Nostalgia? Television Commercials From Years Back May 17, 2008
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Coffee
folgers marriage-saving coffee
Kool-Aid
“You can give your youngsters a lot of pleasure with Kool-Aid”
Make friends with Kool-aid. Make Kool-aid with friends. (with Bugs Bunny)
Soft Drinks
“Now it’s Pepsi for those who think young.”
Chewing Gum
Yummy Beech-Nut Fruit Stripe Gum
Shaving Cream
Nothing takes it off like Noxema Medicated Shave.
Combination Videos (multiple commercials in each video)
International Day Against Homophobia May 17, 2008 May 16, 2008
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I’ve never heard of this before. The International Day Against Homophobia is tomorow, May 17, 2008. From the website, it looks like it’s based in Canada.
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The focus this year is Health Care Workers. I wish them well. This is certainly a worthy focus. All people should be treated with dignity and respect. This applies when seeking health care, too. I am happy to see that someone is addressing this issue. Education is a good place to start.
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Annual campaigns to combat homophobia focus on a different scope of activity each year. The goal of the Homosexuality is not a sickness! campaign is to reach all healthcare workers and professionals.
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The 2008 campaign highlights gay and lesbian health issues. Just like any other citizens, gays and lesbians need to receive health services free of discrimination.
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Read more from the web page after the fold.
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Flowers, Beauty and Music Above All Else: GLADIOLAS, stained glass, nathan pacheco May 16, 2008
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The post about flowers hidden about my yard last summer and the post about my first stained glass piece are consistently high on the list of posts viewed on this site. (Is it because everyone loves flowers and stained glass?) The other post that is usually at the top of the list is the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” post.
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Yesterday, Nathan Pacheco passed “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” in the daily searches and views. I am happy to see that. Nathan is a fine man with tremendous heart and talent. If you don’t yet know about him, visit the Yanni website and click the Yanni Voices tab. Happy listening!
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DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS on The Moderate Voice May 16, 2008
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DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS has been a columnist for The Moderate Voice for more than a year, but I have not linked to her columns in any recent posts. I do not have a good reason for that, since she has much to say, and I enjoy her stories and analysis.
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Her book Women Who Run With the Wolves was what informed me of her storytelling and therapist’s view of the world. From the day I found it (a few years after publication) until many months later, I read and reread the stories she told and her interpretations of their meanings. She is a wise voice in a world where we are too often lacking in wisdom.
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This evening, I started looking back through the archives of her columns in TMV and began copying links to add to this page. The list became longer and longer.
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The list below is not the complete body of Dr. Estes work on TMV, but it is a start. Visit The Moderate Voice to find more of her columns and to read the work of the other fine columnists.
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DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS is a therapist, a story teller and a writer (among other things). In many of her columns on TMV, she tells stories and analyzes human behavior as it relates to current events in the USA and around the world.
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Here are several paragraphs from one of her columns.
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.‘Barack is Not White, Barack is Not Black’ The Possible Gift in Being Bi-Racial
March 18th, 2008 by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, TMV Columnist
Barack is, like I am, like many others of us are–for lack of a more graceful word– we are Bi-racial. Cross-racial is probably a slightly better, but still awkward term. That is, we are born twinned: one of each of two or more races is inside us. The blood of often opposing groups, runs in our cells, our bloodlines. Barack’s mother was Caucasian. His father was an African from Kenya.
People who are bi-racial are never without their twin. Never. Our twin is both ‘other’ and ‘I” at the same time. It’s a potentially tempestuous but also often transformative situation… if we give ourselves to working out its puzzle over our lifetimes.
Above is a painting by the master of brushwork and figurative art, Lucien Freud. It speaks to me and to many others who are bi-racial, because as you see in the two men on the bed, we are in “a relationship we cannot leave,” a lifelong relationship with our, often historically adversarial, bloodlines.
Cruise on over to TMV and read for awhile.
Polar Bear: The Lost Story Endurance, The Word: A Lost Story This Is West Virginia This Too Is West Virginia Rest Well. Day Is Done Prayer For The Suffering Chinese When A Good Mother Sails From This World Mother’s Day and The Mistaken Zygote: If You Have a Mama From Mars The Fierce Origin of Mother’s Day: A Lost Story Mother’s Day: A Lost Story Than Shwe: This Child Is Burma’s Only Future: Do Not Let An Entire Generation of Burmese Children Be Wiped Out by Your Inaction Burma: The Government’s Idea of Bringing Aid to the Groaning Masses of Maimed and Dead Rest For A Moment And You Thought Sister Mary Ignatius Was Strict: Not Allowed to Vote In Indiana: The Nuns’ Story Two Presidents for the Price of One: Co-Presidents Michelle, Bill and Cindy The Last First Lady: Transition from Society Balls, to Just Balls PETA Speaks About Eight Belles Being Driven To Fatal Injuries on Track About Indiana: Twelve Mostly Beloved Oddities About Hoosiers Disease Control Hugely Boosted In China by…The Olympics? A Moment of Rest Away From The Whirling Whir of the World: A Lost Story Can Any Candidate Take Us Out of Oceania and Back to the USA? Or Is That Solely Up To Us? Clinton, Obama, McCain, and Shakespeare: Relentless War Silences Those Who Demanded Peace Hillary Clinton and the Negative Mother Complex A Martian Speaks on What Some Call “Whoredom” Culture on the Couch: Obama and Wright: One’s Own Brother as Destroyer Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Brown and Our Cowboy Senator Salazar Has Any Candidate Noticed? The Investigative Storytellers Have Gone Missing Election Psychosis What Is A Destructive Cult? Who Joins? Warren Jeffs and Brother Hide Behind Women’s Skirts The FLDS Church Based on Polygamy Now in Court Clinton, Obama Debate, Schmebate President Bush’s Plans for Greenhouse Gases; The King Midas Story Pope Speaks for Planet, Because Care of Earth Critically Tied To Peace on Earth Bush, The First Catholic President?: Some Think Pope Approves George Bush’s “Use” of Catholic Social Teachings? Dr. E. from TMV, is a New Columnist for The National Catholic Reporter Louis Farrakhan Endorses Obama at “Saviours’ Day” Event in Chicago: A Tale of Who Shall Be King Michelle Obama: Those Who Say: “I Ain’t Voting For No Nigger” Fidel Castro; The Man in the Green Suit Turns Candidates Fight to Be Underdog, A Great Risk: The Boy Who Cried Wolf Burma: The Heartbeat Is Still Alive Underground Ernie Pyle, The WWII Grunts’ Storyteller For The Night Riders: Bloggers Across The World Who Write at Night The Next President: The Nation Cannot Survive Another Erl King Carrying Off Its Leader Fred Thompson Turns Back: Candidates Going Forward Have Fire in the Belly Mike Huckabee, Ads, Picket Lines: Cunning Like A Frog? Innocent Like A Mouse? A Lost Story The Lost Story of New Year’s Day: The Old Man and The Child Christmas Eve 2007: The Call Comes Walter Adler: Assaulted for Being a “Dirty Jew” …and The Traveler from Samara Still Lives Torture: Did the American Psychological Association Collude With Torture of Human Beings? Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas: Thankful for Family Elders… and Sobriety Our Hometown: Night of 100 Cats, and Belle Gunness Hugo Chavez: Students Forced Masked Soldiers to Shoot Them? Veterans’ Prayers: A Hidden Part of Warrior Life: Veterans Day 2007 Veterans Day 2007: Our Brothers and Sisters On the Job The Forgotten Ones: The Vets Who Wander Still, Veterans Day 2007 Kristallnacht: The Night of Shattering Glass, 9 November 1938 2007 Weblog Awards for Best Comic Strip: The Top Ten Gay Rights: The Religious Who Teach Non-violence, Non-condemnation of GLBT Abortion: What It Takes To Make It To Earth Torture, Arson, Flood, War: Some Vitamins for the Soul Our Home Town: Seed Corn Shall Not Be Ground Burma: Than Schwe’s Irrevocable Public Shame Burma: The Robes With No Monks in Them California Fires: Post-Trauma Recovery List Elections: Men Too Emotional to be President? Women too? Curious Clues in the Constitution. Burma: How Things AreI can’t do any more! She has written much. Go and read. TMV
** And, now it’s morning May 16, 2008. I’ve been up all night listening to Nathan and reading old posts by Dr. E. It looks as if she may have been up all night, too. There are two new posts this morning. 
Elections 2008: Bridge
Sleep, Perchance to Dream…
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In The News Today … California Supreme Court Rules For Equality May 16, 2008
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Links from a few stories about this ruling:
Associated Press California’s top court legalizes gay marriage Huffington Post California Gay Marriage Ban Overturned: Major Updates A Victory for Equality: California Affirms the Freedom to Marry Good-As-You BREAKING: The CA Supremes totally rule! Degeneres-de Rossi: I now pronounce you hard to pronounce Wherein homo-hostility turns herbicidal Video: Victory is just so much more fun Truth Wins Out Ruling Undermines ‘Ex-Gay’ Propaganda And Lets Potential Recruits See The Truth About Same-Sex Relationships Pam’s House Blend California Supreme Court Ruling: Thumbs UP On Marriage Equality We Won in California! America Will Be… The Moderate Voice On miscegenation and gay marriage California court overturns gay marriage ban The Advocate The Community Reacts: California State Senator Sheila KuehlRelated and Other Topics:
The Advocate Sally Kern: A Star Is Boring Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub Father of a Gay Son Speaks Out Science Blogs Michael Medved says something dumb Pam’s House Blend Sally Kern condemns campaign for workplace fairness Huffington Post Hillary Should Stay in Because She Can Politico Conyers: ‘We’re closing in on Rove’ STL Today Internet Pioneer, Privacy Hero The Moderate Voice - DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS Polar Bear: The Lost Story Endurance, The Word: A Lost StoryVideos:
Huffington Post First Borowitz Report Video Ever! (who’s going to tell Hillary?) Olbermann To Bush: “This War Is Not About You…” Top Bill O’Reilly “Inside Edition” Spoofs, Analysis
Visit the new Nathan Pacheco tribute site (fan site) on WordPress May 14, 2008
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Visit the Nathan Pacheco fan site on WordPress.com.
And, become a friend on the Nathan Pacheco * fan site * MySpace page.
And, join the Nathan Pacheco Group (fan site) on Facebook.
And, leave comments to show your love.
Don’t Borrow $$$$ From Your 401k Retirement Savings Account May 13, 2008
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Don’t listen to me. I’m not a financial person. But, I agree with this advice. Check out this story by an HR person who was not allowed to counsel employees against borrowing from their 401k retirement savings accounts. When they lost their jobs during a restructuring of the company, they had only 90 days to repay the money or else face huge tax penalties.
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Here’s an excerpt from Team Building Is for Suckers:
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A former employer of mine allowed employees to borrow money from their 401(k)s and repay the loans through payroll deductions; however, my employer was also engaged in a massive restructuring effort. Many employees lost their jobs.
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As the on-site HR Generalist, I was exposed to the unfortunate financial illiteracy in my otherwise educated workforce. …
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Had I been able to provide proactive advice, it would have gone something like this:
- Don’t take a loan against your 401(k).
- Don’t do it.
- Just don’t.
A Message to Nathan Pacheco May 13, 2008
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May 13 2008 11:13 AM.Nathan,.All my best wishes to you!.Congratulations on the work you are doing with Yanni. You are a beautiful man with a magnificent talent and a wonderful personality..I am waiting to see you perform on all the great stages of the world. Your music will soon be a worldwide sensation!.Blessings to you as you bless many,.Deborah
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Powerful Tomatoes Leave More Than 20 Dead - Part II May 11, 2008
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There is so much tragedy in the world. Tornadoes. Cyclones. Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Fires. Floods. Wars. This is the recent sad story in Picher, OK. The town is already being closed down, torn down and residents relocated because of toxic chemicals there. But, the tornado Saturday night destroyed more homes and killed more people. Were there always so many Tornadoes. Cyclones. Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Fires. Floods. Wars? Here’s a short article about how to stay alive if you’re in your car when a tornado hits. The main idea is, “it’s best to get out and dive into a ditch.“.
I told my friend about my last entry, “Weird Medical News - Powerful Tomatoes Leave More Than 20 Dead” and we fell into our usual banter.
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she - “There should be tomato warnings.”
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me - “There should be weekly tomato drills.”
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Then, she told me that she almost told someone last week that she had to get off the computer because of tomato warnings. I said, “You said TOMATO warnings?” and she said yes.
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That was funny, interesting. We both thought TOMATO when thinking about TORNADOS. She had used it as a joke before the tornados hit. I thought it as a misread of headlines after they hit.
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It puts a totally different spin on the news if you use the wrong word.
“Tomatoes touch down in several NC Piedmont communities”
“Tomatoes push three 18-wheelers off I-40″
“Tomatoes snap trees in half and tip airplanes on their wing at GSO airport.”
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Does this sort of thing happen to other people? Do you switch words when you read or exchange words when talking? We do it all the time in the normal music of conversation (playing riffs on similar words).
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I’m talking to that friend now. She just pointed out that we’re using malapropisms.
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A malapropism is the incorrect use of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning, usually with comic effect.
I just read this post to the friend mentioned in it, and she laughed and said, “It’s a malapriapism.” You’ll have to look up the definition to that one. (hint: It’s a made up word, but priapism is a word.)
[UPDATE 0045 May 12, 2008 I just talked with a family member and read her this post. She pointed out that malapropism usually refers to people mixing up words without meaning to. Our word exchanges are intentional, playing on the similar sound yet different meaning.]
Weird Medical Stuff - Powerful Tomatoes Leave More Than 20 Dead May 11, 2008
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NOTE: By ‘Weird” I mean simply “interesting”, “unusual”, “unexpected”, “out of the ordinary”, “outside the normal expectations” … you get the idea. I am in no way making a pejorative comment about anything or anyone in the health care professions. (See “Weird Duck“).
Weird Brain Stuff
I glanced at this headline:
Powerful Tornadoes Leave More Than 20 Dead
And, read it as:
Powerful Tomatoes Leave More Than 20 Dead
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A woman who can’t forget anything:
Jill Price’s book details what it’s like to carry around decades of highly detailed memories about her daily life.
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Health Risks by Profession
Jobs at Risk For Disease
(from AOL Health)Professional firefighters have higher-than-average risk of contracting colon and brain cancer, a study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found. Evidence also indicated that firefighers may be more susceptible to bladder and kidney cancers, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
A separate Australian study recently revealed that health and community workers — including doctors, nurses and social workers — were twice as likely to suffer from cardiovascular conditions such as heart disease and stroke. The study was based on data tracking 4,000 people between the ages of 45 and 65.
Restaurant workers were twice as likely than the average worker to get bronchitis as well as musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and endocrine conditions such as diabetes, the Australian study found.
Retail workers faced higher rates of musculoskeletal conditions, such as shoulder or ankle injuries.
The Australian study also found that office workers were less likely to suffer from cancer. Workers in other industries including education, transportation, construction and agriculture did not show significantly higher rates of chronic illness. Sources: theage.com.au, Reuters
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Suicidal Doctors
Know-How Raises Suicide Risk for Doctors
By LINDSEY TANNER,
AP
Posted: 2008-05-10 00:09:45
Filed Under: Health News
CHICAGO (May- There’s a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year - a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
Some doctors believe the stigma of mental illness is magnified in a profession that prides itself on stoicism and bravado. Many fear admitting psychiatric problems could be fatal to their careers, so they suffer in silence.
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10 posts in the last 23 days.
Remember “Lean In For A Kiss” is still available free on eFolkMusic.
Click here to get the music
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Check out Nathan Pacheco!
He’s going to be a worldwide sensation.
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Rock On, Robin Roberts April 22, 2008
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The Country Bunny Crossed the River Jordan and Came Back With Essential Salts From the Dead Sea April 22, 2008
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Talent, Violin, Juilliard, Paranoia, Rage, Trumpet, Untreated Mental Illness … the story was on NPR’s Fresh Air today April 22, 2008
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Day of Silence April 25, 2008 - Watch Larry King’s Public Service Announcement April 24, 2008
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Top Three Today - Posts, Searches, Most Active April 24, 2008
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Gay PDA on 20/20 … compares public reactions to pda by straights and gays (man-woman, man-man, woman-woman) April 28, 2008
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More Must-See Videos: Stroke/Jill Bolte Taylor, Civil Rights/Dare Not Walk Alone, Self Portraits/Elephant Artisans, Documentary/Story of Stuff, Ellen/”This is personal to me.” May 3, 2008
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And to think I thought that when I moved to North Carolina I would miss the constant wind in Oklahoma. May 9, 2008
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Nathan Pacheco: The Man With the Beautiful Voice Writes and Performs With Yanni May 9, 2008
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Minstrel Boy’s Great Blue Heron May 11, 2008
Minstrel Boy’s Great Blue Heron May 11, 2008
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Nathan Pacheco: The Man With the Beautiful Voice Writes and Performs With Yanni May 9, 2008
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Nathan Pacheco.
Spread the word!
Nathan on Yanni.com
Photos of Nathan on Yanni.com
Watch for Nathan on Yanni’s 2008 - 2009 World Tour
The Acropolis * The Forbidden City * Taj Mahal
Tribute Yanni 2007 <<< Nathan’s voice, nature photos
Tribute to Yanni with his music
Tribute featuring Nathan Pacheco
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Yanni Tribute 2007 - Nathan Pacheco
Um dos melhores sucessos de Yanni, agora em versão com o Nathan Pacheco.
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Yanni’s Future Album with Brazillian Nathan Pacheco
This is an Audio File. I heard Nathan Pacheco in Florida, he is amazing Singer! and when I learned that he is working now with Yanni, preparing for a new album, I became sure that it will be the greatest Work ever made.
Listen to Nathan in Rice Wake Studio
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Yanni Vozes 2008 [Video Tribute Completo - Nathan Pacheco]
Vídeo editado com algumas das músicas mais famosas de Yanni como o Until Last Moment, Adagio in C Minor e Tribute. O video segue com entrevistas dos novos vocalistas da banda.
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Por favor, comentem o video, ok?! =D
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Abçs!
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Yanni 2007 - 3 Minute EPK
Yanni has joined forces with the Oscar/Grammy winning producer, Ric Wake, to create new music and discover extraordinary vocal artists! Yanni and Ric’s goal is to collaborate with prodigy singer/songwriters and put them in the most creative environment possible to reach their full potential. The two have settled into “Camp Yanni” in South Florida, immersing themselves in the studio producing new music…over 80 new compositions to date!
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Yanni - Tribute with Nathan Pacheco
Tribute 2007 - Yanni and Nathan.
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This music talk about all the teaches that Yanni learned when he was a kid, by his father… simplicity, truth, criativity, love. In this video, I’m trying to show all those things, with happy moments of Yanni and the musicians.
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Thanks for watch!
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You can find this song here:
http://www.yanni.com, but you must be in the official fan club.
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Meet Yanni Voices - (extended, Part 1 of 2 )
In this video Yanni introduces you to “Voices” Chloe and Ender Thomas and Chloe. He also reveals more music and info from two artists you’ve already met, Leslie Mills and Nathan Pacheco.
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Meet Yanni Voices - (extended, Part 2 of 2)
In Part 2, Yanni gives us more insight into his relationships with Leslie and Nathan, as well as Ender Thomas and Chloe.
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Yanni 2007 - Global Yanni Video
Yanni’s music defies borders and boundaries. His music speaks to people of all races and nations. Half a billion people worldwide have experienced his performances in places where no one else has gone.
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Yanni’s dream of reaching a global audience continues, powered by the desire to touch people and bring them together with the universal emotions expressed in his music.
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The next level of evolution has begun. Get ready for new music and a World Tour in 2008.
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And to think I thought that when I moved to North Carolina I would miss the constant wind in Oklahoma. May 9, 2008
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Last night I turned on the computer, hoping for a quick read of email and web pages, and I could not get a good connection. “Server could Not Be Found” was all I could find. I wondered if the problem was somehow related to an overhead fan, imagining some electrical distubance might be interrupting the internet access.
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After turning off the fan, I turned my attention to the electrical and rain storm outside, and I wondered if that could be interrupting the service. The sounds of thunder, flashes of light, and beating of rain on my roof and awnings were compelling. It was the kind of storm that’s great for watching and sleeping. But, I just wanted to check my mail first. It didn’t happen.
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About 1030pm, the lights went out. Within moments, they were back on again. Then, off and on again. Then, off. Not having prepared for a power outage, I was pretty much out of luck in the light department (other than the light from my cell phone and non-internetted battery-fueled computer). I closed them both, and opened the curtains in order to enjoy the rest of the storm.
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I had thought I was wide awake, and would just lie there for hours in the dark. But, I was wrong. After a few moments of watching the flashing sky and listening to the falling rain, I was asleep. When the power returned and the lights came on about 230am, I woke up briefly. At 430am, I awoke again, closed the curtains and tried the internet again. And, here I am. (Yes, I have a little insomnia problem tonight.)
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In the process of logging into email, I saw this news story title:
“Tornado blows vehicles off highway in N. Carolina, kills 1- By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer“
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I read the story and was quickly reminded that I don’t have to miss all that wind in Oklahoma. We have plenty of it right here.
A tornado touched down late Thursday on the outskirts of Greensboro, N.C., blowing three tractor-trailers off Interstate 40, authorities said. One person was killed and two were injured in the freeway accidents, and a third was hurt when a wall collapsed.
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Two businesses and one house were damaged in Guilford County, said state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety spokeswoman Patty McQuillan. Two houses collapsed in Clemmons, probably because of high winds, and more than 32,000 were without power, officials said.
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[UPDATE: More on this story, posted 9:30am May 9, 2008
Tornado knocks vehicles around in N. Carolina, kills 1]
[UPDATE: 00:45 May 12, 2008 A family member told me that trees beside I-40 were snapped in half for a distance of about 1/2 mile near the GSO airport. The local newspapers showed photos of damage, including an airplane that was blown onto its side, with one wing tip touching the tarmac.]
More Must-See Videos: Stroke/Jill Bolte Taylor, Civil Rights/Dare Not Walk Alone, Self Portraits/Elephant Artisans, Documentary/Story of Stuff, Ellen/”This is personal to me.” May 3, 2008
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Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
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Dare Not Walk Alone
“The civil rights story they don’t show in school”
…We’ve all seen the text-book version of the civil rights struggle, the stock news footage of people marching behind Dr. King singing songs of freedom. But what about the price those marchers paid, the beatings and the backlash their community suffered? Black children arrested for attending a white church; black youths attacked in broad daylight for stepping onto on a ‘white’ beach; white students cattle-prodded by police for supporting the cause of racial equality: this is our history America, this is Dare Not Walk Alone.
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Starving Elephant Artisans
Can your elephant paint? Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint an amazing self portrait. You’ll be amazed at how his talent unfolds.
So touched by their horrific backgrounds and loving personalities, ExoticWorldGifts.com now supports, “Starving Elephant Artisans” by selling their paintings so they can continue to have a new life in Thailand.
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What is the Story of Stuff?
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
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A Tragedy That Should Never Have Happened
Ellen talked about 15-year-old Larry King who was murdered by a classmate for being gay. If you would like to volunteer your services to help gay and lesbian kids who are being harassed and bullied or if you are having difficulties because of your sexual orientation, here are some wonderful services that can help.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project operates the nations only 24/7 crisis & suicide prevention helpline for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. If you or a friend are feeling lost or alone call The Trevor Helpline. There is hope, there is help. The Trevor Helpline: 866-4-U-TREVOR.PFLAG - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.GLASS - Youth & Family Services
Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) is a private, non-profit 501(c) (3) social service agency dedicated to providing a wide range of social and health care services to children and youth who are in foster care, on probation, or who are homeless. We provide these services in safe, loving, supportive, non-judgmental living environments, while providing full access to all of the educational and vocational opportunities to which these youth are entitled.GLAAD - Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.GLSEN - Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Established nationally in 1995, GLSEN envisions a world in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. More than 3,800 Gay-Straight Alliance student clubs nationwide have registered with GLSEN. GLSEN also sponsors the National Day of Silence on April 25, which this year will be held in honor of Lawrence King.Remembering Lawrence
Vigils in memory of Lawrence King, calling for an end to violence and harassment directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in schools, are being organized in communities across the country. This website lists future and past vigils across the country and allows organizers to register vigils in their area. The more events we organize, the louder our collective voice. Please help make sure that what happened to Lawrence never happens again.
