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Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#2278 closed defect
[MSN]Connexion error while sending an URL
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|winpidgin (gtk)
When I try to send an URL on MSN protocol (in Linux or Windows), a message (I translated it) is sent :
Impossible to send message due to connexion problems
(Note : I'm trying to make a portable version of Pidgin in order to implement it on Framakey.org, but this bug don't come from this.
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by deryni
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MSN blocks many URLS (and other strings) as a 'protection' mechanism, does any URL get through? Are you trying to send something with 'dowload.php' in it?
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by trac-robot
- pending changed from 1 to 0
- Status changed from new to closed
This ticket was closed automatically by the system. It was previously set to a Pending status and hasn't been updated within 14 days.
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by louipc
This bug is still present in 2.5.3 Any url I send with mine.nu or ath.cx is blocked
(15:06:28) Serenity Now! - Loui: http://something.mine.nu (15:06:28) Message was not sent because an unknown encoding error occurred. http://something.mine.nu (15:07:08) Serenity Now! - Loui: http://something.ath.cx (15:07:08) Message was not sent because an unknown encoding error occurred. http://something.ath.cx
It's really annoying when I want to point a friend to something on my home server.
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by deryni
MSN is known to block certain URLs, if those are on the list (we don't know what the list is, try asking Google) there is nothing we can do about it.


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Dems Draft Bill That Could Activate 25th Amendment Powers to Remove Trump
NY Post: Trump Polled WH Team for Reaction to Brzezinski Tweets
Levin: Republican Party Is 'Progressive,' Democratic Party Is 'Radical Left'
Several Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), have signed onto an initiative that could lead to President Trump's removal using 25th Amendment powers.
According to the Washington Post, Raskin's bill would activate a probe into whether President Trump has been too far "incapacitated" to continue as the leader of the free world.
The 25th Amendment deals mainly with presidential succession, denoting that the vice president would take over for a deceased or removed president, and so on.
Raskin said his legislation would focus on Section 4 of the 1967 amendment, which reads in part:
"Whenever the vice president and a majority of ... bod[ies] such as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the president pro-tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president."
Raskin said he is concerned that "something is seriously wrong" with Trump, citing a "sustained pattern of behavior" and several "errant and seemingly deranged tweets."
"It certainly doesn't feel like the ship is on an even course right now," he said.
The bill would order Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to each choose a physician and psychiatrist to be part of a commission that will determine Trump's ability to continue as president.
One of the bill's top supporters, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Trump is "incompatible" with the Oval Office, and called him "incompetent" in a recent interview on FBN.
.@JacksonLeeTX18 calling on the resignation of @POTUS: "The 25th Amendment is utilized when a president is perceived to be incompetent." pic.twitter.com/8Mbi29yz4W
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) June 30, 2017
Lee and Raskin were chiefly joined by Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), along with several other Democrats.
However, as the Constitution reads, in order for the 25th Amendment powers to be activated, Vice President Mike Pence would have to sign off on the removal.
Raskin's fellow Marylander, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Eastern Shore) called the move a partisan ploy.
Harris, a medical doctor by trade, said it takes "years of schooling" to be able to "evaluate someone's mental and physical health," suggesting that congressmen should not be diagnosing Trump.
He called it an "insult to the [medical] profession."
Huckabee: 'Morning Joe's' Attacks on Trump Are 'Mosquito Bite,' Should Be Ignored
Marsha Blackburn: Affordable Health Care 'Proving Unaffordable'

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BABBITT, Minn. — President Donald Trump was due in a few days, but Tim Pawlenty was not ready to say if he would share the stage in Duluth on Wednesday with his party's leader.
He's never been to a Trump rally. Does he even want to go? He was noncommittal.
"Yeah, I've been to a lot of these rallies over the years, and they're always fun and interesting," he said in an interview a few days ago, with the agreeability that defined his two terms as governor and his short-lived 2012 presidential campaign.
Pawlenty is hoping to revive his political career this year with a triumphant return to the Minnesota statehouse. But like many Republican veterans, he is struggling to navigate a party that has been completely transformed since the last time he hit the campaign trail, and he is hoping that his brand of electoral magic still works.
When Pawlenty left office eight years ago and began running for president, he was a "Sam's Club" Republican, a wholesome representation of the Midwest. The signature moment of his short-lived presidential campaign came when he was ridiculed for his reluctance to attack one of his rivals, Mitt Romney.
Today, the party whose favor he's seeking prefers its politicians to speak in strong terms, and to embrace the populist agenda of a bombastic president. And its voters demand complete loyalty to Trump, which most candidates have accommodated by flipping their positions or giving the president a pass for uncivil behavior, such as bragging on video about groping women.
Pawlenty has declined to go that far, both by dint of personality and political need. At 57, he is facing a primary challenge from the party's pro-Trump wing, and also a general election in a closely divided state whose politics demand balance. His approach has been to embrace Trump enough to placate him and his supporters, but not so much that he scares away the voters who don't like the president.
In 2016 Pawlenty, then running a Wall Street lobbying group based in Washington, D.C., called Trump "unfit" and "unhinged" after the release of the Access Hollywood video. But he also said he voted for Trump – an absentee vote cast before the video came out in late October.
"Like most Republicans, and many other people, I agree with what he's trying to do, many, if not all, of his policy initiatives," Pawlenty said in an interview last week in Hutchinson, a small town about an hour west of Minneapolis where he was speaking to a group of local business leaders. "Not all of them, but many of them. But I don't agree with his behavior in all instances, or his language. And that's where most people in the Republican Party have landed."
Not Boni Bieniek, 62, a former Democrat who is now an avid Trump fan and chairwoman of the Republican Party of Lake County, on the north shore of Lake Superior.
"I don't like Tim Pawlenty," Bieniek said. "We expected things from Democrats that they didn't do. We expected things from Republicans that they were going to do that they didn't do. And it becomes a whitewash, just a blend – no differentiating between the two parties."
Persuading Republicans who love Trump to nominate him in the Aug. 14 primary is only the first of Pawlenty's challenges this year. The second comes in the general election, when he must also appeal to moderates and independents to win. Because of the electoral power and increasingly liberal lean of the Twin Cities and their suburbs, Pawlenty can't win the state with Republicans alone.
Bieniek is supporting Pawlenty's GOP opponent, Jeff Johnson, a Hennepin County, Minnesota, commissioner who has fallen short in two prior statewide campaigns. Johnson won the party's nomination for governor at a convention at the beginning of June that Pawlenty chose to skip.
The party nomination does not always predict a primary win; Johnson is not well known, and he raised only $169,000 to Pawlenty's $1.7 million this year through the end of May, according to finance reports. But he is embracing Trump in a way Pawlenty is not, and he is doing his best to encourage the president to weigh in on his behalf.
Trump will have a chance to pick a side on Wednesday, when he is scheduled to appear in Duluth with Pete Stauber, a 52-year-old local business owner and retired police officer who is running for Congress. Democrat Rick Nolan is leaving the seat to run for lieutenant governor, and Republicans view it as one of their top pickup opportunities.
In the area Trump will visit, the major industry is iron mining, and residents cheer the president's threats of a trade war with China over steel. Trump enjoys soaring popularity across Minnesota's rural and industrial northern tier.
The Iron Range used to be solidly Democratic territory, in part because of the historic sway of the mining unions. Not anymore; Trump's popularity here is one major reason he came within less than two points of winning the state.
"I like everything about him," said Jan Nicholas, 78, of Babbitt, a tiny Iron Range crossroads about two hours north of Duluth with a grocery store, a lumber yard and a giant monument of iron ore along Central Boulevard.
"Sometimes I get a little ticked when he goes on and on and on," she said of Trump. "But he has made a change in the world. I think he's a godsend."
Nicholas, whose late husband was a miner for 30 years, spent Saturday at a local parade in honor of Peter Mitchell, a 19th-century miner credited with discovering taconite, a type of iron ore, in the surrounding hills.
Like other Babbitt residents huddled in a drizzle under party tents, drinking beer from plastic cups and watching a parade of politicians and giant mining machines, Nicholas said she appreciated Trump's promise to revive manufacturing in the United States.
She resents "tree-huggers" and what she sees as the overregulation of mining and fishing in the nearby wilderness. She wants job growth in a sparse town where the average high school graduating class size has fallen from about 150 in the mid-1980s, when her daughter Renee graduated, to about 20 today.
If Trump were to say something nice about Johnson on Wednesday, "then I'd vote for him," she said of Pawlenty's opponent.
Many of Pawlenty's defenders, including a number of local party leaders, side with him because they see him as better able to beat a Democrat in the fall.
Ted Lovdahl, the GOP chairman in the congressional district the president will visit, is a huge Trump fan. But he is also unapologetic about his preference for Pawlenty – even though he was not supposed to admit it because Johnson had earned the official GOP backing.
"I want to win in November, and Tim is the one who can win," said Lovdahl, a beef cattle farmer and logger who lives in Effie, Minnesota, a town of about 100 people two hours northeast of Duluth. "We have to win."
Pawlenty will not easily replicate Trump's performance in northern Minnesota. Nor is it a given that he will repeat his own statewide successes when he ran for governor in 2002 and 2006.
In those days, Pawlenty performed well in the suburbs – winning his own Dakota County, southeast of the Twin Cities, by 21 points in 2002. In 2016, that county's mix of inner and outer suburbs swung dramatically the other way, delivering Hillary Clinton a four-point victory.
That challenge helps explain much of Pawlenty's pragmatic message this year – to cut taxes but increase school funding, particularly vocational education, and to lower health costs.
It also helps explain why Pawlenty's opponents, in both parties, are decrying the education cuts he oversaw as governor a decade ago – and criticizing his six-year stint as chief executive of the Financial Services Roundtable, a major lobbying organization for banks, which paid Pawlenty $2.7 million in 2016, according to Internal Revenue Service filings.
Pawlenty is following a more conservative GOP playbook on the issue of immigration, blaming "political correctness" for what he contends is the proliferation of undocumented immigrants receiving public benefits. On health care, his pitch is more nuanced; he promises to lower costs for consumers with "market-based solutions" and a "shared savings model" but offers few other details.
Pawlenty's wiggle with Trump may feel familiar to voters who watched him struggle to take a stand on health care during his short presidential campaign in 2012. Ahead of a GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire in 2011, Pawlenty made headlines by accusing the eventual Republican nominee, Romney, of supporting "ObamneyCare" – an attempt to conflate the health-care plan Romney pushed as governor of Massachusetts with then-President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
But during the debate, Pawlenty demurred when asked to explain the term that he had used just that morning in a Fox News interview. His performance that night earned him a public rebuke from a viewer who was still in the early stages of contemplating his own presidential plans.
"Now, the problem with Pawlenty, he's trying to be a tough guy," Trump said on "Fox & Friends" the next morning. "I see his clips today on your show; he's trying to be a tough guy, but he's not. You know, you can't be something that you're not, but hey, he's trying."
When he ran for governor in the 2000s, Pawlenty talked about his roots in nearby South St. Paul, Minnesota: the meatpacking industry that used to drive the economy, his father's job as a truck driver, the fact that he was the first in his family to attend college. The power of that biography may have been diluted by his tenure as CEO, and it could fade further if the election becomes a referendum on Trump.
So far, many voters say it's simply too soon to know whom they'll support.
"I still like Tim Pawlenty," Republican Paul Welsh, 76, a retired pilot for the Air Force and American Airlines, said while he was picking up a coffee on Sunday in Apple Valley, a Dakota County community with miles-long stretches of suburban shopping and the ever-present sound of jetliners landing at the nearby Minneapolis airport.
"But this campaign in Minnesota hasn't really taken shape yet."
Jared Barker, a baggage handler for Delta Air Lines and lifelong Republican working on his laptop at the same coffee shop, used to like what he described as Pawlenty's libertarianism and opposition to "big spending." Now, given Pawlenty's work on behalf of banks and his embrace of Trump, he's less sure.
"He speaks in a soft manner. He comes across as a normal guy," Barker said. "But at the same time, he seems above it all. To me, he's a career politician."


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Here's the number of friends you can actually have in real life, according to science
A report issued by MIT Technology Review states that you can only have five close friends
THOUGHT you were popular? A study says you can actually count your number of true friends on one hand.
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who works at the University of Oxford, believes that there's a limit on the amount of meaningful relationships humans can really have.
Among a person's 150 contacts, Professor Dunbar believes that there are different layers of friendship depending on how close you are with someone.
The study analysed how often 35 million people rang their friends, using the frequency to gauge the strength of the relationships.
The tech review explained: "The team assumes that the frequency of calls between two individuals is a measure of the strength of their relationship.
"The average cumulative layer turns out to hold 4.1, 11.0, 29.8, and 128.9 users."
Surprisingly, it found that social butterflies even people have the same amount of layers as introverts.
The online world has allowed social networks to flourish, but Dunbar believes it's only possible to maintain friendships with around 150 of them.
The study suggests that: "This is because friendships ultimately require occasional face-to-face interaction if they are to be maintained over time."
After analysing the social relationships of over 3,300 people, Professor Dunbar concluded that participants only considered 28 per cent of their Facebook network to be 'true friends'.
As well as this, they revealed that they could only turn to 4 per cent of their friends list in an emergency.
Surprisingly, test subjects that had significantly more than 155 Facebook friends admitted that they only had a small circle of true dependable friends.
Professor Dunbar claims that Facebook can be a useful tool for maintaining relationships when you can't "readily meet friends face-to-face".
However, he explains: "No amount of social media will prevent a friend eventually becoming 'just another acquaintance' if you don't meet face-to-face from time to time."


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Iron man meets the football monster
Anastasia Tasic has a passion for superheroes. She even hosts one in her room in a tiny self made puppet set. For her episode in the film this super will become Iron Man, equipped with the super power to: iron. Of course Iron Man can also fly and is very much into watching football. Probably that's why he misses to tackle the problem with the city being attacked by a monster in a prober way.
The monster on the other side is not the classical Godzilla-style creature with big claws and bad manners. Tatiana Moshkova's monster is made of people who couldn't watch the match properly because of a power blackout. Who said that football makes people aggressive? No football is even worse.
The stories of Anastasia and Tatiana will interact over the course of the film and finally give us the answer to the question: Will Iron Man finally save the city from the destruction caused by the monster? And will electricity be back before the end of the match?
Watching the ball hits space
The story of our film takes of from ground- into space. Nenad Krstic places his part of the story of football-watching people around the globe on a space ship. While all the other members of the crew watch the final match, only the navigator is left to keep the ship out of trouble. Bad luck that just now a massive munch of asteroids heads for the ship….
The Monster gets Watching The Ball
Hoologanism is a problem quiet common in Russia. So we are told. Tatianna Moshkova lets a crowd of football fans get violent after electricity breaks down in the city. The fans literally become a monster which is devastating the city. While both hooligans and monster are clearly up for evil, the first still have a certain association to football. When the football is gone (how do you watch a broadcast of a match when electricity is off?), it's clearly monster time….
Script writing multinational
With Watching the Ball being an episode film about the problems of watching football, what is needed in the first place, obviously is some good episodes. For inspiration we started a bit before that point and asked ourselves: In which places and situations people use to see football matches? And more interestingly: in which conditions they regularly don't, but the possibility would be there nevertheless? So immediately we had a start: public transport, prison, home in the midst of marital problems, a bar and a cab: our first scenes.
Hands in the pocket, football in mind
It is full spring in Berlin, Sitting on a bench in Treptower Park, I'm thinking about the best plot for a multinational episode film. Trying to fit the different cultural perspectives of the team into a subject my thoughts drive off to lighter topics. The news I was listening in the morning. The buzz everybody is making about the forthcoming championship. And there we go. Isn't football such an universal subject that it moves people in a way, otherwise only elementary needs do? How much will audiences reactions differ around the world? What about making the question, how universaly such a match truly is, the core of the story?


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What innovative, healthy gifts … thanks for such a great post!
Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I'm 63 years young. I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we've assumed to be true about health and wellness...Tell Me More
Today's guest post is by Katy Bowman, biomechanist and author of the bestselling Move Your DNA and a new release, Movement Matters, which examines our sedentary culture, our personal relationship to movement, and some of the global effects of outsourcing movement. I'm happy to welcome her back to Mark's Daily Apple.
Ancestral health models have begun reaching beyond diet and have expanded to include sleep, stress, parenting practices, and movement. This leads to the question, "Can we better incorporate the ideas of 'natural health' into our holidays?"
Of course we can! We can prepare our holiday meals with better-sourced ingredients and eliminate the things we know aren't doing our bodies good. But beyond the primary meal, are there other aspects of a holiday we can consider? Spoiler alert: there are.
I've always loved giving gifts. Choosing the right book, the perfect necklace, the coziest sweater for someone I love has always been an essential part of the holidays for me. But in recent years, I've run into a gift-giving dilemma. Most people I know complain about having too much stuff, and many are striving for a more minimal approach to life, from footwear to furniture.
Many are trying to find ways to add more movement to their lives beyond exercise—and to stop outsourcing so much of their movement to items of convenience produced with the expense of fossil fuel production, in some other area of the globe, in conditions we wouldn't find acceptable were we the ones having to labor.
The more I've come to understand the ecology of human movement—how directly exchanging our own personal movement for the things we require in our daily life not only improves our personal physiology, but can decrease the strain we place on other humans and the planet—the fewer irresponsibly manufactured items I feel comfortable gifting.
BUT I LIKE TO GIVE PRESENTS! So, how can we be generous and festive, revel in the joy of giving, while reclaiming our outsourced movement and addressing our essential human need to MOVE? How can we be generous with our family and friends and our communities and our own bodies and the rest of the world all at the same time? Is it even possible?
It is. Behold, for I bring you great tidings of joy: a list of holiday gifts that not only get you and your giftee moving more, but also increase what I call "vitamin Nature" and "vitamin Community"—other important aspects of ancestral health.
If you're feeling pressed for time, don't fret (fretting doesn't need to be part of a celebration); there is all sorts of gear you can quickly source that encourages more movement, more natural movement, and more nature—i.e., it will get someone moving after the gift has been given.
These are a step up from the conventional store-bought gift in terms of their impact on your giftee's body and life.
Here, I'll just say it: Everybody poops. If you want more movement in your life (and in your bathroom), use a squat platform to toilet. More squats and less bearing down. If you want to get moving more, too, download DIY instructions and build one to gift, or gift a Squatty Potty (I'm going out on a limb and suggesting this gift is best given to someone you know pretty well). They're made in the USA, i.e., with labor practices you can stand (or squat) by.
A hiking guidebook is like an invitation to move through nature, not only for exercise but to de-stress and connect with the bigger picture. There are all sorts of hiking books—some for families, and some for those with creaky knees. Bonus points if you take a walk down to your local bookstore to find guides local to your area, by local experts. Even regular exercisers on your list can be unaware of all the beautiful trails within their reach.
An excellent companion to #2, a good foraging guidebook can introduce your loved ones to the landscape around them. Moving directly for our food allows for a far wider range of movements than we usually get—squatting to collect berries, reaching for fruits, digging for tubers—and it results in nutrient-dense food!
Wild food is completely unprocessed, meaning some part of you—teeth, hands, arms—needs to work to get it ready to digest. Foraging and wild-food cookbooks are typically applicable to certain geographical areas. Research carefully as the region covered by the book should be noted. Again, search out local foragers, and connect with them online or in person (vitamin Community!) as they're likely well-versed on the best books for their areas.
Moving through nature is our family pastime, so often the gifts we give are things that allow us to stay outside longer. A thermos full of a hot drink makes a winter hike much more appealing. Fill one with hot ginger tea or bone broth, and you're ready to keep warm on winter hikes. And a foraging bag or basket for foragers big and small makes it easy to keep moving as you collect.
There used to be, and can still be, a ton of movement going into your meals. A hand coffee grinder, mortar and pestle, potato masher, and traditional food mill that you can use instead of a stick blender to purée soups all offer your giftee the opportunity to move more in the kitchen and save electricity in the process (and speaking of electricity, if you've got a giftee looking to understand more about how electricity makes it into one's home, check out The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future).
Bonus: doing things by hand also means fresher ingredients—there's nothing like the scent of fresh herbs and spices being pulverized by the mortar and pestle.
For those whose holidays include a Christmas tree, give the gift of a living tree in pot. You can buy traditional potted Christmas trees and then plant them after the holidays are over (an amazingly movement-filled activity), or you can go for an unconventional tree—like a fruit tree—which will continue to offer gifts far into the future.
There are experts in many communities willing and excited to pass on their knowledge of wilderness survival. Buy a gift certificate for a traditional firebuilding class, a class on how to build a shelter, or how to track animals. These skills aren't quaint throwbacks—having them not only affords us a huge range of movements never called on in the modern Western world, but also makes nature and wilderness a more appealing place for us, so we'll spend more time moving in nature, which will make us even better at those skills, which will make nature an even more appealing place for us to be, so we'll spend more time in it… You get it, right?
Do you know someone who's been dying to start growing more of their own food but doesn't have the space? Many cities have community gardens established where plots can be purchased or rented.
Handmade gifts typically require greater exchange of your personal time and movement—something that can make them even more treasured.
Perhaps thanks to Pinterest, it seems we're going through a second Arts & Crafts period. Before you start groaning here, let me say I am HORRIBLE at arts and crafts. However, a few years ago my family decided to gift only handmade items, and it turned out homemade doesn't equal crafting at all. It just equals labor (read: movement). Movement, I am good at, especially when it comes to turning wild food (like elderberries) into something functional (like medicinal elderberry syrup).
You're probably already good at something, like knitting or sewing, or woodworking, or painting, or people walking (seriously). Put your skills to work to make your gifts this year (how about sewing reusable grocery bags or building small raised beds that support future movement?). You can also consider learning a new skill before the holidays—learn to crochet a simple scarf or hand-build a mug. Each skill you learn brings you more opportunity for movement, making every gift something you're also gifting yourself!
If you have any foraging or hunting knowledge, use it (and thus your movement) to create a delicious food gift. Some of my most favorite gifts include a bag of wild rice, a jar of dehydrated rosehips, and a bag of venison steaks. Another way of moving comes after the wild ingredients are sourced: make acorn-flour cookies, roast fresh chestnuts, make cranberry sauce from foraged berries, turn porcini mushrooms into a savory shortbread, or fill your giftee's freezer with a moose lasagna. P.S. I've had moose lasagna, and it's delicious.
If you're a homesteader, you've probably done this for years. For those of us just catching up, walk to (or through) the farmer's market or head to a U-pick farm and gather ingredients to make jams, jerky, pies, pemmican, and more.
Harvest boughs from living trees yourself, collect acorns and pinecones and holly berries, and give someone a beautiful, fresh, movement-made wreath. Or take a walk to harvest branches, grasses, and winter blooms and make your giftee a beautiful nature arrangement that will last the entire winter.
If you have a green thumb, toss the rest of us a bone. Transplanting a little pot of basil or creating a more complex indoor gardening system (a living wall, yay!) is not only a gift of fresh future food, it's also a gift of movement: to tend to the plants, to harvest their leaves, and to process the herbs into something they might just invite you over to eat (win-win!).
As I've already said, many in our culture have so much and know it. This year, like no other before, I've been hearing more and more loudly from friends and family, variations of "I really don't want any more stuff." Thus, I've started thinking about how to apply the "move more" mentality to gifting experiences that benefit those beyond my normal gift-giving circles.
While this idea isn't new, it is sadly underutilized. So consider this a reminder: You can check in with your local soup kitchen to see what's needed this season (and beyond). You can start working with others to gather unused foods from local trees and farms and delivering them to food banks. You can also work directly in the kitchen—use your body to chop, stir, ladle, and carve to feed those far less fortunate and privileged. If you celebrate Christmas, this can be an incredibly rewarding, invigorating way to spend time during the holidays. (And again, beyond—your volunteering journey can begin during the holidays, but continue during the rest of the year.)
Organize a group of people you normally exchange gifts with to make a Little Free Library together for your community. Walk to a secondhand bookstore to fill the shelves, or request each gift-giver donate books from their own shelves. Little Free Libraries aren't only about the books; they make your neighborhood more inviting to walkers. Not only will you be moving together to build and stock it, you'll be encouraging your community to move (and learn) more too.
If there is a community garden already in operation in your neighborhood, ask your friends to donate their time and movement with yours and assist in putting gardens to bed for the winter (or, if you're down under, to tend and grow!).
And guess what: If there isn't a community garden in your neighborhood, you can make one. Do the work of talking to your local government about permission, secure some land (many churches and schools are happy to donate space to this endeavor), and get some materials donated from a hardware store. Then you and your fellow gift-givers can set up a community garden to be planted in the spring. The movement involved in tending to food is another gift that keeps on giving.
Choose traditional songs or pop tunes, promise your family a cup of warm broth or spiced cider, print out some lyrics, and sing your way around the neighborhood. Collect and then carry donations for the local food bank as you go (They'll get heavy, but so what? Haven't you been wanting more exercise?) alongside the gift of beautiful (or at least enthusiastic) music for your neighbors.
Hopefully, this list not only inspires you to move more, but also inspires more of your own ideas. Use the hashtag #mymovementmatters on social media to share your attempts at or ideas for "gifts that move you"!
Thanks for reading, everyone. Which of these ideas has inspired you the most today? Other ideas to add? To learn more about Katy Bowman's work, she suggests walking to your local library or bookshop. And for more ideas of how to create a movement-rich life, follow her on Instagram. Have a great end to the week.
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What innovative, healthy gifts … thanks for such a great post!
I totally love the spirit of this article! Give of yourself, give movement and connection and health, YES!
Great post! I've always liked Katy Bowman…was first introduced to her on the Balanced Bites podcast years ago. These are unique and creative gift ideas. I really like the way she advocates incorporating movement into your day to day life. Instead of just going for a walk, walk to get something done, like mailing a letter or getting a book out of the library. She really helped me transition from the idea of exercise to movement.
Always enjoy reading your posts Elizabeth! As a software engineer I know I need to move more.
Whomever the serial DV'r is … please just stop.
Such great ideas, Mark! I love the human-powered tool bit. They're my favorites. I find it's easier to clean up after a cooking project when I skip the fancy gadgets. And I'm less inclined to procrastinate starting the cooking project because there's nothing cumbersome to fish out from the depths of the kitchen cabinets. I loved the other ideas, too! Thanks.
Another get-them-moving gift is handheld GPS units with a link to Gerocaching.com.
And playground toys. Jump ropes, Frisbees, and balls can be enjoyed by all but the most infirm and even they can enjoy watching. Croquet sets can be turned into miniature golf courses with the creative placement of hoops. You're never too old to go outside and play.
My local library is free too unless you fail to bring the books back on time. It's within walking distance of where I live and has thousands of books as well as many quiet, comfy places to sit and read, plus a nifty little coffee shop. It even has a tiny theater where one can watch old movies in the evening. I can't see any reason to try to duplicate these stellar efforts that are already in place.
This post is so complete, I couldn't dream to add any idea to that list!
However, I'm an avid knitter and I always thought it was a pretty sedentary hobby. I'm sitting and my eyes have to focus a really short distance too. That said, I will always prefer to knit a Christmas gift than to walk 10 000 steps to shop for one.
Walking while knitting is common in some cultures. I've seen bags specifically for carrying knitting along for a walk.
Oh, I love this! Really inspiring ideas. I, too, love the idea of movement/activity rather than exercise. It's so much more part of your life as opposed to being separate. I do walk and move a lot, but could always do more, I notice how stiff I get if I don't move now. I'm going to look up some of these links.
Dog trick books or gift certificates to agility/tracking/etc classes can also help get the whole family, 2 and 4-footed, some #vitaminmovement and #vitamincommunity. Moving in an agility class isn't the same kind of movement as running through the woods, but it's better than the couch. Maybe they cause use the gift certificate for obedience classes and get out into the woods sooner!
My guess is Grok was more Libertarian than Leftist. Maybe leave political comments off the site?
Great, it's amazing.
After this post I m fall in love with nature, thank for such a beautiful post
This post is so complete, I couldn't dream to add any idea to that list!


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It's been two weeks that I have been on the road with my family and this is the last of the pre-written posts. On monday, I will be back to writing real time. (Tell me — did you even notice I was away? 😉
Mr. Studio 'g' spent hours and hours updating our tunes lists on our ipods before our road-trip departure. He proudly sourced and scheduled over 6 hours of new music for our trip. I hope by now I am not already tired of his latest collections. Are you headed out for a summer jaunt? Here is his much smaller collection of road trip inspired tunes. Mr. Studio 'g'……
Riding along American highways requires (like everything else in life) a soundtrack, and American radio is too unreliable to provide a good one. On the last major (American) road trip we went on, Rochelle and I found FM coverage spotty at best, and learned that the AM in 'AM radio' apparently stands for 'Anne Murray' at least in major swathes of the midwest (this was in 2004). So bringing your own music is a requirement. Here's five songs that shout 'road music' to me:
Indie/Folk band Middle Brother released a cover version of the Replacements song "Portland" which for me is as good as the original, and definitely a traveling song ("It's too late to turn back here we go / Portland, oh no…"). We won't be heading that far west this summer, unfortunately.
The Tom Waits song "Long Way Home" describes the conflict of a man addicted to, and apologetic for, his wandering.
Since they are 'Gypsy Punks', any song by the Ukrainian-influenced band Gogol Bordello is at least theoretically appropriate for wandering, but most apropos is their 2007 single "Wonderlust King". It's as much about lust of the regular kind, but it's also about traveling around for it.
Again, we're not going this far west this summer, but the Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes fame) song "Sausalito" would make anyone want to keep driving until Golden Gate comes into view.
Finally, almost any song by Townes Van Zandt, is a traveling song, so I'll just point out his most famous, "Pancho and Lefty".
Happy Trails!
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Gogol Bordello? That's my lawnmowing music.
Safe travels.
Tom Waits… realy nice! waiting for new posts and some roadtrip images mabe..?


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Recently, we've been on the hunt for new Sunday School curriculum. A few years back, we went to an church-wide curriculum program with The Story and it was met with rave reviews. After The Story, we gave LifeWay's Bible Studies for Life curriculum a try. It's pretty safe to say that one tanked. People couldn't really connect to the material and discussions were seriously stifled. Thus, we're on the hunt again for Sunday School curriculum. People loved the concept of The Story and systematically working through the Bible, but their only complaint was that it was too fast. In one week, we might blow through Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy and people wanted to really dwell with God's Word a bit.
Our Sunday School coordinator discovered the The Be Series by Warren W. Wiersbe and decided to take a closer look. The kind folks over at David C. Cook sent us over both Be Decisive (Jeremiah) and Be Joyful: Philippians to read through. My husband quickly snatched up the Jeremiah books and I settled in with Philippians.
The great thing about this series is that it can stand alone (the Philippians Bible Study book runs about $8) or you can pair it with the commentary by the same author. Then, once you are done with the study you still have a wonderful set of commentaries for the future.
My husband has been really enjoying the Jeremiah set of books and I frequently hear him referring to lessons he's learned and ways he has applied the Scripture to his own life. As for me, the Philippians set of books has brought a fresh perspective of Paul's life and journey and the importance of the single mind (focused on Christ) as our source of joy.
As for Sunday School, we've settled in on starting with Be Right (Romans): How to Be Right with God, Yourself, and Others, which I'm thrilled about. Romans has been a pivotal book in my life already and I'm eager to dive deep into it with my class.
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Walking to Live.....Or Not
Part 1
It was days before the tube was removed from my throat. At that point the rawness it caused was as bad as the pain in my abdomen. Even the IV pain killers provided no relief. There were still no gut sounds but it was still days before they decided that intervention was needed to keep me from starving to death.
I have no idea how much weight I had lost by this point but only that I had lost whatever I had gained after my last hospital stay. The one size fits all hospital gown was now swimming on me to the point the neck hole was sliding off my shoulder and halfway down my forearm.
The way this gown now fit already had me wondering what it was going to take for the doctors to do something about nourishment. Having gone through this once before and knowing I did not begin anywhere near the same starting weight, I had a pretty accurate idea of how really thin I was so I was worried about the kind of long term damage my body might sustain from this current starvation. What was the point where my body turned from skeletal muscle to organ muscle like my heart to savage in order to keep me alive? Questions like that haunted me but never got answered by my medical team.
Thankfully soon after my gown got to that height on my firearm, the decision was made to begin the TPN. I don't know how effective those treatments are. I know I continued to lose weight but at least knowing my body was getting some kind of nutrition gave me hope I might be able to come out the other side of this latest trial.
The bad thing about this treatment was the apparatus it took to provide nutrients to my body. There was an assortment of small tubes that plugged into a catheter that was placed into a vein in my right arm. The technician who placed it told me the thing went straight into my heart. It's placement had to be checked with an x-ray machine since accuracy was essential both for efficacy and to avoid infection.
I don't know how many tubes there actually were but they were heavy and cumbersome. I worried about getting them caught on something like the tray table or the arm of the bed and pulling the whole thing out and maybe bleeding out before anyone found me. I don't know if that fear was appropriate or just another example of how thinking is compromised by serious illness.
The pole with the pump was top heavy and not the most stable even though it had a much larger base than the usual poles. The thing was too heavy for me to push so I could not walk alone. In order for me to move around I had to have a person to push the dumb pole. It's a good thing the bathroom in my room was within range of all that tubing or I'd have been up a creek.
Horse owners know that walking is good for colic. Personally I have walked several horses through colic episodes when I worked as a groom. Walking, driving or even bouncing colicky babies can bring relief so it only made sense walking might be useful to get my gut working again, not to mention walking is as important preventative against clotting. Even with precautions in place because of the pulmonary embolism after my first surgery, regular walks should have been an important element of my hospital care.
Before my first hospitalization there had been staffing cuts. Getting help so I could walk then was difficult at best but it was happening. As long as I remembered to ask, someone found the time to push that machine so I could walk.
Right after that time in the hospital there were more personnel cuts, followed up by another round of them just before my second hospitalization. By this time the cuts were so deep, necessary medical care must have been regularly compromised. My much needed walks were a low priority even though I probably needed them to survive.
Every time I asked a nurse to help me walk, I was told she/he would try to get back to me. Every time I saw a hospital worker I asked for help so I could walk. Yet most days I only got one walk with anyone on staffs ...and I was lucky if I could get ten minutes of their time. Not really what I needed to get my plumbing working again.
When Dave and Lindsay came to visit, I wouldn't let them leave until I got a walk in. With their help I walked all over the floor onto both wings to get in as much walking as I could. We didn't stop until my body quivered from fatigue but I knew I had to push if I was going to have any chance to survive.
I was so desperate to walk I would get myself set up to go whenever I could hear nurses nearby. I figured if I could be at the door all ready to go it would be more difficult for them to put me off. Sometimes this tactic worked and others it didn't.
I felt sorry for most of the nurses because they really cared about their patients but were so under staffed they just could not accomplish all of even the most necessary procedures. The pain and stress shown on their faces and apologies flowed like water but the apologies were sincere. I had no doubts these nurses were really trying to give good care.
Most of them wanted to be the kind of professionals they knew how to be but corporate bureaucracy had them hamstrung. They were professional enough not to point blame; it was only because of my connections to workers in this healthcare system that I even knew about the cuts and their depths.
Still when I thought about it I couldn't help but wonder how many people died because of these practices. I prayed I would not be one of the casualties but knew it was entirely possible that I might.
Each morning the surgeon came for rounds, he checked all four quadrants for gut sounds. I didn't have to wait for an explanation. I could tell from his expression. No sounds of any kind caused tension to frame his face. The furrowed brows, pained eyes, tight muscles and down turned mouth was more vivid a description than any words.
I have seen such looks before and each time I was told I had very little chance of survival. The only good thing about that was I have long since recognized my ability to buck such odds. I saw their grave looks as a challenge to prove them wrong. What energy I had was directed towards that goal but I had to wonder how long was too long to have no gut sounds?
To be continued........
An Unexpected Hospital Visitor Wants to Talk Horses...


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The_Elf_From_America_THE_QUEST - The Elves Prison & Valmarias's Capture
"No!" she said crying. "What have you done to them?"
"They are the ones who have been throughout my kingdom invaders. Some passers bye. Some from Lorien, Rivendell, Mirkwood every location of inhabitant elves."
"What are you doing to them?"
"Their lives are slowly draining away caught in a nightmare full sleep."
Emilie remembered a story she once read about when the elves were first born, stars were the first things they ever saw, and starlight remained in their eyes ever. They were best known for their starlight. It was a part of them. It was starlight, which made them the fairest and wisest race known to all.
Elenya's heart wept as she looked at the figure of a small child a girl not more than twelve years old. Her life span was weakening. Their endless lives were being drained away because the Prince was stealing their life force from. He was stealing their minds, their wills, and the starlight from their eyes. They were all dying!
"No!" Elenya gasped tears streaming down her cheeks, as she saw the many around her. "Are they all like this? WHY?
How could you do such a thing?"
"They serve my purpose for now."
"But you are an elf yourself. Why?! Let them go," she said gripping the bars.
"Nay melamin. You can do nothing about it. How do you propose to stop me since your will is weaker."
Uncontrollable tears hid her face. She attempted in vain to arouse the sleeping child, but failed. He gripped her shoulders softly.
"Yield to me, and I will spare them. Choose Legolas's death."
"How can you say that?" she said turning through tears. "I love him more than my life. I would follow him to death. I would die for him if I could. He would die for me. I have bound myself to Legolas freely in my spirit. We are linked together in spirit already. I cannot forsake him."
"Elenya look at me," she did so. "Now look at them," she looked at the sleeping form of the dying child. "His life for theirs. Would you give his life for your kin?"
"They are not my kin though I love them dearly," she said nearly revealing her secret only shared by Aragorn and Legolas.
"You are of their kind. Would you let them die?"
"Of course I wouldn't! But I would not come to you willingly if I had a thousand years to live. Legolas's death would not change that. And I cannot choose his death," she said burying her face in her hands.
"Elenya, I am ready to strike. Perhaps my attempts next will change your mind."
Without saying a word, he took her out of the dungeon and led her into the palace and up the stone stairs. He kept going ever upward until they had reached the highest tower. He went to the window upon the west and motioned for her to look out.
You see."
She nearly choked. A force more massive than that of Helm's Deep lay just beyond the city. He caught her.
"Yes, I am ready to strike. You shall soon see."
"No, please."
"Legolas's death," he demanded cruelly.
"You know I cant do that. I do not want him to die."
"Then you shall ride into battle with me tomorrow at a safe distance. And if you do not choose his death, you shall become my bride." He gave an arrogant grin and led her out of the tower.
Valmarias rode on thinking to himself. He felt confused about the Princess. He was nothing but a simple ranger. He was not worthy of her though he was too arrogant. She had wanted to kiss him last night, but he hesitated. Why? He rode faster through the woods as the rain began to pour. He was well out of Rivendell now riding through the realm of Dunland near Isengard. He stopped momentarily when he saw what remained of its power. Suddenly, he spied two figures in the distant. He instantly knew who they were and drew his sword. They called to him.
"Captain, we have known of your coming. And we are here to retrieve you," Finarel said raising his bow.
"Tell the Prince my services for him are over," Valmarias said sharply.
"You have something that does not belong to you, Captain," Yanarel said. "We have been asked to take it back."
"She is well away from me by now and I shall never tell you where she is."
"Then you shall feel the justice of the Prince when his whip cracks against your back until you do reveal."
Finarel released his arrow as it sank deeply into Valmarias's thigh. He cursed and took it in his hand. He tightened his grip on the horse and his feet sank into its flanks. But before the horse could work up a trot, an arrow flew into its chest. The horse fell to the ground in death. Yaneral and Finarel walked to the young Captain's side. He took out his sword and tried to stand with the arrow in his thigh.
"Surrender, Valmarias," Finarel ordered.
"Then you are a fool," Yaneral said.
Without warning, a cruel foot aimed at his jaw knocking the wind out of him. The hilt of a sword came down upon Valmarias's head knocking him to the ground unconscious.
"It has been too long much too long," Areniel said pacing in the courtyard.
"I am sure he is simply detained, Areniel," Elrohir assured her.
"No, I do not believe it. Valmarias is very good at taking care of himself. And he does not break a promise. It has been five days. My father also would have sent a message to me swiftly scolding me for disobedience. I must go find him."
"No Areniel, your place is here. I do not want you to leave."
"I am sorry, Uncle but I can not leave him out there. He could be hurt."
"And you could get hurt."
"I can take care of myself."
"I have never seen you this worried about him before. Why? What do you think you can accomplish?"
"He saved my life. I believe I can do the same for him as well."


text: I love "The Onion," but never more than when they spoof on Twilight, especially since they always do so in good fun (and not maliciously) and always in such hilariously creative ways. Earlier this year they published the article, "Woman Married To Fat, Emotionally Distant Vampire Escapes Into 'Twilight' Novels" which is a must if you haven't read it already, but the other day they put out a video-spoof which is their best yet: "Al-Qaeda Calls Off Attack On Nation's Capitol To Spare Life Of 'Twilight' Author."The "report" contends that Stephenie Meyer is to thank for thousands of lives spared in the DC metro area when the terrorists planning the attack found out that Meyer was doing a signing in the area (!!!). The piece goes on to show pictures of Osama bin Laden with a "Team Jacob" t-shirt on, Al-Qaeda terrorists showing up to get books signed, and a hilarious commentator and defender of the Twilight Saga. I promise it will make you laugh–it's not to be missed.


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Mommy is for crying on and cuddling with when you are sad, or giggling and hiding behind when you are embarrassed.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Attached at the hip
Mommy is for crying on and cuddling with when you are sad, or giggling and hiding behind when you are embarrassed.
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That last picture with your face in Vivian's hands is the most precious image I have ever seen. What an utterly amazing gift He has given you both!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Love love LOVE the last photo. Print that BIG somewhere in your home! :)ReplyDelete
Oh friend I so get it!! Each time we went to China I told myself it is only a year of my life to put all the "stuff" at a stand still! And each time it has taken about a year and each time I got and still get frustrated I feel ashamed the next day:). Janie is still my shadow at home but she is much more confident to go off on her own. I am back to doing a few things on my own now and it feels so good but that time was so worth it as you know!! Have a wonderful first Christmas with your precious girl!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful....our son is 5 1/2 and has been home from Vietnam for almost 5 years. He also attached fast and strong. Then he became more independent and lately, he has been much more clingy and lovey. I am trying to remember to SOAK IT UP! It won't be long until he is a teenager and Mommy may not be this cool.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Do you think there would have been huge problems if you had not been able to be solely with her for six months? For example, if you had to return to work sooner than that? While we are committed to do whatever is needed - as we have with our other bio children - it is not in our plan for me not to continue to work after 3-4 months or so. I love your posts and your honesty and so appreciate your perspective on all of these issues.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2013 at 11:11 PM
What sweet photos - look how much love and trust is evident in these photos. The last one shows how far she's come! Yes it's hard and yes, relish this precious time - when they adore us and want to spend every second with us!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 6:03 PM
I just published a book about the relentless love that adoption takes. We are parents to four special needs kids from China and know exactly what you are talking about. The book is Chinese Take Out : An Adoption Memoir available from Tate Publishing-- Blessings Sheila TempleReplyDelete
Tears flowing down my face! We just submitted our paperwork to our agency today and waiting on approval! Your blog is amazing!!!ReplyDelete


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TWO: Do not habitually add last-minute items to the agenda, and do not act on anything not listed on the posted agenda.
THREE: Do not abuse the litigation excuse for executive sessions to speculate about possible or imagined lawsuits.
FOUR: Do not stretch the personnel excuse for executive sessions to discuss policy issues. Example: Creating a new position or changing a department's job descriptions are policy decisions and not appropriate topics for a closed meeting.
FIVE: Do not dial up the "negotiations" excuse to suddenly exclude the public from discussion of controversial issues that were previously aired thoroughly in open session.
SIX: Do not allow executive session conversations to stray to other topics.
SEVEN: Do not violate the spirit of the open meeting law with frequent phone, email or text dialogues with other members. Reach consensus at the meeting.
EIGHT: Do not make a habit of whispering or passing notes at meetings. You were elected to speak for us. Tell what you have to say out loud and proud!
NINE: Allow public input at every meeting. Include it on every agenda.
TEN: Be as transparent as possible. Do not hold executive sessions simply because counsel advised it is "legal" to do so. Ask yourself: "Is it absolutely critical we discuss this privately?"
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Today has been a sad day for the music industry. A legend who innovated style and dance in music has departed this earth. Take a moment to rememeber Michael Jackson. With 750 million albums sold worldwide, and the largest selling album of all time, take a moment to celebrate the artwork and lasting influence MJ has had over the past three decades. From his first performance in Motown records, to maturing in style, creating smash hits, and choreographing short movie pieces to accompany his masterpiece music videos, try to explore your favourite MJ song, video, or live performance. He has reigned for over three decades (1969 - Jackson 5, 1979 - Off the Wall, 1982 - Thriller, 1987 - Bad, 1991 - Dangerous, 1995 - HIStory, 2001 - Invincible).
OMG have you heard about Michael Jackson. May he rest in peace. I spent like 4 hours watching videos and exclusive interviews with him. He really was a good guy. He cared about humanitarian causes, and didn't let the celebrity life get to him and his ego. He left his mark in the music industry as a pioneer of style, dance choreography, and hit albums, all while being a legend in songwriting and stage performance. I loved him man! It shook me deep that he has departed.
But to be honest I am kind of happy for him. His suffering and negative public image will wither away. He will be recognized for his artwork as a crucial contributor. He will be celebrated for days, aside from being mourned. Sometimes it takes a death to come to terms with how much a person's work was a contribution for the industry they are in, and Michael Jackson was just that. He was a star, a real person, genuine character, with sincere emotion and affection. Why do you think fans across the world were so moved and overconsumed by MJ fever. He was a shining entertainer, and people love a true performer. He was a true artist to the core, he put his 110% into each of his "masterpieces", and I don't say that lightly. May his shine carry on posthumously, for he definitely lit a brilliant light on an international scale at his prime when his presence filled TV stations, radio, and music stores. He will live on strong in the minds and hearts of his dearest fans and any modern day true artist. Much love for the legend in late 70's, 80's and 90's reigning as the "King of Pop". May he rest in peace.
Moment of Silence. *Candle Lit*
RIP. Michael Joseph Jackson.
August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009.
You will live in the minds and hearts of adoring fans, with your permanent imprint. God Bless.
Friday, June 26, 2009
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Winner of another chicken dinner!
While the pollsters hedged their bets on Wisconsin, they were still proven correct as yesterday's primaries fell as predicted. Huckabee was sent two more requests that he amend the office he seeks to Vice President and Obama kept building his momentum. While the results were fairly inconsequential, Obama's campaign will enjoy touting their 9th and 10th consecutive wins and McCain can continue to turn the screws on Huckabee to face the music and allow the GOP to train all of the cannons on the Dems. The decisions do not help Clinton or Huckabee, but both can spin these contests as unimportant in the grand scheme of the election. They have set the stage for the two weeks of ennui as we wait for the historic Super Tuesday on March 4th.
What have you done for me lately?
And during the wait, you can expect the attacks to become as shallow as ever. As Sen. Barack Obama has risen in the polls and eclipsed Sen. Hillary Clinton in the most important measurements of a campaign's status, the guns have been turned against the new leader and are still firing ruthlessly. For the last year Hillary was the "candidate of inevitability," unable to be beaten, sure to continue to ride the Clinton political machine to another eight years in the White House. The media figures that feared her nomination launched countless assaults attacking her leadership, her Senate record, her marital woes and anything else that they thought could make people pause and reconsider supporting her.
The pause has passed and now reconsiderations have been made. True or false, ethical or pathetic, the attack has succeeded in knocking her down. Now the archers have turned to the other remaining man that stands in the way of continuing down the road of reckless spending and pre-emptive wars – Barack Obama. As the new leader in national polls, delegates earned and total number of delegates, as well as a dramatic lead in fundraising, Obama is in the dreamed of, but un-enviable position of right between the cross-hairs.
Whether they be thoroughly opposed to electing a Democratic Nominee (Sean Hannity) or only consider themselves to be serving their duty as a journalist (Chris Matthews), Obama is now taking the pies in the face that buried Hillary. The biggest allegation waged against him is that he has done nothing and has no record to run on. Yes, Hannity still spells out Hussein every time he writes Barack and Obama. Yes, people still raise the worn-out questions of whether the nation is ready to elect a black man or a woman. But the record turnouts in every state thus far have proven that if anything, the Democratic Party is very tired of electing white men.
Would you like to keep the money or go for what's behind door #2?
So what record does Obama run on? He runs on what the majority of voters in the first 34 states and DC have supported – beginning a new path forward in how we run our nation. Voters had plenty of choices with laundry lists of accomplishments and they chose to throw out the old clothing and go buy some new gear. Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson could show you five examples of how they legislated or executed policies to help any constituency. They all had amazing foreign policy experience and already have on-going dialogues with the nations that pose a threat to our's. The voters stood in unison and told them "thanks for the good work, we'll take it from here." It was a choice of going back to the favorite restaurant that knows your order and always cooks up a great dish versus the new hip place in town that everyone must try out – people are looking to take a chance and expand their horizons.
The record Obama runs on is not the traditional list of footnotes directing you to the bills he carried to alleviate the tax burden on impoverished Americans or create incentives for companies to utilize clean energy. He does not have 30 years of votes that inevitably can be cherry-picked to cast him in a hypocritical, flip-flopping light. It is a record of being free of the traditional ties that bind a leader's hands and inhibit him or her from addressing the issues that brought thunderous applause when they were mentioned on the campaign trail. Expect him to be attacked for his "inexperience" repeatedly in the next 10 months. Without the traditional record to run on, he will also be attacked with baseless accusations such as a lack of patriotism, an Islamic heritage or less.
What is most important is if he carries the Political Capital needed to achieve the goals he has laid out. When Bush was re-elected in 2004, he carried Political Capital and all of the talk was about what program he would attempt to achieve. Since he carried such a great amount of Capital after the sweeping win, he tried to pass one of his most controversial and unsupported ideas – privatization of Social Security. Without the sweeping victory, he would not have been able to approach such legislation.
Look at the numbers of new votes that come out to vote in Obama in comparison to the total number of voters in the Republican Primaries. Obama has won more votes in single states than McCain and Huckabee won across the nation in aggregate. Does that suggest a possible sweeping win in November?
Look at the accusations that Obama's campaign is filled with former Clinton Administration staffers. Do you think they don't know how the system works? More importantly, he doesn't have the slick, perfected political prowess that Biden or McCain or Richardson would have brought to the office and, to repeat, this is exactly what voters have asked to have in the White House. Don't be foolish enough to think that this will slow anything down. If anything, I would expect his administration to be smart enough to keep the public involved and informed about the progress on ending the war, restoring our constitution, reducing carbon dioxide emissions and all of the other issues we demand to be addressed.
So if you are walking down the street this week and some gorgeous intern with a microphone (go to any successful radio station and find me one that doesn't hire cute girls for their interns) asks you if you'd like to answer some questions from Sean Hannity, grab that mic and tell Sean where to stick it. Barack doesn't have the laundry list of accomplishments and that is precisely why he must be our next President.
Bring Out Your Dead
To bring it back home to finish, a head has rolled in reaction to the "disastrous" New Mexico Caucus. More accurately, a leg has been chopped off and the head spared. Party Chairman Brian Colon offer up DPNM Executive Director Laura Sanchez in an attempt to save his own job. She was relieved of her duties by politico Josh Geise. Restoring the public's faith in the dominant party of the state will be no easy task. Voters in the state have high expectations and do not accept excuses of "we tried our best." But his experience with Richardson's machine as well as other campaigns across the nation has provided him the leadership and ideas to carry the party forward and restore the state's faith. As a Cubs fan, Josh knows how to persevere through adversity and fight to the very end and I would expect no less of him in such an historic political year.
See, I told you, you'd hear that term again! Did I screw up, not go far enough? Email or leave your comments.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Two More Primaries; Records; and a New DPNM E.D.
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Can't come up with any new ideas for new or additional niches? This article will help you past the road blocks to niche selection.
When building a successful online business, it is important to have multiple sites, covering a variety of niches. This diversity is needed to avoid a meltdown of your business in the event one niche becomes unprofitable. You know, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Niche selection can be difficult at times, especially after you have been concentrating on one specific idea. Many people find it difficult to start a new website, especially after they have been working to build their last one. It is often hard to "switch gears". This process can be simplified when you learn to use the creative side of your brain in conjunction with the analytical side. Niche selection is often times easier for those people with a creative dominant side brain. The analytical side becomes important when determining if a niche is profitable.
By this point in you career you probably know which side of your brain is your dominant side. This simple observation becomes very important regarding niche selection. If you are primarily a creative person, it is necessary to find and use the proper tools to determine if your ideas will be profitable. If you are primarily an analytical mind, finding and using tools for niche ideas is necessary and will lessen the stress and frustration of being unable to come up with new ideas. As you build multiple websites with different niches, it is only natural that these two sides of your brain will learn to work together, thus making your business easier.
When developing niches, it is sometimes easier to get past your "writer's block" if you watch infomercials or read magazines with advertising. These ads will often stimulate your brain and you will come up with many ideas. You may want to carry a small notebook with you for your thoughts. I guarantee, you will forget your ideas!
When you are out shopping, what aisles do you gravitate to? Look around, these are all niche ideas. What products interest you, even somewhat? These are niche ideas.
If you are like me, with an analytical mind, you will find it next to impossible to think of a niche while sitting at the computer. Your ideas usually present themselves while driving, watching television, walking through the mall, or even while visiting with friends.
Getting away from the computer for a few minutes will often "cure" a stuck mind. Get used to having your small notebook with you at all times when away from the house.
Niche selection can be far less of a "job" when you realize what works for your mindset and what doesn't work. When you find the right process for you, niche selection actually becomes quite natural and easy. After all, isn't that why we chose internet marketing?
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Published 2004
Format: Paperback
Extent: 80pp
Categories: Health
About the Author
Catherine Proctor is a writer and editor specialising in health books, and runs her own cookery school. She is also the author of Pocket Detox, How Much Carb? How Much Protein? and Pocket Paleo.
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Denise's Story
Denise is a single mother of three boys who put her career aspirations on hold while raising her children. Although she received her care aide certificate in 1997, the hours didn't work with her lifestyle, so she worked at a local campground instead. Twenty years later—after her youngest son graduated and she began having issues with the campground's management changes—Denise made the brave decision to leave her job and pursue what she was passionate about. This was easier said than done: her old care aide certificate was no longer accepted, and she didn't have an up-to-date resume. Fatefully, she ran into an old friend who recommended Open Door Group's WorkBC program.
Although the paperwork and meetings were tiring, Denise remained determined through the support of her case managers and family.
Denise began working with Eileen, Joseph and Pam at Open Door Group, and together they provided employment advisement, resume building, and financial planning resources. After two weeks, Denise began her care aide course. Although the paperwork and meetings were tiring, Denise remained determined through the support of her case managers and family. "At my age, you second guess yourself: Can I really do it? Is it really going to happen? Some days were really hard and I just came home and cried and cried," said Denise. "But then my boys would tell me: 'You can do it, Mom! You had the three of us all by yourself. You did it then, you can do it now!'"
Denise persevered through her self-doubt throughout the care aid course, and graduated with honours after seven months of never missing a class. "When I was walking down the aisle to get my certificate, my sons were just hooting and hollering, yelling 'Go mom! Go mom!'" said Denise. Her middle son even told her that watching Denise work so hard throughout her experience at Open Door Group inspired him to try and return to school.
As a testament to her ability, Denise applied for six casual care aide positions after graduation and was successful in all of them. Although the work was inconsistent, she was finally doing what she loved. Then, Denise got a full-time position in South Okanagan. This meant that she had a reliable schedule, benefits, vacation time, and—most of all—a sense of purpose. "I feel so happy to go to work every day," said Denise. "I'm so passionate about it. It's exactly what I want to do."
"I'm in the best place of my life at 50 than I've ever been."
Some people find their dream job later than others, and Denise is proof that there is no such thing as 'too late' when one finds the right support. She described her case managers as beautiful, wonderful people who gave her the necessary support to achieve her goals.
And what's next for Denise after all of this? "I'm in the best place of my life at 50 than I've ever been," she said. "I have a bank account, and I'm thinking of buying my own house. And next month, I'm going to Ixtapa with some girlfriends for a wedding. I tell myself that after all the hard work, it's a treat for myself."


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My name: Brian Martin
Alfred Hitchcock was a master of turning minor works of literature into major motion pictures. "Rear Window" and "The Birds" were short stories, although very good in their own right; Psycho was a simple potboiler. But before all of these was John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, an enjoyable but episodic and largely superficial thriller. In Hitchcock's hands it became what we can still see today: a masterpiece of ingenuity and pacing, as taut as it is entertaining.
It's still about an everyman-type who must go on the lam after learning of a plot against the British government. And Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), the runner, is still a genial, likable sort of chap. Beyond this, however, Hitchcock uses only what is convenient from Buchan's novel, changing elements at will in order to tighten the story, heighten the suspense, and give it a different sense of humor.
The alterations begin immediately. The film opens at a vaudeville theater featuring the act of a man called Mr. Memory. Shots ring out and the audience stampedes for the doors. Outside the theater, Hannay is joined by a woman who desires that he take her home with him. None of this is in the book, although it is too much to say that the woman is a new character, as other reviewers, blithely unaware of the contents of Buchan's novel, have claimed. She is simply Scudder, Hannay's neighbor from the book, revamped. Here, she is the one who spills the beans about the conspiracy and mentions "the 39 steps." The "steps" themselves are different here, but even less time is spent solving this particular "puzzle."
Another woman added by Hitchcock is a genuine departure. Madeleine Carroll, destined to become the first of the director's famous "icy blondes," plays Pamela, who only tries to do what she thinks is right but winds up handcuffed to Hannay for her trouble. Everything having to do with Pamela is new to the film, and it delightfully binds the picture in a way Buchan could never have imagined, with sexual tension and screwball comedy.
The story is fast-moving, spinning from one idea to the next with abandon. I complained that the novel was often implausible, and the movie is, too, if you stop to examine it. The difference is, the movie eschews the episodic development of the novel and everything dovetails so nicely here that you feel that all those implausibilities would somehow make sense if a few missing pieces had been supplied. They are well dispensed with, however, for they would only have slowed down this exciting and fun adventure.


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The university professor is in the Regional Hall of Fame
The renovated Labor Glory Hall was opened in Belgorod. Governor Yevgeny Savchenko, deputy speaker of the regional legislature Sergey Litvinov, deputy of the regional Duma, chairman of the Belgorod regional association of trade union organizations Nikolay Shatalov took part in the ceremony of honoring the best organizations of the region and distinguished workers.
How to «pack» a modern building
The head of the enterprise «Mnogogranniki» Roman Ivanov told the students and the staff of the flagship university about the «buildings packing». A lecture combined knowledge of architecture, marketing, materials and technologies. It was organized by the Department of Expertise and Property Management.
70 students of BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov passed the exam on Ready to Work and Defense standards
The summer stage of the Ready to Work and Defense standards within the framework of the 44th Sports and Athletic meeting of the flagship university among the institutes of the 2017-2018 academic year was held at BSTU named after V. G. Shukhov.
Science and business - a road to success
A meeting of the interdepartmental working group «Advanced Production Technologies» of the Council for Innovation and Technological Development of the Belgorod Region was held at the flagship university of BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov.
The flagship university joined the Day of the Donor
«Day of the Donor» was held at the clinic of BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov.
Project management will help in the realization of ideas in practice
A strategic session on project management was held in the regional flagship university.
The University supported the Olympiad for senior pupils held by «Rosseti»
A solemn ceremony of awarding winners and participants of the first stage of the All-Russian Olympiad «Rosseti» for high school students took place in the branch of MRSK Center – «Belgorodenergo».
Mountaineering is the school of courage
The meeting of the university climber club «Vershina», dedicated to the 45th anniversary of its establishment, was held at BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov.
The Vice-Rector for International Affairs visited the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
The annual general meeting of the members of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) was held in Moscow. It is the supreme governing body of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences.
The university presented its projects at the Moscow International Salon of Education
The largest event in the field of education in Russia - Moscow International Salon of Education was held in Moscow at VDNH. This is the largest exhibition in the country of new educational technologies, infrastructure and intellectual solutions.


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