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"Transmedia Storytelling Learning Method"
Grade: First English
Week: 22
Thursday, February 9th, 2017.
- Diferencias y similitudes culturales.
- Alebrijes por la paz.
Propósito del año: No produzco basura / Genero paz y bienestar (KiVa).
Daily Routine:
● Kids put their material in the correct place and take out homework and pencil case to be ready (10 minutes).
● We say good morning, say the date, and talk about the weather. (5 minutes)
● We do brain gym and teacher communicates the objective of the day.
● Attendance report (5 minutes)
● Number dictation (5 minutes)
· Language arts.
· World comprehension (Science)
· Language arts.
· Writing and representing.
· Life science: Characteristics of living things.
· Oral language.
- Generally uses correct noun-pronoun and subject-verb agreement.
- Compares common fruits.
- Follows three and four steps to show comprehension.
TOPIC: At the market.
- Subject and predicate.
- Vocabulary words.
- Singular and plural.
OBJECTIVE: Kids use singular and plural.
FINAL PRODUCT: Illustrated list of products they can find at the market.
· Kids use vocabulary to describe and compare fruits.
· Kids identify products they can find at the maket.
· Kids follow instructions.
RESOURCES: Markers, paper cuts on page 35 unit 4, scissors, glue stick, notebook.
1. Kids cut the fruits from page 35 unit 4.
2. Kids use their markers to color the paper cuts.
3. Kids comment where can they buy those products (at the market).
4. Kids choose one of their fruits and hide it from their classmates (playing by pairs would be better).
5. Kids take turns to ask questions about what fruit is it like: Is it big? Is it red? Is it sweet? etc.
6. Kids answer the questions saying yes or not.
7. Kids guess and change the paper cut.
8. Kids paste their cuts on notebook and label them.
9. Kids write adjectives that describe each fruit next to the picture.
1. Write 3 times tomato, umbrella, watermelon with drawings.
2. Cut and paste (or draw) three different products that you can find at the market and label them.
3. Read in English aloud at least 10 minutes.


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I'm excited and pleased to have a feature in the winter issue of Craftsmanship Quarterly about water in Ventura. Read it here. It's a great magazine and I look forward to future issues … [UPDATE: The piece has also been picked up by The Week magazine, and, no, I didn't write their headline.]
Source: Water in Ventura

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Tips Getting better latency
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First of all there is few network term you need to know .
1) IP Address - An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.[1] An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek.
An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there. example . 188.8.131.52 , 220.127.116.11 etc 2) IP range - IP range mean IP start form one same group of IP example 22.214.171.124 is in 60.xx.xx IP range 18.104.22.168 is in 124.xx IP range Important difference IP range mean the network signal packets may take difference route or path to reach destination . So it mean also if difference IP range you will get difference latency in the games . So finding the best IP range is important! 3)Network Hops . a hop represents a transition point that packets traverse on the path between source and destination. Usually the more hops the packets go through the more higher the latency . Just like taking a bus from Point A to Points B .
If the bus taking too many stop at rest room (hops) etc . Sure the arriving time will delay . Some games server is located in US . like games World of Warcraft , Aion and etc. In Malaysia there is few ISP provider TM NET , Celcom , P1 etc . all have their own ip range . I will take Streamyx as an example here .
This is few common IP range you can get form Streamyx 60.xx 124.xx 118.xx 115.xx 175.xx First Step in this guide is find all IP range that you can get in your area . some area maybe have different IP range . some area can get 60.xx , 118.xx only . some area maybe get all ip range above . So it is depend on your location. To check your current IP address . use this http://www.whatismyip.com/ How to get all ip range . Easy just restart your modem or disconnect from modem , or if u using manual connection just disconnect it and reconnect again !
Second Step to we need a trace route using difference IP range to the destination (Games server ) If your not sure how to do it I will guide you here .
Download a program here.( http://www.pingplotter.com/downloads/pngplt_std.exe)
Run it after install
At the Address to Trace type in our server address:
www.yahoo.com ( for testing purpose)
Figure 1 is trace our my-proxy.ultima.com.my is located at Malaysia . so the latency to the server is 17ms this is normal for server in Malaysia . normal ping is form 15-30 ms. If you get above 100ms for my-proxy.ultima.com.my your line is lagging already.
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Figure 2 is trace route our sg-proxy.ultima.com.my is located at Singapore . so the latency to the server is 32ms this is normal for server hosted in Singapore . normal ping is form 30-40 ms . if you get higher than 100ms . That mean something wrong with your internet connection please contact your ISP. Some may ask My-proxy or Sg-proxy which one is better server to play US based online games. It depend the route and how many hops form Malaysia/Singapore to US server . Form our experiences SG have slightly better latency compare to Malaysia . IF playing Taiwan or China based online games , My-proxy have slightly better latency .
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FOR US part Figure 3 is trace route to www.yahoo.com and our la-proxy.ultima.com.my located at USA . so the latency to the server is about 215ms this is for server in USA or can say this is the best latency to any server in US. You can not find any US server with latency below 200ms latency when ping form Malaysia.
So this is important part . try all ip range you can get and tracer route www.yahoo.com and all Ultima US proxy server like , la-proxy.ultima.com.my , ca1.utlima.com.my .
If you get higher than 300 ms mean this mean your games latency will sure higher than 300ms which is a bit higher than normal. IF you get a 215 ms to Ultima server your latency in games will be slightly higher than 215 ms which like 220-240ms. which is the best latency play any US based online games already ! Always chose the lowest latency US server to connect. Conclusion Choose your best ip range ( it maybe difference form place to place ) select the lowest latecny Ultima server . if u playing US based game chose lowest latency Ultima US server . best ip range + lowest latecny server is best combo. enjoy . hope this guide help. thanks FYI Ultima US server can provide low and stable latency as 22x ms to World of warcraft US . ~!~
1) If i streaming or download in my network will it effect my games latency ?
YEs it will effect seriously your game latency ,strict no download or streaming when play games .
2)I can't get latency as low as this guide claim how come ?
Some area the ISP provide like streamyx , P1 etc have bad connection , jumpering etc. You need to keep complain to them . Ask them open a report . Follow up this report .
3) My friends use Ulitma proxy can get low latency , but when i use is lagging ?
This is because different area , different ip range . different ISP. you will get difference latency also . Please refer back to question 2.


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So often clients have come to me unsure about how therapy- or healing- really works. They want both an overview and specific ways to find what they seek. They are asking, in effect, for a roadmap to guide them.
Two-Legged Medicine: How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist offers such a template, full of life-enhancing healing systems, many of which you can use on your own. These techniques provide 'the path of direct experience', designed to engage your body, mind, and spirit. Both contemporary and ancient self-directed teachings described here will help you recognize and heal wounds from the arc of childhood through adulthood. You'll discover which of the five stages of your own hero's/heroine's journey you are currently traversing. You'll absorb insightful and practical ways to understand the power of your childhood, recover from abuse, transform codependence to inter-dependence, create vital relationships, and develop a deep friendship with your own sense of Spirit. Whether you are new to your path or a seasoned traveler, welcome to an enhanced perspective, where your psyche will relax and your soul open to the magnitude of healing. You can truly be your own brilliant therapist. Here's to discovering how rich your journey can be.
Praise for Two-Legged Medicine:
"Robyn Bridges, a gifted body-mind-spirit therapist, offers us a comprehensive, unique, and wise insight into the human condition. This compilation of visionary philosophy and practical tools is a must read for both professional health care providers and anyone looking to live in consciousness. To read this book is to enter into a healing journey and exit transformed." –Dr. Holcomb Johnston, Naturopath
"Two-Legged Medicine is accessible, comprehensive and divine. What person doesn't want to identify his or her life story? With this book in your hands and Robyn Bridges as your guide, you are headed towards transformation and also towards that elusive thing we all want—real-deal healing." –Molly Caro May, author of The Map of Enough
"For those seeking a deeper understanding of the psyche's role in Life's suffering and what you can do about it, "Two-Legged Medicine" delivers on its promise to lead you to your own brilliant discoveries so that you may construct your own conscious path to wholeness." – Pam Pride, retired University instructor, Entrepreneur
We are meant to live well, rather than muck about in constant suffering. In my 25 years as a psycho-spiritual therapist, I have learned to trust our healing capacities to lead us into that wellbeing. Clients have asked me for some time to write down the philosophies and related tools I offered to them, and now, Two-Legged Medicine: How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist is the result. If you want to become conscious and free yourself from the past, live a vibrant life, break out of co-dependent patterns, and develop a soulful, spiritually attuned, satisfying life, then this book is for you. Each section is designed to help you identify your own life story and then find ways to transform fear and constriction into action and freedom
Whether you are a long-time student of consciousness or new to your 'path,' you have the privilege to keep creating, changing, remembering, forgetting, and experiencing your life through this grand earth journey. Here's to your human self-realizing and living its divine origins while you walk as a bright two-legged, finding your medicine around every turn.
Two-Legged Medicine Table of Contents
The Vow to Remain Unconscious
Why Am I Dealing With This Now?
Spiritual Emergency
Understanding Your Wounding: Journey Initiation
The Importance of Your Story
The Curse of Abandonment
Shame: The 'Not Enough' Syndrome
The Essential Inner Child
The Peter Pan and Cinderella Syndromes
Abuse: How to Believe It; How to Heal It
Addiction Is A Secondary Pain
The Truth About Parenting
Unlearning: From Negative Self-Talk to Positive Re-Framing
Discernment: When to Hold 'Em And When to Fold 'Em
What Your Therapist May Not Have Told You
Re-Parenting Yourself
Why It's OK Not to Forgive— At First
Body Wisdom: Learning to Live Inside Yourself
When to Retire Your Story
What Qualifies As Trauma?
The Difference Between Stress And Trauma
Adult Vs. Childhood Trauma
Detecting Your Own Adult Trauma
The Development and Healing of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Understanding The Brilliant Way You've Learned to Get What You Want
Narcissism— The Too Grand or Not Grand Enough Self
The Highly Sensitive Person
The Self-Serving Server
Self-Image: How Do I Learn to Approve of Myself?
Accepting Responsibility; Releasing Guilt
From "What Do You Want?" to "What Do I Want?"
Neediness: Filling the Void Through Radical Acceptance
How Being With Codependents Can Activate Your Own
Help From The Ancestors
Let Your "No" Mean "No" And Your "Yes" Mean "Yes"
Release And Revise Sticky Interactions
Recognize Your Own Signposts Of Personal Power
With Whom Are We In Relationship?
The Necessary Risk of Loving
Lost In Love: Where Is The Me In Us?
Projection: Can I Love You Apart From Who I Think You Are?
Important Differences; Crucial Similarities
Loving and Hating: The Dual Face of Relationship
Conflict Resolution: Works In Progress
Unhappy Alone or Unhappy Together?
Our Parents, Our Selves
The Relativity In Relatives
The Real Affair
The Power Of Now
Developing Your Own Inner Masculine And Feminine
The Quantity And Quality Of Physical Love
From New to Mature Love: Deepenings
Soul Mates: One or Many?
Finding The Beloved
Wrestling The Blessing From The Bother
Are You A Spiritual Being Having A Human Experience?
Abandonment And Belonging
The Man Behind The Curtain: Uncovering Your Oz
Ego Is Not The Enemy
The Ruse Of Religion: Breaking Free From The Grip Of Guilt
Three Roads Converging: Tolerance, Discernment, And Trust
Living Archetypes
The Function Of Magic: Paranormal Experience
Carving Out Your Spirituality: Animals, Angels, And Demons
Earth And Sky Cosmologies
Developing Your Own Vibrant Connection
The Urge to Merge
Illness: Compassionate Befriending
From Grief to Acceptance: When to NOT Pathologize Yourself
Caring For Special Needs People— And Yourself
The Gifts And Limits Of Guides And Mentors
Changing Identity: The Purpose Of The Void
The Pursuit Of Freedom
Creativity: The Mark Of A Full Life
Soul Development, The Tender Scar, And The Aging Body
The Spiral Of The Evolving Self
Part Vi: Applications: Healing Systems For Personal Use
Body-Mind-Spirit: The Transpersonal Philosophy
The Path Of Direct Experience
Movement And Dance
Sound Healing
Consciousness Music
The Mind At Play
Transactional Analysis: Your Parent, Adult, And Child Selves
Voice Dialogue: The Unconscious Revealed
Divination Systems: Messages From Your Wise Self
Peaceways: The Art Of Forgiveness
The Medicine Wheel: Tracking The Truth Of Your Life
Imagry: The Vast Imaginal
Hypnotherapy: The Mind Heals The Body
Chakras: How to Hear Messages Through The Energy Centers
Just Breathe
Artistic Expression: Not For Professionals Only
Body Talk: Emotions In Motion
Stages Of Birth: A Living Metaphor
Personality Types: Testing, Learning Styles, And How to Benefit From Them
Energy Balancing: Your Own Healing Hands
Nature's Healing: Crystals And Minerals
The Solace of Nature
Epilogue: Beyond Techniques— The Mystery Of The Healing Self
Life offers us both daunting challenges and powerful joys. How we navigate those difficulties and celebrate the joys depends in part on the perceptions we hold and the choices we make. We so often don't realize that we can choose to live richly fulfilling lives no matter our circumstances. Yet so many of us in Western culture run around full of stress and worry, depression or angst, all of which keep us from feeling fulfilled.
Consider, if you will, your own current life satisfaction level. Has it changed over time? If you are not as happy or peaceful as you'd like to be, what keeps you from it? Are your circumstances preventing you in some way from being more centered, peaceful, or content? Or are you currently quite enjoying life but sense you could be even freer?
Whether you are experiencing the joy of wellbeing or the drought of difficulty, circumstances are always changing. Life vibrates back and forth between wellness and suffering. During challenging times, learning how to artfully navigate the sense of being dropped into an unwelcomed underworld can guide you through and out of the depths of incredibly dense human experience. By making suffering conscious and facing it squarely, you will participate in the dignity of the human spirit. You will become, as is popular in contemporary Buddhist thought, mindful. Mindfulness (or, as I sometimes call it, consciousness) builds a foundation for moving through life with authenticity and real power. When overcome with your worst pain, even in the midst of confusion and desperation, you can learn to activate and benefit from your wisest self.
So how do you proceed? Before embarking on your journey, you may have been wandering around, unconsciously looking for answers. However, J.R.R. Tolkien reminds us, in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, "All who wander are not lost." If you are wandering, it most likely has a purpose: to explore in order to gather experience that will ultimately lead you to your best sense of home. Even if solutions to problems you face do not arise immediately, poet Rainer Maria Rilke admonishes you to "love the unanswered questions." Loving the unanswered questions teaches you to be present with the truth of your issue, whatever it is, while trusting that there is already an answer embedded in each question.
First, however, like the Grail King of old, you must ask, "What truly ails me?" The honesty of this question will take you on an unprecedented adventure. Whether you have already traveled this road once or a hundred times, whether you have traversed your own trials and tribulations consciously or unconsciously, you seek the jewel: to intimately know and tend to your own wounding. Through tenacity and fortitude, even through seeming failures, you will discover what healing really means. You will morph from having been a victim, to surviving, to thriving. You will also learn to recognize and do your best to right any wrongs along the way for which you realize you might have been at least partially responsible.
How do you find the 'cure' for what ails you? Through this book, you will find a host of psychologically sound and spiritually activating healing techniques, from Voice Dialogue to Walking the Medicine Wheel. You will also be introduced to, or reminded of, the awareness that many visible and invisible beings have your highest interest at heart. In the visible realm, you will find mentors, teachers, and healthy friendships. In the unseen realm, you can invoke inspiration that brings welcome encounters with the divine. With your focused attention, answers may breeze in through nature itself, through wild animals, trees, rivers, on angel wings, through the fairy realms, the voices of the ancestors, or through synchronicities. Whether you worship the essence of a God or Goddess, Buddha or Christ, God within or God without, you can have direct experience of the sacred to remind you that you are loved, not alone, and so much more than your mind and physical body. In this text, I often used the terms 'God,' 'Goddess,' 'Creator,' 'Divine,' 'Spirit,' 'The All That Is,' and 'Great Mystery' to refer to a power higher than us yet of which we are a part. Your sense of God is a personal matter. However, spirituality—the living understanding of the Divine Life Force in everything— is universal. Spirituality is the experiential comet trail of the 'Great Mystery,' and it is waiting for you. Through it you will find a companionship with the world at large, even in the midst of your own suffering. You can have amazing encounters with the unseen world that can restore inner vision to your expectant heart. If you've been on your spiritual path a long time, you can rediscover which sentient beings are waiting for you to help restore and revitalize your life.
Like all good antidotes, however, whatever relief you discover must be taken in proper doses. Sought out appropriately, you can find inspiration filtering into your necessarily grounded and earthly life. But with too much spiritual encounter and not enough practical human activity, you may float into the ethers, becoming no earthly good to anyone. With too little spirituality, you might become mired in earth's gravity. Depression and addictive reactions can follow. The proper balance of this antidote between human and spiritual help provides an infusion that heals and enlivens a spirit-filled earth walk. In Two-Legged Medicine: How to Be Your Own Brilliant Therapist, you will find reminders sprinkled about of the Creator within and without to help you balance the necessary and arduous tasks of authentic healing and participatory living.
I have been a psychotherapist for over 25 years, helping clients navigate life transitions and live better lives. Many of my clients deal with issues shared by most of us. I have chosen to address these in a specific arc from early childhood to adult needs. From my own work with fine healers, workshops I have facilitated, and private clients I have counseled, I have gathered confidence in the amazing intelligence of the psyche. I refer to the psyche as the organizing principle of the mind, ego, and personality. When the psyche is healed of wounding, it becomes a marvelous host for a solid and integrated spirituality. To capture this experience, I have written Two-Legged Medicine to encourage readers to heal through activating the body-mind-spirit connection with the path of direct, personal experience. When you feel it in your body, know it in your mind, and sense it in your spirit, it becomes yours. No one can take that from you. You will not forget it. And it will continue to benefit you for the rest of your life.
If you want to become conscious and free yourself from the past, live a vibrant life, break out of codependent patterns, and develop a soulful, spiritually attuned, satisfying life, then this book is for you. Each section is designed to help you identify your own life story and then find ways to transform fear and constriction into action and freedom. Part I, Early Damage— The Loss of Innocence, helps you authenticate and recognize your environmental and familial wounding. It then points the way for developing safe and supportive living situations in your adult life. Part II, The Development and Healing of Codependence, defines habits and patterns that keep us stuck and unhappy, and includes ways of seeking higher guidance to adjust thought and behavior for healthier outcomes. Part III, Relationships: Boon, Blessing, or Bother?, helps identify what you are really seeking from other people. It assists you in filling the empty places inside yourself before asking another to do it for you. It also describes the pathway to true intimacy. Part IV, Spiritual Sourcing, offers direct ways for you to develop your own vibrant relationship with the Divine, to hone your life purpose, and to open daily to the miraculous world around you. Part V, From Surviving to Thriving, winds you through the valleys of loss, response-ability, and grief to the heights of living from a soulful vantage point. It reveals ways to make choices that serve the best outcomes for all concerned. The final section of the book, Part VI, Applications: Healing Systems for Personal Use, details effective healing techniques I've synthesized from many fine teachers and healers. I incorporate these systems into both my private practice and my own personal healing work. You can use most of these techniques on your own, though having a trusted friend or therapist with you may be most beneficial. You can walk yourself through the exercises in this book and find which work best for you. You may also choose to creatively adjust them to suit your own needs and purposes.
The title for this book, Two-Legged Medicine, is gratefully borrowed from North American indigenous societies who have for eons referred to 'two-leggeds' as humans, and who refer to 'medicine' as any helpful and divinely inspired cure for what ails us. Naming humans as two-legged implies that there are other creatures with more, or fewer, legs that have equal places in the scheme of things. No one species is meant to be superior to another; in fact, all species can learn from one another, and they must, in order to survive. This wisdom, so forgotten in contemporary society, is being revived today, hopefully in time for humans to rebalance before destroying the earth forever. From my honorary membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca Nation, interaction with various indigenous people, and my own healing encounters, I have come to appreciate that we two-leggeds have much 'medicine' to receive from all life forms. My previous book, Moose Medicine: Healing Wisdom from The Natural World, chronicled the power of personal experience in nature to help heal our human malaise and contradictions. Now, Two-Legged Medicine focuses in greater detail on the human causes and human cures for many of our ailments.
The subtitle for this book, How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist, came as a compliment from a client I was able to help in a way he'd been seeking all his life. He called me "brilliant." After an ego-rush followed by a humbling self-reminder of my all-too-human failings, I responded, "Thank you, AND, we can all be brilliant. You are recognizing that piece in me because you have it in yourself, too." As he began to accept this, he stepped into his growing psychological and spiritual power. It is my hope and intention that in reading Two-Legged Medicine: How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist, you will find yourself more empowered, deepened, wiser, stronger, and, ultimately, happier. The text and exercises are designed to activate your conscious self: the wise part of you that knows exactly what you are about and wants to help you live in even greater freedom than you are right now. Whether you are quite experienced in this kind of awareness or more of a newcomer, the principles are the same: applying love, understanding, and compassion will heal what ails you. Some of you will just benefit from a reminder; others will be cultivating a whole new landscape of relating to self and other.
A vital element of being your own brilliant therapist is also to be able to discern when to go it alone and when to seek out help from bona-fide healers, trusted friends, or loving family. Sometimes we need other sentient human beings to mirror love and help us become more fully human. As we receive medicine learned by those who have traversed their own passageways, we develop knowledge, experience love, and find the courage to continue on our own path of consciousness. Once we've made significant headway, we are then able to assist others, either directly through healing work or simply by the attractive quality with which we live our lives. We become true travelers on the path of consciousness, with a fine appreciation for the miracle of life. We learn to accompany ourselves, to breathe deep, and to persevere through it all. And we remember to continually immerse ourselves in the vast world of nature to heal, rebalance, and renew us in body, mind, and spirit. Here's to the development of your own brilliance, and the good medicine of a soulful journey.
Chapter Selections
Abandonment and Belonging
We all intrinsically seek and want to belong—to a family, a group, a situation. When we cannot find enough belonging to satisfy us, we may feel abandoned, lost, or hopeless. In Section I, Early Damage, the causes and results of abandonment were discussed. Abuse of any kind, no matter how minimal, invites the mistaken conclusion that we have been left to the wolves.
Though human abandonment is severe in itself, I believe the hardest part is that it magnifies our sense of spiritual abandonment. Even before we were born, our trip from Paradise to the human realm must have been incredibly dense and difficult. Though that memory seems to be wiped clean when we are born, many people who are becoming more aware have recovered a sense of original home in the heavens, and of a heavenly mother and father. I sometimes think that all human angst at its core is really homesickness for our divine origins.
To feel lost and rejected is a truly distressing condition. Beyond pathology (as in Borderline Personality Disorder, where the person lives in a constant state of abandonment and lack of a personal ego), we all have this experience from time to time. Any time we are in a transition, from relationship or job loss or change, even a change of belief system, we enter into the ego's feared danger zone of "no-thing." No longer do we feel protected by a world we constructed that felt familiar, if not also safe. In this time of transition, we may also enter into the Great Void, a dark and eerily silent inner place where everything is unfamiliar. In fact, there is nothing at all to cling to. In the void, the psyche has no structure to arrange itself within, and the spirit is adrift, not able to help the human need or even sense the Divine.
This psychological and spiritual darkness, especially when it comes in great doses, can be daunting. Sages have written about it, and intact indigenous cultures have stories to teach about it. Nevertheless, knowledge alone will not protect you from the raw experience itself. It prepares but does not allow you to sidestep the visceral truth when it comes calling at your door.
When in the void, you may initially feel a deep sense of abandonment in the experience of nothingness. Yet ironically, when you stop fighting the experience, your perception usually changes to neutrality or curiosity. If you allow it, it will teach you that you belong even to the void; you belong to your life and to every experience for which you are willing to show up. You can apply consciousness to recognize the warning signs that you have not come through the void well; these are attitudes of bitterness, dejectedness, and defeat. However, you can come through the void better if you ask for and receive a wisdom that will extract a great price to possess, requiring you to release the structure of your old thought patterns about life (more on the Great Void in Part V: From Surviving to Thriving).
During this time, you have to let go of the ladder before you find another to take its place. Some healers call this "hanging in the dangle." It is of an unspecified time frame. Your time is done when it is done, though it is possible that you may shorten it by surrendering, by saying, "So be it," and living day-to-day with acceptance. True surrender is done out of choice to accept whatever will be. It does not harbor a secret hope that "If I do this, then…." There is no bargaining with the void. You will come out of it eventually. How you come out of it is largely a measure of how you decide to experience going through it. And this will determine whether you still sense an on-going abandonment or you feel a healing into the belongingness of your own life.
Irish minister John O'Donahue writes lyrically about this sense of belonging, as does a friend and colleague of his, visionary poet and workshop leader David Whyte. They both write about the hard edge of living while still being able to find a sober beauty, sometimes even in the void experience itself. They both caution against "therapising" the experience, of trying to make it too helpful, or necessary, or noble. After I get over a bit of defensiveness about that (since I am a therapist), I, too, agree that politically correct therapy is not helpful here. Only being real is. At our core, at birth and death, and in the void, which is a little of both, that is what we are: unvarnished, unprotected beings seeking to find our way through, and having to simply hang in the dangle in between.
We belong to every experience we've had. How can abandonment defeat us when we learn to belong to it?
The Man Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Your Oz
It is so easy to give our power away. We blame parents, our society, our base human natures, and even ourselves for our apparent lack of knowing what we need and how to provide it for ourselves. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, we must pull back the curtain so we can encounter that powerful voice outside of us that we think holds the key to granting our wishes. In doing so, we are aghast as we realize that the man behind the curtain is really a fake. He cannot really help us because he cannot help himself. He preys upon our insecurity by manipulating us to think he's powerful. It's all whistles and mirrors.
That's the bad news. The good news is that once we find the wizard to be a fake, we also realize his genius. He is only in the position he's in because he has realized something we have not: that we just need permission to find what it was we thought we were incapable of finding. Once we know that, we do not need to answer any longer to the wizard without. The way home is to activate the wizard within. Your inner guide will direct you in the magic ways of finding what you truly need. He will help you turn the dross to gold, your unused talents into active gifts.
In this way, the Wizard of Oz is really about spiritual discovery and empowerment. We are not the weak, incapable creatures we imagine. In fact, as with the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, the very things we think we lack are often strengths we have, albeit in their hidden states. These hidden strengths need to feel the call to adventure and answer the quest of discovery. Then they can embark upon their own empowering journeys to become all they are in us. It is a form of finding the god or goddess within.
So who is the person behind your curtain? What is his or her name? Is it a parent or disbelieving teacher? Is it someone you expected to rescue you in the past? What does (or did) his/her face look like? Maybe it is a negative compilation of many people from whom you expected but did not get help. On the positive side, you might recognize the wizard as one who knows positive qualities you have not been claiming, and is giving you a chance to claim them once again. Did that person in your outer life know you had the answer within? Spiritual maturity requires that we pull the curtain back on the mommy/daddy/god/goddess outside of ourselves who we expected to make it all better, and to embark on our own fearsome journey, where every bit of our courage will be required.
Often we will only set out on our journey in earnest when we have wholly lost our way. We have no other resources. We are desperate. That is the time to pull back the curtain and enter into the hero's or heroine's journey. We find frightening winged monkeys and dark witches, and we have to face our worst fears. But along the way we also find the power of good. Ultimately, we find our own way home. And the little man behind the curtain will seldom fool us again.
Chapter 14: Is Your Psyche Aligned With Your Spirit?
Our psyches are designed to work in tandem with our spirits. Our psyches are the organizing principle of our minds, egos, and personalities. I am defining "spirit" here as the divine dwelling within you. I could say that the psyche is the hiker and spirit is the mountain trail. The psyche is meant to enjoy, rest within, be guided by, and be refreshed by the natural world of spirit. In order to do this, we must free ourselves of some misconceptions that keep us from maximizing a vibrant connection between our personal selves and the Great Self of God within.
In this chapter, you will find clues to self-assess how your psyche and spirit are (or are not) cooperating with each other. You will perhaps remember your young sense of God before religion tried to teach you too much. You'll find that the seemingly human values of tolerance, discernment, and trust are really divine attributes. And you'll be able to see what living archetype has been dwelling in you.
Ego Is Not the Enemy
Certain branches of New Age and even Buddhist philosophy teach that our egos (housed in the psyche) are our inadequate, small selves which keep us imprisoned and in pain. They state or imply that all desire leads to stress and to more unmet desire on the repetitive suffering wheel of samsara. We've all seen or been in situations where this happens, like the discouraged lover who becomes bitter, or the constant over-spender who lives in financial distress. Implicit or explicit in "overcome or ignore the ego" philosophies is the belief that ego is the enemy, the troublesome foe that keeps us from the gates of heaven.
I prefer to view the ego not as an enemy but as a complex facet of the psyche, that, like a computer, needs lots of protection updates and scans. The ego is exposed to a lot of garbage; it can pick up thought viruses and not work well as a result. It takes on erroneous ideas of who we are. But what I have learned from my years working with the psyche is that we are actually hard-wired to clear out the rubble. Because of this, the ego does not have to be ignored, or overcome, or killed; it can instead be creatively harnessed to serve us. We are designed to recognize the ego as a valuable ally and support.
As a result of my work in Jungian, Transpersonal, and depth psychology, I've identified ego as the part of our psyche that helps us know ourselves as distinct from others. It has desires and goals that want to be fulfilled throughout our lives. The ego that is only hooked up to our small selves, however, will eventually run rampant; it will spin out of control with a cacophony of needs and schemes. It will never be satisfied for long. This happens particularly when we are young and still gathering a sense of who we are. As we mature, the idea is to offer our ego in service of the divine. This is what the 6th chakra energy center in our etheric fields does; it intuits Spirit and asks ego to carry our divine mission into the world of our personal and work lives. When ego understands it has a higher purpose, it seeks to embody the divine. The ego in tune with Spirit is both vital and at rest. It is vital because it knows it has a higher purpose to fulfill. It is at rest because it is not trying to pull from its own constant desires; rather, it is governed by Spirit, the place of peace and understanding.
In very high, spiritual endeavors, I often see people bypassing their humanity altogether in favor of being "spiritually realized." Usually they are circumventing their opportunity to be a true human by trying hard to ignore their humanity! They make ego the enemy and, as a result, merely drive the truth of what is underground, where it wreaks havoc in their lives. They may then become 'bliss bunnies,' valuing only the things of spirit, meditation, and quietness. They refuse to recognize the human angst or need for action in the world. They fail to see their part in a conflict, giving it all over to Spirit instead of settling in and rolling up their sleeves. Often they become no earthly good to anyone. They refuse the realities of true responsibility, sorrow, loss, and grief.
This is not love; it is ignorance, and a refusal to be present in the here and now. Real love blossoms through the grit of living, thorns and all. Earth and Sky energies must be integrated. Earth energy demands attention to earthly needs of paying the bills and attending to detail. Sky energy reminds us that we are not only random beings taking care of necessary tasks; we are spiritual beings. Jack Kornfeld reminds us, through his Buddhist retreat center and book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, that the ego helps us attend to the necessary tasks of daily living. It is simply happier when it knows it is living in service to something greater than itself. This is accomplished by integrating psychological and spiritual truths, a kind of ping-pong, until both know they are a part of the same playing field.
Ego is not the enemy; ignorance is. I like to remind groups I work with that to give yourself away to Spirit, you have to have a YOU to give away! You have to stay with the grit and difficulties of building ego. Too many spiritual seekers want to try to give ego away before they've developed it. This is like trying to give a gift to someone you love when you haven't finished creating it. You can't give away what you don't have. Develop your ego first. Make it beautiful. Know it, and yourself. Become well versed in your strengths and weaknesses. Give your desires time and space to know themselves. When we stop fighting the marvelous way we were constructed, we will see that ego can serve us well. It helps us know who we are so we can give our unique talents and skills to the world. It also allows us the great pleasure of personal satisfaction. Ego is only a problem when it has no higher purpose, no sense of higher headquarters. What we each need to do is hook our egos up to a higher source by intention, to be present, self-correcting without judgment, and stay tuned for the inspiring results. Then we have an awesome gift to give- to God, to ourselves, and to others.
The Ruse of Religion: Breaking Free from the Grip of Guilt
Religion has existed since the dawn of man in some form or other, and will undoubtedly continue to do so throughout time. As mentioned earlier, religion at its best provides a structure of theology and a platform for expression of consensual worship. At its worst, however, it is guilty of corruption, crime, and misuse of power. It can also be guilty of perpetuating guilt as a means to control and contain member action. Focusing on guilt may have been necessary at one point in human evolution; however, guilt has done immeasurable damage, as well, as any therapist can tell you. When a person sincerely seeks solace in her/his religion but instead finds judgment, the only recourse is to respond by feeling guilt. The Catholic Church (among other denominations and religions) has attempted to help the psyche resolve its sense of guilt, however. It performs absolution—forgiveness of sins through an intercessory priest, the agreed-upon conduit to God. And it works for millions of people. Perhaps as many million, however, become disenfranchised, finding that they labor under the load of guilt more than they are freed from it. Guilt builds fear and a sense of powerlessness, and when those in power abuse their position, the guilty crumble. The guilt-ridden intuitively know, though, that there is a better way to live. If our religion cannot provide it for us, or if it provides in word but not deed, we imperfect mortals fall out in search of a true redemption.
This is how many seekers end up on the New Age doorstep. The irony of New Age philosophy, however, is that guilt can still be present. "You caused your own cancer by 'wrong thinking'" is as damaging now as when the Pilgrims fled persecution from the Church of England only to turn around and impose it upon the very native peoples who sought to assist them. What we don't heal directly merely goes underground, where it can become stronger in its shadow version than when it was in plain daylight.
So how do we break free from the grip of guilt? We first recognize what is valid about a particular guilt and what is not valid. We then allow it to inform and direct us as to any action necessary. Through sometimes long and vigorous healing processes, we release and forgive ourselves and make sure that we place ourselves in environments that do not keep us in a guilty, non-redemptive state. We pay attention to heal whatever caused us to take (or not take) helpful action. Any organization that highlights guilt as a major feature (as in a fundamental view of a Christ-type figure) is still focused on the problem. However, Christian groups that emphasize the love of Christ more than the need for atonement can be healing. And the true adherence to atonement itself means "coming into a Oneness with God," which can be truly restorative.
I go into greater detail about the problem of guilt in my book Moose Medicine, Healing Wisdom From the Natural World, but suffice it to say here that what we focus on tends to guide who we become. This is not to deny the shadow side of our nature. But the unmistakable irony is that if guilt becomes a major pole around which we revolve, we will embed it in our psyches. Rumi traveled around a pole out of deep sorrow for the loss of his soul friend Shams until his grief circled him back to the Divine. Has circling around the pole of your guilt brought you closer to a god you wish to know?
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The Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative (TCPi) is a free, federally funded support network that will help you and your care team navigate provider compensation changes coming soon as a result of the Medicare Quality Payment Program (also known as MACRA) and commercial insurance companies moving to value-based payment. You do not need to be a Medicare provider to participate. We are pleased to announce that TCPI is close to capacity (2,000 clinicians). If you are interested in learning more about the program please contact us to schedule a personal phone call with a TCPI team member. Click here for a timeline, and here for an FAQ.
Investing in patient-family engagement improves morale, productivity for TCPi practice
One of the goals for Southwest Retinae Consultants, Durango, during its participation in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, is to enhance patient-family engagement (PFE) efforts, and to engage more fully in community events.
Representatives from TCPi, a governor's office initiative that is funded by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, encouraged the team to strengthen its PFE and to collect and share success stories.
"We repurposed marketing efforts/monies into supporting patients and the community," says Jennifer Batchelor, COA, practice administrator. "Our marketing efforts were expensive and did not reflect practice values. We redirected that money into tangible activities that reflect our practice culture, values and the wishes of the care team.
Activities include sponsoring and participating fundraisers around our patient's needs, supporting and participating in local senior activities such as the Lions Club, Rotary Clubs, and local senior health care events, and sponsoring school events and local arts programs that encourage people to get involved. Doctors also speak at several local events for Indian Health Services, local Rotary clubs and continuing education opportunities for physicians.
"We believe that a financial investment in our team, care processes and community will be more effective in growing our business while preparing for success in a world in which demonstrated care quality, efficient use of resources and excellent patient experience has a direct effect on compensation," Batchelor adds. "This new direction has improved morale and had a positive effect on relationships among team members and with patients, their families and the community. It's a win-win. We wanted more involvement with patients to sustain and build our reputation of excellent care, exceptional experience of care and better engagement with patients and families. We believe a tangible emphasis on patient-centered care exemplifies our values and will ultimately result in financial success."
Seeing results
The team is committed to excellent care that, by definition, engages patients as partners in their care, and to organizing the practice in ways that are valuable to patients. "We want patients to experience exceptional care, recognize it as a practice hallmark and talk with friends and neighbors about it," Batchelor explains.
"Our tagline, 'Helping you SEE better to LIVE better' is demonstrated daily by our doctors' focus on helping people to see better, which naturally improve patients' lives and we continue to seek new ways to illustrate that commitment."
The goal, she adds, was to turn patients into fans, who would rave about their experiences and expand the group's marketing reach through word-of-mouth advertising.
"To accomplish this, we focused on engaged listening, and hired a scribe so doctors could be active listeners," Batchelor says. Scribes have allowed doctors to focus on patient examinations and prompt discussions about patients' lives, their hobbies and interests. "We believe this approach is more patient-centered and encourages patients to understand their conditions and develop treatment plans that include medication management," she adds.
And that has paid off.
"Patients say they feel highly valued, appreciated and more thoroughly cared for because of our efforts," which we believe will have a positive effect on our business, she adds. "We expect this approach to result in better care, lower costs and word-of-mouth marketing as patients share their positive experiences."
Process improvement
Examples of the team's efforts to become more patient-centered include training to become active listeners, an investment in free resources for patients and their families and ongoing solicitation of patient and family input about what's important to them and ways to integrate their preferences into care processes.
"Feedback about extended wait times, ease of the referral process, exam availability and direction on community resources helps expand our 'inside' perspective so that we can make them feel completely cared for," explains Haley Jones, lead scribe/medical assistant.
The team is employing active listening skills to improve communication with patients and families, who might be looking for different types of resources. "We will identify and provide resources that patients and family members seek and will encourage staff and doctors to be involved in community events," Jones adds.
The team's interest in patients goes beyond providing quality eye/retina care.
"The work we've done has improved morale as well as the attitude and satisfaction among providers and staff," Batchelor explains. "This approach, which connects our team to meaningful work that transcends clinic walls, encourages the team to demonstrate a commitment to patients and the community. We are demonstrating our willingness to contribute to the lives of those around us. We have also invested in cultural awareness and ensure that we have educational materials in multiple languages for patients, who are not proficient in English, employ bilingual staff and offer interpretation services as needed.
The largest adjustment, she says, was a change in mental focus on patient experience and satisfaction and community involvement. The investment of time and money has improved patient confidence in our doctors because patients recognize an interest that goes beyond eye care and start to realize that we care about them as people, not just as patients. The efforts have improved staff morale and led to improved productivity, she adds.
"TCPi helped us focus our vision on patients and their families and encouraged us to seek new opportunities to care for them," Batchelor explains. "The initiative has given us tools to overcome barriers to true patient and family involvement, and to expand opportunities to support patients in various ways, such as supporting seniors, who are struggling to do things on their own, or identifying groups and activities for patients, who suffer from low-vision or other debilitating diseases. We will continue to implement our plan with the help of the TCPi team and plan to share our successes with other health care providers to illustrate the benefits of delivering value-based care. Repurposing marketing dollars to hire a scribe for doctors and train providers and staff in active listening techniques has enabled us to partner with patients in managing their care, which includes medication management and shared decision making," she adds. "We actively solicit patient input to inform practice operations and practice priorities."
TCPi practices get top MIPS score
Practices engaged in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPi) are reporting success with the Merit Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Two TCPi practices received a MIPS score of 100 and many others score in the 90s, which means they will get positive payment adjustments. More than 90% of MIPS-eligible providers in TCPi have reported and will avoid a negative payment adjustment, due to their work.
Join them. Practices must submit performance data before March 31 to avoid penalties and potentially earn a positive payment adjustment under MIPS, one of two options to participation in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid System Quality Payment Program (QPP). SIM and TCPi practices are uniquely qualified for success in QPP due to the work they're doing with their practice facilitators and CHITAs. Get details on what practices need to submit for MIPS as well as advanced alternative payment models (the other track in QPP) through the Colorado QPP website.
Many of the practices that received 90-100 on their MIPS reporting acknowledge the help they received from TCPi-funded clinical health information technology advisors (CHITAs) to prepare them!
Docs designing healthcare reform
Listen in to a discussion about how the Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative (TCPi) empowers doctors in Colorado to redesign the healthcare system to support the delivery of high-quality care with Carol Greenlee, MD, FACE, FACP, owner, Western Slope Endocrinology, Grand Junction, state and national faculty for TCPi; Barbara Martin, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC, MPH, director, Colorado State Innovation Model; and Allyson Gottsman, program manager, Colorado Health Extension System: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61sRTsOKkg&feature=youtu.be.
Primary goal:
The Colorado PTN will prepare clinicians to be successful with new models of compensation that require new models of care delivery, effective care coordination, and demonstrated value of care.
Why it matters:
MACRA legislation is set to make a major change in compensation with significant "carrots and sticks" What you don't know, and don't prepare for, can hurt you.
Who can participate:
Only 2000 Colorado clinicians and their staff will be able to participate in TCPi. This includes both independent and system practices.
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3 May 2006FAC 471 Hallelujah Competition
Cerysmatic Factory in association with Wilson House is running a competition for free tickets / backstage passes and the question is: "What year did A Guy Called Gerald first release 'Voodoo Ray' as a single?"
First prize: a pair of tickets and a pair of backstage passes
Second prize: a pair of tickets
Send your entries via the Cerysmatic Contact form with the email subject "Hallelujah Competition" and don't forget to include your name, a valid email address and the answer to the question.
The winning names will be pulled out of hat and then notified by email soon after the closing date which is Monday 8 May @ 22:00 BST.
FAC 471 Hallelujah: A Celebration of Madchester
Saturday 13 May 2006
10pm till 3.30am
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Tickets 17.50 GBP
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In the grey days of late 1970s post-punk Manchester, youth culture was a serious affair: every musical performance was measured mostly by the conviction of its delivery. The term 'New Wave' opened up free vistas where acquired skills could once again be exercised after punk's monochrome blur. It could be applied to anything from a James 'Blood' Ulmer record to the latest Throbbing Gristle release, Magazine to Swell Maps. Move outside that terrain into Sun Ra, Parliament, Frank Sinatra and Martin Denny, and your options were suddenly without limit...
Then came Tony Wilson's Factory Club (at the Russell Club in Hulme) offering an open invitation to experiment that was taken up when Ken Hollings, Howard Walmsley, Eddie Sherwood and a few others decided to make some noise to accompany their 16mm silent epic Biting Tongues. A further performance followed a few weeks later, when Colin Seddon and Graham Massey disbanded their Post Natals project and joined up. The film itself, a flashing series of negative images, became a memory; the name remained.
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text: With Philadelphia poised to become the largest city in the US to decriminalize marijuana, many people are asking how a city has the legal authority to enact its own drug laws. After all, Pennsylvania law already provides penalties for possession, cultivation and sale of marijuana in the Drug Device and Cosmetic Act. Likewise, the federal government also bans the possession, use and distribution of marijuana, however, the feds generally charge people with possession of marijuana only if the offense happened on federal land, like a national park, leaving all other misdemeanor-level drug enforcement to the states. So is Philadelphia a free-city state, able to enact its own laws in contravention of state and federal law?


text: Got some good reading material here; Marie Claire and Weight Watchers from the UK (from our recent holiday), a magazine called 'Goeie Huishouding' from South Africa (also from our trip) and my favourite magazine; Prevention. There are also some other foodie magazines amongst that pile, as well as Fernwood Fitness magazines from my gym… Happy reading, I say! 🙂


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Rockies-Brewers preview
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell hasn't yet found a way to predict when Chris Carter would go into one of his home-run hitting binges but he did reveal one factor that seems to come into play.
"He's playing at home," Counsell quipped Monday.
Counsell had good reason to smile as Carter cracked his 30th home run of the season in Milwaukee's 4-2 victory over the Rockies in the opener of a three-game set at Miller Park.
"I can't (see it coming)," Counsell said. "He was in a really good place in Seattle I thought. You hope coming back home that it kind of continues."
It marked the second time in Carter's career that he's hit 30 home runs and with approximately six weeks left in the season, Carter is hoping to keep it going.
"All the fives and zeroes are big numbers, and big positives from probably 20 on," Carter said. "For us to be here already in late August is pretty good."
He'll get a crack at padding that team-leading number Tuesday when Milwaukee takes on right-hander Jon Gray in game two of the series.
Gray has never before faced Carter or the Brewers but has struggled away from Coors Field, posing a 3-5 record and 4.29 ERA in 11 road starts this season.
He'll be looking to get back on track after three short outings and lasted just four frames his last time out, allowing four runs on six hits and a walk in the Rockies' 12-10 victory over the Nationals.
"I have thrown worse than I did today and gotten better results," Gray said after that outing. "I just ran into some trouble, and I didn't get quick outs. They were more patient with me, so I probably have to fill up the zone more early."
Milwaukee will counter with right-hander Chase Anderson, who's looking to regain some stability after a fluke week.
He started the second game of Milwaukee's double-header against the Cubs last Tuesday, but was pulled after just two-thirds of an inning when he was hit in the left knee by a Kris Bryant line drive.
He limped off the field and was diagnosed with a left quadriceps contusion but felt well enough to return to action Friday when he allowed two runs on three hits in two innings of relief in a 7-6 loss at Seattle.
Before that, Anderson had been in a bit of a groove, going 3-0 with a 2.53 ERA in his previous four starts.
"It feels good to be consistent, going three or four starts and being able to do the same thing each time," Anderson said after holding the Braves to two runs on six hits and a walk on Aug 10. "Two runs or less, that's the goal each and every time out. It's good to actually produce that, and give the team a chance to win."
Prior to Monday, Colorado had won six of the last seven meetings with the Brewers including four in a row at Miller Park.


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A hot stone massage is an ancient treatment that has survived due to its effectiveness in soothing and healing the muscles of the body. A beauty therapist will gently massage the body to bring relaxation and then, using specially heated stones that retain their temperature, will massage the body using the heated stone. Hot stones may be placed along the spine or in other areas to balance the flow of energy in the body.
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"James Egan continues to impress observers in the Welsh market with his handling of major development matters, joint ventures and property transactions on behalf of both public and private sector clients. Sources say that he is "very easy to get on with, and as diligent as you could want. He has a lot of experience in the property market.""
James is a real estate partner with experience of large-scale development work, joint ventures, and general property transactions in the private, public and third sectors.
Main areas of practice
James handles many of the firm's high value, high profile real estate transactions leading multi-disciplinary teams of solicitors. He has significant expertise in the development of office blocks, health campuses and primary care resource centres and currently acts for developers, tenants and purchasers in the procurement, acquisition, funding, development and subsequent lease arrangements and sales of such developments. He also leads teams advising large clients such as the Welsh Government, NHS Wales, charities and social landlords on portfolio management.
Clients are investors, developers, banks and occupiers. He also acts for Welsh Government, NHS Wales, local authorities and charities such as Tenovus, Scope and the Royal National Institute of Blind People
Significant experience
- Leading the team advising the Welsh Government on the development, acquisition and all occupational lettings of an 80,000 square foot grade 'A' office building in the city centre of Cardiff. Subsequently advised on the sale of the investment autumn 2016, one of the biggest Real Estate transactions in Wales this year.
- Leading the team advising a client on a Joint Venture to apply for and develop a new train station in south Wales which could be built as part of plans to open a business park employing 15,000 people.
- Leading teams advising private, public and third sector clients manage their property portfolios including:
- advising on the grant and renewal of leases of offices, units and shops;
- dealing with the assignment of leases, sub-lettings, licences to alter and the granting of landlord's consent;
- advising on all aspects of portfolio management, property strategies and general property related advice; and
- the disposal of surplus assets
- Acting for a Health Board and two (2) GP Practices with the procurement of the development, by a private sector developer, of a new multi-occupied, primary care facility in Colwyn Bay which opened to patients in September 2016.
- Advising a Registered Social Landlord in partnership with local authority, the NHS, the local community and a house builder in the regeneration of inner city Cardiff. The scheme includes a community health resource centre, a new shopping parade of 11 new retail units, managed community space, a mix of new family housing comprising 13 houses and 48 apartments for mixed tenure and public open space.
- Leading the team advising the Welsh Government on its multi-million pound acquisition of Site E04, Callaghan Square, Cardiff earmarked for the development of 100,000sq ft of offices
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- Advising Cardiff Community Housing Association in partnership with local authority, the NHS, the local community and a housebuilder in the regeneration of Loudoun Square. The scheme includes a community health resource centre, a new shopping parade of 11 new retail units, managed community space, a mix of new family housing comprising 13 houses and 48 apartments for mixed tenure and public open space.
"Has a broad understanding of property and tenancy matters in the charities sector and public sector."
"James is very experienced and knows the local market well, which helps provide a commercial view to transactions."
"We simply would not be able to do a lot of the things that we do without him."
"James has been involved in the property issues for as long as I can remember, and whilst I am sure his team has ample expertise, he has a lot of experience of different scenarios. The people we deal with, whether GPs or developers, can be quite difficult and it is useful that he has as much experience as I have"
Related Knowledge & Resources
Developers are warned by the Court of Appeal not to take the law into their own hands
Local authorities will be pleased to note that the Court of Appeal accepts that they only have to consider planning issues when presented with a planning application.
Chancellor announces changes to stamp duty land tax for first-time buyers but with no changes for the rest of the market
As had been hinted at over the weekend, in today's Autumn Budget, Phillip Hammond has announced changes to Stamp Duty Land Tax ("SDLT") to assist first time buyers to be known as "Discount Relief".
Sleep-in shifts and the national minimum wage
Whether or not to pay staff in relation to sleep-in shifts is not always straightforward and establishing whether someone is working or not is crucial. Rebecca Ireland and Madeleine Mould explains the law around this complex area.
Real Estate: Proposals for Enfranchisement Reform: Have they raised more questions than answers?
After being invited to attend the Law Commission Symposium on 5 November 2018 to hear the proposals for enfranchisement reform and discuss how they will work in practice, Louise Uphill examines the key points.
The Draft Wales Bill
What is the significance of the provisions in the Bill? This is a draft Bill published by the Secretary of State for Wales, rather than a Bill proper. It is being consulted on, in advance of introducing a Bill proper sometime early in the new year.
A Guide to Civil Penalties for Landlords
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We all know that specific skin-clarifying benefits of treating ourselves with a mud mask for our faces, right?
Yes, curl friend, that's right! photo: iStock | laflor
Many naturalistas wonder if those same benefits can be seen when using a mud mask on their strands. Well, let's find out if this is a good idea for the life of your curls!
Should I put a mud mask in my hair?
The answer to the question really depends on what you mean by mud mask. The first thing to make clear is that you shouldn't use a face mask product on your hair unless it is specified as being for both skin and hair. This can lead to dryness you certainly don't want for your curls. The other matter is to look at ingredients. Many "muds" are a bunch of non-natural ingredients with just a small percentage of those ingredients being actual healthy "muds" and the rest is synthetic filler. To get the most out of a hair mud mask, you need to check the ingredients!
Typically, the first ingredient listed is the main ingredient. If the first ingredient is listed as anything other than the type of mud it claims, find a different product. Of course, you can also easily whip up a mud mask for your hair at home which is a great way to make sure you get the ingredients you seek. If your hair is already on the dry side, you may want to skip this type of hair mask. If you are dealing with buildup and want a supercharged cleaning, a mud mask is a great way to go.
What types of muds are best?
You want to be wary of anything that says mud mask without some other kind of indication of what kind of mud it is. The two most common and useful are bentonite clay and dead sea mud. If you are choosing a store-bought product, look for these two as your signifier of an excellent mud mask for your locks. These two types of "mud" are known to have detoxing properties which make them great for drawing out scalp impurities, dirt, residue, and buildup. Bentonite clay actually works like a magnet to draw out these unwanted elements from your scalp, so you get a fresh, clean feeling with every use. Dead sea mud is rich in minerals and salt to give your hair a boost of hard to find nutrients. It should be noted that while these muds are great for detoxing, they aren't super moisturizing by nature so you will need to mix in a few elements to add some hydration or follow up with your usual deep conditioner or leave in treatment.
DIY Bentonite Clay Mask
When taking a DIY approach to this matter, here is a tutorial on bentonite clay to help guide you. With step by step instructions and ingredients to use, this is the perfect companion to start your relaxing at home spa day!
Dead Sea Mask
This one is a little harder to make on your own, and there are a ton of products with this beneficial mud as the main ingredient. Here are a few to check out:
Pure Originals Natural Organic Cleanser
Neutriherbs Cleansing Blackhead Anti-Aging Detox


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The Hole
A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. The authorities order everyone to evacuate, but some tenants of an apartment building stay put, including a shop owner who lives by himself. One day, a plumber goes to the shop owner's apartment to check the pipes. The plumber drills a small hole in the floor, which comes down through the ceiling of another apartment. The hole never gets repaired, and this leads to some tension between the shop owner and the woman who lives below him.
Actor: Kuei Mei Yang, Kang sheng Lee, Tien Miao, Hui Chin Lin, Hsiang Chu Tong, Lin Kun huei, Jacques Picoux
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Duration: 95 min
Quality: HDRip
Release: 1998
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Q: My BP was in the 170's over 120's and has been reduced with lifestyle changes and lisinopril to low 140's but over 100-110 still for diastolic. What might cause this? Are the dangers specific to a high diastolic or just the ratio being what it is with systolic and diastolic #s being closer to each other? Is there something specific I can do to improve/reduce the diastolic?
A: Your blood pressure is still not in good control. Both your systolic and diastolic pressure is still high. Normal blood pressure is 139/79 or less. Controlling both numbers is important. A high level of either number increases the risk for heart attack and stroke. The exact cause of high blood pressure is still not known. For more information go to this page at the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute site.


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January 9, 2010
A winter activity that has diminished in interest is once again available to young kids at Laurel Ridge State Park. The Pennsylvania Cross Country Skier's Association (PACCSA) has formed a group called the Yellowjackets. The Yellowjackets consist of kids from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland who learn about cross country skiing from three coaches. The program informally began last year, but this year has spiked in interest. Program leader and coach Naomi Jarvis said she wanted to start a program after realizing that younger kids were not cross country skiing.
Day wins cross country championship
October 25, 2012
BEDFORD - Meyersdale senior Collin Day won the boys side of the District 5 cross country championship meet Wednesday. It is the second straight district title for Day. He led his Red Raiders team to a second place finish behind Southern Fulton. "I am really proud of Collin," head coach Bill Cooney said. "I wish everyone had his work ethic. I am proud of them all. We came down here on Monday to practice and they did real well then. We were shooting for the team title, but fell a bit short.
Cross Country: Somerset sweeps cross country meet
September 12, 2007
WESTMONT ? The Somerset Eagles boys and girls cross country teams dominated the Westmont course Wednesday. The girls defeated Westmont 29-39 and Cambria Heights 21-40. The boys edged Westmont 28-29 and defeated Cambria Heights 15-50. Stephanie Hainzer captured first place honors on the girls side in a time of 20:48. Freshman Sophie Kashurba finished a personal best third place in 22:09. ?I?m very pleased with the race,? head coach Tom Minnick said. ?Steph led from the start and our 6, 7 and 8th place girls closed out the win for us.?
Somerset cross country
October 14, 2004
EBENSBURG - Somerset completed its cross country dual meet season by taking on Central Cambria and Bishop McCort on Thursday. The Eagles dropped both the boys and girls meets to Central Cambria, but battled back to take two from 'McCort. Craig Eddy crossed the line in 18:36 to lead Somerset's boys with a third-place finish. The Lady Eagles were led by Ashley Minnick, who earned runner-up honors with a time of 21:35. The Somerset boys finished the season with a record of 10-2 while the girls ended up 6-6. Both squads will compete in the LHAC Championship Meet on Wednesday at UPJ.
Leadbetter advances to state cross country championships
November 1, 2009
REEDSVILLE ? Somerset?s Jill Leadbetter qualified for the girls? state cross country championships with a ninth-place finish at the District 6 meet on Saturday at Indian Valley Middle School. Leadbetter ran the course in 21:18. Sophie Kashurba was the Somerset girls? next-best finisher placing 17th and missing a trip to states by one place. ?It was an extremely bittersweet day for us,? Somerset coach Tom Minnick said. ?Everyone was thrilled to see Jill qualify for states after an excellent season.
Sanner repeats as cross country champ
October 26, 2003
REEDSVILLE - Meyersdale junior Donnie Sanner won his second consecutive District 5 cross country championship during Saturday's District 5-6 Championship Meet at Indian Valley. Sanner will compete this Saturday in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) championship sat Hershey. "It's a nice experience to be able to get out and get another championship. Now the focus is on Hershey. We'll see how that meet goes," Sanner said. "Last year at Hershey, I didn't have the best performance.
Cross Country: Somerset's Eddy wins LHAC championship
October 18, 2007
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP ? Somerset senior cross-country runner Craig Eddy won the LHAC boys race in a time of 16:11 Wednesday and the boys team finished second overall. Central Cambria won both team titles. ?Craig ran a good tactical race,? said head coach Tom Minnick. ?He was content to let the leader go and run his type of race. That enabled him to have the strong finish and claim the victory.? Greg Opp (17:05) finished fourth, while Nathan Seifert, ninth, Hunter Pietrowski, 24th, and Dave Roth, 28th, finished in the top 30 runners.
Meyersdale athletes take talents to college
By CHRISTINA DUNMYER | Daily American Sports Writer
May 15, 2013
MEYERSDALE - Three Meyersdale student-athletes announced Wednesday they are going to continue their athletic careers in college. Collin Day, Steven Haer and Abby Stahl will take their talents to Waynesburg University, Garrett County Community College and Saint Vincent College respectively. Day will compete in cross country for the Yellow Jackets. "It was close to home and it has the program I want - pre-med," he said. "Running keeps me in shape. I thought I would just continue in college with something I'm good at. " Day is a two-time District 5 champion in cross country and three-time state cross country competitor.
Special Olympics at Blue Knob
ROGER VOGEL | Staff photographer
February 11, 2013
The cross-country skiing and snowshoeing events for this year's Special Olympics started Monday at Blue Knob resort in Claysburg. Brian Miller and Andrew Sambol, both of Somerset, recorded good times while skiing in several different events. Sambol said the course was "very, very slippy" because of Monday's warm temperatures, but he was inspired to do well. Sambol said that his inspiration was patriotic. "I do it for my country," he said after the one-kilometer preliminary race.
Day, Bouch at Meyersdale Lions Club
January 15, 2013
Mackenize Bouch and Collin Day have been chosen to represent Meyersdale Area High School at the January meetings of the Meyersdale Lions Club. Collin Day is the son of Lenny and Debbie Day of Meyersdale. His school activities include National Honor Society, science club and Tech Ed Club, cross country, wrestling and track. Day attends the Apostolic Church in Somerset. After graduation, he plans to attend college and major in pre-med dentistry. Mackenzie Bouch, daughter of Stephen and Tawni Bouch, attends Meyersdale Area High School where she is enrolled in the Advanced College Preparatory program.
Somerset native headed to World Special Olympics
AMBER ROSADO | Daily American Staff Writer
December 8, 2012
Somerset native Andrew Sambol will be representing Pennsylvania on Team USA at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea. Sambol will be competing in cross-country skiing. He is leaving Monday for training camp in Lake Placid, NY. Donna Sambol, his mother, said Andrew Sambol has been involved with cross-country skiing for more than 15 years. "I'm excited for him because he's the only one from Somerset County," Donna Sambol said.
Local sports briefs for Nov. 5
November 4, 2012
HS football rankings Final regular-season District 5 Class A high school football rankings: *1. Northern Bedford (9-1, 50 points), *2. Berlin (9-1, 45), *3. Windber (8-2, 40), *4. North Star (8-2, 40), *5. Shade (6-4, 30), *6. Tussey Mountain (5-5, 28), 7. Conemaugh Township (3-7, 15), 8. Rockwood (1-9, 5), 8. Meyersdale (1-9, 5). Final regular-season District 5 Class AA high school football rankings: *1. Chestnut Ridge (5-5, 31 points), *2. Everett (5-5, 27), 3. Bedford (2-8, 11)
Somerset boys and girls cross country teams claim D6 titles
October 28, 2012
REEDSVILLE - The Somerset Area High School cross country teams turned in outstanding efforts on Saturday, winning both the girls and boys team titles at the District 6 Class AA championship meet at Indian Valley Elementary School. "I have been involved in coaching for nearly 30 years and can easily say that I haven't had the opportunity to experience too many days like the day I had (Saturday)," Somerset coach Tom Minnick said. "All 25 of our runners improved their times from a great Laurel Highland Conference race 10 days ago. I told them to run the first half of the race with their heads to position themselves in a good spot and run the second half with their hearts.
Day wins cross country championship
October 25, 2012
BEDFORD - Meyersdale senior Collin Day won the boys side of the District 5 cross country championship meet Wednesday. It is the second straight district title for Day. He led his Red Raiders team to a second place finish behind Southern Fulton. "I am really proud of Collin," head coach Bill Cooney said. "I wish everyone had his work ethic. I am proud of them all. We came down here on Monday to practice and they did real well then. We were shooting for the team title, but fell a bit short.
Somerset boys claim LHAC title
October 10, 2012
SOMERSET - The Somerset boys cross country team won the LHAC title by defeating Bishop McCort 17-44. The victory capped a perfect 16-0 record for the Eagles. Somerset's Ravi Desai led the boys from start to finish in a time of 17:28. Somerset's lone senior Charles Troll finished second and was recognized prior to the race in a senior day recognition ceremony. "I was happy to have coached Charles during the last three seasons and will miss him next year," head coach Tom Minnick said.
Somerset cross country team climbs to 9-0
September 20, 2012
SIDMAN - The Somerset boys cross country team ran its record to 9-0 Wednesday while the girls improved to 7-2. The Eagles scores were Somerset 22, Forest Hills 38; Somerset 26, Westmont 31; and Somerset 15, Bishop Carroll 50. The scores for the Lady Eagles were Somerset 26, Forest Hills 31; Somerset 15, Bishop Carroll 50; and Westmont 21, Somerset 34. Ravi Desai was the top finisher on the boys side, taking second place in...
Snyder at Somerset Rotary
April 16, 2012
Elizabeth Snyder was chosen the April student of the month for the Rotary club. Elizabeth is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Snyder of Somerset and is enrolled in the AP and honors course. Her extracurricular activities include varsity cross country, varsity track, varsity swimming, forensics speech team, reading competition, science Olympiad, Scholastic Quiz team, Future Leaders of America, Student Congress, French club, student council and senior class play. She was secretary of the Future Business Leaders of America, class secretary and swim team captain.
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*Richard Bruce Hall, 30, of 707 Portersville Road, Perry Township, was charged Tuesday with possession of drug paraphernalia and public drunkenness. Ellwood City police said Hall was seen stumbling along North Street around 2:30 a.m. May 8. Police said that as they prepared to take him into custody on a� public drunkenness citation, an officer found a metal smoking pipe in one of Hall's pockets. Laboratory testing revealed that the pipe had marijuana residue on it.
*Dan Wetzel, 51, of 302 Mitchell Drive, Saxonburg, was charged with burglary and criminal trespass after he was found in a home at 317 Franklin Ave., Ellwood City. Police said Wetzel was restricted by a court order from being in the home, which belongs to his ex-wife. Wetzel said the order had been lifted, but his attorney said it was still in effect, according to documents filed in the office of District Judge Jerry Cartwright Jr.
*Ronald Goerl , 50, of 315 Mount Vernon Drive, Ellwood City, was charged with simple assault and harassment, after an altercation at his home around 2:40 p.m. Sunday. Police said Goerl hit his wife, Karin Goerl, in the face.
*Robert K. Getz, 40, of 143 Portersville Road, Ellport, was charged with providing false identification to law enforcement after a traffic stop around 2:30 a.m. Friday. Ellwood City police said an officer pulled Getz over on Portersville Road because he was driving a vehicle registered in his name and records indicated that Getz's license was suspended.
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Pike County lawyer placed on suspension
HULL — A Pike County lawyer is facing a 90-day suspension after agreeing to a consent petition accusing him of withholding from a client the fact that the client's case had been dismissed.
Daniel Depke, a lawyer practicing in Hull, is set to begin his suspension Dec. 4 after the Illinois Supreme Court consent petition was signed earlier this week, according to a release from the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
James Grogan, ARDC deputy administrator, said the suspension is consistent with similar Supreme Court rulings.
"As a general rule, the Supreme Court does allow these petitions but they don't rubber-stamp them," Grogan said. "They're all reviewed to see if the bottom line is appropriate. The justices believed a 90-day suspension is what should be imposed."
According to the petition, Depke agreed to represent Dale Hobbs, who was riding his motorcycle when the motorcycle and a vehicle driven by an Illinois State Trooper collided. Depke filed Hobbs' complaint with the Illinois Court of Claims one day after the statute of limitations had expired, bringing the case to an abrupt end.
Despite that, Depke continued for 16 months to tell his client that the case was pending.
Hobbs has filed a malpractice action against both Depke and Stephen Rapp, the lawyer who referred him to Depke. Rapp made the referral because he does not litigate in the Court of Claims.
Rapp called Depke on multiple occasions regarding Hobbs' case and his calls either were not answered or he was told that the case still was pending, according to the petition. Rapp learned that the case had been dismissed after filing a Freedom of Information Act with the state.
Depke's suspension takes effect Dec. 4 to give him time to finish up any business with current clients. The consent petition said Depke expressed regret for his conduct.
Depke was unavailable for comment Wednesday.
Nick Draper can be reached at 217-245-6121, ext. 1223, or on Twitter @nick_draper.


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None since then, I have increased her egg yolk lecithin to daily and started her on vets'-best a few times a week.
I dunno about weather. It's sunlight, the angle of the sun, that triggers the shedding season to start. At least that's what I read a long time ago and I have always seen it to be so.


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To my mind the stage is being set for an October crash on Wall Street despite the proximity of the US presidential election. The ongoing financial crisis with the likelihood of a series of US bank failures, the collapsing US housing market and the knock on effect on consumer spending will result in a climactic capitulation.
It is remarkable, not to say unbelievable how well the Dow Jones and FTSE indices have kept up over the past year. The rumour in London last week was that George Soros is shorting the FTSE. It might be his best trade since pushing the pound out of the ERM in late 1992. That a serious downturn is coming in the world economy can hardly be doubted. High energy prices have turned a real estate crunch into a global slowdown, and with the banks already in trouble this could get a lot worse. Shipping reports point to a severe economic contraction in 12-18 months time and are usually an accurate leading indicator.
Dr Marc Faber, who was interviewed on Bloomberg TV last week, says he has noted a downturn in economic activity in every country during his worldwide travels over the past two months. China in particular looks vulnerable to an economic collapse after the Olympics and credit ratings have turned sharply negative. But I wonder if Dr Faber has visited Russia or the Gulf States recently. In England this week the economic slowdown, especially in housing is obvious. However, a couple of weeks ago in Russia I was amazed by the prosperity and obvious progress. You get exactly the same buzz when stepping off a plane in Dubai or Abu Dhabi.
In his Bloomberg interview Dr Faber alluded to his view that a global economic downturn will hit commodity prices and bring the boom cities of the Gulf hurtling down to earth. But in the same interview he also managed to propound the argument that makes this most unlikely: namely that the world is suffering a real shortage of oil and that will keep prices stubbornly high in a recession. You really can not have it both ways. If a global recession dashes oil prices below $10 as we saw in 1999 during the Asian Financial Crisis then the Middle East boom will be short indeed. But if oil prices stay in a high range there is little reason for immediate concern.
Surely we ought to remember that not much more than a year ago oil prices of $50 a barrel seemed excessive and ample to sustain the boom in the oil producing countries. Should we be worried if prices that topped $147 a few weeks ago moderate to $120 or even as low as $90 as Lehman Brothers suggested in a note last week? I think it is far too early to talk of gloom and doom scenarios for the Middle East. The boom is funding a programme of $1.3 trillion (Dh4.7trn) in infrastructure investment, and governments are highly unlikely to cut back greatly on this transformation of local economies. Indeed, with every passing day domestic spending looks a wise investment while pouring money into global financial institutions, for example, has so far been a big loser.
Aside from oil money the other major driver in the Gulf States is the loose monetary policy of the Fed and its low interest rates which are turbo-charging local growth rates. There is no sign of the US putting interest rates up. In fact, any reasonable analysis suggests a long period of low interest rates. Again this just has to be brilliant for the Gulf economies in the short-term, if risky over a long period. Moreover, if as I expect the US capital markets to have a meltdown this autumn then interest rates will be cut once more. The Fed funds rate could fall by 50 per cent from two to one per cent, giving a further stimulus to the dollar-pegged economies of the Gulf.
Now there is always a point at which economic booms go too far. The US and UK housing markets, the Internet bubble, history is full of examples. In the 1970s Gulf States enjoyed a seven year boom from the oil price hike of 1973 up to the Iranian revolution and just beyond.
Undoubtedly the present boom in the Middle East will undergo a correction but that does not mean forecasters should be jumping the gun. If you predict anything long enough it will eventually happen. So don't be too alarmed by doom and gloom predictions for the Gulf. Other countries have far more immediate problems with their stock markets still far too highly valued for this stage of the economic cycle, and a worsening of their economies in prospect not a magic recovery.


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You've answered: It can't be solved/it's impossible.
You're probably stuck at something like this:
Y% armor, 110% health.
- 75% armor, - 75% health.
= Y-75% armor, 35% health?
Here's a hint: the armor must have given out at some point, so health took more damage than armor. And your final armor tally is zero.
Now try it again.
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Run along home.
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