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Doylestown Slow Art Day - Michener Art Museum - April 27, 2013
Fresno Art Museum
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Michener Art Museum
Art viewing: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch: 1:00 PM - 2.00 PM
At James at the Michener
Host: Ilene Dube, contact Ilene via e-mail
Slow Art Day is a worldwide celebration of art that encourages people to look at art SLOWLY – and thereby experience art in a new way. You can see more about Slow Art Day and the mission behind it on our website: http://SlowArtDay.com.
As Slow Art Day approaches, you'll hear from your host with more information, as well as instructions about what to do when you arrive for Slow Art Day.
More info about Slow Art Day movement: facebook | twitter | tumblr
When & Where
Michener Art Museum
138 South Pine St.
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT)
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The 2014 season marks Doug Dascenzo's first on the Braves' Major League coaching staff. He previously served as the organization's minor league roving outfield/baserunning instructor. In his
previous role, Dascenzo oversaw the outfield play and baserunning aspects for all minor league teams in the Braves farm system.
Dascenzo, 49, joined the Braves organization from the San Diego Padres, where he spent 13 seasons
as a manager and coach in their farm system, including his last two at the helm of the Double-A San
Antonio Missions (2010-11). Dascenzo's 2011 club completed the season with a 94-46 record, posting the most wins in the minor leagues in 2011 and the second-most in franchise history, second only to the 1908 team that won 95 games. Dascenzo also led his team to the Texas League Championship, en route to being named the Texas League Manager of the Year and Baseball America's Double-A Manager of the Year.
Dascenzo totaled six seasons as a minor league manager in the Padres farm system and twice earned
co-Manager of the Year awards. His first honor came in 2006 in his inaugural season as a manger, and he was awarded his second in 2009. In 2009, he was also tabbed by Baseball America as the Midwest League's Best Manager Prospect after leading Class-A Fort Wayne to its first championship in franchise history and a 94-46 finish, the best record in all of Minor League Baseball that season.
Dascenzo's coaching career began with the Padres in 1999 as an outfield/baserunning coordinator, a
position he held for seven seasons.
The former outfielder helped Oklahoma State University to the College World Series in 1984 and
1985, and was a 12th-round draft pick by the Chicago Cubs. He played parts of seven Major League seasons with Chicago (1988 to 1992), Texas (1993) and San Diego (1996).
Dascenzo and his wife Patricia reside in Uniontown, Pa., with their four children: Zachary, Casey,
Haley, and Corey. Zachary was drafted by the Padres in 2008.


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Learning about True Mindfulness
Mindfulness is more than a set of techniques to practice. Mindfulness is about questioning your identity and relationship to the world around you. By understanding who you are at a deeper level, you are less affected by negative emotions, thoughts or physical sensations – you're tackling the root of the problem. For these reasons, it's worth spending some time and effort to find out for yourself who you truly are. Try this:
Notice that your thoughts come and go. You are aware of your thoughts. You are that which is aware of thoughts – not the thoughts themselves.
Notice that your emotions come and go too. You are aware of the emotion rather than being the emotion itself. You are the observer of the emotion.
Observe that although your attention moves from one thing to another, your sense of being aware is always present. You're always aware of something. Awareness is always on, and completely effortless. You are that awareness itself.
Reflect on the statement: 'I cannot be that which I observe'. Just as your eye is not the book, because the eye is observing the book, so you are not your thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions because you are observing them. You are the witness of them. As the witness you are completely free of them.
Be as you are. You cannot become yourself, for you already are yourself! So, just relax and be as you are – effortless awareness. Awareness is your natural state – what you always have been and always will be.
One of the most famous sages of the 20th Century, Nisargadatta put is this way: "Discover all that you are not – body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that – nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive."


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Aviva Premiership
Leicester duo pen new contracts
ESPN Staff
December 22, 2012
Steve Mafi (centre) has committed his future to the club © Getty Images
Leicester Tigers have received an early Christmas present with the news that two of their forwards have re-committed their futures to the club.
Versatile forward Steve Mafi has penned a new deal and flanker Julian Salvi has also opted to extend his contract with the Tigers. Mafi arrived at the Tigers back in 2010 and was named Leicester's Players' Player of the Year in 2012. The Tongan offers an option in both the second-row and in the back-row and has quickly established himself a reputation as one of the Aviva Premiership's most underrated players.
Salvi, who played for a year at Bath in 2009-10, signed ahead of the 2011-12 campaign and plays predominantly at openside. Coach Richard Cockerill, who is still waiting on second-row Geoff Parling and fly-half George Ford to commit their respective futures to the club, was delighted with the pairs' decision.
"Steve is just 23 years of age and we believe he will get better and better in this environment, playing alongside other top-class players," Cockerill said. "Julian Salvi is an important player for us as an out-and-out openside. He's just 27 but he's an experienced player and has been in very good form with us."
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