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What exactly was Grandpa making all those years ago? Can it be made today?People once scoffed at the moonshine that Grandpa used to make out behind the barn. This is no longer the case. People are now interested in reviving the lost art of home distillation...and taking it to the next level. This book has been written for all those intrepid souls out there who want to revive the lost art of home distillation. For those hardy adventurers who want to make a batch of Whisky or Gin in their she-sheds and man-caves on a Saturday morning. Just like Grandpa. Technically, home distilling is illegal in most parts of the world. As you venture down the path of home distilling, I ask that you remain aware of this at all times. The winds of change are, however, starting to blow. Social norms are being re-defined. More and more small businesses are manufacturing and selling the equipment and supplies necessary to distill at home. But, don''t push the envelope. If you take up home distilling as a hobby, keep that hobby to yourself. Do not be selling your product to strangers or giving it away to your neighbors unless you have the legal right to do so. The first part of this book takes you on a brief journey through the history of alcohol. The second part provides you with detailed information on raw materials, cleaning, water, fermentation science, distillation science, oak ageing, and the equipment needed to home distill. The final section offers recipes and procedures to help you launch your new hobby of "Reviving the Lost Art of Home Distilling". Cheers!

Leadership is a continuous journey - navigating relationships, events, and work environments. The world could use more amazing leaders. One of those amazing leaders could be you.

Price highs and lows of stocks, commodities, and major indices are part of an interwoven tapestry of planetary aspects and cycles that unfold across time. Time can be measured by Jupiter-Saturn Gann Master cycles, 18.6-year Node movements, heliocentric Kabbalah math, religious dates, retrograde movement, planetary conjunctions, planetary elongations, and even by lunar movement. Is market reaction to these cycles purely a psychological connection? Or, are powerful money managers in financial centers like London and New York moving prices of equities and commodity futures in accordance with these cycles? The connection between planetary movement and the markets is not a new one. In the early 1900s, successful traders like W.D. Gann, J.P. Morgan, and the mysterious Louise McWhirter recognized this connection and used it to profit from the markets. 2024 Financial Astrology Almanac provides the reader with key dates to watch for on the NYSE and the Nasdaq relating to New Moon cycles, the movement of Venus, the action of Mercury, conjunctions, elongations, and planetary declinations. These dates have been shown in years past to have a high propensity to result in price trend changes on stocks, indices, and commodity futures. The almanac then goes deeper and presents the reader with valuable information on Kabbalah intervals, Quantum Price Lines, and the Weston Model. The information presented in this almanac is certain to assist the reader in taking trading and investing to a much deeper level. Malcolm Bucholtz, B.Sc., MBA, M.Sc. resides in western Canada where he trades the financial markets using technical chart analysis, esoteric mathematics, and astrology. Through his website www.investingsuccess.ca, he offers both the Astrology Letter and the Cycle Report where subscribers are kept apprised of pending astrological events and cyclical intervals that stand to influence markets.

Narcissism in romantic relationships is often understood to be gender specific-with the man perpetrating the abuse and the woman on the receiving end. While this is certainly the case in many instances, Releasing Your Need to Please is written to explore the growing phenomenon of women who perpetrate narcissistic abuse-and the men who try to please them. Narcissism is a disorder that stems from childhood trauma. A narcissistic female (a girlfriend or wife) is an extremely wounded personality who, at her core, feels empty, powerless, unlovable, and entitled. In order to soothe her deep insecurities and aching needfulness, she requires a love partner to make her feel better about herself. A narcissistic woman sees her partner as a means to an end-an external source of validation and love-to fill her emptiness and internal feelings of powerlessness. Given their self-absorbed nature, narcissistic women always attract a specific personality type-people pleasers. Pleasers, too, have childhood trauma and low self-esteem in romantic relationships, and as a result, bend over backwards to make their narcissistic counterpart happy. Often compromising themselves to gain approval (or stop the abuse), pleasers lose themselves in the process-and end up living a false, inauthentic life. Putting their feelings and needs on the back burner, they internalize the anger and manipulation of their mate. By the time male partners seek counselling, they are exhausted-second-guessing themselves-and feeling as though they might be going crazy. Some do not recognize the control and manipulation they are experiencing. Others know they are being abused, yet do not wish to do anything productive about it. Yet all pleasers feel trapped inside the abusive relationship-often feeling too weak or defeated to make any changes. Staying with a narcissistic woman is the result of the pleaser's low self-esteem and unresolved childhood trauma. Pleasers are terrified to make the courageous decision to separate-and doubt they have the strength to stay away. Hence, they seek to fix the abusive relationship by accepting responsibility for the abuse. While pleasers justify staying in the relationship, they lose themselves in the process. Throughout the book, the message is clear. While the pleaser has been victimized by narcissistic abuse, he can choose to see himself as a victim without choice-or choose to empower himself, develop self-esteem, and permanently escape. Releasing Your Need to Please teaches the reader how to put himself first-by learning to like, trust, and respect himself. This process begins with accepting he has no other reasonable choice-but to escape his chains of abuse. This book will take the reader on a courageous, empowering, and rewarding journey-and help him gradually (and powerfully) release himself from his own chains (his need to please)-while, at the same time, break his mate's chains of control, anger, manipulation, and exploitation.

Gerry Price grew Price Industries into a prairie powerhouse, expanding successfully from Canada into the United States and establishing a presence with operations around the world. Taking the company with its sales of $30 million to over $1 billion was not easy, but driven by innovation and a desire to serve others, Gerry Price survived remarkable setbacks to find a way.I'm Just Gerry tells the story and chronicles the timeline of Price Industries' ascension from the hinterland to the promised land, as it strives to become a forever company, guided by the 13 Tenets that make up the Price Way.

In 1937 Louise McWhirter published her ground-breaking forecasting methodology in which she revealed how to forecast in advance the general state of the economy for years to come. She revealed how to use planetary angles present at the time of a New Moon to identify key dates in a lunar cycle when the New York Stock Exchange would have a high probability of exhibiting a price trend change. She further showed how to use planetary transits, angles and aspects to predict times when individual stocks and commodity futures would have a high probability of exhibiting a price trend change. Today, McWhirter's work in in danger of fading into a distant memory. This book has been crafted in part to help ensure that does not happen. This book has also been crafted to assist the trader and investor in de-mystifying the many nuances in the McWhirter methodology.

Market analysts and financial media commentators have led individual investors to believe that daily news, quarterly earnings reports and corporate events drive stock prices. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is - the financial markets are a reflection of the mass psychological emotion of traders, investors and fund managers. When market participants are feeling positive, they are driven to buy. When they are feeling uncertain or negative, they are driven to sell. So what then drives human emotion? In the opinion of stock trader and author M.G. Bucholtz, the ever-changing configurations of orbiting planets and other celestial bodies in our cosmos influence our body chemistry and thereby drive human emotion. The Sun is the centre of our planetary system. The Sun emits massive amounts of solar radiation in all directions into the vastness of space. This radiation is called solar wind. This solar wind interacts with the magnetic fields around Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These planets accept and then disburse the solar wind radiation. As the radiation is disbursed, a goodly amount of it finds its way towards the magnetic field around planet Earth. Changes in the density and speed of solar wind mean that the amount of radiation reaching Earth's magnetic field on a daily, weekly or monthly basis will be ever-changing. As a result, the intensity or flux of the Earth's magnetic field is also constantly changing. The alignment of the orbiting planets in our cosmos plays a significant role in determining how much solar radiation is deflected towards Earth's magnetic field. We all have an electrical field that runs through our tissues. Hence, basic physics demands that changes to the Earth's magnetic field will then induce subtle changes to our bodily electrical circuitry. These subtle changes are what drive our emotional responses. Human emotion changing in response to events in the cosmos is not a new concept. In the early 1900's, the venerable W.D. Gann recognized the connection between changing emotions and price fluctuations on the stock and commodity markets. His trading success realized from applying astro phenomena to the markets is legendary. The astro models pioneered by other figures from this era including Louise McWhirter and Donald Bradley are as powerful today as they were back then. This Almanac begins by offering the reader an overview of the science of Astrology. The detailed examination that then follows will show the reader how: - aspect angles between the various planets and the New Moon can set the tone for the equity markets each month. - the Moon transiting past certain key points in the zodiac each month aligns to short term trend changes on the New York Stock Exchange. - times when Mercury, Venus and Mars are Retrograde align to trend changes on equity and commodity markets. - times Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter registering maximum and minimum declination levels equate to trend changes on equity and commodity markets. - times when transiting Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars make hard aspects to planetary positions in the First Trade charts of individual commodity futures are profoundly significant for traders and investors. - esoteric mathematical concepts such as Gann Lines and Harmonic Lines are extraordinarily powerful tools for traders and investors to use. It is the author's sincere hope that after applying the material presented in this Almanac, readers will begin to enjoy an increased level of success with their trading and investing activity. It is further the author's hope that readers will then frequently pause to reflect on the deeper connection between the financial markets, the cosmos and the emotions of mankind.

This book is written for managers and leaders who have struggled with understanding our newest immigration wave and how to move from just hiring immigrants to effective workplace integration. This book focuses on the four top source countries of immigrants to Canada: China, India, Pakistan and Philippines. It addresses key ways western and eastern societies see the world differently. It explores specific ways people from these societies are dissimilar to Canadian workplace culture in how they share information, give feedback, delegate, make decisions and manage conflict and schedules.This book explores those different perspectives as well as Canada`s immigration history, snapshots of the four key countries, strategies around language and accent issues, and how to recruit within a cultural lens. Although the information is tagged to a specific country, recognize that this is a starting point for your communication with a staff member or colleague. Once we can unbundle the cultural blueprints of behaviour of our subordinates, colleagues, and ourselves - we can move from immigration to effective workplace integration.

Women in leadership roles is good business! When publicly traded companies have women in senior management roles, those organizations experience an average 47% increase of return on equity and a corresponding 55% increase of earnings. Women want to lead at the highest levels: when 1,400 managers were asked if they had the desire to reach a top management position such as a C-suite role, 79% of women said YES. Yet women hold only 5.8% of corporate executive positions and 14.5% of board positions. So how do we reduce the gap between reality and aspiration? First we need to understand how fairy tale myth, media, and our history of communication have shaped where we are today. Secondly, we need to make different decisions if we truly want to create powerful women leaders.

Three people receive an invitation to journey to Philadelphia to be present for the reading of a Will in which they are named as beneficiaries.Emily Thordeaux is anxious to come back to Philadelphia to hear the reading of the late Delilah Neustat's Will and discover her connection to this benefactress, a woman she has never heard of nor met. Lilith Breat is also surprised that she is called to the reading. Tragedy has cost her everyone she once loved, how could she possibly be related to someone who is a resident of a city she has never set foot in? Graham Lestor, an Englishman new to America, is puzzled by his invitation but decides to attend the reading of the Will to satisfy his curiosity.Now they are assembled together-the three beneficiaries, the lawyer, and a mysterious observer. The air is tense with the conflicts of the past. How are they all connected in this web of drama and why has the dead woman brought them together?

A Stroke of Grace - Companion Journal is the second book in the A STROKE OF GRACE series. The first book (A Stroke of Grace - A Guide to Understanding and Living With An Acquired Brain Injury) was written by Julianne Heagy and is the story of her life after her May 21st, 2019 stroke. Following her stroke, Julianne felt unsupported by the systems in place to care for post-stroke victims. She knew there were resources available but with an inability to hold a thought or comprehend written words, Julianne became frustrated with her search for information. As Julianne began to heal, she could recall some of what she needed to know and committed to taking notes and sharing her findings with others on the same acquired brain injury path. Her book, A Stroke of Grace, was a roadmap of what Julianne learned on her journey. During her journey, Julianne discovered that it was easier for her to mentally maneuver if she had all the information in one place; especially when it was time for a medical appointment or to fill out an insurance form. So, she began a journal that documented this vital information, as well as served as a depository for her thoughts and feelings. It had a practical purpose during the year, and at the end of the year, it was a source of affirmation. Julianne created A Stroke of Grace - Companion Journal to help others with acquired brain injury on their healing journey. It will assist the reader in keeping track of pertinent medical information and act as a place to reflect on their progress. This book is arranged in twelve segments, one for each month of the first year after a stroke. Each section begins with "Your Guide and Journey" for that month where the author shares practical tips on maneuvering in their new world, where to find resources, and the strategies that worked for her to find a place of greater peace and joy within her new limitations. Following each month's information are pages to document medical appointments. On these pages, there is a section to make note of concerns and questions, a space to record appointment dates and times, and an area to record the medical practitioner's contact information. At the bottom of the page, the "Diagnosis/Advice from Doctor" section is a space to record comments from the doctor/practitioner such as any medication changes or additions, recommended exercises or suggested lifestyle changes. Following the "Doctor Visit Record" pages is a space to record "Struggles, Successes and Gratitude." This information is especially valuable when you look back and see how far you have come. The last pages of each segment are pages for journaling - a private place to express your emotions, ask questions that you hope to find the answers to and/or grow your gratitude practice. Never in your lifetime will you again experience a year like the year after a stroke. Whether you were the one who survived the stroke or the caregiver, this book will act as a roadmap, an information depository, and a safe place for your thoughts.