You know those projects that you always wished you did but never did and are sitting there thinking – oh my god – what if I die tomorrow and I haven’t done {skydiving, visited the pyramids, wack the Prime Minister in the face with a pie}. You know – the special things in life.

For me – its music. I love having time to write music but it always seems to have taken a back seat to other things that have been going on. Its the age old principle of “life is what happens when you are making plans to do other things”. Unfortunately you get to a point sometimes where you start to wonder whether life is controlling you or you are in control of life. Not that I regret too many things in my past – we live – we make mistakes – we grow. The fool in life is the person that is too full of themselves to not admit a mistake and take ownership over correcting it.

So what brought this up? Well — ever since high school I’ve been writing music. I’m not going to win any awards for my playing or my composition skills but that really isn’t the point. The point is being willing to express yourself and having the confidence to put yourself out there to see if maybe other people might feel connected in the same way. Artistic expression – whether it is macaroni art on the kitchen fridge or some Voice of Fire in the National Art Gallery – allows us to talk with each other. It provides a common frame of reference which opens the door to thoughts and ideas which wouldn’t normally be the case without some type of catalyst.

Beyond this however is the idea that you can’t simply sit still. You have to be constantly learning new things each year. Do something different. Find something you have never done and give it a whirl. Those things you love will stick with you your whole life. But you won’t know unless you try.

In my case – old cassette tapes of some rough cuts of electronic music which have sat unfinished for 15-20 years. I finally got around to finding a tape-to-mp3 devices to get these things into something internet accessible. What I realized as I was listening to compositions, that in some cases resulted in fairly horrific attempts to use a 4-track studio recorder, was I miss not having spent more time playing and composing. I like doing this type of thing even if only one in ten compositions are something that are worth sharing.

So here I am about to put myself ‘out there’. Maybe this is the kick in the ass I need to get many of the other works I have finished. After all – I’d hate to be on my death bed thinking – why didn’t I take control of life and create that album I’ve always wanted to. Good or bad – its about dialogue and who knows – maybe someone might like it besides me.

Catalina Island Waltz

Sometimes it just comes out and there is no way to stop it. Such was the case after a trip I took to dive off the California coast with a good friend of mine. I had already had close to 100 dives by that point including places like Cozumel. There was just something about that week however that was just crying to get out once I returned. The Catalina Waltz was the result.

— Kevin Feenan

 And before you say anything – yes I know there is tape hiss in here however at the moment I don’t have the right tools to remove it proper. Once I get this re-scored later this year and recorded digitally I should have a much cleaner copy which I’ll use to replace this with.

There have been numerous studies done that show current cell phone and portable device technology are not dangerous to flights (link). Rather than admitting that the existing regulations are based on concerns raised when cell phones and other electronic devices shared the same frequency spectrum over 30 years ago, the FAA has simply perpetuated a myth that is no longer supportable by fact.

There is a very simple and easy way to clearly show how innocuous today’s technology is on avionics. If these devices were truly dangerous to passenger safety then why are there no reports of al-Qaeda booking a half dozen first class seats with 2-3 iPhones each and just leaving the devices on during take-off? Why – because if it were that easy al-Qaeda would be doing that type of thing all over the world at this point.

Beyond this bit of silliness however is the fact that internal portable devices embedded into planes for entertainment purposes, that work on similar frequencies to portable devices by the way, put out potentially far more interference than some kid playing Angry Birds on his iPad. If you look around a plane carefully you will notice all kinds of different things in use that are as dangerous if not more dangerous than some mobile device.

I have yet to be on a plane where, despite the “attendant’s instructions”, a least a half dozen people around me aren’t fiddling with some sort of device without consequence.  Beyond that, whenever I have had the opportunity to fly first class – there has NEVER been a case where a first class passenger has been asked to turn off their devices despite obvious and blatant use of such devices during take off and landings.

Really – how many letters of this type are sent to First Class passengers, a market segment that makes up 1/3 of airline passenger revenues. (<== notice – not a question as you can probably already guess the answer). Mr. Cardone’s likely only failing was that he was travelling cattle like the rest of us poor SOBs rather than paying for a first class ticket.

So – What is your point?

I guess the point is this. Quite often corporate cultures get into a tailspin over policies and procedures that no longer meet the times. Rather than looking at the circumstances to see if maybe something has changed (which in this case something major has changed in terms of the underlying technology), it becomes simpler to blame individuals who are simply following the direction the rest of society has set in terms of social norms.

Give people the ability to have anywhere, anytime access to audio and video recording and instant 4G access to the Internet and they are going to use it. And that is going to create a whole pile of new moral and ethical dilemmas that we as a society are going to need time to adapt to. Trying to subvert society by criminalizing normal behavioural patterns only drive resentment and deep needs to find ways to use technology in a way that is natural.

So all those cases of bus drivers texting while driving, or subway operators, or whatever else — we need to get use to this because the behaviours of capturing those activities and bringing them to the forefront of public awareness is what drives our ability to constantly make society better. It opens dialogue. It lays plain issues. It exposes what it is to be human.

We aren’t always going to get the right answer. History is fully of swings in moral and ethical behaviour from one extreme to the other. The sexual attitude of today compared to 100 years ago are a prime example of this. I mean – really – when was the last time you went to a good crucifixion? The point thou is that without the opportunity to challenge what we think is correct, we have no opportunity to grow and innovate.

Whenever we come across a situation like this, one of the first questions we should be asking ourselves is: Am I doing this because it is the right thing to do – or am I doing it simply because that is the way things have always been done? If you are doing it for the latter – then maybe its time someone had a good hard look around to see how out of touch you are with reality.

Just because something is justified, doesn’t make it right.

— Kevin Feenan

• Are you lonely?
• Have you spent half your life ordering in, pursuing sins of chicken wings and pizza?
• Are you sitting in a beanbag chair, naked, eating Cheetos?
• Do you have the sudden urge to get up and send me a thousand dollars?

Sudden Urge to Donate

Oh god yes $1,000.00 USD Okay - ya got me $500.00 USD Eh, what the heck $250.00 USD Pay you? $100.00 USD Not that funny $50.00 USD Don't quit your day job $1.00 USD

Damn – oh well – it didn’t work for Ron White either so I guess I can’t complain too much. Notwithstanding, if you are like me, weight is a constant pain in the back (and legs, and hips, and ….). Whether it is the result of illness, injury, genetics, depression, stress, medications, lack of medications, menopause, heliopause – whatever – the end result will likely have been the same old problem. As much as we try to ‘diet’ – we are constantly gaining weight.

There are really only seven (7) things you need to know to help solve the problem. Believe me when I say that knowing the answer and living the answer are two different things. In general however if you can follow these seven principles, you should lose the weight and be able to get your body back in balance.

One thing to know up front. The body takes between 7-10 years to replace most of the cells in your body. That means the ‘you’ you are looking at now isn’t the same ‘you’ you were 7 years ago. Fat cells for example are replaced every 10 years. So if you are looking for permanent weight loss you cannot be thinking in terms of losing 100 lbs in 6 months but rather a reduction in fat cells over 7-10 years. That may not be what you want to hear, but its one of the key reasons we tend to gain weight back after having lost large amounts of weight quickly.

Let’s look at the math for a moment

If you are 200 lbs and 35% body fat and you want to get down to 20% body fat, you need to lose about 38 lbs of fat. However when we lose fat we don’t necessarily loose the fat cells – we only lose the fat that they contain. So if we start overeating again right away – those cells are still around to fill back up again. If you only lose 10% of your fat cells per year – it will take approximately 8 years before your body sheds itself of enough fat cells to be in balance with your proper fat-lean proportions.

So what we need to do to fix the problem is look at the following 7 lifestyle changes – in order of importance.

1. Sleep

The body needs time to rest and repair itself. Lack of sleep leads to a number of complications but the most serious of which is a hormonal imbalance that will sabotage everything else you try to do. As quoted from WebMD

The two hormones that are key in this process are ghrelin and leptin. “Ghrelin is the ‘go’ hormone that tells you when to eat, and when you are sleep-deprived, you have more ghrelin,” Breus says. “Leptin is the hormone that tells you to stop eating, and when you are sleep deprived, you have less leptin.”

More sleep means your Ghrelin-Leptin balance is more properly in tune and you are not as likely to snack. Your body has time to rest and repair and to flush out toxins that have accumulated throughout the day. Without proper sleep everything else on our list operates at half efficiency.

2. Water

Cars need oil to lubricate all the various moving parts. Your body needs water for much the same purpose. Without it all kinds of nasty things start to occur and the engine will seize up. Water is the key ingredient in many bodily processes including digestion and the breakdown of sugars and fats for energy. Without adequate hydration, our body processes do not function optimally. The breakdown of fats specifically is a water intensive process. Albeit mostly as a catalyst, for every 1 Kg of fat broken down, 8L of water are used in the process.

That isn’t to say you need to drink 8L of water per day as most of the water comes from the fat itself. But lack of hydration can put the breaks on these cycles if the body’s overall water needs are not being met.

Think of each cell in the body as being a sponge. If the cells are properly hydrated then they aren’t going to try to take water from anywhere else. If the cell’s aren’t hydrated however then as fat is broken down, the water produced part way through the process will be consumed by other cells and processes around it and fat breakdown itself will stall. Sort of like choking off the gas line to the fuel pump.

BTW – when we are talking about water, we mean water water – not pop, coffee, tea, juice, milk, etc. Water ‘additives’ need to be processed which takes away from the effectiveness of the drink being consumed. That isn’t to say things like herbal tea and such are not good for you. Just don’t expect to get the same benefit as drinking straight water.

3. Nutrition

Cars need gas to run. Your body needs food for the same purpose. Too much food energy and the excess gets turned into fat and stored in fat cells. Not enough food and fat is released as energy to be burned in the body as fuel.

Let’s be clear about this – its all about FOOD.

There is no other way to gain or lose weight – everything is dependent on this balance.  Everything else before and after this point is about how we can influence this balance but the balance itself is based on what we eat. You want to lose weight – this what you need to get under control.

Fortunately, the process doesn’t need to be complicated.

Look at how much you weighed 7 years ago.
Look at how much you weight now.

The difference is what you need to get under control.

So – let’s do the math.

If you weighed 220 lbs 7 years ago and you weigh 255 lbs now, the difference is 35lbs or 5 lbs per year. At 3600 cal/lb that means you need to reduce the diet you are eating now by only 50 cals per day on average in order to maintain your current weight and 100 cals per day on average in order to lose weight.

That takes into consideration birthdays, thanksgiving, holidays, office parties – everything.

Now we need to put that into perspective.

100 cals = 1 slice of white bread, ½ glass of milk, ½ glass of coke – in general not the most difficult of things to do if you pay attention to what you put past your lips.

In fact – the easiest way to reduce the total number of calories you consume at a give meal is …. wait for it …. drinking 2 glasses of water before eating. It has been shown in numerous studies that drinking water BEFORE a meal not only improves digestion but we tend to consume 10-20% fewer calories that we would otherwise. Score 1 for water.

4. Aerobic Exercise

Exercise for weight lost doesn’t work. That is because if your diet is off, when you stop exercising the weight will simply come back. That isn’t to say that you shouldn’t exercise – rather you should exercise for different reasons.

Aerobic exercise provides benefits beyond creating a calorie deficient in the body. The primary one is the circulation of body fluids which is critical to effective maintenance. Think on it this way – you have this wonderful house with a great big pool of water in the backyard. But if the pump breaks down eventually the water goes all crusty and starts to gum up and evil mosquito thingies start popping up. Sure the ducks like it but then they are fowl creatures anyways (ba dump baaaa! – okay – bad joke).

Aerobic exercises like walking, jogging, running, swimming, etc are like weight lifting for your heart and lungs. They strengthen your cardiovascular system and make other parts of the body work more efficiently. Afterall – there is no point in turning fat into energy if it’s just going to sit in the fat cells and not make its way to the muscle cells. If energy isn’t being used on a regular basis it’s just going to go back into storage.

Look Joe – I got me an ATP molecule – wadaya want me ta do with it.
I dunno – damn delivery truck isn’t here so throw it back in the warehouse. 
Gotcha boss – back it goes.

If you want to lose weight more effectively – you have to get your body to do things that require energy on a continuous basis and get your heart pumping to move energy from where it is being stored to where it will be consumed. There are two traps however that lie in wait but which aren’t hard to overcome.

1. Your body has a reserve gas tank that has to be depleted first. Usually about 20 minutes of any form of aerobic activity will drain the tank after which point your body will start to call up the reserves. Its sort of like watching a redneck mining operation. All the little fat miners are just standing around watching the world go by until the fuel stockpile starts to get to empty. Its only then the foreman starts to run around kicking butts and saying ‘get to work you yahoos!” that anything happens to the fat build-up;

2. If you push your body too hard all the little fat miners start to cheat and instead of mining energy from fat they start to mine energy from muscle. This is because muscle contains higher levels of raw ATP (the fuel that muscle cells need to work). In fat – the fat has to be broken down first to get to the ATP. When there is lots of time to get the job done – this is actually the easy way out. But when the big boss shows up saying “I need 100,000,000 units now!” – the foreman directs the fat miners to start to cannibalize the energy produced and stored previously in muscle cells. The body literally starts to digest itself and at these levels fat becomes the last source of energy to be used.

So you want to tend to avoid high stress aerobic activities. Keeping your heart rate between 60-75% of maximum is the ideal target range.

5. Anaerobic Exercise

Similar to aerobic exercise, anaerobic exercise shouldn’t be used to lose weight. Rather, you should use strength training for entirely different reasons.  While aerobic activities push the body to use energy generally, anaerobic exercise controls how effectively each individual muscle cell will use that energy once it is received.

Energy usage in the body is controlled not by the muscle cell but by a small symbiotic structure in each cell called mitochondria. It is mitochondria that is responsible for the creation of ATP which is the cell’s major fuel source.

What anaerobic exercise does is two-fold: 1) it increases the size and number of muscle cells that are available in the body. 2) it helps increase the number of mitochondria available in each cell in order to create / burn fuel. So while aerobic exercise gets fuel to the cell, anaerobic exercise determines how hot the fire will burn once it gets there – ergo how much fuel is required. More mitochondria, more muscle, more fuel, higher calorie deficit requirements.

This doesn’t mean you need to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you need to build muscle then you want to do high weight – low repetition type body building. This type of activity breaks down muscle tissue and creates new muscle during rest periods (i.e more mitochondria through an increase in muscle mass). If you are happy with your level of fitness then you want to do low weight – high repetition type body conditioning. This type of activity is closer to aerobic than aerobic with a net impact of increasing the number of mitochondria per lbs of muscle mass.

What is average? There is no really good consensus on this however Adam Campbell over at Mens Health has suggested 10 standards to assess your level of fitness including:

1. Bench 1.5 Times Your Body Weight
2. Run 1.5 Miles in 10 Minutes
3. Vertical jump of 2 ft
4. Leg-Press 2.25 Times Your Weight
5. Swim 700 Yards in 12 Minutes
6. Do 40 Pushups
7. Waist to Hip Ratio of < 0.9 (m) / < 0.7 (f)
8. Run 300 Yards < 1 Minute
9. Touch Your Toes (flexibility)
10. Toss a Basketball 75 Feet Kneeling

Keep in mind that these metrics are for those people who are “BMI friendly” in terms of normal. For those people who are obese, bench pressing 1.5 times your body weight is just unrealistic. The standard unit of measure is your ideal body weight as per the BMI charts and then use a trainer / spotter to help you get from where you are to where you want to be once you reach your ideal weight.  There is no point in being skinny at the expense of two broken ankles and a broken collar bone because you were stupid and tried to over exert yourself with unrealistic expectations.

Get the chart – do the math – error on the low side and work your way up – keep it safe.

6. Recreation and Social Activity

Humans are social creatures – even the introverted ones. While no one likes to be the 300 lb guy at the gym filled with 20-something show-offs – working out, hiking, biking, doing recreational activities with friends is almost always more enjoyable than trying to develop new habits on your own. You’ll have more fun and will stick with lifestyle changes longer the more you make them a part of who you are rather and what you need to do.

And much as this is not going to sound oh so P.C. – if your social friends and companions aren’t willing to support you in obtaining your goals, it’s time to get new friends or limit the time you spend with those people. Surround yourself with people who are like minded in doing the types of things you find enjoyable and you will find that the weight will start coming off without even thinking about it.

The other thing to keep in mind is that if you are forcing yourself to do something that you just don’t feel comfortable with, then find a different activity. There is no point in going to a gym for a 30 minute run every morning if you hate running and are a late sleeper. That isn’t to say that you shouldn’t give it an honest try. One month trying something new and pushing your comfort zone you may find that something you thought you hated is your next new passion in life. But if you are 6 months into something and it’s just getting you down – switch.  Life is too short to spend on things that don’t make you happy.

7. Visualization

Speaking of which – the last thing to keep in mind is to constantly visualize what makes you happy. What are those things you want to do that the weight is keeping you from accomplishing. Put it into your mind’s eye. See yourself there. Whether it is travel, career, social, personal, sex – doesn’t matter. To reach a goal you have to see yourself doing it, being it, living it. Take the best traits of those goals you want to accomplish and replay it in your mind’s eye so that once you are there, you will simply step into that role as if you have owned it all your life.

Beeeee the ball.

What to do with Everything Else

Everything else in the weight management world is a distraction.

Some will help. Some will hurt. If you think drinking 8 cups of decaffeinated, ginseng infused, green tea per day is going to help speed things along all the more power to you. If going to Weight Watchers is going to provide the social support you need to stay on target – great. If you have more money than brains and want to blow it all on Herbal Magic – I’ve seen it work for other people.

Whether we are talking stomach stapling, liposuction, nutritional supplements, acupuncture, reiki, fat farms … whatever … the important thing is to research the facts first before you engage in any of these activities and then determine whether what you are about to embark on is a result of peer pressure to engage in a short-term fad, or whether the activity in question is going to sustainably support one or more of the seven basic habits of weight management.

Believe me – while the basics habits are simple enough to know and understand – I know that it is a very difficult job to change destructive behavioural patterns. Sometimes we want the easy way out. But that doesn’t deny the fact that to accomplish our goals means creating real change in our lives. If it were as simple as following a set of best practice principles, everyone would be doing it.

Talk to your doctor. Talk to your friends. Talk to your family. When you find the trigger that is important enough to you, it is possible to change things. That trigger is different for everyone which is why people are spending $40B per year on something that isn’t complicated to understand. Once you find it thou – the heavens will open and you’ll be reaching your goals before you realize it.

Faith my friend. It’s in you to give.

– Kevin Feenan

So the other day we get a support phone call on one of our project for someone that is trying to access Second Life. Everything is working fine except voice. I.e. VOIP provided by Vivox. Normally the system works great but on occasion you get these weird one-offs.

The problem is latency. The solution is simple – upgrade to a better class of service. However that isn’t necessarily possible for everyone especially in areas only supported by satellite service. As the saying goes – may the buyer beware. In this case, not all broadband is created equal.

One of the problems is that no one publishes minimum system requirements for VOIP. So with no further ado – here are your minimum specs

• Latency < 333 ms
• Download Speed > 256 Kbps
• Upload Speed > 128 Kbps

Latency and Quality of Service are your key factors. If you are on a service that is running latencies > 500ms you can forget about getting any VOIP service to work reliably. Ideally you want latencies under 100ms. 300 is high. At 500 you are pretty much out of the hunt. Routers that only support low bandwidth and do not have quality of service may also fail even if you do have minimum requirements. That is because there is no prioritization of packets and as the saying goes “your mileage may vary”.

Download speed for VOIP is usually a minimum 128 Kbps however you need to keep in mind that unless you turn everything else off, you are always going to end-up using more that the minimum. So 256 Kpbs would be considered “marginal”. Faster is obviously better.

Similar with upload speeds. You need a minimum 56 Kbps upload to run VOIP. Your system however will always be kicking out additional messages even if you aren’t running anything else. A lot of these functions there are no way to turn off (nor would you want to). So to be safe you are looking at a minimum 128 Kbps to run VOIP effectively.

So there ye be. Course the only reason I’m putting this up is because for whatever reason every gaming manufacturer that says “we run voice” like Second Life, WOW, Envoy, and a ton of other only put “broadband” up on their website for bandwidth requirements without defining exactly what they mean by broadband. In general however the rule of thumb is that if you are on basic satellite service, you are pretty much screwed due to the high latency.

When in doubt go to http://speedtest.net and see what your performance actually is. This should give you a good indication as to whether your problem is computer related or network related.

– Kevin Feenan

M.A.S.H may have started out being the story of Hawkeye Pierce but I think in the end the story was really more about Winchester as a classical hero – albeit one that was never finished. If we compare Winchester to the classical hero – many traits seem to be paralleled in the stories that were told in M.A.S.H.

• He is of noble birth
• He is required to perform extraordinary feats
• He suffers from an overriding fatal flaw
• The suffering of the character is physical

We see throughout the development of the character how much like the classical hero Winchester really is. Certain exploits such at “Morale Victory” shows a compassion in Winchester that on the surface seems to suggest at something more noble deeper inside. However in the same episode we see acedia, pride, and vanity. Albeit not spoken to in a boisterous way – the impression one gets from watching this episode is a certain smugness – almost as if selfless acts such as this represent a tally on a balance sheet.

Other episodes seem to reinforce these ideals with some not so subtle displays of hubris by Winchester. As the character evolves however it seems as if more and more of Winchester’s inner walls break down. “Run for the Money” is another such episode that stands as one where Winchester befriends a soldier who stutters. In so doing, I think we see this progression towards a point when Winchester enters the M.A.S.H. unaware of his fatal flaws to a point at which the true growth of the character can start to take place. As the saying goes it:

“… brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning… and end.”

The writers of M.A.S.H. choose to treat the transcendence of Winchester into darkness as an ending in the final episode. The more I look upon it though the more I feel that this was really the beginning.

Think on it this way. In the final episode of M.A.S.H. the character of Winchester is broken. Music, which was always his refuge from having to face the reality of who he was, is no longer a barrier or shield to protect him from his fatal flaw. That anomaly is now laid bare – the road has led him to the gates of his personal hell despite his claims that “my life will go on pretty much as I expected”.

I think what bothers me 30 years on from the airing of this episode is that, while so much time and effort was spent on the character of Hawkeye and his relationship with BJ, that we all missed the ultimate cliff-hanger.

Think on it – Almost all the other characters have grown in some way that resolved by the end of the series. Margret, Hawkeye, BJ, Klinger, Col. Potter. All have grown from the experience in a way that you could clearly see them having become better people for their experiences. Certainly there will be challenges. But all in all, the substance of who they are going to be was forged and set in Korea.

For Winchester however I don’t feel the character was really resolved. Essentially the road through the Korean War was one that took an arrogant, self absorbed, pompous ass and marched him straight up to the gates of his own hell on earth by the final episode. The real development of the story of Winchester I think is really what happens after he leaves Korea.

If we fall back to the essence of the classical hero – we have essentially left Winchester at a point of physical suffering, but not death – and certainly not rebirth. We could, in a way, see the next several years of Winchester’s life living in a purgatory state. Having established a pattern of forgiveness during his Korean years, we could imagine a Winchester who has come to terms some of his inner circles of Hell but not with the treachery of self. The fatal flaw of which – if not resolved, could tip the scales between that of the classical hero verses the fallen angle.

Beyond this, I think at the end of M.A.S.H. we see a Winchester that is only just now starting onto the path of grieving, death, renewal, and restoration as a true hero. Someone who can truly break out of transactional modes of leadership and become a transformative figure on so many levels.

It would be interesting I think to see that journey.

It would be a journey worthy of a Winchester.

— Kevin Feenan

But age becomes the predator
A war between what is and was,
No kindness, fear, or place to bind us
A history unkind to fatal flaws;

The power of the word is love
The power of the word is joy
The power of the word is hate
The power of the word is lies
The power of the word is truth
And spur our spirit’s endless flight

The family man seeks hope and dreams
A legacy for future bright
Of better days and fields of schemes
And fortitude to see things right

Past and present blur together
Days fall like soldiers off to battle
What once was then is soon forgotten
A history unkind to banter

The power of the deed is now
The power of the deed is action
The power of the deed was then
The power of the deed is sloth
The power of the deed is truth
It spurs our physical delight

Society’s a loose connection
Between the mob and our recollection
The truth of moment’s single vision
A recipe for our protection

The slippery slope of man’s insight
Collective conscious of vagueness hence
Pull future strings of our intention
A history shattered in our defense

The power of the thought is how
The power of the thought is who
The power of the thought laid low
The power of the thought not told
The power of the thought is truth
To spur our mental model’s height

We do not sing, in choir song,
We do not grow, just with the flow,
We do not stand, but in a row
We laugh and belch and fart and cry
We pat ourselves until we die
To spur our innovative might

The power of truth is in the words
The power of truth is acts and deeds
The power of truth is pure of thought
The power of truth is found and lost
The power of truth is you and me
Amid ten billion voices

– Kevin Feenan