avoid toxic people

this is very good advise-

clipped from www.boingboing.net Over at Orange Crate Art, Michael Leddy quotes this terrific advice from graphic designer Milton Glaser on avoiding toxic people: There is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. Some people are toxic. Avoid them.

5 Things That Are Holding You Back in Life

clipped from www.thedailymind.com 5 things that hold you back in life 1. Fear Fear is the number one thing that will hold you back in life. And fear comes in primarily two forms: fear of failure; and fear of success People who have a lot of fear never end up achieving their goals in life 2. Attachment Take a look at yourself and see if you are attached to anything and then see whether that attachment is holding you back The great Buddhist master Gampopa said that if you want to be happy you need to leave your homeland as soon as you are able. Otherwise your life will be characterized by attachment. 3. Arrogance Dogma Dogma is a very dangerous thing. It is where you become so blinded to a way of thinking that you are closed off to all other possibilities. Money

Alarm grows over big melt in Antarctica

clipped from www.nzherald.co.nz Alarm grows over big melt in Antarctica Antarctica is shrinking more quickly than expected and the pace is increasing, a conference has been told. Professor Peter Barrett of Victoria University’s Antarctic Research Centre summarised the latest findings at the Annual Antarctic Conference. Recent satellite pictures showed the frozen continent was calving glaciers from its edges at a rate adding up to about 0.4mm of sea-level rise a year. That might not sound like much, he said, but the rate of ice loss was increasing quickly – up 75 per cent since 1996. The Antarctic ice sheet has been stable for a million years and until recently had seemed too large and too cold to be vulnerable. But Dr Barrett said scientists now believed it could change significantly in a matter of decades. A new assessment adding up global ice loss from Greenland, Antarctica and other glaciers suggested sea levels would rise between 80cm and 2m by 2100, he said. Puffins to be tracked with GPS

Is Wisdom in the Brain?

Wisdom for centuries has been a religious or philosophical concept that varies somewhat by culture. But Jeste tells ScientificAmerican.com that there is reason to believe that it’s rooted in neurobiology.

clipped from www.scientificamerican.com Jeste and Meeks, both geriatric psychiatrists at the University of California, San Diego, hypothesize in the Archives of General Psychiatry that wisdom, or at least the execution of its attributes, can be found in the brain’s primitive limbic system as well as its more evolutionarily advanced prefrontal cortex. Based on commonalities in the research, the two proposed that wisdom is made up of the behaviors that reflect the good of the group, pragmatism, emotional balance, self-understanding, tolerance and the ability to deal with ambiguity. Then, based on those studies, they zeroed in on which neurotransmitters (the brain’s chemical messengers) were active and which parts of the brain light up on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) when we behave wisely.

Lunar Eclipse and Your Natal Chart

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clipped from www.astrologyexplored.com The Lunar Eclipse and Your Natal Chart by Beth Turnage The Lunar eclipse on July 7 is the first of two eclipses in this month. Where the eclipse is in your chart is marks an area that is poised for activation in the next six months. To see how this plays out for you, you need to have a copy of your chart to find out where the Cancer/Capricorn axis is in your chart. You can go here to get a list of your planets and house cusps in plain English. What you are looking for is what houses the zodiac sign of Cancer and Capricorn hit in your chart. Cancer in the First/Capricorn in the Seventh—Because you are changing how you view yourself, your career issues are due for an overhaul too. Cancer in the Second/Capricorn in the Eighth—Insurance and taxes stress your financial resources. Accidents can lead to monetary loss. Review your insurance coverage, and even if it hurts, amp it up.

Crescent Earth

great NASA photo

clipped from www.nasa.gov The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program.

Red Poppies

Beautiful.

clipped from amolife.com Red Poppies “Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.“ ~ John Keats       Photo by Piotr Artemski

Red Poppies

Beautiful.

clipped from amolife.com Red Poppies “Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.“ ~ John Keats       Photo by Piotr Artemski

The International Bike Race

It may be called the Tour de France, but the international bike race that sets off today is not limited to a ride through France. Cyclists push off from a starting point in the principality of Monaco; from there, the route also passes through Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy, with most of it running through France. The first Tour de France was run in 1903: 60 riders rode 2,428 km (1509 mi) in six stages. Only ten riders finished the race. This year, some 180 bikers will begin the 3,445 km (2,141 mi) route, through 21 stages, finishing on July 26. The record-holding winner of seven consecutive Tours de France (1999-2005), Lance Armstrong, has announced he will be participating again this year after a three-year retirement. He will be riding for the Astana team.

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Rail Budget, India 2009

Rail Budget 2009 highlights: Trivandrum-Ernakulam-Calicut train

Watch the highlights of Interim Railway Budget 2009 presented by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in the parliament.

Video – MSN India: Edit… • 10 min

Most complete Earth map published

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry. A Nasa/Aster image of Death Valley The images were taken by Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite. The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth’s surface, and will be free to download and use. The Terra satellite, dedicated to Earth monitoring missions, has shed light on issues ranging from algal blooms to volcano eruptions. For the Aster measurements, local elevation was mapped with each point just 30m apart. “This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world,” said Woody Turner, Nasa programme scientist on the Aster mission.

Kentucky Pastor Tells Followers to Bring Guns to Church

Of the 40 states with right-to-carry laws, 20 allow guns in churches.

Watching the debate in Arkansas was John Phillips, pastor of the Central Church of Christ in Little Rock. In 1986, Mr. Phillips was preaching in a different church there when a gunman shot him and a parishioner. Both survived, but Mr. Phillips, 51, still has a bullet lodged in his spine.

In a telephone interview, he said he found the idea of “packing in the pew” abhorrent.

clipped from www.alternet.org “Guns and God were part of the foundation of this country,” said Ken Pagano . “I don’t see any contradiction in this.” Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church [in Louisville, KY], is passionate about gun rights. his sermon two weeks ago was on “God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry.” And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to “celebrate our rights as Americans!” “God and guns were part of the foundation of this country,” “I don’t see any contradiction in this. Not every Christian denomination is pacifist.” “When someone from within the church tells me that being a Christian and having firearms are contradictions, that they’re incompatible with the Gospel—baloney,” he said. “As soon as you start saying that it’s not something that Christians do, well, guns are just the foil. The issue now is the Gospel. So in a sense, it does become a crusade. Now the Gospel is at stake.” Who Would Jesus Shoot?

The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work

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True Friendship

Indeed.

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Ex-nun urges Indian Catholic Church reform in tell-all book

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A report by: Tony Tharakan

Tags: FaithWorld, book, catholic, church, film, homosexual, india, kerala, nuns, priests, sex

A
Roman Catholic nun who left her convent in India after 33 years of
service has penned an unflattering picture of life within the
cloistered walls in a book that may further embarrass the Church.

In “Amen: The Autobiography of a Nun”, published in India in English
this month, Sister Jesme tells of sexual relations between some priests
and nuns, homosexuality in the convent and discrimination and
corruption in Catholic institutions…

“Amen” grabbed media headlines in February, when it was first published in Malayalam
— the regional language of Kerala. With the new English edition and
offers of a film based on the book, Sister Jesme’s plea for a
reformation of the Church is now set to reach a wider audience.

Read our feature here.