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HEALTHLINES Dr. Monty Leavitt of Enloe Medical Center.

PHOTO COURTESTY OF ENLOE MEDICAL CENTER

The power of choices Local doctor underscores the importance of wellness as U.S. life expectancy slips for first time since 1993 by

Evan Tuchinsky evantuc hin sk y @ n ew sr ev i ew. com

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round five years ago, a family member

gave Dr. Monty Leavitt a book that changed his life. It was The Paleo Solution

by Robb Wolf, the former Chicoan who pioneered the diet that avoids sugar as well as processed carbohydrates and oils.

As an emergency medicine physician at Enloe Medical Center, Leavitt was active.

He’d gone to college in Canada, at the University of Alberta, on a basketball scholarship and continued playing into middle age; but by that point, in his mid-50s, he had quit the sport due to aches and injuries.

He’s found that switching foods has had a transformative effect. Leavitt said he notices a difference when he eats a more healthful diet: He feels “dramatically better.” Now 58, he’s back on the basketball court and “can compete with 25-year-olds.”

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testimonial to the power of lifestyle choices in maintaining or improving health. He imparts information on diet and exercise to patients in the emergency room, while he completes advanced training in functional medicine. He hopes to move into a specialized internal medicine practice focused on teaching wellness rather than just treating illness.

Through this lens, Leavitt has a distinct view on a year-capping medical announcement: The National Center for Health Statistics recently released updated data on life expectancy, death rates and leading causes of death in the United States.

Capturing national headlines, the NCHS revealed that the overall death rate has risen for the first time in a decade and life expectancy (i.e., the age to which a newborn can expect to live) has dropped for the first time since 1993.

Secondary in media coverage but not in significance, numbers increased in nine of the top 10 causes of death—eight to a degree considered statistically significant. The leading causes remained the same (see infobox), with heart disease still first; the No. 2 cause,

cancer, had decreased numbers but still outpaced unintentional injuries (including accidents and overdoses) and chronic lower respiratory diseases.

In all instances, the shifts were slight. Life

expectancy dropped about six weeks, from 78.9 years to 78.8 years, and the biggest jump in any leading cause of death was four more deaths per 100,000, due to

Top killers:

Leading causes of death in the U.S. (per 100,000 people): Cause

2014

2015

Heart disease Cancer Accidents* Lung disease Stroke Alzheimer’s Diabetes Flu/pneumonia Kidney disease Suicide

167.0 161.2 40.5 40.5 36.5 25.4 20.9 15.1 13.2 13.0

168.5 158.5 43.2 41.6 37.6 29.4 21.3 15.2 13.4 13.3

* includes drug overdose Source: National Center for Health Statistics

Alzheimer’s disease.

Plus, as pointed out by Dr. Andy Miller, Butte County’s public health officer, the infant mortality rate remained unchanged— as did life expectancy for seniors over 65.

“So, it’s hard to draw a whole bunch of conclusions,” he said. “It’s more [a situation of] slipping on a lot of fronts than one particular problem.”

Leavitt does see a common denominator, life choices—even for causes of death as diverse as Alzheimer’s disease and drug overdoses, not just for lifestyle-attributed cancers, cardiovascular diseases, breathing impairments and diabetes.

“We as Americans have not been doing well on our diet, so we’re becoming chronically ill, and with that the consequences are we’re probably going to have a shorter lifespan,” he said. “Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, a lot of neurodegenerative diseases, they’re actually all categorized as inflammatory diseases; a lot of the inflammatory things we suffer from are actually dietinduced…. It’s all part and parcel of the HEALTHLINES C O N T I N U E D

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What were they All the things in 2016 that made us thinking? go hmmm ... by

CN&R staff

Predator rejected

City gets played

In April, Chico residents got riled up over news that convicted rapist Fraisure Earl Smith, a diagnosed “sexually violent predator,” was looking to move into a home on Bell Road. Smith, approved for conditional release from Coalinga State Hospital in 2013, is under strict monitoring by Liberty Healthcare, which had been seeking housing for Smith. The company first attempted to place him in his home county of Solano, where he committed his crimes and, when unsuccessful there, moved on to Contra Costa County before zeroing in on Butte.

Public outcry prompted the owner of the Bell Road home to back out of a rental agreement. Marysville residents gave Smith a similar unwelcome and he continues to live in motels in Solano County pending a permanent residence.

“With some reasonableness, the NIMBY mentality does reign—appropriately, I think—supreme,” Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey told the CN&R.

In August, Rep. Doug LaMalfa held a supposedly apolitical “community coffee” at a Chico fire station. While there, in the middle of the general election campaign season when he was defending his seat against Democrat Jim Reed, LaMalfa, among other things, spread lies about Planned Parenthood selling baby parts.

The congressman campaigned in front of a captive audience of firefighters at no cost thanks to city administrators, namely Fire Chief Bill Hack, who wanted to stress to LaMalfa the department’s need for continued federal grant funding that paid for 15 firefighters. Hack had gotten the OK from City Manager Mark Orme, despite the City Council’s recent action to substantially increase the fees community groups pay to use the City Council chambers, another

Pay to play The Chico City Council made a questionable move in July, when the panel voted to raise the rental fee on its own chambers from $29 to $139 an hour, effectively pricing out community groups that used to regularly rent the space.

To be fair, the city wasn’t recovering its costs, but raising the fee by so much proved prohibitive for organizations including the Chico Unified School District and the League of Women Voters of Butte County.

During election season, members of the league told the CN&R that they had moved their candidates forums elsewhere because they couldn’t afford the new rate for the chambers.

So much for promoting community discussions.

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taxpayer-funded facility.

Hypocritical much? To top it all off, the city lost the grant funding.

Insecure legacy What’s in a name? Well, a whole lot of controversy in the case of the Paul and Yasuko Zingg Recital Hall inside Chico State’s new $58 million Arts & Humanities Building.

During the fall semester, a faction of staff and faculty decried that the decision to name the 196-seat performance space was made without transparency while now-retired Paul Zingg was still president of the university.

Betsy Boyd, chair of the Academic Senate, characterized the move as “a bit incestuous” and questioned whether it violated the university’s naming policy.

Zingg wasn’t exactly the most popular guy on campus when he retired. In fact, he was one of three top executives to receive a vote of no confidence from the Academic Senate last December. The naming was tied to his years of service to the CSU, which went against campus policy, as well as a parting gift to the university—an art collection appraised at about $300,000 (the school had been seeking a $1 million donation in return for naming rights).

Dungeon drama An Aug. 23 raid of The Dungeon smoke shop in downtown Chico by the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force resulted in the arrest of three members of the Saeidah family—Ehab, 21; Mahmoud, 34; and Nizar, 43—who own and operate the store. The three were charged with felonies for allegedly selling equipment used to make butane honey oil, and Mahmoud was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and metal knuckles.

The next day, Action News Now cameras caught another relative—Iyad Saeidah, 19—claiming the family was targeted because of its Palestinian heritage and saying, “I don’t give a fuck about the rules of America, fuck America.” On Aug. 25, when a CN&R staffer went to cover a protest organized by Iyad, the young man said, “I might just come down and shoot a whole motherfucking news station …”

Paul Zingg is gone, but his name remains in the form of a Chico State performance venue.

The CN&R alerted Action News Now, which reported the incident to authorities.

Iyad was arrested the next day and charged with the same crime as the other Saeidahs, as well as with making criminal threats.

Iyad’s father, Nizar, apologized for his son’s rant in a later newscast, and Iyad apologized in court, leading to dismissal of the threats charge. The Saeidahs are scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 28.

What a mess The Glenn County Solid Waste Conversion Facility was pitched as a clean solution to the county’s messy problem: The landfill outside of Artois was nearing capacity, so KVB Inc., a company led by local entrepreneur Kara Baker, stepped forward and touted state-of-the-art recycling technology as a means of diverting reusable material from the landfill.

There was fierce opposition to Baker’s proposal mostly due to the location along Stony Creek, which feeds into the Sacramento River and the Tuscan Aquifer, the reservoir that provides drinking water for surrounding communities.

Whether the project posed a risk to the aquifer was hotly debated, but Glenn County officials bungled the public notification process by failing to publish anything in Spanish (Hamilton City, the community closest to the site, is about 85 percent Hispanic).

In March, the Glenn County Board of Supervisors voted to reject the environmental impact report and mandate further study, prompting KVB to file a lawsuit against the county on Sept. 2.

Safety’s off Back in March, the Greek system made headlines in the CN&R after a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity shot himself

in the hand while showing off his .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun.

Turns out, AGR—the agriculture fraternity—is not formally recognized by Chico State and therefore is not governed by university rules. Representatives from the national AGR chapter didn’t get back to us on questions of liability at the house, so it’s safe to assume 21-year-old Adam Toomire was within his rights to keep that handgun in his room. Next step: Learn to use the safety.

Trump’s local gaffe In the frenzy leading up to the primary election in June, Donald Trump arrived in his Boeing 757 on the tarmac of the Redding Municipal Airport. To the tune of the Air Force One theme song.

The “what were they thinking?” moment came during Trump’s speech in the sweltering 100-plus degree heat, when he looked out into a crowd of white faces, found a black one, and said, “Look at my AfricanAmerican over there. Look at him. Aren’t you the greatest?”

Trump’s very own African-American turned out to be Gregory Cheadle, a Republican running for Congress in District 1. The funniest part is, when approached by news outlets after Trump’s now notorious gaffe, Cheadle proclaimed he was not even a Trump supporter.

Access denied During the grand opening of the so-called North State Republican Victory HQ last August, local GOP organizers let Democratic protesters, including longtime Democratic strategist Bob Mulholland, get under their skin.

So much so, it appears, that one of the organizers booted CN&R contributor Evan Tuchinsky (a former editor) from the build-

ing, though he’d been invited in by a member of the group Chico Republican Women Federated. Point person Saulo Londono justified ejecting Tuchinsky by charging that the speeches by local GOP politicos were not open to the press.

That didn’t go over well with several members of the women’s group, who maintained that there was nothing to hide.

Vice mayor mum Back in early October, CN&R began setting up interviews with the 11 candidates for Chico City Council. Those interviews, along with CN&R’s watch-dogging, would inform the newspaper’s editorial board of the candidates’ experience and temperament, so that the panel could make informed endorsements.

More than a month before the election, then-Vice Mayor Sean Morgan couldn’t avail himself. Unlike the other 10 council hopefuls, he was too busy to sit down with the largest-circulated newspaper north of Sacramento. (He didn’t get our endorsement, though he was re-elected.)

In the line of duty Talk about an inappropriate relationship with a student. In July, Jessica Jolene Hays, a 40-year-old yard duty supervisor at Fair View High School, gave birth to a baby girl believed to be fathered by a 16-year-old student at the school.

Not only that, the student, now 17, reportWelcome to the Alpha Gamma Rho house. Wipe your feet and don your flak jacket.

I’ve got the best African-Americans.

edly moved in with Hays after the sexual tryst began, and the couple used cannabis and methamphetamine together, District Attorney Mike Ramsey told the CN&R. Hays pleaded no contest to unlawful sexual intercourse and furnishing marijuana to a minor on Nov. 23, online court records show.

She’s set for sentencing in January.

A bungled attack From the dais and on Facebook, City Councilwoman Reanette Fillmer promulgated the theory that left-leaning Councilwoman Ann Schwab was shirking her duties by recusing herself too many times. She did so despite the council knowing that Schwab, who owns a business downtown, cannot by law vote on issues that are within 500 feet of it.

When asked about the subject, Fillmer refused to talk to a CN&R reporter. Later, in exchanges with Editor Melissa Daugherty, she attempted to walk back her comments, claiming she’d deleted them from Facebook. That wasn’t true. In fact, she’d pulled them only from one of her accounts—her official council member page, and had doubled down on her personal page (CN&R has the screenshot).

Around the same time, Fillmer called for the council to agendize discussion of local homelessness. It was ironic coming from her, the city’s representative to the Greater Chico Homeless Task Force, a group that asked for a replacement because Fillmer was chronically absent.

This was Fillmer’s second year in a row making this list. □

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REEL WORLD Embrace of the Serpent

FILM SHORTS Note: The CN&R went to press before theater listings were finalized. Please check with venue to confirm films and times.

Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week Loving

Josh Gordon and Will Speck, the directors behind Blades of Glory, are back with this comedy about an office holiday party that gets way out of hand. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn and Kate McKinnon. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Now playing

Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) directs this sci-fi romance/adventure about a couple (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) who wake up 90 years too early on a spaceship packed with thousands of travelers placed in a 120-year hibernation for a journey to a distant planet. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Passengers

An action-adventure film adaptation of the fantasy video game about the centuriesold battle between the secret Assassin society and the Templar order. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Collateral Beauty

CN&R film critic breaks down his world of film for 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Will Smith stars as a successful New York business executive who, after suffering a tragedy, writes letters to Love, Time and Death, and actually gets responses from the not-so-abstract entities. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Eagle Huntress

IthePersonally, I think of it as a good/bad year in much same way that the entire 21st century, so far, has n many ways, 2016 seems like a pretty bad year.

been both “good” and “bad,” at best. It wasn’t a bad year at the movies, but it’s hard to by say whether or not that’s a good Juan-Carlos thing in the larger picture.

Selznick Nevertheless, there was much to celebrate in a great many of the films I was able to catch up with in 2016. There were plenty of pictures worthy of year-end-list consideration, and (better yet, from my point of view) there was an exceptional range of accomplishments and surprises in the year’s films.

Some of that range can be suggested via the clusters of brilliance in some of the distinctive groups and types of films that came out and (sometimes) came our way in 2016: • The exceptional four-film year of French actress

Isabelle Huppert (Elle, Valley of Love, Things to Come, Louder Than Bombs; only the last has reached a Chico theater, so far).

• The string of distinguished works by Italian directors (Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders, Marco Bellocchio’s Blood of My Blood, the Taviani Brothers’ Wondrous Boccaccio, Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre).

• Some offbeat masterpieces from unusual places: 30

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especially Embrace of the Serpent (the Amazon), but also Naji Abu Nowar’s Theeb (United Arab Emirates), Radu Jude’s Aferim! (Romania), and Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams (Iceland).

• Two radically stylish dramas by Polish directors (Andrzej Zulawski’s Cosmos and Jerzy Skolimowski’s 11 Minutes).

• A distinctive pair of lyrical/radical character studies (Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead and Todd Haynes’ Carol).

• Two remarkably soulful variations on the sci-fi thriller (Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special).

• Two Oscar-winning releases from 2015 that didn’t reach Chico until early 2016 (The Revenant and Son of Saul).

• Three gems from France (Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come, Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days, and Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan).

• The off-handed but still trenchant views of contemporary America in Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water.

• Of the films actually shown in Chico theaters during the year, the very best include the following (in alphabetical order): American Honey, Arrival, A Bigger Splash, Cosmos, Embrace of the Serpent, The Fits, Hell or High Water and Midnight Special. □

Office Christmas Party

Jeff Nichols (Mud) wrote and directed this historical drama based on the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other and whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case invalidated all laws prohibiting interracial marriages. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

Assassin’s Creed

cinema earth

teen daughter of a Polynesian chief who embarks on an ocean quest—teaming up with the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) along the way—in order to save her people.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Note: This film may or may not be held over this week—check with Pageant for current schedule. A documentary about a 13-yearold Kazakh girl trying to become the first female eagle hunter in Mongolia. Pageant Theatre. Rated G.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay for this epic fantasy, a spin-off from her Harry Potter series, about the adventures of a young British wizard named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) who has inadvertently let loose fantastical creatures in prohibitionera New York City. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Fences

Denzel Washington directs and stars in this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a former negroleague baseball player (Washington) struggling with race relations in America as well as coming to terms with his life, working as a garbage collector and raising a family in the 1950s. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck stars as a lonely janitor, divorced after a tragedy in his life, who is entrusted as guardian of his 16-year-old nephew after his brother’s death. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Moana

A Disney animated feature about Moana (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho), a strong-willed

Rogue One is a strong, rousing action-adventure that should please Star Wars geeks along with newcomers to the franchise. Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), a renowned scientist, gets an unwelcome visit at his remote farm from the evil Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn). Krennic wants Erso to continue his work on this crazy new thing called the Death Star, but Erso isn’t interested. The whole emerging Empire thing has him generally turned off.

Bad events ensue, and Galen Erso’s young daughter, Jyn, goes into hiding. The action picks up 15 years later, and Jyn has grown up to be played by Felicity Jones. Jones brings the same level of competent acting skills to the franchise that Daisy Ridley brought last year in The Force Awakens (and they both have awesome English accents). Jyn eventually finds herself joining the Rebellion, and becomes a key player in getting the Death Star secrets and setting up the events of the original Star Wars trilogy. Rogue One is an actionpacked blast, and further proof that Mickey Mouse taking over the Star Wars responsibilities from creator George Lucas is a very good thing. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Sing

An animated feature about a koala bear (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) who organizes a singing competition to save the musical theater he owns. Also starring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson and John C. Reilly.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Why Him?

A rom-com starring Bryan Cranston as a father at odds with his daughter’s rich boyfriend and his very outlandish lifestyle (James Franco). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF december 29, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Donatello

was a renowned Italian sculptor. His favorite piece was “Lo Zuccone,” a marble statue of the Biblical prophet Habakkuk.

As Donatello carved his work-in-progress, he addressed it. “Speak, damn you! Talk to me,” he was heard to say on more than a few occasions. Did the stone respond?

Judging from the beauty of the final product, I’d have to say yes. One art critic testified that “Lo Zuccone” is a “sublimely harrowing” tour de force, a triumph of “forceful expression,” and “one of the most important marble sculptures of the 15th century.” I suspect you will have Donatello-like powers of conversation in 2017, Aries. If anyone can communicate creatively with stones—and rivers and trees and animals and spirits and complicated humans, for that matter—it’ll be you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According

to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.” Let’s amend that thought so it’s exactly suitable for your use in 2017. Here’s the new, Taurus-specific version: “A messy, practical, beautiful type of perfection can be realized through a patient, faithful, dogged accumulation of the imperfect.” To live up to the promise of this motto, make damn good use of every partial success.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini

gymnast Marisa Dick has created a signature move that has never been used by any other gymnast. To start her routine, she leaps up off a springboard and lands on the balance beam doing a full split. The technical term for this bold maneuver is “a change-leg leap to free-cross split sit,” although its informal name is “The Dick Move.” The International Federation of Gymnastics has certified it in its Code of Points, so it’s official. During the coming months, I expect that you will also produce one-of-a-kind innovations in your own sphere.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I hope you

will be as well-grounded in 2017 as you have ever been—maybe even since your past life as a farmer. I trust you will go a long way toward mastering the arts of being earthy, practical and stable. To do this right, however, you should also work on a seemingly paradoxical task: cultivating a vigorous and daring imagination—as perhaps you did in one of your other past lives as an artist. In other words, your ability to succeed in the material world will thrive as you nurture your relationship with fantasy realms—and vice versa. If you want to be the boss of reality, dream big and wild—and vice versa.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even if you don’t

think of yourself as an artist, you are always working on a major art project: yourself. You may underestimate the creativity you call on as you shape the raw material of your experience into an epic story. Luckily, I’m here to impress upon you the power and the glory of this heroic effort. Is there anything more important?

Not for you Leos. And I trust that in 2017 you will take your craftsmanship to the highest level ever. Keep this advice from author Nathan W. Morris in mind: “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece, after all.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): French

painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) turned out to be one of the supremely influential artists of the 20th century. But he was still struggling to make a living well into his thirties. The public’s apathy toward his work demoralized him. At one point, he visited his dealer to reclaim one of his unsold paintings. It was time to give up on it, he felt, to take it off the market. But when he arrived at the gallery, his dealer informed him that it had finally been bought—and not by just any art collector, either. Its new owner was Pablo Picasso, an artist whom Matisse revered. I think it’s quite possible you will have comparable experiences in 2017, Virgo. Therefore: Don’t give up on yourself!

by rob brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The self in

exile remains the self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell,” writes poet Jane Hirshfield. I suspect that these words are important for you to hear as you prepare for 2017. My sense is that in the past few months, your true self has been making its way back to the heart of life after a time of wandering on the outskirts. Any day now, a long-silent bell will start ringing to herald your full return. Welcome home!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In ac-

cordance with your astrological omens for 2017, I’ve taken a poem that Shel Silverstein wrote for kids and made it into your horoscope. It’ll serve as a lighthearted emblem of a challenging but fun task you should attend to in the coming months.

Here it is: “I’ve never washed my shadow out in all the time I’ve had it. It was absolutely filthy I supposed, so I peeled it off the wall where it was leaning and stuck it in the washtub with the clothes. I put in soap and bleach and stuff. I let it soak for hours. I wrung it out and hung it out to dry. And whoever would have thunk that it would have gone and shrunk, for now it’s so much littler than I.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Walk your wisdom walk in 2017, Sagittarius.

Excite us with your wisdom songs and gaze out at our broken reality with your wisdom eyes. Play your wisdom tricks and crack your wisdom jokes and erupt with your wisdom cures. The world needs you to be a radiant swarm of lovable, unpredictable wisdom! Your future needs you to conjure up a steady stream of wisdom dreams and wisdom exploits! And please note: You don’t have to wait until the wisdom is perfect. You shouldn’t worry about whether it’s supremely practical.

Your job is to trust your wisdom gut, to unleash your wisdom cry, to revel in your wisdom magic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As

I was ruminating on your astrological omens for 2017, I came across a wildly relevant passage written by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. It conveys a message I encourage you to memorize and repeat at least once a day for the next 365 days. Here it is: “Nothing can hold you back—not your childhood, not the history of a lifetime, not even the very last moment before now. In a moment you can abandon your past. And once abandoned, you can redefine it. If the past was a ring of futility, let it become a wheel of yearning that drives you forward.

If the past was a brick wall, let it become a dam to unleash your power.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Seven

Chilean poets were frustrated by their fellow citizens’ apathy toward the art of poetry. They sarcastically dramatized their chagrin by doing a performance for baboons. Authorities at the Santiago Zoo arranged for the poets’ safety, enclosing them in a protective cage within the baboons’ habitat. The audience seemed to be entertained, at times listening in rapt silence and at other times shrieking raucously. I’m sure you can empathize with the poets’ drastic action, Pisces. How many times have you felt you don’t get the appreciation you deserve? But I bet that will change in 2017. You won’t have to resort to performing for baboons.

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Of course, he noticed that not many others shared his passion. “Most people are on the world, not in it,” he wrote, “having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.”

Is there anything about you that even partially fits that description, Aquarius? If so, I’m pleased to inform you that 2017 will be an excellent year to address the problem.

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ZACHARY RICHARDSON 2134 Floral Ave Chico, CA 95926.

Sarah Wilner 2134 Floral Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ZACHARY J. RICHARDSON Dated: December 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001474 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EMERGENCY RESCUE PROFESSIONALS at 2613 Monterey Street Chico, CA 95973.

CARLIE D RICE 2613 Monterey Street Chico, CA 95973.

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JOSHUA R RICE 2613 Monterey Street Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JOSHUA RICE Dated: November 23, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001456 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOUNTAIN CHARLIE’S SHEDS at 2006 4th Street Oroville, CA 95965.

CARY SHAWN BARNETT 1435 Bridge Street Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CARY BARNETT Dated: November 22, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001438 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SIERRA PACIFIC PACKING at 984 East Ave. Suite B3 Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT LYNN HIGHTOWER 536 Madrone Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT HIGHTOWER Dated: November 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001355 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PIGGS LIQUOR at 3046 Myers Street Oroville, CA 95966.

ELIAS DORGHALLI 86 Taige Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ELIAS DORGHALLI Dated: November 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001415 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FLOWERS BY RACHELLE at 2485 Notre Dame Blvd Ste 240 Chico, CA 95926.

RACHELLE NEAL 12 Cleaves Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RACHELLE NEAL Dated: November 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001418 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ACTION TRANSMISSION at 6420 Hollywood Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

MARIE BRINAR 14905 Skyway Magalia, CA 95954.

REX L BRINAR 14905 Skyway Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: MARIE BRINAR Dated: November 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001383 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIRTH INTO BEING at 277 Tranquil Drive Paradise, CA 95969.

ELENA TONETTI 277 Tranquil Drive Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ELENA TONETTI Dated: November 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001430 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RED EYE’Z DELIVERY at 944 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926.

HEATHER MAYO 944 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HEATHER MAYO Dated: November 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001433 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL CONTRUCTION, INC at 2286 Oroville-Chico Hwy Durhum, CA 95938.

NORCAL ENTITIES, INC 325 Sharon Park Dr Ste 706 Menlo Park, CA 94025.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: KASIA LEWIS, TREASURER Dated: December 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001500 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JOESPH FARMS at 10116 Midway Durham, CA 95938.

FRANK LEWIS 923 Harmon Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025.

KASIA LEWIS 923 Harmon Dr Menlo Park, CA 94025.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: FRANK LEWIS Dated: December 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001501 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SHIFT BICYCLE CAFE at 1627 Arcadian Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

BRISA MAY HANNA-BARTON 1627 Arcadian Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

JOHN PHILIP HANNA-BARTON 1627 Arcadian Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JOHN HANNA-BARTON Dated: December 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001499 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

THE MUSHROOM AUTHORITY at 3080 Thorntree Dr Ste 115 Chico, CA 95973.

TREVOR BOEGER 810 Pomona Ave Chico, CA 95928.

KEVIN HANLEY 2677 Kennedy Ave Chico, CA 95973.

TIM RAMERO 3 Peacock Ln Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: KEVIN HANLEY Dated: December 6, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001489 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUINN DESIGNS at 805 Whispering Winds Lane Chico, CA 95928.

RAYMOND C LAAGER 805 Whispering Winds Lane Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RAYMOND C. LAAGER Dated: December 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001493 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FRESH OLIVE CONCEPTS at 1367 E. Lassen Ave. Suite A-1 Chico, CA 95973.

CALIFORNIA OLIVE RANCH, INC. 1367 E. Lassen Ave. Suite A-1 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: DANA GOODMAN, CFO Dated: november 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001405 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DIAMOND EQUITY REMODELERS at 260 East Lassen #12 Chico, CA 95973.

DONALD EUGENE RHODES 260 East Lassen #12 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DONALD EUGENE RHODES Dated: December 5, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001482 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRIAGE ENTERPRISES at 5475 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

TROY DUANE BEACH 13884 Olivet Dr Magalia, CA 95954.

BRIAN MICHAEL KOPA 386 Valley View Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: TROY D. BEACH Dated: December 12, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001509 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as

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