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I considered calling this entry "Networking With Other Creatives," because I suppose that's really at the root of this lesson. San Luis Obispo is a wonderful place to be an artist. Arts Obispo, the SLO County Arts Council puts on Art After Dark, which happens every first Friday of the month. Last Friday was no exception and we had such a great time checking out all the local displays downtown. What follows is an interaction I had with a delightfully creative individual…
Sauntering in to Linnaea's Cafe, one of my favorite places to sip coffee downtown, we wandered to the back half of the room where the paintings would be hanging. This month's display was entitled "Best in Show", featuring the work of Tracy Taylor. Many small watercolor paintings were scattered along both walls, all with a "Best in Show" ribbon attached, which contained information about the paintings. At first we thought she had just won a lot of awards, then we caught on to the playful theme…very clever.
"You should definitely take a look at those paintings, they're really great and the artist is so nice too!" I turned around to see a woman chuckling with a little twinkle in her eye.
I started to laugh and replied with, "Oh, you must be the artist!" Indeed she was. She definitely got my attention and I knew right away that this was someone who didn't take things too seriously. I really liked her.
In my conversation with Tracy, these are a few things she shared:
- Paint everyday. It may not always be feasible, I realize, but if I start doing some smaller paintings and increase my frequency, this will help me grow.
- Build up your personal collection. Tracy talked about how she has built up quite a collection of work from other artists who inspire her. She finds that when she invests in art, it also increases her network, leading to other jobs and opportunities.
- Don't take yourself too seriously, have fun! I find myself in danger of this at times, trying to portray a specific image or live up to certain expectations. This was encouraging.
So, what do you know, I actually bought a little paintings from Tracy…what a sales woman! 🙂 It was a Birthday present to myself and I look forward to picking it up at the end of this month!


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Thursday, June 14, 2007
For Pastors (and Potential Pastors) Only
How cool is this? It's a breath of fresh air to those of us who are on the heady side and tend to be less effective on the administration end of our vocation. And notice that they have their priorities right - the Spiritual competencies come first, then the day-to-day stuff. It's like a free D.Min. without being part of the D-Min-ization of the church!
Posted by Fr. Chris Larimer at 4:21 PM
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I've always been in favor of casting out D.Min's.... (kidding)
Thanks for the link!
- Tue Jun 19, 08:18:00 PM EDT
- Chris said...
Yeah, but if you do that they might come back with friends...really bad friends.
- Tue Jun 19, 08:55:00 PM EDT
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Montrose's first team in the Tayside Tennis mixed doubles league lost 12-6 to a strong Broughty Ferry side 12-6 in their last match and need to beat Kinnoull II in the final match this week to be absolutely sure of avoiding the drop from Division 1.
The first pair of Brian Wright and Marta Krauze did well to win five sets at the Ferry, while Fraser and Niamh McGlynn failed to add to Montrose's total.
The third couple of James Sievewright and Suzanne Stirling won one set.
The second team earned their first win of the season last week, beating Kinross I away by 13-5, but look likely to go down from the Second Division under the three-up and three-down format. Montrose's first pair of Brian Wright and Kirsty Robertson won five sets, as did the third pair of Andy Baxter and Wendy Sanger.
The second couple, James Sievewright and Caroline Stewart, won three.
The third team had two good results, beating and St Andrews III by 12-6 and Perth II by 12-5 and are on track for promotion from Division 4.
In last week's match, the first pair of Stuart Matthews and Barbara Watson won five sets against Perth.
The second couple, Richard and Allie Henderson won three, while the third pair of Cameron Eeles and Georgia Stirling won four.
Cameron has won 21 sets and lost just two in the last four weeks.
The fourth team didn't fare as well, having to settle for one point in two matches and with just division-leading Craigmuir II to play are in danger of going down from the same division.
In their first, rain-shortened, match, they lost to Wormit and Newport II by 12-3, with Ian Matthews and Kate Mason taking one set of five played.
The second pair of Ally Sievewright and Kara McGeachy won two sets and the third couple, Andy Thorogood and Fiona Bayne, were unable to add to Montrose's total.
The side then earned a hard-fought away 9-9 draw against Lundin Sports III, with the first couple of Stuart Matthews and Janet Thomson winning three sets.
The second couple, Ally Sievewright and Kara McGeachy, led the way for Montrose with four sets, while the third pair of Ian Matthews and Jane Buchan won two.


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During the Olympic Games, Beijing 22 hospitals carried out 24 hours for the five main symptoms of the monitoring of infectious diseases, including fever, diarrhea, rash, red eyes and skin jaundice. Once symptoms appear the same case gathering, will be the first to control the situation.
Deng Xiaohong, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, said the Olympic medical and health protection work is divided into four areas. The first is emergency medical security system, medical institutions designated to determine the Olympic Games a total of 24 hospitals, from the city more than 80 medical institutions in the selection of the more than 3,000 people formed more than 30 medical teams set up another in the Olympic Village polyclinic. In the city to improve the emergency center as a leader, the city sub-centers in 18 districts and counties for the hub, all the hundreds of emergency first-aid station as the base system. Finally, there is a stable team of blood donors to ensure clinical and Olympic events during the Olympic Games, these athletes, coaches, the demand for temporary blood. These are the protection of medical emergency.
Second is committed to enhancing disease prevention and control work. In the game there are 22 hospitals during the 24 hours to carry out the main symptoms for five infectious disease surveillance, including fever, diarrhea, rash, red eyes and skin jaundice. Once symptoms appear the same case gathering, will be the first to control the situation. In the city's eight districts and counties covering the establishment of meat, aquatic products, vegetables and other foods more than 60 test indicators monitoring network established in the city's 18 districts and counties of the monitoring of drinking water contamination in order to protect the food and drinking water security.
The third is to strengthen supervision and management of public health. Beijing has a health supervision and law enforcement teams, contracted hotels in the Olympic venues good health safeguards work, has fully completed the 83 Olympic venues and related facilities construction work of Health licensing of all food services 20 000 in the Olympic Games number of employees completed the health examination. Increased the city's entire run of health supervision. Food catering industry to adopt a quantitative classification management, currently in key areas such as tourist attractions catering to the B level and above units, shopping malls, supermarkets, more than 170 public places emphasis on centralized air conditioning system has completed the cleaning work, it the effect of monitoring can greatly enhance the health of people in public places.
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They were the 'streets in the sky', the post-war Sheffield flats scheme hailed as the most ambitious inner-city development of its time.
But after the dream turned sour with an estate that became notorious for drug and crime problems – followed by years of often frustratingly slow progress in transforming the area – a new generation is beginning to recreate the original community spirit of the Park Hill flats.
Around 600 people now live and work on the partly-redeveloped site and it was announced last week the full development should finally be completed by 2022, with the next phases of the project involving 330 student housing units as well as 210 residential units to add to the 260 homes already in place.
The new Grace Owen Nursery School – which has been based at Park Hill since 1963 – relocated to one of the new units at the development earlier this year.
And those now living in Park Hill say the new development is beginning to feel like a true community once again.
Steve and Claire Hunting have been living at Park Hill for around a year.
The couple, originally from Essex, loved Sheffield so much when their daughter Charlotte came to university at Sheffield Hallam, they decided to buy a place in the city.
They now split their time between Upminster and Sheffield, while their daughter works in Leeds but lives with them in Park Hill.
The pair, both aged 59, have recently set up a residents' association group for Park Hill tenants and say there is a growing sense of community.
Steve said: "We loved coming up here so much and Claire's parents used to live and work in Sheffield.
"We came up here and didn't really want to leave.
"We saw these up for sale and researched the history but didn't quite appreciate how iconic it was.
"When we saw what it had and the fantastic views over the city, we fell in love with it."
Claire said the pair love the 'village' feel of Sheffield and the friendly nature of the people.
She said the community aspect of the city is a parallel to what is now happening in Park Hill.
Claire said: "When we first came up here it was very remote but we have noticed now it is nearly full.
"We have set up a residents' association.
"It is starting to come together and we are trying to do community-based things."
Steve said: "The majority of people who live here are very mindful of the community spirit that existed in the original Park Hill and are very keen to recreate that. We are trying to create a true community again - the essence of the building in the first place.
"It is often talked about on social media as being a yuppie place but the population is a mix of social housing, downsizing people and professional people who work in Sheffield."
Simon Gawthorpe, managing director of Urban Splash, said the new plan to finish off the flats by 2022 is 'great news for Sheffield'.
He said: "Our aim is to create a new quarter for the city of Sheffield where people want to live, work, play and visit."
It has been a long road to transforming Park Hill into a place for Sheffield to be proud of again.
Park Hill was the first completed post-war slum clearance scheme of an entire community in Britain. It was built between 1957 and 1961, with architects attempting to recreate the strong sense of community in the old Park area with neighbours rehoused alongside each other in the new development.
Each flat opened out on to a 10ft wide walkway – providing access for milk floats and communal areas that promoted the 'streets in the sky' concept.
A landmark BBC documentary filmed in 1965 captured the optimism of families who had moved out of slum housing into the new flats.
But the concrete block was condemned as an eyesore by the 1980s and became associated with drug problems and crime.
Despite this, Park Hill became a Grade II listed building in 1998, identified by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as a 'building of outstanding interest'.
The controversial decision was criticised at the time due to the estate's reputation and the look of the flats.
The Royal Town Planning Institute said listed modern buildings should not include 'failures' such as Park Hill.
In 2003, Sheffield Council and national regeneration agency English Partnerships began to put together a vision of a more positive future for Park Hill, with existing tenants asked to leave from December that year.
They selected Urban Splash as a development partner the follow year, with Great Places Housing Group chosen as a registered social landlord.
In 2006 Park Hill Junior School was closed, as the numbers of pupils was falling. The building, along with the shops and area housing office were all demolished in 2007.
An outline planning application was submitted in 2006 for the creation of 580 flats and new retail and leisure facilities, with more detailed plans following a year later.
Building work on the redevelopment started in 2007 but was delayed by the impact of the global financial crisis.
The first properties in the first phase were eventually released for sale in 2011-12 but the completion of the 260 homes and 10 'creative workspaces' for digital and creative businesses was only finally completed in 2014-15.
Student nurse Rachel Hughes is one of the new arrivals at Park Hill flats, after moving in around a month ago.
The 24-year-old said she is already settling in well.
"I love it so much. The neighbours are really friendly and everyone seems to really care about the place," she said.
"We all help each other out."
She said the proximity to the city centre was her main reason for moving in but she has started to get inspired by the place's history.
"When I started looking at the old videos, the idea was to be a community.
"It is built that way. It is just easy to have a chat with people and I hoped it would be like that."


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Wild (I hope) Musing Over Military Expenditures
Conservatives are cutting spending everywhere except on weapons.
$16-billion for F-35s, $25-billion for combat ships, probably $2-billion each for how many nuclear submarines? (1) I wonder if they'll be nuclear armed?
No money for this, no money for that …
but we need to buy LOTS of guns!
Economic troubles are all over the news.
On population (7 billion this month), a Macdonald-Laurier Institute report (2) states that "More food will be eaten over the next half century than has been eaten by human beings since the dawn of history".
The "next half century". During which, thanks to climate change, we can expect more and worse floods, droughts, fires and storms to play havoc with our food production.
A person might be excused for wondering if these military expenditures may be Canada's plan to deal with the convergence of these various global crises. We certainly haven't seen signs of any other plan, say to cut greenhouse gas emissions or something?
Has anyone noticed whether Harper is stock-piling canned food?
(1) http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/27/submarines-british-nuclear.html
(2) http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/Canadian-Agriculture-and-Food-A-Growing-Hunger-for-Change-October-2011.pdf
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Newest liability victims: West Virginia emergency patients
Hospitals nationwide are scrambling to find the subspecialists needed to keep emergency departments running 24/7.
By Tanya Albert, AMNews staff. Sept. 16, 2002.
A West Virginia hospital that struggled over the past year to keep its Level I trauma center adequately staffed has lost its fight.
The West Virginia Emergency Medical Services office in August downgraded the Charleston Area Medical Center to a Level III trauma center, down from a Level I center equipped to handle serious injuries 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
CAMC didn't have enough orthopedic surgeons to cover the hospital. Sky-high medical liability rates and physicians' inability to find affordable insurance helped lead to the shortage.
The hospital -- which also had been struggling to keep its neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons -- saw the number of orthopedic surgeons available for call shrink to five, less than half the number covering the emergency department two years ago.
"We already know that people will have poorer outcomes," said David Kappel, MD, state chair for West Virginia's committee on trauma for the American College of Surgeons.
An estimated 800 to 1,000 patients -- about 40% of the people who came into the emergency department every year -- are expected to go elsewhere, according to a CAMC spokesman.
40% of emergency patients will need to go to other hospitals.
But hospitals that can treat severe trauma patients are few and far between in West Virginia. The downgrade leaves just one Level I trauma center in the state -- about three hours north in Morgantown -- and only one Level II center in Huntington, about 45 minutes west of Charleston.
"This is a major, major blow to the patients of this state," said Ahmed D. Faheem, MD, past president of the West Virginia State Medical Assn.
"It's a serious problem," added William D. Ramsey, MD, medical director for the West Virginia Emergency Medical Services office.
In the past year, emergency departments across the country have had to divert patients because they didn't have the doctors they needed.
Trauma centers from Florida to Pennsylvania have been at risk of not being able to treat patients because a group of neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons or other high-risk group hasn't been able to find affordable insurance.
And as regulatory agencies in various states evaluate hospitals, there could be other downgrades in the future, said Seattle emergency physician Matthew Rice, MD, chair for the American College of Emergency Physicians' professional liability task force.
"Every day, emergency departments struggle to find physicians to take call," he said.
System already strained
The medical liability problems come at a time when emergency departments already were dealing with other pressures that have mounted over the past decade, said Dr. Rice, who also has a law degree and is a vice president for Team Health West, an emergency department management company.
Between 1997 and 2000, emergency departments saw a 14% increase in visits, up to 108 million in 2000 versus 94.9 million in 1997, according to the ACEP. During that same time, the number of hospital emergency departments decreased to 3,934 from 4,005.
Low managed care reimbursement rates, physicians less willing to open themselves up to high-risk cases that could lead to lawsuits and a desire to work fewer night and weekend hours also have steered physicians away from taking patients on call.
"But the true crisis right now is trying to sort through the medical liability insurance issue," Dr. Rice said. "It can only be resolved at the federal level."
Legislation that the American Medical Association supports has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that is based on reforms enacted in California more than two decades ago. The bills include a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases and a limit on the number of years patients would have to file a lawsuit.
"Why should West Virginia patients or patients in any other state be put at increased risk all because lawmakers refuse to enact proven reforms?" asked AMA President-elect Donald J. Palmisano, MD. "It is an emergency situation when a city loses a Level I trauma center because of the medical liability crisis."
Improving conditions
In an ideal world, it would take about six months for the Charleston Area Medical Center to reopen its doors, but realistically it could take up to two years to recruit the physicians needed to keep the center staffed at Level I status.
"We're continuing our efforts to recruit physicians, but it's been an uphill battle," said Andy Wessels, CAMC spokesman. "We want to get the designation back, and we will do everything we can."
EDs nationwide dropped from 4,005 in 1997 to 3,934 in 2000.
West Virginia hospitals and physicians believe that state tort reform could go a long way toward solving the recruiting problem and other problems associated with medical liability insurance.
The WVSMA supports medical liability reforms on the state level, including a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages, Dr. Faheem said. For the past two years, physicians have called on the Legislature for medical liability reforms, but they haven't gotten too far. With the downgrading of the Level I trauma center in the state capital, however, things could be different this time.
"I'm pretty sure it was a wake-up call," Dr. Faheem said. He noted that for the first time since West Virginia started experiencing problems, editorials in local newspapers have joined the call for the state Legislature to do something.
West Virginia lawmakers go back in session in January 2003.
"I hope everyone involved appreciates the seriousness of the situation," Dr. Ramsey said.


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RICHMOND — Virginia Tech athletic director Dave Braine said Tuesday night that the university is in the process of working out a new contract with football coach Frank Beamer.
Beamer, who guided the Hokies to a 6-5 season this past fall capped by a victory against arch-rival Virginia, has two years remaining on his current deal. Included is a rollover clause that stipulates Braine must inform Beamer if he plans to extend his contract by the end of this month.


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Easter 2014
The Lord your God is in your Midst, a warrior who gives victory He will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love. (Zeph. 3:17)
These words are taken from the Prophet Zephaniah, and they can speak to us on this Easter Sunday morning of the great victory of our God, the victory of the great warrior God who rejoices over us and he truly renews us in the most astounding way. Our God has truly brought the fruits of His battle victory to us, the victory of life over death, the victory of the renewal of our mortal nature and tragic existence that takes place in his glorified and risen body. His is the victory over Satan and death; ours is the victory of faith over doubt and the skepticism of human wisdom.
The resurrection of Christ becomes a full-fledged reality for us only with our victory of faith. As St John writes in his First Epistle:
"… for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.Who [indeed] is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1 Jn. 5:4-5)
Human reason on its own buckles before this event and can only fall back like the guards in Gethsemane before the majesty of the Lord. "He is risen." That is the message of the angels, concise, mysterious to be sure, but above all joyous beyond words. He is truly risen, and thus a whole new world is risen with Him, in Him and we are all called to be part of that new and glorious destiny of redeemed man and creation as a whole.
How strange all this is to man's normal way of looking at this world and at the life we live here and now! Our normal human experience simply cannot be used as the basis for understanding this victory of our God and the inestimable gift it is for mankind. Jesus truly is the warrior God, but not a warrior as we normally understand that term. His battle was with Satan, our ancient adversary, and it was not fought with human weapons at all, but with his human will, his unfathomable love which steadfastly absorbed all the evil with which Satan attacked his human body and soul. The Son of God stood fast, but defenseless, before a magnitude of evil and its consequent suffering that you and I can only faintly comprehend, let alone could ever survive. He stands fast in His Father's will that he should absorb all this evil for our sake, for the redemption of the human race, and he triumphs over all evil, over Satan, over death itself. Nothing can shake his indomitable will and its loving adherence to the will of the Father and His love for us. Jesus reverses the deadly fall of our race in Paradise, and restores the human family to God's friendship and to mankind's original destiny to share God's life and happiness forever.
Jesus appears like David fighting Goliath, where Goliath has all the protective armor and deadly human weapons at his disposal, while David has no armor to protect him and just a humble sling with a few pebbles. But David slays Goliath and cuts off his head as his victory trophy. Now while Jesus is the Son of David, he does not even defend Himself with humble pebbles. Yet he defeats Satan who has all the weapons of evil at his disposal and who actually slays the defenseless warrior, sent by the Father to reverse the victory of Satan over mankind in Paradise. And again, we must see this, that He does this by his will alone, triumphing over Satanic evil by absorbing it all in his body and soul, and then despoiling Satan's power over mankind, "decapitating" Satan's power by restoring man's standing before God and man's destiny to be part of the family of God forever. This is His Victory, and ours.
The sign and actual beginning of that victory of life over death takes place on Easter Sunday morning when Jesus rises from the dead in his same human body, still bearing the marks of his battle, but no longer subject in any way to suffering, and no longer capable of dying. His risen flesh is the first fruits of the new world that his victory has created. "He is risen," and this cry of faith through the centuries echoes in our liturgy, "Alleluia." His glorious resurrection stands as the promise and the cause of our hope, that one day we too will be raised from the dead, never to suffer again, never to die again, forever to experience the beatitude and ecstasy that is the eternal life of a new and risen humanity.
We ought not to be surprised if much in the accounts of the encounters of the risen Lord, strike us as odd, perhaps even as somewhat confused and confusing. There is absolutely no analogy in human experience that could help us or the chosen witnesses of the Risen Lord to understand what they were seeing with their eyes and touching with their hands. These post-resurrection encounters were at once empirically witnessed events – they touched him, saw him, ate with him – and yet simultaneously a mystery beyond human understanding. They saw him, yes, they touched him, yes, but to really grasp this encounter's truth and reality they had to have faith. They see, and simultaneously they believe. These encounters negotiate the links between time and eternity. They are very real and empirically factual events, but yet they escape man's full understanding. Faith alone can fill the breach between Christ the Risen Lord and those who see him, and beyond their time, those who are not given that privilege, like us who believe having not yet seen.
Again, how odd it may seem to us that when the Risen Jesus comes to those first witnesses, he does not come in a blazing light, as he does later to Paul, he does not come with fleshes of lightning and peals of thunder as on Mt. Sinai to Moses. Strangely, he comes in the same humble appearance with which he first entered this world, lived among his disciples and died on the cross, bearing even the temporal marks of his crucifixion. He came in a humble mode perhaps to assure them, us, that although He is now their Risen Lord, He is still one with them, close to them, and to us, even while ascending to the heights of His Glory. His language, his humble appearance, which was mysterious but very human, was evidently meant to assure them and us of two things; he was truly risen from the dead and he was still truly man, one with them, but now in a much much more wonderful modality which they would one day also inherit. Had he come in the full glory of his risen humanity, they would have been more terrified than comforted, and they still would have had to believe in order to possess the life that He rose with and was communicating to them already here through Baptism.
When we celebrate Easter, then, ours is not to understand all of this wondrous mystery, but to believe; for only this faith will bring us a joy that the world can never take away. His is the victory over Satan, and His triumphant return is His resurrection. Ours must be the victory of faith, which will enable us one day to share His resurrection. The Lord is truly risen, alleluia, alleluia, Let our hearts and souls rejoice and sing this forever, alleluia.
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Hi my name is Dana and I am angry all the time. I have had a really bad past, lots of trauma and neglect and abuse. I have this harbored anger and now am passing it onto my children. But then I get angry with them for being angry. When in actuality I am mad that I have shown them anger, not controlled it in their presence. I come from a family of angry women. My mom and aunt have a temper and throw things and scream and yell and have passed it on to me and I have passed it on too. It's a viscious cycle and I want it to stop. I dont want my kids angry and teaching their kids how to be angry. It has to STOP!!!!!!!! I have seen shrinks and went to anger management classes. AND I am still angry.....
I have a hair trigger temper and I'm afraid I've passed it on to my kids. My 12 year old daughter has already been in several fights,she definitely doesn't take any shit from anyone. I am afraid I did this to her. I've always raised her to take up for herself, but to never hit anyone unless they have hit you and u r just defending yourself. Unfortunately, we moved from a big city to a small city and now she has a reputation for being a scrapper. She thinks she is a little bad ass. She recently told me that she heard that when I was younger I was quite the scrapper. When I was going to college I worked at a club, well I was not only the bartender, but also the bouncer at times!!!No choice, the job payed well and it worked around my school schedule. Anyway my brother in his infinite wisdom,was telling alll of the nieces and nephews about how I kicked so&so's ass. Great!!!My daughter didn't waste any time asking me all about it. It's not something I would brag about. So, I pretty much told her "Well,your uncle likes to exaggerate!" She immediately comes back with a line from me "there must be a little truth to it for it to be repeated." I have never been in a fight around her, but she has heard me pretty pissed. In the last 6 years, I have taken anger-management classes, gotten the right medication finally!!!I am alot calmer than I used to be. I pray that I didn't pass on the bipolar to her, or if hopefully its normal rebellios teenage girl issues, I'm praying for the latter. I've laid down strict guidelines as to consequences to the anger issues. sorry this probably hasn't been that helpful but...chat me iif u want to talk sometime!!!!
What I have been doing when I get angry around my kids, regardless of what caused it, is take a minute to just concentrate on my breathing and see them as they are...children. Reminding myself that they are young and don't deserve to be yelled at and such really helps put things in perspective for me. I just started this technique since joining this group. So far, I haven't yelled at any of my kids even once since then.
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Skip to comments.Astronomy Picture of the Day 5-24-03
Posted on 05/24/2003 5:26:27 AM PDT by petuniasevan
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2003 May 24
Explanation: If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 30 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, NGC 628 or M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view to earthbound astronomers. Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand design of M74's graceful spiral arms traced by bright blue star clusters and dark cosmic dust lanes, is similar in many respects to our own home galaxy, the Milky Way. Recorded with a 28 million pixel detector array, this impressive image celebrated first light for the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS), a state-of-the-art instrument operational at the 8-meter Gemini North telescope. The Gemini North Observatory gazes into the skies above Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA, while its twin observatory, Gemini South, operates from Cerro Pachón in central Chile.
|Right Ascension
|01 : 36.7 (h:m)
|+15 : 47 (deg:m)
|35000 (kly)
|Visual Brightness
|9.4 (mag)
|Apparent Dimension
|10.2x9.5 (arc min)
M74 can be found easiest from Hamal (Alpha Arietis); from this star, follow a line via Beta Arietis to Eta Piscium (mag 3.5); M74 is about 1/2 deg N and 1 1/2 deg E of Eta Psc. (Eta Piscium is the most prominent star on the chart).
It may be difficult to find M74 under the slightest light pollution or other imperfect viewing conditions, as its nucleus is almost stellar, and the disk and spiral arms of considerable low surface brightness. It may help to locate the pair of 6th-mag stars, 103 and 105 Piscium, about 1 deg NE of M74, and look up a pair of 10th mag stars, about 3' apart and oriented N--S; M74 is about 6' West of this pair.
For the amateur, very good conditions are needed to see more than this nucleus. But if they are given, suggestions of the magnificient spiral arms become apparent in telescopes starting at 4-inch. In telescopes of this size, the nucleus appears quite sharply limited; the diffuse hazy and mottled disk around it can be traced to a diameter of about 6' to 8'. Numerous faint foreground stars are visible in the field around this galaxy. Larger telescopes show the faint spiral arms more and more clearly, and in large amateur instruments (16-inch up), knots become recognizable within and between the spiral arms, which are foreground stars as well as star clouds and nebulae within M74's disk.
Amateur image of M74.
I'd hate to have the job of counting all those things.
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- by Ernest Healy and Bob Birrell
The high cost of housing in Australia's cities is denying most aspiring first home buyers the opportunity to purchase a home. The current high dwelling prices reflect the long boom of the 2000s, when across all Australian metropolitan centres dwelling prices doubled or tripled, with the sharpest escalation being for dwellings close to inner city amenities and high paying jobs.
One consequence is the extraordinarily high level of household debt in Australia. It rose sharply from 100 per cent of annual household income in 2000 to 150 per cent in 2009. It remains at this level – exceeded only by the Netherlands amongst developed countries. Most of this debt is mortgage-related.
Similar dwelling price escalation occurred in Britain and the United States, among other developed nations. What is distinctive about the Australian experience is that there was no contraction in dwelling prices at the time of the global financial crisis.
To the contrary, dwelling prices surged in 2010 when the Reserve Bank sharply reduced interest rates and the Australian government lured first home buyers into the market via additional grants. Since 2010, after a brief and minor price contraction, prices have moved up again, especially in inner-city areas.
An election non-issue
Notwithstanding this situation, the housing affordability issue has barely rated a mention during the election campaign. The reasons are not difficult to discern. There are far more voters happy to see dwelling prices increasing than there are disappointed first home buyers or their sympathisers.
They include those owning or purchasing a home and the army of investors who hold property. Nearly 20 per cent of individuals in Australia aged 45-64 receive income from a rental property. Their ranks are surging with growth in the Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF) industry. The rules governing these funds were changed in 2007 so that investors can now borrow to finance a property investment with the accompanying tax advantages, including negative gearing.
What if anything can be done about the situation? Even well-informed economists such as Ross Garnaut predicted that Australian dwelling prices would implode, as elsewhere. Among the factors preventing this outcome has been the continued growth in household numbers flowing from historically-high levels of population growth.
This factor has been strong in Sydney and Melbourne because these two cities are the main destinations of overseas migrants. It is not likely that either of the major political parties will address this issue, because both see population growth as a crucial driver of aggregate economic growth, particularly now that the mining investment boom has abated.
Also crucial (until recently) has been the growth in household income in Australia, due to the strong employment situation and the income boost attributable to the decline in import prices resulting from Australia's favourable terms of trade and the high Australian dollar. This boost is now going into reverse.
While household income was increasing and young people were confident that jobs were plentiful and house prices would keep rising, they were prepared to take the risk of very high mortgage indebtedness.
A new market phase
However, we are in a new phase of the housing market. The middle-income blue and lower white collar demographic that bought house and land packages on the fringes of our major cities during the boom years is less willing or able to do so.
The risk of taking on the typical first home buyer mortgage of $300,000 (more in Sydney) in the current weakening labour market is considered too great by many. The labour market is most precarious for people from this background. This is the major reason why developers are having fewer problems selling apartments off the plan than they are house and land packages on the fringe. The apartment purchases are by local and Asian investors; the fringe purchasers are locals.
First home buyer demand would be greater if house and land packages were cheaper. This has been a central theme of developers. If only the planning rules were less cumbersome and more land was released for subdivision, this would solve the price problem in their view. This proposition has some merit in Sydney, where it has long been state government policy to limit fringe expansion.
This, plus the fragmentation of broadacre land holding, has meant that very few blocks are available for less than $250,000. In Melbourne, by contrast, there is no longer a land shortage. Developer display signs and sales offices are everywhere. They simply cannot sell what they have to offer. Nor can they discount too heavily because the costs of developing land on the fringe have increased, partly because of Government levies designed to deal with infrastructure deficiencies.
Debt legacy
One of the most disturbing issues now emerging is the extent to which those attracted into the housing market during the boom, and especially during 2010, have a heavy legacy of mortgage debt.
These households are vulnerable at a time when jobs are insecure. As is evident from the table, the potential problem is acute for younger households because over a third of these households are paying more than 30 per cent of their household income in mortgage payments. We have included several of the major fringe LGAs in Melbourne because it is where recent new home buyers have been locating.
As awareness of this predicament grows, is it any wonder potential new entrants to the housing market are holding back?
Dr Ernest Healy and Dr Bob Birrell work in the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University.
This article has appeared in The Conversation.
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The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a form of psychological acupressure based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over 5,000 years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to transfer kinetic energy onto specific meridians on your head and chest while you think about your specific problem — whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, anxiety, etc. — and voice positive affirmations.
This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit"—the emotional block—from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of physical disease.
Some people are initially wary of these principles that EFT is based on — the electromagnetic energy that flows through the body and regulates our health is only recently becoming recognized in the West. Others are initially taken aback by (and sometimes amused by) the EFT tapping and affirmation methodology. But believe me when I say that, more than any traditional or alternative method I have used or researched, EFT has the most potential to literally work magic.
Clinical trials have shown that EFT is able to rapidly reduce the emotional impact of memories and incidents that trigger emotional distress. Once the distress is reduced or removed, the body can often rebalance itself, and accelerate healing. For example, one study involving 30 moderately to severely depressed college students showed significantly less depression than the control group when evaluated three weeks after receiving a total of four 90-minute EFT sessions.21
A study of 100 veterans with severe PTSD22 who participated in the Iraq Vets Stress Project showed an astounding reduction of symptoms after just six one-hour EFT sessions. After completing six sessions, 90 percent of the veterans had such a reduction in symptoms that they no longer met the clinical criteria for PTSD. Sixty percent no longer met PTSD criteria after only three EFT sessions. At the three-month follow-up, the gains remained stable, suggesting lasting and potentially permanent resolution of the problem.
In the following videos, EFT practitioner Julie Schiffman shows how you can use EFT to relieve your depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. But remember, most of the time one is placed on medication, there are serious emotional health challenges going on. It is imperative to recognize that doing EFT by yourself will likely not work for this problem. You need to be seen by an EFT professional who is experienced and can help guide you through the process Those who suffer from depression really should see a qualified EFT therapist.
Watch the video to find out more.We are having a weekend on EFT at Hoi by the Sea in November. Keep you posted


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ROTUNDO - Felimina "Minnie" (nee Viozzi) September 6, 2016, at age 101, beloved wife of the late Benny; devoted mother of Joseph (Jacquelyn) and Gary (Linda Wichtowski) Rotundo; cherished grandmother of Michael, Anthony, Benjamin, Rebecca Rotundo, Kim (Salvatore) Lucca, Jennifer (Joel) Rockensuess and great-grandmother of eight grandchildren; also survived by her best four legged friend Benji. The family will be present Sunday from 1-5 PM at the (Delaware Chapel) AMIGONE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1132 Delaware Ave., (near W. Ferry) where prayers will be offered on Monday at 9:15 AM, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 AM from St. Joseph University Parish, 3269 Main St., Buffalo. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Felimina's name to SPCA Serving Erie County, 205 Ensminger Rd., Tonawanda, NY 14150, www.yourspca.org/
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"The amount of students qualifying is a new school record and it is looking like the Thunder harriers might end up coming home with some more hardware when all is said and done," Thunder head coach Travis Cummings said.
"There were some outstanding individual results from today, including three gold medals."
Darci Petersen won the Grade 9 girls race in blowout fashion, Holly Moores did much of the same in the Grade 8 girls race. Newcomer Ethan Horb won the Grade 7 boys race as well. Continuing with Grade 9 girls Grace Boston followed up her teammate with a silver medal performance and Miranda Hobbs and Emily Carvalho placed fifth and sixth respectively. The Grade 8 girls scored a podium sweep, Sofia Preece followed her teammate, Moores, with silver and Makenna Myatt won bronze in a superb effort. Rounding out the top 10 girls results, Allison Bentley placed sixth overall in the Grade 7 girls race, also punching her ticket to the Meet of Champions.
The boys side of the team did not disappoint. Liam McCullough won silver and Alex Aguilar won bronze in the Grade 9 boys race. Teammate Lucas Rott placed a close seventh. Trenton Spademan, cracked the top 10 in his debut race placing sixth, following in the footsteps of his older siblings Brenek and Mikenna, both standout track athletes for the St. Tim's High School squad.
The junior high squad will also be sending a select group to the Athletics Alberta provincial cross-country championship on Nov. 4 in Wetaskawin. The girls team will be looking to defend or improve on their provincial silver medal from 2016.
On the high school scene, Calgary City Championships is Oct. 11 in Cochrane at the Agricultural Grounds and ASAA Provincial Championships is Oct. 21 in Edmonton. The high school squad will be running several prep meets before these big events.


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Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times:
American conservatives love to talk about freedom. Milton Friedman's famous pro-capitalist book and TV series were titled "Free to Choose." And the hard-liners in the House pushing for a complete dismantling of Obamacare call themselves the Freedom Caucus.
Well, why not? After all, America is an open society, in which everyone is free to make his or her own choices about where to work and how to live.
Everyone, that is, except the 30 million workers now covered by noncompete agreements, who may find themselves all but unemployable if they quit their current jobs; the 52 million Americans with pre-existing conditions who will be effectively unable to buy individual health insurance, and hence stuck with their current employers, if the Freedom Caucus gets its way; and the millions of Americans burdened down by heavy student and other debt.
The reality is that Americans, especially American workers, don't feel all that free. The Gallup World Survey asks residents of many countries whether they feel that they have "freedom to make life choices"; the U.S. doesn't come out looking too good, especially compared with the high freedom grades of European nations with strong social safety nets.
And you can make a strong case that we're getting less free as time goes by.
Let's talk first about those noncompete agreements, which were recently the subject of a stunning article in The Times (the latest in a series), plus a report from the Obama administration pushing for limits to the practice.
Noncompete agreements were originally supposed to be about protecting trade secrets, and therefore helping to promote innovation and investment in job training. Suppose that a company trying to build a better mousetrap hires a new mousetrap engineer. Her employment contract might very well include a clause preventing her from leaving a few months later for a job with a rival pest-control firm, since she could be taking crucial in-house information with her. And that's perfectly reasonable.
At this point, however, almost one in five American employees is subject to some kind of noncompete clause. There can't be that many workers in possession of valuable trade secrets, especially when many of these workers are in relatively low-paying jobs. For example, one prominent case involved Jimmy John's, a sandwich chain, basically trying to ban its former franchisees from working for other sandwich makers.
Furthermore, the terms of the clauses are often defined ridiculously widely. It's as if our hypothetical mousetrap engineer were prohibited from seeking employment with any other manufacturing firm, or in any occupation that makes use of her engineering skills.
At this point, in other words, noncompete clauses are in many cases less about protecting trade secrets than they are about tying workers to their current employers, unable to bargain for better wages or quit to take better jobs.
This shouldn't be happening in America, and to be fair some politicians in both parties have been speaking up about the need for change (although few expect the Trump administration to follow up on the Obama administration's reform push). But there's another aspect of declining worker freedom that is very much a partisan issue: health care.
Until 2014, there was basically only one way Americans under 65 with pre-existing conditions could get health insurance: by finding an employer willing to offer coverage. Some employers were in fact willing to do so. Why? Because there were major tax advantages — premiums aren't counted as taxable income — but to get those advantages employer plans must offer the same coverage to every employee, regardless of medical history.
But what if you wanted to change jobs, or start your own business? Too bad: you were basically stuck (and I knew quite a few people in that position).
Then Obamacare went into effect, guaranteeing affordable care even to those with pre-existing medical conditions. This was a hugely liberating change for millions. Even if you didn't immediately take advantage of the new program to strike out on your own, the fact was that now you could.
But maybe not for much longer. . .
See also "How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In," by Charles Dougherty, which begins:
Keith Bollinger's paycheck as a factory manager had shriveled after the 2008 financial crisis, but then he got a chance to pull himself out of recession's hole. A rival textile company offered him a better job — and a big raise.
When he said yes, it set off a three-year legal battle that concluded this past week but wiped out his savings along the way.
"I tried to get a better life for my wife and my son, and it backfired," said Mr. Bollinger, who is 53. "Now I'm in my mid-50s, and I'm ruined."
Mr. Bollinger had signed a noncompete agreement, designed to prevent him from leaving his previous employer for a competitor. These contracts have long been routine among senior executives. But they are rapidly spreading to employees like Mr. Bollinger, who do the kind of blue-collar work that President Trump has promised to create more of.
The growth of noncompete agreements is part of a broad shift in which companies assert ownership over work experience as well as work. A recent survey by economists including Evan Starr, a management professor at the University of Maryland, showed that about one in five employees was bound by a noncompete clause in 2014.
Employment lawyers say their use has exploded. Russell Beck, a partner at the Boston law firm Beck Reed Riden who does an annual survey of noncompete litigation, said the most recent data showed that noncompete and trade-secret lawsuits had roughly tripled since 2000.
"Companies of all sorts use them for people at all levels," he said. "That's a change."
Employment lawyers know this, but workers are often astonished to learn that they've signed away their right to leave for a competitor. Timothy Gonzalez, an hourly laborer who shoveled dirt for a fast-food-level wage, was sued after leaving one environmental drilling company for another. Phillip Barone, a midlevel salesman and Air Force veteran, was let go from his job after his old company sent a cease-and-desist letter saying he had signed a noncompete.
Then there is Mr. Bollinger, whose long-running legal battle is full of twists and turns that include clandestine photography, a private investigator, a mysterious phone call and courthouse victories later undone by losses in appeals court.


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Theresa May is to give the UK our own EUIndependence Day.
And it could now come in less than two years.
The PM will announce she will grab back control of all EU laws in one stroke in a Great Repeal Bill.
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