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Damascus, Oct. 01 (SANA)- President Bashar al-Assad summarized in an interview with the Spanish best selling newspaper of El- Pais Syria's stances over the regional and international developments, particularly after the Israeli war on Lebanon as well as several topics regarding internal affairs.
President Assad said that one of the mistakes committed by the big powers is that they deal with an event on a short-term basis. He asserted that Syria's stance remained unchanged before and after the war, adding that one of the reasons which led to the war is that they didn't understand Syria's role or the problems of the region in addition to not understanding the role of the previous UNIFIL.
As for the UN Security Council resolution 1701 which talked about international forces that came to Lebanon, His Excellency said that Syria had a stance that it supported the UNIFIL and had warned in 2000 against reducing them at that time.
Intervista al presidente siriano, che pone le condizioni per il dialogo con gli Usa
E al premier Olmert manda a dire: "Vieni a vedere le nostre carte"
Parla Assad: "Israele tratti con noi"
E su Bush: "In Iraq non ha un progetto"
Bashar al-Assad
DAMASCO - Il presidente siriano Bashar al-Assad annuncia in questa intervista a Repubblica la sua scelta: "Voglio essere un uomo di pace". Porge a Israele un ramoscello d'ulivo: "Possiamo vivere fianco a fianco in armonia". Chiede l'intervento dell'Europa: "La Ue formuli una propria visione, radicata nella sua storia e civiltà: faccia da ponte tra il mondo arabo e gli Stati Uniti". Dà fiducia all'Italia di Prodi: "Conosce bene la nostra regione". E infine chiama in causa il premier israeliano: "Olmert parli con la Siria e, come dicono certi israeliani, "scopra se il nostro è un bluff", non ha niente da perdere".
Signor presidente, due anni fa lei diceva che l'America, prima o poi, sarebbe venuta a bussare alla sua porta. Era una minaccia o una profezia?
"All'inizio della guerra avevo detto: finirete risucchiati dal pantano iracheno, e un giorno avrete bisogno di qualcuno che vi tiri fuori. Adesso tutto questo si è avverato. Ma lasciamo stare le minacce e le profezie. Il fatto è che noi viviamo in questa regione, la conosciamo bene. La storia ci ha insegnato che affidarsi solo al potere delle armi non porta a nulla. E molte proposte del rapporto Baker ci danno ragione".
Può farci qualche esempio?
"Intanto hanno bisogno del nostro aiuto per formulare un piano. Perché se chiedi loro che progetto hanno per l'Iraq ti accorgi che non ne hanno alcuno. Inoltre il rapporto Baker parla dell'esigenza di una pace complessiva collegando le crisi della regione al problema dell'occupazione - in Iraq come in Palestina e nel Golan - come noi abbiamo sempre sostenuto. E soprattutto, riconosce il ruolo centrale della Siria".
E la Siria collaborerà? Washington vi chiede un ruolo costruttivo.
"Certo siamo pronti a farlo. Perché se non si risolvono le questioni regionali - l'Iraq, il Libano, il conflitto israelo-palestinese - saremo proprio noi paesi confinanti a pagare il prezzo più alto. Ma la volontà non basta né possiamo essere i soli: per ottenere un risultato, al tavolo devono sedersi tutti: noi paesi confinanti con Israele e Iraq, le Nazioni Unite, l'Europa, ma anche Cina e Giappone. Serve un progetto che ci accomuni tutti".
" I think priorities lie in existence of a unified vision upon of the Arab region's future, particularly after the latest developments that had happened in our region… I think that top priority now following Iraq issue and terrorism spreading is stability issue because all of us have become targeted… and stability is the top priority and this is connected with the political and security side."
October 07, 2006
President Bashar al-Assad has stressed Syria's desire for consolidating the Syrian-Egyptian-Saudi axis in support of the Arab causes.
In a comprehensive interview given to the Kuwaiti newspaper 'al-Anba and published Saturday, President al-Assad talked about Syria's stances towards the regional and international developments.
Answering a question on the priorities regarding the Arab concerns the President said:" I think priorities lie in existence of a unified vision upon of the Arab region's future, particularly after the latest developments that had happened in our region… I think that top priority now following Iraq issue and terrorism spreading is stability issue because all of us have become targeted… and stability is the top priority and this is connected with the political and security side."
He added that another priority is the economic situation which also is linked to political and security condition as to the Arab relations as a whole … I think that all priorities are connected with each other but they change in accordance with circumstances .
Regarding Syria's position among moderates and extremists, in accordance to the US Secretary of States classification, President al-Assad rejected the idea of camps that, as he said, has been created by the Americans." I don't put my self in camps… I put myself with the Arabs, because some had tried to show that Syria, through these camps, is out of the Arab camp… any camp is bad… any camp is rejected, as an Arab I hope that we will not be divided into camps, "
" I reject to be from the first camp or from the second camp. I am from the Arab camp."
" As Arabs if we have viewpoints this is good thing and must be respected if we didn't agree on every thing …we are humans and some disagreements remain between us but through dialogue we bridge the gap… we have to enhance dialogue and not to be a fuel for the international struggle whether Arab against Arab or Arab against others,"
On a question whether the meeting of the GCC foreign ministers and those of Jordan and Egypt was directed against Syria, the president indicated that Syria did not consider that such a meeting was against Syria and said:" No on can convince me that these Arab countries met to stand or conspire against Syria."
"There is no state in the world that accepts to deploy international troops along its borders unless in case it was at war with another country as is the case in Golan and South Lebanon,"
August 24, 2006
President Bashar al-Assad gave a televised interview to Egyptian well-known journalist , Hamdi Qindeel , broadcast on Wednesday night.
On a question whether the victory of the Lebanese resistance can be considered a historic juncture, President al-Assad said that every new thing happens to any people is considered historic but the important thing where such a historic juncture would lead us. The invasion of Iraq is a historic juncture with backward direction , destruction and all the negative meanings .Of course what happened in Lebanon is historic juncture , and except for some various opinions in the Arab arena , the peoples have looked to what happened in Lebanon as a historic juncture with positive and right direction and falls generally in the interest of Arab peoples.
The president went on to say that the Arab peoples have that spontaneous feeling which has been gained through experiences of the past decades that even precedes that of the politicians and should be taken into consideration . Of course what happened is historic and would be completed by the investment of its results.
On Syria's vision of the New Middle East and whether it is attainable , the president said that reality imposes what kind of a Middle East , and there are millions of peoples in this reality in the Arab region and there are more than one billion in the Islamic region . The New Middle East will be as its sons want it and this will be determined by the realities and not by the Syrian view point.
On what the foreigners want from the New Middle East, the president said that they want a Middle East to be a world that complies without hesitation with what they want such as a computer which you give data and in turn ,it gives you results , that what they want.
On whether this Middle East would be subjugated to the US. or to Israeli hegemony, the president said that there is a reciprocal relationship , it was clear that there was a large American role in the war as far as the decision of the war and the procrastination with regard to the cease-fire. Such a role serves the issue of the New Middle East , but the steadfastness of the resistance foiled this approach , and the reaction of the Arab street foiled this approach too , and will foil it in the future.
On who are the main players in the New Middle East, the president said that the Arabs should be the main concern , and of course Israel is a main player through aggression and the United States is also a main player since it is a super power and through its unlimited support to Israel . As for Iran , it is a country that has existed in the region from early history , but the Arabs who are absent from the political arena whether in the decision making or in shaping the future of the region.
On the concerns of some people regarding Iran that occupies UAE islands and regarding her role in Iraq, the president said that one should ask the Arab countries about what they are afraid of , but if Iran plays a pivotal role it will fall in the interest of the region .The Arabs have no interest in being weak nations and if the strong countries play just and positive role this would serve stability in the region .As for the Iranian role in Iraq , you should ask the Iraqis , because Iran can not play a role in Iraq without the Iraqis.
"Reform is to go with maximum speed but with the least losses"
President Bashar al-Assad on Monday gave a comprehensive interview to the London-based al-Hayat newspaper on the latest developments in the region.
On impressions regarding retreat of the Arab role to the sake of Iranian one in the region, President al-Assad said: " We have to define whether the Arab role is existing or not," I don't think we had seen an important Arab role except formal one" he added.
" Iran is an important state in the region and its role is necessary for the region's security, in integration with the Arab role and not as an alternative," al-Assad indicated.
He mentioned that the topic of the Iranian role was present in recent talks he has made with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
" I frankly said that some are talking negatively about an Iranian role…The only solution is through creating an effective Arab role, so let us, on the Arab level, move in the Iraqi direction because it poses the main axis for talking about the Iranian role." The President noted.
Answering a question on the cause of tepidity of the relations with Jordan President al-Assad said: " In general, the inter-Arab relations lack communication," adding " There is no essential disagreements with Jordan… We have political viewpoints that a little or much differ from Jordan's or others'."
President al-Assad went on to say: " We are seeking to thaw out these relations through the economic file and political relations in addition to the security file."
On a question on Jordanian differences regarding security issue, President al-Assad indicated that " There is no differences pertaining to the security file but there are mistakes that a certain official shoulders the responsibility for," underlining that all Arab regimes share the same concern over security particularly after the war on Iraq … there are terrorism and extremism spreading that all are suffering from.
The meeting with President Mubarak dealt with the Syrian-Jordanian relations, and " mainly with the Palestinian and Iraqi issues not because Lebanon is unimportant and because performance of some Lebanese politicians have lost Lebanon credibility on the Arab arena."
" Syria has twice welcomed Lebanese Premier Fouad al-Saniora visit to Syria even without agenda but he didn't come." Al-Assad said.
On whether Syria's doors are opened, as Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said, will they be opened also before Gen Michael Aoun, the President answered: " yes, surly," and if there were contacts for arranging his visit to Syria al-Assad said: " not yet, particularly that we are waiting for outcomes of Lebanese dialogue."
On MP Saad Hariri sayings to President Jack Chirac of France that Syria is deepening divisions in Lebanon, al-Assad pointed out that " divisions are part of Lebanon's history... They didn't emerge neither in the civil war nor during Syria's presence in Lebanon. They are before the French presence itself, so talks on divisions are innovated and unreal."
Whether the speech of Berri regarding the opened doors is fit in case Saad Hariri became Prime Minister, the President said yes, and "this speech was proposed to us 5 or 6 months ago when we said the same speech regardeless of the post… they asked if Saad Hariri comes to Syria, will he be received, we answered yes… it is not a problem, we in Syria will not go down in our policy to the level of the Lebanese statements, there are no personal factors in policy, but common interests,."


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So I've secretly been portioning this blend out over the years because it's super good. Handmade Tea, if you're reading this — make a re-blend of Hark!
Whiskey-smoked yerba maté is mixed with peppermint and big shards of Saigon cinnamon (also known as Vietnamese cinnamon). The cinnamon and peppermint are a great touch which meld with the light smokiness from the maté. It's very much a holiday tea (in flavor), but it's still so damn good.
I couldn't find a substitute, but like most of Handmade Tea's blends, you can grab the individual ingredients and make your own blend.

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Yahoo Mail Notifier is free software (MPL), but if you find it useful you can support its development :)
|Home Feedback Installation Change Log Bugs Source Code Screenshots Notes
Change Log:
Release 188.8.131.52 (Dec 15, 2013):
- Add work around for invalid Yahoo SSL certificate. For some reason sometimes Yahoo doesn't use a correct certificate for us.yahoo.com, so in that case revert back to non-SSL in that case. I'm not sure what the pattern is here because sometime the certificate shows as being valid and other times not. None of the fetched data from the Yahoo home page is considered private with the possible exception of the number of new messages (the messages themselves are not fetched), so reverting to non-SSL doesn't really cause a loss of privacy or security. Logging in is still always done via SSL.
- Changes to make more compatible with Firefox 28 and up.
Release 184.108.40.206 (Nov 25, 2013):
- 220.127.116.11 still didn't work for Yahoo users in certain countries. I came up with a method that should work for everyone. As such I removed the alternate check option. If you still have problems, enable logging by changing the "extensions.ym_notifier.logenable" preference in about:config to true and send me all three log files after checking for mail. In addition I now use SSL when checking for new mail since it is now supported by Yahoo.
Release 188.8.131.52 (Nov 18, 2013):
- 1.0.7 didn't work for Yahoo users in certain countries because Yahoo is currently using two different server configurations which are not entirely compatible. This should now be fixed. I added a "alternate checking method" to force switching between the two methods, so if checking doesn't work, try checking that box in the preferences. If it still doesn't work, clear the "yahoo.com" cookies from the browser and log in to Yahoo again.
Release 1.0.7 (Nov 12, 2013):
- Updated to handle changed on Yahoo's end. Now works again.
Release 1.0.5 (Mar 17, 2013):
- More fixes for mixing public and private windows. Addon will prefer public windows if available.
- Now requires Firefox 4 and up (or SeaMonkey 2.1 and up).
Release 1.0.4 (Mar 12, 2013):
- Fixed automatic checking on startup not working introduced in 1.0.3.
- Fixed issues when mixing Private and Public windows in Firefox 20 and up caused by Firefox bug 722850. Firefox bug 777620 needs to be fixed before a problem fix can be implemented.
- Removed support for browser versions older than Firefox 3 and SeaMonkey 2.1.
- Fixed issues with SeaMonkey support.
- Added Hy-AM locale
- Fixed issue caused by Firefox bug 818340 which blocks cookies from sites people haven't visited.
Release 1.0.3 (Mar 11, 2013):
- Hacky work around to let add-on work in private windows or when permanent private browsing mode is enabled.
Release 1.0.2 (May 8, 2012):
- Prevent Yahoo! Mail Notifier toolbar icon from resizing the add-on bar.
- Updated locales.
Release 1.0.1 (September 27, 2011):
- Switched to different Yahoo server for checking for new mail as old one stopped working.
- Fixed system sound alerts in OS X - uses "New Mail" sound.
- Fixed check for new Yahoo Mail (so don't reload tab when opening mail).
- Updated locales.
Release 220.127.116.11 (January 18, 2011):
- Updated to work with latest version of Firefox.
- Fixed transparent context menu issue.
Release 188.8.131.52 (June 18, 2010):
- Should now work with Yahoo Japan Mail again.
Release 220.127.116.11 (October 14, 2009):
- Option to show icon in status bar will no longer be hidden in Shiretoko, Namoraka and Trunk loads. This should only be hidden for Mozilla and SeaMonkey 1.x.x. Likewise the uninstall menu item will only show up in Mozilla and SeaMonkey 1.1.x.
Release 126.96.36.199 (October 7, 2009):
- Fixes to be compatible with Firefox 3.6 and latest trunk
- Some performance enhancements
- Status bar icon will no longer show as being logged in, when new windows are opened while not logged in.
Release 220.127.116.11 (August 7, 2009):
- Don't allow the status bar icon to be dragged if Organize Status Bar addon is installed. Just let OSB handle it.
- Update max application versions
- Updated locales
Release 188.8.131.52 (December 10, 2008):
- The work around to allow the extension to work when the user disallows third party cookies no longer works in Firefox 3.1 so the extension now reverts to adding a cookie exception for Yahoo if needed. It basically works like version 126.96.36.199. Since the work around is no longer user, the extension no longer needs to make any changes for Noscript's Automatic Secure Cookie feature to work.
Release 184.108.40.206 (October 8, 2008):
- If Yahoo returns an unexpected response when the add-on logs, in the add-on will now display Yahoo's response in a new tab in the current window so the user can take action. This covers cases where Yahoo returns a CAPTCHA when logging in or when it returns questions that need to be answered when the user logs in.
- Some people had issues where the add-on would never check for new mail automatically. I changed the mechanism used to ensure that only one window has permission to check which works around this problem.
- NoScript's Anti-XSS protection in the latest version of NoScript no longer interferes with the work around for bug 437174 I had put in Yahoo Mail Notifier version 188.8.131.52 so I removed the code I put in 220.127.116.11 that automatically adds a cookie exception for Yahoo and re-implemented the work around as it was in version 220.127.116.11. The cookie exception that Yahoo Mail Notifier added to Firefox in version 22.214.171.124 will automatically be removed. The work around will still only trigger if Firefox is set to block third party cookies and an exception is not added for Yahoo.
NoScript's Automatic Secure Cookie feature will still interfere with the work around, so if the user enables that feature in NoScript and Yahoo Mail Notifier needs to use the work around, it will add an "ignore unsafe cookie" exception to NoScript's HTTP - Cookies tab. This is needed because Yahoo does not support secure cookies on any page except the login page. Complain to Yahoo about that one since it's their site that's not secure.
Release 22.214.171.124 (September 16, 2008):
- If third party cookies are disabled in Firefox 3.0.x, the add-on will now automatically add an allow cookie exception for Yahoo. This is required to work around Firefox bug 437174 and still work when the NoScript add-on is installed. You no longer need to add any exceptions to NoScript.
Release 220.127.116.11 (September 3, 2008):
- Passwords are no longer lost when upgrading from Firefox 2.0 to Firefox 3.0.
Release 220.127.116.11 (July 28, 2008):
- Add compatibility with Firefox 3.1 alphas
- NoScript blocks the work around I put in 22.214.171.124 so now the add-on only uses the work around if needed (third-party cookies are disabled and there are no exceptions for Yahoo) and only if NoScript will not block it. NoScript will block log-ins if the "Turn cross-site POST requests into data-less GET requests" option is checked on the Advanced->XSS tab and the Yahoo login page is not added as an exception. This exception will work: ^https://login\.yahoo\.(com)?(co\.jp)?/config/login[_a-z2]*$
Release 126.96.36.199 (Release pulled):
Release 126.96.36.199 (July 23, 2008):
- Added work around for bug 437174 an exception for Yahoo is no longer needed if user blocks third party cookies.
Release 18.104.22.168 (July 18, 2008):
- Fixed typo which caused login to fail with BT-Internet accounts.
Release 18.104.22.168 (July 16, 2008):
- Fixed a memory leak
- Switched to use a new URL for checking which seems to work for all mail accounts, is quiicker and provides more info.
- Removed the alternate checking method since it is no longer needed.
- Other various minor bug fixes.
Release 126.96.36.199 (not officially released do to bugs):
Release 188.8.131.52 (Jun 04, 2008):
- Fixed issue with extension generating errors in console for some MacOs X users.
- When using the alternate checking method, Yahoo returns "9+" when there are more than 9 new messages. The extension now shows "9+" instead of "9" when this occurs.
- Fixed a potential issue that could cause the extension to stop checking when a window is closed.
- Updated mk-MK locale
Release 22.214.171.124 (May 08, 2008):
- Some users of non-US versions of Yahoo Mail were getting errors when checking. This should be corrected.
Release 22.214.171.124 (March 11, 2008):
- Fix Bug 18715 - Log file will no longer grow out of control. Also made logging code more intelligent which should help debug problems.
- Fixed an issue where logging out didn't always correct clear out login credentials.
Release 126.96.36.199 (November 7, 2007):
- Open window with response from Yahoo if Yahoo needs user input while logging in. This handles cases such as "performance improvement" or when Yahoo wants to verify user information.
Release 220.127.116.11 (October 25, 2007):
- Updates es-ES and it-IT locales
Release 188.8.131.52 (October 19, 2007):
- Fixed so extension will once again log into Yahoo Japan.
Release 1.0 (October 17, 2007):
- Yahoo now resets the new mail count again which was causing the extension to reset it when logging in. This was corrected.
Release 0.9.9.9 (September 21, 2007):
- Added an alternate checking method. Check this preference if you are using a partnered Yahoo mail account or if the default checking method doesn't work for some other reason.
- Worked around an issue where Yahoo no longer resets the new mail count when you visit the new (beta) version of Yahoo Mail. Yahoo Mail Classic users are not affected. To make the work around start working, first log out using the extension's log out menu item and then click the extension's check now menu item to log back in and start checking. Finally use the extension to go to your Yahoo Mail page and the extension will reset the new mail account. Warning, if you do not use the extension to go to the Yahoo Mail web page, you will need to click the page's "Check Now" button or wait 10 minutes, otherwise the new mail count will not be reset.
- Added logging to file to make submitting bug reports easier.
Release 0.9.9.8 (September 9, 2007):
- Fixed problem with new mail count maxing out at 9. This was caused when Yahoo changed the page the extension checks to display "9+" if you have more than 9 messages. The extension now reads the count from www.yahoo.com for all locales except Japan which still works the same way. Because of this change I don't know if partnered Yahoo mail accounts (ie: AT&T, Verizon, BT-Internet, etc) will still work correctly. If it doesn't please contact me.
Release 0.9.9.7 (August 28, 2007):
- Added support for Growl notifications on Macs with Growl installed.
Release 0.9.9.6 (July 17, 2007):
- Added mk-MK locale.
Release 0.9.9.5 (June 10, 2007):
- Support for SeaMonkey 2.0a1 added.
- Change so addon will reuse an existing Yahoo mail tab in the window if available. It will not use a tab where the user is composing new mail. It also won't reload the tab if the user uses Yahoo Mail beta (which periodically refreshes the page anyway).
Release 0.9.9.4 (May 17, 2007):
- Compatibility fix for Minefield (Firefox 3.0a5) do to password manager changes documented in Firefox Bug 374723.
- Workaround for SeaMonkey Bug 192165 which prevented user from deleting password.
- Add: locales af-ZA, be-BY and es-CL
Release 0.9.9.3 (April 21, 2007):
- Fix: Bug 14562 - Add way to open login window from preference window.
- Fix: Bug 16600 - Too many login windows.
- Fix: Bug 16835 - Stops working under Linux when new window is open.
- Add: locales bg-BG, ru-RU and uk-UA
- Work around: BT Internet wouldn't log in when using a non-Firefox 1.5 based browser such as Firefox 1.0.8 or Netscape 8.1. This is the result of a bug in the older versions of Firefox, but a work around is now in place.
Release 0.9.9.2 (May 3, 2006):
- Fix: Forgot to actually add the az-AZ localization files in 0.9.9. az-AZ will work now.
- Change: At request of sk localizer, changed sk-SK to sk.
- Update: Updates to sk and fr-FR localizations
Release 0.9.9.1 (Apr 28, 2006):
- Added: gl-ES localization
- Change: Changed double click default time to within 400 ms. The first time 0.9.9.1 is installed, the extensions.ym_notifier.doubleclicktime preference will be changed to 400. If you have manually modified this preference, you will need to change it again after 0.9.9.1 is installed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- Fix: Workaround for Bug 13677. Warning this will cause the extension to re-log into the default username when the user logs out on a Yahoo page and the extension is actively checking. It will also do so if the user logs out and into a different Yahoo account. If the extension is not actively checking, it will not do anything if the user changes Yahoo account until the user tells it to check again.
- Fix: Workaround for Firefox Bug 331276. This will only work if all extensions affected by this bug are updated to work around the bug.
- Fix: Better handle timeouts that can occur when checking for mail or logging in. Also added some checks for if the user is impatient and checks again too quickly. Also if an error occurs while checking, the extension will try an alternate server. You will still get errors, but they should go away the next time it checks.
- Update: Support for Firefox 3.0 alpha (Minefield)
Release 0.9.9 (Mar 28, 2006):
- Fixed: Now officially tested to work with BT Yahoo. Reported to also work with SBC Yahoo. May or may not work with other 3rd party Yahoo providers. Use your email address as the login when using 3rd party Yahoo providers.
- Fixed: Reset internal mail counter to 0 on logout.
- Fixed: Toolbar icon was not changing to error icon on error.
- Fixed: Last check time for when user clicks icon and also when user is not checking.
- Added: Ability to enter URL into sound file box (http://, file://, etc).
- Added: If no sound file is chosen the system "New Mail Notification" sound will play.
- Added: az-AZ, ca-AD localization
- Update: Support for Firefox 2.0 alpha (Bon Echo)
Release 0.9.8 (Mar 13, 2006):
- Fixed: Error alerts popping up after disconnecting from a network for a long period of time. Alert should now only pop-up when user tries to manually log in using either the login window or the "check now" menu entry to start checking (issuing a "check now" when the extension is already checking won't popup an error).
- Fixed: Firefox 1.0.X based browsers (Mozilla, Netscape 8.1 and FF 1.0.7) suffer from bug 174320. This will cause the extension to not check for mail when it first logs in when using an older browser. I've added a work around for this. Since Firefox 1.5, Flock and SeaMonkey do not suffer from this bug, this may explain why some people said that it wasn't checking for mail and others (like me) said it worked fine.
- Added: Option to allow user to select to check mail with mouse click. Currently uses the "Check now" text which isn't the best phrase, but will work for now since I don't want to go through the hastle of updating all the localization at the moment. I'll change it later during the next major update.
- Added: Last check time to tooltip.
Release 0.9.7 (Mar 8, 2006):
- Fixed Yahoo Japan login problem that I broke when trying to fix SBC Yahoo which I broke when trying to fix Yahoo Japan....
- Fixed issue where loging in as non-default user caused extension to become confused about which user was logged in. This doesn't add multi-user capabilities, but you can now add multiple users without causing problems.
- Requested addition: If the currently selected tab is blank, then the extension will always load Yahoo Mail in that tab instead of a new tab regardless of which mouse button is pressed.
Release 0.9.6 (Mar 3, 2006):
- Fixed error, where usernames could not be deleted.
- Should now work with all partnered Yahoo Mail accounts, but since I don't have any I can't test this.
- The extension will now check for the sound filename in the profile user chrome directory if it can't be found. To use this, just put your sound file in the chrome directory in your profile and type the filename in manually (don't use select). This is for people using Portable Firefox.
Release 0.9.5 (Mar 2, 2006):
- Changed to show error icon on 1 failure instead of 3 when checking for new mail.
- Leave up last known new message count on failure, just change icon.
- Fix for error alerts when logging in. If an error occurs on a login that occurrs before checking starts (user manually logged in or browser just opened) put up an alert window. If a login failed after checking was started (auto-relogin) then change icon and show check failure tooltip.
- Fixed issue where toolbar icon would not change on error.
- Extension now works with the Japanese version of Yahoo! Mail. It should also now work with BT Yahoo if it didn't already.
- Fixed a number of minor issues that can occur when users open and close browser windows.
- Allow special characters to be in the sound file path and filename.
- User sometimes was prompted for password when closing browser. This has been corrected.
- If US update check server fails, it will try to use the UK one automatically. If that fails it will report an error.
- Minor GUI change in preferences window (thanks to Teo).
- Updated localizations: de-DE, es-ES, en-US, it-IT, ja-JP, nl-NL, pl-PL, sk-SK, tr-TR, zh-CH, zh-TW. Added da-DK, pl-BR, pl-PL localizations. If you want to help with the translation, the localization files are now available at Babelzilla
Beta 0.9.4 of new extension (Feb 1, 2006):
- Fixed issue with not being able to hide status bar icon in all browsers excluding Mozilla/SeaMonkey.
- Update it-IT localization.
- Fixed problem with checking interval where it would be wrong if user changed it (re-release version). See Bug 325418.
Beta 0.9.3 of new extension (Jan 29, 2006):
- New localizations: de-DE, ja-JP, nl-NL, pt-PT, sk-SK. Note: The new URL override, the error tooltip and uninstall GUI text is all in English since no translation was available.
- Option to override default mail URL added to user/pass preferences.
- The extension will now try to log into Yahoo at least once every 12 hours to stop Yahoo from prompting for password.
- Added an uninstall method for Mozilla and SeaMonkey. In addition the status bar icon can no longer be hidden in Mozilla and SeaMonkey since there is no way to get it back.
- Instead of popping up an error window when checking for mail fails, the icon and tooltip will change if this occurs.
- Added support for Netscape 8.1.
Beta 0.9.2 of new extension (Oct 22, 2005):
- Fixed single click handling. Every other click was treated as a double click.
- Fixed an issue that would occur if the user changed his/her Yahoo! password.
- Fixed issue with mail URL being incorrect for certain Yahoo accounts.
- es-ES localization by YoaR.
- fr-FR localization by Scooby.
- tr-TR localization by asteko.
- zh-CN and zh-TW localization by duley.
- Support for Netscape 8.0.4 added.
Beta 0.9.1 of new extension (Sept 25, 2005):
- Interval Preference now saves correctly.
- it-IT localization by andr3a.
Beta 0.9 of new extension (Sept 23, 2005):
- The ability to drag and drop the icon anywhere on the statusbar
- Sound notification on new mail
- Pop-up notification on new mail
- The ability to add the icon to the toolbar
- The ability to hide the status bar icon
- Number of new mail messages displayed next to icon (like GMail extension)
- Ability to not save password (will be prompted when the extension needs to log in).
- New logging capabilities which should make it easier to diagnose problems.
- A new method of determining if user is logged into Yahoo or not using cookies. Also uses cookie to log in and out. This is experimental and may cause Yahoo to prompt for password verification periodically when visiting a Yahoo page.
Change Log from old A's Yahoo Extension (Morac Version)
V3.2 (Sept 11, 2005)
- Since Yahoo seems incapable of fixing their US server problem, I've switched the extension to check the European server which will make checking for mail reliable once again. See this post for more details.
- The login and password is now URLencoded for username or passwords with special characters.
V3.2 (July 14, 2005)
- Extension is now compatible with Deerpark (Firefox 1.1) Alpha. Deerpark doesn't like letters in the version name which is why I used 3.2. To install in Deerpark place the .xpi file into the extensions directory in your profile.
- Popup alert now lists the Yahoo account username
- I added an option to allow the user to only pop up the alert if new mail actually arrives. So if you have 5 new messages the alert won't pop up again until there are 6 new messages. The "REPEAT" option will work the way it does now which keep showing the alert until the user goes to the Yahoo Mailbox. Remeber alerts only work in Windows. If you don't have Windows, the alert option won't show up.
V3.1a (July 12, 2005)
- Fix for username/pw errors when the user tries to toggle autologin preference off and on. This may also fix the username/pw errors some people seems to be getting (see post from today).
- For people who set a master password, the browser window will now open before the user is prompted for the master password.
V3.1 (June 21, 2005)
- Added localization for it-IT (andr3a) and de-DE (cubus).
- Clicking slider alert before it goes away opens mail in new tab (see this post).
- Only validate username/password in the preferences window if either change. If the user does not change the username or password, then the options are just saved. This prevents unnecessary logging in and out when updating other preferences.
- Now works with mailboxes that contain more than one suffix after yahoo. For example: http://mail.yahoo.co.in
- Updated do to login changes made by Yahoo. If a user was already logged in, the login would fail.
- Added optional alert slider (only works in Windows do to limitations in Firefox).
- A bug introduced in my last version would cause the extension to always report that the username/password entered in the preference dialog window was invalid even if it was valid. This has been corrected.
- The extension would not work with certain non US Yahoo mail accounts. This should now be working correctly. I've tested it with UK and France Yahoo Mail, but it should work with others. As a side effect, the tooltip now displays in the user's native language when displaying the new mail count. Other text is still in English but I added locale information to make it easy to add other languages.
- I found and fixed a bug in the original extension where the interval might not be updated until after the browser window was closed and reopened (or the user force a logout and login).
- Modified the extension to make it more compatible with other extensions.
- A number of minor bugs and cosmetic fixes.
- Now works with Netscape 7.x and 8.0
- User can now choose which mouse buttons open Yahoo mail and where it opens.
- Added fr-FR localization (thanks to Yan).
- Changed to use the companion feed instead of parsing the mail website. This allows the extension to find new mail in all folders (not including the bulk or sent folders), not just the Inbox. In addition this allows extension to work with Yahoo mail from other countries as well as the US.)
- Added a tooltip to the icon that displays the total number of new messages currently available.
- Changed the single mouse click to double mouse click to open the Yahoo mail page.
- Middle clicking (or left clicking while holding down shift) on the mail icon will open Yahoo mail in a new tab. Double clicking will open it in either a new tab or the current tab based on the set preference.
- I corrected the following issues: a. While logging in, if Yahoo is slow to respond or never responds or the user's Internet connection is down or sluggish, the browser will become non-responsive while it waits for the response from Yahoo. If autologin is enabled, the main browser window will not open until the response comes in or times out. b. There is no indication if logging in fails.


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I'm so excited to announce that my next book is going to be a picture book! It will be published in Fall of 2020 by Magination Press. It's a book about grief and "pre-grief" and saying goodbye and feeling close to those who are gone. I love it and can't wait to share more about it with you!
Author: amandarawsonhill
Cover for THE THREE RULES OF EVERYDAY MAGIC
I'm so pleased to show you the cover for THE THREE RULES OF EVERYDAY MAGIC! It will be published by Boyds Mills Press on September 25, 2018.
You can preorder it on Amazon, Indiebound, and Barnes and Noble!
My Fave Books of 2017 and Most Anticipated Books of 2018
I'm reflecting on what I read this year and what I'm excited about for next year over at Thinking Through our Fingers. You can read it here.
The Three Rules of Holiday Magic
I had the privilege of guest posting over at The MG Book Village about how the three rules from my debut novel, THE THREE RULES OF EVERYDAY MAGIC, are the same rules that make the holidays magical. You can read it here!
After the First Chapter: Motivation
The decision period of Pitch Wars may be over, but that doesn't mean the revisions are! If you're hopping back into your WIP, I'll be continuing on with my blog series about problems I see in books after the first chapter. You can read my other posts about direction, active characters, and show vs. tell.
Today I'm going to talk to you about something I'm working with my mentees on. Motivation. In previous posts we talked about how in every scene, your MC needs a goal, an obstacle, and a reaction. And those are all the "What's" of writing and plot. But today we're going to talk about the "Why."
Motivation is the "why" behind the goal. If there isn't a good enough reason for your character to pursue the plot or scene goal, then there isn't any tension because the reader doesn't care whether or not they achieve their goal. Characters can't just do things for the heck of it. They have to have a reason. We have to understand why they are the way they are. Even if you are having a character act on impulse, even if the character doesn't know why they did something, the reader has to be able to see why…eventually at least.
There needs to be a why for everything. Having your character do something and simply say, "I don't know why I did it. I just did." Isn't very satisfying for the reader (unless you've actually shown us why the character did that and the character just doesn't see it in themselves.) And it isn't just the MC that needs motivation for everything. All you characters need motivation. Every character in your story thinks they are the main character. They all need to have reasons (good reasons) for what they do. Without good motivations, you get cliché, stereotypical characters.
The bully can't be a bully just because they like to be mean. Go deeper. Mom can't say no just because you need an obstacle and mom's say no. Go deeper. The villain can't just want to take over the world because they think it would be fun. Go deeper. There's more there for all of your characters. And until you plumb and then show those deeper motivations, your story is going to feel shallow.
But motivation is a little bit trickier than people realize. Because your story actually needs two layers of motivation. See, in every story there is an external goal and an internal goal.
In Harry Potter the EXTERNAL GOAL is to defeat Voldemort. But the INTERNAL GOAL is to gain a family and love Harry's always been missing.
Likewise, your MC needs an external motivation and an internal motivation.
In Harry Potter the EXTERNAL MOTIVATION is essentially that Voldemort is evil and Harry is good. But the INTERNAL MOTIVATION is that Voldemort is a threat to the people Harry has gained as family. He's already killed Harry's original family, he'll get rid of mudbloods like Hermione and muggle sympathizers like the Weasleys.
And this is what makes for a powerful book. The external goal and the internal, over the course of the story, become tightly woven together. The MC can not achieve their external goal without also achieving their internal goal and vice versa. (Unless you are writing a bittersweet ending, in which case by the end the MC lays aside the external goal because they've achieved the internal goal and realize the external goal isn't necessary.)
In your story, the internal goal and internal motivation are there all along. They inform the way your character acts and reacts in the story. But they aren't always revealed right away. If you are waiting to reveal the true internal motivation for your character until later in the story for dramatic effect (which I'm totally a sucker for) then you need to make the external motivation strong enough to make the reader care AND you need to give us hints that there is more to the story. Perhaps your character is motivated by guilt because of something in the past. If you want to save the reveal about what exactly happened for the climax or midpoint, that's fine. But you need to make sure we know that your character is feeling guilty about something and pull us along. Make us want to find out why they are feeling guilty.
So let's go through a few examples and talk about external and internal motivation and when the internal motivation is revealed in the story.
In Harry Potter, it's pretty easy to guess what Harry's internal motivation is from the very start. His parents are murdered, the Dursleys are terrible. Of course he wants a family! But when do we know that's what he wants for sure? When he looks in the mirror of Erised, right? Isn't that when we truly feel his longing? When he does there every night and watches for hours?
In Hunger Games, both the external and internal motivation is presented pretty early in the story. But the midpoint shift kind of changes the goal and motivation, (which it's supposed to do.) The external goal is to stay alive. At the midpoint that shifts to keeping herself AND Peeta alive. The internal motivation before that point is to protect her sister, but we are also given backstory that informs the external goal that will come later. When we are shown the story of how Peeta saved her family from starvation, we get the internal motivation for the rest of the story.
IN WE WERE LIARS, which is a story with a huge twist. We don't get the true internal motivation until almost the very end of the story. That's part of the twist. But there are soooo many hints about the true motivation. We know something happened. We know there is guilt and sadness around it. It draws the reader in and makes us want to read more and find out what the heck happened. And the character acts and reacts throughout the entire story according to this internal motivation. But we don't know what it is until the end.
Now as far as external motivation goes, you should have that by the 25% mark. And before the 25% mark, there should be smaller external motivators at the very least that inform your MC's actions. Remember, your MC needs to be active and have a goal, but they also need a good reason for that goal. Both an external and internal reason. Or the reader won't care about the goal. Around the 50% mark, you need to raise the stakes and another way to think about raising the stakes is to think of it as deepening the motivation. If the MC needs it MORE than it's going to hurt MORE if they don't accomplish the goal. When people talk about stakes, they are talking about motivation. The "why" of your story.
The best way to nail down motivation in your story is to nail down your characters. Really get to know them and their backstory. Go through those character questionnaires but do more than just answer the questions. With every question, make your character tell you "why" that's their answer. If you keep doing that, you're going to really start understanding your character's motivation for everything, but especially your story.
Here is a really good post about pre-writing to discover your characters' secrets and backstory. http://writerunboxed.com/2014/10/10/pre-writing-discovering-your-characters-secrets/
And here is a bit more from the same author about internal and external goals and motivation. http://www.robinlafevers.com/2012/10/28/growing-plot-from-character/
I also highly recommend K.M. Weiland's entire series on character arc which really lays out how to set up external and internal motivation for your characters.
After the First Chapter: Showing
As promised, here is another blog post about what I'm noticing as I read our requests. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here.
Show don't tell is probably the most common advice of the writing world. But it's really hard to get it just right. That's because showing vs. telling is more like a balancing act than a rule. More a spectrum than a dichotomy. So I'm going to try and lay out spots on that spectrum and tell you a bit about when they work and when they don't and the risks involved. Okay? Okay.
1. Flat out telling. This is the easiest to spot. It's when you just flat out name an emotion. I felt sad. She was happy. Except, as writers, we always try to disguise it, right? So we say, "his eyes were sad." (Sorry, still telling.) Or, "Her hands twitched nervously." (That's telling too. Basically, almost all adverbs are flat out telling.) When you name the emotion, even when you try to hide it in physical reactions (My blood pulsed with anger.) It's STILL telling.
Doing this OCCASIONALLY is okay. It's not a deal breaker. Especially if you can do it lyrically. For example, something like, "She felt as if all the happiness in the world could shine out of her hair and her fingertips at theat very moment." (Okay, that's nor super lyrical, I'm flying by the seat of my pants here. But you get the picture.) It can work, very occasionally, in small doses, with the right voice. Also, a third person narrator who is almost their own character in the story can get away with a lot more telling than any other kind of narrator. You still have to watch it, of course, but they can bend the show don't tell rule a bit more than others.
2. Info-Dump Dialogue. This is when characters spill all the beans about exactly what they are feeling and thinking just because another character asks. Unless this is the climax of your story and your MC is getting their secret shame off their chests, DON'T DO THIS EVER! How often do people ever say exactly what they mean and exactly what they are thinking and everything they are thinking. We will learn a lot more about your character by what they choose to divulge and what they choose to hold on to and not tell anyone, than by you simply having them tell everything and then follow it up with, "It was embarrassing." Or, "I'm so pissed."
3. Cliché physical reactions. There are good physical reactions that are showing and then there are cliché ones that are so obvious or overused that they feel almost like flat out telling. The racing heart, the sick stomach, the crossed arms, the tapping foot, the bully smashing his fist into his other hand. You get the picture. Always try to avoid the cliché physical response, if possible. If you can't, try to find a new way to say it. In my debut, I have a scene where the MC is feeling upset and she says that her stomach feels like a whole swarm of fruitflies are buzzing in it waiting to come up and swarm on the big watermelon-colored bow her ex-best friend is wearing. Am I still talking about an upset stomach? Yes. But is it different enough that it doesn't feel totally cliché? I hope so…
4. Internalization. You have to let the reader into your MC's thoughts. You have to. But not every single one. If we hear every single thought, then that is another form of telling. Your MC can tell us just as much (if not more) about how she's feeling about things by what she doesn't say or doesn't comment on. You can show that something hurts her by having her REFUSE to comment on it. You can show us she's hiding something without having her think, "I can't tell her that." Perhaps instead you can show her purposely redirect the conversation.
This is where show v. tell becomes a balancing act. I am really good at telling you things by what my MC doesn't say. My agent loves it and compliments it every time. Several editors…not so much. They felt like they couldn't connect to the character because they didn't know what she was feeling. And so you have to be careful with this. Like I said before, internal thoughts are VITAL. But too many, or too direct of internal thoughts, can kill tension and just feel like blah,blah, blah, and not allow the reader to put pieces together themselves. And readers love putting pieces together themselves!!! Look at all the Harry POtter discussion groups and fan theories. Readers eat that stuff up!
If you're like me and have a hard time knowing when you need to let readers into the MC's head more, have somebody do a special beta read for you and mark every single instance they don't know what your character is feeling. This is now standard procedure for me. It changed my writing and took it to a whole new level.
5. Similes and the word 'felt.' I'll be honest. I love using similes and comparisons in my writing. Instead of saying, "I felt happy." I love saying, "I felt like a thousand balloons were lifting me up into the air." Oh, you get so much more of an actual feeling out of that. Oh, she's feeling THAT way. But it still is a form of a telling and if you do it too much, it starts getting telly and long winded. So save them for real emotional punch and don't have too many too close together. And if possible, drop the word felt. Similies and comparisons are a TOOL that can be abused. So try to find the right balance. There's no set rule for this. Different voices have different allowances for when it becomes too much. Just feel it out and get a really good CP to tell you when you've gone overboard.
6. Non-Cliché physical reaction – We've now come firmly over to the showing side of the spectrum. I highly recommend the emotion thesaurus for ideas on how to do this well. A physical reaction isn't just things like upset stomachs or tingly toes or glancing eyes. It can be breaking the eraser off your pencil, biting the inside of your cheek, kicking a rock on the ground, stomping too hard on the gas pedal, leaning back against a chair, etc. I've found that when I'm having a hard time writing non-cliché physical reactions, it's because I haven't filled out the setting enough. I haven't given my characters enough props in their surroundings to work with. Once my characters are interacting with the environment, this gets a lot easier.
But it CAN be overdone. I actually got so good at this in my first book that people read and were like, "All these physical reactions are really slowing down your dialogue and story. We don't need a physical reaction for EVERYTHING." So once again, we have that terrible word BALANCE. A physical reaction can only go so far. Sometimes, you have to throw in a simile or an internal thought to really fill it out and bring it home. That beta read for knowing how your MC is feeling will help with this.
7. Objective Correlative. This is like pro-level showing. It's all about communicating how your MC feels by the way they view the world around them. So, if your MC is feeling happy, how might they describe the rain? "Rain drops tinkled on my window pane like a thousand fairy bells whispering their promises of secrets, play, and magic still alive in the world." But what if your MC is feeling hopeless? "The rain dragged down my window pane, covering the world outside in mud and slush." Totally different vibes, right? But do you feel what the MC is feeling? Totally!
Can you simply use Objective Correlative through out your entire story and nothing else? Heck no! We still need internal thoughts and physical reactions and some similes and dialogue. OC is a tool. But it can't be your only tool. If it's the only thing you use, we might always be left wondering exactly what your MC is feeling and there will be some definite disconnect.
So basically, show vs tell is hard because it is a balance. Sometimes, telling is called for. Sometimes showing can go too far and actually disconnect the reader. Good CP's will help!
After the First Chapter: Active Characters
As promised, here is the second part of my blog series about what I'm seeing in the manuscripts we requested. You can find part one here.
In my last post, I talked about making the plot move forward and build to something. Giving it direction. A big way to do this is to make your character active instead of passive. Let's talk about the difference.
And active character works to control their storyline. They affect the trajectory of the plot. They make choices.
A passive character simply has things happen to them and reacts, reacts, reacts, but doesn't actively affect change in their surroundings.
It can be very easy to have a passive character in both adventure books and quiet stories. In an adventure book, your character may just be consistently reacting to one monster showing up after another, without ever working toward a goal. In a quiet book, the same thing can happen but without monsters. Here's an example.
I wrote a verse novel about a girl who finds out she might have the same cancer gene as her father. He has cancer in the book. And had to do several rounds of revision with my agent because, in her words, Cancer felt more like the main character than the main character did. Because Cancer was controlling the story. Which, in real life, cancer does control the story. But I had to find ways for my MC to exert control in a situation where she had so little control. So how do we do this?
1. Reaction You're going to need to go back to that scene map you made for my last post (you did that right? That's totally homework.) See, there's one more thing every scene needs that I didn't talk about. IN ever scene your MC needs a goal and an obstacle, but after that obstacle? They need a reaction. They need to actively try to overcome that obstacle.
Think of Harry trying to read those letters. Uncle Vernon keeps stopping him by sleeping by the mail slot, then nailing up the mail slot, then taking them to that tiny island. But except for that trip to the island when Harry couldn't do much but sit back (which was okay because the sheer ridiculousness and tension of that moment was enough to keep the story moving) Harry kept trying to find ways around Uncle Vernon. That's what your MC needs to do. They can't give up on their goal until they either achieve it, or get a new goal because of new information.
2. It's not just your MC who needs a goal. Of course, reacting to an obstacle only makes your MC active if they have a goal. They need a goal! Every scene! Go back to my last post and review story goals and scene goals. You need both to make your character active. Percy Jackson fights a lot of monsters. But he's fighting them on a quest to do something important and often these monsters hold some information or item he needs or are gatekeepers of some kind and he has to get past them. Basically, your MC needs to have a goal, but if your obstacles are monsters or some kind of antagonist, they need a goal, too! The best kind of conflict is when your MC has a goal and your antagonist has a goal and that goal is an obstacle to your MC's goal. That way, it's not just your MC fighting one monster after another because he's just stumbling onto them. They are attacking because he is moving towards his goal. He is being active and they are reacting to him. Not just the other way around. Does this make sense?
3. Have your MC set their own goals. Not the parents or teachers. It's very easy in MG to have adults control the story. Find ways around that. Yes, a teach may give the assignment that your story is centered around, but how does your MC exert control over that storyline? Do they decide to make the most epic project ever? Do they decide to put it off until the last minute? Do they think they'll do one thing and then decide to change it? Perhaps a parent sets a goal for your MC. That can work, but you have to find ways for the MC to do it on their own terms. Maybe they will try to do it as terrible as possible as a form of rebellion. Maybe they will decide to be as good as possible because they are trying really hard to make things as easy for their parent as possible. Whatever it is, you can't just have the goal or assignment from an adult be the only goal. Have your MC set their own goal within that goal. Have your MC make the plan of how it will be accomplished. Put them squarely in charge.
4. In situations where your MC has little control, have them find ways to exert control over SOMETHING. Often in quiet MG stories, the MC doesn't have much control over the situation. A parent has died, or is sick, or they've moved, etc. You don't want that big thing to control the story (like Cancer did in mine) so you have to go back to the idea of goals and have your MC set seemingly small and quiet goals where they can exert control. Perhaps they exert control by maintaining some ritual or by trying to dull the pain through actively distracting themselves. Perhaps, you just need to show them doing and pursuing something outside of that big situation they have no control over. This is what I had to do in my verse novel. I had to show my MC actively trying to enjoy her life and do things that had absolutely nothing to do with Cancer and weren't about her thinking about Cancer. They were about her just trying to be a kid and have fun. It's a small, quiet goal. But it did the trick. So, if this is something you are struggling with, try to give your MC something totally outside of that big hard thing and really shine the light on that. This sort of feels like babbling, so I'll stop now.
Basically, making your character active comes down to giving them goals and things they can control.


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Harry Reid supports amending Constitution in desperate attempt to stop formation of 'Koch-topia'
**Written by Doug Powers
Why doesn't Reid just go all-out and support a repeal of the entire First Amendment? It could be the only way to stop Koch-topia!
From Byron York at the Washington Examiner:
"The shadowy Koch brothers are attempting… a hostile takeover of American democracy," Reid charged Thursday. "No one should be able to pump unlimited funds into a political campaign."
Reid urged his fellow lawmakers to support a proposed constitutional amendment, written by Democratic Sen. Tom Udall and co-sponsored by 40 of the Senate's 55 Democrats, that would give Congress the right to regulate all political contributions and all spending of any kind in all federal elections. (It would also give states the power to do the same in state elections.) The Supreme Court has held such far-reaching restrictions to be unconstitutional, which is why Reid wants to take the extreme step of changing the nation's founding document.
"Amending our Constitution is not something we take lightly," Reid said. "But the flood of special interest money into our American democracy is one of the greatest threats our system of government has ever faced."
Actually people like Harry Reid are among the greatest threats to our system of government, but he can only be amended out of office by Nevada voters, who unfortunately refuse to do so.
I'm only assuming there's a disclaimer in the Udall amendment that says "**amendment void if Republicans have full control of Congress."
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
Boehner gavel-smacks GOP defectors after being re-elected House Speaker
January 7, 2015 07:44 AM by Doug Powers
Harry Reid should have a Nerf Gym installed in the Senate Minority Leader's office
January 2, 2015 09:51 PM by Doug Powers
Harry Reid, bitter? Nah!
December 10, 2014 09:27 PM by Doug Powers
After Dem election annihilation, CNN panel ponders potential ruination of GOP
December 7, 2014 08:10 PM by Doug Powers
Most predictable thing ever just happened to Mary Landrieu
December 6, 2014 09:51 PM by Doug Powers
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I shall ruminate on the view from this end of life. It is a vast panorama of places, people and events that have coloured my full rich life, and hopefully, there is still time for a few more lovely surprises.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
So sharing is, on the whole, good.
I learned the hard way all about sharing.
At St. Edith's, the orphanage where I spent five long years, my brother Mick and I were the only children with a parent. Mum seldom came to see us. She remembers it differently, says that she came once a month. Uh uh!
She came once with Jan, the Norwegian Merchant Seaman, once with a tall well padded man who brought me a red child's handbag, once when she took us to a Pantomime of Cinderella, once in the summer when we climbed on the rocks and found an old empty tin of Heinz Baked Beans and she screamed at us, because, apparently it was well known that the Germans left bombs lying around disguised as beans. And another time when I had Mumps. And, of course, there was the time she bought the awful Harry.
I arrived back at the Convent clutching my Dolly Mixtures and, after changing out of my 'best' coat and dress into everyday hand-me-down skirt and Jersey [as we then called our 'sweaters'] I sat down and opened the jar.
About to put the first sweet-scented rose-pink square into my drooling mouth I became aware of the cessation of all noise and looked up to see ten pairs of eyes staring at the jar in my lap, well, eleven pairs if you count Sister's.
Sister Edith was a stern woman, perhaps she was old, she would have seemed so to me, at six years old. I might have fared better had it been one of the novices but no, it was Sister Edith.
'Do you not think it is Christian to share your good fortune, Molly?' She rose from her chair and towered over me. 'Of course you do...come girls...arranged your chairs in a circle and Molly will divide her bounty as Jesus shared his.'
There was a scraping of chairs on the floorboards as the girls did her bidding. They sat down, their palms upwards on their laps. Pink palms, white palms, large small and fat palms, all held out for my glorious squares of sugar.
Slowly I began, dipping into my jar and dropping a sweet in each one. Some of the girls could not wait and I watched with watering mouth as the delights vanished, each sweet almost too small to chew. Round the chairs I went, pausing in front of Sister Edith, staring at her clasped hands then raising my eyes to her face, her lips in a tight moue that could have been interpreted as distaste or disapproval. I remained rooted to the spot until with a 'tut' and slight shake of her wimpled head she indicated that I should move on.
Round I went, and round again, filling single large palms and cupped smaller ones until the jar was empty. I sat down and replaced the lid, realization hitting me. I opened my mouth to speak, to protest, to plead, but Sister Edith spoke first.
'Well, Molly! Jesus truly loves you. You have made your friends happy with your selfless act. Say thank you children.'
I swallowed the wail that rose in my throat and fought the tears that threatened to spill over-saving them for the comfort of my pillow later. As I watched the girls tucking into their spoils I thought that something was not right. If I had done such a good thing, why wasn't I feeling good about it? Why did I want to fight them all to quench my mouth of it's desire for those sweet sugary sensations?
Was I a bad person?
The lesson is this: It is very good to share, but do not give all your Dolly Mixtures away-unless you are a Saint or have an unlimited supply, or you hate Dolly Mixtures anyway.
43 comments:
Great story.ReplyDelete
I have heard lots of stories about England during the war, from my Mother who lived there, was in the army there. When I read your blog, I can almost see it.
That would have killed me. I was/am not a good sharer. When I was a child, I would buy my friends their own bag of chips or candy so I would not have to share mine. I still hate when my husband sticks his fork into my dinner for a taste (in a restaurant). I let him because he always gives a taste of his whether you want it or not - but I still resent sharing mine.ReplyDelete
What a heart-wrenching story. I was poor growing up here in Texas....scared to death that any day the Russians were going to obliterate us with an atom bomb (we live just 20 miles from the world's largest military installation, and they always told us we would be the first to go)....knowing the only "shelter" was miles away at the library....but not once as a child did I receive candy as a gift and have to share it all with others. You are such an incredible person to have lived through all that you have lived through....war in your own country, being practically abandoned by your mom, raised in an orphanage.... and come out on this side with such a fantastic outlook on life. I have such admiration for you. I am literally crying for the child that you were right now, tears streaming down my face. Do you realize your writings have this effect on people? Your life story really should be immortalized in a book. I tell you, it would be a best seller!! Thank you for opening up your heart and soul and sharing your experiences with all the world on your blog. We can all learn from you. Big hug for the little girl inside you. (why were you bald when you played Goldilocks?)ReplyDelete
l remember this story Mum, heart wrenching when l first heard it no less now...ReplyDelete
lots of love
saz xx
I agree with Davis...well said!ReplyDelete
I would buy you an entire crate of Dolly Mixtures if I could...and if I had ever heard of them before! Very touching story. I would buy the book.
I think the lesson would have been hide your Dolly Mixtures until you are sure you're alone. For me anyway.ReplyDelete
I suppose Sister Edith thought she was teaching you a lesson on sharing but, in my opinion, that was a very cruel thing to do. Only God knows her motivation.ReplyDelete
Great story!ReplyDelete
oh... bother..... perhaps, if you would have satisfied and 'enjoyed' yourself, you would have been more apt to want to share the joy....ReplyDelete
couldn't help but read your title and first few lines and think ..."but I don't wanna"
Here I sit now, wallowing in self pity. The wail in your throat rose sequencely with mine. I want to cry for the little girl that you were. I hope that writing this helps to hug the you from then.ReplyDelete
A great read! More, more, more!ReplyDelete
You tell the best stories. Well, it's not the best that happened and I think that Sister Edith was a cruel bitch. I'm sorry for your little girl that had to share to the point of getting nothing for herself. Hope you gorge on them now to your heart's content.ReplyDelete
Great memory of a sad time Moannie....I like to think that somehow karma made up for the loss of dolly mixtures and rewarded you in sweet ways of another kind.ReplyDelete
Next time I am in Whitstable, maybe I can buy you something tasty?
Such a poignant story! You've created a such a vivid image, I felt like I was in the circle with you. I wish I was, then I could give you back your dollys.ReplyDelete
Sister Edith...wow! I'd say there's a special corner in hell for a person like that. Sorry if that's too blunt, but that is certainly my honest opinion. I'm sorry you ever had to go through that, and everything else. You've obviously had a lot to conquer, and I agree with the others who said you should write a book. I know I'd buy it.ReplyDelete
Moannie, I'm sorry for my ignorance, but were you put in an orphanage because of the war? I knew that children were sent to live with other families, but I wasn't aware that they went to orphanages as well.ReplyDelete
Oh that's so heartbreaking. I could just about see those hands, that face.. and feel your hurt. How difficult for the little girl that you were. Great story, Moannie.ReplyDelete
You brought me right there, I was standing beside you and following your every step. That's a great writer. And a poignant story.ReplyDelete
This is a scene out of Dickens! How sad you must have been to give up the goodies that didn't come to you abundantly. How heart-wrenching this story must be in retelling, as we the readers can truly feel it with you. Thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
I agree with rosaria. It is a scene out of Dickens. It was a lesson, but a perverse one.ReplyDelete
Yes, you are an amazing storyteller. You have amazing stories to tell. How did you ever survive such things and then emerge to share with us your story? Yes, you do share well. You share honesty, longing, loss, and the voice of the young girl who remembered and then brought the story to life.ReplyDelete
pfft - christian like, nothing christian like about taking a childs dolly mixture from them!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9 February 2011 at 19:48
Such a touching story. Thank you for sharing it.ReplyDelete
Thankyou for sharing mo..ReplyDelete
What a moving story. That nun should have made sure you had your share too. What a horrid lady.ReplyDelete
Maggie X
Nuts in May
This was beautifully done, touching without the remotest hint of misery memoir about it. Funny how nowadays it's the rich telling us all to share and how we're all in it together, I don't see them parting with any of their figurative Dolly Mixtures though.ReplyDelete
Oh... I know you don't believe the same sorts of things as I, regarding afterlife rewards, but I'm of the firm belief that someday you will find a gigantic jar of Dolly Mixture waiting for you :-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 February 2011 at 12:08
I love your stories, and would definitely buy the book! The poor poor little girl, and the old b---- of a sister. You are so brave to share this.ReplyDelete
I lived in a Children's Home in Oklahoma for about 6 years. I recognize the lesson. I am sure there were plenty more. I did take away something positive from that awful place. I now appreciate the small things in life. I don't have to have a fancy to be happy or satisfied.ReplyDelete
I like to think, if I'd been in the circle with a hand turned up - I'd have taken the shared treats and then given you back half of mine!ReplyDelete
Mean old Sister!
- Anonymous11 February 2011 at 06:59
Such a great post. Incredibly true; we are often accused of being sinful if we don't share everything we own. But that shouldn't always be the case.ReplyDelete
I think I'd have eaten a big handful first!!
CJ xx
Oh jeeez, it turns out that I didn't have to be in an orphanage to experience the same crap. I know how you felt, went through that many times. I know that it, of course, did not have a positive effect on me... to this day, I am very conscious of the things I own, maybe too much sometimes...ReplyDelete
Why is it that nuns, who are supposed to be drawn to a life wherein the teachings of Christ are alleged to be engraved on their very souls, why are they so very lacking in empathy in nearly everyone's memories? It's irony in action. Believer or non-believer alike generally admit the dude had some good ideas about how to treat one another, no matter how religion has misused the man. This is another example of just that, in teaching kindness, inflicting unhappiness shouldn't be part of that.ReplyDelete
Ah well, I suppose we can look back over time and pity that joyless shrew of a nun and know that you finally had the last laugh because you left that misery behind, made your own life. Conquered when you were able to be the author of your own story and now share on your own terms, making others full in their own turn :-)
Take that, Sister Dourly Done!
Hilary: Thank you so much for your kind words, the past is so much more vivid to me than yesterday...shows my age eh?ReplyDelete
Jeannie: Bless you for those words. Sharing is good, it truly is, unless he eats the best bits.
Leave it to Davis: I remember those frightening days too...The Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of the Russian bear. I am so sorry to have upset you...I do try to tell the truth, as a story, rather than as an 'it happened to me, isn't it awful' kind of post. Truth is...there were more tears than smiles, but I seem to have been blessed with a gene that allows me to see, not especially the 'funny' side but a knowledge that tomorrow will be better.
Sazzie: Of course you have, my love, but you know it didn't mark me.
She: Thank you, I can taste them now. As for the book, it is written, but just for the Family- I steal bits from it from time to time.ReplyDelete
Ellen Abbott: There was a doll's pram,a sewing box and a xylophone that were put away under lock and key and later, a box of biscuits which were handed out after Sunday tea...I made sure I received my fair share of those.
Pat-Arkansas: My thoughts [much later] were on the unnatural life of a nun. Choices made and possibly regretted, or perhaps a dislike of children.
Rebecca Bany: Thank you for your visit.
Kay: Yes, your first instinct became mine, I must admit.
dys-func-tion: Thank you for your comment, and yes, telling these stories does help, because as I age, that time seems to loom closer in all it's detail.
Mollie: Thanks thanks thanks! As my every day life is too boring, I am sure there will be more. It is unavoidable. My task is to remember those I have not already told.ReplyDelete
Gaelyn: Bless you, been with me for so long you have already read most of my stories. And yes, now I always have a bowl of sweets on the table in front of me and now I have a strange desire for Dolly Mixture.
Libby:I see from your profile that you are in the Midlands...Whitstable is not the resort I would have expected you to visit...but I should really like to meet you if and when you are in the neighbourhood.
Kara Muller: Thank you for your visit and kind words.
Mountain Mama [great name] Hard to believe they won't be judged, I agree, but I cannot hold a grudge...at the time I thought that everyone had the same life. And a book of my childhood would be a bummer, honestly.
Kyle and Nicole: Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving a comment, I love each one...when I think that we are all strangers, yet share things as friends do.
Mum always used the war as the reason for our being sent to the Orphanage, but it was '38 and the war began in '39. I know she was in an Airplane factory, a supervisor painting the luminous dials and it was essential, but she was also a widow with two small children, was working long hours, and could not find childminders...and St. Edith's was the only place she could find that would take us on the small fee she could afford. She thought, I believe, that it was a boarding school.
Hilary: Thank you so much. Gonna try and find one with some sunshine.
365: Thank you so much...Tanya.ReplyDelete
Rosaria: Thank you. This is so special, coming from you, means a great deal to me.
Bruce Coltin: Thank you..all these wonderful comments are overwhelming.
Retired English Teacher: At last, an A. How I wish I had had an English Teacher like you in any one of my eleven schools.
Sandii: I am sure that she is now drowning in Dolly Mixtures for eternity.
addhumor: Thank you for coming to visit and for leaving a comment. Very much appreciated.
mutheletchumi: I am happy that you took the trouble to visit. Thank you
Maggie May: Love you, thanks for coming over...I'm going to try and find something less traumatic next time.
MLS: You know that I need you approbation [no pressure] and when it comes I am very happy.
Suldog: From you mouth, etc, etc. XXXX
Finance dirctor: How lovely of you. But I am afrai it would make pretty poor reading...that's why I only give you dribs and drabs. Thank you so much.
Debbie: Sometimes I wonder how many children actually do have a happy childhood. I know I have taken away more good things than bad. Thank you for visiting.ReplyDelete
Doc: I know if I had had a second chance I would not have been so thick as to leave myself out.
Crystal: Thank you for your lovely comments.
Bz: Childhood is hard even when everything is as it should be, most of us survive. I live by the motto...'No regrets' and it has kept me sane.
Land of Shrimp: You know, I try not to moan, or whine...it is just that they are good stories, they happened to happen to me and I am fine...of course there were times in my teens, when I felt deprived, but it got me nowhere. The Nuns? Well, strange creatures. That sort of extreme sacrifice is beyond my ken. I understand true altruism...but to deny all in the hope of reward...I don't get it.
What a wonderful tale. But I wouldn't have shared my Dolly Mixtures with anyone. Midget gems maybe, but not the Dolly Mixtures.ReplyDelete
Beautiful writing, but I think it wouldn't have been such a vivid and lifelong lesson had it not been painful.ReplyDelete
Ellen Abbott has the right idea! ;-)ReplyDelete
What miserly creature, that Sister of No Mercy!
Nothing that cruel has been done to me as a small child in the name of sharing, but I have not forgotten the loss of one particular candy I dug out of the crevices of our living room couch and promptly put into a pail of water to soak off all the filth it was covered with. I still remember the moment when I went to retrieve it and stared into nothing but a pail of water. Only much later did I learn how that came about! ;-)
Thank you for the response Moannie! Love your blog!ReplyDelete
Oh I totally felt you pain throughout that Moannie! I used to go to a little boarding school and I remember on your birthday you'd be given a tray of doughnuts to share with the other pupils but everyone took it as such an offense if you didn't give them one. All you really wanted to do was give them to your BEST friends and save two extra for yourself! I also loved your description of their little palms, and thank you - you've given me my word of the day 'cessation'. GeorgieReplyDelete


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