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Cartoon

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Book Review

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Crossword

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A Woman’s Right to…Everything

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Looking Back

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People in the News

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World Report

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Movies

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Déjà Vu—Cuban for “Please God Not Again!”

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This Takes Guts, and a Strong Cup of Java

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Magic Behind a Magician: Robert Ray

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What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

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We Have a Winner

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Speaking Out

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Scamming: A Growing Business

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Transitions

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Cartoon

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CEO Series: John Lines

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Arizona Offers Businesses a Platform for International Growth

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Harvey Mackay: Unlock Your Power of Observation

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Arizona Events

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Concerts & Shows

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Sporting Events

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It took a national tidal wave to fix stupid!

Thank goodness cooler heads have prevailed in Indiana regarding the state’s controversial religious freedom legislation. However, my initial concern still exists: How, in this day and age, in the United States of America, could a responsible state government have even considered passing such a discriminatory bill? Fortunately, we’ve now seen how public outrage can make a swift and meaningful difference.

I always thought that the intelligent among us learned from other people’s missteps (or, in this case, other states’ missteps) but I guess Governor Mike Pence, a Republican, could not hold himself back when asked to sign Indiana’s version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—a bill that clearly allowed business owners and others, based on their religious beliefs, to deny service to certain individuals (for example, those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community) and then be exempted from prosecution for doing so. The word “discriminate” was missing from the text of this bill, but the right to discriminate was not.

After a national backlash, state legislators came up with a “fix” to the recently passed law.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long said the revision would “unequivocally state that Indiana’s (religious freedom) law does not and will not be able to discriminate against anyone, anywhere, at any time.”

I think the bill emerged from last year’s Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case in which the craft store chain and another corporation, citing objections based on religious beliefs, challenged the Affordable Care Act’s provision that employers must include contraception coverage in their health insurance plans. The court ruled in their favor.

At a time when we should all be trying to move forward, past the discriminatory practices of yesteryear, it appears that some of Indiana’s leaders and their constituents want to move backward (like Arizona did with its immigration bill—though at least former Gov. Jan Brewer had the sense to veto Arizona’s similar religious freedom bill in 2014). Maybe their next move will be to propose legislation reinstating public floggings, and making it legal to place victims in yokes in the city square for infractions like speeding or jaywalking. Then the state could charge admission fees and allow attendees to take turns pelting the “guilty” individuals with rotten fruit and vegetables.

Hangings could be held on every second Saturday—no fee to attend, but perhaps a nominal charge for refreshments.

Thanks to the efforts of numerous human rights organizations, some highly prominent corporate entities and hundreds of thousands of fair-minded individuals throughout the country (some of them even within the borders of Indiana), the state’s politicians were shamed into revising a law that easily could have led to a social environment resembling that of the Dark Ages.

Was Gov. Pence setting the foundation for the 2016 federal elections? Whatever the state’s intent, the backlash was instant and powerful. Pence and his legislature should learn a lesson from this misstep: The rest of America is moving forward, and Indiana can either join the movement or be prepared to be the recipient of more national attention, for all the wrong reasons. Despite Pence’s initial comments that he would not change the bill as it stood, that rhetoric was offset by a power far stronger than the Governor—a national backlash.

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book/film review

BY JONATHAN FUNK

The biggest question that retirees (or soon to be) keep asking themselves is this; “How much do I really need to retire on?” And this seems to remain the $64,000 question for everyone. Baby boomers are graduating into retirement and becoming eligible for Social Security at the astonishing rate of 8,000 – 10,000 every day.

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avigating through the Social Security system to ensure that you are receiving everything you deserve is a daunting task, given that there are more than 2,700 rules and regulations in the Social Security manual. With so many rules, it’s almost impossible to make the best decisions for you (and your spouse) when considering your options. Regardless of how much training you might be able to get at the Social Security office, knowing and understanding all of those rules would be a stretch. I would like to point out that whenever I have needed to contact my local Social Security office, the people who work there have always been polite, professional and helpful. Still, nothing can replace being totally informed about your benefits, and doing so will significantly affect the total amount of money you could receive. And following the devastating financial meltdown of recent years, maximizing every dollar available to you in retirement should be of paramount importance to you and your family.

Larry Kotlikoff and fellow writers Philip Moeller and Paul

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Solman spent years studying the highly complex Social Security system that Americans rely upon so heavily in retirement. I, for one, can honestly say that after reading this book and speaking with Larry, I felt like I was a Ph.D. in the Social Security arena. I certainly didn’t consider myself uniformed before reading the book, but as I turned the pages, I found that what I didn’t know, or didn’t fully understand, was shocking. I’d be willing to wager that most Americans think the process is pretty simple: reach retirement age (full retirement age is currently 66), file for Social Security, and get

what’s coming to you. Further, in light of the huge sums that many retirement plans lost during the meltdown, I’d also be willing to bet that many Americans won’t wait until they reach full retirement age, and will choose instead to file as soon as they turn 62. While each individual’s circumstances will differ, jumping in at the age of 62, or even 66, might be the worst thing you could do.

The authors of Get What’s Yours clearly state that relying upon your local Social Security staff to steer you in the right direction— despite their best efforts—may actually take you right into the ditch.

This book, on the other hand, can definitely enlighten you and resolve many of your questions and concerns as to when it’s best for you to file. Don’t forget, this money is yours, and you are entitled to it, because you worked hard and paid for it.

Other financial books may briefly touch on Social Security, but I haven’t found another book that focuses 100 percent on your personal Social Security needs. Married, not married, married and divorced, remarrying to gay marriages…this book contains information on each of these scenarios and more that can help you receive your maximum benefits. Those 2,700-plus rules are complex, and it’s up to you to figure out what’s best. This book (which, by the way, is an easy read, with many humorous scenarios throughout) could help you receive many thousands of dollars in additional benefits. In my opinion, at a mere $19.95, the book is worth its weight in gold!

Companies that want to provide a great financial tool for their employees should consider giving this book to all who are 50 or older. An investment of just $19.95 per employee would go a long way toward assisting them in fully understanding how they can maximize their retirement benefits from the Social Security system.

The general rules of the book are (1) be patient, (2) get all of what’s yours, and (3) get the timing right. After reviewing the content, I found the third rule to be the most important.

Let’s take the example of a married couple, both spouses being the full retirement age of 66 and the husband being the higher wage earner. Let’s say the wife has a monthly benefit of $1,000, and the husband, $1,500. Both file; however, the husband then suspends his payments until age 70. The wife also suspends her payments until age 70, but files for her spousal benefits (she would receive approximately $800 per month until age 70). At 70, her monthly benefit would be about $1,320, a 32 percent increase compared with the $1,000 she would have received had she not suspended her payments, and the husband’s would be about $2,000. At 70, both husband and wife claim full benefits and receive a monthly total of $3,320 between the two of them. Had they both taken full benefits at age 66, their total would have been roughly $2,500, or $820 per month less than if they had waited until age 70. Bear in mind that during those four years, the wife received her spousal benefits of $800 per month (for a total of $38,400), just $200 less per month than if she had taken her full monthly benefit of $1,000. And now, at the age of 70, their combined monthly benefit is $3,320 instead of $2,500. This is the kind of information you’ll find in Chapter 5 of the book, Strategies to Follow the Three Rules.

With people living much longer these days, often into their late eighties, nineties or beyond, retirement benefits need to last longer.

Wouldn’t it be great to increase your monthly payment? Depending on your circumstances, if you make the right choices, you could conceivably add hundreds of thousands of dollars to your lifetime retirement benefits.

If there is any single book that wealth management advisers, financial planners and every baby boomer should read, it’s Get What’s Yours.

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1 A movie was made about this dog—known as “Hachi”

20 Called Kelev Kna’ani in its home country of Israel

2 Known as the Dutch barge guard

3 This hound has a droopy looking face

21 Known as the most famous rescue dog

4 These dogs were developed 3,000 years ago by shepherds in Turkey

10 What’s the matter, Lassie?

What is it girl?

22 The Ridgeback helps with the hunting of lions in South Africa

5 Was popularized by the movie As Good as It Gets

24 Depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics

6 Named after its fighting style

27 This terrier was bred from pit bulls

7 A rare Cuban

16 Its coat is almost blue 18 It has a silky hair that is always white 23 This “Great” is a giant

11 “Wiener dog” 13 The Guinness Book of World Records said it was the rarest breed in 1960

15 Its blue eyes are acceptable by the American Kennel Club

14 It comes in three sizes

8 A true Canadian

25 Wrinkles everywhere 26 This dog is used by First Nations people in the Arctic

28 Can run up to 40 mph 17 A typical winner in ugly dog contests

9 A Hungarian hunting dog 29 A French butterfly

27 It’s slow, it snores and it drools

12 Smallest of the Spitz breed 19 A pinscher developed to be used as a protection dog by a German tax collector

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NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

A Woman’s Right to...

Everything

BY DEBRA RICH GETTLEMAN

1963 EQUAL PAY ACT

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o those of you who thought Phyllis Schlafly exhibited signs of dementia back in the ‘60s when she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, her most recent forays into the news media will surely confirm your diagnosis. In January, the exceedingly well-educated Ms. Schlafly told World Net Daily that the reason campus rapes were on the rise was because too many women were going to college. Prior to that she asserted in her book “Who Killed the American Family” that single women having babies were responsible for the breakdown of the nuclear family and skyrocketing welfare roles. It seems whenever we think we’ve gotten ahead, Ms. Schlafly re-emerges to remind women that not everyone is rooting for us on our path to equality.

Patricia Arquette demanded equal pay for women at the Academy Awards this year.

Merrill Streep cheered from the audience like a schoolgirl. While it’s hard for us plebeians to have empathy with female movie stars earning $77 million to their male counterparts’ $100 million, the question of whether the Equal Pay Act (EPA), passed in 1963, actually works in prohibiting sex-based wage discrimination may be worth re-examining. Unfortunately, even the staunchest proponents of wage equality seem to fall short. Hillary Clinton couldn’t be more pro-women in the workforce. But, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of her Senate years’ salary data, Mrs. Clinton paid women in her office 72 cents for every dollar paid to men.*1 That’s even lower than the 77 cent average. President Obama, on the other hand, gets closer to parity by offering his female staffers 91 cents for every male-earned dollar.*2 The challenge in the equal pay arena depends entirely on how the data is collected and sorted. Oftentimes the wage gap doesn’t actually reflect a comparison of men and women doing the same jobs. The oft-quoted “77 cent” figure is really the difference between men and women’s median earnings for all jobs across the board and doesn’t take into account a multitude of factors such as career choice, number of hours worked, experience, time taken off to raise children, etc.

Nowhere does the issue of equality between the sexes seem more politically divided than over the abortion debate. When it comes to a woman’s right to make choices over her own body, it appears that party lines play as big a role as religion in determining who should control reproductive rights. There have been a frightfully high number of shameful

Women’s median annual earnings compared with men’s median annual earnings for full-time workers in 2013

comments delivered over the years from right-wing politicians regarding a woman’s right to choose. Todd Akin, Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate in 2012, was asked by a local Fox-affiliated TV station about his stance on abortion in the case of rape. He actually said, on camera, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, of Texas, explained why there needn’t be a rape or incest exception in the state’s sweeping anti-choice bills by offering, “In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out.” But Rep. Michael Burgess, another Texas Republican, may take the stupidity cake for his comments about male babies masturbating in utero: “If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?”

Rick Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania and a 2012 presidential hopeful, spoke out during the presidential campaign against contraception in general. “It’s not okay,” he argued, “because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

With politicians asserting falsities about rape, pregnancy and contraception, it can be frightening to contemplate the future of women’s rights in this country. Abortion is sometimes the only option available to women, and it is low-income women who are turning to that option more frequently.

According to the Guttmacher Institute’s most current statistics, 69 percent of women who seek abortions are economically

far-right politicians and religious zealots to limit women’s access to abortion. Various fringe groups have threatened abortion clinics, put out hit lists against doctors who perform abortions and carried out numerous violent acts in the name of preserving life.

Additional research from the Guttmacher Institute indicates that the number of abortions in the United States is at its lowest 90 –94% level since the passing of Roe v.

85–89% Wade, remaining steady at about 80 –8 4% 1.2 million reported procedures 75–79% in 2011, down 25 percent since 70 –74% the all-time high in 1990. Women 69%/below are choosing the option of SOURCE: AAUW abortion less and less. Arguably, that’s a healthy sign. When Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic disadvantaged. Half of all pregnancies in this National Convention on August 29, 1996, country are unintended, and approximately he said, “Abortion should not only be safe four out of 10 end in abortion. While that’s and legal, it should be rare.” a staggering statistic, overall, abortion rates While we as a country can debate the in this country continue to decline.*3 moment life begins or whether third-term Abortion was legal in this country abortions should remain legal in limited until 1821, when Connecticut passed a situations, we must remember that equality law outlawing toxic substance usage as a between the sexes can only be achieved way to induce miscarriage later on in a when women maintain control over their pregnancy. Several states followed, and own bodies, minds and actions. While men by 1873, Anthony Comstock, head of the certainly play a critical role in a woman New York Society for the Suppression becoming pregnant, the decision to carry of Vice, encouraged the passage of the out a pregnancy cannot rest solely in the Comstock Law, a federal law banning the hands of the male political elite. As the selling or distributing of materials related to controversial founder of Planned contraception and abortion.

Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, once said, By the time the Great Depression “No woman can call herself free until she rolled around in the 1930s, women were can choose consciously whether she will or seeking abortions as their only option in a will not be a mother.” time of economic despair. But with more 1 Washington Free Beacon: Hillary Clinton’s War laws against abortion, the rate of maternal on Women, 2 McClatchy Washington Bureau mortality was increasing dramatically.

January 29, 2014, 3 Guttmacher Institute media kit, According to Leslie Reagan, author of “Abortion in the United States” “When Abortion Was a Crime,” a 1931 study showed that illegal, unregulated abortion procedures were responsible for 14 percent of maternal deaths.

On the historic date of January 22, 1973, in a 7-2 Supreme Court ruling, the justices declared that laws prohibiting abortion violated a woman’s constitutional right to privacy. They also said states could regulate abortion procedures in the interest of a woman’s health or in protecting a potential human life starting at the end of the pregnancy’s first trimester.

Since the historic passing of Roe v.

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Looking back …

BY MICHAEL P. MURPHY

MAY 25

MAR 30

1981

Only 69 days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan and his entourage were ambushed by a mentally disturbed John Hinckley as they left the Washington Hilton Hotel following his speech to the Construction Trades Council. One of Hinckley’s bullets flattened like a dime as it hit the armored presidential limousine and ricocheted into the president’s left armpit, stopping within an inch of his heart. Reagan would consider his survival to be divine and dedicated the rest of his life to God. James Brady died of related causes in 2014, his death ruled a homicide 33 years after the shooting.

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1977

Star Wars opens in just 32 theaters nationwide. Long lines form daily at the original Cine Capri at 24th Street and Camelback, the only theater in metro Phoenix running the sci-fi film. (Look for a new Star Wars movie—The Force Awakens—in December.

JUN 19

1987

Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream introduces a new flavor named after rock legend Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead.

Cherry Garcia, a cherry-flavored ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes, is still one of the most popular B&J flavors today.

JUN 2

1979

John Paul II visits his home country, Poland, becoming the first pope to visit a Communist country. Hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic people line the streets as he travels to lead Mass in the appropriately named Victory Square.

JUN 4

1990

An intense national debate on terminally ill patients’ right to die is sparked when a 54-year-old Oregon woman with Alzheimer’s disease steps into Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Volkswagen van and he assists in her suicide with his homemade “death machine.”

… in history

MAY 31

1983

One of professional boxing’s greats, Jack Dempsey, dies of heart failure at age 87. Dempsey reigned as World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926. His last words to his wife were, “Don’t worry, honey, I’m too mean to die.”

JUN 26

1990

The thermometer hits a record-high 122 degrees in Phoenix, and Sky Harbor Airport shuts down briefly because it doesn’t have airline performance charts for temperatures that high. (It does now.) At least it was a dry heat.

APR 8

1986

Tired of trying to do business with the “preservationist-dominated town council” of Carmel, California, film actor Clint Eastwood decides he could do better and runs for mayor. He wins with a whopping 72.5 percent of the vote.

MAY 14

1998

Music fans of all genres mourn the death of Frank Sinatra at age 82.

His impressive career dominated recordings, concerts, movies and television. For nearly 60 years it seemed that Frank was everywhere, and now he is gone.

APR 10

1970

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr had turned on each other over several issues, among them the failure of Apple Music Ltd. and the hiring of new manager Allen Klein. Everyone inside the Beatles inner circle knew the group was done, but no one wanted to tell the public.

McCartney eventually did, not with a press conference, but with the Q and A liner notes inside copies of his first solo album, McCartney, for record reviewers. The media took it from there. All four ex-Beatles went on to enjoy successful solo careers.

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People

in the news

1. TREVOR NOAH

Comedy Central has tapped 31-yearold South African stand-up comedian Trevor Noah to take over the reins at The Daily Show when Jon Stewart, who has hosted the show since 1999, steps down. Largely unknown to U.S. audiences, Noah, who has traveled the world and can speak more than half a dozen languages, appeared on The Daily Show three times from last December through March. A Comedy Central executive said Noah “is just crazy funny” and is “everything that a Daily Show host should be.”

Stewart said he is “thrilled” with Noah’s appointment 1 to take over.

2. SARAH THOMAS

In April the NFL chose Sarah Thomas as the first female to become a full-time official for the league. In the two years before the NFL brought her on board as a full-time line judge, she was in the top level of the league’s development program. During that time she worked at minicamps for the New Orleans Saints and the Cleveland Browns, and appeared at preseason games. Before that, she officiated at high school and college football games for 20 years.

3. BOBBY HURLEY

Arizona State University is bringing a new chapter to Sun Devil’s basketball by hiring rising star Bobby Hurley as the team’s new coach. After a 17-day search, Ray Anderson, ASU’s vice president of athletics, offered Hurley a lucrative five-year deal.

Hurley, who recently coached the Buffalo Bulls to the team’s first appearance in a NCAA Division I tournament, played for Duke University from 1989 to 1993 and the Sacramento Kings from 1993 to 1998, after which he did a brief stint with the Vancouver Grizzlies.

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4. LUIS GONZALEZ & CHARLES BARKLEY

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The two legends were among individuals recently inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. Gonzalez, a.k.a. Gonzo, 47, played eight seasons for the D’Backs and Barkley, 52, played four seasons for the Phoenix Suns. The other inductees were past Suns coach Cotton Fitzsimmons, deceased, who was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year twice; Danielle Ammaccapane, 49, who has played on the LPGA Tour for 20 years; and sportswriter Joe Gilmartin, who, among many other accolades, was honored as the state’s Sportswriter of the Year 16 times.

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BY LESLIE JAMES

PHOENIX

LOCAL PHOENIX

For years, Sherriff Joe Arpaio has denied allegations that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) engaged in racial profiling, but in March acknowledged that he violated numerous federal court orders stemming from a class-action lawsuit filed in 2007 pertaining to discriminatory practices by the MCSO. Of note, his admission came just weeks before a scheduled court hearing on the matter. Both sides are trying to reach a settlement.

PHOENIX

OTHER NEWS

Kim Sabow, the former director of public affairs for Governor Jan Brewer and, more recently, the assistant vice president for state relations at the University of Arizona, has been tapped by Governor Doug Ducey to oversee international trade for the state of Arizona. Ms. Sabow’s official new title is Director of Protocol and Strategic Initiatives.

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NFL owners attending the annual meetings held this year at the Arizona Biltmore agreed to suspend the league’s TV blackout policy during the upcoming season. Starting in 1975, unless a game was sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff, the game was blacked out for the local viewing audience. The suspension is a trial at this point, not a permanent decision.

NATIONAL DALLAS

American Airlines and US Airways’ frequent f lyer programs officially merged, with US Airways’ program becoming part of Americans’ AAdvantage program.

MONTANA

SAN LUIS

The state is nearing completion of a bill that would prohibit bullying. Montana remains the only state in the nation without an antibullying law in place. Senators passed the bill, 37-10, on second reading Saturday. It must pass a final vote in the Senate before heading to Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock.

VALLEY

Ted Cruz, a conservative first-term senator from Texas, became the first Republican to officially announce that he would run for president in 2016. His announcement took place in a speech at Lynchburg’s Liberty University.

ARIZONA

Leaders of the U.S. House and Senate honored legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus with the Congressional Gold Medal, recognizing his contributions to golf and his philanthropy.

Known as “the Golden Bear,” Nicklaus, 75, is considered by many to be the greatest golfer that ever played the game.

As of March 28, this Arizona city is banning motorists from using cellphones or texting while driving. Motorists or bicycle riders caught using cellphones within the city limits will be cited and fined $100. Anyone causing an accident by using a hand-held cellphone or texting will be fined $250.

The Cactus League’s attendance for the 2015 spring training season reached 2 million, a new record for the Valley. The previous record of 1.73 million was set in 2013. Multiple teams in the league set new attendance records this year.

Arizonans for Responsible Legalization filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office for an initiative to legalize marijuana in the state next year. The Marijuana Policy Project of Arizona also is working on a ballot measure for the 2016 elections.

GoDaddy’s IPO on April 1 was no April Fools’ joke. The evening before the stock debuted on Wall Street, the company set an IPO price of $20.00 per share.

However, trading commenced at $26.15 per share—31 percent higher than the IPO price.

Approximately 23 million shares sold in the IPO, raising $460 million. GoDaddy’s market value slightly exceeds $3 billion and shares trade on the NYSE under the symbol GDDY.

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON

The 17-year-old son of Canadian diplomat Roxanne Dubé died, and his 15-year-old brother was taken into police custody, following a shootout in Miami on March 30 during an alleged drug robbery that also left another teenager dead. The boy’s father remained in Ottawa. Family members of consular officials do not have criminal immunity in the U.S.

INTERNATIONAL CANADA

CALIFORNIA

It’s a real state of emergency.

More than 98 percent of the state remains in some level of drought.

In late March, the Sierra Nevada snowpack’s water content was at its lowest level for that time of year since records began in 1950.

Governor Brown has ordered the state’s first-ever mandatory restrictions on water.

BOSTON

Nearly two years after two bombs ripped through crowds of unsuspecting spectators at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, a federal jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the deadly attacks. The attack killed three and injured nearly 300.

CHARLESTON

A white South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder for shooting an apparently unarmed black man in the back as he fled. Questions still remain, but what was shown on a video of the shooting filmed by a bystander is pretty clear. The mayor of North Charleston, where the shooting took place, says every officer in uniform on the street will get a body camera.

MEMPHIS

Air Canada Flight AC624, traveling from Toronto to Halifax with 138 people on board, touched down short of the runway, hitting an antenna array and knocking off the plane’s landing gear. The Airbus A320, which slid approximately 1,100 feet before stopping, was severely damaged and 23 passengers were injured, though none of the injuries were deemed critical. Snowfall may have been a factor in the crash.

CANADA

Vancouver police are encouraging people who are considering entering into “highrisk” Craigslist transactions to conduct the exchange of cash and goods at police headquarters, as a way to deter scams and help keep those who respond to ads safe. The move comes after hundreds of fans in the city lost money on fake Maroon 5 concert tickets they bought through Craigslist.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

If your Amazon order gets delivered by a drone sometime in the relatively near future, you’ll know Canada helped make that happen. Seattle-based Amazon wants to deliver packages weighing less than five pounds in 30 minutes or less using its Amazon Prime Air autonomous drones. But the company has had a hard time obtaining approval to do the necessary tests to make that a reality. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s rules regarding drone testing are restrictive, and wait times for approval are long. So, Amazon is conducting outdoor flight tests at an undisclosed location in Canada instead.

GERMANY

Andreas Lubitz, the 27-year-old co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, took control of the Airbus A320 jet as it traveled from Barcelona to Dusseldorf and apparently deliberately crashed it into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. Lubitz had previously been treated for severe depression and suicidal tendencies, though the CEO of Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings, said Lubitz had passed the airline’s psychological tests with “flying colors.”

AFRICA

FedEx in a desire to expand its delivery footprint in Europe has placed a bid to by Dutch rival TNT Express for $4.8 billion. TNT is one of Europe’s largest delivery companies.

students if they were Muslim or Christians. If they answered Christian they were executed.

Somali-based Islamic terrorist group alShabab claimed responsibility for an attack at Garissa University in northern Kenya that killed nearly 150 and injured dozens more.

Four gunmen attacked the university asking

Iran and six world powers (including the U.S.) reached a landmark deal that resolves Iran’s long standing nuclear program. The agreement is designed to shut-down Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear bomb. Despite a consortium of nations who approved the deal…the Republican led Congress may try to kill the deal. Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu also condemned the agreement.

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After a decade of service, Prince Harry, 30, will leave the British Army in June. Having served two operational tours in Afghanistan, Prince Harry is the first member of the royal family to fight in a war since his uncle, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, served in the Falklands. Prince Harry is expected to spend the summer in Africa performing voluntary conservation work, and then in the fall volunteer with the British Ministry of Defence’s Recovery Capability program, which supports sick and injured service personnel.

Democratic Senator Robert Menendez along with longtime friend and supporter Salomon Melgen, were formerly charged by federal prosecutors in a long-running bribery scheme. Menendez claims he is innocent and vows to fight all of the allegations.

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Movies

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AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Director: Joss Whedon Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth The highly popular Avenger series continues. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry, and Earth’s mightiest heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to the Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.

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ENTOURAGE Director: Doug Ellin Cast: Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Adrian Grenier The famed TV series comes to the big screen.

The behind-the-scenes team reunites several key members who worked on the original series.

Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.

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Director: Colin Trevorrow Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson, Ty Simpkins The Jurassic Park legacy continues with this new epic film. Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a dinosaur adventure park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This new park is owned by the Masrani Global Corporation. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), a staff member at Jurassic World, conducts behavioral research on several Velociraptors. As Jurassic World’s attendance rates decline, geneticists create a new attraction to spark visitor interest…but when the plan backfires, the consequences areMyLife disastrous.

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JURASSIC WORLD

INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

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BY WILLIAM THOMAS

ive months ago when I heard that President Barack Obama was normalizing American relations with Cuba, I got this sinking feeling. It was like reading that Chris Brown and Rihanna were dating again. “No, don’t do it girl,” I wanted to yell, “’cause he knocked you around pretty good the last time you two hooked up.”

Sex, drugs and Frank Sinatra—it had to be the closeness between the two nations, the erotic intimacy, the hot salsa, the saucy island 90 miles from Miami, where Americans could enjoy what the Brits call a “dirty weekend” in their very own Latin Las Vegas.

America’s deal with Cuba was a sweet one under Fulgencio Batista, their 1940s’ puppet president and dictator of choice in the ’50s. Rum was swilled, Cohibas were smoked and almost five million tons of sugar landed in America each year, along with a lot of the industry’s profits.

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While American companies owned and operated Cuba’s agriculture, mining, transportation and public utilities, Meyer Lansky and the Mafia were attracting a record number of wealthy American tourists to their Havana hotels and crooked casinos.

Carmen Miranda and Josephine Baker dazzled them at The Tropicana, while the Hotel Nacional pampered the likes of Nelson Rockefeller, Marlon Brando, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Mickey Mantle, Walt Disney and Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, who were probably not staying in separate rooms.

The high cost of such unrestrained capitalism saw Cuba’s countryside reduced to latifundia, or feudal states, while malnutrition, unemployment and illiteracy soared. Batista had become too corrupt and too repressive even for these easygoing Caribbean islanders, so they turned to Fidel Castro to take back their country and gain independence from America. More clown than communist, and backed by a gang that couldn’t shoot straight, Castro nevertheless mustered 50,000 illiterate guajiros to march on Havana. When students and ordinary citizens joined the mass parade, the puppet was replaced with El Comandante, Cuba’s new father-figure savior.

After the humiliating failure of the 1961 U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion, followed closely by the Cuban Missile Crisis one year later, America’s love affair with Cuba was over. The subsequent separation of relations and trade was a world-class shunning by America, the kind of silent treatment only the Amish could envy. America had been jilted, and the country took it painfully and personally.

The United States thought it had been in a committed relationship. One day it might marry Cuba, like it had Hawaii, or take her on as a mistress, like Puerto Rico. Suddenly dumped

by Cuba for this swashbuckling upstart Fidel Castro, America’s 55-year-long punishment of the island was unrelenting and unique.

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Other nations had defied American foreign policy without being completely ostracized. Hell, even Vietnam, a communist country America tried to bomb into the Dark Ages, was forgiven to the tune of 17 million American tourists in the last four years and $30 billion in trade last year alone.

Canada has had a cordial and somewhat fruitful relationship with Cuba in the five decades since the embargo, despite pressure from the United States to follow its lead. Since 1945, Canada has maintained an embassy in Havana, with 85 Canadian companies quietly doing business on the island. Essentially, we send Cuba 800,000 frostbitten Canadian tourists every year and it reciprocates with rum and Cuban cigars, which we, in turn, sell to cross-border shopping Americans.

Once in a while, a ghost of Joseph McCarthy will rear its balding head up here and accuse fellow citizens who vacation in Cuba of being a bunch of “commie-loving pinkos,” but really, we’re just there

for the sun and the beer.

Ours has been a mutually beneficial relationship. We never coveted the island or romanced it with exotic hotels and flashy casinos the way America did. But make no mistake about it, if Canadian pop star Justin Bieber ever tries to bring his music and lifestyle to the new, normalized Cuba the way Sinatra did in the ’50s, it will be Canada sending in the jet fighters and bombers…free of charge.

During that half-century of severe sanctions, the CIA tried and failed to assassinate Fidel Castro so many times its methods became desperate and ridiculous. When the conch shell bomb, the poison milkshake and the toxic wetsuit didn’t work, the agency resorted to the exploding cigar trick. Seriously, when your covert operations

for foreign regime change look a lot like an old Groucho Marx routine, maybe it’s time to let the guy live!

In a lightning and frightening move just 34 days after President Obama’s groundbreaking announcement, a high-ranking congressional delegation landed in Havana eager to engage the Cubans in trade talks. Never mind the speed with which the government officials were getting right down to brass tacks and money; it appeared that for the first time in six years, The Congress of The United States was actually doing something!?!

Champing at the bit to have at Havana, American agribusinesses, telecommunications firms and energy giants are pushing hard for a complete lifting of the embargo. In a country of 11 million

people who were until recently denied ownership of cell phones and computers, Apple is drooling all over its iPads. Netflix is already streaming its video services into Cuba, but the fact that Cubans don’t have credit cards and are forbidden to have foreign bank accounts may make paying Netflix a problem.

Conan O’Brien is already planning to host his television talk show in Havana, where nobody has ever heard of him, and McDonald’s cannot wait to start selling its Quarter Pounders to people who are used to consuming their beef at a rate of eight ounces every 15 days, by law. Where a palm-treed, sweaty market lies waiting to be ravished, can Starbucks, Walmart, Coke and Pepsi be far behind?

At the rate at which America is about to start dating Cuba again, there will be little consent and no equal partnership, no going slow with any regard for human and natural resources. This is wham, bam, thank you, ma’am all over again. America repeating the mistakes of its history with Cuba is being played out on the nightly news for everyone to see. The Cubans will watch all this as well, as soon as they can afford a working television set and figure out how to pay for it.

Playing less of the devil’s advocate and more of Captain Obvious, am I the only one who believes that U.S. relations with Cuba are about to become anything but normal? This second invasion of unrestrained capitalism looks an awful lot like a shotgun wedding, an arrangement that seldom survives when one party is holding a gun.

CUBA POLL: Obama tops Castro in popularity 97% say normalized relations with the United States are good for Cuba 80% have a positive opinion of President Obama 73% are optimistic about the future 72% are satisfied with Cuba’s education system 68% are satisfied with Cuba’s health care system 39% are satisfied with Cuba’s political system Source: Survey of 1,200 Cubans March 17–26 by Bendixon & Amandi International, in association with Univision and The Washington Post.

Credit: Alejandro Gonzalez, USA Today

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NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

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BY JONATHAN FUNK

ne person can make a meaningful difference. All it takes is a strong commitment to help others and a ton of guts to do so. One such person in corporate America who is trying to change the way we think about social issues is Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company.

Schultz is one of the country’s most successful, passionate and outspoken CEOs. He took a small chain of Seattle coffee shops, which started with a single store at Pike Place Market, in 1971, and built a veritable empire.

Schultz came on board in 1982 as Starbucks’ director of retail operations and marketing. Nearly 35 years later, under Schultz’s stewardship, Starbucks has become a global enterprise serving an impressive variety of coffees and teas in more 21,000 stores in 66 countries. The company’s total net revenue in fiscal year 2014 exceeded $16 billion. Moreover, Schultz has created a culture that strikes a keen balance between corporate profitability and social consciousness. He also cares greatly for his Starbuck employees. Apart from great employee benefits he has now teamed up with Arizona State University (ASU) with a first-of-its-kind program that will offer 4-year online diploma programs for thousands of eligible part-time and full-time U.S. partners (Starbuck employees).

From his position at the helm of Starbucks, he has never wavered in his efforts to share and promote social issues that he believes need to be discussed openly.

For example, in 2012, Starbucks announced its support for the state of Washington’s referendum backing gay marriage.

In response, the National Organization for Marriage launched a boycott of the coffee

chain, and a Starbucks shareholder complained to Schultz about the resulting loss of business at the company’s annual meeting in 2013.

“In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earnings—shall we say politely—were a bit disappointing,” said the shareholder, Tom Strobhar, founder of the Corporate Morality Action Center, an organization that opposes same-sex marriage.

Was Schultz taken aback? Not in the least. He responded by saying, “Not every decision is an economic decision. Despite the fact that you recite statistics that are narrow in time, we did provide a 38 percent shareholder return over the last year. I don’t know how many things you invest in, but I would suspect that not many things, companies, products or investments have returned 38 percent over the last 12 months.

Having said that, it is not an economic decision to me. The lens in which we are making that decision is through the lens of our people. We employ over 200,000 people in this company, and we want to embrace diversity. Of all kinds.”

At that point the audience interrupted with cheering and applause. Then Schultz concluded, “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.”

Schultz’s stand isn’t nearly as daring as it would have been a few years back, but still, it’s impressive to see a CEO think about more than the bottom line and get cheered by his shareholders for doing it.

This year, Schultz has chosen to take on the issue of racism in America. His campaign to raise awareness of race relations is not only

bold, but also gutsy—just as the issue of gay marriage was in 2012. It doesn’t hurt to be a CEO and wealthy, but it still takes big balls to take on highly sensitive social issues.

Schultz has come under fire (and likely will continue to do so) regarding the wisdom of his initiatives, but I for one applaud his actions…because, as I tell anyone who cares to listen, racism in America is alive and well, just as it has been for over 200 years.

Some things never change, but if no one takes a stand, they never will. Today, opposition to gay marriage is crumbling, and hopefully in the not-too-distant future so will opposition to other social issues such as racial equality, women’s rights, equal pay and the legalization of marijuana. However, unless people like Howard Schultz fight for those whose voice is seldom heard, then we as a nation, known for our leadership and innovation, will continue to lag behind many other civilized countries when it comes to such matters.

I, for one, will make sure my next cup of coffee is from Starbucks. That is one way I can demonstrate my support for a CEO who cares about something beyond the corporate bottom line.

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LOCAL SPOTLIGHT

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Fire.

It assists survival, bends metal to make tools, cooks food, boils water and plays a role in solar power technology. Magic was born when a prehistoric person discovered the way to control fire. When no one else understood it…voilà! Magic!

It was fire that created shamans, wizards, witches and magicians. These folks were credited for creating storms, placing curses and granting wishes. But magicians turn the ordinary into miracle.

Performance magician Robert Ray, of Phoenix, was given an opportunity to turn words into magic for this article. If you’ve ever wanted to “go behind the scenes” of a magician and his work, your train is now at the station.

Pick a question—any question!

Q. Do you believe in magic?

A. There are many forms of magic! I study them, and, I do believe in real magic. Some magicians don’t believe in magic as I do— the Amazing Randi is one of the world’s greatest skeptics.

Q. What’s your take on Houdini?

A. A great escape artist, expert at picking locks, an exposer of fraudulent spiritualists and a publicity artist—that's why he’s so famous. He performed major stunts that were ahead of his time, but he was also an important symbol. Active during the Great Depression, he gave people something to think about in terms of breaking free of their own bondage. He showed that no matter what, escape is possible. And entertaining.

Q. Why is it that you live in Arizona?

A. I’m from Colorado. People who’ve seen my performances tell me to go to Las Vegas. Las Vegas is the magic capital of the world. It’s also the magic unemployment capital of the world.

The market there is saturated with very skilled magicians. I love Arizona.

The air, smell and vibe is electric… magical. The most amazing people live in Arizona!

Q. What are the most difficult tricks to perform? The easiest?

A. In my view, the most difficult trick to learn or perform is when a black thread is inhaled via mouth and gets pulled through the eye. I don’t do that trick. I love my eyes too much to take the risk. The easiest magic trick can be done by anyone: pull off and reattach the thumb.

Q. Any embarrassments while on stage?

A. The only man in the room, I was performing for 300 members of the American Business Women’s Association. I needed a volunteer to firmly grasp a wooden spoon. What came out of my mouth was, “I need an assistant to come up and grasp this foon spermly.”

Q. Any advice for people who’d like to explore the practice of magic?

A. I believe everyone is a magician. Everyone is capable of using imagination to transform reality into…something else. Look at how many books and movies are about people using super powers! People are powerful beyond measure underneath a mask of powerlessness, weakness and fear. Those who have forgotten their power place magic in the realm of fantasy. Somehow, we all know that more good, truth and beauty are possible than what’s been discovered up to this point. As a magician, I remind people to use their power to manifest their own brand of magic and turn their dreams into reality.

Q. Is performance your full-time job?

A. Yes! I’m passionate about the art of magic and I love people. Magic is the most perfect form of entertainment. It brings people together to share an experience, then leaves vivid memories to talk about later. When a magician is really good, he or she can cause people to question reality and what they deem possible or impossible through the laws of modern physics.

This question and answer session was written as a result of being a guest at a 90th birthday party. It takes massive amounts of magic just to arrive at that age, so Ray was the perfect entertainer. The partiers were treated to a skilled, pleasant, witty and handsome man who enjoys sharing his art and unique philosophy of magic.

As for his future, Ray said, “I want to be able to speak to groups where I integrate magic demonstrations into the topic of how I’m looking to discover even more real magic inside of myself and in the world.”

Find him at Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy in Phoenix (azhouseofcomedy.net) and at private events throughout the Valley.

This summer, he’ll appear at Oasis Water Park at the Arizona Grand Resort.

For more information, visit robraymagic.com.

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INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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Over the past year the world has witnessed roughly a dozen commercial aircraft accidents. From Nepal, to Taiwan, to the more recent Germanwings flight No. 9525 where the co-pilot took the plane down and tragically killed all 150 on-board, to Air Canada’s flight No. 624 that crash landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where no one was seriously injured. However, the biggest aviation mystery (in the modern era) that still remains with us is Malaysia Airlines flight No: 370 that disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard. Not a single sign of anything in over a year that offers any information as to what really happened to flight MH-370. —MyLife Magazine

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a lay sia A irl ine s Flight 370 remains missing and to this day there has been no trace of evidence of a plane crash in any ocean.

The day this happened news came out raw and fast. Reports in the first week or so claimed the aircraft climbed to 43,000 feet, which is the top service ceiling for a passenger aircraft.

It would have been difficult to climb to that altitude with all those passengers and fuel.

Most airliners operate in the high thirties and usually only after they burn off some fuel.

Climbing to 43,000 feet would have come much later in the trip, if at all. At 43,000 feet a civilian aircraft is out of its intended environment and at that altitude, if anything happened to the pressure vessel (the hull) of the 30 May | June 2015 MyLife

aircraft there is not time to react. Blood boils in 15 seconds at 41,000 feet so 43,000 would only be worse.

Flying this heavy airliner into this rarefied atmosphere had to be done by a well-trained pilot and not accomplished through autopilot. The aircraft would have stalled and went straight into the ocean, in which case there would have been a debris field miles around and easily seen from space-based highresolution cameras. The plane did not stall, which raises the question: What was it doing up there?

If you wanted to hijack the plane and not have a few hundred upset passengers, the pilots would simply switch to 100 percent oxygen (which they can) and turn off the pressurization in the cabin. In seconds your

passenger problem is resolved.

From here, all that is left is to turn off the transponders and fly to some abandoned airfield in an off-the-grid location. From there you could hide the plane in an old hangar and dispose of the passengers.

So why go through all this to steal an airplane? One day we will see this aircraft again. From where the plane is presumably located now, and once refueled, it can go far in any direction. One could paint a new tail number on the plane, file a flight plan as someone else, take off from an uncontrolled location and join the air traffic control system. No one would know until it’s too late. In that scenario, there would be no alarm, no nothing and the plane could fly where they want under no ATC guidance.

The reason it makes no sense

to steal a plane for nothing is that you can buy used 747's or other used airliners in auctions everyday on the cheap. If someone just wanted a plane for business, why not buy it?

What’s also interesting is that whoever did this did not dump airplane parts and bodies in the ocean. Some debris would at least create the illusion a crash occurred. But it’s a year later and nothing has been found.

You cannot have a crash of that magnitude without debris. It has never happened in the history of aviation. Aircraft parts float, bodies float and somewhere in the world after a year someone would have found something.

I hope I am wrong, but I am concerned that I am not.

Let’s hope the people responsible for the investigation are checking tail numbers.

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A lot of things have changed since the recent economic meltdown…but on the other hand, some things haven’t. Since the meltdown, I have read numerous articles on what companies pay executives when traveling—for instance, a per diem that can be spent on hotels, meals and entertaining clients, with economy class being the predominant level of seating when flying.

I have also read several pieces about what CEOs are being paid today as compared with salaries before the crash, despite, in many cases, a less-than-stellar performance for the company or its shareholders. Even the CEOs of the nation’s top five banks—JP.m.organ Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc.—collectively saw their annual incomes drop 47 percent between 2006 and last year, from $173.6 million to $92.5 million, or an average of $18.5 million per CEO. I don’t think we need to shed any tears for them, though; it’s still a huge annual income.

But the salary of one CEO in particular caught my attention. He made more than 1.5 times the salaries of the top five bank CEOs combined in 2014. David Zaslav, the CEO of Discovery Communications, received $156.1 million in total compensation last year, an amount that was five times greater than what he earned the year before. The bulk of his comp package comes from stock/options that will vest over his new contract term (of six years, incidentally), but in 2014, the company’s stock price fell by 25%.

In 2014, CEO Gary Kelly of Southwest Airlines received a comp package of $5 million for piloting Southwest to its most profitable year—its stock also rose by 125%.

Now look at these three CEO’s. Richard Kinder (Kinder Morgan) and John Mackay (Whole Foods) who made just a buck, then came Kosta Kartsotis of Fossil who worked for free.

As for the rest of America—in 2013, the median annual income reported for all Americans totaled just $35,540.

Speaking Out!

BY LESLIE JAMES

Well, this sure isn’t “The Price Is Right,” and none of these contestants will likely have a spin at the big wheel.

In fact, this game is stacked against all who play. So what am I leading up to? Please, bear with me a moment.

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understand America’s free enterprise system. It forms the very foundation on which the country’s economy was founded. Money makes the world go ‘round, and in America we certainly love money. One could even say we want God to protect it, as we are the only country that imprints these words on every paper bill: “In God We Trust.”

I have a crucifix glued to the inside of my wallet. Recently, while checking out at a local grocery store, I opened my wallet to pay the amount due. The woman who was next in line behind me saw the crucifix and said, “A cross to guard your money.

How nice.” I politely answered, “No,” and left the store. I placed the crucifix there because I pull my wallet out multiple times each day, and it’s a good reminder to me.

America is frequently looked upon as a caring and compassionate nation, and I believe the U.S. is one of the most giving countries in the world—on many fronts.

America rises to help others in virtually every global disaster or international crisis.

We come together and raise huge sums of money for major relief efforts. We are also known as a country that supports the little guy, and cheers on the underdog…but do we really? Now, to my point.

Around 2008, Arizona legislators finally voted to end the payday loan business. This, folks, is part of the darker side of America’s financial industry, and it feasts off the bones of the scared and the poor. For a variety of reasons, most people who resort to payday loans can’t open a regular bank account.

Now, House Bill 2611—which has already received initial approval by the House—is putting the payday loan business back on the table. This time around, though, politicians want to show how much they care for the poor, the downtrodden and those who are unable to use traditional banking sources. In H.B. 2611, the House has hog-tied and handcuffed payday loan companies by regulating how they can operate. Under the proposed bill, payday loan companies would only be able to loan an individual up

to $3,000, and they can’t charge a penny over 36 percent annual interest. How will they ever survive?

But hold on to your hat…H.B. 2611 gets even better. With fees and other surcharges the payday loan companies are allowed to charge, the actual annual rate could rise to a whopping 218 percent! So, what starts out as a $3,000 loan could wind up costing an annual total of $6,540. Hmm, we should nominate these companies as contenders for the “Company of the Year” award, don’t you think?

A recent article in the Arizona Republic stated that these loans would be subject to oversight by the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, and that such loans could not be made to members of the military because of concerns that the loans would create financial pressures for these individuals. That statement alone should be reason enough to kill this bill.

Yet it seems that it’s okay to create financial pressures for the very people who can least afford such stress—the needy!

I’m reminded of the old expression, “You don’t kick the horse when it’s down.”

Obviously, the House and the payday loan operators think otherwise. Either way, this is not a caring bill, but rather one that makes it legal for predators to prey on the less fortunate members of our society.

To me, at least, H.B. 2611 is a disgrace.

It’s likely back on the floor, supported by payday loan industry lobbyists with promises of campaign donations to any politician who supports the bill. See how it all comes back to money? This certainly depicts the darker side of America’s free enterprise system, and in the worst possible way.

Call me a bleeding heart if you want— in this case, I’d be proud to wear that label.

Instead of allowing these companies to leech the very life out of people who are in such dire straits they are willing to pay 218 percent a year to borrow money, why don’t we put our minds together and create a more caring and humane way for these people to cash their paychecks, feed their families and pay their bills.

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BY JAMES L. COPLAND

ey, I may not be the brightest lightbulb at GE, but a recent phone call to my home certainly took me by surprise. On my home phone was a message (claiming to be) from the IRS. The female caller, who had an East Indian accent, told me that unless I returned the phone call, a bench warrant would be issued for my arrest. She went on to say that I was being sought for tax evasion and left a callback number with a 703 area code. I checked it out, and that area code covers most of Virginia.

When I called the number, a man (I would have said gentleman, but he was anything but that) answered the phone.

He also had an East Indian accent again.

He immediately informed me that the conversation was being recorded and advised me not to be smart with him, or I would be in bigger trouble. I responded by saying: “I haven’t said anything yet.” When I asked whom I was speaking with, he replied “T. Evans.” I asked “T. Evans” his address, and he said it was 1111 Constitution Avenue, in Washington, D.C. I started to ask him another question, but he interrupted me to say that a bench warrant was being issued

for my arrest, for tax evasion, and then he wanted to know the name of the attorney who would stand in for me in court. I responded by asking him how much I supposedly owed, to which he said, “It’s past that point. What’s your attorney’s name?”

By this time, not only did I want to crawl through the phone and strangle the guy, but also red flags were going up all over the place. I felt like a perfect idiot for even entering into a dialogue with this person, though I guess it’s simply human nature to do so. This person was loud and rude, and I ended the call by telling him that I would have my corporate attorney call him directly. Within the next 15 minutes I called the number back twice, and guess what? Nobody answered the phone. Two hours later I tried again, and again nobody answered the phone. So, I decided to call the IRS directly. Well, I didn’t hear any prompt for fraud on the automated recording, nor did I hear a prompt to be transferred to a human being, so I decided to go online to irs.gov and see what I could find there.

On the home page of the IRS website, I clicked on the News & Events tab. On the next page, in a column on the left, I found a link for Tax Scams. I clicked on that,

and in a nanosecond up came a page titled Tax Scams/Consumer Alerts. It provided details for all of the scams in operation across the country. The most important point I discovered, though, was this: The IRS does not call anyone. It doesn’t email anyone, either. It initiates all preliminary communications by mail. You would be smart to remember this.

Suffice it to say that if you get a phone call from a person or an organization about an issue that takes you by surprise or simply doesn’t make sense to you, if your “gut” is “talking” to you, listen to it. My suggestion is to get a name, phone number and case file, and then hang up and think about the call. If it seems suspicious to you in any way, check the information out on the Internet, and if you are still concerned, call your attorney or the police, who may be able to offer some insight. If it’s for real, chances are the company or organization will call you back. But, my belief is once they think you’re onto them, the calls will stop. In closing, let me share the following. Gather whatever information you can, but NEVER give out any of your own personal information to anyone over the phone. Those being called—Beware!

Impersonation Telephone Scam From the IRS website www.irs.gov An aggressive and sophisticated phone scam targeting taxpayers, including recent immigrants, has been making the rounds throughout the country. Callers claim to be employees of the IRS, but are not. These con artists can sound convincing when they call. They use fake names and bogus IRS identification badge numbers. They may know a lot about their targets, and they usually alter the caller ID to make it look like the IRS is calling.

Victims are told they owe money to the IRS and it must be paid promptly through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer.

If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are then threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting. Or, victims may be told they have a refund due to try to trick them into sharing private information.

If the phone isn’t answered, the scammers often leave an “urgent” callback request.

Note that the IRS will never: 1) call to demand immediate payment, nor will the agency call about taxes owed without first having mailed you a bill; 2) demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe; 3) require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card; 4) ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone; or 5) threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying.

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A NEW LEADER HAS EMERGED IN THE WORLD OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERIES IN THE VALLEY OASIS Hospital remains the leading volume hospital for the adult elective inpatient orthopedic and spine surgeries. OASIS Hospital is a 64-bed, specialty orthopedic facility providing orthopedic surgery and diagnosis services for patients 14 years of age and older.

It’s a concierge style hospital, which opened in June 2011—and can now proudly share about being recognized by the Joint Commission as a Top Performing Hospital on key quality measures for surgical services in 2013.

More adults elect to have their inpatient orthopedic surgeries at OASIS Hospital than any other hospital in Maricopa County. In fact, OASIS Hospital’s reputation has drawn patients from 20 different states and as far away as Ludlow, Massachusetts.

The Joint Commission Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® 2013

“We are very exited to be recognized by the Joint Commission as a Top Performer,” said Jim Flinn, FACHE and CEO at OASIS Hospital. “Our hospital was designed by doctors for doctors and their patients, and when this happens, everyone wins. Patient care is improved, physicians are happier, and outcomes are better. I’m confident that our reputation and our model are responsible for this accomplishment.”

“This recognition means that Oasis Hospital was one of 1,224 hospitals to meet or exceed the target rates of performance for 2013. I am proud of our staff and physicians that have the passion to make this possible.”

Transitions CYNTHIA LENNON SEP. 10 1939 – APR. 1 2015

A televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker and prolific author, Robert Shuller was principally known for his weekly Hour of Power church service, which first aired in 1970 and eventually became the world’s most widely watched hour-long church broadcast. It was seen and heard by over 20 million in 166 countries around the world. Shuller opened the Garden Grove Community Church in a rented drive-in movie theater in Garden Grove, California, in 1955.

As his congregations grew, so did his churches, leading up to the Crystal Cathedral, one of the country’s first megachurches, which opened in 1980. Shuller preferred to focus on what he felt were the positive attributes of Christianity, encouraging people to achieve great things through God and believe in their dreams. “If you can dream it, you can do it!” he wrote. Shuller learned he had terminal esophageal cancer in 2013. He and his wife, Arvella, who died in February 2014, were married for 63 years.

THOSE WHO DIED ON GERMANWINGS FLIGHT 9525

Born Cynthia Powell, she was John Lennon’s first wife. John and Cynthia attended the Liverpool College of Art together in the late ’50s and were married at a registrar’s office in 1962, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager, in attendance. Their son, Julian, was born in 1963, around the time Beatlemania erupted in Britain. They were divorced in 1968, after John met and fell in love with Yoko Ono. Cynthia published a memoir in 1978, called A Twist of Lennon, about her life before and during her marriage to John. She also published a biography, simply titled John, in 2005. Cynthia married three more times after she and John were divorced; her last husband, Noel Charles, died in 2013. Julian, who was with his mother during her brief battle with cancer and when she died at her home in Majorca, Spain, released a tribute video soon after her death. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono paid tribute to her as well.

REV. ROBERT HAROLD SCHULLER SEP. 16 1926 – APR. 2 2015

On March 24, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps, killing all 144 passengers and six crew members on board.

The plane was en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany. Among the passengers were 16 high school students and two of their teachers from Haltern, Germany, two wellknown opera singers and citizens from 18 countries. According to reports, the co-pilot had previously said he was going to “do something” that would make everyone know his name and remember him. It is believed that he locked the captain out of the cockpit, took control of the aircraft and put it into a vertical dive until it crashed, about eight minutes later. In this sometimes crazy world in which we live, senseless acts take place all too frequently, and this is certainly one of them. The least we can do is to remember those who perished and offer our condolences to their loved ones.

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CEO Series: John Lines Arizona Offers Businesses A Platform For International Growth Unlock Your Power Of Observation

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CEO SERIES John Lines Surplus Asset Management

BY MARY L. HOLDEN

Year & Place of Birth: 1962, in Lincoln, Nebraska

Year Company was Founded: 2004

Favorite Arizona Place: The Mollogon Rim

Schools Attended/ Education Profile: Lines moved to Arizona in 1972 and graduated from Independence High School in Glendale.

Favorite Quote: “Never cut what you can untie.” ~Joseph Joubert

Favorite Charity: Surplus Asset Management donates to a wide variety of charities. Most recently, an auction at Greasewood Flats raised nearly $10,000 for Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

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Family: Married; three children

There is a supply for every demand.

–Florence Scovel Shinn

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ou thought you were going to read about John Lines, the CEO of Surplus Asset Management, or SAM. You are, but first consider the topic of supply and demand.

In 1707, Alexander Justine published a book titled A General Treatise of Monies and Exchanges, in which (on page 79) is found the phrase, “…for one Man's loss becomes another Man's Gain.” This activity is as old as mankind, yet the business of managing surplus is “a relatively new industry,” according to Lines.

John Lines built his career on this truth— starting in 1988 with the service, repair and installation of equipment in supermarket bakeries. From there, Lines experienced an evolution and became an expert at all kinds of repair specific to supermarkets, which led to stand-alone bakeries, restaurants and other institutions (prisons, hospitals) where food and related products are ordered, received, processed and served. This service experience led Lines to a bigger picture—inventory assessment, warehousing and the logistics of managing supply and demand.

What happens when you buy a shirt, realize it doesn’t fit and return it to the store?

What happens when a company such as an airline merges with another company and can no longer use hundreds of first-companylogo-etched beverage glasses used to serve first-class passengers?

Consider the art and science of “reverse logistics.” It’s an elegant way to explain what happens when a company finds itself with too much inventory like the kinds described above. Lines sells this surplus to eager consumers (who find creative ways to either remarket or transform the items), refreshes the coffers of the company/seller and practices recycling all items in every way possible.

Lines believes there is a use for “almost everything.” In the case of the airline glasses, they were sold to an artist who needed glass for a sculpture. The ill-fitting shirt may have ended up in a set of other returned clothing and bundled for donation to an area of poverty somewhere in the world.

In 2004, Lines created Surplus Asset Management in order to specialize in reverse logistics, and it has grown into this industry’s leading example through the use of automated inventory controls, expert appraisals, industrial and commercial engineering and the use of various auction styles and platforms. It has served many clients across the U.S. from its location in central Phoenix.

Lines credits his success to the way Surplus Asset Management has operated with integrity by respecting the needs and visions of clients, and giving them each a tailor-made experience in finding buyers for excess inventory.

For an inside look at this industry and the man behind the business, Lines agreed to answer the following questions:

Q. The term “forward logistics” implies the natural flow of supply and demand.

Please talk about “reverse logistics” and how it works.

A. About five years ago I was in conversation with my niece who was studying business through the W.P. Carey School at Arizona State University. She asked if my company practiced “reverse logistics.” It was the first I’d heard the term, so I explored the meaning.

Reverse logistics is what happens to items that are returned to a retail store. The reason this is a young industry is because value is seen in what is returned. In the past, many returned or unused items were just thrown away.

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What was the most interesting case of “reverse logistics” your company ever handled?

A. The company was asked to find a use for metal tureens that could no longer be used by a company. Through our connection, these bowls found their way to a place known as The Tech Shop in Chandler, and they were melted down to create favors for wedding guests. What’s so interesting is when we get items that serve a specific purpose that are changed into completely

different items. It’s creative. The mission is to repurpose everything out there that needs to be disposed of—and make it new and useful again. When we are no longer adding to landfills, everyone benefits.

Q. Is an auction the only way to move the products that come to your company to be moved?

A. Most of our business involves online, simulcast auctions, especially for the coastto-coast supermarket chains, and restaurants.

Before the Internet, perhaps 25 to 230 people would take the time to show up for a live auction of surplus. With technology, there has been a 30 to 50 percent increase in auction attendance because people can see photos, listen to the auctioneer, bid in real time and even send a proxy bid (or an advance bid) without leaving the comfort of their home or office.

We also host tag sales—we use the space where the business has closed to tag, negotiate price and sell inventory and equipment that is no longer being used. During a company’s liquidation, we itemize, group what is to be sold, open or manage whatever space is to be used for the sale and track sales for the highest and best good for all involved in the process.

Q. Explain why you like the phrase “Good is the enemy of great.” How do you practice this wisdom?

A. I got that phrase from a book on man-

agement by James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don’t. The idea is that if you do well but become complacent, you’ll never reach “great.” Don’t settle! There are many ways to be great in business, but if excellence is happening in one area and yet the person sweeping the floor at the end of the day is disgruntled, things can’t be “great.”

The office climate—from top to bottom, the business negotiations, sales and purchases— everything that makes the company what it is—has to be a positive experience.

It’s not enough to be “good,” Lines believes. “This is a great company because we work tirelessly to meet every goal.” At Surplus Asset Management, the supply of “great” is always equal to demand.

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BY SANDRA WATSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITY

In 2014, Chief Executive Magazine ranked Arizona as a Top 10 place to do business in the nation, a reflection of the state’s pro-business environment.

A STRONG FOUNDATION

The U.S. and Canada benefit from the world’s largest trading partnership—one that results in the exchange of hundreds of billions of dollars in goods and services between both countries, and spurs more than 8 million U.S. jobs which are reliant on trade and investment with Canada. The importance of this relationship is echoed by the strong trade connections the state of Arizona has with its northern neighbor.

In 2013, Arizona and Canada generated more than $3.7 billion (USD) in total bilateral trade making Canada the state’s second largest international trading partner, following Mexico. In 2104, Canada’s total annual FDI into Arizona was $5.1 billion.

FDI & KEY TRADE SECTORS

According to Global Trade Information Statistics, Arizona imported more than $1.5 billion in goods from Canada while the state’s exports exceeded $2.2 billion.

Businesses in both countries exchange a wide variety of products with a diverse blend of industry sectors represented in this annual trade activity. Recent 2013 data from fDi Markets places foreign direct investment from Canada to Arizona at $40 million and the CABC reports that over 300 Canadian companies are currently operating in the state. Both statistics signal that Arizona is commanding the attention of international investors and Canadian companies seeking growth.

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the top manufactured goods exported by Arizona to Canada in 2013. That year, the state sent more than $333 million in aerospace and aircraft products and parts, and more than $310 million in semiconductors, computers and other electronics. Arizona also exported more than $100 million in motor vehicle manufactured goods during the same period, and the state continues to be a key supplier of agricultural crops for Canada with exports to the country totaling $334 million.

These areas clearly demonstrate Arizona’s robust advanced manufacturing capabilities and technical know-how as well as the benefits of its climate and geographic location—all factors that have made the state a key trade partner with Canada and a destination of opportunity for international companies seeking to expand their U.S. presence and access to global markets.

ARIZONA EQUIPPED TO SUPPORT BUSINESS

The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) works to increase Arizona’s visibility outside of its borders to attract new businesses and foreign direct investment. The ACA leads the state’s economic develop.m.ent efforts and engages company decision makers in Canada and around the world to educate them about Arizona’s many opportunities, low cost of doing business, rich talent pool, strategic Southwest location, pro-business policies and superior quality of life.

Guided by its primary mission to grow and strengthen Arizona’s economy, the ACA works collaboratively with economic develop.m.ent organizations, chambers of commerce, cities, towns, academic institutions, and the business community to recruit out-

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Critical to this effort has been Arizona’s Competitiveness Package. Through the visionary leadership of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer who, with the support of the state legislature, created the groundbreaking legislation adopted in 2011 that equipped the state with a suite of tools and technical assistance programs to support corporate growth and expansion.

The Competitiveness Package overhauled the tax system, streamlined the regulatory structure and honed Arizona’s focus on business recruitment, retention and high-value job creation.

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LOW COSTS AND SIMPLIFIED TAXES

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Confidential and thorough site-selection assistance, including existing buildings, build-to-suit opportunities and buildings almost ready for market that sometimes are not yet listed in databases.

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Planning, coordination and transportation for community and site visits, including arranging meetings with local officials, key economic develop.m.ent professionals, workforce and educational leaders.

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Access to regulatory authorities and clarification of governmental regulations.

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INNOVATION: A GROWTH DRIVER

At the same time, corporate and individual income tax rates in Arizona will be among the lowest in the U.S., and by 2017 Arizona’s corporate income tax will have declined by 30 percent from 2013 rates, for a final rate of just 4.9 percent. Additionally, Arizona has created a variety of tax programs that benefit companies in the state.

These include no franchise tax, no business inventory tax and no estate tax.

Finally, the state has streamlined its regulatory system and repealed overly burdensome regulations to make it easier to do business. A recent (2014) example of said streamlining are the fundamental changes made in the administration of Arizona’s salestax system (Transaction Privilege Tax). These changes simplified tax collection and eliminated the need for multiple (state and local) tax licenses, tax returns and tax audits.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Adding to the list of Arizona advantages for businesses are its strategic geographic location and access to major world markets.

Arizona is near some of the world’s largest economies including California (No. 9), Texas (No. 13) and Mexico (No. 14) with Arizona positioned as the only state in the nation within a day’s drive of all those global markets. Trucks originating in Arizona are capable of reaching 65 million people within a one-day drive, making market access particularly convenient for regional and international export and import activity.

With the opening of the new Arizona State Trade and Investment Office in Mexico this past October, Arizona offers yet another opportunity for companies to advance their cross-border market reach. The ACA-led trade office located in Mexico City assists Arizona companies in successfully entering the Mexican market, and creates a launchpad for businesses in both countries to expand international trade, supply chain alliances and foreign direct investment. The office focuses on targeted sectors that include aerospace & defense, medical devices, biosciences and innovation.

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Within the state, Arizona’s dynamic technology ecosystem is also a magnet for innovators and is comprised of global tech giants in established industries, including semiconductor and aerospace & defense manufacturing, as well as innovative startup companies emerging in multiple growth sectors, particularly information technology and biotechnology.

The state consistently ranks among the top four in the nation for advanced manufacturing in the semiconductor and aerospace & defense sectors, and its robust manufacturing base is home to more than 4,600 manufacturers.

In fact, there are more than 1,200 companies that comprise the A&D supply chain in Arizona, creating a platform for large A&D manufacturers to produce advanced aerospace and defense products using local businesses.

More recently, Arizona has formed a community of more than 50 accelerators and incubators supporting entrepreneurs and assisting early-stage technology, IT, biotech and manufacturing companies advance from idea to commercialization while providing technical expertise, mentorship and funding.

The state’s robust portfolio of statewide programs supporting both early-stage and large tech employers and have created an environment that’s attractive for additional capital investment and has elevated Arizona as a state with the advanced industry talent to produce the next breakthrough idea.

HIGH-SKILLS TALENT

Arizona’s higher education system also plays a vital role in innovation and is a major draw for expanding companies. Arizona’s workforce pipeline is continually fed by a network of public universities— Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University, which produce top-ranked degree programs, and continue to advance technologies that are solving some of the world’s most challenging problems. Businesses also benefit from the nation’s largest community college system—Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix and Pima Community Colleges in southern Arizona offer skilled training and certification programs for workers—helping to meet the talent demands of today’s innovators.

The state is transforming into an international hub of innovation and a platform for bilateral trade and investment for companies involved in the global economy.

The ACA and its partners remain committed to supporting Canadian companies, entrepreneurs, multinational ventures, and next-generation thinkers who are creating tomorrow’s innovations.

For more information about business expansion opportunities in Arizona, visit azcommerce.com.

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ook around you. What do you see?

If you were asked to be a witness at a trial, would you be able to remember details and conditions?

One of the qualities of successful people in all walks of life is keen observation of things about them. They notice things about people, human nature and the general world around them. Many of us, unfortunately, go through life with our eyes half closed.

Perhaps you remember the story of the two streakers who interrupted a New York Yankees baseball game when Yogi Berra was the catcher for the Yankees. In the bottom of the ninth inning, two young people suddenly ran onto the field stark naked, slid into home plate, and then ran off again.

Asked later if the streakers were boys or girls, Yogi replied, “I don’t know. They were wearing bags over their heads.”

Of course, Yogi also famously said, “You can observe a lot just by watching.”

That’s why we love Yogi, even though his observations are mind-boggling.

Most people are easily distracted and not aware of what is going on around them.

Being a keen observer is very important in life.

Perhaps one of the most famous “observers” in history is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character. Holmes’ method of detection was “based on the observation of trifles.” To him, absolutely nothing was insignificant. Clues and information were all around, if only people would take notice. Doyle’s readers are challenged to recall and relate details of his stories to solve the mysteries.

Dr. Joseph Bell was the physician said to be the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle was particularly interested in Bell’s emphasis on the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis.

For example, Bell told the story of a famous surgeon who used to tell his students that a doctor needed two abilities: freedom from nausea and the power of keen observation. One day he poured kerosene, castor oil and mustard into a little cup. He dipped a finger into the foul liquid and then sucked his finger. He passed the cup around to every student in the class and asked them to do the same. Reluctantly, the students did as the professor requested.

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Unlock Your Power of Observation Mackay’s Moral: If what you see is what you get, make sure you’re looking closely.

After all the students had dipped into the vile liquid, the professor remarked to the class: “I am afraid that not one of you used your powers of observation. The finger I put into the cup was not the same one that I stuck in my mouth.”

Observation has practical applications in business, according to the Royal Bank of Canada newsletter: a businessperson being able to size up a situation accurately and quickly; an engineer who can scan a factory floor and notice key aspects of workflow; a sales representative who can tell how best to approach a person after a glance at the desk.

“An effective businessperson sees what others overlook, whether in a production line, an administrative routine, or a balance sheet,” the newsletter says.

Good observers filter out preconceptions, prejudices and cultural biases so that they see things as they are, not just as they want them to be.

An old lion realized he’d have to give up the title of king of all beasts. With failing eyesight, he grew dizzy from hunger and couldn’t even muster the energy to roar. So he devised a plan to fill his belly before the other animals could figure out his secret.

He limped back to his den where he collapsed, feigning grave injury and illness and announced that his time on the plains would soon fade into the sunset. One by one the animals of the forest came to pay their respects. And one by one they disappeared as the lazy lion licked away any evidence of their visits.

But when the fox came to visit, he maintained a cautious distance outside the lion’s cave.

“Who is that I hear stirring about?” whispered the lion.

“It is I,” said the fox.

“Come closer friend for I can barely see you.”

“No,” said the fox. Some distance between us is best. I see many footprints leading into your den, but none leaving.”

The lion roared in anger, causing the fox and other animals to scurry into the forest.

The fox was hailed as a hero, and the animals of the forest learned a valuable lesson: Those who are wise and observant learn from the mistakes of others.

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FARMERS MARKET TEMPE A locally-owned business in downtown Tempe, specializing in local products and local, fresh, organic fruit and produce.

Tempe Farmers Market has been open since 2009 provides an outlet for over 100 locally made products. 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. tempefarmersmarket.com DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET CHANDLER Every Thursday, except holidays, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, more than 40 vendors have fresh produce, tamales, BBQ sauce, hot dogs, soap, fine arts and crafts, honey, granola, herbal remedies, 48 May | June 2015 MyLife

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Ready to eat foods and great meal ideas are also available.

Thursdays chandlerfarmersmarket.com FARMER’S MARKET AT PARK WEST PEORIA Weekly kids activities, delicious food trucks and of course fresh produce from our amazing local farmers, great local foods from many different vendors, coffee beans roasted on site!

Handmade items, products and local services. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Saturdays MONTHLY MASH UP SERIES AT TALAVERA SCOTTSDALE Enjoy an entirely new restaurant concept at the new Monthly Mash-Up Series at Talavera at Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North. One local chef will step out of their kitchen and into the kitchen of Executive Chef Mel Mecinas to join forces for an unpredictable night of

culinary fun. Each evening will feature a four-course tasting menu, with highlights from each chef’s culinary concept.

Sundays talaverarestaurtant.com GOODYEAR SPRING CONCERT SERIES GOODYEAR Bring lawn chairs, blankets, food and beverages (no glass) or purchase from our on-site food vendor. Goodyear Community Park. Free event.

Through May DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN BUTTERFLY PAVILION PHOENIX Walk among the beautiful butterflies at this special springtime event located at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.

Through May 10 WALK-IN WEDNESDAYS TEMPE Local musicians perform at a free open mic night from 6 p.m.

to 10 p.m. Tempe Center for the Arts in downtown Tempe.

Every Wednesday in May ARTBRIDGE THURSDAYS SCOTTSDALE Artists, crafters and jewelers exhibit and sell items in a familyfriendly, festive environment.

SouthBridge, downtown Scottsdale. Free admission.

Every Thursday in May BIRDS ‘N’ BEER PHOENIX Birds and Beer offers local professionals a fun and refreshing way to learn about Arizona birds and other wildlife while networking with fellow nature-lovers. Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center.

Third Thursday in May and June WESTGATE BIKE NIGHT GLENDALE Hundreds of bikes line Coyotes Boulevard. Entertainment, deals and discounts from Westgate merchants. All riders

paintings, watercolors, acrylics, scratchboard, printmaking, soft pastel, gourd art, colored pencil, fine jewelry, and mixed media. Artwork on display will be available for purchase.

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BIKE NIGHT are welcome. You don’t have to have a bike to attend. Free admission. Westgate City Center.

Thursdays through June 25 RESIDENT ARTIST AT THE WIGWAM FINE ART EXHIBIT LITCHFIELD PARK Ten Fine Art, a collective of nine award winning West Valley artists currently serving as Artists in Residence at the Wigwam, will offer the public an opportunity to view, in one setting, a large variety of artwork including oil

MUSIC IN THE GARDEN AT DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN PHOENIX The Garden welcomes back Ritmo Latino to the Ullman stage! Come ready to hear the beautiful blends of cha cha cha, Latin jazz, salsa, and cumbia styling for an incredible musical experience.

May 8 dbg.org TUCSON FOLK FESTIVAL TUCSON Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ronstadt Generations and Tom Chapin will headline the 30th Annual

Tucson Folk Festival, along with other special guests and more than one hundred bands and solo artists from Tucson, around Arizona and across the country.

May 2 – 3 MCCORMICK-STILLMAN RAILROAD PARK FREE CONCERTS SCOTTSDALE Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and enjoy a variety of music from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Train and carousel rides are available during all concerts for a small charge.

May 3 – July 5 tempefarmersmarket.com MOVIES IN THE PARK MARICOPA What could be better than a great movie under the stars in the park? Grab a blanket or a lawn chair and head for Pacana Park to enjoy the 2014 Movies in

the Park series.

May 4, 18; June 1, 15 ORO VALLEY CONCERT SERIES TUCSON Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance presents a concert of current and classic country and rock-and-roll music at Oro Valley Marketplace. Performances support local musicians in a myriad of genres. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs.

May 14; June 11 MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM PHOENIX Movies at the Phoenix Art Museum? The museum may not have popcorn, but it does screen thought-provoking art films and films that relate to special exhibitions or the museum’s collection.

May 11, 18; June 8, 22

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CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION PHOENIX Arizona Biltmore Resort, step right up and get ready to laugh, have fun, and celebrate a magical night out, “Revitalizing Magic” by blending “Around the World in 80 Minutes” international travel theme with the charms of a vaudevilleinspired roadshow, and magic, MysterySaturdays. Reservations required, no children under 13, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., call 480359-7469.

May 1 – May 30 carnivalofillusion.com SPRING BUTTERFLY EXHIBIT PHOENIX Desert Botanical Garden, visitors can expect to see hundreds of butterflies housed in a spacious 36-by-80-foot flight enclosed lush garden that recreates a habitat most appealing to these fragile fliers, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., 480-941-1225.

May 1 – May 10 HISTORIC ROUTE 66 FUN RUN KINGMAN More than 900 classic show cars cruise Route 66 from Seligman to Topock, Kingman includes a huge show-n-shine, musical performances, vendors and food, 928-753-5001.

May 1 – May 3 azrt66.com kingmantourism.org 6TH ANNUAL ARIZONA BARBEQUE FESTIVAL SCOTTSDALE Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, live bands, “redneck themed” games, beer and booze, and (literally) tons of smoked meat such as brisket, chicken, pulled port, ribs and all the fixin’s, kid’s zone, $12 GA, $60 VIP, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m., 480-270-5102.

May 2 azBBQfestival.com JEROME ART WALK JEROME Visit more than 30 of the unique art studios and galleries, meet the artists and see handcrafted art including jewelry, pottery, glass, leatherwork, clothing, paintings and sculpture and more made both locally and

internationally, free, 5 – 8 p.m.

May 2 jeromeartwalk.com WESTGATE BIKE NIGHT GLENDALE Westgate Entertainment District, see hundreds of motorcycles, Plus, enjoy live music and great Bike Night deals from Westgate bars and restaurants. Bike Night is fun for all ages and familyfriendly free, Thursdays, 5-9 p.m., 623-385-7502.

May 2 – May 28 westgateaz.com/bikenight SUMMER CONCERTS IN THE PARK SCOTTSDALE Summer Concerts in the Park - McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, live performances, variety of local bands, train & carousel, free, Sundays, 7:30 – 9 p.m., 480-312-2312.

May 3 – May 31 therailroadpark.com MUSIC IN THE GARDEN SPRING CONCERT SERIES PHOENIX Desert Botanical Garden, featuring Ritmo Latino, hear the beautiful blends of cha cha cha, latin jazz, salsa and cumbia styling, advance purchase recommended, $2025, additional dinner is also available, doors open at 5:30 pm, concert at 7 p.m., 480-481-8188.

May 8, 15 dbg.org 29TH ANNUAL MOUNTAIN ARTISTS GUILD FINE ART & WINE FESTIVAL PRESCOTT Courthouse Plaza, juried art show with more than 140 artisans from throughout

the West, displaying and demonstrating work in painting, ceramic, metal art, woodworking, glass, fiber and jewelry, live music, food and wine garden, free, Sat 9 am - 5 pm, Sun 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

May 9 – May 10 prescottartfestivals.com THE NIGHT RUN SCOTTSDALE Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, 8K course which winds through Scottsdale’s historic nightclub district and greenbelt, a challenging and technical road race, also a 3-mile course, health and wellness expo, 7 p.m.

May 9 thenightrun.com SPRING RESTAURANT WEEK LOCATIONS VARY This statewide affair gives foodies the chance to explore culinary delights from hidden taco shops and steakhouses to high-end, award-winning, white-tablecloth eateries.

Arizona Restaurant Week celebrates the best the state has to offer. Arizona Restaurant Week is the most edible time of the year, giving food lovers the opportunity to enjoy a threecourse, prix-fixe dinner at a number of participating Arizona restaurants. Leave the cooking to someone else and head over

to that restaurant you’ve been dying to try.

May 15 – May 25 arizonarestaurantweek.com WILLCOX SPRING WINE FESTIVAL WILLCOX Historic Railroad Park, includes local farm products, food, music and wine tasting of 8 Arizona farm wineries, $10 includes six coupons and a commemorative Arizona Wine glass.

May 16 – May 17 azwinefestival.com 5TH ANNUAL AMERI-CAN CANNED CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL SCOTTSDALE Civic Center, supporting and celebrating the craft beer movement during the recognized American Craft Beer Week, award ceremony, live entertainment, food, VIP, beer garden, beer Olympics and more than 80 local and national beers.

May 16 cannedcraftbeerfest.com WILLY WONKA, JR. SCOTTSDALE Willy Wonka Jr. – Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre, an On Stage Production, five golden tickets are hidden in chocolate bars and the world goes bonkers to find one, winners tour Willy Wonka’s mysterious factory and a year’s supply of scrumdiddlyumptious chocolate bars, when a poor boy with a widowed mom and bedridden grandparents finds one of the tickets, his life is changed beyond his imagination.

May 22 – May 31 desertstages.org 6TH ANNUAL CAVE CREEK BALLOON FESTIVAL CAVE CREEK Rancho Mañana Golf Club, enjoy live music by local bands, as well as food, beverages, cocktails and wine. Locally brewed Four Peaks beer will be available for purchase, turn the kids loose at the larger-than-ever kids’ zone and great activities, $5-10 admission, 5:30 – 10 p.m.

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magical, underwater kingdom comes to vibrant life with stateof-the-art effects and brilliant costumes in this family-friendly gem, recapture your heart with a timeless tale and irresistible songs.

June 1 – June 21 azbroadway.org

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SHOW LOW MAIN STREET FARMERS MARKET & ART WALK SHOW LOW Festival Marketplace, featuring local produce growers, food product producers, artisans and craftspeople, Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., 928-532-2680.

May 23 showlowfarmersmarket.com PHOENIX COMICON PHOENIX Phoenix Convention Center, the signature pop culture event in the southwest, focuses on comic books, anime, sci-fi and film, comic book creators, anime voice actors, movie & TV actors will be in attendance, guests will meet with fans, panels and workshops, art auction, Zombie Beauty pageant, Japanese fashion show, masquerade, live music.

May 28 – May 31 phoenixcomicon.com AJ’S SUMMER WINE SPECTACULAR TASTING EVENT SCOTTSDALE AJ’s Summer Wine Spectacular Tasting Event is the perfect opportunity to discover new wines with friends in a fun setting while supporting the arts. The event features tastings of more than 40 exceptional wines of value, all personally rated and selected by AJ’s 52 May | June 2015 MyLife

cellar masters, who will be available to provide their expert recommendations for wine and food pairings. Tastings will be complemented with gourmet specialties from AJ’s, including artisan breads and cheeses, shrimp cocktail, sushi, delectable sweets and more.

Event will be held at Scottsdale Center of Performing Arts.

May 30 scottsdaleperformingarts.org ANDY WARHOL: PORTRAITS PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum, includes nearly 200 portraits, paintings and drawings produce by Warhol from the 1940s to the 1980s, as an artist, Warhol’s unique visual language tells the story of an artist fascinated with the Phenomena of fame and celebrity.

June 1 – June 21 phoenixart.org THE LITTLE MERMAID PEORIA Arizona Broadway Theatre, the Valley premiere of one of Hans Christian Anderson’s most cherished stories, Ariel’s

23RD ANNUAL FLAVORS OF PHOENIX 2015 SCOTTSDALE The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, featuring 30 of the top chefs from across the state of Arizona, 6 p.m., benefits the American Liver Foundation.

June 4 liverfoundation.org 9TH ANNUAL SEDONA BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL 2015 SEDONA Los Abrigados Resort & Spa – Creekside, festival seating: low-back lawn chairs or stadium chairs allowed, there will be full sized chairs behind the lawn seating, food and snacks will be available at the venue.

June 4 – June 7 sedonabluegrassfestival.org 49TH ANNUAL SUMMER BAND CONCERT SERIES GLENDALE Murphy Park, by the community band of 100 musicians with its renditions of marches, ballads and show tunes, bring a lawn chair or blanket, free, 8 p.m., Thursdays.

June 4 – June 25 visitglendale.com DRY HEAT COMEDY SERIES CAVE Come out in the evening to hear some of the funniest comedians in the Valley perform. Bring lawn chairs/blankets, as well as food and beverages of your choice or purchase from our on-site food vendor. The performances take place at Goodyear Community Park.

June 6

42ND ANNUAL FOLK ARTS FAIR PRESCOTT Sharlot Hall Museum, familyfriendly heritage celebrates traditional arts, crafts and entertainment of central territorial Arizona, gold panning, hands-on crafts, livestock area, sheep shearing, food, living history interpreters, antique autos, $3-7, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

June 6 – June 7 sharlot.org 40TH ANNUAL MIGHTY MUD MANIA SCOTTSDALE Chaparral Park, includes mud obstacle courses for 6 and under, the young “mudders” in the mini mud obstacle course and puddle pools for toddlers; 7-12 yr olds the original mud course, 13-adults have a mighty mud challenge course, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.

June 6 scottsdaleaz.gov MUSIC IN THE GARDEN SPRING CONCERT SERIES PHOENIX Desert Botanical Garden, featuring The Cal Tjader Tribute Band, with original compositions of Tjader as well as other Latin Jazz favorites, advance purchase recommended, $2025, additional dinner is also available, doors open at 5:30 pm, concert at 7 p.m.

June 6 – June 7 dbg.org GRAPE TRAIN ESCAPE: WINETASTING TRAIN VERDE CANYON Grape Train Escapes are rolling wine-tasting adventures in which select wineries purvey their wines, which are paired with delectable appetizers.

History comes alive around every bend, whether you’re relaxing in, or on the comfort of a car enjoying the Arizona outdoors with a glass of wine.

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Concerts & Shows Herberger Theater 222 East Monroe Street, Phoenix phoenixherbergertheater.org Themes and Variations – Lunch Time Theater May 5 – May 21 Soiree de Ballet May 16 – 17 Unmotherly Insights – Lunch Time Theater May 26 – Jun. 4

Boz Scaggs – Memphis Tour May 12 Kevin Sterner & Strait Country: A Tribute to George Strait May 16 Eddie Izzard – force majeure May 29 Eddie Izzard – force majeure May 30

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Jun. 6

An Almost Holy Picture Jun. 12 – Jun. 27

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn Jun. 11

Fox Theatre 17 West Congress Street, Tucson foxtucsontheatre.org Gregg Allman May 1 I Dream in Widescreen May 2

1200 South Forest Avenue, Tempe asugammage.com Annie May 4 – 8 The Phantom Of The Opera May 27 – Jun. 7

Todd Rundgren Global Tour 2015 May 31

Mallecho – Lunch Time Theater Jun. 9 – Jun. 18

Into the Woods Jun. 12 – Jun. 28

ASU Gammage

Phil Wickham Jun. 13

US Airways Center 201 East Jefferson Street, Phoenix usairwayscenter.com U2: The iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour May 22 – 23 Bette Midler: Divine Intervention Tour May 24

Home Free May 5

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Celebrity Theatre 440 North 32nd Street, Phoenix celebritytheatre.com Chris Tucker May 16 2 Chainz May 29 Larry Hernandez Y El Dasa May 30 Kids in the Hall Jun. 4 Gerardo Ortiz Jun. 20

Comerica Theatre 400 West Washington Street, Phoenix comericatheatre.com ABC’s Nashville In Concert May 10 Bryan Adams May 19 ROMEO SANTOS May 28 The Gipsy Kings Jun. 2 MOVE LIVE on TOUR Starring Julianne Hough & Derek Hough Jun .12

CAMILA Jun. 25

Colm Wilkinson Jun. 4 – 5

Gila River Arena

rePLAY Jun. 6

9400 West Maryland Avenue, Glendale gilariverarena.com

The Road to Prescott Jun. 7

New Kids On The Block May 12

Phoenix Theatre

Phoenix Symphony

100 East McDowell Road, Phoenix phoenixtheatre.com

1 North 1st Street, #200, Phoenix phoenixsymphony.org Box Office Blockbusters May 2 An Evening with the Phoenix Boys Choir May 7 A Tribute to Neil Diamond May 15 “All Night Long” - Music of the 1980s May 16 – 17

24 Hour Theatre Project Through May 3 Buyer & Cellar May 1 – May 3 9 to 5 The Musical Through May 10 End Of The Rainbow Through May 17 One Man, Two Guvnors May 20 – Jun. 14

Eye of the Tiger!

May 17 Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 May 22 – 23 Tito Muñoz & Giora Schmidt May 22 Oliver! With Phoenix Theatre May 29 – 31

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Sporting Events Arizona United Soccer Club

@ Dodgers May 2 @ 6:10 p.m.

@ Marlins May 18 @ 4:10 p.m.

vs Braves Jun. 3 @ 12:40 p.m.

vs Padres Jun. 19 @ 6:40 p.m.

Scottsdale Stadium arizonaunited.com

@ Dodgers May 3 @ 1:10 p.m.

@ Marlins May 19 @ 4:10 p.m.

vs Mets Jun. 4 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Padres Jun. 20 @ 7:10 p.m.

vs Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC May 2 @ 7:30 p.m.

@ Rockies May 4 @ 5:40 p.m.

@ Marlins May 20 @ 4:10 p.m.

vs Mets Jun. 5 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Padres Jun. 21 @ 1:10 p.m.

@ Rockies May 5 @ 5:40 p.m.

@ Marlins May 21 @ 9:10 a.m.

vs Mets Jun. 6 @ 7:10 p.m.

@ Rockies Jun. 23 @ 5:40 p.m.

@ Rockies May 6 @ 12:10 p.m.

vs Cubs May 22 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Mets Jun. 7 @ 1:10 p.m.

@ Rockies Jun. 24 @ 5:40 p.m.

vs Padres May 7 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Cubs May 23 @ 7:10 p.m.

@ Dodgers Jun. 8 @ 7:10 p.m.

@ Rockies Jun. 25 @ 12:10 p.m.

vs Padres May 8 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Cubs May 24 @ 1:10 p.m.

@ Dodgers Jun. 9 @ 7:10 p.m.

@ Padres Jun. 26 @ 7:10 p.m.

vs Padres May 9 @ 5:10 p.m.

@ Cardinals May 25 @ 1:15 p.m.

@ Dodgers Jun. 10 @ 7:10 p.m.

@ Padres Jun. 27 @ 7:10 p.m.

vs Padres May 10 @ 1:10 p.m.

@ Cardinals May 26 @ 5:15 p.m.

@ Giants Jun. 12 @ 7:15 p.m.

vs Nationals May 11 @ 6:40 p.m.

@ Cardinals May 27 @ 5:15 p.m.

@ Giants Jun. 13 @ 4:15 p.m.

vs Nationals May 12 @ 6:40 p.m.

@ Brewers May 29 @ 5:10 p.m.

@ Giants Jun. 14 @ 1:05 p.m.

vs Real Monarchs SLC Jun. 27 7:30 p.m.

vs Nationals May 13 @ 12:40 p.m.

@ Brewers May 30 @ 1:10 p.m.

@ Angels Jun. 15 @ 7:05 p.m.

Phoenix Mercury

Arizona Diamondbacks

@ Phillies May 15 @ 4:05 p.m.

@ Brewers May 31 @ 11:10 a.m.

@ Angels Jun. 16 @ 7:05 p.m.

US Airways Center phoenixmercury.com

Scottsdale Stadium arizonaunited.com

@ Phillies May 16 @ 4:05 p.m.

vs Braves Jun. 1 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Angels Jun. 17 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs San Antonio Jun. 5 @ 7:00 p.m.

@ Dodgers May 1 @ 7:10 p.m.

@ Phillies May 17 @ 10:35 a.m.

vs Braves Jun. 2 @ 6:40 p.m.

vs Angels Jun. 18 @ 12:40 p.m.

@ New York Jun. 11 @ 4:00 p.m.

vs Tulsa Roughnecks FC May 9 @7:30 p.m. vs Austin Aztex May 16 7:30 p.m. @ Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC May 23 6:00 p.m. @ Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 May 31 2:00 p.m. vs Sacramento Republic FC Jun. 13 7:30 p.m. vs Seattle Sounders FC 2 Jun. 20 7:30 p.m.

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@ Padres Jun. 28 @ 1:10 p.m. vs Dodgers Jun. 29 @ 6:40 p.m. vs Dodgers Jun. 30 @ 6:40 p.m.

@ Indiana Jun. 12 @ 4:00 p.m.

@ California May 2 @ 6:00 p.m.

vs Minnesota Jun. 14 @ 12:00 p.m.

@ California May 3 @ 1:00 p.m.

vs Connecticut Jun. 19 @ 7:00 p.m.

vs UCLA May 8 @ 6:30 p.m.

@ Seattle Jun. 21 @ 6:00 p.m.

vs UCLA May 9 @ 6:30 p.m.

@ San Antonio Jun. 25 @ 5:00 p.m.

vs UCLA May 10 @ 12:30 p.m.

@ Minnesota Jun. 27 @ 5:00 p.m.

@ New Mexico May 12 @ 7:00 p.m.

vs San Antonio Jun. 30 @ 7:00 p.m.

vs Washington State May 14 @ 7:00 p.m.

ASU Baseball

vs Washington State May 15 @ 4:00 p.m.

vs USC May 22 @ 7:00 p.m.

vs Washington May 9 @ 7:00 p.m.

vs USC May 23 @ 4:00 p.m.

vs Washington May 10 @ 6:00 p.m.

vs USC May 24 @ 3:00 p.m.

@ UCLA May 15 @ 7:00 p.m.

U of A Baseball

@ UCLA May 16 @ 4:00 p.m.

Hi Corbett Field arizonawildcats.com

@ UCLA May 17 @ 1:00 p.m.

@ Washington State May 1 @ 6:00 p.m.

vs Abilene Christian May 21 @ 6:00 p.m.

@ Washington State May 2 @ 2:00 p.m.

Phoenix Municipal Stadium thesundevils.com

vs Washington State May 16 @ 7:00 p.m.

@ Washington State May 3 @ 12:00 p.m.

@ California May 1 @ 7:00 p.m.

vs Abilene Christian May 19 @ 6:30 p.m.

vs Washington May 8 @ 7:30 p.m.

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