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…)

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.

If you’re considering using WordPress for your site, stick with the simple, out of the box version.

Customize your header graphic so it looks nice. Customize your background colors.

Pick the options you want to display from the basic menu offered.

Don’t do a ton of extracurricular customizing…unless you are extremely wonky and will enjoy pretty much completely troubleshooting and reworking the coding in various files in your installation every few months. I speak from first-hand experience.

Here are reasons why it pays to stick with plain-jane vanilla: (more…)

Wow. The site is working again in both IE and Firefox. And the code is validated.

Next on the agenda (after I completely back-up the newly fixed and validated files) is to do some more design work. Some neatening. Some simplifying.

- Going to cull down the “Sections” display to less than a dozen key categories.

- Going to replace the Google Adsense ads with targeted affiliate network ads and my own offerings as I roll them out. Going to experiment with ad placement, as well.

Completely dropping Google Adsense as a revenue model since it is only paying a few cents per click on website-served ads. That is the result of a Google policy change made last November. Hopefully it will kill all those spam “scraper” sites that are clogging the search engines. But it also makes it pretty pointless from a business sense for legitimate sites to run Google ads.

- May widen the sidebar columns a bit (and narrow the main content column to compensate) so the sider columns are more content friendly.

All underway and changes should be visible within a week or two.

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by Ken Winston Caine

You’ve seen cartoon-like caricatures of traveling medicine show docs hawking magical remedies from the backs of wagons.

You’ve seen reproductions of the antique classified and display ads of patent “cures” sold by mail order in that same era.

Both types of medicines and tonics were ridiculed mostly into oblivion by the evangelists of early scientific medicine that took root in the 1920s and ’30s.

They were dismissed as snake oil. As nothing but 30 percent alcohol.

Or 40 percent alcohol.

Or 70 percent alcohol.

“No wonder they make people feel good,” snorted the white-coated crusaders for (more…)

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Am just beginning to learn about what are known as social bookmarking and tagging.

It appears that by joining Technorati and adding (more…)

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to, to work for and hope for.
– Maxwell Maltz

Ken Winston Caine adds:
Being constructively engaged in life is your own responsibility. No one else can do it for you. And it is part of the formula for evoking the Spirit of Wellness. Is one of the essentials for living (more…)

The following is an excerpt from my 1985 metaphysical / quantum-physics novel, Conversations with the Moon, (which had a first, small, private print-run under the title, Blue Suede Shoes) © ken winston caine, all rights reserved:

The brunette is uncertain whether she is hearing sounds on The Other Side.

But, she is certain she senses music… Music tickling her; music caressing her… Music filling, feeding, sustaining her.

Here, on The Other Side, she may be music. She may be a sustained chord; a full chord; a sweet chord; a round chord. She may be C Major…

She’s not sure. She is sure she senses music.

Music.

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Music is a drug. The sounds, rhythms affect the brain and encourage the release of endorphins — natural morphine — and can release a cascade of sexual excitement hormones, or any of a prescription list of brain chemicals (more…)

Seven per cent of men having a heart attack drove themselves to hospital and only 60 per cent went by ambulance, according to research published in Journal of Advanced Nursing in Feburary.

The study, which looked at 890 heart attack patients admitted to six major teaching hospitals in Dublin, Southern Ireland, also found that it took women five times as long as men to (more…)