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075 47A6 B/:3 YOUR STORY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Fishâ&#x20AC;? (Currents, June 17) contains glaring errors that further confuse this complex issue. I am a member of Santa Cruz Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fish and Game Advisory Commission and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also a conservation activist for three organizations. The statements made about forestry regulation are wrong. The rules that Big Creek Lumber and every other logging interest in this county follow are the same, and they are not voluntary. The 50 percent canopy cover rule on intermittent streams now applies across the entire state, and the proposal is not for 85 percent but instead is actually less. Width would be determined by slope steepness and other factors. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve looked at the temperature data you apparently refer to. It was collected as a condition of Regional Water Quality Control Board permits required of logging plans. It shows higher temperatures downstream,

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according to the Regional Board, though few useful conclusions can be drawn from it. As for the claims made about the condition of coho salmon, it is alarming to see such incorrect statements coming from a scientist for NOAA. Last winter the coho recovery project on Scott Creek captured only three male fish at their weir, not â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 to 40,â&#x20AC;? which would itself still be a dangerously low number. The breeding female coho came from fresh water captivity in a tank at the NOAA lab at Terrace Point. In the winter of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;07â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 coho crashed across the entire state and very few showed up in Scott Creek or anywhere else. Scott Creek is not the only place coho survive. They are also in Waddell, San Vincente and Laguna, according to recent records. NOAA surveyors and other scientists found juvenile coho in the San Lorenzo River in 2005 and in Soquel Creek in 2008. In 2008 the site densities in Soquel Creek were higher than in Scott Creek.

These fish need a group of adjacent watersheds as healthy habitat so they can survive catastrophic events. They are not going to survive based solely upon a fish hatchery on Scott Creek. These desperate measures will not succeed unless these fish can repopulate several county steams with healthy numbers.

This is possible, but it will not happen without vigorous habitat protection rules that everyone from logging companies to homeowners follow.

Kevin Collins, Felton

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Cover Story, June 17). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time the world wakes up, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to take publications such as yours to start the ball rolling.

Margret Raines, Tallahassee, Fla.

E3:: 2=<3 THANKS FOR the great piece about Transitioning. It was informative and clearly written.

Anina Marcus, Carmel

/< C<Âł4/7@G B/:3 IT IS VERY interesting to hear peak oil believers start their own communities and actually get something done. I believe that Washington will give us no help in this matter, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to try to get my small town to actually begin thinking about it.

We have a small group of people who I think would be the leaders. However, to get the populace to go along with us will be kind of like the Three Little Pigs storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they will only believe when it starts blowing down around them. Any help would be appreciated.

Jerry Grabarek, Preston, Conn.

;327D/1 A63</<75/<AIN THE LAST few weeks there have been two accident reports and a stabbing where the victims were taken by helicopter to another county trauma centerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fairly routine, in that people who are gravely wounded or torn up must be f lown to a highly responsive trauma team. Trouble is that these injuries as reported were hardly â&#x20AC;&#x153;life-threatening.â&#x20AC;? In the last decade this combat-style Air MediVac is called upon almost as standard ambulances. Every day there are two or three birds f lying out of Dominican with victims who have minor injuries.

I guess someone really likes to use these

helivacs so much they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to wait for the severely injured victims to come around. There has to be an explanation why this helivac is so common now. I have narrowed it to three possibilities: (1) Dominican has reduced its emergency room capabilities to the point itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a first aid station with a helicopter referral desk; (2) air pollution and food additives have made people frail and weak so bruises and sprains must be treated as life-threatening; (3) groups of physicians invest in the helivac coppers so attending friend doctors are authorizing plenty of the $1,600-a-pop f lights. Kind of an inside deal with docs helping fellow docs get returns for their investments.

The unnecessary f lights are costing insurance companies and the county social services millions, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passed on down to you and I in increased rates. Physicians authorizing unnecessary air evacuations?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotta be either abuse of public trust or just plain dishonesty.

Theodore F. Meyer III, Santa Cruz

=>3< :3BB3@ B= 2719 163<3G THE GEORGE W. Bush administration had eight years to make things right, but screwed everything up (lying to the U.N. and the American people and propagating the Iraq War). Now the American people want to make sure the world opinion of our country is mended. Please take your Halliburton and Brown & Root stock profits from the Iraq War and shut up!

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DID NOT run for state office to cut education and eliminate social safety net and health care programs or to close our state park system. Unfortunately, I entered government at a time when the world is suffering the ravages of an economic crisis that has afflicted California with unprecedented budget deficits.

Although deep cuts are necessary to balance the budget, how we make those cuts and how we advance alternatives will reflect our values as a state. While I have stated that I will not vote to eliminate programs that may result in the loss of human life, I believe there is an alternative budget solution that will preserve essential programs and maintain the California State Parks system.

I strongly disagree with the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal to close 220 California state parks, because their safe operation is essential to sustaining local economies and to the very preservation of life. Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state parks are economic engines that generate over $4.2 billion in jobs and revenues to local communities. Park staff also provide life-saving interventions and last year engaged in 133 aquatic rescues and 47 major medical incidents in Santa Cruz County alone. Elimination of these services will most certainly result in the loss of human life.

Additionally, CalFire officials report that the risk of wildfire will skyrocket if our parks are left unattended. Adjacent properties and neighborhoods would also be placed in greater jeopardy.

Many Central Coast residents agree with me. To date my office has received over 3,600 messages imploring me, my colleagues and the governor to â&#x20AC;&#x153;save the state parks.â&#x20AC;? Because of this groundswell of support, the Conference Committee is recommending keeping the state parks open with a $15-per-vehicle registration fee, an idea first hatched by former Assemblymember John Laird. This proposed fee, which would generate $420 million dollars, would pay for all the expenses associated with operating the parks statewide and permit any vehicle with a valid California license plate to enter a state park.

A similar program in Montana quadrupled income to its parks the year it was implemented and also resulted in a large jump in park visits from state residents. This option represents a reasonable alternative to the closure of parks, and I encourage those who would like to keep the state parks open to contact the governor to let him know they support this targeted fee increase.

The Budget Conference Committee has presented sound alternate solutions that will minimize human suffering, maximize protection of federal matching funds and preserve essential services including the state parks system. We must act quickly and together to convey a strong and united voice for budget fairness. There are no easy solutions to resolving the deficit, but I am committed to continuing the dialogue to find solutions that will protect programs that are essential to the vitality and future of our region and our state.

Assemblymember Bill Monning represents the 27th Assembly District. You can reach him through his website: www.assembly.ca.gov/monning.

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which tacked on an extra $250,000 in annual repayments and killed revenues by turning the course into a ghost town for 18 months while the repairs took place.

By 2006, De Laveaga had begun recovering. Revenues climbed back to â&#x20AC;&#x153;normalâ&#x20AC;? levels of roughly $2 million per year, and by mid-2008 it looked like the course would pay itself off after all. Then, last year, thanks mostly to the recession and a nationwide slump in golf play, the course saw its out-of-county clientele drop from 60 to 40 percent and its revenues drop by roughly a half-million dollars.

Santa Cruz City Manager Dick Wilson says he thinks the course could rebound, but until the recession lifts he says he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know for sure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always had the working assumption that the course would work financially,â&#x20AC;? says Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the industry has changed too, and the fact is that there are too many golf courses with too few golfers playing too few rounds.

The market will recover somewhat, but until we know how much it will recover, I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the answer to most of

the questions out there.â&#x20AC;?

Meanwhile, Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Director Dannette Shoemaker has six months to investigate options for outsourcing the course before the City Council takes action. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I had my druthers, it would definitely stay as a municipal golf course,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just had some things come up that are outside of our control, and citywide weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a terrible spot financiallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d still say there is enough concern from residents and councilmembers that the jury is still out.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to do my darnedest to keep the course as it is.â&#x20AC;?

Par for the Course Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing new about cities outsourcing the management of golf courses. San Francisco has been considering it for 10 years, Pacific Grove came close very recently and Salinas went through with the idea two years ago. So what changes could the golfing community expect if the course is

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after teeing off a rocket drive on hole 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they privatize it theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna bring someone in for a lot less money that may not know a thing about golf course maintenance. What these guys do here is a science.â&#x20AC;?

Science, however, is expensive. And De Laveaga has lost more than $2.5 million over the last five years. The losses arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily the fault of overpaid workers, although full-time labor accounts for the biggest figure on the courseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expense sheetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;$662,000 of the last fiscal yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $2.2 million in expenses. In fact, until five years ago, the golf course ran steadily in the black. It was even saving some extra profit in a rainy day fund. But in 2005, the city spent some $2.3 million on a near-complete renovation of the course,

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outsourced to a private firm? The answer depends on whom you ask. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we signed Sierra Golf Management to run Salinas Fairways, there were some concerns that the course would suffer,â&#x20AC;? says Salinas Parks and Recreation Superintendent Jim Pea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were bringing in $1.1 million per year, but we were spending $1.8 or $1.9 [million]. In the end, they were able to do things that we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, and so far there have been very few complaints from the golfing community.â&#x20AC;?

San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golf Program director Sean Sweeney disagrees with Pea. And while admitting that two of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public courses are a drain on the budget, he says keeping them city-owned is crucial to the reputation of the local game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m convinced that bringing in a private management company will degrade the maintenance of the course until the new staff learns what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing,â&#x20AC;? says Sweeney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a very contentious issue thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been discussed every year since 1998.â&#x20AC;?

Well-kept greens are considered essential for fast and accurate putts, so the much-lauded course

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grooming at De Laveaga is not just easy on the eyes but good for the game as well.

But aside from worries over whether the grass trimming will suffer should a private company take over, there are concerns that the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reasonable rates could be jacked up over the heads of casual players.

It currently costs $19 to walk on after 5:30pm and $71 to ride a cart in the primetime early weekend hours at De Laveaga.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a much cheaper alternative to the renowned Pasatiempo Golf Course, which runs a steep $222 per round, plus reservation and cart fees. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also in line with other public courses in the area, like Scotts Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine-hole Valley Garden Course, which charges $18; Aptosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Seascape course, which runs $46 to $71; and Watsonvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Hills Golf Course, which costs $35 to $45, depending on

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the day. Shoemaker says rates at the course are already slated to go up slightly come July 1, and that an outside firm could potentially raise them further. But she also says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely, as higher prices usually mean fewer golfers.

Among many De Laveaga golfers and employees, there is a hope that the courseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head golf pro, Tim Loustalot, will step up and take over the course as a business venture. Many say heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one responsible for the courseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immaculate grooming and friendly atmosphere. On hole 18, a foursome of ladies finishing up their round agree that Loustalot has â&#x20AC;&#x153;done wondersâ&#x20AC;? for local golf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tim treats ladies who play here like royalty,â&#x20AC;? says Pat Davis, a self-described loyal De Laveaga golfer of more than 10 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he, if anyone, could run the course if the city canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

But Loustalot has been silent on the matter and did not return several phone calls seeking comment.

So for now, golfers are enjoying the finely trimmed grass of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite budget golf course in the knowledge that months from now, hitting into the rough might be a bit rougher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People who work this course take pride in what they do,â&#x20AC;? says Keast, climbing into his golf cart and heading after his drive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone who plays here loves it, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hate to see that change.â&#x20AC;? 0

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RED electric wheelchair flies down the road to the beach at a blistering two miles an hour.

There, groups of children dig the classic tunnel to Australia or sculpt mermaid bodies on friends buried up to their necks in sand. At the end of the pier, families stare in awe of the cement World War I tanker.

All this could change if Gov. Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature close 80 percent of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 279 state parks to help balance the budget deficit.

The immense closure would include all of the 19 state parks and beaches in Santa Cruz County.

Saturday afternoon, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks gathered at Seacliff State Beach to solicit support and signatures from beachgoers in support of a proposed solution. While still in office last year, former District 27 Assemblyman John Laird proposed increasing the cost of annual car registration by $15. As a permanent solution, the $420 million generated annually would cover the approximately $250 million parks budget and chip away at a $1.5 billion backlog of deferred maintenanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all while creating free day admission to state parks for Californians with a current license plate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Montana does this and it works,â&#x20AC;?

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touch three states parks on my bike route,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Volunteers with Friends and offduty state park employees patrolled the beach, petitions in hand, asking for support of Lairdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposition.

Meanwhile, other volunteers were collecting signatures at New Brighton Beach, as well as Henry Cowell, Wilder and Nisene Marks state parks. On Monday the group announced its grand total of signatures: 1,205 people from 145 communities across the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you say state park,â&#x20AC;? said Kat Bailey, an employee at Natural Bridges State Beach, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it sounds kind of abstract.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this beach.â&#x20AC;?

Many longtime beachgoers were shocked to hear what the volunteers had to say. Scott Valencia has come to Seacliff every year since he was a child and has continued the tradition with his family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any better than this,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re close to the beach and you can watch your kids play. We bring our family and everyone else.â&#x20AC;?

Bobbie Havers, an interpretive guide at Wilder Ranch State Park for the past 12 years, says that her park would also be closed. She recalled that some visitors asked if they could sign more than once. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get your friends to sign and send a postcard,â&#x20AC;? Havers answered.

For more information, visit the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks at www.thats mypark.org.

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CAN tell just by looking at this that this is cocaine,â&#x20AC;? says senior criminalist Meghan Kinney. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pointing to a computer readout of numbered lines, each corresponding to different chemicals found in a sample thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just gone through the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry meter at the Freedom Crime Laboratory in Watsonville. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got everything here: a coffinlike water tank for firing guns and studying the ballistics, a massive microscope for doing side-byside comparisons of bullets, a huge refrigerator filled with biological evidence taped up with neon orange biohazard tape, a hydraulic lift for cars

plus the cumulative know-how of their five criminalists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything we do has to be perfect,â&#x20AC;? says Kinney.

Since state-run labs like this one first opened in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s, local law enforcement has been getting that perfection gratis. But the free ride may be over. With the Department of Justice staring down the barrel of a mandated $20 million budget reduction, the Legislative Analystâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office (LAO) is recommending that all state labs begin charging fees to law enforcement departments for each test they request. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fiscal nightmare,â&#x20AC;? says Sheriff Phil Wowak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any increased fees at this

time is detrimental to the citizens of Santa Cruz County. It would severely impact our ability to do serious criminal prosecutions.â&#x20AC;?

Though some counties, like Santa Clara, and some police departments, like LAPD, have their own crime labs, 46 of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 58 counties rely on state labs for all their forensic science.

None of the law enforcement agencies in Santa Cruz County has its own lab; each sends all its evidence to the Freedom lab or to another state lab in Sacramento. The labs handle everything from blood samples taken in DUI cases to rape kits to evidence gathered at the scene of a homicide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This will force an agency like ours to make the extremely unfortunate decision over what constitutes a necessity to send,â&#x20AC;? says Santa Cruz Police spokesman Zach Friend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the victim of a crime, you know that that crime is a priority to you.

But if we were required to spend that much money, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to make the determination.â&#x20AC;?

Since the final decision wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be made until the state budget is passed, a list of fees has not been released. But Lt. Darren Thompson of the Watsonville Police Department says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that the services donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come cheap. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about $1,500 to do one test to see if one person was holding a gun that was fired. For one little package of swabs,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evidence is critical.

Juries want to see it. TV shows like CSI have increased the awareness to the public. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exaggerated, but our jurorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they want to see evidence and see it analyzed.â&#x20AC;?

Friend, Thompson and Wowak all estimate that the fees will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of one year. The city of Watsonville estimated that its general fund will take a $440,000 hit; Wowak heard a past estimate of about $120,000 for the county. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A fewhundred-thousand-dollar hit would simply mean the loss of additional police staff,â&#x20AC;? says Friend.

Drew Soderborg, a fiscal and policy analyst with the LAO, says the fees are simply a logical way to do things, regardless of the current financial crisis pushing the change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rationale is that lab services is a local responsibility,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a whole lot of sense to be providing 100 percent of the services for some counties and very little to no services for the rest of the counties.â&#x20AC;?

He says it costs the state justice

department about $40 million to run the labs each year, and that the fees would help the labs pay for themselves. He adds that the LAO also recommended some type of break for counties experiencing financial hardship, or in the case that a large crime occurs, but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t specify what makes a county or crime eligible for help. And he also reasoned that a drop in the amount of evidence sent to state labs is not necessarily a bad thing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One concern is that if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no fee, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no incentive to ration use of the service,â&#x20AC;? he says.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;TV shows like CSI have increased the awareness to the public. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exaggerated, but our jurorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they want to see evidence and see it analyzed.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lt. Darren Thompson If the proposal passes with the budget, local law enforcement will have to decide whether to shop around for a private lab, contract out to another countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s labs or pay the state fees. Sheriff Wowak says it is conceivable that the county could build its own lab, but in this economy thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardly likely. And in the meantime, the amount of evidence sent to the lab will necessarily have to decline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always hate to get to a point where a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case and prosecution comes down to dollars and cents,â&#x20AC;? says Wowak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I need to be realistic about what I can and cannot do.â&#x20AC;? 0

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LATE dusk, about an hour after sundown.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the first hissing screeches begin to sound in the treetops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There they are!â&#x20AC;? exclaims a binocular-wielding Rebecca Dmytryk, founder of the emergency wildlife care organization WildRescue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can hear the juveniles. The whole family will be hunting overhead soon.â&#x20AC;?

On cue, the noisy phantoms in the trees begin to show themselves in splashes of cream white against the dark blue twilight. Barn owls: six juveniles and two adults. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been six weeks since the baby birds were found nesting inside the sign of Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Body Shop on Center Street, across from Santa Cruz Police headquarters. At the time, Dmytryk and her husband, Duane Titus, built a temporary owl box where the

sign had been. It was inside this wooden box that the young owls were raised to be nearly the same size as their doting parents. And now, at 10 weeks old, the owlets have left the box for the branches of a tall redwood tree a couple hundred yards away and are getting their first lessons in flight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a critical time for these birds,â&#x20AC;? says Dmytryk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are learning how to fly, how to hunt, where to roost, what to be fearful of. This is when they learn how to be adults.â&#x20AC;?

The screeching continues as the birds swoop from their roost and circle overhead, specialized feathers flapping silently in the wind. The youngsters trail the parents most of the time, each insatiably calling for the 10 to 15 mice per night itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accustomed to having delivered. But the parents keep the young birds on

the move, and though their landings are often an awkward stumble of clutching talons and bobbing heads, their soaring flight looks every bit as graceful as the more experienced raptors.

Barn owls, as the name suggests, thrive in lightly populated areas. In spite of threats from eating poisoned rodents, getting hit by cars and becoming tangled in wires, the birds are common throughout North America. These young owls, each about a foot tall and weighing roughly 14 ounces, will likely live out their lives in the vicinity of their birthplace in downtown Santa Cruz. But within a few weeks, the parents will start giving them the boot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At that point, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be hunting and surviving on their own,â&#x20AC;? says Dmytryk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just so proud that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all here and all doing so good.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Curtis Cartier

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The words ripple through the dimly lit Rio Theatre auditorium as family members and trainers fuss over bodybuilders of all sizes at Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Cruz Bodybuilding and Figure Championships in Seabright. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one of our biggest events,â&#x20AC;? says Fountano. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of our funnest.â&#x20AC;?

Since the Rio has no true backstage area, black curtains have been erected to the left of the stage, and inside itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark and easy to trip on free weights scattered among gym bags. In the gloom itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still possible to make out the bodybuilders, in particular the snowyhaired 60-and-over qualifiers, who are pumping little weights and jogging in place, their muscles more sinewy than the twentysomethings wandering around. Everyone is practically naked, stripped down to thongs and glistening in tanning oil.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best not to stay back there too long,â&#x20AC;? warns Fountano. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are spraying themselves down. You get a little dizzy after a while.â&#x20AC;?

Christina Davis, a heavyweight bodybuilder from San Jose, is bent over, getting oiled up to a dark sheen by an assistant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really excited,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Confident.â&#x20AC;? She is one of only four female competitors and the only one in the heavyweight category.

Her two rivals in the figure event, a more feminine category in which the ladies wear clear plastic heels and do not f lex, wait outside in the auditorium, the rhinestones studding their bikinis poking through their track suits. Both have been on a diet for the last five months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicken and vegetables,â&#x20AC;? says Sally McCollum, a 38year-old Aromas resident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tilapia. Egg whites. Protein powder,â&#x20AC;? adds Shani Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, a 27-yearold from the Westside. Even before I finish asking them what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do after the competition, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill interrupts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Party. Afterparty at the Palomar.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a body like this with alcohol,â&#x20AC;? says last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s champion, Sondra Harrison, who drove in from Yuma. She trains all year round and participates in as many WBFA regional competitions as possible, along with her husband.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We travel a lot; we follow the circuit,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The goal] is to hopefully go to Germany with Team USA. Or to become a spokesmodel for a supplement company.â&#x20AC;?

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competition is one of scores of regional contests leading to Team USA, members of whom compete for the Mr./Ms. Universe title against about 1,000 bodybuilders from around the world. Though Fountano is on the lookout for members to join Team USA, held this year in Hamburg, Germany, Judge Jeffrey Johnson says he much prefers the athletes who come out just for love of the sport. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You got to love it and want to be a part of it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like people who are here for exposure, to be in the spotlight.â&#x20AC;?

But one by one, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in the spotlight. Sixty-three-year-old Steve Franklin of Soquel, a powerful, tanklike man with skin the color and sheen of a rotisserie chicken, takes the 60-and-over title; Harrison loses her 2008 overall womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bodybuilding title to Davis and her overall figure title to Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, who receives her first-place trophy to calls of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Party time!â&#x20AC;? from the audience.

Things get particularly heated in the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novice bodybuilding category, when 25-year-old Watsonville resident Nino â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nicoâ&#x20AC;? Vega, a first-time competitor, faces off against three rivals in a round that brief ly confounds the judges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Audience, you can help the judges,â&#x20AC;? says Fountano from the podium, and the crowd roars back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nico!â&#x20AC;? someone screams from the front row. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his trainer from Goldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gym, L. Soekardi. Straining in his pose, beads of sweat stippling his chest, Vegaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes f lick down at her from the stage, like a child to his parent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Squeeze!â&#x20AC;? she yells. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hit it, Nico!â&#x20AC;? In the end, he clinches the first place.

Johnson explains why. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tall kid, he had great symmetry, everything f lowed nicely, but he was smooth, not cut. This guy at the end didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have nice symmetry,â&#x20AC;? he muses afterward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes you get stuck, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to f lip a coin. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy.â&#x20AC;?

Afterward in the black tent, Vega cradles his trophy and talks to his girlfriend Eva. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels good,â&#x20AC;? he says of his win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hardest part is the diet, no carbs. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Filipino so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rice, rice, rice. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m young. I used to go out a lot, but I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been drinking in four monthsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no partying or nothing.â&#x20AC;?

Soekardi is overjoyed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so happy, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very proud,â&#x20AC;? she says hoarsely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I lost my voice.â&#x20AC;? 0

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I speak as someone intimately experienced with addictive drugs: two years ago, I quit smoking. To this day, I find myself smoking in dreams and occasionally sneak them from friends at the bar. The rest of the time, the Internet serves as a proxy.

Addictive personalities often replace one addiction with another. My new worst friend is the social web, the endless stream of information constantly streaming down Sen. Ted Stevensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; infamous â&#x20AC;&#x153;series of tubes.â&#x20AC;? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a short list of Internet services that I use and check with halfhourly frequency: email, Facebook, Tumblr, del.icio.us, Evernote, Twitter, Remember the Milk, Google Reader (tracking some 180 RSS feeds), and Yahoo News. I back up longer articles using Instapaper to read on the bus; at the office, I work with two web browsers open at all times, 10 individual tabs loaded in each, spread over two monitors. On the commute home, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m checking text messages via my Internet-enabled phone and reading archived blog posts on my iPod. At times, it seems like a type of digital schizophrenia, or if nothing else, a hell of a drug.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m what pencil-necked social media experts and Web 2.0 carpetbaggers would call a â&#x20AC;&#x153;power user.â&#x20AC;? I dine on a ¨ ' constant, movable feast of information.

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I find myself twitchy, distracted, desperately in need of a reading discipline that I unlearned at some point in the past decade. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if I have not only forgotten an important mode of critical thinking, but basic reading comprehension.

With so much information streaming at once, most of it with all the panache of a poorly organized corporate database vying for attention with hard news and gossip masquerading as political analysis, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little room for critical engagement; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s barely enough time for basic reading comprehension. I could read 50 news articles in a day about the Middle East and return with no deeper understanding of what happened in Iraq on that given day. My mind has become a decontextualized database of

ephemeral facts, equipped with only the most rudimentary of search functions.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly cheering to realize that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not alone.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a phenomenon that author John Lorinc bemoaned in his 2007 essay â&#x20AC;&#x153;Driven to Distractionâ&#x20AC;? for the Canadian magazine Walrus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have created a technological miasma that inundates us with an inexhaustible supply of electronic distractions,â&#x20AC;? Lorinc wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The deluge of multi-channel signals has produced an array of concentrationrelated problems, including lost productivity, cognitive overload and a wearying diminishment in our ability to retain the very information we consume with such voraciousness. It may be that our hyper-connected world has quite simply made it difficult for us to think.â&#x20AC;?

Lorincâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far from alone in his alarm.

In the past year, a cottage industry has sprouted up around the warning that Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the Internet at largeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is making us stupid. The most infamous of the bunch has been Nicholas Carrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cover story for the August 2008 issue of the Atlantic. Citing the work of Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University, who warns that online readers become â&#x20AC;&#x153;mere decoders of information,â&#x20AC;? Carr editorializes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains disengaged.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m dubious of the argument that Google is making us stupid, but Carr makes a key observation in the piece, writing that â&#x20AC;&#x153;deep reading . . . is indistinguishable from deep thinking.â&#x20AC;?

Binding Resolution Feeling disenfranchised from that sort of deeper engagement, my resolution for this year was to step away from the streamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least for an hour a dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and return to trusty old print. I decided to read more booksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not on a Kindle or the e-Book reader on an iPhone, where the temptation for distraction via a rudimentary browser is a mere hand gesture awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but in bound, linear, paper form. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a revelation. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rediscovered an ethic of attentiveness, an intellectual silence and focus, that I lost in recent years as I jumped from one link to another, juggling countless browser tabs at all times. My process of reading had ceased being linear and had morphed into a cacophony of facts, data, opinions and animated Flash video. Since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rediscovered slow reading, I find myself thinking more ¨

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One of the things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been rereading is the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, an author many consider a prophet of the discursive, hypertext era of the Internet. Borgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;elliptical, playful and rife with allusionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is stunningly contemporary in its metanarrative and referential play. Yet even a writer as prescient as Borges demands the engagement of slow reading: those elliptical routes are far more rewarding when confined to the particular context of the linear narrative. His work demands a depth of engagement that cannot be replicated by reading his work on a web browser, just one in 10 tabs of content in a web browser, with billions of other off-topic distractions a mere Google search away.

Yet even for a print-native reader like myself, rediscovering the pleasures of slow reading and returning to the printed page is a struggle. Given an hour of free reading time, habit will compel me to the LCD screen rather than a book. I must make a concerted effort to sit down on the couch, book in hand.

Once I open the book, keeping focused on that single linear feed of information is a constant challenge: I find myself twitchy, distracted, desperately in need of a reading discipline that I unlearned at some point in the past decade as my attention turned to online media.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if I have not only forgotten an important mode of critical thinking, but basic reading comprehension. The state of concentration required to truly engage with the printed word can be attained, and is indeed rewarding, but it requires one hell of a concerted effort in this day and age.

Pundits like Jeff Jarvis, who collect healthy speaking fees by telling aspirational bloggers and new media entrepreneurs what they want to hear, might scoff at an appreciation of slow reading as being the rear-guard defense mechanism of a cultural dinosaur.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be half right. For all of slow readingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued rewards, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take an oracle to acknowledge that print is doomed to a future as a niche product that will command a premium from a small group of enthusiasts, not unlike vinyl or free-range meat. Which is a damned shame, in a certain sense.

Clearly the human mind benefits from a type of close, engaged reading that print encourages. And while there are a handful of services that attempt to

replicate that experience on a screen, to varying degrees of successâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Amazonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kindle, the web content archiving service Instapaper that accompanies me on the busâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the temptation of distraction is always near. Faced with that inevitability, something needs to change: either the way we consume content on screens or the way our brains process information.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil argues that it may be our brains.

The Adaptive Brain Speaking recently on New York Public Radioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On the Media, Kurtzweil suggested that the human mind will evolve to synthesize this new form of information gathering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over time, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically what we mean by the singularity,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you get out to 2045, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have multiplied the overall intelligence of the human/machine civilization a billionfold, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a profound transformation that we call it a singularity.â&#x20AC;? Kurtzweil considers the wired brain as an inevitableâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and advantageousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;next evolutionary step for the human race, one that is consistent with the development of our minds over time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is something unique about humans in that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the only species that we know about that actually extends our reach with our tools, ever since we picked up a stick to reach a higher branch,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already a human/machine civilization. Our tools are part of who we are. They always have been. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what unique about human beings.â&#x20AC;?

Kurtzweilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predictions have a good rate of accuracy, and I imagine heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right.

But even the overclocked evolution of the mind that he speaks of is a slow process, and neither the Internet nor the brains we currently have are doing the trick. No matter how many lauded new web tools I use to pull disparate information together, there is nothing that can effectively organize and synthesize the sheer wealth of information, leaving me with discrete pieces of data in an endless stream of facts, statistics, news and trivia. This information may reside on our hard drives or in the cloud, but only nominal amounts of it reside in our brain. And until the mind takes that evolutionary leap Kurtzweil speaks ofâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or we begin injecting Google nanobots in our minds to better tie together the brainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rudimentary search engineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this new system of thought does little to help the process of analysis, of synthesis, of

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Kurtzweilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s singularity may be decades away, but I suspect that this change has slowly begun, if not through evolution or nanobots, then through a change in practice. Even after rediscovering the value of slow reading, falling in love with print all over again, I find myself drawn by the allure of the screen. At times, slow reading seems almost too slow, and that intellectual quiet unbearable.

My mind craves that discursive frenzyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; maybe, like any other hard drug, the Internet has rewired my brain.

Perhaps weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re missing the point harping upon some arbitrary distinction between how we read in print and how we read online. No matter the media, we need to rediscover the discipline of slow reading that has been lost in the frenzy of never-ending RSS feeds and social network life streams.

No matter how weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re engaging with informationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in print or onscreen, in a web browser or on a phoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it is, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been, essential for us to read slowly, be engaged with what we read, to constantly challenge ourselves to relearn how to think, to be critically engaged.

That never-ending data stream isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going anywhere, and the fact is, we may need its addictive distraction more than it needs our attention.0

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ICHARD Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long career as a musician in folk rock is doubly significant: first as an example that a man of fragrant wit and deep empathy can make a permanent place in a business that discourages staying power; and second because, as a man without heavy radio hits, Thompson proves the race isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won by the swift.

I liked Hayden Childsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; diatribe in his novel inspired by Richard and Linda Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album Shoot Out the Lights, published in the 33 1/3 series. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something to be said for the raving Thompson fanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrath at the lack of general public props Richard Thompson has received over the decades: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Clapton is the worst kind of mediocrity . . . When I overhear Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans asking each other if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that Thompson is a better guitarist than Clapton, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much faith in humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to tell diamonds from shit.â&#x20AC;? The rock fan hyperbole explains at least a little Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s importance; a close hearing will do the rest. What a marvel it is that we still get the pleasure of seeing him at small venues.

Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own tale is too complex for 900 words, but it would make a hell of an opera. These days, when not touring, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the host of an unusually useful website with lyrics, questions and quips such as this one: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Busking gets you used to life as a professional musician, i.e. public humiliation, being ignored, and begging for pennies.â&#x20AC;?

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not people who drink much anymore, either. Maybe you have to have the sober perspective before you can really write about getting drunk.

The nice thing in touring this summer is the contrast; you pick up some variety, a contrast between large places and small places, indoors and outdoors.

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The title is a GI expression [for what happens when the Humvee is blown up].

For some time, I had been trying to write a song about the Iraq war, so I started visiting websites to read some GI poetry and rap lyrics. I was interested in military slang and the sort of language being used.

Be glad to. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known Loudon since the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s. Normally, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand to listen to confessional songwriters, Joni Mitchell being the exception; they have too much ego to achieve the level of honesty that Loudon does. People know him as a funny writer; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side-splittingly humorous, but the serious songs are magnificent.

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Some songs start with words, some with music. The lucky songs get both first. Starting up songwriting is difficult.

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I worked on a spin-off of the Grizzly Man film on Animal Planet with the footage Timothy Treadwell shot. We see much more of Treadwell the talented nature photographer, not the insane Treadwell who couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the boundaries. . . .

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at the point where I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going onâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I really havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in touch for 10 years. The industry revolves around live music; go see the show, buy CDs and get the T-shirt. Any profit for musicians now is in T-shirts. I hope this changes a littleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to be an independent musician. And if you can play live, you can get a strong foundation.

Live audiences are more loyal than the audiences got from CDs.

RICHARD THOMPSON plays Saturday, June 27, at 8pm at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. Tickets are $25 advance/

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Host and Principal Sponsor Monterey Bay Master Gardeners City of Scotts Valley Scotts Valley Water District San Lorenzo Valley Water District City of Santa Cruz Soquel Water District Central Home Supply WILPF Vision Recycling Smith & Hawken

Keeping Backyard Chickens Fruits, Food, and Fire Safety Non-toxic Control of Vertebrate Pests Beth Benjamin Growing Vegetables from Seed in the Home Garden Manfred Warmuth Smart Food Production in the City Lynn Battazzo Bee Symphony

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EXHIBITORS Arboretum at UC Santa Cruz Low-maintenance, non-invasive and drought-tolerant plants from California, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand; also selected items from the gift shop and gardens available.

Barnwood Bird Houses Bird houses.

Caeli Landscape Architecture A landscape architecture/design service that specializes in master plans, site plans and garden design featuring site-appropriate materials, plants and site improvements.

California Native Garden Foundation An organization dedicated to the beauty, garden worthiness, and ecological appropriateness of California native gardens.

California Native Plant Society, Santa Cruz Chapter A non-profit organization of amateurs and professionals that promotes understanding and appreciation of California's native plants, and helps preserve them in their natural habitats through scientific activities, education and conservation

Camp Joy Gardens Children’s activities--building soil and sowing seeds; books, plants and other independently explored items will be provided.

Carman’s Nursery Rare and unusual plants – bonsai starters, unusual fruiting plants, herbs and mini-ivies, rock garden plants, variegated plants, shade lovers, and dwarf conifers.

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Cool-Off Evaporative sportswear that helps the wearer keep cool in hot weather.

Copper Moon Apothecary Hand-crafted organic soaps, lotions and herbal remedies.

Crescent Hill Nursery, Inc. Rare and exotic perennials for the Mediterranean climate.

David’s Bulbs Giant white squill plants (Urgenia maritima).

Dharma Love by Anastasia Keriotis Eco-friendly clothing and accessories from certified organic cotton, hemp, fair trade and socially accountable cotton products. Embellished with original artwork by Anastasia Keriotis.

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Gardening by the Book Gardening books & baubles.

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Gophers Limited Cinch gopher and mole traps. “Easy Gopher Control without Poisons” DVD. Hori-hori planting knives, lots of other traps and information about our service.

Gutter Helmet Rain gutter protection keeps out leaves, twigs, pine needles and other debris to give you peace of mind and clean gutters.

Happy Coops Chicken coops and runs for the backyard gardener.

Hidden Gardens A full-service garden center specializing in organic locally grown fruit trees, perennials, food crops and vegetables. Also selling baby chickens.

Homeless Garden Project Provides job training and transitional employment to homeless. Products from the Women’s Organic Flower Enterprise and freshly picked organic strawberries for sale at the Faire.

Houses for Bats (AML Enterprises) Single and multi-chambered bat houses certified

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Jenny Wren Designs Whimsical mosaic artwork for the garden.

Kate’s Kitchen Gardens Design and installation of edible gardens for the home.

Your Backyard Bounty Consulting services to help you grow your own fruit, veggies, and flowers. A variety of options in garden design and installation to fit your space and budget.

Your Home Grown Food Personalized gardening service, specializing in small spaces. Grow vegetables, herbs and fruits in garden beds in your yard, containers on your porch, and window boxes for your house.

Ecology Action/County of Santa Cruz Home Composting Decrease garbage and increase waste diversion while increasing yields in your garden. Master Composters answer recycling and composting questions. Composting workshop at 1:00 p.m.

Free bottled water from the Blue Lotus Water Filter. Fill your own metal bottle at our faucet, or use our recyclable cup.

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Alrie Middlebrook, California Native Garden Foundation California Native Edibles 10:30a John Farais, The Zen Cowboy Chef Cooking Demo & Tasting: California, Mediterranean and Native American Cuisines 11:35a Phil LaRocca La Rocca Vineyards 12:00p John Farais, The Zen Cowboy Cooking Demo & Tasting: California, Mediterranean and Native American Cuisines 1:00p Organic Wineworks 2:00p Ilona & Cheytan Wood, Agape Feast Organic Foods and Wines 1:30p Larry Jacob, Jacob’s Farm Food Safety Wine Tasting BEAUREGARD VINEYARDS LA ROCCA VINEYARDS ORGANIC WINE WORKS

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A map of exhibitor locations will be available at the Master Gardeners' Welcome Booth.

Knox Garden Box Elevated garden boxes and birdhouses.

Landscape Design: Why Hire a Designer?

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Liquid BioTech Rejuvenate your soil and revolutionize your garden by using compost tea.

Monterey Bay Master Gardeners Master Gardeners provide information about the Faire and respond to your gardening questions.

Monterey Bay Master Gardeners Sales of items from homes and gardens of Master Gardeners.

Monterey Bay Master Gardeners' Children's Craft Booth Learn how to make wonderful garden crafts!

Projects include pounded flower bookmarks, leaf prints, river rock plant markers, paper pots, and miniature flower arrangements.

Monterey Bay Beekeepers Guild Beekeeping information and honey sales.

Monterey Bay Iris Society Iris rhizomes offered for sale from the private gardens of club members. Iris literature and instructions for growing iris also available.

Monterey Bay Dahlia Society Have fun while learning, growing, and sharing all there is to know about dahlias! Come by and see some beautiful early blooms!

Native Revival Nursery Drought-tolerant California native plants from the Bay Area and beyond, six blends of water-wise native sod, plus garden design and consultation.

New Garden Nursery and Landscaping Deer, drought, frost, and fire resistant plant material and groundcovers, from landscape consultation to complete installation.

Palo Designs Garden-related jewelry, sun catchers, pots and other garden-related items.

Pet Plants Bonsai Plants and pots for Bonsai and pre-Bonsai.

Pfister’s Perennials Perennials, maples, bamboo and potted arrangements.

Robin’s Keep Mosaic art, mosaic trays, furniture, statuary, birdbaths, and shell pots.

Santa Cruz Homesteaders/Live Oak Grange Santa Cruz Orchid Society Orchid plants.

Santa Cruz Water Conservation Coalition Promotes cost-effective and environmentally sound ways to reduce our demand for water.

Effective tools help make saving water easy and fun.

Scotts Valley Landscape Group A collection of local businesses featuring the following unique products and services: landscape installation and design; artificial grass; concrete staining and restoration; custom garden boxes, and chicken coops.

Scotts Valley Fire Department Medical/First Aid

Smith and Hawken Premier retailer of contemporary garden furniture, equipment and supplies distinguished by authenticity, style and craftsmanship.

Recreation Building 9:30a Dave Egbert Fruits, Food, and Fire: sustainable landscapes that keep you and your home Fire Safe 10:30a Beth Benjamin Growing Vegetables from Seed in the Home Garden 11:30a Thomas Wittman Non-toxic Control of Vertebrate Pests 1:00p Manfred Warmuth Smart Food Production in the City 2:00p Cynthia Sandberg Keeping Backyard Chickens 3:00p Lynn Bottazzo Bees Symphony EVENTS 11:15a

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7< / ;==2 A LONG gravel driveway shaded by overhanging trees recalls the long, humid summers of Savannah, where the photograph was taken. In an aged-looking, high-contrast photo, dried roses wilt in their vase looking exhausted. Nearby, a heavily made-up San Francisco woman leaps out at the viewer from a hazy, glossy close-up. The atmosphere that Santa Cruz Weekly contributor Pete Saporitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11 photos create in Vinocruz is mellow, yet they somehow liven up the wine storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white walls. According to Saporito, who currently studies graphic design at Cabrillo College and completed a photography major there six years ago, the cut glass and the frames are also part of the art. Such is the case with a dark custom frame that creates a simple, somber mood for a bright red screenprint of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

As a gallery, and because of the glare the track lighting creates, Vinocruz forces viewers to stand directly in front of the images to take them in. Several of the images are framed on either side by the dark, wooden wine cabinets. Was this on purpose? The sides of the cabinets block out any distraction that the small wine store could create and, like the photos themselves, force the observers to absorb them one by one. (Kat Lynch)

PETE SAPORITOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographs are on display though July 23 at Vinocruz, 725 Front St., Santa Cruz. Admission is free. Vinocruz hours are 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;pm Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Thursday, 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;8pm Friday and Saturday, and noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6pm Sunday. (831.426.8466)

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GILLIAN HARWIN & THE GOTHAM GROOVERS Concert only: $12/Adv $15/Door Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv

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Dinner served Mondays & Thursdays beginning at 6pm, serving premium wines & microbrewed beers. Snacks & desserts available all other nights. All age venue.

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An award-winning marathon runner, a surfer and an engineer plus flute, sax and guitar players make up this animated group of unconventional musicians. Extra Large blends bluesy funk with soulful reggae in highspirited anthems that preach lessons of life, liberty and the pursuit of dance.

Their whimsical lyrics genially warn against the dangers of greed and getting funked out of school while charismatically commanding the audience to jump and jive a la the Rolling Stones, a legend the sextet does justice to in song. The Robin Campbell Band of Half Moon Bay also brings it to Felton for this night of nonstop dance. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $8 advance/ $10 door; 8pm. (Jaime Nabrynski)

Few local bands are as quintessentially Santa Cruz as Ribsyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nickel. Melding three of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical passionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; muscular rock, laid-back reggae and punkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the band could serve as a veritable soundtrack to Santa Cruz.

The band has seen a fair amount of national interest, including songs on MTV and surf videos, but the members keep their affiliations local. All about representing their beloved Westside, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s party-hearty music for hard-partying bros and the girls that love them. Blue Lagoon; $5; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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Modelisteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, it was his drum work with Art and Cyril Neville as a founding member of the iconic funk set the Meters that established him as

Big Easy elite. But today, 20 years after splitting from the group, Zigaboo is known as one of the most innovative percussion virtuosos in the world.

And with an all-star cast of supporting funksters, his plans to spice up Santa Cruz, Cajun style, are very likely to work out. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $12 advance/ $15 door; 9pm. (CC)

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Now fully furnished with all the right tools, their progressive style embraces the fluid improvisation of a jam bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modus operandiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a refreshing, personal twist to conventional country tunes. One need listen no further than these bluegrass bumpkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; version of Princeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Doves Cryâ&#x20AC;? to gauge the scope of their creativity. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $10; 7:30. (JN)

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The two are living in a semiheated singlewide trailer in order to be close to Burtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents. Then comes the news that Burtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father and mother (Catherine Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, Jeff Daniels) are moving; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss their grandchildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth and first two years of life.

Veronaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents are both dead and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help. What follows is a series of sketches as these two alterna-plumed worry-birds seek nesting grounds. They take their act to Phoenix, Tucson, Madison and Montreal.

The destinations sour on them fast.

The Tucson episode, in which moody, pregnant Verona bonds with her sister (Carmen Ejogo), exists to make the finale pay off. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to remember, because it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add up otherwise. Allison Janney plays a mad Phoenix housewife with a taste for greyhound races and an afternoon snort. Her husband (Jim Gaffigan) is her scratching post, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given up entirely.

Janney makes something happen in Away We Go. That happening has been called â&#x20AC;&#x153;overactingâ&#x20AC;? already, but her lancing, obscene patter gives this movie some snap.

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In Madison, things get angry. Burt and Verona visit LN (pronounced Ellen).

She is played by Maggie Gyllenhaal as a superficially nice New Age Nazi. One the one hand, she is overprotecting her child; on the other hand, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letting the toddler sleep in her bed, where he can witness his mom having sex. Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set in Wisconsin, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wager that this segment is about Berkeleyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;co-screenwriter Dave Eggersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; home onceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where it is possible to see children who are breast-fed until they have their own library card.

The natural comic payoff to this episode should be the kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revenge, but the kid doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t push back. As in Mendesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Revolutionary Road, the kids tend to stay out of the picture.

In Montreal, Burt and Verona meet up with friends raising a perfect multicolored Trapp family of adoptees. The jazz clubs and merriness of the summer-wrapped city conceal secret sadness. This sorrow is expressed by Melanie Lynskey, who does an interpretive pole dance to music by the Velvet Underground. Her character, Munch (odd name; Lynskey is nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s munchkin), delivers the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key line. To be a parent, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to be so much better than you ever thought you could be.â&#x20AC;?

Away We Go gives us the Goldilocks take on raising children. Some parents are too controlling, and others are too negligent; with luck, Verona and Burt will be just right. If the film has something that resonates, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the feeling of uninhabitability of America during the end of the Bush years. No surprise that Canada looks like more fun.

The film is co-written by Vendela Vida, editor of the West Coast literary magazine The Believer, in collaboration with her husband, Dave Eggers. Their script stresses platitudes like â&#x20AC;&#x153;A family is made out of loveâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids need to be protected from too much information.â&#x20AC;? During a cafe scene, we get a demonstration model of syrup on sugar cubesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how sweet they think a family should be.

It was thought that Eggers spoke for a generation called Xâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;young people with great wells of feeling and yet with terrible fears of being slapped down for expressing their emotions. Thus they wore an ill-fitting mask of cynicism, through which wide, dewy eyes were always visible. As these aging children foal their own offspring, they fear becoming the kind of parents theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been lambasting in print, movies and music for more than a decade.

Eggers is a diligent author, well known

for his public service work. But underneath his transcendence is a reverse snobbery against anyone carried away with hostility or critical thinking. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still angry about Eggersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; line denouncing â&#x20AC;&#x153;the screaming bumper stickersâ&#x20AC;? he saw in Berkeley. Is it wrong to make some noise about the way the world is run? Especially if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning to bring new kids into it?

Then there is Mendesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a director who supervises outsized, theatrical performances.

The text and the actors can sometimes support that bigger-than-life approach, as in Revolutionary Road. Unfortunately, Away We Go may be dismissed as another dud like Revolutionary Road, which is far from a dud, and which is willing to offend with its passion and argumentative force.

It was acid, not sugary. Kate Winsletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-way escape from the traditional life in Revolutionary Road is here replaced by a pride-of-ownership last shot in Away We Go; whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the address, Reactionary Road? 0 AWAY WE GO (R; 98 min.), directed

by Sam Mendes, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, opens Friday at the Del Mar Theatre.

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SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY JUNE 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; THURSDAY JULY 2 STARTS FRIDAY 6/26! â&#x20AC;&#x153;A funny and tender roadtrip through America â&#x20AC;Ś absolutely extraordinary!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Rolling Stone

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Anchorman (PG-13)

First five Anchorman quotes that come to mind, starting ... now!

1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love lamp.â&#x20AC;? 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tits McGee is on vacation.â&#x20AC;? 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153; You ate a whole wheel of cheese! Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you do that? Heck, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not even mad! Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing!â&#x20AC;?

4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The human torch was denied a bank loan.â&#x20AC;?

5. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They named it San Diego, which of course in German means â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a whaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vagina.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? The great thing about this movie is that if I do the same thing in 10 minutes, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come up

with five totally different lines. It is rapidly worming its way into my life as one of the most quotable comedies ever.

(Plays Fri and Sat midnight at the Del Mar.) /E/G E3 5= (R; 98

min.) See review, page 45. (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) (SP) 163@7 (R; 100 min.)

Steven Soderberghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversial follow-up to his epic film about Che Guevara focuses on the revolutionary leaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little-known sex-change operation. No, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s correct.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry, I was trying

to impress you. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be honest, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anyone knows what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about. Oh wait, here it is. Stephen Frearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new romantic drama about a shallow courtesan in Belle Epoque Paris (Rupert Friend, in the title role) who falls in love with a much older woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) (SP) / 1:=19E=@9 =@/<53 (1971) Stanley

Kubrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mondoviolence classic about a near-future thug who discovers milk was a bad

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

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(Unrated; 103 min.) In this French film from writer-director Oliver Assayas, Juliette Binoche plays a woman coping with the death of her mother. I know it sounds harsh, but God does not want her to live. Along with her brothers, she begins dealing with the contents of their motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer home, raising questions about family heritage and the emotional weight of material things. (Opens Fri at the Nick.) (SP)

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min.) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Michael Bay delivers a second dose of what is basically metal-gear porn for overly testosteroned teenagers. They love cars! They love robots!

They damn sure love cars that turn into robots!

Interestingly, a small portion of the script was leaked to me. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take a look. Shia LeBeouf: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leave these people alone. They mean you no harm.â&#x20AC;? Megatron: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Transformers are a

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135 min.) The surprise best foreign film winner at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oscars, proves that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as much potential for humor in a death comedy as there is in a sex comedy. Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) used to play C<23@ =C@ cello in a Tokyo orchestra.

A97< (Unrated; 104 Laid off, he decides to min.) Breakthrough leave Tokyo to reclaim documentary tackles his family home in the the myths and country in picturesque misunderstandings Yamagata Prefecture, surrounding Lyme supposedly known as disease. Director Andy a region of bumpkins.

Abrahams Wilson His adoring wife, Mika explores what Lyme (Ryoko Hirosue) agrees patients have had to to the plan, seemingly go through to be taken without doubts. When seriously by the medical Daigo shows up for an establishment, which interview in answer to would rather â&#x20AC;&#x153;agree to an help wanted ad, he disagreeâ&#x20AC;? about the very learns it was a misprint; existence of the disease, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be working in even as it spreads to a mortuary. As the epidemic proportions. boss, Sasaki, Tsutomu (Opens Fri at the Nick.)

Yamazaki gives a top (SP) movie-starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance in this role, his suaveness just getting richer as the film goes along.

B63 0=GA( B63 Director Yojiro Takita A63@;/< 0@=B63@A¸ expertly mixes what AB=@G (PG; 105 min.) seems like unmixable A documentary about material: Departures is a the tunesmithing movie about death thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brothers, composers suffused with the joy of of myriad Disney living. (RvB) anthems, seemingly 3/@B6 (G; 90 min.) genetically augmented James Earl Jones rumbles earworms like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the soundtrack as the a Small Worldâ&#x20AC;? and sunrise is viewed from various cortex infections outer space. Holding the from the Mary Poppins series of critter encounters soundtracks. Apparently, together is the plight of a their interpersonal relations werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as full of polar bear familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dad,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Momâ&#x20AC;? and two cubs, an dismaying cheer as their heir and a spareâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;during music. Unpreviewed.

(RvB) the course of a year.

The stunning small B63 0@=B63@A effects make more of an 0:==; (PG-13; 113 impression. Remarkable min.) Rian Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time-lapse photography follow-up to Brick has pans gently across a loads of charm and valley while observing no plot. The postmod the yearly change of a intentions are clear forest of deciduous trees right off in naming this from bare branches to pair of grifting brothers scarlet leaves. Otherwise, Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the usual: shark vs. and Bloom (Adrien seal, polar bear vs. walrus, Brody) in a story thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lions vs. elephant, and part screwball comedy, cheetah vs. gazelle. To part 1960s Swinging the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credit, London caper. Rachel Disney bites the bullet: Weisz has never been â&#x20AC;&#x153;The planet is warming,â&#x20AC;? more endearing as the Jones says, leaving no former New Jersey room for backpedaling. invalid heiress who Very, very cute, and the wants to join the ending is somehow happy racket. Their regular partner is the chic Asian and comforting, just like the critter shows one demolition expert Bang drowses through at the Bang (Rinko Kikuchi). end of a beery Sunday.

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13; 100 min.) Circa 1928: Larita, an outrĂŠ American female racecar driver (Jessica Biel), arrives at the English country mansion of her new husband, John Whittaker (Ben Barnes).

Still in possession of the place is his dragon of a mother, Mrs. Whittaker (Kristin Scott Thomas), and Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formerly wayward stepfather, Mr. Whittaker (Colin Firth).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to understand why Stephan Elliott decided to redo Noel Coward like a man trying to refurbish an antique with Day-Glo paint. Elliottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s timing isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bad, but he does go inadvisedly modern, adding a butt shot, a crunched Chihuahua and a bit about an English fox hunt Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d swear was pinched from Auntie Mame. (RvB) 3D3@G :7BB:3 AB3>

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Documentary about the making of a Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, with dancers trying to make it big as they battle through auditions. Sort of like So You Think You Can Dance, with people who can actually dance.

(SP) 4==2 7<1 (PG; 101

min.) The most necessary film of the summer. The outrages of corporate food production are exposed in this fast and infuriating documentary

by Robert Kenner.

Defying the lawyers, one corporate chicken farmer shows us her wretched, antibiotic-packed birds.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industry lobbyist is tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regulator, as sure as todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pig is tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bacon.

Drooling packed-in steers are fattened with cheap Iowa corn; it breeds E. coli in their guts. The nighannual outbreaks of E. coli are seemingly the cost of business, a price paid even by spinach-eating vegetarians. Director Kenner canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be accused of starry-eyed idealism.

Food, Inc. reminds that if the United States could make Big Tobacco come to heel, then agribusinessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wasteful and deadly practices can be stopped. (RvB) B63 6/<5=D3@ (R; 100 min.) A well-built, good-looking and

satisfyingly low comedy with a sturdy silentmovie two-reeler plot and the wit to realize that the Three Stooges format is solid gold. A quartet of Southern California types heads to Vegas for a bachelor party. Cut, eventually, to The Morning After: The groom has vanished, and the three chumps, rendered amnesiac by booze, must search for him. They are: kittywhipped, Larry-like Stu (Ed Helms), confident but wrongheaded Moe-style leader Phil (Bradley Cooper) and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;one-man wolf packâ&#x20AC;?

Alan, played by the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standout, Zach Galifianakis, Curlying beautifully. Stick with it, since the first third is hit and miss; later, director Todd Phillips solidly builds the situations, thinking up strategies to bolster the risky comedy.

(RvB) 7;/57<3 B6/B (PG; 107 min.) I thought that perhaps some lazy but ingenious filmmakers had finally come up with the ultimate solution to financing problems by having the audience simply go in and imagine their own movie while they stare at a blank screen. But instead itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the new Eddie Murphy film, in which a troubled businessman finds that the answers to all his problems lie in his daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vivid imagination. Aw. By the way, Eddie Murphy told me heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also available to star in your blank-screen movie if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather see that. (SP) :/<2 =4 B63 :=AB

(PG-13; 93 min.) You probably remember this Sid and Marty Krofft TV series about a family transported to prehistoric times as completely stupid, because you are a pleasant, well-adjusted person with excellent hygiene. But just to show that absolutely anything on television can inspire terrifying loyalty, I will point out that someone wrote a dictionary for the language spoken by Cha-Ka, the caveman who made friends with the Marshalls and taught them his native tongue.

Perhaps the supernerds who are on the Internet complaining about how

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proud race. They must pay for their intrusion.â&#x20AC;?

Shia LeBeouf: â&#x20AC;&#x153;On my journey I met one of your kind. His name was Katow-jo. We became friends.â&#x20AC;? Megatron: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Katow-jo is my cousin.

Go in peace.â&#x20AC;? Wow, heavy stuff ! (Opens Wed at 41st Avenue, Santa Cruz 9 and Scotts Valley.) (SP)

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Gsjebz!bu!uif!Ojdl/ the producers of this film turned the series into a Will Ferrell comedy should be happy Mel Gibson didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sign up to direct and make it a somber meditation on the nature of primate society, with unsubtitled dialogue in Cha-Kaese.

Hey, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much what happened to Lost in Space. (SP) B63 >@=>=A/: (PG13; 107 min.) Boss lady Sandra Bullock and underling Ryan Reynolds fake an engagement for the benefit of the family of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;bride.â&#x20AC;? Directed by Anne Fletcher.

A:33> 23/:3@ (PG13; 97 min.) In the near future, Memo (Luis Fernando Pena), the son of a Oaxacan peasant, leaves for Tijuana to work for Cyberbracero, a company that sells the virtual labor of sleepless men and women who are plugged into neural ports; they do every kind of virtual work from high-steel construction to nannying to fruit picking. Memoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one friend in the city is Luz (Leonor Varela), a blogger who sells her memories online; she receives an inquiry about Memo from a mysterious interested party. Director Alex Riveraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s science fiction film is politically intelligent, but it has a

bigger debt than Mexico itself, first to William Gibson and later to the visuals of the film Minority Report. The background is plausible and satirical-â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Memo leaves his home because of the privatization of water, where a machinegun-bearing droid sells water by the liter to starving peasants. Still, there are economies of scale we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really understand: Why pay $100 American to irrigate a dying milpa?

Why build a terrifically expensive robot to pick fruit, when working -class labor is more disposable than metal, servos and rotors? The witty neologismsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a group of â&#x20AC;&#x153;coyoteksâ&#x20AC;? offer to drill Memo some new holesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; help this overnarrated film, and the CGI is effective. And in a science fiction cinema currently dominated by transformer robots, this looks like the work of Felipe K. Ricardo, Philip K. Dickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Latino cousin.

(RvB) AB/@ B@39 (PG-13; 136 min.) Happily, J.J. Abramsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; version of the 40-year-old story is a loving refurbishing of an old structure rather than a demolishing.

Traditions honored include the green babe (Rachel Nichols) and the

red-shirted ensign. As Kirk, Chris Pine himself is the ham this sandwich needs. Zachary Quinto is very poised as Spock, the tragic mulatto of space. The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real tension arises in the partnership between Kirk and Spockâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two halves of one great leader, calm calculation meeting insane daring. (RvB) AC<A67<3 1:3/<7<5

(R; 102 min.) In Albuquerque, two sisters get into the lucrative field of cleaning up after dead bodies. Christine Jeffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly pleasant comedy of death and bloodshed is lit up like a pink lamp shade by the ever-lovable Amy Adams and given some dark highlights by Emily Blunt as her grimier sibling.

The film seems trampled over by a producerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cold feet, but whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left has charm and hard-nosed humor. With Alan Arkin as the feckless father of the sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looking fit as usual, Arkin; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably get a shovel and bury us all some day.

(RvB) C> (PG; 96 min.) During the last Depression, a reject kid named Carl becomes fascinated with that darling of the newsreels, the intrepid dirigible pilot Charles Muntz, who discovered the bones of an immense

bird in South America and was declared a fraud.

Fast-forward and Carl (voiced by Ed Asner) is a square-headed, Spencer Tracy lookalike of 78. When trouble comes, he escapes in the only direction open to himâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;straight up, with his battered house as the gondola to thousands of balloons, Unfortunately, a pesky 7-year-old scout, Russell (Jordan Nagai), is clinging to the front porch. The pair land in South America, where they discover a 13-foot-tall iridescent goonie bird and eventually Muntz himself (Christopher Plummer). Pixar spoils us. The news that Up is one of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best films isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really news; Pixar has faith in an audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to feel without being manipulatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what makes them more than just a studio with an unusually dazzling command of the vocabulary of animation.

(RvB) G3/@ =<3 (PG-13; 97 min.) Jack Black and Michael Cera basically play themselves, only in prehistoric times. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m willing to take back Jack, but Michael Cera can just stay there until he gets over that annoying shtick he does in every film. (SP)

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A teensy dip of Meyer lemon sorbet bursts with a fragrant, floral tang.

A compostable spoonful of cashewcaramel infuses my mouth with buttery, unctuous delight. Chocolate, midnight dark, is a dizzyingly pure essence. I settle on a scoop of apricot, aglow with spring sunshine straight from the orchard.

Since May 27, shoppers at the Downtown Santa Cruz Farmers Market have been tempted by yet another takeaway treat. This one is as wholesome as it is enticing: delectable pure fruit sorbets in a palate of seasonal flavors and vivid colors.

Scream Sorbet is forging a new frontier in frozen dessert territory at 21 farmers markets throughout the Bay Area. By relying on local (usually organic) produce harvested at its peak, subtly enhanced with the simplest of ingredients and processed by methods embraced by the molecular gastronomy crowd, Scream creates sorbet that sings with fresh fruit, inventive flavor combinations and the most alluring texture imaginable.

The tall and personable Noah Goldner, one of three principals of the enterprise, travels to Santa Cruz every Wednesday to offer six sorbet flavors, a teasingly small fraction of the 36 listed on their website, ranging from single fruits or nuts to visionary combinations. While visiting the Emeryville kitchen to witness the magic happening, I savored the coconut-lime-Thai basil variety and found the interplay of vibrant lime and bright herbaceous basil embraced by silky coconut milk dazzling.

A connoisseurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s palate informs their use of specific varietals, such as pure Oro Blanco grapefruit, Murcott tangerine or Meyer lemon; true fruit flavors like cherry

>3B7B3 B@3/B Rin Salao (left) samples Scream Sorbetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apricot sorbet. Tiffany Thomas opts for lime mint.

or peach; and bold innovations like black sesame-almond, lime-jasmine, beet-lemon and saffron-almond. The nut flavors are in a category by themselves, employing a seductive, satiny mouthfeel and rich consistency reminiscent of the thickest cream but entirely dairy-free.

Nathan Kurz, founder of Scream Sorbet, started â&#x20AC;&#x153;wondering what happens when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cut corners and whether thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an audience for a very high quality product.

Our hope was that there are people who will pay for that top quality, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finding that there are.â&#x20AC;?

He merged his experience in homemade sorbet and ice cream with his scientific inclinations as a physicist and began bringing sorbet to farmers markets in March 2008. Stephanie Lau, a trained pastry chef and the third Scream Sorbet

co-owner, collaborates with Kurz on developing recipes, subjecting each fruit to â&#x20AC;&#x153;about 10 recipe variations. For example, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discovered that the method of juicing makes a big difference in the taste of citrus, and we experiment whether or not to strain pulp or seeds out of the mixture.â&#x20AC;? Further, they eschew gums and stabilizers: â&#x20AC;&#x153;our intention is to produce a fresh fruit product, not a shelf stable product.â&#x20AC;? Taking a cue from the molecular gastronomy movementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the origin of all foods foamed, vaporized or otherwise fancifully alteredâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they invested in some high-tech Swiss gadgetry. Instead of being churned like ice cream, a fruity concoction is frozen solid and subjected to a titaniumcoated blade spinning at 2,000 rpm, which purees the rock-solid blend without incorporating additional air, achieving

Screamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark lush, dense texture.

Buying at farmers markets is a core element of the Scream philosophy, enabling the company â&#x20AC;&#x153;to close the loop between â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sourceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the product,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Kurz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you like our peach sorbet, we can point to a stand and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We got these peaches from them,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and they can say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If you like these peaches, try that sorbet over there.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? He admits that â&#x20AC;&#x153;this approach to sourcing could limit our growth, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the key to the highest quality.â&#x20AC;?

SCREAM SORBET is available every Wednesday at the Downtown Santa Cruz Farmers Market, Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz, and on Tuesdays at the Old Monterey Farmers Market, Alvarado Street, Monterey.

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, lunch 11am-2pm, dinner 5-9pm.

Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

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All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

>/@/27A3 ACA67 Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

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international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

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California cuisine. Nightly specials include baby back ribs, prime rib, lobster and crab legs. Daily 7am-2am.

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Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib!

Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.

Mexican. Serving breakfast all day. Popular for our street tacos and handmade Salvadorian pupusas. Vegetarian options made w/ local fresh vegetables and organic tofu. Daily 9:30am-9:30pm.

Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.

California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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Japanese Fusion. Sushi bar, sake bar, vegetarian, seafood, steak in fun atmosphere; kids play area; karaoke every night. Open seven days 5-10pm; Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm.

Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

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Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Lunch Wed-Sat noon2pm; dinner Mon-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza.

Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm.

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

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Astrology Free Will

By Rob

Brezsny

For the week of June 24 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): Reality TV personality Spencer Pratt used to be skeptical about the power of prayer. But his wife Heidi, herself a devout believer, urged him to keep his mind open. Then, as an experiment, Spencer asked God to help him and Heidi get a double date with teen pop star Miley Cyrus and her boyfriend, despite the fact that neither of them even knew Cyrus. Apparently God heard and responded, because not too long after that, the hopedfor double date did indeed come to pass. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m telling you this, Aries, because I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering a phase when you, like Pratt, will have extra luck in making idiosyncratic wishes come true. If I were you, though, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d focus on more profound idiosyncratic wishes than the kind Pratt pined for.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): Do you have a subconscious urge to escape the constraints of your customary behavior? Have you ever wished you could be someone else for a while? If so, this is your lucky week, Taurus. The cosmos is granting you a temporary exemption from acting and feeling like your same old self. From now until July 2, you have permission to walk like, talk like, think like and even make love like a Pisces or Virgo or Geminiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or any sign, for that matter, except Scorpio or Aquarius.

You might enjoy checking out my horoscopes for the other signs, and following the advice that sounds most fun.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fete Your Feet Week, Gemini. Your soles definitely need more attention, pampering, and contact with nature. (So does your soul, and hopefully that will happen as you carry out the more literal assignment.) So abstain from wearing your shoes and socks at every opportunity. Get as much contact as possible between your naked feet and the naked earth. Even walking unshod on floors and pavements could prove helpful. Foot massages are advisable, as well as pedicures, henna tattoos and foot baths. Try praying with your feet instead of your hands, and see if you can get someone to kiss and adore you down there.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;His heart was growing full of broken wings and artificial flowers,â&#x20AC;? wrote poet Federico Garcia Lorca. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In his mouth, just one small word was left.â&#x20AC;? There were times during the first half of June when I was tempted to borrow those words to describe you, Cancerian. Now, thankfully, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving into a much brighter phase. The buds that are about to bloom in your heart are very much alive, not artificial, and your wings, while not fully restored to strength, are healing. Meanwhile, your mouth is even now being replenished with a fresh supply of many vivid words.

:3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): What scares you or perturbs you in the coming week could, by August, become what fuels you. What makes you feel unsettled and out of sorts could turn out to be good medicine.

But of course youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re under no obligation to submit yourself to this experimental sequence, Leo. The fact is, you could probably run away from the discomfort and get immediate relief. Unfortunately, taking that approach would deprive you of the benefits that will almost certainly come from enduring the discomfort for a while. My preference is that you be brave and far-seeing.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a better than even chance that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to embark on a Summer of Love. To improve your odds even more, meditate on the following questions. 1. What qualities do you look for in a lover that you would benefit from developing more fully in yourself ? 2. What do you think are your two biggest delusions about the way love works? 3. Is there anything you can do to make yourself more lovable? 4. Is there anything you can do to be more loving? 5. Are you willing to deal with the fact that any intimate relationship worth pursuing will inevitably evoke the most negative aspects of both partnersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and require both partners to heal their oldest wounds? :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): You are entering a phase when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have more power than usual to influence people. Your charisma will be waxing and the light in your eyes will be growing more intense, making it more likely that your point of view will be heard and appreciated. Your powers of persuasion will be increasing, as well, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have extra understanding about how to motivate people and get them to work together effectively. So let me ask you

the most important question: What exactly do you want to accomplish with your enhanced clout?

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Congratulations, Scorpio. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve reached the end of the Big Squeeze.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve served your time in the bottleneck. And so I invite you to relax your pinched expression, loosen up your puckered expectations, and let the Season of Experiments begin. According to my projections, you will soon be receiving a host of invitations to wander into the frontier with your raw sense of wonder turned up all the way. Please research each invitation thoroughly before choosing. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided which adventures are most likely to enhance your understanding of the art of liberation, dive in.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): A guy I barely know critiqued me at a party recently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suffered enough to feel intense passion,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your life has been too happy, too easy.â&#x20AC;? I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get into a debate about whether my life has been too happy and easy, so in my reply I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention my divorce or the time I was shot or the grueling poverty I endured for 18 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying,â&#x20AC;? I told him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that suffering is the only way you can acquire passion? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree. Have you ever raised a child?

Have you ever been in love with someone who incited you to make radical changes in your life? Have you ever worked on a creation for many years and then submitted it to be judged by thousands of people? I have.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m letting you know about this, Sagittarius, because I predict youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon be offered an experience like those I namedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;adventures that have the potential to build intense passion without requiring you to suffer.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows,â&#x20AC;? said journalist Sydney J. Harris. That would be an excellent motto for you to live by in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Whether or not youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re enrolled in school, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase when your capacity for attracting learning experiences is at a peak. To take maximum advantage of the cosmic tendencies, all you have to do is cultivate a hungry curiosity for fresh teachings and life lessonsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially those that shift you away from gazing at your own reflection and toward peering out at the mysteries of the world. /?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a preview of the accomplishments I expect you to complete in the next four weeks. Number of karmic debts paid off and canceled: 1. Number of bad habits replaced with good habits: 2. Number of holes blasted in your theory about why you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do more of what you love to do: 300. Number of â&#x20AC;&#x153;necessitiesâ&#x20AC;? lost that turn out not to be necessities: 1. Number of psychic wounds successfully medicated: 1. Number of confusing messes that evolve into interesting opportunities: 2. Number of romantic obstructions eliminated: 1 and a half. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): A delicious forbidden fruit will be more available than usual in the coming weeks. You can choose to ignore it, of course. You can pretend itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even there and instead concentrate on the less forbidden fruits that are tasty enough.

Or, on the other hand, you can sidle up closer to the forbidden fruit and engage in some discreet explorations, testing subtly to see whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any healthier for your sanity than it used to be. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure what the best decision is, Pisces, but I do suggest this: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just rip off all your defenses, forget all your commitments, and start heedlessly taking big bites out of the forbidden fruit.

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