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Finding balance with Tai Chi

There's a willing way to the heart and it cuts like a tai chi saber.  For centuries, tai chi, chi gung, and "internal" martial arts practices have been known to improve mental and physical acuity. At Riverwalk Park in West Sacramento, every other Sunday, at 12:30 p.m. Daniel Quincy Sifu  will be sharing this art form with the public. Quincy has been teaching tai chi since 1986. He has taught many students through Tai Chi Club in UC Davis, Experimental College, and public parks in the East Bay and Sacramento.  He was first introduced to the art form while doing his post doctorate research in biophysics at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He was active in all kinds of sport

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Review: The Cove

There’s something about the title “The Cove” that makes me think of a teen horror movie. But “The Cove” is a horror movie of an entirely different kind – a documentary about routine dolphin slaughters in Taiji, a small coastal town in Japan, and the degree of cover up and misinformation that keeps the practice from becoming common knowledge. This is a tough movie to watch, with brutal and graphic footage, but that’s also a large part of why the film exists – to capture on video what the local industry has tried to keep hidden.This is a message movie, made to get the word out. It’s the kind of movie that demands that a reviewer actually divulge the content. This is unusual for me and if yo

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