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Sept-Oct 2014TABLE OF CONTENTS

Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., on Consciousness, Science and Spirit A short interview with Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona’s Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health, in Tucson.

My Life, My Death—My Death, My LifeAn exclusive look into a scientific study about the afterlife.

Harvey Mackay ColumnUnselfishness Has a Special Place in Business

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Paging Books: Created By J.J. LaBarber - Reviewed by Mary L. HoldenWomen in Heels Buying Wheels

Speaking Out!Do the right Thing

Political/Social CartoonIslamic State

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Sept-Oct 2014CEO Series: One-on-One with Thelton McMillianMcMillian is the president and CEO of Comrade.

Under the Radar: Companies Worth Tracking

Tesla Update

Travel and Tourism Opportunities in Arizona for Canadians

Turning 50Discover (or recall) what happened 50 years ago.

People in the NewsSee who’s making headlines today.

World ReportTravel around the world in less than 10 minutes.

Transitions

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

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Tech ColumnDrive Safe Technology … and the Pay Attention! App

TekknowvationsFind out about some of the latest technology and gadgets on the market.

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uPcoMinG MoVies

Canada Got It Right On Immigration. Now It’s Time To Lead On Refugees.

Crossword PuzzleInventors and Inventions

The Three Words That Change Your Life Forever: You Have Cancer

Around Town - What’s Hot

Concerts - Premier Venues

Sporting Events - What’s Happening

Test Your Knowledge

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From the Publisherhen one looks out through the

window of what our world

is, the landscape is far from

picturesque. Clearly, we as

a civilization are facing many significant

crossroads in our battle to save the planet,

preserve the people and respect the lives of

others.

Looking at Russia, one could easily say

the Cold War is back. We then turn our

attention to Syria, where that country’s

civil war rages on with tens of thousands

dead, and then over to Israel and Palestine,

which seem to be headed down the same

road, followed by a quick jump over to

Afghanistan, and then finally Iraq—what

America didn’t achieve over the last 10

years of being there is clearly evident.

In Iraq, it seems like the depths of hell

have opened up and the Islamic State

(ISIS) has reared its beastly appearance.

For anyone who does not believe that

Islamic militants are now the biggest threat

to mankind, think again—and quickly.

If there was ever a time the entire world

must come together (politics be damned)

to join together to wipe out this scourge, it

must be now!

As the saying goes, judge not lest ye be

judged … so I practice every day not to

judge others. I think it makes me a better

person. And part of this same philosophy is

that I have no issues with anyone’s faith. I

may not agree with certain ideologies,

but I am a firm believer that each person’s

relationship with their god is exactly

that—their own! I have only one caveat.

A person or group cannot force their

beliefs on others.

But to have a radical group demand

that if you do not convert to their faith

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Wyou must be put to death is barbaric and

against all laws of humanity. Innocent

people like American journalist John

Foley get caught up in the unrest and

become victims, with faith having

nothing to do with it. Foley’s execution

was sheer retribution and demonstrates

that no boundaries exist within ISIS. We

live in the 21st century, and the quest of

ISIS is surely beyond any sane person’s

comprehension.

This is how it was 2,000 years ago,

when religious wars were fought in the

name of Christ, Jehovah, Allah and

Yahweh, and humans committed the

worst of atrocities against their fellow

man.

We all know the expression, “History

repeats itself.” ISIS is the darkest of the

dark, and if allowed to do so will take

civilization back 2,000 years. If we as a

caring and compassionate people have

learned anything in 2,000 years, it’s that

the world and its governments must band

together immediately to stop this scourge

from spreading.

Sincerely,

James L. Copland

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In Memory of James FoleyoCToBeR 18, 1973 - AugusT 19, 2014

Before James Foley became a journalist and foreign correspondent, he was a teacher at Lowell Elementary

School in Phoenix. Foley was killed by Islamic State group captors in Syria. Our thoughts and prayers are

with Foley’s family.


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she wears when she’s out buying a car …

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cars or advertising cars … or educating

people about them.

Experience in the automotive industry

throughout a 20-year career gave Droz

lots of expertise with which to write this

guide. The twin topics of cars and women

come together to give advice that male

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book is geared toward women is because

they spend $7 trillion consumer and

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a head-turning pair of red high heels.

doll was an auto mechanic. By age 13

she was sitting in on car-purchasing

negotiations with her father. At 15 she

collected brochures for Buicks, Chevys,

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played with them as if they were paper

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when Droz was 40 and a single working

mother with three children. She’d started

an ad agency for car dealers (with $500),

and her office was above a showroom.

She said each time she went downstairs,

she “would see the terror in women’s

eyes, whether they had come in alone or

with a man next to them. I would watch

salesmen with dollar signs in their eyes

overtake the women and make them feel

very uncomfortable.” Droz was the voice

of reason, telling sales teams that female

car buyers wanted to see engines and

not the vanity mirrors. She realized the

in which auto dealers that meet certain

criteria can become “High Heels

Certified”—a place where respectful

and fair transactions occur as a matter of

fact. This seal of approval comes with an

agreement on the dealer’s part to attend

classes, undergo an audit and train

sales and service staff to ensure that the

car-buying experience is customer-

focused. Their good work may eliminate

all those bad jokes about car salesmen!

In the book, Droz writes of personal

experiences that are unique to her

and that taught her about the process

of buying a car. She was not home-

schooled, but between the ages of 10

and 17 she was “auto dealership

schooled,” especially by her dad, Vinnie.

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the changing nature of conflict. Increasingly, in failing states such as Somalia, South Sudan and Syria, these people are victims of intrastate turmoil rather than interstate war. The traditional recipient countries face growing public resistance to refugee resettlement. No country has been more generous to the dispossessed than the United States. But, with an estimated 11 million undocumented people within its borders, the country’s welcome mat is wearing thin. As the U.S. faces an influx of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America, President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more billions to deal with the new migratory wave. Europeans are no strangers to displacement, and the original UN Convention was designed to address their post-war movement of peoples. Today, there is a pronounced anti-migrant attitude reflected in the success of nativist parties in recent national and European Union elections.aaaaaaaaaa Canadians, by contrast, still see migrants as vital ingredients in our continuing nation-building. We endorse multiculturalism, but without special privileges. We expect newcomers to blend into our society. We want a migration system that is fair but disciplined. In government, Stephen Harper resisted the reform instinct to curb immigration. Appointing Jason Kenney energized the portfolio. Not without bumps, Mr. Kenney brought innovation, reform and order, resetting citizenship and multiculturalism policy. Canadian immigration expanded with the stress on employable skills. The Gordian knot of backlogged applications was cut. Citizenship criteria were recast to emphasize our values, our history and the responsibilities of being Canadian. Our refugee determination system is more expeditious, with improved tracking and information sharing.

just to go along and get along,” the Harper government’s bumptious mantra for multilateral affairs. Useful lessons can be drawn from our experience and recent reforms to the Canadian migration and refugee system. Not since the Second World War are so many displaced people—51.2 million—sloshing within national borders and streaming across international frontiers. These unfortunates are driven by strife, famine, disease, climate changes or hopes of better economic prospects. Their description—refugees, asylum seekers, illegal aliens—reflects the receptivity of their temporary hosts. As part of the liberal international order constructed in the wake of the Second World War, the United Nations’ 1951 Geneva Convention on refugees enshrined a basic humanitarian principle in law: the right to leave one’s country for sanctuary elsewhere when facing life-threatening circumstances. Today, the situation is complicated by

olin robertson is a distinguished Canadian and political contributor whose opinions are aired on Canadian television, and whose works

are published in Canadian newspapers and magazines. In this article, robertson speaks to Canada’s effective immigration policies (in comparison with the broken immigration system in the United States), and why Canadians embrace immigration. robertson then turns his attention to Canada’s need to lead in the battle to address the world’s growing refugee problems.

The international refugee system needs a hand. “Humanitarians can help as a palliative, but political solutions are vitally needed,” remarked Antonio Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCr), when recently releasing the UN refugee agency’s annual report. It is a challenge that fits “no longer

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No system is perfect. A few jihadists holding, even burning, Canadian passports fuels headlines, but our risk-management system works. One in five Canadians is foreign-born. The visible diversity of our cities defines what the Aga Khan describes as our “robust pluralism.” Mackenzie King’s “none is too many” refugee policy has been exorcised, but as historian Irving Abella reminds us: “A nation cannot move forward without recognizing the darker parts of its past.” With the courts to protect against the “cruel and unusual,” we are finding our way. Successful integration is hard work. Settlement within Canada means continuing skills development. Acceptance of legitimate credentials earned overseas is still a major hurdle. Accreditation through our guilds is still too protectionist. We have both research and practical experience in resettlement.

Canada pioneered the Metropolis research project on urban integration. This network now extends to 70 countries. Community programs such as Success and HIPPY set the standard for successful integration by newcomers. In 1986 the “People of Canada” were awarded the Nansen Medal for our “major and sustained contribution to the cause of refugees.” Key to the successful integration of successive migrant waves—Eastern Europeans during the fifties and sixties, Ugandans during the seventies and the Indo-Chinese “boat people” during the eighties—was the active involvement of all levels of government as well as churches, unions and community groups. Marion Dewar, mayor of Ottawa during the late seventies and into the mid-eighties, launched Project 4000 to resettle Vietnamese refugees. As she said at the time, “Four thousand. We’ve got almost 400,000 in Ottawa. Surely we can

handle that.” Ms. Dewar inspired others. Canada would subsequently welcome more than 200,000 people from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Let’s renew our leadership in refugee resettlement. Kick-start our 150th anniversary by giving a home to 1.5 million refugees. Make refugees our standing issue on the international circuit. Canadian self-definition draws from our actions on the international stage. The plight of the refugee is a cause to which Canada brings expertise and experience.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++A member of the teams that negotiated the FTA and NAFTA, Colin robertson is vice president of the Canadian Defence

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WHAT HAPPENED IN 1964


The late British political cartoonist David Low called Walt Disney “the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo.” A pioneer and an innovator, Disney had one of the most admired imaginations in the world. During his 43-year career he revolutionized the motion picture industry, created Mickey Mouse and founded Disneyland theme parks. On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Disney the Medal of Freedom.

disney Awarded Medal of freedom

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During his lifetime, walt Disney

earned hundreds of honors and

citations from many nations

around the world.

Cold War tensions were still strong between the United States and the Soviet Union in the early ’60s as the development of technologies that could deliver nuclear warheads reached new heights. The Valkyrie had a cruise speed of Mach 3 and could fly at altitudes of 70,000 feet. It made its first flight from Palmdale, California, to Edwards Air Force Base on September 21, 1964. The Valkyrie has often been referred to as the most remarkable research aircraft ever flown by NASA.

XB-70 Valkyrie Maiden flight

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The north american XB-70

Valkyrie was the prototype of the

B-70 nuclear-armed strategic

bomber for the U.S. air force.

The Commission’s 889-page final report was presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1964, and made available to the public three days later. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald (pictured above) acted alone in the killing of Kennedy. It also stated that Jack Ruby, the man who killed Oswald two days later, acted alone. The Commission’s findings were challenged shortly after the report’s release and remain controversial to this day.

Warren commission report

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In an effort to investigate the

assassination of President

John f. Kennedy, the warren

Commission was established.

Other Key EventsHow old were you in 1964?

masanori murakami

becomes the first

Japanese baseball player

on a major League team.

Palestinian Liberation

army (PLa) is formed in

Palestine.

The Beatles are paid a

(then) record $150,000

for one concert in Kansas.

Television sitcom The Munsters premieres on CBS.

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Cable cars have dominated San Francisco’s transit landscape for more than 140 years. They were almost destroyed in the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, which devastated the city. The iconic cars were almost eliminated in the ’40s when the city determined that buses were less expensive to operate. On October 1, 1964, they were declared a National Historic Landmark. Today, they are one of only two National Historic Landmarks that move.

cable cars declared Landmark

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Cable cars were invented in

San francisco in 1873 and

have become a worldwide

symbol of the city.

When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the Soviet Union agreed to aid China in the development of its nuclear industry. China exploded its first atomic bomb on October 16, 1964. That same day, the Chinese government made a solemn promise to the rest of the world that China’s nuclear weapons would only be used in self-defense to protect the national security of the country, and China would never be the first to use them.

china’s first nuclear Weapon

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China becomes the world’s

fifth nuclear power by

exploding its first

atomic bomb.

The Star of India is one of the most well-known objects in the world. First discovered in Sri Lanka some 300 years go, this mammoth, golf ball-sized gem became part of J.P. Morgan’s gem collection in the late 1800s. Morgan donated it to American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1900. On October 30, 1964, the gem was stolen from the museum. It was recovered in Miami a few months later. Today, the Star of India is estimated to be worth about $1 million.

star of india stolen in new york

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at 563 carats, the Star of

India is the world’s largest

gem-quality blue star sapphire;

it’s about 2 billion years old.

first three-man crew is

launched into space (by

the Soviet Union).

martin Luther King Jr. wins

the nobel Peace Prize.

new york yankees

fire manager yogi

Berra.

anton geesink becomes the

first non-Japanese Olympic

judo gold medal winner.

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Barbra Streisand’s album

“People” hits no. 1 and

stays there for five weeks.

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short interview with Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona’s Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and

Health (LACH), in Tucson.Q. The more you focus on something, the more you see it. The Greeks call it scotoma. How does scotoma factor into seeing the unseen?A. The better you focus, the more you exclude irrelevant information, noise and distraction that compromises your energy field. Paying attention is like finding the right radio station. The word “frequency” pertains to this kind of focus. The capacity to focus is critical—but it is both a gift and a curse. The gift is the surprise and comfort of the message; the curse is that with too much focus, you miss important details in the big picture.Q. The human body is a kind of laboratory. Can you give us some advice about doing our own “science of spirit” experiments?A. You can do an experiment right now. As you breathe in and out, repeat the words, “love breath, love breath, love breath.” Does your breathing change? Do you feel better than you did when you weren’t paying attention to your breath? Your answer is your observation; do this several times. When you see a pattern, such as how reliable the feeling of relaxation is, you develop trust. Some bodily responses cannot be replicated. Science is not a theory or a dogma. It is a strategy for being an unbiased, open-minded observer.Q. What’s the difference between memory and imagination?A. Memory is the preservation of information. Storage and retrieval. Imagination creates something new. Imagination draws on a memory and takes it forward. You can remember what you imagined, imagine what you can remember.

Q. What is a human supposed to do with the layers of information we receive from the world of spirit energy?A. There are many layers of meaning. When I was at Yale, I had an insight that everything has three purposes. Take hair, for example. There are elements that give the concept of hair a pattern at three levels: how it shows up for you, for me and for everyone else. The challenge is how to discern meaning in a way that makes the most sense. Humility factors into discernment—sometimes it is best to boil down meaning to its lowest common denominator: It happened. I felt it. I believe it.Q. What message do you want to make public about the Academy of Spiritual and Consciousness Studies conference?A. Science and spirituality is coming together in historic ways. And, it is happening at the individual level—people are making their own discoveries and sharing them. This conference is about how the nature of life changes after physical death. Light has its immortality, and so do humans. Q. How do you discern what is true about “spirit” information?A. The first point of evaluation is your personal experience of connection to spirit (not through a medium). Here are “Seven ‘S’ Words” to use when questioning the unseen. Ask yourself if the source of information is: Smart, Successful, Sophisticated (as in seeking truth), Savvy, Spiritual and Sane. Use this when you read published research and examine the theory behind the experience. Finally, if there is a good reason to dismiss the story, then you have an excuse to disbelieve what is being proclaimed. Q. You have a unique definition for God—noun or verb?A. Guiding Organizing Designing process! We are all co-participants in the design of our realities.

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IN THE NEWSpeople


1. TIM COOKapple’s CEO made some significant

moves over the summer,

which many are praising

as good corporate social

responsibility. In august,

the Cupertino-based

company announced that

it is banning the use of

benzene and n-hexane,

two potentially hazardous

chemicals, during final

assembly of iPhone and iPad

products. Benzene is a known

carcinogen that has been linked

to leukemia, and n-hexane has been

associated with nerve damage. In the same

month, Cook also released a diversity report

containing statistics about the race and gender

makeup of apple. The report, which Cook was not

happy about, indicated that apple’s workforce is

mostly male—a common phenomenon in the tech

industry. according to the report, only three out of

10 apple employees around the globe are female.

Broken down, males represent 65 percent of the

company’s nontech workers, 80 percent of its

tech workers, and 72 percent of apple’s leadership.

Cook pledged to take action to improve the

company’s diversity by boosting female presence

in his company.

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2. HILLARY CLINTONThe biggest question among political

pundits continues to be: will Hillary run

for president in 2016? That’s a question only

she can answer. However, in her new book,

“Hard Choices,” Clinton gives an

inside account of the crises,

choices and challenges she

faced during her four years as

america’s 67th Secretary of

State, and how those

experiences drive her view of

the future. That sounds like

a hint, doesn’t it? Clinton has

also, some have said, distanced

herself from President Obama

by criticizing his foreign

policy in a recent interview.

Only time will tell.

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4. STEPHEN HAWKINGThe story of renowned physicist

Stephen Hawking will be told in the

upcoming film Theory of Everything, which will be released

in november. The film will

feature the life story of Hawking

and focus on his relationship

with Jane wilde, the art student

he fell in love with while studying

at Cambridge in the ’60s.

Hawking is often referred to as the

next Einstein; his theories and

physics concepts have changed our

views and understanding of the

universe.

3. DAVID GREGORYnBC’s Meet the Press host David gregory was

replaced by nBC news political director Chuck

Todd in august. gregory had held the position

since taking over as moderator in 2008,

following the death of the legendary Tim

Russert. nBC did not specify the reason for

replacing gregory, but it is rumored that he

was let go because of the show’s declining

ratings during his time as its host. The news of

gregory’s departure was announced on august

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GLENDALEGlendale city council has approved an

offer from the Tohono O’odham Nation to pay

Glendale $26 million over the next 20 years

for the tribe’s new casino. It will also provide

$2 million to the Glendale Convention &

Visitors Bureau for promotion.

PHOENIXNorth Phoenix’s High Street development has

landed Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. as major

new tenant. Sprouts will relocate its current

headquarters to a new 77,400-square-foot

facility at High Street, which will include a

small Sprouts grocery store.

PHOENIX As the midterm elections approach, the

race for the governor’s office is seeing the

mudslinging and personal attacks rise

to new levels. Huge amounts of private

contributions to various PACs are funding

the key candidates’ campaigns.

PHOENIXSprouts Farmers Market saw its net income

for the second quarter jump a

whopping 140 percent from the same period

a year ago. The company’s net income for the

quarter increased to $30.2 million, up from

$12.5 million in the previous year’s second

quarter.

SCOTTSDALECanadian builder Landmark Group will

make its first foray into the U.S. in downtown

Scottsdale. Its first project, Aerium, is a

27-unit condominium complex to be built near

70th Street and Osborn road. Landmark is

planning additional residential projects in the

Phoenix metro area.

TEMPETempe has banned the smoking of e-cigarettes

in public places. It is the first city in Arizona

to ban their use.

Target Corp. appointed Brian Cornell as its

new CEO. Known as a turnaround artist,

Cornell was most recently CEO of PepsiCo

Americas Foods.

NEW YORK CITYThe New York Times broke a story in early

August about the largest-ever theft of

confidential Internet data, which included 1.2

billion username and password combinations,

along with more than 500 million email

addresses. The theft was tracked to a russian

criminal organization.

OMAHABillionaire Warren Buffett donated an

additional $2.1 billion in July to the Bill and

Melinda Gates Foundation. The donation is

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In late July, naSCaR driver Jeff

gordon added another record-setting

performance to his racing career. He

became the first five-time winner at

the Indianapolis motor Speedway.

He did so at the 21st running of the

Brickyard 400.

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FORT WORTH, TEXASAmerican Airlines CEO Doug Parker reported

a record $864 million in net profit for American

Airline Group’s second quarter. The company

will also pay shareholders a dividend for the

first time since 1980.

DENVERPat Bowlen recently handed over his role as

CEO of the Denver Broncos to Joe Ellis, who

has been with the team since 1983. At the

time of the announcement, Bowlen’s family

revealed that he has Alzheimer’s disease. His

ownership of the team has been placed in a

trust, and John Elway will continue to oversee

football operations.

MINNEAPOLISTo turn around declining U.S. sales and

a failing Canadian division, retail giant

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Phoenix, Scottsdale and Chandler

are among the Top 50 U.S. meeting

destinations, according to cloud-based

Cvent. Phoenix was ranked 11th,

Scottsdale 16th and Chandler 50th.

In a tragic accident, naSCaR driver Tony

Stewart hit and killed 20-year-old Kevin

ward Jr. in a recent dirt track race in upper

new york State. Initial reports say the

accident was unavoidable.

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ORLANDODarden restaurants Inc., owner of Olive

Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse and other

well-known restaurant chains, completed a

$2.1 billion sale of its red Lobster restaurants

to San Francisco-based Golden Gate Capital,

the parent company of California Pizza

Kitchen. There are 10 red Lobster locations

in the Phoenix area.

WASHINGTON, D.C.The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark and

unanimous decision, ruled that a person’s

cell phone cannot be searched by authorities

without a warrant. The ruling stated that a

person’s cell phone contains information that

is private to each individual. The decision

is seen as a huge win for privacy rights in

America.

WASHINGTON, D.C.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4

decision that for-profit companies can impose

their religious rights on employees. The ruling

allowed companies the right not to provide

contraceptive or birth control drugs to

employees under Obamacare.

WASHINGTON, D.C.Citigroup reached a $7 billion settlement with

the Department of Justice for selling “toxic”

financial products that contributed to the

country’s economic meltdown. Last November,

JPMorgan Chase settled its case over

mortgage-backed securities for $13 billion.

WASHINGTON, D.C.The Senate confirmed robert McDonald,

former chairman and CEO of Procter &

Gamble, as the new Veterans Affairs secretary.

He is tasked with the job of rebuilding the VA

health care system.

WASHINGTON, D.C.Bank of America reached an enormous $16.7

billion settlement with the Department of

Justice with regard to allegations that the

bank marketed fraudulent mortgage-backed

securities that fueled the recent economic

crisis. According to the DOJ, this is the

largest civil settlement with a single entity in

the country’s history.

RUSSIAFighting back against U.S. sanctions, russian

president Vladimir Putin has banned all farm

imports from the U.S,. the European Union,

Canada and Japan. Last year russia imported

about $41.3 billion in U.S. food products.

This action could further damage the russian

economy by increasing food prices.

TORONTOToronto mayor rob Ford returned from two

months in rehab and apologized to the city’s

residents for his past actions. He also stated

his intentions to seek re-election.

VENEzUELAAs the nation faces a worsening economic

crisis, the government is considering the sale

of Houston-based Citgo Petroleum Corp.,

Venezuela’s oil and gas operations in the U.S.

The sale could generate as much as $15 billion

for the beleaguered government.

The world Health Organization

allocated $100 million to treat the

largest outbreak of the Ebola virus

in history. The outbreak is worst in

guinea, Liberia, nigeria and Sierra

Leone. as of mid-august nearly 2,500

people had been infected and more

than 1,300 had died in confirmed,

probable or suspected cases of Ebola,

which has a 90 percent fatality rate.

Two american health workers are

among those who were infected.

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AFGHANISTANA U.S. general was shot and killed by a rogue

Afghan soldier. Maj. Gen. Harold Greene

is the highest-ranking officer to be killed on

foreign soil in combat since the Vietnam War.

CALGARY, CANADACalgary is quickly becoming one of Canada’s

wealthiest cities. According to WealthScapes

2014, a database on assets, liabilities and

wealth of Canadians, the average household

net worth in 2013 in Vancouver was Can.

$710,095, followed by Toronto at Can.

$693,652 and Calgary at Can. $680,377.

LONDONGreat Britain marked the 100th anniversary

of its entering World War I. Nearly a million

ceramic red poppy flowers are being planted

at the Tower of London to represent Britain’s

soldiers who died in the war. The conflict, which

lasted until 1918, was meant to be “the war to

end all wars.”

PARISIn this year’s Tour de France, a grueling

22-day race encompassing 2,200 miles, Italian

cyclist Vincenzo Nibali rode into the Champ-

Elysees with a 7-minute win over his nearest

rival.

California offered Tesla $500

million in incentives and a

promise to ease environmental

rules if the company were to build

its new gigafactory there.

The arizona Corporation Commission

approved the $4.3 billion acquisition

of Unisource Energy Services/Tucson

Electric Power by newfoundland, Canada’s

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An action-comedy about two tabloid TV hosts who discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un

is a fan of their show. They land an interview with him in an effort to gain greater respect as journalists.

On his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy,

has gone missing. Soon after, Nick’s lies, deceit and strange behavior make him a suspect.

A 3-D animated feature that tells the tale of the Boxtrolls, monsters living beneath the

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THE JUDgEoCT.10

Director: David Dobkin; Cast: robert Downey Jr., robert Duvall; rating: PG-13Actor robert Downey Jr. plays Hank Palmer, a Chicago defense attorney who returns to his childhood home, where his estranged and hostile father (played by robert Duvall), who is also the small town’s judge, is suspected of manslaughter. Hank sets out to discover the truth and along the way rekindles his relationship with the family he left years before.

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Director: Gary Shore; Cast: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, rating: PGHollywood has been making Dracula movies since 1922, when Nosferatu was released, and over the decades there have been many variations of the terrifying character. In Dracula Untold, the story is told of how Prince Vlad (Luke Evans), historically known as “The Impaler,” goes from romanian royalty to a creature of the night—a vampire. Prince Vlad fights to protect his people from an oncoming Turkish invasion and seeks power by sacrificing himself to evil, in this case represented by the roman emperor Caligula (Charles Dance), turned vampire.


LEGOS were created in 1958 in Denmark. What does the word LEGO mean?

Inventor of the World Wide Web

Invented blue jeans

Englishman known as the “Father of Computing”

Project started by U.S. president in 1942 to ensure that the United States beat Germany in developing a nuclear bomb

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Invented the game of basketball in 1891

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Known as the “father of modern rocketry”

Invented the crossword puzzle in 1913 while working as a journalist for the New York World newspaper

Racecar driver/actor who invented the bucket seat in 1969

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The Wright brothers’ first plane

First American female to patent an invention, a method for weaving straw with silk

Assisted Bell in inventing the telephone

The inventor of this device discovered that the candy bar in his pocket had melted because of what he was working on, in 1946

Musical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin

U.S. president who invented the spherical sundial

His “counter” device could detect ionizing radioactivity

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James garner’s Hollywood film career peaked during the

late ’50s. mostly known for his western movies, his slow,

easy-going attitude and highly recognized voice allowed

him to connect with his fans in a special way. In the

’70s, he starred in the popular TV show Rockford Files, in

which he played a private investigator. garner also fought

in the Korean war and earned two Purple Hearts.

roBin WiLLiAMs JULY 21, 1951–AUG. 11, 2014

In the wake of Robin williams’ death, there has been

an outpouring of sympathy for his family and myriad

remembrances of the Oscar-winning actor and comic.

He was perhaps the funniest man to have graced

both the small and big screens. williams died of an

apparent suicide; he had long battled depression and

substance addiction.

jAMes BrAdy AUG. 29, 1940–AUG. 4, 2014

James Brady, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s

press secretary, was shot and seriously wounded

in march 1981 when John Hinckley attempted to

assassinate the president. as a result of his injuries,

Brady was partially paralyzed and confined to a

wheelchair. Over the decades that followed, Brady

used his experience to lobby for stronger gun control.

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Broadway was a perfect fit for legendary actress and

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musicals, nonmusical dramas or cabaret shows, her

charismatic personality drew thousands of people

during her almost 70 years in show business. She was

best known for her candid one-woman memoir, “Elaine

Stritch: at Liberty,” among other notable roles.

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My Life, My Death—My Death, My Life

Consciousness Studies, Inc. (ASCS) is a group of individuals that feels these questions are worth asking because people should be as comfortable talking about the unseen as they are about what is seen. And sometimes, what is unseen does show up—be it a laboratory or in a thought, feeling or sensation. Author and attorney Roberta Grimes, of Austin, Texas, calls herself a skeptic even though she’s written two thought-provoking nonfiction books about life after death. She serves on the board of ASCS, and, along with fellow author and board member R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., of Normal, Illinois, Grimes co- organized the academy’s annual conference this past July in Scottsdale, Arizona. A member of ASCS for more than 10 years, Grimes says she found the organization when researching and writing historical fiction books, including one on Thomas Jefferson. “My interest in humanity is focused on love,” she said. “Over the course of our 200,000-year history on Earth, humanity has not changed in one important area. Humans have always sought to be loved and to love … past, present and after death.” Good point. Who can argue with the idea of forever love? At the 2013 ASCS conference in Virginia, Grimes was surprised by the small attendance. She said, “Those of us in the Baby Boom generation are the largest group of people on Earth ever to face the idea of what death means. It is in our mass consciousness. We should start paying more attention to the science that informs us about what to expect!”

hen scientists create a hypothesis, three things happen. The premise can be proved, disproved … or

talked about until the end of time. What happens after a person dies is a question that’s been open to hypothesis and discussion since time began. Are you willing to enter into this eternal conversation? If you think that death ends the motion of all life, stop reading now. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust … The End. If you are unsure, open-minded or claim to “know beyond knowing,” please keep reading. There are lots of people—skeptics, scientists, spiritualists—who want to see beyond the veil of what we think is known about Earth’s reality. Is there a key that exists in the sweating, thinking, emoting, blood- circulating energy a physical body has on Earth to unlock the mystery of spirit? Is there an answer to the question of what in the body transforms into the energy that may go on past the need to breathe or eat? Believers feel that the soul must go on. But skeptics and scientists have a quest. They say, “We don’t know, but let’s run experiments and analyze results.”Academy of Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, Inc. Is it right to test faith in a laboratory? What about testing faith by using your own body as a laboratory? Curiosity is known to have opened Pandora’s box, and it killed the cat. Will curiosity about the afterlife ruin the ability to have faith, or strengthen it? The Academy of Spiritual and

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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful. ~JEANNE MOREAu (FRENCH ACTRESS, b. 1928)

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Grimes approached Hogan about growing membership, and together they brought the July 2014 ASCS conference to Scottsdale. “We wanted to welcome the world,” she said, “and expose the study of afterlife communication.” And they did. More than 200 attendees were present, and membership continues to grow. “More and more people are unafraid to talk about experiences they’ve had when a beloved but departed soul makes its presence known,” said Grimes. “It’s being studied in the lab by Dr. Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona.”Black Boxes in the LabGary Schwartz is a professor in many departments: psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery. He directs the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (LACH) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. As a skeptic of psychic phenomena, he studied with a magician to learn about psychic fraud. He wanted to part the curtain of magic that surrounds psychics and mediums to get insight into the existence of spiritual power. A series of unique and well-planned experiments with psychics and mediums occurred in 1999. It was history-making—science met spirit in a university laboratory. Schwartz’s experiments were meant to show

the public how controlled research can question, capture, record and analyze data generated by a person’s mind, body and … spirit … as collected through the medium of electronic and other human bias- neutral measurements. LACH’s motto is: “If it is real, it will be revealed. If it is fake, we’ll find the mistake.” Research scientists at LACH arestudying the following areas at present: evolution of consciousness and understanding (universal hypotheses and post-materialism); the role of consciousness in health and healing; survival of consciousness after death; other-worldly/higher spiritual consciousness. Schwartz’s study informs his life, something he admits gets in the way of experimentation. “The ‘human factor’ sometimes gets in the way of scientific study,” he said, “so I asked a software developer for help in removing it for an experiment that involves light and the presence of spirit energy.” The experiment Schwartz is referring to took place in 2010. “We built a box within a box within a box so that no light could come through, and we put a light detector inside the innermost box. Then we asked spirit, ‘if you are there, give us proof as light.’” The equipment Schwartz used for this test is a silicon photomultiplier system, designed to detect particles of light in

total darkness. The experiment was published in EXPLORE: The Journalof Science and Healing in 2010: http://bit.ly/1pWBGvG. Can it be true that spirits of the departed show up on Earth as detectable light in black boxes? Light was detected in the darkest black box, but the experiment was criticized for the impact of human influence. “So, we asked engineers to develop a software program to generate a time at random and pose an invitation to spirit to show itself in the innermost box when no experimenters were present in the laboratory. This took away all human intervention in terms of inviting spirit entities (also known as ‘departed hypothesized collaborators’) to show up as light. The results of the experiment showed direct correlation of light being detected in the black box when the invitation was generated by the computer,” Schwartz revealed. Of course, this all depends on belief that spirit energy survives its earthly version and that the power of light can be used as a scientific tool of communication. Perhaps you’ll align with Grimes when she says, “I believe that every human mind is eternal. We never began and we will never end. All of our minds are part of the Source, and the Source is the only thing that is real.”

Weighing of the heart against a feather was a ritual of judgement depicted in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

If spirit is from Source, and Source is real, then the sky’s the limit—right? But does the sky have a limit? During his keynote speech at the ASCS conference, Schwartz compared the way the Wright brothers conquered the impossibility of human flight to current scientific efforts regarding communication with the dead. “You have a cell phone,” he said. “You may in the future have a soul phone where your departed loved ones can use modern technology to dial up and leave messages.”

The Wright brothers succeeded in human use of sky. Perhaps it’s time to pierce whatever veil is left in that metaphor. A prolific author, Schwarz wrote several books about investigating life after death. In 2006, he published The G.O.D. Experiments, where he discussed this idea: “Is the belief in God—a universal intelligence, source and energy of all that is—something we must accept only on faith? Or is there compelling scientific reasoning, supported by incontrovertible experimental evidence?

If this essence is actually at work in the scientist’s lab as well as in our daily lives, it’s time for us to take notice. My experiences in the laboratory and in life demonstrate convincingly, I believe, that science can lead us to the God who is now making himself/herself/itself known in physics, statistics, computer science, and even in, of all places, parapsychology experiments.” The theme of the ASCS conference in July was “New Developments in Afterlife Communication.” Although there is not yet a soul phone, attendees learned ways to connect to departed loved ones through meditation, séance circles, electronic devices, photographs (both on paper and on screen), automatic writing, pendulums, dreams and in synchronicities and coincidences. Dr. Schwartz advises to pay attention to your intuition. Were you driving along, thinking about a loved one and saw a license plate with their name on it? Did you hear a song while shopping that reminded you of your beloved and now distant friend who just then texted you? Perhaps a dream you had about your departed great grandmother giving you a note—“Buy the white car!”—was a message you didn’t follow and the yellow car you bought was a lemon right off the lot. “Such visions, dreams and synchronicities are happening more and more often to people,” Schwartz claimed, “because of so many choices: the Internet, the license plate messages, the media feeds. Mind your intuition,” he said, “because when you find yourself being nudged to pay attention to something, it’s guiding you to focus on something other than normal. That’s the place you’ll receive a message and feel surprised or comforted by a kind of energy beyond your five senses.” Clues about the existence of spiritual energy abound, and are real, according to lawyer Victor Zammit from Sydney, Australia. “There are at least 20 ways human communication with the

Paul Davids, “The Life After Death Project,” Yellow Hat

Productions, 2013.

Dan Drasin, “Calling Earth: An Afterlife Documentary,”

produced for free educational viewing only, 2014.

Chris Lavelle, “Messages of Hope, The Movie,” 2014.

Randall Wallace, “Heaven is for Real,” 2014.

R.J. Cutler. “If I Stay,” 2014.

Frank Capra, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946.

Harold Cronk, “God’s Not Dead,” 2014.

Maryam Keshavarz, “The Day I Died,” 2006.

Burr Steers, “Charlie St. Cloud,” 2010.

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Jewish funeral services are usually in a synagogue or funeral home one day after the death. Funerals never take place on the Saturday Sabbath.

nonmaterial world takes place.” Evidence of afterlife communication, studied in the context of what would be allowed in a court of law, is Zammit’s realm of interest, and it has become a passion. “The best evidence I found was with physical medium David Thompson. I’ve been present at over 100 sessions,” he said. Zammit was speaking of Thompson’s trance-induced ability to manifest the appearance of an entity, a recognizable personality, of someone who has died and shown up with a message. Zammit’s experience of this phenomenon gives him plenty of good evidence to share—stories of messages being revealed from beyond that only the intended recipient and the deceased knew about. He insisted that, while in trance, “Thompson sits bound and gagged. There is no outside interference or fakery. In one session, a father whose son had been murdered had vowed in private to get revenge. The son came through and begged the father to forgive the murderer and ‘promise me that you won’t do anything.’ The father was shocked that the son knew of his vow.” A physical medium is someone who donates the energy of his physical body to allow in a spirit with a message. “This is very hard on a body,” said Wendy Zammit, Victor’s wife and co-researcher. “Many physical mediums have conditions like diabetes or other health compromises because of the work they do with spirit.” Both experts consider health compromises proof that spirit energy uses human energy—at a cost, when it’s real—to communicate across realms.Death, Grief, HealingThree certainties exist: Taxes … death … grief. What’s not certain is the process grief takes or achievement of healing. Afterlife communication—if brought to psychological therapy—has the potential to revolutionize ways that humans endure grief and heal after the emotional wounds (sadness, loneliness, loss) gape, fester or implode after a loved one dies. Carol Morgan is the mother of Mikey,

whom she communicates with even though his body perished in 2007 at the age of 20. Morgan, a physical therapist and a practicing Catholic, was in dire grief. She had no psychic ability, but she attended a retreat sponsored by the (now defunct) Dying To Live Again Foundation and met medium Sally Baldwin (who died in 2012). Baldwin taught Morgan to communicate with her son by using a pendulum. Personal information from Mikey arrived with clarity, easing and transforming her

grief. She said, “Mikey describes God as the unity of absolute pure love, which is infinite, the collective, the loving force, and we are all part of this collective.” The experience of communicating with a departed loved one is unique. Do you think you have this ability? Morgan says you do, and there are many ways to access information from the realm of spirit energy. She said, “You have to open your heart and allow it to happen. Remove doubt, and believe.”

A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife, Victor and Wendy Zammit (White Crow Books, 2013).

Afterlife Communication: 16 Proven Methods, 85 True Accounts, Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies (S Publications, 2014).

Journey to the Upper Realm: How I Survived the Deaths of My Sons and Learned to Communicate With Them on the Other Side, Maria Pe, Esq. (2013).

My Son and the Afterlife, Elisa Medhus, MD (2013).

The Fun of Dying: Find Out What Really Happens Next, Roberta Grimes (Greater Reality Publications, 2010).

The Fun of Staying in Touch: How Our Loved Ones Contact Us and How We Can Contact Them, Roberta Grimes (2014).

The Sacred Promise: How Science Is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration With Us in Our Daily Lives, Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., and John Edward (Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2011).

The Scapel and the Soul, Alan J. Hamilton (Tarcher, 2005).

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Perhaps grief is not your issue. Maybe you wonder about your own soul’s path in life, why you’ve lived through certain experiences and lessons, or suffered disease. Perhaps past emotional pain lingers and denies your happiness. If life is meant to teach lessons, do experiences from a soul’s “other” lifetimes bleed through? Reincarnation was something Brian L. Weiss, M.D., rejected until a patient opened his mind to the possibility. This doctor, a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, and Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, wrote about crossing the bridge from health science to spirituality in his best-selling book Miracles Happen:The Transformational Healing Power of Past Life Memories (HarperOne, 2012). If you can accept the possibility of reincarnation, might you be interested in accessing memories embedded in your personality before you entered life? If so, hypnosis holds a key. Psychologist (and scientist and skeptic) Michael Newton, Ph.D., used hypnosis as a therapeutic method until noticing a pattern (among 7,000 patients, over a span of 35 years) that led him to research, study and develop a technique he called Life Between Life (LBL) regression. His book, Journeyof Souls (Llewellyn, 1994) is still a best seller. At the ASCS conference, Jonathan Yorks, M.A., LMFT, CHt, of Boston, presented LBL regression information. To explain the mystery, Yorks stated the first law of thermodynamics: Matter and energy can transform, but neither can be created or destroyed. Science has proved this to be true, so it can also be applied to soul en-ergy—the very you of you—which has always been present, although it may have changed as it cycled through reincarnation; births, deaths and existence in the world of spirit.

Yorks said this energy can be read like a book. He has regressed many people since 1995 using the LBL method. He said, “Every life has its own frequency and vibration. The definition of ‘memory’ limits under-standing of time in terms of a soul’s energy. The brain is like a TV or radio that can tune into or out of frequency levels and acquire much greater understanding of self.” Those who’ve experienced LBL therapy report the ability to see the events of their life in a much greater context, allowing problems to be seen as choices that have opened up opportunities for growth and wisdom. “A session can take several hours,” Yorks said, “through a gentle deepening through the five known layers of brain wave function, into memories from being in the womb and prior.” Therapist Karen Herrick, Ph.D., of Red Bank, New Jersey, is the first female president in ASCS history. She authored the book You’re NotFinished Yet and is a proponent of further education for all people about giving credibility to their spiritual experiences. In her practice, she encourages clients to meet with mediums and energy healers to aid in their process of chronic grief. “My mission is to welcome professional therapists to ASCS,” she said, “after I did a survey and learned that 73 percent of 133 mental health professionals” believe that more open discussion of spiritual matters would benefit them and their patients and “67 percent needed training to recognize the difference between spiritual and psychotic experiences. This is a big reason why I want more of them to come to ASCS conferences.” A psychotic experience is defined as a gross distortion and disorganization of a person’s mental capacity. The definition of spiritual experience used in surveying these professionals was

“the transcendent relationship between the person and a Higher Being, a quality that goes beyond a specific religious affiliation.” According to conference attendee, intuitive healer and medium Ellie Pechet, M.Ed., of Phoenix, “Using spiritual guidance in combination with advanced energy healing medicine accelerates healing for people suffering emotional pain. “My technique goes well beyond Reiki, EFT ‘tapping,’ etc. Counseling and other modalities only go so far to reduce grief and trauma. They’re temporary,” she said. Twenty to 30 percent of Pechet’s clientele come to her for grief counseling. “My ability to intuit the root cause of an issue at the cellular level works like a laser,” she said. “I dissolve the energetic charge associated with grief, trauma, depression and low self- esteem, clearing it on every level. Then, I fill the client with a high vibration of healing energy.” She claims a 95 percent success rate, but still factors in the necessity of medical science. “When a medical need, such as a broken bone or brain chemistry imbalance, has to be addressed, energy healing is more involved. Healing via advanced intuitive energy work with an expert is a good compliment to chemicals, stitches and casts.” This type of healing is difficult to explain, but those who’ve experienced it say it works … and it lasts. Is This End The End?Discussing the unseen spirit has always been a challenge, yet humans do figure out ways. Thanks to people like Hogan, Grimes, Herrick and Schwartz, the whispers are turning into roars. You are encouraged to create and celebrate communication with the personalities of those you knew and loved before their departure from Earth. Putting them ‘to rest’ was just a small part of the truth.


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the road ahead in a better way is what this technology is designed to do. Some headlights have sensors that adapt to weather conditions, sense curves in the road and then adjust focus, reduce glare from high beams and can even gauge the distance between the vehicle you are driving and the one in front of you. It’s known as an advanced front-lighting

system (AFS); be sure to ask about this feature when considering the purchase of a new car. Back up cameras. Although some people cannot resist turning their bodies into position to see behind when their car is in reverse, these dashboard-mounted screens will be mandatory features in all automobiles manufactured in 2018 or thereafter. For now, you can buy them at any major retailer or online. Collision avoidance sensors. Radar and lasers have migrated from aerospace to auto-space. These two miracles of science act like human intuition on steroids to warn drivers that something-is-too-close-in-front! and immediate attention

is necessary. Lane change sensors are also available; these give warnings that something on either side is too close, to help overcome any blind spots that might exist.HuMAN ERROR ATTENTIONGPS Calling. The global positioning system (GPS) has been in existence since the Cold War, and by 1993 satellite

technology put civilian use of this guidance system in the realm of possibility. Being lost loses all its adventure if you have the WAZE app on your smartphone while in your car. Consider it a passenger! This GPS app makes you program your destination while stationary, then calls out your turns, tells you when a road hazard is present, lets you know how many nearby fellow drivers are also using the WAZE app and gently auto-corrects when you don’t follow instructions. It doesn’t berate

you if you ignore it and get lost anyway; it forgives, forgets and lets you reprogram—as long as your car is not moving. Telephone Redirects. Key2SafeDriving.com tells the story of a device that installs into your headset, sends incoming calls to voicemail and replies to text messages by saying that your hands are on the wheel and your eyes are on the road. It costs about $100. If you have EVER texted while driving, did you also ask yourself how much your own life is worth? There is no substitute for “human” technology. In your brain is the best app ever designed: The Pay Attention! app. Make sure you update it each time you turn over your car’s engine.

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hot coffee while steering. Putting on mascara or lip balm by the light of your visor’s vanity mirror while waiting for the green light. These actions are no-nos, but drivers often do them. Admit it! These actions always compromise safety when a human’s eyes just need to be on the road. Can technology save us—or at least make us more responsible and more fully conscious drivers? Yes. Here is a list of some of the advancements in auto safety technology that do not counter the danger of doing all those things mentioned previously, but do help drivers stay safe while in transit.CRASH AVOIDANCE FEATuRESAutomatic braking. Anti-lock brake systems (ABS), which help prevent loss of control during a skid, are now fairly standard, but the newer automatic braking systems warn drivers to slow down while also putting on the brakes if technology in the front-crash prevention system detects an imminent crash. This happens even without a foot being on the brake pedal. Remember Driver’s Ed? Some of those trainer cars had a brake pedal on the passenger side so the instructor could protect the student driver. Automatic braking is a beautiful advancement from those days, and it may even prevent alert people riding shotgun from using their imaginary brake pedal. Whew! Adaptive headlights. Lighting up


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cutting-edge immunotherapy program, led by Dr. Walter Quan, Jr., chief of medical oncology, and a clinical trials program led by Dr. Glen Weiss, director of clinical research. Dr. Quan’s world-renowned outpatient interleukin-2 program elevates Western’s level of clinical excellence because Western is one of the only hospitals in the nation to offer this innovative treatment to patients fighting melanoma and kidney cancer. Dr. Weiss leads the hospital’s clinical research program, which has resulted in FDA approval of two new drugs for treatment of specific cancers. He is also leading the launch of 12 additional industry-sponsored Phase I and Phase II clinical trials, adding to the more than 40 trials already open at Western. These trials will provide new treatment options for multiple cancer types, including pancreatic, lung, prostate, colorectal, bladder, breast, kidney, leukemia, melanoma and ovarian cancers. “CTCA must be a leader in developing innovative and personalized cancer treatment options and the use of genomic medicine to guide treatment,” said Matt McGuire, president and CEO of CTCA Western. “I expect that because of these innovations, in 10 years, the cancer diagnosis won’t be nearly as fearful as it is today. Cancer patients will have more hope than ever before.” That commitment has already changed Wendi’s life. “My husband takes care of me at home. CTCA takes care of me when I’m in treatment. And because of that, I truly feel like there’s hope for me to be cancer-free.”

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The midterm elections are rapidly approaching, and each of you has the ability to effect change. Evaluate the character of those who are running for office. Sift through all of the promises, most of which are unlikely to be honored. Vote for the candidates whom you feel (now don’t laugh) will “serve the people” and not just themselves. Choose the candidates who care about the economy, and toss voting for the party line— because that’s clearly not working. In closing, I caution you not to fall for the immigration promises. Once again, that’s merely a hot button candidates use to get voters all riled up. Politicians have been promising immigration reform for more than 50 years, so how many of them really care? If they did, don’t you think immigration reform would have been completed long before now? Pick a candidate who displays the fortitude to address the key issues— putting people back to work, improving education and the nation’s infrastructure, bringing manufacturing jobs back home to the United States. Elect a candidate whose first priority is the economy of our state and our country. The rest will then fall into place with time. Apathy be gone! Enough is enough!

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name: Thelton mcmillian

year and place of birth: 1970; Pensacola, florida

college attended: florida State University, B.S. in Communications

When did you start your company?: 2006

Most valued saying: Be a Comrade.

favorite charity: no Kid Hungry

family: married, with 2 daughters

favorite Arizona destination: arizona-Sonora Desert museum

omrade is an Oakland,

California-based strategy

and design agency with deep

expertise in financial services,

health care, technology and transactional

design. The company creates digital

products and services, including Web

and mobile apps to help leading

companies improve their user experience.

With their industry focus and practical

approach, they partner with clients to

understand their customers and get

new innovations to market quickly.

They take pride in having clients such

as Blackrock, JPMorgan Chase, TIAA-

CrEF, Wells Fargo and University

of California, San Francisco as their

“comrades.”

MyLIFE: What is your background, and

why did you start Comrade?

McMillian: I’ve been in the communications

and design business—marketing,

advertising—for over 20 years. I went

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to Florida State University and got my

bachelor’s in communication in 1992.

From there I worked at various interactive

and digital marketing agencies and rose

all the way up to president and chief

operating officer at Critical Mass, one of

the Omnicom-owned digital marketing

agencies. In 2006, I left to pursue a

career-long dream, which was to start my

own agency. At the point that I’d gotten

to the level of president of an agency that

was owned by a publicly owned company,

I realized that a big part of what I wanted

to do every day was to work very closely in

a very hands-on way with clients, build-

ing a team, shepherding the culture—

and remaining private, independent.

That is really why I started Comrade.

MyLIFE: Your company is diverse.

You employ artists, athletes, gourmets,

gadget geeks. How has that diversity

helped you become successful?

McMillian: That’s a great question! First,

we love to attract and grow with very

multitalented people. We look for people

with a variety of interests who can bring

a broad perspective as well as a variety

of inspiration to the work that we do. Our

office culture involves food. We do a lot

of things around food—someone cooks

lunch for the team on a given Tuesday—

and we share interests. We find that

different perspectives keep creativity fresh

and keep us focused on achieving our goals.

It creates a much more interested, more

well-rounded perspective and team.

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MyLIFE: What technologies do you

use? Do you create your own to cater

to each individual business?

McMillian: We work with clients in the

U.S. and around the world—Europe, Asia,

etc. Collaboration and being able to work

remotely with clients is very important to

us. We have invested in a few cloud-based

technologies built around collaboration.

We work with Basecamp, which handles

project management, file sharing, etc. It

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allows people to log in, review documents

and give feedback regularly. We also

invested in an upgraded cloud-based

PrT system, to provide better project

budgeting, and controls for running

projects for our clients, being able to

report to them where we are at any given

time. We invested in a technology called

Workamajig. We have a lot of clients who

are developing software, either Web or

mobile applications—and prototyping

to communicate what we’re going to build

or how it will work, what the design will

look like, what the interaction will be. We

have used commercial prototyping soft-

ware—Highrise, Proteo and others—but

we also developed our own internal tools.

A big challenge is getting websites to

work across different devices—whether

that be a smartphone, a tablet or a

desktop computer—and across a lot of

different file formats. So, we developed a

lot of tools with what’s called responsive

design. When it comes to branding, we

use a variety of tools for stakeholders

to get a sense of where they want to see

the direction of their brand going. We

use a technique called polarities … for

example, do you want the brand to be

bolder or more conservative? We use

surveys to gather input. A lot of our

clients want us to go as fast as

possible.

MyLIFE: Imagine you are at a conference

with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

How would you describe Comrade to them?

McMillian: We are a strategy and design

agency focusing on helping clients, both

start-ups and well-established companies.

We improve user experience of Web/

mobile products and services, as well as

improve their customer experience across

interaction points. We work with financial

companies, tech companies and retailers,

so we have a strong focus in transactional-

based systems, e-commerce, mobile

banking, online banking applications.

MyLIFE: What are some current challenges

facing your industry?

McMillian: It changes, as you can imagine.

One of the key challenges is the pace

of change. And that is driven by new

technologies, new changes in consumer

behavior, new regulatory changes that

are happening often in financial service

clients. Making sure we adapt and

evolve as well as understand all the new

technologies and interactions. One of the

other challenges we are facing that is a

blessing and a curse is the democratization

of design. More and more CEOs and

organization leaders are realizing that

design—in terms of not just visual, but

for websites, mobile and web apps, how

it looks and works—is more important

than ever. We are doing everything we

can to help our client leaders learn the

basics of design and how to think about

design in the context of the work they are

doing because this will help their client

experience and interactions. It has

elevated the role that design plays in

corporate America but it also breaks

down our own expertise. It’s like being a

plumber, teaching someone how to be a

plumber and then putting yourself out of

business. That is why it’s a blessing and a

curse. The other macro challenge we are

seeing is a shift toward smaller project

sizes in terms of revenue, budget and

time frame. This is a macroeconomic or

corporate investment change. Companies

have invested on their own in digital

media. We are seeing a digital plateau,

and there are not the big capital projects

as there has been in the prior five or

six years. This has created a definite

challenge for us in our industry.

MyLIFE: In terms of your vision,

where would you like to be 10 years from

now?

McMillian: I look at vision in terms of

timeline and direction and purpose,

behavior that drives our decisions. I

would love to continue what we started

in 2006, working with leaders to help

them improve customer experience and

improve their strategy and design so that

from a human perspective doing daily

business—banking, consuming—is made

easier. Also, I want to get more and more

into health care and the way they use

mobile, Web and downloaded apps to

improve and provide remote health care.

I would like to expand internationally

and increase the scope of our impact. We

believe that improving design has a

positive effect on people’s lives, such as

making sure their banking experience

is safe and secure, making sure they

prepare for retirement, get the best health

care. That is what drives our work.

MyLIFE: You have an impressive list of

clients. Why should companies consider a

business relationship with Comrade?

McMillian: The first is our approach to

doing business. We have a philosophy:

“Be a Comrade.” To a client, this means

that we deliver high-quality work, top-

notch service, quick response time,

that we’re flexible and adaptive and

understand their personal needs as well

as what their customers need. We deliver

value. We have proven over and over that

we are able to solve complex problems

very quickly—whether it’s a branding

problem, a service problem or a customer

problem.


overviewgoldsol, Inc. is using nanotechnology to make

it cost effective to print electronics the same

way we print ink on paper. goldsol has

developed specific conductive inks from silver

nanoparticle formulations that are being used

in printed electronics and will eventually be

used to print items such as solar panels and

wearable devices. The ink created by goldsol

requires lower temperatures in the printing

process than existing solutions do, which cuts

the energy usage of the process in half.

Using this ink in the process also helps

reduce waste of the materials, which adds up

to significant cost savings when working with

precious materials such as silver.

Printed electronics is projected to be a

40.2 billion industry by 2020 according to

aSDReports; surprisingly, this sizeable

market is only one small piece of goldsol’s big

picture. goldsol’s proprietary gold and silver

nanoparticle solutions have a vast array of

applications ranging from Dna sequence

detection to dentistry. The medical field will

be significantly impacted by goldsol’s efforts

at bridging the wide disconnect between

biology and materials science. There have

been numerous research studies that point

to using gold nanoparticles in methods of

advanced diagnostics and drug delivery in the

human body. gold is being evaluated for these

medical applications because it is compatible

with the human body and has unique optical

properties that enable it to react to light

differently than other materials do. gold

nanoparticles can be attached to drugs,

inserted into the body and then prompted

to release the drugs in specific parts of the

body using light therapy.

These new methods could be used to

diagnose issues more quickly and enable

more targeted drug delivery, but biologists

currently lack the processes to produce gold

nanoparticles for this specific use. To address

this gap, goldsol’s team of scientists is

partnering with researchers at universities to

develop gold nanoparticle solutions that are

processed specifically for medical use and

can be manufactured at scale.

Why it’s Worth Watching nanotechnology is nearing the tipping point

to becoming mainstream, and goldsol has

positioned itself to ride this wave. CEO Steven

Crimi is in talks with many fortune 500

companies that realize it’s no longer a

development industry and is technology

that needs to be integrated into current

manufacturing practices immediately. goldsol’s

breakthrough patented nanoparticle solutions

and continued development of new formulas

poise the company to play a large role in

catalyzing this evolution that will bring

products to market faster and more cost

effectively.

fun fact from the ceo: nanoparticle gold is

actually the color red.

SalesTalk is a SaaS-based sales tool for small

to medium-sized enterprises. Positioned in the

fast-growth sales acceleration software space,

SalesTalk focuses on making the entire sales

process faster by making the rep smarter.

with a single click, sales reps have immediate

access to the knowledge, talking points and

contextual customer information necessary

to perform at their highest levels. all of this

is made possible by combining functionality

found in an array of tools, such as customer

relationship management (CRm), sales and

marketing automation, into one software

solution. In doing so, SalesTalk enables

companies to capitalize on each interaction

with a potential customer—allowing teams to

automate mundane tasks, nurture customer

relationships and focus on high-value

conversations to close deals faster.

Back storySalesTalk was started by one of the pioneers

of the CRm software industry, Richard Brock.

Richard founded Brock Control Systems, the

first enterprise solution of its kind, and quickly

became recognized as a leading figure in

CRm. The company grew organically through

the early ‘90s and in 1993 became the first

CRm software company to file for an IPO.

Building on 20+ years of CRm, sales and

marketing automation experience, Brock

realized the powerful impact of bringing the

three disciplines together in this emerging

field. SalesTalk was launched in early 2014

with the vision of growing the company to

become the pre-eminent sales acceleration

solution for small to medium-sized

businesses.

Why it’s Worth WatchingThis software space is exploding, according to

a report from InsideSales.com, which

estimates that the sales acceleration market

will grow to nearly a $30 billion industry by

2018. SalesTalk is one of the first to bring

together all of the tools necessary to make

the sales process simple, seamless and swift

while enabling sales teams to be knowledgeable

and responsive and close more deals faster.

SalesTalk has seen recent traction in the

sales training/coaching market with its recent

launch of a white-label option for the software,

designed to introduce a new revenue stream

for sales coaches while increasing the

effectiveness of their training through embedded

technology. with a product suite that is

already brimming with features and new clients

eager to get on board, SalesTalk appears to

be the next sales acceleration software worth

watching.

fun fact: The sales acceleration market is

worth an estimated $12.8 billion today—

roughly three times the size of the entire CRm

market in north america.

Author: amanda Oppenheim, Senior analyst

at Venture Logic group

Venture Logic group is an arizona-based firm

providing strategic executive consulting,

marketing and capital investment services.

venturelogicgroup.com

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ill Bradley recently spoke

to a group of Minnesota

Timberwolves season

UNSELFISHNESS has a speCIaL pLaCe In

BUSINESSto sacrifice only makes individual goals

more difficult to achieve. One thing I

believe to the fullest is that if you think

and achieve as a team, the individual

accolades will take care of themselves.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and

intelligence win championships.”

Business should operate the same way.

Every organization has star performers

whose skills and talents are evident. If

they are smart, they have developed as

their biggest asset the ability to work

with others.

So many projects require teamwork

in order to come to a successful con-

clusion. But watch what happens when

one member of the team claims the

victory. Morale goes in the tank. The

next group effort becomes a competition.

Communication is stifled. The results

suffer for lack of a variety of ideas.

President Harry Truman summed it

up so well: “It is amazing what you can

accomplish if you don’t care who gets

the credit.”

The example needs to come from the

top. Management needs to send a clear

message that every member of the or-

ganization is vital to the success of the

group. Good leaders must demonstrate

sincere unselfishness when celebrating

achievements and share the credit and

successes with the group.

We have marvelous examples of un-

selfishness throughout our American

history. Ask any military veteran about

how loyalty and unselfishness were

drilled into them throughout their

training and service. They often had

to depend on each other in dangerous

situations. And while you’re at it, thank

them for their service to our country.

Perhaps the most incredible example

of unselfishness is the little checkmark

you might have on your driver’s license

—as an organ donor. Blood donors also

make my radar screen for sharing a

precious gift with someone they will

never know, but who will be ever

grateful.

Unselfishness is all around us. We

just need to follow the lead of those

folks, and not be afraid to translate it to

all areas of life.

There once were two brothers whose

father had died and left them the

family farm. One was married and had

a large family to support. The other was

single. The will designated that the

two brothers would share everything

equally.

One day the single brother said to

himself, “It’s not right that we should

share equally. I’m alone and my needs

are simple.” So every night he took a

sack of grain from his bin and secretly

dumped it into his brother’s bin.

Meanwhile, the married brother said

to himself, “It’s not right that we should

share the produce and the farm’s profit

equally. After all, I am married and I

will have my wife and grown children

to look after me in the years ahead.

My brother has no one.” So each night

he took a sack of grain and dumped it

secretly into his single brother’s bin.

For years both men were puzzled as

to why their personal supply of grain

never dwindled. Then one dark night

the two brothers bumped into each

other and it suddenly dawned on them

what had been happening.

Mackay’s Moral: You’ll never lose

credibility if you share the credit.

Bticketholders. The topic wasn’t his

stellar career, basketball strategy or

memorable wins. Instead, he talked

about unselfishness. After 40 years of

traveling America as a Hall-of-Fame

basketball player and a U.S. Senator,

the rhodes scholar has a lot of stories

to tell about the remarkable unselfish

accomplishments of people both famous

and unknown. He features them during

his weekly American Voices program

on Sirius/XM radio.

Bradley briefly talked about his two

NBA championships with the New York

Knicks and how unselfish his teams

were. They wanted to be champions

more than they wanted individual

achievements. They realized being

a champion is the highest individual

achievement.

That’s why I love team sports. Players

learn not only the power of teamwork,

but also how to be unselfish, regardless

of their individual abilities.

Another basketball superstar, Michael

Jordan, won six NBA championships

with the Chicago Bulls. His personal

accomplishments on the court give him

bragging rights beyond compare. Yet he

wrote in his book “I Can’t Accept Not

Trying”: “There are plenty of teams in

every sport that have great players and

never win titles. Most of the time, those

players aren’t willing to sacrifice for

the greater good of the team. The funny

thing is, in the end, their unwillingness

HArVey MAcKAy

MOTIVATIONAL


n a recent issue of myLIfE

magazine we asked whether arizona

would get it right in the state’s

TesLA uPdATe

on the final site within the coming months.

The city of Tucson is in the race, and

both the arizona Commerce authority and

the city of Phoenix have been in direct

talks with Tesla’s CEO, Elon musk, offering

various tax incentives to sway him in favor

of building the gigafactory here in arizona.

with arizona lagging behind other U.S.

markets in construction jobs, we need

something like this factory to bolster our

economy. I can’t think of anything else that

would put our state on every five o’clock

national newscast and the front page of

every newspaper faster than news of

arizona being chosen as the site for

Tesla’s gigafactory. The PR

alone could be worth

hundreds of millions.

But what is surely

guaranteed is this: if

the gigafactory—a

$5 billion industrial

complex that could result in as many as

6,500 jobs—were built here, regardless of

the cost of whatever incentives are being

offered, arizona’s economy would explode

in a vertical direction. what could be

bigger news for the state than having musk

announce, “I am pleased to select arizona

as the home of our new gigafactory.”

So, once again, I say to local and state

legislators, “make this happen. Pull out all

the stops and land this project!”

—LESLIE JamES

Iefforts to convince Tesla to build a large-

scale battery manufacturing plant known

as the gigafactory here. Over a four-month

period, each state in play—California,

Texas, new mexico and arizona—engaged

in high-level discussions with the company

in an attempt to land the coveted plant.

Then, Tesla stated that it might build two

factories to ensure timely auto deliveries.

In July, Tesla broke ground in nevada,

near the city of Sparks. However, that

project now seems to be on hold—

construction was stopped and workers

were sent home—so, evidently, nevada is

not locked in for the Tesla plant despite

the groundwork. Tesla will still build the

plant, in collaboration with its partner on

the project, Panasonic, which will build the

batteries for Tesla’s model 3 electric car.

Tesla claims that a decision will be made

bilateral trade organization in arizona

the largest

Canada arizona bUsiness CoUnCil

www.Canaz.net

did You Know? canada buys more goods from the

united states than the entire european union

C.A.B C.


landscaping services, and furnishing

and equipment suppliers—all of which

help keep our economy moving forward.

Tourism’s Impact on Arizona

Arizona’s travel and tourism industry is

vital to the state’s economy. Last year,

more than 38 million domestic and

international overnight visitors experienced

Arizona as their travel destination. Direct

travel spending generated by these visitors

was more than $19 billion, which is

approximately $53 million injected into

Arizona’s economy each and every single

day.

Visitor spending resonates throughout

the entire state. You can travel to any city

or town in Arizona, whether it’s an urban

area or a rural community, and find that

tourism is the one business they all have

as part of their economic growth and

development.

For 2012, travel spending generated

161,300 industry-related jobs throughout

the state. Combined with secondary

employment generated through direct

travel spending, total job generation for

Arizona was nearly 300,000. In addition

to these jobs, travel spending generated

$5.4 billion in earnings for Arizonans

employed by industry-related jobs.

Fostering Economic Growth for Arizona

and Canada Through Travel and Tourism

Opportunities

The travel and tourism industry is a major

economic driver not only for the state of

Arizona, but also for the entire United

States. This industry generates millions

of jobs and billions of dollars for federal,

state, and local governments.

In 2012, domestic and international

visitor spending generated $2.0 trillion

in economic output for the United States.

This includes $855.4 billion in direct

travel spending that spurred an additional

$1.1 trillion in other industries connected

to travel and tourism. During that same

year, more than 14 million jobs were

generated by travel expenditures. This

includes 7.7 million jobs directly generated

within the travel industry and 6.9

million jobs generated in other connected

industries.

Travel and tourism is directly connected

to nearly a dozen economic sectors,

including lodging, recreation, retail,

real estate, airlines, food and beverage,

car rental, taxi services, tour operators,

and travel agents. It is indirectly related

to many others, including airline

manufacturers, laundry services,

Furthermore, the industry is responsible

for generating $2.6 billion in local, state,

and federal tax revenues, which represents

7.3 percent of total state tax collections.

This revenue equates to a tax break that is

more than $1,080 per Arizona household

and contributes greatly to public services

that affect how we live our lives, such

as public safety, health, and education

services.

Additionally, Arizona’s tourist destina-

tions often serve as a window to our state’s

quality of life and open the door to many

business and economic development

opportunities that underscore our state’s

economic health and vitality. This type of

financial activity validates the important

role this industry plays in the economic

development of communities throughout

Arizona and for the state itself.

Impact by Canadian Visitation

Given the state’s many attributes, including

warm-weather winters and direct flight

availability, Arizona has long been

an attractive vacation destination for

Canadians. From exciting outdoor

adventures and relaxing spa treatments

to world-class golf courses and authentic

local cuisine, you can find Canadians

enjoying many aspects of the Arizona

By SHERRy HEnRy, DIRECTOR Of THE aRIzOna OffICE Of TOURISm

TrAVeL And TourisM oPPorTuniTies in ArizonA for cAnAdiAns

ECONOMY


It’s difficult to capture all the data

regarding how much Canadian visitors

spend while traveling throughout Arizona.

To help us gauge visitor spending, we look

at trending data. One way we do this is to

purchase cardholder-spending data from

VisaVue. This represents only a portion

of the total spending that occurs by

international visitors, and there are different

penetration rates per country; however,

the information provides enough data to

suggest a trend for visitor spending.

Currently, Canadians make up the

largest share of visitor spending (52

percent), even though they make up

the smallest share of Arizona’s total

international visitation.

Marketing to Canadian Travelers

The Arizona Office of Tourism is the only

statewide tourism entity that markets

Arizona as a world-class leisure destination.

We promote the Grand Canyon State

through a variety of research-driven

advertising campaigns as well as through

trade and media efforts, public relations

activities, and community outreach

programs.

Canada is one of Arizona’s largest

international visitor markets and is vital

to our marketing efforts, as these travelers

tend to plan for longer vacation stays and

see more of Arizona while they are here

—and, as a result, inject more money into

local and state economies. Our agency has

had trade and media relations contracts to

help us promote Arizona to the Canadian

market for more than 15 years. We’ve also

hosted hundreds of travel journalists from

Canadian publications so they can write

travel stories about Arizona from a third-

party perspective.

Last year, our agency committed

advertising dollars to further encourage

visitation from Canada. Through our

agency’s partnership with Brand USA,

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500,000

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cAnAdiAn VisiTATion To ArizonA yeAr-oVer-yeAr coMPArisonsSOURCE: STaTISTICS CanaDa anD CanaDa aRIzOna BUSInESS COUnCIL

lifestyle. And, word keeps spreading

about what can be enjoyed throughout the

state! Visitation from Canadian travelers

to the Grand Canyon State has been

steadily trending upwards for the last

several years. In 2012, Arizona welcomed

728,000 Canadian visitors—the most our

state has ever hosted. This cross-border

relationship is important to Arizona and

one our state continues to build upon.

To break down the visitation further,

most Canadians travel from Alberta, with

more than 243,000 visitors to Arizona

alberta

ontario

British Columbia & terr.

Quebec

saskatchewan

manitoba

atlantic Canada

33.5%

23.1%

22.0%

7.2%

7.0%

4.7%

2.0%

holiday, vacation

Visit friends or relatives

second home, cottage, condo

Convention, conference, trade show

meetings

attend events, attractions

personal (medical, wedding, etc.)

other

other work

54.0%

16.6%

15.5%

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2.8%

2.6%

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in 2012, an increase of 3.3 percent from

2011. Following is Ontario, with more

than 168,000 in 2012, representing a 3.9

percent decline from the previous year.

rounding out the top three origin points

is British Columbia, with more than

164,000 visitors in 2012. Visitation from

these three provinces makes up nearly 80

percent of the total Canadian visitation to

Arizona, and the main reason for travel

is primarily for vacation purposes (54

percent), with visiting friends and relatives

a distant second (16.6 percent).

VisiTors By ProVince MAin TriP reAson


our nation’s first global marketing

agency that promotes the United States

as a travel destination, we launched

consumer advertising efforts in Canada.

Through interactive ad placements on

travel websites such as Expedia,

Orbitz, Travelocity, TripAdvisor,

Adara, TribalFusion, and Miles Media,

our agency built brand awareness of

Arizona as a vibrant travel destination

and drove traffic to the agency’s consumer

website, www.arizonaguide.com.

The results of our efforts were impressive.

Overall, our travel website experienced

a 40 percent increase from Canadian

consumers year-over-year. More than

48,200,000 impressions were generated

through the campaign. Many of the

placements exceeded the industry

return on investment average, indicating

to us a high level of interest from the

Canadian market in visiting Arizona.

We’re excited to announce that we

will be investing in the same promotion

efforts in Canada again in 2014 to

further encourage visitation.

Cross-Border Opportunities Abound

recognizing the value of this industry

and its connection to a healthy economy is

essential to building partnerships

that can foster travel opportunities,

encourage visitor spending, and lead to

stronger economies for both Arizona and

Canada.

Investing in travel and tourism

promotion feeds a cycle of economics

that not only generates and sustains local

jobs and businesses, but also represents

a critical source of tax revenue for

funding local services such as fire and

police protection and education.

Our agency works diligently to

encourage visitation from Canada to

increase the overall benefits of the

travel industry to Arizona; however,

there are many opportunities for

Arizona and Canada to work together

to stimulate more bilateral travel.

Doing so only leads to even greater

economic success for our communities.

We encourage you to use our website,

www.arizonaguide.com, as a resource to

learn about all there is to see and do

throughout Arizona.

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EVENTS CALENDARWHAT’S HAPPENING AcROSS ARIzONA


AROUND TOWNWHAT’S HOT

Tucson fALL GeM sHoWs TucsonThe Tucson fall gem Shows event includes five gem and lapidary shows

at various locations around town, including open-to-the-public shows.

Sept. 4–7 —visittucson.org/gemshow

sABino cAnyon eVeninG rides TucsonExperience Sabino Canyon—a riparian wonderland in Coronado national

forest—by moonlight, aboard a tram. night is a special time when desert

creatures emerge from daytime siestas to prowl around the cool desert

floor, and the moon gently illuminates the silhouettes of stately saguaro

cacti.

Sept. 5–7; Oct. 4–6 — sabinocanyon.com

THe AnGry HouseWiVes PHoeniXangry Housewives is a laugh-out-loud musical comedy about four angry

gals who are fed up with their boyfriends and husbands, and are

completely bored with everyday life. Looking for something new, they

decide to form a rock band and enter an upcoming talent show at their

neighborhood club. a show about newfound self-respect and girl power,

angry Housewives is a funny, witty and altogether irresistible show great

for both the ladies and the men who love them! arizona Broadway Theatre.

Sept. 5–28 —azbroadway.org

KALeidoscoPe KAMP ouT fLAGsTAfffeaturing an eclectic lineup of unique musicians and artists, this event

lets you experience the forest filled with music—from house and

dubstep, hip hop and rap to classical and jazz, indie rock and funk.

Kaleidoscope Kamp Out delivers an innovative, musical experience.

Pepsi amphitheater.

Sept. 6 —thekaleidoscopekampout.com

BrAziLiAn dAy ArizonA scoTTsdALeCome celebrate the largest, most authentic Brazilian Independence

Day event in the Valley! Discover Brazilian culture from past to present,

featuring live authentic Brazilian bands, DJs, capoeira, dance,

performances, food, drinks and more. 910 Live music venue at the

Scottsdale Center for the Performing arts.

Sept. 6 —braziliandayarizona.com

crossroAds of THe WesT Gun sHoW PHoeniX/Tucson/GLendALeIn the last year, Crossroads of the west gun Shows have attracted more

than half a million people—more than any other gun show in america.

Sept. 6–7 in Phoenix; Sept. 13–14 in Tucson; Oct. 18–19 in glendale.

—crossroadsgunshows.com

fiesTA deL TLAquePAque sedonAfun, food, music and merriment set in the beautiful courtyards of

Tlaquepaque arts and Crafts Village.

Sept. 13 —tlaq.com

A GrAnd cAnyon ceLeBrATion of ArT GrAnd cAnyonThis event features 25 artists from around the country who have created

a studio piece for the exhibition. Visitors will have the opportunity to

watch the artists paint as they seek to represent the shifting light and

shadow, amazing landforms and vibrant colors of this vast landscape.

artists will be at the north and South Rims, at Phantom Ranch and

Indian garden. Proceeds from this event will support the goal of funding

an art venue at the South Rim of the grand Canyon. This permanent

home will ensure that future generations of park visitors will be able

to view the stunning art collection in the grand Canyon national Park

museum and grand Canyon association Collections.

Sept. 13–19 —grandcanyon.org

BisBee BLues fesTiVAL BisBeeThe Bisbee Blues festival is returning to Old Bisbee for the 10th year.

It will be held at City Park (up Brewery gulch) with bands, food and

beverages. along with the great lineup at the festival there will be great

music played at venues all over town! a new event, the Blues Village, will

include activities for families and feature workshops and classes on

singing, songwriting, instrument making and recording.

Sept. 13–14 —thebisbeebluesfestival.com

dAy inTo niGHT GLoW! TucsonBring the kids, family and friends. glow is an exhilarating nighttime art

experience coinciding with the September full moon. This festival of

illumination and imagination is set on a magical, five-acre setting lit with

thousands of twinkling lights in the beautiful desert landscape of Oracle,

EVENTS CALENDAR what’s hot

BRAzIlIAN DAY ARIzONA fESTIVAl OKTOBERfEST AT TEMPE TOWN lAKETHE PHANTOM Of THE OPERA BAllET


at the historic Triangle L Ranch. There will be workshops and interactive

projects for the kids, plus a children’s costume contest. artists, dancers,

performers and audience come together in a celebration of light, creativ-

ity and community. food and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for

purchase. walking shoes and flashlights are recommended.

Sept. 13 —trianglelranch.com

doWnToWn cHAndLer ArT WALK cHAndLerThe art walk provides a fun family atmosphere in which you can browse

the many different types of art available from talented artists. It’s a

great opportunity to visit all of the unique establishments in downtown

Chandler.

Sept. 19 —downtownchandlerartwalk.com

ArizonA underGround fiLM fesTiVAL TucsonThe Screening Room will show a number of arizona, U.S. and world

premieres during the seventh year of this popular film festival.

Sept. 20 —azundergroundfilmfest.com

ceLTic HArVesT fesTiVAL sedonA sedonAThe Celtic Harvest festival Sedona emphasizes rich Celtic heritage at

Poco Diablo Resort.

Sept. 20 —celticharvestfestival.com

eL Tour AdVenTure run/WALK TucsonDiamond Ventures’ 18th annual El Tour 10K and 5K adventure Run/walk

along the Rillito River Trail benefits Ben’s Bells Project and my Team

Triumph. The adventure starts and ends at St. gregory School. This

event is for people of all ages and abilities to enjoy fitness and fun.

Sept. 20 —perimeterbicycling.com

sedonA AirPorT fAMiLy fun dAy sedonAEnjoy a great day of fun with the whole family. There will be airplanes on

display along with classic cars from around the state, as well as Camp

Soaring Eagle’s Kid zone with crafts, entertainment and fun for kids.

Sept. 20 —sedonaairport.org/events

oKToBerfesT on MounT LeMMon TucsonOutdoor festival with live music and dancing, kids’ games, craft booths

and german foods. mt. Lemmon Ski Valley.

Sept. 20–21 —skithelemmon.com/index.html

Life TiMe Tri TeMPe TeMPeCompete in the sprint, international, paratriathlete or relay waves (both

sprint and international relay options available). Life Time Tri Tempe also

offers a first-timer wave for those new to the sport of triathlon. The

first-timer wave is open to anyone (even experienced athletes) looking

for a low-stress, less competitive experience. Tempe Beach Park.

Sept. 21 —redrockco.com

cocHise counTy fAir Tucsona carnival and college rodeo, pro bull riding, musical performances, agri-

cultural competitions, 4H/ffa displays, art and quilts, and food vendors

at Cochise County fairgrounds in Douglas.

Sept. 25–28 —cochisecountyfair.org

Tucson Greek FesTival Tucson

St. Demetrios greek Orthodox Church celebrates greek food, drink and

music and offers dance lessons, children’s activities, tours of the church

and vendor displays.

Sept. 25–28 —tucsongreekfest.com

MAricoPA counTy HoMe And GArden sHoW PHoeniXfeaturing hundreds of exhibitors at the arizona State fairgrounds.

Sept. 26–28 —maricopacountyhomeshows.com

niGHTfALL AT oLd Tucson TucsonOld Tucson becomes haunted township nightfall, with hideous beasts

and monsters, ghoulish stunts and frightening shows.

Sept. 26–Oct. 31 —nightfallaz.com

fALL oPen House, THe ArBoreTuM AT fLAGsTAff fLAGsTAffas part of the flagstaff festival of Science, the arboretum will offer

a free celebration of science and nature in the gardens especially for

families.

Sept. 27 —thearb.org

eVeryone runs, eVeryone WALKs “sPLiT endz” rAce AT cATALinA sTATe PArK TucsonEveryone Runs, Everyone walks’ “Split Endz” event at Catalina State

Park features 5- and 10-mile trail races and a new, 4-mile road race on

the park’s main roads. The event is called the “Split Endz” because the

4- and 10-mile races both start at exactly 6:30 a.m., but they’ll start in

opposite directions! Course support will be available until 9 a.m. also

features awards for overall and 5-year age groups, free mexican-style

breakfast, free race photos, finisher tech shirts and lots more fun!

Sept. 28 —everyoneruns.net

sedonA WinefesT sedonATaste wines from 12 arizona wineries and enjoy gourmet food, live music

and an art exhibition.

Sept. 27–28 —sedonawinefest.com

HisToric corVeTTe PrescoTT cAr sHoW PrescoTTThe largest and most prestigious in arizona, featuring 250 classic and

contemporary Corvettes on the streets surrounding the historic

Courthouse Plaza and along the famous “whiskey Row.” Hosted by

the Prescott Vette Sette, with all proceeds to benefit the Prescott

firefighters Charities. Vendors, raffles and music.

Sept. 27 —prescottvettesette.org

GeorGe HoWArd BAnd TucsonThis Tucson Jazz Society special fundraiser event hosts the george

Howard Band, performing a wide range of Blues and R&B styles of old

classics and original music. Held at St. Philip’s Plaza.

Sept. 27 —tucsonjazz.org

THe GreAT Tucson Beer fesTiVAL Tucsonan evening of beer sampling and live music at Kino Veterans memorial

Stadium. no one under age 21 admitted. all proceeds benefit Sun

Sounds of arizona.

Sept. 27 —azbeer.com/tucson.htm

esPriT de sHe 5K And 10K MesADive into decadence at the athleta Esprit de She Tempe Run, beginning

and ending at Riverview Park, located right next to the Cubs Park spring


training facility. Runners, joggers and walkers are invited to an evening

run followed by a night on the town like no other. Happy hour begins with

a fun 5K or 10K run and ends with a post-race night market of festive

proportions! Salute your success with a drink at our bubbly bar and enjoy

tasty tapas and energetic tunes while browsing our bustling, community

night market, showcasing fresh produce, local artisans, creative projects

and more!

Oct. 2 —redrockco.com

oro VALLey cLAssics & oLdies cLAssic cAr sHoW TucsonThe Oro Valley Classic Car and Truck Show will showcase nearly 200 cars

and trucks, live music, activities and all-american food at Oro Valley

marketplace, on the southwest corner of Oracle and Tangerine roads.

mixing classic cars with classic food and music sets the show’s lively

theme.

Oct. 4 —orovalleyaz.gov

Tucson fiLM And Music fesTiVAL TucsonThe festival celebrates independent film and music, including

shorts, features, music videos and amazing bands from the Southwest

and beyond. Held at various cinemas and concert venues around

Tucson.

Oct. 9–12 —tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com

scoTTsdALe inTernATionAL fiLM fesTiVAL scoTTsdALeThe festival has showcased more than 400 films from 60-plus countries

during the last 13 years, with films hailing from argentina all the way

to Vietnam. In that time, more than 80,000 people have attended the

festival, which provides a venue for underserved and underrepresented

international films and filmmakers.

Oct. 9–13 —scottsdalefilmfestival.com

Tucson MeeT yourseLf Tucson Southern arizona’s diverse folk and ethnic communities are celebrated

with performances and demonstrations, food vendors and more at this

family-friendly festival in downtown Tucson. People of all ages come for

the food and stay for the culture.

Oct. 10–12 —tucsonmeetyourself.org

cHAndLer indiAn ArT MArKeT cHAndLer Offering the best native american entertainment, demonstrations, and

food and jewelry vendors. a.J. Chandler Park.

Oct. 10–12 —chandleraz.gov/indianaz

esPriT de sHe run scoTTsdALeDive into decadence at the Esprit de She Run in Scottsdale, starting and

finishing inside the glamorous DC Ranch marketplace. Runners, joggers

and walkers are invited to an evening run followed by a night on the town

like no other. Happy hour begins with a timed 5K or 10K run and ends

with a post-race night market of festive proportions.

Oct. 10 —redrockco.com

oKToBerfesT TeMPeOktoberfest is a fREE, three-day outdoor festival. Traditional Bavarian

beer garden, wine gardens, bratwurst and strudel, kids’ activities, arts

and crafts and live music. Tempe Town Lake.

Oct. 10–12 —tempeoktoberfest.com

ArizonA sTATe fAir PHoeniXfeaturing 18 days jam-packed with tons of kickin’ concerts, adrenaline-

pumping rides, deliciously sinful foods, exhibits, livestock shows and more!

Oct. 10–nov. 2 —azstatefair.com

forT Verde dAys cAMP VerdeCome enjoy a good time as the fort Verde State Historic Park celebrates

fort Verde Days with a flag-raising and -lowering ceremony, living

history presentations with the Buffalo Soldiers and Indian wars period

re-enactors, special presentations, a fashion show, cavalry drills and a

vintage baseball game. and, don’t forget the morning parade!

Oct. 10–12 —fortverdedays.com

sedonA ArTs fesTiVAL sedonARated one of the nation’s top art festivals, this cultural celebration

features fine arts and crafts and cuisine from Sedona restaurants at

Sedona Red Rock High School.

Oct. 11–12 —sedonaartsfestival.org

cocHise counTy cycLinG cLAssic douGLAsPerimeter Bicycling association of america presents this annual

competitive bicycling event, with 234-mile, 157-mile, 92-mile and

45-mile events and a 4-mile fun Ride in Douglas.

Oct. 11 —perimeterbicycling.com

rendez-zoo 2014 PHoeniXas twilight falls over the Phoenix zoo, embark on an evening to remember

as you are welcomed into Rendez-zoo by the sounds of the Phoenix

Boys Choir. Revel in a culinary journey, tasting delicious creations from

some of the Valley’s finest restaurants and beverage purveyors. Bid on

unique items at the silent auction and enjoy a preview of zooLights. an

elegant seated dinner served lakeside by Chef Eddie matney follows with

dancing to the music of the Raun alosi Band.

Oct. 11 —phoenixzoo.org

LofT fiLM fesT TucsonThe Loft Cinema will present its fourth annual international film festival

honoring Tucson’s richly diverse cultural community. The Loft film fest

will present foreign films, documentaries and U.S. indies in a cinematic

celebration of storytelling from around the world.

Oct. 1619 —loftcinema.com

zoocson Tucsonmore than 800 attendees will take part in this fundraising event, which

directly benefits Reid Park zoo, its exhibits, education programs,

conservation efforts and capital projects. Dozens of Tucson’s favorite

restaurants provide small-plate tastings at stations throughout the zoo.

attendees participate in silent and live auctions, which include items

ranging from power tools to vacation getaways to unique zoo experiences.

Live music from Jovert, entertainment by flam Chen and animal

encounters round out what is sure to be an evening you’ll never forget.

Oct. 17 —reidparkzoo.org

85TH AnnuAL HeLLdorAdo dAys TucsonTombstone’s oldest festival began as a celebration of Tombstone’s 50th

anniversary in 1929! Enjoy street entertainment near the actual O.K.

Corral, a beard contest, live music and a parade.

Oct. 17 —tombstonechamber.com



BALLeT Tucson: THe PHAnToM of THe oPerA TucsonBallet Tucson’s Opening fall Concert features three themes: Phantom of the Opera –the Ballet, the premiere of an original ballet based on the classic 1925 silent film; Joplin, Ballet Tucson’s crowd-pleasing and exuberant nod to the 1920’s style dance; and Boler-O, an energetic rendition of Ravel’s popular music with visually compelling images and fresh choreography, at Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.Oct. 17–19 —ballettucson.org

BisBee 1000 GreAT sTAir cLiMB BisBeeParticipants can walk, run or rest their way through roughly a three-mile route that includes more than 1,000 steps and numerous back roads at a mile-high altitude in Old Town Bisbee. In the afternoon, meet the Best of the west micro Brewers at the Bisbee 1000 Invitational Craft Beer festival, with beer samples and live music. The festival is in the parking lot adjacent to Bisbee Coffee Company. Oct. 18 —bisbee1000.org

ArizonA’s uLTiMATe WoMen’s eXPo PHoeniXIndulge yourself with what arizona has to offer in shopping, fashion and food. Endless shopping, samples and more at the Ultimate women’s Expo.Oct. 18–19 —azwomensexpo.com

ArizonA TAco fesTiVAL scoTTsdALemore than 30 professional and amateur taco teams will compete in categories including chicken, beef, pork and fish tacos, a sidecart throwdown in salsa, guacamole, anything goes taco and best booth design. There will also be a hot chili pepper-eating contest. Salt River fields. Oct. 18–19 —aztacofestival.com

WorLd MArGAriTA cHAMPionsHiP TucsonTucson Originals hosts its 10th annual margarita championship on the patio at Tucson museum of art with help from Southern arizona arts and Cultural alliance. Taste more than 15 original margarita recipes, as well as food from an array of Tucson Originals restaurants. a distinguished panel of judges determines the winner of the “world margarita Championship.” guests also have the chance to cast their vote for their favorite margarita for the “People’s Choice award.”Oct. 18 —tucsonoriginals.com

Az oPerA: cruzAr LA cArA de LA LunA Tucsonarizona Opera opens its season with the world’s first mariachi opera, blending the passion and artistry of mariachi with the emotionally touching story of a mexican immigrant family, at Tucson music Hall.Oct. 18–19 —azopera.org

ArAB AMericAn fesTiVAL GLendALemultigenerational and multicultural families gather to enjoy free music, arts and crafts, entertainment, children’s activities and services from local businesses, foods and vendors. Indian Steele Park.Oct. 18–19 —arabamericanfestival.com

soMA TriATHLon TeMPeCome out and race in the same location as Ironman az. Swim in the same lake, ride bits and pieces of the same bike course and finish in the same location. This event is a great tune-up for Ironman or just a great way to get out and compete in a phenomenal setting. Tempe Beach Park.Oct. 20 —redrockco.com

“PreMiuM BLend” – uA dAnce Tucson The Ua School of Dance presents eight nonconsecutive performances with classic and new choreography performing Ben Stevenson’s “four Last Songs,” featuring a new ballet by James Clouser at Ua Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.Oct. 23–nov. 2 —uapresents.org

niGHT of friGHT TucsonPima air and Space museum hosts a safe, family-friendly Halloween event as flight Central Hangar takes on a look of its own with spider webs and ghosts taking to the hangar’s skies. Bring your aviator goblins out to participate in old-fashioned carnival games, a costume contest and much more during this fun-filled Halloween event. The flight grill restaurant will transform into fright grill for the evening, offering Halloween specials for goblins and ghouls of all ages.Oct. 24 —pimaair.org

WiLd WesTern fesTiVAL GLendALe Best in the west entertainment, live music, classic Hollywood western TV and movie stars, cowboy singers, musicians, gunfights and stunt shows. Sahuaro Ranch Historic Park. Oct. 24–26 —wildwesternfestival.com

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reX ALLen dAys WiLLcoXThe Town of willcox celebrates the music and life of hometown hero,

actor/singing cowboy Rex allen, with a rodeo, parade, dances and cowboy

poetry readings.

Oct. 15 —rexallendays.org

AnTHeM AuTuMnfesT AnTHeMThis annual event, which takes place in the beautiful 63-acre

anthem Community Park, draws thousands of attendees each fall. This

family-friendly event celebrates the season with fall-flavored festivities

including arts and crafts vendors, carnival rides, pumpkin picking, an

apple pie baking contest and live entertainment.

Oct. 25–26 —onlineatanthem.com

fALL rHyTHM fesT cHAndLerEnjoy an evening of family fun at the annual fall Rhythm fest. Some of

the Valley’s hottest bands will entertain and vendors will offer a variety of

tasty food and beverages. In addition, there will be interactive

amusements for children, along with music contests for all ages. Bring

your lawn chairs and blankets and spend a family-friendly (no alcohol)

evening listening to the music and watching the grand finale fireworks!

Tumbleweed Park.

Oct. 25 —chandleraz.gov

cAVe creeK WicKed cAVe creeKThis year, Cave Creek wicked expands with a number of thrilling new

events and activities. additions include the zombie walk and the wicked

Bike Ride. The wicked Bike Ride starts at 2:30 p.m. at flat Tire Bike

Shop, located at 6033 E. Cave Creek Road. Bikers, in Halloween

costumes, will begin the ride at 3:00 p.m. and make 30-minute stops at

the grotto Café, The Horny Toad, Janey’s and Bryan’s BBQ to enjoy food

and libations. The ride will conclude at flat Tire Bike Shop at 6:00 p.m.

The zombie walk begins at 11:00 a.m. in front of wild west Pawn on

Cave Creek Road and lasts until 12:00 p.m. Costumed walkers will make

their way from the west end of town to a four-corner stop, then return.

In addition, wild at Heart, Southwest wildlife Conservation Center and

Phoenix Herpetological Society and other wildlife organizations will bring

beautiful desert birds and mammals for visitors to see and learn about.

and, a special zombie surprise is planned for the corner of Cave Creek

and School House roads.

Oct. 25 —cavecreekwicked.com

Tour de TeMPe TeMPeDying for an opportunity to ride around Tempe with 1,500 other cyclists?

you’re in luck! Kiwanis Park.

Oct. 28 —biketempe.org/tour-de-tempe


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cONcERTSPREMIER VENUES

wanDa SyKES

Oct. 17

wandasykes.com

1964: THE TRIBUTE HOmE

Oct. 18

1964site.com

coMericA THeATre PHoeniX400 West Washington st. Phoenix, Az 85003 —comericatheatre.com

LUIS mIgUEL

Sept. 17

luismigueloficial.com

ROCKSTaR EnERgy DRInK UPROaR fESTIVaL

Sept. 19

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DaVID gRay

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B.B. KIng

Sept. 27

bbking.com

ana gaBRIELOct. 2anagabriel.com.mx

BILL maHER

Oct. 4

bbillmaher.com

ERaSURE - THE VIOLET fLamE TOUR

Oct. 21

erasureinfo.com

Asu GAMMAGe TeMPe1200 south forest Avenue Tempe, Az 85287—asugammage.com

KInKy BOOTSSept. 16-21kinkybootsthemusical.com

ASU Symphony orcheStrA–SAlUte to ASU GAmmAGeSept. 23asugammage.com

DAniel roUmAinSept. 27danielroumain.com

DanCE THEaTRE Of HaRLEmOct. 25dancetheatreofharlem.org

ceLeBriTy THeATre PHoeniX440 north 32nd street Phoenix Az 85008 —celebritytheatre.com

2nD annUaL SPOKEn wORD fEaTURIng: DwELESept. 5dwele.net

fRanKIE VaLLI & THE fOUR SEaSOnSSept. 10frankievallifourseasons.com

CODIgO fnSept. 19facebook.com/CodigofnOfficial

EDDIE gRIffInSept. 27eddiegriffin.com

DUEL In THE DESERT URL wESTERn aDDITIOnOct. 4celebritytheatre.com

EVENTS CALENDAR concerts

NIlS lOfGREN DANIEl ROUMAINPAUl REISER


Ray LamOnTagnEOct. 22raylamontagne.com

aRCTIC mOnKEySOct. 25arcticmonkeys.com

HerBerGer THeATer cenTer PHoeniX222 east Monroe Phoenix, Az 85004 —herbergertheater.org

THE STORyTELLERS – LUnCH TImE THEaTERSept. 23-Oct. 2herbergertheater.org/calendar/the-storytellers

Vanya anD SOnIa anD maSHa anD SPIKEOct. 9-26herbergertheater.org/calendar/vanya-sonia

SOUTH PaCIfICOct. 10-12herbergertheater.org/south-pacific

LIfE In THE CanCER LanEOct. 18herbergertheater.org/calendar/life-in-the-cancer-lane

THE BaD anD THE BEaUTIfULOct. 23-26herbergertheater.org/calendar/bad-beautiful

foX THeATre Tucson17 West congress street Tucson, Az 85701 —foxtucsontheatre.org

maVIS STaPLESSept. 5mavisstaples.com

RESTLESS HEaRTSept. 12restlessheartband.com

LaST COmIC STanDIngSept. 12foxtucsontheatre.org

La mUSIQUE - TyP annUaL faSHIOn SHOwSept. 19foxtucsontheatre.org

STanD UP TO STOP VIOLEnCE IVSept. 21foxtucsontheatre.org

gET THE LED OUT - THE amERICan LED zEPPELInSept. 28gtlorocks.com

KanSaSOct. 3kansasband.com

nILS LOfgREnOct. 4nilslofgren.com

PaUL REISEROct. 9paulreiser.com

gIRLS nIgHT: THE mUSICaLOct. 11broadway.com/shows/girls-night

aSIaOct. 13originalasia.com

LEE ann wOmaCKOct. 16cmt.com/artists/lee-ann-womack

Ray LamOnTagnEOct. 23raylamontagne.com

DaVID BROza 2014Oct. 30davidbroza.net

orPHeuM THeATer fLAGsTAff15 West Aspen street flagstaff, Az 86001 —orpheum-theater.com

SOCIaL DISTORTIOnSept. 23socialdistortion.com

DaVE maSOn’S TRaffIC JamOct. 16davemasonmusic.com

DaLE EaRnHaRDT JR. JR.Oct. 25daleearnhardtjrjr.com

gREEnSKy BLUEgRaSSOct. 29greenskybluegrass.com

us AirWAys cenTer PHoeniX201 east jefferson street Phoenix, Az 85004 —usairwayscenter.com

LInKIn PaRK anD THIRTy SECOnDS TO maRS wITH afISept. 10linkinpark.com; thirtysecondstomars.com; afireinside.ne

maRCO anTOnIO SOLISSept. 19marcoantoniosolis.com

JOan SEBaSTIan: La ULTIma maROmaOct. 5joansebastian.com


SPORTING EVENTSWHAT’S HAPPENING

@ Vancouver Canucksmon., Sept. 29 at 6:00 p.m.

@ Edmonton Oilerswed., Oct. 1 at 6:00 p.m.

Vs. San Jose Sharksfri., Oct. 3 at 7:00 p.m. Jobing.com Arena

Vs. winnipeg JetsThu., Oct. 9 at 7:00 p.m. Jobing.com Arena

Vs. L.a. KingsSat., Oct. 11 at 6:00 p.m. Jobing.com Arena

Vs. Edmonton Oilerswed., Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Jobing.com Arena

Vs. St. Louis BluesSat., Oct. 18 at 6:00 p.m. Jobing.com Arena

@ nashville PredatorsTue., Oct. 21 at 5:00 p.m.

@ minnesota wildThu., Oct. 23 at 5:00 p.m. Vs. florida PanthersSat., Oct. 25 at 6:00 p.m. Jobing.com Arena

@ Tampa Bay LightningTue., Oct. 28 at 4:30 p.m.

@. florida PanthersThu., Oct. 30 at 7:00 p.m.

ARIzONA CARDINALS FOOTBALL

Vs. San Diego ChargersSun., Sept. 8 at 7:20 p.m.University of Phoenix Stadium

@ new york giantsSun., Sept. 14 at 10:00 a.m.

Vs. San francisco 49ersSun., Sept. 21 at 1:05 p.m.University of Phoenix Stadium

@ Denver BroncosSun., Oct. 5 at 1:05 p.m.

Vs. washington RedskinsSun., Oct. 12 at 1:25 p.m.University of Phoenix Stadium

@ Oakland RaidersSun., Oct. 19 at 1:25 p.m.

Vs. Philadelphia EaglesSun., Oct. 26 at 1:05 p.m.University of Phoenix Stadium

ARIzONA DIAMONDBACKS BASEBALL

@ San Diego Padresmon., Sept. 1 at 1:10 p.m.Tue., Sept. 2 at 7:10 p.m.wed., Sept. 3 at 7:05 p.m.Thu., Sept. 4 at 6:10 p.m

@ La Dodgersfri., Sept. 5 at 7:10 p.m.Sat., Sept. 6 at 6:10 p.m.Sun., Sept. 7 at TBD

@ San francisco giants

Tue., Sept. 9 at 7:15 p.m.wed., Sept. 10 at 7:15 p.m.Thu., Sept. 11 at 12:45 p.m.

Vs. San Diego Padresfri., Sept. 12 at 6:40 p.m.Sat., Sept. 13 at 5:10 p.m.Sun., Sept. 14 at 1:10 p.m.Chase Field

Vs. San francisco giantsmon., Sept. 15 at 6:40 p.m.Tue., Sept. 16 at 6:40 p.m.wed., Sept. 17 at 12:40 p.m.Chase Field

@ Colorado RockiesThu., Sept. 18 at 5:40 p.m.fri., Sept. 19 at 5:10 p.m.Sat., Sept. 20 at 1:10 p.m.Sun., Sept. 21 at 1:10 p.m.

@ minnesota Twinsmon., Sept. 22 at 5:10 p.m.Tue., Sept. 23 at 5:10 pm.wed., Sept. 24 at 10:10 a.m.

Vs. St. Louis Cardinalsfri., Sept. 26 at 6:40 p.m.Sat., Sept. 28 at 1:10 p.m.Chase Field

PHOENIX COYOTES HOCKEY

@ anaheim DucksTue., Sept. 23 at 7:00 p.m.

@ Calgary flameswed., Sept. 24 at TBD

@ San Jose Sharksfri., Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.

EVENTS CALENDAR sporting events

cARSON PAlMER DAVID PERAlTA MIKE SMITH


PHOENIX SUNS BASKETBALL

@ Los angeles Lakers

wed., Oct. 29 at 7:00 p.m.

@ San antonio Spurs

wed., Oct. 30 at 7:00 p.m.

ASU FOOTBALL

@ new mexico

Sat., Sept. 6 at 4:00 p.m.

@ Colorado


Vs. UCLa

Thu., Sept. 25 at 7:00 p.m.

Sun Devil Stadium

@ USC

Sat., Oct. 4 at TBa

Vs. Stanford

Sat. Oct. 18 at TBa

Sun Devil Stadium

@ washington

Sat., Oct. 25 at TBa

NAU FOOTBALL

@ abilene Christian


Vs. n.m. Highlands


J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome

@ South DakotaSat., Sept. 20 at 12:00 p.m.

Vs. Cal Poly (conference game)Sat., Sept. 27 at 4:00 p.m.J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome

@ northern Colorado (conference game)Sat., Oct. 4 at 12:30 p.m.

@ Portland State (conference game)Sat. Oct. 18 at 4:00 p.m.

Vs. Eastern washington (conference game)Sat., Oct. 25 at 4:00 p.m.J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome

UofA FOOTBALL

@ UTSaThu., Sept. 4 at 5:00 p.m.

Vs. nevadaSat., Sept. 13 at 8:00 p.m.Arizona Stadium

Vs. CaliforniaSat., Sept. 20 at TBaArizona Stadium

@ OregonThu., Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Vs. USCSat., Oct. 11 at TBaArizona Stadium

@ washington StateSat., Oct. 25 at TBa

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in the world of team ownership, which team in each category is valued the highest in dollars?nBA miami Heat La Clippers new york Knicks Sacramento Kings

MLBBoston Red Socks Cincinnati Reds new york yankees Los angeles Dodgers nfLnew England Patriots new Orleans Saints Oakland Raiders Dallas Cowboys

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