Prayer of....

Lord make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light

Where there is sadness, joy.
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Todays Quiz: Who is credited with this famous prayer?

This was given to me on March 6, 1995 by my Aunt Fran Hynds, PhD. It is written on a bookmark made in USA, 1973, by Antioch Bookplate Co.

pd/mpw

Examples Of Body Language

NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR	INTERPRETATION
Brisk, erect walk	Confidence
Standing with hands on hips	Readiness, aggression
Sitting with legs crossed, foot kicking slightly	Boredom
Sitting, legs apart	Open, relaxed
Arms crossed on chest	Defensiveness
Walking with hands in pockets, shoulders hunched	Dejection
Hand to cheek	Evaluation, thinking
Touching, slightly rubbing nose	Rejection, doubt, lying
Rubbing the eye	Doubt, disbelief
Hands clasped behind back	Anger, frustration, apprehension
Locked ankles	Apprehension
Head resting in hand, eyes downcast	Boredom
Rubbing hands	Anticipation
Sitting with hands clasped behind head, legs crossed	Confidence, superiority
Open palm	Sincerity, openness, innocence
Pinching bridge of nose, eyes closed	Negative evaluation
Tapping or drumming fingers	Impatience
Steepling fingers	Authoritative
Patting/fondling hair	Lack of self-confidence; insecurity
Tilted head	Interest
Stroking chin	Trying to make a decision
Looking down, face turned away	Disbelief
Biting nails	Insecurity, nervousness
Pulling or tugging at ear	Indecision

Covered Dish Sunday Afternoon Picnic

From growl and gut

Of animal rut

Comes old milk

This cheese

From cluck and clatter

Of chicken’s patter

These eggs ‘n batters

In threes

Fried and boiled

In olive oil

From germ of wheat

On table neat

Pureed in wind-chaffed

Prairies take

Sandwich baked

So jump thee

Jump children

To table spread

Make haste

Away from puppy’s

Outstretched paws

Who’ll steal away fast

"...In the kitchen sink, looking like two freshly scrubbed cherubs, Sunday roasting [and] frying chickens..." dpd

Put patters of butter paste

On angel’s wings

And sing, sing, sing

This little byte of mine; I'm going to let it Shine ...!!

"KB GB MB Whats Bigger?
"Can you put them in order, along with anything I am missing, "from smallest to biggest please? I didn't think so..."
The Yottabyte is the biggest you can get...YB

Yes I can... in ascending order KB MB GB on the list:

kB (kilobyte) 10001 = 103 KB ~10241 = 210 KiB (kibibyte)

210 KiB= MB (megabyte) 10002 = 106 MB 10242 = 220 MiB (mebibyte)

220 MiB= GB (gigabyte) 10003 = 109 GB 10243 = 230 GiB (gibibyte)

230 GiB= TB (terabyte) 10004 = 1012 TB 10244 = 240 TiB (tebibyte)

240 PB (petabyte) 10005 = 1015 PB 10245 = 250 PiB (pebibyte)

250 PiB= EB (exabyte) 10006 = 1018 EB 10246 = 260 EiB (exbibyte)

260 EiB= ZB (zettabyte) 10007 = 1021 ZB 10247 = 270 ZiB (zebibyte)

270 ZiB= YB (yottabyte) 10008 = 1024 YB 10248 = 280 YiB (yobibyte)

"Huh?"

Happy Story

Michael Schuckert
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:16 AM
Mommy duck and ducklings

Something really amazing happened in Downtown Spokane this week and I had to share the story with you.
Joel Armstrong, is a loan officer at Sterling Bank. He works downtown in a second story office building, overlooking busy Riverside Avenue
Several weeks ago he watched a mother duck choose the cement awning outside his window as the uncanny place to build a nest above the sidewalk.
The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air.
She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched.

Joel worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment
to take to water, which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching.

Tuesday morning, Joel came to work and watched the mother duck encourage her babies to the edge of the perch
with the intent to show them how to jump off!
The mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above.
In his disbelief Joel watched as the first fuzzy newborn toddled to the edge and astonishingly leapt into thin air, crashing onto the cement below.

My brother couldn't watch how this might play out.
He dashed out of his office and ran down the stairs the sidewalk where the first obedient duckling was stuporing near its mother from the near fatal fall.
Joel looked up. The second duckling was getting ready to jump! He quickly dodged under the awning while the mother duck quacked at him and the babies above.
As the second one took the plunge, Joel jumped forward and caught it with his bare hands before it hit the cement.
Safe and sound, he set it by the momma and the other stunned sibling, still recovering from its painful leap.

One by one the babies continued to jump to join their anxious family below.
Each time Joel hid under the awning just to reach out in the nick of time as the duckling made its free fall.
The downtown sidewalk came to a standstill.
Time after time, Joel was able to catch the remaining 9 and set them by their approving mother.
At this point Joel realized the duck family had only made part of its dangerous journey.
They had 2 full blocks to walk across traffic, crosswalks, curbs, and pedestrians to get to the closest open water, the Spokane River .

The onlooking office secretaries then joined in, and hurriedly brought an empty copy paper box to collect the babies.

They carefully corralled them, with the mother's approval, and loaded them up into the white cardboard container.
Joel held the box low enough for the mom to see her brood.
He then slowly navigated through the downtown streets toward the Spokane River, as the mother waddled behind and kept her babies in sight.

As they reached the river, the mother took over and passed him, jumping into the river and quacking loudly.
At the water's edge, the Sterling Bank office staff then tipped the box and helped shepherd the babies toward the water and to their mother after their adventurous ride.

All ten darling ducklings safely made it into the water and paddled up snugly to momma duck.
Joel said the mom swam in circles, looking back toward the beaming bank workers, and proudly quacking as if to say, 'See, we did it! Thanks for all the help!'

Thankfully, one of the secretaries had a digital camera and was able to capture most of it (except the actually mid-air catching) in a series of photographs.