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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Lesley introduced me to an AWESOME site called Confessions of a Closet Environmentalist by two students who are doing their best to live consciously on a student budget. I was so inspired by their "Green Clothes Part I - a long lasting wardrobe" post that I followed some of their advice last night. One tip is to wash your clothes less often and air garments outside to freshen them up. Sounds like something out of the 19th century. I like that, old fashioned as I am. For inspiration and encouragement, check out "The List" where they openly keep track of what they've changed, and haven't changed, in their lives.
Funny thing is that I hung our shirts out on the porch last night, and Don's poor shirt ended up on the floor of the porch with Bishop the cat sleeping on it this morning. (You just have to keep your sense of humor.)
Yes, so Lesley and I were excitedly talking about all this on our cell phones coming home from work today, brainstorming ways we could simplify and consume less.
At the end of the call Lesley told me why she called, to tell me that she met Elie Tahari today. I used to sell his high end expensive clothes. We laughed at the irony of our "let's consume less" conversation that ended with star-struck giddiness that she had shaken hands with one of the world's premiere designers. (You just have to keep your sense of humor.)
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Hi Ruth, I love the bit about the cat sleeping on Don's shirt. That's perfect. :) I went to that blog and I think her major point is very true: don't buy a bunch of new clothes all the time. That will be the hardest habit for me to break. Of course, we must keep Lesley in business, so we must buy her clothes! :)
- 7:53 AM, September 12, 2007
- Ruth said...
Heather, our stores' cycles of "new season" this and that, and the trends that change just enough from last year's that last year's are now "so 5 minutes ago" are getting on my last nerve, but I used to love it. I mean, I still love fashion, I can't help it, I love beautiful clothes. And I agree with her point too, that you can have a few good things and take good care of them so they last.
It's way fun that you are buying some pieces from Lesley! You rock! And it's also nice that she recycles sweaters, getting them at second hand shops, so that is comforting. I want to see what you end up with from Etsy. If you wear them to Sapphos sometime, I'll take a pic and send it to Les.
- 8:14 AM, September 12, 2007
- lesleyanne said...
yes i love that idea! :)
right on, clothes are just so fun to look at and wear. wearing a new outfit is so invigorating, even if it's something simple, like a black dress, or a bright scarf. i always try to find one or two things i can simply add to my outfit to make it pop out, to make me feel more like myself.
let's boycott consumerism!! i don't need to buy any new clothes or shoes for at least 6 months, how bout you?
i will always recycle clothing, so you can always feel good about purchasing from me! thank you for the sweet words. :)
[[why is your Paris Deconstructed blog in hiatus?]]
- 12:38 PM, September 12, 2007
- Ruth said...
I dunno, Les, I've been dreaming about the VOA. :D I want to go there just for the challenge of finding something cool for $2.50, hehe. We'll see. I want to go through my closet and take out what I don't wear, then take that to the VOA with me in a bag.
I think you and I love design too much to let go of beautiful things, like clothes. But we can re-think that, as you say, and find ways to make something feel new, exciting and attractive.
You know what I want? An ankle bracelet that jingles when I walk to the atelier and that I can look at when I lift my leg in Pilates. :| And a toe ring! Hahaha. But those can wait. I'd rather have a macro lens when I get the camera back from repair. But actually, I don't NEED anything.
Paris Deconstructed: I ran out of photos. So you know what this means: need to go to Paris, need new photos, hehe. Change that to WANT to go to Paris, WANT new photos.
Want, want, want . . . wah wah wah . . . whine, whine, whine.
- 12:50 PM, September 12, 2007
- lesleyanne said...
i've been thinking about this all day! these are such interesting ideas, i want to run with them. but i am also torn, mama. i want to boycott consumerism, but i also want people to buy my pretty things! i want to make things that say 'boycott consumerism', but then would i have to GIVE them away?? i was thinking i could donate 15% of my sales to a worthwhile organization, so then people would feel like they're helping someone, but aren't i also a worthwhile donation??? i'm paying my student loans! i'm a poor little designer girl!!
buying second-hand does not count as consumerism to me. even as boycotting consumerism, we still must consume. but it is the simple act of not buying as MUCH. the quantity. we all need to buy things. but it is staying away from the things we don't NEED. like you said. maybe we could try it for a short while, like a trial. or just participate once a year on Buy Nothing Day (day after Thanksgiving!)!!!
- 2:31 PM, September 12, 2007
- lesleyanne said...
oh yes, let's go to Paris! then we can just be non-consumers in Paris and take photos and knit all day long. that would be fun.
- 2:33 PM, September 12, 2007
- Ruth said...
Oh, sweet girl. There are so many realities, layers upon layers, interwoven and complicated. It's overwhelming.
And that's why in our own reality is the need to find a balance, I suppose. Even Mother Theresa had to eat, had to wear clothes. And come to find out now, she did not feel God's presence for her last 40 years. What was her story? Her story was her story.
Princess Diana gave herself in love. She wore tiaras, but she held babies with AIDS. That was her story.
Who is right and who is wrong? Everyone and no one. How can all the relativities add up to anything?
I think you know in this moment what to do. And then tomorrow, will it matter what you did today? I don't know.
- 2:45 PM, September 12, 2007
- Ruth said...
Ok, Weswey, let's go to Paris. I am DYING to go there with you and listen to you speak your beautiful French, ma cheri.
- 2:56 PM, September 12, 2007
- Yolanda said...
I loved this post and the photos are glorious.
- 4:59 PM, September 12, 2007
- Ruth said...
Thank you, Yolanda. You have a beautiful blog.
- 8:26 PM, September 12, 2007
- Theresa said...
My husband and I am trying not to accumulate too much stuff and to simplify our lifes- I applaud your efforts-and your right you do need to laugh when things don't go accordingly to plan- and who could be made at such a cute cat!
- 8:47 PM, September 12, 2007
- Rauf said...
Seems like i have been away Ruth, i am very much here and nearly missed this post.
We can't afford to do that Ruth.
Indians bathe twice a day, and my sister spends half her time washing clothes. We sweat a lot in India. And there is dust everywhere. By the way 'Heat and Dust' movie will give you some idea, Shot in India(Julie Christie) a Merchant Ivory production, the people who made 'a room with a view' (Helena Bonham Carter)
Another disturbing fact i came to know last month while talking to my friends who are running hotels. They both said Indian guests use 6 times more water than the foreign guests. I am told Indian Hotels don't like Indians in India.
Ruth, i have a bath only when i have to go out. That too not before but after i come back home.
i sit sweating. i find it unnecessary to wash clothes every day. My all time quote is 'Cindy Crawford is not coming to give me a hug'
Like music art literature folklore, conserving water also is a culture. Believe me Ruth, Indians are very uncultured in that respect. Indians have respect for gold but not for water. Don't know when we are going to learn Don't know when we will wake up.
- 10:54 PM, September 12, 2007
- Ruth said...
Well, rauf, if I lived in India, I would probably worship water, and no one would be able to come near me if I have not showered two or three times a day maybe. In your heat, things must be very different from here. Water, keeping things clean, these must be as important as eating and cooking.
There are hotels in the US now, and maybe elsewhere too, that will give you a choice of having your bedsheets and towels changed daily or not. We always choose not to have new linens, what a waste.
Believe me, rauf, there are very few citizens here who think about saving water. They let the water run and run while doing dishes, for instance, just let the hot water run from the tap without a thought. We are in grave danger, I'm afraid, of our water in the Great Lakes around Michigan running out. All the states in the West want it and are negotiating for it to be pumped to them. The Lakes are down, and how can we be so stupid?
- 4:52 AM, September 13, 2007
- Ruth said...
Theresa, I'm sorry I missed your comment there before replying to rauf.
It's very good that you are trying. It's all we can do, try and learn and try some more. It's a daily practice.
I'm glad you like Bishop, she is the most elegant cat I've met: sweet, quiet, and good at all the cat things.
- 4:59 AM, September 13, 2007
- Ginnie said...
I have been in heaven reading this post and comments, Ruth. I wish I had the time to respond to everything. For someone who is retired, you'd think I'd have the time. Donica's mom says when you're retired, you don't manage your time as well. She may be right!
Anyway, I think I learned a lot of this stuff from Dad when I was a wee kid. Or maybe conservation of everything is just in my blood. Or maybe I really don't need and can't stand buying too much of anything. But then I'm married to someone who is just the opposite! So I am always learning to live with the balance.
Do you remember all the clothes out on the lines of our life? Probably not. You probably were born after all that. The smell. It's the smell of those clothes.
- 5:10 AM, September 14, 2007
- Ruth said...
It's pretty funny what Donica's mom said. It makes sense that retirees might not think of managing their time. And why should you?
Oh I definitely think you and Dad both have/had conservation in your blood. It's like breathing for you.
No, I don't remember clothes on the line growing up, until Dad started washing things and hanging them in the bathroom. Hanging our sheets on the line now is one of my great joys: standing in the sun hanging them, taking them off, folding them with that smell, making the bed with them and smelling that freshness. Ooooweee!
- 5:19 AM, September 14, 2007
- lesleyanne said...
yes you are so right mammas. in so many ways. it's a reality that's difficult to live with, but we just have to find our own balance with the universe, and with our planet.
Rauf, that is fascinating! the Indian culture has always fascinated me, and this makes so much sense. it makes me think about a hundred years ago when women spent the entire day cleaning and washing, for what? so they could just wear the clothes again and wash them again.
things are much more efficient in this day and age.
- 12:28 PM, September 14, 2007
- Greeley's Ghost said...
We're dangerously close to adopting this approach with the clothes. My mother used to do it in the summer in the mountains (OK, we had no electricity so we HAD to, but she did it at home too in the garage!).
I'd love to do it from an environmental standpoint and to tweak my side neighbors, just after we built a new fence!
Ruth, this is a great blog and a great find! Thanks!
(loring's friend, brian fuller(
- 2:43 PM, September 16, 2007
- Ruth said...
Brian, good luck with whatever you decide to do with this clothes thing. Just paying attention to it makes me stop before throwing stuff in the dryer, and I'm a lot more willing to use stiff towels. It all helps, I think.
I'm glad you came over, thanks so much.
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Colin Powell: There Should Be Special Prosecutor For Bush Officials On Torture.
Retired Army Colonel, Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff for Colin Powell states here that he believes the six lawyers who drafted the torture memos disbarred and that Jay Bybee should be impeached.
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International Congress on Cork Oak Trees and Woodlands
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Strengthening conservation: a key issue for adaptation of marginal/peripheral populations of forest trees to climate change in Europe (MaP-FGR)
COST action FP1407
Understanding wood modification through an integrated scientific and environmental impact approach
IUFRO RG7.01.00 - Nice (France 2015)
Global Challenges of Air Pollution and Climate Change to Forests
IUFRO division 8.02 - Mendel University Brno (Czech Republic) 2015
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Research, monitoring and modelling in the study of climate change and air pollution impacts on forest ecosystems
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Adaptation of Forest Ecosystems to Air Pollution and Climate Change
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EFI 2008 Annual Conference Week - Orvieto (Italy)
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...my Christmas shopping. Hagatha kindly picked me up yesterday and we joined JB and LB ( not related ) for lunch. After a good ol' natter and general catch up we left them and had a nice wander around the shops. I stumbled across a great pressie for DH so I snapped that up as there weren't many left.Hagatha was drooling over something earlier in the day so when we said our " Goodbyes" I whizzed back to the shop and luckily the "one off" thingy was still there! I just have to hope that she doesn't check in here for a bit, but if she does there were a few things she drooled over so she won't know exactly what I got and will hopefully have forgotten by Christmas.
Somehow my handmade Christmas has gone out of the door LOL!
Doxie :o)
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Sharda University is an abode of global education where the students from 74+ countries pursue courses in diverse disciplines. In fact, all the students, who belong to a different culture, live under the roof of the university and share their emotions with each other. Holi is one of the biggest Indian festivals, defined by the colours, joy, and happiness everywhere. Hence, … [Read more...]
Sharda Half Marathon Consummated in a Graceful Manner
Sharda University Alumni Association, in association with Sharda Hospital, came up with Sharda Half Marathon 2018. It took place on 18th Feb, 6:30 AM. To begin with, the origin point was lush green 63-acre spread Sharda University campus and the theme of the race was 'Run for Health, Happiness & Unity'. Eventually, after the grand completion of Sharda Taj-Marathon 2016, … [Read more...]
Sharda University Adopted 5 Villages on 69th Republic Day
69th republic day was special for all of us as one more year added to the glory of Republic India. The university organized the republic day celebration with cultural events packed with zeal. Sharda University has emerged as truly a global university where students from 74+ countries pursue the quality education. In such a learning environment, republic day celebration proved … [Read more...]
6 Most Significant Steps to Kick off a Start-up in India
Gone are the days when budding entrepreneurs were failing to get a job or do something prosperous in their career. But, nowadays start-ups are the new black in the different industries with exorbitant success rate even in the nascent phase. At the present time, the success of a start-up solely depends upon how innovatively it is or will be among the public. After observing the … [Read more...]
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Three years ago, as a sixteen-year-old Sarah, I wrote two blog posts respectively titled The Road Not Taken and My Yellow Woods.
Tonight, as I sit here at my computer, part of me is laughing. Those two posts, which I lost when I switched my blog to WordPress, were about my decision (after a lot of prayer and soul-searching) to not pursue college after I graduated.
I graduated in May of 2016.
And tomorrow, August 14th, 2017, I will be starting college. It's a Community College, to get my Associate's degree in Business Office Technology, but still college.
Yeah. I'm really, really laughing.
To catch you up, since August of 2016, I have been working as a caregiver with Visiting Angels services. This job has been so much more than I anticipated, in both a negative and positive sense. I have cried and laughed and sometimes yelled (at home of course). I have learned so much.
My mom never really stopped talking about college, even after I started working. She would bring it up every two weeks or so, sometimes pushing, sometimes just dreaming. Most other people accepted what I had decided to do, what God had directed me to do.
Then, this summer, my parents and I had one of our fantastic (aka terrifying, tear-inducing) 'serious' talks. In the end, I realized I needed a steadier job- preferably a full-time job. It after two months of fruitless applications that I started thinking about college again.
I'm not going to go into the entire process, the obstacles God overcame, and the brilliant and perfect (of course) way He worked things out. What I want to focus on is this:
About halfway through the application process, I started panicking.
I know God is telling me to go to college, I thought, but does that mean I have been misunderstanding him and disobeying these last three years?
This thought terrified me. Had I just heard what I wanted to hear when praying that summer? Had I ignored what God was really telling me? Was He up in heaven sighing and thinking, 'Finally. I thought she'd never stop and listen.'
Had I been living in sin for three years?
The answer was, thankfully, quick to arrive.
No. No, I heard God correctly, sort of. He did tell me not to go to college- right out of high school. I don't pretend to understand most of what God plans and how He works, but I do know at least one reason He told me 'no' to college and then, now, is telling me 'yes'.
Because He is good. Because He is kind. Because He loves His children and knows us better than we know ourselves.
He knew I needed this past year. He knew I needed this time of working to do things in me, to teach me things I wouldn't have known the day after I graduated.
I learned things that ranged from serious to trivial.
On the trivial side, I learned how to talk on the phone. I have made a lot of phone calls to my office over the last year.
- I learned how to deal with dogs. Lots and lots of dogs. All kinds of dogs. Evil dogs. Sort of nice dogs. Lots of dogs have met me.
On the serious side, I learned how to listen when someone gave an opinion I was strongly against and when I wasn't allowed to debate or discuss in return.
- I learned how to clean up all sorts of things.
- I learned that simple gestures are incredibly important.
- I learned that God answers prayer, and that when others are praying for you, God hears them.
- I learned that God protects me.
This past year was not me living in sin.
This last year was simply part of my Christian growth. It was God preparing me for this new chapter. It was God giving me an entire year to slowly, slowly bring me around to the idea of college.
Because He is kind and loving like that.
I have had so many people tell me I should go to college. Only one or two were saying it with the addition of 'so you can get a good job'. Most of them said 'because you're so smart.'
I didn't believe them. I still don't, not exactly. I have never been very book smart. But, with a year of being out of school, I have realized that I love learning. I realized I missed it incredibly. I missed learning anything. So I am actually ecstatic to be going to college.
I've been telling people I'm nervous, and I realized this afternoon that I was inadvertently lying. So… I apologize.
Because actually, I'm not nervous.
I know I'm walking in God's will in this. I know He has set this path before me. He has provided everything I need and more to get me to this point, so why shouldn't I believe that He will help me learn? I learned to trust God through all of this. I learned to value His plan, to desire to seek Him and learn more about Him.
So while all the praise and glory goes to the Lord, I want to say thank you to some of you, readers, real quick.
Thank you to my Sunday School class of older ladies. You have impacted me so much, and each and every one of you are precious to me. You have encouraged me in work and now in school, and you have prayed for me. I can't thank you enough for that gift.
Thank you to Paul Loftness. Paul, you told me that day we did those video interviews for MUN that I really ought to think about college- even Baylor, where you are attending. I can't remember if I was speechless or not, but looking back I still get tongue-tied. That you, someone I consider to be a genius, thought I was smart enough to not just go to college but get into somewhere like Baylor, was mind-blowing. Thanks fort that encouragement.
To Diane Loftness. Thank you for always pushing me. Thank you for all the things you wanted me to go and do, even if I didn't pursue them. Your dedication and hard work in MUN has and will continue to impact me for the rest of my life. You, like Paul, believed I could… do things. Accomplish things I never believe of myself. Thank you so very much for all you have taught me.
To my grandparents. Thank you for your support, emotional and physical. You let me talk and sometimes make a fool of myself, and yet you too think I can do these great things. Thank you again for your help with school this year, but more than that, thank you for the love you have always shown me. Thank you for your words of advice, your hugs, your bear stories, your spaghetti, your love. I cannot imagine better grandparents and mentors.
To my parents. Guys… you are incredible. Your willingness to support me, again, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, through my life is… something I hope I can emulate half as good for my own spouse and children. You are an amazing example to me and my siblings. Thank you for your work on the various aspects of applying, for calling the school and asking questions, for letting me cry, for letting me rant and be an idiot (and then correcting/teaching me of course). Thank you for your love. I am so often in awe of all that you do for us and for me. I can never thank you enough. I love you so, so much.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
My 'road less traveled' has had many twist and turns, some U-turns, some hikes, and even some cliff-jumping. That likely will always be the case. It is life, after all. But I will rest, even more securely now, because I know Who made the road and I know what lies at the end.
There will be many more yellow woods to come and the choices will be hard. But that does not mean God has left me.
"…for He has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we can confidently say, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?'"


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Teacher Ichika Kamihata is having a meeting with her student Nagomi. It seems Nagomi grades are not good and Ichika can help her. She convinces her to take off her school outfit and Ichika starts to her body. She licks her small tits and looks at Nagomi's shaved pussy. She finger fucks her pussy then Ichika takes cell phone pictures of her masturbating. She bends Nagomi over the desk and eats out her cunt from behind. She kisses Nagomi and smiles at her student.
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As TV channels began streaming news of the Uri attack, Such Ballianwali village in Punjab's Bathinda district began fearing the worst for one of its own — Lance Naik Sukhwinder Singh (31). For his family, the sense of impending doom was not without reason. A while before the news broke, the soldier's father, Harnek Singh, had received a call from the Army for details of his son.
By 9 pm on Friday, the villagers' worst fears were confirmed: Sukhwinder Singh was among the eight Armymen killed in the militant attack. "We got a call from his unit and they wanted details about Sukhwinder, as if they were confirming if they were calling the right man's family. They did not tell us anything else. But we saw news… So we all had started preparing for bad news," said Harnek Singh.
The family's pain is compounded by the fact that Sukhwinder, who joined the Army 11 years ago, had applied for leave this month, to attend a wedding, but then postponed it as he wanted to attend another marriage next year and was also hopeful of being transferred closer home.
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Indian Development Foundation condoles the death of the former Vice President of India Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on 15th May 2010 in Jaipur.
A great administrator, leader, reformer and three times Chief Minister of the desert state of India, Rajasthan, Shri Shekhawat was also a staunch supporter of leprosy eradication programmes.
IDF family pays homage to the veteran leader and pray for the eternal rest of the departed soul.
Dr. Narayan B. Iyer discussing a point with the Former Vice President Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat at the National Conference on Integration & Empowerment of Leprosy Affected Persons at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 4th Oct. 2006.
[Shri Shekhawat underlines the need for integrating leprosy cured persons into the social mainstream. http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=21140 ]
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Baylor Missions Sprang to Action for Spring Break 2015March 26, 2015
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Media contact: Terry Goodrich, (254) 710-3321
WACO, Texas (March 26, 2015) – Trading in sandy toes for service projects, five teams from Baylor Missions traveled domestically and internationally this spring break for a week of missions.
"It's really one of the greatest ways you can integrate your faith and what you're learning in the classroom with service. It really allows you to see how your gifts and callings can be used in a global context," said Holly Widick, assistant director for Baylor Missions.
Baylor Missions is a part of the Office of Spiritual Life at Baylor University. Its mission is to essentially grow and integrate theological depth, spiritual wholeness and missional living in lives of students, faculty and staff through formational programming, missional experience, pastoral care and worship.
The teams visited work sites in Peru, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and along the Texas border. Each team had an individual focus ranging from medical to sports missions, incorporating these disciplines into their respective service.
Peru Nursing Team
A team of 13 nursing students traveled from Baylor's Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas to Lima, Peru. They worked alongside a local church, Iglesia Evangelica Baptista Morada de Dios, in the local community by offering health education and physical assessments. Teams also took time to research local health practices.
Dominican Republic Multicultural Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) Team
MAPS partnered with the Good Samaritan Mission Council in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Eleven students and one Baylor staff member served in the Dominican Republic. Students served and shadowed in local medical clinics, observing and practicing routine checkups.
Guatemala American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Team
American Medical Student Association (AMSA) sent 19 students, two Baylor faculty members and a guest medical doctor to serve in the Guatemalan communities of La Cieneguilla, Huehuetenango and La Victoria, Quetzaltenango. Through a partnership with a local organization called Global CHE the team served locals within a mountainous region where many locals are unable to receive necessary medical treatments. Most locals typically live their whole lives with problems such as parasites, diabetes and ulcers. The team helped set up temporary clinics to bring free care to the locals.
Guatemala Sports & Community Development Team
In this new missions project, 11 students, one Baylor faculty member and a university guest partnered with Buckner International in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Students participated in community development with Buckner Family Hope Center, a sports camp for children served through Family Hope Center, English as a Second Language for adults and children at Family Hope Center and hands-on projects.
Texas Urban Mission Team: Eagle Pass
Sixteen students and two Baylor staff members journeyed to Eagle Pass, Texas, to partner with Mission Border Hope and Literacy ConneXus. For their third year, Baylor Missions students engaged in literacy work and building meaningful relationships with students. They read with preschoolers in day care centers in the morning and provided afternoon literacy programs for children who live in Eagle Pass and the surrounding communities. They also worked with the Restorative Justice Program by building relationships with students in the program.
Baylor School of Education Spring Break Effort in Costa Rica
In addition to the Baylor Missions spring break trips, the Baylor School of Education (SOE) hosted its annual spring break to Costa Rica.
Randy Wood, Ph.D., professor in the SOE's department of curriculum and instruction, and Trena Wilkerson, Ph.D., SOE professor of curriculum and instruction, led a team of 25 Baylor students March 6 to San Jose, Costa Rica, to distribute the books. Wood and Wilkerson partnered with community leaders in San Jose who saw a need to supply instruction and curriculum books for the children and teachers who had only a few per classroom.
For more information, visit BU Missions
by Sarah Czerwinski, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805
Baylor University is a private Christian University and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 16,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 12 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
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Soul Glow Schedule:
June 9 & 23
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August 11 & 25
9:15am - 10:15am
Same format as Zumba but with all Christian themed music!
Zumba Kids!
Jefferson Parish
There will be Zumba Kids classes available at Girard Playground this summer. Registration for Summer 1 ends June 4th. See details here!
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M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) traveler's checks of nonbank issuers; (3) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (4) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) and automatic transfer service (ATS) accounts at depository institutions, credit union share draft accounts, and demand deposits at thrift institutions. Seasonally adjusted M1 is constructed by summing currency, traveler's checks, demand deposits, and OCDs, each seasonally adjusted separately.
M2 consists of M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts); (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000), less individual retirement account (IRA) and Keogh balances at depository institutions; and (3) balances in retail money market mutual funds, less IRA and Keogh balances at money market mutual funds. Seasonally adjusted M2 is constructed by summing savings deposits, small-denomination time deposits, and retail money funds, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M1.
So you think M3 is valuable as a measure of money supply?
I realize the shortcomings of some of these numbers, and M3 isn't an answer to all the information that we would like. But it's better than not having it. I think it does represent a reflection of Federal Reserve policy. For them to quit reporting it you have to ask, why?
Ok--we'll bite. Why?
I don't know exactly why, but the Fed gives answers. They claim that it costs too much money and they don't use M3 any more. My argument to [Fed Chairman] Bernanke the other day was: some of us like M3, and Congress has a right to this type of information. There are still a few people in the country that think money supply's important, and M3 is a reflection of money supply. I mentioned that there are a few economic schools of thought that are still concerned about M3, although some deny it has any value.
The most interesting thing was when he said it cost too much to collect [the data for compiling M3]. I kid the Fed about that, and say, I don't why you should be concerned about it. If you need to spend money you just print it.
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I think this denial of the M3 information is just another effort to direct attention to the Congress, or the Arabs charging too much for oil, or the price of education going up too much, or the cost of medical care rising too fast. The Fed wants to direct your attention away from the real culprit: the creation of money and credit.
What do you think the Fed should be doing these days?
Ultimately, I wouldn't even have a Federal Reserve system, because you don't need one. Even Friedman, with his monetarism, thinks we shouldn't have a Federal Reserve manipulating interest rates.
This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session.
Inflation can also be described as a decline in the real value of money—a loss of purchasing power in the medium of exchange which is also the monetary unit of account.[3] When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, which is the percentage change in a price index over time.
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I asked the same question to Bernanke, and he totally ignored it. I said, M3's growing twice as fast as M2. And the change in the growth is important too. A couple of years ago M3 wasn't growing quite as fast, and in the last eight or nine months it's accelerated.
Originally posted by Shadowflux
I think it's a safe bet to say that if the M3 was still produced it's total would be much higher than the current M2 for this month. I think it's impossible that the Stimulus and Bailout totals would exceed the totals for the M2. I mean, how can we be giving out more money than we actually have?
Originally posted by Shadowflux
It is what it is, as my dad always says. These are the times we live in, we just have to take it a day at a time and remember what is truly valuable in life, those that we love and the time we spend with them.


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Originally published by Voices of Liberty
Sometimes candidates want to keep their cards close to their chest while they wear a poker face. They do this when they have strategies they don't want to give out to the public. They especially don't want their game plan leaked to competitors. Then there's the self-appointed champion of transparency, Hillary Clinton, who's not talking to reporters AT ALL.
National Journal and NPR reported that, since launching her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has answered a whopping 13 questions from reporters. The fact that some of these are softball questions is obvious.
Q: "How are you liking Iowa?"
A: "I'm having a great time."
This is one question that Hillary chose to answer directly, as opposed to questions she's deflected or dodged altogether.
ABC News's Cecilia Vega asked Hillary a real question: "Did foreign entities receive any special treatment for making any kind of donations to the foundation or your husband?"
Clinton's response: "Well, we're back into the political season and therefore we will be subjected to all kinds of distraction and attacks. And I'm ready for that…"
How is that question a distraction, anyway? The American people have a right to know that a potential President hasn't been using the power of federal office to sell political favors. It's a simple "yes" or "no" answer. Perhaps I've been a Boy Scout way too long, but any answer other than "Hell no!" is unacceptable for someone who wishes to hold the highest office in the land.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill calls this the "ramp-up period" of Hillary's campaign. In this ramp-up phase, Hillary will completely avoid talking to the media and instead she'll be "engaging in hours of public question and answers sessions," which are not public but actually closed-door events. NPR's Tamara Keith has been following the Clinton campaign and attended one of these Q&A sessions with "the public." Says Keith, "All we saw was the back of her head as she walked out of the room, to applause from a small hand-selected group of participants and observers."
At another occasion in Iowa, Cecilia Vega asked Clinton a vital question: "What would you say to Americans who want to know why you are running?" The deep, thoughtful response was this: "I'm running to be the champion to Americans and their families, so that we cannot just worry about treading water, but you can get ahead and you can stay ahead." (It sounds as if Hillary has been borrowing from the Barack Obama campaign play book of empty slogans.)
If someone were to ask Rand Paul why he was running, he would give specific policy goals and milestones like "I want to audit the Federal Reserve, I want to abolish the TSA and the NSA so the government stops spying on American citizens, I want to end America's drug war which is killing the black community…" The list goes on. Hillary, on the other hand, will be "the champion" so you can "get ahead" and "stay ahead."
All these forehead-smacking pearls of wisdom have been brought to you by Hillary Clinton, self-appointed "champion of Americans and their families." She also holds the reigning (self-awarded) title of champion of transparency. As we can see from her conduct in Iowa (and the federal investigation on her 18 minutes of missing tape—err, make that 32,000 missing emails and a server)—she is so transparent, she won't talk to the media and keep everyday Americans informed.
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First Hillary Clinton image courtesy of Voices of Liberty. Second Hillary Clinton image courtesy of Voice of America and in the public domain.


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She doesn't play much, a couple of pounds a week, maybe. Down at the grainy local store which is stuck is some past age. The Indian shopkeeper, with dark wells for eyes, watches her as she chooses the numbers with her head down. How does she pick the numbers? Once upon a time, it was sentimental numbers, ages, dates of births. They've been used up, many times over, many years over. Now she chooses some other way. Numbers join together, somehow and pick themselves, after some hovering.
The shopkeeper takes the money, picked with agitated hands by Ma. He processes the ticket and they part with thanks. One dull and wooden, the other like a flicker of candle-light before a draught. The door jangles and the cold claims Ma again. She doesn't know the numbers, she doesn't know the day, it is all part of the powerless game she has been required to play, all her life.
She does not dream of a house to replace the dingy cereal box which she enters with a push of the door. It is dark and cramped and the ticket is in the bag. She does not expect but hope is also stowed away, secretly, in that bag. It'll be brought out, crumple faced and lifeless. She will check it for life and, as usual, the slithers of numbers will not move. There is hardly any disappointment in crumpling the paper and dropping it in the bin. No sadness beyond the constant sadness. Just resignation and a walk to return to the kitchen. Allah has granted her martyrdom but as life ebbs away, it seems, she is, instead, nothing more notable than roadkill. She plays the lotto to cheat her fate; who can blame her? She goes to the other temple, before the other God – and receives the same answer.


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The Syrian war is not just one conflict, but several conflicts which interact with one another. Syria has become a quagmire in which nobody can win but all can lose.
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I am beyond excited to have Nikki Loftin by the blog today. I absolutely adored her debut, THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY, and her new release, NIGHTINGALE'S NEST, sounds just as brilliant.
About the Author: Nikki Loftin is a writer and native Texan who lives just outside Austin, Texas, with her two boys, two dogs, nine chickens, and one very patient husband. She writes Middle Grade novel-length fiction as well as personal essays, puppet plays, articles, poems, and short stories. Nikki is represented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary Agency. Her debut novel, The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy, was published by Razorbill (Penguin) in Summer 2012. Her second book, Nightingale's Nest , will come out on Feb. 20, 2014.
What is your favorite thing about middle grade?
My favorite thing about middle grade books is how important they are! When I ask adults what books shaped them, molded them into the people they became, they almost never come back with an adult title. Bridge to Terabithia, A Wrinkle in Time, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe… these are the kinds of books that leave deep, significant impressions in our lives. Middle grade books have staying power.
What does a typical writing day look like for you?
I have to work my writing schedule around my Zumba job and raising two boys, but on a very good writing day, I'll hit the desk at 7:45 a.m. in my pajamas. When I'm drafting, I won't get up for anything but lunch, tea, or chocolate breaks until around 2:30. (I do get up to change into real clothes before the school bus arrives! Got to keep up appearances.)
If I'm revising? I will get up for five thousand breaks, call everyone I know to make sure they're feeling adequately sorry for me, and whine and moan about my horrible writing to my dogs, my goats, and any telemarketers who mistakenly call. I hate revising. Hate hate hate it. I wish it weren't the most important part of writing a book.
What is one of your favorite middle grade reads?
Just one? Not fair! I'll give you two. Lynda Mullaly Hunt's amazing One for the Murphys is truly a masterpiece, and years after I first read it, I find myself thinking about her main character, that prickly, tender-hearted Carley Connors, and wondering how she's doing. Lynda made her characters so incredibly real, I feel like I know them. More recently, Anne Ursu's The Real Boy became one of my favorite fantasy MG reads. Her world-building and fairy-tale twisting delights me, especially coupled with such gorgeous language.
If you could swap lives with any character in literature for a day, who would you pick?
Easy! Pippi Longstocking. I would have everything I wanted as a child: A monkey, a horse, bags of gold, great friends, trees to climb, utter independence, red hair, and super strength.
That sounds like a smart swap :). Now, what is next for you?
I'm finishing up my next middle grade novel, Wish Girl, about a boy who moves to the countryside, near a valley that seems utterly magical. He meets a smart, bossy girl who may or may not make wishes come true…and also may need him to help her stay alive.
I think readers who enjoy Nightingale's Nest will love this one. It's not a fairy-tale retelling, but it's full of magic and danger and a pinch of tragedy, too.
Well I definitely cannot wait for WISH GIRL, Nikki – that sounds fantastic. Thanks so much for stopping by
About NIGHTINGALE'S NEST: Twelve-year-old John Fischer Jr., or "Little John" as he's always been known, is spending his summer helping his father with his tree removal business, clearing brush for Mr. King, the wealthy owner of a chain of Texas dollar stores, when he hears a beautiful song that transfixes him. He follows the melody and finds, not a bird, but a young girl sitting in the branches of a tall sycamore tree.
There's something magical about this girl, Gayle, especially her soaring singing voice, and Little John's friendship with Gayle quickly becomes the one bright spot in his life, for his home is dominated by sorrow over his sister's death and his parents' ever-tightening financial difficulties.
But then Mr. King draws Little John into an impossible choice—forced to choose between his family's survival and a betrayal of Gayle that puts her future in jeopardy.
Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, Nightingale's Nest is an unforgettable novel about a boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a girl with the gift of healing in her voice.
Now, I also have an exclusive excerpt from the book. Check it out:
When I first heard Gayle, I couldn't tell if she was a bird or a girl. All I knew for sure was that the music she made wasn't like anything I'd heard before. It was magic.
Even a kid like me could recognize that.
I'd just come from clearing brush on the Emperor's property. He wasn't really an Emperor, of course. His name was Mr. Azariah King, but he'd owned a chain of those almost-everything-for-a-dollar stores in our part of Texas for years, called Emperor's Emporiums, so everybody called him the Emperor.
Except for my dad. He hated the man. But not enough to turn down a steady ten-week job for the summer, even if it was almost a hundred degrees most days. Money was money, and our landlord wasn't going to wait until a better job came along, Mom told us. Dad said he wasn't as worried about rent as he was about getting our cable TV hooked back up; he hadn't been able to catch a single baseball game since the end of May.
So Dad, the Big John of Big John's Tree and Brush Removal, had taken the job to work on the Emperor's failing pecan trees, all hundred and four acres of them. As for me, I was only twelve, but I'd grown seven inches in nine months. Dad said I was old enough and strong enough to learn how to work with trees during summer vacation. And if I messed up, cut too deep into one of the Emperor's pecans and killed it? He said that would serve the money-grubber right.
I didn't care if I killed a tree, either. I thought the world would be a better place if every tree in it was cut down.
Sounds awesome, right? You can preorder the book at Amazon | B&N | Book Depository or other major retailers :)
So are you guys excited for Nightingale's Nest release in a few days? Check back for my review sometime this week or early next week as well :)


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Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1917
August in Saratoga County comes to a climax this week with the opening of the Saratoga County Fair today and tomorrow's official opening of the state convention of the Women's Suffrage Party.
Governor Charles S. Whitman is expected to touch base at both events. He's scheduled to give a speech at the fair tomorrow afternoon before addressing the suffrage convention in the evening.
"The fair opened today," The Saratogian reports, "and while the exhibits were not all in place at the opening hours, as the day progressed order was brought out of chaos and when the races were over those who cared to could have obtained a view of the exhibits in all their freshness."
As an alternative to the track, the fair offers harness racing, as well as numerous exhibits of livestock, produce and craft goods.
"One attraction that will be watched with more interest in the hall than any other is spinning yarn with an old fashioned spinning wheel," one reporter predicts.
"Mrs. Ayers, who used the spinning wheel in her youth, has kindly consented to demonstrate the use of the spinning wheel, for the benefit of the present generation, for a short time each day."
For the second time in three years, voters will have a chance to decide whether women in New York State will get the right to vote. After the defeat of a 1915 referendum, suffrage advocates are confident that voters will go the other way in 1917.
While the Women's Suffrage Party convention kicks off formally at Convention Hall tomorrow, an open-air rally outside the United States Hotel tonight serves to welcome delegates to the Spa City. Mistress of ceremonies Margaret Foley introduces a lineup of speakers, as her own "wonderful voice reached to the farthest bounds of the big crowd."
The most unusual orator of the night is Barbara de Porte, "a beautiful young Russian who has been in this country only three years, yet has found time to graduate with distinction at Cornell University.
"With an accent which charmed all who heard her, Miss de Porte asked the men of New York State to give votes to their women on November 6, as the Russian Provisional government had already to Russian women. "
Russia's monarchy was replaced with a republic after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated earlier this year. "Russian women voted in the recent elections on the same terms as men," de Porte notes.
Representing Erie County, Mary Carson "spoke of the meaning of democracy and demonstrated how impossible it was to have a true democracy with only one-half of the people represented."
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I finished the show tonight, so I am feeling pretty amped about getting some time back in my life. It has been a hectic several weeks and I have really been craving a movie or some art or something that I don't feel guilty about doing/seeing.
I know that my guilt is self-created - I just have such a strong sense of responsibility. Sometimes it is a good thing, sometimes, not.
The show went pretty well, although I am working on a plan to really get back to feeling prepared for shows in a more comprehensive way. It is easy to get complacent and not really commit. I have all the shows on CD for the remainder of the season, so I'm putting them all on my iPod so that I can start listening and getting them into my body. That's the biggest thing for me - if I don't listen to the music early enough, it is this giant barricade in the process for me.
Next up is "HAIR". I have the movie on video and I have the new Broadway version CD, so I will be starting with that this weekend. I have until the end of December, but why wait? I'm feeling good about my plan to up my game for this year. I like having a plan.


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Dictator on a comeback in Guatemala
December 13, 2002 | Page 6
Dear Socialist Worker,
Beginning in 1954 with a coup backed by the U.S. and carried out by the CIA, Guatemala became the scene of horrible human rights violations and brutal dictatorships.
During the miserable years that followed, the worst by far were 1982 and 1983. During this time, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt was in power as a result of a military coup and, with the support of the U.S., slaughtered tens of thousands of Guatemalans. Of the victims, most were indigenous people of the highlands. Countless others were tortured and raped.
This attempt at genocide had support from the Reagan administration and was carried out in the name of fighting communist guerrillas. Reagan praised Rios Montt, describing him as "dedicated to democracy." However, while Reagan was aiding "democracy," the people of the highlands of Guatemala were living a nightmare. Massacres took place daily in these towns.
In 1983, Rios Montt was overthrown by Gen. Mejia Victores. In 1985, an amendment to the constitution said that no one who has ever gained power as a result of a military coup in the past could run for the presidency.
The years following saw political instability as usual. But in 1996, Alvaro Arzu was elected president and signed the 1996 Peace Accord between the army and guerrillas, ending 36 years of civil war.
Unfortunately, in the 1999 election, Alfonso Portillo of the Guatemala Republican Front (FRG), the right-wing party of Rios Montt, was elected president. Even worse, Rios Montt became president of Congress when the FRG won a majority of the seats. The new government is threatening to change the constitution, and Rios Montt is already buying votes in hopes of running for the presidency in November 2003.
Many of the people who will vote in the election aren't aware of the atrocities that took place in the highlands. We must raise awareness about this situation and build a movement across the world against thugs such as Rios Montt.
Jean Howell, Davis, Calif.