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Cheme's family fled Tibet when the Communist Chinese took over, gaining refugee status in India. Her tertiary studies in London and Northern India included Osteopathy, English, and Psychology before she earned her Bachelor's in Education.
Our People
Cheme Palden
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Yashpal Kapoor
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President and Founder of Io Global Services, Yashpal is an alumnus of a Pestalozzi program in the United Kingdom and graduated from the Imperial College in London.
Clarence Mwami
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Clarence joined PestalozziWorld Zambia in 2015. He is a qualified accountant who previously worked at the SOS Children's Village in Lusaka.
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Cecelia is a fellow of the MIT CoLab/Global Alliance for Banking on Values Leadership Academy. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from Evelyn Hone College and a MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University.
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Sandeep, who earned his Bachelor of Science from Tribhuvan University, is now a senior program manager for YouMe Nepal. His service to others is inspired by the scholarship he received and lessons he learned from PestalozziWorld.
Phuntsok Tashi
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Phuntsok fled to India from Tibet in 1960. He completed his primary and secondary education in the UK, where he also received a degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham. For a decade, he was Project Director at the Pestalozzi Indian Village.
Elizabeth Beim
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Elizabeth served as the Development and Public Affairs Officer for Museum of the American Indian-Heye Foundation and was Senior Director on Cultural Affairs at the Americas Society. She earned her degree at Hollins College before her graduate studies at the London School of Economics.
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Jemini joined PestalozziWorld in 2011, as a volunteer at the Zambian Village. She is a Chartered Certified accountant who previously worked for in the financial services industry for Deutsche Bank, Phoenix Life, Canada Life and Legal & General Group Plc.
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Jo, who joined PestalozziWorld in 1996, has taught in India, Nepal and Turkey. Jo is also an Academic Associate with the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, where she earned her PhD.
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Administrator, PestalozziWorld UK
Before joining PestalozziWorld in 2012, Tanya coordinated educational programmes for the youth charity Peace Child International and directed events for the Sustainable Futures Academy in Austria.
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Every city hides a few sins.
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February 13, 2012
Mayo Clinic: Worth Celebrating: Your Heart!
When I think of February, I think of red—lots of it. Not because of all the cheesy (but fun) Valentine's Day stuff, but because it's American Heart Month. February doesn't really start until that first Friday when we celebrate National Wear Red Day… Yesterday, I went to a briefing hosted by the Mayo Clinic, The […]
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Spring came early this year, like the end of Feb!
One thing I've noticed is that the bleeding heart didn't get as big as it did last year. I am guessing that it rushed to bloom because of how quickly the temperatures rose.
Here is a photo of it today:
already blooming :-(
And here is last year (in the front):
This photo is from before it bloomed!
Here is the window bed with three of the four plants looking good:
I just love this Heartleaf Brunnera "macrophylla" (Jack Frost).
Can you believe the blue flowers?
A Heliopsis h. Ballerina starting to come through the ground.
The front bed with things coming up, covered in petals.
The hostas on the side are coming up:
I desperately want lily-of-the-valley! I planted 25 pips to the left and right of the hostas. I planted them right after they arrived. I am so worried that the hot spring will be too much for them and they won't come up. I am afraid to look in case they never appear. If that happens, I'll try again next year.
Because of the early spring, I rushed to get seeds in the ground.
I planted sweat peas and morning glory at the base of the triangle trellis. They are coming up after one week. Yikes!
There are nasturtiums all over the place. I don't even remember everywhere I pushed them in so I'll have to take pictures of those when they bloom.
I put giant sunflower seeds in peat pots so that I can baby them and then plant the whole pot into the ground when they are hardy. I have been worried that I did the planting wrong in that the seedling mix was very dry when I put it into the pots. Even though I soaked them before adding the seeds, the soil bubble up after planting and re-watering.
Last night it POURED with rain, and I was very worried that the seeds would have been upset and brought to the top of the soil. I got up at 6am and brought all the pots inside. In the light, I say this:
I have big plans for this big sunflowers.
I also put impatiens seeds in two of the peat pots... at least I thought I did. They are SO tiny! like dust. I don't have much hope there and will buy impatiens later to plant after the bleeding heart is done.


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(Author: Leoni Allan)
I'm going to play make believe and pretend that this post has something to do with the Reverb 10 prompt for today. Really, I'm just writing.
Slowly, so slowly that it's like dragging a bare, flogged ass through salt, I am trusting in my work, making the time and finding the courage, to send poems out into the world, to share fiction excerpts with friends for feedback. Last summer (I've already written about this), I submitted a couple of sample poems to Scott Woods, who was the poetry juror for the German Arts League's annual The Language of Art exhibition in Columbus, Ohio:
This year the Language of Art's poetry portion of the exhibit will feature work based on the visual art that is juried and selected for exhibition...ekphrastic poetry! Poets who are chosen to participate will be randomly matched with a piece of art from the show. Poets may write in any style as long as it is not offensive and as long as the poem is no longer than one page in length. The poems will be placed next to each of the assigned artwork for the duration of the option of the exhibit. Poets have the option to read their piece during the opening reception but it is not mandatory.
I sent my poems out well before the June 30 deadline and promptly forgot about the whole thing since my daughter's active and creative summer life made it hard to remember I even had a self.
The week leading up to the Sunday, Aug. 1, opening day of high school marching band camp, my daughter, her dad and I were consumed with preparations. The right shorts, shoes, snacks, sunscreen, hats, bandanas, socks, anything to help her get through the week without falling over from exhaustion and heat stroke, her music, drum sticks, section T-shirt, all needed gathering or purchasing.
I had also agreed to bake 3,000 cookies (OK, that's an exaggeration - I baked something like 12 dozen), drive up one day to help on the field or at the front desk in the dorms, another day to gather donated food and drive it up in time for the traditional Thursday night band camp dance, had agreed go up the day of the dance to help decorate, etc., etc.
In other words, the week of band camp, I belonged to the high school marching band boosters (I was grateful no one tricked me into organizing band camp).
At about 11 p.m. the night before the Girl's dad and I drove her and her friend A to Kenyon College, I received an email from Scott Woods.
I was "in" for The Language of Arts juried show. Congratulations, he wrote. My random artwork, no name included, was attached (but I'm a creeper and found him, anyway). Scott included the rules. No asking for another image, must be family appropriate, no more than a page, if we don't like it, we get to reject it, turn it in by Aug. 15.
Aug. 15. Two weeks to write a poem that would hang next to a beautiful piece of art. Shit, I thought. I really only had one week since I was committed to donating from Aug. 1 to Aug. 7 or 8 to the band.
I started laughing hysterically as I gazed at the email, looked at the beautiful photograph that was my random trigger for the ekphrastic poem I was now assigned to write, danced into the living room and told my kid.
"Go you!" she said. She really does love that I'm a poet, loves having an eccentric mother.
"But...oh dear! I have no time!" I squealed. "When am I going to write this thing? I'm busy every day this next week even though you'll be gone."
"You'll get it done," she said, wiser than wise. "You always do."
I wrote the poem the week after band camp, shared my original draft with the Girl's father (who made the suggestion that saved me). It was not my best piece, but it also wasn't my worst. Scott accepted the poem (if I had written a piece of crap, it would not have been in the show), called it awesome, gave me information about the opening reception and the reading.
I took my lovely friend Laura with me. I had my poem memorized because I am a shy girl, but if I let the words take over, I do all right performing my work.
When we got there and began viewing the art and the other poems that went with the paintings, photographs, sketches, I got chills.
"Oh my God, Laura. I'm in such good company! Compared to these people I suck!"
This is, of course, part of my process. I don't really get it, either, but I just have to accept myself as I am.
The talent in that little gallery was astounding, the written and the visual. My photographer (Tim Morbitzer) was not there, unfortunately. He was out of town. I wrote him to thank him for inspiring me, for letting me stretch my wings.
I'm not sure what's appropriate as far as linking and copyright, etc., etc. I'll risk posting both picture and poem since my written work is connected with the visual piece. You can find Tim's work here, but I have "stolen" the photograph on which I based my poem from my own hard drive:
sorry. had to delete poem.
(oh, man. this feels like self-promotion. I HATE self-promotion! My apologies. I'll be back to randomness tomorrow.)


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I've had many editors critique, correct, and reshape my academic writing over the last couple of decades, and I've been the editor of one collection of essays. But I recently turned in my third book to a publisher and found out about a week ago that I will apparently have no editor to guide me to the final version. The publisher's representative I've been talking to simply said that everything looked fine and that I should send him a pdf. So I guess I'm author, editor, and layout artist on this one.
The book presents my verse translation of a rhymed, metrical treatise on music theory by Guido of Arezzo, an eleventh-century monk who changed the course of music education for at least a thousand years with his inventions of staff notation and sight-singing syllables (like Sister Maria's DO, RE, MI). Guido invented these tools to help boys in monasteries and cathedral schools learn more quickly and easily the thousands of melodies that Benedictine monks sang in their offices. But the older monks didn't like his newfangled methods making things easier for the youth, and they expelled him. After Pope John XIX heard about the controversy and invited the ostracized monk to demonstrate his innovations, Guido taught John to sight-sing in three days. (At least, Guido claims to have taught John to sight-sing in three days.) Reinstated, Guido continued to teach, and his methods continue to help us teach even today.
Everything about the treatise – the Regulae ritmice, or Poetic Rules – seems designed to appeal to the adolescent male student of the Middle Ages. The lilting accents and rhymes themselves, of course, make school a little less like drudgery, just as they do with the alphabet song or Schoolhouse Rock. Guido encourages his readers to work hard and to pay attention, and even makes an occasional case for the value of other studies the boys are engaged in. At one point he argues that if a loud voice is what makes a musician, then we have to recognize the braying ass a better singer than the nightingale. Then he points out in an aside the value of logic. "See boys?" he says in essence. "Pay attention to your logic studies, and you'll be able to call people asses." Oh, Guido knew how to work with thirteen-year-old boys.
For most of the treatise, Guido himself seems not to have had an editor: very occasionally a grammatical error slips in. But I believe the last forty lines or so of the work come from the pen of another author, probably one of those frustrated rivals who thought Guido's ways were too easy. The whole tone of the work changes. The breezy accented meter gives way to classical, length-based meter, and the level of the vocabulary rises. Gone are the appeals to a boy's sensibilities. Gone are the explanations of the Greek words used. Gone is any sense of fun and wide-eyed discovery. In its place is a dour, error-ridden rehash of some of the material from the first part of the poem with the meaning sometimes convoluted beyond all recognition. So you can compare the effect, here are Guido's most famous lines:
Twixt musicians and mere singers, distance is not minimal.And here are five lines from the last portion of the treatise:
The latter say, the former grasp, the knowledge that is seminal.
For one who does what he can't fathom, we define an animal.
However, in these the relation is just a bit different,Trust me, it doesn't make any more sense if you know what a diatessaron is.
Because if perhaps you might wish to write two to one voice,
Four will hold delta supreme in the midst of the rest.
An argument hems in and designates sounds drawn asunder.
When added they, bending, agree as a bound diatessaron.
I just looked up Spengler and found out that he never taught in a university since he actually failed his doctoral dissertation because of an insufficiency of references. So I guess he did have editors at one time and just didn't heed their warning.


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Tobramycin and Fluorometholone Acetate Ophthalmic Suspension USP Floace-T Ophthalmic Suspension is indicated for steroid responsive inflammatory ocular conditions for which a corticosteroid is indicated and where superficial bacterial ocular infection or a risk bacterial ocular infection exists.
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Each ml contains :
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Auxiliary Matter:
Benzalkonium chloride, Polysorbate 80, Disodium edetate, Sodium chloride, Sodium sulphite, Hydroxyethyl Cellulose, Sulphuric acid and/or Sodium hydroxide (to adjust pH) and Water for Injection.
The pH range is 6.0-7.0
Dosage Form:
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Dosage and Method of Administration:
Shake Well Before Use.
One or two drops instilled into the conjunctival sac(s) every four to six hours. During the initial 24 to 48 hours the dosage may be increased to one or two every two (2) hours. Frequency should be decreased gradually as warranted by improvement in clinical signs. Care should be taken not to discontinue therapy prematurely.
Not more than 20mL should be prescribed initially and the prescription should not be refilled without further evaluation as outlined in PRECAUTIONS.
Floace-T Ophthalmic Suspension is indicated for steroid responsive inflammatory ocular conditions for which a corticosteroid is indicated and where superficial bacterial ocular infection or a risk bacterial ocular infection exists.
Ocular steroids are indicated in inflammatory conditions of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva, cornea and anterior segment of the globe where the inherent risk of steroid use in certain infective conjunctivitis is accepted to obtain a diminution in edema and inflammation. They are also indicated in chronic anterior uveitis and corneal injury from chemical radiation or thermal burns or penetration of foreign bodies.
The use of a combination drug with an anti-infective component is indicated where the risk of superficial ocular infection is high or where there is an expectation that potentially dangerous numbers of bacteria will be present in the eye. The anti-infective drug in this product, tobramycin is active against the following common bacterial eye pathogens : Staphylococci, including S.aureus and S.epidermidis (coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative), including penicillin-resistant strains.
Streptococci, including some of the Group A beta-hemolytic species, some nonhemolytic species and some Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Psuedomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter aerogenes, Proteus mirabilis, Morganella morganii, most Proteus vulgaris strains, Haemophilus influenzae and H.aegyptius, Moraxella lacunata and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus (Herellea vaginacola and some Neisseria species).
Pharmacological Properties:
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Streptococci, including some of the Group A beta-hemolytic species, some nonhemolytic species and some Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Psuedomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Enterobacter aerogenes, Proteus mirabilis, Morganella morganii, most Proteus vulgaris strains, Haemophilus influenzae and H.aegyptius, Moraxella lacunata and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus (Herellea vaginacola and some Neisseria species). Bacterial susceptibility studies demonstrate that in some cases microorganisms resistant to gentamicin remain susceptible to tobramycin.
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I hope you're week's going well. After a lovely and very relaxing birthday weekend away by the sea, I'm back in the office and have been busy catching up on emails, writing blog posts, making the final preparations for our workshop next week and sorting out my outfit for the Wedding Magazine & Blog Awards tomorrow afternoon!
In this week's Wedding Wednesday post, I'm delighted to feature photos of florist Mary Jane Vaughan's beautiful wedding flower designs at Brides The Show, which took place in London earlier this month.
There was such an incredible scent emitted by the flowers and foliage on Mary Jane's stand, which I heard several of the show's visitors comment on. It came from the wonderful combination of nerines in the tablecentres, eucalyptus on the arch and pots of fragrant herbs.
A plethora of white blooms in different shapes and textures were included in the designs ranging from hydrangeas and lisianthus to snowberry and orchids. And a variety of different foliage was used to create the arch, including amaranthus and mimosa. Feast your eyes on the wonderful tablescape which Mary Jane had created…
Just how gorgeous is this bridal bouquet featuring pastel pink and white roses?
To see more of Mary Jane's stunning wedding flower designs, simply visit the Mary Jane Vaughan website.
P.S. If you missed my Flowerona Reflects video featuring the show, here's a link which includes footage of the florists' stands.
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The workshop was given by Mr. Yahya Hijazi in the presence of tens of women. It focused on the importance of vocational education for women and youth, its importance in the professional and academic fields, and the misconceptions about vocational education among parents.
The workshop was characterized by the great interaction of women, the enthusiastic discussions that took place, the questions posed by the women, and their own experiences.
Professor Yahya thanked Madaa Center and the Women's Group for this interaction.
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You've made the leap and hired your wedding photographer! Or you took a deep breath, saved your pennies, and invested in an anniversary photo session. Now comes what is for many the most intimidating part of the process – choosing your outfits! (And ladies lets be honest, we are the ones who have the most trouble with this!)
In a previous post, (find it here) I shared some general tips for prepping for your session, including dressing up a bit more than usual and splurging on a manicure. Today's post I'm getting a bit more specific and sharing some favorite places to find the perfect dress!
A few tips for your hunt:
NOTE: For the sake of this post, I'm sharing some favorite online retailers, but I also highly recommend local boutiques if you have some nearby! If you're in the Madison area, Hilldale Madison has some great chain and local boutiques and Zbella Boutique specializes in plus-sized fashion! (ALSO, I am not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this post so this is not a sponsored post, there are no affiliate links, and I am not being compensated for this content in any way!)
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Pastel florals, romantic lace tops and ethereal chiffon skirts!
Stylish dresses and skirts with modest hemlines and necklines. Many styles also look like they'd also transition well to maternity sessions!
Beautifully tailored dresses with a vintage nod for the classic lady.
Old Navy has always been my favorite place for casual clothing that is easy on the wallet, but lately they've stepped up their game in the cute, budget friendly dress department! (Bonus family session tip – Old Navy is my favorite go to for coordinating outfits for the whole family!)
Casual classics that come in petite sizes too!
Floaty, feminine dresses with some fun boho prints thrown in!
Obviously there are lots of options out there, but I hope this helps point you in the direction of the perfect dress! For an ultra polished look, consider treating yourself to professional hair and makeup as well! Remember that your engagement or anniversary photos are an investment that will most likely hang on your walls for years to come – make the most of the photo opportunity by feeling your very best!
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What is twinning: ''A twinning is the coming together of two communities seeking in this way to take actions in the aim of facing their problems and developing between themselves closer and closer ties of friendship, cooperation and mutual awareness''.
The first twinning links were born in the aftermath of the second world war, on the bases that friendship between citizens of different countries, was the necessary first step to rebuilding a stable and peaceful world.
A good twinning link should involve as broad a range of members of the community as possible – of all ages and backgrounds in both partner towns, it should reveal new cultures, encourage the community to consider and exchange views on the major issues.
Thank you to "Amis De Newmarket" Association who let us use their photos taken in Maisons- Laffitte this year. Families from both sides of the channel enjoy the traditions from both countries. The French are well known for their hospitality and made their English families feel welcome in their homes.
2020, it was Newmarket's turn to host the exchange visit from Maison Laffitte. It is with great regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the planned visit on the 30th May 2020. We home to meet the French twinners next year.


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- A shoer of horses.
But the utmost exactness in these particulars belong to farriers, saddlers, smiths, and other tradesmen. Digby.
- One who professes the medicine of horses.
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"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." -Romans 12:21 (NIV)
Human behavior is tragically repetitive. It is repetitive because we use the exact same methods time and time again to deal with conflict. It is tragic because we often resort to such violent and vengeful means to somehow ensure in our minds that justice has been served. When someone strikes us, our instinctive response is to strike back and sometimes with even more malice. But if we do this, what is it that separates us from the one that has harmed us? Though we may think that we are justified in our reactions and that this gives us the moral high ground, we are no different from our enemies if we use the same underhanded and destructive methods they use. Instead of overcoming evil it has conquered us and made us its slave.
How then can we escape from this dilemma? As long as our sinful nature continues to hold sway over us, our concept of justice will be skewed and warped, and this will be reflected in our actions and reactions. The solution therefore lies in dealing with our innate depravity. But how can this be done? It is only through Christ, who entered this world so that humanity may be freed from their slavery to sin, that we have the hope of being restored. When we have acknowledged His death and resurrection for us and have allowed His Spirit to enter our hearts, He will give us wisdom and discernment as to how to live as His children. Through His righteousness being worked out through us, He will teach how to walk justly and to love mercy. In this we are able by His enabling to overcome the evils we may face with the light that He shines forth from us; bearing witness to the fact that we are new creations in Christ, holy and blameless before Him and before men.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Be Attitudes and Abraham Hicks
From Jesus's Sermon on the Mount as reported via Matthew and Luke
Blessed Are:
The poor for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven
Those who mourn for they will be comforted
The meek for they will inherit the earth
Those who hunger and thirst, they will be filled
The merciful, for they will be shown mercy
The pure of heart: for they will see God
The Peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God
Those who are persecuted for righteousness sake...theirs is the kingdom of heaven
And why is this parable powerful? I think I might be on to something here!
There are so many versions of the be-attitudes and many interpretations as well.
If I see this in light of the Abraham Teachings, it becomes very powerful in the universal law.
Step one is in the asking. If someone is poor physically or spiritually;... they are asking,.. and it will be given. Conversely if someone is very rich, and all their worldly wants are provided, they are not asking and they are not going to get there if they don't ask.
asking has unbelievable power. Think about that for a second. If we are so "small and insignificant" how can it be that our ASKING summons the POWER THAT CREATED WORLDS?
Believing and Allowing are next. Ask and know that it is DONE! Say thank you God, for it has been done, I have sought the Kingdom of God and asked this: So Above, So Below. I have asked manifestation that brings brilliance, hope and beauty. I have asked to receive the gift of writing and communication. I have asked to perceive and receive. In the Lord's prayer we ask to not go down the rabbit hole of delusion, and deception. Interesting in light of the polarity. The contrast is always present. Lead us not into it, but we need not invite it.
When I was sick, I prayed to be well. When there was violence,... I prayed for peace. When my parents fought, I would get sick with asthma, in the hospital there were powerful beings with me. Little did I know my heartfelt asking could change my world. Little did I know that I create(with the Blessing of the Universe) my reality. I could have never known that God delights in my creations and they are Celebrated in the Many Mansions of God. Blessed is she/is who sees that.
Meekly, I take over the world by melting hearts and loving. Swords and bombs can never do that. And truly my pen is mightier than any weapon.
Blessed, Blessed am I. We all are blessed. Just Ask and then open your heart.
Radical, Magical, Time Management: Abraham-Hicks Style
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New Way to Allow More Time Management (Abe-Hicks Style)
We all know linear time is a joke? How people and events dovetail eludes us. But we try to be "on time" and show up.
This concept is new to me and yet...in the past this has happened many times, and with some criticism from the peanut gallery. More on this...later.
There have been times I say to people, I just don't have time. There are times I bite off more than I can comfortably chew and I start to feel overwhelmed, tense and stressed out.
There are times I just plain procrastinate. I organize time to study or clean my often messy bedroom and yet, other things just grab me and I get derailed.
Time management is a huge issue in our world today. Neale Walsch says just showing up is more than half the battle. For the most part, I really try to show up. There is a bit more to this story (at least for me). Abraham states that one person connected to their Source Energy is more powerful than thousands who are not. Imagine showing up, connected and fully present, because that energy can change the outcome of things.
Imagine showing up at a board meeting fully plugged in? I find that the plugged in part has little to do with me personally. I just surrender to the situation. That seems like the easy way out, but actually no, something nothing short of a miracle often happens. For example you are on a steering committee and there are big personalities, and they seem to dominate with their vision and intentions, I get frustrated because I am not being "heard". That shows that I have my ideas and ego just as much present. Recently, I learned to assess the players, remove myself from this frantic energy, balance and ask for connection. I simply ask and allow. There is no force with this. And I'll be a monkey's uncle if it doesn't really happen. I feel quiet and at peace instead of "in pieces". All of a sudden someone asks me, "Nancy, what do you think?" Like a John Travolta devotee, when offered the stage...TAKE THE STAGE! That is what made John famous. I am surprised what comes out of my mouth and I am personally amazed at the confidence with which I say it. I remember being on the church board years ago and feeling "butt hurt" about not being heard. There is this young women who was not validated for her good ideas and abilities...long ago. Her family did not really "get" her. Yip, that was me. I don't have to play that part anymore. I am fully validated by the Universe.
Ok that is the experience of showing up and being inspired before you speak or act. That is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. This is very different than the leadership we normally experience. The powerful fast talkers seem to prevail and prevail by steam rolling over others. That is hardly what I call success. If I have to steam roll over someone, well, I just lost the game.
But back to time management...that is slightly different but oddly similar.
Put everything on the back burner...yes even appointments. Everything. This is not the way the business world works. Trains run on time. It is a huge leap of faith and almost counter intuitive to work on the Universal Timing. I am not always allowing for this. It is the most rewarding practice and yet the one that I seem most resistant too. When I lived on the Navajo Reservation in Chinle, we called this living on reservation time. Clocks did not rule the day. The Native Americans are so plugged into a different type of flow of time and things just line up as they should. When some of my black friends used to ask, "hey, Nancy what time is it?" I would look at my watch and they would laugh. That was not what they wanted to know. What time is it now...it is time to get in synch with the Greater Timing. We all have biological clocks, astrological clocks, circadian clocks, and rhythms all around us. A great example is the people who were late to work the day of 9/11. One lady said, It was as if the Universe was using tricks to make me late and miss my train to the down town area where the Trade Center was. The world will criticize being late, and not showing up...but...sometimes...it is exactly the right thing.
What about when you make a promise? Try to keep them of course. Try to comply in this world but I will tell you this. There is a higher authority. The first thing in my Day Planner is: Did I sit with the POWER, did I LINE UP, did I align with GOD, Did I make the Kingdom of God, "hallowed" in the way I put all other actions on the back burner? I will know by the healthy happy way I feel if I did. Did I ask the Universal Manager to help me order my day?
The Universe will help you accomplish so much more than you possible could using your own known ways. Did you ever have a day where everything flowed and it was like you found extra hours in your day, and everything happened easily and succinctly? That is when you are surfing with the Universal Manager.
I do use my day planner...after I have lined up and become inspired I write things down with question marks. And phrases like I prefer to do this...and help me do this because I really don't want to do this. The Universe makes everything joyful.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Cinco de Mayo.Celebrate Each Day the Abraham Way!
There is a place where someone has almost tagged each calendar day as a Holiday. I looked up my birthday and it is designated as National Camera Day. I think that is lovely but not exciting to me.
What about a day called "Random Acts of Kindness Day?" Cool enough.
Lately, there have been some difficult days for me, emotionally and physically. I imagine calling that day, "I survived it" day. I think sometimes that is enough. Take a little Victory Lap around the house and say...don't know why it was a crappy day, it is over, I will let it go...tomorrow will seem brighter.
Allow. It is often hard to understand the concept of allowing. I once heard someone describe it this way:
There is a man walking a tight rope a story up from the ground. A lovely dove flies by and he tries to touch it, almost loosing his balance. Then a raven flies close to him and he almost loses his balance pushing it away! The balance lies in accepting the gift and experience that comes toward you without losing your balance. We hold on or try to push things away.
What would I call today? I think I would call it Amazing Grace Day! Many things had the potential to go all wrong. I did some segment intending this AM. Then someone I know and love called me an "asshole". I could have let that settle in and take over my emotional state. I just walked outside. I took a 10 minute walk. I remember what Abraham Hicks said about the behavior of others. The anger and criticize of others 99% of the time is not even about you...it is about them. It is a private war within of discontent and frustration. You can seldom change someones perspective in the moment they are most upset, pinched off and out of balance. There might be a healing conversation later when they are in a better and more receptive state.
Amazing Grace is so perfect. I went on to accomplish some goals and at the moment feel pretty good about myself.
I think I will think of some more really good ways to celebrate and tag my days. They all matter to me.
PS. This same loved one threw away my lap top. He is having a hard time. I am missing blogging so much and it is sheer therapy. I found a way.
I can celebrate "I get to Friggin Blog Day" no matter what.
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'If I hear one more mention of that goddamned book...' I said to myself the other day. And then Firdaus Variava meets me at a party and says, 'What's the deal with that Anastasia chick anyway?', making me backtrack at the faint whiff of opportunity. 'Why don't you review it for us? From a man's...' And just like that he was gone. Judging by the fact that I received this in my mailbox just a few days later, I'm guessing he zipped home, got down and (hopefully) dirty. Thank you Fido, for a man's perspective of Fifty Shades of Gray. (Readers: This is the last time we dedicate any space to the book. Promise!)
There was once a girl – we don't know if she's particularly hot, or if she has big boobs, because the author has clearly not written this book with the gruffer sex in mind – who falls in love with what could be considered the ideal man. He is gorgeous looking, obscenely rich, generous with said money, and loves her to bits. Only problem is, he likes to have sex in unusual and inventive ways.
As a man, I was saying uh huh..nuthin wrong with dat. If you have the imagination, go for it amiright? As long as you treat the girl nice and stuff, she should be over the moon with this added feature of the relationship.
Nuh-uh! Not this girl. She keeps going on about dragging her lover from his dark place into the light, trying to bring him to her version of "normal". Her version of normal relationships includes roses, romance, candlelit dinners and all that Mills and Boons stuff. She gets most of that from this poor fellow, but she just can't wrap her head around the kinky sex. Which, by the way isn't really that kinky. It's like, stuff your mother would find kinky. Or maybe your grandmother. There is a red room of pain, but most of the implements seem to be there only for decoration. Only some really tame stuff gets used.
So anyways, after unsuccessfully trying to change him, she dumps him. The end.
This whole novel has the sort of morality that only a repressed middle aged woman could come up with. It's also filled with the sort of trite nonsense that used to pass for spiritual talk in the 70's like - "her inner goddess" and "her subconscious".
Oh puh-lease woman..we are so beyond that sh*t now.
By the end of it you just wish that Anastasia Steele would get her head out of her ass and see that this guy is the best thing that could happen to her. The constant drama, pathetic attempts to inject emotion into the whole thing, coupled with said tame sex scenes (which are numerous, but not very long) finally drive you to start skipping paragraphs in the hope that she will finally come around and there will be a happy ending.
But of course, the only conceivable happy ending would be if the publisher or author called me up personally, apologised, and returned the Rs. 250 that I spent on this book!
When Fido isn't reading women's erotica, he loves playing video games at work and spending time with his beautiful children whose shenanigans he records (sometimes) on his blog, Delirious Daddy
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"Solsbury Hill" is a song by English musician Peter Gabriel about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England. Gabriel wrote the song after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead singer since its inception. The song was his debut single. The single was a Top 20 hit in the UK and reached #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.[1] The song has often been used in film trailers for romantic comedies.[2]
Gabriel has said of the song's meaning, "It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get… It's about letting go."[3] Former bandmate Tony Banks acknowledges that the song reflects Gabriel's decision to break ties with Genesis, but it can be also applied in a broader sense.


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During this time of unprecedented crisis, we know that the health and welfare of your loved ones and communities are foremost in your mind. We also recognize that fine music plays a meaningful role in your lives. You may have concerns regarding the status of our remaining concerts this season, as well as ticket options in the event of cancelations. As new information becomes available, we will post updates here.
For now, we stand by our commitment to provide Northeast Ohio with the best chamber music experiences available - even virtually. We invite you to explore the various online musical offerings that we have compiled for you and sent out via email (if you wish to be added to our email list, see our Contact page). From audio playlists and operas to livestreamed videos, we encourage you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the "show."
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A Great Cloud of Witnesses
A few weeks back I was a witness to a car accident. I had just loaded up my pick-up truck one morning to take my trash and recycling to the transfer station – like any good NH resident – when on my way I saw a car weaving back and forth to both sides of the road. It was not going fast at all, but slowly driving erratically. Something seemed very wrong, so I followed behind at a short distance. I became more concerned when the car drove up onto the sidewalk. My first reaction was to try to drive alongside and honk my horn to get the driver's attention. Not soon after I started honking, the driver drove head-on to an oncoming car. Fortunately, this all happened at such slow speed that no one was hurt. The man in the car that was hit was quite stunned and angry to have seen a car coming at him at such a slow speed and then hit him -- so he started to get out to yell at the erratic driver. I quickly got out of my car to meet him: "I think the driver is confused" I said. "I don't think he knew what he was doing." The driver, I saw, was an older gentleman, with a walker in the back seat and I began to ask him questions he clearly not aware of where he was. I convinced him to hand me his keys until the Police came. My hunch is that that was the last morning drive the gentleman would be taking. Clearly it could have been much worse. Since I was the only witness to the accident to see what happened, I was asked to stay behind and wrote up an account for the police report.
A witness is someone who sees an event take place – sometimes a crime or an accident. When it comes to faith, a witness can be and see much more. The Risen Jesus in Act 1:8 told his disciples that they "would be his witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth." This is the grounding for our parish vision to serve the local and global community. Not either or, but both/and. Near and far.
Our first reading is from Joshua. Moses, the great liberator of the Israelites out of their bondage in Egypt, was dead. We've been reading about Moses for weeks now. About his birth, his rise to influence, his growing awareness of the suffering of his people. The Burning Bush. Crossing through the Red Sea. Receiving the Ten Commandments. 40 long years of wandering with some grumbling and tired people who were tempted to think that the old life had to have been better than what they were experiencing in the wilderness.
There was no such thing or concept as a Bucket List in the Bible – the list that some people nearing a certain time in their life make to list the places they'd like to see and the things they'd still like to do. Someone once described to me the 3 stages of retirement: go-go; slow-go; and no go. One would think that if he could, Moses would have liked to have led his people over the finish line. But he was a no-go. It would not be.
It would be Joshua. How would you like to be the one to follow Moses? Even the Lord seemed to know there might be P.R. problems. The Lord said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of Israel, so that they may know that I will be you as I was with Moses." Thanks Lord. I suppose that was a confidence booster. Yet as mighty a warrior as Joshua would become, Moses was never forgotten – his legacy loomed large.
Perhaps you have heard the phrase 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'? It is attributed to Isaac Newton – who is known by lore for a certain apple that fell from a tree and caused his to consider a little thing we call gravity. The phrase is believed to go even further back to the 12th century to John of Salisbury who wrote: "We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
I am drawn to this image and idea of being raised up by others – allowing their stature and experiences – their pains and hopes – to add to our own. Allowing us to see more and farther out into the world.
This is why we need and cherish All Saints' so much. It is not primarily about the giants of the faith: those who have Saint as a first name (St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Mary) and who have cleared the bar of holiness by acts of healing and mercy. It is about God's holy giants and lesser giants -- the known and the forgotten.
I had the opportunity last Sunday to visit an Anglican church in Kingston, Jamaica and after the 2 ½ hour 8:00 a.m. service, visit a church-run home for girls who had been severely traumatized and abused. The woman who ran the home was with the girls on a rainy Sunday morning and encouraged them to stand next to her, holding their hand, as she coaxed them to introduce themselves to this group of strangers. More than the rector who ran the parish, the woman who mothered these young girls back to life and dignity was and is the saint whose light was clear to see.
Celebrating All Saints' allows us to lift up what we call the communion of the saints, (BCP) which is the whole family of God, the living and the dead, those whom we love and those whom we hurt, bound together in Christ by sacrament, prayer, and praise.
It is like Old Home Week for the church. Everyone, the living and the dead, gets to celebrate what being a child of God is all about. Being formed, created, loved into being by a Creator who is with us if and whenever we lose our way or make a mess of things. I so like the prayer we use for birthdays. That is what God does: Strengthens us when we stand. Comforts us when we get discouraged or sorrowful. Raises us up if we fall and abides with us all the days of our lives.
A witness is someone who sees an event take place. I hope you hear these words in the prayer we will pray today at communion: "for in the multitude of the saints, you have surrounded us with a great cloud of witnesses, that we might rejoice in their fellowship and run with endurance the race that is set before us."
We are surrounded by a great cloud of God's people who will not allow anyone's life to be forgotten. Anyone's experience to go unseen or unnoticed. No one's life falls between the cracks of this big sometimes anonymous world.
Pay attention when clouds get mentioned in church and in the Bible – they usually mean that God is near.
What do we know about clouds anyway?
I had to update my phone a few weeks back because my old one wouldn't charge anymore and the salesperson asked me if I had updated my data on the cloud. I really did not want to come across as clueless, but I finally surrendered and said: "I have no idea." The cloud, as some of you more tech savvy people know, is the term for a collection of networks and computer servers somewhere – but not in the sky -- where data – such as the photos on my phone I so wanted to recover – is stored.
What I remember of my childhood when a cloud was just a cloud. My friends and I spent a lot of time looking up into the sky at clouds. We would often lay down on the grass in the backyard and look up into the sky at the clouds and challenge each other to find people and objects in the clouds and be the first to point them out. Hours on end it seemed.
One Christmas years back my children were each given The Book of Clouds by John A. Day by their grandparents. Dr. Day is a world expert in clouds and known as 'the Cloudman.' Before his gets into the heavy physics of clouds, he offers up ten reasons to look up. Among them.
Clouds are the greatest free show on earth.
Through there are four basic kinds, clouds are never exactly the same.
Many skies are simply beautiful to behold – the graduations of light and color in the late afternoon or the early morning hours.
They are a billboard of coming attractions. One can get a real sense when a storm is coming.
Clouds makes us more connected to nature.
Clouds are made up of water and a constant reminder of how important water is to life.
Cloud watching is an antidote for boredom. They are ever changing.
They are simply a magic show. They are mystery. Where do they come from and where do they go?
There are moments when we may need our own top ten reasons to look up. Or believe again. Trust. Forgive. As we look up and out, we are a part of a whole big family of God that is a part of you and me.
All Saints' is a day to remember those who have died over the last year. In the BCP the question is asked: Why do we pray for the dead? The answer: "We pray for them, because we still hold them in our love, and because we trust that in God's presence those who have chosen to serve him will grow in his love, until they see him as he is." So today we will remember and pray for Ethel, Burt, Chris, Elsie, Birk and others known to you.
I think ol' John of Salisbury had it right 800 years ago. This great cloud of witnesses, these saints of yesterday and today allow us to see more. To dream bigger dreams. To see farther and wider. They raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
Yes, Moses was a hard act to follow. But we're not asked to be Moses, or Frances or Mother Theresa. We're asked to be who God made us, fully alive and a part of the family of God.


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Jun 4, 2012
Kid brings in The Soupygato DJH to the Studio where we discuss dirty rotten ho's, Cig's and how cheap DJH is when he smokes. We discuss the drug situation overseas, blowing your load when you're drunk, how loose women are and what the fuck the Kid was doing in Austria. We talk about Salma Hayek and why she's depressed. Kid tells the world about a funeral where mayhem kicks off. We talk about suicide and depression. Its fun. Go Deep.


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These Are 5 Of The BEST Mandi Places You Would Have Tried In Khobar Hands Down
Mandi restaurants can pretty much be found on every left and right corner in Saudi Arabia. Their affordability, simplicity and availability are just one of the many reasons it's become a staple, not just for locals but foreigners alike.
Rice, chicken and vegetables alongside your carbonated drink all for less than SAR20 (sometimes) and lunch/dinner is sorted.
On that note, here are 5 of our top Mandi picks in Khobar, that you must try out:
5. Mandi King, Thuqbah (King Khalid Rd)
4. Makbous Express
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Pragya Jaiswal teams up with Ravi Teja in 'Yevado Okadu'
Chennai: Last seen in romantic war drama "Kanche", actress Pragya Jaiswal will play Ravi Teja's love interest in upcoming Telugu film "Yevado Okadu", which went on floors last month and will hit the screens next year in summer.
"Pragya was finalised for the project yesterday (Friday). She plays the leading lady while actress Anupama Parameswaran will play her second fiddle," a source from the film's unit told IANS.
In total contrast to her role in "Kanche", Pragya will be seen playing an urban girl in "Yevado Okadu". "She will undergo a total makeover and play a city-bred heroine," the source said.
In the film, which is being directed by Venu Sree Raam, Ravi plays a college lecturer and Anupama will be seen as one of his students. Devi Sri Prasad has been roped in to compose the tunes and Dil Raju is bankrolling this project.


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Assen, 2017
Day 6, Sheffield
Spain beat France 3-1 to reach the semi-finals of the European Under-17 Championship.
Watch Brahim Diaz's winning goal for Spain against Germany in the U17 semi-final.
Francisco García scored a superb solo goal to give Spain the lead against England in the U17 European Championship quarter-finals.
Watch Renat Dadashov's outstanding goal against Belgium in the U17 European Championship semi-final.
Watch highlights as Germany beat Belgium 1-0 in the U17 European Championships to reach the semi-finals.
Portugal thrash Austria to reach last four in U17 European Championship
Jose Gomes scored a hat-trick as Portugal beat Austria 5-0 in the European U17 Championship quarter-finals.
Spain beat Italy 4-2 to finish top of their group at the 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.
The Spanish U17 star scored a sumptous goal against Italy in Spain's final group stage match at the U17 European Championships.
Spain beat Italy 4-2 at the European U17 Championships.
CONMEBOL officially award Copa Sudamericana to Chapecoense after the tragic plane crash which killed most of the Brazilian side's squad.
David Villa fended off competition from Bradley Wright-Phillips to earn the MLS Most Valuable Player accolade.
North Korea beat France 3-1 in the final of the Women's U20 World Cup in Papua New Guinea.
Watch highlights of France's victory over Japan in the semi-finals of the women's Under 20 World Cup - a thrilling 2-1 win in extra-time...
Watch highlights of Korea DPR's extra-time victory over USA in the women's Under 20s World Cup semi-final.
Watch highlights of the quarter-final of the women's Under 20 World Cup with the USA snatching a late winner for victory.
Mexico survived a late scare to beat Venezuela 3-2 at the Women's U20 World Cup.
Germany beat South Korea 2-0 at the Women's U20 World Cup – but it could have easily been more.
The United States fought back to draw 1-1 with Ghana at the Women's U20 World Cup after an unfortunate mistake from their goalkeeper.


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I will start working with Nodpad.com!
Posted by andyl19 on April 8, 2009
Hey guys and gals, just to let you know I have taken a job over at Nodpad.com to write some reviews. Don't worry, I'll still be writing stuff here, but some reviews will be over there. The owner of Nodpad.com, Nick, is a great guy and it would help if his site got some more readers. So that's pretty much that, I hope to see some of you guys over there for my first post!
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I am very thankful to Mr.Nick, as notepad.com is very useful.


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Duffy's final test before going for gold
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Flora Duffy will be among those competing for the $60,000 in prize money up for grabs at this weekend's Montreal ITU Triathlon World Cup.
Duffy is among an elite group of Olympic-bound athletes using Sunday's event as a final dress rehearsal for the Rio Olympics, which officially get under way tomorrow with the opening ceremony.
Expectations will be high for Duffy who presently tops the world rankings.
However, the Bermuda triathlete will have her work cut out competing against a formidable field that includes Australians Ashleigh Gentle and Erin Densham, the 2012 Olympic bronze medal winner, Kirsten Sweetland and Yuka Sato.
Read more: http://www.royalgazette.com/runningtriathlon/article/20160804/duffys-final-test-before-going-for-gold
Smith excited by what future holds for Daley
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Elan Daley won a total of nine medals at the weekend Canadian National Swimming Championships in Calgary, Alberta, where she also placed second overall in the 12 and under girls age group.
Daley, 11, swam in 12 individual events as well as five relays, reached ten finals, achieved 14 personal best times and medalled in six of the ten events.
She had a total of 22 individual swims over the five days of competition and broke both the Ontario provincial record and a 26-year-old Canadian Age group record when she touched the wall in 27.07 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle event.
Read more: http://www.royalgazette.com/swimming/article/20160803/smith-excited-by-what-future-holds-for-daley
Olympic Channel to launch on 21 August 2016
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New digital-first platform will be available anytime, anywhere and on any device, at the conclusion of the Olympic Games Rio 2016 Official Olympic Channel social media handles and olympicchannel.com pre-launch site now live!
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced the launch date for its ground-breaking new media destination, the Olympic Channel, where fans can experience the power of sport and the Olympic Movement all year round. Starting Sunday 21 August, after the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the Olympic Channel platform will be available worldwide via a mobile app for Android and iOS devices and at olympicchannel.com. In addition, athletes and fans can follow the Olympic Channel on its newly launched social media handles on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, and sign up for Olympic Channel updates at olympicchannel.com. IOC President Thomas Bach said: "The launch of the Olympic Channel on 21st August is the start of an exciting new journey to connect the worldwide audience with the Olympic Movement all year round. Fans will be able to follow sports, athletes and the stories behind the Olympic Games. The Olympic Channel will inspire us all and reach out to new generations of athletes and fans."


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Since 1887, when the American Journal of Obstetrics noted that a pregnant woman gored by a bull was likelier to survive than one who had a Cesarean section, surgical childbirth has gone from an act of desperation to the most common major surgery in the U.S. Yet compared with vaginal deliveries, Cesareans have a higher risk of complications, and a higher price—unnecessary C-sections cost insurers an estimated $5 billion a year. And that doesn't factor in an even greater expense: new research finds C-section babies to be more prone to various long-term health problems.
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Amanda and Matthew's Wedding
What a beautiful wedding at The Montage Hotel and Spa in Laguna Beach! Amanda and Matthew's wedding was coordinated by Mindy Weiss and was filled with gorgeous Revelry details like our famous flower wall, white banquettes, shabby chic furniture and mirrored Paris tables! The seating arrangement on the lawn turned out to be simply beautiful and created a comfortable social setting. There were an abundance of flowers at the ceremony! Thousands of fully bloomed white roses and orchids covered branches with the ocean as it's backdrop, creating layers of texture and beauty. Lei's dripped from all of the floral trees and the aisle was flanked on both sides with more white roses than we've ever seen on one aisle before!... Read More


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2018 has wrapped up and it was a very good year. I got married, which is the greatest triumph for the year. Aside from that part of my life, intellectually, I also had a very good year.
It was probably the year that so many beliefs and concepts came alive and really transformed from mere knowledge to pure knowledge.
Jordan Peterson
I started the year off excited about married life and taking a break from ministry. Being as young as I am, ministry is sort of a weird world to try and be in. How much do I really have to offer?
I learned early on in life that at least I can stack chairs and sweep up the ground after events at church. I could learn how to use the sound system. If I were to really be dependable, I could be given a key to the church and let people in for events when they had a room reserved. I could create marketing materials and maintain the website so that as many people as possible could hear about the church.
There are thousands of tiny but helpful things that any of us could do that would be of great service to our churches. Not just young people, but all people should use their gifts, hobbies, passions, and quirks to serve the local bodies that we have ended up in.
But, I always dreamed of something a bit different. I always held this ideal that I wanted to teach. I wanted to preach. Look at the Bible throughout the week and then spill it out before people on a Sunday. But for so long I felt like I had too many questions myself.
Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto. He has reached massive popularity over the course of the last two years because of his massive amount of uploaded content (lectures, Q&A's, and keynote addressments) and the unique quality of his content in helping people live a life of meaning.
Many people have also sounded off and shared how much Dr. Peterson has helped them with various things from being a more consistent person, being more truthful, being more conscientious, and more religious (an interesting result of a murky, or at least not traditionally compartmentalized religious creed).
For me, he helped me understand some basics about how to best operate in the world.
Those who are more
Those who take massive responsibility for the things around them (in a non-stoic way) are the ones who really change the world for good– there aren't moments too small to do the right thing and there is always the right thing to do.
He showed me that people often lie to themselves, about the fundamental reality of who they are, and it is okay and necessary, to be honest with myself. So, never say something that when you really think about it you hate and that makes you feel weak or deceitful.
Jordan also opened up a world to me that put my religious faith on an observable field of human experience. I had, up to this point, accepted that faith is faith, and at the end of the day you either have it or not.
While I still think this is true, Dr. Peterson helped me realize that more of my religious thought is actually valid. It is right that it exists (I never cared too much what people thought of my faith, but he made me realize that there is more credence to having faith that the culture currently accepts).
Faith is less a hidden reality had by most but more a fundamental aspect of human life, and probably the most real form of life, even when considered alongside of skeptical philosophy and science.
Paul Vanderklay
For many, this man is a virtual unknown. In his denomination, the Christian Reformed Church or North America, he is well respected and known. He pastors a small church in California and served as an abroad missionary in the Dominican Republic.
I found him just months after I was gobbling down Jordan Peterson videos. Paul, a protestant pastor, was also getting his hands on all the content from Jordan Peterson and related topics. Paul, in his 50's, has the sort of thought life that I really appreciate. Honest. Well read. Doesn't take himself too serious. Full of perspective.
He started making videos, as long or longer than
He is obnoxiously funny. Witty and just cranks out long form videos bi-weekly. I literally purchased Youtube Premium so that I could download and easily play hours upon hours of JBP and PVK.
C.S. Lewis
People always said they liked his work. I always thought that Lewis was like a popular book writer, you know those fluffy 'C
Lewis was keen on many things. One of those, that I appreciated, was that he wasn't so concerned with the fundamentalist movement that invaded Christian thought. I think this is something that is good to realize if you have the time to study. John Machen was much the same in this regard.
Pretty much, when science really started to enter the mainstream in modern thought, religious people saw this as a threat. They did one of two things but ironically both most of the time.
Firstly, they assumed that science was something scary and had to fortify their faith from it. They had to make sure that everything that they enjoyed about their faith was rooted in scientific fact, assuming that scientific fact was all there was to be.
Also of note was how much materialism slipped into the church. Not like wanting processions, but materialism as in everything that exists is matter. Suddenly, every Christian reality had to be grounded in matter. All prayer had to actually be answered in the world or it didn't work and your faith is lacking. Heaven became a place 'we go to when we die'. And churches turned to
Secondly, they pulled back from science and criticized it when every they could. Evolutionary thought was in it's prime so Christians had to sort out an obvious, factual, scriptural claim against it. If science made an advance, then Christians everywhere knew that it couldn't be true.
Lewis had a grander vision of the Christian life. A more full and beautiful one, although much more mysterious.
ASU Leadership and Organizational Classes
This is in a bit of a different vain. Currently, I am in my alst 2 semester of my undergraduate degree. I am pursuing a BA in Organizational Leadership.
So far, there has been a lot of practical knowledge that I have been acqainted with. From project management, to leadership, to finance, to small group performance. A lot of really great stuff.
My journal is now chalk full of assessments, important notes about how to run meetings well, ideas about how to inspire people, and hundreds of little ideas that seem meaningless, but are somewhat cool to me. Like Game theory.
I use to have the perspective that I was just trying to get this degree over with. Now that I am nearing the end of it, I am actually really enjoying the content and trying to digest it well. This new perspective, and the extra time that I have had has really helped me understand some fundamental aspects of leading organizations that I can't wait to apply in the real world.


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Best headline on this is Grist's Science confirms that blowing up mountains harms mountains
via Eminent group of scientists call for moratorium on issuance of mountaintop mining permits.
The scientists argue that regulators should no longer ignore rigorous science. "Mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of scientific evidence that impacts are pervasive and irreversible and that mitigation cannot compensate for losses. Considering environmental impacts of MTM/VF, in combination with evidence that the health of people living in surface-mining regions of the central Appalachians may be compromised by mining activities, we conclude that MTM/VF permits should not be granted unless new methods can be subjected to rigorous peer-review and shown to remedy these problems."
"Now more than ever, we need a 21st century approach to fulfilling our nation's energy needs," says Dr. Palmer. "No longer can we risk human and environmental health in our never-ending search for inexpensive energy. We need to move beyond filling valleys with mountaintop mining waste and temporarily storing fly ash in containment ponds to a modern energy production process built upon sound science, environmental safety and economic common sense."