New Ocean Institute Weekend Exhibition: Our Ocean, Their Future

Dana Point, CALIF., October 6, 2008 – The Ocean Institute is pleased to present Our Ocean, Their Future, a new weekend exhibition beginning Saturday, November 1, through Sunday, March 1, 2009. The exhibition is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays only, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., and is designed to educate and inspire visitors to participate in their communities and learn how they can become involved in the Marine Life Protected Act Initiative.
The exhibition includes collaborative presentations on marine protected areas with the Birch Aquarium, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and the Aquarium of the Pacific; hands-on exhibitions for children to experience and explore local marine ecosystems; guided family tide pool hikes through the Dana Point Marine Refuge with Ocean Institute naturalists; and educational cruises and investigations aboard the R/V Sea Explorer through our local marine ecosystems.
For a complete schedule of events for Our Ocean, Their Future, visit www.ocean-institute.org. Cost is $6.50 adults, $4.50 children (ages 4-12), Ocean Institute members free. Or, with the purchase of a membership, a family can enjoy year-round free admission, benefit from member-only events and receive discounts on all other programs.
The Institute also offers many exciting programs for children. For information, visit www.ocean-institute.org or call (949) 496-2274.

Founded in 1977, the Ocean Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to ocean preservation through education, setting the standard for educational excellence and serving as a leading resource for universities, museums, teachers and all others seeking to increase their knowledge of the ocean. The Ocean Institute is open to the general public on weekends, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Cost: $6.50 adults, $4.50 children (ages 4-12), Ocean Institute members free. Unique maritime and ocean-themed items are available in the Chambers Gallery everyday, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Institute address: 24200 Dana Point Harbor Dr., Dana Point. Website: www.ocean-institute.org.

2008 Business of the Year – The Dana Point Chamber of Commerce has selected the Ocean Institute as Dana Point’s “Business of the Year.” The award recognizes the positive contribution the Ocean Institute has made to the Dana Point community.

NEW! Innovative FREE Help for People Struggling with Depression, Money issues, Fears, Past Trauma, Relationship Problems, and more now shaves years off therapy…

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA – Oct. 6 – It seems everyone today is struggling with something, whether it’s financial issues, relationship problems, trauma, depression, or even rampant addictions. Pam Ragland has done unique research into what gets in people’s way, discovering a whopping 97.4% of all our thoughts are working against us in life. Worse, nearly all of those (96.4%) are hidden in the subconscious-so people don’t even know they are there.

Pam has also discovered a way to solve this huge problem. Thought Shifting™ is a new process to dramatically speed up getting rid of what is in your way. Think of it as Hypnotherapy on steroids. Many of these people have been struggling for years with the same issue (often dealing with the symptom vs. the cause), and in a matter of hours or days Pam is able to simply erase it by getting to the real root cause.

In Pam’s quest to help more people, she has created new methods to support many more people. She is now doing FREE calls called “Ask Pam Ragland” (http://www.AskPamRagland.com) In these one-of-a-kind calls, Pam literally shaves decades off Therapy, Coaching, and other methods to get right to the heart of what a person’s core issue is. For example, in a recent call one “money” issue was due to a grown man being spanked by dad in childhood, and in another case money issues were due to a mother dying early. Pam offers callers suggestions for how to immediately deal with their deepest issues, in a way that is nearly pain free for the caller. Pam even works with children.

The calls take place on the phone, so people can participate from anywhere. They can ask for help on their specific situation, or simply listen in to get an idea of what is really in people’s way, and breakthrough methods to help people. To sign up simply go to http://www.AskPamRagland.com

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Pam Ragland is the first to quantify how many “limiting issues” people have, a shocking answer which explains why so many people are in therapy and self-help for life. Her quest to help people more quickly and effortlessly led Pam to discover Thought Shifting™, the only technology to remove all your past issues at once, doing it in mere days and without forcing you to relive your past issues. She soon realized not only was Thought Shifting™ literally erasing past trauma, OCD, depression, ADHD & more from adults & children-but she was also having profound, never before seen impacts on eradicating addictions & withdrawals. This led Pam to create remote addiction rehab programs, previously impossible to do, & is also the basis of her latest book The 7 Why’s of Addiction: The Hidden Secrets that Cause Addiction, and The 3 Keys to Finally be Free of Them. Pam can be reached at http://www.PamRagland.com

Hello everyone!
We just wanted to make sure you were all in the loop as we are still awaiting the highly anticipated opening of Studio 2! Bottom line…we’re waiting for our floor to come in and it is estimated to be in over the weekend which means (everyone cross your fingers!)
classes just should begin a week from today on Monday, October 13th!
Again, thank you all so much for your understanding, support and patience!

FUNDRAISERS!!
IDP will hold two raffles at the end of the month, one for 1month of FREE tuition and one for a fun day with Ms. Aiesha & Ms. Yasmin! One lucky dancer will win a WHOLE month of free tuition and TWO lucky winners will win a fun day with us, your favorite studio owners 😉 Tickets are now on sale so come by and purchase yours today!
$1 = 1 ticket
$5 = 6 tickets
$10 = 13 tickets
$20 = 30 tickets

Thank you,
Yasmin & Aiesha

p.s. Don’t forget to purchase Halloween Bash tickets!!!

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique – they are great because of their passion.
– Martha Graham

October 11-12, 2008
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 25:6-10 Philippians 4:12-20 Matthew 22:1-4

Granted, this week’s Gospel is a swat against the ‘people’ amongst whom the Word of God became incarnate…but there is also a powerful reminder that a relationship with God needs to be intentional….not just being swept along with the crowd. In the Gospel parable we hear a story of the King who becomes enraged when those he presumed would come to his celebration, turn on him. A rather nasty vignette of God is offered: ‘He sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.’ Yowzaaa, you don’t want to mess with this guy, he is not all sweetness and charm! As the story continues we hear the King then invites EVERYONE, ‘bad and good alike’ to come to the extravaganza. Well, in opening the door for EVERYONE, bad and good alike, what did he expect? It would be rather naive to think that everyone would be appreciative or prepared for such an event (sort of like people who wear cut-offs, flip-flops or t-shirts to nice restaurants and think they should be allowed in!) but it seems that is precisely what the story-King expected. When the King enters the celebration he discovers an individual dressed inappropriately….which means he did not PREPARE nor be INTENTIONAL in his decision to come to the banquet. When solicitously asked why he is unprepared, the poorly-clad person goes mute…causing the King to have him bound and bounced from the party…into the darkness outside where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth! You might ask…’But doesn’t God accept everyone who comes to him? God isn’t picky is he? You can be an absolute looser and low-life and God will still welcome you to heaven….right?’ God always allows people to have FREE WILL…and if a person FREELY chooses to not respond to his invitations, God allows that person to freely wander off. It is not God’s desire that people wander away…but he does not force someone to respond to him….he does expect an INTENTIONAL choice on the part of those who hear his voice and desire to act on it. Meaningful relationships cannot be accidental or casual, they must be intentional. Faith cannot be casual or just by association…it needs to be individually and intentionally owned, as is symbolized by the fellow having NOT PREPARED for the feast by dressing appropriately. No shoes, no shirt, no intentionality, no salvation?

Thank you for INTENTIONALLY choosing to come and be a part of our Corpus Christi Community on this lovely Autumn weekend. Our thanks and appreciation to all of you who helped last weekend be as splendid as it was…from those of you who helped move and set-up chairs, to the Wine and Food Festival Team, to the worker-bees who cleaned and served and helped…and for all of you came and ate…and danced…and drank…and ate some more! Thank you! Please accept a Bulletin on your way home….some nifty stuff coming up, including The Men’s Leadership Dinner featuring Mr. Peter Bastone, CEO of Mission Hospital on Tuesday, October 21st, Women’s Leadership Dinner on November 18th featuring Shirl Giacomi, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Orange. Our annual Autumn Mass and Hoe-Down at Los Rios Orchard in Oak Glen is approaching on Sunday afternoon, October 26th. Reservation forms are on the Concierge Shelves for all of these events. As the memories of summer fade and jack-o-lanterns start to appear on door-steps, remember, you are loved. FKB

The Mission Viejo City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the City of Aliso Viejo to provide animal care services to Aliso Viejo residents. The agreement, which starts at the beginning of the year, includes Aliso Viejo transferring its animal care services from Orange County to Mission Viejo, joining Laguna Niguel as a contract city. The move is part of an effort to improve animal-related services for residents and their pets in these South County cities.
Mission Viejo operates a pro-humane shelter and has a tremendous adoption rate. Stray animals are cared for until they are reunited with their owners or until they can be placed in new permanent homes. The shelter provides an animal adoption program that includes the screening and review of an individual adoption application to ensure responsible and long-term homes for the animals in their care.
Under the agreement, Aliso Viejo will contribute to operating expenses, additional staffing needs, capital costs and the expansion of the cattery. Mission Viejo’s Animal Shelter, located at 28095 Hillcrest, will provide Aliso Viejo residents with pet licensing, patrol, adoption and shelter services.
The cities have been negotiating contract terms since March, and officials say the agreement will greatly benefit the cities and their beloved pets.
“The partnership with Aliso Viejo is a “win-win,” said Mission Viejo Mayor Trish Kelley. “It allows us to enhance our services to our residents and to reduce the subsidy from our City general fund. I am so proud of the success of our Mission Viejo Animal Services, and it is wonderful that we are able to share our program with others. Through providing a resource to a neighbor city, we are able to expand our cattery staffing, volunteer army, and assist with the county-wide effort to control animal reproduction and find loving homes for pets, which might otherwise be destroyed. We achieve all of these benefits, and save Mission Viejo dollars in the process.”
Animal services has long been a concern to Aliso Viejo, as Orange County’s animal shelter located on The City Drive in Orange is the largest of its kind – serving people in more than 20 cities and all unincorporated areas of the county.
Aliso Viejo Mayor Bill Phillips said the agreement with Mission Viejo will have a significant impact in improving animal services for Aliso Viejo.
“I think we are going to get much better service than what we are getting with the county,” Phillips said. “Animal services is an issue residents are truly concerned about and around the community, you hardly ever see county animal control officers. Now, we will have a presence, great service level, knowledge, outreach and understanding of it all.”
Phillips said the new contract will also help the community to deal with a multitude of issues that arise.
“Personally, what I am happy about is that I live by the wildness park and have seen a pack of coyotes near neighborhoods and we need to do something and now we will have somebody here.”
For information about Mission Viejo’s Animal Control services, including license information, contact the shelter at 949-470-3045. Information is also available on the City’s Web site at http://cityofmissionviejo.org/Department.aspx?id=74.

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Can a Young Person Still Have Faith in the Idea of a Stable, Happy Marriage?

According to DivorceMag.com, 46% of marriages in the US end in divorce. As young adults contemplate marriage, it shouldn’t have to carry with it the fear of divorce. With this trend in society, youth may want to consider discerning the qualities that constitute a good relationship, make decisions accordingly, and be aware of the elements in our culture eroding marriage so to not get caught up in the mental contagion of our environment.

The family being the backbone of the community at large, its very survival equates to society’s stability. When the family breaks down, other issues plague the community like lack of opportunities for young people, poverty, crime, and a spiral of psychological impacts on the present and future relationships of its offspring (fatherless homes account for 85% of youths in prison, well over 50% of teen mothers, 63% of youth suicides, 90% of homeless/runaway children, 85% of children with behavior problems, 71% of high school dropouts, according to DivorceMag.com).

Do we throw our hands up and give up or do we try harder as families, faith institutions and communities to devote ourselves to making healthier families. I don’t think we have a choice. Everyone plays a part in this. The media could balance their coverage of marriage by indicating not only how damaging marital problems are to everyone but where resources are available for those families having difficulty and include a view of families that work issues out successfully.

As families, we can put the family first. Selfishness has no place in a family. As the primary role model and influence over children, rededicating ourselves to being good, available parents and spouses and stop making excuses is a start. If what you are doing is hurting the family than stop it. Get help to stop it if you need help. The faith institutions and communities can help.

As individuals, we can support good decisions in relationships in the first place. Help young and sometimes older people to know how to chose a good relationship and marriage, to know what love, commitment, and the right person for themselves really means. Mary Baker Eddy, widowed early in her first marriage, abandoned by an unfaithful second husband and later experienced an endearing marriage, said, “Marriage is susceptible of many definitions. It sometimes presents the most wretched conditions of human existence. To be normal, it must be a union of the affections that tends to lift mortals higher.”

If we are going to walk in that direction, then we need to really take a hard look at ways in which we are acting in the complete opposite. According to The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention as reported earlier this year, one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease. It doesn’t take another survey to know this startling statistic is not moving in the right direction as a culture toward healthy, future relationships for our youth. The bottom line is this statistic will grow if it continues to be ignored, and we as a community can’t afford for that to happen. Continue talking to young people not just about the mechanics of sex, but the emotional impact on their lives and relationships. Empower them to either look to the strength of their own resolve for making a better future for themselves with the help of their family and God or to no longer use the problems of their family as a crutch.

Within the community, there are many good families youth can embrace in their lives, coaches and teachers who care and make a difference, grandparents, aunts and uncles who are trying to give their love and support, religious institutions who can show the glorious relationship we all have with the Father-Mother-God who loves us and will meet our needs in many ways, directly and indirectly. I believe that God gives us four opportunities for experiencing His parenthood in our lives: One through our own parents, two through being wonderful parents ourselves someday, three through the many avenues fathering and mothering can be expressed by others or to others around us, and four, most importantly, by our direct, intimate relationship with our true and really only Parent, God. If one or two of the four experiences are missing from your life, God will provide abundantly in the other areas. If you are fixated on the one or two that appear to be missing in your life, you will miss what He is already, and desires to be, giving you. The Bible tells us, “God sets the lonely in families.”

Maybe as we rise to this challenge as a society, we will begin to see more closely knit families, more active communities, more responsible media, more trusting institutions; key ingredients to a society where its people enjoy the physical and mental freedom we all long for, deserve and rightfully have in life.

The answer to the question in the title of this article is, “Yes”. As a youth, it may not be prevalent around you, but you can cherish a better idea of marriage, prayerfully support it in your life, spend time to grow as an individual valuing your own attributes and goals, so you attract a person who recognizes them and can offer you the same, and God will support the rest.

Anne Cooling

Laura’s House the Recipient of Church’s Monthly Charity Giving

(Laguna Niguel, California, October 1, 2008) – With giving usually the last item included in a recessionary budget, The Christian Science Church is pleased to announce its monthly community charity “Pot of Gold” project.

Each month the church collects donations to be given to a local charity. The Sunday School children select the charity of the month from a list our church members and Sunday School youth have compiled of their favorite charities. A “Pot of Gold” sits in our church foyer where anyone may drop in a donation to the charity of the month. So far, “Pot of Gold” contributions have included Habitat For Humanity, Laura’s House, Youth With A Mission to support the Sunday School students building of a house in Mexico, and our own church’s benevolent fund.

The picture, with an oversized check of $588, is from the church’s annual picnic recently. It represents the money raised for Laura’s House and was presented to them during the month of September.

Laura’s House offers local community support and shelter for battered women and children. This isn’t the first time the church has worked to support the important work of Laura’s House to the community. In the past, the church hosted a panel of speakers from different faith groups to be educated on how to work with families in these situations, and the faith group leaders offered inspirational talks and support to community members seeking help.

The “Pot of Gold” idea came about from the church members wanting to be more involved in the giving of the church, directly and collectively. It also was a response to the Sunday School children’s idea of what church means to them. Helping our brother man prayerfully and actively with support.

In times like this in particular, community becomes a vital part of nurturing and caring for one another. The Christian Science church emphasizes healing and love for one another and the community, focusing on the power of prayer to uplift and meet practical needs.

Anne Cooling ( For the latest of Anne Cooling’s religious articles go to Religions)