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The MSc in Psychology of Health & Wellbeing is designed to prepare psychology graduates for the next stage of their career relating to health and wellbeing – whether in an academic or applied setting.
Keele has a vibrant, well-established and ever-expanding community of researchers in the psychology of health and wellbeing. Students will benefit from their expertise across a wide range of areas including health promotion, health literacy, women's health, ageing, positive psychology and wellbeing.
Staff additionally have expertise in community health psychology, including community-based health promotion for marginalized groups and exploring the benefits of the arts for health and wellbeing. As part of this course students will also have the exciting opportunity to undertake some work experience within a health-related organisation in the local community.
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Osmosis Live Wallpaper
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Flying through a sea of glowing alien cells in world of Osmosis!
This is high quality animated LiveWallpaper of the following colors cells!
Reacts to screen touches, tilting device and Cardinal direction.
It's simple, but amazing!
(Only for GLES 2.0 devices!)
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Update v 1.4
-minor bugs fixed
-now you can select move mode of light
Update v 1.5
-improved speed, now must works fine on Samsung I9000/I9001 and similar devices
-minors bugs fixed-fixed bug in OGL implementation, can be run last devices (eg. LG P880)
Update v 1.6 (big update)
-new name is Osmosis Live Wallpaper, Thanks for the inspiration to the user 'warmaster' from reddit.com
-fixed problem with button "Unlock all settings", the problem was on some devices
-added option "Custom color of light"
-added option "Light response to touch"
-added more options to "Select move mode of light": Around the screen, clockwise; Around the screen, counterclockwise; Compass, showing north; Compass, showing east; Compass, showing south; Compass, showing west
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I write theater to put words in the now, in the world, moving. Words that want things and fall on their faces. I write plays because theater is the territory where ideas and images mix in a funnier, more delicate way. I write theater also because I love actors. They teach me how to write — always looking for that place where everything is commonly mysterious and amazingly clear.
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and a playwright.
A Gargalhada de Augusto Reis (The laugh of Augusto Reis), his latest novel, has just come out (published by Porto Editora).
The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013 DST Distinguished Literature Award for the best book published in Portugal in the past two years.
Lucas Pires won the prestigious Prémio Europa/David Mourão-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Camões, Portugal) in 2008.
In the US, his stories have been published in St. Petersburg Review, The Common and the The Mass Review.
Jacinto Lucas Pires has written four novels, two short-story collections and two non-fiction books.
He has written several theater plays, staged by different groups — such as Universos e frigoríficos (Universes and refrigerators, 1998, APA/CCB, directed by Manuel Wiborg), Escrever, falar (Writing, speaking, 2001, Lilástico, directed by Marcos Barbosa), Figurantes (Extras, 2004, TNSJ, directed by Ricardo Pais), Exactamente Antunes (Exactly Antunes, 2011, TNSJ, directed by Cristina Carvalhal and Nuno Carinhas), Interpretação (Interpretation, 2014, Culturgest/Mundo Perfeito, directed by Tiago Rodrigues), Agora (Now, 2018, Ninguém, directed by Ivo Alexandre).
He plays with the band Os Quais, and he keeps the blog O que eu gosto de bombas de gasolina. His soccer column appears in O Jogo. He comments on political issues at Renascença Radio.
Joaquim works as an interpreter at the European institutions. Behind a glass, he translates other people's speeches. One day, he makes a mistake — a little one, a slight error, just a tiny thing — and it becomes a monumental misunderstanding. What, now the Euro crisis is all his fault? Is that possible? How can it be that, suddenly, our Joaquim's identity crisis becomes the European crisis?
A monologue with eighty-something people on stage, theater of the word playing with some of the best statistics, a tragedy that's also a comedy (one can never explain the whole thing in these abrupt synopses, I'm afraid). Me, you, Europe.


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This week Marty "Cappadonna" Sliva, Max "Masta Killa" Scoville, Brian "Inspectah Deck" Altano, and Andrew "U-God" Goldfarb talk about the madness of E3. God of War, Detroit, Death Stranding Persona 5, Last Guardian, Horizon, Batman VR, holy moly E3 2016 was incredible.Oh, also, head over and subscribe to our new PODCAST BEYOND YOUTUBE CHANNEL, where all of our full episodes and breakouts will live, alongside Let's Plays of PlayStation classics, PS+ games, and tons of exclusive videos.
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We're about to jump straight into the month of love but fear not cool singletons, we have cards that suit you and your sassy friends who don't need a man or woman each February, just click here for the best in anti-Valentines day cards! Oh but lovers, you can also click that link to find lovely loved up soppy cards (and not so soppy cards just in case you want to let them know you fancy them!). Don't want or need to buy a card? Well you know, we do other stuff there too if only you had a handy link which would take you straight to our shop selling funky prints and general greeting cards… oh look, here's that link again!
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2019 Beretta & SCI Foundation Conservation Leadership Award Gala Silent Auction Preview
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Katie McLaughlin '17 (Glenburn, Maine), a two-sport athlete honored for her athletics leadership during her time at Colby, will be an assistant coach for her second year after coaching last season under the College's Papadellis Family Internship.
McLaughlin works under women's hockey head coach Holley Tyng, for whom she played during her senior season.
McLaughlin, a forward, finished her hockey career with 27 goals and 34 assists for 61 career points. She led the Mules in scoring last year and was second in points her first three seasons. As a first-year, she tied for second in scoring with senior Annie Papadellis '14.
McLaughlin, who had 102 hits and played shortstop and third base during her softball career, earned the Marjorie D. Bither Award at the 29th Annual Senior Awards Ceremony in May 2017. The honor is for academic ability, athletic ability, and leadership in athletics and on campus.
McLaughlin was a two-year captain for women's hockey and was a rare three-time New England Small College Athletic Conference Winter All-Sportsmanship Team award winner. McLaughlin also earned NESCAC All-Academic Team honors four times.


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Who is the Silhouette?on May 25th, 2018
The book is here! After a harrowing but ultimately successful kickstarter and a number of delays Tom and I were able to get the files to the printer right after I finished my semester, and the first batch are here! They look amazing. We keep saying how thrilled we are by everything, to the point where the word "thrilled" is starting to lose all meaning, but damn it it's the right word and I'm gonna keep using it.
This weekend we will be doing a soft release at the Litchfield County Zine Fest in Connecticut, with a big debut next weekend at the Maine Comic Arts Festival in Portland ME. Once the shows are over and the rest of the books land on our doorstep we'll be shipping them out to backers and figuring out what comes next!


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Absolutely stunning specimen plant! Forms a very tall mound of upright blue-green foliage.
Hosta 'Gentle Giant' is impressive with its cupped leaves that are round and wavy.
Fast grower for such a large hosta.
A mature clump of 'Gentle Giant' demands attention, customers are always asking about ours!
One of the best blue hostas for sun tolerance although it does lose the wax coating faster and becomes more dark green.
Fertile lavender flowers early summer.
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Tompkins, Mayde Creek earn TASCO all-state spots in girls soccer
Katy ISD girls soccer teams were recognized with four all-state selections and seven all-region spots in Texas Association of Soccer Coaches postseason accolades.
Fittingly, state finalist Tompkins led the way with four players honored. Cinco Ranch, Mayde Creek and Seven Lakes were represented as well.
Tompkins sophomore defender Avery Burchett and junior forward Skylar Parker earned first-team all-state spots after helping to lead the Falcons to a 27-1-0 record and their second Region III-6A championship in three years.
Burchett recorded three assists while leading a defense that allowed merely 16 goals all season. Parker amassed 28 goals and 10 assists, good for 66 points.
The only Falcon with more points was honorable-mention all-state junior forward Barbara Olivieri, who had 31 goals, 16 assists. Her 78 points also earned the District 19-6A offensive MVP award.
Mayde Creek freshman goalkeeper Kirsten Baxa, voted 19-6A Goalkeeper of the Year, added second-team all-state honors to her remarkable debut season.
Tompkins junior defender Terin Graham made the TASCO Region III-6A first team, contributing 11 assists to the Falcons' near-undefeated season.
Cinco Ranch had two first-team all-region selections in senior defender Makayla Wang and junior forward Ashley Bencivengo. Wang was voted 19-6A Defensive MVP as well.
The Cougars had a Region III-6A second-team senior forward in Abby McCain after reaching their eighth consecutive regional tournament.
Seven Lakes junior forward Arianna Ghafari made the all-region second team, as did Mayde Creek sophomore midfielder Emma Arroyo.
Ghafari was voted District 19-6A MVP after leading the Spartans to the runner-up spot and an area championship. The talented group included all-region honorable-mention junior defender Peyton Guidry.
Katy's Dianne Loftin earned 19-6A Coach of the Year after leading the Tigers to fourth place in the district, sealing a second straight playoff appearance.
Morton Ranch freshman Victoria Ruvalcaba earned Newcomer of the Year.
MVP: Arianna Ghafari, Jr., Seven Lakes
Offensive MVP: Barbara Olivieri, Jr., Tompkins
Defensive MVP: Makayla Wang, Sr., Cinco Ranch
Goalkeeper: Kirsten Baxa, Fr., Mayde Creek
Newcomer: Victoria Ruvalcaba, Fr., Morton Ranch
Coach: Dianne Loftin, Katy
First team
Tompkins: Skylar Parker, Avery Burchett, Terin Graham, Jules Haro, Valeria Gomez, Sofie Wolf
Seven Lakes: Victoria Diaz, Rachel Oberman, Peyton Guidry, Paige Boucher, Macie Nguyen
Cinco Ranch: Abby McCain, Ashley Bencivengo, Sophie Green, Bella Tway
Katy: Payton McVey, Carmen Lozada, Bella Tablante, Emma Fitzgerald
Morton Ranch: Desiree Velazquez, Valeria Mendoza
Taylor: Hannah Leonard
Mayde Creek: Emma Arroyo
Second team
Tompkins: Mary Pham, Carrie Gerdes, Lauryn Wild, Felicia Hernandez, Madison Walker
Seven Lakes: Apple Nguyen, Katelyn Sanchez, Lexi Peterson, Sofia Veliz
Cinco Ranch: Sabrina Lopez, Izzy Rodriguez, Lindsay Moore
Katy: Ava DaSilva, Yamila Lara, Jocelyn Espinoza
Morton Ranch: Taylor Stokes, Gabriella Vanegas, Andrea Perez
Taylor: Rachel Brunet, Claire Stockard
Mayde Creek: Yaisa Reyes, Lauren Ruiz
Honorable mention
Tompkins: Rebekah Jordan
Seven Lakes: Beth Salak
Cinco Ranch: Lauren White, Mia Holder
Katy: Grace Hunter, Hannah Horner
Morton Ranch: Alexah Alvineda, Sommone Sesay
Taylor: Heather Foster, Camille Robinson
Mayde Creek: Stephanie De La Cruz, Alexa Rivera


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Women may suffer more from stress by hormoonspiraaltje
Women with a hormoonspiraaltje may suffer more from stress and a higher heart rate during stressful moments.
Estimated to be used more than 12 percent of the women between 18 and 45 in the Netherlands a hormoonspiraaltje. A hormoonspiraaltje is a contraceptive and is in the uterus placed.
Long-term chronic stress can lead to mental disorders such as depression and concentration problems, according to research by the Erasmus MC Monday.
Erasmus MC studied 150 women with and without iud intensive, and looked at their rhythm and the height of their cortisolwaarden, a stress hormone. Also looking at the researchers how stressful the women in certain situations were.
According to the researchers, women are now told that a hormoonspiraaltje only in the uterus is working, but now it seems that not to be correct. Jurate Aleknaviciute, research in the department of psychiatry of the Erasmus MC: "Women should therefore be informed that the effects of the hormoonspiraaltje not only locally and that the increased stress response partly due to the effects of the hormoonspiraaltje on the brain."


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Elissa envisions and designs initial models for software along with building them out. As a software architect, she is the brains behind the way things are built. She must identify every user type and their needs to create a system that is user-friendly while providing robust functionality and reporting. Elissa also mentors and manages junior employees, overseeing software architecture and technical requirements.
Elissa exemplifies innovation and dedication to her work. The projects which she oversees improve communication, accountability, and transparency for society. The empathy Elissa brings to her role is rare in the software industry and produces excellent products as she designs for people with different roles, skill sets, and needs.


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Anyone can be a peacemaker with God's help. Enjoy my blog, "Peacemakers." Love and prayers, Lilian
Category: Prayer
Prayer in Action
God's best answers to our prayers.
Losing and Finding
Friend who loves at all times!
Rolling with the Punches
Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion. Psalm 103:4-5 NIV "Hello, Mrs. Hosfeld your husband's chance to survive is fifty-fifty. Come to the ICU as fast… Continue reading Rolling with the Punches
Love and Prayers
And He has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 John 4:21 NIV "You are not helping me," a male Veteran was yelling against the receptionist at the Veteran's Hospital Clinic that Monday morning. The receptionist with tears said, "I am looking for your file.… Continue reading Love and Prayers
Can You Hear Me
"But I thought he/she said...........," "I'm sure he/she meant........," It is clear to me that you should..............," "I disagree. I think you must............." Effective communication is difficult; often the message you sent is not the message received in the home, marketplace, neighborhood, or church. Even when clearly stated or written, your words can be misinterpreted… Continue reading Can You Hear Me
Serving Jesus
"Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 37:4 NIV). In 1999 before I resigned at the Cebu Bible seminary in the Philippines while preparing for my wedding with my precious hubby, during my morning prayer time, a deep longing to know what and where to serve.… Continue reading Serving Jesus


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The name Bela Terra expresses how we feel about our home. Our focus is to bring great quality products to the community and region. We are committed to operating with integrity and environmental awareness.
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In episode two, we continue our conversation with service design experts and co-authors of "Woo, Wow and Win: Service Design, Strategy and the Art of Customer Delight," Tom Stewart and Patricia O'Connell. This time we go deeper into the service design topic to explore how businesses can leverage social media as part of their service design strategy, and opportunities for service design in government agencies.
Minds Worth Meeting, a podcast produced by Stern Strategy Group®, connects you with experts and thought leaders at the forefront of today's issues and tomorrow's trends. Featuring the broad Stern Speakers client roster of influential innovators, researchers, thinkers and doers, Minds Worth Meeting covers a wide range of topics, industries and disciplines.
Tom Stewart and Patricia O'Connell are available for paid speaking engagements including keynote addresses, speeches, panels, conference talks, and advisory/consulting services through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers, a division of Stern Strategy Group.Listen and Subscribe on iTunes Listen and Subscribe on Google Play


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MILAN — Where there is flux, there is uncertainty. The present state of the fashion industry, which is in no way monolithic, makes once reliable ports of call on the ready-to-wear calendar anything but. Salvatore Ferragamo has long been a bastion of stability, but since the 2016 departure of erstwhile creative director Massimiliano Giornetti, the sands have been shifting underneath the luxury goods maker. Last season's showing by Fulvio Rigoni was unconvincing, which made Sunday 's Fall / Winter 2018 combined women's and men's runway show an intriguing double bill, not least for the chance it would provide to see newly promoted womenswear creative director Paul Andrew's work alongside his men's counterpart Guillaume Meilland. The good news is that it all came off! The pair worked from the same color and materials palette to create a strong and unified statement for fall. The chic staging was the first hint. The runway followed a maze like grid of interconnected color paneled rooms. Next, a runway score by music maestro Michel Gaubert set the tone with Terrence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name" chosen as the prevailing theme. Finally, a strong casting that that featured 13 models from across the Next global network including Grace Hartzel, Katlin Aas, Hiandra Martinez, Oumar Diouf, Binx Walton, Oumie Jammeh, Eniola Abioro, Rocio Marconi, Manu Miloqui, Bogdan Zbyrko, Selena Forrest, Bakay Diaby, and Piero Méndez meant none of these efforts would be lost in translation on the runway.
Credits include: Client, Salvatore Ferragamo; Collection, Women's and Men's Ready-To-Wear Fall / Winter 2018; Creative direction, Paul Andrew and Guillaume Meilland; Styling Jodie Barnes; Hair, Jimmy Paul; Makeup, Lucia Pieroni; Casting, Piergiorgio Del Moro; Video, Damien Neva at Next Management.


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One of the most visited cities in the entire US and often ranked as one of the best places in North America to live, Chicago is the perfect place for people who like to get and about and see the best of what the world has to offer. Renowned for its landmarks, museums, and distinctive culture, Chicago is one of the best spots in all of America for live shows, concerts, comedy, and more.
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Improvisational comedy has always been a big part of Chicago's culture; the first generation of American improv comics set up the famous Compass Players in Chicago during the 1950s, and The Second City took over in 1959 as the first ever continuous improv troupe in the city. A lot of the rules and styles of modern improv comedy were established in Chicago, and countless popular Saturday Night Live comics underwent training at The Second City like Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell, and Dan Aykroyd. Things to do in Chicago
Legendary, world-famous comedians like Robin Williams and John Belushi were also born and grew up in the city itself. It's easy to see that Chicago is a real home of comedy and there are plenty of hilarious comedy shows to enjoy all around the city.
Best Comedy Shows in Chicago
With such a rich comedic history to the city, it's actually not uncommon to see comedy shows in random bars, pubs, and music clubs all around the city. Almost anywhere you go in Chicago, you can expect to stumble onto some comedy, but if you're specifically looking for the best comedy shows and biggest laughs of the Windy City, these are the locations to visit.
1. The Second City - 1616 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60614, Phone: 312-337-3992
A location that needs almost no introduction, The Second City is essentially the home of improv comedy. This is the location where many legendary American comics first made a name for themselves. Many of the stars we've seen and loved on shows like Saturday Night Live were discovered here, with the Second City's alumni including huge names like Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, Chris Farley, Bill Murray, and more.
Providing some of the best laughs in America for more than five decades, The Second City is one of the most storied and fascinating locations in the world of comedy and a must-visit Chicago spot for anyone with even a passing interest in the art of improv.
2. iO Theater - 1501 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60642,Phone: 312-929-2401
For all your improv comedy needs outside of The Second City, the iO Theater is the next best thing. This is another of Chicago's most prestigious and esteemed comedy locations, having been established back in 1981 by Del Close and Charna Halpern, both iconic figures in the improv comedy scene.
The likes of Amy Poehler, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert spent time in this theater to hone their craft and the iO still boasts some of the best improv comedy classes and shows anywhere in North America. Just stepping foot in the hallowed halls of the iO Theater is enough to feel something special, and some of the comedy shows held in the theater's four performance spaces will have your sides splitting with laughter.
3. UP Comedy Club - 230 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60614, Phone: 312-662-4562
For all kinds of comedy shows in Chicago, the UP Comedy Club offers a lighthearted atmosphere and great food to go along with it. Sketch, improv, and stand up comedy shows can all be enjoyed at this location for very reasonable prices and lots of local and national talents appear on the UP Comedy Club stage each and every week. With various special events held throughout the year and a vibrant schedule of comedy shows, the UP Comedy Club is a great place to spend a fun-filled evening with friends and loved ones.
4. Laugh Factory - 3175 North Broadway, Chicago, IL 60657, Phone: 773-327-3175
The legendary Laugh Factory is one of America's oldest and most successful comedy club chains and the Chicago location has always been a big hit with locals and visitors to the city. Top class comics like Dave Chappelle, Whitney Cummings, Tim Allen, and more have all appeared at this venue and all of the hottest new talents are guaranteed to do some shows here too. At the Laugh Factory, you're sure of two things: big laughs and great memories.


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MISSOULA – The University of Montana's minor in global public health will host the "Global Public Health: Experiences and Insights" lecture series during spring semester. The series highlights the contributions of Montana professionals who are addressing urgent health needs around the world.
The lectures will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Jan. 25 through May 3, in Gallagher Business Building Room 123. All lectures are free and open to the public.
This year's lectures will focus on Ebola, refugee health, dental hygiene in rural settings and a variety of international health care issues.
Topics span a broad geographic area, including Tanzania, Ethiopia, India, Peru, St. Lucia and Montana, and speakers will address topics including virology, nursing, physical therapy, information management, education, dental hygiene, disabilities, occupational therapy, food and agriculture, and public health planning.
"This year's lecture series will highlight health systems in really remote places," said Peter Koehn, director of UM's Global Public Health program. "The topics will be of interest to both those in the medical profession and a general audience – in fact, one of the presenters is a former Peace Corps recruiter here at UM."
The interdisciplinary lecture series is offered at the initiative of the Global Public Health program's External Advisory Committee.
The lecture series, "PSCI 191 - Global Public Health," also is offered as a one-credit pass/no pass UM course, under course number 34761.
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Come and pull up a chair at Angie's table of Make Your Life a Feast! Angie Yasulitis uses her proprietary recipe for health and wellness Financial Fitness, Exercise and Nutrition, Attitude, Stress Management and Time for Self – in this series. Personal responsibility is a hot topic in America and a key ingredient for wellness success. Understanding how you can take an active role – will help you control what you can; and cope with what you can't. Each episode will explore one FEAST component and current wellness headlines with experts, wellness practitioners and proponents of the FEAST as developed by Quantum Health and Wellness. Your takeaway Tip of the Week will guide you on your path to healthier living.
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In the early '90's Angie began her own journey toward wellness by losing 45 lbs. Nineteen years later, having maintained the loss she still embraces wellness and wellbeing as a lifelong journey. During this crucial time of self reinvention, Angie developed the FEAST program.
FEAST is an acronym that stands for 5 key areas in a balanced wellness and wellbeing program:
F: Financial Fitness
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A: Attitude
S: Stress Management (Spirit and Soul)
T: Time for Self
FEAST may be applied on an individual basis, as part of a comprehensive corporate wellness program or as an effective element in leadership development training.
Angie has been in Leadership and Development within the weight loss and insurance industry since 1992. In her experience as a coach and trainer – it became clear that each of her clients was experiencing difficulty in one or several of the FEAST areas; which prevented them from reaching their full potential. With this in mind, her mission became to deliver this coaching concept to as many people as possible. Beyond adults – the FEAST formula has also been successful in children as young as 10 or 11 years old.
Currently, a Financial Consultant at Clearfield Bank and Trust* in Pennsylvania; as well as Founder and Executive Consultant with Quantum Health and Wellness; Angie is a graduate of Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland with a degree in Business Administration. She is also a graduate of Dale Carnegie and LILI (the Leadership in Life Institute) through the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.
Enjoying life with her husband and three sons; ranging in age from 11 to 19, Angie walks the walk, understanding that values – including those involved in the FEAST concept must start at home.
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The first rule of resistance training: you do not need weight to create resistance. Whether with bodyweight exercises dumbbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, or resistance exercises, there are many ways to challenge your body, build muscle and burn fat.
If you've ever thought about adding bodybuilding exercises to your routine – or if you're limited to working at home and do not have a lot of equipment – you might be surprised by all that you can accomplish without any iron. ]
How can you use resistance bands in your workout?
Resistance bands can be used for at least four different types of exercises:
Stretching and mobility
Warming up and muscle activation
Resistance training and "having a pump"
Develop the "mind-muscle" connection (learn to better "feel" the muscles that work)
Each of these goals requires that you use the groups slightly differently, but with each example, you can accomplish a little with only a few groups.
Stretches of resistance bands and mobility work
Stretching resistance bands can help you overcome the most difficult part of stretching – you feel limited by the range of motion in your muscles. You know this as "feeling tight." (A.K.A. "I am not flexible!"). Funny as it may seem, the limitation could be in your head or in another part of your body.
Think of a simple stretching of the hamstrings, where you lie on your back with one leg on the floor and lift your other leg to the sky. Most of the time, you use your hands to provide resistance. Simply wrapping a resistance band around your ankle can create a different movement (because the pulling pressure comes at a different angle – from your ankle rather than behind your knee), which could allow you more movement .
This is not magic, but most people will find that they can get better stretch with resistance band variation. That's because a resistance band can help you go further in stretching, provide support, or help reduce the burden of your body weight when you make a move. This is why many trainers consider groups as a "must" to maximize your mobility.
There are unlimited ways to use resistance bands to help you when you stretch. Here are two examples: one for the upper body, one for the lower body.
Strip of Lat Stretch
Wrap a ring around something at least 6 inches above your head, like a pull bar. Take the group with one arm and back, so that your band forms an angle of 45 to 60 degrees on the ground. Put yourself in a staggered position and put one knee on the floor. Your arm should be in a straight line and aligned with the group.
Lean forward slightly so that your torso is perfectly aligned with your arm. (Looks like the group is an extension of your arm, you can draw a straight line from your hips up to the top of the band where it is attached to the drawbar). Hold this position so that you feel a stretch in your back.
Take 5 deep breaths, inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth, then switch sides.
Band lowered to the leg
Lie on your back and bring both legs back to the ceiling. Your legs and your body should have the shape of an "L."
Wrap a band around the arch of one of your feet and hold it steady. Keep both your knees locked by squeezing your quadriceps muscles and pointing your toes towards your shins.
Lower your leg that does not have the band around it until A) you feel tight in your hamstrings, or B) you feel pain in the back (That's bad) or do not feel stable in your heart. When one or the other of these things happens, stop, then reverse the movement and lift the leg up.
Ideally, you will need to take 2 seconds to lower your leg, then take 2 seconds to lift your leg using your trunk muscles. Perform 1-2 sets of 5 repetitions per leg as part of your warm-up, or pair with a lower-body motion such as deadlifts with stiff legs .
Resistance Band Exercises for Muscle Activation
Resistance band exercises can be used to strengthen or activate hard-to-hit muscles. For example, your shoulders are two areas that most people have a "feeling" disturbing. Because of the continuous tension, the bands are an effective way to activate the activation and work the muscles without supporting the muscles.
Pull-on tapes are a fantastic way to warm up your shoulders . Remember how tapes help to create more tension throughout the movement? The tension means more blood flow. More blood flow means your muscles will be hot. It's like adding oil to a creaking pause.
When making the movement, make sure you do not have too much slack in the band because if you do, it removes the tension from your shoulders. The group is also effective because it works your shoulders according to an often overlooked motive.
Think about how much time you spend at your desk with your shoulders slumped. The pull group works at the opposite of the range of motion, which means it helps to bring your shoulders back into their correct alignment, improving your posture.
Better posture means less pain. And because you pull the tape apart, it means you have maximum tension with minimum weight. It is something that is not always easy with weights like dumbbells.
Band of Pull-Aparts
Here's how: Grab the opposite ends of a long resistance band (about 40 inches). You can mix the position of your hand, from the supine position (the thumbs face each other) to the neutral position (the inches facing the ceiling) to the supine position (the thumbs pointed at each other).
Place your hands about shoulder width apart, or at a distance where you feel a little tension in the band. From there, pull your hands as far as you can.
Take a break and press the upper back and shoulders muscles, then reverse the directions and bring your hands back to each other (back to the starting position), then repeat. Concentrate on keeping your shoulders lowered throughout the movement.
Perform 3 sets of 15 to 30 repetitions.
Side walks in mini-bands
Remember how to pull aparts was good for your shoulders? These side walks can do the same for your glutes and help them wake up.
Place the band above your knees. Extend your legs wide enough to feel tension through the group. (Consider this as an athletic position, as a baseball player about to throw a ball on the ground.) Take a leg and exit to the side. Then follow with your other leg, making sure to maintain tension on the band throughout the movement.
Walk for 10 to 15 steps in one direction (ie from left to right), then move to the same distance in the opposite direction (from right to left).
Squats with goblet
Place the mini-band around your legs just above your knees. Hold a dumbbell vertically against your chest with both hands supporting the weight underneath. Press your elbows inward against your ribcage, which activates the muscles in your back.
Squat by pushing your hips back and pressing your knees out against the mini-band. This activates your glutes and helps you avoid knee pain. Lower yourself until your elbows touch the inside of your knees, then press your feet to get up.
Resistance Band Exercises to Build Muscle
No matter what some people might insist, weights are not the only way to build muscle. Weights are effective because they add resistance. The bands also provide resistance, which means that they can also help you build muscle.
In particular, tapes could be more effective when they make higher repetition, like performing 20 to 30 repetitions (or more) per set (that's what we calls "training for metabolites").
Research has repeatedly shown that muscle building is somewhat dependent on volume – or the number of repetitions x sets x weight. Because you have 3 variables that you can manipulate, the tapes provide a way to increase the volume (through more repetitions) without the need for more weight.
This approach works for all the muscles in your body – arms and shoulders, chest, back and even buttocks. Ask someone who has already tried the burnout of Bret Contreras . Here is another example of how you can use tapes to perform a metabolic diaper work:
Exercises on the resistance bands and connection between the mind and the muscle
The mind-muscle connection is something that everyone does not know, but it can make a huge difference in your training. Basically, it is about using your brain to drive your muscles more effort. If it sounds a little crazy, rest assured that it's a real thing. ( Here is the proof .) And with the help of the resistance bands, you can develop it.
Resistance bands are a useful way to build this connection because the more you pull on the tape and the longer it gets, the harder the muscles are to work.
The increased tension provides a sharp peak contraction at the top of each rep. You will really feel those muscles working. Do you want to take another step? Add in a break at the top. (Ooh, it burns!)
What are the limits of the resistance bands?
Like everything, there are always limits. For example, resistance bands do not necessarily defy your muscles through a full range of motion.
The lifting weight consists of a raised portion (concentric) and a lower portion (the eccentric). The eccentric phase of an elevator is the part where you lower the weight down, and it is beneficial for muscle growth and improved muscle control .
They feel lighter on the muscles because the bands themselves become shorter. As we mentioned above, this can be important from the point of view of injury prevention. But since eccentric muscle actions are the ones where we cause the most muscle damage to the workout, the use of isolated tapes can limit the amount of muscle you can build.
Tapes can also make measuring your resistance a little tricky. Part of the muscle addition creates a challenge for your muscles. That's why groups work – they add resistance. At some point, however, your body will adapt to resistance. That's why you could stop seeing results. Your body adapts and you must continue to create a new challenge to fight the board.
However, there are several ways to stand apart from the plateaus. You can make an exercise more difficult (if you make rows of tapes with both arms, you can switch to a 1-arm version with the same band, which will make the task more difficult), or you can add weight. It is here that dumbbells and dumbbells have an obvious advantage because you can simply use larger weights.
But do not stress too much. The placement of your hand, the distance between you and the place where the group is anchored and the distance at which the group is stretched can all be used to increase or decrease the resistance. You can also use thicker bands (which have more resistance) or even add multiple bands.
At some point – yes – you may need to add more weight to create a bigger challenge. But as long as you continue to find ways to challenge your muscles (which can also happen by doing more repetitions and / or sets of exercises), your resistance band workout will continue to produce results.
The training of the resistance band to build a muscle
Want to try the resistance exercises? Here is an example of upper and lower body workouts designed for muscle building.
Training of the upper body resistance band
1) Traction of the belt: 4 x 15-20 reps x 60s rest
2A) Tractions of the band: 3 x 10-20 x 45s
2B) 2-armed ranks: 3 x 15-20 x 45s
3A) 1-arm rank: 3 x 8-15 / arm x 45s
3B) Chest 1 Arm: 3 x 8-12 / Arm x 45s
4A) Aerial Band Triceps Extension – 3 x 12-20 x 45s
4B) Biceps Flex Band – 3 x 12-15 x 45s
Band of resistance of the lower part of the body
1) Side bands of the mini band: 4 x 15-20 / side x 60 seconds
2) Loop of the band: 3 x 15-20 x 60s
3) Split squat high split foot (may add resistance band): 4 x 12-15 x 60s
4A) Band Hello: 3 x 20-25 x 60s
] 4B) Walking steps: 3 x 10-15 / leg x 60s
5) Iso tape hold Pallof press: 4 x 30s / side x 60s
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We finished up our study of Experiencing God this week. Personally, I have been challenged in a couple of areas throughout the study. First, I have been more focused on watching to find where God is at work. In some ways I feel like a detective with the job of "catching" God at work. I have learned that God is at work all around me, I was just missing out on seeing His work.
A second area is working towards unity of purpose within the church. Our purpose as a church is making disciples and glorifying God in all we do. FBC Sanger has been placed by God in a great setting. Our city is growing. Many of those moving to Sanger are not followers of Jesus and need to be invited to find out who He is and what He wants to do in their lives. Our job is to help make the introduction! Every decision we make needs to foster the environment where that introduction can happen.
This past Saturday I had a few extra minutes as I was making visits to the hospital. Knowing that one of our young men had a baseball game, I decided to stop by and watch him play. This was one of those moments where God was working. I got to watch not one, but three, of our young men play. And during the game, I had the opportunity to catch up with three families from the church. Going to a sporting event, band concert, or other event and watching our young men and women perform is a great way to make connections. Over the next few weeks, when one of our children asks you to sign their Grant's Group Bulletin, take a moment to find out something about them. You might just make a connection that inspires a child to grow in their relationship with Christ.


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Double Booked Club
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Double Booked returns in June, with a conversation between two superb Australian writers. Omar Sakr and Melanie Cheng are two very different voices with very different styles, but over the past few years, both have blasted welcome fresh air into the Australian literary scene.
Melanie Cheng is a GP as well as a writer and her debut short-story collection, Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Her new book, Room for a Stranger, is a novel set in Melbourne, about the unlikely friendship between an older woman and a young student from Hong Kong.
Omar Sakr's second book of poetry, The Lost Arabs, has been described as a 'seething, urgent collection' about sexuality, divinity and redemption. His debut collection, These Wild Houses, was critically acclaimed and shortlisted for several awards including the Kenneth Slessor Prize.
Hosted by Khalid Warsame, the pair will discuss their work at a lunchtime session in June.
This event will be Auslan interpreted.
Readings will be our bookseller for this event.
Khalid Warsame
Khalid Warsame is a writer, photographer, and arts producer who lives in Melbourne. His essays and fiction have appeared in the Lifted Brow, Overland, the Big Issue, Cordite Poetry Review, and LitHub. He has previously edited fiction for the Lifted Brow, worked as a creative producer at the Footscray Community Arts Centre and Co-Directed the National Young Writers Festival. He is currently working on his first novel.
Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr is a bisexual Arab-Australian poet. His debut collection, These Wild Houses (2017), was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His poetry has been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish, in numerous journals and anthologies. He placed runner-up in the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and has also been shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry, the Story Wine Prize, and the Fair Australia Poetry Prize. Omar has performed his work nationally and internationally. He lives in Sydney and his latest collection is The Lost Arabs (2019), out through UQP.
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng's debut book, the short-story collection Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and, two years earlier, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. She was born in Adelaide and grew up in Hong Kong. She now lives in Melbourne, where she writes when she's not working as a general practitioner. Room for a Stranger is her first novel.
Double Booked Club
Need more fiction in your Fridays? Double Booked Club is for you.
For each of these monthly lunchtime sessions, we'll bring together two great local fiction authors to discuss their work. They'll start with a chat about their latest books, before meandering off into conversation about backlists, shared themes and literary heroes.
Ahead of each event, ticket bookers will receive some reading material relating to the books in question – and each discussion will be live-streamed for those playing at home (or work!).
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The Super Bowl from hellPosted: January 30, 2018 Filed under: football, Football Super Bowl, NFL, Super Bowl, Uncategorized | Tags: Brady-Belichick, Giants-Patriots, Patriots-Eagles, Super Bowl from hell, Super Bowl LII 1 Comment
About 14 years or so ago, God approached the world's biggest Yankee and Giants fan with a proposition. In return for the Yankees becoming the first team in MLB history to blow a 3-0 lead and lose a playoff series in seven games (to the Red Sox no less), God would grant the Giants not one, but two, comeback Super Bowl victories against the Patriots. And to sweeten the pot, one of those Super Bowl wins would knock out an undefeated New England team.
It was an offer no fan could refuse.
Now, as we approach Super Bow LII, the picture is about as bleak as can be for New York fans. Oh woe, it's come down to this. For a Giants fan, Eagles-Patriots is about as bad a Super Bowl matchup as you could possibly get. Only thing worse would be Cowboys-Patriots.
There are so many reasons to dislike both these teams. It would be a LII (lie) to say I wanted the Eagles or the Patriots to win Super Bowl LII. But come Sunday, one of those teams will emerge triumphant.
Reasons to hate the Eagles
1. They're an NFC East rival, and play the Giants twice each year.
2. The Eagles have handed the Giants numerous bitter losses over the year, most notably the Chuck Bednarik game in 1960, the Herman Edwards game in 1978, and the LeSean Jackson game in 2010. Those losses and others still cut deep.
3. Philadelphia fans booed Santa Claus.
4. Those some Philadelphia fans cut the brake lining in my nephew's van during a Giants game at Lincoln Financial Field several years ago. Seriously. Fortunately noboby was injured when the van crashed into a cyclone fence.
5. Philly can't hold a candle to New York. First prize, a week's vacation in Philadelphia. Second prize, two weeks vacation in Philly. Get it.
Reasons to hate the Patriots
1. They always win.
2. Most of their fans also root for the Boston Red Sox.
3. They cheat. Too many controversies, ie Spygate and Deflategate, make it appear more than simple coincidence.
4. The refs are on their side. I mean how many calls go New England's way? There oughta be an investigation.
5. Boston can't hold a candle to New York. The Big Apple vs. Beantown. Yeah right.
There's only one saving grace in Super Bowl LII, and it leans towards the Pats. If the Patriots win, at least the Giants can claim the only Super Bowl victories against New England in the Brady-Belichick era. New England under B&B is presently 0-2 against the Giants in the Super Bowl, and 5-0 against the rest of the league.
Go Pats I guess. Good luck New England. Not really.
Will 'Minny Miracle' reverse the Vikings curse?Posted: January 17, 2018 Filed under: Cycling, football, NFL, Uncategorized | Tags: Blair Walsh, Case Keenum, Miny Miracle, Preston Pearson, Stefon Diggs, Vikings 0-4 in Super Bowl, Vikings jinx Leave a comment
Maybe, just maybe, the Minny Miracle has reversed the longstanding playoff curse that has bedeviled the Minnesota Vikings.
It's hard to find a more improbable ending to a football game than the play that gave the star-crossed Vikings a 29-24 victory over the New Orleans Saints and a ticket to the NFC Championship game.
More improbable than the Immaculate Reception of 1972 or the Music City Miracle of 2000? The craziest ending to a playoff game in NFL history? Yeah, why not?
Visions of Super Bowls danced in the heads of Viking fans when Stefon Diggs leaped for Case Keenum's desperation pass, somehow eluded two defenders and raced down the sidelines to complete an unbelievable 61-yard touchdown pass.
The Vikings, founded in 1961, have played in four Super Bowls – and lost all four, the last to the Oakland Raiders 41 years ago. Minnesota shares the title of biggest Super Bowl loser with the Buffalo Bills, also 0-4.
Playoff hearbreakers
However, the Vikes have come close many other times, only to suffer playoff disappointments. Here are the top five Minny heartbreakers.
2015 – Kicker Blair Walsh hooks a last-minute, chip shot field goal as the Seattle Seahawks hang on to defeat the Vikings 10-9 in a divisional round stunner.
2010 – Three fumbles, two by Adrian Peterson, and a Brett Favre interception that led to overtime were crucial in this loss. The Saints went on to win 31-28.
2001 – The Vikings appeared primed for their first Super Bowl appearance in a quarter century. But they ran into a New York Giants buzz saw and suffered a 41-0 loss, the worst setback in NFC Championship game history.
1999 – Gary Anderson, perfect in the regular season, missed a 37-yard field goal that would have given the Vikings an insurmountable lead late in the NFC Championship game. The Atlanta Falcons scored the game-tying touchdown in the final minutes. Minnesota, 15-1 in the regular season, lost the coin flip in overtime and never got the ball back as Morton Anderson's 38-yard field goal won it for the Falcons.
1975 – In the play that birthed the term "Hail Mary," Roger Staubach connected with Drew Pearson on a 50-yard touchdown in the waning seconds and the Dallas Cowboys squashed Viking Super Bowl dreams with a 17-14 victory at the old Metropolitan Stadium.
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1951–my birth year in sportsPosted: January 15, 2018 Filed under: Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, football, golf, Hockey, Uncategorized | Tags: 1951 in sports, Bobby Thomson, Los Angeles Rams, Mike Vaccaro, Norm Ban Brocklin, Ralph Branca Leave a comment
Recently I read "1941: The Greatest Year in Sports" by Mike Vaccaro, the excellent columnist for the New York Post. Vacaro interweaves vignettes about the year in sports – Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams .406 season, Whirlaway's Triple Crown, Joe Louis over Billy Conn and more – with the shadow of war hanging over the world in 1941. Excellent read.
My favorite sports year is 1951 – my birth year. That was a great year for sports.
Start with "The Shot Heard Round the World," Bobby Thomson's dramatic ninth inning home run off Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds that gave the Giants the National League pennant over the Dodgers. At one point in August, the Giants trailed Brooklyn by 13 1/2 games, yet came all the way back to win a dramatic playoff game on what is generally regarded as the most memorable home run in baseball history,
The Yankees went on to beat the Giants in six games in the World Series. It was Joe DiMaggio's final appearance in the Fall Classic; while Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays found October's spotlight as rookies.
The year 1951 saw the first professional championship in North America for a team based West of St. Louis. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cleveland Browns 24-17, gaining revenge for a last-minute loss to the Browns in 1950.
Earlier in the 1951 season opener, LA quarterback Norm Van Brocklin passed for 554 yards and five TDs in a 54-14 win over the New York Yanks. That record has stood up for more than 66 years.
The world of boxing witnessed the career intersection of two of the game's all-time heavyweights. Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis. In an October bout at Madison Square Garden, Marciano, age 27, knocked down Louis, 37, twice in the eighth round before the fight was called as a TKO.
The great golfer Ben Hogan overcame a near-fatal automobile accident in 1949, winning both the Masters and the US Open.
In the NBA, the New York Knickerbockers nearly overcame a 3-0 deficit against the Rochester Royals before losing in seven games. The Royals won the final game 79-75 on April 21. It was their first, and to date only, NBA Championship.
That same day, the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup four games to one over the Montreal Canadians, with all five games going into overtime. Bill Barilko scored the Cup-winning goal; sadly it turned out to be his final goal. Barilko died in a plane crash during the summer in a fishing trip to northern Quebec.


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The 'hamstrings' are a group of three muscles located at the back of the thigh
Hamstrings cross the hip and knee joints and are responsible for knee flexion and hip extension
A hamstring strain is described as an overstretching without tearing of the muscle or tendon fibres. It is important that if you are suspecting a hamstring strain, accurate diagnosis is carried out by a Physiotherapist before resuming exercise
Hamstrings are prone to straining during exercise, with hamstring strains making up 1/3rd of all acute injuries in the general population
Research shows that hamstring strains increase in prevalence during the later decades of life
Most hamstring strains occur during a 100% effort sprinting
Decreased hamstring muscle strength resulting in muscle fatigue during the landing and pushing of phase of running
Previous hamstring or lower back injury
Decreased range of motion at the hip joint
Lack of warm up before intense exercise
The best evidence for injury prevention in the hamstrings is a sound hamstring strength protocol tailored for you by a Physiotherapist
Gradual return to sport or activity reduces the likelihood of re-injury by 75%. Focus on an output or milestone approach not a time frame
Strengthen the posterior chain, this means glut, calf, and hamstring muscles, using functional exercises such as squats, lunges and dead lifts
Ensure your technique is reviewed by a personal trainer or exercise professional prior to strengthening work.


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These 10 Waterparks In North Carolina Will Take Your Summer To A Whole New Level
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Trustworthy, loyal, obedient, clean and reverent...
Wilkinson, T.P.http://dissidentvoice.org/2017/06/trustworthy-loyal-obedient-clean-and-reverent
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Book review of 'The Hotel Tacloban' by Douglas Valentine.
The history of the prisoner-of-war camp known as "Hotel Tacloban", because of its proximity to the eponymous provincial capital of the Philippine island of Leyte, might never have been told. Douglas Jr. and Douglas Sr. were not on the best of terms--quite aside from the generational conflict and the political turmoil caused by the war against Vietnam. The author's father was not among those proud veterans with stories or anecdotes (real or fabricated) from their days in "the War". He belonged to none of the typical veterans' organisations, viewing them more with contempt than respect. Had Douglas Sr.'s GP not prescribed telling his story as a way to relieve his illnesses -- after multiple heart attacks, open heart surgery and decades suffering from malaria (which officially he never had), he may never have lived to tell. Father and son had to create a basis of communication virtually from scratch. This is probably why the book is so successful in its aim to present the story accurately and why it is free from the sentimentality that makes treacle out of most memoirs. Although unsentimental The Hotel Tacloban is saturated with unstated but real empathy for the person whose story is recorded. In fact, this empathy was so powerful that former CIA director William Colby granted Douglas Valentine the key interview that would lead to his landmark study The Phoenix Program.


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2. Skills & abilities
'See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts.' Ex31:1-5
3. Hear from the Lord
'Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.' Rom 12:2
4. Have a vision'
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.' Heb 11:1
5. Start small
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9. Balance
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WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme held over on Should be Reading. To play along, just answer the following questions.
What are you currently reading?
I'm currently reading Up All Night by Carmen Reid. I'm not that far into this book, having only started reading it last night, but i think im enjoying it so far! This book has quotes at the start of every chapter and i think these are really quite interesting! Its not a partically long book either, so I'm hoping ill get it read before this time next week!
What did you recently finish reading?
I actually read three books this last week! Thats a record for me!
The first book i finished was Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll. I read this as part of The Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge. I loved loved loved this book! Its a genre that i havent really read much within and ill definitaly be reading more! And this book now has a sequal so i'll be picking that one up soon!
The second book i finished this week was Airs and Graces by Erica James. I was excited to read this as ive heard good things about this author. I enjoyed this book, but it wasnt the best that i had read this year, i would read more if i came across it but i'm in no rush!
The third book i read this week was Young Wives' Tales by Adele Parks. I'll post my thoughts more on this one later but its safe to say i was presently surprised by this book!
What do you think you'll read next?
I have a choice of a few books again this week!
i have My Fabulous Divorce by Claire Dowling next off my TBR pile. I've read another book by her and i wasnt too impressed, but im going to give a different book a try!
I also have the next book for The Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge on its way to me! I'm not sure which book it is, only the fact that i have a book on its way! Really looking forward to this parcel!
I also have on its way to me A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers. this book is part of a group read for the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge over on the BCF.
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Robert Downey Jr. is famed for being a beloved Hollywood actor, philanthropist, and writer – but now he is adding "robotics environmentalist" to his list of good qualities.
Earlier this week, the Iron Man actor took to the stage at the Amazon Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas to announce the creation of his new foundation which will use nanotechnology and robotics as a means of cleaning up the planet.
Downey Jr. did not disclose many details on how the organization will begin its clean-up mission, but a Footprint Coalition website went live shortly after the actor's announcement.
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As of right now, the website only features a sign-up sheet for future newsletters and updates, but Downey Jr. says that he will be spending the next 11 months collaborating with UN experts and building up the organization so the coalition can get to work by April 2020.
After that, Downey Jr. says that "between robotics and nanotechnology we could probably clean up the planet significantly, if not entirely, within a decade."
Downey Jr. also explained how his neglect towards the environment in the past is now inspiring him to take action. "I have this quiet sense of crisis," he said, according to reporters. "I'm a one-man carbon footprint nightmare colossus … [but] I want to change."
Regardless of the actor's precise plan of action, Forbes estimates that Downey Jr.'s net worth is about $81 million – more than enough to start tidying up the planet.
The Re:Mars conference, which stands for "Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space", hosted a variety of speakers who gave presentations on the benefits of artificial intelligence. In addition to announcing the launch of his organization, Downey Jr. also talked about how he and his wife Susan will be the executive producers of a new YouTube Red documentary series on the wonders of AI – which will of course be narrated by Downey Jr.
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My Great Aunt Sues' Seed Cake. A traditional English Bake for Harvest time.
Well the nights are drawing in and the 8th September officially marked the end of summer and the start of autumn. This time of year we have an abundance of seasonal food to choose from, apples, pumpkins, squashes, pears, quinces, to name but a few. However, don't go picking any brambles as the old wives tale says "blackberries should not be picked in October, lest the devil has spat on them". So there you are, you have been warned!
It is also Harvest Festival time, for many people it is a time for celebration, sharing and storing away for the winter. Sharing the Harvest is often supported by schools, whose children attend an annual church or chapel service and take along an item of food. This is distributed to the needy or auctioned off to raise money for charity. Along with church services and the familiar rousing Harvest Festival Hymns, there are many Harvest Suppers taking place and in our area village halls and farmhouses. People are busy preparing and organising the annual ritual of thankfulness and celebration of hopefully a good harvest. Depending on where you are in the country there are different dishes that are a must for any Harvest Supper. In Lincolnshire of course it is Stuffed Chine, which would traditionally be served with a splash of malt vinegar, so too is Ham, Pork Pie and Harvest Loaf.
We in Britain have been celebrating the gathering of a successful Harvest since Pagan times. The timing of the festival is the Sunday closest to the Harvest Moon; this is the closest full moon to the autumn equinox when the hours of daylight and dark are equal. This equinox falls on 22nd/23rd September this year. The word Harvest is derived from the old English word – Haerfest, which means autumn. The word then became synonymous with the gathering of grain and produce. The Harvest Festival and Supper as we know it now, along with so many other traditions seems to have it's origins in the Victorian era. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when or where, but there seems to be a reference to two vicars, one in Cornwall and one in Huntingdonshire that held services with hymns such as "we plough the fields and scatter", having the church decorated , gifts brought and a shared supper afterwards.
There are also many superstitions surrounding corn spirits or corn mother. The theme of many of them involves the last grain to be harvested. The most recognisable symbol of this is the Corn Dolly, it would be woven and then put pride of place at the Harvest Supper table. The corn dolly would then be kept safe until the following year and at the time of seed sowing would be ploughed back into the field to bring luck to the crop.
A traditional dish that would be made and baked by farmer's wives in days gone by is a Seed Cake, the caraway seeds representing the cycle of growth. A poem from 1613 refers to the widespread practice that predates the Reformation of distributing Seed Cake to farmworkers. Nowadays this seems to be largely forgotten; in fact this delicious cake rarely gets a mention at all. Perhaps because it is not glamourous, it isn't iced or "prettied" up in any way. It is just a good tasting old English cake. In the spirit of sharing for Harvest Festival, I am happy to share with you the Seed Cake recipe that belonged to my late Great Aunt Sue Ayre from Alford. The recipe is in her treasured 1961 Jean Balfor book called Good Cooking. It has a faded yellow linen cover on it complete with years of crumbs and baking splodge's entombed in its pages, marking the many years that it was her baking bible. She had an excellent reputation for her baking and was asked to do catering for many functions and special occasion cakes.
Aunt Sue's Seed Cake
Freestanding mixer or hand held mixer, bowl, big spoon, butter knife, deep 7 or 8 inch cake tin (greased and lined), scissors, scales, measuring spoons, measuring jug, sieve.
3 oz Butter or Margarine
4 oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs
5 oz Plain Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Caraway Seeds
Beat Butter and Sugar together to a cream
Beat in the eggs gradually
Sift in the flour with the baking powder
Mix in half the seeds
Turn into your greased and lined tin
Sprinkle the rest of the seeds on top
Bake at 350f or a moderate oven for ¾ hour. If using fan I bake at 170c and check after half an hour
Put on cooling rack in tin for 5mins
Carefully turn out and cool


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by Samuel Okiror
KAMPALA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Nine people were killed and 13 others critically injured in a Sunday road accident in the central Ugandan district of Mpigi.
Philip Mukasa, Katonga regional police spokesperson, told Xinhua that all six people traveling on a small Toyota Premio and three passengers abroad a commuter taxi died after a head-on collision along the Kampala-Masaka Highway.
"The Premio car was overloaded. It had eight occupants as opposed to the recommended five," said Mukasa.
"The impact of the head-on collision was very strong. The bodies flew out of the vehicles," he said.
The spokesperson attributed the cause of the deadly road accident to over speeding and reckless driving.
Assan Kasingye, Uganda's police spokesperson, told Xinhua that the afternoon accident paralyzed the traffic along the highway for almost an hour as the force cleared the wreckage from the road.
The critically injured persons were rushed to Buwamba health center and Masaka Regional Referral Hospital for emergency medical treatment.
"We believe the number of the dead will increase. There are very many people who are critically injured and fighting for their lives," said Mukasa.
Uganda registers at least 20,000 accidents with over 2,000 deaths each year, making it one of the countries with the highest road accident fatality rates in the world, according to police figures. Enditem


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Task shifting has a time-honored place in resource-deficient environments. Task shifting, or transferring responsibilities that don't demand highly specialized training to individuals with little medical background, is being taken to a whole new level – the patient – in a new HIV treatment strategy being employed in some personnel-strapped health care centers of sub-Saharan Africa.
Developed in 2006 by Doctors Without Borders physician Tom Decroo, HIV-positive patients are organized into groups of 6 and each share the responsibility of retrieving each other's anti-retroviral medications to treat their conditions. This co-dependency of group members and their accountability to one another transfers the task of monitoring compliance with their medication regimen from the physician to patient. As a result, doctors are less burdened, allowing them to spend more time with patients and provide more effective treatments. This could ultimately lower health care costs.
Before this strategy came along, patients sometimes trekked for four hours on foot once a month to retrieve their anti-retroviral medications. However, participation in a 6 member medication group necessitates that each member only travels bi-annually to retrieve the entire group's monthly refill of life sustaining anti-retroviral drugs and submit patients' logs of their medication use. Fewer trips for the patient translate into lower transportation costs and allows for more time to be spent working and generating a living. Patients can also benefit from the group's combined financial resources, which may allow them to afford public transportation. An additional benefit of group treatment is a built-in support system of fellow HIV sufferers, which helps individuals deal with the stigma of living with HIV. Due to these increased economic and psychological benefits of group-based medication retrieval, participants are more likely to continue treatment.
In a 2-year study published in The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes of 300 patient medication group members in Tete, Mozambique, almost no patients stopped taking their medications and only 2% died. In comparison, individuals who sought treatment alone faced a 20% mortality or departure from treatment rate. Due to these promising results, Mozambique is implementing patient medication groups in all of its provinces.
However, some question the authenticity of the group-based treatment success, and rightly so. The aforementioned studies only included stable patients, so the mortality/left treatment numbers may be deceptively low. Additionally, no mention is made of contingences in case a group member's condition becomes unstable and requires more direct medical attention. Are deteriorating patients forced to leave the group and are they immediately replaced? If not, I imagine that conflicts, which could damage the group dynamic, might arise over who would assume the departed member's responsibilities.
Due to these lingering questions, there is need for supplemental analysis conducted by unaffiliated researchers on a patient population that includes unstable members. However, the idea of group-based medication retrieval seems like a promising tool that could be widely implemented for little to no cost, In the future, medication groups could even assume a greater role in community health by reporting additional patient data that could warn health care providers of outbreaks of disease like tuberculosis, which often co-infect HIV sufferers. Yet, this treatment strategy's most intriguing aspect remains the capacity for such a simple approach to assist with such a complex issue.
Original article:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mozambique.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=small%20fixes&st=cse


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Did you know that eating gluten causes schizophrenia and bipolar? Did you known that the most common symptom of a gluten related disorder is in the brain in the form of migraine and brain fog? Around 6 time as many people have a gluten related disorder than have celiac disease (an autoimmune disease of the gut) and that many of those people with symptoms in their brain will never develop any gut damage at all!
The ProblemRecent research has revealed that a person with any autoimmune disease other than arthritis is up to 40 times more likely to develop a psychotic illness than the general population and that around 9% of all cases of psychotic illness is due to an antibody in the brain. Millions of people suffer with these illnesses every day and many end up in the hands of psychiatrists, locked away in mental hospitals and prescribed high doses of toxic chemical restraints.
All of this happens despite body of research that exists that points to environmental triggers as a major factor in many cases of autoimmune disease and mental illness, along with a genetic predisposition and increased intestinal permeability. This is known as the Autoimmune Trilogy.
Grain in your brain
Increasing evidence now exists that many autoimmune diseases, particularly those where the nervous system and brain are involved are due to an antibody to gliadin, a common protein found in the storage prolamin in certain grains. It has long been understood that patients with celiac disease, an autoimmune reaction to the gliadin in wheat, barley and rye are at increased risk of developing schizophrenia and that patients with schizophrenia are up to 100 times more likely develop celiac enteropathy.
It starts in the gut
The gut plays a pivotal role in the cause and healing of mental illnesses. I've tried to summarise it in the image below, however the actual mechanism by which a mental illness can manifest is fantastically complex, however the treatment really is very simple.
I've learned that the complete removal of these grains and other environmental triggers can lead to a complete recovery from a psychotic illness in susceptible people. I should know - I've done it myself and completely healed from bipolar 1 with severe psychotic features that was bordering on schizoaffective disorder.
The celiac UK charity regards foods with a gluten content of below 20ppm as safe for people with celiac disease, however this is not true for cases where neurologic and brain involvement is a symptom. Also it is hypothesized that other foods can cause different antibody types to affect the brain, particularly other grains, dairy and chemicals. Therefore, a nutrient dense, naturally gluten free whole food diet known as the Autoimmune Protocol is required to ensure complete removal of all contamination risk while ensuring optimal nutrition.
I followed this diet and healed my illness in less than a month and have remained well ever since.
You can do it to.
This blog tells my story and provides links to research that support this method as an effective treatment of how to heal a mental illness. You will find the method I followed described in these pages and you are welcome to give it a try yourself. This isn't a medical site and I'm not a doctor, so you'll need to decide for yourself if this is for you, however just remember, you are entirely responsible for your own health; no one is coming to save you.