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It was a great day for North Pres. at the Cork City Sports on the 22nd of May in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. It was a very enjoyable day for all participants and especially for those who were lucky enough to win in their events. We appreciate the many parents who attended and offered their encouragement and support on the day. We are already looking forward to next year's event!

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"On The Smugglers' Radar" is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers' Radar was born. Because we want far more books than we can possibly buy or review (what else is new?), we thought we would make the Smugglers' Radar into a weekly feature – so YOU can tell us which books you have on your radar as well!
On Ana's Radar:
We Smugglers are huge fans of Dia Reeves – of Bleeding Violet and Slice of Cherry fame – and we just found out there are two new Portero books she just published. COMMENCE FREAKING OUT. I reviewed Miscreated recently and here is the second one:
A large creepy estate, mysterious twin brothers, family secrets, a diabolical invention known as the bone machine, and a young girl who is not at all human.
Meet the Westwoods: a father whose inventions often create death and despair, his twin sons who are not above experimenting on the servants, and the daughter whose existence no one is supposed to acknowledge. A sudden infestation of ghastly creatures into their foreboding plantation home causes them to hire a lethiferist, someone who kills supernatural monsters. The problem is that newly-hired Rue, who like all her kind was born without a heart, is a supernatural monster. She's also too short, too young, and too compassionate for the job. Compassionate toward her fellow monsters, that is; not toward humans…on whom she occasionally feeds.
Heartsick is a modern gothic tale full of thrills and chills and, ultimately, redemption.
Another title I am really interested in:
Stranger Things meets The Haunted Mansion in this page-turning middle grade fantasy.
For as long as the Vickery twins can remember, they've only ever been able to leave the house together once a year—on Halloween. The rest of the year, Lee and his mother serve Memory, while Felix and his father assist Death. This is the Agreement.
But one Halloween…
This epic Fantasy coming from Orbit toward the end of the year looks awesome!
A lush and inspired fantasy set in a magical world inspired by medieval India, from a British debut author. Perfect for fans of Trudi Canavan, Sabaa Tahir or Sarah J. Maas
Mehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is brought to the attention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage.
She discovers that her new husband is a mysterious, enslaved Amrithi with abilities like her own: together they must use every ounce of cunning, power and will they possess to resist the order's cruel agenda – and should they fail, the spirits themselves may awaken seeking vengeance…
Hooray! A new novel by Roshani Chokshi! <3
Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure.
Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To find the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin will need help from a band of experts:
An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian who can't yet go home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in all but blood, who might care too much.
Together, they'll have to use their wits and knowledge to hunt the artifact through the dark and glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the world, but only if they can stay alive.
On Thea's Radar:
PEOPLE THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS OUT AND ON MY RADAR. It's been forever–but here's a smattering of books I've received and am currently devouring:
From #1 New York Times best-selling author Robert Beatty comes a spooky, thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina.
Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. Willa, a young nightspirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk in the cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work—the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand. But when Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in a day-folk man's home, everything she thought she knew about her people—and their greatest enemy—is forever changed.
Next up this follow-up novel to The Last Magician which I haven't read yet but is sitting on my shelf just yearning to be cracked open.
Hunt the Stones.
Beware the Thief.
Avenge the Past.
Esta's parents were murdered. Her life was stolen. And everything she knew about magic was a lie. She thought the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus from the Order's grasp, but the danger within its pages was greater than she ever imagined.
Now the Book's furious power lives inside Harte. If he can't control it, that power will rip apart the world to get its revenge…and it will use Esta to do it.
To bind the power, Esta and Harte must track down four elemental stones scattered across the continent. But the world outside the city is like nothing they expected. There are Mageus beyond the Brink not willing to live in the shadows—and the Order isn't alone in its mission to crush them.
In St. Louis, the extravagant World's Fair hides the first stone, but an old enemy is out for revenge and a new enemy is emerging. And back in New York, Viola and Jianyu must defeat a traitor in a city on the verge of chaos.
As past and future collide, time is running out to rewrite history—even for a time-traveling thief.
Next up, a sci-fi LGBT POC Sherlock Holmes retelling? Yes, I'm in, take my money now please.
A selection in Parade's roundup of "25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018"
A Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pick
A Medium's Books pick for We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 list
Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting Civil War veterans.
Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper's bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semi-functional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation's capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless and jobless, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets another black and queer woman, Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.
Watson's readjustment to civilian life is complicated by the infuriating antics of her strange new roommate. But the tensions between them dissolve when Watson discovers that soldiers from the New Civil War have begun dying one by one—and that the deaths may be the tip of something far more dangerous, involving the pharmaceutical industry and even the looming election. Joining forces, Watson and Holmes embark on a thrilling investigation to solve the mystery—and secure justice for these fallen soldiers.
And then there's this awesomeness–an alien invasion story, and the aftermath…
In Rich Larson's astonishing debut Annex, only outsiders can fight off the true aliens.
At first it is a nightmare. When the invaders arrive, the world as they know it is destroyed. Their friends are kidnapped. Their families are changed.
Then it is a dream. With no adults left to run things, Violet and the others who have escaped capture are truly free for the first time. They can do whatever they want to do. They can be whoever they want to be.
But the invaders won't leave them alone for long…
This thrilling debut by one of the most acclaimed short form writers in science fiction tells the story of two young outsiders who must find a way to fight back against the aliens who have taken over her city.
And that's it from us! What books do you have on YOUR radar?


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What do you want? A three part question.June 6, 2010
Many years ago, when I was a young psychiatry resident, I went through a period of great confusion, in my personal life and as a neophyte professional. A trusted friend, a psychologist who was older and wiser than me, looked me straight in the eyes and demanded my full attention before asking me, in a tone fraught with meaning, "What do you want?" I sat there in stunned silence, my mind suddenly clear of the jumble of racing thoughts that had prompted her question. Instead, I had only one thought, echoing in my mind and making my head hurt: What, indeed, did I want?
Now, decades later, I often think of that moment and smile at the simplicity of the question and the obviousness of the answer. But it took me years of trial and error to really grasp the import of the question. What I want depends on the unstated part of the question: Right now, in this moment? Or, in the near future? Or, in the long run?
For example, if I am at a restaurant surrounded by people I enjoy and having a grand time, do I really want to order another martini? It would taste good, and the rush would certainly feel good. But, past experience tells me I would not sleep well that night, and would feel less than my best the next day. In the long run, if I regularly doubled my alcohol intake, I might put on some unwanted pounds and suffer other negative consequences. I have never regretted NOT having a second martini, but have often regretted having one. So the answer is obvious: No, I do not want another martini, thank you.
Little decisions mount up to big ones. And big ones, of course, may come at us all at once, as in "Do I want chemotherapy? Do I want to marry this person? Do I want a divorce? Do I want to adopt a baby?" I contend the same three parts apply: immediate gratification, short range implications, long term likelihoods. We may have to delay the decision pending some research, or the counsel of others.
What makes this point worth writing about is that so often, in my psychiatric practice and in my life, I have seen people fooled into thinking what they WANT is immediate gratification. The denial of that (saying "No, thanks" to the offer of a second martini) is not seen as what they want, but as what they SHOULD do, or what they KNOW, but not what they WANT. That, to me, is ridiculous, because there is no reason to define what we want, really-honestly-deeply want, as simply what is tempting in the moment.
Stating our decisions as what we WANT is a way of taking full responsibility for ourselves. That is why I say so often in this blog that the secret to happy, healthy living (at least that part we control) is re-framing our thinking from what we should do, to what we want to do — in the moment, for the short term, and for the long run. Striking a balance among the three versions of "want" can be tricky; no one promised it would be easy. Do you WANT that bag of french fries, or don't you? What about that puppy?
Ending overeatingJuly 7, 2009
A very important new book (The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler) accurately describes major factors contributing to the obesity epidemic: cleverly formulated manufactured food designed to seduce us into overeating, addictive ingredients (salt, sugar and fat) which act like nicotine in cigarettes to keep us coming back for more, a profit driven system of marketing and government subsidies which works against our best interests, and the loss of boundaries limiting when and how much we eat. It is indeed frightening to think that a 2-year-old's appetite "knows" to shut down when enough calories have been consumed, but by the time that child is four (in our culture) there is often a loss of that self-control mechanism.
Kessler's solutions include re-training our minds to devalue unhealthy processed foods loaded with the Big Three (salt, sugar, fat); reforming our policies and practices which encourage this vicious cycle; and doing much more to educate people as to what they are consuming (such as requiring nutritional information in restaurants).
I agree with all this, but take issue with some of the concepts Kessler promotes. My main complaint is he oversimplifies the issue of food containing salt, sugar and fat by using an addiction model. Too much of these ingredients is indeed unhealthy, but a simple addiction model will not work.
Another problem is his use of the term "real food" (see NPR interview) which is a vague concept, at best. Many seemingly real foods contain salt, sugar and fat (either naturally, or because of the way they are produced), and not all "manufactured" foods are bad (e.g., some fish farmed in a sustainable way are better for us than some "wild-caught" fish). I can buy a chicken that has been doctored with added salt and fat, or I can buy one (usually smaller and more expensive) which has been grown almost organically. To the average consumer, both seem "real." Also, I can buy "sea salt" and "unrefined real sugar" and think I am getting something healthier than standard table salt and corn syrup, but the bottom line (sodium and calories) may be exactly the same.
Finally, he promotes a black vs. white dichotomy between a disease-like state we cannot directly control ("conditioned hypereating") and old fashioned willpower, telling us "it is not our fault" that we overeat. Fault, per se, may not be the issue; rather, we should learn ways to increase our resistance to external cues and marketing, educate ourselves about nutrition and portion size, and practice coping skills to enhance self-regulation. I have written about this at length elsewhere.
Learning self-control and delay of gratificationMay 22, 2009
A now classic psychology experiment from the late 1960s demonstrated that four-year-old children who were able to delay the gratification of eating a marshmallow became more successful in later years than children who could not exercise as much self-control. In an update of the research on this topic, Jonah Lehrer (writing in The New Yorker recently) quotes the original researcher and many others discussing how we learn to control our brains when it comes to resisting temptation and applying ourselves to a task (such as controlling what we eat or exercising more).
The marshmallow researcher, Walter Mischel, says, "Once you realize that willpower is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it."
Teaching children (and adults) simple ways to master their thoughts and behavior (through "strategic allocation of attention") may be a crucial ingredient in increasing success in many activities. For example, the children who were successful in resisting the marshmallow temptation
distracted themselves by covering their eyes, pretending to play hide-and-seek underneath the desk, or singing songs from "Sesame Street." Their desire wasn't defeated—it was merely forgotten. "If you're thinking about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you're going to eat it," Mischel says. "The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place."
Mischel and other researchers are very interested in studying the people who have become "high-delaying adults" (exercising self-control) even though, as children, they failed the marshmallow test.
Some researchers (e.g., John Jonides at University of Michigan, and others) are focusing on the exact locations and functions in the brain associated with self-control and delay of gratification:
Yale University researchers found that delaying gratification involves an area of the brain, the anterior prefrontal cortex, that is known to be involved in abstract problem-solving and keeping track of goals. … The brain scan findings from 103 subjects suggest that delaying gratification involves the ability to imagine a future event clearly, said Jeremy Gray, a Yale psychology professor and coauthor of the study in the September [2008] edition of the journal Psychological Science. You need "a sort of 'far-sightedness,' to put it in a single word," he said. [reference]
Mischel, the original marshmallow researcher, adds:
The key to delaying gratification may lie in the ability to "cool the hot stimulus," he said in a telephone interview.
Over and over, research is showing that the trick is to shift activity from "hot," more primitive areas deep in the brain to "cool," more rational areas mainly in the higher centers of the brain, he said.
There are many ways to cool a hot stimulus, said Mischel, who is president of the Association for Psychological Science. Say you are determined to resist the chocolate cake at a restaurant. You must distract yourself from the waiter's dessert tray. You can also focus on long-term consequences and make them "hot" – by vividly imagining your future tummy and hip bulges – or think of the cake in the cooler abstract, as a thing that will make you fat and clog your arteries.
In the marshmallow test, he said, "the same child who can't wait a minute if they're thinking about how yummy and chewy the marshmallow is can wait for 20 minutes if they're thinking of the marshmallow as being puffy like a cotton ball or like a cloud floating in the sky." [reference]
A large-scale study is now underway, involving hundreds of schoolchildren in Philadelphia, Seattle, and New York City, to see if self-control skills can be taught.
More resources:
- watch a brief video of the marshmallow test;
- listen to a Public Radio discussion of the New Yorker article (45 min.);
- check out sayyestono.org, an organization devoted to increasing self-discipline in children;
- read the article in The New Yorker and this Boston Globe article.
- in one recent study, obese women were found to have less ability to delay gratification than obese men and normal-weight people.
Do not — DO NOT — deprive yourselfJanuary 30, 2009
In Woody Allen's very funny movie Sleeper (1973), he plays a health food store owner who travels to the future and discovers everything that was bad for you (smoking, fast food) is now good for you. I have often wondered whether, in such circumstances, I would change my long-standing eating preferences (which now happen to be "healthy") so that I would eat heavy desserts, creamy sauces, sweets, McDonalds food, etc. Now I dislike such foods, but if it turned out they were good for me, would I learn to like them? The answer is, probably yes.
Over the last two decades, I have absorbed the culture of healthy eating to the extent that I PREFER to eat this way. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that I have brainwashed myself. Which is a good thing. There is ample and growing evidence that we can control our likes and dislikes to a great extent (it takes time and practice).
What I know does NOT work for me or many other people is to change the way I eat just to be "good" or "healthy." If I do that, I feel deprived, and will get angry, resentful, and ultimately go back to eating what I like.
The same is true for exercise; do it because you want to, not because you "have to." You will be happier, and healthier. What's the point of being healthy if you're not happy?
Please, don't Resolve to "get healthy" in the new year!December 31, 2008
There is nothing wrong with setting a goal to walk 30 minutes a day, or to stop buying fat-and-sugar-laden snack foods to keep in the pantry. The problem with New Year's Resolutions is that they are usually reactive and rarely work. By reactive, I mean they tend to be the result of a feeling that "I have overindulged" or "been bad" in December, so I will make amends next year. This kind of thinking is self-defeating. Diets don't work, and Resolutions don't work. What does work is a full time commitment to practicing specific, realistic behaviors. The idea of an annual review and re-commitment is not bad, but I suggest the best time to do this might be December 1 — certainly not January 1.
Here is an excerpt from Weight Management for Your Life that may give you some idea why I think December, with all of its "special occasions," would be a good time to review and renew your healthy-living plan:
If you have been successfully working on changing your eating and exercise patterns for some time, you will encounter situations where someone will say to you "This is a special occasion, so go ahead and eat that cake!" The cake is not the issue, but the implication behind the statement is. People observing your healthier lifestyle will assume you are in a constant state of self-deprivation, and will want to see you "loosen up." It is important to them to feel okay about
their own "indulgences." The problem with your buying into that theory is that it discounts the fact that you already are eating (and exercising) the way you want to. You are not depriving yourself – in fact, by doing what you want, you are indulging yourself. Your ongoing healthy lifestyle is its own reward.
Another problem with going back to old unhealthy habits, even temporarily, is that such "special occasions" come up frequently: out-of-town trips, weddings, graduations, birthdays, holidays, cruises, office parties, etc. etc. Add the special occasions with their special "indulgences" or "rewards" up over the course of a year and you have put on an unwanted five to ten pounds. … Special occasions are even more special when they don't throw you off your chosen path.
Happy new year!
Coping with lossAugust 4, 2008
A close family member is dying. She is 87 years old, has inoperable cancer, is in hospice care at home, and is fully alert and aware. She made the decision to reject any active treatment that would prolong her life (such as IV fluids, transfusions) and has bravely provided her many friends and family members the opportunity to tell her "Goodbye" and whatever else is on their minds. The fist thing she said to me when I visited her a few weeks ago was, "I've accepted it; I don't like it, but I have no choice." Her accepting attitude, and calm and upbeat demeanor, has allowed me and many others to talk openly with her about her life, her death, and things we have put off saying. Mostly, the conversations have been completely ordinary, including the usual amount of laughter and humor. Many tears have been shed, but I think all would agree that she has provided us with a rare and valuable experience.
The recent death of Randy Pausch (author of The Last Lecture) has sparked interest in talking about life and dreams with someone who is dying. Here is a talk (10 minutes) he gave shortly before his death. This kind of openness is a welcome change from the days when terminal illness and death were taboo subjects. When my grandmother died of cancer 40 years ago, I remember how the family never mentioned cancer or death, and all of the conversations with my grandmother were stilted and superficial, because we didn't want to "upset" her. I was a medical student at the time and begged my parents and aunts to talk openly with her, but they refused.
All of us, especially if we live long enough, experience loss — of friends, family, pets, dreams, situations, things. The loss may be from death, but may be from some other form of separation or change. It is my belief that how we cope with these losses determines to a great extent how we cope with life. I also believe that our grieving these losses is cumulative, and that how we "resolve" each one affects how we cope with the following ones. The overused metaphor that occurs to me is an onion, with its concentric layers.
There are many dimensions to coping with loss, and a huge variation within us and between us in how well each loss gets resolved before we experience the next one. Some of us are lucky, having fewer losses, or at least having them spaced out in manageable portions. Others are extremely unlucky, having major losses when we are least prepared, or having multiple losses at one time.
Here are some of the factors which determine the extent to which a loss gets "resolved:"
- We grieve the loss and, depending on the circumstances and culture, go through a period of formal or informal mourning.
- We acknowledge and think about our ambivalence about the person or thing which we lost. The more conflicted the relationship, and the more ambivalent we are towards the lost person or object, the harder it may be to get resolution. This may require years of introspective work and even the help of a therapist.
- We free ourselves from guilt and self-reproach surrounding the lost person. This, too, may require much effort and the help of a therapist.
- We forgive our self (and, if possible, the lost one).
- We retain a positive image of the lost person or at least of the lessons learned from our exposure to the person and how they were lost. Recent research shows that this is a double-edged sword; some people cannot let go of their attachment to the lost person enough to move on with their lives.
- For some, it helps to have faith in an afterlife, or a "better place" where we might even reunite with the lost person in the future (although, with some losses, we may wish to never see the person again).
- The most important "rule" for coping with loss is that there are no set rules or patterns and that each person and each loss is unique. For example, you may or may not feel like crying, and it does no good to berate yourself for crying too much or too little.
- In many situations involving loss there is an opportunity for anticipatory grieving, as there is in the personal example I opened this post with. When we have time and opportunity to cope with loss before the person actually leaves, we may do a lot of the "work" of grieving in advance.
- A loss may trigger, or activate, unresolved feelings of grief from one or more previous losses. This provides a challenge, but also an opportunity to "work through" psychological issues. Even if an earlier loss was appropriately grieved and resolved at the time, as we age and develop psychologically the earlier loss may acquire new meaning and significance, so re-grieving it is not a sign of illness or weakness.
- We experience loss and grief in conjunction with others (family, friends, co-workers, etc.) so there is a communal dimension to our grief. How one person in a connected group grieves affects the grief process of the others. Spouses, for example, may grieve the loss of a child in different ways and that can lead to marital stress. Siblings may grieve differently when they lose a parent, and should be aware that old rivalries and jealousies may get reactivated. Also, having emotional and material support from other people makes a huge difference in our own grieving and can be life-saving.
- Times of loss and grieving can increase any tendencies we have to "indulge" in unhealthy behaviors (e.g., overeating or over drinking). We may have to be especially careful to limit the long-term damage that would result.
- Ultimately, accepting the loss(es) and moving on with your life is considered a healthy outcome, though in many circumstances one never fully "gets over it."
I have experienced a lot of personal loss in my 65 years (grandparents, parents, parents-in-law, sister, brothers-in-law, nephew, spouse, friends, pets, etc.) and for me there has been a learning process. I grieve differently now than I did when I was in my 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. I am not sure I am any better at finding resolution, but I know what to expect of myself, and that is somewhat comforting.
The power (and controversy) of self-changeAugust 4, 2008
I have written before (here) about self-change and its relevance for adopting a healthy lifestyle. This recent article in Scientific American Mind summarizes the issues (and controversy) quite well. In case the link to the article goes away, here is the article:
Do-It-Yourself Addiction Cures?
Former drug and alcohol users can show impressive results without professional treatment, through the phenomenon of self-change
By Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld
July 31, 2008
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."—Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (Twain was his nom de plume) humorously mocked his inability to end his nicotine-fueled habit. But he might have gone for Quitting Round 1,001 had he had the benefit of recent research.
In 1982 Stanley Schachter, an eminent social psychologist then at Columbia University, unleashed a storm of controversy in the addictions field by publishing an article showing that most former smokers and overweight people he interviewed had changed successfully without treatment. He also cited a study that reported even higher rates of recovery among heroin users without treatment.
A particularly controversial finding was that the success rates of his so-called self-changers were actually greater than those of patients who underwent professional treatment. Schachter discussed two possible explanations. First, treatment seekers may be more severely addicted than self-changers. Second, studies typically examine only one change endeavor, whereas his interviews covered a lifetime of efforts. Perhaps it takes many tries before a person gets it right, he suggested.
Schachter's findings were met with intense skepticism, even outright disbelief, particularly by those who believed in a disease model of addiction. In this view, addictions are diseases caused by physiological and psychological factors that are triggered by using the substance (drugs or alcohol); once the disease is triggered, the addict cannot control his or her substance use, and complete abstinence is the only way to manage the disease. Proponents of this model did not believe that so many people could change their addictions at all, let alone without treatment. Other criticisms came from researchers who questioned the scientific value of Schachter's work because it was based on a small and selective sample and relied on self-reports of past behavior, which often are not accurate pictures of what really happened. Nevertheless, his findings served as a catalyst, encouraging many researchers to study self-change in addictive behaviors. Let us examine what the research tells us about how widespread successful self-change is for problem drinking and drug addiction.
Rates of Success
Psychologist Reginald Smart of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto recently reviewed the findings on the prevalence of self-change efforts among problem drinkers. We draw the following conclusions from his review and from our reading of the literature:
- Most of those who change their problem drinking do so without treatment of any kind, including self-help groups.
- A significant percentage of self-changers maintain their recovery with follow-up periods of more than eight years, some studies show.
- Many problem drinkers can maintain a pattern of nonproblematic moderate use of alcohol without becoming readdicted.
- Those who do seek treatment have more severe alcohol and related problems than those who do not.
Although fewer studies of self-change in drug addiction exist, the results generally mirror those for problem drinking. In summary: self-change in drug addiction is a much more common choice for solving the problem than treatment is; a substantial percentage of self-changers are successful; a significant percentage of those who were formerly addicted continue to use drugs occasionally without returning to addiction-level use, and they maintain these changes fairly well over time; and those who seek treatment usually have more severe problems than those who do not.
The experiences of Vietnam veterans are especially instructive. Sociologist Lee N. Robins, then at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and her associates published a widely cited series of studies beginning in 1974 on drug use and recovery in these veterans. While overseas, about 20 percent of the soldiers became addicted to narcotics. After discharge to the U.S., however, only 12 percent of those who had been addicted in Vietnam were found to be in that state at any time during the three-year follow-up. Fewer than 5 percent had overcome their addiction through therapy. Additional findings from Robins's studies suggested that abstinence is not necessary for recovery. Although nearly half the men who were addicted in Vietnam tried narcotics again after their return, only 6 percent became readdicted.
The results of Robins's studies suggest the power of self-change in drug addiction, but they also have been the target of many criticisms. For example, most men who became addicted in Vietnam had not had that problem before their tour of duty, suggesting that they may be unrepresentative of the general population of drug addicts. Moreover, their drug use may have been triggered by the stress of serving in Vietnam, making it easier for them to stop when they returned home. This last criticism is weakened, however, by the finding that most men who continued using some narcotics after discharge did not become addicted and by the fact that the return home was also very difficult because of the popular sentiment against that war in the U.S.
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We need more and better research on the potential for self-change to conquer problem drinking and other addictions. Studies suffer from differences in the definitions of important terms such as "addiction," "treatment" and "recovery." The use of reports of past behavior and relatively short follow-up periods are problematic as well. We also do not know of any studies on self-change with prescription drug addiction. Finally, we need to know if recovery from drug addiction leads to substitution with another addiction. At least one study revealed that many former drug addicts became problem drinkers. Because of these caveats and others, the percentages we have reported should be taken only as rough estimates.
Although we have reviewed some encouraging initial results from the literature, it is our impression that many addictions professionals do not view self-change as very effective. Their conclusion may be largely correct for those problem drinkers and drug addicts to whom they are typically exposed—treatment seekers.
Generalizations from those who seek treatment to the population of problem drinkers and drug addicts as a whole may be incorrect for two reasons, however. First, those who seek treatment have more severe problems than those who do not; second, they may overrepresent those who have failed repeatedly in their attempts at self-change.
We may learn a great deal from people who successfully change addictive behaviors on their own. Whatever they are doing, they are doing something right. In addition to the work with problem drinkers and drug addicts, we are beginning to make headway in the study of self-change in other problem areas, such as problem drinking, smoking, obesity and problem gambling. Greater knowledge about self-change and how it comes about might be used to help people who are not in treatment find ways of shedding their addictions as well as to enhance the effectiveness of our treatment programs.
Note: This story was originally printed with the title, "D.I.Y. Addiction Cures?".
Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld serve on the board of advisers for Scientific American Mind. Arkowitz is a psychology professor at the University of Arizona, and Lilienfeld is a psychology professor at Emory University


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Does anyone know how I could make a wall that someone could walk through but not shoot through?
Make the wall a func_brush and set solidity to never solid, and then put a brush with the blockbullets material there to prevent shooting through
Blockbullets actually blocks everything, as far as i know. Maybe it works with a func_brush, with a filter that only allows players, nothing else. Not sure though.
I've done this before, and I think i was able to use blockbullets
I might remember wrong
Block bullets blocks people, but maybe you could have a block bullets brush in the wall, and then when the player gets close it opens a door immediately(Maybe just a disable brush/reenable instead of a door), and closes it once they are through.
How about teleporting the player to the other side of the wall?
I like the teleporting idea, the trigger_multiple would be iffy because if someone was standing near the door, others could shoot through.
Filter may work but it's doubtful, thanks anyway.
P.S. block bullets blocks players as well.
I think func_brush works too, like Jonah said.
You mean create a non-solid func_brush with the block bullets texture? Genius!
tie a block bullets texture to a func illusionary.
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There were good old times when people were not addicted to their buzzing smartphones, alerts, and social media feeds. Newspapers, magazines and family or friends were our main source of entertainment.
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December 23rd, 2009
Plot The world famous singing pre-teen chipmunk trio return to contend with the pressures of school, celebrity, and a rival female music group known as The Chipettes.
Release Year: 2009
Rating: 4.1/10 (13,755 voted)
Critic's Score: 41/100
Director: Betty Thomas
Stars: Jason Lee, Zachary Levi, David Cross
Storyline Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school's music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes -- Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.
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Cast: Zachary Levi - Toby David Cross - Ian Jason Lee - Dave Justin Long - Alvin(voice) Matthew Gray Gubler - Simon(voice) Jesse McCartney - Theodore(voice) Amy Poehler - Eleanor(voice) Anna Faris - Jeanette(voice) Christina Applegate - Brittany(voice) Wendie Malick - Dr. Rubin Anjelah N. Johnson - Julie (as Anjelah Johnson) Kathryn Joosten - Aunt Jackie Kevin G. Schmidt - Ryan Chris Warren Jr. - Xander Bridgit Mendler - Becca
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Release Date: 23 December 2009
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA Box Office Details
Budget: $75,000,000(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $48,875,415
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Gross: $219,613,391
(16 May 2010)
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Goofs: Continuity:
While the chipmunks are spinning in the bowl on the food processor they start spinning counter clockwise, then the shot switches to a close up and when it switches back to the wide shot just before they are thrown out of the bowl, they are spinning clockwise as they are thrown out of the left side of the bowl towards the hanging pots and pans.
Who's Aunt Jackie? Theodore:
She's the one who gave us popcorn last Christmas.
Even the Kiddies Weren't Buying ItRating: 1/10 Today I had to sit through this movie several times. :-(As an adult, it wasn't funny or entertaining. But what amused me was
the reaction from the kids in the audiences. Almost none of the kids
laughed out loud during the matinée viewing (the showing with the most
kids in attendance). Some take away comments from the mouth of babes: "Is it over YET?" "I'm
bored" and my personal favorite "That wasn't so funny at all." (poor
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A continuation day leaves us right back in the middle of the uptrend channel. That everyone is watching this channel makes it a "Big Deal" when it gets violated. The normal breakout of the descending triangle to the downside ran into the immovable object of the bottom trendline - and, you know, we can't have that violated! That would be, I don't know, sacrilegious or something.
When the channel finally is violated with a confirmed breakdown, you can expect some wild selling, because that won't happen so long as people believe in QE. For now, we are in the same status quo as we have been in all year, now that we have the obligatory flush - also standard for this year - out of the way. Really, the only thing different this time was the fact that the upper channel trendline was violated first, making the standard drawdown to the bottom of the channel seem like a bigger swing than usual.
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Z. El Akkaoui, J.-N. Mazón, A. Vaisman, and E. Zimányi. BPMN-Based Conceptual Modeling of ETL Processes. In A. Cuzzocrea and U. Dayal, editors,
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Business Intelligence (BI) solutions require the design and implementation of complex processes (denoted ETL) that extract, transform, and load data from the sources to a common repository. New applications, like for example, real-time data warehousing, require agile and flexible tools that allow BI users to take timely decisions based on extremely up-to-date data. This calls for new ETL tools able to adapt to constant changes and quickly produce and modify executable code. A way to achieve this is to make ETL processes become aware of the business processes in the organization, in order to easily identify which data are required, and when and how to load them in the data warehouse. Therefore, we propose to model ETL processes using the standard representation mechanism denoted BPMN (Business Process Modeling and Notation). In this paper we present a BPMN-based metamodel for conceptual modeling of ETL processes. This metamodel is based on a classification of ETL objects resulting from a study of the most used commercial and open source ETL tools.
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Happy Birthday, Sandra!
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Last night, the House of Representatives mostly along party lines passed a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government through February 16. The fate of the bill in the Senate is uncertain. If Congress does not pass by midnight tonight a measure extending funding for the federal government, there will be a partial government shutdown.
The AAA had pushed for Congress to attach a Medicare provider extender package including a five-year extension of the ambulance add-ons to the Continuing Resolution. Since the extender package was not included in the Resolution, we are pressing Congress to consider a separate extenders only package including the five-year ambulance extension or attach the package to another moving legislative vehicle. We are also pushing Congress to at the very least pass a short-term extension retroactive to January 1 until a Medicare extender package can move.
It is critical that we get the Medicare ambulance add-ons reinstated as soon as possible. So please write your members of Congress today!
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Saturday, May 4, 2019 marked the 90th anniversary of the founding of The Jackson Laboratory. On that date in 1929, our visionary founder Clarence Cook Little launched the lab with eight employees and $50,000 in support from benefactors, along with a gift of land from family friend George B. Dorr.
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Featured Poem: The Quest by Rumi
This week's Featured Poem is 'The Quest' by Rumi, chosen by The Reader's Learning and Quality Leader, Chris Lynn.
This week we get to spend time with Rumi's 'The Quest' which has an ancient air about it. I can almost smell a musky frankincense when reading it.
Even though you're not equipped,
Keep searching:
I don't think I ever feel fully equipped. Feeling equipped, complete or whole may well continue to elude us! Is this the feeling of being out of our depth or an imposter? Or, do we hesitate because we don't feel equipped? Is this a way we procrastinate or persuade ourselves – 'I'm not ready yet!'. Keep searching.
Equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Sustainer.
We're being offered something different to the material tools of the world here. The 'Sustainer' feels vast. This is a different kind of journey. I'll follow Jane's lead here and think about personal translations of religious thinking – that which sustains us. What, or who sustains us? Why is equipment unnecessary?
Whoever you see engaged in search,
Become her friend and cast your head in front of her,
We have 'search' again. There's something here about not knowing or not being able to see exactly what is being searched for. Again we're in a space of presence and reaching. Alongside that, there is fellowship, neighbourliness, mentorship. 'Cast' is interesting here. It makes me think of casting a net, 'cast your head in front of her's' – how does that phrase work? It conjures the patience we must have when fishing for example… There is so much in there, how are you reading that line?
The language is of continual becoming and signals a movement inward - 'you become one yourself' - a fellow seeker. The seeker of what do we think? There is a certainty here that we can test against ourselves and our own experience, does it feel true to us? A wise word to humble us and shows us how far we have come on The Quest:
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
Wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
The Quest
Even though you're not equipped,
Keep searching:
Equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Sustainer.
Whoever you see engaged in search,
Become her friend and cast your head in front of her,
For choosing to be a neighbour of seekers,
You become one yourself;
Protected by conquerors,
You will, yourself, learn to conquer.
If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,
Don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
Wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
by Rumi
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We play games for fun, but what about profit? This week the merry moguls at d-Infinity.net cast Bigby's Invisible Hand of the Market and talk about making money at the gaming table. From GMs who charge for their services to artists charging for character portraits to homeowners who charge a "club fee" for the use of their rocking rumpus room, this week we're turning imaginary gold into cold hard cash!
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The new Nadex Touch Brackets are awesome! In this video, Gail Mercer, founder of TradersHelpDesk, explains the Nadex Touch Brackets and how she uses them to trade today's volatile markets, including the futures and forex markets.
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In this example, Gail shows you the Nadex Touch Brackets for Friday, January 4, 2019 on the US Tech 100, which utilizes the emini Nasdaq 100 futures contract. The trade had $122 of risk and a profit potential of $478. Since the Touch Brackets are executed on the "IF TOUCHED" basis, the contract resulted in the full profit potential or a risk to reward of $1 : $3.92.
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It has been such a fun week watching Amanda introduce herself. I am excited to jump in too!
I'm Sarah. Like Amanda, I spend much of my time with my awesome family – our daughter, Lucille, our dog, Archer, and my husband, Cole. When I am not with them, I'm working! I work for a small advertising agency! I've been in the industry for quite some time now, and I love it!
While I have dreams of different projects for my house, I'm a little slower at accomplishing them than Amanda. 😁 We are entering our third year in our home so I hope to take on a couple of projects (like finally hanging some pictures on the walls) and maybe a bigger one or two. I also love to sew, create, and explore! We try to camp a few times a year (which is different all together with a toddler)!
Outside of all that, I am working extra hard this year to meal plan, budget, and work down our debt! There are a lot of great resources for debt and financial management, and I'm excited to share what has been working (and not) for me.
I also love high heels, halloween, hip hop, country music, and Maui. I'm sure I'm missing so much so – as Amanda said – let's keep getting to know each other through the blog and our social media. You'll definitely get a better peek into our personalities on our Instagram page @cutbakestitch.


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Canon India jumps into festive fray
KOLKATA: For any Bengali worth his rosogulla, there can be no greater festival than Durga Puja. And so, not just the people in the country's east but also major companies located there are gearing up for the festivities.
In keeping with the celebratory mood, digital imaging company Canon India is going all out with a comprehensive ad campaign comprising print and radio as well as placement of point-of-sale material featuring brand icon Anushka Sharma at all Canon retail outlets.
The campaign, a mix of above-the-line (ATL) and below-the-line (BTL), focuses on Canon's digital compact and DSLR camera range. The company has kicked-off a new TV commercial featuring its digital SLR EOS 70D being rolled out from this month. New models too have been launched ahead of Durga Puja.
But, it doesn't end there. For Canon, it is more about strengthening its connect with consumers in the most effective way, a Kolkata-based brand analyst pointed out.
Speaking about business in the eastern region, Canon India executive vice president Alok Bharadwaj said that despite the economic slowdown, the company has achieved 27 per cent growth in the DSLR business in the eastern region and has maintained a steady growth rate of 10 per cent across India.
"The current DSLR India market with 2.5 lakh units is expected to grow to 5 lakh units in three years. By expanding offerings with variants of combos and discounts between 10 and 40 per cent, we are preparing for a strong foothold in this segment," he said.


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Christ told us about our need "to pray always and not to lose heart" (Luke 18:1). In his goodness, our Savior modeled how we might do this. Following Jewish custom, Jesus offered prayer at various times of the day and night, would retire to the desert or to the hills to pray, or rise up very early or spend the night in prayer to God. The Gospels frequently show Jesus at prayer, especially when his saving mission is being revealed, as for example at his baptism, before he called the apostles, at his transfiguration, when he healed the sick and raised the dead, and above all at the events leading up to and during his Passion. Jesus's earthly work was closely bound up with his prayer, and indeed flowed out from it (cf. GILH no. 4).
From the very beginning, Christians have likewise "devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and the prayers" (Acts 2:42; cf. also Acts 10:3,9, 16:25). The Church satisfies Christ's precept "to pray always" in accordance with apostolic tradition by celebrating the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours, or Divine Office. "The Liturgy of the Hours extends to the different hours of the day the praise and thanksgiving, the memorial of the mysteries of salvation, the petitions, and the foretaste of heavenly glory, that are present in the eucharistic mystery, 'the center and high point of the whole life of the Christian community'" (GILH no. 12). Along with Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours constitutes the public prayer of the whole Church. It is the image of Christ's own prayer to the Father, "for where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them" (Matthew 18:20). Human time and activity is sanctified by the perpetual sacrifice of prayer.
The liturgical form of the Divine Office goes back to the Desert Fathers, who prayed the psalms at various times during the day and night. The Apostolic Constitutions (4th cen.) describe five daytime prayers and one nighttime prayer in its exhortation to "offer up your prayers in the morning, at the third hour, the sixth, the ninth, the evening, and at cock-crowing." St. John Cassian, describing the prayer of the Egyptian hermits (5th cen.), named eight canonical hours—seven during the day and one during the night—which St. Benedict in his Rule (6th cen.) associates with Psalm 119:164, "Seven times a day I praise you," and Psalm 119:62 "At midnight I rise to praise you." Since the Second Vatican Council, the modern Liturgy of the Hours, decreed by Pope Paul VI, consists of seven canonical hours, divided into three major hours and four minor hours, as follows:
These hours order and sanctify monastic life; clergy and religious are generally obliged to pray all the canonical hours, even if they do not live in a monastery. (Monks and nuns in movies and literature are often depicted chanting together: the Liturgy of the Hours is what they are doing.) The laity too are encouraged to participate as often as possible in the Liturgy of the Hours, whether by joining with those who are obliged to pray the whole liturgy as part of their vocation, by publicly praying the appropriate hour to mark and sanctify significant occasions, or by praying some or all of the hours individually or within the family as a regular devotion.
The psalms, themselves frequently designated as morning or evening or night prayers, are the backbone of the Liturgy of the Hours. There are psalms of praise and thanksgiving; psalms in times of trial and despair; in times of joy and victory; psalms of trust, contrition, forgiveness, and judgment; for springtime, for harvest, for feast days, for weddings; in the time of sickness, old age, and death; psalms for entry into the sanctuary and for the coming of the Lord. Most every human feeling, thought, hope, or life event has its psalm, and the use of the psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours is the Church's way of entrusting the human heart to God. The tradition of including the Trinitarian doxology as the last verse of every psalm, canticle, or hymn, during which all may bow, goes back to the Church Fathers.
Not every psalm will reflect what each individual is thinking or feeling, but those who pray a psalm in the liturgy do so on behalf of all, in part as an act of compassionate intercession for those whose cares are expressed in the psalm. At the same time, the psalms take root in the hearts of those who pray them, reshaping what they think and feel, unveiling their innermost being, revealing to them the Word. "O Lord, you search me and you know me"; "Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you known it completely" (Ps. 139:1,4). "The unfolding of your words gives light: it imparts wisdom to the simple" (Ps. 119:130).
Lauds (Morning Prayer) and Vespers (Evening Prayer) are the two hinges on which the daily office turns; Lauds is the office of praise and Vespers that of thanksgiving. Lauds sanctifies the morning: St. Basil the Great (4th cen.) says Lauds "is said in the morning [so] that the first stirrings of our mind and will may be consecrated to God and that we may take nothing in hand until we have been gladdened by the thought of God." Celebrated as the light of the a new day is dawning, Lauds also recalls the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, "the true light enlightening all people" (John 1:9) and the "sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4:2). For "God is light and in him there is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5).
The four-volume Liturgy of the Hours contains the English texts of all the canonical hours throughout liturgical year. These books are thick and expensive, and using them can be complex. This Matitunale contains the texts of Lauds for the Fridays of the Lenten and Easter seasons (including the Friday after Ash Wednesday), the Sacred Triduum, Easter, and the Ascension, as well those solemnities and feasts whose fixed date may from year to year fall on a Friday during Lent or Easter. It is intended to facilitate a weekly devotional meeting during the Lenten and Easter seasons, and to provide an easily accessible and attractive introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours. Abridged forms of the liturgy are available in print as Christian Prayer and Shorter Christian Prayer. Increasingly, clergy, religious, and laity alike are using a variety of free, easy-to-use websites and mobile apps to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, including iBreviary (ibreviary.org) and Universalis (universalis.com).


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IRS Releases Health Savings Account (HSA) Limits for 2016
On May 4th, 2015, the IRS released the contribution limits for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for calendar year 2016. While the limits have been increased gradually over the past couple of years, only some of the HSA limits will increase for 2016.
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Recent falls in oil prices will be a welcome relief for UK motorists as data shows drivers could be burning through as much as 75% more fuel than stated by manufacturers.
Carly Connected Car has released data collected from over one million vehicles, including 150,000 from the UK. The data shows year-on-year growth of discrepancies in fuel consumption in every new model generation since 2004, up until 2017 where the difference appears to reduce slightly.
The most significant difference was found in diesel cars from 2016, achieving an average of 75% higher consumption rates than stated in information given by the vehicle manufacturer. According to the RAC Foundation, the average given MPG for a diesel car in 2016 was 62.5mpg. For a motorist driving 12,000 miles, this would be a cost of £1,087.55 per annum (based on current diesel costs of 124p per litre). Considering the discrepancies found by Carly, this figure could instead be £1903.21, an additional cost to the motorist of £815.66 a year.
Overall, Carly uncovered discrepancies were greatest in the three most popular vehicle segments in the UK; small cars, compact cars and SUVs.
The Carly app found drivers of small cars are using as much as 55% more diesel and 35% more petrol than the official figures, adding hundreds of pounds to annual running costs. For compact car drivers the real-life diesel consumption recorded as 45% higher than manufacturer figures with the news no better in the increasingly popular SUV segment; burning through 45% more diesel and 40 per cent more petrol than owners might expect. The only segment of vehicle where manufacturer data reflected real-world results was Diesel sports cars where real world figures reflected the official data.
'There is an ongoing conflict of interest regarding fuel consumption. Over the years the regulations require less and less CO2 emissions, however, drivers want more powerful and luxurious vehicles,' said Avid Avini, one of Carly's founders. 'With each new C02 reduction strategy, manufacturers have had to reduce fuel consumption, however due to tests being carried out in laboratories rather than the real-world, the data shows consumption to be improving. Miles per gallon is one of the key concerns of UK drivers when buying a car as the on-going vehicle running costs can have huge impact on monthly budget. While it can be difficult for manufacturers to predict consumption, as it is very much dependent on individual driving style, a discrepancy of this size is of concern to consumers relying on manufacturer figures.'
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An outstanding effort by the Aldergrove Kodiaks gave them their second win in as many nights against the Delta Ice Hawks.
Following their 3-1 upset of the former league leading Hawks at Ladner Tuesday night, the Kodiaks upped the ante with a 7-3 win at Aldergrove Arena on Wednesday night.
Kodiaks' Kodi Schwarz, Adam Callegari and Kenny Prato scored in the first period to put the team up 3-0 at the start of the second period.
Schwarz and Brandon Dolby notched two more in the second to put the Kodiaks up 5-0 at the start of the third.
The Hawks finally netted one at the beginning of the third but Kodiaks' Elvis Jansons fired their sixth goal two minutes later. The Hawks netted two more in the next four minutes, including a short-handed goal, before Callegari closed the night's scoring at 13:33.
Two of the Kodiaks goals were on the power play and they out-shot the Hawks 48-36.
It was a very productive night for game first star Callegari, who picked up four assists in addition to his two goals. He is now third in the league for scoring with 30 points after 16 games with the Kodiaks.
The game's second star, Stephen Ryan had three assists that night, putting him on top of the league with 36 points after 19 games.
Third star Prato had two assists and a goal, and he is second in the league with 31 points after 19 games.
Jeremy Lagler had two assists that night, while singles went to Colen Whitworth, Aaron Markin, Jonathan Philley and Spencer Unger.
The win puts the Kodiaks atop the Harold Brittain conference with 28 points after 19 games (13-4-0-2), one point ahead of the Abbotsford Pilots. The Hawks remain atop the Tom Shaw conference with 28 points after 20 games (13-5-1-1), three points ahead the Richmond Sockeyes.
The Kodiaks get a week off before they host Port Moody Panthers on Wednesday, Nov. 20; puck drop at 7:15 p.m. They then travel to MSA Arena to play the Abbotsford Pilots on Friday, Nov. 22.


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Divide up the phyllo pastry sheets into 2 piles. Beat the eggs in a bowl, add the yoghurt with the baking soda extinguished in it, 3 tbsp oil, the carbonated water and salt to taste.
Take a phyllo pastry sheet, sprinkle it with oil, place a 2nd phyllo pastry sheet on top, sprinkle with oil and crumbled feta. Place another sheet with oil on top, another with feta and so on until you've finished 1 of the piles of sheets.
Roll up the sheets together into a crumbly roll, cut it into 1 1/2″ (3 cm) pieces.
Arrange them next to each other in a buttered oven dish with the cut facing up. Repeat this for the 2nd pile of sheets. Pour the prepared mixture over them with a spoon, place a piece of butter on top of each rose.
Bake in a preheated 356°F (180 °C) oven until golden. Just before they're done baking, take them out and put grated cheese on top of each. Return to the oven for a final 5 min. just to melt the cheese and serve warm!