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  • Is CATALYST Still Relevant?
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    Is CATALYST Still Relevant?

    CATALYST celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. We visit our original mission statement and ask our readers, "How are we doing?"

    1982 was the year of ET, Blade Runner and Olivia Newton-John. Ronald Reagan was president. Gas cost 91 cents a gallon. The first CD player appeared. Answering machines used cassette tapes. Time Magazine chose the computer as “Machine of the Year.” A rally opposing nuclear weapons drew 750,000 people to NYC’s Cen­tral Park.

    And, in Salt Lake City, a little magazine called CATALYST hit the newsstands.

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  • When the World Comes to Utah
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    When the World Comes to Utah

    Our picks for Sundance Film Festival, January 20-30

    Sundance promises to be exceptional this year. The docket is loaded with romantic comedies, unbought premieres with major talent and sweeping non-fiction essays on problems facing America.

    The Salt Lake City Library is now an official Sundance venue so look for long lines and crowded café shops in the Urban Room January 20-29. The Beehive Tea House becomes the Sundance House for artists and patrons between screenings, hosting music nightly from 9 p.m. to midnight courtesy of the Utah Visitors Bureau. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly Salt Lake Art Center) will host the New Frontiers program replete with digital installations, curated panels and conversations. KUER’s RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio will cover the festival live from the Christian Center of Park City so tune in for interviews regarding films you want to see at the festival (or put on your Netflix or Utah Film Center wish list).

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  • Not Too Cold to Consider
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    Not Too Cold to Consider

    Contemplate your gardening future in January.

    January is the Monday of months. The holidays have packed themselves into boxes until next year, and the inversion has plumped itself out over the valley for a long stay. However, in the spirit of encouraging optimism, please note that the days are getting longer. With that in mind, here is a potpourri of items for your gardening consideration.

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  • Astro Predictions: Big Change on the Horizon
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    Astro Predictions: Big Change on the Horizon

    Strong planetary aspects with global consequences.

    2012 has launched, and it looks like we are in for a wild ride, so everyone find your center and align with the highest self you can muster. Even if you experience bliss and calm, you can be guaranteed that others may not. You might be the one attempting to instill reason into emotional and upset people — employees, family members and mates. Your skills of communication and clarity will be needed to navigate some muddy waters ahead.

    In 2011, our task was to realize what we had stuffed inside. We needed to admit truths about what has worked and not worked in our lives. As that awareness unfolded, a tremendous amount of energy also was allowed to flow more naturally.

    Now in January 2012, we are feeling more grounded, more energized, and more willing to tackle issues. Even though there is a lot going on, we feel acceptance and a drive to move ahead and forge into new territories. After the work we did in 2011, our fears have been released and replaced with balanced acceptance and trust.

    We have a new road ahead, and that is exciting! We cannot completely see where we are going, but we are going nonetheless. Now we need to trust our instincts, skills, wisdom, and energy to carry us forward into the unknown.

    Let’s have a look at some key astrological aspects for the year ahead.

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  • The No Party Party
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    The No Party Party

    Exploring the option of a full-cabinet candidacy.

    Is it just me, or is the 2012 presidential race downright depressing? Will it really matter to us “non-corporations” which GOP front-runner captures the White house or if the current occupant hangs around for another four years? Republicans offer little more than tax breaks for those who don’t need them, and most of the “hope and change” that Obama promised in ’08 has been dashed against the rocks of his unanticipated realpolitik.

    Then there’s the unrestricted flow of money into the political process, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citi­zens United decision that fully morphed corporations into “persons.” The ability to determine elections with cash has brought America to a level of corruption usually associated with countries where the unfettered rich dominate everything.

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  • Sustaining a Sweet Village Industry
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    Sustaining a Sweet Village Industry

    Beehive state native Anthony Baron Kirk has become chief honey-bearer for Ghana's wild bees.

    Anthony Baron Kirk paused to look up at the full harvest moon. Dressed from mesh-covered head to booted toe in a beekeeper’s suit, he wondered if this was a good night to approach the hives. The darkness wasn’t as deep as he had hoped. The bees would still be active, kept awake by the glow of the false nocturnal sunlight.

    But Kirk took a breath and stepped forward through the Ghanaian forest towards the rectangular white boxes. Around him, the villagers watched. Opening the first hive, Kirk heard a hum that quickly surrounded him. His white suit turned black. Kirk lifted an arm laden with yellow speckled insects, the indigenous Ghanaian honeybee. Overcoming a wave of fear as the hive surrounded him, Kirk stood still and greeted his new business partners, the worker bees behind his raw honey company, Aseda.

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  • Outside the Box: It's All Connected
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    Outside the Box: It's All Connected

    The political importance of movement.

    A martial artist and healer of my acquaintance once ex­plained the human body to me this way: The organs, he said, are all connected systems inside the body, but they are also all quasi-independent, with their own functions and needs and agendas. When you’re tired or hungry or un­der stress, i.e. when resources be­gin to get low, your body will start to prioritize who gets fed and looked after.

    The brain always gets top billing, but your liver (for example) is also vitally important to the persistence of life in your body. At some point of starvation or stress, resources become so scarce that “arguments” begin to break out among the organs as to who gets what. Keeping your brain in the manner to which it has become accustomed might shut down your kidneys, but your kidneys don’t intend to go gently into that good night! In the ensuing squabble, damage accrues to both, and eventually both the mind and the body sicken.

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