How do I get iPhoto to refresh photo stream

If I take a photo on my iphone, it adds it to my photostream. MyiPad photostream updates within seconds automatically. But the photostream in iPhoto only updates when I quit iPhoto and restart it.
Is there a way to make photsteram in iPhoto on my Mac do an automatic regular refresh while it is still open?
I want this as I want all my photos I take while I am away to sync to my Mac photostream and then automatically import into iPhoto so they are all safe and backed up on my Mac and Timemachine  even over the 30 days that photosteram keeps them And I want to leave ipoto switched on all the time I am away to faciltate this
But I need it to sync....

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Disable, then re-enable Photo Stream in iPhoto's settings. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
Then click Clear Display again. Quit and relaunch iPhoto. Post the messages that appear.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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