What we mean by love today, be it in literature, arts or in everyday life, has, in the vast majority of the cases, nothing to do with the original astral-energetic phenomenon of love, but only with angst-related interpretations of various patterns of dependency that are summarized under the term "love". This circumstance explains the many confusions and misconceptions that occur nowhere so massively as in love relationships and provide substance for countless literary presentations. Even this book is not immune to this objection. I often use the term "unconditional love" to distinguish the concept from the ordinary conception of love, knowing that I am thereby committing a tautology: true love is always unconditional.
If one regards love as an astral-energetic phenomenon – and there is no other truthful way of looking at it – then this term describes a highly advanced state of constructive interference on the psychic level, which is also fully accepted and internalized by the mind without any restrictions and in full awareness of it. Such a state can be achieved by the incarnated soul only at the end of her "path of love and enlightenment", that is, only at the end of her incarnation cycle. Therefore earthly love is not a state, but a process.
The incarnated soul has to experience all spectra of her feelings that are triggered by the most exalted and the most abysmal experiences; she has to go repeatedly up and down on the intensity scale of her feelings until she learns to deal with them in a creative way. It is obvious that in this exercise, the mind must continually face the challenge of mastering these tremendous emotional astral energies. The human mind has to play the role of the emotional tamer for a lifetime, even in those moments when the emotions seem to be slumbering.
The proper handling of the full range of human emotions can not be learned within one incarnation. Even an incarnation cycle of 70-80 lives is not enough to experience and cope with all the emotions and emotional intensities. What a man can achieve, however, is a deep understanding of all the feelings and develop a non-judgemental acceptance in the realization that all positive and negative emotions are an inseparable part of his earthly existence that merge with increasing experience to a harmonious Whole because they are energetic U-sets and can not be mutually exclusive.
Like the white light that results from the fusion of all visible spectral colors which can be separated again at any time, so too is love the end product of the merging of all feelings – the joyful and the painful – that can always be experienced separately even by old souls. Love is the constructive interference of all feelings without exception. This amalgamation manifests itself at the level of the mind as unconditional acceptance.
Within this model, one can imagine that each spectral color can be arbitrarily assigned to a particular pattern of emotion, for example: the red color – to anger, the green color – to envy, the yellow color – to jealousy, the violet color – to grief, etc. The human being passes through all the colors and feelings during his earthly incarnations and stores them as emotional memory. Throughout this process, the incarnated personality realizes that the psychic energy, like all energy in general, is constantly in motion so that one is not always angry, sad, envious or jealous but also experiences moments of contentment, happiness, magnanimity and so on. As experience grows, man learns to handle mentally these volatile emotional states more and more confidently and guide them in the desired direction by accepting them as part of his earthly identity and bringing them into harmony with each other. In this way the incarnated personality raises the vibrations of her emotional and mental body and abolishes low-frequency fear patterns.
Without going into detail, because this subject is almost inexhaustible, that much should be said: from incarnation to incarnation the personality develops the ability to harmonize her diverse feelings and to transform them into love. A painful experience, which each person makes in the incarnation process, is that one cannot deny one's feelings, for in this case they do not dissolve, but become energetically condensed and are stored deep in the cellular memory. From there they can, with the slightest opportunity, break out with great violence and cause evil.
The "belle epoque" of the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century that was shaped by the idea of a petty-bourgeois idyll in which violence, hatred and aggression did not appear superficially, but at most in the scientifically permissive form of modern psychoanalysis, ended, as is well known, into the unimaginable atrocities of the First World War, which destroyed this idyll with one fell-swoop forever. Energy must flow – especially the energy of emotions. Notwithstanding this historical experience, one of the greatest mistakes of our time – the belief in "politically correctness" which demands that negative emotions, such as hatred, aggression, greed, etc., must be repressed in order to develop positive emotions – celebrates an unprecedented renaissance.
Nothing is more fallacious than that! By suppressing hatred, one will not create love because love is not the opposite of hatred. Feelings are not N-sets that are mutually exclusive, but U-sets that mingle like the colors of the visible spectrum in order to create the white light of love. Only when the entire spectrum of feelings is present, can the white light of love arise. From this consideration it follows that emotions are extremely dynamic, fluent energetic conditions that cannot be verbally expressed in fixed terms.
This static conception of the nature of emotions is the main source of countless aberrations and illusions that are so stubborn and intractable that no experience, no matter how painful, can erase them. A common illusion of "a twosome love" is that in the ideal case it should be eternal and unbreakable – the togetherness should stand as a bulwark against the iniquity of life and grant eternal happiness. In this illusion, the idea of love as a process of give and take plays a central role. Man feels unhappy and believes that he must be loved by the partner, that is to say, he must receive love from him in order to be happy; or one is unhappy because one does not get enough love from the partner.
Love is seen as a kind of barter, which is in addition a scarce commodity, so that most people cling to love as to a precious fetish under the current socio-cultural conditions and develop various negative feelings, such as jealousy, envy, inferiority based on this mental aberration and repine their entire lifetime. What fell by the wayside is love itself.
Love is a psycho-mental state of maturity. Man does not need to be loved by another person in order to be happy, and he cannot be either. Rather, man must, first and foremost, love himself unconditionally, with all his positive and negative features, and then emanate that love to other people. As love draws even more love, enough people will find themselves receiving and reciprocating that unconditional love that emanates from a content and happy person. If a person is torn apart by his own making and is driven by debased feelings of angst, even the greatest love will not be able to make him happy and content in the long run.
Each person must therefore learn to first generate love within himself – to bring the antagonistic feelings of his psyche into harmony. An important insight that everyone makes on this earth is that a perfect twosome love is not possible in a physical body because the human being is, in an incarnated state, energetically separated and must inevitably feel lonely, even if he is never alone: his excarnated soulmates are in an incessant telepathic contact with him and convey to him a transcendental love, which he experiences on the earth, during the few lousy years, as an unattainable yearning for the lost paradise of the higher realms.
From this brief treatise of love, we realize how profoundly misunderstood most psychic phenomena are and how inadequate their linguistic presentation is. If one takes the languages with the biggest vocabulary, such as English and Italian, and examines there all the terms that reflect feelings and other emotional states and experiences, one would quickly realize that even such cultural languages do not have very many terms covering the large area of the human psyche. In addition, most terms are inadequate to properly grasp the extremely dynamic, fleeting nature of emotions. This is partly due to the fact that the human mind is extremely conservative and fears any change, especially of a psychic nature. For this reason, the ego-mind produces various fear-based beliefs and recommendations on how to tame emotions and make them more steadfast.
While these endeavors are doomed to failure, as life proves time after time, and has been convincingly shown in many literary and other works of art, the mind continues to stubbornly insist on its false beliefs about how the feelings should be, and does not appreciate any exploration to find out how the emotions truly are as astral-energetic phenomena. This fear-triggered self-censorship explains why the inexhaustible range of human feelings is treated conceptually by all languages in a very profane manner. The gnostic value of such verbal representation of the psyche is very small.
Was man heutzutage unter Liebe versteht, sei es in der Literatur, Kunst oder im Alltagsleben, hat in den allermeisten Fällen nichts mit dem ursprünglichen astral-energetischen Phänomen der Liebe zu tun, sondern lediglich mit angstbedingten Interpretationen diverser Abhängigkeitsmuster, die unter dem Begriff "Liebe" zusammengefasst werden. Dieser Umstand erklärt die vielen Verwirrungen und Missverständnisse, die nirgendwo so massiv auftreten wie in den Liebesbeziehungen und Stoff für unzählige literarische Verarbeitungen liefern. Sogar dieses Buch bleibt nicht davon unberührt. Ich verwende des Öfteren den Ausdruck bedingungslose Liebe", um den Begriff von der gewöhnlichen Auffassung der Liebe zu unterscheiden, wohl wissend, dass ich dadurch eine Tautologie begehe: Echte Liebe ist stets bedingungslos.
Betrachtet man die Liebe als ein astral-energetisches Phänomen – eine andere wahrheitsgetreue Betrachtungsweise gibt es nicht -, dann beschreibt dieser Begriff einen weit fortgeschrittenen Zustand der konstruktiven Interferenz auf der psychischen Ebene, der auch vom Verstand uneingeschränkt und in voller Bewusstheit akzeptiert und verinnerlicht wird. Einen solchen Zustand kann eine inkarnierte Seele erst am Ende ihres "Weges der Liebe und der Erkenntnis" erreichen, d.h., erst am Ende ihres Inkarnationszyklus. Irdische Liebe ist somit kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess.
Die inkarnierte Seele muss alle Gefühlsspektren, die von den erhabensten und den abgründigsten Erfahrungen ausgelöst werden, erfahren, sie muss auf der Intensitätsskala der Gefühle immer wieder rauf und unter, bis sie lernt, mit ihnen schöpferisch umzugehen. Es leuchtet ein, dass sich der Verstand bei dieser Übung ununterbrochen der Herausforderung stellen muss, Herr der ungeheueren emotionalen Astralenergien zu werden. Der menschliche Verstand muss ein Leben lang die Rolle des emotionalen Dompteurs spielen, auch in solchen Augenblicken, in denen die Gefühle scheinbar vor sich hin schlummern.
Der richtige Umgang mit dem gesamten Spektrum der Gefühle kann nicht innerhalb einer Inkarnation erlernt werden. Auch ein Inkarnationszyklus aus 70-80 Leben reicht nicht aus, um alle Emotionen und Gefühlsintensitäten zu erfahren und zu bewältigen. Was der Mensch allerdings erreichen kann, ist ein tiefes Verständnis für alle Gefühle und eine uneingeschränkte Akzeptanz aus der Erkenntnis heraus, dass alle positiven und negativen Emotionen ein unzertrennbarer Teil seiner irdischen Existenz sind, die mit zunehmender Erfahrung zu einem harmonischen Ganzen verschmelzen, weil sie energetische U-Mengen sind und sich nicht ausschließen können.
Wie das weiße Licht, das aus der Verschmelzung aller sichtbaren Spektralfarben entsteht, die jederzeit erneut getrennt werden können, so ist auch die Liebe das Endprodukt aus der Verschmelzung aller Gefühle – der freudigen und der schmerzlichen -, die jederzeit auch von alten Seelen gesondert erfahren werden können. Liebe ist die konstruktive Interferenz aller Gefühle ohne Ausnahme. Diese Verschmelzung manifestiert sich auf der Ebene des Verstandes als bedingungslose Akzeptanz.
Man kann sich innerhalb dieses Modells nun vorstellen, dass jede Spektralfarbe einem bestimmten Gefühlsmuster zugeordnet werden kann, zum Beispiel: die rote Farbe – der Wut, die grüne Farbe – dem Neid, die gelbe Farbe – der Eifersucht, die violette Farbe – der Trauer usw.53. Der Mensch durchschreitet alle Farben und Gefühle während seiner irdischen Inkarnationen und speichert sie als emotionales Gedächtnis. Im Verlauf dieses Prozesses erkennt er, dass die psychische Energie, wie alle Energie überhaupt, ständig in Bewegung ist, so dass man nicht immer wütend, traurig, neidisch oder eifersüchtig sein kann, sondern auch Augenblicke der Zufriedenheit, Glückseligkeit, Großmütigkeit usw. erlebt. Mit steigender Erfahrung lernt der Mensch mit diesen flüchtigen Gefühlszuständen verstandesmäßig immer sicherer umzugehen und sie in eine gewünschte Richtung zu lenken, indem er sie als Teil seiner irdischen Identität akzeptiert und in Einklang miteinander bringt.Auf diese Weise erhöht die inkarnierte Persönlichkeit die Schwingungen ihres Emotional- und Mentalkörpers und baut niederfrequente Angstmuster ab.
Ohne ins Detail zu gehen, denn dieses Thema ist schier unerschöpflich, soll soviel gesagt werden: Von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation entwickelt die Persönlichkeit die Fähigkeit, ihre vielfältigen Gefühle zu harmonisieren und in Liebe umzuwandeln. Eine schmerzliche Erfahrung, die jeder Mensch im Inkarnationsprozess macht, ist, dass man seine Gefühle nicht leugnen kann, denn in diesem Fall lösen sie sich nicht auf, sondern verdichten sich energetisch und werden tief ins zelluläre Gedächtnis gespeichert. Von dort aus können sie beim geringsten Anlass mit großer Gewalt nach außen ausbrechen und Unheil anrichten.
Die "belle epoque" des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts und des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts, die von der Idee einer kleinbürgerlichen Idylle geprägt war, in der Gewalt, Hass und Aggression äußerlich nicht vorkamen, sondern höchstens in der wissenschaftlich permissiven Form einer Psychoanalyse, endete bekanntlich in die unvorstellbaren Grausamkeiten des 1. Weltkriegs, der diese Idylle mit einem Schlag für immer zunichte machte. Energie muss fließen – vor allem die Energie der Gefühle. Ungeachtet dieser historischen Erfahrung feiert ein der größten Irrtümer unserer Zeit – der politisch-korrekte Glaube, dass man negative Gefühle wie Hass, Aggression, Habsucht usw. unterdrücken muss, um positive Gefühle zu entwickeln – eine beispiellose Renaissance.
Nichts ist falscher als das! Indem man Hass unterdrückt, wird man keine Liebe erzeugen, denn Liebe ist nicht das Gegenteil von Hass. Gefühle sind nicht N-Mengen, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen, sondern U-Mengen, die sich wie die Spektralfarben miteinander vermischen, um das weiße Licht der Liebe zu erzeugen. Erst wenn das gesamte Spektrum der Gefühle vorhanden ist, kann das weiße Licht der Liebe entstehen. Aus dieser Betrachtung folgt, dass Gefühle extrem dynamische, fließende energetische Zustände sind, die sich verbal nicht in festen Begriffen ausdrücken lassen.
Die statische Auffassung vom Wesen der Gefühle ist die Hauptquelle unzähliger Verirrungen und Illusionen, die so hartnäckig und widerspenstig sind, dass jede noch so schmerzliche Erfahrung sie anscheinend nicht austilgen kann. Eine häufige Illusion von der "Liebe zu zweit" ist, dass sie im Idealfall ewig und unverbrüchlich sein soll – die Zweisamkeit soll als Bollwerk gegen die Unbill des Lebens standhalten und ewiges Glück gewähren. In dieser Illusion spielt die Idee von der Liebe als einem Vorgang des Gebens und Nehmens eine zentrale Rolle. Der Mensch fühlt sich unglücklich und glaubt, dass er vom Partner geliebt werden muss, also von ihm Liebe erhalten muss, um glücklich zu sein; oder man ist unglücklich, weil er vom Partner nicht ausreichend Liebe bekommt.
Die Liebe wird als eine Art Tauschware betrachtet, die zudem eine Mangelware ist, so dass die meisten Menschen unter den gegebenen soziokulturellen Bedingungen an der Liebe wie an einem kostbaren Fetisch kleben und bei dieser psychischen Verrenkung diverse negative Gefühle wie Eifersucht, Neid, Minderwertigkeit entwickeln, mit denen sie dann ein Leben lang hadern. Was dabei auf der Strecke blieb, ist die Liebe selbst.
Die Liebe ist ein psychomentaler Zustand der Seelenreife. Der Mensch muss nicht von einer anderen Person geliebt werden, um glücklich zu sein und er kann es auch nicht. Vielmehr muss sich der Mensch zuallererst selbst bedingungslos, mit allen positiven und negativen Eigenschaften lieben und diese Liebe dann auf andere Menschen ausstrahlen. Da die Liebe noch mehr Liebe anzieht, werden sich genügend Menschen finden, die diese bedingungslose Liebe, die aus einer zufriedenen und glücklichen Person ausströmt, empfangen und erwidern. Ist ein Mensch von sich aus zerrissen und von niederen Angstgefühlen getrieben, dann vermag auch eine noch so große Liebe nicht, ihn auf Dauer glücklich und zufrieden zu machen.
Jeder Mensch muss daher lernen, die Liebe zuerst in sich selbst zu generieren – die widerstrebenden Gefühle seiner Psyche in Harmonie zu bringen. Eine wichtige Erkenntnis, die jeder Mensch auf dieser Erde macht, ist, dass es eine vollkommene Liebe zu zweit im physischen Körper nicht möglich ist, da der Mensch im inkarnierten Zustand energetisch getrennt ist und sich unweigerlich einsam fühlen muss, auch wenn er nie alleine ist: Seine entkörperten Seelengeschwister stehen in einem unablässigen Kontakt mit ihm und vermitteln ihm eine transzendente Liebe, die er während der wenigen lumpigen Jahre auf der Erde als eine unerfüllbare Sehnsucht nach dem verlorenen Astralparadies erfährt.
Aus dieser knappen Abhandlung der Liebe ersehen wir, wie falsch die meisten psychischen Phänomene verstanden werden und wie ungenügend ihre sprachliche Darstellung ist. Nimmt man die Sprachen mit dem größten Wortschatz wie Englisch und Italienisch und untersucht man dort alle Begriffe, die Gefühle und andere psychischen Zustände und Erfahrungen wiedergeben, dann wird man rasch feststellen, dass sogar solche Kultursprachen nicht sehr viele Begriffe vorzuweisen haben, die den großen Bereich der Psyche ausreichend abdecken. Zudem sind die meisten Begriffe ungeeignet, die extrem dynamische, flüchtige Natur der Gefühle richtig zu erfassen. Das liegt zum einen darin, dass der menschliche Verstand extrem konservativ ist und jedwede Veränderung, vor allem solche psychischer Natur, fürchtet. Aus diesem Grund produziert er diverse angstbedingte Auffassungen und Empfehlungen, wie man die Gefühle zähmen und beständiger machen sollte.
Auch wenn diese Bemühungen zum Scheitern verurteilt sind, wie das Leben immer wieder beweist und in vielen literarischen und anderen Kunstwerken auf überzeugende Weise gezeigt wird, so pocht der Verstand weiterhin hartnäckig auf seine Glaubenssätze, wie die Gefühle sein sollten, und legt keinen Wert darauf zu erforschen, wie die Gefühle als astral-energetische Phänomene wirklich sind. Diese angstbedingte Selbstzensur erklärt, warum der unerschöpfliche Bereich der Gefühle in begrifflicher Hinsicht von allen Sprachen so stiefmütterlich behandelt wird. Der gnostische Wert einer solchen verbalen Darstellung der Psyche ist sehr gering.


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La Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción (en inglés: Church of the Immaculate Conception) (También Antigua catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción) es una iglesia histórica en el 918 de la quinta calle en Rapid City, Dakota del Sur en Estados Unidos. Es ahora conocida como la Capilla de la Inmaculada Concepción.

La iglesia de St. Mary fue establecida en 1881. La piedra angular para el edificio de la iglesia fue puesta en 1909, siendo diseñada en el estilo del renacimiento románico, y dedicada en 1911.  La Diócesis Católica de Lead fue reubicada y se convirtió en la Diócesis de Rapid City en 1930. La Iglesia de Santa María fue renombrada la Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción en ese momento. La parroquia pronto superó la iglesia y fue reemplazada por la Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro en 1962. Con el tiempo la Inmaculada Concepción se convirtió en una capilla y ha albergado una comunidad donde se celebra la Misa en latín desde 1992. La iglesia fue agregada al Registro nacional de lugares históricos en 1975.

Véase también
Iglesia católica
Inmaculada Concepción

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Iglesias católicas de Estados Unidos
Iglesias de Dakota del Sur
Rapid City
Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos de Dakota del Sur
Iglesias en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos

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Bio from his website: Barry Lancet is the author of the award-winning international suspense series featuring Jim Brodie. The latest entry is The Spy Across the Table (Simon & Schuster), which sends Brodie careening from Washington, D.C. and San Francisco to Japan, South Korea, the DMZ, and the Chinese-North Korean border, in a story that predates recent headlines. In one of the first advance reviews, Publishers' Weekly said that "Lancet keeps the suspense high through the exciting climax."
The previous entry in the series, Pacific Burn, explores the tragic aftermath of the Fukushima quake-tsunami disaster and the real reasons behind the nuclear melt down. Japantown, the first Brodie adventure, won the Barry Award for Best First Novel, was initially optioned by J. J. Abrams, and is now under consideration at other studios. The second volume, Tokyo Kill, was a finalist for a Shamus Award for Best Novel of the Year and declared a must-read by Forbes magazine.
Lancet's connection with overseas travel, foreign lands, and Japan began more than thirty years ago with a short exploratory trip from his California home to Tokyo. Five years later, after visiting numerous other countries, his visit to Japan turned into a long-term stay in the Japanese capital, a thriving metropolis he found endlessly fascinating.
Lancet landed a position at one of the country's top publishing houses, and in twenty-five years he developed numerous books across many fields but mostly on Japanese culture—including art, crafts, cuisine, history, fiction, Zen gardens, martial arts, Asian philosophy, and more. All of which were sold in the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world. The work opened doors to many traditional worlds, lending a unique insider's view to his own writing.
One incident in particular started him on his present course of writing, and led to Japantown and the Jim Brodie series. Early on during his return to Japan, Lancet was directed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to come down to the stationhouse for a "voluntary interview." The MPD proceeded to interrogate him for three hours over what turned out to be a minor, noncriminal infraction.
The police grilling evolved into one of the most intensive psychological battles of cat-and-mouse Lancet had faced up to that point in his stay in Asia, and caused him to view many of his experiences, past and future, in a whole new light. The encounter was also instrumental in shaping Lancet's approach to his novels.
Japan—I'm an expat American who has lived in Tokyo for more than twenty-five years, but it's getting dicey with all the increased saber-rattling by North Korea, territory-grabbing by China, and the tension-filled relationship between the two powers. Eighteen months ago I decided to write about those things and more in THE SPY ACROSS THE TABLE, never imagining they would grab U.S. headlines the way they have.
If you have the burning need to write, do it, regardless.
Write what you want to write about not "what you know" unless what you know is part of your chosen topic. You'll always know something of your chosen subject and you can learn or intuit the rest.
3. What would you say is your most interesting writing?
The latest book, THE SPY ACROSS THE TABLE. The protagonist, Jim Brodie, is an art dealer and American expert on Asia who this time around delves into secrets of North Korea and China.
4. Do you have any insights about self-publishers verses traditional publishers?
There is a case to be made for both. As a former book editor, I wanted to go with a Big Five publisher for my type of book, but I have advised people on self-publishing, as well as the advantages of small and medium publishers, depending on the book.
The pros and cons have been discussed endlessly online but let me add this one vital, often-overlooked point: if you choose the self-publishing route, get a good editor and a proofreader. There are plenty of good freelancers around. Don't throw your work out there in an unprofessional manner. It's your name on the cover.
a. Who is your publisher and in what city are they located?
Simon & Schuster, in New York.
5. Do you have any suggestions or help for new writers? Secret tips?
Plenty. As a writer and former book editor, I get asked questions all the time, so I put up a Writers' Corner on my website here. There are suggestions for some of the most common stumbling blocks and questions.
6. Do you have any tips for new writers on getting an agent?
I do. "How to Find an Agent" lays down the gauntlet and offers step-by-step guidance. Pay attention to the details and remember this: even lesser-known agents get flooded with queries on a daily basis, so prepare your approach letter carefully.
7. What was one of the most surprising things you learned about your creative process?
You don't need to know every last thing before you begin writing if you trust yourself and, from the second book, the process.
8. How many books have you written?
Four books to date, the latest being THE SPY ACROSS THE TABLE and the first JAPANTOWN, which won the Barry Award for Best First Novel and landed on many "best of" lists. The second, TOKYO KILL, was a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Mystery of the Year.
9. Do you have any suggestions for providing twists in a good story?
Make your protagonist and antagonist smart and you'll get your twists.
10. What makes your or any book stand out from the crowd?
A fresh story, a new voice, suspense, sharp writing, and depth. That's what attracts me and that's what I attempt to write.


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SETTING OFF ON THE ANDREW GROUNSELL CHALLENGE
By Liz Luff On 25 August 2017 In Uncategorized
Two North East cycling enthusiasts set off from Newcastle today (Friday 25 August) to 'kick cancer in the saddle' and raise money for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and Maggie's at the Freeman Hospital.
Darren Purvis and Luke Westoe with Sir Bobby's statue at St James' Park
Architect, Luke Westoe, and interior designer, Darren Purvis, (from Morpeth and Birtley respectively), are embarking on The Andrew Grounsell Challenge, not only climbing the famous Three Peaks – Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis – but also cycling to and from them all, too.
The nine-day challenge will see them cycle over 1,000 miles, ascend over 40,000ft by bike, and climb a further 10,000ft by foot over the Three Peaks.
Their fundraising challenge is in memory of their friend and colleague, Andrew Grounsell.
Andrew, from Newcastle, was a talented architect and father-of-two. He worked alongside Luke and Darren at digital construction and design specialists, Space Group, and died last year from bowel cancer aged just 54.
Luke and Darren wanted to do something very challenging, which would honour Andrew's memory and support the charities which worked so closely with him and his family.
Andrew Grounsell
Darren explains why they chose the two charities, saying: "Andrew bravely fought bowel cancer for two years and during this time his family were greatly supported by Maggie's.
"And he was due to undertake a clinical trial funded by the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, but sadly passed away before he had the chance. That's why we chose to support our two charities."
Their challenge started at midday today, when the pair left the Space Group office in Benton, taking in Maggie's at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and Sir Bobby Robson's statue at St James' Park, before their first gruelling 90 mile stretch south into North Yorkshire.
Day two will bring a further 130 miles in the saddle and on day three they climb their first peak, Snowdon, 1,085 metres above sea level.
Luke comments: "I've always cycled to work, and over the past few months at weekends I've spent more time riding my bike than on my feet! So, the walking is what I'm looking forward to the least.
"For several months we have been taking part in practice rides locally and have a specialist nutrition programme we've been following."
On Tuesday 29 August the pair arrive in the Southern Fells of the Lake District National Park, to tackle Scafell Pike, England's tallest mountain at 978 metres above sea level.
Darren and Luke just before leaving Newcastle
Darren adds: "The biggest challenge is the weather, this is the one element we can't control. We have our bikes in perfect condition, we know the route and have trained extensively for this, so we're just hoping the weather will be on our side."
The third and final buy adderall 30 mg online mountain is the highest and the most taxing part of the challenge.
Standing at 1,345 metres above sea level, Ben Nevis is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands and the pair estimate it will take them six hours to make the climb
Luke explains: "When we climb Ben Nevis we will be approaching the end of the challenge.
"It will be the toughest part of the course, however, I think it will be one of the most enjoyable and satisfying. To know we have pushed ourselves and we're doing this for Andrew and his family will be what keeps us going."
Sir Bobby Robson launched his Foundation in 2008 and it has gone on to raise over £11 million to find more effective ways to detect and treat cancer.
The work funded directly benefits cancer patients in the North East and Cumbria and plays a significant role in the international fight against the disease.
Liz Luff, from the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. says: "We're very proud of Darren and Luke and wish them all the luck in the world as they take on this incredible challenge.
"Sir Bobby would be fascinated by the detailed planning and training it has required and we know they can't wait to put all that preparation into action.
"Our thanks to them both and to everyone who is supporting their efforts."
Karen Verrill, Centre Head at Maggie's Newcastle says: "It's thanks to amazing people like Darren and Luke that we're here for those affected by cancer, when they need us the most.
"Maggie's is for everyone affected by cancer, including family and friends. You can visit our beautiful building at the Freeman Hospital anytime Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
"You can make yourself a cup of tea in our kitchen, find a quiet spot in our gardens or speak with our team of experts.
"A recent visitor survey showed that 98% of visitors said they were in a better position to be able to speak to their medical team about their treatment plan because of visiting Maggie's."
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Dispatcher: Young and new on the job. Very eager to please.
Commander: His boss, knows a thing or two about freight.
(Note: This script was originally written for a baptism of someone whose name included 'Grace'. Although Grace is central to the theme of this script, another name can easily be substituted.
Dispatcher: (Trying to look as if he always works at attention) 'Morning Commander!
Commander: (Much experience in the dispatch business) Good morning, Dispatcher, all ready?
Dispatcher: (enthusiastically) Yes Sir!, Sir. One million, one hundred and thirty eight thousand, four hundred and fifty eight all ready for delivery. (softens slightly) Aren't they cute!
Dispatcher: (slightly surprised) The Hoylands?
Dispatcher: (Looks carefully at label) Well actually, a bit of next door's tomcat (hastily) but they'll never know. (Wipes & replaces kitten). And look, here are the babies (All mushy) coochie coochie coo!
Commander: (picks one up, reads label) Esther Grace Liddle, Oxford. (name and address of another local family with a small baby). (stares hard) Do the Liddles all look like that?
Dispatcher: Well, (diplomatically) they improve with time. (pause) Commander, why are babies so different?
Dispatcher: Well you know, when we make cats and dogs and rattlesnakes we follow the chief's design, choose the right parents and let nature take its course. But with babies, the chief sort of takes control; hand-crafts each one, spends a lot of time with them, and then He chooses their parents, even handwrites the delivery notes. What's so special about babies?
Commander: (Looking thoughtfully at the baby in his arms) Esther Grace. Grace is what makes babies special. Grace is not just a name, but an act. A gift, a gift from God.
Commander: One of the greatest gifts of all (smiling sweetly at yet more babies).
Dispatcher: But then, (moves on), what about these: (reads label) Natalie Franchesca. Born: Today. Life expectancy: 2 years due to malnutrition; (reads next) or this one: Deborah Jane. Born: Today. Life expectancy 6 months due to AIDS; (reads next) or: Anthony Gordon. Born: Today. Life expectancy: 45 minutes due to "Legal Termination". Is this also grace?
Commander: (Gently) Grace is not about life expectancy, but about life. Each of these, made in the image of God, is given to humankind with love, and though sometimes the image looks broken, the love is no less, nor the gift any meaner.
Dispatcher: But why is the image sometimes broken? Why are not all babies perfect and why don't they all live? Why give babies, when so many are rejected?
Commander: It is not just babies that humans reject. You know the story, how that first man chose to disobey, how he chose to reject the very person who crafted him and gave him life. All the rest is consequences.
Dispatcher: And so consequently, God rejects man?
Commander: No, you are forgetting that baby. Born in a cattle stall; in an obscure place and at a brutal time.
Commander: Yes, Mary's son - God's son. The only human to never reject his Heavenly Father. Obedient in life, obedient to death, even death on a cross.
Dispatcher: He too was rejected by man?
Commander: By man, yes, but acceptable to God as a perfect and obedient Son.
Dispatcher: And so these (indicates babies) are not rejected?
Commander: They are not rejected. Do you think the chief would spend all that love and effort handmaking each one, crafting each cell, counting each hair, just to throw the result away? Look, this is grace: here on each delivery note, after the signature, in his own hand, the words: Return To Sender.
Dispatcher: You mean ultimately he takes them back, all of them?
Commander: No, not all. There are some who don't want to come back.
Dispatcher: They don't want to come back? They reject their home?
Dispatcher: But why? Why reject God? Why reject grace?
Commander: Simple: accepting God means rejecting disobedience. Accepting God means agreeing He is right. (pause) Come on, time to load 'em up.
Dispatcher: (Picks up a crate, and after a slight pause, as an afterthought) But what about these (indicates babies & audience), will all these return? Will they make the right choice?
Commander: (About to answer, thinks again, turns to Dispatcher and asks gently) Would you?
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require "spec_helper"

describe Lita::RackApp do
  let(:handler_class) do
    Class.new(Lita::Handler) do
      http.get "web", :web
      http.post "path/with/:id", :variable
      http.link "foo", :foo
      http.get "heres/*a/glob/in/a/path", :glob
      http.get ":var/otherwise/identical/path", :constraint, var: /\d+/
      http.get ":var/otherwise/identical/path", :no_constraint

      def web(request, response)
        response.write("it worked")
      end

      def variable(request, response)
        id = request.env["router.params"][:id]
        response.write("id is #{id}")
      end

      def glob(request, response)
        segments = request.env["router.params"][:a]
        response.write(segments.join("/"))
      end

      def constraint(request, response)
        response.write("constraint")
      end

      def no_constraint(request, response)
        response.write("no constraint")
      end

      def self.name
        "Lita::Handlers::Test"
      end
    end
  end

  let(:robot) { instance_double("Lita::Robot") }

  before { allow(Lita).to receive(:handlers).and_return([handler_class]) }

  subject { described_class.new(robot) }

  it "responds to requests for simple paths" do
    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/web")
    status, _headers, body_proxy = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(200)
    expect(body_proxy.body.first).to eq("it worked")
  end

  it "responds to requests with variable paths" do
    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/path/with/some_id", method: "POST")
    status, _headers, body_proxy = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(200)
    expect(body_proxy.body.first).to eq("id is some_id")
  end

  it "responds to requests with globs in their paths" do
    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/heres/a/giant/glob/in/a/path")
    status, _headers, body_proxy = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(200)
    expect(body_proxy.body.first).to eq("a/giant")
  end

  it "responds to requests with variable path constraints" do
    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/123/otherwise/identical/path")
    status, _headers, body_proxy = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(200)
    expect(body_proxy.body.first).to eq("constraint")

    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/an/otherwise/identical/path")
    status, _headers, body_proxy = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(200)
    expect(body_proxy.body.first).to eq("no constraint")
  end

  it "responds to HEAD requests for GET routes" do
    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/web", method: "HEAD")
    status, _headers, body = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(204)
    expect(body).to be_empty
  end

  it "doesn't respond to HEAD requests for non-GET routes" do
    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/path/with/some_id", method: "HEAD")
    status, _headers, _body = subject.call(env)
    expect(status).to eq(405)
  end
end

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Over the last year, I haven't been writing many new blog posts. I have been pretty busy with a new job, but also starting a new networking group called the Chicago Network Operators Group (CHI-NOG). The idea behind it is that there aren't that many places where network engineers can meet to talk about technology, learn something new and network with each other. The communities are mostly virtual and that's something I wanted to change by creating CHI-NOG.
GNS3 has been a crucial tool used by many network engineers to emulate computer networks. It has proven to be fundamental studying for all network certification levels such as CCNA, CCNP and CCIE. It has been crucial for network design validations within many companies. With the news of Cisco's VIRL, many said that GNS3 will disappear, but that doesn't seem to be the case. GNS3 is going through a major redesign and needs the help of all the engineers that it helped over the years.
Recently I came across an idea to implement anycast DNS within an enterprise environment. The concept is similar to Google's public DNS, but at an enterprise level. Using IP SLA DNS, a static tracked route and some redistribution it makes it an easy solution. The biggest benefits is that all internal clients can use the same DNS IP address no matter what locations they reside in; additional benefit is distributing the load when DNS attacks occur.
When configuring RSVP, the "ip rsvp bandwidth (bandwidth) [per flow limit]" command there is an optional parameter which limits the per flow bandwidth of individual RSVP reservation. When using Call Admission Control for VoIP, that is the rate of an individual voice call in one direction, but the behavior is not as clear cut as it seems.
When using RSVP Call Admission Control (CAC) for VoIP, DMVPN and RSVP have limitations that prevent RSVP from working over DMVPN. If you have VoIP and you can't use location based CAC, RSVP is the only answers. So what's the problem with RSVP over DMVPN? The root of the problem is RSVP's loop prevention mechanism. In this post I'll describe an original solutions to make RSVP CAC work over DMVPN.
At Cisco Live I was able to attend the CCIE Service Provider technical session by Vincent Zhou who is the product manager of CCIE SP. It was a very good informative session (BRKCCIE-9163) that gave a nice insights into the lab test. Below are my notes from the session, hopefully you'll find them useful.
VIRL – Why you need to know about it!
At Cisco Live in Orlando I had the chance to demo the Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL). It is Cisco's answer to GNS3 or Junipers' Junosphere using virtualization to create virtual network topologies. This tools will be as revolutionary as GNS3, but at a much larger scale. It is an awesome tool that can be used for certification studying but also to validate production designs. Everyone I spoke to couldn't wait to get their hands on it, including me!
I've been trying to setup a BFD neighbor for a link connecting two important sites on a Nexus 7010. That link is only using iBGP for routing. This seems like a really easy thing to, unless you run into bad documentation with few key missing facts.
In the good old days of IPv4, an interface on a host could have only one IPv4 IP address. Things were very simple, every IP host would use that one address as the source IP for all communication. When we get into IPv6, each interface can have multiple IPv6 addresses. These addresses have different scopes such as global, unique-local and link-local. If an IPv6 enabled host would like to send a packets to another host, which source IPv6 address does it choose? What if it has four addresses: 2001:10::3/64 (Global from ISP A), 2001:23::3/64 (Global from ISP B), fc00:23::3/64 (Unique-Local) and fe80:23::3 (Link-Local)?
EIGRP Offset-list is usually used to increase the metric of routes being advertised over a link, but can it be used to filter EIGRP prefixes?
Recently I had to recover the admin password on the Nexus 5548. The Cisco doc was a little bit uncleared so I figured I'll make some notes on it.
I updated the CCIE page to include CCIE Supermemo questions. Please go to CCIE Supermemo Questions. As time progresses I'll update more and more of these.
Cisco's BGP decision process basically decides which BGP route to take when comparing multiple prefixes to the same destination. It is a rather long process and somewhat tricky. Below, I created a quick reference to its steps.
When NTP access-control needs ACL for 127.127.7.1?
Can't remember the IPv6 6to4 conversion?
What is IPv6 6to4 tunnel address? 2022::/16 or 2002::/16? How do you convert the IPv4 address into IPv6 6to4 tunnel address? Well there is the long way, which you should understand and then there is the easy way in case you need to configure it really quickly. I found this nice method where you can use the IPv6 General Prefix feature to automatically calculate the conversion. Originally this feature was used to create a variable for IPv6 network, the "general-prefix", to easily change all IPv6 addresses in case reassignment of IP subnets.
Reading the IPv6 Configuration Guide (Implementing Traffic Filters and Firewalls for IPv6 Security), I came across a little known fact that seems to be very important when configuring IPv6 access-lists on IOS.
Usually when I configured an IPv4 ACL, I explicitly defined a deny ip any any at the end, which seems like the best practice. But what happens when you do that same thing with IPv6 ACLs.
The CCIE certification is a very honored and respected industry certification, but it comes at a high cost of time and money. When I started studying for the certification, I couldn't find a lot of details on its expense, so I decided to keep a running total. I wouldn't say that these numbers are representative of all cases, but only one CCIE. Knowing these figures helps in terms of budgeting especially when comparing individual financing versus expensing it from a company training budget.
I attended two CCIE courses, the first one was Narbik's CIERS-I + bootcamp and the second one was IP Expert's CCIE One Week Lab Experience. My goal was to see materials from different vendors for workbooks and bootcamps to get as much variety as I could.
Understanding the theory of each protocol is one thing, but being able to configure it is another thing. After reading a number of books, I purchased a collection of CCIE R&S practice workbooks. The first set that I purchased was Internetwork Expert's workbooks (Vol1, Vol2 and Vol3) to get my hands on experience with each CCIE topic. Once I was finished the majority of INE workbooks, I bought IP Expert Volume 2 and Volume 3.
Troubleshooting lab is designed for a CCIE candidate to fix an issues of a pre-configured network. Tickets are very well defined as well as the expected behavior. There are about 10 tickets presented, some are worth 2 points and some 3 points. The troubleshooting lab has an automatic cutoff time after 120 minutes. All devices are virtualized using Cisco's IOU (IOS on Unix).
The CCIE configuration is a 6 hour test. The main goal of this section is to test you knowledge in building a network from scratch. All devices are real physical routers and switches, no Cisco IOU.
Similarly to the troubleshooting lab, I read the whole lab from start to finish. Just as the troubleshooting section I created a table to help me track of all the tasks and its requirements (see below for a sample and explanation).
The CCIE Routing and Switching test deals with a vast number of technologies. Remembering everything is rather difficult throughout the preparation process. Each CCIE will tell you that you need to have some sort of a method of documenting all of this new knowledge. During my studies I mainly used three types of documentation: mind maps, personal wiki and flashcards. One other very important aspect of CCIE documentation is the navigation of the DocCD.
Before anyone is allowed to schedule the CCIE Lab test, they have to pass the CCIE Written exam 350-001, which is a 120 minute test consisting of 90-110 question (see the link for official blueprint). CCIE candidates usually do either one of these two: take the CCIE written test before doing any workbooks/labs or take the exam before they are ready to schedule the lab test. I did the latter. To me it made more sense to configure each topic and have hands on experience, before taking the written test. I finished the technology based labs and scheduled my written test. As my main preparation, I used Bosom Exam Environment and utilizing the CCIE written question. I think Boson has a very useful study tool to review content and fill in any new gaps for their written exam questions. I passed it on my first attempt.
Thursday July 27th was was quite a day for me, full of ups and downs at RTP Cisco building number 3. I arrived 10 minutes before 7 AM. Slowly other candidates arrived. Everyone was returning at least for the second time including me. Since the last time I attempted the lab in January, Cisco moved their testing room to a smaller room on the left side of the building. I had the same proctor as before, David Blair.
I'm extremely excited to have passed the CCIE Routing and Switching lab at RTP on July 26th 2012. Currently, I'm working on a write up on my long journey and should be able to share it with everyone soon.


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Alunmi refurbish Anwar Islam school
By Tajudeen Adebanjo On Dec 17, 2021
•From left: Former Chairman of Surulere Local Government Area, Dr. Rasaq Folami; Chairman 67/71 Set Alhaji Abdulateef Adegbindin; Alhaji Danmole; Alhaji Ojelade and Secretary 67/71 set Alhaji Musbau Aiyepe at the event.
The 1967/71 set alumni of Jibril Martin Memorial Grammar School, has handed over refurbished blocks of classrooms and toilets to the National President of Anwar-ul Islam Movement of Nigeria/Proprietor of Anwarul-Ul-Islam Schools, Alhaji Mubashir Ojelade.
The handing over was part of activities marking their 50th anniversary.
Chairman, 67/71 Set Old students Association Planning Committee, Alhaji Mohammed Oyinlomo Danmole, said the gesture was part of their contribution to the development of the alma mater.
Danmole said: "When the government took over the school, there wasn't much done compare to what we met when we were enrol into the school in 1967. Looking at the situation of the classrooms, we knew that something is wrong and that the new administrators of the college would not be able to fund it alone with the meagre school fees paid by the students. We decided to refurbish the classrooms, refurbished toilets and also build an e-library for the students because if they have a better learning environment to study, they will thrive in their studies.
"The school made us what we became today due to the knowledge impacted on us. This gesture would make the school also breed people who will be better than us. By doing so"
He urged the student and the school management to imbibe maintenance culture.
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Lagos State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Alhaji Hakeem Fahm, while hailing the alumni, said adoption of technology is apt.
"We are in the new normal now as the effect of the pandemic has caused massive changes to our daily lives. When we were young, we saw libraries around but today how many do we see around because things have changed. We have to adopt technology to move forward," he said.
According to him, Lagos State is building a unified Internet fiber infrastructure to promote E-learning.
Alhaji Ojelade lauded the old students for deem fit to give back to the school.
"I appreciate their great effort to ensure the school is conducive for students. I also seize this opportunity to express gratitude to other sets that have contributed in one way or the other to the development of the school," he said.
Alumni, he said, must join forces with school management to provide necessary tools and an environment that will promote and encourage learning.
"The school environment must be conducive; the materials and equipment must be available and there should be training and retraining of teachers and other arms that are involved in impacting knowledge on the students," he said.
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Listen: You Know Where to Find Me - @mikezombie
In: Drake, Mike Zombie, OVO Sound By: Jonathan C. Ramsey
It pains me that this is the first mention of Mike Zombie on WTM.
If you've been living under a rock the Willingboro producer/emcee signed to OVO Sound maybe a year or so back. He's responsible for the production of Drake's smash hit, Started From the Bottom but shows rapping prowess in his new track You Know Where to Find Me. The South Jersey spitter stays true to his regional sound and flow on this joint. The sound sounds like something that could be an intro to a project. Not sure if this is a preview of what's to come in the follow up to Rebel Without a Cause. Only time will tell. Listen to You Know Where to Find Me by Mike Zombie below.
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You should try to train either in your middle and late morning or throughout your late afternoon and early evening. These times are relative, depending on when you usually start your day.
The following reasons explain why these periods work best for training.
Your circadian rhythm has alertness peak twice throughout the day.
The circadian rhythm developed throughout our evolution, serving as an internal clock that aligns roughly with a 24 hour day. It operates independently of your actions, yet those actions help to establish its pattern. This seems to have developed so as to encourage activity and rest during certain times, regardless of how you felt, such as from fatigue on a previous day. This rhythm closely matches the rising and setting of the sun, as the lives as humans had to revolve around it to see well in their environment.
This causes energy to peak soon after you wake up from sleeping at night and then in the early evening nearing bedtime. Our ancestors may have needed the alertness to hunt and forage during the day, with some time to rest while the sun felt hottest, followed by more vitality to prepare for sleep. These peak phases work best for both physical and mental work.
According to some research though, this alone does not explain everything. Studies reveal that some people strongly prefer to begin their days either earlier or later than normal. These are represented by morningness and eveningness, with those within each called larks and owls respectively. These outliers likely remained in the population since they fulfilled valuable roles within their societies, such as serving as watchers for their people during unusual times, or maybe just because it failed to interfere much with their lives.
Hummingbirds are intermediate types that appear more flexible. At least half of us form this crowd.
Despite these preferences, everyone can affect their rhythms through zeitgebers. These include the timing of seeing light, exercising, eating, socializing, feeling heat, and similar activities associated with daylight. The inverse applies to nighttime as well, including darkness, relaxation, snacking, quietness, coolness, and so forth. This makes sense, considering that the sunrise and sunset changes for the same location throughout the year.
You should already know if you lean toward one of the extremes. You may struggle within society's standards, especially as an evening type, feeling less alert when you would like to be. Still though, both types revolved their clocks around light, the strongest zeitgeber, and both do well to have most of their activity take place in what would occur under the sun. Evening types likely do not have a natural wake-up time much past 9 am, and morning types much before 5 am.
With electricity though, these rhythms can get disrupted. In the past, fires and candles allowed people to stay up later but provided far less stimulation than the late-night artificial blue light experienced today.
Morning types will likely gravitate toward the late morning, so 2-4 hours after they rise. Nonetheless, someone less suited to this can likely use zeitgebers to advance their clock, unless maybe if having a strong preference for eveningness.
Get as much light as possible before you start exercising. This will wake you up faster. Consider using a light box if you get up while it remains dark outside. Most indoor lights are not nearly bright enough. If possible, try to wake as the sun rises.
Reserve when you first wake up, ideally for at least a couple hours, for something other than training. Alertness continues to increase as you wake up from sleeping at night, but the body still needs time to prepare physically. Your internal temperature needs time to increase, which will boost your performance. The vertebrae within your spine must decompress the fluids that built up before handling heavy loads. Many trainees also feel better with a meal in them, especially for intense work.
Training early versus late will further entrain your circadian rhythm so you feel better earlier.
Those that do not adapt well to the morning may find themselves sluggish or lacking time to train then. After a typical workday, most people will get a final boost. It may not peak as highly as the morning, though those with a preference for the evenings self-report more energy here. Physically, your body is also fully warmed up by now. Some research demonstrates that strength and endurance are highest in the late afternoon-early evening timeframe.
Try to finish at least 4 hours before you sleep. If you time this right, the cooling effect as you reduce heat from exercise will relax you. Otherwise, heat can keep you alert. The light that you will need to train with can delay your sleep as well.
Willpower decreases as the day continues. Do you find yourself skipping most evening workouts? If so, you may want to train earlier if you cannot stay disciplined to form the habit.
Try to warm-up outside by walking in the sunlight. The light, heat, and activity will prepare you. This will help you to sleep better at night too while improving your health, such as by generating more Vitamin D.
Try to wait at least an hour or two after a large meal before training. This food can divert blood from the muscles and make you feel drowsy throughout digestion. If this process makes you feel exhausted, you instead should consider yourself sleep-deprived. Some food though will replenish glycogen in the muscles, which will help, so long as you time it right or keep it smaller if you have to eat close to your workout.
Try to avoid training at the wrong times.
Besides when you first wake to within a few hours before sleeping at night, the most important period to avoid occurs during the early-to-middle afternoon, or a bit before the middle of your day, which starts at about 6-8 hours after you wake up from sleeping at night.
The siesta, a part of day for napping built into many cultures, occurs here. Without at least a short nap then, most people will resort to caffeine or at least slow down. Those who are well-rested will get through this period more easily, though everyone feels a dip then. Some trainees do manage to use this time to exercise precisely to stay alert, usually before a lunch, and manage to somehow make it work.
This time is well-suited for naps. Even a mere 15-30 minutes of rest can have you feel great and productive into the evening. A nap that lasts too long, such as lasting much longer than an hour, or one taken too late, may delay sleeping at night. It can make you feel groggy until you recover from sleep inertia.
Many train inconsistently, such as by training after work during the weekdays and then early or in the afternoon on the weekends. Decide to train either in the morning or at night, or even every afternoon if you have no choice. We are creatures of habit that thrive on routines, and our bodies' circadian rhythms reflect this fact.
Follow good sleep hygiene to have reliable times for alertness. Beyond this, remain stimulated during the day. Stay active and work hard. This will lead to a whole process geared toward feeling alert and sleepy at the right times.
Your body also regulates sleep through a sleep-wake homeostasis, which monitors how many hours you have stayed awake. The same cues that help to form your internal clock will arouse you by themselves. Heat, social activity, exercise, food, stress, and so forth, and anything else associated with activity, will augment your systems to create synergy, having you feel as desired.
An old story from India tells us of a group of blind men working together to describe an elephant. They each touch a different part, such as the trunk, tusks, or tail. As they make comparisons, they each assume that their portion represents the whole animal. They each are correct yet incomplete.
Like many matters in life, examining just a single piece of the whole can mislead you. In our case, looking at just circadian rhythms is insufficient. You may understand the difference between morning and evening types, and assume you exist within one of these categories, yet ignore the power to shift your clock or even just your will to make it so. In the end, you need to know yourself, being disciplined, honest, and practical enough to do what works best for you.
Some do not have time to rise early enough to feel their best in the morning. Others want to spend time with their families in the evenings, so will rise early to make it work. Even modern Olympians, some of the best athletes in the world, have adapted. Many must conform to early training schedules that would seem suboptimal, yet they set world records.
Habits are more important than motivation in the long run. If you give yourself a month or two to settle into a routine, you will feel better and also maintain it more easily. It will feel unsettling not to continue as the routine persists. The chemicals released during exercise will foster a natural addiction.
Many will delay the day they should train time after time again, hoping to feel better on a day that never arrives. They end up skipping workouts and lose progress from detraining. They should have just trained even if they felt off that day. This explains why developing an exercise habit, by training at the same time each day, though not hard for every workout, can help you to perform and feel better. You may surprise yourself by setting a personal record when you least expect it.
Nonetheless, the best times to train are the middle through late morning and the late afternoon through early evening. With consistency though, another time can come to work well for you. If you are within the extremes of morningness or eveningness, you may suffer in some way if you go against what your genes dictate. Consider the advice here, know yourself, and use this knowledge to decide on the best time to train for you.


Yeah - once upon a time I did a little rambling in the pages below but then I forgot to keep up the rambling cos I felt like I had nothing worthy to say and I got all serious and 'adulty' and too busy to be creative. Yeah - that.
The meme to the left is pretty much the only reasonable explanation I have for being decidedly absent from The Mother Load this year. What the hell happened to 2016? Did I fall asleep in May and forget to set my alarm for July? Did I pass out from the cold in June and come to in October? I have a vague recollection of a teen starting and completing her first year of high school and another sailing through second grade but admittedly it's all a bit of a blur...?
Yes, admittedly, in 2016 there were the usual music exams and solo performances with both girls participating equally this year which of course added to the household tension, preparation and anticipation. There were school plays, sports days, coffee mornings, and milestone birthdays but I'll need to refer to the photographic evidence for those details as they are all a blur having passed me by at the speed of light.
There was the traditional array of personal ups and downs in our lives this year but the scales were fairly well-balanced so it was all about our interpretation of whether the glass was half empty or half full. As it turns out, it was mostly half full - phew. On the upside, along came our beloved new furry family member Teddy the Labradoodle who is totally awesome and super-loved and who keeps us on our toes stealing more socks and hair elastics than I thought we actually owned. Although he came along in 2016 it could well have been 2006 given how quickly he's already become part of the furniture (furniture with a few teeth marks, I might add). There have been new jobs, new opportunities, new friendships and new worries, but we're all still here, still healthy and the fresh beginnings that are 2017 is merely days away.
With that in mind, is there any way we can perhaps hit the brakes on this roller coaster for a little necessary maintenance? Say - maybe that's what family holidays are all about? Maybe they're just a temporary halt to whichever roller coaster direction you're on where time is allowed to stand still for a bit while you re-group and adjust your safety belt? Maybe? Anyway, just a thought.


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The Head of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine Igor Cherkaskyi presented the Public Report
On the 26 of April, 2019, the Head of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine - Igor Cherkaskyi presented Public Report by the results of 2018 activity.
At the beginning of his speech, the Head of the SFMS focused on the main aspects of the regulatory provision of the Service, its structure and informed about the main functions of the SFMS in detection and suspension of the assets derived from crime or related to the terrorist financing.
The Head of the Service stressed that the key result in 2018 was the victory in the contest "The Best Egmont Case Award" the results of which were announced during the 25th Plenary Meeting of the Egmont Group in Sydney, Australia.
The case that the international community recognized as the winner concerned of the multistage and unprecedented by complexity investigation of corruption and money laundering by former high-ranking officials of Ukraine, culminating in confiscation of about USD 1.5 billion of the State revenue.
The second important event of 2018 was the approval of the draft Law "On Prevention and Counteraction to the Legalization (Laundering) of the Proceeds from Crime, Terrorist Financing and the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction" in December of this year by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which was developed jointly with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine (hereinafter - the SFMS) to implement the provisions of the 4th Directive (EU) 2015/849 "On the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing" and Regulation (EU) 2015/847 "On information accompanying transfers of funds".
This draft Law was registered on the 19th of December, 2018 in Ukrainian Parliament - No. 9417.
Also, Igor Cherkassy focused on cooperation between the SFMS and reporting entities, noting that the number of reports from all reporting entities over the past five years has increased from 1 million to over 10 million.
He marked the work of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Ukraine in the part of generalization of typological researches. In particular, in the reporting year, the Service issued a typological study: "The risks of using entities with an opaque ownership structure in money laundering schemes", which seeks to study the issue of concealment of beneficial ownership in money laundering schemes. This is an extremely relevant and sensitive topic, which the SFMS continues to develop this year.
At the same time, the Head of the SFMS has dwelt in detail on improving the effectiveness of interaction with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, to which the SFMS submits relevant case referrals.
He stressed that in 2018, 934 cases were sent to law enforcement agencies. Thus, in comparison with the previous period in 2018, the amount of submitted by the SFMS case referrals to the law enforcement agencies increased to 31.2%.
In the mentioned referrals the amount of financial transactions that may be related to legalization of funds as well as to the commission of an another crime determined by the Criminal Code of Ukraine is UAH 347,4 billion.
Also, the Head of the Service mentioned that in general from March 2014 till December 2018 3599 case referrals have been submitted to the law enforcement authorities.
The next important aspect of the SFMS activity which was noted by Igor Cherkaskyi was the issue of ensuring coordination of the financial monitoring system participants.
Such coordination based on the implementation of the Strategy for development financial monitoring system till 2020 is carried out both on information level due to the Unified state information system, and through the activity of the Government AML/CFT Council as well as cooperation with professional associations of reporting entities and public.
The Head of the SFMS also emphasized that the SFMS IT system has been modernized in 2018.
He hasn't overlooked such an important element of the SFMS activity as methodical assistance and cooperation with reporting entities.
The Head noted that on the basis of the State Institution of Postgraduate Education "The Academy of Financial Monitoring" under the SFMS, only in 2018 1749 specialists of the public and private sector have been trained.
Also, with the assistance of the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine in 2018 the Glossary on prevention and counteraction to legalization (laundering) of criminal proceeds, terrorist financing, financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and corruption and the Methodology of the National Risk Assessment on money laundering and terrorist financing in Ukraine developed taking into account international standards and MONEYVAL proposals were published.
Moreover, with the assistance of the EUACI a compilation of fundamental international documents being a basis for building up and evaluating AML/CFT system as well as methodical recommendations for real estate agents in the form of infographics were published.
At the same time, Igor Cherkaskyi paid the attention to that within the preparation to the second National Risk Assessment, the SFMS presented the Report following the sectoral risk assessment of the use of the real estate market for ML/FT purposes. The main objective of the sectoral risk assessment was the identification of the stage of compliance and effectiveness of legislative, methodological and practical measures taken in the country for protection and avoidance (reduction) threats and vulnerabilities to legalization (laundering) of proceeds on the real estate market.
Such a sectoral risk assessment emphasized by Igor Cherkaskyi should be conducted by every state financial monitoring entity and will be an integral part of the future National Risk Assessment to be conducted in this year.
However, the Head noted the significant volume of the SFMS work on the international level. The SFMS cooperates with major international organizations, in particular: FATF, MONEYVAL, Egmont Group of financial intelligence units and other. Currently, the SFMS has concluded 78 Memoranda of Understanding with foreign financial intelligence units (FIUs). In 2018, the SFMS actively exchanged financial information with foreign FIUs.
At the conclusion of the speech, the Head of the SFMs informed about future plans in the SFMS activity. Thus, an important area of activity will be the continuation of cooperation with MONEYVAL in the framework of coordination measures for implementation of the National AML Action Plan until 2019, as well as the Action Plan for the implementation of the MONEYVAL recommendations, following the results of the evaluation of Ukraine, the results of which will be presented by Ukrainian delegation in July at the Plenary meeting as the first follow-up report.
After the public report, the Head of the SFMs mentioned that the Service as a financial monitoring system coordinating authority, in order to achieve effective results in its activity, will remain open and provide constructive cooperation with state regulators, law enforcement authorities, reporting entities, and especially with institutes of civil society.
Separately, the Head of the SFMS thanked every employee of the Service for his/her contribution to the results achieved.
The 2018 SFMS Report can be found on the official SFMS website in the section «About the Service» - «Activity reports»- «Report of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine 2018».
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