Well, thank you so much for having me and for giving me a chance to give this talk in front of such a distinguished audience. I'm really happy to be able to give this talk. And I'm just sorry. I wasn't able to be there in person. So today, I'm going to talk about how our group propagates maximally localized one year functions in real time. I'll talk a little bit about how we develop that. Propagation method and then I'll talk about kind of what we've done with it, how that inspired us to formulate and use these money functions to accelerate hybrid functionals and what we've done so far with the acceleration method and some results from that. So, for our group, we do all our work in the cue ball code. So our implementation of maximally localized one year functions is based on the work done by Francois and collaborators in the cue box code. Where they use the sign cosine method to maximally localized the cone sham single particle orbitals. And in their work, they had only done this for real wave functions, but they had discussed being able to extend it for complex wave functions, which is what we have done. And so in the cue ball code, we now propagate these complex wave functions and it's a two step process where we essentially propagate the wave function every step, and then localize it at every step. And this method of localization is found to be very robust as for a 64 Adam cell of crystal and silicon. We essentially see no drop off in the energy drift switching from the time dependent cone sham equations to the time dependent one a function equations. And also, I think very importantly, we see going to the maximum localized one a function only increases the cost of our calculations by about two times and that's for a 512 Adam crystal and silicon cell. So, originally, we implemented one a function to be able to apply a spatially homogeneous electric field to our calculations under periodic boundary conditions. And I will say, although this is not formally allowed in the theory, it has been shown that real time PDT can give very accurate results. When you apply the spatially homogeneous electric field to study different physical properties. So, there are essentially two ways to do this. One is to use the velocity gauge and effective potential. But since our code is a plain wave pseudo potential based code, implementing the external potential, which is non local is very difficult. Instead, we use the length gauge, and then using the one a function to be able to implement a scalar potential, where we can essentially apply a identical electric field to every one a function in the simulation cell, since the tails decay very rapidly, as long as they're highly localized. And that way we can simulate the spatially homogeneous electric field. And so I know, I'm sure everyone here knows all of these equations, but the idea was to be able to get the dynamic polarization essentially based on the monetary of polarization from the one a centers. And with the dynamic polarization to be able to calculate the conductivity, and then in turn the dielectric function or the dipole strength function to be able to get absorption factor for different systems. And most of the work I'll talk about here and results will be absorption spectra using this method. So, one of the first kind of molecular systems we looked at was Benzene. So, comparing it to experiment, we are able to capture nearly exactly the main peak around six and a half EV for Benzene. So the results initially were very promising using the LDA exchange correlation functional. And since we had the implementation of one a functions, we decided to look at this more complex system. Here, a Benzene in water in two different orientations for the pie electrons. And by using one a functions were able to decompose the spectra into the contributions from Benzene versus the contributions from water. So here I'm showing the absorption spectra contributions from Benzene only. And here we're able to observe changes in the low energy region in water versus vacuum. So these are some small scale systems, but our implementation is highly parallel and it's been shown to be very efficient. So we decided to study solvated DNA with about 12,000 electrons. And for a system like this, the only way we can get really any insight is to be able to use one year functions where here I've shown the essentially the DNA one a functions are in blue and magenta and the water functions are in science. And so here, the blue path is going straight through a projectile moving straight through the DNA, and the red path is the projectile moving along the side path of DNA. This way we can understand the effect of proton irradiation on solvated DNA. And so here I just have a little movie showing the changes in spread and displacement of the one a centers as a proton moves through the center. So size changes course and color changes correspond to changes in spread and any movement corresponds to displacement. And so why use one year functions here at all. Well, using one year functions, we can essentially break down the contributions from water and DNA and doing this and looking at one of the key properties here electronic stopping power or the change in energy. With respect to change in position of the projectile. We can separate out contributions to the stopping power from the DNA strand, or the red path, first the DNA base, the blue path and compare that to the stopping power for proton and liquid water, which is what's commonly used for cancer research. So our results have shown that when the projectiles moving along the side path. There's a significantly larger energy transfer to the DNA, as opposed to when it's moving to the center. And so, even beyond that we explored exactly what is taking place at the molecular level using one year functions so looking at the displacement. We see that for the side path there's a slightly larger change in displacement for one representative velocity. And we're shaded regions correspond to sugar phosphate side chain one year function centers. And as expected, since the projectile as it moves along the side path or the strand path is much closer to those we see a much larger contribution to the displacement from those side chain one year centers. And we did the same similar breakdown for spread change to get a measure of electron the localization and the same story. So, that was a lot of our original work, but everything I've shown so far is based on using a GGA or an LDA exchange correlation potential. And in real time PDDFT, there is a very large dependence on the results on which exchange correlation potential we use. So, just to give an example, crystal and silicon with 512 electrons 128 Adam. If you use LDA or GGA get the absorption spectra. You get one story. If we go up one wrong on the Jacob's ladder for DFT, and we use a meta GGA and incorporate the kinetic energy density. We get a different picture of the absorption spectra. And if we go beyond that using hybrid functionals. We get a different picture again. However, using hybrid functionals in real time PDDFT is very costly due to this exchange integral electron at the top here where we need to calculate the this exchange for every electron pair within the system. And so even for a 512 128 Adam system of silicon. This is very costly. However, the simulation cell is not still not converged with respect to cell size. So, to use hybrid at the gamble point, and to get a converged simulation cell, just using LDA, we have to go all the way to 8,000 electrons before we see an agreement with respect to K point for the silicon system. So, one thing we've done is use one year functions to essentially improve this hybrid efficiency. At each step in the propagation, whenever you're calling a hybrid functional. We define a distance function, which says if our. Pairs or essentially our money functions centers are certain distance apart. Say 20 a you.  If there was in 20 a you calculate the exchange for that pair. And for the crystalline silicon cell. We've been able to go all the way down to 15 a you or only. 15% of pairs and still get an identical absorption spectra for that. So, and this is based on work done that's been done in FPMD. As another way to improve hybrid. And so, beyond being able to do that for the 512 items. So, we looked at this for a 2000 electron cell. And in that case, we've seen even more and even larger improvement in the efficiency. As at 25 a year, we only using 7% of pairs. And we're still essentially able to capture the same behavior where the relative iteration time is now on the order PV is much closer to PBE than the typical PBE zero time. So, significant cost savings. And at the moment, we're looking to do the same absorption spectra for the 8,000 electron cell and then move beyond just fully crystalline silicon and use this to study properties like defects where. The gamma point and the large simulation cell is key to actually understanding what's going on. And so, just in summary, we use real time PDFT and the 1 a function to get molecular level details and study absorption spectra of different system. And then we found that utilizing the 1 a functions centers and using them as a pair distance function, we can significantly reduce the cost of hybrid functional. However, our implementation is limited at the moment as it's gamma point only, which is part of the reason why we have the need for this cost savings and these large, very large simulation cells. So in the future, we'd like to move beyond this gamma point only and extend it to multiple K point. Thank you very much for a nice talk. Any questions from the audience. Thank you for. Thank you. Can you repeat that. Do you update your functions when you do the time pollution or do you just update the parameters. We update the 1 a function every step we do the time evolution. Any other questions, but you can hear us when I speak on this. Can you hear me now better. Thanks for the talk in the previous slide of your topic you show the DNA structure in water my question is, is one year function able to simulate the hybrid man water. So, for our solvated DNA, we only looked at it this with PD. Where am I miss hearing your question. So the question is whether you can simulate. No, not, no, we, we cannot see the hydrogen bonding with the one year functions we've, we only have used them to essentially separate out the contributions from water versus the DNA. Okay, any other questions. Yes, so I think it's maybe better to come here and use this microphone, just speaking to this thing. Hi. Yes, sorry.  So, in doing that the localization gauge of the many functions is it evolving under time and if you want the related question is, is the shape of the many functions or some more defined because of the different block components move at a different with a different energy in a different phase. So do you serve for instance, a broadening of the many functions over time or do you re optimize. So could you comment on that. So do you optimize the gate at every step and okay here to make sure. Yeah, we take care to make sure the electric field applied is in essentially the linear response regime so it needs to be small enough essentially that you don't change the character of the one year functions during application. Thanks, thanks very nice thanks. Any other questions. Okay, if not let's thank Christopher again. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.


All right. Good afternoon. Thank you for being a part of the second session for Life and the Spirit. I'm going to speak a lot less today. We're going to get into prayer about halfway through and just be praying for a greater release of the Holy Spirit in our lives. But that's what it all is about. The Holy Spirit is about action. It's about encounter. It's about transformation. And there's a lot that can be said from a theological and philosophical and just canonical teachings on who the Holy Spirit is. But really, in the end, He's the Spirit of Love that wants to animate every part of who we are. Amen? So let's just take a minute. Let's just call upon the Holy Spirit to guide us. And I'm just going to jump right in so that we have more time on the back end for worship and prayer. In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. We praise you, Lord Jesus. We ask that you send forth your Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit. We praise and worship and adore you, Lord God. Come, Holy Spirit, with your grace. Come with your power. Come with your forgiveness. Come with the mercy. Come with every spiritual gift, but we need to know love and serve God and to be known by God, to be loved by God. Holy Spirit, work deeply in our hearts today. We give your permission. We grant you the space and the time that you need to start that great work of transforming us from the inside out. Holy Spirit, we trust in your power. We trust in your goodness. And Lord, I just ask that your spirit would lead. I would yield in this moment to say what you want me to say, to do what you want me to do, to be who you want me to be. And I ask this all through the power of your Holy Name, Jesus. Amen. Being able to proclaim the gospel and being able to preach, even being able to talk is pretty amazing. When you think of all the different things that are happening in the moment and literally in real time in split seconds, I'm conceiving of a thought in my brain, that thought in my brain, you know, coming from my heart, my will, is telling my brain that I want to say something. And then my brain is taking all of that information and transcribing it into electrical impulses that are then going through my body to touch my vocal cords, teeth, lips, tongues, everything at the same time so that my words can annunciate and proclaim. My lungs are pushing the air through my vocal cords at the right moment and they're tightening and constricting. I don't even know how I'm doing it. But it's just happening. And even as I say it, I am then breathing out words that are moving air molecules. And what's even more cool is for some of you, what you're hearing is me breathing in my words into this microphone. And then the microphone takes the sound waves and then translates it back into electrical impulses, which then go through these wires or even through the air out of here into that. And that takes these electrical impulses and makes them into electrical impulses that go into the speakers and vibrate the speakers in a certain way so that you hear my voice. Now this is all happening in split seconds in real time. And when we get up to preach, we can move air molecules in such a way that it hits people, that makes them laugh, makes them smile, makes them cry. But if we want to be men who get up to proclaim the gospel and we want to move hearts to conversion, our human breath will never say enough words with enough meaning, passion, humor or conviction to do that. For the conviction that makes words meaningful and powerful for the proclamation of the gospel can only happen through the power of the Holy Spirit. If we are only moving air molecules that tickle the ears of our parishioners, we are failing. We need to ask God to saturate every one of our words with the Holy Spirit that when our voices go forth to proclaim that they are touching not just the eardrums, the mind, the funny bone, but penetrating the heart. How is it that St. Peter was able to get up and proclaim the gospel and the only response the people had was, what must we do to be saved? The convicting power of the Holy Spirit, the convincing power of the Holy Spirit, the converting power of the Holy Spirit, saturated his words.  But if you could take one takeaway for your ministry, it would be that maybe God would put a fresh anointing on your preaching ministry, that he would continue to use it to move hearts to conversion to, you know, we just celebrated St. Anthony of Padua, his one of his nicknames, he was the hammer of the heretics. And I'm sure he did all his hammering with a lot of love and a lot of grace, but to have that kind of strength and conviction in his words, that he could break down the enemy's stronghold in another man's heart. That's impressive. I think that's the kind of work that God wants us to do, and for us to do that, we need to yield to the power of the Holy Spirit. Let me read a passage from you, Ezekiel chapter 36, this is verses 25 through 27. He says, I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all your uncleannessnessnessnessness. That's a weird word. And from all your idols, I will cleanse you a new heart I will give you at a new spirit I will put within you and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statues and be careful to observe my ordinances. And up until this time in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come upon people and rest upon them to anoint them for the particular mission or task that God was calling them to. Kings, the spirit would rest upon the kings and give them that counsel and that wisdom. You know, David, the spirit would rest upon him. He would talk about how the spirit rushed upon somebody and rested upon them, but in the same way, the spirit could be withdrawn from somebody. And when Ezekiel starts prophesying in the midst of Babylonian exile, you know, he's talking about this new order, this new life in the spirit that God is going to be ushering in. He also talks about it in Ezekiel chapter 46, where he's having this vision where he sees the water flowing out of the temple, this flow of water.  And he leads them to the banks of the river and he said to me, the water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into Ereba. And when it enters the stagnant waters of the sea, the water will become fresh. And wherever the river goes, every living creature which swarms will live. And there will be very many fish for this water goes there that the waters of the sea may become fresh. So everything will live where the river goes. I believe that this current of grace, this Holy Spirit, the Lord wants to pour it upon us in abundance today. And He wants us to be instruments to pour it out on other people in abundance. So much so that St. Paul says we become temple of the Holy Spirit so that we will remember like the temple, the river that flowed from the temple in Ezekiel's prophecy, the Spirit would flow from us and bless those that we serve. For if we're not flowing with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, if there's not a constant inflow, there will be no outflow. And I love that they say like wherever the river goes, the water that is stagnant will become fresh. And I don't know about you, but over the last 40 years I've had many periods where I felt my relationship with God had become very stagnant. It wasn't life giving. It was very arid. I was choked off of the concerns of the world. My water was polluted, my spirit inside of me with the temptations of this world, the distractions of the passing, pleasures of this world at different times had grabbed ahold of me and choked off the life of God. And every time I was restored and renewed through a movement of grace, the power of the Holy Spirit, I believe that baptism in the Holy Spirit is an experience that is given to the church to release and strengthen the effects of baptism and confirmation and truly make us everything that we were made to be. The term baptism in the Holy Spirit is a biblical term. And this is an experience that has been affirmed by many popes throughout the history of the church. Jesus himself said in Acts chapter one, while meeting with them, he enjoyed them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait. To wait for the promise of the Father about which you've heard me speak, for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Like God is, you know, Jesus is saying to these guys, don't go anywhere, it's coming, this new life in the spirit. And what does he say about this baptism? He says, when you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem throughout Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. And what a great promise, what a great call, but what a great gift he's offering them, the power of the Holy Spirit. St. John the 23rd began the Second Vatican Council with this prayer, renew your wonders in our time as through a new Pentecost. And while they were praying that prayer in Rome as they're going through this huge Vatican II experience of moving the church forward, about an hour from here at the Ark and Dove, some students from Duquesne University received baptism in the Holy Spirit. They didn't know what they were experiencing, they had no idea the Holy Spirit came down with them on power. And from that little place, an hour from here, a river of grace has flown out across the world. Millions and millions of Catholics have experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit, a new Pentecost for themselves. God has renewed their hearts in this time through a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. St. John Paul the Great said, the institutional and charismatic aspects are co-essential, as it were, to the church's constitution. It is from this providential rediscovery of the church's charismatic dimension that before and after the council, a remarkable pattern of growth has been established for ecclesial movements and new communities. He said there's this great new revival of evangelization and community life where the Holy Spirit is coming in power upon the people. And he said it's a providential rediscovery of the church's charismatic dimension. So St. John Paul the Great, in his wisdom, looked at what was happening and said, this is nothing new, but rather a rediscovery of what the church should have been from the very beginning. And I love how he says there's the institutional and the charismatic. And I was very blessed a few years ago at graduation, Father Ronero Contolamesa, who's just like a super holy guy and was papal preacher for St. John Paul the Great, Pope Benedict the 16th, and Pope Francis. He came and got an honorary degree and spoke at our graduation and I was able to interview him and I sat down and just asked him about his life and the spirit and just listened to what he had to say. And he described it as these are the two lungs of the church, the institutional lung, the sacramental life. We need to be breathing really deeply of that sacramental life, but also the charismatic, the part where the spirit wills, what the spirit wills, and works in those who surrender and are docile to his action. And both those need to be healthy in a person, breathing deeply with both lungs for us to truly have the spiritual health and animation that we need to be men of God, lovers of Christ, disciples of Jesus Christ in the world today. Pope Benedict the 16th went on to affirm during his Regina Chaley message on Pentecost in 2008. He said, in effect Jesus' whole mission was aimed at giving the spirit of God to men and baptizing them in the bath of regeneration. Today I would like to extend this invitation to all. Let us rediscover, dear brothers and sisters, the beauty of being baptized in the Holy Spirit. Let us recover awareness of our baptism and our confirmation of timely sources of grace. And when he says that in the end the whole mission of Christ was aimed at that Pentecost moment, I think what he's affirming is even the cross where Jesus completed his pascal mystery was to tear down and build that road by which we could reach God, but also reestablish as he went back to heaven the coming of the Holy Spirit that would reinvigorate and renewing us what was lost in sin. You know being created in the image and likeness of God when we sinned we didn't stop being in God's image with the capacity to know and to receive his love and to share in that love. Who did was our ability to be like God, to actually live out that love. We lost the likeness, it was so severely damaged, but Jesus through sending of the Holy Spirit restores the likeness, gives us a new heart, a heart that is capable of receiving and actually living in the life of the Trinity. Baptism in the Holy Spirit is that experience that has been given to the church and to release and strengthen the effects of baptism and confirmation. It is a current of grace that transforms the human heart and builds the church. And right now we're looking at all the things that are lacking and we say there's a huge priest shortage and we say there's a money shortage. I say we've the reason we've gotten here because we've been living on a power shortage for too long. For too long we've been trying to sustain the mystical body of Christ with our own feeble human effort. And we have been impotent in many ways. And it's time for us as the church to admit in our poverty that we need more from God. Not just for our own salvation, yes for our own salvation, for our own sanctification, but for the sake of the bride. That we would empty ourselves completely before God and say make me a living tabernacle. Fill me as your vessel to overflow with your Holy Spirit and may the overflow of the Holy Spirit in my life be my ministry. May the overflow of what you're doing in my heart let that be my only ministry. Don't let me take a step forward without being anointed by your spirit, without praying for that anointing. Because as St. John the Cross would say, if we're not rooted in Jesus at best we're going to be ineffective and at worst we're going to cause scandal and we will end up frustrated and burned out because God will let us pursue and try to live out our vocations without his Holy Spirit but he will never let us succeed in it because God will not mock himself or make you for one second believe you can do it with Adam. When we think of the fruits of baptism and confirmation especially confirmation it says in the Catechism in articles 1302 and 1303 it says, it is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of confirmation is a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost. But what do most confirmations and celebrations look like? I mean the grace is there. God shows up, the Holy Spirit shows up, there's nothing lacking in the sacrament but are the young people really encountering the living God the same way the apostles encounter the living God? Are they experiencing the fullness? Do they know that it is Jesus himself that has baptized him in the Holy Spirit that this is a gift given to them? I think most of the young people, they see that this is my graduation ceremony from Catholicism. I'm going to go, I'm going to wear a suit or I'm going to wear a nice dress. I'm going to go through the sacrament, the celebration. Afterwards we might go back to my house and have cake. Grandma is going to give me a card with 50 bucks and my parents are never going to ask me to do much in my faith anymore because I've reached the sacramental limit and after they got confirmed they never did anything and the sad reality is 80% of the young people that are confirmed this year will no longer be practicing their faith out of high school. We are still hemorrhaging our young people at an alarming rate and those who stay 30% of those people who still call themselves Catholic don't believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the blessed sacrament. What is needed in our time is for this grace of the sacrament of confirmation to be stirred up and owned by people in such a way that it will actually change them. It says in the next article 1303 it says, Confirmation brings an increase in deepening of baptismal grace. It roots us more deeply in divine affiliation which makes us cry Abba Father. It unites us more firmly to Christ. It increases in us the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It renders our bond with the Church more perfect and it gives us special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith. But how many of your parishioners are walking away from confirmation and stepping into any of that in a real significant way? And once again this is not to beat anybody up. This is just I think this is just a chance for us to step back and say okay what is the answer then God? We don't know. We don't but you do. Let's let go and let's start trusting and God give us a new vision. Give us a new vision of what our churches could be and let this grace of the Holy Spirit that we want to take root across the church start me. Let me be ground zero for the spiritual renewal of my parish. Let me be the lightning rod that you strike first. Let your energy run wild and flow through me in such a way that when I preach, when I share, when I'm witnessing your power is going out through me. The Holy Spirit wants to make a lived reality everything that the church teaches in the lives of those who belong to the church especially the experience of God's personal unconditional never-ending never-changing love. Romans 5 5 says God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us but not if the Holy Spirit's not been activated. The Holy Spirit isn't chained or he's in a box in most people's hearts or he's like when you like I'm sure I'm not the only person in this room who love chocolate milk as a little kid right and you remember going to the remember when Hershey's Serp didn't come in a plastic bottle but it was a can and you had to open it with a can opener and it had a plastic lid you had to pull it off then you'd pour the chocolate syrup into the glass of milk and it would sink right to the bottom and you'd want to get it nice and thick you wanted a nice thick layer on the bottom because you know ideally a 50-50 ratio between milk and chocolate syrup would make the best chocolate syrup you know but this is before we cared about diabetes right we were just having we were just kids but no matter how much chocolate syrup you pour into that glass of milk until you stir it up the milk doesn't change the two coexist peacefully in that glass and one doesn't touch the other and the and the richness and beauty of chocolate syrup never changes the mouth and that's where the Holy Spirit is in most of the hearts of people at our church today he's in there he's in there begging to stir me up release me unleash me in your life do you understand who I am I'm the love of God in this gift is everything your heart craves and desires the light the peace the grace to know who you are and how you're to live to find joy and happiness in this life and in the next st. Louis de Montfort in his wonderful book true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary wrote men say saint thomas make a vow at their baptism to renounce the devil in all his work saint augustin taught that this is the greatest and most indispensable of all vows yet who has kept this vow who has been truly faithful to the promises of holy baptism have not all christians been unfaithful to the promises made to jesus in their baptism where does this universal disobedience come from except from our forgetfulness of the promises and obligations of holy baptism and from the fact that hardly anyone ratifies for themselves the contract they made with god by those who stood as their sponsors and there it is in a nutshell somebody stood for us on the day of our baptism and said yes to everything and we have never personally ratified that for ourselves and you would say well no we do that at eastern of these different once again we know this these prayers are not magic if people are desirous of what the prayer is you can pray the prayer until you're blue in the face it won't change you faith needs to be stirred up people really need to be invited to look within themselves and say where am i lacking what do i need to listen to the spirit as the spirit wants to enter in even to their brokenness and messiness to stir up the grace of healing in their soul but that's not what most most people have experienced they've never for themselves owned the grace of the baptism and we know that every sacrament has two sides it says in the catechism in 1127 it says celebrated worthy in faith the sacraments confer the grace that they signify as fire transforms into itself everything it touches so the holy spirit transforms into the divine life whatever is subjected to his power so in that celebration of us of the sacrament number one it needs to be celebrated worthily and i'm sure everyone had a worthy celebration of baptism done with the correct right in the name of the father son of the holy spirit but have they subjected their lives to that power the holy spirit it says will transform into divine life whatever is subjected to his power yet how many people have been asked to subject their life to god's power it goes on to say it says in the next article 1128 says the fruits of the sacraments depend on the disposition of the one who receives them there's the opus operantum which is god's part there's an opus operantis which is our part the part we're in a proper state of receptivity namely freedom from mortal sin hearts and minds attuned to god a will desires of god's grace what is the opus operantis it is faith in receptivity you know for me i was 18 years old and when i look at the grace of confirmation and baptism the part that's ours the faith the receptivity true repentance of our sins our total desire to do what god wants us to do and a surrender those were things that were forward to me i'd been on a retreat when i was a junior in preparation for being confirmed on that i realized i did not believe in god and almost backed out of being confirmed but because i didn't want to get into a fight with my parents i went through with it i received the sacrament of confirmation but knew i didn't really believe anything let alone understand it i didn't really reject because i didn't really understand but i know i didn't really heartily believe it when i went on a retreat as a senior in high school it was a net retreat and it was a wonderful retreat and it got me curious about who this god might be because they spoke about the personal love of jesus christ in a way that resonated in my heart for the first time they invited me to come to this discipleship week a week long camp that was going to take place and in this was in 1983 in june right after i graduated from high school and at the time i had been all set to go to college i was going to go to central michigan university i was going to going to make a lot of money find a beautiful woman to marry and and have the american dream but i knew there was something fundamentally wrong in my life that i wanted god get one more shot at fixing before i went there so i went on this retreat and uh right before the retreat started i was there a day early um just because circumstances dictated that i have to be there a day early but i'm there and it's this beautiful lake in northern minnesota on this camp brown is absolutely gorgeous and i'm about to go fishing and one of the guys who's on the team comes up and he says hey john our team's about to pray for the retreat you want to join us and i'm like no like this is what i'm feeling inside like no the lake is there and it's calling me i'm going to go fish you guys go pray but catholic guilt as we know it's a real thing it takes a hold of us at all and so i just said okay i'll go pray with you thinking that we'd probably just you know like say a hail mary and our father and that would be it so i walked with him over to everyone else was and there was somebody there with a guitar and they were standing in a circle and they started singing a worship song like one of the songs john paul would lead for us very heartfelt song talking about the beauty and love of jesus and everyone in the circle who knew the song started singing really loudly and i did not know the song and so if that was the first thing is really awkward like they're just going for it the only manifestation of a spiritual gift that i'd had seen up to that point in my life was at my parish in michigan where everyone knew how to sing without moving their lips it was beautiful you know i mean like they never made a they never hit a wrong note let's put it that way although the canter never had right notes i guess it didn't matter but they were so into the song and singing it very loudly and then as i'm looking around some start putting their hands in the air other people put their hands on in front of them and i'm like oh they got their hand in the air they have a question and they need to go to the bathroom what's going on with that why are their hands in their air because i was sitting there like this with my eyes closed i mean this is the only way i'd seen the priest pray like hey put your head and fold your hands and i was like okay this is weird and i could just feel like every one of my defense is rising up inside of me like this is weird this is weird and then the song ended but the singing and the praise did not they started just from their own voices and in their own words like everyone was just like going for like praise you jesus we love you jesus god bless you we love you thank you jesus so you're awesome you deserve our praise hallelujah hallelujah there was a lot of hallelujahs they were really going hard on the hallelujah and i was like getting very uncomfortable by now my defense had risen this high and i knew once it hit here i was going to slowly back away into the bushes quietly because they were being loud they would never have noticed they were so enthralled with god that i could have just snuck into the bushes grabbed my stuff and hitchhiked home uh it was my plan and then as i'm standing there somebody next to me and i don't know what exactly was going on i think they bought a car and had regret because he started praying like this i should have bought a honda i should have bought a honda i should have bought a honda i should have bought a honda i should have bought a honda and like the the girl who was across from me lost her cat she was like here kitty here kitty here kitty and like this other guy was like saying something like i think he was just like really impressed with himself because he kept going like see my new bowtie see my new bowtie you know like what you're not wearing a bowtie what are you talking about and i mean that was it i was done singing to god fine put in your hands up in the air while you're singing starting to speak in tongues and do that weird stuff i'm out and i was just about to like say okay god i'm out when i open my eyes just for half a second right across the circle from me was a girl praying and she was a good-looking girl and that might have had something to do with it but more importantly than the beauty of her face was the beauty of what was reflected in her face for she just simply had her hands open in front of her like this going jesus i love you thank you for your love jesus i love you thank you for loving me and she said those words jesus i love you over and over again and and and she was somewhere i wanted to be and i realized at that point at age 18 i had never said jesus i love you and meant it in my life but i wanted to be able to know what she knew and and to experience what she experienced so i i just said okay god whatever you have for me i'm open just lead me and it wasn't until though i went to the sacrament of reconciliation on the third night of their treat because those next three days were me like trying to enter in like take a step forward and maybe you feel this some way some time when you're taking those steps with god like yeah i'm moving forward and all of a sudden satan who has that hook in you that familiar sin that lie you tell about yourself about you know about who you are the way you feel you're not worthy of god so even sometimes sabotage your own relationship with god because you just don't feel like you're worthy to be loved that deeply well satan had a lot of hooks in me and every time i felt like i was going to take a step with god on that retreat i could feel him yanking on my soul i was in this place of of tension and battle and when i went into the the sacrament of reconciliation and knelt down the priest was very pastoral and kind and i looked at him for a few minutes he looked at me and i just said i've only done this once in my life and it was when i was a little kid and it was in the old school going to the dark claw that pushed the thing and you know you got to talk through the screen and when i was a little kid the biggest movie in my life that influenced me in junior high was star wars and i swear when that thing went the person behind that screen was Darth Vader yes my child tell me your sins you know and and i was like i remember as a little kid thinking oh my gosh he's gonna force choke me through this and and i and i said something stupid like i i stole my sister barbie doll and i stole cookies from my mom and i punched my little brother and i'm out of here and that was it and i had spent the next you know 16 or 18 that was probably like five or six years old like the next 12 years running from god and running into a world of sin but the priest said well what do you want i said well i just feel like i want to love god but i'm just like i don't know how i'm just stuck and i like how did you you know what what are you stuck in and so i just started talking about my life i talked about when i was in junior high and i saw my grandfather killed in a car accident and how that one event caused my grandmother to become an alcoholic and my mother to abuse uh you know uh what do they call them anxiety pills whatever like shoes shoes on and it caused my dad to have to work three jobs and take care of his alcoholic mom to the point where i never saw my dad in high school for like three years and just how during that time i became angry and bitter and resentful you know my my my name my main way of uh defending my woundedness was through negative humor i never let anyone get close to me i had friends that we had things in common but we didn't know each other we were like in clubs but not like someone i could really talk about who i was and what i was going with with anybody i felt so alone at the same time i was working overtime to earn my parents love to earn to to hear that that i'm a good person so i was getting you know i was on the honor roll i was starting on the football team i was doing all the things i thought i had to do to get people to love me and it was during football season i was very good at football like all everyone was like yeah john we like well i'd go for it yeah and then after football season was like i had no friends and i felt like does anybody really know me and or love me and because of that you know started drinking and smoking weed you know there wasn't a lot of pornography in my life at that time but the stuff i found it was you know i got that that was another hook in my flesh pulling me away from god and i started explaining all this to the priest and as i'm explaining i start crying i'm like all this sorrow and all this pain that's been bottled up inside of me comes out of me and i can't control it and i'm bent over in the chair and he goes he leans forward to put his arm on me and in his stole swings out and it hits me in the face i think it's a handkerchief so i grabbed it and blew my nose on it when i opened up my eyes and the tears washed away i looked down and seen what i just did i was like mortified and he just laughed he thought it was the most hilarious thing and i i've never i don't know if i had to confess it i didn't but he had a good laugh so i figured it was cool with god um i've never hawked a luge on a priest stole after that it was once a one time thing but after i got done and we kind of i kind of caught my breath and had you know i had poured it all out he said well what do you want i said i just want to know the love of god i want to be forgiven he says okay so he extended his hands over me and prayed the prayer of absolution and in that moment it's like every medical drama you've ever seen where the body is limp on the table and they put the paddles on him and cleared and all of a sudden beep beep beep and they we've got him he's back you know like i felt like i was brought to life spiritual life in that moment i was dead in my sin and god brought me back to life and in that same moment the holy spirit rushed into my soul and imprinted an image of god's love that i can't describe i can't describe it to you i i can't put it into words but it's like a snapshot of god's personal love for me and when i go to pray sometimes god allows me to pull it out and look at it once again and remember what that moment that encounter was all about i walked out of that of the uh of the confessional a new person i walked out of the chapel out to the lake sat down on the dock this beautiful starry night night north northern minnesota and i completely surrendered my life to god i said you're you're in charge now you take it all you show me your love and in that prayer i could feel the holy spirit just fall upon me fall upon me like just giving me this joy this peace like all the things that had been so foreign and distant we're like mine and god's love was there and then the next day i you know the guy who founded net ministries comes up to me and he says uh i was praying last night i think god wants you to serve as a missionary with net in the fall and i'm like i don't think so i just came to know the love of jesus last night there's no way that god's gonna call me with all of my brokenness to do something that crazy that radical but he said no i'm pretty sure you just need to say yes and i did in that moment god changed everything you know a couple months later i was in st paul minnesota i was being prayed over to receive more of the holy spirit the gifts of the holy spirit all these great things that god would use in my life for for the last 40 years started in that moment with a complete surrender to the person of the holy spirit i'd made the grace of my confirmation and baptism my own in that moment it was released and if you've never experienced that i'm willing that's what we're gonna do now we're just gonna pray for that and we're just gonna continue to pray for it and just ask god to pour it out into bundas because i believe it is for all of us for now because we need this grace


it's now time for members statements the member from here on Bruce as we all know our Toronto Blue Jays are in the midst of their postseason American East Division against Cleveland and I have some good news today a dairy farmer from my riding of here in Bruce is giving us another great reason to cheer them on for them and cheer on the players to get on get as many home runs as possible today I would like to acknowledge Derek Van Dieten a dairy farmer from Seaforth Ontario mr. Van Dieten will be donating 100 liters of milk to local food banks every time the Toronto Blue Jays hit a home run in their postseason so far the Jays including last night have hit 10 home runs during their playoff games and that means that mr. Van Dieten has already donated a total of 1,000 liters of milk this postseason alone and this is not the first time that mr. Van Dieten has donated last year last year the Jays have donated in terms of milk with the achievement of 14 home runs 1,400 liters of milk this donation is just one of many that he gives during the year and I want to offer a sincere thank you to mr. Van Dieten for the inspiring manner in which he demonstrates support not only for local food banks but for our Toronto Blue Jays as well and I would like to encourage others to follow his example and just as I close I just want to say I hope there's more reason today for mr. Van Dieten to donate more liters of milk go straight go Jays go remember statements the member from Essex thank you very much speaker you know speaker I never get tired of talking about the great people in my writing of Essex and the great things that they achieve and contribute to and every year since 1978 the town of Essex has held their annual citizens of the Year Award banquet this year they will honor Tim Catherwood for his outstanding service to the town I'm pleased to take a few moments to honor Tim here in the chamber to acknowledge some of his contributions Tim's working career is very impressive and diverse he has served in senior leadership positions in business labor and in the public sector however a lifetime of community involvement is even more impressive speaker Tim has served or is currently serving as the vice chair of the hotel do grace health care board directors the chair of board directors of the Changing Lives Together Foundation member of the board of the United Way of Windsor Essex County chair of the United Way cabinet campaign cabinet for 2015-2016 former chair of the board directors of the teen health center former co-chair of the board of the Windsor Essex Community Health Center and former member of the board of the Brain Injury Association of Windsor and Essex County Tim and his wife Diane live in Essex they have three children and five grandchildren Tim enjoys golf and is an avid sports fan especially the Oakland Raiders and on behalf of our entire community thank you Tim your leadership and dedication to the people of Windsor Essex is inspiration inspirational and I look forward to joining you and everyone else at the banquet on October 22nd thank you speaker thank you Mr. Speaker I'm pleased to rise and talk about a wonderful event that I attended my writing of Scarborough Southwest this past weekend on Saturday night I've been an Avenue Collegiate Institute auditorium the Ontario Bengali Cultural Society hosted a cultural event that brought together Bengali Canadian and international artists from incredible night of music and dance I was fortunate to be one of the 1,000 people or more than announced people took part in this event and let me say a performance gave us quite a show their talent their passion their creativity and their pride in their culture were on full display and made for truly unforgettable evening Mr. Speaker Bengali Canadians have made countless significant contributions to our province and this event served to highlight their important role in strengthening the multicultural fabric that keeps Ontario's community strong so I'd like to thank the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Institute frozen the event in the Ontario Bengali Cultural Society for their efforts to organize and put the show together and of course I'd like to give a huge thanks to all the talented performers who share their incredible artistic gifts with us it was truly a night I won't so forget and I'm already looking forward to the next one they're very involved and they want to get more more involved in the province and in the in Toronto and particularly in the writing of Scarborough Southwest. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the member Samus the member from Dufferin Caledon. Thank you Speaker I want to share with the house one of the letters that I've received far too many of from constituents living in Dufferin Caledon about their exorbitant hydro bills allow me to read expert excerpts from their letter quote we are a low-income family for living in a small bungalow with electric everything what we don't understand is why our delivery charges are almost as high as our electricity charges we can serve energy as much as possible as you can see from our bills which show that we use the majority of our electricity on non-peak hours we have no air conditioning but we run ceiling fans and other fans throughout the house to try to keep cool why is my summer time bill so high it shows we only use two hundred and thirty nine dollars in actual electricity but it costs two hundred and six to deliver it we could go on and on but the bottom line is this needs to stop before we lose everything we have worked so hard for all of these years this is just one of the many stories I hear regularly from families and businesses in my writing about their difficulty in paying their hydro bills our province has reached the point where hundreds of thousands of families are having difficulty paying their monthly hydro bill just last year five hundred and sixty seven residential electricity customers we're in energy arrears this is unacceptable it's time for a real plan and I urge the minister and the government to make real changes to make electricity affordable for Ontarians and businesses so we can get Ontario back on track thank you thank you for the member's statements the member from London so no west London West it's say that afterwards okay speaker last month I was pleased to attend the launch of the London chapter of the AODA Alliance and would like to offer my congratulations to the new London co-chairs Jeff Prustin and Lisa Klinger I also want to recognize David Lepofsky of the AODA Alliance who is present for the launch and whose leadership and determination have contributed so much to the accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act with support across party lines and from the broader business community the AODA held the promise of eliminating barriers facing Ontarians with disabilities yet despite the high hopes that accompanied its passage the AODA has made little difference in the lives of Ontarians living with disability frustrated by the limited gains achieved after a decade of provincial advocacy local chapters of the AODA Alliance are being formed across Ontario as in my community of London to push for change at the community level while the government's recent agreement to develop a health standard and accessibility is welcome another standard is meaningless if it is not enforced and there has been no commitment on the development of an essential standard for education both K to 12 and post-secondary multiple reports on the Liberal government's lack of progress in meeting the 2025 AODA deadlines raised serious questions about this government's commitment to accessibility without strength and standards and rigorous enforcement there is no hope that we will achieve a fully accessible Ontario by 2025 thank you speaker thank you for the members statements the member from Ancaster Dunn flamboroll and Westdale thanks speaker I want to share a story about a four and a half year-old boy from Hamilton I once knew who because his mother experienced a period of poor health went to live with his grandmother in downtown Hamilton one day this adventurous lad wrote his tricycle down Bay Street all the way to Main Street he thought it was the steepest hill in the world at the bottom he was frightened discovered he was quite a long way from home and no matter how hard he tried speaker he was unable to ride his tricycle back up the hill a young man came along and sensing the boys distress asked if he could help so he did help by carrying the boys strike under his arm and walking the boy back home it turns out the man was a part-time YMCA staffer he spoke to the boys grandmother suggesting the boy become involved with the YMCA for years that boy thought his 25 cents every three months paid for his membership the boy made new friends became more confident and developed skills that helped equip him to cope with the challenges of growing up the YMCA saw this young boy not as a child of limited means but as a person of unlimited potential that boy was me well much has changed since that tricycle ride down the hill one thing remains many in my community are committed to being difference makers I recently had a chance to celebrate work being done by two organizations in the city Dundas roots youth center and city kids both doing incredible work with inner city kids organizations like these try to make our beloved city a better place to live they transform lives each and every day one child at a time rather than curse the darkness these community organizations dedicate themselves to lighting candles of hope they do so with passion and resolve I want today to thank them for their courage leadership service and their willingness to help a little guy up the hill give members the member from Paris on the school thank you mr. Speaker I rise in this house today to highlight concerns recently brought to my attention by members of Coopie local 2049 representing the children's aid societies for the district of nipsing in Paris sound they brought up a number of concerns of the issues raised the most pressing was a parent all back and funding has become so restrictive the local CAS have been forced to cut any unmandated programs there's no training allowance available workers have been forced to reduce visit physiological assessments offices are vacancy managing mandated programs and enrichment options formerly available to children have been cut this is resulting in overburdened frontline workers how can we expect these workers to provide the support mandated by the ministry to the children under their care when we do not support the workers themselves in one instance the Perry sound district see CAS was forced to cut its foster parent recruitment position resulting the decline in the number of foster parents this is forced the CAS to use privatized group homes more often for longer periods of time financially a private home can cost between $100 to $300 per day per child a foster family on the other hand is paid $29 per day per child beyond the obvious higher cost of homes we must ask what is best for the child recent office closures have been concerning as well in a recent merger the Berks Falls office was closed and workers relocated to North Bay through this process the frontline workers in Berks Falls were given just five days notice of the impending changes the push to modernize our children's aid services it is imperative that we make sure that our actions here at Queen's Park create more stable and more caring environments for children their care and not the other way around thank you thank you very much mr. Speaker mr. Speaker kinetics.ca just released a report saying that Brampton is now the most expensive city in all of Ontario to ensure your vehicle what makes it worse is that this government has so horribly failed the people of Ontario by allowing the insurance industry to continue to cut coverage to the point that they slashed benefits for catastrophically impaired people these are the most seriously injured people in the province and this government has slashed their coverage in addition to make matters even worse the premiums are now going up in this province they've recently approved rate increases of 12 percent mr. Speaker this is simply deplorable people in this province are struggling to pay their insurance premiums they're seeing their benefits slashed by this government allowing insurance companies to do that and on top of that this government is now allowing insurance industry to increase the rates mr. Speaker we're seeing less coverage less benefits but increase premiums this government has a responsibility to ensure that premiums are fair this government has a responsibility to ensure the insurance companies don't exploit the people of this province but they're not doing that job the people of this province are being exploited insurance companies are making record profits and the fault lies squarely at the feet of this liberal government thank you Mr. Member from Davenport thank you Speaker October is Hispanic Heritage Month in Ontario for the second year in a row Hispanic Heritage Month will honor the more than 400,000 Ontarians of Hispanic descent and serve as a chance to remember elevate educate future generations about the achievements of our Hispanic Latino community I know that this year just like last year October will bring the entire Hispanic Latino community together to celebrate Ontario's diversity I'm privileged to represent the great riding of Davenport which has such an active and engaged Hispanic Latino community mr. Speaker in the beginning of October I attended the start of Hispanic Heritage Month in Davenport with the Mayan sacred fire ceremony organized by members of the Hispanic Canadian Heritage Council and I also attended Latin Licious a fantastic food truck festival celebrating the flavors of the over 20 different cultures of Latin America my office all celebrated the beginning of the Hispanic Heritage Month with an art gallery opening in my constituency office the exhibits feature artwork from Casa Cultural Colombiana the Davenport Perth neighborhood community health senior Spanish seniors group and performances from a group of talented Spanish speaking seniors group by Lando forever it was also great to start Hispanic Heritage Month in Davenport with all of these celebrations at Queen's Park we celebrated as well all things Hispanic Latino and I had the pleasure of helping launch Hispanic Heritage Week in Hamilton a great celebration organized by associate son fraternity that his father it is clear that the events around Hispanic Heritage Month keep growing every year thank you very much thank you I want to thank all members for their statements


So I was reading this paper the other day and was very surprised to find that the father of psychosomatic medicine himself said that certain emotions affect certain organs when they're stressed. So excessive anger, excessive worry, excessive sadness affect certain organs in a predictable pattern. Now this blew my mind because this is very much what for thousands of years Chinese medicine has noticed and why emotional states were specifically allocated to specific organs and specific symptoms that could demonstrate when they were breaking down what organ was out of balance. Now in this video I want to share a very very interesting exercise that has helped me understand when stress is coming from, where it's coming from, and how I can fix it in order to help heal myself. Hey I'm Alex Hine, author of the book Master the Day. Now don't forget I've included the first link below as for a free PDF on 5 daily rituals that can possibly help you add 10 years to life with traditional Chinese medicine. Check it out right there, first link below. So this idea of emotions being associated with certain organs that they affect or they damage or even organs when they're pathologically affected or disease themselves can then produce those emotions is very very fascinating to me. You know a good example is anyone who's ever had a panic attack or anyone who's ever had a heart attack or anyone who's had pericarditis can share this experience of intense dread like one is feeling like one is dying. It's a very very common emotional state associated with pathological, structural heart illness. If you're having an MI, you're having a heart attack and you are dying it's interesting how consistent of a reported sensation people feel. The same is true of people who wake up in the middle of the night with panic attacks. This feeling of intense dread I think I'm dying this is it. And then finally pericarditis and other afflictions that affect the heart. Now I think this is really really interesting because in many different ways you can associate certain emotions to certain organs in Chinese medicine. You can say for example anxiety and worry is associated with the spleen pancreas primarily digestion but also anxiety and worry are also associated with the heart. You could even say because the emotion or the emotion of fear which is typically associated with the kidneys and we know that physiologically you could say the kidneys and the adrenal glands closely linked. So excessive fear puts one in fight or flight and affects HPA access. So it's really interesting to me to understand these patterns of stress hormones, emotions and the organs that are affected. But this is why it's very very interesting and important to me. The first thing is that you can learn how your body and your physiology breaks down uniquely under stress so that you can recognize when it is coming and when you're really setting yourself up for a doozy in terms of serious illness down the line. So for example people tend to break down in predictable ways. Let's say you're more of the anxious nervous type in Chinese medicine worry or pensiveness or overthinking is associated with the spleen pancreas. So you worry too much if you're excessively working while eating you're also affecting your digestion in that same way. If you're just in general a worrier then you're also affecting your digestion in that way. And we know even from studies that people who even listen to a radio while eating secrete less pancreatic enzymes less digestive enzymes. Pretty cool. Everyone knows the feeling though of being deeply emotional over something and having a knot in your stomach and not wanting to eat. So these kinds of correlations are often really easy to observe they're not like some great mystical mumbo jumbo they're usually very clinical. So let's go back to this spleen type again for example. This kind of person when they are excessively stressed may lose their appetite altogether may lose weight without trying may have problems with insomnia specifically sleep onset insomnia can take them hours to fall asleep. They may struggle with bloating lower no appetite constipation or loose stools. So this is a very predictable and extremely generalized kind of somatotype for lack of a better word and how this kind of person breaks down. Now another type may be something that we associate historically as like a livery type right. Someone prone to agitation under breakdown anger being short. Maybe if you're female maybe changes in menstruation. Maybe you're also waking up at 3am. These are very consistent liver patterns in a very TCM way to look at these patterns of breakdown. But this is another example of a consistent way some people break down when they're under stress they don't get sad they don't get worried they don't buckle down they get agitated which is different from other people when they're put under a lot of pressure or they're put under a lot of stress. Now why is this so useful it's useful because you can then begin to track how you respond to stress in a constitutional or unique way. You know for me when I respond to stress it's exceptionally rare for me to feel sad or cry it just doesn't really happen that much. But I very much get a lot of digestive problems and I get prone to agitation so when I start to experience a lot of overwhelm in my work life or overwhelm in my personal life what tends to happen I tend to lose appetite tend to not want to eat tend to get indigestion easily I tend to get constipated and I can get insomnia that pattern I mentioned previously and so I know now huh am I have I been having kind of a really low appetite this week I haven't noticed myself eating that many meals have I been missing days of bowel movements have I been feeling like I'm just not I'm getting this fragmented light sleep maybe it even feels like I'm not sleeping at all these are all my canaries in the coal mine so then I can know if these eight signs are my warning signs they're like my physiologies unique manifestation of depression or anxiety I know this is my scorecard I have to watch closely my sleep my digestion my bowel movements essentially and as long as those are okay I know that that the canary is not singing I know that everything's okay but that's what I watch out for for other people it may be completely different they may overeat and easily gain 20 pounds that almost never happens for me they may also experience intense sadness or feelings of depression that almost never happens to me so it's so valuable because you're coming up with a unique to you understanding of how stress affects your physiology and what specific organs are even affected so that again it's not just this generic feeling of stress not everyone has problems sleeping with the stress some sleep great sleep even longer when they're stressed so by understanding your unique constitutional type your unique breakdown you can then know that and then be prepared for it and then dial things back in your life so this idea that unique emotions and unique stressors affect a very specific organ system in most people in Chinese medicine when they're getting broken down and stressed and overworked and there's too much and they can't take it anymore that's very very useful to know so you can understand your symptoms where they're coming from and kind of find that path back to healing I hope that helps before you go again check out that link below which is for a free guide five daily rituals that can possibly help you add 10 years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine and then I have a video on this exact topic right over here


Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to tomorrow. So Orbital ATK has been making a lot of progress towards being able to continue cargo missions to the International Space Station. And that's what I wanted to talk about today for this, your space pod for August 18th, 2015. So first off, an enhanced Cygnus cargo vessel has arrived at Cape Canaveral in preparation for Orbital ATK's next cargo mission in December to the International Space Station. It's enhanced because the cargo module is actually larger, making it capable of delivering 3,000 pounds of cargo more than before, for a total of 8,000 pounds in all. This enhanced Cygnus also features new UltraFlex solar panels on its service module, which will arrive at the Cape in October for inspection and integration with the cargo module. This mission, the fourth commercial resupply services mission for Orbital ATK will be launching this December on an Atlas 5 rocket, and the Atlas 5 will be in the 401 configuration, which means a 4-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters, and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. Amid all of this, Orbital ATK has announced that they've purchased a second Atlas 5 rocket, with the option to purchase more. Due to the Antares rocket not being ready to return to flight and the Wallops Island spaceports, the repairs to that are still yet to be completed after the explosion last October, when Orbital ATK attempted their third mission. Even though the official cause of that accident has yet to be released, Orbital ATK has been blaming the engines for that explosion, the Aerojet 26 engines, which are a refurbished version of the vintage NK-33 Russian engines that were used on the Russian moon rocket. And Orbital ATK is moving forward with replacing those engines on a new Antares configuration, the Antares 200. They would replace the Aerojet 26 engines with Russian-made RD181, a single nozzle derivative of the RD180, the twin nozzle version that is being used on the Atlas 5 right now. The Antares 200 would actually use two RD181s on every launch, making it about 100,000 pounds of thrust more powerful than the Antares 100 configuration. However, I'm wondering why not just use the RD180 engine? It's about 30,000 pounds of thrust more powerful than using two RD181 engines, and it seems like it would be simpler. But considering the availability concerns over the RD180 engine, I guess it makes the most sense to use this sort of engine without having to develop a brand new engine here in the United States. Several test firings of the RD181 engines have already successfully occurred, and flight-ready models of those engines have already started to be integrated into a new Antares core stage, so they're moving ahead with that. However, there's not really any timetable so far. Orbital ATK is hoping for an early 2016 for a return to flight of this new stage, but they want to be very careful with these new engines and making sure they don't have another accident like they did last time. Meanwhile, an agreement has been reached between NASA, the state of Virginia, and Orbital ATK as to who should be financially responsible for the $15 million repair of the mid-Atlantic regional spaceport, since there was no insurance when that accident occurred last year. And they have agreed to share the costs equally, and repairs are moving forward and should actually be complete by September, possibly early October of this year. So they'll be ready to do hot-fire tests and launching the Antares rocket from there whenever Orbital ATK is ready to launch the rocket again, so that is very, very awesome. I would love to know what you guys think about this and all the different progress that Orbital ATK has made and these sort of backup plans using the Atlas V rocket in order to continue flights right away so that the ISS gets all of the cargo that they need to be able to continue operations without any hiccups or any problems. So very cool. Thank you so much to everyone who's been donating to our Patreon campaign and enabling us to make space news like this. And if you're willing to enable, please consider donating at patreon.com slash space pod so that we can keep doing this and having a great time. So thank you so much to everybody and thank you for watching this video. My name is Michael Clark and hopefully you know a little bit more today than you did yesterday, thanks to tomorrow. Keep moving onwards and upwards everybody and I will see you in the future.


It's time for our Member of State. It's the Member from Prince Edward Haddington. Thank you, Speaker. We have a responsibility to represent at-risk persons in our ridings, and that includes people who are socially or economically disadvantaged and are at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking. For that reason, we must support Victim Services agencies in Toronto. This government has distributed anti-human trafficking support funds, but these funds do not correlate with what's necessary to support victims in my riding. The Victim Services of Hastings Prince Edward Haddington offers 24-hour-a-day short-term crisis support, and in the past six months, Victim Services helped 13 victims of human trafficking leave the sex trade and pursue their education. When Victim Services applied for the anti-human trafficking support fund, they were denied, quote, based upon a comprehensive assessment formula. However, they were given $18,000 by the Attorney General for staffing this year. These victims require emergency and long-term services, which include intensive care management, housing, food, medical, and counseling. This can't be quantified by $65.38 per victim, which is the current allotment in my riding. On the other hand, victims in Kingston Fraud and Acke received $472.12 per victim. Why is the funding formula inconsistent? Does the government think victims in my constituency are worth less? My region does not have a human trafficking centre and lacks the resources to place victims in group homes. What's the alternative, that we punish the victims of human trafficking by placing them in offender housing? We can do better. We have to do better. Thank you. Further members from Hamilton Mountain. Thank you, Speaker. There is hardly a day that goes by in my office on Hamilton Mountain when I don't hear from a woman who is made to feel absolutely powerless when faced with our court system. These women might be trying to get financial support from their estranged father of their children. They might be caught up in a custody dispute or trying to make their case before a judge when dealing with the children's aid society. But the problem, Speaker, is they are invariably outgunned by the highly paid lawyers in the court setting. In the vast majority of cases they can't afford a lawyer and they can't get legal aid. Their only option is to represent themselves. Then they find out just what an impossible task that is. Already distraught by their situation, in addition to the stress and the upheaval it has caused, they now have to juggle part-time jobs to be able to struggle to get their kids looked after. They've done their homework, but they're terrified of what comes ahead. The intimidating atmosphere of a courtroom, the adversarial nature of the setting, and the knowledge that they will be facing people who do this every day of their lives. But they have no choice. In this situation, what hope is there for justice to be served? Precious little. And it happens in courtrooms all across Ontario every single day. Women and children pay the price, and it has to change. Mr Speaker, last night hundreds of people gathered in Kingston's market square to say goodbye to a musician, an activist whose words and actions have touched millions. Just over a year ago, 25,000 people gathered in that same square to watch the tragically hips last concert on the big screen. It was a magical night. And one that united Canadians from coast to coast. The sorrow that has accompanied Gord's passing has been equally widespread. And although he was suffering from terminal brain cancer, he continued to champion the causes he believed in and most significantly truth and reconciliation. Because of that work, the Assembly of First Nations aptly gave him an honorary name that translates to Man Who Walks Among the Stars. He is doing that now. Earlier this year, we laid a commemorative plaque in Kingston's market square to mark the tragically hips historic concert. The plaque quotes one of their best love songs with the lyric, everyone was in it from miles around. And we were indeed. Gord had a gift for connecting with people and for making everyone feel like we were a part of something greater than ourselves. To Gord, if you are looking down upon us right now, we know you will be pulled in a million directions in this very moment. Thank you. Thank you for enchanting the hearts and minds of millions. Our nation is culturally richer and deeper for Gord's talent, his selfless determination and will to right wrongs and make this world a better place. Rest in peace. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Whitby Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. And Whitby Town Council has approved a partnership with the Durham District School Board, which establishes a new community hub in Henry Street High School. And this hub speaker will serve as a youth room, providing activities for youth in South Whitby. Currently, there are two other youth rooms in Whitby, the McKinney Center near the center of the town and the Berkeley Community Center and Library near the northern boundary of my writing. The center speaker a part of Whitby's recreation and leisure services youth strategy and offers several programs free of charge to youth age 12 to 18. Programs like cooking classes, studying physical activities and arts and crafts. This new youth room speaker at Henry Street High School is both cost effective, provides youth in South Whitby easily accessible, extracurricular activities to possibly promote their overall development and opportunity to succeed. I extend my congratulations to Whitby Town Council for their leadership once again in providing this needed hub for youth in our community. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you very much, Speaker. It's harvest season in Essex County and all across Ontario. This is the time of year when many of our constituents are packing up the kids, heading off to local orchards for apple picking or the local pumpkin patch in search of the perfect jack-o-lantern. Farms from Maidstone to Ruthven from Stony Point to River Canard are busy harvesting and moving crops to market. The autumn marks the culmination of a year's worth of hard work and investment and risk taken by thousands of farm families in Essex County and represents a vital piece to both the economic and cultural underpinning of what I know to be the greatest place on earth to live, work and to raise a family. How important is Essex agriculture locally for our province speaker? Well Essex County farms generate $1.2 billion GDP each year. They top southwestern Ontario when it comes to employment with 18,487 full-time equivalents in the sector and Essex also raises the largest tax revenue from all three levels of government, a total of $369 million each year when compared to other subregions of the southwest. While these numbers represent the success of more than a century of farming tradition, they also represent an opportunity for the future. The sector is literally growing and Essex is leading the way. On behalf of Ontario New Democrats I want to extend my sincere thanks to all of Ontario's farm families and wish them a safe and successful harvest and that you find the time to celebrate yourselves, your accomplishments, your efforts, your hard work with friends, family and loved ones once this very busy time of year has passed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you Mr. Speaker. On October 10th, 2017, International Mental Health Day was posted. I had the privilege of attending the first mental health forum in the writing of Ajax that day. The event was organized by Caryon Fen and the Caryon Fen Foundation in partnership with the Ajax library. They are in the east gallery today. The president of Caryon Fen is Caryon and of course it was my pleasure to introduce her this morning while they are visiting Queens Park. She is with her Rogers TV producer Holga Lambert and the forum in Ajax provided an opportunity for open and honest discussion about mental health with 16 mental health related organizations in attendance. Additionally, a panel of experts of mental health including health leaders from Lake Ridge Health and Ontario Shores were present to answer questions as were some of us elected people, my colleague across the floor and myself. However, our friend Whitby M.P. Serena Cesar Chavanaz was one of six speakers of the event and I have to tell you she knows depression firsthand and was courageous enough to go public with her struggles. 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime and mental illness affects people of all ages, education and income and culture while also impacting their families, friends and neighbors. And a new TV show is about to hit. Durham Health 180 on Rogers TV hosted by my constituent Caryon Fenning. She will provide a climate for people to discuss mental health issues as well as other issues throughout and I appreciate the time Mr. Speaker and my watch is right in line with your assertion. You're now 10 seconds over. Further member statements? The member from Dufford, Caledon. Thank you Speaker. This weekend there's a great event happening at the Alton Mills Art Center, the eighth annual empty bowls. Empty bowls actually began in Michigan in 1990. First you choose your favorite locally crafted pottery bowl and then you fill it with delicious soup from local restaurants. In the end the proceeds go to the Orangeville Food Bank, the exchange at Caledon Community Services and the cupboard in Orangeville. Local potter Ann Randeran started empty bowls in 2010 and it has become a popular annual event. Empty bowls was recognized in 2016 with the Tourism Partnership Award from Headwaters Tourism. The fundraiser engages artists, restaurants and volunteer servers from across Dufford and Caledon. Local artists donate the bowls and local chefs donate their delicious soup. Empty bowls is happening this Saturday, Sunday October 22nd at the Alton Mill and will be supported by Ray's Third Generation Bakery, Lavender Blue Catering, Landman Garden and Bakery, Gourmandissimo Catering and Fine Foods and Friends Chef Adventures Inc. I hope to see you in Alton on Sunday to support Empty bowls. Thank you. Well thank you Speaker. I'm delighted to rise today to talk about one of my favorite subject matters, craft beer. Now you know many years ago, almost 40 years ago, I helped establish craft beer rules in Ontario with the campaign for Rio Laos and today I get to rise and celebrate Muddy York Brewing Company, a true local business success story in beaches east York. Until recently, Speaker, the only craft brewer I had in my writing. So Jeff and Susan Michalek Began began brewing while Jeff was still running his dye shop in east York. Skillcraft Steel Rule dyes. In 2013, Jeff began brewing in a three hectoliter system and selling to local bars and restaurants, such as the Relish, which is on the Danboard near Woodbine. And after obtaining a retail license and a few successful pop-ups, they could now sell bottles to the public and they expanded to 10 hectoleters. Buying more fermenters over the course of 2015-17, Muddy York has now increased production over 800% and they now opened a retail bottle shop full-time and this is when Susan was able to focus on the brewery in a full-time basis. Susan's background is in design and art and she designs all the labels artwork and marketing social media for sales and both Jeff and Susan began working in a tap room, which was just set up this year and I went to the opening just a couple of weeks ago and it was unbelievably fantastic. So Jeff was now able to sell the dye shop. In fact, he's taken over the dye shop, moved all the production of beer and once was a very successful metal banging shop and he's now on 100% in the beer industry doing 50 hectoliter batches and now he's starting to sell the LCBO. So I want to congratulate Jeff and Susan for what they're doing, promoting great craft beer in Ontario, Beaches East York. Cheers. Thank you. Further statements from Oxford. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this week is waste reduction week. My writing of Oxford is a leader in waste reduction. When I was mayor in Southwest Oxford, we created the first mandatory recycling program in Ontario. In 2015, Oxford County Council passed a motion to establish Oxford as a zero waste community, which includes developing strategies to reduce solid waste generation and divert as much waste from landfills as possible. Mr. Speaker, this issue is particularly important in my writing where residents are continually fighting proposed landfill site in Beechville. If developed, this landfill would pose a threat to the town of English Hall's drinking water and the Thames River. I've raised these concerns about the landfill proposal many times in this legislature and I want to continue to push the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to block this proposal. As part of the waste reduction week, I also encourage the minister to look at ways to improve our ability to recycle materials and encourage reuse of materials to keep them out of landfills for as long as possible. I also encourage businesses and individuals to look at ways to reduce the amount of waste they create. When we reduce, reuse, recycle, we can help keep our communities clean and healthy and reduce our dependence on landfill sites. Thank you very much for the opportunity to present this presentation. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.


We take a look at these indices out here folks, and the S&P did hit on all time high. You get the NASDAQ down 2.6%, the S&Ps are down 8 tenths and the Dow is down 3 tenths.  Notes and bonds, you get the 10-year note up 26, the 30-year up by 10, and king dollar, king dollar's down almost a half a cent, a 4.67 trade 9604, Euro's at 113, yen is at 113.60 and the British pound is at 133 to 1 US dollar. Let's take a look at this market out here. So we get into the spy first, hit an all time high, that's the bottom line, and we had the ABC structure in the way up and it hit it, it hit a 472.87, the high was 472.87, yeah it hit it, 472.54 was the high, bottom line backs off that high, it's not done yet, testing it man, this is going to be a wild market, watching this whole thing shake out. So what we do have is this, this is how this is going to shake out, that's what it looks like one second, 72, no it's not going to, it's going to be a high, it's going to be a high that's going to get tested again, that's what it looks like, it's going to be a high that's going to get tested again. The last high had 72 million, we're at 70 million, that means it's going to do about 95 million, that's saying guess what, this thing's not done, the S&P's not done, NDX100, we take a look at the NDX, that's a different animal, there's no two ways about that, what you have with the NDX, bottom line you get the high that's generated out there, that high is out there at 40871, we only made it today, we only made it to a 398 or 70, and coming into Friday, yeah this is still going to consolidate out, we'll see what I can get the high, that's going to consolidate out, that's what it looks like, gold, gold contract, it's on its way man, the way that it's gold, gold straightened right now, I think we're on the way, you know it's no doubt it's frustrated enough people, it got over the range out here today, it has the volume as it's getting over the range, the range, the top of this range was 1794 year, 1798, stare at there folks, come right back.


This is stock number 9747. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and use sports car headquarters. Today we are taking a look at this super clean 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. This vehicle has the 2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder motor which pumps out 291 horsepower. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this car is extremely clean inside and out and all the way around Octane blue Pearl is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet or smartphone device Turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the car with me Very clean down that side. I didn't see any dents or dings comes with the painted alloy rims has signature Dunlop signature tires on it and These are 245 40 r 18s really good tread left on these tires. We'll get see Right there how much tread is left on them and it has Brembo brakes with the drilled rotors in the front here Didn't see any major scuffs or scrapes on that rim has the projector lamp headlamps That hood is in really nice condition factory fog lamps Passenger side rim pretty nice condition Just one tiny little nick, but other than that very nice As we go down this side of the car you can see just how clean the body is How reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down You can still see the car hear the car and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here Very clean down this side. I didn't see any dents or dings Back rim is in really nice condition as well. No scuffs or scrapes on that And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires Very clean as we come around to the back of the vehicle That deck lid is in really nice shape. So is the wing Didn't see any dents, dings or cracks on this rear bumper This one has an NVIDIA high-performance exhaust And we'll take a look in the trunk in just a second, but it does have the Rockford Fosgate sound system in it as You go down this side of the car Just as clean as that passenger side And for full disclosure this back rim is in nice condition as well, but very clean down this side Inside the GSR package gives you the black suede seats These are Recaro Buckets There's no rips or tears on them Factory floor mats throughout Power windows power locks and power mirrors And as we hop inside the car here You can see that it has 68,066 miles. 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Pictures are so much more communicative to the brain and data. Humans have always been limited by the environment, just that we have become better and better of solving the limitations that the environment imposes on us. Here's a picture in 1984 of Shenzhen. It's a city that was maybe a village of 40,000 people and it's now a metropolitan area of some 40 million people. The more we understand our impact, the more we will be able to behave in such a way that we minimize it.


All right guys today. I want to spend one minute explaining to you what I call the stuck in pace syndrome and how to get out of it So basically I've noticed that when I'm out running Sometimes I look at my watch and I realize I'm running a bit too hard. I need to ease off a little bit But it's not that easy. It's like almost like I'm stuck in the pace that I'm running in or if I'm coming down a hill and My pace is increasing. I can I can see that as I get down on a flat. I Continue in the same pace at a higher effort even though I actually want to keep the effort steady maybe and That's the case when you're stuck in pace and so the solution is very very simple You just walk So when you find that you're just stuck in pace and your effort goes up This happens a lot when you get to a hill People run a steady effort they get to a hill and they keep running the same pace at a much higher effort and unless that's what you want Then you need to slow down a little bit and the easiest way to do that is to just stop Walk for a few moments. It could be as short as I Don't know five seconds ten seconds of walking just to kind of reset the system and then you head off in a new Assigned pace which is probably slower than the one you were stuck in So that's all stuck in pace just walk a little bit and then keep going