BY FUOCO-KARASINSKICHRISTINA Tucson Local Media The town of Oro Valley launched its new water utility department custom er portal on Aug. 29. The improved portal allows water and stormwater utility customers to pay their bills online and manage accounts. To prepare for the change, the water utili ty department cut off the old portal on Aug. 26. During the cutoff, online access was not available.First-time visitors to the new portal must refer to their last bill, as the payment amount will be a registration code to set up online payments. If a customer doesn’t have their bill, they will need to call the water utility to set up an account. In addition to the new water utility customer portal, billing cycle dates are changing. The new bills are scheduled to go out on the 7th of every month and will be due the on 28th. Customers should expect to see their first water bill utilizing the new billing system the week of Sept. 12. To allow customers to get familiar with the new billing system, the water utility will not impose late fees or water shutoffs in Sep tember or October. Regular enforcement for nonpayment or delinquent accounts will resume Nov. 1. Anyone with questions is asked to call the water utility at 520-2295000 or email ovwater@orovalleyaz.gov.
Floatation therapy rises to new levels at Levity
“We have guests who come in to treat chronic pain, depres sion, concussions, PTSD, ad diction, the list goes on and on,” the Krauss said. “And we have a lot of veterans who come in and utilize our services.”
BY HOPE PETERS Tucson Local Media Water and Epsom salt are the key to sen sory deprivation, ac cording to Jason and Lindsey Krauss, the owners of Levity Wellness Center near the UA.“We specialize in sensory deprivation saltwater tank floa tation therapy,” Lindsey said. “We are a small yet adorable local business that does won derful things for the commu nity, and we are thanked by our guests every day that we are here.”Levity Wellness Center is Tucson’s only brick-and-mortar floatation business.
Jason has found the therapy to help him. Before he started the floating business, he broke
Jason and Lindsey Krauss explored water Epsom salt flotation therapy after he broke his back. (Hope Peters/Staff) see LEVITY page 4
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As displayed in figure 1 above, the nerves are surrounded by diseased, withered blood vessels. A lack of sufficient nutrients means the nerves cannot survive, and thus, slowly die. This leads to those painful and frustrating consequences we were talking about earlier, like weakness, numbness, tingling, balance issues, and perhaps even a burning sensation. The drugs your doctor might prescribe will temporarily conceal the problems, putting a “Band-Aid” over a situation that will only continue to deteriorate without further Thankfully,action.
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Oro Valley Parks & Rec contin ues its free Friday night concert series on the lawn of the his toric Steam Pump Ranch from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Listen to the alt-country sound of the Craig Green Band during the last weekend of summer. Food trucks, nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. Outside alcohol is not permitted. Steam Pump Ranch is at 10901 N. Or acle Road. For more informa tion about this free event, visit orovalleyaz.gov.
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From Thursday, Sept. 1, to Sunday, Sept. 4, hundreds of wholesale dealers, miners and designers will be at the JOGS Tucson Gem & Jewelry Show at the Tucson Expo Center. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., peruse muse um-quality items for sale such as precious gemstones, crystals and minerals. From the Casi no Del Sol to the Best Western Tucson Airport, the JOGS is one of several shows Down town that offer a showcase of what’s to come during the Winter 2023 Gem and Mineral Show. What “perfect timing” to shop for the upcoming holiday season at this mini fall show. The Tucson Expo Center is at 3750 E. Irvington Road. For more information about gem shows, go to visittucson.org.
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“People come in with focus issues or sleeping problems or being very hyper,” Lindsey said. “Then you are getting on the scientific road of magnesium in the brain and what it does.”
You can’t fake the calm ness and the serenity it brings for a lot of people,” Jason said. “And for somebody who is from the extreme … we have a regular, who is a very salty vet, unfriendly, but af ter his float he makes eye contact and says thank you. He is gracious, and then he leaves.”Oneof
“Talking to all the people after (their float time), on why they do it and how they feel about it after, is my favorite part of being here,” she said. Levity Wellness Center has two tanks from which to choose.
Left: The Levity Samadhi tank has simplicity in mind, focusing on creating the best possible float experience
They purchased the business on April 8, 2021.Jason loves the business because of the calming effects after floating in the Epsom salt“Ittanks.isundeniable.
“We looked up floating in Tucson, and Levity was the only brick-and-mortar here,” Linsey said And we have been customers here for probably six years,” she said. “After COVID, the previous owner asked us if we wanted to buy it. So, after many hundreds of conversa tions, we decided to pull the trigger.”
Room tank, which adds more space with easy entrance and exit. The Samadhi tank includes a hatch lid, but the float room tank has a glass door for easy opening and closing. Customers can turn on a blue light that ensures a nonclaustrophobic feeling. It provides an open feel with plenty of space toEachstretch.float tank contains 12 inches of body temperature water with 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt, also known as magnesium sulfate. It’s a chemical compound made up of magnesium, sulfur and oxygen. The float tank is soundproof, lightproof and the salt water provides an anti-gravi ty environment. The isolation tank makes the user feel weightless as if he/she is in a womb or floating in space. It allows the “brain to focus on the needs of the body with a deeper sense of awareness,” accord ing to the website. With a 60% return rate, customers in clude a pro-am golfer; cyclist who comes in prior to their El Tour De Tucson event; and Delaney Schnell and Jessica Parratto, two 2021 Olympic silver-medal winning syn chronized divers. Float and saltwater therapy have clinical ly proven results.
Krauss said he had done floating thera py before this. He and his wife found out about it while on vacation in Portland, Ore gon. After the spinal surgery for his broken back and his ensuing recovery, Jason said he could not wait to get back into the tank. “I was alternating between physical ther apy, floating and massage,” he said. “And re peat; for about 18 months.”
The center also features the Levity Float
“A friend of mine was in the tank for the first time, and he had a separated rib and he couldn’t stretch enough to get it back in the right place,” Jason said. “He couldn’t stretch enough to pop it back in.” After he was in the tank for about 10 minutes, Jason heard his muffled voice. He popped it back in and he could breathe. He left a half hour early because he was so excited to stand up and get back to his Lindsey said she loves the sharing of their customers’ experiences.
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The Levity Samadhi tank has simplic ity in mind, focusing on creating the best possible float experience. For 40 years, it has provided an environment with as few distractions as possible, a space of noth ingness, where the floater is suspended in weightless silence, according to the website. The tank provides a comforting womb-like environment. It is an original float experi ence with deep meditation.
Right: Levity Wellness Center is at 2272 E. Speedway Boulevard, Tucson. (Hope Peters/Staff)
Jason’s friends also learned of the benefits of floatation therapy.
4 Explorer and Marana News, August 31, 2022 his“Inback.2016 I sat out of bed and broke my back,” Krauss said. “I just sat up and we both heard it, it was a sound, and we both went, what’s that? And three days later I had no feeling in my entire left wing, if you will, from my neck all the way down to my fin gers and excruciating pain.”
“When we opened Reilly downtown 10 years ago, our guests started asking, like almost immediately, for a second location,” Fenton said. “We were approached by Phoenix Real tors about opening one there, but it was im portant to us that any expansion would be in northwest Tucson, in a neighborly place that felt familiar since we grew up there.”
Happy hour, which isn’t limited to the bar area, is a nod to classic cocktails with bee’s knees, rye Manhattans, Moscow mules and others in a discount-priced rotation. Marinated olives, house-baked bread and house-cultured butter, and Brussels sprouts with house hot sauce, sherry vin and pecan brittle crumbs are the featured snacks.
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Note to self. Meet Courtney Fenton for a leisurely lunch. While many of the restaurant’s dishes are on both the lunch and dinner menus, three new sandwiches are available only for lunch: a meatball sandwich, with sauce, provolone, basil and grana; a roasted vegetable sand wich, with salsa verde, fontina and basil; and a grinder, with salumi, provolone, romaine, red onion, pepperoncini and oregano.
ourtney Fenton fondly remembers her birthday celebrations growing up in northwest Tucson. Her parents and two brothers, Ty ler and Zach, would start the day by waking her up with a chorus of “Happy Birthday” and sitting down to “an awesome breakfast spread.” A family activity would follow in the afternoon, then a night out for dinner at one of the family’s favorite restaurants. Family. Food. Frolic. That’s how the Fen tons roll. And it’s no coincidence that they anchor the experience at the siblings’ flag ship restaurant and how they recently cele brated the first birthday of the newer, north west location of Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink.
Lunch at Reilly North is available Tues days to Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The restaurant is closed from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. so staff can enjoy a team meal together and prepare for dinner service. Happy Hour runs Tuesdays to Sundays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The restaurant is closed on Mondays. I look forward to singing “Happy Birth day” to the Fentons myself, which, of course, will require a readying round of bee’s knees.
The lunch special features an 8-inch ver sion of any one of Reilly’s 11 signature piz zas and a simple salad.
The Fentons ultimately opened their sec ond location, at 7262 N. Oracle Road, last summer. “We were warmly welcomed to the area, by those who had been coming downtown regularly to eat at Reilly,” she said, “and by others, who weren’t familiar with Reilly, excited to have a quality Italian restaurant in their neighborhood.”
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The new happy hour is another place where the family’s frolic comes into focus.
“We’ve put together an atmosphere and experience that’s truly centered on social,” she said. “Our bartenders love to engage guests and tell them the history and stories about the drinks.”
Reilly is about family, food and frolic Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink 7262 N. Oracle Road, Tucson reillypizza.com
Contact Matt Russell, CEO of Russell Public Communications, at mrussell@russellpublic. com. Russell is also the publisher of OnThe MenuLive.com as well as the host of the Friday Weekend Watch segment on the “Buckmaster Show” on KVOI 1030 AM. Disclosure: Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink is a client of Russell Public Communications.
In a case of déjà vu, Fenton said her north west guests began asking for more within days. The restaurant was only providing dinner service, and requests for lunch and happy hour were coming in regularly. Then it clicked. Give the people what they want and celebrate the new location’s first birth day by expanding their service accordingly.
“We wanted to curate a lunch menu that showed how an elevated dining experi ence can be fun and approachable, while also keeping in mind our guests who need to be in and out in 30 minutes,” she said. “This is also true for those who are able to have a more leisurely lunch, perhaps with cocktails or a bottle wine.”
“This has been an ethic for a long period of time of Tucson being very forward thinking. When it comes to meeting with and trying to educate potential business owners regardless of who they are or where they come from.”
“We (Tucson Chamber) talked to the Phoenix chamber with our task force,” Guymon said. “Because they took the lead early on, we are following the lead of the Phoenix chamber.”
He said he has also seen a big change in the employees applying for jobs.
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But he said he also has seen individuals who have left certain industries to start their own business.
The report said, the overall percentage of women-owned businesses, for the nation, is 20.9%, with total businesses run by women is 1,208,407, which employ nearly 11 million workers, with a total revenue of more than $1.8 trillion for women-owned businesses.TheTucson Metro Chamber has been building better relationships with women- and minority-owned busi nesses to encourage and help owners with the startup of their businesses.
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He said the pandemic has led to “people wanting to change from the work they were doing, to thinking this might be a right time to do that.
“It is most common for both female and male business owners to still be with their first business, but more female busi ness owners (55%) are involved with their first business than their male counter parts (47.5%),” the Census Bureau sur vey showed. “Men are more likely to have moved on from a previous business in some form. Men more frequently respond that they still operate a previous business, that their business was sold to another company or individual, or that a previous business is no longer in operation.”
In comparison, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler area has 20.9% women-owned business, with 16,300 women-owned businesses, a total of 143,930 employees and more than $5 billion in total revenue.
The report noted that women tend to start businesses in different industries than men. For example, health care and social assistance fields or accommodation and food service tend to have higher propor tions of women-owned businesses. Due to these differences compared to men-owned businesses, women-owned firms contrib ute to less pay per employee (-3.1%) than the national average.
“What the pandemic has led to is a signif icant transition in the workplace. The big ger transition is in the office market, some traditional office jobs and some traditional office companies based in an office setting have also reevaluated their need for space. Do they move to a smaller environment because their employees work from home? This is on the employer’s side.”
Tucson Local Media Women own 21.7% of all Tucson businesses, which is above the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey. That equates to 3,416 women-owned businesses in the Tucson area, employing 27,037 workers with $1 billion to less than $5 billion in total revenue.
Women own 21.7% of all Tucson businesses
According to the Census study, small businesses are a major engine of growth in the U.S. economy. Women are playing an increasingly large role in the country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Women-owned firms now represent more than one in five businesses with employees in the United States. These businesses report more than $1.8 trillion in annual revenue.
“Here at the chamber, we have been having a more concentrated effort on diversity, equity and inclusion,” Guy mon said. “The individual who cur rently runs Startup Tucson, is female, the former leader of Better Business Bureau was female and the CEO prior to me here was female. I think Tucson just has that ethic, regardless of gen der or Guymonethnicity.”said the Chamber has been discussing ways they can be a stronger leader, so they started a board-led task force approximately a year ago. Last month, the cham ber launched a new web page called IDEA on its website. “Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA), and we created a task force to work on this,” Guymon ex plained. “We are trying to add resources to that page. To assist business owners, as well as those looking to start a business, on ways they can include IDEA for their businesses. It is certainly becoming a stronger ethic of ours. We want to provide the right resources, so they can advance those concepts within their ownThebusiness.”webpage is at https://tucsoncham ber.org/idea/Askedabout the effect of the pandemic on businesses, Guymon said there are pros and“Wecons.have seen significant transition in the labor market,” he said. “I know this business owner, she owned it (her business) for 14 years, the pandemic has been very challenging and unpredictable…she sold her business and went into a profession that was much more stable.”
The Census Bureau Survey also report ed, for women starting a business, wom en-owned companies focus more on flexible hours or balancing work and family obli gations than men-owned businesses. Men more likely list the possibility of earning greater income or wanting to be their own boss as motivation for starting a company.
“I have heard this from numerous employ ers,” Guymon explained. “Where the employ ees are now demanding that part of their job is to have the ability to work remotely. This is a massive transition. No employee would be asking that prior to the pandemic.”
Michael Guymon, president and chief executive of ficer of the Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce, believes the number of women-owned businesses is because Tucson is an inviting and open business community. (Tucson Metro Chamber/Submitted)
“I certainly would like to think it is be cause historically Tucson has been a more inviting and open business community when we compare ourselves to our peers,” said Michael Guymon, president and CEO of the Tucson Metro Chamber of Com merce. “In fact, the city of Tucson has had a women- and minority-owned business council as part of one of their boards of communities and commissions for at least 20 to 25 years.
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Guymon said his organization is on pace with the Greater Phoenix Chamber.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pascua Yaqui Police Department con ducted the investigation in this case. As sistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew C. Cassell and Rui Wang, District of Arizona, Tuc son, handled the prosecution.
Man gets 3 years for dealing firearms without a license Isaias Delgado, 37, of Tucson was re cently sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 36 months in prison for engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a license. Zipps also ordered Delgado to pay a for feiture judgment of over $43,500 and im posed an additional $2,000 fine. Delgado was previously found guilty of engaging in a business of dealing firearms without a license following a jury trial on Aug. 12, 2021.Between May 2018 and April 2019, Del gado purchased and resold at least 38 fire arms, including several .50 caliber rifles, AK-47 style rifles, AR-15 style rifles, and belt-fed rifles. The evidence showed that Delgado spent over $80,000 on firearms during this time. He immediately sold the firearms after acquiring them and made a significant profit off each sale. Two of the firearms were recovered in Mexico short ly after Delgado purchased and then sold them. Delgado has never held a federal firearms license that would allow him to engage in the firearm dealing business.
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BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tucson Local Media OVPD respond to threats at Canyon Del Oro A Canyon Del Oro High School student was arrested after the Oro Valley Police Department responded to possible threats at the facility at 12:49 p.m. Aug. 26. When officers arrived, they found no immediate threat to students or staff, nor was a firearm or weapon discovered on school grounds. The investigation is on going.
A federal jury recently found Eric Da vid Marrufo, 43, of Tucson guilty of five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and one count of abusive sexual con tact with a child. Marrufo is being held in custody pend ing his Oct. 24 sentencing before U.S. Dis trict Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson. The evidence at trial showed that, be tween Aug. 1, 2006, and Aug. 1, 2008, Marrufo sexually abused the victims at his home in Tucson, on the Pascua Yaqui In dian Reservation. Marrufo is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Each conviction for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and abusive sexual contact with a child carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire arms, and Explosives conducted the inves tigation in this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela W. Woolridge, District of Arizona, Tucson, handled the prosecution.
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Diego Armando Equihua-Sanchez, 31, of Tucson was sentenced by U.S. Dis trict Judge Scott H. Rash to 60 months in prison, followed by 60 months of super vised release. Equihua-Sanchez previous ly pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.Equihua-Sanchez actively worked with others to distribute bulk amounts of co caine in and around Tucson and other parts of the United States. On Nov. 2, 2020, Equihua-Sanchez delivered approximately 1 kilogram of cocaine to help complete a transaction involving an out-of-state cus tomer.The Drug Enforcement Administration in Sierra Vista conducted the investiga tion in this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael R. Lizano, District of Arizona, Tucson, handled the prosecution.
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Onovughe Ighorhiohwunu, 47, of Kennesaw, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash to 130 months in prison for conspiracy to com
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He said Feinstein’s team ran tests on a clinical“Theygroup.took a control group of individ uals and asked a third of the group to sit and relax, and the other third were to float.” Jason explained. “And they tracked the results of their cortisol, stress levels and their blood pressure and their heart rate post-treatment. And they found out the more stressed, the more anxiety and the worse someone scored, they found the more stressed had a stronger reaction to the float tank and found a significant drop of stress, blood pressure, resting heart rate.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation con ducted the investigation in this case. The Financial Crimes and Public Corruption Section of the United States Attorney’s Of fice, District of Arizona, Tucson, handled the prosecution. a.m. to a.m. to 9 a.m. to
mit money Ighorhiohwunulaundering.was previously found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to launder more than $1.3 million in pro ceeds obtained from victims of an internet romance fraud. As part of his sentence, Ighorhiohwunu was fined $25,000 and or dered to pay $1,342,150 in restitution.
He said they found those who are fairly calm still have a calming effect but just less than the others. However, those who are “extremely stressed and the vagus nerve is incredibly overwhelmed, they are finding this (float therapy) has a massive effect on folks that are really struggling.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office encourages the public to be wary of similar scams and to verify with law enforcement and family members before sending money after any online or phone solicitations.
For a single 60-minute float the fee is $60; for 90 minutes it is $80; and 120 minutes cost $95. You can purchase a three-session package at $165 for 60 minutes for each session. Three 90-minute session packages are $225, and three 120-minute sessions are $270. One of their most popular packages is their float and massage combo therapy. For pricing, call/text 520-339-6674.
“Dr. Justin Feinstein, he is the founder, coordinator and driving force behind the Float Research Collective, and its website is clinicalfloat.org,” Jason said. “There is a massive wealth of information regarding clinical proven tests around floating and the impact of it.
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Evidence at trial and sentencing estab lished that, between July 2019 and May 2020, Ighorhiohwunu participated in a scheme where conspirators with connec tions to Nigeria used fictitious or assumed online identities to meet victims in the United States. Conspirators contacted vic tims through dating websites and games like Words with Friends and then pretend ed to strike up romantic relationships with them. After establishing relationships, con spirators asked the victims for money, often to help with a phony crisis such as an emer gency medical procedure, and usually told the victims their money would be repaid. Conspirators directed at least 10 victims to send large sums of money by mail or wire to Ighorhiohwunu and others, which was then withdrawn in cash and hand-de livered to conspirators or wired to other bank accounts. Ighorhiohwunu received payment for his role in the scheme.
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Tucson Local Media Gov. Doug Ducey ordered flags at half-staff Aug. 26 in honor of Deb orah Martinez-Garabay, a Pima County constable who was shot to death Aug. 25 while serving an eviction notice at a midtown apartment complex.
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A graduate of Pueblo High School, Mar tinez joined the U.S. Army after the Sept. 11 attacks. She served for nearly 20 years and was wounded in Afghanistan before retiring as a senior noncommissioned officer. Following retirement, Martinez worked with veterans and their families, and start ed a local chapter of the national organi zation PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere). The program introduces vet erans with disabilities to golf.
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Bishop Edward Weisenberger asked for members of the Diocese of Tucson to remem ber in prayer all those involved in the shooting.
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The annual boutique festival, which took a hiatus in 2020 and 2021, is placing the cli mate crisis at the forefront. Festival coor dinators, including Baquet, hope to foster conversations and connections between creative minds such as Mexican musician and environmental activist Caloncho; James Beard award winner Don Guer ra of Barrio Bread; keynote speaker and co-founder of the national soil health non profit Kiss the Ground Finian Makepeace; and many other local and visiting research ers, permaculturists and farmers.
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BY KATYA MENDOZA Tucson Local Media HOCO Fest celebrates its 16th anni versary Labor Day weekend with a “forward-facing” twist: the Regener ate AZ: Sonoran Desert Sustainabili ty Summit. Matt Baquet, the festival’s direc tor of four years, called it a “homecoming.”
“I truly believe and hope that we will be gin this process in this era of Tucson be coming a beacon symbol of sustainable, regenerative, collaborative community work,” Baquet said.
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Established in 2005 by entertainment director David Slutes, the festival became “the only solar-powered festival in the West” in 2007, according to Baquet. Slutes, his mentor, asked him to take over opera tions in “(Slutes)2017.established a solid foundation for what HOCO has become,” Baquet said.
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“As (we’ve) rebranded, taking it to a more international scale, seeking people to come from outside of Tucson, he really laid a foundation for it to be a Tucson festival above all.”
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“Our ultimate goal is to find useful things we can do with Awareness Ranch, like plas tic bricks, Styrofoam insulation,” Baquet said. “They can build anything out of trash.”
WHEN: Various times Thursday, Sept. 1, to Sunday, Sept. 4
Not so much following the “Coachella model” of festivals, Baquet’s collaborative vision is in search of something bigger, more so along the lines of a shared experi ence of transborder synergy.
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“He’s been doing some great work clean ing up the waters and turning the attention to a more conscious protocol in the enter tainment industry,” Baquet said.
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A tree-planting campaign is also set to launch at HOCO Fest. A tree will be plant ed for every performer flying in or for each out-of-city flight ticket purchased by the festival. Baquet said festivalgoers can do nate to plant a tree as well. While this year’s festivities will tap into the hotel’s solar energy, Baquet is already looking ahead to next year, in hopes of ob taining a mobile solar trailer to power in door and outdoor stages. The summit will be held on Sept. 3, the third day of festivities at the StartUp Tuc son space, the Arizona Forge at Roy Place. By attracting a diverse group of speakers and festival attendees, Baquet hopes to establish solidarity with the shared desert biome.“It’simportant for me living in this area to continue doing things to defy those border walls and barriers and encourage connectivity within our two communities,” Baquet said.
NRML festival curator Saldaña, who helped HOCO Fest secure Caloncho for the sustainability summit, will join him to speak about “Regenerative Entertainment and Mindful Organizing.”
“Through Agave Fest, Pueblos Del Maiz, HOCO Fest, TenWest, I feel like we can be theAmegaphone.”self-described dreamer and visionary, Baquet and his fellow festival collaborators are spearheading a “holistic” approach to the “new” Sonoran Desert, one festival at a time.
Carbon offset is at the core of the festival.
This year, HOCO is offering an in-house waste-sorting program that will allow fes tival organizers to compost festival waste at the off-site location, Awareness Ranch, a local aquaponics and permaculture cen ter. It’s thanks to a $25,000 grant from Cox Communications presented in April. The media company approved a proposal about waste sorting at civic events, providing funding for HOCO to beta test and imple ment a waste-sorting infrastructure at the Pueblos Del Maiz festival in May.
“I think it creates a really beautiful en ergy, when you have multiple walks of life, enjoying different experiences and types of art,” Baquet said. “I think that’s what this fest is Callingabout.”himself a “son of Tucson,” Baquet started working at the Hotel Congress in 2013 as a club manager and in-house tal ent buyer before moving to Los Angeles in 2016. From that point forward he worked as a DJ and contractor for the venue, fre quently returning home before moving to New York, when he was visiting “a lit tle less.” A man of many hats, he also in dependently operates the media company Ranch House Media and is a partner with the booking company Best Life Presents.
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From Tijuana to San Diego, Mexicali to Hermosillo and beyond, Baquet said he is excited to showcase a scene that is taking off in a big way. The collaborative efforts hope to send a couple of co-curated artists to a NRML festival next spring. In hopes of nurturing the relationship between the two communities, Baquet hinted at the possi bility for a joint event in Mexico later next year. “A small event in a tropical place.”
An iconic landmark located in a desert oasis, the centenarian that is Hotel Con gress is the “cornerstone of downtown” that has been through the good and bad. The venue which has hosted the annual festival serves as an international hub of sorts, see ing an increasingly diverse guestlist.
native group Los Ésplifs, one of the festival’s performers, connected Baquet with the independent music festival NRML, which is based in Mexico City. Original ly from Monterey, NRML creates fami ly-friendly music experiences that merge the arts, design and gastronomy. Baquet’s friend Saul Millan made the connection to NRML’s director, Mónica Saldaña.
“It’s exciting for me to use HOCO Fest to showcase Tucson and Tucson talent.”
While HOCO Fest can be described as a magnetized and “amplified everyday Con gress activity,” the gathering will tout on going shows every day for four days with a ramped-up food and beverage program.
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“We had a couple of calls and shared our visions of our festivals, and I think we al ready admired each other’s curation and direction,” Baquet said.
The international collaboration success fully booked about 10 artists from mostly the borderland regions on both sides. “We worked together to go after Los Dug Dugs and Los Apson, which are legendary acts for both of our communities,” Baquet said. “I thought it was a cool crossover.”
“The borderland region is a priority for us to highlight and showcase, not only be cause that’s where Tucson lies but because I believe this area is so rich with art, culture, inspiration and beauty,” Baquet said. “It has always blown my mind how overlooked we are on a national, international scale.
“Everyone in Congress, we all are so deep in the music that usually we welcome in a lot of other voices to our curating,” Baquet said. His experience in the music industry and deep roots in Tucson has influenced a thoughtful curation of the region’s sound scape. “We’re telling a story.” The delicate cultivation that is Tucson is made up of diverse geographical and socio political components which together create a “regenerative network.” The sustainability summit being a “peak dream manifesting in real time” for Baquet is also a bit of a “teaser” for something bigger at the Ten West Festival this upcoming November.
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9
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Van Devender knows gardening well. She owns Nature to You, a mobile gardening and environmental education service. Since 2019, she has worked as an independent contractor for the town of Marana, helping. For Van Devender, it’s import ant to set people up for suc cess with gardening. The Make and Take Pizza Garden event has gar dening tools, plants and containers on standby for par ticipants.The
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Container gardens are easy to maintain as well, she said. If the weather is bad or the temperature drops too low at night, they can be brought inside.
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“We’recommunity.reallyreaching out to Hispanic voters in Tucson,” Petersen said. “We’re in District 6 here, a very competitive district, and we’re going to flip a seat.”
“I support the RNC; I support our candi dates,” she said. “I’m really excited, like, for Juan (Ciscomani), a few of our other candi dates, Kari Lake, so I’m just here to see what the office is all about.”
The office suite features a reception area, a room for trainings and press conferences, a phone room and a place to serve food. Just down the hall are the offices of the Republican nominee for Congress Juan Ciscomani.“I’mvery proud that the RNC has opened up an outreach office and community cen ter here in Tucson,” Ciscomani said. “I’m very pleased that my office is just a couple of suites away, and that is strategic because we have to work to reach out to the entire community and win this election.”
The placement fits well with the purpose of the office, said Ben Petersen, Arizona communications director for the RNC. “This is a very competitive district, a clas sic swing district,” Petersen said. “Tucson is ground zero for winning Congressional District 6, and the Hispanic community is a big part of that.”
In all, 60 people came to the noon opening. Petersen expects the office to help the RNC win more voters from Tucson’s His panic
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Connie Pellman hands out campaign buttons to those in attendance at the opening of the new Republican National Committee’s Hispanic Community Center. The new center will be the headquarters for the RNC’s efforts to win Tucson’s Hispanic votes. (Karen Schaffner/Staff)
Besides Ciscomani, among those in at tendance were three of Ciscomani’s six young children; Blake Masters, who is gun ning for Sen. Mark Kelly’s seat; Rep. Tere sa Martinez; Republican Party of Arizona Chairman Kelli Ward; and RNC Co-Chair TommyLaurenHicks.Blevins, an RNC volunteer, said she was pleased with the turnout.
New trail proposed for Tucson Mountain Park es, Parks and Recreation.
“It’s totally open to the public.”
“We’ve put out the plan and proposal for the trail, and we’re asking for public input, so basically the more (comments) the mer rier,” said Neil Stitzer, trails program coor dinator for Pima County Natural Resourc
“If it fits into our existing long-term plans, and it’s sustainable enough, and we’re able to adopt it and maintain it, and if it meets our standards to a certain degree, we can maintain it long term,” Stitzer said.
To add your comments and see a map of the proposed trail, visit https://bit.ly/ KinneyTrail.
The county rarely adopts wildcat trails, but this particular one has all the right elements.
14 Explorer and Marana News, August 31, 2022 3750 E. Irvington Rd., Tucson, AZ SEPTEMBER 1-4, 2022 GEM & JEWELRY SHOW Tucson Expo Center 3750 E. Irvington Rd., Tucson, AZ TNWKLY BY KAREN SCHAFFNER Tucson Local Media Residents still have time to give their input concerning the adoption of a South Kinney Road wildcat trail into the county’s Tucson Mountain Park trailAdoptingsystem. the single-track trail means it would not be paved but would include seasonal inspection. If needed, vegetation would be trimmed back, and if there’s water erosion, drainage would be installed. Direc tional signage that identifies the trail and helps users find their way would also be installed.
The unofficial trail runs parallel to South Kinney Road and extends from the Tucson Estates Trail to the Golden Gate and Prospec tor trails, so from pullout K1, which is a bit south of the Mountain Park Shooting Range, to K9, near Hal Gras Road. It crosses South Kinney at pullout K5. The proposed trail would measure 1.7 miles and is safer than walking on the road, according to Stitzer. Plans to adopt the trail have been in the works since as early as 2017, when the need for a trail in that location was identified. Park users made an unofficial trail, some thing that evidently happens a lot here.
“Overall, it negatively impacts the park,” Stitzer added. “I understand why people do it, but those trails are not authorized by Pima County. It degrades the park, the natural and cultural resources, and it’s defi nitely something we don’t condone.”
“It seems especially prevalent in Mountain Park, park users, if they want to get some where or if they want an experience that the existing trail system doesn’t provide, then they’ll make their own trail,” Stitzer said. This is a problem for a couple of reasons, the main one being safety, but the other is environmental impact.
Tai chi is a Chinese martial art that dates as far back as 500 B.C. The exercise is a series of slow, meditative body movements that were originally designed as a method of self-defense. The movements use internal energy and such subtle movements. A tai chi master may be able to subdue an attacker in such a way that people watching may not be able to see how it was done.
An overall heightened awareness of sur roundings and an improved sense of well-be ing often follow sustained tai chi exercise.
Although tai chi has been practiced for centuries, formal study of its health benefits has been conducted only in recent years. Stress reduction is the most obvious advan tage, and this can extend well beyond the exercise period. Other health benefits shown are an increase in energy, endurance, flexibil ity and muscle strength. These, in turn, may prevent falls and relieve chronic pain. Tai chi may reduce anxiety and depres sion, lower blood pressure and improve the quality of sleep. Cardiovascular fitness is improved, especially in less physically active older adults.
Learning tai chi techniques is neither time consuming nor burdensome. Home videos, books and classes are available to introduce the various movements. A live instructor is best able to show the correct postures and movements and how to regulate your breathing. While tai chi is slow and gentle, it is possible to sustain an injury if not done correctly. A tai chi instructor can teach tech niques in balance and injury prevention.
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Every day we read or hear about the benefits of regular exercise, but there are not often reasonable guidelines for the “over-50 crowd,” people with joint or oth er chronic pain issues, or those just not able to walk distances for health or social reasons. There are many approaches to healthy physical activity. How about martial arts? Actually, yes! Not the martial arts displayed by Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan or Michelle Yeoh kick ing and flying in the movies, but there are martial arts that anyone can do to improve overall health and well-being.
The British Medical Journal published a study (March 2018) showing that tai chi was more beneficial than aerobic exercise for fibromyalgia symptoms. It was also studied for improving quality of life in peo ple with HIV infection by boosting T cell counts and relieving stress (Applied Nurs ing Research March 2006).
Tai chi is a martial art that focuses on slow, gentle, rhythmic and meditative movements. The movement is designed to promote a sense of well-being and an inner peace. It connects the body with the mind through “meditation in motion.”
The term “tai chi” has been translated from Chinese in various ways, including “internal martial art” and “supreme ultimate fist.”
Tai chi descends from qigong, an ancient Chinese discipline that is a part of tradi tional Chinese medicine that integrates the mind, breath and movement. This integration and purpose can create a natural bal ance of energy and an inner sense of calm. Anyone can practice tai chi. Age, weight, chronic illness and physical disability are no barriers to practice because the emphasis is technique and rhythm over brute strength. It is low impact so gentle on joints. It re quires no special equipment, can be done to music or in silence, can be done alone or in a group, indoors or outside.
The greatest benefits come from regular exercise. We have all seen videos of several elderly Chinese practicing tai chi with their neighbors before getting started on their day’s work. Most do this daily. Consult your PCP if you have chronic joint prob lems, heart disease or osteoporosis. These conditions should not prevent a person from engaging in tai chi exercise, but initial caution may be advised. Tai chi is for anyone who wants to try this soft approach to exercise for good health and stress relief. Mia Smitt is a longtime nurse practitioner. She writes a regular column for Tucson Lo cal Media.
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Scientific research into the health benefits of tai chi is ongoing. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has funded numerous studies looking at tai chi as an immune system en hancer, its role in improving hypertension, cardiovascular disease and osteoarthritis.
Tai chi has evolved into an exercise used primarily for inner relaxation and stress reduction. It is a noncompetitive and selfpaced regimen of stretching and gentle physical exercise. It involves a series of postures and movements that flow one into another without stopping. The body stays in constant motion. There are many different styles and variations of move ments, and all require concentration on the movements themselves, which reduces the stresses of the external world.
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• If Arizona wins three or four games, that’s a shadowy place between hope and disap pointment.
• If Arizona wins five games, that would be the absolute worst. Going from stinko to awful to a bowl game in just two years would be magnificent. But falling just short of a bowl game will send the mass es of fans into a collective paroxysm of “What if?!” Why did we lose all the nonconference games? Why did we punt instead of going for the first down in that Oregon game? Why is Arizona State still allowed to play football after all the terrible stuff they’ve
• If Arizona wins eight or nine games, now we’re in Three Gs Territory — giddy and greedy. OK, so that’s only two Gs. Sure, we’re excited, but we’ve come this far, this fast? We want more. We want:
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• If Arizona wins one or two games, diehard fans and commentators will con tort themselves into seeing some kind of progress. The real problem would be if they win two games, then the math nerds will see a sequence and conclude that things won’t be really great until the 2030s.
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The main problem is the nonconference schedule. Often, a team will have three cupcake games to start the season. They win all three, and they’re halfway to the win total that will get them in a bowl game with nine more games to play. They can go a horrible 3-6 in conference play and still make the postseason. Even if they only go 2-1 in the early games, it boosts their con fidence and can still go to a bowl despite going a yucky 4-5 in conference play. However, it’s Arizona bad luck that two years after hitting rock bottom and one year after starting back up again, they have the toughest nonconference schedule in recent school history. They open at San Di ego State, which is just outside the Top 25, then they have up-and-coming Mississip pi State, and then they have North Dakota State, where they basically grow bison and offensive lineman in a secret lab some where.So,an 0-3 start is not only possible, it’s probably likely. But then comes Pac-12 play and who knows. Consider the possibilities:
Wildcat football season brings about uncertainty
• If Arizona wins zero games, all the original Jedd Fisch jokes will make a comeback. Fisch out of water. Like a dead Fisch. The Wildcats sleep with the Fisches.
BY TOM DANEHY Tucson Local Media OK, all you Wildcat fans out there. The time has come. The Cats open the 2022 football season on Satur day, Sept. 3. There’s a feeling in the air. It’s certainly not confidence, but it isn’t dread either. It’s more dread-ish.
• If Arizona wins all 12 games, Fisch will be national coach of the year, meaning Arizona will have two reigning coaches of the year because Tommy Lloyd won it for basketball last year. And Dave Heeke will be athletic director of the century for having hired both of those guys. Now, longtime Arizona fans will realize that winning all 12 games doesn’t guaran tee anything. Remember the 1998 season where for about a week, Arizona was going to the Rose Bowl? Arizona had lost to UCLA earlier in the season, but as the season was winding up, the Bruins were undefeated and poised to be one of the two teams picked to play in the BCS National Championship game. Arizona, as runner-up, would represent (then-)Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl. UCLA just had to win a game at Miami, a game that had been rescheduled to early De cember after Hurricane Georges forced a postponement in September. In that game, UCLA held a 17-point lead late in the third quarter, but then choked up a giant hairball and lost in the closing seconds of the game. Arizona would settle for the Holiday Bowl, where they beat powerhouse Nebras ka and then finished fourth in the country. But no Rose Bowl. Believe it or not, if Arizona were to go 120, there could still be a chance where they would not play in the Pac-12 Championship game. The conference has done away with the North vs. South format for the title game and will instead have the athletic directors vote on which two teams will play. Certain ly, a 12-0 Arizona team should be one of the two teams chosen. However…
Aw, let’s just have them win all 12 games and see what happens next.
•done?IfArizona wins six or seven games, it’s bowl time, baby! And we don’t care which one. It can be on a Tuesday at 3 in the af ternoon on Christmas week. We’re there. It can be the Hemorrhoid Medicine for the Shut-ins of Nepal.com Bowl. For that day, Katmandu will be Wildcat Country.
• 10 or 11 games, national rankings, bigname bowl games, regular season games that don’t kick off at old people’s bed times. How cool would that be?
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“I feel like I could learn so much from coach (Michael) Perkins and all the other coaches. Other schools have, like, a col lection of athletes who have been brought together. We’re a family who has been brought up together.”
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Finally… Gertie?
BY TOM DANEHY Tucson Local Media
Athlete of the Week: Gertie Muñoz
Gertie Muñoz
Gertie Muñoz wants it all and the smart money wouldn’t bet against her getting it. The Flowing Wells High School junior has already been to the state champi onship game in basketball, when the Cabs lost to four-time defending champion Mil lennium last March. One of her goals is to get back to that title game in 2023 and 2024. But right now, she’s working on another goal. She wants to make it to state in golf. In the arcane world of high school golf (as well as in tennis) in Arizona, a player can make it to state two ways. While in ten nis, the Arizona Interscholastic Association uses its horribly flawed Power Points sys tem to put together a 16-team single-elim ination tournament. For golf, they use something called the iWanamaker system. Describing the iWanamaker system would put people with extreme insomnia to sleep. For example, in the iWanamaker, a player can use the scores of any five matches she has played on a given course during the season. The limit of five is strictly enforced; except sometimes it’s six. A golfer can also make it to state as an individual. That’s probably her best shot this year. Last week, she shot a highly re spectable six-over-par round at Silverbell GolfSheCourse.hasasolid array of golf shots in her repertoire, a nice mixture of mid-range shots, leading up to meticulous putting. But it is her driving that attracts the most attention. While she could not be described as diminutive, Gertie is not a She-Hulk. On the driving range, she turns quite a bit of heads, with the explosive clack of her driver hitting the ball off the tee and the incredible distance she gets. An older man at the driving range re marked, “I can’t believe how far that girl hits it. The results certainly don’t match her size.” Apparently, she understands the differ ence between momentum and force in physics. Momentum is mass times veloci ty, which will make a ball go a certain dis tance. Many golfers tend to swing through the striking zone at a steady rate of speed, which leads to a nice distance, but not an “Oh, wow!” one. Gertie has the “Oh, wow!” stuff down. She uses the torque of her hips to accelerate the club through the striking zone, generat ing an enormous amount of force. If (when) she makes it to state, her driving ability will have played a big part in her success. Moving over to basketball, I asked her, “If you could be guaranteed the next two years as the starting point guard for Millennium and a great shot at two state champion ships, would you take it?” She replied, “Absolutely not! I’d never leave Flowing Wells. We’re a family. We’re just a group of players who have come up together from elementary school and mid dle school. We’ve worked hard together, and we have a common purpose.” And yes, she really does talk like that. Having been sufficiently chastised, I tried to ask her something else, but she just kept on goin’.
“I was named for St. Gertrude,” she ex plained.Ilooked it up and it says that St. Gertrude is the patron saint of cats. Cats being the evil creatures that they are, I don’t know why they would have a patron saint.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Communi cating doesn't require talking. The truth is that you cannot avoid communicating because, as long as you are present, your body, movement, breathing, energy and very essence is sending a message. Your awareness in this regard makes you most effective this week.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You're assertive, not domineering. You'll master the fine art of being a boss without being bossy. It's a tightrope walk to be sure, but as long as you're paying attention to the feedback others give you, you'll maintain your standing. No longer having to kow tow to others is something to celebrate.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Yes, the proj ect is worthwhile, though it will take twice as long as you think, which is the case with most worthy work. It reveals it self little by little, pulling you deeper into your own heart. At some point, the time and effort become irrelevant. You're driv en to know what happens and, in doing so, know yourself.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). While you're able to defend what's yours, you'd prefer not to have to. That's why you're so careful about who you get close to. You pay attention to indications of character, worldview and thought process. Gener ous spirits will be all around you. You'll enjoy interactions of openness, trust and fun.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Luck and your emotional state go hand in hand. Your outlook and mood are on the up and up. You're hopeful about the prob lems you couldn't solve last week and will come at them from a new angle. You'll process and act on what you feel, creating a sense of progress you haven't known in a long while.
18 Explorer and Marana News, August 31, 2022 Horoscope By Holiday Mathis AnswersPuzzleCrossword 123456 78910 11121314 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 2829 30 3132 333435 36373839 40 41 42 43 44 45 4647 48 495051 525354 555657 58 59 60 61 6263 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 ERACBAHAIAMPSC NEIOCILOESDIOL LLROLILEBOTTHFO AIBLKUESTEREAC ICUSEMTHCEFAASK MBIAARTS AYBRNIGRELIAAR MELAEBTHERLDOUSH SGIAESTSOUNEHO SEARRAGS SQBLDIEEFTHBACK ELFUATLSORTOPO EINELTHESTOMALI EDOTEMAUESBUTA STSEATSELOOTSN Across 1 Shrimp ___ (seafood dish) 7 Monomaniacal captain of fiction 11 Taiwanese computer brand 15 Many jukebox songs 16 Sets of points, in geometry 17 Skye of “Say Anything …” 18 Pay for expensivesomething 20 Word after spring or summer on a menu 21 1/640 of a square mile 22 Golfer’s pocketful 23 ___ Khan, Yuan Dynasty founder 25 Precursor to reggae 26 Confront consequencesunpleasant 28 Ivan the Terrible, for one 30 One of three in “To be or not to be” 31 Typeface akin to Helvetica 33 Wear the crown 36 Donkey sound 40 Take responsibility for a misdeed 43 Sharpen 44 Boots from office 45 Protection 46 Scott Joplin compositions 48 Bum around London? 49 Bet on every competitor but one 55 Gridiron play callers, for short 58 Iberian wine city 59 Aspiring J.D.’s exam 60 Gasoline or kerosene 61 Peru’s capital 62 Conforms to expectations 65 ingForbidden-soundfragrance 66 Old Testament twin 67 Hammed it up on stage 68 Little twerp 69 Misplace 70 Nuclear trials, for short Down 1 Divans, e.g. 2 “What did the ___ do when it was still hungry? Went back four seconds!” (dad joke) 3 Worshipful love 4 Smidgen 5 Word before peeve or project 6 ___ Gate, marvel of Babylonian architecture 7 Edward who wrote “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 8 “… ___ with his own petard”: Hamlet 9 Knee part, for short 10 “The Family Circus” cartoonist 11 They may be released while scuba diving 12 Sits on a sill, as a pie 13 Former Chinese premier Zhou ___ 14 Archaeologist’s find 19 Common Market inits. 24 “Let me think ...” 26 Autumn 27 Some temperature extremes 29 Ingredient in a Reuben 31 Shade of gray 32 Letter after pi 33 Get more mileage out of 34 Sounds of hesitation 35 “The Addams Family” cousin 37 Angrily stops playing a game, in modern parlance 38 “Who, me?” 39 Triumphant shout 41 Upscale boarding kennel 42 Shakespeare, e.g. 47 Football stat: Abbr. 48 Tennis Hall-of-Famer Gibson 49 Leaves in a hurry 50 Beelike 51 Small musical group 52 “Performers” in a tiny circus 53 Topic for debate 54 Have a meal 56 Writer Stephen Vincent ___ 57 Mushers’ vehicles 60 Big chip off the old block? 63 Bear, in Spanish 64 One trained in CPR
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It seems your options are limited by factors beyond your control such as your age, gender, race, location, the rules of the game or the financial end of things. But what if these limits are merely perceived? Push into them and see if there's more leeway than appearances suggest. Ponder possible workarounds.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Just because people believe it doesn't make it real or right. Even so, trying to convince or in fluence people away from their beliefs will be an ineffective use of your time. Instead, you'll live in a way that reflects your values. Others take notice of what's working well for you. Some will want to do as you do.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You're choosy about your involvements because you tend to give them your all. The project you have on deck will bring out the best in you, requiring you to be organized, forward-thinking and resourceful. You'll have fun with it, too, as long as you pace yourself well. Plan to leave nothing to the last minute.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). These days, instructions are everywhere. The pillow and the wall hanging and the media post tell you what to do and think and how to be. It can feel intrusive, and your instinct to rebel is only natural. You may categorically shun all instructions and fly entirely in the zone of intuition, which will feel a lot like freedom.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It's not so easy to separate the signal from the noise. Check your sources. Challenges to clear com munication are numerous and varied. Misinformation can happen easily and without ill-intent. But if anyone can avoid mistakes and help everyone understand and come to an agreement, it's you.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You have the courage to put together the ideas that interest you, and you present them in your own unique way. Some will get it right away and want to be a part of it. Others won't understand until everyone else does. But you don't need everyone on your side. The most important one to have on your side is you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The more present you are to the moment, the more attractive you are. In familiar territory you'll be naturally centered, and you'll radiate cool confidence. New situations have a way of making your mind race. You don't have to look good at all times. Awkwardness is part of an ever-expand ing life. Your life is getting bigger indeed!
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