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Wenn das Leben bedroht ist

Kurz, ist so vieles:
Der Tag, die Nacht, das Leben, die Freude, der Genuss, die schöne Erinnerung, die freie Zeit.

Lang ist so vieles:
Der Krieg, der Streit, die Dummheit, das Dummsein, die Würdelosigkeit, der Hass, die Zerstörung, der Tod, das Leid, das Elend, die Schadenfreude, das Töten, das schlechte Gewissen, die Hässlichkeit, die Finsternis, die Wüste, der Schmerz, die Uneinsichtigkeit, die Dickköpfigkeit, die Sturheit, die Härte, der Selbstbetrug, das Morden, das Bluten, das Sterben und vieles mehr.

Es lebe der Krieg, wenn das Leben bedroht ist!
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The lovely "Love Train" video...

Probably the most interesting thing, about domain extensions, are the activities of the supporting communities of the domain extensions.
It basically does not matter, how your domain extension looks like, for it to be successful:
What depends and matters, is how it is promoted.
Follow the history of .com, and you will understand, how and why it got strong and popular.
You can follow the history of promotion and forum-support of any domain extension, and you might be able to discover parallels of smart endeavours, time (-line) and success. (Only love, provided by a fan community, is not enough, to make a domain extension succesfull. See .mobi, for example. It is viable, respectively still alive, because of the love it gets, but to be able to be sucessful, it will need some more support, by the powerful companies, that are supposed to be backing it up. And so, same with .tel...)
Basically, it is always common sense, that saves you, a project, or anything in progress that happen to be in a awkward situation.

What counts, are costly and smart pomoting, time and common sense, that must always be used.
The non usage of common sense and brains, it the death to anything.
The non usage of money, won't help promote, because promoting costs.
The cultivation of plein stupidity may be bad, in times, may be good in other times, because people are sometimes stupid, and trained by media and advertising, not to think, but only to consume, what is offered. The language of stupidity is a language, mankind has learned over the years, and understands. Whatever way you are able to make your self understood: You can earn money, if people understand, what you are selling.

The mixture, of intelligence, stupidity, sex, common sense, etc., is what sells.
Try to sell a perfect and usefull product, only by explaining how it functions, and for it is good: Consumers are not used, only to get dry facts served. They are spoiled, and used to get a daily dosis of adverts, that contain sex, crazyness, stunning effects, etc., and where they do not have to think, but only consume.

And now, here you are with the dot tel domain, in our world today: How are you going to sell it?
The „Love Train“ was popular, because it is funny and sexy, and only explained a minimum of the technology, idea, and features about .tel.
If you will, the „Love Train“ is a promotion video for dummies, that just want a good lough, and some sexual stimulation. Well, the „Love Train“ did the trick, and worked for a short while, and only for a few.
But who are the consumers of .tel?...: All sorts of people and groups. Speak to them (and about their needs and dreams) individually. Make ten completly different videos, addressed to ten different groups of consumers...
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Anyway:
Here is the code for implementing the (premium qualitiy version of the) video within your blog (however, it is still a stunner and a eye catcher, and nevertheless, a lot of fun):
(Just copy and paste...):


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Genf, der Luxus und die Nächstenliebe

Als Schweizer erlaube ich mir zu bemerken, dass Genf nicht wirklich viel mit der deutschsprachigen und italienischsprachigen Schweiz zu tun hat: Genf ist vielmehr wie ein Teil von Frankreich, wobei es aber eine bessere Lebensqualität anbietet, als die französische, oder schweizerische.
Genf profitiert quasi vom Besten, dass beide Welten anzubieten haben. Und vereint die beste französiche und schweizer Lebensqualität.
Genf ist ein Sonderstaat, etwa wie Monaco. Und zieht die Luxuswelt an.
Und gleichzeitig predit es die Nächstenliebe. Und machmal gibt es sie wirlich, in Genf: Die Nächstenliebe. Blos, ist Alles sehr kommerzialisiert, und auch in Genf regiert die Korruption, welche sogar von der UNO ausgeht. - Oder in welchen heilen Welt leben denn Sie, wenn Sie Anderes behaupten möchten?

Die Dot Tel Domain Und Die Zukunft

Man darf eine .Tel Domain nicht nach heutigen Massstäben beurteilen, sondern nach dem, was sie den Menschen für die Zukunft bringt.
--Alexander Schiesser, Domain Portfolio-Manager.

The Big New Year Nourish!

Have you been setting New Year's resolutions of denial, deprivation and detox for the last 10 years? Time to do it differently in 2009.

It's not very often you hear a life coach say this but what would it be like if you just gave up this year? Gave up 'trying' to change the things that you have tried to change forever? Motivation, pushing ourselves can often work in the short term but long-term we can fall back into our old habits and into that pit of self-loathing. Come on, admit it, when have you ever stuck to a New Year's Resolution? This year, let's try a new strategy.

It's that old adage, if you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got. So what if you gave yourself permission to give up all the dieting/deprivation and denial and try something new instead? Often our bad habits are in place for a reason – they have an unconscious pay-off – our half a bottle of wine a night may soothe our anxiety, our over-eating gives us comfort, our smoking gives us a 'smoke screen' to hide behind. Unless we tackle the core of the issue versus the symptom, we'll just keep on repeating on the same old binge-denial cycle.

So what would it be like to put your focus and energy on the word 'nourishment' this New Year? How can you nourish yourself in 2009? From ditching the rice cakes and eating only things that taste great (but don't make you feel guilty) to creating your own home-spa, make a commitment to ONLY doing things that delight you. Banish all shoulds, oughts or musts. Apply delicious lotions and potions, play soothing music, eat cake in the bath, indulge. Ask yourself – if I could improve my wellbeing by nourishing my mind, body and soul – how would I do that?

Once you've started on nourishing your internal life, next start looking at your external life - look at your environment. "Our environments play a huge part in whether we can sustain healthy habits," says Martha Beck, a regular on Oprah and author of The Four Day Win (Piatkus, £10.99) and my favourite life coach. Beck cites a study on addiction that found rats which were kept in cages soon became addicted to morphine-laced water but those who were kept in a 'rat park' – where they were allowed to roam free – actively avoided it. Researchers concluded that the more freedom we feel we have, the less we turn to external sources to soothe our anxiety.

So try this exercise - list the three people, places, activities, situations that make you feel 'trapped, and ask yourself – what do they all have in common? Then make a list of all the people, places, activities, situations that make you feel calm and peaceful. Then ask – what do they all have in common? In four-day chunks, eliminate or transform the elements from list one and start to increase contact with all the things and people on list two. This enables you to 'remove much of the frustration that made painkilling of bad habits necessary', says Beck. These strategies are all about making you feel good. When you feel good, you don't have to prop yourself up with caffeine, alcohol, cake and cigarettes. This New Year, make only one resolution – create a 'feel-good' regime that is about nurturing yourself from the inside out. And I guarantee 2009 will be your best year yet.
Be Your Own Life Coach: 3 Steps to a Lovely Life in 2009 Change your life with these simple exercises.

1. Enjoy yourself – stop suffering and identify what you like/what pleases you/what inspires you/what you love. Rip up your to-do list of shoulds/oughts and ask yourself - if you weren't people pleasing/had a list of must do/ought tos, what would you do with your time? Write a list of 10 things you just love to do with a spare hour/a spare afternoon/a weekend/a week. What would you have to do right now to book out a free hour today (or this week, if you're struggling)? Now do it.

2. Lower your standards and raise the quality of your life by resigning yourself to the fact that you're not perfect and no one else is either. There is nothing wrong with you. And you don't need to be fixed. And neither does anyone else. We're all doing the best we can with the backgrounds/parenting etc we have come from. Repeat after me: I'm not perfect and no one else is either. Just do the best you can in the mood you're in.

3. Answer the following:
• If you didn't have to prove that you were good enough today – how could you cut yourself some slack? Be specific.
• What are you naturally good at – how can you do one effortless thing today?
• If you were brave, what projects could you let go of? What phone call do you have to make to make that a reality in the next 48 hours?