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We have 4 kids.
Our house is 1,850 square feet and was built in 1914.
There is only one full bathroom.
Yes, it can get a little crowded at times. And while we have made many improvements to our house (like a new front porch, new paint, a finished attic), we get the itch to move every once in a while. Not only that, we could afford to purchase a much bigger and newer house.
And last week, we were *this* close. We looked at several houses in our city, and fell in love with one. It was perfect – an open floor plan with 4 bedrooms plus a large office right off the master bedroom.
This was it – we were finally gonna move.
But we had a quick change of heart… for 2 reasons. I'll start with the first one.
Just a couple nights ago, we had the realtor come over to our home to give us a sense of what we could list it for. He loved our home and the improvements we had made, and thought we would have no problem selling it at around $125k – $130k. Not bad. He began talking about my neighborhood in a very positive way… and that definitely made me happy. My neighbors and I have tried hard to make our street one of the more desirable streets in the city.
And he referred to the homes on my street as "starter homes". I didn't really hit me right away. Of course I know what he meant… a home in this price range is very commonly referred to as a starter home – it's inexpensive and very easy for a young person or couple to buy as their first home. But later that night, I couldn't stop thinking about that term…
Was the thought of my home being a "starter home" a reason to leave? I'm sitting here in my mid-thirties with 4 kids, I can afford something nicer and bigger, so surely I should upgrade from this starter home, right? After all, I'm not "starting" anymore.
But the more I thought, the more that term bothered me – in 2 different ways:
1. What about all the families who will never be able to afford anything more than a "starter home"?
Imagine a family living in a small apartment for years… and finally they save up enough money to put a down payment on a 100 year old 3 bedroom house for $90,000. It's perfect for them – truly their dream house, and it's the most they can afford. Oh… what a nice "starter home" they bought. Surely they will upgrade from this "starter home" later on – to something nicer and more appropriate.
Or what about families around the world who will never be able to enjoy anything close to what we consider a starter home? The average size home in China is 600 square feet.
What about families born to abject poverty? What's a "starter home" to them? Ok – I did't want this to become a post about how much America has vs. the rest of the world (even though it's true). But it wouldn't hurt to take a moment and think about your current living situation to a mom trying to care for her children in Kenya.
Here's how my starter home allows my family to live:
When you think of it like that, it's kind of amazing. But since it's merely a "starter home"…
2. It assumes that I will upgrade later.
Am I merely starting with this house? And later on I will upgrade a bigger, better, and more expensive home?
Does the term insinuate that the house isn't quite good enough? There are better things to come, right?
Apparently, I'm just getting "started". To be a "proper home", it also needs the following:
If I had that house, will I have "arrived"?
Search results didn't yield much when searching for the etymology of the term "starter home", but I have my suspicions. I'd be willing to bet that it was invented by the real estate industry. Every time a home changes hands, a 6-7% commission is earned on the transaction. The more often people sell their homes and buy another one, that's more commission to be paid*.
Think about it – if you just purchased what you consider to be a starter home, then you've already bought into the idea of upgrading later. The real estate industry can count on you for another $10,000+ a few years down the road.
Here's a thought – have you ever consider NOT moving?
Just think – what if the house you live in will be your last house? That's the way things were done in my grandparents' time.
Lauren and I are really considering making this our last house. We could have it paid off in 9 years, and be done with a mortgage for good.
But who knows… we may still move a few years down the road. But it certainly won't be because our current house was just a "starter home". We will always love this house.
For us, choosing what house to live in needs to start with contentment. If we are happy and content with what we already have, then the choice to move or not to move will be based on the right reasons. But don't we all struggle with contentment in our culture? It's this lack of contentment that has fueled our country's consumer debt crisis and the financial meltdown in 2008.
None of us are immune to discontentment… not even a frugal living writer. Even if we get that "dream house", if we aren't content, we will get the itch to upgrade again. This time, I had my 10 year old son to bring me back to what matters.
This was the real reason that we decided not to move – our son. Our 10 year old son. He REALLY didn't want to leave this house and this neighborhood. He LOVES it here. He has friends here, and he gets to ride his bike around in the summer and go to the park whenever he wants. He's truly content here.
To him, it's "our home", not a "starter home".
So he prayed, and he truly believed that God spoke to him and told him that we shouldn't move. He wasn't sure if he actually heard from God, or if his mind was merely telling him what he wanted to hear. So he asked us to pray too.
We did. It turns out that Andrew heard correctly.
*I have no qualm with real estate agents and have gotten fantastic service from the agents I've used. I also think that the 6-7% commission structure is fair, given the service they provide and the value of the MLS listing.
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Oh my word! I just happened on your blog. I can't tell you what a blessing it was to read this. Thank you for putting into words what I have been thinking and honestly what my husband has told me already.
You said exactly what I have been trying to find words for lately as we almost jumped at an opportunity for a new house. Something told me no even though a lot of factors (temptations) pointed to yes.
I agree with everything you said, however, starter homes can mean so much more than just a smaller more affordable house. Many starter homes are located in neighborhoods that are less desirable to raise children in – not a good walking neighborhood, close proximity to heavy traffic or commercial establishments, not many neighbors with children, smaller yards that offer no space for play, etc. The other big factor is schools. Many starter homes are located in school districts with inferior educational systems. Quite often that's what makes many smaller homes so affordable. It's a great choice for singles and young couples who don't have children or have children who haven't reached school age yet. It's also a great opportunity for young people to transition to "adult" living, rather than renting a house with four other guys or living in the party complex. It helps them adjust to being responsible for more than just paying the rent each month. They need to manage all of the bills (mortgage, taxes, utilities, etc.) and maintenance that come with home ownership. And don't forget space. Not everyone's starter home is 1850 sq. ft.with three bedrooms. Some are 800 sq. ft. with two bedrooms. For a growing family with two or more children that can quickly get tight. For these reasons starter homes can be just that, a great place for families to get their start. I think you are just fortunate that your starter home offers most of what you were looking for in your dream home. Just because it's your first home doesn't necessarily make it a stater home. You may have just skipped that stage and gone straight to a good family home. Perhaps it's more about perspective. 🙂
Thank you! this article was a big help to me and your comment even further enlightened me on this topic.
I couldn't have said it better! Our "starter home" was great when we first got married and then the surrounding areas became so unsafe that one day I called my husband and said it's time to list and move. With two small children I put their safety first. Plus when we sold our home it afforded us the opportunity to buy in a better and more stable neighborhood which I adore. I think it's perspective and opportunity.
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Great article! I'm in this Texas heat! I'm wondering how your house stays at 68 degrees year round? My house was a six year old when I bought it now it's a 12 year old. Thinking about selling and using the equity to purchase a 70s built home fixer upper in cash and be mortgage free. Same nrighborhood. I've been skeptical about the 70s construction being to old. When I hear you say 100 year old house I'm just thinking wow! Things are so different down here.
Beautiful!!!! Kids are the best at snapping you back into reality 🙂
Any commission more than 5% is a rip off. IMO, what realtors do is not worth a % at all, its worth a flat fee, because the work is the same regardless of the purchase price.
Although we moved once, we are now in a forever home, which most people in their early 30s won't agree to. Our 1800 sq. ft. house is big enough for our 4 kids (all boys 14, 9, 6, and 4). We actually just turned our office into a bedroom so all the kids could have their own rooms.
Last week we were talking about the "what ifs" if we won the big lottery jackpot of $700 million or so. Of all the fantastic things we would do with the money, moving was not one of them. Without hitting the lottery we will mist likely be millionaires several times over, and will not move out of our neighborhood (coincidentally enough an area where the average home is worth around $130K)
I'm with you, I absolutely believe that the real estate industry has sold the American people on the idea that we need to move every 6 – 7 years (which is what my parents did). While they were mostly really smart with money, those moves were costly. They weren't in each house long enough to build any equity, and when you add in carrying costs and closing costs on both ends of the transactions, throughout over 2 decades of home ownership they didn't build any wealth through their homes. If more people could learn to be content with their first home, or even their second, the American people could build a lot more wealth.
My starter wife for the last 39 years and I have lived in our starter house for 38 years. I slightly early retired from my starter job after 38 years. While we did cash flow several home improvements over the years, controlling our housing costs and then having a paid for house helped us reach financial independence. I kept working because it was fun, and when that changed I was free to retire.
"My Starter Wife" – this made me laugh out loud. I totally understand what you said and since writing this article we should have our house paid off next year. We will cash flow some home improvements and hopefully add a second bath, but we are still content.
I had the best childhood growing up in our neighbourhood. So glad we didn't move to a "better home" until I was a teenager (I was in the moody teenage years anyway haha!)
Nothing like children to set us straight! I'm right here with you.
Well put! We bought a "higher end starter home" 10 years ago and I fully expected we'd sell within 10 years to go into something bigger.
Because, you know, a 4-bed 3-bath home with 2 living rooms probably wasn't going to be big enough…
I look back on that mentality and laugh at what I thought my priorities were. Financially, we've done well in the last 10 years and could afford a much pricier house but we never followed through.
My original prediction that we'd sell turned out to be right but for a completely different reason. We sold our house last month so we could *downsize*. We are now in the process of planning out a modest 1000-square foot "forever home" for our family of 5.
I'm glad we came around 🙂
Haha! I remember years ago buying a used Chevy Cavalier and my father lamenting that I bought a "bottom of the line car." My sister and I just laughed. My commute was 5 minutes. I didn't need a BMW. Well, over the years I learned that houses are same as cars. Enough is as good as a feast. Thank you for this great post.
Dear LG,
My home is wherever my family is. I would be unhappy without a safe place to live but the size, basic amenities and/or who owns it is not important to me.
After ten years, we are currently selling our 960 square foot home that houses two adults, two kids and until recently, two dogs and a cat (who have their OWN room!). The house has always been the perfect size for us and we've never wanted for anything.
We are looking forward to the next chapter in our journey where we will rent a house (in Canada) and travel for the other 6 months.
I wish you much happiness no matter where you lay your head.
Besos Sarah.
My home is a 2BR, 2.5 bath, 1180sf townhouse. I'm a single 34yo male. But my mother talks about this place like it's wholly unsuitable to raise a family in, nevermind the fact that I don't date or have any inkling that I'll ever have children. But I'll have it paid off in about 7 years and then my living costs drop drastically. Hello freedom! That's worth more to me than an extra bedroom or 2 and the concomitant ridiculous water/sewer bill and A/C costs here in South Florida.
Good for you!Where in South Florida? I stayed in West Palm for a little while this spring.
Fort Myers area (Gulf coast, straight across from West Palm). It's nice and Midwestern here, since everyone funnels down I-75 from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
Love this take! We moved out of our first home earlier this year, and we definitely did not go forward with renovations and improvements because we thought moving to a new house was a possibility.
For what it's worth, I don't think there's necessarily a stigma associated with the term. But I'm going to try to make a conscious decision to use "first home" instead of starter going forward.
My parents bought a 1,300 sq. ft. home in the early 1980s, and still live in it. There was only one full bathroom that we all shared (4 people), but it was never a problem. My bedroom was tiny (7 x 11 ft), but it was my own space. Most people don't move into larger houses because of the number of people, but rather to have a place to put away all their things. Most people could get rid of half their junk and make their starter home a forever home. My husband and I are building a 1,600 sq. ft. house, and plan on making it our forever home. This was a great post!
Just came across this blog. Interesting and I agree. The shows on "the home and garden" network all perpetuate the need to renovate home with high end finishes that all end up looking the same: open concept, white kitchen (and they only complain about the before house which is often nicer than my house!!) with the renovation costs often being twice the cost of the home. A few years ago, a neighbor tore down a house here and built a really beautiful big new house. On average, the houses in this neighborhood are 200k and this one has now been on the market at 500k for 6 months. Just because you spend a fortune renovating doesn't mean anyone wants to pay that extra cost. Anyway, my story is unique. I have lived in the same house for over 30 years but I am only 41 years old. I bought my parents house. I want to move sometimes because there are a lot of things that need to be fixed here, but there would be things that need to be fixed in a new more expensive place eventually. As much as I would like a bigger house than a 1000 square feet, I know this will be a good house for retirement and my teenager will not be living here for much longer. Kids grow up fast and that 3000 square foot home will be too big when they leave.
Love this article. Still in our 'starter home' of 1096 sq ft with one bathroom and the kids are almost out of high school.
I already hated that term before i found this blog. I googled "why is a 3 bedroom house considered a starter home?" how the eff giant does a house have to be in order to be a forever home? Even back when we were a family of four, we lived in a 3bd house, then moved to a 3 bedroom house, my parents 'forever home' at the time. I know there are families with 6 kids+ out there but we don't all need 5 bedroom monstrosities.
Now its just me and my daughter, so i was probably already feeling defensive of the social stigmas of single mother hood when i repeatedly came across this annoying 'start home' term, but it makes it sound like one is destitute and searching for a refrigerator box with plumbing.
I'm actually making decent money, I don't appreciate the term being tied into the house I'm looking for, when the term makes one sound so… young and broke. Hence my search: just how big do i need to go to avoid this obnoxious term?
I was searching for reasons to stay in our starter home. Turns out what you consider a starter home is my dream home, lol! We have 5 kids in 1092sq.ft. 3 bed 1 bath. No judgement, I liked what you said…it just seems people have all different definitions of how big a starter home is.
P.S. Are you still in this home? I know this is an old article.
Hey Natalie, Yes I am still in the same home and we have 2 more children now. So there are 8 of us in the house.
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About Rajinikanth and Kamal : Jeyam Ravi said he felt Rajini-Kamal are equal and Similarly Ajith -Vijay were equal. The consistency of hits Rajinikanth has given was absolutely phenomenal and something which can never be repeated, Talking about Kamal Haasan he said the way Kamal has lived in his characters is breath-taking and no one can associate Kamal Haasan who for he is but can easily associate with his movie character.
About Vijay and Ajith – Jeyam Ravi said Vijay Anna is someone who has his own style and After Superstar he is someone who has created a separate style for himself through his sense of comedic timing, dance fight and so on. He said Ajith sir was all about his braveness and he is the only one in the industry who has the courage to go out and do what he feels his right.
About his Link Ups with Genelia and Shriya Saran – Jeyam Ravi said his wife was more close to genelia and said these rumors were absolutely rubbish. He added that it was Shriya Saran to changed him to being open and casual in shooting spot has he was a bit anti-social in the beginning.
About the talk of him and Brother doing only remakes – Jeyam Ravi said at-least they are giving the Producer the money to officially acquire the rights unlike others who are simply 'freemaking' and just blatantly copying.
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Since the regular Saturday launch was cancelled, Alan invited the hard-core folks to an informal Memorial Day Monday launch. The weather was almost perfect: sunny but not hot, clear skies, moderate winds. The sod was wet but the field was wide open.
We each set up our own pads and just fired as fast as we wanted. The theme from the scheduled launch had been "Going Crazy in Stages" so there were quite a few staged flights this time.
I flew 9 rockets and 11 motors ranging from MicroMaxx to G64.
If I'd flown an E and F, I'd have covered the whole range, like Ted Cochran
We also flew one of the 40th anniversary Estes Alpha rockets that was signed by G. Harry Stein and Vern Estes. I signed the log book.
Photography took up a lot of my time. I tried 1/500 and 1/1000 shutter speeds to try to get lift-off photos. Unfortunately, when I got home and rewound the film, it rewound very quickly so it probably didn't advance correctly. This has been a chronic problem for my camera, so off to the repair shop for it.
Near the end of the day, I helped Glen search for the upper stage of his G64-boosted rocket that was supposed to ignite a D12 electronically, but didn't. After a half-hour search, extending way beyond the project impact area (woods), Glen spotted the lawn dart through binoculars. It was at least a half mile from the pad and burried the nose cone about 7" into the sod (very difficult to extract - took about 15 minutes of wiggling). The body was ok except for a broken fin, but the motor mound had slid forward and crushed the electronics. Only the PIC chip survived - we'll see what stories it has to tell.
Once again I returned with more rockets than I brought. The owner of a very nicely built and painted Estes Big Daddy got fed up with it after two D12-5 flights that lawn-darted in the soft soil in almost the same spot. The mouth of the main body tube is a bit frayed and the bulkhead has broken out of the nosecone, but other than that it looks fine. The shock cord will need to be replaced also. Apparently the D12-5's had weak ejection charges and just couldn't push out the nosecone.
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|Severely underpowered. Plopped down next to pad long before ejection. Alan agreed that these are not flightworthy.
|Completely Cardboard
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|16" chute + 10' streamer
|Estes Astron Avenger
|Estes C6-0, Quest B6-4
|Great flight. Booster shredded 2 fins as usual. Sustainer broke two fins on landing in mud.
|Aerotech Initiator
|Aerotech G64-7W RMS
|Awesome! Longish delay. Small crack in one fin root.
|Estes Beta
|Estes A10-0, Estes A3-4T ('70s vintage)
|nylon streamer
|Excellent. Streamer didn't fully un-furl.
|Centuri Taurus
|Quest C6-5
|14" Estes plastic chute
|Nice flight.
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|14" plastic chute
|Nice flight!
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|Flew higher than normal. Perfect ejection.
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|Excellent. Ignited fine from my 6v pad.
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Lactose Intolerance vs. Milk Allergy?
A food intolerance is different than a food allergy. It can be confusing, but it helps to know what's what in order to healthfully navigate food choices. When it comes to milk, here's the difference:
Lactose Intolerance:
Lactose Intolerance (LI) refers to the body's physical response to the sugar found in milk. While its symptoms can be really uncomfortable, there are no lasting, harmful consequences. Here's the quick 411 on how dairy digestion works:
- Lactose is the simple sugar found in milk, comprised of two sugar molecules – glucose and galactose.
- In the intestine, the enzyme lactase breaks lactose into its component sugar molecules for complete digestion and absorption.
- As people age, the amount of lactase in the body slowly declines, a term called lactase non-persistence.
- Without enough lactase, the undigested sugar moves further along the intestinal tract into the colon, where bacteria break it down. This process is called lactose maldigestion since the milk sugar is not digested in the proper part of the intestine by the enzyme lactase.
- If the byproducts of bacterial digestion cause physical symptoms (individual reactions can be different), such as gastrointestinal distress, the consequence is lactose intolerance. Many people have maldigestion without physical symptoms.
A Milk Allergy:
An allergy to milk is a different beast all together. When someone suffers a cow's milk allergy, the body actually mounts an immune response to one or more of the proteins found in milk – reactions to b-lactoglobulin, casein, a-lactalbumin, and bovine serum albumin are the most common. As is the case with all food allergies, the reasons why the body treats these benign proteins as foreign invaders is unclear. Milk allergy is most common in infants and young children – approximately 2.5% of children experience this in the first three years of life. Most of these children – about 80% – outgrow the allergy and can tolerate milk by age 4.
Symptoms associated with milk allergy vary from individual to individual but can include hives, wheezing or vomiting and in severe cases, anaphylaxis. In some people, symptoms can be similar to those associated with lactose intolerance – loose stool, diarrhea, or abdominal cramping.
For those with a milk protein allergy, the solution is avoidance.
So to recap:
Lactose intolerance refers to the body's inability to digest the sugar found in milk. Those with LI can still enjoy dairy, by opting for lactose-free milk products or by choosing dairy foods that are naturally low in lactose or lactose-free like aged, natural cheeses, and fermented dairy products like yogurt and kefir.
When the immune system gets involved, the body has an allergic reaction to one or more of the proteins found in milk. It is likely that most children with the condition will outgrow it, but while symptoms persist, avoidance is the solution.
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Healthcare market dynamics continue to shift, impacting every corner of the industry. Understanding the intersection of safety, quality and experience are often not intuitive. Improvement efforts in these individual silos often work in parallel at best, but more often they work against each other, leading to confusion, calls for prioritization and workforce disengagement. There is no shortcut for achieving transformational change in healthcare. Meeting the needs of patients and creating a purpose-driven workforce requires senior leaders' commitment to work across hierarchical and functional boundaries toward an aligned culture of excellence.
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Newfoundland is a place where stories have always played a role in governing the human condition. Certain stories are experienced, others passed down by elders — some affect us forever.
Robert Chafe, a gay Governor General's Award–winning playwright, knows this, incorporating powerful stories into his work. When he first heard the tale of Lanier Phillips he knew he had to retell it.
Phillips was the only African-American survivor aboard the USS Truxtun, which ran aground off the coast of Newfoundland near the town of St Lawrence in 1942, along with a ship it was escorting, the USS Pollux.
Phillips was among 46 men rescued. Having grown up in the American South amid segregation, he was surprised when townspeople treated him kindly. One local, Violet Pike, was surprised when she could not scrub Phillips' skin white — she thought his black skin was oil from the shipwreck that wouldn't come off.
Pike nursed Phillips back to health in her home. He was so touched by this treatment he later donated money to the community so that a playground could be built.
Chafe says something in the tale called out to him.
Oil and Water is the result. The story of Phillips' life and an homage to the island, it blends an a cappella score of Newfoundland folk music and African-American gospel.
"The play is this father grappling with this memory at this moment of crisis in his daughter's life," Chafe says. "He's grappling with this trauma from early in his life and sharing it with her to save her the way St Lawrence saved him."
Chafe dedicated the play, which will be released in book form by Playwrights Canada Press later this spring, to his grandmother.
"There was something about Violet Pike and the seclusion and isolation that bred an innocence," Chafe says. "When I heard about the mistake, I thought of my grandmother — she would have been that person."
For Phillips, it was the first time in his life he was treated as an equal by white people — he was offered tea in china cups, dined with the family, and slept in a bed. Those few days in Newfoundland forever changed the way he saw the world. He returned to St Lawrence in February for the 70th anniversary of the disaster. He died soon after, on March 12, just days shy of his 89th birthday.
"I'm very sad. I guess that's an understatement; I've been pretty messed up for a few days," says Chafe, who had met Phillips and spent two and a half years researching his life.
"I fell in love with his story a long time ago; he was this kind of mythic person to me. I remember the first time I called him on the phone . . . I was shaking."
Chafe pauses, tears welling in his eyes.
"There is this almost false connection you establish as a subject," he says. "I realized yesterday that what I am really upset about is he was just really good. He was a really good person. The more I look around at the world, it could use more people like him."
Chafe recently relocated to Toronto from St John's to pursue a fine arts master's degree in creative writing.
His previous works, Butler's Marsh and Tempting Providence, were nominated for Governor General's Awards. He won the award in 2010 for Afterimage, a play based on Michael Crummey's short story of the same name.


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Sermon for January 28, 2018 - Anxiety- When You Begin To Awaken PART 2
Continuing with the analogy of the house we built for ourselves, from the sermon on January 21st, we'll take a different perspective this time. If you remember from the last analogy, we built a house of perfection for ourselves. Then we watched, we lived through, it's slow dismantling. We began with everything we could ever wish for and then we experienced each thing disappear until, at last, we had nothing left.
Now, let's take this same house, and we'll start building again. Take your time, imagine yourself standing wherever, in the world, you most want to be, in an open space. Now we'll walk through some of the sequence of building our own dream world. Feel free to build your house in more detail, almost like a meditation, after we walk through some of the basic thought process here. First, there are no limitations. You can have anything, anyone, any situation. You can create it all to your own perfection. So, let's start with the perfect home. An estate even. It's beachfront perfection. Wait, we also want a mountain retreat. Done. Each is the epitome of luxury, peacefulness, beauty.
What about cars? Each house has a fleet of cars. Your imagination is the only limitation to what you can experience. Garages full of cars, like museums, on as many estates, in as many countries as you desire. Friends, romance, family, health, they are all yours in as much abundance as you like. There is no time limit either. You can choose your age, remain young, whatever you like.
Again, feel free to stop and spend some time building this vision. Populate it with things you've always dreamed of having, in the exact situation you'd like to have them. Not only do you have the things, you have the security to never worry about money or losing your situation.
Now we'll speed things up a bit and begin to really experience being in this reality rather than thinking of it.
I like to call this next stage the "now what's". Hopefully, by now, you've really spent some time thinking about actually having this life. You literally have EVERYTHING you want, could ever want, or have ever wanted. So, you have estates in every part of the world, now what? You have every car you've ever wanted. Now what? You have perfect friends, the wife or husband you've always dreamed of, and a family that is totally fulfilling. Now what? You have unlimited sources of income. Now what? Your health is perfect, you are the perfect age, and it never has to end. Now what? Don't just skim over this. Think about it. You're TOTALLY fulfilled in every way. Now what?
Are you beginning to see? At first this might feel discouraging. You might be thinking, "Maybe all the things I always desire so badly really wouldn't be that great." Sure, they'd be nice, but, once experienced, for a day, a week, a hundred years, a thousand years, they would just become things you'd once desired, that you now have, but that were yet another thing in the past.
The catch is that you literally have everything you want- and always will. Even if you think of something new, you can immediately have that, with no effort. Can you see how this can begin to de-value everything you formerly desired so much? Can you see that you are beginning to realize that it was the game of desiring the things, and not the actual things themselves, that you really enjoyed? This points to an even deeper meaning- IT ISN'T, AND HAS NEVER BEEN, ABOUT THE DESIRING OF A CERTAIN SITUATION OR THING. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT A BROKEN EXISTENCE. You were always aware of this on one level or another, like a sixth sense something just wan't right.
If someone had told you this was the case when you lacked all these things, you would probably protest vehemently. You would say, "No, not me. If I had all these things, I would be totally satisfied and peaceful". Maybe, at first, but it wouldn't last. In fact, you have already been told about this, in Genesis. the Bible clearly shows that it is man's realization of self, his self-consciousness, that created this fallen existence that can never satisfy. And how many people protest this truth- not the literal truth of the Genesis story that people always like to get stuck on, but the existential truth?
This realization shakes almost everyone who let's themselves really be in this kind of simulation. Then, something else should begin to take hold though.
When you calm down from the realization that all your desires can't fulfill you as you once thought, there is something else that takes hold. Wonder. You begin to have a true, child-like, sense of wonder about what could possibly fulfill you if now, you know, with absolute surety, that nothing in the world can really satisfy whatever it is that is lacking.
Now you aren't just reading bible verses about how the 'power of God is perfected in your weakness', you're experiencing it. You aren't just reading Genesis as a critic or historian, but as a doctor trying to diagnose your condition. When you realize that the world has no lasting ability to satisfy us, even if it wasn't impermanent and we would never die, and that this realization shows us that we are helpless to do anything to actually free ourselves from this situation, you are opening the door to freedom through God's Grace. Realizing we can't do anything, and that the world has no answers, we will eventually turn to God, in faith. It is the faith that comes from such a profound experience of our own weakness that let's us receive God's saving Grace.
What is this Grace you might wonder? I will caution that words can only point to it and you must experience it to truly know it. It is the freedom that is Christ's promise to us. It is the freedom that arises after we see all the things we thought we wanted, don't satisfy, and we discard our dependence on the things of the world knowing that they can never fulfill us in any real way. We feel a kind of emptiness in having lost all our idols. Yet, our seeking for something that actually can save us leads us to faith in Christ, and we experience freedom through Him in realizing we never need to seek anything ever again.
When that Grace, which has always be available, dawns on us, we are freed from our slavery to the desires of the world. Our sin, which is really just our separation from Christ, is washed away. While we may still be in the world, as Jesus commands, we are no longer of the world, no longer dependent on the world for our well being. Now we don't live obeying commandments, it is our natural way of being. God's Grace has washed the worries and desires of the world from you.
Now you can experience your marriage, your job, your family, whatever it may be, without worry and anxiety but with joy and freedom. Awakening doesn't de-value the world, it allows you to experience it through Christ in the way it was truly intended.
Use this house analogy as a kind of prayer. Walk yourself through the experience of having everything, for as long as you like, until you realize the game of it all. Let the understanding of how powerless the world is to fulfill you, lead you to Christ. Let your faith in Christ, in his ability to provide the Grace that will show you what will ultimately fulfill you, fill the void that was previously occupied by your desires. Christ's promise is that when you go to him in faith, his saving Grace will be yours. That is true freedom.
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Running is often touted as an individual sport, and while it's true that on race day it feels like each runner is an individual competitor, challenging her own physical and mental limits, I've learned in the last nine years that running with other people not only makes me a better runner, but it makes running a more fulfilling, healthy, well-rounded part of my life.
I highly recommend training with other people. I know that it is sometimes difficult to find others who share your pace and your schedule, but it is worth the effort of searching! If you don't already have a running community like Ginkgo's beloved Columbus Moms RUN This Town, I recommend checking out local running clubs (they often have group runs & workouts you can participate in), asking about group runs at your local running specialty store, and making connections with people who finish around you at local races! Cinnamon and Lemongrass also have written more about finding and running with an organized group!
If you're still on the fence, here are just ten of the many convincing reasons I can't live without my running buddies!
1) They help me set goals: At least half of the races I have participated in, I have signed up for because one of my running friends said something along the lines of, "I'm training for this race. You should do it too." And why not? You're running together anyway, you might as well train for a race together. And then, even if the race doesn't go as planned, you can always go out to brunch afterwards!
2) They are willing to do crazy things: Did you suddenly decide that next weekend you want to run all of the 30.25 mile trail you have been training on for the past few months, though your longest run up to this point has been 12.5 miles? Well, if your running buddies are like mine someone will step up to the plate and say, "sure, I'll pace the first 22 miles for you." (And for the record, no, I don't necessarily recommend this. . .)
3) They encourage me when it gets hard: Some days running is easy, and other days even my "slow" pace feels hard. When you run with other people, there seems to always be someone who feels motivated and keeps up the pace and an exuberant flow of conversation while you stagger along beside them. When you get down, they are there to encourage you. And don't forget workouts. Running friends keep you accountable to your goals and make tempo runs and track work far more enjoyable.
4) They listen to me talk about running and they actually find it interesting. While my non-running friends
tend to look a bit glazed over when I start talking about my new training strategy, or the awesome trail I found, or that article I just read on Let's Run, my running friends want to hear more!
5) They pace me through PR attempts, workouts, and races: My running friends are all over the board as far as paces are concerned, and I love it that way. Sometimes my tempo days are easy runs for my faster friends, and other days I'm the one supporting a friend in a workout. Having friends who are faster than me, is great for learning more about running, and also for other things. . .like trying for a 5k PR on the track. It's humbling to have your friend making casual conversation while you feel like you're going to collapse, but tucking in behind someone who believes in you and is taking care of the pace calculations in a workout or race is incredible.
6) They help me decide what to wear: I usually bring a bag containing all of the clothes. And then we get out our phones and debate whether it's a shorts or a tights day, whether the sunglasses are necessary or not, if a singlet is appropriate or maybe a parka. . .
7) Themed runs: Yes, that is correct, we do sometimes have themes. . . there is an annual ice cream run in the summer and a hot chocolate run in the winter. We've run to the zoo, run while caroling, done a cookie exchange followed by a run, worn matching socks for workouts, and then of course there is WoW (workout wednesday), Long Run Friday and the weekly Monday Loop (so we don't have to think too hard on a Monday). Fun.
8) They keep me honest and humble: My running friends are incredible. They are amazing people and amazing athletes, and running with them every day, hearing about their past triumphs and their dreams for the future is always inspiring and humbling.
9) They introduce me to new things: Whether it's a new route, a new workout, a new stretch, or a new race (hello cross country), I am always learning things from my running buddies.
10) They are great friends, running or not. The friends I've made running are some of my best friends. Sure we talk about running during our runs, but we also talk about life and work and family and everything else. We support each other through the frustration of injury, and celebrate victories (whether in running or in life).
While running alone certainly has its place, and sometimes we need the calm and focus that solitary running can provide, running buddies make running better. And I would not love running as much if I didn't have them in my life!
What are your favorite things about running with friends?


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Creativity is not just painting or writing; it is stepping outside the way we normally think and looking at a situation from different angles. Author Melissa Harris reminds us that the many small acts we perform on a daily basis can be used to view our lives in a new way.
99 Keys to a Creative Life is divided into three sections for easy reference:
33 awareness keys (mental, emotional or physical): Awareness practices deepen our ability to know what accelerates our creativity. In this section we become highly aware of subtle things that can either stifle or propel us. 33 intuitive or heart-based keys: these help to keep us on the creative path. We "tune in" and make our channel to creativity stronger. 33 spiritual or soul-based keys: ways to apply spirituality or soul-based practices to our creative process. These keys also give the reader ideas on applying spiritual principles to enhance or improve our individual connection to Spirit.
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Seniors ring in the new year at a decent hour
December 31, 2004
Billy Hettinger, 71, swears he was only at Windsor's afternoon New Year's Eve party because his wife, who had ditched him for the dance floor, had bought the tickets. But it was easy to tell, as he tinkered with the miniature champagne bottles filled with bubbles and chatted with old Windsor friends, that he was enjoying himself.
Hettinger and his wife, Lois, both of Fort Collins, were two of nearly 100 seniors dressed in suits and evening gowns, who blew noisemakers and held champagne glasses high to toast "New Year's at Noon" at the "New Year's Eve in Time Square" party thrown by the Windsor Community Center on Friday. Although the party was during the afternoon, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., it was nighttime in the Evergreen room lit only by twinkling Christmas lights.
The New York skyline — spray-painted boxes made to look like skyscrapers — were predominant at the front of the room. And the "Happy New Year" top hats and flapper-style feather headbands were only on tabletops long enough for seniors to grab one before heading to the dance floor.
The three women who organized the party — dressed in black gowns and beauty pageant sashes, recreation leaders Michelle Booren, Amber MacDonald and Emily Salzman — said the party took more than three months to plan, and it was the biggest senior event since the Halloween party in October.
"We thought we needed to celebrate in some way. A lot of seniors don't like to drive in the evening," she said. "We just wanted to give them a nice evening to dress out."
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The dancing was only interrupted to give away door prizes, donated by more than 20 Windsor, Greeley and Fort Collins companies. The rest of the time was spent socializing and eating.
Lois Hettinger, 70, only tore herself from the dance floor long enough to plop a top hat on her husband before heading out again. Although the Hettingers moved from Windsor to Fort Collins six years ago, Lois has stayed active at the senior lunches at the center. But the New Year's Eve bash was far beyond what she had anticipated.
"They went beyond what I expected for $4," she said. "This one right here is my favorite New Year's memory."


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Occasionally a Radio Riel presenter will open their entire music library to random for the day. In order to get in the mood for Earth Day, today's From the Library program recycles several recent playlists, randomly mixed together.
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The dataset contains information on the hospital cost for different Healthcare Resource Groups (HRG) codes on provider hospitals areas. HRGs are clinically meaningful groupings of patient activity, based on procedures and diagnoses, which consume similar resources. Reference Costs provide indicators of the unit costs of providing a range of hospital and community services at trust and hospital level, based on information derived from electronic hospital activity systems and HSC trust financial and information returns. The information is used to contribute to performance monitoring of the Health and Social Care (HSC) system, policy formulation and evaluation, and responding to Assembly Questions and other information requests. The quality of such unit costs is dependent on how completely, precisely and consistently underlying activity data is capable of being defined and recorded and how precisely costs are capable of being apportioned to activity.
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Anthropology is the study of human beings along with their origin, development and behaviour. The person who is engaged in the practice of anthropology is called an anthropologist. There are three main types of anthropologists which are cultural, physical, and linguistic.
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Sarat Chandra Roy is popularly known as the father of Indian ethnography. S.C. Roy is the first Indian ethnographer and also regarded as the first Indian anthropologist. He said that Anthropology in India would play a crucial role in understanding the meaning and goals of human existence, the trend and aim of human culture and civilisation.
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This paper presents, for the first time, a combined blur deconvolution and edge-directed interpolator based on adaptive gradient angle interpolation locally defined, straight line approximations of image isophotes for super resolution. The proposed blur estimation process is supported by an edge-emphasizing smoothing operation, which improves the quality of blur estimates by enhancing strong soft edges toward step edges, while filtering out weak structures. For better performance, the blur estimation is done in the filter domain rather than the pixel domain using the gradients of the Low Resolution and High Resolution images. The proposed method can accommodate arbitrary scaling factors, provides state-of-the-art results in terms of PSNR as well as other quantitative visual quality metrics, and has the advantage of reduced computational complexity that is directly proportional to the number of pixels..
|LR (Low resolution), HR (High resolution), MIDB (Multi-image Deblurring), SIDB (Single-image Deblurring), SR (super resolution)
|Capturing high-quality images and videos is critical in many applications such as medical imaging, astronomy, surveillance, and remote sensing. Traditional high-resolution (HR) imaging systems require high-cost and bulky optical elements whose physical sizes dictate the light-gathering capability and the resolving power of the imaging system, a constraint that has persisted since their invention [1][2] .In contrast; computational imaging systems combine the power of digital processing with data gathered from optical elements to generate HR images. Artefacts such as aliasing, blurring, and noise may affect the spatial resolution of an imaging system, which is defined as the finest detail that can be visually resolved in the captured images. Blur deconvolution (BD) and super-resolution (SR) are two groups of techniques to increase the apparent resolution of the imaging system. One major difference between these two groups is that the goal in a BD problem is just to undo blurring and noise, whereas SR also removes or reduces the effect of aliasing. As a result, the input and output images in BD are of the same size, while in SR the output image is larger than the input image(s). The other difference is that since severe blurs eliminate or attenuate aliasing in the underlying low-resolution (LR) images, the blur in a SR problem may not be as extensive as in a BD problem. In image resolution limits the extent to which zooming enhances clarity, restricts the quality of digital photograph enlargements, and, in the context of medical images, can prevent a correct diagnosis. this paper is literature is composed as blur deconvolution from the paper[21] and the interpolation approach non-linear algorithms frequently result in better visual and quantitative performance than fixed-kernel approaches [22].Single image interpolation (zooming, upsampling, or resizing) can artificially increase image resolution for viewing or printing, but is generally limited in terms of enhancing image clarity or revealing higher frequency content. Interpolators based on approximations of the ideal sinc kernel (pixel replication, bilinear, bicubic, and higher-order splines) are commonly used for their flexibility and speed; however, these approaches frequently contribute to blurring, ringing artefacts, jagged edges, and unnatural representation of isophotes (curves of constant intensity) in processed images. Results can be improved somewhat by tailoring the sinc-approximating kernel to suit the image being interpolated and non-linear algorithms frequently result in better visual and quantitative performance than fixed-kernel approaches. These papers can be classified into two main categories: methods that consider blur identification and image restoration as two disjointed processes [11], [13], [14], [15], and methods that combine these two processes into a combined procedure, e.g. interpolation(SAGA) [16], [18]–[20]. For both BD and SR, techniques are proposed in the literature for reconstruction from a single image or multiple Images. Methods reconstructs one HR image by fusing from multiple edge-directed interpolator. By contrast, superresolution (SR) methods, which are also known as learning-based, patch-based or example-based SR techniques, are proposed in which small spatial patches within the input LR image are replaced by similar higher resolution patches previously extracted from a number of HR images.
|A. Blind Estimation
|Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp version of an input blurry image when the blur kernel is unknown. Mathematically, we wish to decompose a blurred image y as
|where x is a visually plausible sharp image, and k is a non negative blur kernel, whose support is small compared to the image size. This problem is severely ill-posed and there is an infinite set of pairs (x, k) explaining any observed y. For example, One undesirable solution that perfectly satisfies is the no-blur explanation: k is the delta (identity) kernel and x = y. The ill-posed nature of the problem implies that additional assumptions on x or k must be introduced. Blind deconvolution is the subject of numerous papers in the signal and image processing. Despite the exhaustive research, results on real world images are rarely produced. Recent algorithms have proposed to address the ill-posedness of blind deconvolution by characterizing x using natural image statistics. While this principle has lead to tremendous progress, the results are still far from perfect.
|The linear forward imaging model in the spatial domain which illustrates the process of generating the kth LR image gk(x↓, y↓; c) of size Ng x × Ng y ×C from a HR image f (x, y; c) of size N f x × N f y × C is defined
|Here, (x↓, y↓) and (x, y) are the position of pixels within the LR and HR image planes, respectively, Nx and Ny are the number of pixels in x and y spatial directions, respectively, N is the total number of LR images, C is the number of colour channels, and * is 2D convolution operator. In w(·) is the warping function according to a global/local parametric/ nonparametric motion model, hk is the kth PSF caused by the overall blur of the system originated from different sources (such as optical lens, sensor, motion, depth of scene, etc.), and nk is the noise which is commonly modelled as AWGN. Also [·]↓L is the downsampling operator called SR downsampling factor or SR scale ratio (depending on the point of view) so that N f x = LNg x and N f y = LNg y . According to, the original HR image is warped, convolved with the overall system PSF, down sampled by the value of L, and finally corrupted by noise to generate each LR image.
|Blind deconvolution algorithms exhibit some common building principles, and vary in others. proposed a unified method for blind BD and SR in which the well-known TV regularization is used as the image prior and the following regularization for the blurs:
|Where zj is the LR image gi up sampled to the size of HR image f, i.e. zi = DT gi . A TV regularization term is also added to Rh with a very small coefficient, the role of which is just to diminish noise in the estimated PSFs. The form of regularization (but without pre-up sampling of LR images) is first proposed in for the blind MIBD problem. By rearranging Rh, it can be written as Rh = ||Nh|| where h =[hT 1 , . . . , hT n ]T and N is a matrix solely based on the LR images which will contain the correct PSFs in its null space, i.e. Nh = 0 only if h contains the correct PSFs. While this prior is able to properly estimate the HR image even when the LR images have different blurs, the estimated PSFs are with some inevitable ambiguity Even if the PSFs are the same; this ambiguity will still exist in the estimated PSFs. By contrast, in our proposed method which is introduced in Section III, there is no such ambiguity in estimating the blurs since our method is intrinsically designed for the case that all PSFs are equal. Another work on blind SR using the MAP framework is suggested in which the cost function for estimating the HR image includes a TV prior. The blur identification process consists of three optimization steps: first, initial estimates of the blurs h0 are obtained using the GMRF prior's ||Eh||2, where E is the convolution kernel of Laplacian mask. Second, parametric blur functions b that best fit the initial blur estimates are calculated. Third, final estimates of the blurs h are obtained by reinforcement learning toward the parametric estimates using the quadratic prior ||h-b||2. The most important limitation of this work is that considering just a few parametric models does not cope with the diversity of blur functions in reality. Also in this work, the estimated blurs are not demonstrated and the reported PSNR values for the estimated HR images are low (less than 18 dB).
|B. Fixed Kernel, Preliminary Interpolation
|It is shown for the first time in that, in a blind image deconvolution problem, more accurate estimation for the blur (and subsequently for the image) can be obtained if in the blur estimation process, the estimated image f is preprocessed by an edge-emphasizing smoothing operation. This has a positive effect on the quality of the blur estimate from the following aspects:
|1) Blur(s) can be estimated best from salient edges and their adjacent pixels, so by smoothing f weak edges and also false edges caused by ringing are smoothed out and do not contribute to the blur estimation;
|2) Noise has a stronger adverse effect in non-edge regions than in edge regions, so smoothing the non-edge regions helps in improving the blur estimation;
|3) Ground-truth images are assumed to have sharp and binary-like edges; therefore, replacing soft edges with step edges in f provides a closer estimate of the ground-truth image and assists in getting better blur estimation, especially in the initial steps of the blind optimization where the estimated image f is still quite blurry.
|To smooth out non-edge regions and improve the sharpness of edges, in the shock filtering operation of is used by which a ramp edge gradually approaches a step edge through a few iterations. Since the performance of the shock filtering and some other edge-emphasizing smoothing techniques are influenced by noise, in some works the image is pre-smoothed.
|C.Segment Adaptive Gradient Angle Interpolation
|The first step of SAGA interpolation is to identify the vector of parameters (α or β) that best maps a line of N pixels to intensity-matched pixels in adjacent lines (i.e., the α or β values that best satisfy. As established in the previous section, the displacements for a given pixel are influenced by the pixels in a surrounding neighbourhood. Specifically, we introduce a stiffness parameter k such that elements in α or β are linearly related over segments of k +1pixels. The α and β values are explicitly computed at the end points of each segment or "nodes" and interpolated for intermediate locations.
|Where pixel locations [m, n] and [m + k, n] are considered nodes and the inter-nodal pixel displacements are interpolated for 0 < i < k. In Eq. (14), θ1 and θ2 are the linear basis functions: θ1(i ) = k−I k and θ2(i ) = ik , for 0 < i < k. Determinations of α for other rows are independent repetitions of the same process that can be run in parallel. The algorithm for determining β for a column comprises a straightforward change of variables or, alternatively, the image matrix can be transposed and the procedure can be repeated as described.
|The Right row of images shows the enlargement results for a two-times down-sampled version of the Lena image the enlargement results for a region of the original Barbara test image The SAGA result shows a lesser degree of jaggedness and some thinning. The SME result shows neither issue in the knee area; however, along the bottom side of the pant leg, there is significant cross-hatching observable. Moderate artificial texture is also present in the arm region of all of the output images.
|The proposed blur estimation procedure pre-processes the estimated HR image by applying an edge emphasizing smoothing operation which enhances the soft edges toward step edges while smoothing out weak structures of the image. Segment Adaptive Gradient Angle (SAGA) interpolation. The algorithm operates at a low computational cost. In addition to having low raw computational complexity, the SAGA algorithm is easily configured for parallelization as data can be independently processed one line at a time. Beyond addressing the classic problem of resizing greyscale images by factors of two with accuracy and speed, the algorithm is also well suited for dynamic zooming applications. Displacements need only be calculated for an image once, and can then be applied to interpolate the image to any new size. Given the ever increasing range of image viewing devices and consumer expectations for interactivity, this feature is viewed as an important benefit of SAGA interpolation.
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