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First of all, I love Steph

Innocent Primate — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:44:51 -0600

First of all, I love Steph at Change.org! She's fabulous!! Second..great list of AR organizations..and I totally get where cluelesscrafter is coming from. Even though I've been vegan for almost 4 years now, just watching someone else prep a chicken or steak makes my heart ache for the life that was lost and the torture it had to endure in order to finally find peace in death. It not only makes me sad for the animal in question, but the person as well..that they fail to feel the compassion towards the life that died for their taste buds.

"Silence gives consent."

The Innocent Primate Vegan Blog

http://innocentprimate.wordpress.com innocent.primate@gmail.com

Intense

Britt Bravo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:45:05 -0500

Hi clueless crafter,

Wow. That is an intense story. I've heard many stories like that from people who become vegetarian. The worst was from a woman who as a girl had to eat the rabbit she had been playing with earlier at a family farm for dinner.

Hugging a Dead Chicken

cluelesscrafter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:18:30 -0500

On the topic of animals and respect, I had to share this. On Friday night, we decided to relax at home and roast a whole chicken for dinner. I began the prep work without second thought, quickly unwrapping and washing it before its visit to the oven. When I went to pat it dry, a wave of emotion washed over me. I felt sad for its pain and even sadder by the way I was treating it. Its skin was incredibly soft and its wings felt like the arms of an infant. When I picked it up, it hung limp under its weight, completely plucked clean and heartlessly pricked with a built in thermometer.

I sobbed. Sobbed in respect and with profound sadness for its suffering. My eyes opened.

Has anyone else experienced this connection?

http://www.thecluelesscrafter.com/

Feel free to ask more questions

Britt Bravo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:54:22 -0500

Grooveymom, fotosh, Leo and j.c.,

I'm glad the piece was helpful. Feel free to post any questions you might have here in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them.

thanks

j.c. — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:47:51 -0500

some of these i ended up learning the hard way. i wish i had found an article like this earlier.

www.smilelaughordie.com

What a great list Britt!

LeoRomero — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:47:34 -0500

Wish I asked you before we started http://ourblocks.net but it's never too late and I'm making changes right after coffee.

social media

fotosh — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:19:34 -0500

intresting

http://www.grooveymom.blogspo

grooveymom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:30:30 -0500

http://www.grooveymom.blogspot.com

Thanks for the info! Very informative...I am fairly new to all this (blog world) and also have a do-good project that I have chaired for 4 years now, and need to take it to the next level...so a very informative article for me, thanks!

Thanks!

GlobeDivaTravels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:47:07 -0500

Hi Pam!

Thanks so much for checking into my blog and mentioning it in yours! I am so very happy that you found some useful information in it.

I look forward to reading more of the blogs you mentioned as well.

Monica

~~Let's go! http://globedivatravels.com

BlogHer rocks

unachicana — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:00 -0500

Wow, thanks so much for the positive feedback! BlogHer rocks! I just got started and already the experience has been beyond what I imagined it would be. Very positive and exciting! I'm very grateful. I've learned things already. I'm very serious about my quest to learn more, becoming more tech savvy, and developing my creative/arstistic blog. Already have met some intelligent and very interesting women. I'm soooo excited about all this!!!

Y'all rock!

Denise — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:30:28 -0500

I saw this post early and said "You must go answer!" and then I got busy and just now got back to it... and here are two great CEs jumping in to talk to you.

I love these women and I'm so glad you're taking the time to try new things and ask questions.

Awesome!

:-)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Essential HTML...

unachicana — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:44:47 -0500

Thank you thank you thank you! I will read your article. My experience here at BlogHer has already been great, beyond what I imagined it would be, so soon.

I have learned so much already, here and from Bloggingbasics101 (which led me here), and I think a year from now I will be so much more informed/educated. I'm going to teach myself HTML, (think I'll check if City College has a course, that couldn't hurt), learn everything and anything I need to know, so I can develop this creative/artistic blog idea. I'm really excited, working on this project.

rich text and html

unachicana — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:56:42 -0500

Thank you so much! Yep, I had a feeling Rich-Text had some relationship to HTML. Yes, I understand. Rich-Text, then, nullifies HTML, clashes with it, so you have to clear it, i.e. "disable Rich-Text", to use HTML.

I'm glad I found this site. I'm glad I found Bloggingbasics101 which led me to this site. I've already learned a few things I need/want to know. This excites me. If I have learned this much so far, a year from today, whoa, watch out!

What Gena said

Virginia DeBolt — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:17:33 -0500

When you disable rich text you can use full HTML, which means you can copy code to embed video, Flickr images, and other neat stuff for your post. You can also use HTML tags for things like links and lists.

Here's an article I wrote a while back about Essential HTML for BlogHer Posts.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE
Web Teacher
First 50 Words

Yep, It Does Have to Do With HTML

Gena Haskett — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:48:45 -0500

There are better people to explain but BlogHer rich text is kinda like word processing, there is hidden code in the background that helps folks do hyperlinks and other stuff.

For those of us that upload video that rich text makes placing the embed video code go nutsy. By switching to Disable Rich-Text and then selecting full HTML we can copy and paste the code directly (do not hit the preview button) and then upload.

The text and video appear correctly.

Gena - Out On The Stoop