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How Sarah Coffin improved her energy, sleep, and skin health by using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)

“I always thought that I had a good intuition about the things that I would eat,” says Sarah Coffin, a Levels user, wellness advocate, Radiographer, and recent Bachelor...

June 26 2020

“I always thought that I had a good intuition about the things that I would eat,” says Sarah Coffin, a Levels user, wellness advocate, Radiographer, and recent Bachelor Season 24 contestant. “Once I started using Levels, I began seeing how some foods affected me in ways I had no clue about. It’s amazing to me how some minor things you wouldn’t guess can be impacting your glucose so significantly.”

Sarah Coffin leads an adventure-filled lifestyle and works hard to make sure her diet and lifestyle choices give her the energy to stay active and balanced. With a penchant for personal optimization, she used Levels to run her own personal experiments to see how she can get more out of her nutrition. Throughout this journey, Sarah learned that controlling glucose is possible with minor tweaks in dietary and exercise choices, and can lead to a wide range of benefits, like clearer skin, better sleep, and more consistent energy. “I’m less fatigued, my workouts are better, I sleep better.”

“In the first two weeks of using Levels I have been able to make changes that help with avoiding glucose spikes. I think that I’m getting more out of my workouts and I’m able to run longer.”

“I’m a very analytical person,” explains Sarah. “I love to wear my Apple watch, close all my rings, and track my calories every day. Levels has been awesome for me because I can just scan, look at the app, and see how my body is responding to what I just ate.”

Step 1: Awareness

Sarah breaks down her Levels experience in three steps, starting with becoming more intimately aware of how her current lifestyle habits impact her metabolism, and vice versa.

“My first week using Levels was primarily geared towards building an awareness of how my body responds to food,” explains Sarah. “I was eating everything I normally would to get an idea of what was spiking me. I started to challenge my assumptions and found some really interesting things.”

For example, many of Sarah’s favorite snacks, which are generally marketed as healthy, were actually spiking her glucose levels.

“Once I found the foods that spike me — often foods I loved — I started looking for ways to still eat them and not spike. I don’t like to restrict myself a lot. So, I started experimenting with eating smaller portions. Later on, I started to pair those foods with other foods to see if I could minimize the spike. It’s been amazing to see how I can stay within my target glucose ranges and eat what I want, as long as I take the right strategy.” Overtime, Sarah found that the closed-loop that CGM offers between daily choices and glucose responses helps refine personal intuition about food and lifestyle.

Building metabolic awareness, Sarah explains, has helped her become more mindful about her nutrition in a way that simply wasn’t possible without the data, and she’s already made notable shifts in her approach.

“The awareness is very important because it helps me get the most out of my diet without having the negative ramifications of spiking glucose levels,” says Sarah.

Step 2: Experimentation

Once Sarah started noticing that she would feel more energized and focused by making small changes in her nutrition and minimizing her spikes, she started launching more experiments.

Sarah discovered that by introducing healthy fats into her otherwise carb-rich meals, she was able to mitigate her body’s glucose response.

“I experimented with having more balanced meals,” notes Sarah. “ I would eat a bowl of oatmeal, something that everybody says is healthy, and not a ton of calories either, and my spike was nearly pre-diabetic. It was crazy. So, I decided, I’m going to put some peanut butter in this, maybe have a little less oatmeal. My response ended up actually being drastically lower.”

Step 3: Change

Sarah experienced several notable improvements in her metabolic health by making small alterations, and it all started with gaining visibility into what was going on in her body with objective data.

“I discovered that if I eat something really carby, the spike would be generally less if I have it with a fat. Now, whenever I eat something carby or starchy, I pair it with a healthy fat.”

“Fruit really makes me spike,” says Sarah. “Why would a fruit make me feel super lethargic and fatigued? This was very counterintuitive, because fruits are packed with nutrients and are healthy, but there is collateral damage. But, if I have it with healthy fat, then I’m fine.”

“I’m very mindful of when I eat things that make me spike because if I can just balance them out, I feel ten times better.”

Sarah posits that by adding in healthy fats to her pre-workout meals, she’s able to maximize her energy levels for optimal performance.

“I used to eat half a banana before working out because I thought I needed that energy,” explains Sarah. “It turns out that I get a major spike from bananas, and sometimes I get better workouts on a fasted stomach and just eating afterwards. However, if I do have a pre-workout meal, I’ll have a banana with peanut butter and I’m able to get way more out of my workouts.”

Making minor changes to her macronutrient pairings had a noticeable effect, but Sarah also soon learned that low to moderate exercise after a meal helped minimize her glucose spikes.

“Another small change I’ve made is going on walks after a big meal, which made a huge difference for helping lower my glucose levels,” says Sarah.

Using Levels also helped Sarah confirm the positive benefits of some of her prior nutritional tendencies, such as drinking apple cider vinegar.

“I was drinking apple cider vinegar every morning because it made me feel kind of good,” comments Sarah. “I didn’t really know why it did. When I started tracking my glucose levels, I learned that this apple cider vinegar would actually minimize my meal spikes if I drank it before a meal as well, so that was really cool to see in a visualized graph.”

Clearer Skin and Better Sleep Through Metabolic Health

Many users are often surprised how many aspects of diet and lifestyle can affect glucose levels. Rather than just foods alone, everything including food combinations, exercise, sleep, and stress play a critical role in your metabolic regulation. Additionally, fixing metabolic dysfunction can have notable impacts on things that people wouldn’t often consider, such as skin health, exercise endurance, and sleep.

“One of the most significant changes I’ve noticed was improvements in my skin,” affirms Sarah. “I was getting pretty bad breakouts, and I know a lot of this is linked to my water intake, but that in combination with limiting glucose spikes has led to major improvements in my skin.”

In regards to sleep, Sarah has found that being able to tailor her evening food choices to minimize spikes has improved her sleep. “I’ve always had issues with sleep. And now I know that I sleep better when I haven’t had a spike close to bedtime. I try not to have a lot of carby food around dinner time because I’ve noticed I sleep poorly. And it’s worse if I have a spike closer to bedtime.”

Bottom line: “I feel a lot better.”

Final Thoughts

By using Levels, Sarah has built up her own personal approach to metabolic fitness on her terms.

“Levels helped me visualize that one diet truly doesn’t fit all,” comments Sarah. “Everyone is different, and something that makes me spike isn’t necessarily going to make someone spike, or vice versa. It’s really cool to see my own personal data.”

I had the CGM off for a few days and I started missing it. It helped me hold myself accountable for my dietary decisions.”

The Levels team tried Sarah’s Brookie (brownie-cookie) recipe and had a minimal glucose response. Check out her recipes @brunchgirls

There are many tools in the healthy lifestyle toolbox. Instead of opting for caloric deprivation and nutritional restrictions, Levels allows users to build an intimate understanding of how their unique body responds to food, and work on creative modulation and designing a personal optimal diet using objective data.

“It’s about really listening to your body, whether you have a CGM or not.”

Today, Sarah is able to lean on her objective data to confirm her nutritional intuition, and by building an awareness of her metabolism, she has been able to make major positive changes with minimal tweaks.

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Making a New Beginning. [planning documents for pastoral letter]

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Typescript : “Documents from the planning phase for the Implementation of the Minnesota bishops’ pastoral letter, “ A New Beginning”, in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.”
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The Archivist’s Nook: Help for Harvesters

This week’s post is guest-authored by Tricia Campbell Bailey,  a graduate student of the Library and Information Science program at The Catholic University of America.

The year was 1968, and Robert Roddy had a problem.

NMWC members, Feburary 1971.

Roddy, a hospital administration consultant for the Department of Health’s Migrant Health Program, was tasked with ensuring that the United States’ population of migrant farm workers had adequate access to medical care. Six years earlier, President Kennedy had signed the Migrant Health Act, which provided funds for public and private non-profit health clinics in counties with large populations of migrant farmworkers. However, studies showed that these initiatives were reaching only a small percentage of the migrant population, which had few resources and fewer legal protections. How to make up the shortfall?

Roddy reached out to a Midwestern nurse, hospital administrator, and religious sister named Mary Maurita Sengelaub. After becoming a nurse in 1940 and joining the Sisters of Mercy in 1945, Sr. Maurita taught nursing at Detroit’s Mercy College (now the University of Detroit Mercy) and earned a master’s degree in hospital administration in 1953. She served as an administrator at Mercy Hospital in Bay City, Michigan, and as president of St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Roddy hoped that Sr. Maurita could marshall other Catholic organizations to help the Migrant Health Program reach more workers. She wasted no time in doing so: as a member of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women (later the Leadership Council of Women Religious), Sr. Maurita recruited other members to create the National Council of the Migrant Worker Apostolate. At the same time, she was rising through the ranks of Catholic healthcare administration; in 1970, she became the first woman and first non-cleric to head the Catholic Hospital Association (“Celebrating a Life of Faith and Service at the Century Mark,” 2018).

Sister Thelma Marie Mitchell (second from left) and other NMWC sisters outside a community health clinic in the early 1970s.

Although the group Sr. Maurita founded would change names several times, it eventually was incorporated in Farmington Hills, Michigan, as the National Migrant Worker Council (NMWC). After the NMWC dissolved in 1994, the organization’s records sat in storage at the Archdiocese of Detroit. When diocesan archivist Heidi Christein discovered them in 2015, she determined that because the organization was more national than local, it was out of the diocese’s collection scope. Christein contacted the Catholic University Special Collections and offered to transfer the collection, which was readily accepted; and the 24-linear-foot collection was shipped to CUA in the summer of 2015 and an online finding aid is now available.

The collection — mainly business correspondence, invoices, meeting minutes, and grant applications — paints a fascinating picture of a group of dedicated people determined to help, yet eventually succumbing to mismanagement and personnel issues. But for more than 20 years, the NMWC did serve the U.S. migrant worker population in tangible ways, and its legacy has continued via some of the projects it spun off from the parent organization.

Members of the NMWC leadership in 1979.

Healthcare Delivery Through Outreach

The NMWC had two major sub-organizations. The first, the East Coast Migrant Health Project (ECMHP) was launched in 1970 and served migrant workers from Florida to New York by providing professional, bicultural staff to supplement health care delivery through outreach (Dohner 1990). Each year staffers traveled the same northward route the migrants took, providing services in community health centers along the way. The organization also created the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, the first Head Start program for the children of migrant farmworkers. The Head Start project is the only part of the ECMHP that survives today; it directly provides services in 26 Head Start centers across the Southeast (“Welcome to East Coast Migrant Head Start Project”).

The second branch of the NMWC, the Midwest Migrant Health Information Office (MMHIO), was established in 1983 as the Midwest Migrant Health Center. MMHIO was separately incorporated after the dissolution of the parent organization; today known as MHP Salud, it “develops culturally relevant, cost effective programs which contribute to the success of existing migrant health resources” (“History, MHP Salud”). MHP Salud’s Camp Health Aide project began in 1985 and helps local Migrant and Community Health Centers establish and maintain health promotion programs, including programs for teens, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and a doula program.

Sister Mary Maurita Sengelaub (left) and another NMWC sister in the 1980s.

End of an Era

In the early 1990s, concerns began to arise about the direction of NMWC and its future. Records from this period mention the lack of a clear mission statement, a “tarnished image,” and “racial dynamics.” In 1994, the NMWC leadership voted to dissolve the organization due to inadequate funding; its two major projects were spun off as described above.

Sr. Maurita stayed active in Catholic health care until her death at age 101 in 2019; her legacy survived even though the NMWC did not. The collection reveals the dedication of the people, both religious and lay, who poured their talents into helping one of the country’s most vulnerable populations. Handwritten notes from migrant camp residents thank the sisters who embedded themselves in these communities. Photographs and slides show daily life in the camps and the bonds formed between residents and caregivers. And the correspondence and meeting minutes illustrate the NMWC leadership’s commitment to maintaining the organization and its work, even when faced with seemingly insurmountable problems. As Sr. Maurita told an interviewer on her 100th birthday: “What’s important is to be able to live our lives enabling others to live healthy, happy lives—especially the poor” (“Celebrating a Life of Faith and Service at the Century Mark,” 2018).

Special Collections at Catholic University houses records related to several other Catholic entities that have worked and continue to work with migrants. These include the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic  Charities USA, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart. Additionally, the papers of Msgr. George G. Higgins, Msgr. John O’Grady, and Bruce M. Mohler are also relevant.


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Charles Ammi Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue (or Objectives of the Library Catalog)

Charles Ammi Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue (or Objectives of the Catalog)

The shared vision of information organization has been guided by principles. One of the most influential is Charles Cutter’s “Objects of the Catalogue,” first published in 1876 in his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue. He discussed what we expect our retrieval tools to do. If we look closely, we can see that subject and genre/form access were considered by Cutter to be important functions of the catalog.¹

  • Cutter's Objects Of The Catalog (1876)
    • FRBR User Tasks as an Update to the Cutter's Objects of the Catalog
  • What Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue Means for Entries in a Library Catalog
  • Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue (E-book)
    • Bibliographic Information
  • About Charles Ammi Cutter
  • Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue Quiz

1. To enable a person to find a book of which either:

 (a) the author is known
 (b) the title is known.
 (c) the subject is known

2. To show what the library has:

 (d) by a given author
 (e) on a given subject
 (f) in a given kind of literature

3. To assist in the choice of a book:

 (g) as to its edition (bibliographically)
 (h) as to its character (literary or topical)

The first object (or Objective) is to be able to find a resource if the name of the creator, or the title, or the subject of the resource is known. This finding function insists that the catalog provide access to individual resources in a collection.

The second object is the collocation or gathering function. It states that users should be able to retrieve not only a single resource, but to discover all resources related to a creator, a subject, or in a particular genre or form of material.

The third objective reflects a selection function. It means that users should be able to choose a resource that best fits their needs, based on either its bibliographic characteristics (such as language or format), or as to its subject-related or genre/form characteristics. Cutter’s definition of the catalog has stood the test of time, but it has been updated and expanded over the years.

FRBR User Tasks as an Update to the Cutter's Objects of the Catalog

Most recently, after years of collaboration and discussion among cataloging experts from around the world, new international principles were published in 2009 by IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). In these principles, the functions of the catalog are to enable a user

  • to find bibliographic resources in a collection . . .
  • to identify a bibliographic resource or an agent, which is an entity that is responsible for the resource ...
  • to select a resource that is appropriate to the users’ needs . . .
  • to acquire or obtain access to the resource. . .
  • and to navigate within a catalog and beyond.

These user tasks are based on IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, also known as “Ferber” or FRBR. FRBR is an abstract conceptual model of the bibliographic universe.

In order to meet IFLA’s user tasks, we, as catalogers, must create adequate and well-formed metadata!

1. Author-entry with the necessary references (for "a" and "d").
2. Title-entry or title reference (for "b").
3. Subject-entry, cross-references, and classed subject-table (for "c" and "e")
4. Form-entry and language-entry (for "f").
5. Giving edition and imprint, with notes when necessary (for "g").
6. Notes (for "h")

The original book written by Charles A. Cutter titled Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue is in the Library of the University of Wisconsin. It is digitized and is given below. In this book he published his "Objects" of the catalogue.

Bibliographic Information

Charles Ammi Cutter

Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) was an American librarian. Cutter was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His aunt was an employee of the regional library in Boston. In 1856 Cutter was enrolled into Harvard Divinity School. He was appointed assistant librarian of the divinity school while still a student there and served in that capacity from 1857 to 1859. During that time, Cutter began designing a distinct cataloging schema for the library's outdated system. The catalog, dating from 1840, had a lack of order after the acquisition of 4,000 volumes from the collection of Professor Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke of University of Göttingen, which added much depth to the Divinity School Library's collection. During the 1857-58 school year, Cutter rearranged the library collection on the shelves into broad subject categories along with classmate Charles Noyes Forbes. During the winter break of 1858-59, they arranged the collection into a single listing alphabetically by author. This project was finished by the time Cutter graduated in 1859. By 1860 Cutter was already a seasoned staff member of the library and a full-time librarian. He became a journeyman to the chief cataloger and assistant librarian to Dr. Ezra Abbot. At Harvard College Cutter developed a new form of index catalog, using cards instead of published volumes, containing both an author index and a "classed catalog" or a rudimentary form of subject index. In 1868 the Boston Athenæum library elected Cutter as its head librarian. His first assignment was to organize and aggregate the inventory of the library and develop a catalog from that and to publish a complete dictionary catalog for their collection. The previous librarian and assistants had been working on this, but much of the work was sub par and, according to Cutter, needed to be redone. This did not sit well with the trustees who wanted to get a catalog published as soon as possible. However, the catalog was revised and published in five volumes known as the Athenæum Catalogue. Cutter was the librarian at the Boston Athenaeum for twenty-five years.³

Charles Ammi Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue Quiz -- List of questions and answers on Cutter’s Objects of the Catalogue from Library and Information Science Questions Answers Quizzes. Please visit this collection and locate questions given below under the heading "Unit V - Information and Knowledge Organization and Management" where you will also find their URLs having answers and further explanations.

  • Complete Cutter's "objects" of the catalog. Fill in the Blanks. To enable a person to ________ a resource of which the ________, title, or ________ is known. To show what the library has by a given ________, on a given ________, or in a given ________ of literature.

1. Janis L. Young and  Daniel N. Joudrey, Library of Congress, "Library of Congress Subject Headings: Online Training," (accessed March 17, 2020).

2. Charles Ammi Cutter (1904). "Objects and Means." Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog, 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

3. Wikipedia, "Charles Ammi Cutter," (accessed January 19, 2019).

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Moyers Retirement Speech

On Receiving Harvard Medical School’s Global Environment Citizen Award

On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School presented its fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award to Bill Moyers. In presenting the award, Meryl Streep, a member of the Center board, said, “Through resourceful, intrepid reportage and perceptive voices from the forward edge of the debate, Moyers has examined an environment under siege with the aim of engaging citizens.” Here is the text of his response to Ms. Streep’s presentation of the award: I accept this award on behalf of all the people behind the camera whom you never see. And for all those scientists, advocates, activists, and just plain citizens whose stories we have covered in reporting on how environmental change affects our daily lives. We journalists are simply beachcombers on the shores of other people’s knowledge, other people’s experience, and other people’s wisdom. We tell their stories.

The journalist who truly deserves this award is my friend, Bill McKibben. He enjoys the most conspicuous place in my own pantheon of journalistic heroes for his pioneer work in writing about the environment. His bestseller “The End of Nature” carried on where Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring left off. Writing in Mother Jones recently, Bill described how the problems we journalists routinely cover – conventional, manageable programs like budget shortfalls and pollution – may be about to convert to chaotic, unpredictable, unmanageable situations. The most unmanageable of all, he writes, could be the accelerating deterioration of the environment, creating perils with huge momentum like the greenhouse effect that is causing the melt of the arctic to release so much freshwater into the North Atlantic that even the Pentagon is growing alarmed that a weakening gulf stream could yield abrupt and overwhelming changes, the kind of changes that could radically alter civilizations.

That’s one challenge we journalists face – how to tell such a story without coming across as Cassandras, without turning off the people we most want to understand what’s happening, who must act on what they read and hear. As difficult as it is, however, for journalists to fashion a readable narrative for complex issues without depressing our readers and viewers, there is an even harder challenge – to pierce the ideology that governs official policy today. One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the oval office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts. Remember James Watt, President Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the US Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, ‘after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.’ Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn’t know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true – one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.

That’s right – the rapture index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in America today are the twelve volumes of the left-behind series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious right warrior, Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans. Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre (the British writer George Monbiot recently did a brilliant dissection of it and I am indebted to him for adding to my own understanding): once Israel has occupied the rest of its ‘biblical lands,’ legions of the anti-Christ will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return for the rapture.

True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts, and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow. I’m not making this up. Like Monbiot, I’ve read the literature. I’ve reported on these people, following some of them from Texas to the West Bank. They are sincere, serious, and polite as they tell you they feel called to help bring the rapture on as fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That’s why they have declared solidarity with Israel and the Jewish settlements and backed up their support with money and volunteers. It’s why the invasion of Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the Book of Revelation where four angels ‘which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of man.’

A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but welcomed – an essential conflagration on the road to redemption. The last time I Googled it, the rapture index stood at 144-just one point below the critical threshold when the whole thing will blow, the son of God will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist, Glenn Scherer – ‘the road to environmental apocalypse. Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed – even hastened – as a sign of the coming apocalypse. As Grist makes clear, we’re not talking about a handful of fringe lawmakers who hold or are beholden to these beliefs.

Nearly half the US Congress before the recent election – 231 legislators in total – more since the election – are backed by the religious right. Forty-five senators and 186 members of the 108th congress earned 80 to 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian right advocacy groups. They include Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Assistant Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Conference Chair Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Policy Chair Jon Kyl of Arizona, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and Majority Whip Roy Blunt. The only Democrat to score 100 percent with the Christian coalition was Senator Zell Miller of Georgia, who recently quoted from the biblical book of Amos on the senate floor: “the days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land.’ He seemed to be relishing the thought. And why not? There’s a constituency for it.

A 2002 TIME/CNN poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the Book of Revelation are going to come true. Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks. Drive across the country with your radio tuned to the more than 1,600 Christian radio stations or in the motel turn some of the 250 Christian TV stations and you can hear some of this end-time gospel. And you will come to understand why people under the spell of such potent prophecies cannot be expected, as Grist puts it, “to worry about the environment. Why care about the earth when the droughts, floods, famine and pestilence brought by ecological collapse are signs of the apocalypse foretold in the Bible? Why care about global climate change when you and yours will be rescued in the rapture? And why care about converting from oil to solar when the same God who performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes can whip up a few billion barrels of light crude with a word?”

Because these people believe that until Christ does return, the lord will provide. One of their texts is a high school history book, “America’s Providential History“. You’ll find there these words: “the secular or socialist has a limited resource mentality and views the world as a pie – that needs to be cut up so everyone can get a piece.’ however, “[t]he Christian knows that the potential in God is unlimited and that there is no shortage of resources in God’s earth??while many secularists view the world as overpopulated, Christians know that God has made the earth sufficiently large with plenty of resources to accommodate all of the people.” No wonder Karl Rove goes around the White House whistling that militant hymn, “Onward Christian Soldiers.” He turned out millions of the foot soldiers on November 2, including many who have made the apocalypse a powerful driving force in modern American politics.

I can see in the look on your faces just how had it is for the journalist to report a story like this with any credibility. So let me put it on a personal level. I myself don’t know how to be in this world without expecting a confident future and getting up every morning to do what I can to bring it about. So I have always been an optimist. Now, however, I think of my friend on Wall Street whom I once asked: “What do you think of the market?” “I’m optimistic,” he answered. “Then why do you look so worried?” And he answered: “Because I am not sure my optimism is justified.” I’m not, either. Once upon a time I agreed with Eric Chivian and the Center for Health and the Global Environment that people will protect the natural environment when they realize its importance to their health and to the health and lives of their children. Now I am not so sure. It’s not that I don’t want to believe that – it’s just that I read the news and connect the dots:

I read that the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency has declared the election a mandate for President Bush on the environment. This for an administration that wants to rewrite the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act protecting rare plant and animal species and their habitats, as well as the National Environmental Policy Act that requires the government to judge beforehand if actions might damage natural resources. That wants to relax pollution limits for ozone; eliminate vehicle tailpipe inspections; and ease pollution standards for cars, sports utility vehicles and diesel-powered big trucks and heavy equipment. That wants a new international audit law to allow corporations to keep certain information about environmental problems secret from the public. That wants to drop all its new-source review suits against polluting coal-fired power plans and weaken consent decrees reached earlier with coal companies.

That wants to open the arctic wildlife refuge to drilling and increase drilling in Padre Island National Seashore, the longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island in the world and the last great coastal wild land in America. I read the news just this week and learned how the Environmental Protection Agency had planned to spend nine million dollars – $2 million of it from the administration’s friends at the American Chemistry Council – to pay poor families to continue to use pesticides in their homes. These pesticides have been linked to neurological damage in children, but instead of ordering an end to their use, the government and the industry were going to offer the families $970 each, as well as a camcorder and children’s clothing, to serve as guinea pigs for the study.

I read all this in the news.

I read the news just last night and learned that the administration’s friends at the international policy network, which is supported by ExxonMobil and others of like mind, have issued a new report that climate change is ‘a myth, sea levels are not rising, scientists who believe catastrophe is possible are ‘an embarrassment. I not only read the news but the fine print of the recent appropriations bill passed by Congress, with the obscure (and obscene) riders attached to it: a clause removing all endangered species protections from pesticides; language prohibiting judicial review for a forest in Oregon; a waiver of environmental review for grazing permits on public lands; a rider pressed by developers to weaken protection for crucial habitats in California.

I read all this and look up at the pictures on my desk, next to the computer – pictures of my grandchildren: Henry, age 12; of Thomas, age 10; of Nancy, 7; Jassie, 3; Sara Jane, nine months. I see the future looking back at me from those photographs and I say, ‘Father, forgive us, for we know not what we do.’ And then I am stopped short by the thought: ‘That’s not right. We do know what we are doing. We are stealing their future. Betraying their trust. Despoiling their world.’ And I ask myself: Why? Is it because we don’t care? Because we are greedy? Because we have lost our capacity for outrage, our ability to sustain indignation at injustice?

What has happened to out moral imagination?

On the heath Lear asks Gloucester: ‘How do you see the world?” And Gloucester, who is blind, answers: “I see it feelingly.'”

I see it feelingly.

The news is not good these days. I can tell you, though, that as a journalist, I know the news is never the end of the story. The news can be the truth that sets us free – not only to feel but to fight for the future we want. And the will to fight is the antidote to despair, the cure for cynicism, and the answer to those faces looking back at me from those photographs on my desk. What we need to match the science of human health is what the ancient Israelites called ‘hocma’ – the science of the heart?… the capacity to see?… to feel?.. and then to act?… as if the future depended on you.

Believe me, it does.

Author: Life Enthusiast


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what we believe

We Believe in …

The Scriptures Inspired

Life Church Meridian accepts the Bible as the revealed will of God, the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice, and for the purpose of maintaining general unity of statements of faith. The Scriptures both Old and New Testament are the inspired, infallible revelation of God to man and the authority of faith and conduct.

The One True God

The one true God has revealed Himself as the “I AM,” the Creator, and Redeemer of mankind.

The Deity of Jesus

The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God.  The Scriptures declare His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death and resurrection, and ascension to the right hand of God.

The Salvation of Man

Man’s only hope is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  Salvation is by faith through grace and demonstrated in repentance.

Ordinances of the Church

Water Baptism - By full immersion in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Holy Communion - The Lord’s Supper consisting of the Body and Blood represented in the fruit of the vine and bread.

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit

According to Acts 1:8 and Acts 2:4 with one of the signs being speaking in other tongues along with other gifts.

The act of separation from that which is evil, and dedication unto God.

The Church and Its Mission

The church is the representative of Jesus on earth and is to carry out the Great Commission.

The Ministry

A divinely called and scripturally ordained minister has been provided by God to lead the church in evangelization, worship, building the body, and general leadership of the church.

Divine Healing

Is provided for today by the Scriptures and included in the atonement for our sins.

The Blessed Hope

The resurrection of the just is the blessed hope of the body of Christ.

The Millennial Reign

The second coming of Christ includes the rapture and a return to earth by Christ with His saints for a thousand-year reign.

The Final Judgment

There will be a final judgment at which all men will be judged.

The New Heaven and Earth

All of God’s children will reign forever in a new heaven and a new earth.

Statement of Marriage

We believe that because God our Creator established marriage as a sacred institution between one man and one woman, the idea that marriage is a covenant only between one man and one woman has been the traditional definition of marriage for all of human history (“Traditional Definition of Marriage”). Because of the longstanding importance of the Traditional Definition of Marriage to humans and their relationships and communities, and, most importantly, the fact that God has ordained that marriage be between one man and one woman, as clearly conveyed in God’s inerrant Scriptures, including for example in Matthew 19:4-6 where in speaking about marriage Jesus referred to the fact that “he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,” the Church hereby creates this policy, which shall be known as the “Marriage Policy.”

Under this Church’s Marriage Policy, the Traditional Definition of Marriage is the only definition of marriage that will be recognized or accepted. No elder, officer, employee, servant, agent, or any person, corporation, organization, or entity under the direction or control of this Church shall commit any act or omission, or make any decision whatever, that would be inconsistent with, or that could be perceived by any person to be inconsistent with, full support of this Church’s Marriage Policy and strict adherence to the Traditional Definition of Marriage rather than any alternative to the Traditional Definition of Marriage.

This Church’s Marriage Policy specifically prohibits acts or omissions including but not limited to permitting any Church assets or property, whether real property, personal property, intangible property, or any property or asset of any kind that is subject to the direction or control of the Church, to be used in any manner that would be or could be perceived by any person to be inconsistent with this Church’s Marriage Policy or the Traditional Definition of Marriage, including but not limited to permitting any church facilities to be used by any person, organization, corporation, or group that would or might use such facilities to convey, intentionally or by implication, what might be perceived as a favorable impression about any definition of marriage other than the Traditional Definition of Marriage.  Life Church Meridian Bylaws 5 of 24 .

Traditional Marriages will be performed only for Life Church Meridian members after the couple has completed the Life Church Pre-Marital Counseling Program either through the Life Group Ministry or individual counseling.

We believe this Church’s Marriage Policy is based upon God’s will for human life as conveyed to us through the Holy Scriptures, upon which this Church has been founded and anchored, and this Marriage Policy shall not be subject to change through popular vote; referendum; prevailing opinion of members or the general public; influence of or interpretation by any government authority, agency, or official action; or legal developments on the local, state, or federal level.


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Hoarding clutter is not a new phenomenon, in the 1800’s believing that homes need to be a place where you want to be, William Morris is quoted as saying “Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”.

bulletIs your home somewhere you love return to at the end of the day?
bulletDo you stop people coming to your home?
bulletDo you spend as much time as possible away from home?
bulletDo you feel anxious or depressed as soon as you open the front door?

The build up of clutter begins with stuff not being stored effectively and becoming an irritation that takes time and energy to clear. Hording is a whole other level of compulsive and addictive behaviour that affects the way people want to live their life. ‘Stuff’ can restrict living space and prevent a house from being a home but more that that stuff is also ‘emotional clutter’ that chokes up lives. People cling to possessions and find it difficult or impossible to let go of things that adversely affect their well being, such as too many clothes, shoes and bags; items from past relationships or ‘inherited’ from deceased relatives; letters, pictures, books and magazines that will never be studied again.

Are You A Hoarder?

Do you:
bulletSave items that you don’t like or need?
bulletFeel completely overwhelmed by the clutter?
bulletIgnore the hoard even though it is causing problems?
bulletExperience a mounting tension in your home?
bulletLie about the extent of your hoarding?
bulletSuffer physical ill health as a result of this behaviour?
bulletFeel depressed because of the clutter?
bulletFind paperwork overwhelming?
bulletSpend too much time looking for things?

If you have answered yes to these questions you may be a hoarder, the problem isn’t always obvious until the habit or obsession has adversely affected your environment or relationships.

We don’t set out to clutter our living or working spaces, it’s something that happens over time. It’s an accumulation of items that have been purchased; impulse buys; sales bargains; received gifts; items that have been donated; family heirlooms that are no longer needed or wanted. But somehow these things fill drawers, cupboards, corners of rooms, whole rooms, the attic, hall and stairs and spill out into the garage and garden. The job can be too big to handle alone or you might not know where to start.

What Can I Do To Help Myself?

bulletWrite a list of consequences to you and others (include feelings of guilt, disgust, disappointment, destruction, social and relational restrictions) and consider what you can do about it.

bulletNotice and compliment yourself when you actively stop yourself from adding to the problem.

bulletEnlist trusted members of your family or friends to help. If you choose this option, asking for help is often the hardest part, once you have asked most people will be willing to help. Breakdown the tasks into manageable chunks of activity.

Seeking Professional Help

Don’t allow your guilt and need for secrecy to stop you from seeking treatment, sometimes it’s less painful to call in an impartial expert to help, you deserve to be happier, less stressed and free. If this seems like you don’t have to suffer a moment longer, you can access help by calling me, Dawn Haworth, on 07818 840 841 or email dawn@lifedesignsandmore.co.uk.

What Sort of Issues have People Brought To Therapy?

bulletBags and boxes piled high
bulletChildren leaving home
bulletCompulsive hoarding
bulletDirty and un-cleanable corners
bulletDisorganised storage
bulletDownsizing the family home
bulletInability to let things go
bulletMoving house
bulletOut of control collecting
bulletOverwhelming paperwork
bulletSeparation or divorce
bulletUnwanted possessions


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Intolerable Job Interview Mistakes Pointed Out By Startup CEOs

Intolerable Job Interview Mistakes Pointed Out By Startup CEOs

Going through a job interview is stressful for most candidates because they have little practice. In addition, most candidates fail to use a consistent process to prepare themselves. Fortunately, you can improve your job interview performance and get more job offers!

Start by avoiding making the following job interview mistakes:

1. Failing To Do Your Research

Without research and understanding of the company, department and the job, you are unlikely to impress your interviewer. If you are a new college graduate and looking to enter a new company, one research approach is to check with your alumni association to see if any graduates work at the company. You can then meet with those people and get their advice. If you have no prior connections, imagine that you are onboarding yourself as a new hire. In that case, you will have to research the company’s annual report, how it makes money and other basic facts.

Advanced Tip: To take your research to the next level, find the names of the people interviewing you and learn about them. Find out how long the manager has been with the company and why the company is hiring (e.g. expansion, replacing a lost individual or changing strategy).

2. Providing One Word Answers To Questions

A job interview is a relatively short meeting designed to assess you as a potential employee. If you are invited to an interview, the company’s managers think you have a reasonably promising fit. In the interview, they are looking to learn your approach to problems, how you communicate and whether you are a good fit for the company. Providing one word answers to interview questions provides little insight into your thought process. Even worse, such brief answers may be perceived as rude.

Instead, use structure when answering interview questions to demonstrate your skills and knowledge. For example, use the problem, approach and result structure. If you are being asked about your approach to solving IT problems for customers, you could answer with the following structure:

Problem: I faced the problem of an enterprise customer who could not place phone calls because the VOIP technology went offline.

Approach: My approach to solving the problem started with the company’s standard checklist because that solves 80% of problems. Next, I asked to speak with the customer’s IT department. During that step, we identified the problem and had a solution in place in one hour.

Result: My decision to go beyond the standard checklist meant that this problem was solved in less than 24 hours. Implementing a solution in this manner quickly resulted in a thank you email from one of the executives and the customer.

3. Failing To Bring Questions For The Interviewer

Showing your interest in the job and the company is essential to receiving a job offer, especially at a small company where you may interview with the CEO or founder. Showing your interest with a few well crafted questions is an excellent approach. Here are some guidelines on what to ask and what not to ask.

What To Ask

  • Ask how success is measured in the role (e.g. do you have a sales quota? Are there established key performance criteria?)
  • Ask about career progression within the department or company as a whole.
  • Ask what kinds of results you could deliver in your first week on the job.

What Not To Ask

Avoid asking about benefits during the interview. If needed, you can bring up this topic during salary negotiations.

4. Talking About Your Nerves

Talking about how nervous you are sends the wrong signal. At best, such comments distract the interviewer from learning about you as a candidate. At worst, the interviewer may comment or ask about your anxiety and make you feel worse. If facing anxiety is a concern for you in a job interview, look into stress management techniques to calm yourself. You can listen to a song that inspires you before you walk into the building, for example.

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How to Train Your Brain to Be Optimistic

How to Train Your Brain to Be Optimistic

Let’s be honest. When you’re going through a difficult time in life, doesn’t it drive you crazy when someone says, “just be optimistic”?

Everyone has that one overly-optimistic “Positive Pam” friend who sees the good in everything. Trying to find anything to be happy about when you’re struggling feels unrealistic.

The question remains: “Why is it difficult to pull upon happy thoughts when everything in life feels like it’s falling apart?”

Well, the root of the problem lies in the brain. Your brain isn’t designed for happiness because its focus has always been on promoting survival, it saves the happy chemicals (dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin) for opportunities to meet a survival need.[1]

While all of this is true, it is still possible to train your brain to be optimistic so that you can find the silver lining amidst life’s greatest adversities.

You Can’t Be Positive All the Time

Before I talk about how you can do this, you must realize that you aren’t expected to be positive 100% of the time. You’re human and life happens.

Have you ever had a solid plan in place, and then life comes along and says, “Let’s explore rock bottom for a while instead?!” You’re allowed to feel sad, angry, or negative sometimes.

However, the trick is making sure that you don’t live in this place for too long. Disempowering emotions serve their purpose in the short-term but can become destructive to your overall quality of life in the long-term.

When it comes to thinking positively, I think a lot of people have a skewed understanding of what positivity should look like. You don’t have to sing in the rain or smile 24/7 to be deemed a positive person.

Appreciating the smallest of things can work wonders for your mindset, such that, over time, you start wiring your brain to seek out and expect more positives. This speaks to the power of having an attitude of gratitude.

Research has shown that gratitude can improve general well-being, increase resilience, strengthen social relationships, and reduce stress and depression.[2]

The more grateful you are, the happier you are.

So, what does all of this mean? Well, happiness won’t always be your automatic response. Rather, it’s a choice that you have to make every single day.

3 Ways You Can Train Your Brain to Be Positive

Similar to any habit, your brain conditions itself to think and behave in certain ways through repetition. Thus, if you engage in daily rituals that enhance your positive thinking, over time you will rewire and train your brain to become more positive.

Let’s talk about 3 ways that you can train your brain to be positive:

1. Challenge Negative Thoughts

Your mind is a powerful tool – you can either fill it with positive thoughts or negative ones. The average person has thousands of thoughts per day, 80% of which are negative, and 95% of which are exactly the same thoughts as the day before.[3]

If you’re like most people, you probably spend a lot of time in your head. This is where your inner critic loves to hang out and try to convince you of all the reasons why you’re not good enough or why things won’t work out.

Not surprisingly, if you play this disempowering record over and over again in your head, eventually you will start believing it.

People get into trouble when they define who they are based on how they think. You are not your thoughts, so don’t believe everything that you think. This is why it’s so important to practice challenging your negative thoughts.

The next time that you have a thought that doesn’t serve you, stop and reflect upon whether or not that thought is accurate. Once you determine where the fallacy is in your thinking lies, step back and ask yourself, “Is this thought building me up or tearing me down?” If it’s the latter, reframe the negative thought to a more empowering one.

The fastest way to change your life is to change your narrative. Small shifts in your mindset can trigger a massive shift in how you perceive yourself, others, and the world.

2. Surround Yourself With Positive People

Your success in life is determined, in large part, by your environment. If you want to be an optimistic person, you have to surround yourself with optimistic people. End of story.

As Jim Rohn once said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

Take a moment and think about your close circle of friends. Are they inspiring and driven people who uplift and empower you? Or are they lazy, negative, and toxic?

If it’s the latter, I hate to break it to you, but it’s time to find new friends.

When you surround yourself with positive people, you’re more likely to adopt empowering beliefs and see life as happening for you instead of to you.[4]

Decide who you want to be and find people who embody those traits. When you raise your standards, your circle will change and so, too, will your life.

3. Make Your Mental Health and Well-Being a Priority

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a drastic increase in mental health issues. The isolation, fear, uncertainty, and economic turmoil that people are facing around the world is a breeding ground for psychological distress.[5]

Given the current state of our world, there has never been a more important time for us to make our mental health and well-being a priority.

The question remains, “How do you stay positive when everything sucks?”

It’s all a matter of perspective.

We know that the mind and body are connected. If you ignore one, the other one suffers equally as much. Research has found that taking care of ourselves physically and mentally can influence our happiness and train our brains over time to be more positive.[6]

Looking after your mind and body means creating a daily self-care ritual, consisting of eating healthy foods, exercising, meditating, doing yoga, staying connected with friends, journaling, reading, and practicing affirmations, to name a few.

Anything that helps you manage your stress and connect with the present moment is key. Even in the most challenging of times, it is always possible to find something to be grateful for. By choosing to focus on what is good in your life and what makes you happy, you will grow stronger in the face of adversity.

Now Is the Time to Train Your Brain to Be Optimistic

Your mindset is everything. Thinking positively is as important as your skills or talents. We cannot always control our outer world, which is why it’s imperative to cultivate a strong inner world.

How you respond to adversity will determine your success in life. Have faith, trust in yourself, and believe in what is possible. When you think positively, positive things will happen.

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  • One Swatter is all that is required to kill any small flying insects.
  • Ultra-fast USB charging and LED lighting system on the racquet to assist with finding insects in the dark.
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  • No chemicals.

Pestrol is a company that prides itself on using chemical-free products and not hurting animals in any way. However, when it comes to mosquitoes and getting a good night sleep the sound of zapping the mosquitoes is very rewarding. Look at our full range of Mosquito Traps especially our Sleep Easy Mosquito Trap for controlling mosquitoes inside

How to use your Electric Bug Swatter from Pestrol:

  1. Push the On/Off Switch to ‘ON’, the product is in the standby status.
  2. Keep pressing the ‘Zap’ Button, indicator light on, the swatter is ready to zap the bug.
  3. Push the Switch to ‘Light switch’, the Front LED Light will turn on and allows you to use it in the dark.

    • This product is certainly not a toy and is made to the highest technical specifications.
    • Only responsible adults should use the electric fly swatter.
    • Never touch the internal zapping grid.
    • Don’t hit anyone or immerse the unit into water.

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Grabbing Attention

Galatians 5:23-26

If we want to grab media attention, all it takes is an extreme proclamation of our gifts, abilities and intense challenges against all who oppose us. Tension rivets attention. As we move toward another presidential election, this “soap opera” drama with its intrigue, boasting, accusations, and rebuttals becomes the latest breaking news. But if we really are citizens of the Heavenly Jerusalem as the Apostle Paul pointed out earlier in his letter to the Galatians (Gal. 4:26), then we are free to allow the Spirit to zip our lips when it comes to boasting about how gifted and successful we are.

It’s true that the actions of the sin nature with all their juicy stories of immorality, idolatry, drugs, quarreling, and wild parties grab attention in the present, but we need to remember that God’s kingdom, built on his Son’s sacrificial love and the fruit his Spirit, generates winning in the end.

The Apostle Paul concludes his discussion of the internal wrestling match we face between the actions of our sin nature and the fruit the Spirit is seeking to generate with a strong imperative.  Since we received the gift of life by the Spirit, it only makes sense to daily crucify our old, selfish desires and keep in step with him.

“Now the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Obviously, no laws are needed against these qualities. And those who belong to the Messiah, Jesus, have crucified the sin nature together with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let’s keep in step with the Spirit. Don’t be pouring out empty self-glorification, provoking and envying one another.” Galatians 5:23-26

In a culture that constantly entertains itself with the drama of provocation, pride, and the craving for power, we have the opportunity of allowing Jesus’ Spirit to help others to catch a glimpse of what God’s Kingdom, the Kingdom that prevails, is actually like. But if we, like the Galatian believers, start challenging and provoking one another, we rob unbelievers of the opportunity to catch a glimpse of true glory and what will one day rivet all of our attention and praise.

LORD, when I feel that surge inside when someone challenges me and I feel that they are not appreciating my gifts and abilities, help me remember how empty hearted my selfish pride is. Help me to keep in step today with your Spirit so that I can be gentle, kind, and considerate of others. Keep me from trying to grab attention for myself, but instead give you all the praise.

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Shall let go the living bird into the open field. - Leviticus 14:7 (R. V.)

That is thou, O trembling soul. Thine iniquities have come between thee and freedom, like the bars of a cage to a bird caught from its native woods and imprisoned. See the quickly-palpitating breast, beaten against the bars, pining for the open field - is not that an apt symbol of thy deep yearning for deliverance from the tyranny and thrall of besetting sin?

We are made free from the penalty of sin through the blood of Him who died. - One of the birds was killed in an earthen vessel over running water - here is symbolized the precious death of thy Saviour, in the earthen vessel of His human nature, and in connection with the living power of the Holy Spirit, which bore forth the tidings into all the world. We have been dipped into the crimson tide and are freed - as the leper was - from the taint of our disease. He might go freely among men, and join the congregation of worshippers: and we may mingle with the saints, and enter the very presence-chamber of God.

We are made free from the power of sin through the grace of Him who rose. - He has passed into the resurrection life, and we in Him. When He rose through all the heavens to His native home, we ascended too. We are made free from the thralldom of evil by identification with the risen Lord; and the Holy Spirit, entering our hearts from our exalted Head, makes us possessors of all the privileges which are ours in the Divine purpose (Rom 8:3-4)-Fly away, happy soul, to thy nest in the heart of God! Seek those things which are above! It is your privilege to live in the heavenlies with Christ. Sursum Carda!


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  1. Cap's Guide To Norse Exorcism You are chosen by the Church of Odin to vanquish the Demon and the Undead. Answer God's call and don the robe of holiness. Use God's wrath to deliver judgment upon the unclean. In the name of Odin, Thor, and Loki. Amen. In this guide, I'll mostly be talking about the Adoramus branch of AB's offensive skills. There are other gear sets and stats optimized for the other builds, but in my opinion, they aren't really powerful enough. And the one piece of equipment that this build revolves around pretty much forces you to stick to Adoramus. This is also one of the few builds that can work just as well on a Baby class. Stats would have to be adjusted but it works. Stats It's pretty easy to distribute stats for this build. The only stat we need at 120 is INT. DEX can stay at 100-ish, since won't be using DEX Boots. STR - 1~50 - This is mainly for weight limit. AGI - 30~70 - Some ASPD is nice. Less animation delay. VIT - 90~110 - For stum immunity and HP. INT - 120 DEX - 100~120 - Just get enough to have a reasonable fast cast time. LUK - 50~90 - Adds MATK and resist some statuses. Gears As prefaced above, this guide will be mostly about Adoramus. ME and Judex will only be second in considering your gear set and stat build. Headgear Old Mitra [1] - Increases Judex and Magnus damage, as well as stat increases based on refine level. Get this refined as high as you can. Fresh Roses [1] - Good for leveling. Increases MATK every refine. Can also be enchanted. Racing Cap(Archbishop) [1] - For pure Adoramus Build. The enchant for AB can add up to 60% Adoramus Damage. Shrine Maiden Hat [1] - Increases Magnus damage. Can be used for leveling, nothing else. Uzhas_Card - +10% magic damage to Demon race. Additional 5% when headgear is refined to +9. Mistress Card - Nullified gemstone requirement of skills. I suggest splurging for this card, since Adoramus consumes 1Blue Gemstone per cast. It can become quite costly when leveling or just running instances. Sunglasses [1] - Easiest slotted mids to get in the game currently. Monocle [1] - Cheaper than slotted Sunglasses now, but quite hard to find. Robo Eye - Good for starters. Uzhas_Card - +10% magic damage to Demon race. Additional 5% when headgear is refined to +9. Pharaoh Card - Decreases SP consumption of skills by 30%. If you have this card, then just use this for mid. It will counter Misstress Card's SP consumption penalty. And spamming Judex and Adoramus can be quite taxing on your SP. Rainbow Scarf - MATK + 35. There really aren't that many choices for low hg in the server. Armor Robe of Flattery [1] - Best armor for magic classes. Can now be enchanted. Try to aim for INT enchants. Sarah Battle Robe [1] - Has a chance to increase MATK per refine. Orlean's Gown [1] - Nothing to say, really. Can't be worn by Baby Bishops tho. Diabolus Robe [1] - A good starter equips, but, again, can't be worn by Baby Bishops. Nightmare Amon Ra Card - THIS! That's all I can say lol. Expensive but so totally worth it. If you're gonna play Adoramus AB, this card should be one the first items you farm for. Weapon Holy Stick [1] - The only weapon we can wear as Adoramus type. +9 minimum, +10 preferred. Can also be enchanted. True Margaretha Sorin Card - Will add up to 60% Adoramus damage if Holy Stick is refined to +10. Shield Bible of Promise Vol.2 [1] - Odin Power lvl 2. I don't usually bother with switching shields. The 4 rows of hot keys is still not enough for all the skills ABs have. Valkyria's Shield [1] - While you still can't wear BoP2. Cursed Mad Bunny [1] - Adds MATK. You can switch around shields, but I don't really bother. White Knight Card - When you're not gonna fight small monsters. Hodremlin Card - Good all around defensive card. Medusa Card - Resist Stone Curse status. Any racial that would benefit you. Garment Fallen Angel Wings [1] - Spell enchant. Adventurer's Backpack [1] - Get at +7. A good alternative if you don't have money for a +7~+9 FAW. Cloak of Casualty [1] - A high end alternative for a FAW. But you'll only see the benefit if you refine it above +10. Antique Book Card - I'd say the best option for garment. Randel Card - Enables Auto Guard. Only use with switching. Shoes Judgment Shoes - The one and only pair of shoes. Just read up the effects. This is one of the items you have to farm for. Accessories Orlean's Necklace [1] - Cheap but really good accessory for MATK. Magic Intensifier Ring [1] - If you have high enough base MATK, then this would be better to use. Pendant of Maelstrom [1] - A really good accessory. But I don't really like the auto cast. It has a cast delay which won't let you cast spells. Headless Mule Card - Adds 20% to water and holy magic damage. Shadow Gears Arch Bishop Shadow Weapon - Refine and effect isn't really important for the build, but necessary for the set. Archbishop Shadow Shield - Get this refined as high as you can. Adds Adoramus damage based on refine. When worn with Shadow Weapon, reduces Adoramus cooldown by 1 second, which will make the skill almost spammable. Priest Shadow Armor - Adds Magnus damage per refine. Priest Shadow Shoes - Effect really isn't that important. When worn with Shadow Armor, MATK +3%. Acolyte Shadow Earring - Good luck getting this. Acolyte Shadow Pendant - Another shadow gear that's almost impossible to get. But when worn with AB and Priest sets, All Stat +10, HP/SP +5%, and ignores 50% of normal monsters's defense and magic defense. Donate Gears Tempest Lv3 - Kinda important to get if you can afford a set, since you won't be using a Temporal DEX Boots. Other Gemstones is up to you. Star Stone(Matk) - MATK +3% Note: You can substitute some of your gears with Mora's Judgment Set if you don't have access to some of the gears, especially Deep Sea's Judgment Shoes. The Mora set will give you an idea of how to use Adoramus as your main offensive skill. Skills Adoramus - Main damage skill. Can inflict slow and blind to target. Judex - Secondary damage skill, only if you have a high enough refined Old Mitra. 3x3 AoE. Sacrament - Reduces fixed cast time by 50% at max level. Clearance - Removes buffs on party members. Can also remove buff from monsters. Lauda Ramus - Removes negative status. I can't remember which, just cast both Lauda skills one after the other lol. Lauda Agnus - Same as Lauda Ramus. Oratio - Weakens holy resistance of enemies on screen. Kyrie Eleison - Get at level 10. Really useful for avoiding hits. Assumptio - Doubles Def and Mdef. Baby Bishops don't have this skill tho. Safety Wall - Real nice skill for tanking. Magnus Exorcismus - If you're mobbing. Get this at level 1 or level 10. Consumables White Slim Potion - You need to bring HP healing potions since you won't have enough healing skills to recover your HP. HP Increase Potion(Large) - Increases Max HP and increases HP Recovery. SP Increase Potion(Large) - Increases Max SP and increases SP Recovery. Concentrated White Potion Z - Increases HP Recovery. Vitata 500 - Increases Max SP and Increases SP Recovery. Concentrated Ceromain Soup - Increases ASPD. Concentration Potion - Increases ASPD. Regeneration Potion - Increases recovery rate of healing items by 20%. Blue Gemstone - If you don't have a Mistress Card you're gonna need a lot of this. Holy Water - On the rare occasion that you need to cast Aspersio on someone. Also needed for making Ancilla. +10 foods and +20 foods are also useful, other than that, there's really not that much consumables you need. Now go forth and spread the word of Odin!! PS: I made a Baby Bishop just because it looks so badass when doing 1m damage. lmao


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"The setup: Your site is down. It's a small cluster configuration with only two nodes and redundant nic's, attached network disk, etc. All you know is that the problem is with VCS (although it's probably indirectly due to a hardware issue). Something has gone wrong with VCS and it's, obviously, not responding correctly to whatever terrible accident of nature has occurred. You don't have much more to go on than that. The person you receive your briefing from thinks the entire clustered server set up (hardware, software, cabling, power, etc) is a bookmark in IE ;)

"Now, one by one, in a fashion that zigs on purpose, but has a tendency to zag, here are a few things to look at right off the bat when assessing a situation like this one. Perhaps next week, we'll look into more advanced troubleshooting (and, of course, you can find lots of specific "weird VCS problem" solutions in our VCS archives)

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New Delhi: Dentsu Aegis Network on Monday said it has bought local public relations (PR) firm Perfect Relations Group, which will retain its branding. The acquisition further strengthens Dentsu’s overall communications offering in the Indian market. Although Dentsu did not reveal the deal size, PR industry executives estimate it around Rs200-250 crore.

India’s public relations market size is estimated at Rs1,200 crores growing at a rate of 15%.

Perfect Relations Group’s presence spans across 19 offices and 50 cities in India with over 500 associates, offering services including corporate reputation management, brand and marketing communications, media management and crisis management. The group comprises Perfect Relations, Accord Public Relations, Image Public Relations, Imprimis Life PR, India Media Monitor and Buzz. Its clients include The Coca-Cola Co., Nokia, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Honda Motor Co., among others.

Joining the Dentsu Aegis leadership team are group’s managing director Dilip Cherian and chief executive officer (CEO) of Perfect Relations Group Pradeep (Bobby) Kewalramani, who will report to Ashish Bhasin, chairman and CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia.

Ashish Bhasin, chairman and CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia, added, “We did not have a PR company in our group in India. The acquisition is in line with our ambition be the No. 2 group in India by 2017. We wanted to provide all marketing communications related services to our clients and PR being one of them. Perfect Relations has a great reputation and are strong enough to handle the scale required to service big clients with a national footprint. In any partnership, one must have chemistry and a common ground to pull things together. The senior management of Perfect Relations brings that to table as well."

Dilip Cherian, managing director of Perfect Relations Group stated, “Fortunately for us, only the ownership changes while management remains the same. Business will only get better. This deal has helped become a part of a brand which is as trustworthy as Perfect Relations. It allows our clients and colleagues to access a range of skills, training and resources that we haven’t been able to expand into the last 25 years."

Welcoming the development, PR industry leaders believe that the acquisition highlights the healthy growth in the industry and continued focus of international conglomerates in the Indian market.

Madan Bahal, managing director of independent PR firm Adfactors, said: “This acquisition is a testimonial of the fact that global buyers continue to have interest in the Indian market. It also gives exit route to promoters of the PR agencies who build value over the years and are able to eventually monetise it. For agency’s clients and employees, it is a way to have international exposure which when combined with local capabilities will only result in promising growth."

Talking about the growth in the business, Bahal said that in the last few years, large agencies haven’t been able to grow at a fast pace unlike the new crop of small agencies who continue to drive growth.

“It’s great to see that international networks continue to be infused both by the India market in general and public relation as a discipline specifically. It sends a very strong signal that the interest is continuing. Public relations, as a business, continue to grow in double digits," said Amit Misra, chief executive officer at PR firm MSLGROUP India.

Mishra echoes Bahal’s observation and adds that it is heartening to see new firms such as First Partners and Pitchfork Partners being set up validating that the promising future of public relations business.

Nitin Mantri, CEO Avian Media and president, Public Relations Consultants Association of India (PRCAI) notes that it is probably for the first time that an advertising and media company is buying into a large PR firm in India. An Asian Group increasing its presence in the country has not happened in a long while as well.

Prema Sagar, founder of the PR firm Genesis which was later sold to to New York-US based Burson-Marsteller in 2005-06, said: “I personally went through that phase on whether to sell my venture or not but then I realised the decision wasn’t just about me. The colleagues who have built the company with me also wanted growth. Acquisition also gives independent agencies the reach that helps services big global clients which will not come to you otherwise," said Sagar, now vice chair at Burson-Marsteller Asia Pacific, and principal of Genesis Burson-Marsteller.

Part of Japan’s Dentsu Inc., Dentsu Aegis Network is made up of nine global network brands—Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum and supported by its specialist/multi-market brands. The network is headquartered in London and operates in 145 countries worldwide with around 32,000 employees.

In India, Dentsu Aegis Network is supported through its global network brands namely Carat, iProspect, Isobar, Posterscope, Vizeum, MKTG and Amnet along with the Dentsu branded agencies—Dentsu Impact, Dentsu One, Dentsu India, Dentsu Media, Taproot Dentsu and Dentsu Webchutney. Also, newly added to the group are the recently acquired local brands Milestone Brandcom, WATConsult and Fountainhead.

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Immune systems gone wild! You might say so! There's a growing sensitivity to meat, Red meats in particular. Hypersensitivity to Alpha-Gal or otherwise put; [galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose], but that's more than a mouthful! LOL Alpha-Gal allergies are tricky for doctors and allergists to diagnose.

Alpha-Gal is contracted through the bite of a Lone Star Tick. [ this is what separates this allergy from traditional food allergies] The saliva from this offending insect preps the immune system for adverse reactions to red meat, including venison, lamb, and pork, as well as gelatin [comes from beef & pork, milk for some and most cheese]. Another difference this allergy has is that reactions from eating the offending food occur hours afterwards, and this makes it more difficult to connect the dots as to what's happening in the body for both patient and doctor.

An allergy to red meat can mean difficult [but so doable] adjustments need to be made. Life without steak, burgers, and the lot can cause one to feel there's no other choices, especially if they've never lived with any kind of food allergy. However, in the times we live in, fortunately; there are plenty of safe and tasty choices to replace those meats with! It will take some trial and error [and learning] on the part of the patient to navigate food choices, learning to read labels, carrying medications and speaking up to restaurant staff about the importance of your food choices.

What are the symptoms of an Alpha-Gal Allergy? It varies from individual to individual; some people report hives, and abdominal distress, [ which range from mild to severe and include cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea ], two of the most common symptoms. However, some people experience an anaphylactic reaction which can include a loss of consciousness. One other telltale sign of this allergy is the reaction occurring in a three to six hour window after eating the meat or other animal products.

The alpha-gal allergy is more common in the eastern and southeastern parts of the United States. To confirm you have this allergy see your medical care provider; particularly an allergist. Allergists will perform a blood test which looks for the IgE antibodies to the alpha-gal [carbohydrate] which detects the allergy.

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Is there a cure for this? No, like other food allergies, the only way to avoid becoming ill from the allergens are to avoid those foods. Careful management through getting educated on your food allergy [ understanding exactly what foods you should be avoiding ] and always carrying the proper medications needed, [for example, your doc may prescribe an Epi- Pen depending on your symptoms], are what is required.

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Buying a property sight unseen is generally considered to be risky, especially if you’re buying a home for the first time. But some argue that this is the best way to get an investment property because emotions will not play into the equation.

Google Street View, real estate agency photos, photos from property managers and online plans are just some of the virtual ways you can see a property.

If you’re planning on buying your own home, it’s important that you see the property physically because you’re going to live in it. You don’t want to live in a house that falls short of the expectations you had after looking at photos online.

There are many pitfalls from buying a property online. These include rooms being much smaller in reality than they looked through a wide-angle lense, the home being close to an undesirable neighbourhood or facility, and a host of other problems that may not appear in the sales pictures.

When it comes to purchasing an investment property, buying sight unseen will enable you to make your decision based purely on facts and figures rather than being swayed by insignificant aesthetics such as the colour of the walls.

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  1. Hamish On The Highlands

    Hamish On The Highlands
    In some of my previous blog entries I’ve covered Islay and Speyside whiskies and now it’s time to indulge in the best The Highlands have to offer. Let’s dive in!
  2. Raising The Bar With Loch Fyne Whiskies

    Raising The Bar With Loch Fyne Whiskies
    We recently caught up with Dillon Barrie of Raise The Bar Glasgow as he gives the perfect twist to The Loch Fyne Whiskies that we all know and love.Raise The Bar Glasgow deliver outstanding bespoke cocktails with the friendliness and warmness that you’d expect coming out of Glasgow. The service is second to none and what makes them truly unique...
  3. Blends, a marriage made in heaven

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    A good blended whisky. To be honest with you I don’t think there’s much that can beat it. Now that might come as a bit of a controversial statement from a keen whisky head like myself but let me explain and tell you a bit more about blended whisky.Did you know that by sales volume, blended Scotch whisky is the...
  4. Fife Whisky Festival

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    Fife Whisky Festival kicks off this Friday and it’s sure to be a richt belter!Taking place in the exquisite Corn Exchange there’ll be over 30 distilleries and independent bottlers present from all over Scotland and beyond. Before we get onto my favourite distilleries that’ll be represented at the festival let’s take a wee moment to appreciate the spectacular venue –...
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    Credit: Cairngorms Business Partnership Oft, as much I enjoy a smoky island whisky there’s just something about a Speyside Malt that oozes class and quality.That might be because they have enough practice making malts up there, I mean did you know Speyside is home to over half the distilleries in Scotland and has the greatest concentration of malt whisky producers...
  6. Burns Night Is Here!

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    Hello there! Hamish here.Now you probably know it’s Burns Night on Friday but do you know why we started celebrating the late great Rabbie Burns and everything Scottish on this fine day? Let me tell you a bit more about it…Burns Night is a great big celebration of the life and poetry of ‘The Bard’ Robert Burns and it’s celebrated...
  7. 7 Great Whisky and Cheese Pairings

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    Hello there!Hamish here. Let me ask you a wee question – have you ever been at a dinner party or simply with friends, sat around the cheese board, wondering what cheese (if any) would complement your dram?Well I’ve got you covered, let’s take a wee look at my favourite cheese and whisky pairings 1. Roquefort & Talisker 18 Year Old...
  8. Peat - Love It Or Hate It

    Peat - Love It Or Hate It
    Ah, nothing reminds me of home more than a good peaty whisky. Known as being the marmite of whisky, not due to tasting like marmite, but well… you either love it or hate it. If you love peaty whiskies you’re at the right place. If you’re not much of a fan perhaps you haven’t found the right one yet. In...
  9. Hamish's Dram Fyne Guide To Islay

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    Ah the beautiful Isle of Islay. Whilst she's only 239 miles squared, as of 2019 there are no less than eight distilleries on the island with another - Ardnahoe - due to open very soon. And these aren't just any old distilleries, these are known the world over for producing some of Scotland's finest whiskies. Some of the reasons there...
  10. Treasures Of The Collector’s Loft

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    Hello! It’s yer auld pal Hamish here, back again just before Christmas. Have you heard of Loch Fyne Whiskies Collector’s Loft? It’s where you’ll find a belting array of old and discontinued bottlings that would make a fine addition to even the most prized collections.

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