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This documentary style short discusses topics around mental health such as stigma and how to get through tough times.
Whatstigma by James Keating was highly commended in ReachOut.com's Inspire a Generation film competition 2012.
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Pippa Woolnough – Communications Officer – Amnesty International: I think, and this is probably a personal view, that it comes sort of from fear and ignorance, there's been a misunderstanding of mental health problems that has been catagorised over the years and there's a fear of it.
Micheline Egan – Director of Communications -Headstrong: As you're growing up, and people around you tell you "Keep that quiet.", "Don't discuss that openly.", "It could impact on your job prospects."
Kathleen lynch – Minster Responsible for Mental Health: People who are in employment still will not disclose that they have an issue of poor mental health, or emotional un-wellness for fear of being discriminated against.
Tom Murphy -Director Boards.ie: I guess people are afraid of that, and families don't want to talk about it because it's somehow some sort of slight on the family name. "Oh they've got a son mental health problems." or "A daughter who has issues or suffers with her nerves." Shut up, it's all sixties Ireland crap.
Pippa Woolnough – Communications Officer – Amnesty International: All of us actually have mental health and it's not something to be afraid of. If you might experience more difficulties than someone else and it also doesn't mean you have it for life. And it's all those type of conversations that we need to have that we're not having. And I think it's the silence that is creating all the problems with the prejudice and the discriminating and it's just allowed to keep going.
Tom Murphy – Director Boards.ie: If you're not mindful of this stuff, then we are going to run into a massive, massive problem. Three times as many people committed suicide last year as died on the roads.
Jane Arigho – Meadia Project Coordinator- Headline: If you think you don't no somebody that has been affected, it's just that you haven't had that conversation. These are subjects that affect absolutely everybody in this country.
Pippa Woolnough – Communications Officer – Amnesty International: People with mental health problems are living among us and, you know, it could be me or you tomorrow and we need to learn from that, and need to not be afraid of mental health anymore.
Check out the other entries:
Winner – Kate Dolan's Subtitles
First runner up – Maureen Walshe's Depression is a monster
Second runner up – Darren O'Connor's What is depression?
Highly commended – Michelle Duong's Benjamin
Highly commended – Homejam Productions Pimp my mental health
Highly commended – Jonathan Victory's That voice inside
Highly commended – Anytime Production's A new day
Highly commended – Gavin Fitzgerald's Find a light
Highly commended – Darragh Mc Cashin's Making silence visible


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Hillary Clinton isn't the only New Yorker who made waves in New Hampshire.
Ciaran Staunton, a Sunnyside activist, made national news last weekend when he challenged presidential hopeful Mitt Romney about his immigration policies and accused the former Massachusetts governor of turning his back on immigrants.
"As governor of Massachusetts he was generous in funding immigration centers," said Staunton, 44, the vice president of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. "Now he's done an about-face in his immigration policies."
Staunton sat in the front row of an "Ask Mitt Anything" meeting in Derry, N.H., on Saturday.
Introducing himself as a member of the Irish community, Staunton praised Romney's immigration record as a governor, then accused him of changing his stance to woo GOP voters.
"When you sit down tonight, Gov. Romney, will you do me a favor, please remember that they are human," Staunton said of the more than 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants thought to be in the U.S.
"I feel, Gov. Romney, that you've turned your back on God's creatures," said Staunton, who was then roundly jeered by Romney supporters.
"I love legal immigration," Romney said in response. "But I want to end illegal immigration. ... They should get in line if they want to become a citizen."
Romney has come out in favor of border fences and biometric ID cards, and he made it legal for Massachusetts police officers to ask people about their immigration status. He also opposes any form of amnesty for immigrants.
"It's sad to see a politician grandstanding on bigotry," said Staunton's brother-in-law, Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice. He was sitting next to Staunton at the meeting. "The demonizing of undocumented people is the worst I've seen in 30 years."
Staunton moved to the U.S. from Westport, County Mayo, in 1982 and now owns O'Neills Irish Bar in midtown Manhattan.
He said that more than 40 million Americans claim Irish heritage and that in 2005 only 76 diversity visas were awarded to Irish citizens.
Members of Staunton's group regularly travel to Washington to lobby elected officials for easing restrictions on immigration.
"There's a lot of anti-immigrant hysteria in this country," Staunton said of his reason for trekking to the Granite State to hobnob with presidential hopefuls. "It's modern-day McCarthyism."

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Amazon's proposed takeover of Whole Foods is shaking up the grocery trade and we've got expert analysis and opinion on the impact on the US industry.
Our Amazon updates and previews are always popular. Sales are up 13%, so let's look at what else is up for Amazon in 2017 in the US and around the world.
New Year's roundup of US retail news and trends
Fresh into the New Year, we have a few 2016 retail reflections and a look at what's ahead in retail in 2017. Adobe said final year-end US e-commerce sales hit $91.7 billion, up 11% over 2015 and comprised 9% of $1 trillion in total retail sales.
Amazon e-commerce impact and growth continue – watch out for 2017!
According to Prosper Insights & Analytics, 26.2% of consumers have bought products during the holidays online from Amazon, up 10% from last year. Walmart ranks second at 14.3%. InternetRetailer.com estimates Amazon's Black Friday weekend sales at $4.74 billion, a stunning 37% of all US online sales.
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My mum and I popped into Melbourne the day before my birthday. We rode on the trams, watched bicyclists rush past, took pretty pictures of skyscrapers, bought mangos and passion fruit, ventured into potentially one of the world'd largest H&M's outlets, ate a delicious lunch, got lost, asked for help, missed our stop, and hitched a ride to the right station with the loveliest lady and her two daughters. We adventured well, to say the least!
What places are on your to-visit list? I'd love to visit New Zealand.
PS The first & second picture? Pumpkin pizza and greek salad, which we ate seated at a small restaurant on one of Melbourne's quintessential cobbled roads. Still can't get over how crazily delicious the pizza was.


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Adam Gibson & the Ark-Ark Birds 'Australia Restless'
It feels good to be writing about two Australian spoken word long-play releases in the same week. And particularly good to be writing about a release from a storyteller who tells the heart of this country, and who is taking storytelling to a whole new level.
Adam Gibson is a Sydney-based journalist, writer, performer, lyricist, musician and artist, a prolific and reliably eloquent storyteller that I've been blessed to know and to listen to for many years. He's been performing stories with folk/rock music for over a decade - first up with Modern Giant, then in 2008 releasing his debut album with the Aerial Maps, In the Blinding Sunlight - an accomplished series of short audio films travelling through "a place of forgotten coastal towns, of people missing somewhere in the bright expanse, of lives lived under the blinding sunlight of Australia."They followed that up with The Sunset Park, a "song cycle" written while Adam traveled across the country from the Western Australian coast to Queensland. Both albums were widely acclaimed, and deservedly so.
"There's a restlessness in the heart of many Australians; a need to move, to shift, to see different scenes, new horizons, better places ..... Lured by the road or simply influenced by the great weight of our land, we strike out for sunlit fields, small town pubs, empty beaches, the black miles of bitumen. It's an urge to feel the land, to know it. It's a psychological yearning: I call it 'Australia Restless' … and I have it bad."
This album is the most solidly musical yet, a complete vision and journey. Co-written with his brother Simon Gibson and produced by former Hummingbirds main man Simon Holmes, the album plays like a full-length film, sound, voice and imagery coalescing. Adam told me recently, "I am approaching things as though my stuff were conventional 'songs' and letting the audience worry about whether they're concerned if I don't sing but rather speak." To me this is the key to Adam's enduring accessibility as an Australian storyteller. He is able to inhabit the 'rock' world that's pretty intrinsic to the heart of this country, telling stories that could maybe only express themselves through that filter. Comparisons to Paul Kelly are spot on – it doesn't matter whether these stories/songs are sung or spoken, in large part because Adam's delivery is so lyrical.
So putting aside that (really kind of boring) question of whether these are songs or poems, Australia Restless should rightly become an Australian classic. These stories are emotional documentaries of life on this enormous island, written by a very involved observer, from within the heart of the story itself. Adam talks to us from"obscure towns linked by empty roads", from red horizons seen through dusty windscreens, from lonely beach dunes and rowdy outback bars. But none of these stories are 'travel tales.' These are visceral, often heavily lived lives, told by an unashamedly sentimental narrator, touched with a wry humour. The Years When Nobody Cared is extraordinary storytelling, whimsical and poignant without ever tripping into romanticism. Uladulla is heart breaking. Ode to a Cup of Tea is just sweet as hell. My personal pick of the tracks is The Ark-Ark Birds (featured on La Danza Poetica tonight), haunted by the call and the character of the crows who "tear the air to shreds" ... not only because crows are my favourite bird, sacred to Aboriginal nations (in the Kulin Nation, Victoria, where I live, he is known as Waa or Waarn, who protects the waterways) but also because I can't quite get a handle on this story. Something about it haunts me, the way some places in Australia do.
Australian Restless should be listened to, I suggest, in the 'traditional' way of the LP – in a full sitting, maybe in headphones, maybe on a long drive. Maybe if you're away and homesick for Australia, I Will Always Go Seeking Water should be on your go-to playlist (along with anything by Not Drowning, Waving..) Maybe if you want to reach into this country, further in from the coastal cities, and get to a deeper story, you should take the whole ride. This may in fact be "the great Australian novel" as an album.
* Adam and the Ark-Ark Birds are launching the album this month:
First stop, Brisbane – May 9, the Junk Bar, Ashgrove, supported by Mexico City (duo). Tickets: http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=51078
Second stop: Melbourne, May 16, the Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford, support the Danny Walsh Banned. Tickets: FREE !!
Third stop: Sydney, May 17, The Vanguard, Newtown, supported by Mick Thomas. Tickets: http://www.thevanguard.com.au/…/adam-gibsons-album-la…/12926


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Obento-yaTwin Cities, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Japanese restaurant in the Dinkytown/Como area
A chic, newer Japanese restaurant in the Dinkytown/Como area.
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An enchanting atmosphere. Lovely ice tea and orange juice cocktail. Wonderful vegan sushi rolls. Loved the soup. Vegetable tempura was not nearly as good as found elsewhere. The potato salad (to those of us from mid-America, read mashed potatoes) were superb. Enjoyed the pickles. I would go again, but would pass on the tempura and focus on the small dishes. Be prepared for a long wait on a Saturday night and for very little elbow room. But a nice place.
I don't understand how Obento-ya could win City Pages "Best Japanese Restaurant" award in 2008. The service was friendly, but slow, erratic and crazy. If we didn't flag our waiter down, he would have never stopped at our table to take our order. Getting the bill took forever and all of our food came out in random intervals (the edamame was supposed to be an appetizer, but ended up being a main course). The best part of my meal ended up being the Asahi Super-Dry 12 oz. beer that I ordered.
This is the first Japanese restaurant I've been to that has a difficult menu for vegans. You wouldn't expect this from a restaurant in Minneapolis, and especially one that's so close to Dinkytown.
The only marked vegan item is a mediocre, dry and bland sushi roll. Obento-ya doesn't have a separate vegan menu (like Midori's Floating World Cafe), nor does it have vegan specials or vegan broth for noodle bowl soups (like Tanpopo Noodle Shop). I ended up cobbling together a few grilled vegetable skewers (robata), which was unsatisfying and didn't fill me up at all. Also, they only give you two or three pieces of vegetable and charge you $3 for each.
The edamame was not fresh and was served to us lukewarm, as it must have been sitting on a counter somewhere. On a whole, this place is not only a rip-off with poor service, but it's also not vegan-friendly for the most part. Don't waste your time or money here; got to Tanpopo or Midori's instead.
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7/8/2019 Regina's collaborative paper with postdoc Clive Chung in the Dan Nomura lab is out in Nature Chemical Biology! Covalent targeting of the v-ATPase provides a new avenue for mTORC1 inhibition and autophagy activation, also sheds light on how the v-ATPase regulates mTORC1. Accompanied by a very nice N&Vs by Delong Meng and Jenna Jewell.
5/24/2019 Our brilliant students Ashley and Rosalie receive their Ph.Ds. On to more groundbreaking science discoveries at FHCRC and UCSF!
5/15/2019 Regina's collaborative paper with Clive Chung (Dan Nomura lab) is officially accepted at Nature Chemical Biology. Congratulations!!
3/21/2019 Regina is awarded an AACR-Amgen Fellowship in Clinical/Translational Cancer Research. Congratulations!
3/8/2019 Roberto presents the lab's recent work on mTORC1 at the Damon Runyon Symposium: Accelerating Cancer Cures in New York
2/4/2019 1st year MCB graduate students Liv Jensen and Cyrus Ruediger begin their third rotation in our lab. Welcome guys!
11/13/2018 1st year MCB graduate student Jesse Garcia begins his second rotation in our lab. Welcome Jesse!
9/1/2018 Rosalie's Rag paper published in Nature Cell Biology (click here). Comes with a very nice N&Vs from Brendan Manning.
6/20/2018 Rosalie's paper officially accepted in Nature Cell Biology. Congratulations!!
5/18/2018 Brian walks for his MCB graduation! Great work on completing your PhD, lab won't be the same without you!
5/17/2018 The lab attends Emma's undergraduate graduation ceremony at the Greek Theatre! Congratulations on all your hard work, we'll miss you!
3/30/2018 Marie completes her 6-month internship in lab and heads back to Munich to finish her master's.
3/23/2018 Yangxue finishes a year long internship in lab! Now back to Germany to complete her master's.
10/17/2017 Collaborative paper with the Hurley lab on the structure of the Ragulator-Rag GTPase complex published in Molecular Cell (click here).
9/27/2017 Junior Specialist, Ben Croze and visiting Master's student from Munich, Marie Tofaute start in lab on the same day. Welcome!
9/23/2017 Roberto is awarded the Shurl & Kai Curci Foundation Faculty Scholarship, a joint program with the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI) (click here).
9/5/2017 1st year MCB graduate student Kyle Tucker begins his first rotation in our lab. Welcome Kyle!
9/1/2017 Postdoctoral fellow Regina Shin (PhD: National University of Seoul) joins the lab. Welcome!
8/30/2017 Ashley's review on the role of the lysosome in lipid homeostasis is published online in Trends in Cell Biology: click here for link.
5/1/2017 Joseph Paul joins the lab as a joint student with Andy Dillin's group. Welcome!
4/25/2017 Quanta Magazine publishes an article on the new roles of the lysosome in cellular metabolism and signaling: (click here for link)
3/30/2017 Justin presents his work at the Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM) at the Buck Institute for Aging Research. Brian wins the best poster prize, Roberto is awarded the Glenn Prize for Aging Research. A good day for the lab!
3/24/2017 Brian and Ashley's paper on cholesterol-mediated regulation of mTORC1 is published in Science. Congratulations!
2/05/2017 Ronja Rappold, a Master student from Heidelberg University, begins a 6-month internship in the lab. Welcome!
1/08/2017 Roberto is invited speaker for the Diabetic Cardiovascular Research Center seminar series at Washington University School of Medicine
1/05/2017 Yangxue Fu, a Master student from Heidelberg University, begins a 5-month internship in the lab. Welcome!
11/12/2016 MCB 1st year students Huntly Morrison and Matt Stephely begin their second rotation in the lab
9/19/2016 MCB 1st year student Joseph Paul begins his first rotation in the lab
8/1/2016 Marlies completes her 6-month Master's internship and returns to Utrecht.
6/24/2016 Roberto speaks at the UCSF Cancer Center Friday Seminar
6/11/2016 Roberto delivers the keynote lecture at the Gordon Research Seminar on Lysosomes and Endocytosis
5/10/2016 Christian Bindesboll, a visiting postdoc from the University of Oslo, arrives in the lab. Welcome!
5/4/2016 Roberto speaks to ASBMB Today on recent findings and future challenges in lysosomal biology: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201605/Features/LivelyLysosomes/
5/1/2016 MCB student Justin Zhang joins the Z-Lab. Welcome!
4/1/2016 Kelvin Cho and Emma Sydir are both awarded Amgen Scholarships. Congratulations!!
1/13/2016 Roberto is awarded the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation award.
1/7/2016 Roberto is invited speaker at the UCSF Diabetes Center seminal series
1/8/2016 Utrecht University Master's student Marlies Ludikhuize beings a 6-month internship in the lab. Welcome Marlies!
1/1/2016 Ofer is awarded a 2-year National Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation (NNPDF) postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
12/19/2015 Anna Thrun completes her thesis work in the lab and heads back to Berlin: best of luck Anna!!
12/1/2015 Chun-Yan Lim, a recent graduate from the National University of Singapore, joins the lab as postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
12/1/2015 1st year MCB student Sara Choo begins her second rotation in our lab
11/23/2015 Brian Castellano presents his work at the 2015 Bay Area Aging Meeting at Stanford University
10/6/2015 Roberto presents at the weekly departmental seminar series, Tufts University Medical School (Boston, MA)
9/20/2015 1st year MCB student Justin Zhang begins his first rotation in our lab
9/6/2015 Roberto speaks at the EMBO conference on Autophagy, Chia Sardinia (Italy)
8/21/2015 Kasper heads back to the Netherlands, best of luck!
7/12/2015 Roberto is invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology at Proctor Academy in Andover (New Hampshire)
7/1/2015 Anna Thrun, a Master's student from Berlin, joins our lab for her 6-month thesis work. Welcome Anna!
6/21/2015 Roberto is invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Bioenergetics at Proctor Academy in Andover (New Hampshire)
6/19/2015 Roberto is invited speaker at the Keystone Symposia on Autophagy in Breckenridge (Colorado)
6/5/2015 Roberto is awarded the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Studies Grant award jointly with Dr. Anne Simonsen (University of Oslo)
5/14/2015 Roberto is invited speaker at the DFG Symposium "Vacuolar ATPase: A Novel Anti-Tumor Target" at the Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation (IFOM) in Milan, Italy
5/1/2015 Two MCB/Chemical Biology graduate students join our lab: Ashley Thelen and Oliver Davis. Welcome guys!
2/1/2014 Kasper Kommeren, our third Master's student from Utrecht University (and counting..) starts a 6-month internship in the lab
12/8/2014 Roberto presents the lab's work at the 2014 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting in Philadelphia, where he is co-chair of the minisymposium titled 'Organelle Dynamics and Cross-talk in Health and Disease'
12/1/2014 MCB grad students Oliver Davis and Luke Ferro start their rotation in the lab
10/9/2014 Roberto is invited speaker at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Cell Biology program
10/6/2014 Roberto is awarded the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (click here) and (here)
9/30/2014 MCB/ChemBio grad students Ashley Thelen and Charlotte Nixon start their rotation in the lab
9/27/2014 Roberto is invited speaker at the 2nd Bay Area Trafficking Symposium (UCSF)
9/24/2014 Roberto is awarded the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation Grant
9/5/2014 Ofer Moldavski, a postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD from the Weizmann Institute, Israel, joins the lab.
9/2/2014 Bob van Eijkeren, our second Utrecht Master student, starts a 6-month internship in the lab
8/13/2014 Roberto presents the lab's work at the International Lysosomal Biology Meeting in Salvador, Brazil
8/9/2014 Reini heads home to the Netherlands after a very productive internship. Best of luck and visit again soon!
7/10/2014 The lab welcomes research assistant Dhruv Kumar
6/24/2014 Roberto is elected Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research (click here)
5/2/2014 The lab welcomes our first two official graduate students, Brian Castellano and Rosalie Lawrence!
2/10/2014 Utrecht masters student Reini van der Welle begins a 6-month research internship in the lab
2/7/2014 Two MCB students, Rosalie Lawrence and Madeleine Jensen, begin their rotation in the lab
1/1/2014 MCB graduate student Brian Castellano is the first rotation student of the Zoncu lab
1/1/2014 The Zoncu Lab officially starts!


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by Aly Teich
On Tuesday night I went on a memorably bad date. Let me start by saying — sadly, having been single for a few years now, in what I would call this nothing-short-of-savage-dating-app-culture (and multiply the intensity of that 10x in NYC) — this actually was not THE worst date I've been on.
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When I first came up with the idea to start The Sweat Life, a brand centered around approaching health in a whole new way, it was just that: an idea. (We later grew into a website, a video series, and a social media platform, but that all comes later!)
By Lauren Taus
Believe it or not, I'm not a girl that practices a lot on my own. I'm more likely drinking a glass of wine at home than foam rolling. I don't sit in long lunges to open up my hips or roll around a lot on wheels to awaken my spine for deep back bending. I prefer one-on-one training with teachers who have an expertise outside of my own, and I love group classes for the dynamic energy that I find in them.
By Holly Rilinger
I think it's important to ask ourselves WHY we workout. What is the real reason we show up day in and day out, pushing ourselves, testing our limits and our willpower. There are many answers, but is it possible that HAPPINESS can be one of those reasons?
By Dathan Ritzenhein
Dathan Ritzenhein has competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the marathon race, and in the 2012 London Olympics in the 10,000m. This year, he will be taking the block at the 2016 NYC Marathon along with other Olympic runners, and is hoping for the top honors at the Central Park podium. We asked Dathan about his Olympic experience, and what it means to Go for Gold.
By Lauren Young
For most folks living The Sweat Life, hopping on a bike and getting their heart pumping is a healthy escape from their busy lives; for me, it is much more than that. More than being an invigorating workout, it is about the gift of life I am lucky to receive with each passing beat.
By Jenna Tanenbaum, Co-Founder of GreenBlender
I run a health company called GreenBlender. We ship to thousands of people, all the pre-portioned ingredients and superfoods to make amazing smoothies at home. GreenBlender lives and breathes the mantra that maintaining a healthy lifestyle should be fun and easy.
By Patricia Moreno, Founder of Intensati
The other day during one of my classes, I saw a shift that I often see in my students: the workout was allowing them to access the feeling of their own power and success. What I didn't expect to see is how hard they were pushing, how much they were sweating, how loud they were speaking. And yet, they told me that it was the best class they had taken in a while and that they felt more accomplished, happy, and fulfilled than ever.
By Sarah Huntington
As a high school English teacher, it has taken me four years of undergraduate work; two more years to "master" my craft at a reputable university; and ten years in the profession to even remotely feel like I know what I am doing. Now, after practicing yoga for about eight years (on and off), I have decided to enter yoga teacher training at one of my favorite yoga studios.
By Louisa Stelle
Louisa Stelle is assistant to one of the most famous women in both publishing AND fashion: Anna Wintour, the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue magazine. In addition to her around-the-clock job, Louisa also loves being active and is quite wellness conscious. So the challenge: How does she balance a healthy lifestyle when living completely on someone else's schedule?
By Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN
To supplement or not to supplement. This is black and white for some, but for most it is a foggy gray with a scratch to the head. I'm very clear with my stance on supplementation: I believe even the best supplements should do just that — supplement the diet.
By Liz Barnet
Whether it's because all of the obligations of summer are throwing a loop into your routine, or perhaps just that you've found yourself less than motivated to hit the gym with your typical vigor, I want to encourage you to change your mindset about what "fitness" means and how you approach it. There is a widespread misconception that unless you are doing all the things all of the time, it's not enough.
By Suzie Baleson, Founder of Wellthily
Travel fatigue. It gets us all. Running through airports, dehydration, jet leg, late nights, early mornings, time changes. We all know them and most of us loathe them. How do we stop the travel fatigue madness? Enter Wellthily.
By Laurie Cobb
What does it mean to be your best self? To me, it means to be strong, confident, and to stand up for what you want for yourself or others. It means doing things you never thought you could do in your life – like running a marathon, getting healthy, losing over 200 pounds – these are things that I never thought I would do.
By Alyssa Exposito, Lead Trainer at NYSC
I never ran by myself, until that hot and humid typical Miami afternoon. My day started out like any other day, except it ended when I became a roadblock for a black F-450 truck whose driver never saw me. There are moments in your life that are the end of life as you knew it. Some are planned events, some hit us without warning, and in these moments lies the opportunity for our growth.
By Alyzeh Ashraff
I was in the 5th grade when the 9/11 attacks happened. I walked into my elementary school classroom a few hours after we all witnessed the tragedy on television, and one of my friends at the time pointed at me and yelled, "No! She's a terrorist!" All of the kids laughed and squealed and made me feel like a 9-year-old alien.
By Sarah Huntington
For a long time I have lamented not having "the perfect childhood." I always thought growing up with a white picket fence, a mother who made lunches everyday, and being born and raised in the same place, "where everybody knows your name" was the key to happiness. This is the life I longed for.
By Ryan Stumpe, Sweat Life Executive Video Producer
I've put a lot of hours in, traveled through 8 states, drove 4000 miles, got a Town and Country stuck in a Utah canyon, gave a bike a shower in a Reno casino bathroom, and learned how to change the flat tire of a backcountry bush plane. I tend to never be fully unpacked before rearranging my bags for the next flight. I work as a Producer and Director on commercials and web content. I love it. And to top it off, sometimes I get to sprinkle that with projects for the bike and ski industry, other things I really love.
By Sarah Beattie
I've always prided myself on my work ethic, on doing whatever it takes to be the best. No one was surprised when I accepted a high-pressure job at one of the top global talent agencies right out of college. As far as I was concerned I was on the fast track. That was, until, a couple years later when I found myself completely burned out and unfulfilled.
By Alexa Silvaggio
We, ladies & gentlemen, are creatures of habit. Most of us actively participate in the same routine over and over again. The same workouts, the same work days, the same meals. Not because we are lazy slobs, no, rather because it's comfortable! Comfort is pretty rad and all (yeah, I said rad), but I feel it is my duty to remind you that the magic never happens in our comfort zone.
By Nina Marchione, SOLACE New York
Finding your solace isn't always easy when you have a job that revolves around creating solace for others. For me, solace is a place or state of being where you feel good or free to be yourself, a place where you can let go when you're feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
By Kelly Brogan. MD
We all know work can be stressful, even at the best of times. Here's what you probably didn't know: The statistics on adults taking antidepressants is staggering. Although it is a serious problem for both men and women, 1 in 4 women of reproductive age take medication for depression.
By The Editors of The Sweat Life
We all know (or know of!) these people, the successful ones in our lives. We see them at the head of the companies we know and respect, and we wonder what made them who they are, what special traits allowed them to create something new or different from the rest of us. Here, we ask the heads of the health and wellness industry to share — the 3 things they do every day that make them successful.
By Sagan Schultz, Co-Founder of WellWell
The words "doctor" and "clueless" are not usually heard in the same sentence. That is, unless we are talking about nutrition — a crucial public health issue, in which inadequate professional training at US medical schools leaves the majority of medical students feeling malnourished, and patients hungry for reliable guidance.
By Dennys Lozada + Alyssa Moeder, The Fhitting Room
Every day I'm told that I have inspired and or motivated someone at The Fhitting Room. They tell me it's because I've pushed them to become a better athlete, that their confidence has grown and they feel stronger and more FHIT. There are others who know my story and battles with cancer, but they do not know that every Saturday I am motivated, inspired, and blessed to have a special warrior in my class who is a ray of shining light, Alyssa Moeder.
By Sam Jorgenson, The Program
When I was asked to participate in this campaign about "What empowers me?", it was clear — Survivors! For those of you just reading this, I previously wrote a few blog posts for The Sweat Life about my story of being diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer last February, and the recovery process. This coming February marks one year since being diagnosed, and what a year it has been.
By Jessica Lippke, The Program
My life changed when I made it a priority to wake up before sunrise to workout with The Program, and it really helped me find my "why." The hardest part of a 6am workout for many is making the decision when the alarm goes off to actually commit to showing up, but time and time again we're surprised with the outcome of doing just that with the right mindset and with purpose, not only for ourselves, but for each other.
By Ben Wegman, The Fhitting Room
Resilience is a quality that I have struggled with my entire life. In my family, depression is a running theme, and as I have learned, depression and resilience do not cohabitate well together. Generally when one enters the room, the other tends to leave. And then one day in dance rehearsal, a choreographer said this: "No matter what happens, you can always turn back to the body. It is the most resilient force you will ever know."
By Aly Teich
As you know, The Sweat Life is all about helping you discover the latest and greatest in health, wellness, and fitness — with the goal of helping you find a healthy lifestyle that works best for YOU. While a huge part of this process is trial and error and learning about as many methods as possible, it is also important to take the time to truly immerse yourself into something to not only know if it's right for you, but to actually gain any results from it.
By Lauren Imparato, Founder of I.AM.YOU. Yoga
The idea of RETOX is about living life to the fullest, and becoming the best you within that life. There is no dogma, no restriction, no guilt. Just straight up tools to take it all on and be your best you, no matter what the day throws you. I wrote RETOX because I live life, my real down and dirty modern life.
Q&A with Adam Rosante
Adam Rosante is known for both his fitness books that advise readers to "Eat Clean, Train Dirty," and his NYC fitness studio, The People's Bootcamp, which allows fitness-goers to pay what they can for classes. Now he has partnered with C9 Champion, a stylish and high-performance line of workout gear sold only at Target, to create a series of fitness videos that make our fitness goals in the new year completely accessible and within reach — right from our own homes.


text: Today was my first day teaching at the Dubai Yoga Festival. I made my way over to the venue by taxi. The driver informed me that traffic was heavy due to constant construction and the latest rain. The rain had been minimal, but Dubai doesn't have much of a drainage system and the sand takes a long time to absorb the water, so there were parts of the street that were flooded. Once I arrived at the festival, I set up my table with my DVDs. The wonderful thing about Dubai is that it is such a global community. I talked with people from all over including Australia, California, India and Jordan. Later on, I taught my first class. It was groove power yoga and it went really well. I'm looking forward to teaching my last class tomorrow and then going out in the city exploring. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!


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Fitness Video
Brendan Sheehan
Height: 6' 4"
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Date of Birth: 05/04/83
Playing age: 33-38
Selected Theatre Experience: 8 Women, Lost & Found, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Selected Film Experience: The Observer Effect, This is my Son, Radha, Thank You Come Again, The Ripple Effect, Shoebox Memories, Eden, Saviour of Dublin City, Garda Series, The Immigrant, I'm GAA
Selected TV Experience: AMC Into Badlands, Fir, Marú Agus Grá 2, Fingal Finest 1916
Selected Advertisement: Dublin Airport Shopping, Keeling's Fruit Growers, Triton Showers
Accents: Midlands, Kerry, Irish Traveller and Cockney
Languages: Spanish (Intermediate)
Qualifications and Training
Manuel Puro - The Acting Habit - On-going
Dublin Acting Classes – Terry McMahon – 2016
6 Month Actor Training, Abbey School, Flying Turtle Productions (2014)
Introduction to Screen Acting and Casting with Louise Kiely (2014)
Self Tape Workshop with Maureen Hughes (2014)
Skills: Qualified Personal Trainer, Competitive Fitness Physique Athlete, Swimming, Boxing, Kick Boxing, Martial Arts, Running, Hiking, Rugby, Football, , Rally Car Driving, Basketball, Cycling, Yoga, Musical: Bodhran and Guitar Dancing: Ballroom and hip hop
Brendan career is progressing quickly. He has gained a number of credits on screen. Most recently AMC produced Into the Badlands, with Brendan playing Reese. His short film, Radha joined the official selection of the 16th Cine Pobre Film Festival in La Paz Mexico 2016. The Saviour of Dublin City was premiered at the prestigious Galway Film Fleadh 2016. The feature film Shoebox Memories (Continuance Films) premiered at the Dingle Film Festival in 2016. It was one of only 19 feature films to be accepted. This is My Son, directed by John Corcoran has been accepted into the Sunnyside Short Film Festival New York, 2016. Out of 1255 submissions, only 23 films were accepted and the honour of opening the festival was given to This Is My Son. Garda (Giddyupskits Productions) was a viral hit. Brendan played Garda O'Connor starring alongside legendary singer Johnny Logan.
Brendan has won the NABBA Mr. Ireland Body Building Show twice (2013, 2014). He represented Ireland at the WFF/NABBA Mr. Universe (2013) and at the World Championships (2013) placing 7th and 10th respectively.


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It's nuts that we are halfway through the Grand Prix Series already. With Rostelecom Cup complete, we have seen almost all of the major contenders skate at least once this season. As with every Grand Prix, we saw some standout performances in Moscow this past weekend. Fresh in my mind are Aliona Savchenko/Bruno Massot and Anna Pogorilaya, both of whom won but left different impressions on this season.
WAIT WHAT??A?F??AG??A?F?ADF?S?D? THROW QUAD SALCHOW AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM?????? #CoR16— Jackie Wong (@rockerskating) November 5, 2016
Savchenko/Massot step it up
From Savchenko's social media posts over the off-season, we all knew that they were working on some new elements for the season, particularly the throw triple axel. And we saw that again here at Rostelecom Cup. But what we did NOT expect (as evidenced by my incredulous tweet about it) was the appearance of the throw quad salchow at the very end of their free skate.
What does that mean? It means that they very much have Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford in their sights. Duhamel/Radford, of course, have been the ones leading the charge on technical elements for the past few seasons. Looking at their planned free skate elements (assuming level 3 triple twists, which they have both gotten this season), Savchenko/Massot's addition of the quad salchow gives them a 0.60 edge over the reigning World champions. Because Duhamel/Radford only do the throw axel in their short program, Savchenko/Massot makes up the deficit they face against Duhamel/Radford's side-by-side lutzes.
It is, of course, much too early to tell how this will shake out later on in the season, when it really counts at Worlds. But I would imagine that this is a more long-term play for Savchenko/Massot for the Olympics, and they are bringing out the quad salchow to get comfortable with it in competition.
Is this going to make Duhamel/Radford rethink their no-axel strategy in the free skate? Probably not, at least not in the foreseeable future. Their side-by-side lutzes give them a base value advantage of 1.60 (assuming all else equal), plus Savchenko/Massot have yet to show that they are consistent enough with the new tricks for them to be as threatening as they would be in the technical score. Duhamel/Radford, after all, have been doing these difficult elements, and fairly consistently, for the past three seasons.
But what a race!
Pogorilaya dominates
What a difference a World bronze medal made for Anna Pogorilaya, a skater who, for three seasons, looked to have a lack of self-belief every time she went on the ice to compete. You'd see her win one competition with clean skates and then fall apart at the next one with fall after fall. It got to the point last season where she took so many hard falls in competition (Pogofalls™) that folks were hoping she wouldn't be injured.
In a lot of ways, you can see where a potential self-belief issue comes from. She was never - I repeat, NEVER - the skater in the spotlight when she was coming up in the ranks. Her bronze at Junior Worlds in 2013 was behind Elena Radionova and Julia Lipnitskaia. She was fourth at her first Worlds a year later but that was in the Olympic season, heavily overshadowed by Adelina Sotnikova's win in Sochi and Lipnitskaia's silver ahead of her. She had not even medaled at Russian Nationals until last year, when she rose from a disappointing Grand Prix series to take the bronze.
With Radionva, Lipnitskaia, Sotnikova, and now Evgenia Medvedeva in the mix, Pogorilaya was chronically unheralded, and it didn't help that she hadn't found her voice yet in her skating. But last season was where it all started coming together, particularly in her choreography and her look on the ice, which contrasted greatly with the rest of the Russian ladies. Russian Nationals became the turning point, which she built on at Worlds three months later to win the bronze. It was there where she finally found that belief, and it has transferred brilliantly into this season - and we saw it in her dominant performance at Rostelecom Cup.


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Rare photographs of John Coltrane on the updated official website
Literature:J. G. Ballard: Rick McGrath's Letter from London: The J. G. Ballard Memorial
William S. Burroughs: Mark Dery on Naked Lunch at Fifty
The Atlantic Online: Index of Literary Interviews
Samuel Beckett: Zadie Smith compares 50 Cent to Samuel Beckett
Book of the Year: The Guardian rounds up possible contenders
Philosophy & Critical Theory:Friedrich Nietzsche: Review of Writings from the Early Notebooks
Karl Marx: Michael Doliner on the oft-quoted phrase, 'The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.'
Music:Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald, repackaged by Verve
John Coltrane: Avant Garde Jazz and the evolution of My Favourite Things
John Coltrane: The official website now online with photographs and multimedia
Blues: Desktop Blues, An interactive blues music soundboard
David Bowie: A 42 year old letter from David Bowie to his first American fan
Harvey Pekar: An archive of jazz reviews for the Austin Chronicle
Harvey Pekar: An archive of jazz reviews for Jazz Times
FilmFrancis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now! tops London critics 30th Anniversary poll
Etc.Will Self: On the UK National Lottery
Stewart Lee: The incomparable Stewart Lee interviewed in The Guardian


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Friday Favourites 14th - 20th May 2016
So you might have seen I went away this week so expect it to feature as heavily in this post as heavily as it did on my Instagram. Soz not soz (it was so sunny and beautiful!)
I am actually away again at the end of this coming week so be prepared for that in upcoming Friday favs and bear with my crappy social media interaction!
1. Eurovision.
Was it already nearly a week ago that the country was settling down in front of the TV and whacking on Eurovision for a night of partying, drinking and flag waving? I bloody love Eurovision and have since I was a kid and every year I spend it with my brother. This year however he has a baby and a family and so he was with them and I was on my todd so I didn't think it'd be that great but as usual the Euromadness didn't disappoint. I texted my brother throughout and I live tweeted the whole event as did most of the blogging community and it was HILARIOUS. Definitely doing it the same way next year.
2. Super Sunday.
Every Sunday my boyfriend works 7am - 11pm so I (as someone who hates Sundays) normally use it as an excuse to get shit done. I get up at 5.30am with him and I drive home and then I spend the day working hard and generally trying to tick everything off my to do list. This Sunday was especially prevalent because I was away in the week and needed to get everything sorted for that and I am pleased to report I had one of them days where you get EVERYTHING done in super speed and feel all productive and like you maybe could give Beyonce or Gigi Hadid a run for their money.
3. Wrexham.
Well it had to be in there somewhere didn't it? You might have seen because I spammed my Intsa feed with it but I went back to my old uni town of Wrexham this week, just for one night to spend some time with my besties and catch up and generally reminisce about how good it was and how much we miss it. Cute.
This is not the first time we've done this trip since we finished (a year ago this weekend waaaah) and so we have fallen into a tradition of sorts. This time I drove to uni seen as I have a car and it was SO worth the 9 hour round trip (I actually love a road trip and thoroughly enjoyed the drive even when I hit rush hour on the way back). We went to Ty Mawr country park and had a picnic of sandwiches and fruit and cookies and went for a wander by the river and got sunburnt. We went for tea in Frankie & Benny's and got 20% off with a student discount that shouldn't still be valid. We chilled out in the hotel sprawled out on the beds watching crap tv and eating lots of crisps and chocolate. We lazed about until check out the following day and went for a Spoons dinner and went shopping and spent all our money in Primark and the whole 24 hours was just good for the soul. Bloody love that town, bloody love those friends.
4. Primark Haul.
Absolutely one of the best things of any week amiright? Being uhm low on income at the mo, spending money on clothes and getting involved in a proper haul is not all the frequent in my life and that's what made this one a fav of this week. All the items in the photographs are from Primark and I think you can probably see my theme for the summer coming into play - stripy shirts and ripped up jeans are basically my uniform at the moment.
Oh FYI I went into Primark for slippers which I forgot and for sandals which I replaced for black boots. Lol summer life.
5. Welcome Home.
Because I went away for 2 days and the hours I was away/my boyfriend was working we didn't actually cross paths for 4 days (can I remind you we live together). When we did actually get to see eachother last night he came home with this bunch of flowers that I'd been eyeing up in Tesco which was a pretty cute welcome home. I think he had missed having someone around to cook his tea at 11.30pm!!
So that was my week, next week I have a lot planned because I'm going away again so my to do list is the length of my arm and I'm hoping I get all the productivity mojo back in my life to get it done!
See ya on the flip side lovelies!
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text: One of the defining features of being a retail trader is that you take sole responsibility for the outcomes of all your trades, for better or for worse. When a trade fails to go the way that you wanted it to, you cannot blame it on your lazy coworker, shoddy materials or the sun being in your eyes. Every time you click a button to open or close a trade, it all comes down to … [Read more...]


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Report NEP-ECM-2009-08-30This is the archive for NEP-ECM, a report on new working papers in the area of Econometrics. Sune Karlsson issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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Other reports in NEP-ECM
The following items were announced in this report:
- Dabo-Niang, Sophie & Francq, Christian & Zakoian, Jean-Michel, 2009. "Combining parametric and nonparametric approaches for more efficient time series prediction," MPRA Paper 16893, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Eric Gautier & Yuichi Kitamura, 2009. "Nonparametric Estimation in Random Coefficients Binary Choice Models," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1721, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
- Li, Yushu & Shukur, Ghazi, 2009. "Testing for Unit Root against LSTAR model – wavelet improvements under GARCH distortion," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 184, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
- Brendan P.M. McCabe & Gael M. Martin & David Harris, 2009. "Optimal Probabilistic Forecasts for Counts," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 7/09, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
- Kuswanto, Heri & Sibbertsen, Philipp, 2009. "Testing for Long Memory Against ESTAR Nonlinearities," Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) dp-427, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät.
- Lanne, Markku & Saikkonen, Pentti, 2009. "Noncausal vector autoregression," Research Discussion Papers 18/2009, Bank of Finland.
- Vadim Marmer & Taisuke Otsu, 2009. "Optimal Comparison of Misspecified Moment Restriction Models under a Chosen Measure of Fit," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1724, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, revised Jul 2011.
- Yuichi Kitamura & Taisuke Otsu & Kirill Evdokimov, 2009. "Robustness, Infinitesimal Neighborhoods, and Moment Restrictions," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1720, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
- Yuichi Kitamura & Andres Santos & Azeem M. Shaikh, 2009. "On the Asymptotic Optimality of Empirical Likelihood for Testing Moment Restrictions," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1722, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
- Ulrich Müller & Mark W. Watson, 2009. "Low-Frequency Robust Cointegration Testing," NBER Working Papers 15292, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Zeebari, Zangin & Shukur, Ghazi, 2009. "Developing Median Regression for SURE Models - with Application to 3-Generation Immigrants' data in Sweden," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 183, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
- Ida Wolden Bache & James Mitchell & Francesco Ravazzolo & Shaun P. Vahey, 2009. "Macro modelling with many models," Working Paper 2009/15, Norges Bank.
- Alberto Abadie & Guido W. Imbens, 2009. "Matching on the Estimated Propensity Score," NBER Working Papers 15301, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Item repec:lan:wpaper:006075 is not listed on IDEAS anymore
- Daniel Buncic, 2009. "Understanding forecast failure of ESTAR models of real exchange rates," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2009_18, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
- Peter Christoffersen & Kris Jacobs & Chayawat Ornthanalai, 2009. "Exploring Time-Varying Jump Intensities: Evidence from S&P500 Returns and Options," CIRANO Working Papers 2009s-34, CIRANO.
- John Galbraith & Simon van Norden, 2009. "Calibration and Resolution Diagnostics for Bank of England Density Forecasts," CIRANO Working Papers 2009s-36, CIRANO.


text: On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:41 -0700, Avi Kivity wrote:> On 05/04/2010 12:45 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> >> >> I was trying to avoid a performance regression relative to the current> >> code, as it appears that some care was taken to avoid the memory reference.> >>> >> I agree that it's probably negligible compared to the save/restore> >> code. If the x86 maintainers agree as well, I'll replace it with> >> cpu_has_xsave.> >>> >> > > I asked Suresh to comment on this, since he wrote the original code. He> > did confirm that the intent was to avoid a global memory reference.> >> > > > Ok, so you're happy with the patch as is?As use_xsave() is in the hot context switch path, I would like to gowith Avi's proposal.thanks,suresh


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"Digital Communication in Psychoanalysis: An Oxymoron?" Psychoanalytic Social Work, published online June 14, 2019.
Texts and emails can create treatment dilemmas. This is especially the case when impulsively employed by patient or therapist.
"Incongruent Feeling States in Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39, (3-4): 268-275, 2019.
Analysts occasionally find that we have dreamt of a patient or experienced feelings in sessions that appear to have nothing to do with the feelings or content presented by the patient.
"'I Hate You, Mommy!' What To Do When Our Kids Are Mad: Modern Analytic Parenting," 2010.
Modern Psychoanalysis teaches us how we turn anger against ourselves, and its antidote; constructive management of aggression. This is a crucial aspect of parenting...
"Maternal Conflicts Activated by the Child's Separation-Individuation: A Maturational Opportunity," Annals of Modern Psychoanalysis. 2(2), 2004.
The mother's emotional availability during the crucial developmental phase of separation-individuation is limited by her own unresolved separation problems...
"Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Sequential Resolution of Candidate and Patient Resistances," Annals of Modern Psychoanalysis. 1(2): 185-209, 2002.
This project focuses on three issues:
The disguised expression of infantile, murderous rage by a preoedipal patient.
A beginning analyst's countertransference resistances to experiencing and verbalizing appropriately the patient's hate and her own.
The resolution of resistances through supervision. While this patient typically generated particularly powerful negative reactions, ultimately her health, function in work, enjoyment of leisure time, and ability to relate to the analyst, family and friends, all improved dramatically.
A Case Dynamics Schema (CDS) was created specifically for this project to organize and follow the sequential flow of the patient resistances, countertransference resistances, supervisory interventions and new patient behaviors signifying resistance resolution.
"Complex Problems Require Complex Solutions: 'Donnie: A Life Apart,'" in Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems, ed. Andrew Tatarsky, Jason Aronson, NY, 2002.
The article chronicles the successful 6-year treatment of a poly-addicted, socially isolated young man who had been severely and repeatedly traumatized through abandonment, sexual and physical abuse and neglect during early childhood.
"Becoming Able to Feel Hate: The Treatment of a Psychotic, Somatizing Patient," Modern Psychoanalysis, 15:63–78, 1990.
A study of the successful treatment of a severely disturbed homicidal and suicidal woman. All psychoanalysts sooner or later must deal with patients whose intense, unacknowledged suicidal and homicidal wishes lead them to commit self-destructive or object-destructive acts...
"The Alcoholic's Self Destructiveness and the Therapist's Role in Mobilizing Survival Energies," Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, Summer, 1986.
The alcoholic is caught up in a life-threatening course of compulsive self destructive behavior which he is powerless to stop on his own...
"The Compatibility of the Disease Concept with a Psychodynamic Approach in the Treatment of Alcoholism," Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, Spring, 1985.
Controversy exists regarding treatment approaches to alcoholism. The disease model or the psychodynamic model have been advocated as though they were mutually exclusive. This paper discusses how both can be utilized...
"Group Treatment of Substance Abusers in the Mental Health Service of a Health Maintenance Organization: Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York," Chapter in Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context, ed. Toba Schwaber Kerson, Longman, Inc., 1982.
Seven substance abusing patients in differing stages of use and recovery were put into a time-limited therapy group. At the end of the group the two sober members of the group started using again, suggesting that such groups need to be more heavily weighted with recovering people or made heterogeneous in stages of recovery.
"How to Conduct an Alcoholism-Focused Intake: A Verbatim Illustration," Social Work Treatment of Alcohol Problems, Monograph #5 of Treatment Series, Rutgers Center for Alcohol Studies, 1984.
Two verbatim intakes of the same patient are offered; one focusing on the patient's presenting problem of her troubled relationship with her husband and the other focused on the woman's drinking. The recordings show the efficacy of focusing on the drinking first to resolve the woman's problems.
"The Decision Group: A Technique for Beginning Treatment in an Alcoholism Clinic," Health and Social Work, November, 1979.
The Decision Group was designed to fill the needs of individuals applying for treatment at an alcoholism outpatient clinic and to reduce time lost to the clinic as a result of broken appointments. The group succeeded in engaging patients in treatment, motivating them to accept identification as alcoholics, and maintaining high attendance. The author describes the group's accomplishments and suggests ways that future groups could avoid problems encountered in running the Decision Group .
"Social Workers as 'Enablers' in the Treatment of Alcoholics," with S.L.A. Straussner, Social Casework, January, 1978.
Seeking underlying causes to explain the disease of alcoholism detracts from the treatment process and can enable continued drinking behavior.


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I just happened to read about the Pan -Asian Railway line,or Trans Asian Railway [TAR} as it is called as it was celebrating 50 years of it's being envisaged. It made interesting reading, because it was a deadly mix of two of my favourite topics -railways and supply-chain!
The Pan-Asian Railway was envisaged to connect Asia to Europe by rail. It currently has a total length of rail line is 81000kms across 4 gauges. 4 trial runs have been made with container loads.
Currently, all freight traffic originating from Asia destined for Europe goes by sea. The TAR will enable containers from Singapore, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Korea to travel all the way to Europe over land by train. This provides an alternate mode of freight movement and will be a competitor to sea-freight and shipping.
TAR Corridors
There are 4 lines or corridors that have been identified.
- Northern corridor: This connects Korea to Europe via Russia, Mangolia, China and Kazhakistan. The container traffic would originate from Pusan, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Shenzen, Nakhoda and Rajin for destinations in Europe.
- Southern corridor: This is the corridor which is of significant importance to India. It connects Yunan In China and Thailand with Europe via Turkey. The line passes through the infamous death railway from Kanchanaburi to Nam Tok, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, India again, Pakistan, Iran and then Turkey.
- ASEAN corridor: Connecting Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. This corridor would connect Singapore to China and would also link ASEAN to Europe via the Southern corridor.
- North-South corridor. Linking Northern Europe to the Persian Gulf via Russia, Iran and the Central Asian Republics.
Routes in the Southern corridor
The Southern Corridor has 2 routes one of which is ;
Route 1
CHINA:Kunming-Dali-Xiaguan-Ruili-MYANMAR: Mu-se-Lashio-Mandalay-Tamu- INDIA: Imphal-Silchar-Mahisasan- BANGLADESH: Shahbazpur- Kulaura- Tongi-Tangail-Darsana- INDIA: Gede- Attari- PAKISTAN: Wagah-Lahore-Raiwind-Khanewal-Lodhran- Rohri-Sukkur- Jacobabad-Spezand- Nokhundi-Koh i Taftan- IRAN: Zahedan-Kerman-Bafq-Qom-Tehran-Razi- TURKEY: Kapicoy-Van-Malatya- Cetinkaya- Ankara- Haydarpasa- Istanbul- Kapikule- BULGARIA: Svilengrad and onwards to Romania, Hungary and Austria.
From Kapikule, the corridor would allow access to Western Europe via Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria. From Kunming to Kapikule, it would have a total length of 11,700 km of which 9,790 km (or 84 per cent) is in place, 95 km (1 percent) comprises ferry links, and 1,820 km (15 per cent) would need to be constructed, most of it through difficult mountainous terrain. This line passes has 3 gauges and 5 inter-gauge transfers.
Route 2
The next route would be THAILAND: Bangkok [ which is linked to Singapore via Hatyai-Pedang Besar/ Sungei Kolok-Butterworth-Gemas-Johor Baru]- Kanchanaburi-Nam Tok- Three Pagoda Pass-MYANMAR: Thanbyuzayat-Mawlamyaing-Moktama-Bago-Mandalay to join the above route. An alternate alignment is Nam Tok-Ban Bong Tee-Dawei-Ye-Thanbyuzayat
Missing Links in the Southern corridor
Nam-Tok [ Nam Tok is the last stop on the"Bridge on the River Kwai" line. 3 years back I took the morning train from Bangkok, which passes Kanchanaburi, then goes over the "bridge on the river Kwai" and passes through some breathtaking viaducts to reach Nam-Tok, which is the end of the line] in Thailand to Three Pagoda Pass to Thambyuzayat in Myanmar. The alternate route Nam-Tok-Ban Bong Tee to Dawei is also missing.
Between Mawlangyiang and Moktama there is a missing crossing on Thanlwin river, 4kms wide.
Kalay to Tamu in Myanmar. From Tamu the line would move to Imphal on the same alignment as highway 39 then westerly to Jiribam along highway 53, crossing into Bangladesh at Mahisasan.
In Iran between Zahedan to Kareman. there is a missing link of 550kms, which is under construction.IRCON [ Indian Railways Construction Company was given the contract to lay the signaling on this line]
For traffic originating from Kunming the Northern corridor is shorter and involves fewer border crossing 4 vs 7 and fewer break of gauge Also the Northern corridor is complete while the Southern corridor has missing links.
Issues to be sorted before the TAR becomes a reality and commercially viable
Issues that have to be resolved are (i)gaps in the network (ii) change of gauge, (iii) border crossing procedures and (iv) technical issues like axle loading, maximum moving dimensions and (v) commercial issues like pricing, linkages with freight forwarders.
To compete with shipping the Railways will have to ensure that the transit times offered by rail is lower than shipping. To poach business from shipping the transit time difference between shipping and railways for containers originating from Singapore or China should be at least 5- 7 days.
The Railways will have to offer a lower price than shipping. For this to happen the Railways will have to adopt commercial costing methods. Currently Railways price their services based on government policies, subsidies and other criteria which has little relation to the cost of transporting the goods.
The process and procedure at the break of gauge has to be streamlined so that they do not become bottlenecks. Similarly, customs procedures should be coordinated with customs authorities so that time spent at border crossings is minimal.
Impact for India
Go West
From India shipping distance from Delhi to Rotterdam will be reduced by approximately 3500kms by using rail instead of shipping. Between India and Netherlands there would be only one change of gauge at Zahedan on the Iran – Pakistan border. Between India and the EU it will have to cross 4 borders – India-Pakistan, Pakistan-Iran, Iran-Turkey, Turkey-EU [Bulgaria]. Transportation by rail will be shorter if the destination is Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Germany.
Look East
On the link to ASEAN the issue are many more missing link Silchar to Tamu to Kalay, Thambyzayat (or Dawei – Ba Bong Tee-Nam Tok) to Nam Tok and a bridge across the Thanlwin river between Mawlangyiang and Moktama.
The rail link will ease the pressure on the Indian Ports, which are already bottlenecks in the export supply chain.
Let us see when and how the rail link to Europe becomes a reality.
Currently, it takes 15 days for a container to travel 11700kms from Mumbai to Roterrdam by ship and 8 days by train from Mumbai to Delhi- a distance of 1500kms !


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I'm dreaming of a White Christmas…
To get everyone into a 'Christmassy mood' early I thought I'd post some photos from my last Christmas at home with my family in Norway. To me there is nothing like a White Christmas! Think lots of good food and cakes, and lots of hot chocolate and gluwein in front of the fireplace – in a cosy cottage in the mountains… Bliss!
Here's our cottage which my dad built in the Oppdal mountains.
As you can see, we tend to get snowed in, in winter!
We don't only decorate inside the house for Christmas… there is a nissemann (Christmas gnome) which greets you at the entrance as well as fragrant juniper twigs – we collect some from the forest every year and fill our houses with them, the smell is to us associated with Christmas.
Christmas Eve – the family table in the cottage is set for dinner and the Christmas tree went up the previous night. In Norway we celebrate Christmas on the 24th and open our presents after dinner.
Most households follow the tradition of baking at least 7 different types of Christmas cookies each year, and gingerbread in any shapes and sizes is always a must! Some people, like my dad, take it to the next level with a gingerbread house… complete with a mini-tree with lights!
As you can see we were blessed with a very White Christmas last year! Heavy snowfalls made sure most people stayed inside in front of the fireplace throughout Christmas – only venturing outside for a couple of hours a day to shuffle snow, go for a walk and get some fresh air (and walk of all that delicious food…) or make lots of snowmen.
A farm close to my family's house outside Trondheim – Norway's third biggest city. Mid-winter we only have a few hours of daylight, and it's that low, warm, beautiful light you don't experience anywhere else in the world… very special!
… another farm basking in the wintersun!
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Using the Basics
These furniture pieces all came from HomeGoods! The faux fur ottoman is fun and useful as a footstool or as a coffee table. The little gold mirrored side table is great anywhere and can be moved around easily to suit any purpose. The grey sofa is a fantastic find! It is neutral in color and can be easily decorated. By just changing a couple pillows and a throw this neutral sofa goes from light to dark alternating the room's mood in seconds. Sponsored by HomeGoods


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If you are looking for a really cheap and affordable way to customize your favors, hand-stamped favor tags are the perfect solution! The tags can be tied to a multitude of favors, such as bags of cookies or candies, filled favor boxes and more.
You can buy the tags at your local Officemax or Staples office supply store for only $4.99 per 100 tags! Then you can customize the tags with your choice of stamps. There are millions of different stamp designs available if you scour the web and your local craft stores. You can even order custom stamps online that may include your wedding date and/or the names of you and your fiance.
Some stamp design ideas…
- Simple "Thanks" Stamp
- Starfish
- Butterfly
- Snowflake
- Moon or Stars
- Variety of Flowers
- Monogram or Letters
The project is so easy there really isn't any need for step by step instructions! All you'll need are…
- Paper Shipping Tags
- Stamp(s)
- Ink Pad (Choose colors that compliment your wedding theme or favors!)
Just lay the tags out, dip your pretty little stamp in the ink pad and stamp away. It's so easy, but the results are simply stunning. Chic and classy..and you hardly spent a thing! You may choose to further customize your tags by attaching ribbons or string that further compliment your theme and favors. If you're feeling really ambitious, adding some color to the stamped designs with colored pencils can turn out really nice!
Note: If you like your handwriting and/or drawing skills you can skip the stamp and decorate each tag by hand. Just buy a pretty pen at your local craft store (the scrapbooking section would have a huge variety of pretty pen options!) and let the creative juices flow!
What designs do you think would look fantastic stamped on these tags? What are you tying them to? We'd love to hear! 😀
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culture and indonesian cities
A series on culture and its mobilization as a strategy for city transformation in Indonesia, profiling Yogyakarta and Bandung.
These pieces centre on innovative practices by cultural workers in cities, working collectively, using creativity and local wisdom, to improve Indonesian urban contexts.
Bersama sama togetherness as a strategy for sustainable cultural change in indonesia
Collectivization, as a strategy to address sustainability through culture, is rooted in Indonesia's complex history.
Yogyakarta: A city on the edge
Introducing Yogja as a city of culture and education: challenged economically and environmentally, but with a dense ecosystem of cutting edge arts practice.
Culture and socially engaged practise in yogja
Yogja's dense cultural ecosystem, supports a myriad of collectives and projects engaging in innovative, socially engaged practices.
youth and culture in yogja
Featuring three youth projects making an impact in Yogja: Ketjilbergerak, Acehouse Collective and Kunci's School of Improper Education.
Bandung is a unique creative city experiment, developed by citizens from its creative sector, and adopted by its municipality.
A Bandung Heritage: The Afro-Asia Conference 1955
The Afro-Asia Conference held in Bandung was a landmark event for rethinking the global south: its heritage worth remembering and reflecting on.
A Network of Indonesian Creative Cities
Scaling up an idea of what creative city could be, for a sustainable and just future in Indonesia, we meet a collective working nationally, but building from ground up.


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Save the Date!
Realtors® Care Day 2019 — Wednesday, September 25, 2018
Since its inception, Realtors® Care Day has been a great way for members to give back to the local community through improvements including landscaping and outdoor cleanup. Additional projects can include adaptive and safety modifications for the elderly and disabled. Ultimately, the projects not only restore a homeowner's pride, but also instill a revitalizing momentum in the community.
Typically, local boards/associations have several volunteers who organize the project, solicit corporate donations, find contractors or other workers if necessary, and provide duties to REALTOR® volunteers on the project days. To support their efforts, NJARHOF also donates up to $1,000 to help cover any other expenses they might incur.
"We've seen a tremendous response from homeowners, who repeatedly tell us how appreciative they are of the REALTOR® volunteers and how these projects have so positively impacted their quality of life," said NJARHOF President Christina Clemans.
If your local board/association has not yet gotten involved but you'd like to learn more, contact Mary Pilaar.
Housing is an essential part of the way communities function and thrive, and the New Jersey Realtors® Housing Opportunity Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to foster increasing opportunities in New Jersey for safe, affordable housing. Funds provided to the Foundation go towards other 501(c)(3) organizations throughout the state that create affordable homeownership options, develop public awareness, and offer homebuyer education.
Projects NJARHOF has supported include:
- Donations to victims of Superstorm Sandy
- Training Realtors® through the Employer-Assisted Housing and Expanding Housing Opportunity Seminars to help businesses develop EAH benefit plans for their employees
- Providing Financial Literacy and homebuyer seminars to the public throughout the state
- Sponsorship of Habitat for Humanity projects around the state


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On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it's officially removing the 140 character limit on direct messages, allowing people to write private messages to each other without worrying about length.
Twitter first announced it planned to remove the 140 character limit on DMs back in June, but the company is finally implementing the change across its website, iOS and Android apps, Twitter for Mac, and TweetDeck.
"While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements, and events that unfold on Twitter," the announcement on Twitter's blog says. "Each of the hundreds of millions of Tweets sent across Twitter every day is an opportunity for you to spark a conversation about what's happening in your world."
This represents a diverging of paths between the public-facing side of Twitter — the public tweets that still have a 140 character count — and private communications, which didn't exactly encourage lengthy messages with the imposed limit.
With that limit lifted, people can now use Twitter more and more for private communication with their friends — which you could argue blurs the line between Twitter as a social media platform and messaging app.


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Boise Public Library and the Boise State University Department of Accountancy are partnering again this year on Wednesday afternoons, February 6 - April 10 (except March 20th), to offer free income tax return preparation assistance through the IRS VITA program for people earning up to $55,000.
Those who don't need assistance and earn up to $55,000 can use the free tax preparation site unitedway.org/myfreetaxes.
Find online forms here:
Internal Revenue Service 550 W. Fort St., Boise, ID 83724 (Federal Building)Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.(208) 387-2847
Idaho State Tax Commission800 Park Blvd., Plaza IV, Boise, ID 83712Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.(208) 334-7660TTD: 1-800-377-3529
Phone: (208) 972-8200 Telecirc: (208) 384-4450TTY: 1-800-377-3529More...
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MICD Briefing Book Download
Greetings Mayors and Resource Panelists,
In less than two weeks, we will gather for the 2015 Regional Session of the Mayors' Institute for City Design. We are looking forward to having you here in Northwest Arkansas.
Attached you will find a Briefing Book. It includes information about our event as well as a case study for each of the participating cities. You will receive a printed copy when you arrive for the Institute.
We hope the Briefing Book helps you as you develop your presentations. If you forgot, each of you is to prepare a 20 minute presentation. Please send an advance draft as soon as you have one.
As always, call or email with any questions. My cell phone number is 479 595 8703.
With regards,
Matthew Petty
MICD Project Manager
University of Arkansas Community Design Center


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IDSVA Board of Directors | Low-Residency PhD in Visual Arts
Meet the IDSVA Board of Directors. The World-Class Low-Residency PhD in Visual Arts
IDSVA Board of Directors
Paul McDonald | Attorney, Bernstein Shur
Paul McDonald is a Shareholder at Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine. He is an accomplished litigation strategist and trial lawyer with a deep understanding of how the business world functions. He is a former member of the Muskie Access to Justice Award Dinner Committee and a board member of the Wayside Soup Kitchen and Easter Seals Maine.
Deborah Willis, Ph.D. | Professor, Artist, Scholar
Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator, photographic historian, and author. She is University Professor and Chair of Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, as well as the 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. She received her PhD from George Mason University and her MFA from Pratt Institute.
Jonathan Koperniak | Owner, East Financial Management
Jonathan is the owner of a boutique wealth management firm located in Portland, Maine. Hailing from Adams, Massachusetts, Jonathan attended Bowdoin College where he received his A.B. in Government & Legal Studies with a minor in Sociology. In addition to his collegiate studies, he is a Certified Financial Planner™ obtaining his education requirement from NYU.
Ted Coons, Ph.D. | Professor
Ted Coons is Professor of Psychology, Cognition & Perception at the Center for Neural Science at New York University (NYU), arriving there in 1965. He is a pioneer in the field of neuroscience and a major contributor to early studies in neuroaesthetics. As an undergraduate, he studied music composition and theory at Colorado College (B.A., 1951) and then—after a stint in the Air Force—again at Yale University (toward an M.A.). There, however, he became interested in what impact the temporal form of a composition has on the feelings of an audience. He soon switched his career goals and ultimately received his Ph.D. in what is now known as systems neuroscience.
Mildred Glimcher | Partner, Pace Galleries, New York
Mildred founded the Pace Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston in 1960 while still in college. Since then, Ms. Glimcher has curated exhibitions and written books and articles about "Happenings," Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Lucas Samaras, and art in post-war Paris, among other subjects. Ms. Glimcher has a BA in art history from Wellesley College and an MA/ABD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She was the editor of Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace, a monumental work documenting all the exhibitions at the Pace Gallery from 1960 to 2000.
Laura Fecych Sprague | Independent Museum Curator
Laura has served as consulting curator of decorative arts for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art since 1989. A scholar of the decorative arts and cultural history, she has published extensively, including the landmark work Agreeable Situations: Society, Commerce and Art in Southern Maine, 1780-1830. In 2007 she completed a research fellowship on Maine furniture at the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum and Library. Laura has served as board member to organizations ranging from the American Ceramic Circle to Victoria Mansion and the Maine Historical Society.
Ben Devine | Private Equity Investor, Devine Capital, LLC
Ben is a founding partner at the commercial real estate firm Great Island Development in Boston, Massachusetts and is a private equity investor at Devine Capital LLC. As Portland, Maine native, he went on to receive his A.B. from Bowdoin College (1983); his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law (1987); and his MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University (2010). He currently serves on several boards throughout the state of Maine.
Adam Daley Wilson | Artist and Art Lawyer
Adam Wilson is an emerging painter and conceptual artist. He is also an art lawyer who advises artists. He previously practiced antitrust and appellate law at leading international law firms based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. He served as a judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after receiving his J.D. from Stanford Law and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.


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Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of the 1897 Bottled-in-Bond Act at the Frazier History Museum: 829 W Main St, Louisville, KY 40202
Purchase Tickets HERE
Join Jackie Zykan, Old Forester's Master Bourbon Specialist, for a walk through bourbon history, focusing on a unique moment in time, the passing of the 1897 Bottled in Bond Act. Zykan will use samples of Old Forester's Whiskey Row Series to illustrate the long heritage of bourbon.
- Old Forester 1870 "Original Batch"
- Old Forester 1897 "Bottle-in-Bond"
- Old Forester 1920 "Prohibition Style"
- Old Forester Signature 100 Proof
A reception prior with lite bites will take place from 7-8 p.m. in the Frazier Speak Easy, followed by the presentation in theater area on the first floor.


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Life in the Victorian Brickyards of Flintshire and Denbighshire
Disgrifiad | DescriptionISBN: 9780863818929
Author: Andrew Connolly
Publication December 2003
Format: Paperback, 213x257 mm, 286 pages
An entertaining and comprehensive account of the development of various brickworks throughout Flintshire and Denbighshire during the Victorian era, and the story of the workers and their families, based on information gleaned from contemporary documents. 87 black-and-white and 32 colour illustrations and 9 maps.
Gwales Review
The author of this book had two aims in mind: to show today's reader how much our lives have changed since the heyday of the industrial revolution and to pay tribute to the proud achievements of our Victorian ancestors. He succeeds admirably in both these aims.
If, like me, you were initially put off by the narrow scope of the title, don't pay any attention to this reaction. The contents of this book are as wide ranging as life itself. It is full of fascinating detail, interesting and amusing anecdotes and soundly based research. In reading it, you will be drawn into the subject with increasing admiration for what appears initially as the rather prosaic activity of making bricks.
The first part of the book takes us through all the aspects of brick-making - the geology of clay, how the industry developed, the manufacturing process, conditions of employment and modes of transport. The treatment is always broadly-based, well integrated and enlivened with quotes from contemporary sources of the period. The writing captures the entrepreneurial vigor of the Victorian brickmakers and mine owners.
The second part is a detailed account of about 130 of the brickworks in Flintshire and Denbighshire. Each site is identified with an OS reference and is frequently accompanied by a map and photographs. There are numerous photographs of the bricks from these brickworks, illustrating the clarity of the imprints from the brickmaking machines and the variety arising from differences in clay composition and methods of firing.
Read this book and you can hardly fail to be infected by the author's enthusiasm for and knowledge of the subject. Incidentally, on a personal note, this book has given me, for the first time in my life, an understanding of the relationship between acres, roods and perches!
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Chapter 20 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Chapter 21 1 But Job answered and said,2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.


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"Pres, I really, really appreciate your writing. You write out the struggles and fights I have with God. All the same questions, all the same thoughts. You give me amazing, amazing hope. Over the past few months your writings have been a light, a guide and an anchor to me. Thank you." — Joy
"Thank you for an outstanding workshop. Those are very familiar diagrams, but I heard it like it was fresh and new." — Penny McAdams, Shepherd's Call Ministries
"I want you to know how much your transparency and humility make a difference." — Blake
"Preston H., you are one of the most inspirational brothers that I have ever come in direct contact with." — Dana
"It continues to be a great honor to me that you read my blog. [It's] always humbling when the people who've inspired you get inspired back." — Cathy
"I have quoted you countless times this past week in my studies. " — Elise
"I wanted to say thank you for coming into our lives. I just watched a YouTube clip of your interview on 100 Huntley Street – Chris found it and forwarded it to me. Your transparency and honesty are as beautiful as your work." — Ruth
"Pres, you have meant so much to me. I love the things I learn from you and just wanted you to know that. Also, I was having coffee with someone yesterday – a discipleship kind of thing — and he mentioned your book." — Ted
"I love you. I've got your back. Always." —Victor
"Good Morning, Preston! I read your most recent letter last night — aloud. You did it again! Well written copy often develops it own cadence. You did that, too!" — Harvey
"I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for writing such a piece. Great stuff!" — Bill
"Father, / Guard Pres' life for he is devoted to You. / You're HIS God, save Your servant who trusts in You. / Have mercy upon Pres for he calls to You all day long. / You are forgiving. / You are good, Oh Lord. / Abounding in love to all who call to You. / Teach Pres Your way Oh Lord. / Give him an undivided heart that He may stand in awe of Your name. / For GREAT is Your love toward Preston.
"You have encouraged me to love and live with confidence." — Kevin Walker
Comments about Preston's novel, Battle for the Round Tower:
Brilliantly readable! I see the characters, the scenes, everything! I see from the beginning Hank and Vassar prepping for the journey, the cave entrance, the battle. OMG it gives me gooseflesh. –Nicole, my sister
I got to finish the book! And wow, Pres. This is huge. The idea of the kingdom of light defying the boundaries of the Round Tower is so reminiscent of Jesus' word pictures of the kingdom. It is amazing. And probably more important—hopeful. – Cathy, a marketing executive
I believe you have addressed the complex emotional layers of survivor experiences. You have effectively communicated, yet were sensitive to avoid detail that can trigger. You have captured the burden while communicating His unfailing and unconditional love. – Catherine, social media expert and mentor to women survivors of abuse
I loved the redirection that I felt regarding solitude, worship, relying on the Holy Spirit, watching for confirmation, trusting, and knowing your identity in Christ. – Laura, teacher
I really like the way you have integrated theology into the interactions among the characters. As in The Screw Tape Letters, you provide a fresh look at the mental and spiritual warfare. You have written this in a way that anyone of any faith level can grasp the important parts. It is congruent and clear. –Randy, a social worker
I found myself reading Battle for the Round Tower just as I did my initial reading of The Chronicles of Narnia, which I first did as an adult. While there was clearly spiritual symbolism, the first time through I read almost entirely for the pleasure of the story. Then, I did a second, slower reading, intentionally hunting for and relishing each truth discovered on the journey. As a woman, I especially appreciated the juxtaposition of the rugged masculinity with the sensitive vulnerability of Hank. –Tricia, development officer
This manuscript represents a great work. The writing skill and turn of phrases are excellent. Richly rewarding. = Lamar, retired CEO
You develop scenes so well, bringing life to the surroundings, as well as educating the reader. I love the way you do this. – Elise, a volunteer
My heart responded at a deep and important level at a number of junctures – for which I am deeply thankful. There are many places I put the book down and went to Him, His Word, and His Life for a time of contemplation. – Heather, a wife and mom
I like Hank tremendously. He has a great sense of humor and real courage under fire, but knows where to go to when the going's too rough. I thoroughly enjoy the fact that Hank is so normal. And, I LOVE Celia! The affection between her and Hank is heart-warming. –Sandy, a guide and coach
I felt like I was there. When I "got into" the book, I would read over 100 pages in a sitting. – Tyson, a lawyer
I enjoyed reading the story. You are a good story teller. – Anthony, a contractor
Comments about Preston's novel, No Mercy:
"A hauntingly beautiful story of Love's pursuit, restoring hope and making us whole." - Heather, a volunteer church leader
"This book must be an urgent matter in the heavenly realm." - Reny, a CFO
"Really liked the illustration of how to get up after you fall down on snow shoes." - Will, a Director of Publication
"A wonderful story." - Dianne, a Kindergarten Teacher
"Pres has revealed that he is courageous and spiritually perceptive." - Randy
"Writing is great. Very readable." - Randy, a Vice President of Residential Services
"At times I feel you have been allowed supernatural privilege to view the film that plays in my soul, and at other times I am almost embarrassed, as I feel I have been privileged to view yours!" - Amy, a Paralegal
"Great images." - Wade, a Director of Strategic Marketing
"Thank you for your interpretation of the story—His story and my story too—the greater reality that waits for me each day." - Karla, a Mom to three under the age of seven
"The book is rich." - Steve, an Editor
"Invited me to take a refreshed look at life's main issues." - Lamar, a CEO, entrepreneur, author
"This book dispels the myth of pristine armor. It's the best portrayal of spiritual warfare I've ever encountered." - Marshall, a landscape architect
"I recommend it." - Julie, a nursing instructor


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Sleeping Your Way To Success
Hopefully none of you got the wrong idea about that title. Sleep is one of the daily requirements most all of us try to cheat. We use caffeine, exercise, cold showers, sugar, slaps to the face, or any number of things to avoid the real issue-we just aren't getting enough sleep or the right type of sleep.
As the ringmaster of a circus you would never want to get caught napping when you were supposed to be leading an act into a ring or making sure the line up was going well. Even a sluggish response would be frowned upon by the audience and your fellow performers.
Daily Infographic has a fantastic resource to better understand the value of sleep and what happens when we don't get enough of it. You can see it by clicking here.
In the meantime, maybe it is time to start thinking in terms of how you can sleep your way to the top!