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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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Is Your Relationship Hurting Your Health?
Your problem? Your problem is you.?
You make a choice about who you choose to love, how you love yourself, and what you're willing to accept from yourself and others.?
If a relationship is hurting your health, there is no one to blame but .... YOU.
This is a hard truth to swallow, isn't it? ?
We look at our spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends and think,?If he or she would just change, everything would be so much easier. ?
Well, if you're dating or married to someone who is unwilling to change, why did you choose this person in the first place??
I can comfortably bet it all that this person exhibited these qualities before you said "I do."?
You excused them away, ignored them, or imagined they would change. ?
So, again....look inward.?
If you want to change your love life, change how you are showing up for yourself.?
Make healthy choices.?I am challenging all of you today.?
For every single finger that you point and blame another, take that finger and point it at yourself. ?
All of the cliches about self-love and "not being able to truly love others until you love yourself" are true. You must love yourself first. You must raise your standards for your own life, first.?
If you want a healthy partner, you must be healthy FIRST. ?
We've been dating since April of 2012. For both of us, it's the healthiest relationship we've ever been in. ?
Yes, we have our struggles but we are honest to the core, willing to forgive, and grow as individuals. It also helps that we are crazy about one another.?We love without abandon, put one another first along with God, and work very hard to be the healthiest couple we can be. ?
It's been a really challenging journey because personal growth is painful and change is so incredibly uncomfortable. It's so worth it, though, and we both are growing healthier in our wellness journey as a result. ?So how do you know when you are in a healthy relationship??
Some people don't realize when their love life is unhealthy and some have come to acceptance in settling for so little. ?
This is how I believe you know your relationship is healthy:?
1. You communicate openly and fluidly.?
Communication (however challenging) is KEY to thriving in a relationship. When you are unhappy, talk about it. When you are elated, share those feelings, too. ?
When you are confused or troubled, talk about it. Keep the communication flowing always leaving no room for bitterness, resentment, unanswered questions, misunderstandings, etc. Lee and I communicate all of the time and when we have challenges, we "stay in the room" as I like to say. ?
We work it out, however hard it feels at the time and sometimes, it's hard. It's when you listen with an open heart and realize that this other person in the room is actually on your side, that your love is flourishing. Your health will begin to soar, too. Trust me on that one.2. You respect each other.??
Once you begin to chip away at respect in a relationship, by name calling, undermining the other's passions, flirting with someone outside of the relationship, insulting their job choices, lifestyles, etc. you are no longer in a healthy relationship. ?3. You respect one another's boundaries and opinions even when you do not agree. ?
If you see yourselves moving in an unhealthy direction, I recommend you change the direction of your mouths and feet right now. Respect is the glue. Respect helps your relationship to grow in ways you may have ever expected. Your health will improve. You will be motivated to delve into wellness further. Respect must be consistently present.
4. There are no lies.?
Being honest about everything, every single step of the way is a requirement of a healthy relationship . This means no lying, no white lying, and no dramatizing of the truth. ?
Lee and I have never lied to one another. When we started dating, we decided to be upfront about our pasts. Brave souls we were! (haha) I think we both agreed that we'd never do that again. (Haha).?
We did, though, and it was incredibly freeing. We have since told each other hard truths about our pasts and quite frankly, our present. Honesty is so healing and practicing acceptance is so very kind. I believe we have healed one another's hearts. ?
You can be in this type of relationship, too. It will require you to be honest with yourself about where you are right now and what you deserve. You deserve the kind of love that only comes around once. You deserve the kind of love that you imagine in your mind...the kind that you don't think is possible. It is possible. You deserve to be adored all of the time. Please be honest with yourself and realize that you are so worthy of true romance all of the time.
5. You have faith. ?
I believe it is not just Lee and I in our relationship, but, our Lord as well. There are three of us present and we treat it as such. We grow in faith in one another and in God. It is healthy to have faith in a Higher Power.?
Whatever it is that YOU believe, find someone who shares that belief system. You need a strong foundation of faith for your relationship to truly be healthy and thrive. Why? Because when true hardships arise, you are going to need solid ground to stand on together. You will crumble if you do not have faith in something as a couple.
6. You are faithful.?
When you are not seeking attention either emotionally or physically from the opposite sex, outside of your significant other, you are in a healthy relationship. ?Lee & I have entered into what we call a Christian Agreement. ?You don't have to be a Christian to come up with your own agreement. ?We do not seek out relationships with the opposite sex outside of one another. ?Sure, we socialize with the opposite sex in a group setting but that is it. ?Some of you may feel this is harsh but we think it is healthy and I promise you it is. Figure out what is healthy for the both of you - on both of your own terms - set boundaries - compromise - and follow through. ?When you are doing this? ?You are in a healthy relationship.
My hope is that those of you who are settling, stop.?
Your health depends on it.?
Was it Lee who improved my health? No, not certainly alone. It's being in a healthy partnership in which I am encouraged to grow, while being left to be myself. ?It is true healthy love that is helping to heal me.
I had no idea this kind of healthy love was possible until now. What I realize, though, is that it's the result of my loving myself more deeply the last couple of years. It's the result of my honoring who I am. It's the result of me finally accepting my body (even though I want to improve it).?It's the result of knowing (not just thinking!) that I deserve honest, healthy love.?
I feel I've won the lottery in love and I want you to feel that way, too. I want you to love yourself enough to accept nothing less than everything I listed above. ?
Why? ?
Because you're amazing and you deserve it.
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Published December 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Source: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7167/is-your-relationship-hurting-your-health.html
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Industrial chemicals: A new breed of stable anti-aromatic compound
Dec. 18, 2012 ? By synthesizing a stable "antiaromatic" compound, as well as a never before seen intermediate version of that compound, chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have written an important new chapter in the story of modern chemistry.
The research was done in collaboration with an international roster of colleagues from Yonsei University in Korea, the University of Hyderbad in India, and Osaka University in Japan. The results were published this week in Nature Chemistry.
This particular story began in 1825, when English scientist Michael Faraday first isolated benzene from gas lights. Benzene would later be identified as one of a class of compounds known as aromatics, which have immense importance in both biological function and industrial production.
In humans, for instance, all five nucleotides that constitute DNA and RNA are aromatic. In industry, aromatics derived from oil and coal tar are precursors to, among other things, plastics, solvents, lubricants, rubber, dyes, herbicides, and textiles.
"Benzene is probably the most famous aromatic compound," said Jonathan Sessler, the Rowland Pettit Centennial Chair in Chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences. "But there are many other critically important aromatic species. The heme in hemoglobin, which is what gives blood its red color, is one of a group of aromatics known as porphyrins. Without them we'd have either a very different or no existence."
Aromatic compounds have a ring-like structure that enables electrons to be shared amongst the different bonds between the atoms. This results, among other things, in an extraordinary degree of stability. They tend to persist in their structure under conditions that would cause other molecules to react.
"That's one of the reasons why they're so useful in industry," said Sessler. "It's also why they tend to be pro-carcinogenic. They're very hard for us to metabolize or catabolize, and the results of that are usually not benign. One of the first class of tumors ever observed was testicular cancer. It was highly prevalent among 18th century chimney sweeps, who were exposed to aromatic compounds found in coal tar."
Sessler made his name as a chemist synthesizing new classes of porphyrins, including Texaphyrin, a very large porphyrin, which is being developed as a key element in a potential new approach to treating cancer.
What he and his colleagues have now done is taken an already existing molecule, which was first synthesized by Sessler in 1992, and found a way to stabilize it in its so-called antiaromatic form. Antiaromatic systems are the evil twins of aromatics. Compounds that are antiaromatic have two additional or two fewer electrons than aromatic compounds.
"They don't want to exist in a planar form without giving up or adding the two electrons that distinguish them from their aromatic analogues," said Sessler, "so they tend to twist around, to a lower energy state. That destroys their antiaromaticity. The net result is that bona fide antiaromatic compounds are elusive. What we have done, by rational design, is put big buttressing groups around the compounds, basically clamping them into place."
The resulting compounds are antiaromatic -- with two electrons gone -- and an intermediate something, with both aromatic and antiaromatic properties, that doesn't have a common name yet because it hasn't been seen before.
"When you have to struggle for the words to describe what's being done, you know that it's cutting edge," said Christian Brueckner, a fellow porphyrin chemist and a professor at The University of Connecticut. "Twenty years ago when I was a graduate student I was told simply that you can't make large antiaromatics like this. Later the idea was that you can make them but you can't do much with them. Now you can do it, and it can switch between states, and it can exist in the intermediate state. It's just a beautiful progression of scholarship, a beautiful example of how the ability of chemists to manipulate matter is advancing."
In their natural state antiaromatics are as unstable as aromatics are stable. As a result they have only been stabilized a few times in the history of the field. The antiaromatic that Sessler has made, working with colleagues in Korea, Japan, and India, is significant simply for joining this elite group. As significant is the synthesis of the intermediate state, a scientific first, as well as the capacity of the system to be toggled back and forth between the three different electron states.
"It's the first time you can really do a Coke vs. Pepsi taste test," said Sessler. "We've had very sophisticated theory for a long time, but you need positive and negative controls in science to reach a really robust conclusion. Now we finally have a detailed, controlled comparison of what aromaticity really does, how it changes interactions with light, how it affects color, what an excited state does to the lifetime, and so on."
Sessler's compounds also have potential implications in the field of information storage.
"We are very good as humans at manipulating electrons," said Sessler, "and although this isn't my game at the moment, it's not hard to imagine how a system that has three different electron states, and is reversible, could provide an opportunity to store information in a way we couldn't previously. Binary gives us computers. Ternary could give us even more power."
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tenn. considering training and arming teachers
Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the "the answer is more guns in schools" sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting.
A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during its upcoming session to introduce a bill that would allow the state to pay for secretly armed teachers in classrooms so, the sponsor told TPM, potential shooters don't know who has a gun and who doesn't.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) has said the idea will be part of his discussions about how to prevent a shooting like the one in Newtown from happening in the Volunteer State.
As has been seen following other mass shootings, there's a strong segment of the gun rights lobby that says the answer to events like the one in Newtown is more guns in more places. But they've said the recent massacre shows how important it is to put guns into elementary schools, where even gun-friendly states like Tennessee don't currently allow them.
State Sen. Frank Niceley (R) told TPM on Tuesday he believes it's time for that to change. He plans to introduce legislation in the next session, which begins Jan. 8, that will require all schools to have an armed staff member of some kind. The current language of the bill -- which is in its early form -- would allow for either a so-called "resource officer" (essentially an armed police officer, the kind which most Tennessee high schools have already) or an armed member of the faculty or staff in every school in the state. The choice would allow schools that can't afford a resource officer to fulfill the requirement without having to pay for anything beyond the cost of the training and, presumably, the weapon. But Niceley said schools should use the wiggle room to train and keep on hand armed staff not in uniform.
That's the best way to protect students, he said.
"Say some madman comes in. The first person he would probably try to take out was the resource officer. But if he doesn't know which teacher has training, then he wouldn't know which one had [a gun]," Niceley said by phone. "These guys are obviously cowards anyway and if someone starts shooting back, they're going to take cover, maybe go ahead and commit suicide like most of them have."
Niceley described himself as a person who as grown up around guns his whole life and a strong supporter of gun owners' rights. He tussled with the NRA during his last election over the letter grade he received from the group, though for the most part he's been rated A+.
Niceley's proposal has gathered some high-level interest. Tennessee's governor told reporters Monday that he's open to including it on the agenda for a January conference to discuss school safety. Nicely said he expect the governor "to be receptive" to his plan to use tax money to arm and train teachers.
Asked about concerns from gun control advocates that putting more guns in schools in the wake of Newtown might make them more dangerous, Niceley said the sentiment was naive. Not only does an unarmed school leave itself unprotected, he said, it also presents a tempting target.
"Look at it this way, you never see one of these whacko shooters go to a gun show and start shooting. They don't go down to the police station and start shooting," he said. "They go to places we advertise are gun-free."
School resource officers are paid jointly by the local sheriff's department and the school district. Niceley's bill would allow schools to pay for background checks and firearms training for teachers that woud allow them to be armed as well. Asked if the guns for the trained teachers would also be part of the taxpayer expense, Niceley laughed.
"Well, that's a minor detail in Tennessee," he said. "We hoped the teachers would have them already."
The teachers that would be trained would be volunteers, he said, and would likely carry their own firearms to school.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Oregon lawmakers OK tax deal for Nike expansion
Signs protesting emergency legislation requested by apparel giant Nike Inc., greet visitors arriving at the Oregon state Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. The Legislature is considering a tax deal requested by Nike in exchange for bringing hundreds of new jobs to Oregon. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)
Signs protesting emergency legislation requested by apparel giant Nike Inc., greet visitors arriving at the Oregon state Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. The Legislature is considering a tax deal requested by Nike in exchange for bringing hundreds of new jobs to Oregon. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)
FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2006 file photo, the red Nike swoosh marks the entrance to the company's headquarters campus in Beaverton, Ore. Nike wants to expand its Oregon operations and hire as many as 12,000 new workers by 2020 but wants the government to promise it won't change the state tax code. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber says he'll call the Legislature into session Friday to create a law to give Nike its promise. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
The Oregon House meets in Salem, Ore., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 to consider a tax deal requested by apparel giant Nike Inc., in exchange for bringing hundreds of new jobs. The governor called a special session that will cost taxpayers $13,000 a day, and is evidence of the lengths Oregon will go to protect its best-known company. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)
Oregon House Co-Speaker Bruce Hanna, R-Roseburg, opens a special session Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Salem, Ore. The Legislature is considering a tax deal requested by apparel giant Nike Inc., in exchange for bringing hundreds of new jobs. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)
This Aug. 11, 2012 file photo shows the Nike campus from the air. Athletic footwear and apparel giant Nike Inc. plans to expand its operations in Oregon and hire hundreds of workers but wants the government to promise that tax rules won't change, prompting a special session of the Legislature. Gov. John Kitzhaber said he'll call lawmakers together Friday Dec. 14, 2012 in Salem to create a new law authorizing him to grant Nike's wish, and legislative leaders said they'll go along. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Torsten Kjellstrand)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) ? A deal proposed by Nike Inc. to create hundreds of jobs in Oregon in exchange for a guarantee that the state won't change a favorable corporate tax structure has prompted state lawmakers to approve emergency legislation.
Critics have questioned the timing and purpose of the special session. But rather than head out on holiday vacations, the state's part-time legislators met Friday in Salem on four days' notice and voted to give the world's largest athletic shoe and apparel company the assurances it demanded.
The deal was evidence of the lengths Oregon leaders will go to in order to protect the state's best-known company, and the economic footprint, with its trademark swoosh, that Nike has in the state.
"We have a wonderful, wonderful company that's going to be remaining in Oregon because of what we're doing here today," said Democratic Sen. Ginny Burdick of Portland.
Gov. John Kitzhaber's decision to call the special session stunned lawmakers who didn't see it coming, underscoring that even as tax incentives have become a common tool for politicians to lure large employers, Nike's deal is unconventional.
The meeting cost taxpayers $13,000 and came less than two months before the regular legislative session was set to convene. It is aimed at maintaining the status quo, rather than approving new tax breaks.
Such factors led Kitzhaber to acknowledge the emergency legislative session was "extraordinarily awkward."
Still, Nike plans to create 500 or more jobs and invest at least $150 million in an expansion if the so-called "single sales factor" tax benefit remains in place, according to the Democratic governor. The governor will sign the bill, potentially as soon as next week, spokesman Tim Raphael said.
It was unclear whether Nike would actually move to expand outside of Oregon ? a company spokeswoman refused to say ? but the mere threat was enough to prompt action.
In a statement, Nike spokeswoman Mary Remuzzi thanked legislators for acting "quickly and decisively."
"This is a very positive step forward, not only for our company but for the state of Oregon," the statement said.
The prospect of many new workers is critical in a state that has no sales tax, limited property taxes and relies heavily on personal income taxes, said Republican Rep. Vicki Berger of Salem.
Nike employs thousands of people in Oregon, many of them at its headquarters in relatively high-wage jobs, including legal, design, sales, information technology and corporate strategy.
Company officials have been mum about their expansion plans, refusing to say where they'll build or what the new workers will do.
The company's presence near Beaverton, a Portland suburb, has helped make the area a hub for athletic and outdoor apparel companies. Columbia Sportswear's global headquarters is in Beaverton, and Adidas has its North American headquarters in Portland.
Nike has deep roots in Oregon, where it was created in the 1960s by a former middle-distance runner and his college track coach. Together, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman built the company into one of the globe's most influential brands.
Knight also is the largest contributor to University of Oregon athletics, and his money is considered a key factor in vaulting the school's football program into national prominence.
Kitzhaber has said Nike approached his staff about a month ago, saying the company was being courted by other states but would expand in Oregon if officials promised to keep in place the substantial tax benefits for companies that employ many people in Oregon but sell most of their goods elsewhere.
The legislation passed Friday would authorize the governor to give Nike that promise for up to 30 years.
A handful of people opposed to the legislation set up anti-Nike signs in front of the Capitol as lawmakers met inside.
"You cannot do this in such a rushed manner, and this is just not an emergency," Susan Barrett of Portland told lawmakers.
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Meredith Bagby: Harvard Study Reports: In Fiscal Cliff Talks, States May Lose
You haven't heard a lot about it so far in the fiscal cliff debate, but a new report out from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania indicates that the majority of the "pain" to come from budget cuts will trickle down to states and cities. As a result, our local governments will undoubtedly have to cut back on basic services to citizens. K-12 education, nutrition for kids, policing, funding of public universities and the maintenance of our roads, bridges and parks could take the biggest hits.
The States Project, produced by Harvard University's Institute of Politics and the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute, as well as the American Education Foundation (of which I am the current Executive Director), explains it this way:
If past is prologue, lawmakers will likely try to avoid big cuts to the most politically protected programs -- Social Security, Medicare and defense -- which together make up over half of the federal budget. Once all mandatory spending is considered (including Social Security, Medicare, interest on the debt, and block grants to Medicaid), a relatively small portion of the national budget -- less than 30% -- is left to debate. Contained in that 30% are many of the discretionary block grants to states, which help support programs that are crucial to the everyday lives of Americans: K-12 education, funding for colleges and universities, unemployment compensation, public housing, school lunch programs, state parks, and infrastructure. While grants make up only 16% of federal outlays as a whole, they make up more than 40% of this discretionary portion of the budget" -- or the part of the budget most likely headed for the chopping block.
The report notes that state block grants are on the chopping block because states don't really have advocates in Washington to lobby for state interests. There is no formal avenue by which state representatives can participate in the federal budget process -- a serious fault in our political system, and one that has real consequences for states and their citizens in the coming era of fiscal austerity.
Concerned governors formed an emergency bipartisan coalition to lobby the federal government on these issues. The group met with Vice President Biden last week to make their concerns heard. Even so, state concerns will likely get drowned out by the louder partisan noise between the national parties.
According to the Harvard/Penn report, Medicaid is the largest category of state block grants, accounting for almost 43 percent of all federal grants, or $265 billion in fiscal year 2011. Other social safety net programs (unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc.) constitute about 17 percent of the federal grants to states; education and training make up another 17 percent; and infrastructure and capital needs are roughly 16 percent.
The president's budget for fiscal year 2013 projects increases in grants to states for "mandatory" programs -- driven primarily by rapid growth in Medicaid, which will be expanded by the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). But the same budget projects a decline in outlays for almost everything else. According to the Congressional Budget Office, spending for education, transportation, housing and welfare programs for children will likely shrink by 35 percent between 2012 and 2022. Conversely, the CBO expects federal spending for Medicaid and CHIP to increase by 47 percent in those years.
The report says that these projections indicate that Medicaid is "crowding out" other areas of state spending. Assuming that the federal government has dwindling funds for state block grants, Medicaid will take a greater share of the total, leaving less available for other state spending needs.
The consequences of the reductions in federal block grants to states will trickle down to cities and localities, which are, in many ways, the most vulnerable part of our governmental structure. In order to balance budgets, state governments will likely have to cut spending to local governments. State aid to local governments represents the largest source of revenues for municipalities, comprising approximately 34 percent of municipal budgets.
The States Project indicates that many local governments may face major budget shortfalls if state aid is significantly reduced, having already depleted "rainy day" funds during the Great Recession. In addition, raising municipal debt may be more difficult if cities are perceived to be a bad credit risk. The recent Chapter 9 defaults of some larger cities like Stockton or San Bernardino, both in California, as well as a plethora of credit downgrades for other cities, may give investors pause. From 2009 to 2011, for example, municipal downgrades by Moody's have outnumbered upgrades by three to one.
"Since cities are the last stop on the government money train, budget gaps for localities will have to be addressed primarily with a combination of reductions in public services, some privatization, and tax increases," said the report.
Fragile state and local economies are just getting over the recession. Tax revenues are edging up, but they still have not returned to 2008 levels. Further, the fiscal stimulus, which buoyed state economies and saved thousands of local government jobs, has ended. Meanwhile, states are struggling to care for historically large numbers of poor and unemployed citizens, to fix deteriorating roads and bridges, and, most importantly, to educate our young.
The worry is that just as states are getting back on their collective feet, they will be sent back into deficits by fiscal austerity in Washington. What is most troubling to state leaders is that they will have very little to say about it.
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