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Bay fans deprived of NFL's top games
The really bad news from the most recent NFL weekend, beyond even the Raiders' lethargy against the Saints, is that the Bay Area has become Los Angeles, circa 1994. Folks to the south, stuck with the hapless Rams and the attendance-challenged Raiders, couldn't watch much great football on the tube. They were thwarted by blackouts, the ripple effects of blackout or the appearance of the Rams.
On Sunday, two of the best football games of the season took place, and neither appeared on Bay Area stations. The Jets and New England, the undefeated and the uber-undefeated, met in the afternoon game, and we were locked out. Philadelphia met Cleveland in the early game, and we saw almost none of it.
KTVU (Channel 2), the local Fox affiliate, showed a little of the late action, then cut away with about 3 minutes to go, sending the audience back to the studio and then relaying us to the largely irrelevant opening kickoff of the Dallas-Green Bay game. At one point, the guys in the studio informed viewers that Cleveland had tied the Eagles, forcing overtime. At another point, we learned that the Eagles had won on a field goal. I can't remember who announced it, or whether he received the score by carrier pigeon, but the whole scene was rather primitive.
The blackout rule and the Raiders, still attendance-challenged after a change of address, conspired to deprive the Bay Area of great football. The Jets-Patriots game was never going to come our way, because it started at the same time as the New Orleans-Oakland tilt, which had all the entertainment value of a QVC figurine sale. Whether the Raiders pulled off a sellout or not, that time slot was taken, untouchable.
If the Raiders had sold out, the Philadelphia-Cleveland game might have been on Bay Area screens. Granted, the overtime would have been cut off by the home team's appearance, but at least the Bay Area would have seen four quarters of the most significant game for the 49ers this year.
The Terrell Owens-Jeff Garcia reunion was an extension of their San Francisco feud, and whether you are tired of them, exasperated with the hype over them and wish that the media simply would move on, this game held more local and national appeal than anything we got in this market, Dallas and Green Bay on Fox, Jacksonville and Indianapolis on CBS.
In Sacramento, people could see the game. Sacramento can get the best of the NFL on TV because it doesn't have an NFL team.
The blackout rule, in its simplest terms, makes sense. Lifting it would only discourage fans from paying for the privilege of waiting in horrid traffic jams outside a stadium. But the ancillary rules, about what area gets a doubleheader and when, don't add up for either the audience or the league's bean-counters. The NFL always has understood that it must operate as a unit to thrive and that it must constantly work to capture the next generation's attention. Putting second-tier games on television won't accomplish that.
The next set of television contracts, due to go into effect after the 2005 season, need to make the blackout rules more malleable. ABC already has begun pushing for a big change in "Monday Night Football," allowing the schedule to be flexible so that the network can move surprising contenders into the prime-time slot and jettison the teams that looked deceptively good the year before.
The ancillary blackout rules should be revised to create fewer obstacles to airing premier games in NFL markets. The Bay Area is already guaranteed a heavy dose of mediocrity because both local teams always will be on the air when they travel, and because the 49ers, against all reason, continue to sell out, guaranteeing their home games a place on the TV grid. Sunday was a rare opportunity to see the big games, because the bye week mercifully had arrived for the 49ers.
It didn't happen for a number of reasons, not the least of which is competition between Fox and CBS. Showing the Jets and Patriots not only would have created a diversion for anyone considering a trip to the Coliseum, it also would have stolen the 1 p.m. slot from Fox, and the later game almost always does better than the one that starts in the still-hung-over zone.
These are the things to be handled at the negotiating table. The networks aren't entirely competitors when they sign together with the NFL. They become promoters for the same product, trying to sustain and advance pro football as a leading entertainment option.
On Sunday, in the Bay Area, that didn't happen. We got no local teams, no Garcia, no Owens, no Tom Brady, no Chad Pennington. We got studio updates instead of live football, making Howie Long look just a little bit like "Heidi. " We got to be Los Angeles before it bid a happy farewell to both its teams, and on the whole, we would rather have been Sacramento.


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This morning, I got up, made an espresso, opened a news feed to discover that next year at this time the museum of the Bible will open, all 430,000 square feet of it, two blocks from the National Mall. I became nauseous and numb just like when— you know. I mean, come on, enough's enough. That ridiculous Arc, now this. Your just trying to gobble it all up aren't you? Courtesy of the discriminating people of Hobby Lobby and their ilk. A more apropos name would be the Museum of primitive myth based religion and the worship of the supernatural.
From the time we were hunter gatherers religion has played a significant role in shaping our relationship to and understanding of the natural world. Today we live in a rapidly changing world and this causes unease for many people. I think we are at the crossroads of survival of untold species. Prayers and magical thinking won't save us from our selves. All of the worlds people's reject all the religions that preceded their own. They were obviously wrong and were based on people's primitive understanding of their world at the time. It shouldn't surprise you to learn that is precisely how the secular world views all religions.
It truly is an amazing time to be alive. New discoveries seemingly happen daily. Religions on the other hand, are permanently rooted in the era they were created. The books that religions are based on are demonstrably in error. For instance the rock we live on is 4,500,000,000 years old give or take a day or few. And no I wasn't there. We are spinning at 800 miles per hr. as we hurtle around the sun at 65,000 miles per hr. as our solar system accompanies our galaxy to nowhere in particular.
Over time a convergence of elements and conditions combined to foster life on our rock. It must have been like Goldie Locks's porridge, just right. Anyway, once it started, Earth seems to be something of a "perpetual motion" organic life machine. All this was happening over hundreds of millions of years. We, Homo Sapiens, are a product of those changing conditions and wow how we have thrived.
Without us our planet would still constantly change. It seems that we have knowingly and with malus of forethought pumped millions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere creating an alarming global calamity and in October, 2016 we passed 400 ppm of CO2, the so-called point of no return. The ripple effect on all the earths natural systems and subsequent environmental changes do not bode well. Why would anyone reject the science on this. Open and shut, end of story.
If the Earth is figuratively our "mother" she takes no interest in our survival. Indeed, somewhere in the neighborhood of 99% of all species that have ever existed on Earth are extinct. GONE! Only a preciouse few fossilized have been found for us to note their passing. The entire universe is deadly to organic life. That's us. Did you know that our atmosphere is only about 80 miles thick and that ¾ of all the atmospheric material is in less than 7 miles of the planets surface.
FYI (Wikipedia: earths atmosphere; By volume, dry air contains 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen,[1] 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. Air also contains a variable amount of water vapor, on average around 1% at sea level, and 0.4% over the entire atmosphere. Air content and atmospheric pressure vary at different layers, and air suitable for use in photosynthesis by terrestrial plants and breathing of terrestrial animals is found only in Earth's troposphere and in artificial atmospheres.
These conditions evolved over billions of years to create a sweet zone for life. Note that CO2 is only four one hundreths of one percent of the total. A proverbial pixie fart of carbon dioxide. We pump millions of tons of it in the atmosphere daily. Now that the point of no return (400 ppm) has passed we should do everything thing we can to mitigate the problem. The pentagon has been trying to stay ahead of the problem for years. Coastal cities worldwide are investing billions upon billions to protect themselves from the inevitable. Countries near the equator will be to warm for humans without an artificial environment.
Most of the worlds nations signed a treaty to deal with this very important issue. We will never destroy the earth just make it uninhabitable for humans. With the majority of humanity holding to primitive notions of our natural world, codes of behavior, gender roles, political constructs, environmental health, conflict resolutions, crime, punishment and the existence of the supernatural, we will have a nearly impossible task of improving our chance for longterm survival. Isn't it obvious. Tribalism, theology/sectarianism and the notion of nation states are antithetical to our species survival.
These Bronze Age concepts need to be relegated to the scrap heap of history or we're literally in a for a world of hurt.
I offer these questions for your consideration.
"Why should anyone feel compelled to be subservient to a benevolent benefactor? Put another way, what kind of dick expects to be worshipped for doing what came naturally?" Nationofnope.


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Emily sent us the following email on Monday, November 18, 2013:
How are you doing? I miss you!
I'm having a great time in Santa Clarita! It is totally different here than in the valley. I got into a little slump of comfort where I'd stopped approaching everyone and making friends with them. After about a week and a half of that, I wasn't feeling right and knew that things had to change. I knew that we needed to be finding more investigators so that we could cycle through the people that weren't progressing. We needed to find the people that were prepared and that were perishing by the wayside. I studied finding [How do I find people to teach?] in Preach My Gospel. I wrote down all the things that I could pray to have help with. (Examples: to have the courage to be bold and open my mouth, to have the faith to find, to trust that Heavenly Father would help me teach them the right thing, the spiritual sensitivity to know who to talk to, etc.) I was actually pretty down and I had no choice but to study and pray and plan and act. I had my list of about 10 things that I could pray for and then I would pray before either leaving the apartment or the car. We found SO much this last week. It was incredible. I didn't passively walk past people, but I stopped every person and chased after some people. The lady we chased after in Jakes way (Tina) told us that she knew she needed to give more time to the Lord and loved the story of the restoration and wanted us to come over to her house Friday to explain it more. She shared two little sandwiches she had that she was bringing home from work with her. She is one of our new investigators.
The man at night that was checking the mail box--His name is Miguel. He was very impressed that two blancas could speak Spanish. We joked about the mail, flossing (he works as a dental assistant) (Yes, I have the flossing technique/gospel analogy) and then he invited us to sit on his porch with him and tell us the difference between Catholic beliefs and Mormon beliefs. About twice he told us that he was Catholic because his parents were and that is how he was born. We taught him the Restoration (our unique message as latter day saints). He was really curious to have a Libro De Mormon once I'd told him that was the gift of God to us letting all his children know that Joseph Smith was chosen by Him to lead and guide us. Miguel is a new investigator.
Once Heavenly Father knew that we were going to be diligent and talk to everyone in our path, he knew it wouldn't be wasted efforts to put people that were prepared into our paths. It's cool how there are things that you can do to gain the trust of Heavenly Father. Let me give you some examples. And they all almost have to do with being diligent.
- If Heavenly Father knows that you will always be obedient, then he knows he can trust you and he can set up situations that you will fall into by being obedient.
- If you humble yourself and just do roleplaying, then Heavenly Father knows that he can trust you with investigators because He knows that you truly care for them and will take the time to prepare for them. (role playing is like cutting around a grapefruit for someone: a true act of love)
- If Heavenly Father knows that you will go where you planned you would be the night before, then he can have someone else in that general vicinity even if the person you think you are looking for isn't there. (we could probably be better at this one)
- If you promise to talk to everyone you see, he will open your spiritual eyes and let you see the one that needs your message.
- If you study preach my gospel, opportunities will present themselves throughout the day for you to use the things you learned. He is showing you that he is in control.
Man, it's just so cool! There is a lot of repenting (changing) I need to do! I repented during sacrament yesterday and recommitted myself to being a more diligent and trustworthy agent for God! I love that he lets us start fresh in his eyes every week and doesn't hold things against us. I'm trying very hard to make Him proud and let him know that he can trust me. I'm trying to show him that I will treasure up the things of Him so that when called upon, things can come into my memory. I'm trying to be his tool, and that brings me such great joy.
Ok, I have got to tell you about Anayeli! I love this little girl so much! Anayeli is such a sweet girl. she is only 14 years old, but if you met her you would think she was at least 16. She has a difficult life. She is always sacrificing for everyone around her. She hurries home from school so that she can be there to help take care of her nieces because her sister leaves her kids there and goes out. She spends the time she has with them.
She has a baptismal date for the 1st of December. She is acting in faith to find more comfort and strength in her life.
The other day we taught her the word of wisdom. It was SUCH a cool lesson. We talked about how Satan wants people to fall and he wants to cut off their communication with Dios. When fighting a war, the enemy knows that the best chance they have to overtake the others is to cut off their communication. That is exactly what Satan tries to do with us. He will do anything he can to keep us from having that connecting, unifying communication with Heavenly Father. The second that we choose to break the Word of Wisdom and put a drop of anything into our body, instantly, we forfeit the presence of the Holy Ghost. When our bodies are drunk or high, it acts as a barrier in between our spirits and Dios. Because our spirits have to dwell in these mortal bodies and be subject to all consequences of being human, we have to work hard to keep our spiritual receptiveness up.
Anayeli would've had a different childhood if she'd had parents that had lived the Word of Wisdom. When we taught her this law she cried. I asked her if she could see why God had given us this law and if she thought it was from him. She said that she could tell it was from him.
The Word of Wisdom is a law of health from God. It is supposed to keep us healthy physically and spiritually. There might be things that we don't think will hurt us physically, and maybe they won't, but that is really beside the point. They hurt us spiritually and there is no way around that. We also have the Word of Wisdom to show that we are going to be obedient. If none of these benefits even existed and it wasn't a commandment from God, the Word of Wisdom alone, would still save many marriages. I told Anayeli that she will be able to marry someone in the temple that will keep the Word of Wisdom. With that she will know that her husband will not spend money on drugs, get drunk and be mean to her or her kids, waste time bumming around, leave her to go smoke with his buddies. If nothing else, the Word of Wisdom is meant to save marriages and help people live up to their privilege as children of God. Drugs rob you of real happiness and leave you empty. She's young, but not that young and she's seen a lot of things. Now she is more aware of the adversary and his tactics. We have another set of eyes that we can open to see that we have the choice to either follow God or to let the adversary have his way. Ana's eyes are opening and it is so cool to see her seeing this life for the test that it is. I feel like my eyes are opening to this too.
I felt prompted to tell her that all the things she was learning right now were because she would have people put into her life that would need her and they would need her to help them with the knowledge that she was learning from the Holy Ghost right then.
She told us that she felt something. That it was warm. Like a hug.
Emily also sent this photo with the caption, "I built this temple." It appears to be quite a feat of engineering!


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President Barack Obama has been abandoned by the world of finance.
Over the course of the 2012 election, his presidential campaign has
received about one dollar in donations from the financial sector for
every five dollars given to his top competitor, Mitt Romney, according
to figures provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP). During
the final three months of 2011, however, the margin has widened
The Huffington Post examined campaign contributions from four highly
influential finance sectors to both Obama and Romney. Using categories
compiled by CRP, the 20 most politically active commercial banks, hedge
funds, securities firms and "private equity and investment" firms were
pinpointed (i.e. those with the strongest history of political
donations); some lists overlapped. But between them, 68 separate
companies were identified.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, Romney raised $1.49 million from
employees of those 68 companies while the president's reelection
campaign raised just $127,000 -- an 11.7-to-1 ratio. It was the most
lucrative quarter for Romney yet.
"Clearly it was a great quarter for Romney, in terms of fundraising
from Wall Street and from securities and banking firms, in particular
the biggest one," said Sheila Krumholz, CRP's executive director. "It is
not surprising that he was able to do that. It is just surprising how
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I am rested now, after three horrible job interviews (well, horrible in my estimation), and I have finally decided to start looking again. When you go through the interview process and it is not a good fit or you just feel like you are in the "wrong place at the wrong time," you tend to lose your confidence. Well, today I applied for a job at the District Office (Maricopa Community College) as a web marketing coordinator. It is a good job, one year only, but I could do it. Right after I applied, I received a phone call from the Director at Phoenix College regarding the job I interviewed for back in September. I thought for sure I had blown that interview. Oh well...and yesterday at Macy's, I was asked if I was still interested in working in HR for the Christmas season. It seems God is working behind the scenes -- if anything -- to give me confidence to know that He has a good job for me. I was getting to feel like things weren't going to work out and that I was going to be without any work at all (Macy's has cut my hours to 13-14 per week!)
Weird, huh? It seems like something is moving, someONE is moving to bring me a job.
Now my question is this: which job will I get? The Phoenix College position is only through June. The Web position is only through June too. Macy's is just until the end of the year. I believed and still do believe that I am to relocate to Texas to prepare for my PhD program (get my residency in order, etc.) So now I am wondering if this is correct? Yes, says the Lord. But not in January? No, says the Lord. I guess I am to remain here through June? Yes, says the Lord. That is OK, really -- DJ wants to start college classes, and I am settled here. Moving during the summer is a better option for me, anyhow. Plus, these jobs are through June, and perhaps that sets me up for a position that would start in August (when school begins?) Yes, says the Lord. Ok, so what is up, Lord?
Just this (well, me saying all of this so there you go)> I know the path I am to walk on, and that path is leading me through graduation at Mercy College (MA) in 2012. I have found the PhD program that fits me (Rhetoric at UT Austin), and I know that I would need to begin that in Fall 2012. Until that time, I have to focus on the following: graduating from Mercy. I cannot begin further study until I have my Masters completed. This requires 2 more semesters and a thesis. I can do this in one year (2011) or I can do all my course work next year, followed by one semester writing my thesis. It doesn't really matter, but I cannot begin my PhD until fall (that is how most PhD programs work). So rushing to finish my MA isn't really that big of a deal -- the time frame is the same, so it is best to just take it as it comes at me.
Therefore, what do I do until Fall 2012? I work on my Mercy classes, and I do whatever kind of work I can do, either here in Phoenix or there in Austin. I just do the work assigned to me, that is all. God is so Good to me, and He holds my hand through all these changes. He leads me through the unknown forest, and into the sweetness of the fields of Paradise. I hold on to Him, and I walk with Him, and together we go through whatever we must -- He will never leave me nor let go of me. I just hold on, and together we walk through this life and right into the next. He is SO GOOD to me.


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A Texas couple charged with killing the little girl known as "Baby Grace" now face capital murder charges, after a Texas grand jury upgraded the charges on Wednesday.
Riley Ann Sawyers was moved from Ohio to Texas by her mother.
Prosecutors said they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty against the girl's mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, and Trenor's husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II.
Two year old Riley Ann Sawyers was beaten to death and her body was disposed of in Galveston Bay.
Riley's body was found October 29 by a fisherman on an uninhabited island in the bay. It was wrapped in black plastic bags and stuffed in a blue, plastic bin.
Her identity was not known at first, and police dubbed her "Baby Grace." Police sketches of the child were widely distributed, and Sheryl Sawyers, the girl's paternal grandmother, contacted police from her Ohio home to say the drawing resembled her granddaughter. DNA testing confirmed the child's identity.
Trenor, 19, and Zeigler, 24, were initially charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence.
But since the initial charges were filed last month the investigation has continued and police have gathered additional evidence, in addition to confirming Riley's identity, said a statement released Wednesday by Galveston County Criminal District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk.
Based on that, the grand jury was asked to upgrade the charges, he said. A three-hour hearing was held Wednesday in which grand jurors heard testimony from five witnesses, including police and FBI investigators and the medical examiner.
The grand jury deliberated for only three minutes Wednesday before upgrading the charges, Sistrunk said.
Police: Mother describes beating of 2-year-old…Bared bone, tiny body led to artist's perfect picture
Trenor told police Riley had been beaten and thrown across a room and that her head was held under water before she died July 24.
She said the couple hid the girl's body in a storage shed for one to two months before putting it in the plastic container and dumping it into the bay.
A medical examiner said Riley's skull was fractured in three places that would have been fatal injuries.
Trenor and the girl moved to Texas from Ohio in May to be with Zeigler, who Trenor had met online.
Sistrunk said the investigation is continuing, and a decision on whether to seek the death penalty will not be made until its conclusion.
Thank you CNN News
I can not read this and not shake my head. And wonder what where they thinking.
There needs to be an agency that will take children from those who are not able to cope with child rearing…or a program that would assist them. A place where people could go or take their chilfren to when they were stressed or out of contoll.
These young people did need help. And now a child is lost forever.
It breaks my heart.
~The Baby Boomer Queen~


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I heard about the website, and the book, 30 Lessons for Living, on Tapestry this Sunday afternoon. You can listen to the episode here.
When I tuned in to the program, author Karl Pillimer was telling host Mary Hynes that since researching the book, he's more at peace with growing older. He pointed out that, statistically, older people are generally happier than younger people.
A passing remark really stuck with me. When you ask younger people about what makes them happy, it is often because. Of a job, of a new house, of a promotion. In contrast, many of the older people Pillimer interviewed for the book were happy because they had made a conscious choice to focus on the positive. Happiness was not brought about by circumstance but a cultivated attitude. "The golden years are tarnished," was a memorable observation.
Here's his Top 10 as recorded at the Huffington Post.
- Choose a career for the intrinsic rewards, not the financial ones. Although many grew up in poverty, the elders believe that the biggest career mistake people make is selecting a profession based only on potential earnings. A sense of purpose and passion for one's work beats a bigger paycheck any day.
- Act now like you will need your body for a hundred years: Stop using "I don't care how long I live" as an excuse for bad health habits. Behaviors like smoking, poor eating habits and inactivity are less likely to kill you than to sentence you to years or decades of chronic disease. The elders have seen the devastation that a bad lifestyle causes in the last decades of life -- act now to prevent it.
- Say "Yes" to opportunities: When offered a new opportunity or challenge, you are much less likely to regret saying yes and more likely to regret turning it down. They suggest you take a risk and a leap of faith when opportunity knocks.
- Choose a mate with extreme care: The key is not to rush the decision, taking all the time needed to get to know the prospective partner and to determine your compatibility with them. Said one respondent: "Don't rush in without knowing each other deeply. That's very dangerous, but people do it all the time."
- Travel more: Travel while you can, sacrificing other things if necessary to do so. Most people look back on their travel adventures (big and small) as highlights of their lives and regret not having traveled more. As one elder told me, "If you have to make a decision whether you want to remodel your kitchen or take a trip -- well, I say, choose the trip!"
- Say it now: People wind up saying the sad words "it might have been" by failing to express themselves before it's too late. The only time you can share your deepest feelings is while people are still alive. According to an elder we spoke with: "If you have a grudge against someone, why not make it right, now? Make it right because there may not be another opportunity, who knows? So do what you can do now."
- Time is of the essence: Live as though life is short -- because it is. The point is not to be depressed by this knowledge but to act on it, making sure to do important things now. The older the respondent, the more likely they were to say that life goes by astonishingly quickly. Said one elder: "I wish I'd learned that in my thirties instead of in my sixties!"
- Happiness is a choice, not a condition: Happiness isn't a condition that occurs when circumstances are perfect or nearly so. Sooner or later you need to make a deliberate choice to be happy in spite of challenges and difficulties. One elder echoed almost all the others when she said: "My single best piece of advice is to take responsibility for your own happiness throughout your life."
- Time spent worrying is time wasted: Stop worrying. Or at least cut down. It's a colossal waste of your precious lifetime. Indeed, one of the major regrets expressed by the elders was time wasted worrying about things that never happened.
- Think small: When it comes to making the most of your life, think small. Attune yourself to simple daily pleasures and learn to savor them now.
Great advice!


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See also: Port Phillip Bay
Point Nepean is the narrow extremity of land that, at it's tip, defines the south-eastern restriction of "the Rip" ; the narrow channel which all ships navigate into or out of Port Phillip Bay. The point is an extension of the Mornington Peninsula that forms much of the bay's containment on the south-east shore.
"Aboriginal people gathered shellfish and other foods along this coastline for many thousands of years ...
Over the years, including the last 40,000 years of Aboriginal occupation, the area known as Point Nepean has become enriched with environmental and cultural history. The Quarantine Station was established on the shores of Port Phillip Bay in 1852. It was used to protect the colony of Melbourne from ship borne diseases ...
Fort Nepean contains an extensive system of fortifications built from the 1880s through to the World War 1 and World War 2 ... "
Read more: www.parkweb.vic.gov.au


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What is happiness?One of the definitions says that happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to a very intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Positive psychology
endeavors to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what "happiness" is, and how we might attain it.
Philosophers and religious thinkers often define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
Studies have found that things like money, education, or the weather do not affect happiness the way one might expect. There are various habits that have been correlated with happiness, such as, pleasure, engagement, relationship, meaning and accomplishments.
I really would like to talk (and think) more specifically about each one of these habits. For while, I guess that one of the most important question to be answered is "What can truly make me (and you) feel happy? Do you really know?"


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A former blogging cynic, here I become a total hypocrite and blog blog blog about yoga, love, parenting, life and whatever else suits my fancy.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Last night I dreamed the strangest dream
Last night I dreamed that The SweatBox was hiring a new teacher. I was eager to take her class as I had never met her before (unusual circumstances). I overslept and had to run to the studio. I got there about halfway through the class, frantic and breathless already, only to find about fifty students sitting around big old library tables, studying! The teacher was lying on the podium at the front of the class on a towel. Asleep.
I marched right up to this teacher, shook her awake and said, "Hi. Do you know who I am?" She blankly looked at me and half-awake drawled, "What?...No?....."
"I'm the owner," I bellowed, "and you're fired!"
This was obviously a dream because, even in intense anger, I do not have the cojones to be such a hard-ass. If only I could be such a hard-ass....
Anyway, in my dream, after firing the teacher, I yelled to all the students, "Move these tables! Put those books away! Get out your mats!" After all of the students were neatly placed on their mats, I gave a reprimand. "You are working too much. You do NOT NEED to be working. You NEED to be taking care of yourselves, doing your yoga. YOU WORK ENOUGH!"
Now, it is true that I am highly stressed right now. I'm moving, construction around my business continues to hammer away at my sense of calm and well-being, school's out for the summer.... But the response in my dream was extreme. Severe. And so true.
This morning when I taught, I told the students about my dream. I said, "this is why we don't offer shorter classes. We need to make more time for yoga, not more time for work." Research shows that self-care ultimately increases productivity, yet many of us continue to think that working more hours creates better outcomes.
Sometimes committing to 90-minutes seems like self-indulgence. We fight against doing it because there are so many other forces pulling us--- If only I could squeeze this in to my lunch time or If only I could make the 8:15am bus. The reasons for wanting to short-change ourselves are endless. The reason that you shouldn't short change yourself is that, once you start (cutting your yoga practice short; eating dinner standing up instead of sitting down; sleeping six hours instead of eight; brushing your teeth for one minute instead of two) in order to make more time for work, it is like a runaway train. It's really hard to stop.
So, go from the other direction. Make time for your self-care, your yoga, your sleep, your meals, and structure your work to fit into this life. It will be hard at first. Sometimes justifying additional time for self-care creates more stress than just succumbing to the work pull, but in the long run, short-changing ourselves leads to bigger problems. Start small. If you are practicing once a week, do twice. If you are sleeping six hours, try six and a half. You'll start to notice that, while you are spending fewer hours working, more hours taking care of yourself, probably your life is better, not just in your personal life but in your work life too. See you in class.
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While visiting a Catholic site I've not read for a while, I noticed a comment by someone who wonders why some of the most angry and atheist apologists and attackers of Christianity and the Church are "former evangelicals." The answer to this is somewhat straightforward, so I'll make it a quick case study.
Even when one is a Christian, the farther away that you are in your faith from making God the center of it all, the more you are at risk of losing your perspective, and then your faith. So if you think of faith as being a series of concentric circles, the innermost circle being God himself, if you are in a faith that is in a close circle to God, where your focus is always kept on him, it tends to be a good indicator of future stability of mind. This is true, obviously, if one is Christian, Muslim or Jewish. The more that you view your faith as "being all about God" and not yourself, the better you yourself will actually grow in spirit and in love of human life.
Now, say what you will about the problems of the "hierarchy" of those big bad institutional churches, but there is an advantage to enforced humility. Humans tend to puff themselves up pretty big and fast when they are on their own. This is one reason it is not such a bad thing to belong to a large institutional faith, such as being Catholic, and I also include the highly humble and egalitarian faith of Islam (witness three million people on Haj even as we speak, side by side, rich and poor, all men wearing two white cloths as their clothing). Many hajis (people who have gone on haj) say that remembering that it is all about God and his mercy, and all being equal in his eyes, is the highlight personal illumination of haj. The Catholic Mass is, likewise, a liturgy that is focused entirely on God, as revealed through Jesus Christ, and in the prophets and forefathers and mothers.
Likewise, the institutional churches of the children of the Reformation, such as the various sects, called denominations, of Protestantism, Methodists, Baptists and so forth, also retain this focus on God. Their communal worship within an institutional church helps remind them that it is not all about themselves, but it's all about God, and Jesus Christ, the Savior.
However, when a number of Protestants began to self identify as "Evangelicals," a subtle form of temptation crept in. So long as they remained in the mainstream of the institutionalized denominations, that temptation to increase one's own individual importance, and diminish one's focus on God, is usually kept in check. This is one reason I am a great admirer of Baptists.
But the problem is that many take a worthy objective, to "evangelize" and have done two things. One is that they give themselves a title, merited or not. Suddenly they think of themselves as being "evangelicals," with all due honors and privileges, if you know what I mean. Second, many break away from their denominations and "create their own churches." What exactly is one's "own church?" Whenever a few in the congregation get angry, off they go and "create their own church." Where's God in all this, and God's equal expectations from everyone?
Thus, ironically, when an "evangelical" loses faith for some reason or another, it is not at all surprising that they tumble far and hard, with great anger, often going to the extreme of virulent denial of God himself The reason it is not surprising is that with each step one takes in faith, no matter which faith or denomination you are in, away from God and toward self focus and meeting "your own needs" for "your own church," you are already having one foot in a sticky pit of temptation without even knowing it.
Many people, as an aside, are baffled by the grandeur of the interior of Catholic churches. But one important reason for that is to continue to keep people looking upward toward God, and not mistake that the worship is all about themselves and their "message" "on behalf of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit." Catholic churches are deliberately designed to appear as two things 1) the sacrificial altar and 2) a glimpse into the sanctuary, which is the gateway to heaven. That sure keeps it focused on God.
When an "evangelical" (or anyone else) starts to subconsciously and then consciously focus on whether or not "his or her church" is "meeting" "his or her needs," you've got a big potential problem of temptation of hubris and the falling away of faith. One has, at that point, already taken a big step away from God, by lowering God in one's own mind and raising one's self up as being the "one who really understands what it is all about." When that evangelical has inch by inch step by step moved farther from God being the center of it all, one day they wake up and feel there is nothing there, and then they lose their faith, they deny, they get angry, and they attack the very people, the remaining faithful, who the evangelical him or herself had "left behind" as being "indoctrinated" or "stupid." It's like running away from home and then denying that a home ever existed. It's exactly like that.
Sometimes you can better understand this drift if you compare it with groups where the drift does not happen, for the most part. Look at Orthodox Jews, for example. You just don't tend to see an Orthodox Jew shake his head and say, "You know, this worship thing really doesn't meet my needs or work for me. I know what God really wants, so I'm going to 'plant' my own synagogue, and we will do in it whatever 'meets our needs.'" Um, you just don't see that. Likewise, look at Muslims. The Sunni and the Shi'a have sometimes bitter disagreement about the spiritual successors to the Prophet (PBUH). But I do not know a single Muslim who would go up the the Grand Mufti and say, "You know, this haj schedule really doesn't work for me and my friends. We are going to start our own haj, but it's going to take place in some month that is not haj." LOL, imagine that. You just would not see it, because all Muslims are proud of the five pillars of their faith, not trying to "edit" them and become "non denominational" in order to "better meet their needs." I also don't know Muslims who run around saying, "You know, parts of the Qur'an really don't work for me, so let's remove those chapters." Sometimes individuals err in the direction of deeply believing but not understanding their own faith, and that is something mainstream Islam is trying to address. But none of them take their eyes off of God above all to "create their own mosque" that "meets their own worship needs."
With every step that one takes from keeping God himself at the very center of one's spiritual and secular life, one is taking one's self farther into an area where one is tempted to think that faith exists in order to "meet your needs" because it is "all about you." That is the shadow, to use a psychological term, of "evangelicals." They feel a great love and vigor of faith, but their unnoticed shadow is that they feel they are interior and individual custodians of the "truth" of their faith, and that is a dangerous slope of inflation and ultimately disappointment, anger, disenfranchising and disbelief.
This, again, is the reason that some are baffled that the Methodist church has an empty cross, with a red cloth draped to signify that Christ has risen, while Catholics have the crucifixion cross, with the corpus of Christ. The people who are baffled think that Catholics are "stuck" on the gory figure of Christ, and not focused on his having resurrected and "left the cross." But to quote St. Paul it is about him, Christ and him crucified. Catholics, even the weak ones, never forget that it is about God through Jesus Christ, and that one must always keep one's gaze on God and on the Savior he sent, that the Savior was crucified and that all must carry one's cross.
Sometimes I worry that my friends the Methodists have a psychology that the Cross is a "completed project." That is one step away from being totally God centric. I'm not bashing, I'm analyzing. Trust me, I grew up among many Methodists and they think they have it figured out, while the Catholic Church has the wrong orientation. Nope. One is never wrong if one is totally focused on God, and Jesus Christ crucified. When one is not "comfortable" with that focus on God and Jesus Christ, crucified, one has to ask, why is it about your "comfort" level, your faith? Again, I'm not criticizing, but I am critiquing, since, after all, I've endured silently decades of being critiqued unjustly, and now I reply.
Again, if one need to understand faith, look at Orthodox Jews. Have they edited their faith in order to be "more comfortable," to eliminate the suffering and anguish in faith history and replace it only with "spreading the good word," and have they people who break away when they quarrel and set up their own "non denominational" "place of worship?" No, because as I've said before, no one comprehends God better than Orthodox scholarly Jews, and it is on God that they keep their focus, where they keep their eyes and ears, and their hearts. People often wonder why God did not charter the Israelites to be "evangelicals," to convert and spread the word. This is exactly why. God understands humans more than you can ever imagine, and he knows that it is hard enough to keep humans faithful and focused on him through the centuries, even, as the Bible demonstrates, a small group of people such were the Israelites. That is part of the miracle, and proof, of the Savior, of Jesus Christ, that humans had reached a point where they can evangelize and still stay focused on God, and not inflate their own personal attributes as "representatives" of God. But see, over time, there is that temptation, and it started in the Reformation.
So that, my anonymous friends and readers, is why we see some who seemed so in love with Jesus Christ that they called themselves "evangelicals," fall so far that they become bitter atheists who are not only against God and denying him, but hating upon the faithful who stay in the fold. Any evangelical or any faithful for that matter who starts to think that spreading God's message as they understand it personally, rather than staying in the institutional church and providing personal witness, is the course that "meets their needs" is already putting their feet on a path that, God forbid, could bring them to crashing into total lack of faith. The Bible explains that if you put your trust in yourself or your fellow human, you will fail. If you put your trust in God, and remain focused on only God, you will not fail. It's as simple as that, really.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Case study: falling away from the faith
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- Monday uncertain.
- ES pivot 1467.00. Holding above is bullish..
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I called Friday uncertain as a possible topping day. It is of course too soon to say if we've topped or not but we did get a pretty mixed session with the Dow gaining all of 17 points and the SPX down just 0.07. Which all leaves us at an interesting juncture for the coming week. Let's see what the charts have to say about it.
The technicals (daily)
The Dow: Friday's 0.3% gain came in the form of a hanging man. This of course requires confirmation but with the indicators still overbought and RSI apparently having already topped, I'd say the odds here are at least even for a move lower Monday.
The VIX: Just when it seemed the VIX couldn't go any lower, it did, dropping another 0.96% on Friday to close at 13.36. We have to go back to June 2007 to find the last time we were at these levels. Of course, that was shortly before the VIX exploded, hitting nearly 90 by October 2008. Can the VIX still go lower? Sure. It's lower BB is falling away rapidly, now at a crazy 7.31. And let's not forget that for four entire years, between 2003 and 2007, the VIX regularly found support down around 10. We're not quite that low yet, but the longer term view of the VIX is that it has only one way to go, and that's higher.
As for Monday, hard to tell. We're in a sort of congestion area now between 13.2 and 13.7. I've been calling for it to move higher for a week now and it hasn't happened, so I'm just going to shut up for a while.
Market index futures:Tonight all three futures are higher at 12:50 AM EST with ES up by 0.12%. This gives us a green candle for the moment but we're still below the level of the red hanging mannish thing on Friday. I note that 1471 has proven to be strong resistance three days running now. Can we break that on Monday? I'm not so sure. We had a decent run last week and that put ES at overbought. People have been calling for 1475 and even 1500 lately, and while I agree we'll see that by springtime, I don't think we'll get there on Monday.
ES daily pivot: Tonight the pivot rises from 1464.00 to 1467.00 even. With a rise in the Sunday overnight, we remain above the new pivot, so that's bullish.
Dollar index:And what of the dollar? On Friday, it gave us yet another doji, this one a gap down bullish morning star. Indicators are still not quite yet overbought and we still have aways to go til the lower BB so some caution is required, but overall I'd say we're at least setting up for a move higher soon.
Euro: Meanwhile, in Euroland, the currency continued its winning ways on Friday, closing at 1.3346, just above its upper BB. And in the Sunday overnight, it's actually moving higher still, now at 1.3398, entirely above the BB. This has moved it into overbought territory but in the absence of a reversal candle, I still can't call the euro lower just yet.
Transportation:Like the hanging man in the Dow, the trans on Friday gave us a reversal candle in the form of a nice star. Indicators here remain overbought so the next logical move is down.
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The SPX Hi-Lo index has been stuck on 100 for three days now. It's unusual for it to go that long without seeing some sort of pullback. The charts have bestowed a bunch of dojis on us, but they all require confirmation, so they're not much help. With no major economic news coming out on Monday and no fake political "crises" looming, it's hard to see what will move the markets. Maybe some good earnings could power another leg higher. I just don't know and I'm just not seeing any good direction from these dang charts tonight. And we're once again entering op-ex week with all the gyrations that generally brings. So once again, it's Monday uncertain. But that's OK - our time will come.
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While in Indiana, I focused most of my time just being in familiar territory and enjoying quality time. I did manage to take a few photos of things like our trip to Indianapolis. I didn't want to flood my blog with all of my photos though, so I've tried to select a few. Also, I've posted a few videos but the video wouldn't work so I placed links instead on my Youtube channel.
|The Johnson Creamery smokestack along the B-Line Trail. An iconic place in Bloomington, IN.
|The Bloomington Courthouse: the MOST iconic place in Bloomington.
|A fountain at 3rd St Park.
|Part of a mosaic at the bottom of the fountain.
A video taken from the 17th annual Lotus Festival in Bloomington. I spent time walking about remembering the last time I was at the park watching, listening, and smelling the entertainment, music, and exotic food.
|Up in Indianapolis, I enjoyed a day of revisiting all the places I've loved to go to most of my life. Monument Circle was a must see for me. They're doing alot of work right now, but it felt nice to was around there.
|Est. 1883, this building is 100yrs older than me, and 6yrs older than the state of Washington. I found a link that tells more about the building if interested. http://maxkade.iupui.edu/w
|Indianapolis Artsgarden. This was a nice place to relax after walking around the Circle Center Mall.
|Indy's Capital Building.
|Hard Rock of Indy. Spendy food, but it was good. I wanted to take pics inside but decided to be nice and not disturb fellow patrons.
|Indiana World War Memorial.
|This makes homage to the Washington Monument. It sits across from the WWI Memorial.
|Sadly, the memorial was closed but I was able to go inside the entryway and found this. It's a remake of the Liberty Bell.
|From the WWI Memorial, we went down to a section of the White River State Park over by Ohio St to visit the 9-11 memorial there. This is a view of the canal from the memorial.
|This past Sept 11, Indianapolis dedicated the new memorial that included a beam from each tower. Below are plaques which explain what they are for all too well themselves.
|The bronze eagle on top of one of the beams looks towards NYC.
|The canal is home to several museums and memorials. This one dedicated to IN's Medal of Honor recipients.
|Across the way are some sculptures.
|The Indiana State Museum with Marcy in the foreground.
|*sigh* Just a bit of Indianapolis' skyline close up.
When I was young we spent many holidays with my step-father's family who lived in Indy. I always knew we were getting close when I saw the old Bank One Tower (Currently known as Chase Tower.)
Lastly, I wanted to share a sound I've not heard in 2 years that sounds like home. It's the sounds of cicadas and other insects making all their clamour. It may sound like static on the video, but in person it can get pretty loud. At least in my part of the NW, it's pretty quiet in comparison.


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Went to the launching of Canon Pixma Printers last Tuesday at SM North Annex. And I must say after the event, I want to get one printer for myself. Why? Later I'll tell you.
For now let me share with you the photos I took that day...
|special registration lane for bloggers, love it!:)
|my date for the night... Andie!
|with the lovely host which I didn't get the name
|then to break the ice betweeen the speakers and presentations, they had a game called TRIVIA GAME, blogger friends, Nicole, Kaye and Krissy joined the fun!
|yummy food!
|miss this girl so much. Love your heels Melai! :)
|with Jen. I enjoyed the night with you and Andie :)
|Ate Marise who invited me to the event. She now works for Nuff Nang
|Andie looking sexy as always
|my buddies for the night, Jen, Andie and Chai
|saw Myrted in the event too! :)
The girls and I decided to roam around and see the photo exhibits of the country's known photographers. Of course, na-amaze ako! Hehe! But the works that struck me the most are the photos of Mr. Jun Miranda. I just can feel like I am right exactly in his photos. Very surreal.
and these are two of my favorites from Mr. Jun Miranda's photos...
then it's time to meet and greet the 5 series (if I am not mistaken) of the Canon Pixma Printer
According to Canon, the Pixma printer is the newest type of AIO (All-in-one) printers that has the capacity to print and imprint pictures with its array of features.
Their tagline says: "The new PIXMA printers series: Allowing you to not just print, but IMPRINT."
catchy right? You wouldn't believe how affordable each model is!:)
Each printers from the series of the PIXMA printers has their own specifications, but generally these are the amazing features of CANON PIXMA:
- Wi-fi Cloud Printing Capabilities
-Freedom To Create with five Fun Filter Effects (you can even print photos from full HD Movie)
-Premium Print Capabilities ( these printers uses special Canon dye ink and Canon genuine photo paper that makes a photo lasts for 300 years, AMAAAAZING!)
-A Greener Future (eco-friendly settings equipped in each printer)
- Caring For The Environment (each printers are designed to have minimal impact on the environment
To know more about CANON PIXMA visit: canon.com.ph
after lurking around and get amazed with the printers, it's time to socialize and have pictures with blogger friends...
|Andie and Nicole
|with Nicole. love your pink pumps!
|Aisa, looking so stylish as always :)
went home happy and Canon gave us a loot bag!
Now, I will be a good girl always, who knows Santa is watching and he might give me one Canon Pixma Printer! And if ever I got one, I will print all the photos of my family's happy memories, they are worth to last forever!


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Everyone has done something stupid at one point or another. And how many times is this the result of one's own ego stubbornly refusing to admit the mistake? If only we had the humility to admit we need help!
Of course…such things never happen to me personally….I am only offering the thought as part of the evening's musing….


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Have you been searching for new information to make you a better taiko teacher/player? Information in English is not in abundance, but here's something that's worth checking into.
Earlier this year, Jonathan Kirby artistic director of Kagemusha in the UK, published a series of 4 instructional DVDs plus an instruction manual. I've yet to get my hands on them as of yet, but here's a posting from the UK taiko forum through the Mugen Taiko Dojo website.
from IanB:
"Since we often get posts here from people looking for training or teaching materials, I thought I should share this. I have just taken delivery of the new teacher training materials released by Kagemusha a few days ago. If anyone is running a group, thinking about it or even wants to add to their knowledge or is training on their own, I can't recommend these highly enough.
Jonathan Kirby has put together a 220 (!) page manual (Teaching Taiko: Principles and Practice) which contains years of material covering everything…drills, base rhythms, teaching tips, pieces to play, problems, philosophy, stance, movement, composition, performance , … etc etc. There's nothing like it anywhere else – (and I've been looking for a long time!) - it has got to be the definitive guide for teaching and learning Taiko. There are also 4 dvd's that go with the manual to make it a complete set if you want to get the lot……..which I did!
For the price of a workshop it looks like you get months and months of material to work on personally and to use with your own group. There are more details on the Kagemusha website."
Here's the direct link to the page with the manual and DVD information. You can purchase the manual, Teaching Taiko: Principles and Practice, and all 3 DVDs for £95.00+ shipping.
Teaching Taiko: Principles and Practice itself is £35.00 and DVDs are £20.00 + shipping.
Do you already own Jonathan Kirby's publications? Drop a note in the comments with your opinion!
Friday, June 5, 2009
Taiko Teaching Materials
Posted by Carrie at 8:46 AM
Labels: base rhythms, composition, drills, Jonathan Kirby, Kagemusha, Mugen Taiko Dojo, performance, philosophy, taiko, taiko instructional DVD, teach taiko, teaching taiko: principles and practice
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I just noticed that the DVDs are PAL, so check your DVD player's capabilities before purchasing!ReplyDelete
Yes, the DVDs are PAL - the video format for most of Europe and Australia. Domestic DVD players in USA may not be able to cope with them, but they will play just fine on computers.ReplyDelete
I've read Jonathan's text and recommend it highly. One really interesting thing is that it gives a perspective on taiko that is clearly non-Japanese, non-Asian. It's a way to look about think about taiko that most people never even consider. Overall, it's very well thought out and very well-written!ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Even though I never claimed to know for sure, with Grady I was 99% sure it was a boy...he is a boy. With Hadley, same thing. So funny that I was so shocked like that.
The good news is that now...here at 12:45 PM on Wednesday...she is over 24 hours old...we FINALLY have a name. Are you ready? Drum roll please...
Yes, her name is Asa, the first A pronounced with a long "a" sound, the s pronounced with a strong "s" sound (like in sun, not a "z" sound). We are super excited and even though this name wasn't even on our name list for a girl, we love it and feel like it is definitely from the Lord. I'll write more on the name at another point. Rose, by the way, is a family name. Joel's mom's family is the only side of our families that hasn't been included in our children's names yet. It was their turn. So, even though I have an aunt named Rose also, and a great friend named Rose,...and Joel's sister's middle name is Rose, it really is after Joel's mom's sister, Rose. She is single and doesn't have kids of her own, so she has always been very special to Joel and his brothers and sisters. She even lived with them for a time in Brazil.
Anyhow, off to take care of Asa. And also, if you are interested in hearing about it, I will be posting the birth story in a few days too. It's a great story.
Oh, and one more thing...the kids are loving having a baby in the house. They don't seem to be acting any differently. Yesterday was fun. First of all, we've been preparing the kids for this time. We told them that when the baby decides to come, they were going to go over to Sarah's house and play and then Granny would pick them up and bring them over here. Yesterday morning, John (Graves...Sarah's dad) came over to get the kids. We woke them up and Grady saw him and immediately brightened, Joel told him he was going over to Sarah's house. Grady started asking Joel, "Baby?! Baby?!" He was so excited. It was fun...last night Mama came over from Louisiana and picked the kids up and brought them over here to our house. We had Asa back in our room. The kids came in looking for her and were also excited about Granny being here. We talked to the kids a little bit. I showed them my belly and how there wasn't a baby in there anymore. Grady said, "Baby come out?" I told him the baby came out. Joel brought the baby in and they were super excited, yelling "baby, baby" over and over. We got some great shots of them...you can see the pictures on our website.
By the way, if you haven't gotten an email from me about it yet, you need to check that out...our website: www.ebersoleonline.com.
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Congrats on Asa Rose's arrival and another wonderful birth! I've been reading through 2 Chronicles about the good kings of Judah too...really cool stuff! I'm so happy for you guys! What a cool birthday! Piper's excited to share his great birthday 10/10!
How exciting!! I have been checking your blogsite morning,noon and night. I love her name. I too thought it was a boy. just got back from church. Amy Slaback asked me if you had had the baby. by the way, John Einsenring preached an awesome sermon. Got to call Abi with the news. Congrats to all--judy
- Rebecca said...
I love you, you crack me up, I miss you. Congratulations on baby Asa - that is a really wonderful name. I just remembered praying over her a while back when I was visiting you. Cool. Faith, faith, faith - she's going to be amazing. (I cracked up out loud about the head in your pelvis.) Yeah, that's why I love you.
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- Rebecca said...
by the way, the deleted comment was me - mine got posted twice! I didn't want you to be insanely curious. :) love, love, love,


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Her only requirements:
-Subtle Art
I stress the no dark colours. Anytime I put anything dark on my nails I get a look and am told I look like I'm goth. So for her I decided to do something extraordinarily simple yet very pretty.
|special request, shield
For this I just did two coats of Special Request and then used a dotting tool to dot the Shield across the top creating a cute dotted tip!
Until next time,
Sincerely Stephanie


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I have decided I need some new hobbies to keep my mind off things and to keep my hands and brain busy. So the first thing I am going to start doing is knitting. I started knitting back in high school when I played an old woman in a school play. I never got very good at it. I could only do straight lines and never learned to cast off. As a result I have a couple scarves that are very long and still attached to knitting needles. So I am going to take it up again, and do it right this time.
The second thing I am going to do is read 100 books in a year. I already read a lot. In fact I probably read close to that already b/c I love reading. But I am going to set up some rules. So here they are:
1- 50% of the books must come from the library. After all I don't want to lose half my paycheck on books.
2- I have to read at least 5 non-fiction books.
3- No more than 20 Young Adult books or vampire themes books.
4- At least three of the books have to be classics that I have never read before.
5- I have to have read all the books by Feb. 21 2011.
I am pretty excited about doing both these projects. It will give me something to do and keep my away from baking too much. don't worry I will still do some backing, but I am definitely taking a baking break while I get back on the diet train. The train derailed big time thanks to being snowed in at a hotel for three days with nothing but pizza and Chinese places open.
Anybody want to do the book challenge with me? And if anyone has recommendations for knitting books and websites leave a comment. I want to get good at it.


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Well Spring is here and Easter is not far away so thought I would share some pictures from Sofia's 1st Easter. Now those that know me know how crazy I am (well I was really crazy then) with Sofia's clothes. So for her 1st Easter, Sofia had 8 different smocked bishops that she wore off and on the whole month leading up to Easter. I went a little eBay crazy! Happy Spring everyone!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Flashback Friday
Posted by Whitney Herrera at 9:15 AM
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- Laura said...
Oh, and they're lavendar, too!! EIGHT dresses!?!? Whoa!!!!
- March 13, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- Semi-Slacker Mom said...
I love me some smocked bishops!!!
- March 13, 2009 at 11:44 AM
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
look ma, no hands!!!
just an fyi - i have a new post up titled look ma, no hands!! at filipina moms blog about jessica cox, an inspirational speaker who recently got her pilot's license despite being born without arms.
ok. full disclosure? i like my sensationalist tv... while the kids nap and after watching an hour of hysterical B movie horror reality tv (so not kidding), one can find me wide eyed and slack jawed watching.... inside edition...
i blame my lola and her addiction to soap operas...
anyhoo... there i was (slackjawed, wide eyed) and taking in the latest of celebrity meltdowns and random animal attack news when an inspirational segment aired about an armless pilot named jessica cox.
from her website:
"Born without arms, Jessica now flies airplanes, drives cars, and otherwise lives a normal life using her feet as others use their hands. She holds the title of the first person without arms in the American Tae Kwon-Do Association to get a black belt and the first woman pilot in aviation history to fly with her feet. She graduated college with a degree in Psychology and is pursuing a career as an international motivational speaker!"
here's the inside edition segment:
the segment aired a while ago, but i just found out today after a random google search that jessica is a mixed filipina with a filipina mom.
admittedly, i have conflicted feelings about news stories like this. i worry that tv shows will exploit truly inspirational individuals like jessica not unlike the carnival carnies who hawked tickets for a fairgound freak show.
but then again, as someone who grew up "different" (with a facial deformity) and without any role models, i want jessica to be more visible and successful as a motivational speaker and hope that more tv shows feature her to encourage those of us born "disabled" or "handicapped" to get beyond our fears and embrace our "otherness" and dream and acheive our biggest dreams.
personally, i let many superficial fears get in my way... i would often sell myself short or even self segregate myself from others or activities in a strange attempt at self preservation. i'll never know if i had seen/heard or met someone like jessica... if that would have changed my perspective on what my future could be...
i consider myself very lucky to have my own filipina mom as a strong role model and an energetic and stalwart cheerleader. although she believed (and still does) that i could do anything i could dream of doing, i always second guessed her and blamed her maternal bias for her confidence in me. in many ways, on a daily basis, my own weaknesses remind me of my mother's strength and her faith and i contemplate how it is that someone like me came from someone like her...
thank you, jessica for reminding me to conquer my fears... thank you, jessica's mom (and dad) for raising such a heroic young woman.... and thank you to my mom for everything - for being there when i woke up from surgeries, for finger combing my hair in the dark, for showing me how i could triumph thru adversity with my humor and creativity... ultimately, i'm a work in progress... and still really trying to be you when i grow up...
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Tamil Nadu Minister KT Rajendra Balaji on Saturday asked his patymen "not to worry" as long as PM Narendra Modi supports the party, ANI reported. Balaji, the dairy minister in Chief Minister K Palaniswami's government, said "nobody can shake" the AIADMK as long as Modi is with them. Balaji expressed confidence that Chief Minister K Palaniswami's camp would get the "two leaves" symbol. He said, "The symbol will come to EPS camp… there is no doubt about it." He made the remarks while addressing a party meeting in Chennai late last night. Balaji said as along as "Prime Minister Narendra Modi is with us, nobody can shake our party… nobody can destroy AIADMK…."
He added that no one, including the DMK, could oppose the ruling AIADMK. The minister further claimed that 92 per cent of general council members supported the Palaniswami camp. A big controversy had erupted after Election Commission had on March 23 frozen the name AIADMK and its election symbol after the factions led by Sasikala and former chief minister O Panneerselvam staked claim to it ahead of the R K Nagar bypolls.
Later, on August 21, rival AIADMK factions led by Palaniswami and Panneerselvam merged, ending a nearly seven-month feud in the party, which enjoys an overwhelming majority in the Assembly. Balaji had earlier courted controversy when he alleged that private dairy firms mixed harmful chemicals in milk.


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Our house needed a really good cleaning, so I stopped by the Dollar General yesterday afternoon and picked up supplies: toilet bowl cleaer, Lysol spray, Endust, paper towels, soft scrub, and two sponges.
During breakfast, I explained the steps to scrubbing the tubs:
1. Remove everything from the tub.
2. Mommy will spray down the tub with the shower hose.
3. Mommy will add soft scrub.
4. Boys scrub.
5. Mommy rinses.
Simple, right?
I also had one more moment of clarity, and let both boys strip down to diaper/underwear so that they would not make a mess of their clothes. G decided he'd keeps his socks on. Whatever.
So here's what happened. The boys finished eating, ran into my bathroom, and took all their toys out of our large soaker tub. OK, I hadn't planned on cleaning that one--I'd meant the shower and their tub, but I ran with it. G could just reach the sides and B could get the bottom. I ran and grabbed them each a cup so they could help rinse. While they scrubbed, I removed all the soaps from the shower. It was going great! G started soft scrubbing the outer edge of the laminate around the tub. I redirected him, promising him we'd get that part with Lysol. He agreed, and as soon as I turned to get a shampoo bottle, he swiped the shower gel, unscrewed the top, and poured himself a healthy dose of "cleaner" on the laminate.
Before he could scrub, scrub, scrub, I dashed to the toilet, snatched some tp and the trashcan and wiped up the gel. Whew. That was a close one. I redirected him to the tub and all was well again. Luckily, he found the squirt bottle to the color changing hotwheel set that used to live by that tub, so he was occupied.
I grabbed the soft scrub two seconds later. Then I snapped some pictures and congratulated myself for helping their future wives. Go, me!
The boys flung water all over the tub to rinse it, then we began on the shower. It pretty much went to plan except B rinsed the shower from inside the shower. Maybe naked cleaning wouldn't have been a terrible idea. No matter.
I decided to keep the cleaning train on track: Gabe used paper towels to wipe down the laminate around the tub after I sprayed it with Lysol. I quickly doused the toilet with toilet bowl cleaner, then left it to sit. I asked B to grab the soft scrub and sponges, and asked G to grab the paper towels. I grabbed the Lysol and off we went to their bathroom.
Then a different kind of Disney moment happened: G never met us at the bathroom. Phineas and Ferb had caught his attention, and he dropped his unravelling roll of paper towels as soon as he saw the boob tube. B scoured the tub while I got the toilet and counters--after tearing through the house for the paper towels since G wouldn't answer me. I was NOT going to be stupid enough to leave cleansers unsupervised for more than a second with these two!
In all, the house got cleaner. There was no time for singing, though, and I think I may have burned more calories this way. Still, I think it's important for kids to help keep the household running. That's the best preparation for learning to run households of their own, right? Besides, any time spent together is quality time.


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Remember when 50 wins was the gold standard for the Memphis Grizzlies?
Well, the Grizzlies hit 50 Thursday...but it's in the other direction..
Memphis hosted the Chicago Bulls at FedExForum with Tyreke Evans back in the lineup.
Evans missed the last 10 games with a rib injury--the Grizzlies lost all 10.
Thanks to a host of injuries to just about everybody, the Grizzlies are trying to avoid their 50th loss of the season with 15 games left.
Tyreke showed little rust, with a near double-double, 25 points and 9 assists, including 5-9 from 3 point land..
Marc Gasol did produce a double-double, almost a triple: 21 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.
The game was a shootout going to the wire. The Bulls hit 15 3-pointers on a whopping 41 attempts.
Grizz were down 1 with less than 2 seconds left when Big Spain takes the last shot. His attempt was long, but Slammed home by JaMychal Green for the near win....Green just missed the buzzer.
Memphis lost again,111-110
The Grizzlies, now 18-50, next host the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night at 7 p.m. at FedExForum.
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The Japanese economy is still struggling to escape deflation. The Bank of Japan (BOJ, the central bank) has been pursuing a policy of "quantitative and qualitative easing with yield curve control"—a flexible programme of asset purchases to keep ten-year government bond yields at zero for long enough for inflation to "overshoot" the 2% target. The central bank hopes that this will be sufficient to bring inflation back up to 2% by 2018, while the government hopes to boost real GDP growth to 2% a year. We are dubious, and forecast that both growth and inflation will average just 1% in 2017-21.
One obstacle is the government's avowed intention to stabilise its debt, which is above 200% of GDP and rising. Indeed, at this stage it still seems likely that the consumption tax increase planned for October 2019 will go ahead. Without a greater willingness on the part of the government to issue more debt, the ability of the BOJ to deliver monetary stimulus by buying up government debt will become increasingly limited.
Japan's shrinking workforce is a more fundamental barrier to growth and investment. Abenomics, the economic strategy of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has delivered some benefits in terms of boosting output per head, and Mr Abe's popularity may make it easier for him to deliver future reforms. However, achieving the government's target of 2% growth would require an overhaul of social policies such as immigration, which neither the government nor the electorate is willing to consider.


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33. The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
34. Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
35. The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
36. If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
37. The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are.- Imam Ghazali Quotes
38. Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.- Imam Ghazali Quotes
39. Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.- Imam Ghazali Quotes
40. Know that true obedience to Allah and true worship of Him involves following the commands and prohibitions of Shari`ah in both word and acts. – Imam Ghazali Quotes
41. Account yourself before you are brought to account and measure your actions before they are measured – Imam Ghazali Quotes


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francis chan spoke one night and talked about about the Holy Spirit. it was basically the same talk he gave when he was at cbu, but i thought, how has this impacted my life? have i changed? "no," i thought. in fact, i think i have veered farther from the truth of the Spirit since listening to paul washer so much. i pray that my life would be consumed by the Holy Spirit and that i would allow Him to work instead of myself.
at the last session, joelle and i heard these guys talking behind us. apparently they had heard some guys talking at dinner and one of them had never heard about the Holy Spirit before. did you catch that? NEVER heard about the Holy Spirit and he considered himself a follower of Christ Jesus. whoa; hold the phone. something is wrong with the "evangelical movement" if the Spirit of our Lord is cut out of its teachings. francis is right. if we are truly living by the Spirit, how radically different should our lives be?


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I was doing so so sooo well. My stomach was growling and it felt good. Then someone said something about Bruegger's (the most amazing bagels in the entire world). I was so happy until I caved. They knew I didn't eat breakfast. They pushed me and nudged me right to Bruegger's. Right to the 320 cal plain bagel with 90 cal cream cheese. Right to the tortilla chips that someone had left out at play practice. Right to the Tantalizing Croissant.
My friend, my skinny, size-00-is-too-big-for-her friend was at play practice with her boyfriend. He kept picking her up, all 95 pounds of her. It made me want to cry, because no guy can lift my fat ass, no one would want to.
Naturally skinny people bug the crap out of me (no offense). Especially the ones who say to me, "Oh my God, I HATE being so skinny. I wish I could just gain some weight. Like I feel so shitty being skinny."
I want to scream at them, "I WANT TO HAVE A BODY LIKE YOURS. STOP TAKING IT FOR FUCKING GRANTED."
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Former school teacher Graham introduced and played the tin whistle which she has played since she was a little girl, her husband (Shades of Green Band) played the gourd, and I think I heard her mention a glockenspiel. I don't think I've heard one of those since Mrs. Danner's music class in the 6th grade.
She is playing her final concert of the summer for the Town of Hempstead today at Elmont's Hendrickson Park at 10:30 a.m. It's FREE and definitely a must see.
Here's a few tips for you:
- Take a blanket to sit on if you want to sit up close
- Take a lawn chair if you don't mind sitting in the back
- Be prepared to dance with your little one
- Be prepared to hug and kiss your little one during one of the songs
- Take a snack and a beverage
- Take bug spray and sun block (just in case)
- Have a good time!
Final show in the Town of Hempstead for Darlene Graham
Friday, July 20th
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Hendrickson Avenue Park - Elmont (Not in Valley Stream)
(She did tell me that she will be performing at the End of Summer Reading Club Celebration at the Valley Stream Library on August 21st. I hope you're registered!)
Follow Valley Stream Mom on Facebook or on Twitter @valleystreammom.


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ARTICLE: More Americans believe in climate change: poll
AFP - Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that climate change is real -- the highest level in two years -- as the public trusted its own observations of rising temperatures, a poll said Tuesday. The growing acceptance of global warming comes despite fierce political division over the issue in the world's largest economy, with proposals to mandate cuts on carbon emissions failing in Congress.
Sixty-two percent of Americans agree that there is solid evidence that the Earth's average temperature has been getting warmer over the past four decades, according to the survey by the University of Michigan's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. FULL STORY: http://www.france24.com/en/20120229-more-americans-believe-climate-change-poll?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=RSS_public&ns_mchannel=RSS&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20120229_more_americans_believe_climate_change_poll
WANT PROOF? check NASA's research at www.nasa.gov/earth
- Here's a research story recently issued:
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record