by ken winston caine

It is a sin in the evolutionary process of God to try to suppress another’s creative spirit.
– Paramahansa Yogananda

I think so.

Yet so often we do it.

In fact, I’ve wandered in and out of the news business for 3-1/2 decades for this very reason. I have a love-hate relationship with reporting.

It can be such a force for good. And it can so inherently destructive. And a reporter doesn’t get to choose (more…)

by ken winston caine

New Mexico’s “health-freedom” Senate Bill 18 got bumped off the rails just as it was picking up speed, due to some behind-the-scenes political maneuvering.

The New Mexico Medical Board had vowed to stop the act which would have clarified that traditional, cultural, complementary and alternative healing are not subject to regulation by state licensing boards. But the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the Medical Board arguments and sent the bill to the Senate floor with a “do pass” recommendation.

And while the bill was on the Senate agenda to be debated in several sessions, it was never heard.

Wynn Werner, one of the driving forces behind the legislation and a founder of the New Mexico Complementary and Alternative Medicine Project which promoted it, explained, in this memo: (more…)

Problem was something in the coding inside the ambatch rss feed for the sponsor links.

Solution (temporary solution) was to pull the feed. It was killing the site. Would not let WordPress render the rest of the page.

Pulling the feed means the site is commercially crippled temporarily. Will remedy that soon. But am at work on another, more pressing, income project at the moment.

I’ve had repeated problems with the html within the ambatch feed failing to validate. So this may just convince me it is time to replace the feed altogether.

–kwc

How frustrating.

The sidebars are missing from Mind Body Spirit Journal. They were there yesterday. I didn’t touch the site yesterday. Gone today. Something with Wordpress. How it broke, beats me.

I went into themes and got the message that the theme is broken. It says “template missing.”

But I don’t see any missing template. And have no idea how a template could go missing. Index.php is right there. Style.css is right there. I see no changes to either. No idea what is up.

So… site is down again.

Much as I love WordPress, I don’t love it sort of spontaneously combusting on me over and over. Wish there was a “one-button checkup” built into it. Or a “one-button restore” that would quickly troubleshoot it, and then repair any problems it finds by restoring from the last daily backup.

But alas…

And I can’t make time right now to spend hours troubleshooting. So it will sit as is, broken for awhile while I move a more pressing project forward.

P.S. If you happen to be a WordPress whiz and recognize the problem, please hit the “comment” button and tell me.