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2013 has taught me PERSEVERANCE AND FAITH
Written by Laura Prather on December 30, 2013
Whew! What a year, what a ride!
It's amusing how at the beginning of every New Year we all have refreshed, eager, renewed hopes and anticipations – including me! It's like Jan. 1 washes the slate clean and we get to try again to make this year better than the last. Then many times we get to the end of the year exhausted, worn out, and disappointed.
For our family this year certainly didn't come close to what we had expected – in many ways.
- It was my husband's first year without his dad.
- I didn't come close to reaching my business goals.
- My grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimers.
- Our community had it's 2nd wildfire in a year's time.
- Our community had disastrous floods.
- I had to lay off my employees.
- I still didn't get paid this year.
- Looked like we were going to have to close our business.
- I gained 10 pounds. (humpf!)
- My son has a new sister (from his dad's side)
- I started yoga and met some really terrific ladies.
- Had many wonderful breakfasts, tea, and coffee with my beautiful friends.
- Spent my anniversary with my husband at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs
- Made a special trip to Estes Park with my grandparents (the grandma who has Alzheimers)
- Started a training program with the amazing Carrie Wilkerson (the Barefoot Executive) and met MORE new friends and business peers through her.
- I was shown favor by many vendors when I was late on my bills.
- Made time for focused planning time to work ON my business.
- Despite how bleak things looked in a few areas of my life I did not give up but pressed forward.
- I discovered I like blogging (I just need to rearrange my schedule to make regular time for it!).
- God took what I thought was a failure, a complete loss, and gave me an opportunity that I didn't even imagine. It was so far off my radar of possibility: He provided an opportunity to move my store to center of the downtown shopping district of our city – at a price I could afford. What a blessing!!
If there is one thing that 2013 has taught me is this: PERSEVERANCE AND FAITH.
This year had far more challenges that I thought we would have and it was down-right tough. On the flip side, what I learned in those challenges was the nugget of gold in the mountains of sand. I guess I'm saying it was worth it. (Though I would prefer to not learn these lessons the hard way – if you know what I mean).
I had to actually work HARD at not giving up. >>>How do you work hard at something as abstract as that?
That is where I discovered what perseverance is. That is where I realized I have just scratched the surface in understanding faith. That is where I discovered the difference between the "Good, Bad, & Ugly" and the "Great, Abundant, Exceeding". I was originally going to title this post as: The Good, Bad, Ugly but then I thought, "why do we always focus on the negative in our lives?". Why not "The Great, Abundant, Exceeding"?
I had a huge paradigm shift in my head this year and it made all the difference in 2013 being a tragedy or a victory. There is a fine line between the two – and that line has everything to do with us and not our circumstances.
[Tomorrow: Great, Abundant, Exceeding]


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NCFI Adopts Honeywell's Low-Global-Warming Material For Spray Foam Roofs
September 29, 2016
MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that NCFI Polyurethanes, a leader in sustainable polyurethane products, has transitioned to Honeywell's new low-global-warming material for roofing applications, with wall insulation systems to follow.
NCFI is offering closed-cell spray polyurethane foam formulated with Honeywell's Solstice® Liquid Blowing Agent (LBA) in its roofing products. This new offering marks another milestone as NCFI transitions its entire engineered building products line from hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) blowing agents with high global-warming-potential (GWP) to low-GWP products. This includes converting much of its polyurethane product line to Solstice LBA encompassing integral skin and other applications well in advance of environmental regulations calling for a phaseout of HFCs.
Solstice LBA, which is based on next-generation, ultra-low GWP hydrofluoro-olefin (HFO) technology, is a critical ingredient in closed-cell foam, allowing it to expand and enabling its excellent insulating performance. Solstice LBA has an ultra-low GWP of 1, which is 99.9 percent lower than HFCs and equal to carbon dioxide.
"A major part of our White House-recognized low-GWP commitment is to introduce HFC-free spray foam products that meet our high performance standards," said Chip Holton, president, NCFI Polyurethanes. "Not only is our internal plan for conversions to a SmartSPF® line well ahead of the deadlines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, we also believe these new spray foam products give us a strong competitive advantage."
The adoption of Solstice LBA is part of how NCFI is fulfilling its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that was first publicized during an exclusive 20-company roundtable discussion held by President Obama at the White House last October. At that event, NCFI was honored for its proactive plans to transition from HFCs to low-GWP products. Honeywell was also recognized at the event during which it presented projections on the opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the adoption of its Solstice product suite. Worldwide adoption of Solstice products has already resulted in the reduction of more than 31 million metric tons of greenhouse gases, equal to eliminating emissions from more than 6 million cars.
"NCFI continues to make excellent progress with its adoption of Solstice LBA," said Laura Reinhard, global business manager for spray foam, Honeywell. "Not only is NCFI demonstrating environmental leadership by offering spray foam products with reduced climate impact, it is also seeing significant performance improvements."
Compared to NCFI's HFC-based insulation systems, the new systems featuring Solstice LBA deliver improvements in sprayability, consistency, and surface finish. The foam is also stronger, which allows for walking on the roof to maintain equipment with less risk of damaging the foam.
Solstice LBA is nonflammable (ASTM E-681) and is not a volatile organic compound under applicable EPA air quality regulations. Solstice LBA is listed as an acceptable substitute for HFC blowing agents under the EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program. Similarly, in Europe, Solstice LBA is regarded as non-global-warming and is not considered an F-Gas under the F-Gas regulations. It is also registered under the European Union's REACH program. Honeywell's Solstice LBA world-scale manufacturing plant in Louisiana started up in May 2014.
Solstice LBA is used in a variety of rigid foam insulation applications, including residential and commercial refrigeration equipment, spray foam insulation, and insulated metal panels, as well as flexible foam applications, such as molded and slabstock foam, and integral skin. For more information on Solstice LBA, visit www.honeywell-blowingagents.com.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes, and industry; turbochargers; and performance materials. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.


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The creation of special standards for psychologists was spurred by growing concerns in Britain that people were practicing psychology with minimal or no training. No laws determined who could advertise as a psychologist, and as a result members of the British public were confused about psychologists and the services they offered. There were also concerns that lack of regulation could open the door to unethical or questionable practices, so the Crown authorized the BPS to establish standards and provide certification for psychologists who want to register as a Chartered Psychologist.
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By Amy Quick, Director of Membership
This Saturday is our last Star Party of the season, and it's usually one of our most popular ones! This particular partywill focus on its namesake – Stars. Written below are some tidbits of what you'll hear about on Saturday at the Museum:
Most stars are between 1 billion and 10 billion years old. Some stars may even be close to 13.7 billion years old—the observed age of the universe. The oldest star discovered, HE 1523-0901, is an estimated 13.2 billion years old. A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy and light on Earth. Other stars are visible in the night sky, when they are not outshone by the Sun. A star produces a tremendous amount of light and other forms of energy. The stars look like twinkling points of light – except for the sun.
Here is the schedule for the Sept. 18th Star Party:
Presentation – Stars 5:30 p.m. Evergreen Space Museum Presented By: Tony Leavitt
For Kids – Constellation In A Can 6:00 p.m. Evergreen Space Museum
Star Lab – Night Sky Orientation 6:30 p.m. Evergreen Space Museum
Hubble 3D showing – 7:30 p.m. Evergreen IMAX Theater
Vividly captured, Hubble 3D recounts the amazing journey of the most important scientific instrument since Galileo's original telescope and the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing — the Hubble Space Telescope. Audiences will accompany the space walking astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken in NASA's history, and will experience up close the awesome power of the launches, the heartbreaking setbacks, and the dramatic rescues of this most powerful story.
Star Gazing will occur in the parking lot behind the Space Museum when night falls – feel free to bring your lawn chairs, telescopes, or binoculars. Local astronomy groups will be on hand with their telescopes to help you find the wonders of the night sky.
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Recently Carol Everett, a former abortion clinic operator in Texas spoke at a Rose Dinner Event in Canada about her time in the abortion industry. She informed her listeners, in a nutshell, that the abortion industry encouraged young children to be become sexually active. Why? Because young girls, in particular those who had begun masturbating and would be too ashamed to talk to their parents about it, would turn to abortion counsellors for help. The abortion counsellors would give the young girls a low dose contraceptive, which if not taken at exactly the right times each day would lead to conception, and then they would be persuaded to have an abortion. No doubt the boys will be encouraged to impregnate young girls and try alternative forms of sex.
Not surprisingly Planned Parenthood, the creation of that dreadful woman, Margaret Sanger, is involved in this macabre industry up to the hilt, and it is most revolting stuff. Alex Jones of "Infowars" perceptively notes that if such things were encouraged by the parents of these poor children, it would be considered to be paedophilia, but because the State is supporting it, it is alright. The abortion industry wants sex addicts, because then that means more abortions, and more money. I doubt if the Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, or the Aztecs were so mercenary about child sacrifice, at least they thought that they were taking part in a laudable, if pretty horrifying, religious ritual. Money would be the last thing on their minds.
In a completely different department of immorality and sin, a U.S. General recently told Congress that the U.S. Army had closed down the HAARP headquarters, as they did not need it any longer to control the weather (Originally HAARP was meant to be only for peaceful purposes!) as they now had to deal with terrorists who could cause volcanoes to erupt and earthquakes to take place. Goodness knows what the U.S. army has up its sleeves with which to launch a counter attack against these terrorists. No doubt they will be able to enlist the support of some passing meteorites.
Here then do we see two sides to the Satanic mandate, firstly the destruction of innocence in children, the killing of unborn children, and the perverting of children for the propagating of sexual licence coupled with infertile sex, which has it' parallel with the sterility of GM crops; and secondly the attempted control of the weather and the world by Man.
It will fail and disastrously. Bar Divine intervention things will take their inexorable course, and thousands if not millions of Christians will die for their Faith, but there will come a time, and perhaps, in the not so distant future, when the World leaders whoever they be, will be confronted by the majesty and the wrath of God. Ever merciful, God will finally have to show his justice, and the terror will be unimaginable. It will then be the time when far too many of the inhabitants of the Earth will be confronted by the magnificence, might and majesty of the God whom they either did not believe in, or scorned his mercy, which they took to be nothing other than weakness.
When he (The Lamb) opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its fruit when shaken by a gale; the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand before it?" (Apocalypse 6: 12-17)


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Blu-ray &Hardware Steven Kippel on 06 Mar 2008
Circuit City: Trade your HD DVD player for Blu-ray
Circuit City: Trade your HD DVD player for Blu-ray
While not publicized, Circuit City has extended the return limit for HD DVD players when you trade it for a Blu-ray Disc player. Players bought withing 90 days of the Toshiba announcement will receive a full credit towards a new Blu-ray player from another company (sorry, Toshiba).
While this doesn't get you a free Blu-ray player, it is nice that this large retailer has shown mercy on the late HD DVD adopters. If you trade in a Toshiba HD-A3, for instance, and pick up a Sony BDP-S300, you can expect to pay another $250. Do make sure you include all accessories in the original box to be eligible, so I hope you didn't throw it out like I'm prone to.
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12 Responses to "Circuit City: Trade your HD DVD player for Blu-ray"
on 06 Mar 2008 at 12:33 PM 1.MovieFreak said …
Who is going to do this though? I would think that anyone with these players is also sitting on a bunch of HD DVDs. Nothing like shelling out another 250 bucks and then buying the same movies again in another format. The "savings" dry up pretty quick.
Then in a few months, when profile 2.0 hits then every one can throw another hissyfit. I doubt Circuit City will take the Blu-rays back.
On a side note on Amazon they keep "reccomending" HD DVD movies for me even though I have never purchased a player or a disc LOL.
on 06 Mar 2008 at 5:05 PM 2.Steven Kippel said …
You don't have to have a BD2.0 player to play BD2.0 movies.
on 06 Mar 2008 at 7:45 PM 3.Wesley Novack said …
Well if a person purchased an HD DVD player from Circuit City within the last 90 days, chances are their HD DVD title collection isn't that big. In that case, this certainly is a nice option for those people.
on 06 Mar 2008 at 9:38 PM 4.MovieFreak said …
"You don't have to have a BD2.0 player to play BD2.0 movies."
I know. It's just that the "new features" won't work. You can bet your monster cables that the Bluray discs wwill have large type spouting about PIP and then you can get a magnafying glass out and read that you need a 2.0 profile player. A lot of folks will not know what the heck is wrong etc and others that are in the dark will then discover that they can't "upgrade" their 1.x players.
"Well if a person purchased an HD DVD player from Circuit City within the last 90 days, chances are their HD DVD title collection isn't that big. In that case, this certainly is a nice option for those people."
It's the ONLY option, but at least they have one. Having said that, I'm sure numbers were run and reletively few players flew off the shelves after the Christmas rush.
Let's say they have only 10 discs (not that many if you just got a player and have a big screen to enjoy them on) they have to decide whether to toss them and eat the loss, then shell out another 250 for a player that will soon be obsolete 2.0 is better (I guess) then turn round and re-buy the dissks for 20 bucks a pop. I really don't know what I would do. I think I would wait for 2.0 players and not get f8cked again.
But that's just me. Some folks have money to burn.
on 07 Mar 2008 at 7:07 AM 5.Wesley Novack said …
BD Profile 1.1 = BonusView aka PIP capabilities.
BD Profile 2.0 = BD-Live aka online connectivity and features.
on 07 Mar 2008 at 10:34 AM 6.Steven Kippel said …
This isn't a big deal. When you put Resident Evil: Apocalypse in a BD1.0 player you do not even see the BD1.1 features on the menu. You don't even realize the feature doesn't work because you can't see it on the menu.
I imagine it will work the same with BD2.0 features.
I think this is actually a good move for Blu-ray because they can now have different levels so you don't have to pay extra for BD2.0 features (more memory and ethernet) if you don't intend on using that.
on 07 Mar 2008 at 12:08 PM 7.MovieFreak said …
My bad I didn't think 1.1 did PIP. I just read at a couple sites that you can also get a gift card, instead of rolling over and purchasing a Blu-ray player, when you dump your HD DVD. If this is the case, this would be the thing to do. Then wait a while for profile 2.0 to come out. Probabaly a 1.1 player would be much cheaper by then and you could choose.
on 07 Mar 2008 at 2:04 PM 8.Steven Kippel said …
Sony's new BDP-S350 (out in a month or two) is the same price as the current BDP-S300 and is a BD1.1 player which is "BD-Live ready." This means you provide a 1GB flash drive and Sony provides a firmware upgrade and you're set for BD2.0.
on 08 Mar 2008 at 1:30 PM 9.MovieFreak said …
I would not reccomend buying a Bluray player this year for several reasons. My feeling is that Toshiba saw that this HD optical is a money pit that will never upset the DVD market in a meaningful way. This tech is too far ahead of the curve, where 720p seems to be the sweet spot.
Simply stated 1080p is not needed for many years, or may never come to typical homes, due to viewing requirements. Lump on to that the BD+ etc- this market is very very niche to say the least. Bluray is expensive to produce and does not dovetail with the typical American home. I would suppose overseas it's the same story. At least in trhe US a lot of people have "McMansions" with home theater rooms.
To really enjoy 1080p you are going to neeed at least a 50 inch screen-62+ is better. Not many folks have the square footage to accomadate such a display. If they do, they are probably happy with upscaling DVD players and 1080i sports broadcasts etc.
I would takle the HD DVD back to the store, get a gift card to use however I saw fit and if I were to wait for a new player of some sort, I would wait for the Oppo
Play all your inexpensive DVDs in very acceprtable fashion and not have to risk being the new "Laser disc" victim.
on 10 Mar 2008 at 3:21 PM 10.Steven Kippel said …
I disagree. The difference in picture between DVD and Blu-ray on my low-end Sony 720p RPTV is quite obvious. When I watch a DVD it is distracting because I think something is wrong with my TV so I end up messing with settings only to remember it's just a DVD and they suck comparatively.
We just heard last week that over 50% of the TVs they sold last year were 1080p sets. They've discontinued most of their 720p sets and those that remain are 32″ and smaller – not ideal movie watching, or even football watching sizes.
I don't know why you are so opposed to Blu-ray, but it's definitely something I encourage people to get if they want to take advantage of their HDTV.
on 10 Mar 2008 at 7:01 PM 11.Wesley Novack said …
The "BD-Live ready" Blu-ray players from Sony are definitely an interesting concept and I commend Sony for making these players available.
Steve covered the new players here: http://wesleytech.com/sony-announces-two-new-blu-ray-players/563/
on 10 Mar 2008 at 8:06 PM 12.MovieFreak said …
" When I watch a DVD it is distracting because I think something is wrong with my TV, so I end up messing with settings "
Sounds like there is. Stop messing with the controls and get a better TV. 😉 DVDs look great on my TV. I can read Barney Fifes badge when I use my Oppo. It says Mayberry Deputy Sheriff.


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What to Expect From a Psychiatric Consultation:
General areas of work: general psychiatry; psychopharmacology; psychotherapy; family, marital and couples counseling
Individual Consultation:
I have been involved in the teaching, practice and study of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and couples and family therapy for over 30 years. In my practice, I see patients ages 18 to over 90. They are typically referred to me by medical doctors, friends, and family members with whom I've worked. Common reasons for a consultation and treatment include depression, anxiety, family and relationship issues, work crises, and stress.
After taking a careful history and collecting relevant outside reports and laboratory studies, I tease apart three separate but overlapping factors: 1) the biological, 2) the situational and interpersonal and 3) the intra-psychic or psychodynamic roots contributing to the patient's problem. Some of these will be more relevant than others for the issue at hand. Each factor would be addressed slightly differently in treatment. But it's the purpose of a good consultation for the patient and doctor to come away with an understanding of how each contributes to the presenting problem, and what that means for the therapy.
As a result, for the initial visit I allocate extra time. In my experience, most people who come for a consultation have been struggling with their condition for some time. They may have already tried and failed at treatments. There may be a lot to cover. It's important that we be thorough and review everything that has been tried, what's worked, what hasn't and benefit from all the prior experience one may have had at attempting to solve their problem. This enables us to pull together all someone has gone through into a diagnosis of the problem which he or she can understand. The treatment options will flow from that.
Tremendous strides have been made in the treatment of depression and anxiety – both psychopharmacologically and psychotherapeutically – over the past two decades. We, in the psychiatry field, have high therapeutic expectations. Clinical depression is not the normal state for any condition or circumstance in life. Mourning yes, but depression no. In fact, people who are depressed can't mourn. They are stuck ruminating over the same thing, while mourning involves working through a situation. These conditions frequently need to be differentiated in treatment.
In addition, for people who have concurrent medical problems, the treatment will need to be carefully coordinated with one's general medical doctors.
Most people come to consultation in the midst of a crisis. In the course of getting that under control, sometimes issues that have been dormant or festering from a long time ago may surface. Exploration of these issues can lead to surprising additional insights into what makes one "tick,' which can be beneficial in handling relationships at home and in the workplace. Once depression and anxiety have been treated biologically, people often find themselves acting more assertively at home or on the job. They and the people in their lives may not be use to this. There is a settling in period during which one is learning how to 'use' this newfound strength. What words or phrases to say to get out ones point without feeling one has been too assertive or aggressive. As one patient said, 'it's like learning to walk all over again.'
As coping skills change, it may happens that the medications one is taking may be capable of being reduced, sometimes eliminated altogether. There is a fluid interplay between the psychodynamic changes in one's personality and the pharmacologic part of treatment.
There is a lot more to be said about this fascinating interaction between treating biological conditions and how people change. But that is best left to the specifics of one's individual circumstance.
Couples Consultation:
In 1987, I co-authored one of the first book on the developmental transition to marriage, now in it's fifth reprinting, The First Year of Marriage: What to Expect, What to Accept and What You Can Change. It covers the tumultuous issues newlywed couples often experience and guides them so they are able to approach conflict and deep-seated fears and doubts so they can grow as individuals and as a couple. It's been excerpted by dozens of books and magazines and translated into multiple foreign languages, as well as featured on many TV news shows. I have also taught courses on couples therapy and have seen many couples in consultation and treatment over the years.
Couples may come to treatment at any time in the life of a relationship but in particular when a certain kind of logjam occurs in their relationship. For problems where only one partner's anxiety is raised, the other can be the calming influence. But where both are being made anxious, neither can be the reassuring one, and the anxiety can spin out of control. This is especially true if it requires some kind of compromise which causes the other anxiety. For instance,A: "I have to visit my parents, I feel so guilty we haven't seen them in so long." B: "You know I can't stand how critical your mother is of me, why do you always side with her…" Etc.
You know the kind of situation. Couples begin to go in circles. There is a failure of 'empathy' as neither feels they can accommodate. A seemingly trivial issue can blow up. A mole hill can be made into a mountain. Other grievances can come tumbling into the hole being dug. As a colleague of mine use to say only half facetiously, "couples break up over how to roll the toothpaste". The fact is that this may be the 'straw that breaks the camels back'. The sign that empathy has been so drained, that each feels they are living not just with a stranger, but an enemy. The toothpaste becomes a weapon.
Needless to say these are nuclear situations. The irony is that these situation are not as difficult to dig out of as couples often fear. In consultation I will hear the couple together for a period of time. I'm not in general interested in having fights in the office. Rarely does serving as a referee help. What the couple really need is someone who can listen emphatically to both. At some point I will ask one or the other to step out, and speak to each individually for a while. Then switch. That way they can unburden themselves, express their fears, hurt and anger without having to inflict further pain, or do further damage to the injured relationship.
This model, of seeing each separately for the beginning of sessions then coming together at the end is a model that is frequently useful in the case of these 'negative feedback loops'. We can explore ways to recognize the dynamic and what to do about it. If the couple truly still want to be together, but stumbled into their own personal 'black hole', then a lot of progress can be made over the first few sessions. Rebuilding trust and love may take longer. And that's a longer story, more appropriate for the specifics of an individual treatment.
So the above are some brief indications about how I work at least initially in individual and couples consultation. Psychiatric consultation, at least the way we still have the 'luxury' of practising, meaning really gearing it towards the specifics of the individual or couples presenting for treatment is art and science. The art is in the 'feel' which a practitioner has about how to proceed. It can't be coded. It can't exactly be taught. It can be mentored.
I've been fortunate to have had some wonderful mentors and been trained at a time when doctors were still being trained to be, well, doctors.
Treatment is truly integrative these days. It is never about just medication. There are many kinds of talk therapy approaches—some insight-oriented, some very practical and problem solving. My counseling also takes into account the importance of healthy living in general, as we explore the benefits of exercise, nutrition and spiritual disciplines including tai chi, yoga and meditation – all of which are important additions to the therapeutic mix for those who are open to engaging in them.
Faith, psychiatry and healing:
Regarding my research interests on other pages of this website: Earliest in my career, I was involved in the issue of Traumatic Stress experienced by hospital staff working in high-stress settings. Also, I have done, as mentioned above, a lot of work regarding couples.
In addition, I have been very interested in the overlap of psychoanalysis and issues of faith and belief. When people are severely depressed they have a total lack of faith that they can be healed. They also lose faith in themselves. These can be very dangerous states. Frequently, it is only the conviction of the doctor that 'you can get better' that gets someone through the first couple of weeks that it takes for medication and treatment to work in severe depression. This has led to a long interest in matters related to psychiatry, psychoanalysis, religion and spirituality in general. These are not things we learned much about in medical school. Traditionally, science, religion, and spirituality have spoken very different languages and held each other at arm's distance. Yet for many people these are extremely important sources of solace and meaning in times of difficulty.
If you would be interested in discussing a consultation, please call. If I am unable to accommodate you I have many excellent colleagues I can refer you to.


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ROK Stars PLC, the consumer and environmental products company co-founded by U.S. billionaire John Paul DeJoria and U.K. entrepreneur Jonathan Kendrick, has announced a hugely successful evening for its ABK Bavarian Beer at the inaugural San Francisco Symphony's Oktoberfest 2017.
Thousands of steins of ABK Beer were raised in delight at the inaugural Oktoberfest held in the Davies Symphony Hall on Tuesday 3rd October as celebrated conductor Christian Reif lead the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring Bavarian waltzes and polkas, rollicking opera choruses, sing-alongs, and other traditional folk favorites with a classical twist.
With tickets costing between $175.00 and $500.00 each, the evening was a complete success and proceeds from the Oktoberfest celebration will go on to benefit the Symphony's myriad artistic, community, and education programs.
Widely considered to be among the most artistically adventurous and innovative arts institutions in the U.S., the San Francisco Symphony played its first concert on December 8, 1911. The San Francisco Symphony has grown in stature and acclaim under a succession of distinguished music directors since then and now presents more than 220 concerts annually.
Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick said "It is fantastic to see our award-winning ABK Beer, which has been brewed in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, for more than 700 years, being enjoyed at Oktoberfest events outside Germany for the first time in our long history as, in addition to this highly prestigious San Francisco Symphony event, ABK Beer is also the exclusive Bavarian beer at 50 Oktoberfest evenings across England throughout October."
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24 cities – 50 nights – 250,000 people – 1 million pints
ROK Stars PLC, the consumer products company co-founded by U.S. billionaire John Paul DeJoria and U.K. entrepreneur Jonathan Kendrick, has announced its ROKiT Drinks division has reached an exclusive agreement to supply ABK Bavarian Beer to all Freemans Event Partners Oktoberfest 2017 events across the UK throughout October.
Oktoberfest UK 2017 will begin on the 6th and 7th October simultaneously in Norwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Chelmsford, Portsmouth and Huddersfield followed by Brighton, Newport, Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Darlington and Preston on the following weekend.
Worcester, Swindon, Watford, Guildford, Rotherham, Maidstone, Middlesborough and Hemel Hempstead will follow thereafter, ending on the 27th and 28th October in Colchester, Croydon, Northampton, Gloucester and Ipswich.
With an estimated 5,000 revellers per event per night, Oktoberfest UK 2017 is expected to see around 250,000 people across the UK enjoy an authentic evening of genuine ABK Bavarian beer, music and food during which an estimated 1 million pints will be consumed.
Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick said "It is entirely right and proper that ABK is the official and exclusive beer for all Oktoberfest 2017 events across the UK as we've been brewing our award-winning beer in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, for more than 700 years and only in the last few years have we begun exporting our beers around the world. To have 260,000 people taste ABK Beer is a fantastic opportunity to enhance our growing market in the UK."
John Freeman, director of bars at Freemans Event Partners added "We're delighted to have ABK as the exclusive beer for Oktoberfest UK 2017 as, with its incredible history and heritage, you simply can't get more authentic than ABK beer."
More information at www.rokstars.com and www.rokitdrinks.com.
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ROK Stars PLC, the consumer products company co-founded by U.S. billionaire John Paul DeJoria and U.K. entrepreneur Jonathan Kendrick, has announced its ABK Bavarian Beer, part of ROKiT Drinks, has won a further 2 Gold Medals and a Bronze Medal at the highly prestigious European Beer Star Awards 2017.
The European Beer Star Awards is widely regarded as the most important blind-tasting beer competition in the world involving an expert jury sampling more than 2,100 beers from 46 countries.
ABK was awarded a Gold Medal for its Leichtes Helles beer, a Gold Medal for its Buronator beer and a Bronze Medal for its Kellerbier.
ROK Stars acquired the majority interest in the historic 700 year old AktienBrauerei Kaufbeuren, Bavaria in May 2013 and has since re-designed and re-packaged a range of beers for international export under the brand 'ABK Beer – Since 1308'.
Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman of ROK Stars said "We are hugely proud that our beers, created under the expert guidance of our Brew Master Herr Bernd Trick, continue to be recognised and rewarded year after year for their outstanding quality and taste. For ABK Beer to regularly succeed in blind-tasting competitions such as the European Beer Star Awards is key to the on-going global distribution of our beers which, for the first time since the brewery was founded in 1308, are now available in new markets such as the UK, Italy, Spain, China and the United States."
With a growing drinks portfolio which, in addition to ABK Beer, includes Bogart's Gin, Bogart's Vodka and Bogart's Rum, ROKiT Drinks was created with a mandate to 'build the mega-brands of tomorrow, today'.
More information at www.rokitdrinks.com and www.rokstars.com and www.abkbeer.com
The historic 350 year old Tänzelfest is held every July in ABK's home town of Kaufbeuren attended by 50,000 people
ROK Stars PLC, the consumer products and environmental technology company co-founded by U.S. billionaire John Paul DeJoria and U.K. entrepreneur Jonathan Kendrick, has announced stronger than expected sales in its home town of Kaufbeuren throughout the 10 day Tänzelfest 2017.
"Tänzelfest is one of the oldest festivals in Germany and we have been providing beer for its festival-goers to enjoy for all its 350 years of existence." Said Jonathan Kendrick. "Kaufbeuren is our home town where we have been brewing our award-winning beers for more than 700 years and where we are very much at the heart of the local community and, as such, it is fantastic to note such great sales success for our beer once again."
More information at www.rokstars.com and www.rokitdrinks.com
International exports exceed forecasts and now account for 25% of beer sales
ROK Stars PLC, the consumer products and environmental technology company co-founded by U.S. billionaire John Paul DeJoria and U.K. entrepreneur Jonathan Kendrick, has announced the continued export growth of its ABK Bavarian Beer which have exceeded forecasts and now account for 25% of all beer sales.
"In 2014, in our first year having acquired the historic 700 year old ABK brewery, we exported 8 x 40 foot containers of beer followed by 25 containers in 2015 and, I'm proud to report, we exported 56 containers in 2016. Furthermore, in just the first 6 months of 2017 we have already exported 36 containers and are well ahead of our forecasts for year-end export sales." Said Jonathan Kendrick.
ABK Beer Export Volumes:
2014: 8 x 40′ Containers
2015: 25 x 40′ Containers
2016: 55 x 40′ Containers plus 2 x 20′ Containers (with DOLIUM kegs) = 56 x 40′ containers
2017 to date: 26 x 40′ Container plus 20 x 20′ Containers (with DOLIUM kegs) = 36 x 40′ containers
ABK Beer Sales Territories by volume:
Germany: 75%
China: 4%
Italy: 10%
Spain: 2%
RoW: 1%
"While we continue to enjoy the long-standing loyalty of our customers in our home regions in Germany, it's heartening and encouraging to see exports of our award-winning beers growing so rapidly, particularly in the United States, China and Italy, with new distributors and customers being added to our sales roster all the time." Added Kendrick.
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Expansion – Expansion takes what the child says, and adds grammar and semantics to turn into a comparable adult utterance. The point is to keep the communication flow going smoothly, while not making the child realize that he is being corrected.
example: The child's "doggy house" may be repeated as,"That is the dog's house."
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An estimated 60% of Americans are overweight and 25% are obese. Obesity can be measured in several ways. One method states that if a person weighs more than 20% of the ideal weight according to the height/weight chart, the person is obese. This method does not take into account an athlete who may weigh more than a nonathlete because of muscle, not fat. Another method of measuring obesity is to measure percentage of body fat. If a person's body fat is more than 25% for a man or 30% for a woman, that person is considered obese. A third method bases obesity on a calculation called the body mass index (BMI). This index calculates a ratio of body weight to height and attempts to adjust for body size.
BMI = Body Weight in Pounds X 705 Normal = < 25, Overweight = 25-30, (Height in Inches)2 Obese = > 30
According to the World Health Organization, obesity has become a worldwide problem that has significant effects on health. Problems that were once considered limited to developed or industrialized countries now affect everyone. Because of obesity, the incidence of diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension has increased around the world. Obese individuals are also prone to pulmonary disease, varicose veins, and gallbladder disease. They have an increased risk of breast, uterine, and colon cancers.
There are many reasons why people may become obese. A small number of people are genetically programmed to convert nutrients to fat, no matter what. These people probably eat less than normal and still gain weight. Another group of people cannot control their eating, sometimes consuming 20,000 calories at one meal. Even fewer people have a very low metabolic rate because of thyroid problems and cannot metabolize nutrients properly.
The incidence of obesity has increased for a variety of reasons. As modern conveniences in the home and workplace have spread, so has a more sedentary lifestyle. People ride or drive rather than walk. Many people have desk jobs instead of doing manual labor. More people watch sports instead of participating in them. Many others have to schedule time to exercise, instead of it being a natural part of their lives.
Over many years, fat has become a principal component of people's diets. In the past, humans developed methods of conserving fat to survive possible famines. Although people have increased their consumption of fat, they still have metabolisms that conserve fat whenever possible. Diets high in fat are valued in developing countries and have replaced local diets that have been in place for centuries.
The simplest way to prevent being overweight or obese is to eat less and exercise more. Some weight reduction programs have helped people lose weight through behavioral modification, which involves psychological counseling and exercise to achieve weight loss. Eating a very low-calorie diet can also help people lose weight. These programs usually last about twelve weeks and must be conducted under medical supervision. Some people resort to diet suppressant drugs, but nearly all of these drugs have been found to have harmful side effects and should not be taken for weight loss. Diuretics provide short-term weight loss through loss of water; however, this can lead to dehydration, potassium loss, and central nervous system complications. The weight is immediately regained when the person is rehydrated.
A more radical method of weight loss involves surgery. This method should only be used when the person is morbidly obese, meaning more than 100 pounds overweight, and when other methods have been unsuccessful. Several surgical interventions exist. All of the procedures limit the amount of food that can be taken into the digestive tract or limit the absorption of nutrients once the food gets into the system. In one procedure, a band, called an adjustable gastric band, can be placed around the stomach. This band can be tightened or loosened as needed to restrict the size of the stomach. A more radical procedure, called a gastric bypass, involves stapling part of the stomach to make a smaller pouch and attaching a segment of the small intestine to this pouch (Figure 8.1). This method limits both the amount taken into the stomach and the amount of nutrients that can be absorbed through the small intestine. A third surgical method, called vertical banded gastroplasty, makes a small stomach within the stomach that restricts the amount that can be eaten. If too much is ingested, the person vomits it back out. Actual removal of fat is achieved through liposuction and plastic surgery. These methods do not affect future eating, but remove existing fat.
By the late 1980s, the increased amount of fat in Americans' diets was causing an increase in heart attacks and strokes. In 1992, the federal government released nutritional recommendations in the form of the Food Guide Pyramid (Figure 8.2a). The pyramid was composed of four tiers, dividing groups of food according to the proportion the group should be in a person's diet. On the bottom of the pyramid, bread cereals,
rice, and pasta are grouped together because the government recommends eating 6-11 servings from that food group. The second biggest tier consists of vegetables and fruit, of which people should eat 5-7 servings. From the next tier, consisting of milk, yogurt, cheese, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, and dry beans, people should eat 4-6 servings. The top tier, of which people should eat very little, consists of fats, oils, and sweets.
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decrease in both of these diseases. Unfortunately, the Food Guide Pyramid may be related to a dramatic increase in two other condition that have even more far-reaching effects than heart attacks and strokes.
The incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus has increased dramatically in the United States. Approximately 20% of the U.S. population is obese. The number of individuals who are merely overweight is considerably higher.
Diabetes is a condition where the body does not break down glucose, and thus the glucose cannot be used to produce energy. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2. Type 1 diabetes, which accounts for 10% of people with diabetes, is a disease in which the body does not produce any insulin.
Multiple vitamins for most
Alcohol in moderation (unless coniraindicated)
Red meat; butter Use sparingly
White rice, white bread, potatoes and pasta; sweets
Fish, poultry, eggs 0-2 times/day
Vegetables (in abundance)
Whole grain foods (at most meals)
Red meat; butter Use sparingly
White rice, white bread, potatoes and pasta; sweets
Alcohol in moderation (unless coniraindicated)
Fish, poultry, eggs 0-2 times/day
Vegetables (in abundance)
Whole grain foods (at most meals)
Dairy or catcium supplement, 1-2 times/day
Nuls, legumes, 1-3 times/day
Plant oils, including oiive, canofa, soy, corn, sunflower, peanut and _other vegetable oils
Dairy or catcium supplement, 1-2 times/day
Nuls, legumes, 1-3 times/day
Fruits, 2-3 limes/day
Plant oils, including oiive, canofa, soy, corn, sunflower, peanut and _other vegetable oils
The recommended numbers of servings are listed with each group, and fats, oils, and sweets are to be used sparingly. A new food pyramid (b), designed by researchers at Harvard University, suggests that Americans need to eat more whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and less red meat and refined grains.
Individuals with this condition must take insulin injections. Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90% of people with diabetes, is a condition in which the body produces insulin, but in amounts that are inadequate for the body, or in which the insulin receptors do not work properly. Most people with type 2 diabetes are overweight. The increased body weight and sedentary lifestyles of many individuals are believed to be significant contributors to the development of type 2 diabetes.
Since the Food Guide Pyramid was first recommended, research at the Harvard School of Public Health has revealed that the 1992 recommendations were based on some faulty assumptions, and thus the researchers developed a second food pyramid (Figure 8.2b). The original pyramid recommendations were based on the assumption that all fats and carbohydrates are equal: All fats are bad, and all carbohydrates are good. In reality, some fats may actually improve health, while many carbohydrates create conditions that ultimately harm the body.
Fats or oils derived from plants tend to have unsaturated fatty acids that are healthier than animal derived fats that are high in saturated fatty acids.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D.- Children with the worst kind of diabetes never get a day off.
Dr. Kurt Griffin and the rest of his Sanford Research Center team are trying to change that and find a better way to treat Type I diabetes that affects about 2 in every 100,000 children in the U.S.
"The children and family really pay," Griffin, who works out of a small office in the Sioux Falls center, said.
Not only has the cost of a vial of insulin gone from about $50 only about 10 years ago to $400 now, Griffin said the shots themselves take a toll.
"It's too many too count," he said about the children who usually take a shot with every meal or snack and then before bed. It gets to be about four to eight shots a day.
Insulin pumps have helped some children and adults, but that's always attached to the body and then there's the blood pricks to the skin to check insulin levels.
"You can't ever take a break," Griffin said.
In the long term, the toll can be even heavier as diabetes is the No. 1 cause of blindness and also can cause amputations and kidney failures, Griffin said.
A new clinical study is well underway with 52 children from age 8 to 18 from Utah to Ohio, but most are from North Dakota and South Dakota as they are close to the sites in Sioux Falls and Fargo.
There are other sites, too, across the U.S. working with Griffin and his team to evaluate the children.
More children are needed for the study, however, as only those who are within the first 100 days of being diagnosed can participate. The goal is 111 participants.
"We're still recruiting," Griffin said.
What's done in the "T-Rex Study" as it's called, is that children with Type 1 diabetes have a loss of insulin-producing beta cells and researchers are trying to change that.
When a participant joins the study, a unit of blood is taken from the child and sent to a laboratory in California where in an "ultra pure' setting the number of regulatory T cells or "Tregs" are expanded in a child's blood from millions to billions.
In the lab, cells are sorted one by one in a process that takes about two week.
Those additional Treg cells, if the study goes as planned, will help prevent the immune system from mistakenly destroying those insulin-producing beta cells.
The blood is then put back into the child and hopefully the expanded number of Tregs and improved function will stop the attack on the beta cells that make insulin.
With the diabetes the "immune system is out of balance and we're trying to put it back in balance," Griffin said.
It would mean no more shots or insulin pumps. However that depends on another question researchers want to explore is whether the Tregs will be short-lived or last long enough in the body to keep enough insulin production over the long term.
Will it work?
That's the purpose of this second phase of the study. In the first phase, 18 adults underwent the blood work at the University of California-San Francisco mostly to check on the safety of the study.
It was then approved by the Federal Drug Administration to move onto this next phase.
Although the study is moving along with some testing already being done on the children, Griffin said he doesn't know if it's working.
As far as safety, there seems to have been no problems so far.
However, as is the norm in clinical trials, one-third of participants are getting a placebo, one-third a low dose of the expanded cells and one-third a high dose.
So Griffin and his Fargo counterpart, Dr. Luis Casas, don't know yet on if the process will work.
The best answers are likely to come in the spring of 2019, although some early indications could be found out as soon as early next year.
The therapy has received fast-track designation from the FDA, a first for any Type 1 diabetes intervention project. The status allows more frequent communication with the FDA, faster feedback about the therapy during the approval process and allows researchers to submit data and reports on a rolling basis.
Griffin said seeking a cure for Type 1 diabetes has been a top goal for Sanford since philanthropist Denny Sanford gave a gift of $400 million about 10 years ago. Thus, he feels some pressure to have something that can work.
Although he explains that he doesn't know if the new cell therapy is going to work, he does knows that any project takes time-in years.
If it does work, though, it may be a key to easing other autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.


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If you've caught an episode of "Fixer Upper," you may have seen distractingly awesome, rectangular, chunky wooden earrings swinging from Joanna Gaines' lobes. (Yeah. I'm just a little bit in love with them.) She seems to favor one pair and wears them pretty regularly. With all of the talk of shiplap on that show, I'm surprised that I honed in on her earrings instead of how she transformed a room with repurposed shiplap. (Again. Hey, I have nothing against the show. I adore Chip and Joanna. But that's a LOT of shiplap. I'm more into seeing what Clint creates as a feature piece in the home.)
There are plenty of pallet scraps laying around my barnyard that are the perfect size to slice into rectangular earrings of my own. Only heat-treated (no chemicals) pieces are used, and the earrings are made from standard pallet wood or cedar pallet remnants. They are then sanded down and sealed before stainless steel hardware is added. Earrings are available in natural (as pictured below) highlighting the unique grain pattern, or dark walnut.
With the Vermont festival season starting a week from Saturday, I've been busy preparing smaller scale items for the three upcoming shows. (For details on the events, please check out the 2016 Show Schedule link above. I'd love to see you!)
These earrings will be available for purchase at the shows for only $7 per pair. They are EXTREMELY lightweight! (Wood slab studs will also be available again for $5 per pair.)
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CJ: "I want jam for breakfast."
"OK, you want some bread and jam?"
"I don't want bread, I want plain jam."
"You can't just have plain jam for for breakfast; you have to have it on something."
An impasse follows in which CJ explains several more times that he wants his jam plain. Finally an idea strikes him.
"I want beans and jam."
Then he happily eats a bowl of chickpeas with a dollop of cherry jam on top. Gastronomy marches on.


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|Stewart would serve a total of 21 years, 11 months with the colours - eight years, seven months in Canada and 3 years, 2 months in the West Indies. Stewart may have seen some
active service in the field in Canada c. 1838 during was what called the Lower Canada Rebellion. Little remembered outside Canada today the rebellion began as the result of what was
considered bad government and was led not just by French speaking Quebecers but also by men of Scottish and even Polish heritage. As one might suspect from the early date of the
rebellion no medals were issued to British troops who took part in putting down the revolt.
While looking over Stewart's discharge and service papers one comes to the conclusion that he was in many ways a "poster child" of the type of men who enlisted in army during the
pre and early Victorian era. While apparently employed as a tailor as previously mentioned he probably had little if any real education as a child. Illiterate, he signed his attestation
papers with an "X". While his service long conduct is listed as "Good" one wonders just how poorly a soldier had to act before his service reputation would begin to suffer. Nestled
amongst his service papers are extracts from the Regimental Defaulters Book against No. 1118 Private David Stewart. This "extract" runs to almost two complete pages with a total
of 39 separate charge dates listed between 1840 and 1852. These infractions range from "absent" (17 counts) to "drunk" (24 counts). Given even this rather splendid list of infractions
Private Stewart was only once charged before a Court Martial.
On 7 October, 1846 Private Stewart was charged "For having been drunk while on Church Parade at Saint Anne's Barbadoes, on or about 4th October, 1846." Found guilty Stewart
was sentenced "To be deprived of a penny a day of his Pay for thirty days, and further to be Imprisoned with hard labour for Twenty days." It seems that mere drunkenness was one
thing but drunk in church another matter altogether. Punishment for Stewart's myriad of other infractions usually consisted of confinement to barracks, drill in full marching order or
forfeiture of pay. During World War One any single count of Stewart's infractions could have landed him in front of a firing squad but the rather matter of fact if not lackadaisical
approach to his transgressions taken by his superiors certainly indicate that he was in fact nothing out of the ordinary for a soldier of his era.
When Private Stewart was discharged from service On 24 October, 1852 is was not as the result of any one or combination of his many scrapes with military authority but instead as
stated in his service papers: "This man is recommended for discharge in consequence of being worn out from length of service …".
Of what became of Private Stewart after discharge at Dublin little is known. His discharge parchment states that his intended place of residence was Edinburgh and that he was
granted 1 Pound 5 Shillings for convoy to that city by way of Glasgow. Perhaps he took up his old trade of tailor once again. By today's standards he would have been a relatively
young man of about 41 but it will always remain a mystery as to the exact toll his 21 years of service to the Crown must have taken on him.
|No. 1118 Private David Stewart, 1st Battalion, 71st (Highland Light Infantry) Regiment
of Foot, discharge parchment and original tinned iron storage tube. Both items are in a
remarkable state of preservation given being will over a century and half old.
Tube: Approximately 10 Inches long by 1 Inch Diameter (25.5 cm x 2.5 cm)
Parchment: 10 1/4 Inches by 8 Inches (26 cm x 20 cm)
|Above: The front and back of No. 1118 Private David Stewart's discharge parchment.


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Contractor vs Employee
There are a number of things that can help tell the difference between an employee and a contractor. There isn't one thing that makes the difference on its own - you need to consider everything together.
Employees usually
- do ongoing work that is controlled by their employer
- work hours they're told to work by their employer
- are not responsible for financial risk
- are entitled to superannuation from their employer
- are entitled to minimum wages
- have income tax taken out of their pay
- are paid regularly (weekly / fortnightly / monthly)
- are generally entitled to paid leave if they are permanent employees.
Independent contractors usually
- decide how to do their work and what skills they need to do it
- decide whether to employ someone else to do the work
- carry the risk of making a profit or loss
- pay their own superannuation and tax, including GST
- have their own insurance
- are contracted to work for a set time or do a set task
- decide what hours to work
- invoice for their work or get paid at the end of the contract or project
- don't get paid leave.
How do I tell the difference?
There isn't one thing that makes the difference on its own - you need to consider all the points above.
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Cabot Phillips writes:
"This Tuesday, President Donald Trump will give his first State Of The Union address to the nation.
Critics of Trump have already begun to express displeasure with his actions in the days leading up to the speech, leading some to wonder whether this opposition is substantive, or rooted in a distaste of Trump as a person.
Wanting to find out, Campus Reform headed to New York University to ask students their opinions of President Trump's State of the Union. The only problem for them was that the speech would not take place for another seven days…
Would that stop them from giving strong, condemnatory opinions on the speech?
See for yourself."
Watch the video and witness the herd mentality which is representative of many of today's college students.
Philip Johnson, in his book "Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law & Culture, tells a story which is both amusing and frightening at the same time. He writes: "I am convinced that conscious dishonesty is much less important in intellectual matters than self-deception...The German biologist Bruno Muller-Hill tells a memorable story to illustrate his thesis that 'self-deception plays an astonishing role in science in spite of all the scientists' worship of truth':
When I was a student in a German gymnasium and thirteen years old, I learned a lesson that I have not forgotten...One early morning our physics teacher placed a telescope in the school yard to show us a certain planet and its moons. So we stood in a long line, about forty of us. I was standing at the end of the line, since I was one of the smallest students. The teacher asked the first student whether he could see the planet. No, he had difficulties, because he was nearsighted. The teacher showed him how to adjust the focus, and that student could finally see the planet and the moons. Others had no difficulty; they saw them right away. The students saw, after a while, what they were supposed to see. Then the student standing just before me - his name was Harter - announced that he could not see anything. 'You idiot,' shouted the teacher, 'you have to adjust the lenses.' The student did that and said after a while, 'I do not see anything, it is all black.' The teacher then looked through the telescope himself. After some seconds he looked up with a strange expression on his face. And then my comrades and I also saw that the telescope was nonfunctioning; it was closed by a cover over the lens. Indeed, no one could see anything through it.'
Muller-Hill reports that one of the docile students became a professor of philosophy and director of a German TV station. 'This might be expected,' he wickedly comments. But another became a professor of physics, and a third a professor of botany. The honest Harter had to leave school and go to work in a factory. If in later life he was ever tempted to question any of the pronouncements of his more illustrious classmates, I am sure he was firmly told not to meddle in matters beyond his understanding.'" (pp. 156-157).
Do we honestly believe that this herd mentality is not to be found throughout our society and even in the Church? If so, we deceive ourselves. Pope Benedict XVI has warned of a liberal notion of conscience which is nothing less than a retreat from truth. In a keynote address of the Tenth Bishops' Workshop of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, on "Catholic Conscience: Foundation and Formation," he says that liberalism's idea of conscience is that: "Conscience does not open the way to the redemptive road to truth - which either does not exist or, if it does, is too demanding. It is the faculty that dispenses with truth. It thereby becomes the justification for subjectivity, which would not like to have itself called into question. Similarly, it becomes the justification for social conformity. As mediating value between the different subjectivities, social conformity is intended to make living together possible. The obligation to seek the truth terminates, as do any doubts about the general inclination of society and what it has become accustomed to. Being convinced of oneself, as well as conforming to others, is sufficient. Man is reduced to his superficial conviction, and the less depth he has, the better for him."
Is there really any difference between Harter's classmates, who insisted that they could see a planet and its moons when such was impossible, and those who succumb to social conformity and insist that an unborn baby is not really a human being when all the scientific evidence suggests otherwise?
Are today's college students being prepared to think critically or simply to mindlessly regurgitate what their far-left liberal professors tell them to believe and/or what the far-left mainstream media reports?
What do you think?
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I'm done! At 112,405 words, my first draft is a completed success. (Please note, I was aiming for 85,000-90,000 words.) I stayed at Starbucks for over five hours, indulging in the caffeine buzz from two grande iced coffees. The Gold Card with its unlimited refills combined with the quiet late-night atmosphere to make Starbucks the perfect place to write away the hours. But, eventually, my sense of overstaying one's welcome drove me to Tim Hortons where I drank hot coco to keep warm and enjoyed the idea of an all-night cafe were I could keep working until the project was finished.
There are three narratives in my story. Marcus and Cressa's were intertwined so they were easy to finish up at the same time. Otis', however, proved a touch more difficult. There was a fierce temptation, as the night waned on, to call it quits when the major story arc–Marcus and Cressa's–was completed. Especially when Otis and his fellow characters seemed to stubbornly resist giving me any clue as to their climax. But, in the end, victory was that much sweeter for keeping on.
It was a little after 10 PM when I finished, but it was after 1 AM when I finally fell into bed. The energy of the writing has my mind buzzing. I see a truck and find its fictional back-story rolling through my mind. I find myself looking for my next scene in the kitchen. And my creativity is already plummeting deep into the fairy tale I have had on the back burner since late February.
What's next for me? Editing will come, but I think I will first roll around in the freedom to write whatever I want. For a little while at least.


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Here's how to properly pronounce places in the United Kingdom.
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Travel guides and important resources for your travel to United Kingdom
5 days in London UK Travel Itinerary *UPDATED 2018*
This is the essential London UK Travel Itinerary that covers the basics of things you need to see and do in London.
Stonehenge Travel Guide *UPDATED 2019*
As an art history teacher, this is among the first point of entry to the subject--Stonehenge, Lascaux cave paintings, Venus of WIllendorf and other prehistoric art. To finally be in England and the Stonehenge so nearby--I couldn't pass it up.
10 Moments of Culture Shock in Europe as a Filipino
Europe has always been a place of wonder and romance for me--a place from dreams of a little child. I thought I've read enough books seen enough Downton Abbey to prepare myself on what Europe is like. But, just like marriage, you can never be fully prepared for what's to come. Here are 10 moments of culture shock you'll likely experience as a Filipino traveler!
How to apply for UK Visa in Cebu, Philippines
Applying for a UK visa doesn't need to be stressful. You just need to be prepared and do ample research far ahead. If you're reading my blog right now--good job! You just aced the research part. I have divided the UK tourist visa application process in four steps: 1. Preparation, 2. Online Application, 3. Appointment and 4. Waiting Period.


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The Galway 2020 team is responsible for delivering a European Capital of Culture that enables the creation of more vibrant cultural communities throughout Galway.
Patricia Philbin
Chief Executive Officer
Marilyn Gaughan Reddan
Head of Programme
Our Head of Programme has been a key member of the arts community in Galway over the years, with extensive experience in arts management, production, curation and programming. Marilyn has also been part of the founding boards of many organisations in Galway.
Pearse Doherty
Head of Production
Pearse, a native of Donegal, has been involved in the Galway arts community since 1988. A former member of the band 'The Saw Doctors', Pearse has worked with Macnas, Galway International Arts Festival and Electric Picnic. The list of famous names he's worked with is too long to mention.
Kate Howard
Cultural Producer
Before joining Galway 2020, Kate (also known as Catherine) was involved in a multitude of organisations including NCFA, Arts in Action NUI Galway and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.
Liz Kelly
Cultural Producer
Liz has over 20 years' experience as an arts and culture manager, currently working on Galway 2020's Small Towns Big Ideas project. She has worked as an advisor and programme manager to The Arts Council, in addition to holding numerous consultancy roles with arts organisations. Liz has also been a local authority arts officer and has also held the position of CEO in a number of arts organisations. She is currently director of Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival and has worked as lead programmer of both the national and local Bealtaine Festivals.
Craig Flaherty
Cultural Producer
Craig is a proud Galwegian. Before joining Galway 2020, he was Associate Producer at the internationally-acclaimed Druid and previously worked with Macnas, Town Hall Theatre and St Patrick's Festival Galway.
Denise McDonagh
Digital Programme Manager
Denise is a creativity and tech enthusiast with more than a decade's background in the multimedia industry and a jack of all trades when it comes to multimedia production and digital storytelling.
Cormac MacMahon
Videographer and Administration
Loyally documenting the Galway 2020 process since the beginning.
Emma O'Flaherty
Programme and Production Assistant
Originally from Dublin, Emma has lived in Connemara for the past 4 years. With a background in Woven Textile Design, Emma has worked as a visual merchandiser and fashion retail manager. No stranger to the arts world, she was an artist liaison at Vantastival, and used to sing in bands.
Fintan Maher
Communications Director
Husband, father, son, brother, proud Galwegian, avid rugby fan, and born in the wrong climate, Fintan is delighted to be promoting his home place to the world. Oh, and he loathes celery and cucumber.
Sarah McDonagh
PR Manager
Sarah's background in media relations and issues management means she's a match made in heaven with 2020. An award-winning PR consultant, Sarah's experience spans retail, hospitality, health, property, environmental and education sectors.
Aisling Donoghue
Marketing Manager
Jo Lavelle
A Galway native, Jo is a former magazine producer, editor and writer who is passionate about telling the stories of her hometown's creative and cultural communities.
Bridgette Brew
Head of Tourism Engagement
Mostly found travelling the world, bringing people to this beautiful county, Bridgette is happiest in the great outdoors of the West of Ireland, practicing her cupla focail.
Tracey Nolan
Marketing and Merchandise
Freda Nic Giolla Chatháin
Oifigeach Cumarsáide Gaeilge
Laura Rigney
Development & Partnerships Manager
Imogene Deery
Development & Partnerships Manager
Ian Burke
Development Executive
Alan Grady
Operations Director
Cepta O'Connell
Head of Finance
Cepta is a Galway girl and a graduate of NUIG where she completed a Bachelor of Commerce. From here she headed east to Dublin where she earned her trade with PricewaterhouseCoopers becoming an Associate Chartered Accountant in 2004. While there is no accounting for culture, Cepta is planning on awakening her creative side as part of the 2020 team. She is looking forward to sharing the excitement with her three young boys and hopes that they will look back on 2020 as the year where unforgettable memories were made.
Ciaran Bailey
Financial Analyst
Seán Ryan
Alan Kenny
Head of Human Resources
Galway 2020's human resources manager's top tip for employees? "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything". Wise words.
Matti Allam
International Relations Manager
Matti works on all things European and further afield at Galway 2020 – such as hosting delegations, managing European relationships and speaking German, French, English and some basic Polish. Matti's background is in coordinating EU funded projects in the cultural sector and creative industries.
Nollaig McGuinness
Community Engagement Coordinator
Nollaig has 20 years' experience in developing and managing community and social inclusion initiatives in Galway. He enjoys the challenges and rewards that working with communities brings and believes firmly that we should be continuously working towards creating a better society for all.
Elena Toniato
Volunteer Development Manager
Passionate about Galway and culture, Elena loves working with people and is looking forward to making some disruptive waves with volunteers from Galway communities.
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Volunteer Coordinator
Róisín Birch
Office Administrator