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Feature Index

Arts & Entertainment ........................... 36 & 37 Astrology ........................................................ 40 Awareness .................................................26-30 The Billboard .................................................... 2 Thriving Business ........................................4-5 The News .......................................................... 9 Compassion Flower Resource Guide ...... 41-43 Dining Delights .............................................. 31 Essential Living Guide ............. 12,13,26,27,29 Fitness & Sports ............................................ 17 Green Business Directory ............................ 33

Healthy Appearance ....................................... 18 Healthy Planet ............................................ 32-35 Diversity .......................................................... 25 Martial Arts...................................................... 16 Massage / Bodywork ...................................... 14 Movies ............................................................. 37 Music .............................................................. 37 Parenting, Kids & Education ......................... 20 Pet / Animal Health .......................................... 21 Radiation Protection ........................Will Return Rave Reviews ................................................... 24 Theme ......................................................... 22-23 Spirit ..................................................................39 Travel & Fun .................................... Will Return Wonderful Women ........................................... 19 Yoga .................................................................. 15 The Connection Magazine is for educational purposes only. We do not necessarily recommend the specific remedies, exercises, treatments or activities, etc. summarized. Please consult with your personal health care provider to find out what is appropriate for you.

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3) Epigenetics: is your DNA your destiny? Diet and your genes.

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The Senate Has Passed the TPP Fast Track Billâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;We Now Take Our Fight to the House

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by Maira Sutton he Senate passed a bill Friday night to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (https://www.eff. org/issues/tpp) on the Fast Track to approval (http://tinyurl.com/ kcptog8). Its passage followed a series of stops (http://tinyurl.com/pszwwep) and starts (http://tinyurl.com/lzfyh7v) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;an indication that this legislation was nearly too rife with controversy to pass. But after a series of deals and calls from corporate executives (http://tinyurl.com/q6wjjox), senators ultimately swallowed their criticism and accepted the measure.

If this bill ends up passing both chambers of Congress, that means the White House can rush the TPP through to congressional ratification, with lawmakers unable to fully debate or even amend agreements that have been negotiated entirely in secret. On the plus side, all of these delays in the Senate has led other TPP partners to delay any further negotiations on the trade agreement (http://tinyurl.com/ q4yytyw) until Fast Track is approved

by Congress.

So the fight now starts in the House, where proponents of secret trade deals still lack the votes to pass the bill. But the White House and other TPP proponents are fiercely determined to garner enough support among representatives to pass the bill, in order to give themselves almost unilateral power to enact extreme digital regulations in secret. We cannot let that happen.

In the House, we still have a chance to block the passage of Fast Track. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we are asking people in the U.S. to meet with their representatives and staff to nudge them to make the right decision. Back in DC, they may have heard arguments for and against the TPP. Your representative might think this so-called trade agreement is just about free trade, but they might not know how the copyright provisions and other leaked proposals in the TPP threaten the Internet, as well as users, developers, and start-ups across the country.

Lawmakers have headed back

to their home district for the Memorial Day recess, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance you, as a constituent, can meet with them.

Absent that, you can visit their district staff who can receive and forward on your concerns to your representative even after lawmakers go back to the Capitol. They will be receptive to the concerns of smart, tech-savvy constituents who care enough to arrange a meeting.

We know thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big difference between calling and writing to your congressperson, and actually talking to them face-to-face. But this is a vital moment, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fighting chance that your decision to meet with your representativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office could make all the difference.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested, read this guide on how to set up a meeting with your lawmakers (https://www.eff.org/ congress). We also prepared a hand out with talking points for you to take with you when you go (https://www. eff.org/document/tpp-fast-track-stopsecrecy). We also encourage you to tell them about our letter with 250 tech companies and user rights groups (http://tinyurl.com/kttx8ny) urging Congress to oppose the TPP Fast Track for containing provisions that threaten digital innovation and users.

Powerful corporate interests like the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the Business Software Alliance are intent on having anti-user trade deals pass without proper oversight. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the

policies theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pushing for couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t otherwise pass in a participatory, transparent process. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to us to stop this massive, secret corporate hand out, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to need all the help we can get.

If you end up meeting with your representative or their staff, please email info@eff.org to let us know how it went!

RESOURCE: A one-page talking points guide on the TPP Fast Track bill (https://www.eff.org/document/ tpp-fast-track-stop-secrecy) And of course, you can also take action by getting in touch with your congressional representatives online, and letting them know that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re counting on them to defend the Internet from the White Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret, anti-user deals.

Take Action (https://act.eff. org/action/tell-congress-oppose-fasttrack-for-the-tpp) Once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken the action, please take a moment to call them and let them know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re opposed to the TPP Fast Track. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on Twitter, help us call on influential members of Congress to come out against this bill.

Read about all of our concerns with the TPP agreement:

â&#x20AC;˘ Anti-Circumvention of Digital Rights Management (DRM) (http://tinyurl.com/l44bwoq) â&#x20AC;˘ Criminalization of Investigative Journalism, Security Research, and Whistleblowing â&#x20AC;˘ ISP Liability: Internet Intermediaries as Copyright Cops (http:// tinyurl.com/d2dfujd) â&#x20AC;˘ Criminal Copyright Enforcement (http://tinyurl.com/q6hcona) â&#x20AC;˘ Expansion of Copyright Terms (http://tinyurl.com/bpegkmt) â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Investor-Stateâ&#x20AC;? Provisions Could Undermine User Protections in Copyright (http://tinyurl.com/ mak6lat) Restrictions on Fair Use (https:// www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/ transpacific-plague) From Electric Frontier Foundation, Defending Your Rights in a Digital World. https://www.eff.org

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The Garden Faire Highlights Water Saving Ideas

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by Tom Karwin he annual Garden Faire has consistently featured sustainable gardening, and advocated wise uses of water, drought-tolerant plants, and fertilizers and pest controls that do not depend on synthetic chemicals. This year, the Faire marks its most relevant year ever, with the theme, “Growing During Climate Change.”

Water management staff from local water districts will provide practical information for using water wisely in the home and in the garden. They will also explain their district’s rebate programs and free products for water customers.

Also, a series of expert speakers offer diverse perspectives on the Faire’s theme.

• LeAnne Ravinale of the Water Conservation Coalition of Santa Cruz County will share “Water Conservation and Aquifer Recharge” • Tom Wittman of Gophers Limited will motivate gardeners about “Vertebrate Pest Control Without Poisons” • Sarah Sutton, will share ideas in her new book, “The New American Front Yard: Kiss Your Grass Goodbye.”

Another group of visiting experts will talk about nutritious, healthy foods.

This year’s tenth annual celebration of responsible gardening and landscaping continues the Faire’s familiar features, as it convenes expert

speakers, exhibitors of garden plants and garden info, activities for kids and music for all.

Many gardeners come to the Faire to visit the dozens of booths where local, garden-oriented businesses and community groups offer gardenrelated plants and other items, and information.

A featured presentation will be a panel discussion of “Mind, Body and the Environment,” with nutritionist Michael McEvoy, neuroscientist Dr. Juan Acosta-Urquidi, David Biles, DDS, Cindy Bacon, Licensed Midwife CPM. Another popular event will be a Krauting Party, orchestrated by Toby WIngo of Farmhouse Culture.

This free-admission event will blossom on June 20st, in Scotts Valley’s Skypark. Mark your calendar to join this enjoyable day in the sun as we celebrate sustainable gardening. *** Tom Karwin is a Master Gardener and Vice President of the Friends of the UCSC Arboretum. The Garden Faire is on Saturday, June 20th , in Scotts Valley’s Skypark, from 9:00 to 5:00. For full schedule and all the details, visit thegardenfaire.org.

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Elizabeth Martina Bishop Selected Poems 1987-2015 The most comprehensive overview of her metaphysically inspired work published to date

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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.

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I am, therefore, delighted to be 1947 by an extremely talented, dediin the position to do just that for what cated, and self-taught local engineer, I sincerely hope is—or will soon be- Vernon Berlin, with the support come—YOUR favorite radio station: of the McPherson family, owners NewsTalk AM 1080 KSCO. of the Santa Cruz Sentinel KSCO proudly serves the newspaper.

Greater Monterey Bay Area Over the years, and Silicon Valley 24/7 with residents of Santa interactive, pertinent ‘Talk Cruz County have Radio Programming’ depended on KSCO that is mostly locallyAM 1080 for vital produced. news and information Forty-nine during local emergenemergen years ago in 1966, cies. If you experienced as a 14 year old the floods of 1955 Santa Cruz High or, more recently, School student, I the devastating hosted the weekly earthquake of high school radio October 17, 1989, s h ow o n K S C O you know KSCO periodically until AM 1080 as a the fateful day of good friend.

January 4, 1967 Since July, when I was fired by Michael Zwerling 1986 when Manthe then-Managing aging Partner Vern Berlin retired and Partner of KSCO, a man named Mr. the station was sold to Fuller-Jeffrey Vernon Berlin, for making a “fart Corporation, an out-of-area radio noise” on the air. broadcast group, KSCO AM 1080 It was at the precise moment has undergone many management of 8:01pm that night that I VOWED and format changes. that someday I would OWN that same Now, in 1991, KSCO AM 1080 station myself—so that it would be has returned to local ownership, impossible for me to be fired—EVER management, and, most importantly, AGAIN! stability. The current station format, My dream came true on January live Talk Radio (with occasional 31, 1991, when the then 44 year-old music and special event programs), KSCO business and broadcast license in place since the ’89 quake, will be was transferred to the newly-formed maintained, expanded, and localZwerling Broadcasting System, Ltd. ized.

“Now, that I have what I’ve With listener and advertiser wanted for so many years, “NOW support, I plan to guide KSCO AM WHAT?”, I thought to myself. Here I 1080 to the position it and the local was, with the power to do anything I citizenry deserve: the ultimate local want with my very own ten thousand community radio station. I will need watt radio station! your help. Please support KSCO AM I got to work immediately set- 1080, your local radio station, And ting up the organization and put out please support its advertisers. an open letter to the residents of Santa Sincerely, Cruz County through the print media, Michael L. Zwerling promising to transform “sleeping giThat letter created much exciteant” KSCO AM 1080 radio station into ment and launched a wonderful new the ULTIMATE voice for everyone in chapter in my life and in the lives of our Monterey Bay community. Here many people who have been part of is the text of that letter: our KSCO family for the last nearly “Today, Thursday, January quarter of a century!

31, 1991 is a very special day. Today, I quickly learned that building my life-long dream of becoming the a station that people would listen to owner of KSCO Radio AM 1080 AND selling enough advertising to came true. keep it going was a MONUMENTAL KSCO AM 1080 is that radio task! Talk about feeding a hungry station in the art deco style building alligator! on Portola Drive. It’s three towers I had no interest in the station project skyward from Corcoran La- being simply a conduit for distributing goon, creating a whopping ‘10,000 programming for mega-media comwatt signal’ which can be heard clear- panies (like most other stations), with ly from Santa Rosa to Sacramento the exception of one or two nationallyand throughout the Central Valley, as syndicated talk radio programs that well as the entire Monterey Bay Area. were considered “franchises”; other(The station has also been heard from wise, KSCO would take advantage of as far away as Canada, Hawaii, and its location in THE part of the world

that has MORE CHARACTERS PER SQUARE INCH THAN ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET—and originate as much of our own programming as possible.

The station was immediately popular (we developed many hosts and programs which focused on local issues), but was never successful in the financial sense.

My family and I subsidized the station for years, and the best we could ever do was come close to breaking even.

Our major problem during all those years was finding and keeping good advertising sales people.

For all those years, we ran on compliment power, but we were always broke; always struggling. But, …our audience loved us.

Then, in September of 1996, I discovered and developed a non-traditional revenue method that became so powerful that KSCO no longer had to DEPEND SOLELY ON ADVERTISING SALES TO survive! In fact, we don’t NEED to sell ANY advertising to survive—and thrive!

What a concept!

Imagine being able to work in a creative endeavor that you are TRULY passionate about (talk radio broadcasting) AND have a steady, growing stream of revenue that is based on commissions from repeated sales of excellent quality, consumable nutritional supplements to our audience.

Don’t get me wrong; we want to sell as much advertising as we can at KSCO and we certainly provide excellent value and results for our advertisers. But, the business model described above (I call it “leveraging the audience”) has proven to be much more effective at generating revenue for the station than the traditional advertising sales revenue model.

Plus—we show people how to grow their own business and become independent themselves, all while helping people become more healthy along the way!

I salute Pattie Mills and Thom Coby, the owners AND ENTIRE STAFF of Connection Magazine for being the tireless crusaders and advocates for health, fitness, art, adventure, spirit, and awareness that they are—I have never met harder-working, more dedicated, caring people than Pattie and Thom.

I invite them AND YOU, their audience, to join me on my journey to celebrate the vitality of independence. Go online to: http://ConnectionHealthTeam.com to join the team!

Independent media people MUST stick together if our country is to remain independent.

Thank you, Michael Zwerling Michael L. Zwerling, Owner, KSCO NewsTalk AM 1080 Monterey-SalinasSanta Cruz-San Jose

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A Life Theme has a similar funcIf we value honesty we will be truth truthtion as four different frames encasing ful to others which they will see as a artists paintings. Each frame would virtue. What we value motivates our offer a particular meaning while the actions in the necessity of both our artists determines which type psychological and physical survival and kind of artistic renderassisted by our virtues. ing best conforms to the A virtue is the quality given direction the frame of action directed toward suggests. the value we want to gain John Voris For example, a wide or retain as an expression dark wood frame with ornate carvings would of identity. A virtue for a Love Theme would be indicate a period piece. It could possibly be a intense friendliness but not for a Power person country scene at the edge of a dark wooded forest who may need to terminate people on the job. in the background and meadow in the foreground Promoting managerial changes for a Power placed in the 1800’s. The artist is free to design person is a virtue whereas a Wisdom Theme his or her type and kind of scene but it certainly would be far too cautious and seek only slow would not be the painting of the latest high-tech methodical change. race car.

This drive to express your dominant Life In the same way if we are dominated by Theme becomes manifest by your type and the Love Theme for example, we will be com- kind of virtues you display through your life pelled toward engaging in the types and kinds of choices. behavior that conforms to love such as always The net result is your virtuous behavior wanting to help others, assist others, guide oth- through life choices is what enables you to have ers and do it with compassion and empathy. Our certain types and kinds of relationships with othtraits of compassion and empathy then would ers. Your virtues communicate through speaking become the virtues of the Love Theme as they with others impacting your business, intimate, promote and enhance the Love for others. Again, and social relationships. Knowing your Life we all share these themes and can show compas- Theme is essential in improving current relationsion and empathy however, a Love theme does ships and developing new ones. so incessantly.

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Plutonium-239 .. 16 thousandths of a gram is lethal.

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France banned Wi-Fi in facilities with children under three including day care centers and preschools, and in primary schools, Wi-Fi must be turned off when not being used.

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2) Harvard Study concludes “safe and effective drugs” are a myth

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is a trade association/corporation (listed on Dun and Bradstreet) head-quartered in the STATE OF ILLINOIS, whose monetary compensation from vaccine manufacturers contributes to the ‘fiscal’ health of its corporation.

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Broken Hearts Can Be Prevented With Early Detection When her beloved husband died in Sept.

2013 from plaque that ruptured in his heart, while playing hockey, Victoria immersed herself in learning all that she could about heart disease, plaque, non-invasive test available and much more. In her findings and sharing what she had learned with her friends – Victoria noticed that there were many stories just like hers. It is because of these stories and her passion to save lives that she created No More Broken Hearts. Here is her story: Dean and I met in No-vember 1991 and had an amaz-ing love for 23 years. We created an incredible family with our two children, Jordan and Grant. We had a beautiful home, jobs we loved, friends we cared for deeply and a bright future together. That all changed on September 29, 2013 with no warning at all. He was only 46 years old.

Dean woke up at 6:30am on Saturday, September 28th, to run/bike the Muddy Buddy Race with our daughter. Dean was a very active person—he mountain biked, he played hockey, he ran, he skied; all the activities that we think keep us healthy. After completing the race, Dean spent the afternoon with our son, and then went to play hockey with his favorite hockey team (besides the San Jose Sharks): The Red Dogs.

Dean was one of the founders of The Red Dogs and played ice hockey every week for the last 15 years. His game started at 8:45pm. He was on his first shift, four minutes into the game, when he collapsed at around 9pm. I got a call from our daughter that they were doing CPR and he was being taken to the hospital. I rushed to the hospital. He was gone at 1:30 am. That was it!

12 hours after seeing him, he was gone.

It took me a few weeks to even come to terms with what happened. How could this have happened? Did we miss something? Did his doctor miss something? Dean didn’t complain of any symptoms—how could this be?

Dean never missed his annual exam.

Never ever was there any mention of possible heart disease. He was young, active, looked like a picture of health. He had no family history of heart disease, he was fit, he did not smoke, yes—his job could be stressful at times but his blood pressure and cholesterol were in the normal ranges. Again, how could this happen???? When I contacted his doctor to ask these questions, I learned that early detection for heart disease is just not something that is normally tested. His doctor said, “it is not like getting a mammogram or a colonoscopy.” I knew at that moment that my mission in life was to save lives—to save anyone from going through what my kids and my family and I have had to go through. Mammograms and colonoscopies save lives because of early detection; I have learned that approximately 80% of heart attacks/strokes can be prevented as well with early detection.

The non-profit No More Broken Hearts was launched in September 2014 in memory of Dean. The mission of No More Broken Hearts is to create awareness in the community of the value of early detection for heart disease through simple CT scans, such as the Coronary Calcium Score Scan, especially those individuals who are considered asymptomatic and considered no risk

or low risk. Heart screenings and Carotid Artery Ultrasounds are available to predict heart attacks and strokes years before a tragic event happens, and yet they are rarely done even though they have been proven to save lives and can cost less then $100.00. At No More Broken Hearts, we want to see a world where these screenings are a routine part of one’s an annual physicals, just like mammograms and colonoscopies.

For decades, Dr. Jeffery Fine, Executive Director of Shape Society and President/CEO of J & J Medical, LLC has witnessed an ongoing issue of “Perception” versus “Reality” regarding cardiovascular disease. For example: Perception: Heart attacks occur in older people who are inactive, overweight, and have failed to take care of themselves.

Reality: As we read above, heart attacks occur without warning to even those who have no symptoms of heart disease and appear very healthy. We cannot look at a person and predict who is at risk of a heart attack.

Perception: High cholesterol = High risk of heart attack Reality: While keeping your bad cholesterol as low as possible is important, cholesterol levels are not a reliable predictor of who may have a heart attack. In fact 77% of people having heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels.

Perception: Cardiovascular disease occurs mostly in men, and females are at lower risk of heart attacks.

Reality: Cardiovascular disease kills more females than the next 7 causes of death combined- including breast cancer. Additionally, females are more likely to die from that first heart attack than males.

Perception: My doctor monitors my risk factors and health and has minimized my risk of a heart attack.

Reality: There are new inexpensive and patient friendly imaging tests that your doctor may not be aware of or fully understand. These tests can find blockages before you have a heart attack and save your life. It is your responsibility to be proactive and work with your doctor to learn your true risk of heart attack.

These false assumptions can contribute to unnecessary death from heart attacks that could have been prevented.

For 50% of Americans, the very first sign or symptom of having heart disease will be a fullblown heart attack or sudden death. There are no signs or symptoms leading up to this event and often medical care at this stage will not save these patients. Almost 40% of first time heart attack patients never return home from the hospital.

We have all heard or read about tragic stories like the one of Dean Dupuy. These are real people, loved ones, family, friends, and neighbors that had absolutely no knowledge they had cardiovascular disease and suddenly died, unnecessarily from this devastating disease.

Despite these grim realities, the potential to prevent heart attacks is better than ever thanks to new technologies. New computer programs Continued on Page 13

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How Fitness Protects

Aging Brains

by Dr. Joseph Mercola • A new study finds physical exercise, more than mental exercise, protects your brain against agerelated changes; people who engaged in the most physical exercise showed the least brain shrinkage.

• Exercise, diet, and stress management are three primary factors that play key roles in maintain maintaining sharp mental function as you age.

• Exercise promotes brain cell regeneration and production of key brain chemicals and growth factors such as BDNF, which is important in maintaining memory, skilled task performance, and overall cognitive function.

• Your dietary choices are another important

factor in brain health; your brain is comprised mostly of fat so requires abundant dietary fats in order to repair and regener regenerate; one of the most potent and bioavailable sources of animal-based omega-3 fat for your brain is krill oil.

Some of the best brain foods are fresh vegetables, berries, or organic eggs from pastured hens, raw milk and meat products from pastured animals, nuts, avocados, coconut oil and olive oil (pastured = raised outside in a pasture; not cooped up in crowded, dirty cages or shacks). http://tinyurl.com/ofyld3y Printed with permission.

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allow doctors, for the first time ever, to look at the arteries that supply blood to the heart and detect blockages before they become life threatening.

Cardiovascular disease is a slow process in which the arteries of the heart narrow over time preventing blood flow to the heart. These blockages are caused by plaque and lead to heart attacks when blood can no longer pass through to keep the heart functioning. For most patients there are no warning signs or feelings that anything is wrong as the disease develops and the blockages worsen.

In the past, doctors had to wait for a patient to develop symptoms of heart disease such as shortness of breath, chest pain, and dizziness before they could order a test to look at these arteries for potential life threatening blockages.

Now, however, there are non-invasive, patient friendly tests such as a Coronary Calcium Score test that allows doctors to look at the coronary arteries from outside of the body for the first time. We can now look at the arteries of patients who have only risk factors for heart disease or have reached a certain age to find cardiovascular disease while the blockages are small and can be treated and stopped from worsening. The Coronary Calcium Score test is an extremely safe test which is done in less than 5 minutes with no patient discomfort at all. This test is offered at most hospitals and has been recommended by the major medical societies around the world.

People recommended for the Coronary Calcium Score test include males 45 and older, females 55 and older, and younger adults having multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, family history, obesity, diabetes, or tobacco use. BUT, this test is also for people who have no symptoms of cardiovascular disease and are presumably healthy. Remember, many people who feel perfectly healthy have heart attacks without warning so adherence to these guidelines is very important!

Surprisingly, almost 60% of the recommended population will have some stage of cardiovascular disease. The vast majority will have early stage blockages that are not yet life threatening and can be stopped from worsening by developing a medical management plan with your doctor. Research shows that the best chance for preventing blockages from getting worse is at the earliest stages, which is why early detection is so critical. These blockages are extremely dangerous and, if left undiscovered or untreated, would continue to narrow and eventually cause a heart attack or death. Medical procedures are available for the small percentage of individuals

that find they have significant blockages and can prevent a heart attack or death that was likely to occur. For the approximately 40% who have the test and are found to be disease free, the suggested re-test interval is once every 5 years.

Perception: I feel fine and my doctor is not worried, so this article does not apply to me.

Reality: Many Americans die unnecessarily every day of heart attacks that have no signs or symptoms that anything is wrong. Just look at Dean Dupuy. He felt great when he woke up that morning; he ran a race with his daughter; he felt great all the way to getting on the ice rink… Could this be you or someone you love?

For more information please visit our website at www.nomorebrokenhearts.info and www.

ShapeSociety.org or email us at nomorebrokenhearts2014@gmail.com.

Victoria Dupuy Native to California, Victoria Dupuy has always had a passion for non-profits and helping people. She has been active in many different non-profit organizations in a variety of roles.

Victoria is an avid learner and loves to share what she has learned to her large network of friends. Victoria serves as Founder and Executive Director for No More Broken Hearts.

Dr. Jeffrey Fine, MS, PhD Dr. Fine earned his PhD in cardiovascular science and public health at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and School of Public Health. He serves as CEO of J & J Medical, LLC specializing in heart attack prevention program development, medical education programs, physician training, and is the founder of the National Coronary CTA Data Registry.

He has conducted numerous clinical trials and published many scientific contributions related to coronary calcium scoring, the economic impact of medical technologies, and early cardiovascular disease identification and treatment.

Dr. Fine is nationally recognized in the fields of coronary artery disease identification, and heart attack prevention including coronary calcium scoring.

No More Broken Hearts Website: www.nomorebrokenhearts.info Facebook: Nomorebrokenhearts2014 Email: NoMoreBrokenHearts2014@gmail.com.

The mission of No More Broken Hearts is to increase awareness for the need for heart screenings in those individuals who, like Dean, are asymptomatic and considered no risk or low risk.

We would like to see a world where heart screenings are a routine part of our annual physicals, just like mammograms and colonoscopies.

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In fact, a large majority of the massage therapists that I know, all say that they would like more clients.

So how does the career massage therapist get a steady stream of clients? Well they certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just sit and wait (and hope) for the phone to ring, that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay the bills. No, what every massage therapist who has decided to go out on their own should be doing (when they are not massaging) is in fact â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;marketing massageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Now I know that the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;marketingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; may conjure up in your mind, corporate images of elaborate and expensive advertising campaigns and the like, but really all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about is consciously and effectively putting your business in front of the different kinds of people you would like to attract to your massage business as clients, and getting them to make contact with you and book in for a treatment. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all!

You could be the most knowledgeable, talented, highly trained massage therapist out there but unless people â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;knowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; about you and how â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;your serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; can be of BENEFIT to them, you may never experience the kind of practice or income that you want or deserve!

The first thing that I feel is necessary to grasp is that a massage practice (no matter how big or small) is in fact a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, your business! The next most important thing is that there are two sides to your business and one cannot survive without the other.

One side of your massage business is the providing of excellent massage treatments. The other side of your massage business is the marketing side i.e. the strategies and systems you use to attract a continual stream of clients and to get them to book in for a massage with you.

The secret to building a thriving and successful massage business is to realize that you need to be a marketer of massage first (in order to get the clients), and a provider of massage second. These are the twin pillars of your business. Once you get the clients on the table your job is only half done, you then need to give them a first class treatment that is based around their needs, each and every time!

So now that you know that you need to be a massage marketer as well as a massage therapist, the next question to ask is, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you market your massage?â&#x20AC;? Well it all starts with the most important rule. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to be all things to all people all at once!â&#x20AC;?

The biggest mistake I see therapists who are trying to build up a list of clients make, is that they will do up a brochure or business card etc that has their name or business name and / or logo, a list of the services they offer, and maybe a little about who they are and their qualifications, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it!

The thing is, every other therapist is doing exactly the same thing, so not only do they not stand out from the crowd, they are not speaking to the specific needs of the people that they are trying to attract as a massage clients. In fact many therapists are not even sure who it is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re even trying to attract.

So before you even think about printing up

another brochure, flyer, business card or doing another ad, you need to first ask yourself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What type of clients do I want to attract to my massage business? Who are they? Where are they? How can I get them interested in my business?â&#x20AC;?

Some massage therapists like to work specifically with sports people, others with women only, or people with back pain, others with people who are rehabilitating from illness or injury and others primarily for relaxation and rejuvenation etc, OR you might be the kind of therapist who wants to attract and work with people from all types of backgrounds. There are really no limits!

However, in order to effectively attract specific types of people into your massage business, your marketing must be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tailoredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to reach these people directly and speak to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;theirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; individual needs!

The mistake that a lot of massage therapists are making is that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do up a brochure or put an advertisement in a magazine or newspaper and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try to promote to all of these types of people at the same time. They might list the different benefits of their massage treatment by saying that their massage is good for back pain, relaxation, sports injuries etc.

By doing this they are saying that their massage is good for everything and everyone and while this is probably true, they are not speaking directly to each individual type of person, and therefore the power of their message is diluted.

The key to getting a great response is to market to each style of person individually, and whether or not you use a flyer, brochure or paid advertisement, you need to come across as a specialist by listing only those benefits of your massage that will appeal to that style of person.

L e t â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s s a y that we work from home or out of a small clinic and there are a couple of gyms in our area. We know that many people who go to workout at the gym will be interested in receiving massage so we decide that we would like to attract some of these people as clients.

If we want to attract a particular style of person to our massage business, we first need to get into their head and find out what their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;needsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are.

This usually isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too difficult. In regards to people who go to the gym, just put yourself in their shoes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why do they go to the gym?â&#x20AC;? People generally go the gym to workout because they are health conscious and they care about their physical appearance and their level of fitness.

Now think about what happens after you have a hard work out? Your muscles can become tight and tense and often there is soreness due to lactic acid build up. You often feel energized but your body now needs a period of rest to rejuvenate before the next workout.

Keeping this in mind, a great way to market to people who regularly workout at the gym would be to focus on all of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;physicalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; benefits that these people would receive should they come to have a massage with you.

You could for example, focus on the BENEFITS of receiving massage treatments â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;in betweenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; workouts and list only those benefits that would most appeal to the style of person who works out on a regular basis.

Some benefits of receiving massage that would be effective in this example are that it:

â&#x20AC;˘ Quickly eliminates muscle soreness after your workout. â&#x20AC;˘ Relieves muscular spasm quickly.

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by Ted Mancuso You see people doing martial arts everywhere: in parks, on the beach, in schools and on TV. So many people moving in traditional patterns.

So many people following teachers and lineages that date back thousands of years. But how many are actually practicing true martial arts? It might surprise you to know that the percentage is quite small. What is needed for their practice to be authentic?

Here are a few of the classic goals and attitudes that may hint at deeper levels of martial study, and a fruitful approach to understanding what you think you are practicingâ&#x20AC;Ś 1. Move like you mean it. Concentration, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;intent,â&#x20AC;? is a basic requirement. Martial arts (even Tai Chi) is not a warm bath or a welcoming beach towel. Think of it this way: if you happened to join a westernstyle fencing class you would never dream of standing there, limp-wristed, letting people poke at you solely on the pretext that you not a violent person. Fencers are no more violent than you are.

Yet fencing is also a martial art and intent is a sign of respect for yourself and your activities. If, for a moment, you hold a real sword, you can feel your mind focusing.

All martial training should be this sharp. Tai Chi must not be walked through like a zombie-dance.

Ted Mancuso 2. Know when to hold and when to fold. True martial arts do not fixate on the extreme, like trying to kick through brick walls. 70% is the maximum commitment, because the enemy may change at any moment. Every pair of complementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fast/slow, hard/ soft, overt/cover, attack/defend are the yin/yang of martial practice.

Too hard is generally wrong, too limp generally a mistake. Instead of putting everything into one move, a good martial artist puts everything into the entire fight, holding and folding as he goes.

3. Maximum Efficiency. The more truly martial the art, the more simple and direct. Baji, for instance, is a powerful style of Kung Fu once

taught to royal bodyguards. Every single move is explosive. In Baji, maximum efficiency encourages maximum intent and the removal of all â&#x20AC;&#x153;cockingâ&#x20AC;? actions, all preparatory giveaways. The main discipline for every student is to ruthlessly eliminate all affectations, all blinks, all tells and to perform a move that is only that move.

4. This leads to another missing yin factor in much modern practice.

People now talk about the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;internalâ&#x20AC;? martial arts. I hate to tell you, but there is no such thing. All martial arts starts with the external and goes inward. Gradually, advanced dialogue between inside and outside becomes profound and rapid. Take it from me, each and every martial movement has at least ten different purposes. Some are obviously external, strong and direct (bright) and some not visible to the eye (dark).

True martial arts requires mental as well as physical training. It is a tactical game of endless variety, insightful topics and benefits not limited by age.

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bodywork can ease sleep deprivation, keep you healthy, and ease symptoms PM, and that is only the beginning of how Massage can help. The incredible benefits of therapeutic bodywork are why gyms like Santa Cruz Core Fitness + Rehab include Massage in the list of services we provide.

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I believe that the end of human trafficking begins with shining a light into the darkness, not away from it.

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Five days without devices improved sixth graders ability to read human emotion

“Many people are looking at the benefits of digital media in education, and not many are looking at the costs,” said Patricia Greenfield, a distinguished professor of psychology in the UCLA College and senior author of the study.

“Decreased sensitivity to emotional cues — losing the ability to understand the emotions of other people — is one of the costs. The displacement of in-person social interaction by screen interaction seems to be reducing social skills.” (2) The psychologists studied two sets of sixthgraders from Southern California public school systems. Fifty-one of the participants lived together for five days at a nature and science camp and fifty-four remained at home and attended the camp after the study was conducted. (3) The camp restricts use of all electronic devices. At the beginning of the study, both groups were evaluated for their ability to recognize human emotions in videos and photographs. The students were shown 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad angry or scared and asked to identify the emotions. They also watched videos of actors interacting with each other and were asked to describe the characters emotions. (1) The children who had been in the camp significantly improved their abilities to recognize emotion after five days without media devices.

The children were able to distinguish nonverbal

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The students that participated in the study reported that they text, watch television and play video games an average of 4.5 hours per typical school day. Surveys conducted report that the national average is actually higher. The director of the UCLA Children’s Digital Media Center reported that the results are significant considering that the occurred only after five days without media devices. (1) Removing digital media devices and encouraging more face-to-face interaction will allow children to learn to read nonverbal cues and increase social development. The study is hoping to encourage parents and families to have device free time in order to help children reach appropriate social development milestones. (2) Sources for this article include: (1) www.sciencedaily.com (2) newsroom. ucla.edu (3) www.dailynewsen.com Image source: lifeaisle.wordpress.com

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Lead researcher, Yalda Uhls, reports, “If you’re not practicing face-to-face communication, you could be losing important social skills.” (2)

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by Dr. Becker want to emphasize that botulism is rarely seen in pets, and it is the result of rottenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; not rawâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;meat. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a strong advocate of feeding fresh raw meat diets to dogs and cats, and for those of you who are thinking about switching a pet to a more speciesappropriate diet, please know that you can feed raw very safely (despite what you may have heard elsewhere, including from your own veterinarian).

In order to prevent parasites (roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms, etc.) from invading your petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homemade raw diet, we simply avoid including the gutsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the stomach and small and large intestinesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the meat mix. These are the organs that harbor parasites. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re buying commercially available raw pet food, the guts have already been removed.

Muscle meat is used to prepare raw food diets, and muscle meat is sterile except in rare instances when parasites escape the gastrointestinal tract (guts) and travel there. For example, certain parasites like Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, can get into muscle meat and make your pet sick.

This is why you should freeze raw meats (the length of time varies for different parasites, three weeks will kill all of them) before feeding them to your dog or cat. By freezing meats before serving, and by removing the guts of prey species, you can successfully avoid exposing your raw fed pet to parasites.

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Ironically, salmonella is the reason for most recalls of processed pet foodsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not raw diets.

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MEET DR. JOEL W We had heard of Dr. Joel Wallach for some time. However, when we had the privilege to meet him and talk with him for more than an hour, we learned a lot! We are so impressed with his life’s mission—his dedication and years & years of research, education and genuine caring for all life; for we humans, our ‘health & well-being’ as well as for all animals, plants & life on earth.

As we do ourselves, we did extensive research to check out the efficacy of Doc Wallach’s Youngevity products. They use organic, non-GMO ingredients (a must for us!!). They do not use colored dyes, for example. A friend was concerned about the Tangy Tangerine Drink as its color is a bright orange. Well, we found out that the color is made naturally from ‘beet juice’ and beta carotene—no dyes or artificial color or artificial anything!! Awesome! Through Dr. Bruce Lipton, we have studied ‘epigenetics’ and are thrilled to know that Dr. Wallach is also an epigeneticist. And, we love the fact that Doc Wallach has challenged the FDA and won! He is courageous (something we truly respect!).

We encourage you to read on and get to know Dr. Wallach. We will be featuring some ‘live interviews’ with the Doc in the near future on our website. Please stay tuned.

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had another breakthrough when he learned minerals are needed for hundreds of life sustaining reactions in the body. With his ‘Ag’ background, Dr. Wallach also knew that these same minerals are often lacking in the soil & in our diets. Dr. Joel Wallach knew he was onto something significant.

After receiving his BS Degree in ‘Ag’ in 1962, and Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine (DVM) in 1964, he began chasing the answers that he knew would bring vibrant health & wellness to all living creatures on earth. He studied nutritional deficiency diseases. He began working as a Veterinarian Pathology Assistant conducting up to 25 animal autopsies daily. He investigated the mineral intake of the world’s longest living cultures. He traveled to Africa to treat

MEET DR. JOEL WALLACH, ND!!!

We’re entering a new era where it’s possible to live younger, longer, all while achieving the financial freedom of our dream. Powering this movement are legions of ambitious self-starters who believe in doing well & doing good at the same time. This new lifestyle system may change everything about how we engage in our health & prosperity, and it all started simply with an inquisitive young man living on a farm. . . .

Dr. Joel Wallach was born into farm living in rural Missouri where he tended to vegetable crops & livestock with equal care. As he worked on his high school studies & on becoming an Eagle Scout, Dr. Wallach gravitated towards animal science, plant science, soil science, & veterinary medicine.

To learn more, Dr. Joel Wallach got a summer job at the St. Louis Zoo where he had the privilege of caring for exotic animals alongside Marlin Perkins of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom fame!

Inspired by Mr. Perkins, Dr. Wallach found his mission early in life to protect the welfare of plants and the earth itself. He wanted all living things to thrive & prosper!

Back on the family farm, Dr. Wallach had an epiphany that would advance his new mission for decades to come. He realized livestock animals received better nutrition than humans!!

Dr. Wallach observed that nutrient dense alfalfa pellets fed to livestock were a cost effective, ‘gold standard practice’ for preventing infertility, birth defects, heart disease, arthritis, & other degenerative diseases. But, he wondered, why is it common practice for livestock to get this nutrition, but not humans??

As Dr. Joel Wallach went to University of Missouri to study ‘Agriculture & Veterinarian Medicine’, he was determined to solve this nutritional mystery!

In organic chemistry class, Dr. Wallach

& save exotic animals & endangered species.

In 1966, he was invited by Marlin Perkins to participate in a $7.5M (NIH) National Institute of Health study on ecology, environment, pollution, & plant & animal health. The massive study became Dr. Wallach’s focus for the next 12 yrs.

Over time, Dr. Wallach performed thousands of animal autopsies across 454 species including 3,000 humans. His work was included in 70 peer review journal articles & 15 textbook chapters. Dr. Wallach also began working on his own textbook The Diseases of Exotic Animals: The Medical & Surgical Management, which is now recommended by the Smithsonian Institute as a foundation text for all zoos.

Dr. Wallach’s discoveries from this prolific

time are still used today to reduce degenerative disease, improve fertility, & extend longevity for exotic animals & livestock. But, most significantly, after thousands of animal & human autopsies, Dr. Wallach gained unprecedented insight on the inner workings of the earth’s inhabitants. What he discovered was s near universal trend across all species. Minerals were the currency of life itself!

Soon after this revelation, Dr. Joel Wallach identified the first non-human case of cystic fibrosis in a Rhesus Monkey. He named selenium deficiency as the cause, challenging the established believe that the disease was genetic in nature. Dr. Wallach’s findings were medically resisted as the National Institute of Health (NIH) & media alike tried to silence his discovery & discredit his qualifications. Knowing his discoveries could help millions of people if he had additional qualifications, at age 40, Dr. Joel Wallach decided to become an N.D. (Naturopathic Doctor). After receiving his N.D., Dr. Wallach started a practice to begin adapting his Veterinarian Nutritional Formulas for human use. These formulations, such as his liquid mineral ‘Toddy’, worked so well. . . that his patients told everyone they knew! Soon, his clinic was seeing 50 people daily.

With his clinic’s capacity maxed out, Dr. Wallach realized he needed a better system that would enable him to help more people.

Information/Education was the answer!

By teaching others how to achieve & share vibrant health, he could remove all limitations & help millions of people.

Dr. Wallach created an educational health seminar called DDDL (‘Dead Doctors Don’t Lie’). The tape of his seminars resonated so powerfully with Americans, that it sold over 150 million copies without the benefit of social media!!

With DDDL, Dr. Wallach finally had a way to go directly to the public with his own info on nutrition. Info he knew could dramatically improve their health.

But, Dr. Wallach’s next breakthrough was the real game changer.

As his discoveries improved livestock health & saved exotic animals around the world, Dr. Wal-

lach fulfilled part of his life’s mission—AND, it was just the beginning. He knew his animal health breakthroughs had the potential to enhance human health, too. With DDDL, Dr. Wallach inspired millions of people to take control of their health, but he wanted to do more. He wanted to bring people happiness, Q.O.L. (Quality of Life), financial freedom, & the best nutrition in the world. If he could pull these pieces together in one place, the Doc knew he could realize his childhood dream of helping others to thrive & prosper.

Youngevity, Health & Prosperity Just as he was seeking a better way, Dr. Wallach was introduced to direct sales. In direct sales, he saw the perfect vehicle for helping people achieve the vibrant health & financial stability they wanted. In return, they’d tell others about their success.

Backed by a multitude of motivated health crusaders, he could now reach millions with both health knowledge & the quality n u - trition that could change their lives.

True to form, he began methodically dissecting the direct sell-

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WALLACH, ND!!! ing concept to see how he could do it better than it had ever been done before. AND, he did just that . . . better than it had ever been done before or since!

Dr. Joel Wallach’s interest in direct sales culminated in his launch of his company, “Youngevity”. He built his new direct sales brand on a commitment to providing his distributors with the finest products, best support, & fastest payouts without interfering in their everyday activity. It all started with physical health.

By supplying premium nutritional formulations that were great tasting, easy to absorb (one of THE most important aspects of all nutrition & not done with most nutritional products. In fact, one of the main reasons that the majority of nutritional products do not seem to work well for people!), & highly bio-available, he could reverse nutritional deficiencies. He knew from experience that his plant derived colloidal mineral supplements delivered wellness benefits that were so powerful, people could feel them across all aspects of their lives. He also had successful supplements from his clinic days that would blossom on a bigger stage.

Dr. Wallach streamlined his 90 essential nutrients messages into ‘90 for Life’ and presented his most important supplements in a healthy body pack.

Youngevity now had its core foundation products in place.

As he pioneered new Youngevity supplements including cutting edge liquid & nutricrystal delivery forms, he unleashed even more dramatic results. People felt a difference when they took them. They wanted to buy more because each new Youngevity product made them feel better than before; better than ever!

With Youngevity supplements, results were now the rule, not the exception.

When people felt better physically, happiness followed. Their mental, emotional, & social health flourished. People were empowered by their own wellness, which in turn inspired others.

They felt so healthy taking Youngevity formulas that they shared them with everyone they knew.

Through Youngevity’s direct selling model, Dr. Wallach could now reward these people for their good will.

The more health Youngevity distributors generated, the greater their financial rewards would be, & the more lives they could change for the better.

The company quickly outgrew its humble beginnings, but with little office space available in Southern California, leadership faced the tough decision.

Leaving the area would mean losing the staff. The founders, led by Dr. Wallach, decided to keep the team together, stay local, & built a state of the art headquarters with nearly 60,000 square feet of class A warehousing, distribution & office space to grow into, Youngevity was poised for dramatic growth.

Thousands of people flocked to Youngevity.

They wanted to distribute the products that had enhanced their lives. Their growing distributor base included people from all walks of life—young & old, rich & poor. All were united by a genuine desire to help others. His message spread organically & quickly. Wherever Youngevity went—health

& prosperity followed.

Seeing how info transformed health & affected positive change, the Doc developed a new goal— to challenge, petition and, at times, defend the FDA to enable qualified health claims for nutritional supplements.

In challenging the FDA (Food & Drug Administration), Dr. Wallach helped change the face of healthcare in America, securing the ability to deliver truthful health info to the public.

Among his most significant victories was a qualified health claim that the mineral selenium may reduce the risk of certain cancers. Dr. Gerhard Schrauzer, head of UCSD chemistry dept., Founder of Biological Trace Element Journal, and one of the official nominators for candidates for Nobel Prize in Medicine,

was the lead scientific council for this petition, working alongside Dr. Joel Wallach to convince the FDA to allow this claim.

Youngevity became the first & only direct sales company to ever successfully petition FDA to make qualified health claims—now, that is a BIG DEAL! This reinforced Youngevity’s reputation as being a different type of direct sales company, one where creating health was the top priority achieved by any means necessary (that was truthful and had the highest integrity!).

Today, under Youngevity—physical, emotional, & financial health are now one, with residual income earned from spreading health & doing good in the world. Youngevity Distributors

have an opportunity to design their own lifestyle.

For many, this means spending more time with their families, pursuing their passions, & doing what they love, all in great health while promoting health in others. From Day #1, Youngevity has re-defined what a direct marketing brand can achieve. Youngevity’s best may be yet to come.

It was designed to be a legacy company that will continue growing for generations.

Youngevity is a company of innovation, like global leaders Amazon, Apple, & Netflix— Youngevity is preparing to make several evolutionary leaps that’ll drive its success for decades to come.

Youngevity offers products that are wholesome & good for the ‘body & soul’—all natural; nothing artificial!

If a product can contribute to a customer’s Q.O.L. in any way, then it fits the new Youngevity Model.

Youngevity will continue developing innovative supplements to support vibrant physical health & well-being; however, Youngevity’s holistic view means a greater diversity of new products will now support emotional, mental & social health as well.

New offerings will also enable Youngevity to enhance lives in new ways, helping people feel good, look great, & enjoy fulfillment every day—as well as to actually youth.

Although Youngevity is branching out into new areas, the ultimate message remains the same—‘90 for Life’ (meaning the ‘90’ nutritional elements that we each need to consume regularly), & ‘Healthy Start Pack’, creating a foundation & physical wellness that supports a healthier, happier, & more prosperous life.

Youngevity is leveraging the latest social media, video & digital mediums, to more effectively share Doc Wallach’s original message of nutritional health. With these new social media tools, Youngevity connects to demographics they could have never reached in the past. Evolving technologies bring exciting new possibilities for Youngevity Distributors as well.

Youngevity brings education & opportunity to an entirely new global audience helping them to take charge of their health & lives.

While the financial opportunity may be great, the checks issued are always a reflection of gratitude from the people that Youngevity has helped. That group is getting bigger & bigger every day.

It’s all a culmination of the same culture that Dr. Wallach started 60 yrs ago as a young Eagle Scout who was determined to help animals & plants thrive. It’s a culture of caring about other people, having a strong work ethic, & wanting to give back to society. When you are surrounded by good people who are doing well, life is just better.

And so, Youngevity’s future success won’t be measured by how many products they’re selling, but by how many lives the brand/products help to change for the better.

By continuing to pioneer products & opportunities that unlock a healthy body (through profound research), heart & wallet, Youngevity will continue enabling generations of people around the world to live younger longer!!

If you’d like to know more about Youngevity and Dr. Joel Wallach (and, to potentially meet the ‘Doc’ yourself, please contact: http://ConnectionHealthTeam.com

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At the top of your flyer you could combine a few of these benefits into an attention grabbing headline for example, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Discover How To Quickly Eliminate Muscle Soreness After Your Next Workout!â&#x20AC;? followed by a subheading,...and feel completely relaxed, refreshed and ready to take on the world!

A benefit rich headline that captures the interest of your â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;target marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; should be at the top of every piece of marketing you do, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a flyer, an editorial or just a simple advertisement!

You could then follow up with the rest of the benefits above, so that you come across as a therapist who â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;specializesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in working with people who do intensive exercise on a regular basis.

If possible you would then throw in a testimonial or two from clients that fall into the same â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;target marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that you have massaged previously, so that it gives you credibility

and shows why they should have a massage with you.

Then give them a special offer of say 90 minutes for the price of an hour and mention that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for a limited time only, tell them to call A.S.A.P to make their appointment type and in your phone number so that it is big and bold. If possible, include a small photo of yourself and voila, you have a very targeted, inexpensive method of putting your business in front of a specific type of client that has a high probability of making contact with you.

Now this is just one example, and you could tailor different flyers for different styles of people and also different styles of massage. The main thing that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to get across here is that even though your massage itself may not change that much from person to person, you need to target your marketing so that you are speaking to each different style of person (target market) specifically and answer the question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in it for them?â&#x20AC;? by clearly listing those benefits that will be appealing to that style of person.

So to recap on what I covered so far today, think of your massage practice as a business that has two equally important sides - the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;marketing of massageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;providing of massageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Work out what types of people (target markets) you would like to have as clients and then market to each of those groups individually with benefit rich, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;attention grabbingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; headlines.

Then answer the question of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in it for them?â&#x20AC;? by illustrating the specific benefits of your service.

Then, make sure you give yourself credibility by throwing in one or two testimonials from clients that are in the same target market and make them a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;time sensitiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offer that they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t refuse. Last but not least, tell them â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to make contact with you.

Make sure that these elements are included in ALL forms of marketing that you do, whether it be brochures, flyers, editorials or simple classified ads etc.

Then when clients show up for their massage treatment, give them 110% each and every time! This is a must!

If you can do just these simple things with your marketing, I have no doubt that you will be well on the way to building a very successful massage business with a steady stream of clients!

Jamie Thomas is a retired massage therapist who had an extremely successful career. He now teaches other massage therapists how to build thriving and successful practices for themselves. If you want to complete further massage courses and training, then see Tania Hodder at massage gold coast, she is an excellent teacher and a very experienced and successful massage therapist herself.

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OUTSPOKEN: COME OUT

by Sharon Esther Papo e call it Pride month. In big and small cities across the country, the Lesbian/ Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/ Queer (LGBTQ) communities gather to celebrate what it means to be LGBTQ in a straight world.

In Santa Cruz, we gather for our 41st annual Pride parade on Sunday, June 7th on Pacific Ave. You and I truly have so much to celebrate: our history as LGBTQ and allied people is one of Sharon Esther Papo coming together, overcoming challenges, and living our lives openly. From the 1960s riots at Stonewall Inn on the East Coast to Compton’s Cafeteria on the West Coast, we have faced community discrimination head on. Most recently individuals like you have taken our struggle for marriage equality all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where I am confident we are going to succeed. However, even if we change the laws of this country, you know there is still much work to be done. Changing culture to be more welcoming and inclusive doesn’t happen merely with the stroke of a pen. The irony is, just as many LGBTQ adults are starting to live the life they’ve always wanted, there is a new generation of LGBTQ youth coming up that is facing perhaps even more challenges, not less.

The fact is, inspired by LGBTQ adults and role models, queer youth are coming out in more numbers and at younger ages. We are seeing them often at 10-14 years-of-age or even younger.

While some families are loving, many youth still face the very real risk of rejection, getting kicked out of their house, and becoming homeless, even here in Santa Cruz County. They face harassment at home and in schools, on the streets and in social media. As more young people question not only the mainstream norms of sexuality, but also of gender, they are facing a growing conservative backlash in communities across America. Some of our children are even being prohibited from

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ouldn’t it be great to see more actors over the age of 50, 60 or 70+ starring in TV shows?

Isn’t it a great idea to start up a series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin? Well, we think so!

Grace and Frankie, premiered on Friday, May 8 on Netflix. One review that I read said that ‘they’ thought that this new program is a disappointing vehicle for some very good actors, including Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston. The premise is that Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin) have husbands played by Sheen and Waterston respectively. In

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using public bathrooms in their schools just for being who they are.

At The Diversity Center, young people can find a safe space, connect with others their age, and get access to the resources they need to succeed. We provide opportunities for them to practice their leadership by organizing events. We host weekly teen gatherings and support numerous Gay/Straight Alliance clubs on school campuses. This year from June 19th to 21st we will again be hosting our annual Queer Camp. Teens spend a weekend in the woods making friends, leading fun activities, and having a safe place to be themselves. For many, this camping trip is more than just a fun weekend. One transgender 8th grader, who has experienced significant bullying, told me, “Queer Camp is the only place I have ever felt I can be 100% who I am. Can I stay here forever? I never want to leave.”

So when we come together to celebrate Pride, please join me in standing up for LGBTQ youth and others in need. Continue to live your life open and proud, while reaching out a hand to those around you. Remember to practice gratitude and to give back to those in need. Only then, can you and I guarantee to young people and others that, “It will get better.”

Sharon Esther Papo is Executive Director of The Diversity Center. The Diversity Center enhances lives and promotes fairness for LGBTQ people in Santa Cruz County.

For more information about The Diversity Center, you can go to www.diversitycenter. org or call (831) 425-5422. Mark your calendar for major upcoming LGBTQ community events: Dyke/Trans March: June 6 (SC downtown clock tower @ 4pm), Santa Cruz Pride: June 7 @ 11am, Pacific Ave., Christie McCarthy Benefit Concert @ Kuumbwa: June 13, Watsonville Pride: Aug. 23, Diversity Center Gala: Oct. 17.

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the premiere, the men announce they’re in love, have been for 20 years, and are coming out to their families. Grace and Frankie, who’ve never liked each other much, are thrown together by their common circumstance.

Personally, my partner and a good friend and I have been watching this program AND, we truly love it! I hope and encourage you to check it out. And, we’d like to know what you think about it.

You can write an email to us at: awaken@ connectionmagazineonline.com In the Subject Area, please write: Grace & Frankie. Tell us what you think. That will be interesting. We really, really like it a lot. We’d enjoy and appreciate knowing what you think.

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One day I became aware of a large gnome Our negative thinking contributes to atmospheric walking with me. He is one of the intelligent pollution and storms. Nature needs us to use our earth spirits, trained to interact with humans. We free will to ask for spiritual help. It is time to have related for 20 years.

He teaches that nature consciousness is composed of large and small angels and elementals. All are in service to the planet and provide everything a human needs to live.

Nature spirits are nonphysical conscious beings within every aspect of Nature. They need human recognition and support. My Gnome friend requested I say ’hello’ to the trees, plants, air and water, to bless and thank them. I interact BARBARA THOMAS AND GNOMES through my feelings, intuition and imagination. remember we are part of nature. We could not He shared Earth’s Divine Plan where in the live on earth without nature. Nature needs our beginning perfection reigned. Three kingdoms, help to keep the air, water and the earth pure. angel, elemental, and human, came to evolve As part of my call to serve Nature, I was and develop life on earth. Perfection ruled until awakened one night hearing a voice repeatedly the humans made a choice that led to the “Fall saying, “There once was a time a horrible time…

There once was a time a horrible time”. I wrote those words and line by line, the story emerged of a woman who was the community healer, © working in partnership with Nature, who was burned by those she served. I saw paintings I had created 25 years earlier that illustrated this story.

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Studies have shown that fathers are more still give thanks for being here.

In last months article, I spoke about important in the later years of childhood and children, parents and gender. This month I am adolescence as information is passed on about moved to further this topic. No matter what your what it means to be a man, in the case of a boy sexual orientation, you have gender and I am willing to bet that this is a significant part of your human experience. Perhaps there are some for whom this is a non-topic; something that is just not important. For such people â&#x20AC;&#x153;As children grow up unclear of what is masculine and what is feminine, this article they turn to the media for role models and information.â&#x20AC;? will not be of interest. and what it is to be a man who is safe and secure One of the points I made last month is that to be with, in the case of a girl. In our society, we men and women are different. That masculine have more single parent households now than at energy differs from feminine energy. Sometimes any time in history. There is also an increasing I feel as though there is pressure for us to be the amount of children that spend more waking hours same. Have you ever felt this way? I have also felt with non-familial caregivers than they do with and seen the opposite, where cultural ideology their own parents. tries to dictate how we must act and be as boys When children grow up unclear of what is and girls, women and men. masculine and what is feminine, they turn to the This could look as seemingly innocent as media for role models and information. We know blue rooms for baby boys and pink rooms for the media is mostly interested in selling products baby girls. There are new standards being set and uses stereotypes and sex to accomplish their today and the long-term results may not be what goal. So what can our young people turn to that we want. Let us look more closely at the expecta- is a healthy and grounded source of information? tions being placed on men and women today and The situation is compounded generationally, ask ourselves if they are taking us on a good road. with each generation becoming less and less Can you think of any examples? connected and more and more embracing the Men today are being expected to be soft, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I, Me, Mineâ&#x20AC;? attitude that the media tells us is gentle and sensitive for instance. We also live in the way to be. Yes, this path is good for creating a time where women put on suits and hard per- a society of workers and consumers, however, I sonas and go to battle in the workplace. Women seriously doubt that it is creating a life of lasting also join our military and go to war, leaving their happiness for itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participants. babies and children at home. Modern women Knowing what is masculine and feminine is want to do what men have always done and important to our psyche. When we are clear, we simultaneously many modern men are taking on know how to be. When we are solid in our way of traditionally female roles. being, we are happy and content. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want It is clear that we, as a society, want progress to return to an era when Ralph Kramden yelling and we challenge and change the cultural norms obsessively at his wife Alice, in the Honeymoonof the past in attempt to be different. For everyone ers, is acceptable behavior. We also donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do what he or she desires is an exercise of free our men to loose their masculinity in the pursuit will. Without such freedom we feel trapped and to become sensitive, new age guys. As much as a remain uninspired in life. However, there is a woman may idealize a sensitive man who can talk tremendous amount of responsibility that comes like her girlfriend, I believe the reality to be that with freedom. Again, as the Lorax speaks for if her man actually becomes like her girlfriend the trees, I must speak for those who have wee that she will begin looking for another man who voices. Children need their mothers. There have has stronger masculine characteristics. been many studies with primates and the removal We all have a role to play, with our friends, of mothers. In each case, the primate gets sick partners, lovers and children. Have you ever and/or dies even though it received plenty of nu- asked yourself what your role is and if you are trition to physically survive. Nothing can replace clear about what you want? the love and care of a mother when it comes to Mr. Love is a mentor, educator & meditababies and small children and Skyping is not a tion instructor who enjoys teaching through suitable replacement for parenting. experiential learning environments. Love@ I am not dissing all you single fathers out DevotionalLiving.org

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Each number reveals a specific type of energy or vibrational frequency stemming from that number. Picking the best date just enhances the behindthe-scene invisible aura and intangible quality surrounding the individual and his or her event. If you were planning an event, wouldn’t you want to make sure that you were choosing a date that permeates positive energy versus negative energy for that day? Well, of course you would.

Every day brings with it a completely new experience. And so it is with numbers, too, that change on a daily basis. If you were able to calculate the numbers of your Personal Days that were special to you, what a gift it would be. Having the opportunity to make informed decisions to take appropriate actions will increase your potential for success by knowing in advance what your choice revealed.

In order to determine if you’ve chosen the perfect date for your event, the process would involve three calculations; first we would need to know what Personal Year and Personal Month you are in. After those two numbers

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The average person probably can not relate to this type of exercise, that is, planning an event around a vibrational pattern. Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out if the event you had planned was successful or not and how the numbers played a role? Picking positive numbers is the way to go, by making a good decision overall from the start.

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3 Things Doctors Say You Should Do… But Shouldn’t!

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by The Food Babe, Vani Hari reactions, Vitamin D3, & Dr. Joel Kahn, M.D. and CoQ10. Shhh, I am hardly a doctor take about 20 more to basher. Last I checked, assist optimal cellular I was a cardiologist health on a daily basis. actively involved in seeing hundreds of 3. “A sleeping pill patients a month. In the next won’t hurt you” few months I am lecturing At that same time at several medical meetings that medical science sponsored by University fachas shown the imporulty and hold the position of tance of 7 good hours professor at 3 universities of sleep to restore our myself. But… it is no exagmetabolism to normal geration to say that in genovernight after a stresseral conventional medicine is VAni HAri ful day, fewer and fewslow to adapt new ideas and er people are achieving platforms. While I could pick many aspects of those good 7 hours. Whether it is EMF and WiFi, practice that are due for an overhaul, I want to fo- bright lights rich in 480 nm blue waves from our cus on 3 that come to mind that need to be flushed PCs, pads and phones, or jobs that hyper-connect from medical jargon. —Dr. Joel Kahn, M.D. us 24/7, nearly a majority of respondents to

1. “Moderation in everything is the key”

This is simply wrong. My advice for patients is “extreme in diet, moderate in fitness, abundant in love”. Why do I say that? Although I won’t go into detail about fitness, there is abundant research in the last few years that extreme exercise, like repeated marathons or triathalons, may actually increase the risk of heart diseases.

The current mantra is exercise is like a medication and the dose matters. More central is the issue of nutrition. Simply put, medical societies have failed to address the critical connection between diet and the origin and reversal of chronic diseases. For example, years ago Dr. Dean Ornish compared the impact of the diet and lifestyle on blocked heart arteries. The control group was told to follow their doctor’s dietary recommendations and the experimental group was told to follow an “extreme” diet constituting mainly plants.

At the end of 5 years, heart artery blockages became more severe in the conventional group but showed reversal in the “extreme” diet! Other examples of “extreme” diets stressing quality of foods, plant-centric approaches, and organic produce have shown reduction in cancer growth, reversal of aging, and reduced excretion of pesticides in children and adults. I advise you to be vigilant in what goes into your awesome body to maximize your health and vitality.

2. “Vitamins just make expensive urine”

Oh how doctors love to bash vitamins, or nutraceuticals if you want to impress friends.

When I am at a party with doctors and it is a bit dull I just say in a loud voice, “excuse me, I have to go take my last few dozen vitamins”!

Sure, there are legitimate areas of confusion but are all vitamins just window dressing to make someone rich? Hardly based on the science. For example, take Coenzyme Q10, an antioxidant and substrate to make energy in every cell in the body. Can you find CoQ10 in a hospital? Can patients or their families freely bring a bottle into the hospital to use for health? The vitamins will likely be confiscated like crack. How strange when studies show improved outcome including death when CoQ10 was studied in rigorous trials.

My favorite 4 vitamins, or my Core 4, for all to consider is a probiotic to improve their gut health or microbiome, chelated magnesium to assist

surveys indicate that they sleep poorly. So, what is the harm in your doctor giving you a prescription for a sleeping pill (hypnotic) or stress pill (anxiolytic) to help you sleep for the rest of your life? In fact, that recommendation from your doctor may risk your very life. In a recent matched-cohort study from American clinics, a prescription for even 18 sleeping pills a year was associated with a 3-fold increased risk of death and higher doses increased the risk of dying by 5-fold. Of course, it may be that people getting those prescriptions had other reasons for poor sleep that were associated with death but we must consider the possibility of a direct relationship.

In another even more recent analysis involving 100,000 subjects, a prescription for hypnotics or anxiolytics was associated with a risk of dying that was over 300% higher than those without a similar prescription.

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I suggest you say, “No, Thank You!” to your doctor’s prescription. Make your bedroom cold and dark. Turn off your WiFi and cellphone if you can. Take an Epsom Salt bath and meditate for 10-20 minutes before bed. Consider adding a nighttime cocktail of chamomile tea, magnesium lotions or powders, or herbs like valerian before bed. I sleep on sheets that ground me to the earth and recommend that approach to you, too.

Life has changed dramatically since Marcus Welby, M.D. and Dr. Spock advised us on how to maintain our health. Even Dr. Spock reevaluated his advice to so many mothers late in his life and advised extreme care in dietary choices for optimal health. We live in an age where it is acceptable to question medical authority, particularly on issues about nutrition, and it is advisable to link over to www.pubmed.com and search the National Library of Medicine to seek your own information. When I went to medical school at the University of Michigan, my favorite professor told me that 50% of what he was going to teach us was wrong, but he did not know which 50% it was.

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100 More Smart Meters Explode in Capitola, Calif. -This Time . . . ! by onthelevelblog On May 12, 2015, we received yet another report of exploding Smart Meters—this time in Capitola.

This follows a similar incident in Stockton, CA last March (http:// tinyurl.com/qc4wohb) where meters blew off houses and many appliances were damaged after an electrical surge.

Utilities kindly correct us if we are mistaken, but this is not a phenomenon affecting glass and steel electromechanical analog meters. It’s too bad that we have such “oversight” that has not only allowed utilities to deploy this untested, hazardous technology on nearly every building — in violation of numerous laws—but, then destroy millions of safe meters

burning smell coming from my surge protector. I called PG&E and let them know I thought the issue was in the ‘transformer’ since it had happened before. He said 900 homes were affected by this power outage! Then, I went downstairs and my neighbor asked me if I’d seen the Smart Meters in the garbage area. We opened the gate and saw glass spewed all over the area and the wires were frayed and singed with black smudges left behind.

The wires were open and exposed. I called PG&E again and told them what we had discovered. He said the same thing had just happened in Stockton (where buildings actually burned) and told me to call the fire department. The fire department came and canvassed the neighborhood and found the other

making it harder for policymakers to order a recall (which of course must be done).

exploded Smart Meters on the street.

At 5pm, the PG&E crew came and replaced all the broken meters.

All three of my surge protectors were blackened and neighbors had damaged appliances (washers, refrigerators, etc.) and cable boxes as well.

It was a frightening experience and leaves myself and other neighbors with questions about whether this will happen again, especially in our condo project where we have 5 meters per building, all on the same wall!”

Vicki Schot, Capitola

Sounds like a stitch-up and believe us . . . it is!!

Capitola was one of 15 local governments in California to pass an ordinance banning the meters back in 2010 when we had just started our campaign. If PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission had respected local law in 2010/11, Smart Meters may not be exploding on people’s homes today.

If the Santa Cruz County Sheriff had protected public safety and enforced the law rather than protecting and escorting those who violated it… If the Sheriff had not arrested us (http://tinyurl.com/otj3928) for civilly disobeying and rightfully blocking what we knew then was an unsafe deployment, the exploding meters and chronic RF sickness that have become part of the California landscape in 2015 might have been avoided.

Immediately, below here are 2 accounts of our own local citizens relating what happened to them amidst these 100 exploding Smart Meters in Capitola, recently on May 12th:

phone reps will not admit these are unsafe. They do admit this is something that can and does happen but told me not to worry. I will not accept the possibility of these exploding again as something we should have to live with. Since that day, PG&E trucks are on my block a couple times a week while they check the rest of the issues people are having. I don’t want these unsafe Smart Meters on my house and I don’t want to have to pay for them to be replaced with the older style. Most of all, I don’t want to go through this again. We’re lucky no one was hurt this time!”

Mitch L., Capitola

“On 5.12, the Smart Meters blew off my house and about 100 neighbors, just like in Stockton. My washing machine shorted out during

How many millions of unsafe meters are sitting on people’s homes right now, waiting for a surge that can instantly transform them into incendiary bombs or flying projectiles?

We c a l l e d PG&E for comment (they always love to hear from us), and asked what the cause of the problem was, and asked for evidence of any similar incidents with Analog Meters. They said they would call us back. (they haven’t yet) We also contacted the Capitola City Council as well as state legislators for the area, State Senator Bill Monning and Assembly Member Mark Stone and have demanded an independent statewide investigation into these incidents.

We will report here what their responses are, and any updates or more information that comes in. If you were personally affected by this incident or know someone who was, we would like to hear from you (info@ stopsmartmeters.org).

the electric surge. The PG&E repairmen on site that day were up front about the number of issues they have seen with Smart Meters, but PG&E

If you are living in the area, please contact your elected officials and ask them to step in and protect Continues on Page 33

100 Smart Meters Explode in Capitola!!

“I was woken up before 7am on May 12th to a loud, ear piercing explosive boom next to the head of my bed. At first I thought it was the ‘transformer’ which is in the vicinity of the five Smart Meters near my bed. Because the power was off, I went to see if my landline was still working and smelled an electrical

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Send The Bearcat Back NOW!

Last week, President Obama ended the federal government’s transfer of military equipment to police departments and limited the transfer of a broader range of military-style equipment, including vehicles like the BearCat that our City Council recently allowed the Santa Cruz Police Department to purchase. This vehicle and its capabilities, including a battering ram, fall into many of the categories covered by the new directive from the President.

The President’s action tells local governments and police everywhere that the American people - like the people of Santa Cruz - do not wish to see military-style vehicles rolling around their town and that the national trend toward militarization of local law enforcement must be

halted and reversed.

We the undersigned support real community policing, and, therefore, DO NOT support the acquisition or use by our police department of the BearCat or any other military-style vehicle or weapon. The contract with the manufacturer states clearly that this vehicle can be returned and we urge the Santa Cruz City Council to follow President Obama’s lead and rescind its approval of the BearCat purchase.

We, the People, are not the enemy. Militarized equipment sends the message that we are.

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100 More Smart Meters Explode

Continued From Page 32 the public’s safety: State Senator Bill Monning (831) 425-0401 State Assemblymember Mark Stone (831) 425-1503 Capitola City Council (831) 475 7300 Capitola City Council Meets at 7pm on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 420 Capitola Ave., Capitola. Speak up and encourage action!

Hundreds of thousands of Smart Meters have been recalled in Saskatchewan, Canada, Oregon, Florida, and Pennsylvania because of fire risk. People have died and homes have been destroyed.

One thing is for sure—the only thing the California Public Utilities Commission is protecting is corporate utility profits.

Update May 22nd, 10am: We have not heard back from either PG&E or state legislators. Nothing to see here folks. Just 21st Century utility dysfunction. The cost of “progress” perhaps?

Update May 27th, 9am: Still no word from either PG&E or state legislators.

Wheels Coming Off Smart Grid as PG&E Smart Meters Explode/ Burn/ Smoulder in Stockton, Calif.—After Crash Causes Surge Posted on March 31, 2015 StopSmartMeters.org/author/ onthelevelblog Numerous media outlets have reported that an inebriated driver in Stockton, California hit a pole yesterday, causing a powerful electrical surge that led dozens of “Smart Meters” to explode or catch on fire.

Excerpt from the Stockton Record on the exploding smart meters: “Stockton Fire Capt. Bryan Carr with Engine 6, one of several fire crews dispatched Monday morning as dozens of electric customers began reporting explosions, smoke or the smell of burning wires, described the scene as “unreal” when his engine pulled onto Fairbury Lane, a residential street in southeast Stockton.

Expecting to pull up to a specific address, Carr’s crew was greeted by a number of residents out on the street wondering why his engine wasn’t stopping at their house. “In some cases, meters were literally blown off the panels. People described it as hearing a whirring sound like the meter was speeding up, then like an explosion. Some of the meters weren’t blown off, but they were fried and the glass was gone,” Carr said.”

This is not the first time that Smart Meters have shown their vulnerability to electrical surges. In Sept. 2011, a surge in East Palo Alto, California (http://tinyurl.com/nte8u2k) caused dozens of smart meters to fail. Despite this and hundreds of other incidents involving fire including where people have died (http://tinyurl. com/lvfsnhy), the California Public Utilities Commission has not even officially looked into the matter much less taken action to protect public safety. Utilities around the world continue to deny any problem exists and have been seizing meters involved in fires before fire investigators have a chance to do their work, drawing public protests from Quebec’s firefighters. (http:// tinyurl.com/oq8asyt).

New Stop Smart Meters! Global Database Published. See: http://stopsmartmeters. org/2015/05/29/stop-smart-meters-globaldatabase-published/ New database at: http://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/contactsdatabase/ StopSmartMeters.org has now published the most comprehensive and accurate International Guide to Stop Smart Meters groups and our allies anywhere on the web. It is now easier than ever to find groups working to stop Smart Meters where you live.

Our movement is growing daily. As the disastrous Smart Meter deployment spreads around the globe, so does the resistance.

There are now 182 total groups in 13 countries around the world, with organizers now active in 39 USA states and 7 Canadian Provinces. If you are opposed to Smart Meters, you are definitely in good company!!

If you know of a group that should be listed, or have updates to the info provided, please let us know.

StopSmartMeters.org works on an international level to organize against local deployments, spread awareness, and seed new groups in places where they are needed.

If you need advice on organizing locally, drop us a line. We’d be happy to help.

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What will the land of tomorrow really be like? Will some fantastical story unfold like we see in Disney’s latest sci-fi adventure. Is the world of a better tomorrow just a fantasy - or to be molded by our own hands? This is the important question this latest movie poses. It is nothing new to ponder these macro matters, but perhaps the time has come to dream up solutions.

Walt Disney famously said, “If you can dream it you can do it.” He also said, “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Disney has done what it does best, and has framed the solution in fantasy. It is up to us to remove it from the realm of fantasy and truly “believe”.

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We laughed, but realized this may very well be possible really soon. Everyone on Earth will have a smartphone in the coming years, so a simultaneously experienced video broadcast could really happen - and achieve this experiment. The next day we happened to watch Disney’s newest movie Tomorrowland.

This exact scenario doesn’t happen in the movie, but the premise of a reality created by our imagination is certainly nothing new to Disney. No spoilers ahead.

Tomorrowland, like many other science fiction futuristic films, shows our current day as the end of times. It was good to see the topic of the future approached in such an entertaining way, while still broaching the big issues of our time. The emphasis on a future filled with incredible technology is not so far fetched considering the incredible changes upon us. The latest special effects are spectacular and fresh, but the storyline of “believing” is nothing new to Disney. Most of

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Heirloom Plants and Your Health

by Gina Locatelli and Allen Morgan

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Whether singing or playing percussion, Pedrito impressed many of the veteran performers with his intuitive talent for music.

It was saxophonist Jane Bunnett who brought him to Canada in 1998 to gig with Spirits of Havana, her Latin jazz group.

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t he g endron t arot The ego tries to take control, but I know that is not true authentic Being. Real magic is way beyond the limitation of individual thought. Real magic is what breathes life into some thing. It is the essence we all are, the Oneness of Spirit. It is that which reveals, heals and perpetrates Truth.

The magic is Presence.

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he accumulative occurrence of the last few years tips me right over the edge into a life review. This engenders Melanie Gendron universal questions: Who am I behind the masks I’ve worn and worn out?

What might getting to know one’s Authentic Self really mean?

I remember listening to Ram Dass on the OWN channel. Oprah was interviewing him about the video, Ram Dass: Fierce Grace. I was deeply moved by his comment, “I am more at peace than I have ever been... this moment is alright.”

I could not help but cry as I related to his journey. He is a glowing example of how to deal with infirmity, of taking traumatic occurrence, in his case a stroke, and using “being stroked” to grow further in Self knowledge, to be and express his own divinity. This inspirational man continues to teach about the fierce grace that can turn one’s life around.

We are, each and every one, challenged in this life walk. It’s inevitable. How we deal with it is what matters most. That’s where we get to choose life or not, to live love or fear.

I have had a dose or two of trauma: divorce, chronic pain, IBD, toxic sensitivities, and the list can go on. I am facing another major surgery after over twenty procedures dealing with intestinal disease. I could feel sorry for myself, and maybe do a little on occasion. But I see challenge mainly as opportunity for growth. I choose life and trust in the divine grace that heals infirmity.

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Being Here, Now

The past is done, yet this moment has just begun, and I am not the projection once envisioned, but this instant new found.

Presence is all I have in this material world, and you may share my dream of Being.

Who are we now— past, present, future all at once, stories woven in a tapestry of life.

Partners in time, we are survivors.

Story done, a new one has just begun.

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by Susan Springfield really appreciate my spiritual life. I found religion dull and constraining, but spirituality is another story. Spirituality is the rip in the fabric of conditioned thinking. It is the experience that needs new words. It is the possibility that I can barely allow myself to consider.

Atheists can make a compelling case, especially if they argue against a person-god who answers some prayers and passes on others. It seems a strange story that we would be tested for the 80 plus years that comprise a lifetime and then spend eternity as a reward or punishment for the success or failure of our efforts.

Spirituality is the open-ended story. Even science, beautiful as it is, has a border around its area of investigation. It is a land where the only real things are the things that can be measured and counted.

Spirituality is more like art. It offers the possibility that is truly out-

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It is the place SUSAN SPRINGFIELD where the longing of the heart meets the deepest hope of the soul. Atheists think we spiritual folks lack critical thinking but perhaps they are the ones who have lost or devalued the gift of imagination. Imagination is not the same as self-deception, although I suppose it can be used that way. It can also be the bridge to something wonderfully new and absolutely true.

Gary Zukav, who wrote The Seat of the Soul, describes the possibility of becoming multisensory. This shift takes place as we begin to sense ourselves as more than brains and bodies.

We begin to see the world as meaningful rather than random and we begin to experience the Universe as alive, compassionate and wise rather than inert, merciless or random.

It takes imagination to shift mental gears and sense new possibilities. It takes mental effort to de-throne an

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authoritarian model that rules from the heavens and pervades almost every single human institution.

I like the idea of a divine cooperation with which I come into sync.

I visualize a beautiful light show and incredible music inviting me to dance. There are limitless creative components waiting to organize in any positive direction. Great ideas are everywhere, hidden in plain sight. Life, is always beckoning to me, calling me and tantalizing me, just waiting for my willingness. Instead of having to prove my worthiness, I just have to say yes to the inner excitement wanting to be expressed.

The courtroom or the dance?

These are two very different metaphors.

In one, I stand alone, defensive of my pitiful efforts. In the other I accept the invitation to join in this creative cosmic cooperation. I just have to feel the beat and my foot is already tapping.

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When we put it that way, it seems so very silly to use our “magic wand” (energetic heart transmissions) for anything but Joy, right!?.

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by Candace Stuart-Findlay Joy, our “magic wand” can et’s pretend that create, when on unconscious we each have autopilot, the full spectrum of a magic wand, emotional experiences…fear, shall we?! The anger, despair, and unworthionly thing is, CANDACE ness to compassion, love, this wand can only create Joy. STUART-FINDLAY and joy.

What would you do with It isn’t even necessary to feel joyyour wand? How would you bring more Joy into your life? Into the life ful 100% of the time…52% is plenty to create a perceptible shift in our of others? Into the world?

Hmmm, I think I would wave my day-to-day experiences!

Seriously, if you actually had a wand and create soft spring rain durwand handy would you waste its maging the nights while the days would be filled with sunshine. And, of course, ic on creating more self-diminishing this would happen every night until unworthiness? Or, would you tap the the drought vanished from our minds. top of your head—giving yourself *wink* Or, maybe I would twirl my wand until a sparkling rose-colored ray of light sprung from its tip…spiraling around the world awakening Universal Love in everyone’s heart! Talk about creating a shift!

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The Music of the Spheres:

Astrological Insights by Susan Heinz

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f you listen, the night will call to you to go outside and gaze upon the starry mystery that enfolds us. The full moon illumines on June 2nd in fiery Sagittarius. While to the West, Venus brightly shines in alignment to Jupiter’s descent. The two beneficent planets, bestowing grace, wisdom, beauty, and diplomacy come to meet in the west throughout

the month. The crescent Moon hangs below them on the 19th and next to them on the 20th. They join on the 30th, like two lovers. A good omen for all lovers.

Mercury retrogrades until the 11th, in trickster Gemini. Be flexible with schedules. The Gemini retrograde challenges us to look at where we scatter ourselves. The air element asks us to review what is not working in our rela-

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tionships. Communications can carry assumptions and a lack of clarity.

As Venus and Jupiter conjoin, relationship and diplomacy are favored, as well as the arts and even finances.

Freedom loving, innovative Uranus aligns with Jupiter/Venus this month.

Put yourself in situations that allow space and time for creativity, thinking outside the box, and trying new things.

The Sun and warrior Mars meet, indicating more aggressive and assertive actions. The world will feel its intensity.

It heats up discussion, communications, and debates. On the personal side, be aware of your needs and what it is you want. This allows the power of Mars to be conscious and directed.

The powerful new Moon in Gemini aligns with Mars, on the 16th, an ideal time to set an intention that has to do with taking an action. Excellent for creative and writing projects.

The summer Solstice takes place on the 21st as the Sun enters Cancer, during the longest day of the year. The next Full Moon takes place in Capricorn on July 1st.

Twelve Opportunities for June 2015: For Sun and Rising Signs

Aries (Mar 20-Apr 19): This month, examine your belief systems, and how they form the thoughts that shape your day. Communication has been up for review, and very useful to look at with this Mercury retrograde.

Equally important is understanding your own needs, or what promotes your actions. Confusion or uncertainty may be prevail, so be aware of jumping to conclusions. This is an excellent time for the arts, for writing, and for allowing more love to enter your life!

Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): This is an excellent time to review long-range financial plans and to orientate yourself to new talents or resources arising. You have a renewed appreciation for your home and family. Reach into your interior life through dreams, or meditation.

Contemplate what you find to bring forth more enjoyment in your life. Love, gathering with others, and embarking on a new adventure is supported now.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): You are either experiencing an output of creative ideas, or feeling very scattered.

Pick one or two projects, and forget the others. This will allow the deepening you need. You may easily get distracted, or pulled

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into all sorts of imaginative reveries, or into other peoples’ dramas. Maintain good boundaries. Your clear intention for the month will be extremely supportive to being successful. If your plans are blocked, or you feel judged, slow yourself down, and recognize that something else wants to happen.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 21): Take a deep breath and settle yourself in a comfortable place. Whatever you are planning to work on now is the time to schedule yourself the space to do it. Spend time alone to accomplish something important you want to complete. Reviewing, editing, fine-tuning, and analyzing will be helpful. As the month unfolds let yourself express your flair, your leadership, and creative abilities. Have confidence in yourself!

Your financial situation brightens and you receive money. Say yes to a new possibility.

Leo (Jul 22-Aug 22): What a nice time for you to invite your friends over, to entertain, or to step out and perform!

You have the energy you need to accomplish the tasks before you. You are well received. You feel a special warmth and enjoyment entering your life because you are clear about what you want. You are radiant. During the month, watch overdoing, over spending, over eating etc. There may be one person that is difficult to communicate with. In fact you may feel criticized or limited around them. You learn something, which shifts your perspective.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): You find yourself out in the public, more than you had anticipated. It serves you because you receive a clearer sense of yourself. Something of the past returns and inspires you. Your own knowingness is highlighted. You are equally pulled toward home and completing tasks there, settling into some kind of focus and schedule to accomplish something that will bring a reward. As the month moves on you are taken up with something you enjoy very much.

Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): This month traveling, reading, and learning are highlighted. What brings pleasure is gathering with like-minded people to learn, create, and share expression.

You are breaking through some kind of fixity that allows you greater freedom and confidence. You feel the special connection you have with the people you love. Be thoughtful with communication as it is easy to misunderstand what another is expressing.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): This month you are exceptionally sensitive to the environment around you; to the people you work with, to your partner, and to your own inner polarities. Let

yourself focus on self-love and self care as you bring your attention to grounding. You may need some long walks by the water or quiet time to drift and dream, otherwise you can be too tightly wound and misunderstandings can take place. Your work goes well.

You are popular and your reputation is well thought of.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): Take time to carefully consider what you are creating for yourself now and into the future. In what areas do you feel burdened or limited and desire something different? This is a very powerful time for creating what your next phase of life will bring. Your leadership is strong and your ability to facilitate others opens up new possibilities for those involved. Be aware of a person around you who may be angry or needy, and may not be very skillful at communicating.

Capricorn (Dec 21- Jan 19): This is a good month to put your work place in order. Rearrange it. Bring new energy into it. You may want to extend that into your daily habits. Change things up. Go hiking, take up running, go explore new places! This is a time to bring fresh energy into your life. You are in the process of uncovering hidden talents, and releasing old ways of being that no longer serve you. Your attraction to someone grows!

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): This is a special time for you. There is energy present to create, to fall in love, to engage in your passions. Cultivate time and space for this purpose. If there are old patterns of high expectations and then disappointments, be alert. They may try to visit again. Watch them arise but don’t identify with them. As Mercury goes direct on the 11 th, experience more freedom.

Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): This month highlights your family and the love and appreciation you feel. You are busy around the home, planning, and connecting with others. Keep a good balance in your life now between the tasks you want to take on and complete, and the need you have for the arts, for good food, and pure enjoyment with no time constrains or other concerns invading your thoughts. There’s a lot of energy in the home! Be aware of having it be constructive!

Susan Heinz is a professional astrologer in Santa Cruz for 33 years, bringing together traditional & esoteric astrology, Tarot and Qabalah. For info on her Friday monthly astrology groups, her Qabalah, astrology and or, painting classes, and for personal consultations, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanheinz.com.

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Cannabis superior To Drugs For inFlammaTory bowel ConDiTion (Crohn’s Disease)

by Sayer Ji

When drugs fail, and surgery is the only remaining option on the horizon, smoking cannabis may provide a n e ff e c t i v e a n d s a f e natural alternative for the debilitating inflammatory bowel disease known as Crohn’s Disease.

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rohn’s Disease is a debilitating inflammatory bowel disease that chronically affects the lining of the digestive tract and is usually resistant to conventional drug-based treatment. Even with treatment the condition generally progresses to the point where surgery is required in 70% of sufferers. Surgery, however, does not usually provide a cure, with 30% undergoing surgery seeing a recurrence of symptoms within three years, and 60% within 10 years.1 Given the poor prognosis of those diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, some with the condition have been known to experiment with natural alternatives.

At GreenMedInfo.com we have gathered preliminary research on natural interventions for the condition, with probiotics, boswellia and curcumin (a turmeric polyphenol) top on the list. We have also spent a good deal of time reporting on research indicating that wheat is an inflammatory food to the digestive tract and therefore should likely be avoided by anyone with an inflammatory bowel condition.

One potential remedy for Crohn’s Disease that we have not yet reported on is cannabis. Animal research already indicates that it can ameliorate colitis, an inflammatory

condition of the colon. There is also an established role of cannabis within gastroenterology for the following conditions: “anorexia, emesis, abdominal pain, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, intestinal inflammation, and diabetic gastroparesis.”2 Additionally, a retrospective observational study from 2011 found that 21 of the 30 patients who imbibed inhaled cannabis saw significant improvement, with patients requiring steroid treatment reduced from 26 to 4.

These preliminary results set the groundwork for a new study investigating cannabis in Crohn’s patients published this month in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and titled, “Cannabis Induces a Clinical Response in Patients With Crohn’s Disease: A Prospective Placebo-Controlled Study.”

In the new study—the first randomized, placebo-controlled, doubleblinded study of its kind on the topic—researchers studied 21 patients (mean age 40) with Crohn’s disease who did not respond to drug therapy (steroids, immunomodulators, or anti–tumor necrosis factor-α agents).

Patients were randomly assigned to be given cannabis, twice daily, in the form of cigarettes containing 115 mg of (THC) or placebo containing cannabis flowers from which the THC had been extracted.

The study participants were assessed during 8 weeks of treatment and 2 weeks thereafter and saw the following remarkable results:

Complete remission (CDAI score, <150) was achieved by 5 of 11 subjects in the cannabis group (45%) and 1 of 10 in the placebo group (10%; P = .43). A clinical response (decrease in CDAI score of >100) was observed in 10 of 11 subjects in the cannabis group (90%; from 330 ± 105 to 152 ± 109) and 4 of 10 in the placebo group (40%; from 373 ± 94 to 306 ± 143; P = .028). Three patients in the cannabis group were weaned from steroid dependency. Subjects receiving cannabis reported improved appetite and sleep, with no significant side effects. [emphasis added] The authors concluded cannabis was a clinically effective intervention in 10 of 11 patients: “Although the primary end point of the study (induction of remission) was not achieved, a short course (8 weeks) of THC-rich cannabis produced significant clinical, steroidfree benefits to 10 of 11 patients with active Crohn’s disease, compared with placebo, without side effects.

Further studies, with larger patient groups and a nonsmoking mode of intake, are warranted.” [emphasis added]

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The primary mechanisms through

New DEA Chief Retreats On War Against Weed, Says DEA Will No Longer Focus On Marijuana

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by John Vibes

ith states all across the country lowering their penalties in marijuana cases, the incoming DEA chief says that the agency will no longer focus on marijuana. Chuck Rosenberg, a former administrator at the FBI, claimed that instead of attacking marijuana users and sellers, that he wants to “improve the DEA’s procedures on classifying, declassifying and reclassifying drugs,” as the new chief of the DEA. Rosenberg “has proven himself as an exceptional leader, a skilled problem-solver, and a consummate public servant of unshakable integrity,” Att. Gen. Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

Long time DEA chief Michele Leonhart ‘resigned’ last month in the midst of various scandals, including

accusations of DEA agents being involved in drugs and prostitution.

Leonhart’s views on marijuana were extremely out of touch with popular opinion, as she continually insisted that it was a dangerous drug with no medical value whatsoever, standing by the DEA’s Schedule 1 classification.

With Leonhart now being replaced by a new DEA Chief that is entirely retreating in the war on marijuana, another small step is taken towards the end of prohibition.

Unfortunately, the DEA still needs to bring their revenue in somehow, so they will be turning their marijuana enforcement apparatus onto users of other drugs, namely heroin, cocaine and psychedelic drugs.

While this may be great news for individual users of marijuana, this still does not correct the horror of the drug war, nor does it address the unintended consequences that spring up as a result.

With the prohibition of other drugs still enforced, organized crime will continue to flourish, and the violence that it brings will continue to spill over into the streets. Additionally, people who are struggling with addiction will be victimized by police instead of receiving the treatment that they need.

John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com. http://tinyurl.com/lq55lgw Printed with permission.

which cannabis exhibits healing properties in Crohn’s disease are its immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties: “Cannabinoids have a profound anti-inflammatory effect, mainly through the CB2 receptor 2]. Cell-mediated immunity was found to be impaired in] chronic marijuana users [6]. A potent anti-inflammatory effect of cannabis was observed in rodents [7]. Studying the functional roles of the endocannabinoid system in immune modulation reveals that it is involved in almost all major immune events. Cannabinoids shift the balance of proinflammatory cytokines and anti-inflammatory cytokines (towards the T helper cell type 2 profiles (Th2 phenotype and suppress cell-mediated immunity, whereas humoral immunity may be enhanced [8].

Therefore, cannabinoids may be used

to treat various inflammatory conditions ,including rheumatoid arthritis.”

For more information on the myriad therapeutic properties of cannabis visit our cannabis research database.

References

1 http://www.ccfa.org/what-arecrohns-and-colitis/what-is-crohnsdisease/crohns-treatment-options. html 2 Naftali, T., Bar Lev, L., Yablekovitch, D. et al. Treatment of Crohn’s disease with cannabis: an observational study. Isr Med Assoc J. 2011; 13: 455–458 Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, on the Board of Governors for the National Health Federation, and Fearless Parent, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. http://tinyurl.com/mg4etwp Printed with permission.

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Michigan, 2008, 14. Minnesota, 2014; 15. Montana, 2004; 14. Nevada, 2000; 16. New Hampshire, 2013; 17. New Jersey, 2010; 18. New Mexico, 2007; 19.

New York, 2014; 20. Oregon, 1998/2014; 21. Rhode Island, 2006; 22. Vermont, 2004; 23. Washington, 1998 Three sTaTes wiTh legislaTion ThaT is Favorable TowarDs meDiCal marijuana But Would Not Legalize Its Use 1. Minnesota 2. Oklahoma 3. Texas

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