Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Movylo: Create Your Own Mobile Site

Movylo is a cool online mobile cms platform that allows you to create your own mobile site and manage it online. The application is multifunctional and provides a variety of tools using which you can create mobile-friendly web pages with content (text, images, videos and tones), aggregate and publish feeds, write blog posts, create service promotions and video brochures, create and make surveys, create and manage e-mail and sms newsletters and much more.
Created mobile sites will automatically adapt the content style to the screen size of the users phone, be it a Smartphone, iPhone, Blackberry or some regular mobile phone.
Check out the demo videos below to see Movylo in action:
Features:
Create your mobile site, personal or business and publish it online.
Created site automatically adapts to any mobile.
Load and manage multimedia content i.e. video, wallpapers, games etc.
Build and maintain your own blog.
Send your newsletters both via email and SMS.
Make questionnaires and polls to gather votes and research market in real time.
Run competitions in real time.
Create your own mobile shop.
Analyze the stats in real time and see how your users navigate your site.
Free account is limited to 10MB of storage and shows Movylo logo.
Similar websites: Ubik, Mowser, Mofuse and Google Mobilizer.
Check out Movylo @ www.movylo.com
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Bryant Terry: Vegan Soul Kitchen

Last year, I attended a "Food and Justice" symposium at Syracuse University. There, I got to hear scholars, writers, food activists, and people from all kinds of backgrounds discuss the intersections of food and justice. There was so much to think about- the availability of fresh produce. Fair prices for small farmers. The cost of organic foods. The best way to get food into the hands of those who need it. Preserving heirloom seeds and varieties. Food education. Nutrition. Politics. In short, it was a bit overwhelming! Bryant Terry is a chef and activist who is deeply involved in all these same issues. As he says in his book, the best way to engage with people on some of the deepest ethical and philosophical issues is through grub. Good, delicious, simple GRUB. The way to our hearts and minds is through our stomachs after all! I think most of us who blog understand this on a deep level- every time we talk about a delicious organic strawberry or some local asparagus or a vegan dessert, we are appealing to the appetite, but also appealing to a shared sense that there is a better way to eat. I received a review copy of Terry's second book, Vegan Soul Kitchen, which gives us plenty of ways to eat better- better for our bodies, for the animals, for the earth, and for the producers of sustainable food. In this book, he gives traditional African-American and soul food recipes that are not only vegan, but also based on a whole foods philosophy. You won't find processed or packaged foods here, but you will find plenty of deliciousness. Case in point, his recipe for Roasted Plantains with Roasted Garlic Lime Dipping Sauce. While this dish is meant as an appetizer, it fed the two of us (along with some tofu and couscous) as dinner tonight. The plantains came out crispy and savory, while the dipping sauce was brimming with fresh and tart flavors, a perfect counterpart. I can't wait to cook more with this book, especially as summer's abundant local produce comes in. Bryant Terry is a man after my own heart- there is a whole section of the book dedicated to watermelon! Get this book if you want to give fresh, local, and seasonal food a twist- who knows, you might change a few hearts and minds along the way.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009

Get Uncomfortable, Finally

The situation: Complacency. Complacency on even the lowest level: A feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc. Homeostasis. The human body and the human mind resist change as hard as they can. Unhappy Enough You may be unhappy. You might be miserable. But are you unhappy enough, miserable enough to get you moving, finally? As long as it isn't that bad, there is no real reason for a change. After all, the change is endangering the status quo. The resolution: Get uncomfortable with the status quo. Escalate the status quo to the point where it gets really uncomfortable and you are ultimately required to get up and finally move. Your Mind is Playing Tricks on You Please note that you are already unhappy with your situation. Do you really think that an eventual change will make things worse? Could it be remotely possible that your mind is playing tricks on you, tricks to prevent change? Any change? Even the change to something better? Something better. That's what is almost guaranteed. What do you think is going to happen after a long stretch of discomfort? The mere change, change itself, will make you feel better, once you overcome the inertia that your mind builds up to save itself. Make it Worse How? Do something stupid. Something stupid that will turn out to be ultimately intelligent. Break that situation by doing something against your values that will literally make you want to run away. Of course, stay somewhat sensible but -- you have to break that situation by going just far enough for yourself. You don't want to destruct other people's life and lives when all you need to do is to break your own mindset. The usual disclaimer applies here. Drive that car into the ground, quit that job, and leave that relationship. Do you really think that anything will be worse that it is now? Make it worse now and expect nothing but the best in return. Again, the plan is not to blow up the situation in a negative way. I do not suggest to provoke getting fired for bad performance; instead, get fired for excellent work; get too big for your current situation. The decision is made. Right? That's the part where thinking can pause and step back for doing. Think up the plan to quit, to change the situation and then do without further thinking. Let go. Avoid rationalizations like the plague. Avoid Rationalizations I can't stress this enough: Fight rationalizations. Dismiss them once the decision is made. The beauty is that you don't know yet what is to come. The trick is to move on anyway. How? It doesn't matter. One thing is for sure, though: It will be better, especially since you don't know what it is. Don't you love surprises? I know that you don't, by the way, but you will love this one. Enjoy and embrace your discomfort and move now, finally. Set a Deadline Set up a deadline, a really outrageously tight, deadline. One that is so tight, it isn't possible to linearly achieve. Set a goal of quitting in 4 weeks, whatever it is. That said, what about tomorrow? Today? The Process To sum it up, the steps are roughly as follows -- You are comfortable and complacent. You set a ridicoulously tight deadline to end complacency. You get really uncomfortable with the little you have. You realize that it will be better. You fight rationalizations. Your mind is playing dirty tricks on you. You have your mind in check and your actions are pursuing the deadline. Quantum leaps happen. Are you uncomfortable enough? Related Items Don't Ask Why: It's Overrated Leap Forward and Benefit from Nonlinear Growth Deliberate Change: Whatever it Takes Enhance your Predictions Free ebook Peer pressure, vanity and behavior, motivation tricks and hacks, success and pain, and how to excel, Celebrate Your Beauty.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Recent Pics

Hello. Here are a couple of recent pictures.Lisa speaking at FBC Lansing, Il. (I had just finished my part, and someone had to take pictures.)A yummy lunch with members of FBC Lansing.At FBC Lansing, Il.Jerry L & I.Our friends the Maugel family from Ft. Wayne.Thanks for stopping by today. Please continue to pray for us as we travel and speak. This weekend I'll be teaching youth at South Church in Lansing, Michigan. Next weekend we'll be at Mayflower Congregational church, also in Lansing, Michigan.Please pray for our support needed. We are $1200 a month short still. But God is good. He is able to provide.Thanks again, Tom & Lisa

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Lawyer Disbarred for Sex-For-Fees

Area lawyer disbarred for sex-for-feesThe News Herald Writer by DAVID ANGIER May 2, 2009TALLAHASSEE, FL — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday disbarred James Harvey Tipler for multiple bar infractions, law violations and unethical conduct, including trading sex for attorney fees. Tipler, 58, who was based in Fort Walton Beach but practiced in Panama City and Alabama, was charged in September 1999 with racketeering and four misdemeanor counts of prostitution. He traded legal services for sex with four women between Nov. 1, 1998, and Sept. 17, 1999. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of soliciting prostitution in 2001, which resolved his case without jail time. "He satisfied his own sexual appetite with a client as a sex-for-fees arrangement," Chief Justice Peggy Quince wrote in the unanimous decision. "He altered evidence and caused a witness to unknowingly give false testimony. He has charged his clients excessive fees and stolen their money. He has failed to maintain a trust account. He has broken public confidence in the profession of the practice of law by neglecting his clients and failing to prosecute their cases. He has prejudiced the administration of justice by misrepresenting facts to multiple courts. And, through the disciplinary process in these cases, he has been dilatory, deceitful and evasive." Tipler represented an 18-year-old Bay County woman who was charged with aggravated assault and entered into an agreement with her where he'd knock $200 off her $2,300 fee "each time she engaged in sex" with him and $400 if "she arranged for other females to have sex with him," according to the Supreme Court opinion.After his case was resolved, Tipler began a lengthy process of resolving a disciplinary action in Alabama arising out of the same incident. The Alabama Bar also found that Tipler had edited a videotape in a medical malpractice suit to remove scenes that would have been harmful to his case. He was found to be in criminal contempt of court and suspended for 120 days. The Supreme Court found that Tipler had taken on clients, charged them but did not work on their cases, and misused more than $57,000 in funds. "Tipler secured fees based on intentional misrepresentation and fraud," Quince wrote. "In most of the cases, Tipler charged excessive fee, failed to comply with the Bar rules governing trust accounts and failed to protect his clients' interests." She wrote that while the court questions "whether Tipler is truly amenable to rehabilitation," the justices took into account the mitigating factors in his case, including emotional problems and a mental impairment, and chose not to disbar him permanently. He can reapply after a period of time. The opinion was sent to Tipler in Beverly Hills, Calif.