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Contacting the dead with the CT Medium

To Kate Howe, the proclaimed CT Medium, anyone can be a medium.

Anyone who has intuition is a psychic, said Howe. You have to acknowledge your psychic abilities in order to become a medium because youre completely reliant on that intuition when youre sitting down with someone.

Howe knew she was called to be a medium ever since she was a kid, however, it was not until 2006 when Howe pursued her mission in helping those on Earth connect with their loved ones who have passed. Consequently, Howe had to channel her own guides and loved ones in order to steer her in the right direction of helping others with her gifts.

I connect with my own guides; my own loved ones who have passed, said Howe. My mother, who passed away when I was 21, was the one who came to me and told me that I had to help other people with their grief.

Stationed at her office in Unionville, Conn., Howe stated that she has read over 1,000 people within the past four years. There, she holds gallery readings for large groups as well as spiritual life coaching for those who find themselves at a crossroads in their lives.

Howe says that she is able to connect with peoples intuition, however, she is able to use this intuition to go deeper than just the validation of a connection with a loved one.

I have more of an ability to connect with peoples intuition, or their soulful voice, said Howe. Ill be able to sit with somebody during a session, and validate if one of their loved ones are around, but I always tend to go deeper than just validation about their loved ones.

When connecting with loved ones, Howe says that it is possible to connect with beings that arent necessarily human, including angels, and even pets.

I believe its just a beautiful expression of unconditional love thats human that they can tap into, said Howe. Its almost easier to connect with some pets because there is no ego getting in the way of their connection.

Despite the tranquility often associated with connecting with a loved one who has passed, Howe admits there are often times where negative energy is involved, especially when there was a troubled relationship between the two connecting parties.

There was this one time that I was reading this woman, and my whole body was filled with chills. I started to feel almost afraid, said Howe. I said who is this terrible male energy that is trying to connect with you?, and she said oh, I dont want to connect with him.

That terrible, negative male energy happened to be the womans father who had previously abused her. Though, despite encounters such as these, Howe describes that this negative energy does not occur naturally. Negative energy, she says, stems from fear and is a result of how we project our energy through that fear.

In order to block out negative energy, Howe says she builds a barrier around her energy so that negative energy does not permeate through during her readings.

When describing where energy comes from, Howe said that energy is all around us and stems from everything, including inanimate objects.

Energy is just something innate in our world. Everything around us emits energy; that includes humans, objects, chairs, and cars, said Howe.

Energy also serves as an intersection between the art of being a medium, and the realm of spirituality and religion. Howe, who grew up Episcopalian, believes that spirituality is central to being a medium, however, the basis of spirituality in the field is complex.

I believe the basis of spirituality goes a little bit further than religion. I think with religion, we are reminded of certain aspects [of spirituality.], said Howe. If youre a religious person, you are familiar with prayer, or meditation, and that connects with the spiritual world [but] my belief is that all of those beings are in the same circle of spirit.

Considering a career as a medium?

Howe said the first step is to trust in your intuition, which is the way to connect with others, however, that validation has to be internal.

If you feel called to the profession, and hone your confidence, perhaps you too can connect people on Earth with those who have passed.

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Which nursing homes are the best in Pennsylvania? Newsweek teamed up with data research firm Statista Inc. to find out.

They analyzed more than 15,000 nursing homes in 20 states (selected based on population) and came up with a list of 406 that they recognize as being among the best, including 39 in Pennsylvania.

The analysis looked at single branches of nursing homes, not groups or chains. The nursing homes had to have at least 150 certified beds to be considered. They relied upon a "reputation survey" of medical experts, and data on the nursing homes' performance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. More information about the methodology is available here.

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These are the 10 nursing homes Newsweek says are the best in Pennsylvania, including several in central Pennsylvania:

No. 10 - Rehab at Shannondell, (Audubon, Montgomery County)

Rehab at Shannondell specializes in orthopaedic rehab, cardiac rehab and skilled nursing care, for adults of all ages.

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No. 9 - Masonic Village at Elizabethtown, (Elizabethtown, Lancaster County)

Masonic Village at Elizabethtown, a continuing care retirement community, is one of three Lancaster County nursing homes on the list.

No. 8 - Attleboro Nursing & Rehab Center, (Langhorne, Bucks County)

Attleboro is a continuing care retirement community, offering independent living, personal care and skilled nursing.

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No. 7 - Abramson Senior Care Residence, (North Wales, Montgomery County)

Abramson Center, with roots that go back to 1866, is a continuing care retirement community serving the Philadelphia area.

No. 6 - Southeastern Veterans' Center, (Spring City, Chester County)

This facility was dedicated in December 1986.

No. 5 - Glen Hazel Center, (Pittsburgh, Allegheny County)

Messiah Village's new Village Square and Hopewell grand opening. The $80 million Project Envision expansion includes Village Square with 84 apartment homes, two restaurants, wellness and enrichment centers, and a saltwater pool. January 23, 2018. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive

No. 4 - Messiah Lifeways at Messiah Village, (Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County)

Out of Cumberland Countys 17 nursing homes, Messiah Lifeways is the only one to make the list. Founded in 1896, the non-profit organization offers resident communities, nursing care, life coaching, enrichment opportunities and community support services. It is a continuing care retirement community.

No. 3 - The Lutheran Home at Topton, (Topton, Berks County)

The Lutheran Home at Topton is a continuing care retirement community. It offers independent living, personal care, memory care, short-term rehabilitation and traditional skilled nursing.

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No. 2 - Mennonite Home, (Lancaster, Lancaster County)

The Mennonite Home was founded in 1903. It is a continuing care retirement community, offering personal care, rehab care, secure memory care and nursing care.Lancaster County is well represented on the top-10 list. Three out of the 10 call Lancaster County home.

No. 1 - The Glen at Willow Valley, (Lancaster, Lancaster County)

The Glen offers a range of support services from short-term rehab due to surgery or illness, to more specialized memory support for Alzheimers and other cognitive disorders. It is a continuing care retirement community.

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Eight of the top 10 are continuing care retirement communities. Newsweek identifies a continuing care retirement community as "part independent living, part assisted living and part skilled nursing home, CCRCs offer a tiered approach to the aging process, accommodating residents' changing needs. Upon entering, healthy adults can reside independently in single-family homes, apartments or condominiums. When assistance with everyday activities becomes necessary, they can move into assisted living or nursing care facilities."

All of the top 10 nursing homes offer resident council, identified by Newsweek as "an independent, organized group of persons living in a nursing facility who meet on a regular basis to discuss concerns, develop suggestions, and plan activities."

Five of the top 10 offer family council. According to Newsweek, "A family council operates by and for families of persons who live in nursing homes and boarding care homes. Family Council participants advocate for the well-being of their relatives by partnering with them in promoting and enhancing quality of daily life."

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For a look at other Pennsylvania nursing homes that made the list, and their rank, you can access the full report here.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health, in its September 2019 report, highlights nursing home inspection and sanction information.The department also maintains a searchable database that provides patient care and building safety surveys as well as other information about the nearly 700 nursing home in the state.

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EAGAN Eric Kendricks and Danielle Hunter embraced in celebration on the ground after making a tackle against the Oakland Raiders. The FOX television cameras caught them smiling, looking like kids on the playground.

Kendricks likes to add a little extra to his celebrations. Last week against the Eagles, the entire defense posed for photos after an interception. Kendricks did a handstand.

Hes playing with the energy and enthusiasm of someone who has just fallen in love with football and it is showing up in the results. Pro Football Focus currently ranks him as the second best linebacker in the game. Hes No. 1 versus the run and leads the NFL in passes defended.

Hes really developed nicely from his first practice where he was wide-eyed and trying to run around and make every play, linebackers coach Adam Zimmer said. He knows the defense. He anticipates plays before they come. He has incredible instincts that aid in all thathes a student of the gameeach game and each year hes gotten a lot better.

The former UCLA standout, who was largely considered too small to be a first-round pick, is reaching the top of the mountain. He signed a five-year, $50 million in April 2018 and now hes the point hes gone from a young player who tried too hard to make plays at times to consistently one of the top linebackers in the game. On a conference call Monday, he acknowledged he would love to make his first Pro Bowl.

I always feel like Im a just a little underrated, Kendricks said. It is how its going to be. Im trying to be the best person I can be and trying to accomplish things that Ive never accomplished before. So that being one of them, I would definitely say [making the Pro Bowl] on the list of things to do but it doesnt take over my motivation or anything like that.

At 27, Kendricks has reached that age where people start to see the entire picture.

His position coach says that he has a full understanding of offenses, defenses, route combinations, ways to communicate with teammates and when he should be aggressive.

I think he has a really good grasp of the coverage scheme, Zimmer said. This has been the most consistent hes been in coverage for us as far as playing disciplined in your zone, not trying to do too much and knowing where everyone else is and that often comes with experience. Hes seen pretty much everything from an offensive standpoint. He can anticipate whats happening even better. Hes not seeing ghosts or trying to jump somethinghes been the most consistent that hes been throughout his career.

Aside from the hardcore football knowledge required of middle linebackers, he can also see how certain things impacted him in life. Things like his fathers crack cocaine addiction and being raised by a hard-working mother. He can see the difference football made in his life.

Ive always thought about coaching, Kendricks said. I dont know if its going to be high school or Pop Warner but I feel like at some point in my life I have to give back some of my knowledge to the youth. I always pictured myself coaching young kids.

This game, I love it, not only do I love it but it got me out of situations when I was a kid and allowed me to escape, he added. I feel like thats my reason that I want to give backhelp kids who are in certain situations.

His desire to someday teach doesnt surprise anyone in the Vikings facility.

Ive seen him when hes come to camps that my dad has done and hes great interacting with kids, Zimmer said. He has a really good knowledge of the game. I asked him and he said hed probably coach high school or something like that because he gets to be around kids and develop people who are like him. His personality is outgoing and I think hed do a good job.

Kendricks linebacking partner Anthony Barr, who has been playing by his side since the two were together at UCLA, agreed with his position coach.

I think it would be perfect, Barr said. Hes got a lot of energy and hes going to bring a lot of intensity but hes also patient, intelligent person who can communicate and simplify things for kids.

Barr also didnt have things easy in his youth. He was raised by a single mother and has since started a foundation to assist single-parent households. He fully understands the call to pay it forward.

We were once in a position where we didnt have everything that we do now and we see somebody in need and not as fortunate as we are its kind of our duty and our job to help as many people as we can to help them accomplish goals and give opportunities to at least have a chance and do our part, Barr said.

Kendricks coaching future is already in the works with several young understudies in the linebackers room. Eric Wilson and Ben Gedeon both joined the team as rookies in 2017 and have played roles in the defense, Wilson as a fill-in for Barr or Kendricks and Gedeon as a run-stuffing specialist. Both players have grown in part because of the tutelage of the starter.

He understands the whole defense and where he fits in that, Wilson said. He understands when he can be aggressive and when not to be. When I played that position he helped me out and told me some things that I need to know that are different from playing outside. Middle linebacker, you are in the middle of the field and you cant go somewhere too fast, you have to understand defenses and offense and how you relate and he does a great job of that.

With Eric, I think hes learned a bunch about route concepts and how our schemes match up to some of the offenses that were playing, Gedeon said. Its helped me and Eric Wilson. They are coaches on the field and are always trying to help us out a lot.

Zimmer has seen the impact that a player who takes a coachs mindset can have on others.

You need to be outspoken, you need to be confident in yourself, he definitely has both of those things, Zimmer said. He will blurt stuff out all the time, sometimes random questions and thats good because there might be other guys in the room that are wondering the same thing or had the same question. That helps out the whole team.

No matter what the craft, theres a funny effect from teaching others: It sharpens your understanding as well. Kendricks credits teaching with helping his in own elevation.

It does [make you better], he said. If you are going to be telling someone to do something a certain way or suggesting something, you better be damn sure you are practicing what you preach.

Theres also the pride that coaches feel when they see their understudies succeed. Kendricks is looking forward to that when he someday works with up-and-coming players. Of course, there are many coaches who already know that feeling because of who Kendricks has become.

To see someone like Eric come from his background and see him become the guy in the community he is, the guy in the locker room he is, the person he is really speaks volumes about him, Zimmer said.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. New Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator Vance Joseph has no interest in relitigating the Denver Broncos decision to fire him after only two seasons. Joseph has moved on.

Then again, he gets the interest in the topic.

With the dearth of minority representation at the highest coaching ranks of the NFL (the league has only four head coaches of color), any change is significant in an African American league whose on-field workforce is nearly 70% black. And while commissioner Roger Goodell continues to acknowledge the NFL has a problem on this front and must do better, Josephs situation illustrates that the things are still trending the wrong way with no clear path toward improvement in sight.

Its just the culture of the NFL right now, Joseph said after practice at the Cardinals headquarters recently. Obviously, I wasnt happy about that [being fired after only 32 games on the job]. And its true that some situations [to succeed as a head coach] are better than others, but you have to win.

No matter what job you take, you have to win early now. Thats a very big part of it. Everyone goes into it with their eyes open about that. So when we look at the numbers [of minorities currently leading teams] and whatever may happen in the future, you have to understand thats just the way it is.

The pressure to win immediately, at least in part, also resulted in Steve Wilks being sacked in Arizona after a 3-13 season his first occupying a head coachs office (Wilks is now the Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator). When the 2018 season began, the league had eight head coaches of color, matching 2011 and 2017 as the most it has had in any season.

Joseph, Wilks and Todd Bowles, formerly of the New York Jets, were among the head coaches fired at the end of last season (Bowles quickly resurfaced as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator). Marvin Lewis and the Cincinnati Bengals, meanwhile, mutually agreed to part ways in December with a year remaining on his contract. And Browns head coach Hue Jackson was ousted during the 2018 regular season.

Currently, Brian Flores of the Miami Dolphins, Ron Rivera of the Carolina Panthers, Anthony Lynn of the Los Angeles Chargers and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers are the leagues only head coaches of color. The NFL has 32 teams.

To some longtime observers of the leagues efforts to increase inclusive hiring among head coaches, the firings of Joseph and Wilks were particularly unsettling.

During Josephs two seasons leading the Broncos, they started four quarterbacks none of whom was, to put it kindly, a top-notch passer and went 11-21. In a league in which having an elite signal-caller is the key to success, its hard to win much if you dont have one.

Then theres Arizona.

The Cardinals ousted Wilks despite being in the midst of their latest rebuild, which continues this season under Wilks successor, Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury. The fact that the Cardinals fired Wilks and hired Kingsbury, who had no previous NFL experience, was also a crushing blow for minority assistant coaches, several coaches said. In six seasons at Texas Tech, his alma mater, Kingsbury went 35-40, never won more than eight games in a season and never had a team ranked in the final polls.

Theres no sugarcoating it: The optics are bad.

Rod Graves, who was hired in April as the new executive director of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which assists the league in its goal of improving diversity in management, understands that winning is the bottom line. However, he said, owners who say theyre committed to diversity must prove it through their actions.

Its important for owners to they have to embrace it, said Graves, formerly the NFLs senior vice president of football administration and club services and Arizonas general manager from 2003 to 2012.

Owners have to take the question of diversity seriously. The consensus has to be that owners will make this [improved inclusive hiring] part of their business plan and that they will because its good for the game, its good for business [and] its good for our fans.

The Rooney Rule, in place since 2003 for head coaches and expanded in 2009 to include general manager jobs and equivalent front-office positions, states that an NFL team must interview at least one candidate of color for those jobs. Theres no doubt that the rule named after Dan Rooney, the late Pittsburgh Steelers chairman and onetime head of the leagues diversity committee has had a positive overall impact on the NFLs culture, but it recently became clear that the rule needed to be modified.

Last December, the league required that teams interview a minority candidate from outside their organizations or candidates from a league-approved list. The potential for sham interviews has always been the rules underlying flaw. Teams could comply with the letter of the rule by merely interviewing a coach of color regardless of whether the candidate had the credentials to be considered, in earnest, for a head-coaching position. With more uniformity to the process because of the rule change, the expectation is that teams will interview in-house candidates who have the credentials to warrant serious consideration.

Graves also hopes that experienced minority coaches such as Joseph and Wilks will get more than one bite at the apple.

For coaches of color and front-office executives of color, we have not seen repeat opportunities as often as we would like, Graves said. Its a major issue.

Joseph was a rising rock star when Denver general manager John Elway tapped the then-Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator to lead the Broncos. Likewise, Kingsbury identified Joseph as the right person to be his top lieutenant.

I knew I wanted a guy I could lean on [and say], Youre taking this defense, handle it, do your thing, said Kingsbury, who received rave reviews from other coaches about Josephs leadership skills. And hes been awesome for me, just to bounce ideas off of.

Ive got so many questions that a first-year head coach would have. And to have a guy who was just in that seat [and to be able to ask him], what would he have done differently, What did you do that you liked? All those questions have been phenomenal for me.

Joseph, too, has embraced his role.

Its flattering he trusts me with his defense. Obviously, though, hes the head coach and I run everything by him, Joseph said. But he gives me the authority to coach the defense, and thats on and off the field. That works for us. So far, its a perfect marriage.

Although the Cardinals (2-3-1) are in last place in the NFC West, rookie quarterback Kyler Murray, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NFL draft, has been a bright spot for a franchise that last qualified for the postseason in 2015 and has made the playoffs just six times since the 1976 season. Opponents are averaging 28.5 points against the rebuilding Cardinals, the fourth-highest total in the league, but Josephs overall impact on the team is evident in ways not measured by stats alone.

Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals (left) hugs then-head coach Vance Joseph (right) in 2018.

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Coach Joseph you just respect him as a man, 11-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald said. You always admire him for what hes done on the football field, and from the times youve talked to him.

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But getting to know him over the last few months, you just have that much more respect for him. Thats because you get to hear about his stories, where he started, the places hes been and the guys that hes coached. Hes the type of guy who his players are going to play really hard for him.

Although Joseph is squarely focused on helping to turn around the Cardinals, hed welcome another opportunity to prove hes capable of running an entire operation successfully. Call it unfinished business.

I really appreciate John [Elway] and the Bowlen family [the Broncos owners] for giving me a chance to be their head coach for two years. I have no bitterness at all, Joseph said. Hopefully, if I hang in there and do the right things, Ill get my chance again. Having a chance to do it the first time, your second time is only going to be better.

Jason Reid is the senior NFL writer at The Undefeated. He enjoys watching sports, especially any games involving his son and daughter.

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It says a lot about how bad Tennessee has been this year that simply losing to the Volunteers prompts emotional, soul-searching press conferences from the opposing coach.

Thats what Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead delivered Monday after his Bulldogs lost to Tennessee, 20-10, in a game that infuriated the MSU faithful. In a more than six-minute opening statement, a defeated-looking Moorhead admitted that coaching in the Southeastern Conference hasnt been a breeze.

Coaching in the SEC for about a year-and-a-half now in a lot of ways has been a humbling experience, Moorhead said. I dont think you get to this point where I am without a certain level of success, and of confidence, but this game and the SEC, it has a way of keeping you honest.

Nineteen games.

Thats all it took for Moorhead to sound like a man in over his head and a fanbase to want to turn to the page to someone new. Its not like Moorhead had never coached big-time football before arriving at Mississippi State, either. He was a very successful offensive coordinator under James Franklin at Penn State, rejuvenating a program to back-to-back 11 win seasons in the competitive Big Ten. He was a hot name after that 2017 season and could have been a player in multiple job openings before taking the Mississippi State job.

But theres something different about coaching in the SEC especially the SEC West. Every coach in the SEC West makes at least $3 million with three of the seven making upwards of $6.5 million. Those kinds of salaries come with big expectations regardless of whether they are realistic or not. In order to move up in the pecking order someone has to move down which isnt easy in a division that includes Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Texas A&M.

Moorhead walked into a particularly difficult situation in Starkville having to replace a coach who raised the bar on fan expectations. Mullen guided the Bulldogs to their first-ever No. 1 ranking in 2014, eight bowl games in nine seasons and a reputation for always being ready to compete even against good opponents. Mullen wasnt perfect at MSU and could never completely get the Bulldogs over the hump but he let fans dream bigger. They could let their imaginations wander about all the great things they could achieve with the right coach and right players.

Its why Saturdays loss to a downtrodden Tennessee program feels like such a nightmare in Starkville. Fans thought they were past embarrassing losses like that and rightfully feel the program is trending in the wrong direction under Moorhead. There are now real concerns about MSU missing a bowl game for the first time since 2009, with the Bulldogs needing at least one win against LSU, Texas A&M, Alabama or in-state rival Ole Miss.

Nothing means more to me than to bring a consistently successful championship-level program at Mississippi State, Moorhead said. Every waking moment of my life not spent with my family, is utilized in an effort to make it happen.

It makes losing games so difficult because of the investment. Its not just a loss, it crushes your soul and you never get over it, but you learn to live with it.

Moorhead might one day decide he doesnt want to live with the pressure and expectations that come with coaching in the SEC West. He knows not everywhere around the country will an 11-8 record through 19 games prompt fan pushback and calls for a coaching change. Moorhead is a well-liked coach who is down-to-Earth and remarkably normal in an industry full of ego and paranoia. Hed get another job, whether as a head coach or coordinator, even if Mississippi State kept trending downward.

Football Scoop had a long piece earlier this month detailing why it could make sense for Moorhead to leave MSU to go to Rutgers. Moorhead, a born and bred Pennsylvanian, had never coached below the Mason-Dixon line before heading to Mississippi State and could presumably, the theory goes, want to return to his Northeast roots. Rutgers has interest in the former Penn State coordinator replacing Chris Ash, according to NJ.com, and Moorhead danced around the possibility when asked about it.

It would be a massive step down for Moorhead even if it meant going to a Big 10 program. There isnt a worse Power 5 job in the country than Rutgers which doesnt get 1/100th of the in-state attention and support that Mississippi State does. Greg Schiano was mostly beloved at Rutgers and he was all of one game above .500 during his 11 seasons there. Its only gotten harder to win since then with Rutgers now in the dreaded Big Ten East division with Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan and Michigan State.

But itd represent possibly a good change in the quality of life. Moorhead told a story Monday about his 18-year old daughter Kyra coming up to him after the game crying and saying MSU fans at Neyland Stadium told her how much her dad sucked.

At Rutgers, losing to Tennessee by 10 would prompt tears of joy not sorrow.

John Talty is an SEC Insider for Alabama Media Group. You can follow him on Twitter @JTalty.

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) October 14, 2019

Renowned Life and Corporate Mentor, Kimberly Lou, is releasing her fourth book, "Becoming Who You're Meant to Be: Eliminate Destructive Patterns and Unlock the Ultimate You," an integrative self-help guide offering readers the tools to tap into their own ability to take control of their personal story and achieve the next level of success in their personal and professional careers.

In Becoming Who You're Meant to Be, Lou is addressing the three core elements required to achieve an optimized life: mental focus, emotional fitness and physical training.

"What gives some people the ability to take their lives to heightened levels of success, while others can barely make it through the day? How can we become the person we know deep down we were meant to be without burning out or breaking down? Many of you are already successful, but it seems like its impossible to reach your greatest potential because you feel you are already operating at your maximum capacity." Says Kimberly Lou.

"What if I were to tell you that there is a source so great and so powerful within you that all you need to do is tap into it? I am here to tell you there is a whole other level of success you never even knew existed. Imagine a great source that is enormously rewarding, yet all it takes to access this source is a change of your old ideas."

In Becoming Who You're Meant to Be, Lou teaches readers how to build a solid foundation for a new life using personal freedom as their foundation.

Kimberlys programs are geared towards men and women looking for more than just standard life-coaching, in order to excel at the maximum level of their ability without burning out. She expands the concept of fitness to address personal accountability, mindset, nutrition and physical exercise a fully cohesive approach to sustainable health and success.

Lou is not only giving readers the tools for success, she's showing them how to put those tools into practice in order to motivate them to write their own story and dictate the future of their personal and professional successes.

Becoming Who You're Meant to Be is now available on Amazon (Paperback or Hard Cover), Kindle and Audible.

KIMBERLY LOU is an integrative Life and Corporate Mentor who coaches top CEOs, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world-class athletes around the world. She helps clients accelerate and thrive through mental focus, emotional fitness and physical training. In addition to Kimberlys mentoring programs, she is an accomplished author, and a nationally recognized spokesperson for mental health and wellness. With over two decades of experience and extensive education, Advanced Fitness and Certified Wellness Specialist, Kimberly Lou creates attainable solutions using techniques that work at all fitness and wellness levels. Kimberly Lou has helped doctors create programs addressing mental illness, cognitive disabilities, and major addictions, in addition to, facilitating workshops and support groups for clients struggling with cognitive, mental, emotional, drug, and eating disorders.

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"I'm PC. That might give you pause, but I am," says the 73 year old Pope of trash.

Early into John Waters 90-minute Make Trouble show at the Sydney Opera House a delightful mix of stand-up comedy, career retrospective and life coaching he sets out the nights agenda: were working towards a new kind of ghastly.

John Waters knows ghastly: he hasnt made a career off generating pearl-clutching so much as snatching the whole necklace and letting them scatter on the ground.

Fifty years since their release, his biggest films Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos continue to make conservatives trip over their filthy irreverenceShowgirls-style. While he hasnt directed a film since 2004, his many books, live shows and festivals continue to inspire queerdoes across the globe, including his latest book, Mr. Know It All.

If you missed out on Make Trouble, here are six pieces of advice Waters had, from navigating PC culture with irreverence, accepting your flaws and amending one of his most famous quotes.

We were a little worried when Waters referenced how college audiences require trigger warnings early into the night, but despite the continual references to PC culture, he never teetered into Jerry Seinfeld or Dave Chappelle territory.

Yes, Waters referenced not being able to get away with sleeping with your colleagues and questioned how difficult it is to be a delinquent in 2019, but his millennial bashing always came from a place of warmth. The harsh reality of PC culture is that parts of it are ridiculous we often lose our points in semantics, or celebrate war criminals for being feminist icons and Waters reminds us its okay to laugh at it.

The difference was that Waters, impressively, always punched up. There was always an empathy to his jokes, whether about college campus politics, people with emotional support animals, or autosexuals claiming to be the final letter of the LGBTIQA+ acronym. It was unlike anything wed seen before in stand-up at this level: a nuanced position built up over decades as one of the queer communitys leaders, and a sign that a 73-year-old can listen to todays emerging voices and opinions.

When Waters said, Im PC. That might give you pause, but I am, he fought against the connotations and limitations of the term, where conservatives have turned caring about people into a dismissive punchline.

Of course, he isnt perfect (a tangent about how Johnny Depp was always a gentleman during filming of Cry-Babywas unnecessary, to say the least) but Make Trouble, without directly saying it, demanded a more nuanced way of navigating the world, one where one comment doesnt invalidate all others.

Where many older queer men struggle with anything that doesnt centre themselves, Waters repeatedly noted that the trans community were the new target of conservatives and need the wider communitys support.

At one point, Waters went off about TERFS trans exclusionary radical feminists, who believe trans women are not real women and grew up privileged as they were assigned male. But, of course,he did this in a distinctly trashy way, imagining Big Freedia running into a gender-neutral bathroom to piss on a Republican voters child.

Im PC. That might give you pause, but I am.

Waters also was ready to acknowledge that many of his films havent aged well in regard to trans issues, specifically referencing Desperate Living, but stood by a scene in Pink Flamingos where actress Elizabeth Williams flashes a male pervert by revealing her breasts and penis.

According to Waters, the scene was important to Williams, a trans woman, as it meant she was making the joke before anyone else could. Waters repeatedly mentioned owning the joke as a powerful move forward.

In one part, Waters asks what a juvenile delinquent looks like now, saying its a far cry from smoking behind the bleachers. He lands on hackers shutting down the government and the likes of Greta Thunberg, who he calls the one person that angers conservatives as much as trans people.

In short, he jokes that its not enough to just be gay to be a rebel against society: its a good start, he says, but to actually stand on the fringes, you have to do more than smoke cigarettes and suck dick. In an era where LGBTIQ identity and anti-establishment aesthetics have been co-opted by capitalism, we need to do more to make a stand.

Throughout Make Trouble, Waters keeps coming back to scatology. More than half a decade later, Divine eating dog poo in Pink Flamingos remains a steaming hot talking point, even though it wasnt really that weird for his freakish friends.

He calls Flamingos a film of limits, and makes a big deal about of pushing whats deemed acceptable and whats not today, that war is less about what eating shit than how you present and showing up in hostile spaces. In Waters world, eating shit is the same as being unapologetically you.

Still, he says theres power in the Trojan Horse approach, noting how even racists like Hairspray, and that Divines presence in the mainstream remains a beacon of weirdness and gender-subversion even if that was never her intent. Divine wasnt trans. He didnt want to be a woman, he notes. He wanted to be a monster. The latters still important, too.

Waters has made a living off irreverence, and recommends failing upwards and how he owes his early career to drug-fuelled brainstorms. While he doesnt suggest we all do the same, its a reminder to not take our lives so seriously.

Talking about Polyesters infamous smell-o-vision, he says, All over the world people gave me money to smell a fart. We should be so lucky.

At the end of the night, audience members stood behind mics and yelled out questions from the crowd. We ended on an important one: a fact-check as to whether Waters ever said his oft-attributed quote, if you go home with someone and they dont own books, dont fuck them.

He did, for reference, but wanted to give an update: If you go home with someone and they have books in their bathroom, dont fuck them. Some things remaintoo gross.

John Waters latest book Mr. Know It All is out now. Photo by Prudence Upton. His Australian tour continues in Melbourne on Friday 18 October at Hamer Hall, and Saturday 19 October at MONA in Hobart.

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For business organizations, teaching leaders how to coach can be a game-changer. It is not just value added, it is value multiplied.

Human Resource Executives who have implemented company-wide coaching programs affirm the profound impact of leaders acquiring the ability to coach and harnessing it to optimize performance, enhance workplace relationships, and fast-track employee development, among other results.

Monde Nissin HR Director Luchi Vitales introduced Coaching to her Senior Managers several years ago, enabling them to provide agile leadership as the company grew. The intervention helped to create a safe and nurturing environment where employees can productively talk about personal and professional concerns, learning needs and development goals, with leaders who genuinely listened. Heartened by the initial results, she extended the program to practically all leadership levels and campaigned to sustain the coaching practice.

The positive changes most widely acknowledged by the participants, she says, lay in essentially two areas first, that they developed a more holistic, strategic perspective in managing their respective teams and targets, vis--vis the corporate business thrusts; and second, that they acquired a stronger capability to effectively handle the behavioural issues of their people. These critical learning points are precious gains for every coaching advocate.

Vitales is, herself, a Professional Coach with credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was the 2011-2012 President of the ICF Philippines Chapter, the group organizing the International Coaching Summit for November 8, at the Conrad Hotel, Manila.

Designing coaching programs to build leaders, teaching leaders how to coach their people to their highest potentials, and bringing about a corporate coaching culture are just a few of the enticing subject matters covered by the Summit.

Championing the Coaching Culture

For many HR heads, striving to achieve a company culture that thrives on coaching can sound like chasing the holy grail. The challenge begins with a shift from the telling, instructing, and loading up mode of developing people, to stirring their own passions, drawing out what they truly want, and getting them to act on realizing the possibilities they see for themselves.

How deeply the practice takes root in the workplace is often the result of two factors HR making a stand for it, and top management championing the cause.

Senior Vice President of JG Summits Corporate Resources Group, Nic Lim, strongly underscores the critical role of leaders as coaching sponsor, champion, or advocate. They are the first to be convinced that this program will be of value to their own development and the whole organization, he says. They need to go through the whole process, in order to fully experience and apply the learnings back to their teams.

Lim believes that if an organization is to develop the coaching competency which involves listening skills, delivering feedback, delegating work and encouraging initiative, and if the ultimate intent is for everyone to demonstrate this competency, then development should start from the top. For him, it is imperative that leaders walk their talk. He stresses that leaders also need to evolve and they cannot give what they do not have.

A ripple effect is created in the whole organization when leaders start demonstrating their new skill sets in influencing and coaching their talents, he states. Then, learning by osmosis can easily take place.

PHINMA Corporations Vice President for Human Resources, Lin Mukhi, agrees. She relates that the case for a corporate coaching program first emerged during a business planning session, when people performance was highlighted as a key driver of organizational success. It was decided to institutionalize coaching as a way of life among our leaders, she shared. It was an initiative to strengthen their leadership pipeline, but it also laid down the tracks for cultivating a culture uniquely their own. Coaching training was launched in March 2015.

Our Executive Committee, together with the Presidents of our strategic business units, took the lead and got together for a day of coaching training, she recounts. The Management Committee members from our different businesses followed suit, and today, we make coaching training part of the program for employees moving up from individual contributor to people leader.

The top executives of PHINMA took the program as a journey of learning and re-learning, for and with their people. Mukhi recalls their President Ramon del Rosario Jr., and their Chief Operating Officer Roberto M. Lavina, issuing a joint statement which provided a compelling framework for what they had set out to do. It said This is an opportunity to deepen our leadership perspective. It is our people that got us where we are today, it will be our people who will take us where we want to be.

Mukhi notes with pride that what started as an action point to address their talent management risks, particularly the need for succession planning, has now become a distinctive mark of the PHINMA brand.

Valuing the Takeaways

Leaders consistently coaching their own people sets off a value chain that permeates the entire organizational performance.

Their biggest gain, Mukhi muses, lies in the tone they have set for their culture and how they lead people. The PHINMA service philosophy of Making Lives Better is now also pursued for the growth of our employees, she declares. She further points out that the People Practices Survey they use for measuring the success of their people initiatives has yielded inspiring outcomes. Comparative results over the first two years showed we moved up in percentage points on four indicators: Building Capability, Managing Performance, Leading and Inspiring People and Empowering and Involving People, she summed up.

At JG Summit, Lim is looking at specific desired outcomes. I see our leaders being skilled in giving and receiving feedback, such that they are able to make the coaching conversations even more effective and accurately targeted, he says. I see our leaders shaping the learning and coaching culture, breaking perceived communication barriers and the traditional functional silos.

Coaching is no panacea, says Monde Nissins Vitales, but it is definitely an organizational handle by which Leaders can be grounded on a culture of authentic connection to people. Assessing the impact of coaching on her organization, she says, There is now a balance of quantitative and qualitative inputs in conversations founded on the coaching process and discipline.

The experience has been gratifying, says Lim. Facilitating the transformation of individuals and organizations is a compelling cause. Coaching helps build satisfying and lasting relations at work. It is a great platform for keeping your talents continuously motivated to come to work.

The coming International Coaching Summit hosted by ICF Philippines is a great opportunity for Human Resource Development Executives and other people champions to acquire new inputs, and look at more exciting ways to sustain employee growth and engagement. Visit the ICF Philippines website to check out registration procedures, Summit content and flow, and the top-notch line-up of speakers and facilitators from the global coaching frontiers.

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They inspire fear and fascination in equal measure. Corofin are Galway's kingpins and today they look to secure their seventh county title in a row. It is a remarkable run by a tremendous team. Near-rivals Tuam Stars are the sole side left standing in their way.

It is a Tuam team that only saved their senior status with a late win in the relegation play-off last year. Then they were managed by Galway legend Ja Fallon. Now it is his staunch ally, Tommy Carton.

He is hoping to manufacture a monumental shock and for the first time since 1994, bring theFrank Fox Cup upCloontooa Road.

That year they faced Corofin too and it took extraordinary endeavour in the form of a last-gasp point to win it. The star who kicked that score was a young teenager by the name of Tommy Carton.

"I was only 19 at the time," recalls Carton. "We had such a good team that year. The Fallons and the ODeas, a rake of senior players. I was only out of minor football and had been playing with Jarlaths in school.

"94 we won a final. 95 we got there again and we were bet. Sure when you are young, I thought we would be in the county final every year! It was something like nine years later before we even reached a semi-final against Killererin.

"I finished up and they got to a final in 2011, again in 2012. No joy. The years fly by. We know now you have to grab them when they are there."

Carton did not expect the call when it came. Two club representatives arrived with a request. Could he take the senior team?

Even during his playing career with Galway, coaching always appealed to him. The Connacht schools programme and underage sides were the starting point but the top job in the club was a different matter entirely.

In a town like Tuam with its fill of football devotees, senior manager is the epitome of notoriety. The sense of adventure and duty was overwhelming.

It wasnt even in my sights in December. I didnt even consider it. Ja Fallon would be my best friend really. We worked together, we played together. We won all our county u21s and senior together. He was the manager.

He was doing his job but it is like everything. Your heart is always with your club and when you are asked, I said Id give it a go. I never really thought about being the Tuam manager. I knew Id be involved somehow but it was always underage. Once they asked I had to think about it seriously, but I found the two lads I wanted with me and we decided to go bald-headed at it.

It was not only a return to Tuam but a return to Gaelic football. After a lifetime playing and then coaching, Carton took a break entirely a few years back.

"I was sick of it," he explains. The time away was occupied by a new pursuit. Triathlons. Ironmans. Many have noted this team's exceptional fitness this year and there is a reason for it.

"That experience gave me a better look at running techniques, ways of developing fitness. I even started doing running classes for the club."

It was at Triathlon Club Tri-Lakes where Carton connected with local man Leo Hynes. They ran their first half Ironman together in Galway and bonded over a shared love of activity, unsurprisingly with football at the heart of it.

Then in 2015, Leo became visually impaired. After initially giving up sport, his love was reignited when his wife introduced him to atandem bike. Soon Carton became his partner and Hynes rejoined Tri-Lakes Club.

"He was cycling around the estate with the wife and she broke her hand so I said I would bring him out. It took persuading to get him to enter that sort of craic but it worked out.

"I pointed him in the right direction and he is still doing it. Leo is some man.He played away before, football and that. I suppose sport is funny. After he went blind he got a kick out of a few other things in fairness to him. Thats life, you need to have something. We have football."

The dominance of Sunday's opponent should not be mistaken as a sign of an uncompetitive championship. It took a late equaliser to force a replay for the All-Ireland champions in last year's county final and no other side came closer.

As far as Carton is concerned, Corofin are the cream of a capablecrop.

"The hardest thing for Corofin is to get out of the county and they would agree. Sometimes they go into Connacht and breeze through it. Last year they breezed through everyone after Galway. Plentygames this year they found it hard. Look at the results, they were pushed tight."

That is not to say there is any question about the size of the challenge. Three All-Ireland titles in five years tells its own story. They are the club game's galacticos. The innovators.

"The boogeyman," Carton declares with a nervous laugh.

"Look they are brilliant, they are absolutely brilliant. They can blitz a team in five minutes. Tuam are under no pressure and that is great. If we lose by ten or twenty points, it is expected.

"That is the general consensus, the bookmakers are giving us no chance. No one is. Perfect.

"At the end of the day, it is a game of football. There is no majesty about it. 15 against 15, you can dress it up as much as you want but this is a game of football for us. Anything can happen."

You need to have something. At the helm of his club on county final day with a chance to clinch aconsequential crown. Does it get much better?

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