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  ျမန္မာျပည္၏ေၾကကြဲဖြယ္ျမင္ကြင္း

  http://myochitmyanmar.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post_5537.ht...
  5 hours ago in မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ျမန္မာ · Authority: 46

  Click here to go to CBS (original link.)
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  When I Grow Up, I Want to Be Tony Stark

  http://flyingfistsoffury.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-i-grow-up...
  6 hours ago in Flying Fists of Fury · No authority yet

  It turns out that we're that close to developing Iron Man's armor. Most people have probably heard that there are exoskeletons being developed. My buddy sent me a link to this report on CBS News.com, not because he's interested in technology but because he's in it as a sound bite dressed up as Captain America. CBS News Iron Man Armor As bonus footage, here is Cap giving me the big reveal before we head out to the New York Comic Con. CAPTAIN AMERICA
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  The Curious Myth of Hillary Clinton's Senate Effectiveness

  http://mosnas2.blogspot.com/2008/05/curious-myth-of-hillary-...
  6 hours ago in GEEZER POWER · Authority: 11

  Huffington Post Frankly, I'm tired of listening to Senator Clinton portray herself as being in the solutions business -- as boasting a nice, fat resume of accomplishments -- while mocking Barack Obama for being a rhetorical empty suit. Is she truly a beacon of experience? Because I couldn't think of a single piece of legislation that has her name stuck proudly on the front of it, no equivalent of McCain-Feingold, for example, I headed straight for her campaign website to see what glorious aspects of her vaunted experience I was missing. Actually, I was missing nothing. There is not one single example of any legislation with her name appended to it. In fact, the page devoted to her Senate biography is a mush-mash, a laundry list of good intentions. When she talks about "sponsoring" and "introducing" and "fighting for" legislation that obviously hasn't passed, that's a smokescreen for failure. By introducing all that legislation that never makes it out of committee, she's guilty of what she accuses Senator Obama of: confusing "hoping" with doing. Read More: Clinton Senate Record, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Senate Accomplishments Bill Clinton Argues With Voter "CBS News RAW": While campaigning in Fayetteville, W.Va., Bill Clinton argued with an audience member over claims made by Hillary Clinton that she improved health care during his administration. VIDEOZZZZZzzzzzz.....
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  celebrating Mothers everywhere

  http://bitze.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/celebrating-mothers-ev...
  10 hours ago in Magpie’s Nest · Authority: 60

  “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” ~Rajneesh Mothering…..it’s what we do…..God Bless Mother’s here and absent! Have a look at this special  Mother of the Year. You have to watch a little ‘commercial’ first. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ” ~Oprah Winfrey
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  Happy Mother's Day

  http://vollmerdp.blogspot.com/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.html
  10 hours ago in Ground Control to Major Mom · Authority: 4

  From 2008 05 06 Fl... For Mother's Day, I thought I'd share this clip about a fellow Air Force "Major Mom" and her family featured on Saturday's CBS "The Early Show". Dave and I watched this together yesterday. I'm being considered for a deployment to Al Uaedid, Qatar in 2009 (don't fret, this is a good thing) and Dave is hoping that maybe if I'm gone next Mother's Day, CBS will present him and the boys with a trip to NYC, tickets to a Broadway show, and iPods for everyone. You HAVE to see the look on the oldest daughter's face when the CBS lady says that the USO donated iPods to each of the family members! To all the Military Moms out there, I salute you!
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  Happy Mother's Day

  http://missoulapolis.blogspot.com/2008/05/mothers-day-keeper...
  11 hours ago in Missoulapolis · Authority: 30

  Happy Mother's Day Just wait 'til those teeth grow in. Posted by Carol Minjares at 3:39 PM 0 comments Labels: Etcetera Friday, May 9, 2008
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  orchid paved road

  http://menxy.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/orchid-paved-road/
  17 hours ago in M e n x · No authority yet

  so i recieved so much feedback after one post. all kinds of mixed feedback. most reacted in a positive way. many were shocked and never knew such a thing as the Congolese Holocaust was going on.  i did also get two messages like the below, doubting my intention with this endeavour:  (None of the text in the letters below were altered in any way) “…i personally feel it’s really wrong of you to use something as genocide and the suffering of others to promote your own celebrity. if this is a part of your agenda, you need to stop that bull shit. there are just way too any people who are hypocritical and don’t have a pure heart to these very sensitive topics. if you are going to do this Menxy, you need to do this for LIFE like Jane Goodall did for the chimps. you are already better off than most, even me, so do’t try to gain from others misfourtune…”  Why does a person doubt another’s intentions almost immediately? I do not feel it is neccessary to explain myself, but I will because there is a good couple of lessons in this to catch. It is as simple as this: Many of us do community service and keep it private, but this is  not feeding a belly or donating some money. THE CAUSE/ Holocaust NEEDS ATTENTION SO IT CANNOT BE KEPT PRIVATE. My agenda/ intention is PUBLIC AWARENESS. Secrecy will go against the best interest…duuh. So why wouldn’t I use a preexisting fanbase to promote this awareness? That is as much explaining as I will do. Here is a letter from a reader i got today summing this up: “I randomly read your note that you posted and watched the video, it was really an eye-opener. I had no idea such a thing was going on to that degree in Congo. It really inspired me and made me aware that I need to do something, anything to help others in the world, thank you.”  (video can be seen here  http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3706833n&channel=/sections/60minutes/videoplayer3415.shtml ) Awareness is the mission, but there are other reasons to my change of life as well:  My brother sat me down once and quoted Gandhi, “Be the change you want to see”. “Talking does not work”, he explained. “Be it. Enact it. Live it. Live it, and people will copy your action.” He then told me that like it or not, the younger kids were looking up to us as role models. my little sister would unconciously pick up my behaviour. i could talk sense into her whenever she made a mistake, sure… but only if i lived my life sensibly would it actually be something she would listen to. And she will see me behaving in a certain way and become that person herself in the future. if i wanted my 15 year old little sister to be a certain way when she is older, i have to BEHAVE that exact same way, NOW. this was a huge sacrifice but worth it. I tried and tried and tried and caught myself repeatedly, censoring my bigger flaws from her until good behaviour became my own habit.  it was a very conscious and deliberate altering of my negative habits in my little sister’s presence (anger, blame, cursing/ using bad words, vulnerability, laziness, negativity)  until they dissapeared…. and all simply because I want her to be a strong, positive, confident person when she is my age. Things that i have to work very hard on, I want to come to her naturally.  It was even hard to show affection. Being raised in a household with little to no affection, it was uncomfortable for me to hug and kiss my little sister. A few years ago I realized that inside I crave love and affection and warmth from a caring, parental figure- many times i do feel an intense and devouring loneliness— and so I made myself vulnerable and gave her a hug and a kiss. It was so awkward at first, but she loved it and breathed it in. Showing affection was strange for me the first few times, but now that it is habitual behaviour, we both take reward from the affectionate gestures… and my goal was to ensure that she will not be in her early twenties craving human warmth or disregarding it.   So i am trying to enact a change, knowing that people will watch and hopefully emulate. Another letter from a reader summed up the point ( and these letters are all pasted exactly as they came. no altering):   “MANY girls..of all ages.. look up to u. one of them being me. im 20 from chicago. i too am an artsy person who would’ve loved to start a clothing/jewelry line especially after being influenced by urs…but thats sometihng i jus cant do, realistically speaking. however, i CAN help ppl that are unfortunate, and by u moving to NY..u just make it seem “cool” for the girls that look up to u.” This is what i want. I want younger girls to think service is cool, because IT REALLY IS. How “cool” you are is not all about glitz and glam and popularity, but glitz and glam is GREAT too. YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL. Be fab. AND serve a cause. You do NOT have to choose one or the other. Look at Angelina Jolie, Oprah, or Princess Diana.   – being a catalyst - boosting/the push. When people read of others feeding their soul or servicing the commnity in some way, it gives them a knudge to do the same: “Hello there. This is so random, but I just saw your blog. Strangely enough moments before I read it I was thinking about how I can’t wait for summer break. I can save some money and work with my Uncle in Africa. He works for Pathfinder International, a non profit organization that deals with AIDS, family planning, and population control. Currently he is in Nigeria (our hometown). I felt that same sinking sensation but did not know where to begin. I felt shallow and incomplete. I know I can do good, but the way life is set up sometimes it’s difficult to get that initial push. Anyways, I would looooove to help/work along side you this summer (End of May through August). I have little money of my own though, so I will need to work and save in order to travel or relocate for that time period (I’ll aslo talk to my parents). Please let me know if you are interested or need any help, and just keep me posted.”  And now I’ll admit my human weakness. The two letters i recieved pointing to that i am narcissistically using this cause to boost my own image did not read me properly. i am however, incredibly encouraged by your positive letters. They help boost me to action, just as some of you have written to me. Even years ago when i had a simple xanga blog that i posted on, I would recieve such flattering emails from viewers, praising me for opening their minds to a different and fresh perspective and even changing their lives!  Many girls were very deppressed and feeling  caged– wrote to me saying how uplifted they felt when they visited my simple blog. This is a compliment of a highest degree. “Menx, I really admire your blog and regardless of race, class, or color as you know we are all women and know what is like to be there… would you mind if I posted your blog on my facebook page? I think there are a lot of girls and women who would really benefit from hearing uour powerful stories… what do you say? You are beautiful by the way, I love you because loving you allows me to love myself … thank you for the inspiration as I have always looked up to you although I was too afraid to let you know it…”  When i read something like this, i feel uplifted… i do. and it is not because it strokes my ego or pleases my vanity, but because i am a 22 year old girl who is leaving behind what is familiar to live in a brand new place and dedicate myself to a brand new cause. It is not easy. it is my rebirth in many ways, so all your encouragement helps me and catalyzes me. I feel stripped of all security blankets and comfort zones. I left most of my “friends” because  they were not “friends”, just people who were fun at a party…. and not even really that.  I am lonely and the future looks uncharted but rewarding. it is like a symbiotic relationship and your letters do not affect my pride/ ego, but they affect my drive/ sense of purpose. they encourage me. it is like planting pleasant flowers on the side of the road to being that change that i want to see. Thank you so so much. 
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  i continue, yet i begin.

  http://nabilazeenat.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/hello-world/
  17 hours ago in Nabila · No authority yet

  There have been blogs before, because in my heart I am a writer who will never be able to stop. Some were public some were personal..all dealing with the typical coming of age ramblings. At this phase in my life there are many changes occurring, expected ones as well as unexpected ones. For the first time in my life all personal matters are not only at peace but the best they have ever been. Which comes as a shock considering most other things in life are completely unpredictable. My purpose in writing a public blog for the first time in three years, now? I will be working to bring publicity to the crisis in Congo and have it recognized by the UN as a holocaust. I have a sense of purpose now that was melting away for some time. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3706833n&channel=/sections/60minutes/videoplayer3415.shtml Genocide. What an ugly term. I’m only here because my father too narrowly escaped death and torture in the genocide of 1971 in Bangladesh and my mother was probably fair enough to be spared. Known as the most mass concentration of deaths in the shortest time in history, the rape of bangladesh is still… oddly… relatively unheard of– and is wiped out in some countries’ history books. http://www.heritageonline.com.pk/chronology/genocide-in-bangladesh-1971.html I always felt as if I was groomed for a larger purpose. I was never and still am not comfortable in my own skin knowing I can do bigger and better things with the gifts I’ve been provided. Genocide will be one of many things I will be writing about I’m sure, right along with the other things that I want to have a voice for. Sure certain things remain the same, my day to day routine of school, work, and ambition and normalcy is still there. However through this page I will be able to remind myself that maybe even one person will see something different, will become more aware…even if the only person that visits this page is just me. That glass of lemonade made of lemons which Life so graciously gifted is half full, for sure. and we’ve yet to fill it some more, so lemons, keep coming. Life, keep giving.
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  Moms and Kids: If You're Okay, I'm Okay

  http://www.scentsignals.com/scentsignals/2008/05/moms-and-ki...
  20 hours ago in Scent Signals · Authority: 3

  You don't have to have given birth to know and understand the bond between mothers and their children. The same bond exists between fathers and children, grandparents and grandchildren, adoptive parents and adopted children, godparents and godchildren, and between pet owners and their pets. It boils down to this: If your kids are okay, you're okay. If they're not, you're not. The reverse is obviously true, too. If your mom or your child or your pet is ailing, a part of your energy splits off and joins them - no matter how close or how far away they are. Sure, you can still function at work and at home, but a piece of you isn't there anymore - it's with them. Your mind keeps checking in on them. Your intuition goes into overdrive. The invisible umbilical is awakened, stretched, and engaged. It's both enlivening and draining. You feel more alive because you are feeling more deeply, but the worry wears you out. You can feel the truth of this energetic split when your loved one gets well and everything is okay again. That part of you that stood guard over them comes back to you, and you feel whole again, at peace. If things don't go well, or they die, it can take a long time for that part of you to return. Sometimes it doesn't, especially if we forget that our love is eternal and that no thing, no time, no space, no person can stand in its way. We have to cherish and be grateful for the peaceful times and pray for strength when it gets rough. And try to remember that this bond we share with our mothers and our children, human and furry, exists outside of and beyond our bodies and time. As Julian of Norwich reminds us, All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. I've found that repeating this saying (a prayer, really) has a calming effect and helps you find some peace. For a heart-warming look at motherhood, enjoy this wonderful story by my favorite CBS reporter, Steve Hartman, on the CBS Evening News. Bless mothers and children of all kinds the world over, on this and every day! Happy Mother's Day, G, from me, Pete and George!

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