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This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional 60/203,809 filed May 19, 2000, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to methods for rendering footnotes into a variety of media.
The delivery of information has become omnipresent in recent years with the advent of the Internet and the World-Wide Web (WWW). Moreover, browsers and viewers, which permit the information to be displayed, are now standard with any computing device acquired by a consumer today. By way of example only, some of the WWW browsers include Netscape, Internet Explorer, and others. Often these browsers are equipped with external viewer plugins, which facilitate viewing data in a variety of formats. Information used within a browser is often referred to as browser media. Other types of media, such as paged media exist as well.
Information viewed in a browser is optimally formatted or rendered to be displayed and traversed within the browser (e.g. within the browser media environment). Yet, that same data is not optimally viewed when it is transferred to a paged media. For example, footnote data viewed in a WWW browser may include a hypertext link associated with a footnote citation, and when this link is activated the footnote body associated with the footnote citation becomes viewable, either in a separate popup window, or within the same browser window. Although this is optimal and efficient for browser media, it is not feasible when the footnote data is transferred to print media, since any link would have to be manually traversed within the printed document by the user. In fact, often when footnote bodies are printed from a browser media, all of the footnotes occur at the end of the document, rather than at the end of each page wherein a corresponding footnote citation matching a footnote body occurs.
This is cumbersome, especially if a user only desires to view a few pages of a publication in printed form. Furthermore, users typically desire, when reading a printed page, having the start of a footnote body present on the same page in which the corresponding footnote citation occurs. It is more efficient for the user, when referring to the footnote body on a printed page, to have the footnote citation occur within the text of the same page as its concomitant footnote body.
Furthermore, the problem of transferring data from a browser or a viewer to a printer is not uncommon and is not limited to footnote data. In fact, anyone who has selected what appeared to be well formatted information for printing in a WWW browser, is often astonished to discover that once the information is outputted to a paged media from the printer, the information is no longer suitable for viewing. Users may be forced to change the page setup within the printer, select landscape modes, and a variety of other choices in an attempt to get a paged media version of what they are currently viewing in a browser media on their computing device s monitor. But, even these options will not merge footnote bodies with footnote citations properly within paged media.
Reconciling browser media and page media is problematic, particularly when attempting to render footnote data from a browser media to a paged media. Footnote bodies may be physically kept separate from the text within which the corresponding footnote citations occur. As a result, even changing the options associated with a printer will do little to resolve the problem of merging footnote bodies with the appropriate footnote citations when printing footnote data.
To solve this, and many other problems associated with data presentation, an industry wide consortium developed a series of data format standards designed to assist in the transition of data being displayed in different media. One primary standard is Extensible Markup Language (XML), which displays data in terms of its content devoid of any presentation attributes.
Raw XML is not particularly useful in the displaying or the presentation of data in a browser or a paged media by itself, rather, the XML is useful in divorcing the proprietary presentation associated with each media from the data markup, thereby requiring each media to render the raw XML into a useful format prior to displaying it to a user. A number of rendering languages and standards have emerged to assist in this effort, such as by way of example only Extensible Stylesheets Language (XSL), Extensible Stylesheets Language Transformations (XSLT), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and others. These rendering languages provide guidelines and utilities to take raw XML and render it to a useful presentation format for a particular media.
Yet, even with the design consistency associated with a standard data format (e.g. XML) and a variety of additional rendering utilities and guidelines (e.g. XSL, XSLT, CSS), footnote data still presents a number of difficult problems when attempting to transfer the footnote data from a browser media to a paged media, since the footnote citations may be stored separately from the footnote bodies within the data being rendered, and since a single page must have at least the beginning of a footnote body on the same page in which the corresponding footnote citation occurs.
Moreover, present techniques to render footnote bodies on the same page wherein a footnote citation occurs, include inefficient techniques which require continuous iterations of computations to adjust the areas on a page associated with non footnote data and footnote bodies. In prior techniques, as footnote bodies are added to the same page previously placed footnote citations drift to the top of the page, requiring complex iterative recalculations of the positions of the footnote citations and the footnote bodies within the page. This is necessary to avoid the possibility that a previously placed footnote citation which has a corresponding footnote body already rendered on a page, will not drift to a previous page as the footnote body data increases on the page. Accordingly, more efficient techniques for rendering footnotes are needed.
Accordingly, an object of the invention is to provide methods for rendering footnotes to an output media regardless of the complex data layouts required. Moreover, the footnote rendering may be performed in stream as opposed to in batch mode resulting in improved performance and efficiency. This permits users to truly realize the benefits of seamlessly transitioning between multiple media environments without a loss in presentation or performance during the transition.
To accomplish this and other aspects of the present invention, footnote data are recognized and parsed from an initial source media. An output media whereto the footnotes are to be rendered is associated with a unit of the media having definable dimensions. Data, which are not footnote bodies, are populated into the unit of media in a resizable area, beginning at the start of the unit of media. When a footnote citation is encountered, the data, which are not footnote bodies, are inverted on the unit of media and the footnote body data associated with the footnote citation are inserted into the unit of media at the start of the unit of media. Upon completion of the footnote body, the footnote body is inverted, and the data, which are not the footnote body, are restored to their original location within the unit of media. When the unit of media becomes fully populated, the footnote bodies are adjusted so the bodies occur in the proper sequence within the unit of media.
In this way, it will become apparent to those skilled in the art, that should a unit of media become fully populated during insertion of a footnote body, any remaining data associated with the footnote body may be easily migrated to the next unit of media. Moreover, by inverting the unit of media, iterative recalculations become unnecessary. Further, inversion may be achieved, by way of example only, with simple pointers to locations within the unit of media associated with resizable insertion areas, such that performance of rendering footnotes is greatly improved over existing techniques.
Additional objectives, advantages and novel features of the invention will be set forth in the description that follows and, in part, will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examining or practicing the invention. The objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and obtained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims. To achieve the foregoing and other objects and in accordance with the purpose of the present invention, methods are provided for rendering footnotes.
A set of executable instructions for inserting footnotes into a media is provided, comprising receiving non footnote body data and footnote body data, wherein the non footnote body data are inserted into one or more first locations within a media. Moreover, the non footnote body data are inverted to one or more second locations when the footnote body data are inserted into the media. Further, the non footnote body data are restored into the first locations with the footnote body data occupying at least one or more of the second locations.
Moreover, a set of executable instructions operable to render footnotes is provided, comprising receiving data including non footnote data and footnote data having footnote citations and footnote bodies. The non footnote data and the footnote citations are serially inserted into a media. However, insertion is interrupted when footnote citations are encountered, and a start location and an end location associated with a unit of the media are inverted such that the end location houses the non footnote data and the footnote citations while the footnote bodies are inserted serially at a start location within the unit of media. After the footnote bodies are inserted into the media, the start and end locations are swapped such that the non footnote data and the footnote citations are located at the start location and the footnote bodies are located at the end location.
Finally, a set of executable instructions operable to manage the rendering of footnotes is provided wherein an entry path for receiving footnote body data is associated with a unit of media. Moreover, a second path for receiving non footnote body data is associated with the unit of media. Further, a first location associated with the second path is reversed with an ending location associated with the entry path for purposes of inserting the footnote body data into the unit of media.
Still other aspects of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description of a preferred embodiment, which is by way of illustration, one of the best modes contemplated for carrying out the invention. As will be realized, the invention is capable of other different and obvious aspects, all without departing from the invention. Accordingly, the drawings and descriptions are illustrative in nature and not restrictive.
The accompanying drawings incorporated in and forming part of the specification, illustrate several aspects of the present invention and, together with their descriptions, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:
The present invention provides methods for rendering footnotes. One embodiment of the present invention is implemented using web browser technologies including well-known software programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Java, Active X, Active Server Pages, XSLT, Xpath) and Internet communication protocols (TCP/IP). Of course other programming languages and communications protocols (now known or hereafter developed) may be also readily employed.
As previously presented, rendering footnotes to a unit of media such as, by way of example only, a printed page from a different originating media such as, by way of example only, browser media is problematic. This is so because as more footnote body data are added to a unit of media, previously inserted footnote citations are forced upward on the unit of media and continuous calculations are needed to determine if the footnote body data may be properly inserted. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, these computations effect performance of rendering the footnotes to the unit of media and one desiring to produce any substantial number of units having footnotes will readily notice the performance degradation.
The present invention resolves problems associated with the continuous recalculation of the input areas used for housing footnote data by inverting the unit of media one or more times as data are serially inserted into the media. For example, consider, by way of example only, a unit of media such as a printed page to which data such as, by way of example only, text data is to be rendered. The text data are initially received in a XML or XSL format, although as one skilled in the art will appreciate any input format could provide the initial text data both standard and ad hoc. The text data is parsed and from the initial provided format, and inserted onto the printed page.
Although, as one skilled in the art will readily appreciate, the data need not be directly printed to the printed page, rather, the data may be translated to printer formatting commands such that when the commands are executed the data is physically impregnated on the printed page. A variety of commands to direct the printer to produce a printed page may be used and are well known in the art, such as by way of example only, PDF and PCL. By way of example only, consider
Upon completion of receiving the footnote body data 380, a page 350 in
As one skilled in the art will appreciate, the above described example may be achieved by using a set of executable instructions in a variety of ways, such as by way of example, using pointers to locations within a data structure that logically represents the output unit of media (e.g. page). In fact, input areas within the page may be represented as a series of geometric rectangles which are continually resizing themselves at any particular moment as data is inserted into the page. The text data not associated with footnote body data and the footnote citation data may occupy one such rectangle and the footnote body data may occupy another rectangle. Moreover, multiple rectangles may be linked together within the unit of media to form a path of insertion, such that data are inserted into the path, which is nothing more than a linked list of the rectangular areas, the head of the list defining the initial insertion point of the data into the media. Furthermore, different types of media may have their own paths such that a single unit of media may have multiple paths with each path housing disparate media, such as audio, video, table, image data and others.
By way of example only, consider
The initial state 440 corresponds to
After a footnote citation 375 is detected in
Once all the footnote body data 380 is received within the page 340 in
Once it is determined that page 350 is fully populated
As one skilled in the art will appreciate, the above transitions, presented for purposes of illustration only, may be implemented in a variety of ways and a state table is not required. In fact, pointers to locations within a representation of a unit of media along with the appropriate state transition flags are all that is needed to implement the present invention. In a given circumstance a pointer implementation may greatly improve the performance associated with rendering footnotes in this manner by avoiding accesses to tables during execution. Although, it is readily apparent to one skilled in the art, without departing from the present invention, that any number of implementation mechanisms may be deployed.
When a footnote citation is parsed and recognized in step 50, it is inserted into the logical representation of the unit of media and this detection further triggers a logical reordering of the media representation creating an inverted view of the representation and the footnote body data is then inserted into this revised representation in step 60. An example of how this may occur, was previously presented. If the footnote body data exceeds the dimensions associated with a single unit of the media, the data is transferred to a new subsequent unit of media in step 70.
After, the footnote body data is inserted and space available on the unit of media exhausted, the logical representation of the unit of media is restored in step 80 to its original condition, and it is formatted as desired and rendered in step 90 to the desired media.
As one skilled in the art will readily appreciate, the method depicted by
When a footnote citation data are detected in step 130, the footnote citation data are inserted into the unit of media (not shown) and an interruption in the insertion process occurs in step 160. The footnote body data detected in step 110 is retrieved and the unit of media locations inverted in step 170. The footnote body data are then inserted into the unit of media in step 190 with any carry over footnote body data pushed to a new unit of media in step 200 if the existing unit of media becomes fully populated.
Logical representations of the unit of media may be managed by pointers in step 180, and as described above. In this way, data is continuously inserted into the logical representation of the unit of media with minimal interruption and little need for expense calculations to ensure proper insertion. Moreover, complex insertions may be performed such that single columns of text within a unit of media may be treated as sub units and footnotes rendered as described herein.
After the data received are exhausted, the unit of media is restored to its ordered logical representation with the unit of media data in their proper locations in step 210. In this way, data is populated to the unit of media more efficiently, and with increased rendering performance.
Moreover, footnote body data is acquired in step 250 and associated with an entry path in step 240 which is used to insert the footnote body data into the unit of media in step 260. In step 270, ordered locations within the representation of the unit of media are reversed for purposes of inserting the footnote body data in step 280. In step 290, if the footnote body data exceeds the capacity of the dimensions associated with the unit of media, the footnote body data are extended to a second unit of media.
When non footnote body data are inserted into the unit of media in step 310, the original locations are restored within the unit of media in step 300. After the unit of media is fully populated or the non footnote body data and footnote body data exhausted, the data is formatted in step 320 for final preparations and rendering to the appropriate physical media.
The foregoing description of an exemplary embodiment of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive nor to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art in light of the above teaching.
For example, although XML and XSL were used as the primary initial data formats before footnotes are rendered, any data format, which is definable, could be used. Moreover, although the primary examples discuss rendering footnotes to a printer or paged media, footnotes may be rendered to application (e.g. fax, additional software modules, intelligent appliances, word processors, viewers, web television, television, and the like). Further, although a unit of media was discussed in terms of a printed page, footnotes may be rendered to sub units within a printed pages, such as by way of example only individual columns within a page having multiple columns. Accordingly, this invention is intended to embrace all alternatives, modifications, and variations that fall within the spirit and broad scope of the attached claims.
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It's been a while since ET has seen any sort of notable LAN action.
The last event being Adroits LAN where One Pound Fish took the win.
In order to bring some LAN action back, we've decided to give it another shot and this time with a 6on6 and 3on3 ET offline tournament.
Read on for all the available information at this time.
Dates: 17 - 19 April 2015
Entry 6on6: €65 per person
Entry 3on3: €35 per person
Entry 6on6 & 3on3: €90 per person
Money raised from sign-ups will be used for the following:
6on6: 2.000 (based on the raise from sign-ups)
3on3: 750 (based on the raise from sign-ups)
General tournament information
Based on the tournament having 16 teams per format, the structure will be 4 groups of 4 teams followed by a full 8-team playoff bracket on day 2 and 3. The event will take place on Friday the 17 of April until and Sunday the 19 of April 2015.
In order for the tournament to go ahead, we will require a minimum of 14 teams for both formats to be signed up and fully paid.
Venue details
The game hall is located in the wzzrd cafe located in the Dutch town Enschede which is the same place as where the Adroits LAN was hosted. We will probably have 30 computers available for use, 24 of which will be used as tournament computers with 6 being on reserve in case of faults.
The location is very accessible via all taxis, busses and trains. Full travel guide will be published in a later stadium.
My team is interested - what should I do?
Private message timbolina or Sebhes on crossfire before the 25th of January with the following information:
- A team name;
- Lineup;
- Which format(s) you are interested to participate in.
Me and Sebhes will be contacting teams ourselves as well and hopefully we will find enough interested teams.
Another LAN is now in the ET scenes hands, there are the teams and players for this to be a very enjoyable event so lets not drop the ball! Get proactive if you wish to attend!
Reborn on FB
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Clashes continue in Afghanistan, 23 killed
Coalition air strikes have killed eight Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
The latest deaths came as Operation Mountain Thrust, the biggest anti-Taliban operation since they were removed from government in 2001, pushed on in the south.
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Thanksgiving 2015 is right around the corner…. you're probably smack dab in the middle of menu planning so here's a suggestion to toss into the mix, if you don't already make pies for the holidays – why not start a family tradition this year and let the baking begin!
But what to bake? This time of year I say go with tradition and start with apples. Local apples. If you think the availability of locally grown North Carolina apples is just for the months of September and October, think again. The local NC apple harvest is still in full production and these juicy GotToBeNC gems make holiday pies all the better!
To make the process all the easier, I've got a fool proof pie crust recipe to share that comes out perfectly every time making your holiday baking easy as…. well, you know.
If you can't get into making from scratch crust, no worries, no stress – I recommend working with Immaculate Bakers' Refrigerated Pie Crust – works like a charm every time and its organic!
Crust done, lets get back to the apples. If you have limited yourself to eating only the well known Red Delicious variety of apples, you might be surprised to learn just how many different types of apples there are in the world and even more surprised to find out that the state of North Carolina ranks seventh in apple production in the United States. Amazingly, according to my friends at the NC Dept of Agriculture, our Old North State has over 200 commercial apple operations comprised of 9,000 bearing acres of apple orchards and turns out millions of bushels of apples each year, about 60% of them are used in juice and applesauce production.
While apples are a staple in every grocery store produce department, like everything else – fresh picked from the farm local produce is always your best choice and apples are no different – North Carolina's apple producing region centers primarily in the mountains around the Haywood and Henderson counties, the Mt. Mitchell area, and Wilkes and Yadkin counties. The better part of the apple trade in North Carolina comes from trees producing Red and Golden Delicious apples as well as Rome Beauty, Stayman and Gala varieties; but Empire, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Suncrisp, Jonagold, Granny Smith, Arkansas Black, Crimson Crisp, Cameo, Pink Lady, Goldrush, Limbertwig, Rome, Blacktwig and Mutzu apples grow in our area, too, as well as hundreds of other heirloom or antique varieties.
North Carolina's apple growing season runs from July to late December and a quick day trip up to the mountains early this week will prove to land a tasty harvest from any one of the many roadside stands you'll pass along the way. If you are in Charlotte, its under a two hour drive up to see my friends at Perry Lowe Orchards in Moravian Falls, NC up on Highway 16 South where they pick approx 4 million apples each apple season from some 29,000 apple trees that grow on the 6th generation North Carolina farm.
While all apples are good for eating, I lean toward the sweet-tart to tart varieties like Granny Smith, Macintosh, Empire, Pink Lady, Honeycrisp and Limbertwig for cooking, finding they fare better baked, steamed or fried then a lot of the sweet apple varieties. Figure three medium sized apples, cored and sliced, to measure about a cup.
Apples are also great for juicing, on their own or mixed in your own house blend – try them juiced with mango and banana or use them to slightly sweeten your favorite green juice blend – yum!
Rich in pectin, high in potassium and weighing in at only 61 calories per medium apple, this popular fruit helps to keep cholesterol in balance, the high potassium/low sodium ratio of apples can reduce cardiac problems and has been touted as a help in regulating tension headaches, too. With ZERO FAT and 5 grams of fiber per serving, apples are a great snack food and good to enjoy at every meal.
Once you purchase fresh apples, they are best kept under refrigeration, as room temperature apples soften 10 times faster than they will in the refrigerator. While you're gathering the fruit, don't forget about a jug or two of fresh homemade cider – hot or cold, there's nothing quite like it and while you are at the Perry Lowe Orchards apple house don't miss the packages of dried apples made from 10 different varieties of their fresh picked harvest – a real treat that lasts all year long and is great for cooking as well (see the fried pie recipe below).
Like all of us if you are pressed for time this week and can't drive up to the mountains before Thursday's feasting, the happy news is that local NC apples are available at lots of local farmers' markets in and around Charlotte and across the state as well. And farmers market shopping isn't just a weekend affair – lots of local and regional markets are open weekdays this week right up until the holiday.
Foolproof Pie Crust
Makes enough for one 9-inch double-crust pie
2 1/2 cups organic unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. sugar
12 Tbsp. (1 1/2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch slices
1/2 cup cold vegetable shortening, cut into small bits
1/4 cup cold vodka
1/4 cup cold water
Process 1 1/2 cups flour, salt, and sugar in food processor until combined, about 2 one-second pulses. Add butter and shortening and process until dough just starts to collect in uneven clumps, about 15 seconds .
Scrape bowl with rubber spatula and redistribute dough evenly around processor blade. Add remaining cup flour and pulse until mixture is evenly distributed around bowl and mass of dough has been broken up, 4 to 6 quick pulses. Empty mixture into medium bowl.
Sprinkle vodka and water over mixture. With rubber spatula, use folding motion to mix, pressing down on dough until dough is slightly tacky and sticks together. Divide dough into two even balls and flatten each into 4-inch disk. Wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or up to 2 days.
Heidi's Apple and Pistachio Tart
Dough for one nine-inch pie
1/2 cup powdered sugar
4 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 1/3 cup ground pistachios
2 eggs
3 Tbsp. cream, for glazing
2 Tbsp. honey
3 Tbsp. butter
¼ cup apple cider
Roll the dough out on a sheet of parchment paper and then fit into a 9 or 10-inch false-bottom tart pan. Chill the pastry shell in the refrigerator.
To make the pistachio cream: Combine the sugar and butter and beat until creamy. Gradually add the ground pistachios and the egg.
Spread the pistachio cream in a smooth layer in the bottom of the pastry shell.
Cut the apples into thin slices and arrange then in concentric circles on top of the pistachio cream. Bake the tart on a baking sheet in a preheated 400-degree oven for 20 minutes. Remove from oven drizzle with honey butter cool slightly and serve
For the Honey Butter: In a saucepan combine the honey, butter and the sweet white wine. Stir to mix. Bring the honey mixture to a boil and cook until it has reduced by half.
Heidi's Two Crust Apple Pie
½ cup sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
3 Tbsp. flour
2 Tbsp cinnamon
1 Tbsp. cardamom
Pinch of salt
8 cups peeled and cord apples, cut into chunks
¼ cup butter, melted
Dough for two 9-10 inch rounds
Combine sugars, flour and spices with apples and butter, toss well. Reserve.
Fit a 9-inch deep dish pie pan with a pie crust. Spoon filling into crust, mounding it slightly in the center. Top with another crust, this one slightly bigger so that you have about an extra inch of crust around the edges.
Fold the top crust under the edge of the bottom crust to seal and then crimp edges with your fingers or a fork to give a decorative finish. Cut decorative slits in top crust to allow steam to escape while baking. Place pie on a baking sheet – to catch any juices that might come out during baking – brush top crust lightly with milk and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 1 ½ hours, or until crust is a delicious golden brown.
Perry Lowe Orchard's Fried Apple Pies
1 package of your favorite variety of Perry Lowe Orchards Dried Apples
3/4 cup sugar
1 t. ground cinnamon
1 t. vanilla extract
(2) 10 oz. Cans canned biscuits ( or use your favorite pie crust recipe)
Vegetable Oil
Combine apples and water to cover in medium sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until tender and dry. Add sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Stir well and set aside. Separate biscuits and roll each biscuit into 5-inch circle on lightly floured surface. Or roll out your favorite pie crust dough to 1/4 inch thickness and cut into 5-inch rounds. Place 2 tablespoons apple mixture on 1/2 of each biscuit circle. To seal pie, dip fingers in water and moisten edge of circle. Fold in half, making sure edges are even. Using a fork dipped in flour, press edges firmly together. Heat oil to 375 degrees in dutch oven or electric frying pan. Fry pies until golden brown on both sides, turning once. Drain on paper towel. Yield 10-12 fried pies.
Note: To bake pies place on lightly greased baking sheet bake at 450 degrees for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown.


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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Blog Silence Badge Code...Will you add it to your website?
When I first heard of the One Day Blog Silence badge going around to honor the angels of the Virginia Tech shooting, I thought to myself: Oh boy, here goes another meme designed to go viral off the blood of gun shot victims.
But now that I'm closer to the day that http://onedayblogsilence.com has chosen to honor them -- Monday, April 30, 2007 -- I feel compelled to observe it. It feels less about selfishness and more about honor -- like the bell that tolled 33 times for 33 human beings that I listened to in my car.
"Do not ask for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee..."
There might always be a smidgen of the voyeurism set forth in the exposing truth of Don Henley's Dirty Laundry lyrics when writing about stuff like death. There's a reason that song is so popular so many years later.
But it's good to give myself a gut-check daily and ask God to "create in me a clean heart" anew. Receiving forgiveness for any wrong motives, and blessing for those that are pure. After all, that's all that will be left.
And so, to borrow a thought from Nikki Giovanni's excellent "We are Virginia Tech" speech video, let us remember those suffering everywhere as silence reverberates around the blogosphere on Monday.
The little girl with the knife to her throat and her suffering comrades...
Those afflicted with drug addiction...
And those, prayerfully, now sleeping in heavenly peace and Savior-bound...
Lord willing, I'll be back to blogging on Tuesday...
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Automatically Add Technorati Favorites...and Other Ways to Crack Technorati's Top 100 Popular Blogs
Before you read any further, please fave me and I'll fave you. Clean blogs only!
I've found out so much good stuff about cracking Technorati's Top 100 Blogs list I'm so excited to post this!
For my new blogging readers, Technorati is a site that tracks 77 million blogs and ranks them. The Top 100 Blogs list is ranked by:
1 - The number of inbound links a blog has
2 - The number of people who've made that blog their favorite
As of this writing, the guy in spot #100 (ranked by the #2 method above) only has 170 members who've made his blog a favorite, while the TV Squad blog in spot #100 (ranked by the #1 method above) has 3,126 inbound links, so you can see that the #2 way is the easiest way to get your blog near the Top 100.
Here's what I've learned from my blogging buddies on how to get closer to cracking Technorati's Top 100:
1 - Do a Technorati favorites exchange
Gary V. Vaughan at azazil.net has an excellent post up called Gaming Technorati Favorites that lists a bunch of blogs willing to do a Technorati favoring exchange -- both listed in the post itself and in the plethora of comments. Dosh Dosh also has a similar post up that has gotten a lot of attention.
2 - Automatically make everyone who has favored you a favorite on Technorati!
Favoring back the people who've favorited you was a time-consuming process -- until today, when //engtech came up with this blessed post about a program that he (or she?) wrote about how to automatically favor those who've favorited you!
Worked like a charm...but run it at your own discretion.
3 - Add the feed of your Technorati favorites to your blog, and watch more folks come visit you!
Andy Beard gave me this idea. See our comments conversation here. (Andy's also got a Technorati Favorites - Is This Evil, Lazy or Just Smart? post up that I've yet to dig into.) But I have copied his advice on adding the Technorati feed of my favorite to my blog.
On Blogger you can do this by first finding out your Technorati favorites feed address by looking at the "posts from favorites" on your Technorati page and right-clicking on the orange subscribe button to the right, then choose "copy link location," for example, mine is:
4 - Add up to 5 feed items to your blog
Then add the feed to your Blogger blog by going to Layout, choose Template tab, then Add a Page Element, Feed and then put your faves link location you just found in there and choosing continue to enter how many items you'd like to display. There's a max of only five.
5 - Add more than 5 feed items to your blog
If you want more than 5 feed items on your blog, read this post from the wonderful Vin at Dummies Guide to Google Beta Blogger who told me about this great site where you can just enter a feed URL (like the one above) and it'll create the JavaScript programming code for you to plop into your blog. (Put it in Blogger the same way described above, but instead of choosing Feed, choose HTML/Javascript and put it there.)
The great thing about adding your Technorati favorites feed to your site is not only can you keep up with all the stuff your favorites are blogging about -- as well as drive some of your traffic to their sites -- is that folks will see you linking to them on Technorati and come-a-visiting to check you out.
This is what happened the other day when popular blogger Jeff Pulver stopped over at my blog.
And it's the same reason I came-a-calling on over to Andy Beard's blog when he first added his Technorati favorites (including moi) feed to his blog.
Work it! We're gonna shake up that Technorati Top 100's list yet!
Don't forget, claim your blog on Technorati, make sure it accepts favorites by favoriting yourself first, then fave me, I'll fave your clean blogs a lot faster than I would've when I was doing it manually. Thanks!
Friday, April 27, 2007
Google's USA Home Page, Democratic Debate Videos....and Becoming Fearless!
by Paula Neal Mooney
Today has been dubbed Fearless Friday by those of us blogging about Arianna Huffington's latest tome, On Becoming Fearless: ...in Love, Work, and Life.
Sure it would be apropos to blog about the debate last night, but seeing as though I haven't watched what I've TiVo'd yet, and have only found this blurb of a democratic debate video, I'll hold off.
I only rolled my eyes as I caught Barack Obama droning on with the same tired "between a woman and her doctor" schtick, a litany shared by others within my earshot, so I vowed to watch it later.
Fearlessly Get Your Posts on the First Page of Google's Search Results
I'll blog instead about fearlessly doing what I love -- writing and consistently driving up my traffic by landing on Google's USA home page, or, more specifically, Google's search-engine results pages (SERPs) -- so I thought I'd pass on my fearless tips to my blogging readers who aim to do the same.
1 - The URL is the main thing
This debate will rage on, but lately webheads have been debating whether or not having keywords in your URL are becoming more important in Google search-results rankings.
I think this is true. For example, my last couple of posts about Robin Thicke have both landed on Google's first search-results page for those folks typing in "Robin Thicke Oprah," or a variation of those words.
2 - Get to the front of Google SERPs on popular topics, too
What about popular topics that already have a gazillion search results pages already? You can still try to get your blog post to the front of the fray!
Take the time to search on popular topics until you see "Blog Posts About" pop up at the bottom of Google's SERPs for that topic, as picture here.
Once you find that topic, post on it and ping Google's Blog Search ping service and voila! Your blog post just might show up there like mine did on my post about our new planet.
That's it!
Try these tips and let me know if your search-engine traffic goes up.
I'm off to go fearlessly build muscles now. I'm lovin' the way the cardio-free diet (also on Google's first SERPs page for "cardio free diet") has inspired me to get my gluteus maximus in the gym three days a week now.
And it's amazing how focusing on strength-training has changed my shape for the better in only a couple of weeks.
I love watching my deltoids tone up in the mirror.
Happy Friday!
Thursday, April 26, 2007
This man holds a knife to this little girl's face...
by Paula Neal Mooney
Here's how we can stop him:
1 - Mail a letter today.
Yours may be the one letter from one district that can save her!
Copy and paste the letter below into Word or somewhere and change the address to your state representative and put your address in place of mine and send it snail mail.
2 - Make free phone calls to your governor until your state divests from Sudan.
3 - Give money to these people risking their lives.
Over half of our money will help protect people being slaughtered.
At first I only gave $2 -- about all I had left in my PayPal account right now.
Then I realized that my Amazon affiliate earnings and Google Adsense referral fees hit my checking account today, so I went back and gave $25 more.
Yes, most of us have debt and bills, but whatever we all give will go a long way.
4 - Buy a "Genocide Olympics" T-shirt and let Olympic officials know you are boycotting the 2008 China Olympics by contacting them here...
That is not my Cafe Press store, by the way.
But buy a T-shirt (click the "more products" link under the Genocide Olympics logo to view more selections of other sizes and styles) and show China we don't support their blood money.
I just bought this pink one.
China is funding the Sudanese government and giving the "devils on horseback" money to kill the locals. Boycott the Beijing Games in 2008, now known around the world as the Genocide Olympics.
Yes, we could spend the T-shirt money instead on the above point, but it's also important that we wear our message and tell everyone we know that this torture of human beings must stop. It's been four years!
5 - Tell our TV companies that we care more Darfur than Dancing With the Stars...
I love entertainment. But now is the time for me to stop my escapism and do more.
6 - Applaud Steven Spielberg for his recent letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao and for stating that Spielberg's "role in the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics would be withdrawn" if China does not take action to end their role in the suffering.
(Watch this video of Mia Farrow on The View for more info.)
7 - Pray and blog without ceasing
It may feel hopeless, but it's not.
We must do all we can to save the hurting, because we're saving ourselves in doing so.
Blogging and praying and marching and organizing and acting on the above points and more can save the Darfuris.
I look into the faces of tortured and sad and pleading people.
But for my birthing location, that could be me right now.
I could be hungry, I could be cut up, I could be killed.
By the grace of God, it's not.
And because of that, I will keep fighting for them.
Watch Mia Farrow on The View talking about her enormous efforts to save Darfur:
Sample letter to your local representative:
Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Honorable Betty Sutton
United States House of Representatives
1655 West Market Street, Suite 435
Akron, OH 44313
Dear Rep. Sutton:
The horrendous slaughter and rapes and eye-gougings and torture of the human beings -- men, women, girls and boys just like you and me and our children -- must stop today in Darfur!
- I am a registered voter in your district
- I will take note of your involvement and compassion and voting record toward getting the genocide in Darfur to end.
- Please urge President George W. Bush to enact the points set forth in The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act -- including asset freezes and port-entry denial.
Paula Neal Mooney
7777 Damascus Road
New Jerusalem, OH 44313
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Our New Planet...Would You Live There?
by Paula Neal Mooney
So scientists -- God love 'em! -- have discovered this new planet.
Our new planet might turn into another space destination, once we're all jetting around like the Jetsons or Tom Cruise in Minority Report -- minus the melee.
If this new planet holds water, and if we don't all start changing over to energy-efficient light bulbs and such on Earth, the new planet may be our only planet...
I used to be a software tester. Any bad programs we rolled into production only caused some ruffled feathers, not lost lives. The folks who eventually test out living on this new planet will surely be heroes.
My question is: Would you be one of the first to test out living on this new planet?
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
2nd Alec Baldwin voicemail message is fake...but I'm glad the first one was leaked...
by Paula Neal Mooney
The internet mania over Alec Baldwin's ranting voicemail message to his daughter has caused one desperado to claim that there's a second voicemail message making the rounds.
I listened to the supposed "2nd Alec Baldwin voicemail message" and instantly picked up that it's a fake phone prank.
In actuality it's Alec Baldwin's famous "coffee is for closers" speech from David Mamet's cult-like (and expletive-filled) Glengarry Glen Ross -- with a voicemail message "beep" added at the end for effect.
I hate that Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger are fighting in public. I like them both and have followed their careers for years.
But I'm not sorry that Alec Baldwin's voicemail message to his daughter Ireland has been leaked to the public. Listen to Alec Baldwin's voicemail message to see what all the hubbub is about. After a judge heard the tape, he barred Baldwin from having any contact with Ireland for a short period of time.
We've all lost our tempers. I've screamed and yelled at my kids like a wild banshee.
Of course Alec Baldwin should be forgiven for going off, as we all are when we honestly repent. Not arrested, as some folks are calling for today.
But Kim has made allegations of abuse in the past that must be seriously looked into. If this is a scornful case of a bitter woman trying to keep her daughter away from her father, that is wrong.
However, if this is an instance of a mom trying to protect her child from being harmed, I'm glad that the voicemail was made public in order to get the courts to take notice.
Whatever is going on, I pray both Alec and Kim get help and are healed to the point of making a peaceful home for their child.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Was Seung-Hui Cho a Christian? Demon Possessed?
by Paula Neal Mooney
Did Seung-Hui Cho have a demon?
Was he a Christian? Islamic?
Was the Virginia Tech killer possessed by the devil?
These are the questions that most intrigue me now, one full week after the tragic events.
Bible Girl Julie Lyon's take on Cho and his demons is the most interesting I've read all week.
I don't know for sure what Cho believed, and I felt pangs of sorrow for him upon reading reports that a few of his former classmates teased "Go back to China!" when he read aloud once in class.
Either way, Cho didn't have to go to the dark side and turn himself over to legions of demonic forces.
If only he'd known how believers can fight demonic urgings, things would have gone much differently.
"And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons..." Mark 16:17
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth...
by Paula Neal Mooney
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
for your love is more delightful than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:2
This is the pic of me and my husband that hangs on our bedroom wall.
I had it blown up and hung it on the wall to help foster and flame that romantic atmosphere, reminding us both that before we became "mommy and daddy" we first became "husband and wife" -- lovers.
Marital love can be hot.
Watching Robin Thicke interact with his beautiful wife in his 'Lost Without U' video reminded me of that fact, after watching it I wept and read the entire Song of Solomon in one bathing, soaking up its intense imagery and wisdom, not only of the Lord's relationship with Israel, but also of a man's changing relationship with his wife.
Be ye not deceived
Turn on any Desperate Housewives episode and you'll see women jumping in and out of bed with a new man each week. Those writers would have you believe that plenty-o-sex-with-varying-men is the thing, the way to gain real excitement.
Research the hot searches on the net any given moment, and you'll find a plethora of men in hot pursuit FHM spreads of the fleeting flavor-of-the-moment in the raw.
Today's seem to be "Leslie Bibb nude pics," no doubt frantically searched for by men who salivatingly envision how much better she would be in bed than their own wives.
There is none righteous...
I fall prey to the enemy's schemes here and there. A longing look from a cute guy gets my vivid writer's imagination wandering.
But then God brings me back to reality and shows me how the story would really end: the deep hurt that would be hard to forgive, the dividing of assets, the step-moms and step-dads, the sad looks on my children's faces...
I'm no fool.
Like the Shulamite woman learned over time, the stomach-flipping initial wedding-night throes of passion may fade and change.
But they are replaced by a more mature and deeper sensuality of those who know each other intensely, with a lovemaking that's much more than sex, hotter and more fulfilling and God-blessed than any extramarital affair could purport to supply.
Let my lover come into his garden
and taste its choice fruits.
Song of Solomon 4:16
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Robin Thicke on Oprah: His Video Come to Life...
by Paula Neal Mooney
"Robin Thicke on Oprah"
That's the search term some blessed soul just typed into Google and found my Robin Thicke's Race? Wife? Lyrics? Dad? Hot, hot, hot and still hot! post instead.
Could it be true? Is Robin Thicke really going to be on Oprah?
I checked Oprah's site and voila!
Yes, Robin Thicke will be performing his "Lost Without U" smash hit from Evolution of Robin Thicke on Oprah, April 19th.
I just screamed and punched both hands straight in the air. Think I'm just a tad excited?
I'd already called and bugged my hubby to make sure American Idol was TiVoing last week, then I realized Robin Thicke won't appear on American Idol till May 2nd.
This is a good thing, as ol' Martha would say.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Oprah's Hip Hop Town Hall Takes Women-Hating Rappers to Task
Oprah is conducting two days worth of town hall meetings taking hip-hop to task, asking the oh-so-poignant question:
Now that Don Imus has been fired for calling black women hos, what should happen to the rappers that do the same thing?
It's the same question I asked in my recent post about Imus, and I'm gladder than glad that Oprah is bringing it to her show.
Though parts of Oprah's hip hop town hall weren't shown due to coverage of yesterday's truly tragic Virginia Tech shootings, a good portion of Oprah's show about rap still played.
I'm praying above all else that these hip hop town hall discussions will lead sponsors to pull the funding from only those rappers who unapologetically call women bitches and hos and objectify naked booty-shaking women in their videos.
Hip-Hop Hypocrisy?
I could kiss award-winning newspaper columnist Jason Whitlock, a writer for The Kansas City Star, who noted that we as a people have yet to attack our own use of hateful words in the black community as vehemently and pointedly as we attacked Don Imus.
"There's been some attention to it but never with the enthusiasm, the tenacity that we just went after Don Imus," Whitlock noted in this video snippet of part one of Oprah's hip hop town hall.
"White people do something, we go full steam and want to hold them accountable," Jason continued among protests by Rev. Al Sharpton and Asha Bandele, "...we need to hold ourselves accountable."
Jason said we also need to respect ourselves in this other video of Oprah's town hall hip hop summit.
Nelly's "Tip Drill" Video Outrage
Poet, author and former Essence editor Asha Bandele noted that the women of Spellman College successfully protested Nelly's plans to appear at their school.
"Years ago brilliant young women at Spellman College stopped Nelly from coming to that school after he did that disgusting Tip Drill..." Asha declared about the Spellman women, including one in this video slice of Gayle King's interview on Oprah regarding hip hop.
She's referring to Nelly's Tip Drill video, which I'd heard about but had never seen – not a frequenter was I of BET's uncut videos -- which, thank the Lord -- has been cancelled due to protests that BET was allowing pornography on television.
But I just watched Nelly's "Tip Drill" video and must concur with Asha. I can't believe they would ever show that filth on TV.
How far we've come since the days that they banned Rod Stewart from just singing, "spread your wings and let me come inside," on his Tonight's the Night song!
Tip Drill is sad. I cannot in good conscience link to, but will tell you that it contains troubled black women shaking their bare butts in front of cameras that focus on their body parts a lot more than their faces.
Again, I still like Nelly -- I always liked his fast flow and good looks. I love his affection for baseball.
If only he would drop the bravado BS and focus on the sentiment he displayed in some of the lyrics from "Ride With Me" instead:
It feel strange now
Makin a livin' off my brain, instead of 'caine now…
Running credit checks with no shame now
Oprah's Challenge to Rev. Al Sharpton
"Will you now attack the entertainment industry...for its images and depiction of women as vehemently as you did Don Imus?"
Rev. Sharpton assured Oprah, "We've said all along that we're against this...We will continue...and talk...to artists who've said:
'I can't get a contract because I won't say ho, I won't say bitch, I won't do violence...' "
"We're gonna talk about that tomorrow," Oprah said, referring part two of her town hall on hip-hop, where Common and Russell Simmons will get to respond to these charges.
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Today's Oprah show will have Russell Simmons; record executive Kevin Liles; Dr. Benjamin Chavis, former CEO of the NAACP and current President/CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Network; and Grammy-winning rapper Common all responding to the criticism.
A Modern-Day Minstrel Show
New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch also captured my heart when he said that rappers have been authenticated by this kind of dehumanizing content.
"The white people get scared because they say, 'Oh, I don't want to say anything against authentic black culture' and the middle class black culture is afraid to stand up against something from the bottom—"
"Being called a sell-out," Oprah rightly interjected.
"--yeah, 'You following white values' " Crouch mocked the derision some of us blacks who stand up to this Neanderthalish non-sense are met with.
"There's no value that's whiter than minstrelsy -- the minstrel performing was created by white people and it's perpetuated by this form."
Amen! Let's stop the minstrel show.
Case in point: The Ying Yang Twins, as satirized so eloquently by Dave Chappelle, who is wearing black face in this video.
We are not laughing with you Ying Yang Twins, we are laughing at you…
And I'm grateful that Rev. Sharpton chimed in to encourage blacks folks to stop hating on those of us whom they feel "aren't black enough" for "talking white" and such...
At the same token, us middle class blacks cannot look down our noses at other blacks we don't feel are on our level, but instead encourage with love and stress the value -- not nerdiness or "trying-to-act-whitness" -- that a good education brings.
Rev. Sharpton proudly declared that he himself came out of poverty.
Snoop Dogg -- be Delivered!
Next, former Essence editor Diane Weathers pointed out the sadness of photos that I've seen recently of Snoop Dogg carrying women around on dog leashes.
Snoop also creates porn movies and nearly got a cameo appearance on The Muppet Show!
Snoop Dogg currently has an XM radio show irreverently called "Welcome to Da Church" that an Essence magazine writer also criticized.
Opponents of those artists who blatantly disrespect our mothers, daughters, wives and ourselves as women need to put pressure on their sponsors until this hatred is also removed from the airways as swiftly and assuredly as Don Imus was removed.
It's up to us as black women to say "no more!" and hit these backers where it hurts -- in their wallets -- to get the women-hating songs off the air!
Yet and still, I feel there is still plenty of room for Snoop to be saved from the thinking that encourages his sons to date, while he prefers his little girl to remain chaste.
"That ain't nothing but the devil," Snoop has said of his past marital indiscretions.
I pray he realizes who is leading him and once again yields to God's change in his heart, understanding that the women he carts around on dog leashes represent females like his own daughter.
Focus on the Good Rap -- Because It Does Exist!
In all this cleaning up the airways, I want to make clear that all rap is not bad and hateful.
There are good artists doing positive things in the rap genre, all whom should receive more attention and more funding, and not get lost in the shuffle.
Here are EXCELLENT rap artists that deserve their days in the sun:
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LaDelle Walker, whose Deja Vu song is so wonderfully replete with lyrical images of a person dreaming of being harmed, but wakes up and realizes he needs to change.
"Mama you were right," LaDelle sings with painful understanding, "I'm gonna get my life together..."
Big City, a holy hip-hopper -- whose "Christ is All I Need" rap video is being released soon!
Da Minista – I love his rushed and beautiful cadence on his smooth "Don't You Wanna Be Saved" song. Watch the video here. Slamming!
Gospel Ganstaz
And last but never least, Knowledge MC, whose "Bring It In" lyrics are a call to arms to the women shaking their stuff atop bars and the men promoting this mess:
Players, pimps, hustlers, thugs...
...shorties that strip for a living and cats that sling drug
Raise up!
Come as you are
Right where you are, hop off that bar
Ma, in God's eyes ain't no love lost
Carry your cross
There is hope for hip hop.
There is redemption.
There is love.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Virginia Tech Shooting Video Shows Cops Outside of Norris Hall as Shots Ring Out
by Paula Neal Mooney
At about 7:15 this morning a 911 call came in regarding a shooting in West AJ Hall -- a Virginia Tech dorm -- that caused one confirmed fatality.
About 2 hours later, more shooting occurred in Norris Hall, the engineering building at Virginia Tech.
Police have confirmed that the shooter in Norris Hall is deceased...at this time the authorities are still determining how he died and if he was indeed the lone shooter. However, authorities say the Virginia Tech campus is secured.
The number of fatalities has been reported as at least 22 dead at this time, including the gunman, who has been described by a student as "an Asian kid" who was "unloading rounds" from a handgun.
The shooter was reportedly wearing many clips on his black vest as he fired. Students barricaded themselves inside rooms and fled when they were able.
Watch the video of the Virginia Tech shooting as cops running outside of Norris Hall here as shot after shot rings out.
The event is tragic and has been called chilling, comparable to both Columbine as well as the gunman in the tower shooting on a college campus years ago.
My sincere thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families regarding this tragedy.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Don Imus should not have been fired...
Don Imus should not have been fired…at least before these men who call black women a lot worse things than hos are taken off the airways and lose their sponsors, too!
I just watched every single one of their videos and read their words. (Be warned, cussin' and lewdness abounds.)
I admit, I don't watch a lot of hip-hop videos any more since they turned so hateful and sex-filled. But checking out the top six videos has me pondering why some folks are so outraged by what Don Imus has said, but not enough to take real action against our own "brothas."
Compared to them, I really wasn't outraged by what Don Imus said. I don't care about Imus.
Like I wrote Manchild (the epitome of a man who respects his wife, KWiz), I'm more outraged by our black men who call black women bitches and hos -- because they -- of all people -- are the ones who should have our backs.
Essence ran a great campaign to fight against this sexist music, and there was that hip-hop summit.
But where is the complete moral outrage that gets this "ho"-spewing music pulled off the air?
Looking within, here's why I haven't protested loud enough against the misogynistic rap lyrics out there:
The songs are bumping…
Something in my nature just responds to that deep bumping base, like an ancient African drum rhythm. I like the beat, I just get so disappointed by the words…
Like why I couldn't get with the Cash Money Millionaires nor Biggie any more…
Nor Akon.
I was jamming along with his beautiful voice till I got to these lyrics in Show Out:
Some freaks need to be dealt with
Spread 'em and smack 'em backwards
With a stick
I guarantee she'll do what you say
Yeah daddy, no daddy, ok
What a waste of a gorgeous God-given voice…
Some rappers are like our embarrassing cousins…
…that we run into at reunions and funerals, wearing the full yellow suit and matching shoes regalia – and think they're styling!
A nice understated Hugo Boss suit is lost on them. They are the kind of peeps who pronounce "ask" as "ax" and think we're all uppity for "talking white." But we love them anyway 'cause they're family…
Some of these hardcore rappers carry glocks…
…or, they like to perpetrate the myth that they all have a "nina" or AK-47 at the ready. Trying to create an atmosphere of fear is their modus operandi…
It's part of the code: I can beat down my own mama – you can't!
Or so goes the misguided theory. Anybody remember Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas? Or the woman who accused Mike Tyson of rape? If any black woman dare diss another black man – especially publicly – look out!
Reasons why we're total hypocrites if we don't go after these women-haters with as much fervency as we went after Don Imus:
Because I saw some 8- and 9-year-old black girls in the park shaking it and rolling their little bodies like strippers in broad daylight. That's when I knew the videos had gone too far.
Of course parents are the front line and can't let our kids watch that stuff, but "just turn the TV or radio channel if you don't like it" excuse didn't hold water for Imus, and it doesn't hold water for the bad rappers.
When I first heard the "I'm in Love With a Stripper" song I thought it was a joke.
At least groups like Dead Prez offer hope, from what I've heard of their lyrics. And they seem to be better spokesmen than Snoop. But there's no excuse.
Because God is stronger than any weapon…
And He is not mocked. How long will He put up with our tomfoolery?
Still, I'm pulling for R. Kelly -- I went to high school with him. I can relate to the demons of lust that dog him. But his time of "flirting" might be up -- or just transitioned to doing it in prison.
And I really like T.I.
But there comes a time to stand up and fight them in Jesus' Name alone and say:
"No more of this sexist racism against your own sistahs -- the women you derisively call 'hood rats,' the women God calls blessed!"
Let's all stop the name games and hypocrisy and admit what's right: Nobody -- Imus nor rappers -- should call anybody else another hurtful name.
What would these men who call a woman a "ho" so readily do if someone called their mother or daughter that?
They could all use a lesson on how to treat a black woman from Robin Thicke.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Jack's Big Music Show Violinists? Nuttin' But Stringz Escobar Brothers
by Paula Neal Mooney
Last week I stopped frozen in my tracks at the sight of two black violin players on Jack's Big Music Show. (You gotta roll thru the pics to the right till you see their faces and click on them.)
Now -- I love that "Jack's Big Music Show" is already good at featuring diverse types of music.
But something about seeing black men exquisitely playing violins in a hip-hop style (though they don't like to be labeled hip-hop) was so foreign to me.
At first I wondered if it was one man in a split-screen display on the "Jack's Big Oops!" episode.
Turns out they were in fact two men -- Damien and Tourie Escobar – who make up the group known as Nuttin' But Stringz, or NBS.
They were so stunningly good, I became obsessed and vowed to find out more about Nuttin' But Stringz. Here's what I've found:
- Damien and Tourie Escobar (gotta love that last name, visions of Scarface abound) aren't twins, but 18- and 20-year-old brothers from
Jamaica, Queens. Here's the Nuttin' But Stringz Wikipedia page – as always, take it with a grain of salt...
- They are Juilliard-trained musicians. Here's the NBS MySpace page
- Nuttin' But Stringz has a CD called Struggle from the Subway to the Charts out that I'm totally buying.
You can listen to sample songs from their CD here on Amazon, or their Jack's Big Music Show appearance while it's here, which is the best quality and sound.
If it's gone from the Noggin site, check out Nuttin' But Stringz' Jack's Big Music Show video on YouTube.
Give these kids their own show, please!
Nuttin' but favor is more like it. Anyway, I'm just glad they are showing little kids everywhere – black and white – that it's cool to pick up a violin and play the glory out of it.
Did you see the way one of those Escobar brothers leans all the way back while playing?
Did you see the fine finger work of the other? Or was it same? Just which one is Damien and which one is Tourie?
I want to see them in concert.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Onsite Advertiser Sign-up: Add Google's "Advertise on this site" link to your blog...
by Paula Neal Mooney
Google's Inside AdSense team just sent out an email the other day describing how to use their Onsite Advertiser Sign-up to add an 'Advertise on this site' link to your blog.
Since the 'Advertise on this site' link was removed from the Google Adsense ads during their recent ad format change, the Goog team (specifically a guy named Etienne Jambou, freaky 'cause I was just talking to my hubby about the name Etienne...) sent instructions on breaking the link out.
So here are their detailed instructions on getting that cool 'Advertise on this site' link on your site, which here's hoping some gazillionaire will click on and pay us handsomely to buy real estate on our blogs.
And I didn't evek know an Onsite Advertiser Sign-up page was available on Google Adsense, so check it out and customize your page following those good instructions.
Then we won't be a broke as Jennifer Aniston in Friends With Money. Good reference point, heh?
Monday, April 09, 2007
Please Help Actress Maia Campbell Get Off Crack Cocaine: Blog to Save Her Life...
by Paula Neal Mooney
A little while ago I blogged about the sad condition of actress Maia Campbell in the post called Maia Campbell Internet Video Shows a Sad Display of a World Gone Wrong.
Readers responded with open hearts -- wanting to desperately help the beautiful Maia.
She has gone from a working TV actress to a woman famous now for a sick internet video that many presume was only created in exchange for drugs.
One reader recently took this new picture of Maia Campbell and has written me pleading email messages titled: "Please help Maia..."
"Maia is in Philly right now having sex for drugs... please help her," the reader wrote.
"Can she be arrested?" I wrote back.
I thought of what Bebe Moore Campbell, Maia's deceased mother -- whose Spirit I hear crying out like only a mother's can right now for her daughter -- might have done, getting clues from the title of her last novel, 72 Hour Hold .
"I tried calling the cops today. They came but did nothing. She is still there at the house..."
So the Philadelphia police have apparently done nothing.
I believe if Maia's predicament gets national attention, they will do more. Here's what we can do:
- Pray and fast. As soon as you read this, please pray in Jesus' Name with me that the demons of drug abuse dogging Maia Campbell are immediately bound and that Maia be brought to a safe place to heal.
- Blog about her. Spread the word about Maia's state of being and the police's lack of follow-through. Email this post to people, blog about her on your own site if you desire. Let's go viral for Maia in a good way...
- Contact the media. Email or call any and every media outlet you know of to bring attention to Maia Campbell's story. I'm going to email reporters I know, and contact TV shows and producers and any and everybody till Maia gets help.
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, wrote Maia's mother -- and I can hear that sadness and pleading calling. Let's do what we can. There is still hope for her baby girl in Christ.
Today former crack-addict Rick Kirkham will be featured on Oprah, along with new drug treatments that may be effective.
Rick has gone from a cocaine-addicted person to one that has been clean and sober now nearly a decade.
Rick emailed me recently, saying he's working again in Dallas.
God how in my heart of hearts do I pray the same for Maia. The Lord can bring her out of this. Let's all try to help her, please...
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Robin Thicke's Race? Wife? Lyrics? Dad? Hot, hot, hot and still hot!
I feel like the last person on Earth to finally figure out who Robin Thicke is.
His 'Lost Without U' song from his 'Evolution of Robin Thicke' CD drew me away from my gospel channel, compelling me to absorb the falsetto lyrics with wonder:
Baby you're the perfect shape
Baby you're the perfect weight
Is that a man singing?
I asked myself, before feeling like a fool falling in love yet again.
You don't want this guy
You don't want that guy
Okay, Robin Thicke is a brotha, I naturally assumed. One harkening back to the height of Maxwell, shouting out an ode to D'Angelo with his "how does it feel?" hook.
Treat me like it's my birthday
I want it this way, I want it that way
Then I caught the tail end of Robin Thicke's Today Show performance, actually just the interview seen in this video.
Something finally clicked in my brain, after all these months of making a mental note to "Google Robin Thicke" every time I saw the 30-year-old's name displayed on my minivan's panel.
Robin Thicke is a white boy!
And not just any white boy, but the son of Alan Thicke -- hence the familiar spelling of the last name.
So my gut is still reeling after finally watching the hot video of Lost Without U, which I wasn't even going to link to until I discovered that the woman in the Lost Without U video is none other than Robin Thicke's wife, the enviably gorgeous black actress Paula Patton.
Watch for Paula in upcoming This Wednesday movie trailers.
I'm so jealous. They're so gorgeous together.
And how the heck did Alan Thicke's son get so much soul?
Anyway, he's beautiful, she's beautiful, his dad's beautiful, Robin's music is beautiful -- he and my namesake will make beautiful babies.
In case you're like me, the small percentage of the populous who's not already hot for this guy, just check out all the stuff people wanted to know about Robin Thicke months ago.
Just imagine how much bigger Robin Thicke will get now...


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