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I Believe The Children Are Our Future Summertime is boring! There isn't any good news, nothing's going on, and grown-ups are robots. This week, the kids are taking over the Synthesis! It will probably come as no surprise to any of you that we are raising some pretty incredible young rascals here in Chico. I was so impressed with the flood of talented and thoughtful pieces we received from our junior correspondents. Also, thank you to the parental admins for facilitating this effort! We had close to 20 kids participating in this issue, and I have to say that with kids like ours, Chico, we have a lot of potential for great things in the future.

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So, with all these really splendid contributions, I'd like to kick it off with a poem written for me on Mother's Day by my own heir to the throne, Isaac Harlow Voorhees, age 10.

I love you little I love you lots My love for you would fill 10 flower pots 12 buckets of sand 11 oceans blue 10 bowls of chili and nine galaxies

(*You say the last part like "niiine golden rings")

Thank you so much to all of our contributors, big & small!

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Minecraft Rocks!

By Jack Daverson, age 11 and Harley Gonzalez, age 10

We are going to tell you about Minecraft, one of our favorite computer games to play.

When we became friends, we started playing Minecraft a lot together, especially now that it's summer.

The game is basically about constructing things with blocks in a 3D world. You can place them and break them to create different types of things like buildings and art. You can even plant things like carrots and ferns. There are more than 150 types of block materials that you can mine, like gold and diamonds.

"Punching Trees" means that you are mining trees to get wood. You can explore the worlds and find dungeons and caves. The game is made by a company called Mojang.

There are single player and multiplayer options so you can play alone or with other people.You can play with your friends and work on things together if you want, and chat in the chat bar.

We join each other on servers. The game is available online, Xbox 360 or you can play on an iPad, iPhone or Android.

The main character, which you get to play, is named "Steve:' There are lots of other characters that try to kill you in the game, like zombies, ghosts, and creepers. Creepers will blow you up and the stuff you've built. You can also have pets or livestock that can help you.

Some of the things we have built include an art gallery, houses, hotels, castles, and cannons.

Most blocks stay still, but some like water and lava blocks can move. Lava can burn things. The worlds in Minecraft are randomly created and you can basically build your own world. Or you can type in a "seed" (a word like

"floating islands") and it will give you a new type of world. We like that you can just think of something and then make it.

Everything is made out of blocks and the main goal is to build stuff and slay the Ender Dragon, which we've both done. You can still keep playing after you've done it, though.

There are different "modes" you can playcreative, adventure, survival, and hardcore.

We usually play in survival mode. There's not much violence and no blood or guts, but creatures do try to kill you or destroy things you've built. You can create or use weapons like swords or bows and arrows but no guns.

We also like to go on YouTube and watch video tutorials of how to play. Some of the tutorials have bad language in them depending on who makes them, so you have to be careful. If you are playing for the first time, it is good to play with someone who already knows how. But it's fun to figure things out on your own, too.

What's cool about the game is that it changes and you can get new stuff, called updates. For an example, we just got an update that gave out horses and donkeys. You can also get things called "mods" online that give you stuff that you can't get inside Minecraft.

We think playing this game has made us smarter and more creative, but sometimes you can get too addicted and need to take a break.

We like it because you can build whatever you want, there is no limit. We'd like it if they had more frequent updates but besides that we think its great!

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THE LITTLE ROCKET THAT COULD

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For our weekend project, we created a compressed air rocket. We built the rocket launcher using PVC pipes, and some toxic PVC glue and cement to hold it together.

We used an inline sprinkler valve to let all the air out at once. It then ereates a really strong force that launches a paper rocket into the air, and that's just what we did.

We got the idea from MAKE magazine volume 15. I really recommend this magazine for anyone who is really creative and likes to build crafts. It's a great activity magazine for the summer!

We were looking for a weekend project and we stumbled across the compressed air rocket in one of our magazines.

My brother Evan wanted to do this thing called a Brush Bot ("my robot will give me gold and diamonds and make me sandwiches:') All you have to do is cut off the head of a toothbrush and tape on a vibrating motor. But I wanted to do the compressed air rocket because it sounded more challenging (which it was) and the YouTube videos looked really cool. Matt wanted to try out silk screening. I have no idea how we decided on the rocket, except that it's obviously the coolest one.

First we downloaded the instructions from the MAKE website and went to the hardware store to buy all the pieces, which included lots of PVC pipe parts, an inline sprinkler valve, a clear tube and hose clamps, and a bunch of other stuff. It took us about four hours split over two days (because we didn't buy all the right parts the first time around) to build the rocket launcher and trigger. I used a hacksaw and cut a piece of PVC pipe into shape for the handle of the trigger. Then we put caps on the pipe and drilled holes into them, one for the button, and one for the wires. One of the wires connects to an 18V battery from a cordless drill with an alligator clip. The other wire con-

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nects to the sprinkler valve. The other sprinkler valve wire also connects to the battery with an alligator clip, and this creates a circuit, which is activated when you push the RED BUTTON! DUN-DUN-DUN!!

After we had the air chamber and trigger finished, all we had to do was attach a long plastic tube to a valve on the chamber, and a bicycle tube valve that we ripped off an old tube we had lying around the garage that had a hole in it.

After we took the valve off the bicycle tube, we removed all the rubber and then stuck it in the plastic tube and clamped it down with a hose clamp. This allowed us to pump air into the chamber with a bicycle pump. Once you fill the chamber up to 70psi, you can release all the air pressure out at once with the trigger.

Now it was time to build a rocket! This turned out to be a lot harder than it looks. Our first rocket failed miserably.

On the first flight, it worked but didn't go very high. On the second flight, the rocket ripped in half. We tried it again with just half a rocket, and that time the cone ripped off.

We were just about to give up when we thought of a new idea: we need more tape to connect the two chambers of the rocket (the body tube that connects to the launcher and the main body).

With this new design (named Blue Fury 2) we tried again and it was a complete success! It went at least 200 feet in the air, we totally lost track of it until we saw it flying head first into the ground. That crunched up the nose pretty good and it didn't fly as well after that.

The hardest part about this project was the rocket. If any of you want to help us with new rocket designs, that would be awesome! In fact, what would be really cool is to have a CONTEST for the highest flying rocket. Design your own rocket and try it out on our launcher! To infinity, and beyond! http:!lwww.youtube.com/watch?v=uErpLyBdBbU

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Allie Boyer Age 15 My story began when I was seven, in Mrs. Lando's secondgrade class. One day during break I read the book Ko-Ko's Kitten. Ko-Ko is a gorilla that knows sign language, and loves kittens. When I got home that night, I researched other apes on the computer with my mom. We found articles about orangutans, and the more I read about them, the more I loved them. When we read about their habitat loss, and how close they are to extinction, I knew I had to do something.

The orangutans will soon be gone because their jungle home in Borneo and Sumatra is being torn down to make way for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is unfortunately in most everything we buy. Processed foods, candy, make-up and beauty products, you name it. I thought if I could just get the word out, and people knew, they would boycott those products. I went to the 7- 7-7 Peace Festival at a children's park and handed out flyers to the people there. But since I was so shy, I had a hard time talking to people. As I got more confident with my cause, I spread the word more.

One of the science fair projects I did was to see if people would still buy products with palm oil when they knew what the damage was to the orangutans. I had a list of products and pictures of baby orangutans. I first asked people, "Do you use any of these products?" If they said yes, I would show them the pictures of orangutans, and explain that the product they buy is contributing to the orangutans' extinction. I then asked, "Would you give up this product now that you know?" I was sad to find that most people said no. They either loved the product too much, or couldn't afford the alternative. One person even told me that they believed the native people actually wanted their land to be turned into palm oil plantations! This is not true. The native people suffer as much as the orangutans, if not more.

They have lived on the land for generations, but they don't own the legal rights to that land; the government does. So

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If the native people try to use any of the resources on that land after it has been bought, they can be sent to jail. The people also have to suffer from pollution. This is from the "slash and burn" way to clear the forest. That is why Borneo and Sumatra have some of the highest emission rates in the world. All the carbon being emitted doesn't affect just Indonesia, but the whole world. With fossil fuels building in the atmosphere, it contributes to global warming.

I began to realize that most people don't fully understand the total damage this causes. Over the next few years I would talk to anyone who would listen. Every school project I did was also "orangutan based:' Even in my art projects I snuck in an orangutan where ever it would fit. It didn't matter if we were painting pictures of teacups, mine would have an orangutan in it. My classmates were the same in every grade

orangutans, I started my own non-profit.

It is called Purses for Primates. I collect gently-used purses to re-sell at purse parties. I donate all the money raised at these parties to the orangutans through Orangutan Outreach.

This money funds the release programs for the orangutans back into the wild. I donate though Orangutan Outreach because their founder, Richard Zimmerman has always supported my efforts in saving orangutans since I started all of this when I was seven. I am fifteen years old now, and my non-profit has raised over $8,000 so far. I highly encourage any kids out there with causes to stick with it, even when no one seems to understand, or listen, you can make a huge impact. You just have to keep going.

from third to sixth because I was in the G.A.T.E. program.

As you can imagine, they got annoyed after a while, after all every school project I had ever done was really just a way for me to teach them about orangutans. I got teased a lot, but since I was in my own little world I didn't mind much. One of the things my classmates did to tease me was they brought in popsicles with palm oil. They called them "Palm oil pops" and had much pleasure in flaunting them around me. On many occasions my classmates, and even close friends tried desperately to get me to eat palm oil.

It is really hard for a kid with a cause to keep things going, especially when it seems no ones cares.

The important thing is to keep talking about your cause, people will listen. Since I kept with my passion for

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TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS

by Nicole Hill

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I was five when I heard we were first moving to Montana.

At the time I thought it had something to do with Hannah Montana so of course I was excited. I remember watching the movers come to the house and thinking, "wow, these guys must really be strong." They made a cardboard slide on the stairs to push the boxes down and another mover would catch them at the bottom. I slid down the slide too, in a box.

even if you are hungry in the middle of the night something is open. My two favorite places to eat in Chico are the taco truck El Pinolero on the Esplanade, and Wild Oak Cafe (Gorilla Bites). I also like Chili's, Carl's Jr., Taco Bell, and Marie Calendars or pretty much anywhere I can get pie or mexican food.

4. I miss summertime. Montana is mostly winter. It gets really cold around October. Starts snowing in November and finally stops snowing in April. The first year I saw all that snow I was so happy. Now, I only like it when I can throw snowballs but we're not allowed to at school. The worst part of the snow is how cold it is all the time. Summers in Chico are a lot warmer and there are sprinklers here. Unfortunately sprinklers in Montana would freeze. I miss being able to ride a bike or play in the street because Montana has nothing but dirt roads and rocks.

Then off we went to a very small town called Eureka, Montana, it was a three-day drive.

When you live in a really small town everybody knows everybody. Almost everyone is related to each other. It turns out even my Dad has a couple of second cousins he didn't know lived there when we moved. The people are really nice and will talk to you just to see how your day is going. Living in a small town is great but I still remember and think about all the things I miss in Chico. After living in Montana for three years here's the Top Five Things I Miss About Chico:

WHEN YOU LIVE IN A REALLY SMALL TOWN EVERY~ODY KNOWS EVERY~ODY. 1. I miss shopping. Shopping isn't great in our small town.

We have one store that sells clothes and it's mostly old lady clothes and dresses. They do sell some baby clothes, but I'm definitely not a baby anymore. We have a couple grocery stores, one "large" and one "small'.' The larger one is only half the size of a Chico grocery store. The smaller one is the size of my living room. If you need to buy anything for your house you have to take a trip to the city. I really miss the mall in Chico because it has all the stores I really like in one place with no driving. Now it takes 45 minutes to the city to get to those places and they aren't even in a mall. Shopping isn't a fun one or two hour thing anymore. It takes all day and Mom and Dad have lists of things to get and many stores to go to.

We get home sometimes after dark and I fall asleep in the car I'm so tired.

2. I miss the movies. The big movie theater is in the city

and it takes a LONG TIME to get there. After a while I guess you get used to the drive and now it seems like 2 minutes.

The movie theater in our small town is very small. It only has one room and one screen. They can get new movies but it takes a while because its such a small town. Last year they celebrated their lOOth anniversary and they still play the old 35mm films. The big movie company doesn't want to send the films anymore so they have been told to switch to digital. The theater doesn't have enough money to buy digital equipment, so they're going to close soon if they can't raise enough funds.

I like the movies in Chico because it's a bigger theater so it gets new movies all the time. They have better popcorn and more choices for food and candy.

5. I miss the library. My grandma and I would take the bus because it was fun. I remember going to the library almost every single day. I even had my own library card. They have board games, and over 2000 books. I've only gone to the kid's area, I haven't been in the other parts, except the bathroom.

I'm sure the rest is nice too. My most favorite thing about going to the library was hanging out with my Grandma because she is awesome. It's a good thing she moved to Montana too.

3. I miss dining out. We only have five restaurants in town, and only three of those are open during the winter. We have one fast food sandwich restaurant but that's all. If you need something to eat late you're out of luck because everything closes early around nine. I love Chico's restaurants because

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At the tender age of two, Lily stunned the art world with her series Aliens Love Underpants: A Toddler's Napmare, translating the illustrations she had seen in the popular picture book.

Rumors abounded that she would show up at parties, and delight unsuspecting audiences with a solo performance of an interpretive dance piece she had choreographed for ten, counting off each dancer as she went through it.

Truly a multimedia artist--constantly expanding her repertoire-Lily has recently penned several graphic novels: Bad Little Things (in which scar-faced DoDo witnesses the princess cutting off the queen's head with a knife), Pregnant (in which a queen is unaware how she became pregnant, but comes to terms with the fact that it's weird), and Do You Know Whats Sad? (Spoiler alert-it's that "this girl died").

Soon after, she further delved into mixed ink and paint works in several collections themed around patriotism, suffering, and animals.

Grasping the deeper essence of the aliens-the commingling of emotion that drives them to their constant travels through the emptiness of space, unsure what they are even searching for-she brought society a glimpse of itself in the funhouse mirror that is a child's mind.

Lily took no pleasure in fame, preferring to withdraw from the hungry world and nurture her own creativity, concentrating on honing her technique. She released several pieces to private collectors during those years, including a provocative reversal on The Little Mermaid entitled "J Cut OffMy Legs and Sewed on This Fish Tail," as well as a dramatic series called " They 're all Dead and They Don 't Know It," exploring the underwater old-folks ' home in Ponyo.

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In 2011 , Lily took some time to focus on her family, after the birth of her little sister Helen. Breaking cliches at every turn, Lily refused to buy into traditional expectations of sibling rivalry. As Helen grew, she inspired from Lily many short poems, most notably the touching tribute, "If Helen Were Food, She Would Be Cake. "

Her genius at portraying the agony and ecstasy of human suffering, her exploration of birth, death and transformation, and her childlike delight in concepts such as sprouting wings to leave the material world behind, leave the viewer with a puzzling sense of wholeness in the midst of confusion.

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In recent months, Lily began playing with bold colors and exaggerating her diminutive proportion to her mother, in a manner reminiscent of Frida Kahlo in her famous work depicting herself next to Diego Rivera.

She deftly portrays her yearning to be the baby in the carrier, melded with her desire to ease her mother's stress, in the heartbreaking piece entitled "Always to be Assisted'.'

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This is a great place to escape the heat, expose your kids to the world of reading, and grab yourself a nice iced latte. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, the booksellers of Barnes & Noble will even entertain your little munchkins with a few stories back in the kids department. This Saturday they're going a step further, adding a scavenger hunt, crafts from around the world, and the chance to win some outstanding prizes. Starts at ll am

On the first Saturday of each month through September, you can gather your kids (aged 10 and under), and join a group ride looping lower Bidwell Park.

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by Carly Gunn Age 13 How could you love yourself when you're being constantly compared to beautiful Photoshopped women every day?

Well, it is easier said than done.

Coming from a 13-year-old girl dealing with self-image, self worth, and society's pressures, it is not easy being a girl! As I look through social media websites I see perfectly skinny women with shiny long hair, and beautiful faces. When I see the woman I only wish to be her or the next perfect one like her. The allure is very strong.

As I struggled through today's society, I succumbed to the pressure of having to be skinny and thinking thin is the only form of beautiful. The eating disorder soon took over my thoughts and actions. I first started cutting back on the foods I loved. I was eating only healthy foods. Then I was only allowing myself to eat under 900 calories a day. I physically felt weak and brittle, but mentally I felt strong knowing I couldn't eat. I had the strength to not eat when other girls couldn't help themselves. As I became "stronger" so many peers started noticing my weight loss. After awhile I noticed I was becoming too skinny and my disorder had gotten out of control.

I felt like I was alone but as I started researching this disease, I realized I wasn't alone. There were so many girls struggling with this disorder. With the help of friends and family I soon overcame Anorexia. I went to a counselor who helped me believe I was truly beautiful even if I was not a size zero. As I was trying to find myself and who I really was, I found that everyone is different and beautiful at a size 16 or a size 1.

Today, I view myself as a healthy young girl. I'm still not the skinniest girl around, but I am OK with my body. I don't look emaciated or sickly anymore. I am a happy, smiling, energetic teen.

Society believes if you are skinny you are prettier or better than others .

Skinny is a look, but happiness is a feeling. At my skinniest I was so unhappy because I was thriving to be skinnier. Happiness does not come from the outside, but the inside. With today's society girls just need to learn to love and accept themselves, and to always remember beauty comes from within.

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Hello, this is Franklin, I am five. I have a lot of favorite things about summer in Chico. My first favorite thing is swimming at my Lala and Papa's pool and spending time with them and their dogs, Dexter, Dixie, Violet and Percy. My next favorite thing is spending time with my family. Another favorite thing is taking my dog Penny to the creek in Bidwell Park. I also like going to the cabin with my Gaga and Pop and aunts and uncles, and cousins. Family movie night is really fun too. Making art and drawing is another one of my favorite things to do in the house when it is too hot outside.

The absolutely last thing I still want to do this summer is build a lemonade stand with my friends where I can be the boss. I want to sell lemonade to all the kids in Chico so I can make a lot of money to buy a power ranger gun that I want to get.

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The butterflies in my stomach and the feel of velvet brushing my shoulder, as I take the stage to perform my heart skips a beat. Not because I'm nervous, but out of pure joy and excitement.

Musical Theater is my life, my name is Tia Elizabeth Watkins, I am 14 years old and I live to perform.

My first theater experience was three years ago and just by chance. I have tried many sports and they just weren't my thing.

A friend asked me to do a summer camp at Chico Theater Company. The musical was Once Upon a Mattress. I auditioned my third day there just hoping to have a speaking role, to my surprise I was given the leading female role and this is where my love for theater was born.

I have since performed in five children's theater productions and one full production at California Regional Theater. The children's theater classes at CRT are amazing, I really owe everything I have learned to them.

If you're thinking you might want to try musical theater, this is the place to start.

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students showed us a wonderful time and have become mentors to me. This show will always be my Favorite, because my nineyear-old old brother Daniel was in it too.

Standing side by side with him in Laxson Auditorium and performing on this stage was an experience I will never forget.

I have found the theater experience to be more than just performing, you create friends and these friends are your family during the long hours of rehearsals. I have personally witnessed children/ friends overcome and conquer their fears. Friends who were too shy to talk in the beginning shining like stars on the stage. I have also found there is a place for everyone in theater from performing, to creating sets to lighting and sound. Musical theater has grown big in Chico, children's theater classes are the place to be. I am really excited for CRT Kids Fall Musical: Disney's Mulan and Disney's The Jungle Book! Come join me this fall and experience the fun!

I know doors have been opened for me through music and I feel truly blessed to have a wonderful family who supports both my brother and I in theater.

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Her Molly Lane Her eyes held her secrets of a million worlds On her lips rubies were painted When she spoke she sang a thousand songs with a thousand voices And yet she never spoke And when she smiled it was like she was smiling at a sunrise every day Each one more beautiful than the last And yet she never smiled.

And her heart, oh yes in her heart, love and sorrow resided She loved more than you could ever imagine No matter who you were, or what you had done, or what you will do, she loved you She loved anything and everything Yet there was still sorrow It lurked behind every smile and every word A sorrow that no one knew the answer to A sorrow that could never be broken And then one morning she woke and smiled her beautiful smile and said in her singing voices "No more pain, no more sorrow. This is mine, not yours'.'

And with that her eyes filled with more secrets and hopes Her lips were parted in an undying laughter And her smile was always there even when she was not Her voice lingered in your ears for days to come And love was always in her heart Molly is 12 years old

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In choice words, middle school was just... lacking. Lacking opportunity, lacking excitement, lacking anybody who understood my taste in music, art, movies, everything. My fellow compadres/maniacs and I were restless for somewhere new, somewhere where we could jump from the small, familiar pond that we had been in for years, and into the great big ocean that is bigger halls, more people, and harder classes; namely, high school.

We were excited to reinvent ourselves, or at least spice things up from the tan skirt and navy polo uniform that we had been in for three years, and trust me, that didn't give you a lot of opportunity to express yourself. We finally had the chance to be noticed, to be different from the rest, and that was the greatest gift that anyone could've ever given us. For us this was a fresh start, letting loose and experimenting with not only clothes, but with our choice in art, music, and books.

Gone was the sanctioned library of our school, full of books that nobody was even remotely interested in. Gone was the snarky girl who sneered at my iPod, and laughed at my drawings.

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And honestly? Yeah, for awhile before I wised up and met some really cool people, I thought high school was a Mean Girls movie. I was even half expecting Lindsey Lohan to pop up and tell me that I should trade in my Hobbit shirt for a mini skirt. But that isn't the case. I've met so many people who are juniors and seniors who are so accepting, and really excited to see me and my pals this coming semester. (And they weren't wearing crop tops or mini skirts. I promise.)

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LEO

LIBRA

SAGITTARIUS

AQUARIUS

You are charged with being more creative. Art should be a part of your life, even if only in a small way. Your imagination is working great. New ideas are flooding your soul. Family and home are taking on more importance, especially as we approach the weekend You're even enjoying working with others more. Buy a nice outfit to wear at work.

The season to enjoy your local environment is here. Take off to the high country and enjoy a high mountain lake or a cool stream.

The travel bug has likely bitten you.

Nonstop motor-mouth conversations are more likely to happen.

The moon will be in Gemini from Wednesday through most of Friday. You will be able to engage with others much more freely.

Happy birthday! I am glad that you are alive. 'This is not the easiest of years for the lion and lioness. Karma of both a positive and a negative nature is exploding all around you. 'This would be a good weekend to lay low and to pay bills, or to escape to a remote wilderness location. What you need is a spiritual uplift without spending money on a super guru or a new toy.

Youa like to escape and socialize, yet the responsibilities of your career keep on piling up. Take courage as your leadership ability is better than ever before. You are able to motivate others with sweet rewards. Your love life is either intoxicating and blissful, or you're dealing with a deceptive crumb of a human being. Hang out with good friends who respect you.

Like Leo, you are a fire sign. Fire signs enjoy spontaneity, adventure, challenges, generosity, and the ability to spread light and warmth. Good fortune comes to those who are open to it. You won't win the lottery unless you play. You need to take some bigger risks in order to get what you need Be open to some suggestions and critique, as others may see your potential.

You've been working hard with

TAURUS An earthier sense oflove is com-

CANCER

VIRGO

SCORPIO

CAPRICORN

PISCES

You have better self-motivation now than you've had in a long

Good friends are real wealth.

Death is as much a teacher as it is a destroyer. Pretend that you don't know the people that you do know. Not in a cold and heartless way of shunning them, but rather a new curiosity about what they enjoy and why you're friends. Meditation, prayer and alone time is important. Helping others who are isolated will help make you feel better.

Responsibility is now on your shoulders as people are depending on you more than usual.

Life requires more research and opportunities for discovery. If the travel bug hasn't hit you, it will by this weekend Walk a road you never traveled before. Visit a place you never saw before.

Light-hearted flirting could lead to something more serious, especiallyon Monday and Tuesday.

This is an easy time for you to get into debt. Don't borrow any

You are your own deceiver as well as personal healer. The good news is that your heart is open and you are ready to create, love, and play.

The bad news is that in order to be successful with these goals, you'll

ing into play. Your ability to love and be playful is enhanced due to Venus transiting your fifth house.

There is a chance that you are feeling more sentimental these days.

You have much to communicate,

while. You are ready to get up and do things. Physical strength should come with more ease. You are strong in your convictions and ready to back them up. The weekend features the moon as well as Mercury. Jupiter and Mars in Cancer. Who do you consider to be family? What kind of people are a part of your tribe?

and are enjoying working with your hands. Monday and Tuesday feature the moon in Taurus. Shine with your talents and beauty.

others on some sort of work project. You are being measured by the kind of service that you are capable of giving. Lust can turn into love and love can turn to lust. When it comes to lust, make sure that things are mutual.

Partnerships and romance are possible. Do what it takes to create an atmosphere of good feelings.

money unless you have a reasonable plan to pay it off in a timely matter. Partnership issues are still big in your life with your need for acceptance. Love is more about how to give than it is about how to receive. You may just feel too sexy for your shirt. Take the shirt off and give it away to someone who would love it.

need to do some service work and some follow-through. Weak hearts run from difficulty. Strong hearts work on fixing the broken stuff and not taking rejection or criticism personally. Smile and laugh through it all.

Koz McKev is on You Tube, on cable 11 BCTV, is heard on 90.lFM KZFR Chico, and also available by appointment for personal horoscopes. Call (530)891-5147 or e-mail kozmickev@sunset.net

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