccine manufacturers admit life-threatening allergic reactions and death can be the outcome of receiving any vaccine.

Leaving you with words from Michael’s grandmother, Tina Whitesell:

“We miss Michael so much and think about him every day. We have filed a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program because we want justice for Michael. I want people to know the truth! I knew

shortly after hearing about his death, it was them shots that ended his life.

Healthy babies just don’t die in their sleep, period!

I wonder everyday if this is the day he would have learned to walk.

He was so close to walking. He was so happy, always smiling and hardly ever cried. So healthy too, he only went to the docs for his well checkups.

Then we lost him. He will always be in our hearts and in our minds. I truly feel for other parents who lost their babies too. It hurts so much.

Every 2 years I am going to find an age enhancement artist to keep his photo updated for us, so we will know, or kind of know, what he would have looked like.

Keegan is only three years old and his life changed on October 23, 2015. He has a little police car that was used in Michael’s funeral, near his casket. He keeps that car put up and plays with it sometimes and he will tell you Michael gave this to me.

Keegan still talks about Michael. He told me he wants the moon to come out so he could see Michael.

He tells us that Michael is at the moon or in the stars and that we need to go get him and bring him in, so he doesn’t get cold.

Michael and other babies no longer are here but getting the truth out in the open will help save others.

My grandson had the right for a full, healthy life and did not deserve this.

He deserved to live.”

Augustina Ursino is an advocate for vaccine choice. Human and pet vaccine injuries are prevalent and often dismissed by mainstream medical establishments taught to protect the vaccine program. If you have any questions about vaccines or would like to get in touch with this family, please contact Vactruth at http://vactruth. com/contact/

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e all naturally practice self-hypnosis and imagery. Just imagine the last time you drove to work, and all of a sudden you were in your drive way, not really aware of how you got there. Our minds like to check out, and rest. Hypnotic trance is a natural and restful place to be.

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Carol Jensen tissues of cancer cells, The Simonton Cancer we’ve been doing it Institute recommends identifying 6 steps to heal from Cancer. from the beginning of humanity.

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no longer serves us, (bacteria, virus, or cancer cells) as we instruct our creative mind to see these cells explode in a stunning array of light, at the same time increasing the power of our immune system.

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Carol Jensen is a Certified Medical Hypnotherapist and Founding Director of the Center for Health in Santa Cruz. She is a colon cancer survivor and has led groups at WomenCARE, the Katz Cancer Center and at her office in Santa Cruz. The quickest way to reach her is via: director@centerforhealthsc.com.

She is now forming another ongoing “Guided Imagery Group for Those Touched by Cancer”

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Identify Your Self Defeating Beliefs

by G. Katie Dashtban, Psy.D.

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t is quite common for most of us to have a set of commonly held core beliefs about ourselves, about the future and about people in our lives. These core beliefs are often so deeply embedded in our core, to the point that we are not consciously aware of them. Below I have listed 7 common core beliefs.

Wonder to yourself if Dr. Katie Dashtban you hold such core beliefs and if so, ask yourself “what is it worth to me to change that core belief?”

1) Achievement: Perfectionism.

Believing that you must never fail or make a mistake. People will not or show vulnerability. Your worth as a human being is based on your achievements, income, looks, talent, or some other type of status.

2) Love: You believe that you must receive everyone’s approval in order to be worthwhile. You will not taste happiness unless you have someone in your life who romantically loves you. And, if you receive criticism or rejection it proves that there is something inherently wrong with you.

3) Submissiveness: You believe that you should do your best to please others and you are

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people who care for one another should never be at odds with one another and should certainly not have arguments. You believe all the problems in your relationships are somehow your fault.

4) Demandingness: When in You feel entitled that others should always treat you in the way you expect. And you believe you are right and everyone else is wrong.

5) Depression: You believe your problems could never be solved and that you will never feel truly you are basically worthless, defective or inferior compared to others.

6) Anxiety: You believe that you should always feel happy, dangerous and should be avoided at all cost, and that feeling intense emotions such as depression and jealousy should be avoided. You believe people are powerful, demanding and manipulative. You are under the spotlight; everyone is looking at how you carry yourself and is ready to criticize you. And lastly, you engage in magical thinking: “If I worry enough, everything will turn out okay.”

The above commonly held self-defeating beliefs are strongly associated with most of human suffering. Learning to recognize them can be tremendously helpful.

Dr. Dashtban is a licensed clinical psychologist with practices in Santa Cruz, Mt View and Fremont.

She can be reached at (831) 621-1150 or her facebook page: www.facebook. com/MedicalPsychologyServices

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or progress being made. This goes on for many years, as the teacher sells their students new forms like a carrot on the end of a stick. This amounts to mere choreography, and the student learns little outside of a routine to show their friends.

Rediscovering balance can be a fatiguing practice. It can often be accompanied by intense burning sensations in certain places within the body. This is contrary to most peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conventional understanding of relaxing and can be off putting to new students, but the freedom and ease of movement, that comes with a daily Wujifa practice, is a byproduct of self discovery and is a microcosm of this strange experience we call life.

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Maladaptive habitual movement patterns are often learned through improper instruction or when we restrict our training to form practice. In the practice of Wujifa, and often in life in general, progress manifests as we notice connection. The aspiring practitioner, who is able to see the significance of noticing, is generally the one who makes the most progress.

Every practitioner I have had the pleasure of training with, has reported that discovering this simple principle has changed their world; for better or for worse depending on their perspective.

As we begin on our journey of discovery, we may notice that our intentions, such as the reason why we train, may conflict with other intentions we have. Practitioners may unravel a world of conflict only to discover a new world which can create shifts in other areas of their life. Subtle adjustments in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standing meditation practice, for example, can lead to the resolution of health problems which have plagued the body for years.

Practitioners will often feel drastic health changes for the better and have more energy and freedom in movement. Practicing Wujifa daily can also create shifts in your somatic emotional responses. This is a by product of integration and contingent upon receiving correct adjustments, which is why it is important to find a competent instructor.

If you are ready to take that step onto the path of discovery, I may point you first towards the door of relaxation.

Relaxation is an intrinsic piece of whole body connection. Nearly all practitioners who seek out my classes are surprised to discover that they are not as relaxed as they imagined. The idea of relaxation can often be too abstract of a concept for people. We often have misconceptions of what it means to relax.

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The poems in this collection represent a distillation of Bishop's works and showcase her sense of humor, as well as her whimsical approach to the art of writing poetry. While the parameters of her wide ranging poetic style are influenced by ‘sound poetry’ and her affection for performance art, she stands in favor of the idea that poetry may return us to a spiritual place that invokes a ravishing journey of inner awareness, peace, and soulful contemplation.

Read her article and learn more in the July 2015 issue of The Connection Magazine.

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The Ripple Effect of Change

by Carmel K. Jud, Founder/E.D. of Rising International January is human trafficking awareness month. By dedicating the first Carmel Jud month of the year to opening our eyes to modern day slavery, the stage is set for opening our hearts. I can’t think of a better way to start the year! lavery has not ended. It’s estimated that modern or contemporary slavery is generating $35 billion annually for the criminals that prosper from it. Despite the fact that it’s illegal, slavery takes place in every region of the world, from Santa Cruz to Sudan. There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in our history; currently estimated at 30 million.

Last year, I set out to learn more about slavery in the Santa Cruz area; my home town. As a founding member of the Coalition to End Human Trafficking in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, I had the honor of meeting Betty Ann Boeving, the founder of the Bay Area Coalition.

Betty Ann attended one of our early coalition meetings to lend her advice and expertise to our development. It

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curriculum teaches foster youth to identify and avoid child traffickers, in addition to providing the youth with the opportunity to earn an income as jewelry makers.

The Safe and Sound flagship product is a trafficking awareness bracelet made of safety pins. Yep, safety pins. Creating jewelry from safety pins is relatively easy. You don’t need any prior jewelry making experience or fancy or expensive equipment.

Much like the cancer awareness bracelets made popular by Livestrong Foundation, it’s our hope that the Safe and Sound bracelets will bring vital

about the plight of foster youth.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1 in 6 reported youth runaways in the U.S. are likely to be victims of sex trafficking, and 68% have been in foster care.

When Betty Ann shared the current research on foster youth, she created a ripple effect of change starting in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. As part of this effect, the organization that I head up, Rising International, launched the Safe and Sound Program.

Safe and Sound is a human

One of our local bracelet makers, Devin Gonzalez is a young mother who grew up in foster care. After parSafe and Sound workshop, she shared this story: “When I lived in a group home, there was a girl there. She was 16 and she was a prostitute. All the girls in the home knew she was a prostitute, and didn’t think so greatly about her.

They treated her like she wasn’t even there. Looking back, I wish I could’ve been that person to reach out and help her, now that I know that . . . I can. If I ever see her again, I know what to do and say. I hope we’re able to cross paths again someday soon.”

The goal of the Safe and Sound program is to continue Betty Ann’s ripple effect. For every Safe and Sound participant (like Devin), whom ers, our hope is that they will in turn educate at least three more, who will educate three more, and so on, and so on. In growing this ground-up awareness network, they keep each

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What is Monsanto’s Carcinogenic Herbicide Doing in TAMPONS??

Stop sourcing cotton sprayed with glyphosate for hygiene products.

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hy is this important? This is scary—Tampax, Always, and other hygiene products very likely contain the key ingredient in cancerous Monsanto Roundup.

A study done in Argentina earlier this year that found that 85% of tampons, cotton, and other hygiene products contain traces of a cancerous chemical linked to one of the world’s most controversial pesticides. The

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potential health implications from glyphosate are mounting, and it’s been linked to cancer by the World Health Organization (WHO) And this is what millions of women are exposing themselves unknowingly to every day.

Monsanto’s Roundup is the world’s most popular weed killer and most of the cotton in countries like

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or overwhelming. ing the ripple effect of ending human Learn more about the Safe and Sound program at: www.risinginternational.org/safeandsound Purchase your very own Safe and Sound Bracelet: www.risinginternational.org/shop Follow Rising International on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ risinginternational Learn more about the Coalition to End Human Trafficking in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties: www.coalitiontoendhumantrafwww.facebook.com/CoalitiontoLearn more about the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition: www.baatc.org www.facebook.com/baatc.org Carmel K. Jud is the Founder/ E.D of Rising International; Executive Committee Member Coalition to End Monterey Counties; Additional support provided by Rising International Interns: Aina and Marla.

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the US and Argentina use Roundupresistant GM cotton. This is also the case with much of the corn and soy we consume. And glyphosate is a key ingredient.

This means that traces of this toxic herbicide can be found in our food and, now we know, feminine hygiene products—even though the WHO found it to be a carcinogen.

In fact, many countries like France, Colombia, and Sri Lanka have placed restrictions on glyphosate to protect both human and wildlife health. Now it’s time for Procter & Gamble to commit to sourcing glyphosate-free cotton for hygiene products like Tampax and Always.

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have opened during the past three years and in addition to the i ine o ent blazing in our Hearts, we now have more support from our Father-Mother God and the Co an of Heaven than ever before in the history of time.

This i ine nter ention is empowering every single one of us in miraculous ways.

According to the Co an of ea en, as we read the words and watch the video associated with the Activity of Light I AM sharing with you today, our resence

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The seminar features two free Saturday workshops including isco er the S irit al at re of rea s and S irit al Challen es S irit al ifts (especially for families!), plus a Spiritual Exploration Fair with interactive stations that provide lifetransforming tools.

“How are you going to make the best use of this life? How are you going to build toward an experience that is rich for Soul? The answer become a citizen of the spiritual worlds while still in the physical worlds,” said Sri Harold Klemp, the Spiritual Leader of Eckankar.

Life constantly offers opportunities to awaken to one’s true identity as Soul, a unique and eternal spark of divine creativity.

I recently had such an awakening. A mysterious pain began 20 weeks into my pregnancy.

The episodes quickly escalated from irritating to agonizing and lasted up to 11 hours without reprieve. Doctors blamed a necrotic “good luck” and a prescription for pain meds.

I endured months of incapacitating pain

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ishes for a great New Year for us each and all! During these most auspicious times, we are presenting a range of ideas and information to inspire and help us with new outlooks on life and new things to do for ourselves; new ways to Co-Create.

We have chosen some special people’s advice and expertise to inspire and enlighten us all in some way or another to feature in this Theme.

Remember . . . after the completion of the Mayan Calendar, we learned that we are

surface, this chaos seems to be increasing in every segment of society. This hateful behavior is the antithesis of the patterns of Oneness and Reverence for ALL Life that we all know how to i ine lan for this lanet Oneness and Reverence for ALL Life is the manifestation of Christ Consciousness through which our Father-Mother God’s

make sure we are living pure intention and always from our Hearts.

Sending you each and all so much LOVE, Pattie and Thom P.S. (We ask you each to take the action of supporting the wonderful people in this magazine of 23 years—frequent their businesses and let them know you saw them in Connection a a ine with their Ad and/or Article. WHY? Because . . . the people in this magazine are awesome, worthwhile people who are letting you know via their Ads that they

Earth and all Life evolving upon her. Please read the following words and watch this video with an open Heart and Mind. Your I AM Presence has drawn this information into your sphere of awareness because YOUR LIGHT IS NEEDED NOW, and you have volunteered to BE THE OPEN DOOR THAT NO ONE CAN SHUT IN 2016!

some really truthful Media (this paper) that tells what IS REALLY going on in this physical world as well as spiritual learnings, and shares SOLUTIONS and so many positive stories, too . . . THEN, participate with us all.)

will activate the i ine otential that was pre-encoded within our DNA prior to this embodiment. The i ine ntent of this activation is to empower each of us to help raise the consciousness of our recalcitrant sisters and brothers in the Family of Humanity.

Through this cti it of i ht, we will actually Love ALL Life FREE! The urgency of the hour is obvious. All we have to do is watch the news to see the desperate attempts being made to exacerbate fear and to wreak havoc amongst Humanity through the

Raising Consciousness The Shift from Separation to Oneness

by Patricia Cota-Robles YouTube Video – RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WtdFwmoGPtk

Together WE create the Shift!

Joyous New Year!

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cientifi c erican has a special collector’s edition issue out now titled, h sics at the i its. One article in particular was very exciting to read, Living in a ant orld by Vlatko Vedral, Ph.D. A little background on Dr. Vedral… he is a University of Oxford professor of physics. His research specialty is on the theory of entanglement and quantum information.

I invite you to expand your willingness to being open to the possibility that you already are the Creator…that the “outside world” is actually n is enough to move “mountains” and will expand your reality-shifting conscious awareness.

We are all One. When I embrace Joy/ Love, it ripples through all Consciousness, the same way it does when you choose Joy/Love.

And…thus create the Shift!

How powerful we collectively are when

we individually shift our focus from fear to Love…from anger to Joy! Together WE create the Shift!

I invite you to share your experiences with our readers, please reach out to me through my web site.

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approach that quantum mechanics only applies to the microworld and that classical physics is completely separate, ruling all else. Great article, I highly recommend checking it out!

The 3rd dimension illusion-of-separation is fueled by the antiquated belief of quantum mechanics not applying to all matter, and it upholds the perception of duality/ separateness/isolation.

As long as we communally embrace the belief that the 3rd dimension/physical world is not ultimately our collective creation, whether consciously or unconsciously, then the co-created reality we experience is victimization by the “external world”…the belief that “Someone” or “Something Out There” controls our life empty, and so on.

This New Year is a Universal 9 year, according to Numerology. 9 energy is the Alpha and the Omega, supporting reawakening, Unity, and enlightenment.

With the assistance of this powerful energy,

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The New Year’s Resolution with Flair, Finesse and FUNctionality!

Creating a New Peace of Mind

distinctive written legacy that serves as a virtual and

Instead of planning your life this January, how about planning your death--ENJOYABLY!?

by Holley Kelley, M.S., C.P.G. ew Year’s Resolutions are a long-held tradition,

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commitments for more of what we hope for,

life more rewarding, happier and more deeply soulful.

Consider taking these actions as part of your 2016 Final Affairs resolutions: ■ allowing you to identify life pursuits and interests

New Year’s Resolution that makes the top of the list for priorities, is guaranteed success in just two months? Instead of planning your life, how about planning your death!? goals, that we easily overlook the omnipresent aspect

way for you to truly express your soul-driven desires.

■ But, what is equally important is the “kickso that you can consciously and virtuously solidify Such items include resolving long-held feuds, making peace or amends, asking forgiveness from yourself or others. The point is to ensure you remain in complete concord with yourself and a bucket list and a “kick-the-bucket” list providing surprisingly new opportunities for spiritually-enlightened living.

■ of importance and allows you to design

create your own farewell— making it one

something with special nuance (think doves, participant in our own future passing. Acknowledging

gracious and dynamic aging, while thoughtfully putting

heart and your everlasting spirit.

■ Well-orchestrated, pre-determined funerals

existing life affairs today advance care planning aspects, advance directives, and peace of mind while you are living!

Done right, it is a rewarding personal journey, involving a multi-layered approach that creates an opportunity for heartening growth, transcendence into

■ to logging important family medical information and

meaningful personal mementos, family heirlooms and

and recording all these matters in advance prevents When your affairs are in order, you have distinguished your future in spectacular detail, as

plague families.

■ a perfect opportunity to also release those items you

ones. Doing so provides the perfect opportunity to

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and victimhood or serve as the gate-

From page 17 and three trips to the ER. After the last visit, which was particularly torturous, I considered the advice of a practitioner who suggested that my pain was tion of fear and anxiety Desperate and ready ity of a more spiritual perspective. What if ‘as in every circumstance?

What if the pain was

away at my loving nature as Soul.

Staying centered in Soul every day takes strong desire and discipline. It helps when I recognize that everything is happening for me, not to me. I tap into the

I allowed my fears, great and small, to surface like bubbles, and a new reality emerged. No longer the victim, I was free!

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mental constructs holding me prisoner.

I allowed my fears, great and small, to emerged. No longer the victim, I was free! from this vantage point as Soul, I recognized the spiritual gifts of my

that emerged as a result of these experiences. I also saw how the pain

understanding of myself as Soul, the creative center of my universe. I make my own heaven; I make my own hell.

This new year offers an opportunity to re-examine how my perspective can hold me in a pattern of pain

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exercise, like singing HU (hearHU.org). stay strong, Soul requires regular exercise to stay connected to the divine.

just a matter of perspective.

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Action Plan for the New Year

by Dr. Mercola appy New Year! This year, what do you say we all skip the New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution?

About half of Americans make them, and most start out strong but come February or March, many have already thrown in the towel.

Overall, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimated that 92 percent of Americans fail to achieve the goals they commit to on New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. And so, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proposing this instead: in place of a New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution, make a commitment to simply live better this year.

This is an ongoing process, a lifestyle change, not an impulsive resolution that you blurted out at midnight and have all but forgotten by morning. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also not something you can achieve overnight. Rather, this is a plan you can live by.

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10 Steps to Changing Your Life for the Better in 2016

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the start of a new yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what better time to start fresh with some positive changes? The 10 that follow are the crème de la crème of lifestyle tricks you can use to live better and be happierâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that really what virtually all of us are after?

Below follows a brief introduction to the 10 points I suggest you commit to this year. In the coming months, stay tuned for an updated comprehensive nutrition plan, which is scheduled for release in 2016.

It will include these points in detail along with a plethora of additional recommendations, tips, and strategies to help you live the best life possible.

1. Give Up Soda

Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, liver damage, some of the health conditions linked to soda consumption. No wonder nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of Americans say they actively try to avoid soda in their diet.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not yet among them, commit to swapping your soda for healthier beverages like water, sparkling water, and, occasionally, tea and/or organic black coffee.

When you consume soda your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.

and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel better for it.

2. Eat Two Meals a Day,

Within an 8-Hour Window

Your body probably only needs two meals a day, and eating this way allows you to restrict your eating to hours each day, while avoiding food for at least three hours before bedtime.

As long as you restrict your

Resolution From page 18 family to sort through and discard. Find other places (shelters, thrift shops, direct donations loved and appreciated--a wonderful uplifting to someone else. And, a relief to your survivors!

While there are many areas of comprehensive sharing your wishes with your family and medical providers. This is one of the most important aspects related to your planning endeavors.

Yet, there is also a chance for you to impact not only your own healing, but the healing of your loved ones. Besides leaving a written legacy of your life for them to have as a warm and loving memorial to you, there is an opportunity to write letters to individual family members and friends, a beautiful

wishes for their future, encouragement, wisdom, requests for family to stay connected, letters to the future bride or grandchildren yet to be born.... You can impact their lives long after you are gone.

In writing my book, Sunrises and Sunsets, Final Affairs Forged with Flair, Finesse, and FUNctionality, I was determined to take the trepidation out of end-of-life planning and actually make the process engaging and fun. The

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and avoid eating for at least three hours before bed, you can choose between having breakfast and lunch, or lunch and dinner, but avoid having both breakfast and dinner.

Which two meals you prefer are up to you; let your body, and your lifestyle, be your guide.

This type of intermittent fasting for your health, including weight loss, disease prevention, resolving insulin resistance, optimizing your mitochondrial function, and preventing cellular damage from occurring.

3. Get Eight Hours of Sleep Each Night I used to think I was immune to needing adequate sleep. I would night and thought I could function this way. But, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve since realized that most adults really need about eight hours of sleep every night.

What makes sleep deprivation impact one aspect of your health; it impacts many.

Sleep deprivation has the same effect on your immune system as physical stress or illness, which may help

per night more than triples your risk of high blood pressure, and women who get less than four hours of shuteye per night double their chances of dying from heart disease.

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Plan From page 19 melatonin inhibits the proliferation of a wide range of cancer cell types, as well as triggers cancer cell apoptosis (self-destruction). Lack of sleep also decreases levels of your fat-regulating hormone leptin, while increasing the hunger hormone ghrelin.

The resulting increase in hunger and appetite can easily lead to overeating and weight gain. Not to is actually the strongest predictor for pain in adults over 50.

Small adjustments to your daily routine and sleeping area can go a long way to ensure uninterrupted, restful sleep and, thereby, better health.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure how much track of the actual time youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asleep (as opposed to the time spent in bed).

If you need more sleep, I suggest you read through my full set of 33 healthy sleep guidelines (http:// tinyurl.com/297fsme) for details on proper sleep hygiene.

4. Eat More Healthy

Fats and Fiber

Public health guidelines condemn healthy fats from foods like butter and full-fat dairy, and recommend whole grains and cereals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the opposite of what most people need to stay healthy.

The latest science suggests healthy fats (saturated and unsaturated fats from whole food, animal, and plant sources) should comprise anywhere from 50 to 85 percent of your overall energy intake.

Healthy fat sources include coconut and coconut oil, avocados, butter, nuts, and animal fats.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right; butter need not be source of healthy saturated fats, especially when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raw, organic, and grass-fed. In addition to eating more healthy fats, most Americans need to can help reduce your risk of premature death from any cause, likely because it helps to reduce your risk of some of the most common chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

When it comes to boosting your more vegetables, nuts and seeds (not grains). Organic whole husk psyllium is a and fermented vegetables, the latter of

â&#x2013; Lowering your risk for cancer â&#x2013; Improving your mood and mental health â&#x2013; Preventing acne In the US, imbalances in gut high in sugar and processed foods (concentrated animal feeding operation) meats in your diet.

The solution is simpleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in addition to cutting back on sugar and antibiotics, consuming fermented foods will give your gut health a complete overhaul, helping to clear out pathogenic varieties and promoting the spread of healing, nourishing microorganisms instead.

Just one-quarter to one-half cup of fermented vegetables, eaten with one to three meals per day, impact on your health. You can even start a new tradition by getting together with friends and family to make big batches of fermented vegetables together. (http://tinyurl. )

6.Sit Less and Walk More, Work on Your Flexibility On average, a U.S. adult spends nine to 10 hours each day sitting, which is so much inactivity that even a 30- or 60-minute workout canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t counteract its effects.

While it might seem natural to sit this long since youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably grown used to it (physically and mentally), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually quite contrary to nature. Studies looking at life in agriculture environments show that people in agrarian villages sit for about three hours a day.

Your body is made to move around and be active the majority changes occur when you spend the majority of the day sedentary instead.

Setting a goal of taking 7,000 to 10,000 steps a day (which is just over can go a long way toward getting more movement and less sitting into your life. This should be over and above any In addition, stand up at work if you can, rather than sitting at your desk. Meanwhile, make it a point keep you functional well into old age. Pilates, yoga, and whole body vibration training are options to

7. Have Your Vitamin D

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly easy to boost your vitamin D3 levels (D3 is the closest to D from the sunlight), so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason to put your health at risk from low status. Yet, researchers such as Dr. Michael Holick estimate that 50 percent of the general population

In addition to helping break down and eliminate heavy metals

them, your risk of multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and other chronic disorders

number of surprising functions, including helping with mineral absorption and producing nutrients such as B vitamins and vitamin K2.

They may also play a role in: â&#x2013; Preventing obesity and diabetes, and regulating dietary fat absorption

In a study of more than 100 people, those with low vitamin D levels were more likely to have type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, or metabolic syndrome, regardless of their weight.

Dementia is also directly linked to vitamin D. Seniors who have low vitamin D3 levels may double their risk of dementia, including

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Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. As noted by the authors, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This adds to the ongoing debate about the role of vitamin D3 in nonskeletal conditions.â&#x20AC;? Incidence of several types of cancer could also be slashed in half if more people increased their vitamin D3 levels.

One of Dr. Holickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studies showed that healthy volunteers taking 2,000 IUs of vitamin D3 per day for a few months upregulated 291 different genes that control up to 80 different metabolic processes.

This included improving DNA repair to having effect on UV radiation, which has implications boosting your immune system, and many other biological processes.

If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what your vitamin D3 level is, get tested. The vitamin D3 test youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for is called 25(OH)D or overall D3 status and is most strongly associated with overall health.

The other vitamin D3 test available, called (1,25[OH]D), is not very useful for While sunlight is the ideal way to optimize your vitamin D3, winter and working indoors prevent more than 90 percent of those reading this article from achieving ideal levels.

A high-quality tanning bed is circumstances donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow you to access the sun or a high-quality tanning bed, then you really only have one option if you want to raise your vitamin D, and that is to take a vitamin D3 supplement.

Regular testing is crucial in this case to keep your level within the optimal range. If you live in the U.S., January and

organically raised meats (and of course, the same goes for dairy and eggs). Wildcaught Alaskan salmon and sardines are You can also get plenty of protein from plant foods. Consider hemp seeds (hemp hearts), chia seeds, spirulina, sprouts, and bee pollen, for instance.

9. Meditate for 5 to 10 Minutes a Day Stress-related problems, including back pain, insomnia, acid bowel syndrome may account for up to 70 percent of the average US physicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caseload. Such healthin the US, after only heart disease and cancer. New research suggests, however, that such costs could be cut drastically simply by becoming more Both mindfulness

meditation

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prayer, keeping a gratitude journal, and the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).

One simple techniques into your life is to meditate you get out of bed, to take advantage of your mind being in a quiet zone.

10. Help Others and Be Active in Your Community Volunteering is a simple way to help others, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a powerful way to help yourself. Beyond the good feelings youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get from donating your time, and the potential to develop new, meaningful relationships with people in your

a boost to your heart health.

In one study, people who volunteered for at least 200 hours a year were 40 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who did not. People who volunteer for altruistic reasons, i.e. to help others rather than themselves, may even live longer than those who volunteer for more self-centered reasons. in your community are particularly pronounced among older adults, a population that tends to slow down once retirement hits. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorer health and a shorter lifespan.

Volunteering also gives you a sense of purpose and can even lead to a so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;helperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high,â&#x20AC;? which may occur because doing good releases feel-good hormones lowering levels of stress hormones like cortisol.

Giving back is about so much more than even that, though, as it will help you to connect with your community and contribute your time and/or talents to promoting the greater good.

Remember, most New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolutions do fail for one reason or another. So this year, try making a simple commitment to live healthier from here on out. Start slow and small as little changes can make a huge overall difference in your health. And, when you commit to a lifestyle, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer about meeting a particular goal, like losing 10 pounds. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about living a little bit differently, a little bit better, so that ultimately youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re happier and healthier for it. http://tinyurl.com/zouesb8 Printed with permission.

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youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re vitamin D levels are low.

8. Eat Nutrient-Dense Protein (Quality not Quantity) Protein is essential for your health as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a structural component of enzymes, cellular receptors, signaling molecules, and a main building block for your muscles and bones. But, eating amounts of protein could actually be worse than eating too many carbs. biochemical pathways that accelerate aging and cancer growth. most adults need about 1 gram of protein per kilogram of lean body mass (not total body weight), or 0.5 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass. In this formula, you must To do that, subtract your percent you have 30 percent body fat, then you have 70 percent lean body mass.

Then multiply that percentage (in this case 0.7) by your current weight to get your lean body mass in weigh 170 pounds; 0.7 multiplied by 170 equals 119 pounds of lean body mass. Using the â&#x20AC;&#x153;0.5 gram of proteinâ&#x20AC;? rule, you would need just under 60 grams of protein per day. Substantial amounts of protein can be found legumes, and nuts.

The quality of the meat you eat is just as important as the quantity. As a general rule, the only meat I recommend eating is pastured,

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Astrology for 2016, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crossing the Bridge, the Transformative Intentionâ&#x20AC;?

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n the clear cold winter nights the stars exclaim their existence! Orion with his jeweled belt climbs toward Southern skies. Look up and wonder at the mystery within which you live! As we turn the wheel into 2016 we strengthen our intentions to recreate the culture and our own lives. The world as we have known it is no longer here and the world to be has not yet taken on its form. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are here in the unraveling to reweave the world together. Invite yourself to be an agent of ongoing creativity. The deepest power is that of imagination. The Earth is a living being and the human is threaded into the soul of the world.â&#x20AC;?(Michael Meade). The cosmos and the spinning planets tell a story of breakdown of the old paradigm. In this interim time the universe calls on us to raise our consciousness, be courageous in making change, and to recognize our deep interconnectedness with all life. The truth of our relationship with the Earth must now assert itself. 2016 is the year to give form to these truths and to expound upon practical solutions. It is time to root out belief systems formed through the old paradigm, that condemn, shame, polarize, and limit the potential of every human.

Each of us has an important role to play, to tend the vision of a lifesustaining world. Each action we take to vitalize and shift our lives into creative possibilities rather than acting out the conditioning of the old paradigm, we create a collective luminosity that transforms our conditions and births a new world and self.

The world now calls out to us to awaken!!!

To survive we relocate our consciousness to our hearts and cultivate mindfulness. Such a major task of transformation for humanity! It calls on us to harness the arising power of the feminine, the receptive, inclusive, intuitive powers that understand our deep connectedness to life. What holds tight to power is challenged by that which has for many years, has been repressed. Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn linger in their tense square through 2016, challenging us at every level to

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take clear actions toward building the foundations for a new world and a new life with radically different views of who we are.

Our vision and our consciousness becomes the bridge into the new paradigm. Polarization between peoples, races, governments, and within oneself is the old paradigm, causing a dying way of being on this Earth. The wounds of the old paradigm now surface, and must be addressed, so new levels of integration can take place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;History is asking us to be healersâ&#x20AC;? (Fania Davis). We walk an edge between dancer!

Saturn and Neptune form a square during the year. This alignment brings forward a confrontation with unrealistic expectations, as well as with our ideals and dreams. It asks us to look very realistically at where we are, what we have created and are creating. Many can feel let down, disappointed or overwhelmed with what they see. But this is our task in 2016, to hold true to a vision of health and wholeness, and to persevere, hold steady, redesign our lives, and have courage to give form to that vision. We will be challenged with fear through its lower manifestation and asked to develop compassion for the world and ourselves as we step into the higher calling of this lineup. At what level will we partake in this Saturn Neptune drama? We take up the courage to face our attachments to old identities that are no longer serve our health and wellbeing and through persevering intention create and anchor a renewed self, a renewed world.

Saturn will root out deception.

It will confront what is evasive, confusing, hidden. During this time, â&#x20AC;&#x153;old forms of relating, feeling, behaving, along with social institutions, reveal their inappropriateness in the light of new understanding. A tension all that has become obsolete develops. Before us is a challenge to radical re-evaluation out of which new insights, new values, and a new philosophical basis can eventually emerge.â&#x20AC;? (Dane Rudhyar, Leya Rael).

Jupiter also squares Saturn this year. On a cultural, societal

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level what started in 2000 reaches a point of radical adjustment in order to seed a new cycle in 2020. This new cycle will carry the Aquarian energy of equality among all, of innovative, creative, inventive energy. Mars goes retrograde this year in Sagittarius and Scorpio, April17th to June 29th. Expect delays in ones plans.

What has been in forward motion, must now reverse direction. This on intention, and motivation.

Review your course of action and revise. Watch the global situation especially around war, and revisioning direction.

Mercury retrogrades in Earth signs this year, asking us to review the tangible results within our lives.

Security and practical concerns are foremost. The deeper call is to become aware of what is most valuable in our daily living and consciousness. The Chinese year of the Fire Monkey begins on February 8th, on the New Moon.

The playful trickster will abound through the next 12 months.

Passion and energy moves us forward. Ingenuity in business increases and all mental pursuits are favored. This is the year to take risks, create change in your life, and shake things up. The challenge during Monkey year is to stay centered, grounded, and pace yourself.

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by Christopher Love round this time, all the world over, there are New Year celebrations taking place in association with several traditions. For us, in North America, having celebrations of this kind during the darkness and wet of Winter

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personal orientation to self, life and the universe (which includes thought and form) and the second is the foundation of personal empowerment.

In regard to the first, ask Christopher Love yourself these questions: Who am I? What is life? And where is â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we think, design and create the universe? Haveven strategic. Winter things into being through our thoughts, ing an understandfor colder regions is a we must take a close look at how and ing of the nature of time of slowing, often at t ink r a ma find a self and reality is a step in thought of as a time to correlation between our thoughts and foundational becoming a creator in hunker down close to our life experience.â&#x20AC;? your life. Ultimately, family and keep the following the unfolding that occurs when In light of perwe seriously take on sonal growth and psythese three questions, chological health, this we must wrestle with time of short days and the origin of thought long nights affords and form. many an opportunity to Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t everything go inward, engaging in â&#x20AC;&#x153;man madeâ&#x20AC;? in the practices of introspecworld today a product tion and meditation. of thought? This is For some there is a a powerful realizalonging to sleep more, tion to explore. If all as if following a prithings we have creatmal tendency toward ed, from the wheel to hibernation. the automobile, from In many traditions, New Year celebrations include opportu- the cell phone to the space shuttle, have been nities to look at your life, take stock of where created because of someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions that were you are on many levels and decide what you inspired by their thoughts, then you and I must like and do not like, what you want and do not have the ability to do so as well. I personally want and set some intentions for the next spiral like the tea cups my son dreams up and makes around our brilliant Sun. This is a healthy way on his potters wheel. If we think, design and to proceed, getting present to what is so in your create things into being through our thoughts we life, feeling it out and choosing your path from must take a close look at how and what we think. your newly assessed awareness.

Even people who do not actively engage thoughts and our life experience.

Studies have found that the average perin meditation, ritual or the â&#x20AC;&#x153;to doâ&#x20AC;? of family, societal and religions traditions will often en- son in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern world conjures around gage in the act of New Year intention setting or 65,000 thoughts a day. More astonishing is the fact that the majority of these thoughts were Do you have a practice, ritual or tradition along thought the day before! How can we expect our lives to be any different than they are now these lines? Is it something that serves you?

We all want our lives to continually if we are engaging in the same way of thinking improve. We want optimal health, abundant as we always have?

If thought becomes reality, you owe it to gaging in the practice of New Year resolutions yourself to check up on your thinking; is it limitis a technique many use to attempt achieving ing, self-deprecating and thus disempowering? oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desires through being a proactive force Or is it self-appreciating, open to an abundance in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal life. Unfortunately, time and of possibility, and therefore self-empowering?

For resolutions to take effect and actutime again, people make New Year resolutions only to follow their lead for a short time before ally work in your life it is important to have a returning to â&#x20AC;&#x153;business as usual,â&#x20AC;? meaning the foundation that will support change. One such resolution fades into distant memory and looses technique is incorporating a daily discipline as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potency, old habits return and we settle into part of your resolution. Commitment is key to that which feels normal, familiar and therefore making a discipline a habit, which takes around comfortable on some level. Often we choose forty days. Dedication is the power that fuels what is comfortable, even if we know it is not your commitment and is inspired by the results the best choice. Is there something you want to you desire.

I propose that is better to refrain from change, let go, or add to your life in the commaking resolutions you will not keep as this ing year?

Some folks are consistently successful in- undermines oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief in self. I do support you corporating New Year resolutions and intentions you and become dedicated to them. This means of change to be daunting, challenging and at doing â&#x20AC;&#x153;whatever it takesâ&#x20AC;? to manifest them, times overwhelming. So what makes one person utilizing all the tools, technologies and support more apt to achieve oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desired intentions and that life has to offer. When you are successful in manifesting through this process you cultivate another fail?

In my personal experience as a meditation a sense of empowerment and reinforce belief in practitioner of nearly three decades, I have self. Happy creating to you in 2016!

Christopher Love is a writer, educator found that there are many factors involved in this answer. Among these factors, there two and meditation instructor who welcomes corcrucial points that I am moved to explore in respondence: Love@DevotionalLiving.org.

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We a r e connected energetically to everything we own. Having stuff is not bad, there are many things that are useful and Megan Montero meaningful to daily life. Objects that we have negative emotional connections to, or unused, unloved things can hold us back from living full lives. Every aspect of our health home. Clutter creates energy blockages in our homes and this can create blockages in our health and in our life. Have

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Growth of Consciousness, fullness of heart, expansion of mind, and shifts in perception will unfold as these simple and natural processes are received, learned, and practiced.

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Derived from the great shamanic traditions of Peru, this nine week program consists of weekly two hour sessions during which class members learn about, experience,

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having less is more and having more is a burden. The more conscious we make our choices about what we buy and keep, the better we will feel. The

time to go through your stuff, you will be surprised at the changes it brings.

For Feng Shui and Home Organizing advice tailored to your spe(831) 588-5424 or megan@windandwaterblessings.com. Megan Montero is a Feng Shui consultant, a Home Organizer, a Plant Spirit Medicine healer, and a Granicera in the Nahua weather working tradition of Mexico.

She has been practicing Feng Shui in Santa Cruz since 2007 and offers consultations in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay areas and by phone.

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undergoing accelerated challenge and change, these rites are vitally important in supporting creativity, clarity, effectiveness, and life supporting transformation.

One rite will be presented each week along with some background information about the tradition from which the rites have been derived. The course is primarily experiential and delivers profound

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Clearing clutter can feel really good. Once you let go of the things that are no longer serving you the weight of this burden will be lifted and you may want to get rid of more stuff. Taking the time to go through your things will actually create more time for life in the future Clearing clutter is a process of letting go that often happens in layers.

Things we are not ready to let go of today, we may be ready to let go of tomorrow. Our society tells us that the more we have the happier we will

value and meaning of what we surround ourselves with increases when we clear our clutter. This creates a sacred space

While each rite serves as a new connection to the recipient’s higher self, the Foundation Rites nurture and support the individual on a personal

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greater access to the organizing principles of the Universe. As its name indicates, increased harmony is the result as this rite becomes operative in the lives of individuals. Recipients begin to feel an increased sense of right relationship and good fortune.

The fourth rite is the Seer’s Rite. This rite installs new energetic pathways to the visual cortex.

Recipients often begin to see previously unseen individuals will experience great-

ing power of the hands so recipients will become more effective in the ways they work in the world. Those who receive this rite will acquire greater capacity to care for themselves, their communities, and their environment. Qualities of manifestation, love, compassion, and vision are strengthened.

The Bands of Power, or Great Protections or second. This rite reinforces the either ward off, or convert, adverse inports the ability to convert negativity to nutrients which can fuel growth.

This rite also allows individuals who have constructed other defense mechanisms to gradually dismantle them and to rely more on the natural defenses enlivened by the rite. As the old defense mechanisms become obsolete, the energy used to maintain them is freed up for more creative and life enhancing purposes.

The Harmony Rite allows

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With the completion of the fourth rite, the recipients are able to which provide connection and access to powerful transpersonal resources.

In addition to receiving and learning to transmit the rites to others, course participants will participate in traditional ceremonies and gain a rich capacity to use and appreciate the rites in everyday life. Tuition for the nine week training is $225.

The course is taught by shaman elder Patrick Gillis. You are invited to call (831) 345-6520 or email munay@skyhighway.com for registration information.

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a carrot is a taproot, although the greens are sometimes eaten as well. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. The domestic carrot has been selectively bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that world production of carrots and turnips for calendar year 2011 was almost 35.658 million tuns.

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Some Facts Both the Ancient Greeks and Romans cultivated carrots.

The Ancient Greeks called the carrot a philtron, which translates to “love charm.” They believed the carrot made both men and women more amorous.

China, Japan, and India were cultivating carrots by the 13th century.

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A Catalyst For Love-Centered Well Being And Evolution

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by Reverend Michele DeMoulin, Founder elcome! It is a happy day for me as I share with you, from my heart, the beauty of this dynamically manifesting Institute ~ a calling, since youth, housed in the very substance of my soul. Fiamma D’Amore™ Institute & Ministries is launching initial local and non-local programs beginning this February! We are profoundly grateful and excited. Thank you for being an important part of this grace-filled journey!

What is Fiamma D’Amore?

Fiamma D’Amore Fellowship, or our “Living Love And Light” Go Fund Me Campaign, please see our website at www.fiammadamore. org. We invite you, also, to like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fiammadamoreorg.

The Origin Of Fiamma D’Amore™ The beginning phases of this vision were revealed to me as a result of a near-death experience that I had at 16. Severe complications with asthma and pneumonia caused my heart to stop beating and precipitated a 5 day coma, over which time, I turned 17. Through this benevolent and sacred process, I communed with

Fiamma D’Amore™ Institute & Ministries is a multi-faceted, interfaith resource and community that fosters alignment with Divine Love and Light through nurturing the Flame of Love within us and within all life. It supports the healing and strengthening of the Heart and the integration and expansion of soul-centered consciousness. Through education, spiritual services, outreach, healing sessions, online resources, celebratory events and community connection, Fiamma D’Amore™ Institute & Ministries offers multiple avenues of support to enrich, empower, ennoble, expand and enliven.

Fiamma D’Amore™ is also a movement, both in consciousness and in connection. In addition to our diverse healing, ministerial and educational resources, we have a joyous, growing community called our Light Family. It is comprised of inspired, caring individuals who are dedicated to bettering our world through the grace and power of Unconditional Love. Our Light Family is an essential part of the reach of Fiamma D’Amore’s impact.

It helps us to deepen our roots and strengthen our voice. You do not have to live locally to bring your own beautiful Light to our Light Family. We welcome you!

Fiamma D’Amore™ is launching several initial programs beginning this February! They will be offered both locally and for our non-local community. In the coming year, and still to be scheduled, we also welcome you to our lifechanging core retreat, “The Flame!”

For information on how you personally can be part of making a difference through our Light Family, our dynamic membership program,

Its Heart And Foundational Principles There are three Holy Beings who are the driving force behind this ministry. They are the Beloved Archangel Michael, the Beloved Mother Mary and the Beloved Jesus Christ. Their Love, Grace and Guidance channel through and inform all our works. They are creating Fiamma D’Amore™ as a vehicle to bless all life and are at its helm. Other Blessed Beings also contribute to this work, which is trans-denominational.

“Fiamma D’Amore” means “Flame of Love” in Italian, and encapsulates the essence of what we teach and enhance through our works.

Our primary foundational principles are channeled from the Divine and rooted in Universal Wisdom. They are as follows:

1. That all Life is, in essence, an evolv-

many Blessed Beings of the Spiritual Plane.

They were teaching and preparing me for my purpose.

It was revealed to me that I was to be used as a channel and axis point for Divine Presence to support us more directly. That when the world was ready, many Blessed Beings would assist us in creating an Institute to help all of life joyfully evolve and align with its higher expression. The Institute is to be an expansive, heart-centered resource to help us transform ourselves, our lives and our world. It is now time for this, and Fiamma D’Amore™ is this Institute.

ing expression and extension of Divine Unconditional Love.

2. That we, ourselves, are “flames” of Divine Love here to fulfill a unique and vital purpose.

3. That Divine Love continually breathes life into us, blesses and protects us, nurtures our growth and prompts us to manifest our beauty and higher purpose.

4. That our true essence may only be fully experienced by nurturing the Flame of Love within us and within life.

5. That through active alignment with Love, life rises to its deeper expression, reflects who we are more fully and supports greater levels of joy, health, abundance, wellbeing, peace, connection and harmony.

6. That the Heart is the voice of the Soul and of the Divine. It is the bridge between physical and spiritual life and the key to our fulfillment.

7. That the pain we see and experience in life does not reflect the nature of Life, nor of Divinity, but reflects our feeling disconnected from our own hearts and the false sense of separation from ourselves, from one another, from nature and from God that that feeling creates in us ~ and correspondingly, creates in our world.

8. That by healing our hearts and strengthening their life and voice within us, Divinity can operate in loving partnership with us, and our lives, and the world around us, beautifully transform in response.

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Community Heart Weekly Prayer Connection Bettering Ourselves and Our World Through Prayer (no registration required) In our sacred time together, we will learn more about the “Fine Art of Prayer.” We will, also, pray in heart-centered community for issues of personal, local and global importance. The power of prayer is vast and largely underdeveloped within us. Through the sweet bond of caring community, we will access and facilitate the potent gift of soulful prayer and lovingly better ourselves and our World.

By donation Locally and Non-locally ~ Thursdays, beginning February 4.

Locally: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., SUBUD SANTA CRUZ, 3800 Old San Jose Road, Soquel Non-Locally: by phone, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. PST (641) 715-3865 Soul Deep Love ~ The Gathering A Monthly Educational & Social Event!

Join us for a powerful, uplifting and nourishing monthly opportunity to grow in one’s capacity for loving, to learn more about and nurture Soulmate Relationships and Sacred Love, to deepen in self love and to connect with others seeking to grow in love. This unique and beautiful program is suitable for anyone sincerely interested in strengthening his or her capacity for loving ~ whether seeking a relationship, happily partnered or interested solely in personal development. Couples are also very welcome and historically, have found this program to be extremely beneficial. Please call us or sign up online to register monthly, for multiple months or for the year.

The Second Saturdays of the Month, Beginning February 13 Locally: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. $30.

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Soul Deep Love Upcoming Themes: February 13 ~ What Are Soulmates and How Do We Find True Love?

March 12 ~ Loving More Deeply with the Help of the Divine April 9 ~ Conscious, Courageous Passion May 14 ~ Developing and Nurturing Intimacy The Spiritual Powerhouse Series Three Potent Teleseminars (Register online for one, two or all three!)

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Two Channeled Blessings And Teachings The Holy Ones “at our helm” want me to complete this article with two blessings and teachings that They have channeled for us. The first is an excerpt from a longer prayer called the “Flame of Love Prayer” that is central to the core teachings of our Institute and our Flame Retreat. It is both a prayer and a song, and the music was given to us by our Beloved Mother Mary. It may be used as a prayer or mantra to bless the heart, and to bless loved ones if done on someone’s behalf ~ especially children.

May My Heart Sing ~ A Blessing For The Heart May my heart sing loudly its Love Dance freely its Joy Shine brightly its Beauty Give sweetly its Grace And welcome Courageously Tenderly and gratefully That given!

The second blessing and teaching is a poem that the Beloved Ones channeled to teach us how to love and, really, to live.

Newly Minted

Love all life, each day Like you are newly minted Like nothing restricts you Like you’ve known no judgment Like all fear has been lifted All pain dissolved.

Love like your life depends upon it And the joy within you Can no longer be contained!

It is an honor and privilege to share my heart with you in this way! Thank you for helping us strengthen and grow this important resource in the name of Love. We welcome you with open arms and hearts!

Love is the Answer

Reverend Michele DeMoulin is an Interfaith Minister ordained in the teachings of the Ancient Essene Brother/ Sisterhood, and founder of Fiamma D’Amore™ Institute & Ministries. She is a Reiki Master Teacher and Healer, and has lovingly served in Santa Cruz for 20 years. Her primary commitment is to be a pure channel for the presence of Divine Love to be of blessing ~ through her life, for her clients and for the world. (831) 457-7788, www. fiammadamore.org, www.micheledemoulin.com

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5 Basic Steps to Boost Your Pet’s Health This Year

by Dr. Becker t’s the start of a brand new year and if you’re like me, you’ve made a mental list— or maybe even a written one—of changes you plan to make, beginning today.

Most of us with pets tend to include our animal companions in our New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you’d like to help your dog get more exercise this year. Or maybe you’ve made a commitment to brush your cat’s coat more often to prevent hair balls.

Here’s a quick refresher on some of the basics of providing a healthy lifestyle for your dog or cat.

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Five Back-to-the-Basics Ways to Improve Your Pet’s Health This Year When it comes to helping your pet have a long, healthy life, there is no single thing more important than providing him with the right nutrition. To be optimally healthy, dogs and cats need quality protein, fats, and a small amount of vegetables and fruits that provide antioxidants and ger hunt whole prey. Your pet needs unadulterated, fresh, and whole foods that are moisture dense. They don’t tives, colors, additives, chemicals, byproducts, or processed or genetically modified (GMO) foods. Although animals can eat some processed foods, they aren’t designed to consume a lifetime of dry or canned diets. weight.

Overweight and obese pets is such a widespread problem that many cat and dog owners don’t even realize their animal companion is too heavy to be healthy. Feeding too much of the wrong kind of food is how the problem usually starts. As a carnivore, the foundation of your dog’s or cat’s diet should be animal muscle meats, organs, and bones. Unfortunately, the foundation of most popular, affordable commercial pet diets is grains, carboexactly the ingredients carnivores are NOT designed to eat. Biologically inappropriate nutrition can contribute not only to obesity, but to a long list of diet-related diseases as well. Lack of adequate exercise is also a big risk factor in creating a too-heavy cat or dog.

Our pets are designed to be physically active for optimal health. Not only does lack of exercise help to pack on the pounds, it can also cause extreme boredom and lack of mental stimulation, which in a dog in particular, can result in a whole host of behaviorrelated issues.

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“Needless” vaccinations for most pets who received well-timed puppy or kitten shots include: Yearly boosters of the core vaccines (distemper, parvo, and adenovirus for dogs; panleukopenia, calici, and herpes for cats)

Over-vaccinating can create serious short and long-term health problems for your cat or dog. Yes, many pets enjoy long lives despite yearly re-vaccinations, but many others have developed vaccine-associated sarcomas, autoimmune disorders, and other life-threatening diseases. In lieu of automatic re-vaccinations, I recommend antibody titer tests at 3-year intervals to insure your pet remains immune t o the diseases

annual wellness visit to your vet. I also encourage you to have a holistic practitioner on your pet’s health care team. There is a lot that can be done to improve the health and quality of life of your animal companion beyond what traditional Western medicine is able to offer.

Environmental enrichment means enhancing your pet’s surroundings and lifestyle so that he is presented with novelty in his environment, opportunities to learn, and encouragement to engage in instincto enrich your dog’s environment can include: types of toys in varying shapes, sizes, textures, colors, and scents daily exercise/playtime of walks opportunities for social enrichment, for example, visits to the dog park, play dates with other dogs, or involvement in activities such as agility and nose work.

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THE GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS BRING THE SPECTACULAR CIRQUE ZIVA BACK TO THE RIO THEATRE IN SANTA CRUZ FOR ONE NIGHT, ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH Last years debut performance in Santa Cruz was beautiful and exhilarating and brought the full house to their feet for several standing ovations.

This is a great family show with a $15 children’s ticket and a 7 pm start time (6 pm doors). Tickets are available in advance at Tomboy, Streetlight records and online at pulseproductions.net. he newest show from producer Danny Chang (Artistic Director of the Golden Dragon Acrobats), Cirque Ziva was created in 2011 for a 10-week engagement at Asbury Park Boardwalk’s Paramount Theatre, the first-ever summer run held at the venue in its more than 80-year history.

An instant success in Asbury Park, earning critical acclaim and packed houses, Cirque Ziva is a fast-paced, technically innovative and beautifully presented new show. The large cast and spectacular set designs illustrate the best of Chang’s brand of artistic merit, high production value, and solid commitment to cultural exchange.

Of special note is Cirque Ziva Lighting Director Tony Tucci, the recipient of two B. Iden Payne Awards and Critics Table awards for lighting. Credits include: American Ballet Theatre’s

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Acrobatic Troupe). In 1967, the name of the company officially changed to Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats.

Configurations with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the video Baryshnikov, Dancer and The Dance; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; works by Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones; and Suzanne Farrell; and for 1996 Summer Olympics, designed the Cultural Olympiad, which showcased six national and international companies.

Danny Chang and his Golden Dragon Acrobats continue their relentless, 30+ year US touring schedule of centuries-old Chinese art form. Since 1985, they remain the only Chinese acrobatic company touring year-round in the United States, and present over 200 performances annually. In 2005, their Broadway debut and seven-week run at the New Victory Theater earned two prestigious New York Drama Desk Awards nominations (Angela Chang for Best Choreography and Danny Chang for Most Unique Theatrical Experience).

About Mr. Danny Chin-Chang Chang Danny started his acrobat career as young as 7 years old. He was trained personally by his father and join Chang’s Acrobatic Troupe to perform through out Taiwan. As an outstanding performer, Danny was selected to the National Acrobats Troupe of Republic of China in 1967.

Since that year, he had the privileges of performing in numerous countries every year.

In 1984, Lien Chi Chang accepted a prestige position as the Head Coach at National Taiwan College of Performing Arts. Danny Chang officially inherited the Golden Dragon Acrobats.

Danny Chang decided to venture his business outside of the well established market in Asia.

After a year of planning and preparation, Danny finally realized this dream by performing at the United States of America.

Founding History Lien Chi Chang officially established the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats in 1967 with his family whose member included Danny Chang, his sister and other students. From 1967 to 1984, Lien Chi led the company to numerous performances in different nations. The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats dazzled audiences

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ranging from 8 years old kids to 80 years old seniors all across the globe. Danny Chang, often traveled with his father’s Golden Dragon Acrobats, was later chosen by the National Acrobats Troupe of Republic of China to lead the various world tour produced by the most prestige acrobat school in Taiwan.

After more than 17 years of apprenticeship under his dad and several years of world tour, Danny Chang was ready to step up as the President of the Golden Dragon Acrobats when Lien Chi Chang accepted the head coaching job at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts.

As a young entrepreneur, Danny showed tremendous passion toward the acrobatic arts.

His first goal was to reorganize the company from a small group to a world renowned production company. He chose the United States of America as his starting point. With Mr. Bill Fegan’s assistance, the Golden Dragon Acrobats debuted in 1985.

Today, the Golden Dragon Acrobats have been recognized as the preeminent Chinese acrobatic company in the United States. As the director and the producer, Danny Chang has built a solid reputation based on his talents as both an acrobatic performer and artistic director.

Every year, along with the choreographer, also his wife, Angela Chang, attend different acrobatic competitions to constantly select the most elite performers to join the Golden Dragon Acrobats.

About Mr. Chang Lien Chi Mr. Chang Lien Chi, father of Danny ChinChang Chang was the founder of Golden Dragon Acrobats. In 1949, he and his family brought acrobatic performance from Wu Qiao China to the audiences in Taiwan. However, Mr. Chang was unable to return to China due to the Chinese civil war. Therefore, he decided to start an acrobatic business with his brother in Taiwan (the Chang’s

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In 1998, due to the popular demand, the Golden Dragon Acrobats restructured itself and formed Asian Artists Production, Inc. or AAPI. In the next 10 years, AAPI continued to produce the Golden Dragon Acrobats and also created other shows for different markets. Some of these productions included the Amazing Chinese Acrobats, Circo Magnifico, Dream, Pagoda, and others.

The latest of these theatrical productions, Cirque Ziva, was created in 2011 for a five-week run at Asbury Park Boardwalk’s Paramount Theatre, marking the first-ever residency held at the venue in its more than 80-year history.

Soon after, AAPI announced a touring partnership with SRO Artists, Inc., with plans to deliver the premiere North American Tour of Cirque Ziva for Winter & Spring of 2013.

Through out the history of the Golden Dragon Acrobats, the company has performed in all fifty states, including repeated performances in all 48 lower states. On average, the Golden Dragon Acrobats presents over 200 performances each year at 100 to 200 venues across the United States. The Golden Dragon Acrobats also has separated itself from the majority of Chinese acrobatic companies touring the United States by emphasizing their artistic merit, cultural exchange. Moreover, the company spends more than one third of its tour participating in community and youth outreach program.

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With Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters Entertainment: 4 Message: 4.5 ne of the best films this year luminous, gorgeously captured, deeply soulful, with a timely, much-needed message about immigrants (formerly known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;foreignersâ&#x20AC;?). Both visually stunning and deeply felt, this is a surprisingly gripping and intimate story of coming to America, with all the risks, hopes and dreams, as well as requisite heart-wrenching separation from home, family and friends. With brilliant performances throughout, Saoirse Ronan shines in her role as Eilis, an Irish girl looking for a better life in Brooklyn. We witness her coming to fullness, and discovering her true self, as the story progresses. The artfulness of the film makes her gradually, ever-more radiant, making her new world a home. A passionate vision of the 1950s American â&#x20AC;&#x153;melting pot,â&#x20AC;? made remarkably personal, thus a powerful story for all, especially if your own roots were once planted elsewhere (1 hr 52 min).

THE GOOD DINOSAUR

With the voices of Raymond Ochoa, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Zahn Entertainment: 4 Message: 4 What if a meteor didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago?

Would they have evolved into the dominant sentient species on earth, and we would be wolf-like half-breeds? Not likely, but plausibility aside, this playful idea comes to life in this visually stunning, engaging adventure. The sincere quest of a fearful Apatosaurus named Arlo (think modern version of Flintstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dino is to discover courage, to â&#x20AC;&#x153;dinosaur up,â&#x20AC;? which will likely resonate with children of all ages, and delivers meaningful messages through the popular Mesozoic creatures. Overall, this breathtaking journey with life-like nature scenes, delivers good laughs and likable characters a lovely treat for the whole family (1 hr 40 min).

JOY

With Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper Entertainment: 2.5 Message: 3.5 Based on the true story of Joy Mangano, who built an empire out of nothing, and directed by David O. Russell (American Hustle and Silver Lining Playbook), trying to make a Big Drama, or maybe a comedy, out of a powerful story that needed no such embellishment. The uneven screenplay and lack-luster script are nearly saved by ennifer Lawrenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golden Globewinning performance. Bradley Cooper, playing advertisement executive Neil

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renewed energy, and the owners are working hard to keep things the same, but with a different edge. THU, 1/14: Sea Night w/ Ghost Tiger, Hod & The Helpers.

The Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz CA 95060, (831) 4231336. The classic club in Santa Cruz.

The Catalyst is where you will find the hottest artists for all types of music, local and national. WED, 1/13: Surfer Blood; THU, 1/14: DJ Salatiel; FRI, 1/15; Stick Figure; Wed, Jan 20: BoomBox: Bits & Pieces Tour; Thu, Jan 21: Agent Orange.

Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St Santa Cruz CA 95060, (832) 427-2227. Kuumbwa Jazz has grown

from its small beginnings to one of the most highly respected jazz-presenting institutions in the country, attracting artists of national and international renown. They present over 120 concerts per year at our intimate 200-seat venue plus concerts at the Rio Theatre and Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. THU, 1/14: Tony Lindsay Presents: The Music of Marvin Gaye, Lou Rawls & Bill Withers; MON, 1/18: Nir Felder Quartet; FRI, 1/22: Wallace Roney Group; SAT, 1/23: Boomer Humor; MON, 1/25: Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour featuring Raul MidĂłn, Ravi Coltrane, Nicholas Payton, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders, Gregory Hutchinson.

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Robert De Niro isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given Karin Leonard enough of & Daniel Robin a role to truly matter what a waste of star power f you like watching passionate entrepreneurs in action (such as shows like Shark Tank , here you can witness Lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing performance, and learn about Manganoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toughness and vision that founded an American dynasty. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiration to anyone who sees a better future and is willing to be extremely resourceful. Not an ethical depiction, because most new ventures go nowhere, this is mostly a character study, told with the benefit of hindsight (1 hr 46 min).

of the original 1977 George Lucas creation. After 38 years, seeing Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and the rest of the gang again, along with various droids and dark characters, feels almost like a â&#x20AC;&#x153;family reunionâ&#x20AC;? (depending on how many Wookiees are in your tribe). In addition, the new crew brings great acting chops and fresh energy to the mix. While special effects remain stellar, new vision and meaning bring dimensionality to this film, reviving the franchise. As in previous episodes, we could do without all the protracted battles, but hey, it is Star WARS. If you are a fan of the Lucas originals, you will likely love this epic creation (2 hrs 16 min).

THE MARTIAN

With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara Entertainment: 4 Message: 4.5 Ready for a training mission on Mars? It is so much like being in space, with a hefty dose of real-world science, humor and heart. This creation

by Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner), based on the bestselling 2011 sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, delivers, big time. iding on the coattails of NA Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whispers about future manned missions to Mars, and recent findings of water on our red neighbor make for exciting, intelligent and meaningful entertainment, in all its terrestrial realness. At the center for much of the film, Matt Damon (Golden Globe for best actor fills his characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s space boots beautifully, with great humanity and an indomitable and ingenious spirit, daredevil courage, and great comic timing. Damonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine performance delivers lots of fun and fantastic teachable moments, including those about sustainability here on spaceship arth, for re ection and admiration a fabulous film to take the whole family (2 hrs 21 min).

SISTERS

With Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, John Cena Entertainment: 3 Message: 2.5 While uneven, there are plenty of good laughs and goofball humor to keep us entertained. The talented duo is hard to resist, even as they get raunchy and slapstick silly. Though not their best collaboration, if you enjoy the popular comediennes, this oddball coming-of-age tale of girls behaving badly makes for unselfconscious, playful, trashy fun (1 hr 58 min).

THE BIG SHORT

With Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Gosling Entertainment: 4 Message: 4.5 The Big Short is a factual and scathing commentary on US â&#x20AC;&#x153;too big to failâ&#x20AC;? arrogance and greed on Wall Street. A well made, penetrating and at times unnerving portrait of the ethical â&#x20AC;&#x153;race to the bottomâ&#x20AC;? that led to the collapse of financial markets when the housing bubble burst in 2007-2009.

A great way to learn more about the economic collapse while being wildly entertained, it is an intelligent comitragic view from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;other sideâ&#x20AC;? (contrarians and watchdogs) based on Michael Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best-seller The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.

Steve Carell is fantastic as Mark Baum, a short-tempered money manager with a moral backbone, and Christian Bale, playing a brilliant, eccentric and antisocial hedge fund manager. Both provide stellar performances. Watching this genius creation more than once may be necessary if you want to truly understand history. A lot happens, and while there are plenty of creative teaching demos and hilarious celebrity cameo illustrations, the complexity is somewhat bewildering. Question is: have the powers-that-be learned anything?

Are the reforms enough to ensure that the global casino doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet again fall to pieces, or perhaps thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what is necessary to realize deep, systemic change? (2 hrs 10 min).

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

With Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega Entertainment: 4 Message: 3 Couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine a better continuation of the Star Wars saga! Two sequels and three prequels later, this well-crafted installment by J. J. Abrams picks up the main threads

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ith California on the verge of legalizing cannabis in 2016, all eyes will be on the Golden State as the legal cannabis industry will be poised to fully enter the eighth largest economic market in the world. The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) returns to San Francisco in 2016, on February 13th-14th, showcasing industry experts from around the globe, creating an exceptional educational, networking and advocacy event. The two-day ICBC experience includes the latest business, legal, political and cultural information while also providing cuttingedge parties conducive to serious networking and having a blast.

Whether you are a grower, processor, dispensary operator, own an ancillary business, ing the cannabis industry, you are welcome at the ICBC. Attendees will learn from those with success on the ground in commerce, politics, art and activism, learning important business tools as well as how to best improve and protect our International Cannabis Business Conference! This event is for adults 21 and over.

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An Oxford graduate who received his PhD from Harvard, Sullivan has written extensively on a wide range of topics, including civil liberties, human rights, and the future of media. Sullivan is a regular panelist on The Chris Matthews Show and Real Time with Bill Maher.

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