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This is the personal blog of Sanjay Kaul.
Sanjay Kaul is the Founder President of People's Action, a registered society in India involved in social, economic and political advocacy on issues related with good governance in the National Capital Region of Delhi. He is also the founder of United Residents Joint Action [URJA] and United Volunteer Association [UVA].
Sanjay is a member of the Executive Committee of the BJP in Delhi.
Sanjay is a professional public affairs expert with over 20 years of experience in marketing communications and public advocacy. Sanjay was born in Dehra Dun, a sleepy valley in the foothills of the Himalayas, then part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, now called Uttrakhand and was educated in Vadodara, Gujarat and Dehra Dun and joined advertising straight from school, rebelling against the doctrine of formal education as it were.
Since then, Sanjay has had a career in advertising and marketing communications that has spanned stints in direct marketing, publishing, sales, advertising, public relations, public affairs strategy and planning.
In 2002-03 Sanjay founded the advocacy group People's Action, which has since intervened in areas of governance that has ranged from use of electronic meters in autos in Delhi, to an environment census in Gurgaon and from campaigning for electoral reforms at a national level to a direct intervention in the electoral process in the constituency of Gurgaon with a view of engaging the educated middle classes in the electoral process.
This intervention saw the group first registering over one hundred thousand new voters on the rolls and later creating a political party called the Gurgaon Residents Party and setting up a candidate through a transparent selection process based on the US primaries format to provide the option of a clean candidate to the middle classes.[ More on this on our website www.peoplesaction.net ]
People's Action has now expanded to include civil society groups in Delhi and Gurgaon in an effort to confederate these groups into a cohesive and powerful voice for reform in all aspects of city governance and governance per se.
In 2005 Sanjay led a powerful campaign against the decision of the Delhi Government to increase power tariffs and successfully forced the Government to roll-back the hike using the principle of collective bargaining [ people power] by confederating the various Resident Welfare Associations in Delhi.
People's Action has since spawned the United Residents Joint Action [URJA], an apex body of resident welfare associations [RWAs] across Delhi to enhance representation of civil society in matters of policy. This group operates as an All-Delhi RWA collective with a democratic set-up that mirrors the political geography of the state to induce better accountability from elected representatives in the State.
Through People's Action, he has also initiated a student's union in the Delhi University called United Students which started the nation-wide protests on the reservation issue, ran a campaign to enlist students as first-time voters and have fielded candidates for two University elections since 2006 all with a view to generate a new cadre of student leaders. [ more on this on www.unitedstudents.in ]
Sanjay is a trained writer and has written for various media on issues of governance.
Sanjay Kaul has recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of India's prominent national political parties.
Sanjay has now also initiated the United Volunteer Association [UVA] – a new group of young professionals who are lobbying policy makers on issues of critical interest to the nation, such as defence, finance, rural economics, education, employment, corruption and developing a nationalistic outlook among youth – both rural and urban.
Sanjay has recently successfully convinced the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to institute the Resident Ward Committee scheme, a path-breaking initiative aimed at improving civic governance by enhamcing transparency and accountability within the municipality and increasing citizen-municipality engagement. [ read more on this at www.rwc-mc.org ]


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today I want to show you the beautiful gifts I received for my birthday.
Many, many gifts!!Some really frivolous other more useful but all the gifts were lovely surprises:))
My birthday was June 21, the first day of summer...
.and see what a beautiful picture of Audrey for the month of Juno in my favorite calendar!!! ;)
What presents I received exactly?
Here are!!
My friends, my love, my family knows that I love....
-Straw hats
-Straw bags to match like this:
- Purple sunglasses
- Shopping bags:
-This camera bag with the picture of my profile button :))
|A detail of the back
I also received as a gift one of the perfumes that I love: Esoteric by Alyssa Ashley
- Lotus flower shower gel by Yves Rocher....so delicious!!!

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A very smart person who has worked in public service for years, Sunne Wright McPeak, sent an email out recently touting a complicated initiative that includes various budget and local government changes.
It comes from the California Forward Action Fund, the affiliate of the foundation-funded reform group California Forward, and is endorsed by All Right-Thinking People in California.
So why is she underselling the measure, known as the Government Performance and Accountability Act (GPAA)?
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From the email:
"For every voter who wants a government that regularly measures and evaluates its programs for effectiveness, the GPAA is the answer.
"For every voter who wants to hold lawmakers accountable as part of a more transparent government, the GPAA is the answer.
"For every voter who wants to stabilize the state budget process, enabling better decisions about how precious dollars are spent, the GPAA is the answer."
My reaction: why stop there?
How about: For every voter who wants everything to be just ducky, the GPAA is the answer.
Or: For every voter who wants deficit water to be turned into budget wine...
Or: For every voter who wants to find Jimmy Hoffa's body and Al Capone's secret treasure, the GPAA is the answer.
Now, yes, there are a few people out there who might say that the GPAA is being oversold here, maybe just a tad. They may suggest the GPAA is not an answer but a mystery.
That it piles on a bunch of interesting changes to the budget onto an already broken and complicated budget process -- and that the result of these changes, however well-intended they are, are impossible to predict.
Some might say this measure doubles down on the broken governing system, and could make things worse. And some even wonder why all these well-funded elites are spending time and money doing all these little things, when a big redesign of the system is necessary.
But fear not. Because for those doubters out there, for those who think that structural reform of the system itself, not budget changes are necessary, for those who think big reform can't wait, well...
for them, for this year, the GPAA is the answer.
Even if that answer isn't exactly pleasant.
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Coming off of the high of receiving great press last week, thanks to Well Done Boston, we had a difficult time focusing on the what our next steps need to be here on the West coast.
[BEFORE we begin – we want to say that we are sad that Vince Wilfork will not be returning to our beloved New England Patriots 🙁 #75 , we will miss you]
Do we want to start playing out in local venues?
Should we focus on recording the new songs such as "going Been", "Iowa" and "Shame"?
Should we try to get radio play here in the Bay area AND in L.A. county?
Should Sarah work on a new drum cover video?
Should we release the FEVER video?
What about building relationships out here?
Can we start working on a video for going been?
How about releasing a covers album with our popular covers such as :
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Isn't it funny, at a time that's been described as The End of Men And The Rise of Women, during an election season that's been touted as hinging on the "female vote," during an era in which young adult humans of the female persuasion have never known a world in which Gloria Steinem wasn't an icon, how little things have changed?
I write (today) not about politics, though. Or at least not ostensibly. Today what has me fired up are a couple of "most-emailed" headlines that make me want to stage an Extraordinary Act/Everyday Rebellion in the form of hurling a (hardcover) copy of The Beauty Myth through the television.
Exhibit A: Journalist Katie Couric debuts her new eponymous daytime talk show with a big "get." With an election right around the corner, who'd she score? Jessica Simpson, there for the much-anticipated debut of her post-baby body.
Exhibit B: Original Bachelorette Trista Sutter, taking to Good Morning America to discuss the plastic surgery procedures she treated herself to as a pre-40th birthday gift (and which she enlisted Entertainment Tonight to document). Procedures which left her with an allergic reaction, the treatment of which left her suffering from a severe depression. But, hey, she says, it was totally "worth it."
Something is seriously wrong with this picture. And you know, I didn't bring up The Beauty Myth for my health or because it earns me angry feminist points: the entire premise of the (excellent) book is that, as women have gained more power and independence, the pressure to adhere to certain standards of beauty has intensified. Sound familiar? You bet your Spanx it does. But here's the thing: The Beauty Myth was published in 1991. That's over twenty years ago. Before Bump Alerts and mommy jobs (aka the boob job/tummy tuck combo) and, yes, Spanx. And I'd argue that not only has that dynamic not changed, it's continued to intensify.
Women are gaining ever more power and independence, and the pressure to look perfect (let alone to "be perfect") is more intense than ever. And hey, when we're all preoccupied with achieving the perfect beach body (or getting our body back) or waxing ourselves hairless or learning how to create this season's smoky eye, who has the energy to deal with the stuff that matters? Who has the time to remember there is stuff that matters?
And I think there are parallels to be made to what's happening in politics. (I know, I said I'd leave politics out of it for today. Sorry, I lied. So sue me.) With the legislative changes those on the far right are proposing (and making), namely: making it more difficult for a woman to get birth control by making it okay for a pharmacist to refuse to give her her prescription on the grounds of the pharmacist's religious beliefs, or chipping away at abortion rights–by enforcing waiting periods and invasive ultrasounds–and continuing to base campaigns on the promise that they'll overturn Roe V. Wade, when you hear women like Sandra Fluke say that we're being forced to fight battles we won a long time ago, well, you have to agree that she's on to something.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was all a part of some grand and evil conspiracy. Some plot by those fearing they're losing their grip on power, clinging by their fingernails to a status quo that's slipping away, fighting to keep that power structure in place with everything that they have.
But I do know better. And that's not the whole story (though it's certainly several lengthy chapters of it). The other part, the darker part, is this: when it comes to the ever-loving Beauty Myth, we buy into it. Boogeymen like the patriarchy and marketers and Republicans and Archie Bunker nostalgics all have a role to play, of course — and play it they will. But when we buy in, expecting perfection not just of our reality-TV-starring sisters but of ourselves as well, we all lose.


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George Lowe dies at 89; climber was on Everest expedition with Hillary
After Sir Edmund Hillary's historic ascent of Mt. Everest, everyone knew Hillary's name. Far fewer knew about his indispensable partner, George Lowe.
Hillary and his friend Lowe were the only two New Zealanders on the 1953 expedition to the top of the world's highest peak. If they could have had their way, they would have trekked to the summit together, but a number of circumstances, including the politics of giving two non-Brits on a British-led team the prime roles, conspired to leave Lowe among the unsung.
Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, died after an illness Wednesday in Ripley, England, his wife, Mary Lowe, told the Associated Press. He was 89.
Hillary and Lowe were almost cut off the team by expedition leader John Hunt. But Hunt reinstated them at the urging of the English climbers, who recognized that the New Zealanders' alpine skills were formidable.
Both Hillary and Lowe led the way through the icefall. But it was Lowe, who wielded an ice ax with legendary skill, who cut the route up the daunting glacial wall known as the Lhotse Face. And it was Lowe who helped cut the steps to the final camp 1,000 feet below the mountain's summit on May 28, 1953.
The next day, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reached the 29,035-foot peak.
When Hillary returned to camp, he met Lowe, walking toward him with soup and emergency oxygen. "Well, George," Hillary recalled saying, "we knocked the bastard off."
Lowe and Hillary "climbed together through life, really," said travel writer Jan Morris, who was part of the Everest expedition as a journalist.
"And when it came to the point near the summit, George had to play a subsidiary role. He climbed very high, he climbed to top camp and said goodbye to Hillary, then helped him come down. He played a very important role."
Hillary often referred to Lowe in his autobiographies as a pillar of strength. "Calm and competent, he rode through the storm like a great ocean liner," Hillary wrote. "With his strong hand on the rope, I knew I couldn't fall far."
Almost 4,000 people have now successfully climbed Everest, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Assn., but that 1953 expedition remains one of the iconic moments of 20th-century adventure.
Morris said she was now the only survivor of the 1953 group.
She said Lowe was "a gentleman in the old sense — very kind, very forceful, thoughtful and also a true adventurer, an unusual combination."
Hillary, who died in 2008, inevitably got much of the media attention — and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Mary Lowe said her husband "didn't mind a bit."
"He had a wonderful life," she said. "He did a lot of things, but he was a very modest man.... He never sought the limelight. Ed Hillary didn't seek the limelight either — but he had it thrust upon him."
Born in Hastings, New Zealand, in 1924 and a teacher by training, Lowe began climbing in the country's Southern Alps and met Hillary, another ambitious young climber with whom he forged a lifelong bond.
In 1951, Lowe was part of a New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas, and in 1953 he and Hillary joined the British Everest expedition led by Hunt.
Kari Herbert of Polarworld, which is due to publish Lowe's book "Letters From Everest" later this year, said Lowe's efforts were crucial to the expedition's success.
"He was one of the lead climbers, forging the route up Everest's Lhotse Face without oxygen and later cutting steps for his partners up the summit ridge," she said.
Lowe directed a film of the expedition, "The Conquest of Everest," which received an Academy Award nomination in 1954 for best documentary feature.
He also made "Antarctic Crossing" after participating in the 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the first successful overland crossing of the continent. It, too, was Oscar-nominated.
Lowe later made expeditions to Greenland, Greece and Ethiopia, taught school in Britain and Chile, lectured on his expeditions and became Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools for England.
He was a founder of the Sir Edmund Hillary Himalayan Trust U.K., a charity set up to support the mountain residents of Nepal.
In addition to his wife, Mary, whom he married in 1980, Lowe is survived by three sons from his first marriage to John Hunt's daughter Susan: Gavin, Bruce and Matthew.
Lowe often said in interviews that he was happy to have played a supporting role in one of the greatest adventures of the 20th century.
"I'm absolutely delighted I didn't have the life that Ed's had," he told the New Zealand Herald in 2008. "Ed was the right one. I would have been a bugger. I wouldn't have had the diplomacy."
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SKorea envoy says NKorea nuke test seems imminent
South Korea's U.N. ambassador said Monday a North Korean nuclear test "seems to be imminent."
Ambassador Kim Sook said there are "very busy activities" taking place at North Korea's nuclear test site "and everybody's watching."
Kim told a press conference that in the event of a nuclear test, he expects the U.N. Security Council to respond with "firm and strong measures."
North Korea announced last month that it would conduct a nuclear test to protest Security Council sanctions toughened after a satellite launch in December that the U.S. and others say was a disguised test of banned missile technology. The council ordered North Korea in the sanctions resolution to refrain from a nuclear test or face "significant action."
South Korea joined the Security Council in January and holds the rotating presidency this month. Kim said he was speaking as South Korea's ambassador, not as the council president.
He said that during negotiations on the latest sanctions resolution all 15 council members - including North Korean ally China - were unified.
"They are very firm and resolute and I would expect very firm and strong measures to be taken in terms of format as well as in substance once they go ahead with such provocation" as a nuclear test, Kim said.
Pyongyang's two previous nuclear tests, in 2006 and 2009, both occurred after it was condemned by the United Nations for rocket launches.
The sanctions, aimed at trying to derail the country's rogue nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, bar North Korea from testing or using nuclear or ballistic missile technology, and from importing or exporting material for these programs.
The latest sanctions resolution again demanded that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program and cease launches. It slapped sanctions on North Korean companies and government agencies, including its space agency and several individuals.


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This is hands down one of the best statements on media attitudes towards Twilight. It's written by a PhD and a Harvard college administrator. Here's one of the best parts:
The negative reactions fall in two camps: The dismissive camp simply mocks Twilight's incorporation of silly, "moony" elements like undying love and the surprisingly authentic portrayal of wedding ritual, honeymoon jitters and the shock of unintended pregnancy; the topics are apparently too boring and unrelatable for most reviewers. The deluded camp, conversely, takes Twilight far too seriously, faulting it for leading young girls to mistake fantasy for reality in dangerous, disempowering ways.
It makes you wonder if some people missed the memo that hundreds of millions of females, like their male counterparts, enjoy their fantasy life straight-up weird, sexy, and implausible.
Why is it that female fantasies are such a source of derision and fear? The male species is allowed all manner of violent, creepy, ludicrous and degrading movie tropes, and while we may not embrace them as high art, no one questions them seriously as entertainment, even when sometimes we probably should. (Violent imagery is, after all, associated with violent behavior.) You want to saw someone in half or put their head in a vice? Showcase naked strippers as a fake plot device? Pair a beautiful and successful career woman with a slovenly, unemployed man? Pretend you are Wolverine? Go right ahead. We know you can't really be serious. But watch a tender wedding night between a virginal, undead superhero and his teenage, human bride, and the scolds come out in force. Are parents worried that their teenage daughter actually wants to be impregnated by a 100-year-old vampire who can crush a headboard with his hands (and perform an emergency C-section with his teeth)?
If you read nothing else today, read the entire thing on Time
So why in our opinion don't more speak out? A lot of us are so used to the "But Twilight Will Turn You Into a Mindless and Submissive Drone" speech that we are immune to it. We hold successful jobs and furthermore hold our own w/our male counterparts. The proof of it not indoctrinating us is in our daily lives and we laugh at those trying so very hard to save us from ourselves. There's something pretty hilarious about people so hell bent on trying to save us from the delusion of our thinking on escapist fantasy. We've got enough real-life issues to worry about rather than argue with those that just don't get it. We've spoken with our book and box office dollars. We've heard the critics, we've comprehended their points, we just don't agree…and THAT my friends drives them nuts. In short this adage sums it up, "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
TY to multiple people who alerted us to this article via email and Twitter!


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Wishing all the kids, big and small, a very Happy Candy Day!
Friday, October 31, 2008
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
One More Sleep....
Until I fly away on a holiday :) I'm super excited to be going!!! I am pulling all my clothes and stuff I need to pack today and will finish the final packing tomorrow morning. I will try to post while I'm away, but no guarantees. My Sis does not have Internet, so I hope to get out to the library or Internet Cafe.
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A Little Chuckle
I found this over at Celebrating Women for the Real World and couldn't resist posting this as well. Enjoy :)
After 30 years of marriage, a couple was lying in bed one evening, when the misses felt her husband begin to fondle her in ways he hadn't in quite some time.
It almost tickled as his fingers started at her neck, and then began moving down past the small of her back.
He then caressed her shoulders and neck, slowly worked his hand down over her breasts, stopping just over her lower stomach.
He then proceeded to place his hand on her left inner arm, caressed past the side of her breast again, working down her side, passed gently over her buttock and down her leg to her calf.
Then, he proceeded up her inner thigh, stopping just at the uppermost portion of her leg. He continued in the same manner on her right side, then suddenly stopped, rolled over and became silent.
As she had become quite aroused by this caressing, she asked in a loving voice, 'Honey, that was wonderful. Why did you stop?'
'I found the remote,' he mumbled.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Vintage Button Bracelet Giveaway!
I have discovered the joy of reading through Blogs and seeing how so many talented women bring their uniqueness out on their Blog. The crafts and art and decorating and wisdom and reviews and giveaways are just phenomenal!! I marvel at how women have taken their place in the world of commerce and are actually achieving enormous leaps forward in standing tall along side of men, who up until recently were given preference over woman.
So, in browsing around the Blogosphere, I came across another talented gal and is having a giveaway...a Vintage Button Bracelet. I love all things vintage and that's what drew me to this giveaway. Make your way over to A Tad Bit Prudish and enter yourself. Also pop on over to the designer, Cupcake Studio to check out all the other gorgeous stuff in her Etsy shop.
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Monday, October 20, 2008
Three More Sleeps!
I'll be flying away on Westjet on Thursday afternoon after I drive the two hours to Grande Prairie, Alberta.
I'll be landing in Winnipeg, Manitoba at 9:30pm and spending Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday with my best friend and her sister. My friend is speaking at a Woman's Wellness Day and I want to be on the sidelines cheering her on :)
My baby Sister will be picking me up in Winnipeg and bringing me over the border into Kenora, Ontario. I am SO, SO excited!!! I'll be covering 4 Provinces!!
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Finding Joy
When browsing through my Blog list I ran across this little video over at The Gypsy's Corner, that just moved me to tears. It's in the simple things of life where we find joy. Sit back and take a minute to just breath.
Secrets to a Happy Life
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Indian Summer
So, this is the project I've been working on for the past week. I've painted this for a girlfriend who has a lot of the warm Autumn colors in her new home.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Happy Birthday Sis!
Thirty-five years ago a special little (well, I suppose 10 lbs. isn't exactly little) bundle was delivered to our family. Mom had this wee girl at home, so I was there the very second she was born and have adored her ever since, because you see, she also was born the day after I turned seventeen. Big sunshiny smiles, a voice that could loudly..erm...sing :P, and a sister that grew up to be an incredible friend. Today I wish you a wonderful Birthday Rachel! I love you!
P.S....that's Mom sitting next to Rach.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
No....not the chocolate you eat....but the color of watch I received for my Birthday...I LOVE it!! :)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
This morning I went into the Hospital, to the Diagnostic Imaging department and had an ECG...Echo Cardiogram...to find out what is going on with my heart. Thankfully we are one step closer to some answers. I'm hoping this will finally lead to the next step in my Wellness program. I can tell you this much....I certainly have a heart beat...haha!
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Birthday Gifts
This is the "Day Before" the big "B" day...Hubby was supposed to leave for work this aft and be gone for a week so he wanted to give me his gift for my Birthday a day early. What a darling!He knew I was interested in getting a Season Set of "Sex and the City"...he got me the first two Seasons...wow!! I was fully content that my trip to Winnipeg Manitoba and Kenora, Ontario, leaving the 23rd of this month, was more than an extravagant gift, since making that trip was such a huge gift in and of itself. Thanks Hunny :)
The icing on the cake????....I won that Scrapbooking t-shirt from "From the Fence Post"....I feel SO spoiled!!
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I'm a Winner!!!!
Guess what??? I won a Scrapbooking t-shirt over at From the Fence Post!!! I finally won something after entering SO many prizes...and this is a prize I will wear with pride. Thanks Shannon :)
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Election Results
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper waves to supporters as he takes the stage at his election headquarters in Calgary after winning a second minority government, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008.
I can safely say now that I voted Conservative and am very pleased to see our prime Minister win this election. Most predicted the Conservatives to win a Minority, however Harper has won with a larger minority than expected.
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Wordless Wednesday
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Thank You
I received this from a Pastor's wife and thought it was a truth I should share.
I want to thank You for what you have already done. I am not going to wait until I see results or receive rewards;
I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until I feel better or things look better;
I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until people say they are sorry or until they stop talking about me;
I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until the pain in my body disappears ;
I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until my financial situation improves;
I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until the children are asleep and the house is quiet;
I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until I get promoted at work or until I get the job;
I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until I understand every experience in my life that has caused me pain or grief;
I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until the journey gets easier or the challenges are removed;
I am thanking you right now.
I am thanking you because I am alive
I am thanking you because I made it through the day's difficulties.
I am thanking you because I have walked around the obstacles.
I am thanking you because I have the ability and the opportunity to do more and do better.
I'm thanking you because FATHER, YOU haven't given up on me
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
I found this quote over on Hubby's Blog, in his post "Coffee breaks helped our Marriage"
"Quite often the pain found by a marriage counselor is the pain caused and aggravated by a thousand small neglects. Small neglects that would have and could have been be found, and dealt with over a daily cup of coffee."
I by no means would suggest that coffee is a miracle cure for an ailing marriage...but the time taken to invest in each other is :)
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A Lovely Sunday...
The sunshine is bright and the temps are mild, making a peaceful fall day for this Thanksgiving weekend.Many are roasting turkeys and gathering for a big family dinner....or hanging out with friends.
I hope that whatever you are doing and whomever you hang with today, that we remember with thankful hearts, all the blessings we have.
"Thou has given me so much... Give me one thing more, a grateful heart."--George Herbert
"... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth."--Sarah Ban Brethnach
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Under Construction
Forgive me while I fix the glitches I've encountered with my template. As you can see I had to change it because the other one, which I loved by the way, went side ways and I needed to get an entirely new one. Then I discovered that the other one that I saved before deleting it disappeared, so I need to add back some widgets. I spent more than an hour trying to figure out why my signature disappeared and then gave up in frustration...a computer techie I am NOT!!
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Thanksgiving in Canada
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Today is our official Anniversary day...October 10, 1976
32 years ago we stood before family & friends and vowed
"to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part."
These words were read to us from the Book of Ruth:
"Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you, For where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. And where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me."
We were so young and naive...did we even think we understood the depth of those vows??...no, but those two naive people stood through all those life circumstances and truly "became One"
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Raising Teens
I stole this poster from my Hubby's Blog. If you have teens in your home or have had teens in your home or if you have kids quickly reaching teen age, this is a must-have poster for you :)
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
"Entertaining Simple" Give Away
The Big Give Away is for TWENTY free copies of Matthew Mead's latest book, Entertaining Simple. Simply go to Restyled Home for all the entry details....you are NOT going to want to miss this!! No matter whether you win a copy or not, this is a book worth picking up. We are entering the holiday season at a break-neck speed. Don't you want a little help making the entertaining side easier? Nobody wants a cranky, overwhelmed hostess, now do they...?
As Matthew puts it, "Entertaining Simple is about restoring sanity to entertaining, without sacrificing style."
** All photography: Quentin Bacon
All photos used with permission: courtesy, Matthew Mead, and Wiley Publishing.
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• The British Royal Mail has issued stamps for six female pioneers, including family planning activist Marie Stopes and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor. • Some activists, however, are upset about the inclusion of Ms. Stopes getting her own stamp since she famously supported eugenics and expressed Nazi sympathies later in her life. • An Australian PSA warns parents about buying alcohol for their kids by laying the blame on drunk girls (and their parents) who get raped at parties. • A 72-year-old woman vacated her apartment in Delaware when she discovered six baby snakes in her bathroom and bed last month. •• Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years in his basement, has been declared clinically sane, according to an Austrian psychiatric report to be presented when he comes to trial sometime next year. • Honor Blackman, the actress who played Pussy Galore in the film Goldfinger, says that her Bond girl was "no bimbo" but a "career woman" who fell in love with Bond. • Are you prone to shedding tears on your pillow? Now there's a pillow that is specially designed for bedtime-weepers. • Two Icelandic women have been put in charge of two nationalized banks that helped push Iceland's economy to the edge of bankruptcy. • A 24-year-old Australian woman who hid in her lover's house 10 years ago for 5 years and led her family to believe she was dead has recently married the man who helped hide her. • A new exercise program is being developed by researchers to reduce knee injury in the anterior cruciate ligament in women, which often sidelines female athletes. • A Florida grand jury issued a sealed murder indictment today in the murder of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony. • A 68-year-old former cross-country champion ran after and caught a 15-year-old boy who stole her handbag in England. • Some young Muslim women in Turkey are rebelling against against the secular Turkish state, which forces them to drop out of college if they wear headscarves. • Actress Maggie Quigley (or Maggie Q) describes the stereotypes in Hollywood about Asians and the difficulty she has in Hollywood due to her biracial background. • The California Association of Clerks and Election Officials wants to delay the change on marriage licenses from "Party A" and "Party B" to a "bride" and "groom" which is supposed to go into effect on November 17 since the clerks are currently overloaded with Election paperwork. •
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It's about damned time that Casey Anthony was indicted.
Unfortuntely, this means Nancy Grace will go for the extra-crazy on her show tonight.


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collapses next to Hiril
Aaagghh, 10 hour days is gonna keeeel me . . . *sigh* I just have to keep focused on the days off in lieu I'll get at the end of this 5 week tunnel . . .
Calma, you want I should send the Scribe and her broadsword up your way? I'm pretty sure she could clear the corporate infestation pretty quick (with beastie's help, of course.) Seriously though, I hope the days go real quick so you can wave bye-bye to their retreating backs (along with a raspberry or two . . . )
Wenchie, I'll come help you out (and that way I could get a chance to taste all your scrummy-sounding cooking, canning and baking, LOL).
*sigh* Hubby came home and told me he quit his job this morning. He'll do one more trip next week, then he's done. Gah. I hope he has one of the other jobs he was talking about in the can, 'cause we have bills to pay and changing jobs always means a big gap between the last cheque of the old job and the first cheque of the new one. Sheesh.
Okay, I have to get some shut eye. Like Hiril, I have to roll outta bed extra early tomorrow (6 am).
But on a happy note, it'll be FRIDAY!!!


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This time to extend the date to reserve rooms at the conference hotel from Feb 9 to...
Friday February 17, 2012!
So if you haven't reserved your room yet... then head over to the hotel info page (here's the LINK).
Make sure you use the rate code we negotiated for the you--or else you'll see a room charge that just might render you speechless.
Until next time... take care and catch you in New Orleans!
Your humble FF&P Conference Imp o' Insanity


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Press Release: Driver Arrested after Evading Police
On 3/18/11, Berkeley Police Officers investigated of report of a robbery and assault with a deadly weapon at a grocery store in Berkeley. As a result of that investigation, the getaway vehicle, a 1996 Honda Passport, was entered into the computer system as a wanted "Felony Vehicle".
On 3/25/11, Berkeley Police Officers spotted the Honda in South Berkeley. The SUV drove a couple blocks to the 1500 block of Stuart Street and pulled into a residential driveway where officers initiated an enforcement stop to detain the driver.
The driver refused all orders from the officers to comply while revving the Honda's engine. The driver then put the vehicle in reverse and rammed into one of the police cars. After pulling forward, the driver again put the car in reverse and struck a support column of the apartment building staircase, narrowly missing a police officer. Still in reverse, the driver struck the apartment building and the same police car a second time. In the continued efforts to get away, the driver sped over a lawn and collided with yet another police car, making it inoperable. Two other police officers were nearly struck as well. As the driver fled east on Stuart Street, she then aimed her vehicle at a responding police car, nearly crashing head on.
The driver fled north on California Street, just past Dwight Way where she turned into a driveway of home. The driver crashed though a wooden fence and fled on foot. She was pursued on foot by several officers and was successfully taken into custody after a brief struggle. No one was injured in these incidents.
The arrested person was identified as: Vanessa Williams, 24 years old, from Berkeley. She was transported and booked into the Santa Rita Jail for a total of ten violations including assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, resisting arrest and violating probation. Berkeley Police are still investigating the original robbery and assault from the grocery store.


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Diane Birch's Valentino Video…
April 5, 2010
Is a must see! And to think it was all done in one take (after 57 tries and 15 hours)! Be sure to check out the "Behind the Screen" video as well to see how it was all done!
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April 5, 2010 11:50 pm
So much work goes into doing that. I worked on a theater production in high school and we had screens on each side of the stage instead of sets. We filmed entrances, exits, and anything that happened on the sides of the stage on location and the actual show came down to getting timing right. It was seriously stressful.
April 6, 2010 4:49 am
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After reading a post yesterday that talked about replacing the Gnome's built-in menu applet, I began thinking why not try out the replacements for my lead-weighted Gnome Menu Bar. One of the few expectancies I have of Gnome or any other UI is to respond nearly instantly to menu selections, and to have all common selections in one interface. Gnome Menu Bar has a hiccup to it so I'd thought I'd take a look at what else is being developed.
Reading Johan's Blog it's pointed out that there are really only two alternatives to Gnome's Menu Bar: slab from Novell/Suse (aka Gnome Main Menu) and Gimmie.
Gimmie reminds me alot of an application called dragthing way back on Mac OS:
Gimmie can be used as a panel applet or a separate dock, but the dock I found obstructive and too big so I'm just covering the panel applet.
Gimmie comes by default colored like a Miami night club, "Hello ladies." But I'm glad there's an option to not always have it on. They still hover green, blue, pink… but no big deal I guess.
The People and Library tabs contain contacts and the documents most often used. I didn't look into these very much as I have my own way of organizing ppl and files but they seem like they can be pretty handy.
The Programs tab is what I would most use Gimmie for and it's categorized conviently like Gnome Menu Bar.
The Linux tab contains everything else, control panels, places, devices and media.
Gimmie has about everything I need and is fast though not as fast as I would like as the rollover effects hang a bit.
- + quick responsive
- + nice variation of features
- – rollover slight drag
- – big big
- ? "Linux Tab"?
- ? Tomboy Notes support?
Slab a.k.a Gnome Main Menu
Gnome Main Menu feels like a trimmed down version of Gimmie and works exactly as it was designed to do: a lighter replacement for Gnome's Menu Bar. It does take the same load time though (5 to 10 seconds) but once it does it's nice and responsive. Gnome Main Menu has no applications setup by default – favorites must be added manually. I was hoping applications would get added by the frequency they are used but no luck. So I added my favorites and found that its really nice to be able to start these applications as quickly as I did. Despite this feature being really useful it also becomes a crutch as any applications that are not favorites had to be opened through launching a second window. Gnome Main Menu also creates a folder called Documents in my home directory. Not good. I have my own way of organizing my documents so this didn't make me happy.
GMM is good in the basics. I like GMM's hover buttons that give one click behavior over Gimmies double click one. Also, GMM has no preferences which surprisingly didn't' disturb me at all as it was well configured.
- + Light, fast, mean and trim.
- + easy to learn and use
- – big size
- – Document folder – oh boy.
If I were to choose between the two, it would depend on my situation. Gimmie could be useful to beginners who could be sedated by finding most of what they need in the menu while GMM just works nice for basic (8-10) app users that don't need the frills and likes the speed.
For now though… I'm sticking with Gnome's Menu Bar. Though it doesn't preload the menu and sometimes loses the cached icons its still the quickest way I can get to all the apps I need.
Quick Tip: Gnome Menu Bar has a built-in delay when sliding over categories. Add to or create a
~/.gtkrc-2.0 file and add:
vim ~/.gtkrc-2.0 gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0"| tee -a .gtkrc-2.0
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Ann Romney chats with Leno about prejudice and emergency plane-landings.
Curiosity rover completes its first mission on Mars.
High-profile New Mexico felon Daniel Martinez has been arrested again on violation of probation.
The Princess Bride actors and actresses then and now.
The NFL replacement referee controversy continues.
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January 28
Two Kinds of Confidence
By Marsh Chapel
We listen, in faith, this morning, to the ancient voice of the Psalmist, who acclaims a dialectical gospel, and says…
There are two kinds of confidence, one of the morning and one of the evening.
There are two kinds of confidence, one of youth and one of age.
There are two kinds of confidence, one fit for going and one for return.
There are two kinds of confidence, and you are blessed with both. You are blessed with both. The Lord is my light and my salvation…One is a smooth stone in the right hand, marked 'light', and one is a smooth stone in the left hand, marked 'salvation'.
There you were, not so long ago, with the light falling on your
back. There was a skip in the bicycle, a chain guard out of place. You
chose to walk. The sun dappled that brown and yellow shirt and your hair returned light to light. There you were—I think it was you, was it not?—walking out a spring road, looking and dreaming and looking at the light as it fell on a small smooth stone. You threw the stone. You tossed the stone. You kicked the stone. Then along a heavy flowing spring stream you knelt down and washed it clean. It was stored in your right pocket. Into the light of youth you traipsed, and then I could you see you no more. In the mind's eye you were gone. I suppose it could have been someone else. Her, or me, or someone—the light was brilliant and from the back it was hard to tell for sure.
It takes a certain confidence to walk off one stage and onto another. You have that confidence. You can do it. You can. I know you can. Look you can see that young one just going down over the hill, holding a stone in the light. 'Youth is a terrible thing to waste on young people'.
This sacred poem promises, again, that you shall have confidence. In fact, the psalm identifies this spiritual gift, this habit of being, this faithful obedience, as, simply, THE LORD. The Lord is…light, my light…The Lord is…salvation, my salvation. Who is the Lord?
The haunting, poetic, hymnic, refrains of a latter day Psalmist, Howard Thurman, come to mind: a man's only witness is the witness of his own experience…do not cut against the grain of your own wood… the most important thing in the life of any man at any time is the development of his own best self, the incentive to actualize his potential…a man cannot be at home everywhere unless he is at home somewhere…When people come to church they ask, 'Who am I'. The church answers; 'You are a child of God'…
There come moments when the confidence to try, to change, to learn, to grow (there is no growth without change) is our deepest longing. Are you facing any choices? Are you set before any decisions this season?
From an early age we learn the importance of choices. At odds with mom and dad, the eight year old decides to run away. He speaks his last word. He packs his suit case, and dons his cap. Out the door he goes at dusk. The family cat watches and purrs. Parents watch through the blinds. He sits under the lamppost, and night falls. And after a respectable time, he comes back inside, closes the door. His parents know better than to say anything. They wait, reading the paper and smoking the pipe. The cat purrs, and rubs a long brown tail against the boy's legs. The boy has grown. Having said a real good bye in life, he is ready now to say a real hello to life! With the maturity of someone who has now said farewell, and survived it, he says, to show his adulthood, "Well, it's good to be back….I see you still have the same old cat."
Viktor Frankl reminded us that we become who we are by making decisions.
Faith is an act, a personal commitment to an unverifiable truth. Faith is a daily affirmation that life affords meaning as well as happiness. Faith is the confidence that life is meaningful. Faith is the affirmation that if life has meaning, it is known in this confidence to choose.
Choosing in love and passion makes us human, our own best selves.
When I asked one study group to name their favorite verse in Scripture, every one was an expression of confidence: Psalm 137, Philippians 4—every one. Confidence in vocation, like that of the boy Jeremiah. Confidence in mission, like that of the young man Jesus. Confidence in the labors of love, like that of the missionary Paul, to bear, believe, hope and endure all things.
Colin Williams, Dean at Yale, used to say that what Christians need on Sunday is a restored sense of confidence with which to return to the world of choices and make a difference.
John Edwards is running again. He left his earlier campaign with two thoughts: first life is full of hurt and heartache; second, people can choose to live in ways that make a difference.
If we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all our sin.
This Psalm can even give a preacher confidence… As the preacher gathers her mind and thoughts, either on Sunday for ordered worship, or at mid-week during a service of memorial, the cadences of this Psalm may spring upon the imagination. The preacher may recall that most commentators consider Psalm 27 to be, really, two songs, 27A and 27B, divided at the 7th verse. The first is a hymn of thanksgiving and faith. The second is a song of loss and lament. The psalmist lifts a hymn of faith, a song of courage in the face of adversity.
He speaks from his experience. He teaches, like a grandfather teaching a grandson;
spinning a fishing fly; boiling the sap down in the sugar house; watching a basketball game; watching the sun set. What do grandsons learn from grandfathers? Confidence.
In the North Country (New York State just south of Montreal) I knew where I could find my men in a mood to talk. In the month of March, between milking times, you could find a circle gathered in the sugar house. The shadow of the roof made all seeing dim. The steam from the boiling tank made of the hut a sauna, a steam bath, a welcome warming in the frigid March air. There is something so purely and pleasantly sweet about the scent of the boiling sap: have a donut, dip the donut, drink the syrup. Fathers and sons talking.
Friday, as a member of a defeated and ejected pick-up fivesome, I watched our two sons running the court at Agganis. Youth is a terrible thing to waste on young people! But I could have wished not only for two but for twenty such sons. Confidence comes in part from the interplay of generations, the thanksgivings of youth and the laments of age.
It may be too that the preacher will remember, in considering these two Psalms (27A and B), some of the features that they share with the rest of the Psalter. For instance, verse 7, dividing itself from verse 6 before, recalls quickly how much writers need editors and how much editors need writers. The Bible overflows with the interplay of editing and writing as the Psalms exemplify in the Hebrew Scripture, and as the Gospel of John best displays in the New Testament. Both have confidence! Writers need the caution and care of editors; editors need the fire and life of writers. Writers need the prudence and judgment of editors; editors need the breath and novelty of writers. Writers need the criticism and perfecting interest of editors; editors need the life-blood and faithful courage of writers. The community of faith includes natural writers and congenital editors. Sometimes a set of conflicts can be ameliorated by arranging things so that particular gifts may be spiritually used to the upbuilding of the church. Let those who are creators be creative and those who are redeemers be redemptive!
Think of the utterly confident words used to declare our country's independence: we hold these truths to be self-evident that, all (men) are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now that is stellar writing. But all writers need editors, too. Grace edits history.
The author may have consigned his own slaves to 3/5 humanity, but his confident phrases outlive his less faithful deeds. The author may have ignored the fairer sex, his own mother and sister and daughter and all, but his confident phrases outlive his less faithful deeds. No, there is an ever expanding circle of freedom ringing across our time. Equal rights under the law finally have no lasting enemy, as this Psalm would remind us. Freedom will continue to ring. It is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave. Wisdom to the mighty who will hear, and honor to the brave who will care.
Two kinds of confidence, one of morning, one of evening, one of youth and one of age, one the courage to set out and the other the courage to come home, one of doing and one of being, one for faith in Jesus Christ and one as faith of Jesus Christ.
There you were again, just the other day. You were walking toward me, on the way home. You were a little bent, a little gray. I had to imagine what your hands were like. You were to far off to see. It was you that I saw, was it not? Or was it her, or me, or does it matter. You had that second stone, heavy on the left palm. I could see the first, still in the pocket, still ready, still at the right hand. But somewhere along the way you had a found a second. Light and salvation. The confidence of morning and evening, going and coming, youth and age, doing and being. All in a lifetime.
You can tell so much from the manner of one's gait, one's approach, one's cadence. It seemed to me, that day, that with you came the learning of a lifetime. Not all problems find solutions. Not all relationships end well. Things often do end badly. That is why they end. Not all illness finds temporal healing. That not all tragedy happens elsewhere. That some things do not give way to the light, to the confidence of morning and youth and sunny departure. That it is a great life but few get out alive. You were coming home, I could tell. You had that homecoming look about you. And the second stone, dark and heavy, that told me too. There is confidence for going out. You have that confidence. You can do it. You can get home. You can. I know you can. And there is a confidence for coming in. The Psalms have both, both thanksgiving and lament. A few Psalms like 27 have both in one.
I watched, as you did, the eyes and face of Jimmy Carter this week. He is walking home. Our finest ex-president, one who has found confidence amid the lament of defeat, one who has found voice in the aftermath of loss. You need that biblical confidence to get on home, at the end of the day, at the end of a day when no good deed goes unpunished. In those eyes I was hurt but also strength. In that voice I heard disappointment but also resolve. Going home, at twilight, you draw and the second part of the psalm for today, the lament. There is an evening prayer in every evening, meant to give confidence in age, and at every age.
Here is a strange reality. There is often much youth in age and age in youth. I think of the 80 year olds in one church who continued to lead a student fellowship, and of the superannuated preacher who ran a youth group. Then I think of Jessica Miller, and Jacob McKecknie, and Beatrice Ponce, and Majar Madek, and Michael Robertson, students who from August to January, and from Fine Arts to Theology, found the end of life in only a second or third decade. As soon as you are born, you are eligible, old enough, to die. Chronology is shot through with ontology, beyond our poor power to add or detract.
So, in our churches a portion of this Psalm is frequently offered, during one particular hour of worship, in a soaring musical arrangement, sung by a strong baritone soloist. The particular hour of worship in which this Psalm appears, at least in some churches, is the funeral service. In the face of sin, death, loss and a form of the threat of meaninglessness that surpasses most others—with the body of the deceased before us and the tear wrung family to tend—here a great hymn of faith is regularly affirmed
: The Lord is my light and my salvation…
Those gathered before burial are ready to hear the wisdom of faith that comes in the experience of the community of faith.
To such similarly familiar rhetorical forms—the experience of faith learned in the community of faith– a congregation and grieving family may regularly and healthily return during the time of saying goodbye.
Both may well fit into a set of forms for worship, and they may in fact fit well together (as some earlier editor has clearly decided). Yet they make two distinct movements and statements. Within the movements of all the Psalms (recall H. Gunkel's five types of psalms: hymn, lament, royal, personal, thanks), they capture the two most significant themes: thanksgiving and lament. A congregation that knows how to face disappointment with honesty, and death with dignity, is a congregation being prepared for the singing of this Psalm. Recently Elaine Pagels, known mostly for her scholarship with regard to Gnosticism and the New Testament, spoke about stopping for a moment in the vestibule of a church at worship, and realizing that "here is a family that knows how to face death" (Pagels, Beyond Belief, 3). Honest lament and faithful thanksgiving are both parts of facing the uncertain present in light of God's future.
In addition, the lines of Psalm 27 (A and B), carry examples of other typical features within the Psalms: rhythm, and parallelism (synonymous, antithetic, synthetic) which these give the psalms their beat (vss 1&2); poetic echoes which later reverberate in the New Testament (vs. 5); hymnic cadence that makes the Psalms so healthy for regular prayer (the Benedictines reputedly recite the Psalter every week, and St Patrick legendarily recited them once a day!).
There is one exegetical curiosity embedded in 27A that may provide a final interest for the one charged with speaking a divine word, in life and before death. A possible translation of 27: 4b reads: "to behold the beauty of the Lord "in the morning" in His temple (so, among others, E Leslie, The Psalms, 354). After a time of trouble, has the singer gone alone to the Temple? Has he there prayed and stayed all night long? Has he lifted his heart to God in the darkness of the dark night of the soul? Has he then watched through the anxious terrors of the night to see the sunrise, and so been cleansed and healed? Death, he seems to say, is not a candle snuffed, but an oil lamp turned down—because the Dawn has come! In the morning.
Here is Jesus, in the season of Lent, making his way home. Like Odysseus or the prodigal or Cold Mountain's Inman, walking home. Whence his confidence? What is the meaning of his cross? We revere the suffering of the cross most when we accept the cross as the final sign of God's own divine giving, "who loved me and gave himself for me", "so loved the world that He gave his only Son". The divine gift of Calvary says, "Yet, I will be confident". You can withstand even what you never will understand. Every step of the via dolorosa—let the reader understand—is embedded with the "yet", "nevertheless", "nonetheless" of this Psalm. The confidence of the Gospel is named by a mere adverb, "yet". It is not the suffering that carries the meaning, but the meaning that carries the suffering. Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley knew this well.
Teach me your way. Lead me on a level path. Though conflict rise against me yet I will be confident. Confident. Confident.
There are two kinds of confidence here, that of doing and that of being, both.
What was that preacher talking about on Sunday when they read Psalm 27? Oh, I think he is saying that we have a right to be confident. Confident to change and confident to endure. Confident. Not certain? No, not certain, but confident. Not sure? No, not sure, but confident. Not arrogant? No, not arrogant, but confident. You cannot prove for sure, that is the thing about faith; there is always a leap in it somewhere…
There is a confidence of the morning and of the evening, of youth and of age, of going and coming. You have both, all you need of both. Confidence that is light to see. Confidence that is salvation to hear. Confidence to do what you can do—that is faith in Jesus Christ. Confidence to endure what you will endure—that is the faith of Jesus Christ. Confidence, two kinds.
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?


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Tate D. Jensen, born March 16, 1980 to Dix "Butch" and Jeanie Wilcox Jensen of Price Utah, headed out on that final cattle drive in the sky Aug. 28, 2011.
At an early age, Tate started riding horses and working cows with his father and grandparents. At the age of 14, Tate built his own log cabin on the mountain. Over the years, Tate developed a keen eye for managing cattle, an unmatched work ethic and gentle hand for raising horses.
Tate attended and graduated from Notre Dame School, Carbon High, College of Eastern Utah and Utah State University with a bachelor's degree in range management, with the goal of enhancing the family's cattle operation. Tate served as a past president of the Eastern Utah Cattle Growers Association, an area director of the Utah Cattleman's Association, on the board for the Utah Grazing Improvement Program, and a member of the Utah Cattleman's Association, National Cattlemen Beef Association and the Utah Farm Bureau.
Tate loved life, loved his family, loved his friends and loved being a cowboy. In addition to the family cattle business, Tate also raised a small herd of sheep and kept everyone in lamb chops. Come Christmas, Tate was one of the biggest kids, always championing the annual trek to cut down his version of that perfect "Grizwald" Christmas tree. When it came to music, whether on horseback, driving a truck or building fence, Tate loved to sing.
Tate worked hard, had a huge heart and was loved by many. He will be remembered for his contagious laugh and his hugs. He will be missed by his family, the TN cowboys and crew, fellow cattlemen and numerous friends.
Tate is survived by his loving parents Butch and Jeanie; sister, Jennie Christensen (Jeff); brother, Monte Jensen (Jill); and sister Becky Richens (Jon); niece and nephews Zachary, Morgan, Tyler and Zane; uncles Jim Jensen (Klenell); Jerry Jensen (Roslyn); Jim Wilcox (Kelly); and Jon Wilcox; aunt Bonnie Lynne Stradling (Joe); great uncles, Ivan Fidell (Karen) and Waldo Wilcox (Julie); along with many other family members, fellow cattlemen and countless friends. He was preceded in death by loving grandparents, Don and Jeannette Wilcox and TN and Bonnie Jensen.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the "Tate Jensen Scholarship Fund," c/o the Utah Cattleman's Association, 150 South 600 East, Suite 10B, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, to ensure the "Cowboy way of life" for future generations.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Sept. 2 at 11 a.m. at the Carbon County Event Center, 450 South Fairgrounds Way, in Price. Family will receive friends at the Carbon County Event Center on Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. Interment will be at the Tavaputs Ranch.
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OSLO (Reuters) - A decline in the diversity of farmed plants and livestock breeds is gathering pace, threatening future food supplies for the world's growing population, the head of a new United Nations panel on biodiversity said on Monday.
Preserving neglected animal breeds and plants was necessary as they could have genes resistant to future diseases or to shifts in the climate to warmer temperatures, more droughts or downpours, Zakri Abdul Hamid said.
"The loss of biodiversity is happening faster and everywhere, even among farm animals," Zakri told a conference of 450 experts in Trondheim, central Norway, in his first speech as founding chair of the U.N. biodiversity panel.
Many traditional breeds of cows, sheep or goats have fallen out of favor, often because they yield less meat or milk than new breeds. Globalization also means that people's food preferences narrow down to fewer plants.
Zakri said there were 30,000 edible plants but that just 30 crops accounted for 95 percent of the energy in human food that is dominated by rice, wheat, maize, millet and sorghum.
He said it was "more important than ever to have a large genetic pool to enable organisms to withstand and adapt to new conditions." That would help to ensure food for a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050 from 7 billion now.
Zakri noted that the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimated last year that 22 percent of the world's livestock breeds were at risk of extinction. That means there are fewer than 1,000 animals in each breed.
The extinctions of some domesticated animals and plants was happening in tandem with accelerating losses of wild species caused by factors such as deforestation, expansion of cities, pollution and climate change, he said.
Irene Hoffmann, chief of the FAO's animal genetic resources branch, told Reuters that eight percent of livestock breeds had already become extinct.
Many nations had started breeding programs for rare livestock, from llamas to pigs. Some were freezing embryos or even stem cells that might be used in cloning, she said.
In 2010, governments set goals including halting extinction of known threatened species by 2020 and expanding the area set aside in parks or protected areas for wildlife to 17 percent of the Earth's land surface from about 13 percent now.
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (June 18, 2011) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team found a way to win and took a 25-21, 15-25, 25-18, 25-22 victory over Poland in front of 6,000 fans in an FIVB World League match on Saturday at the Sears Centre Arena.
The United States regained its hold on second place in Group A and improved its record to 5-3. Poland falls to 4-4. The U.S. will travel to Tulsa, Okla., for its next two matches against world No. 1 Brazil on June 24-25.
Poland led in kills, 49-39. Poland's hitting efficiency was 0.284 and its kill percent was 45.9. The United States' hitting efficiency was 0.282 and its kill percent was 37.9.
But errors proved to be Poland's undoing, as the U.S. scored on 36 Poland errors while committing 21. Poland had 18 attack errors while the U.S. had 10. Poland had 15 service errors while the U.S. had 11.
"I don't think either team looked fresh," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "I think we did a good job of grinding it out. It was not very pretty."
"We made a lot of mistakes, especially in the fourth set," Poland Head Coach Andrea Anastasi said. "It's terrible really."
In the fourth set, the teams were tied at 19-19 when the U.S. Men went up by two on a Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) kill and Poland's hitting error. Poland called timeout, but had two more hitting errors to give the U.S. a 23-19 lead. Poland called timeout again and the U.S. served into the net. A kill by David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) gave the U.S. match point at 24-20. Poland came back with two points before hitting it out of bounds to give the U.S. Men the win.
Anderson, who started at outside hitter, led all scorers with 20 points on 16 kills, three blocks and one ace. Outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) added 10 points on six kills, two blocks and two aces.
Zbigniew Bartman led Poland with 19 points on a match-high 18 kills and one block. Piotr Nowakowski added 15 points on 12 kills, one block and two aces.
The teams were tied in blocks 11-11 and Poland led in kills 49-39. Poland also led in aces 5-4. The teams were tied in digs 43-43.
Among other U.S. scorers, opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) scored nine points on eight kills and one block. Lee at middle blocker finished with eight points on four kills, three blocks and one ace. Middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.), who started instead of Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah), scored five points on four kills and one block.
Setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) scored two points on a kill and a block. He was credited with 17 assists and no errors.
Libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) was credited with 11 digs on 14 attempts. Stanley was credited with 10 digs on 14 attempts.
Knipe started Anderson and Priddy at outside hitter, Holmes and Lee at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite, Thornton at setter and Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) played libero.
Outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) and setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) played as serving substitutes. Millar also played as a substitute.
The U.S. took an 8-6 lead at the first technical timeout (TTO) of the first set, getting points on two blocks and a kill from Anderson as well as a kill by Holmes and a block from Lee. Poland's Kurek took control for his team, scoring on a kill and block. Piotr Nowakowski had an ace. The U.S. serving was more powerful early in the match than on Friday while Poland struggled with service errors. Poland came back with a kill after the break and the teams exchanged points until Poland's serving error gave Priddy the serve and the U.S. went on a 3-0 run including an ace and a block and kill by Lee to lead 14-9. With the U.S. leading 15-10, Poland scored on a Bartman and U.S. hitting error. But Poland's serving error gave the U.S. a 16-12 lead at the second TTO. Poland scored twice on a Bartman kill and Nowakowski block to pull within two at 16-14, but Anderson took the serve with a kill and the U.S. scored with an ace, causing Anastasi to call timeout. However Poland's hitting error gave the U.S. a 20-14 lead before a U.S. serving error ended the run. Poland scored another point to make it 20-16 and cause Knipe to call timeout. The strategy worked and the U.S. scored on Poland's serving error. The U.S. reached set point on a kill by Priddy. Jakub Jarosz scored on a kill before Lee ended the set with a kill. Anderson had seven points in the set. Bartman led Poland with four. Poland had 11 kills to the United States' 8. The U.S. out-blocked Poland 6-4.
Poland regained momentum in the second set and jumped out to a 6-1 lead thanks to a kill and block by Kurek, block by Ruciak and ace from Nowakowski. Knipe called timeout, but Kurek made it 7-1 with another kill before Stanley ended the run with a kill. The U.S. scored again on Poland's error, but Poland took the 8-3 lead at the first TTO on Bartman's kill. Poland continued to dominate and led 16-8 at the second TTO. With Poland leading 19-12, it scored on a Bartman kill and ace from Nowakowski. Knipe called timeout and Stanley scored with a kill, but the Poland lead was 21-13. The teams exchanged points until Bartman gave Poland set point with a tip and Nowakowski won the set with a kill. Bartman had six points in the set for Poland.
The teams opened the third set even, but at 3-3, a Priddy kill gave the U.S. an edge and Thornton followed with a block and Poland's hitting error made it 6-3. Marcin Mozdaonek ended the run with a strike and the teams traded points until the U.S. held an 8-5 lead at the first TTO, scoring on a Stanley kill. Priddy came out of the break with an ace and the U.S. later increased its lead to 11-6 on an Anderson kill. The teams again traded points until the U.S. led 14-10 and Priddy used two straight kills to give the U.S. a 16-10 lead at the second TTO. Following the break, Poland hit wide and Anastasi called another timeout. However two straight blocks from Stanley and Priddy put the U.S. up by nine and a Poland hitting error made it 20-10 before Nowakowski scored with a kill and Zygadlo followed with a strike. With the U.S. leading 22-14, Poland scored on a kill and two U.S. errors to make it 22-16. Knipe called timeout and Holmes came back with a kill. Poland called timeout and Anderson answered with a kill to give the U.S. set point at 24-17. A U.S. service error held off the victory but Anderson's kill gave the U.S. the 2-1 set lead. Anderson had seven points for the U.S. in the set.
Poland took a 5-3 lead to open the fourth set, including two blocks, leading the U.S. to call timeout. Anderson came back with a kill and the teams traded points until Poland led 7-5. Two straight kills by Anderson and Stanley tied it at 7-7. Nowakowski gave Poland the 8-7 lead at the first TTO with a kill. Coming out of the break, Poland scored three straight points on two kills and a U.S. error causing the U.S. to call timeout. Poland's next serve went long. Later, with Poland leading 14-10, the U.S. got two points from an Anderson kill and Lee ace to pull to within two. A Holmes kill and Stanley ace tied the score at 15-15. The teams were still tied at 19-19 when the U.S. went up by two on Anderson's kill and Poland's hitting error. Poland called timeout, but had two more hitting errors to give the U.S. a 23-19 lead. Poland called timeout again and the U.S. served into the net. A Lee kill gave the U.S. match point at 24-20. Poland came back with two points before Poland hit it out to give the U.S. the win
To visit the FIVB World League web site, click here.
Tickets to see the U.S. Men take on world No. 1 Brazil in Tulsa at the Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa are available online at TulsaHurricane.com. Tickets are available at the box office (800 South Tucker Drive) by calling (918) 631-4688 or in person (office hours 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday-Friday).
Tickets to see the U.S. Men play Puerto Rico on July 1-2 (7 p.m. PT both nights) at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach can be purchased by visiting the Long Beach State athletics web site, by calling the ticket office at (562) 985-4949 or by visiting the box office (open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. starting June 6; the address is 1250 Bellflower Blvd.).
2011 FIVB World League
12-Player Roster for June 17 in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
(12-player rosters for each match are announced shortly prior)
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-7, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Leader: John Hawks (Huntington Beach, Calf.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Medical Doctor: Michael Terry (Burr Ridge, Ill.)
Trainer: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Pool A Standings
Team record (points)
1. Brazil 6-1 (18)
3. Poland 4-4 (12)
4. Puerto Rico 0-7 (0)
U.S. Schedule and Results
Date: May 27-28
Opponent: Poland
Location: Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland
May 27: Poland def. USA, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19
May 28: USA def. Poland, 25-22, 25-19, 37-35
Date: June 3-4
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico
June 3: USA def. Puerto Rico, 24-26, 29-27, 25-17, 25-17
June 4: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-23, 26-24, 22-25, 25-12
Date: June 11-12
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
June 11: Brazil def. USA, 19-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-21
June 12: USA def. Brazil, 25-21, 25-22, 16-25, 26-24
Date: June 17-18 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Poland
June 17: Poland def. USA, 25-22, 25-19, 25-20
June 18: USA def. Poland, 25-21, 15-25, 25-18, 25-22
Date: June 24-25 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa (Okla.) - BUY TICKETS
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. - BUY TICKETS
Opponent: Teams must qualify
Location: Gdansk-Sopot, Poland


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Does anyone out there use this herb?
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You could use it any time that you would use mint, or even lemon zest.
It would probably be good to throw a bunch into a curry dish, or any salad. It might even work out in a salsa.
I bet lemon balm ice cream would be delicious. Actually, that sounds good enough that I may go ahead and do it.
Lemon balm is in the same family as mint, and has similar growing habits, including the near impossibility of getting rid of it. Just like mint, I would suggest that if you are going to plant it, you put in a metal or plastic barrier around the bed (10 inches deep) to keep it from spreading.
Nobody ever believes the stories that people tell until they grow a mint relative themselves. For example, I had a small mint plant in my garden that I thin tilled in with the dirt. The next season, I had giant mint plants sprouting up all over my garden. It's actually the only weed that I have to deal with as I cover the soil with black plastic. The mint will push right through.
It also sends out roots (?) into the yard where it will actually outcompete the grass. It does make for a pleasant experience when mowing though.
The only way I could solve the problem was to move 2500 miles away.
Quick question though, the other day I saw a "Lemon Catmint" or "Lemon Catnip" at the local garden store. It looked a lot like Lemon Balm (and since they are all in the mint family, I would expect them too), but I was weary of buying it as it might not have been the Lemon Balm that I was expecting. Am I right to assume these are the same plant?
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Lemon balm is more like a geranium in leaf. Lemon mint is used in lots of North African dishes - including mint tea.
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Lemon balm is more like a geranium in leaf. Lemon mint is used in lots of North African dishes - including mint tea.
Funnily enough, lemon mint is in a completely different genus than we've discussed so far. Lemon mint belongs to the Monarda genus which is also includes "bee balm" or "bergamot" (although that name is a missnomer, true bergamot which is used to flavor Earl Grey tea is actually an Asian citrus fruit). Catnip/Catmint belongs to the Nepeta genus, mints belong to genus Mentha, and lemon balm to Melissa. All belong to the same family and share the characteristic square stems and flower structure.
To add to the confusion, there is another herb called 'lemon verbana', which exists in a separate, but similar family. The lemon mint that I saw at the garden store over the weekend was much closer to the lemon verbana than the Monarda species, but since they don't feel that it is neccesary to include genus/species information on the tags, I don't know which it really was.
My confussion was over the difference between lemon catnip (which may have been falsely labeled as a catnip), and lemon balm seeing as how the specimens that I saw, had very similar leaves. I've since come across information that lemon catnip is actually Nepeta cataria 'Citriodora' which makes it different than Melissa oficianalis (lemon balm). Adding to the confussion, was that I could never find a single store that sold both. I've since procurred some true lemon balm though, so no problems there.
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All I know is: I go to the plant nursery - head over to the section marked 'herbs' and select from about 30 mints...! Everything from Moroccan to Asian mints via spearmint and peppermint and apple mint.
The lemon balm is a real 'weed' in my garden. I always ensure that I keep it planted in one terracotta pot. so that it doesn't self seed and also creep along the flower beds infesting everywhere. My neighbour doesn't do this, and thinks it's a nice plant.... so nice he lets me share it by allowing it unbridled growth space, under our joint wall!
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Put the chicken, ginger, garlic, chilli powder, coriander, lime juice and 1 tbsp of oil in a bowl. Stir, and set aside. Chop the onion, and seed and chop the chilli.
Heat a large shallow pan. Tip in the chicken and marinade and fry for about 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in a pan and fry the onion and chilli for 3-4 minutes until just soft. Add the turmeric and stir fry for 1 minute. Lower the heat, pour in the cream and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
Add the chicken and simmer for 5 minutes, or until cooked. Season and stir in the lemon juice. Serve with rice and naan bread.


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If you are going to be attending the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Conference on October 23 - 25th, please be sure you make plans to attend "Enhancing Creativity in the Digital Classroom With Project-Based Learning." VanderCook technology professors, Dr. Roseanne Rosenthal and Mr. Rick Palese will be presenting on this popular topic. This session will help you find pragmatic ways to help students develop creative musical products that utilize 21st century digital technologies. Project-based learning is an educational strategy that is amenable to this type of learning. This session will address this topic by examining: 1) the nature of creativity and a creative product; 2) attributes of project-based learning; 3) examples of projects utilizing 21st century technologies that are inexpensive and accessible within a modest school budget.
Their session will take place on Friday, October 25th from 10:00 a.m. - to 11:15 a.m. in room G of the Monona Terrace. Please stop by the VanderCook booth anytime during the conference to say hello and pick up the latest VanderCook materials.