La Jolla Today, April 12th, 2013

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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013

Finding a life of service on the path to spirituality By KENDRA HARTMANN ore than a dozen years ago, Bonnie Arora read a travel article in the Union-Tribune about pilgrimages — journeys undertaken by followers of nearly every spiritual doctrine in search of religious significance. The article stuck with her, especially the part that mentioned the Camino de Santiago, a network of pilgrimage trails dating back to the Middle Ages that cut through Europe, all leading to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Arora and husband Krishna decided that when they retired, they would attempt a pilgrimage of their own as a way to discover their spiritual and ancestral routes. The La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotarians made a pact to take a Catholic pilgrimage — a nod to Bonnie’s Spanish roots — and a Hindu pilgrimage, in honor of Krishna’s Indian ancestry. So in 2002, just a few years free from the workforce, they traveled to Spain to attempt 125 miles of the Camino de Santiago. Unsure how they would fare on such an undertaking — “We’ve always enjoyed taking morning walks before work, but we actually never considered ourselves hikers,” Bonnie said — they decided to play it safe and join a tour group with van support and prearranged nightly accommodations. The experience was challenging — with blisters, aches and pains to prove it — but it gave them a taste for the trail that, more than a decade later, they still haven’t had enough of. Bonnie and Krishna returned in 2005 to complete the entire 500-mile Spanish portion of the trail, and again in 2008 to repeat the last 100 miles (making good on a promise they had made to God that if their

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Salk researchers discovered how the brain keeps track of similar, but distinct, memories. This microscope image shows neural activity in the dentate gyrus, a subsection of the hippocampus where distinct groups of cells were active during the learning episodes (green) and memory retrieval (red). Image courtesy of Wei Deng, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Local researchers at forefront of Obama’s BRAIN Initiative By ETHAN ORENSTEIN

TRAVEL JOURNAL ON THE CAMINO Bonnie and Krishna Arora have trekked across the 500-mile Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail during several journeys over the course of the last 11 years. On April 20, they will begin the final leg of an additional 500-mile trail, meeting up with their original starting point and bringing their total mileage walked across southern France and Spain to 1,000. Below is Bonnie’s pilgrimage passport — all pilgrims must obtain one, get it stamped along the way and present it to the pilgrim office in Santiago de Compostela at the end of the trail to receive a certificate of completion.

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The La Jolla Playhouse brings

Earth Day is almost here.

See some of the standouts from this

theater to the streets in its latest Without Walls show

Discover some local ways to be green

year’s Concours d’Elegance

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President Obama introduced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or BRAIN, Initiative, on April 2, with the goal of increasing research and expanding understanding of the functions of the human brain in order to treat and prevent brain injury and disease. In attendance at the White House announcement was Salk Institute neuroscientist Terry Sejnowksi. Salk and its researchers were recognized for their work on the human brain, and were identified as some of the leaders of the BRAIN Initiative challenge that lies ahead. “This initiative is a boost for the brain like the human genome project was for the genes,” Sejnowski said in a statement. “This is the start of the million neuron march.” With about $100 million dollars in funding supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, and participation from foundations and private institutions, the

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