Good News: Thanksgiving Weekend Means It's Time For Some Annual Newsvine Writing Traditions

The holidays means one thing - ok, several things if you also include presents, food, family, etc - but they mean one thing when it comes to my writing assignments and exercises: Holiday related fun.

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Is the 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gases cited by President Obama a good target?

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Embedding a PDF in a Newsvine article...

A VERY brief primer on embedding a PDF file in a Newsvine article... Here is the code...<embed src="http://malamuteman.com/Dolomiti_1.pdf" width="660" height="854"></embed> Here is the result...

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Travels with Mal: Tuscany

This photo essay covers the second half of our 2009 adventure in Italy.The images are organized in these categories: Architecture Edibles Hardware Art A few of my personal favorites A special note about viewing the images in this article:

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I Am Thankful For....................

At this time of year we all begin to remember what we seem to forget the rest of the year...the things that we are thankful for in our lives. Of course it would be easy to say all the usual things.

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A Conservapedia Article on Liberals and Friendship

Conservapedia is a favorite read of mine. So much of what Conservatism is, is reactionary so I'm always interested in seeing what they come up with without direct input from the opposing side.

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" Thanks, Giving" One in six Americans will go hungry on this national day of thanks.

50 Million of your family , friends, and neighbors, will go hungry this Thanksgiving . I know you already help. You make donations. You give to the Salvation Army bell ringer a quarter or two. Every year!

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A New Feature of Newsvine Photographers: Foto Friday

Newsvine Photographers is happy to announce it's latest group feature: Foto Friday. Beginning this week, we will begin to concentrate the bulk (but not all) of our photographic material on Fridays.

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The Afghanistan Question, 9-11, The London Blitz of 1940, and 'Hunting People For Jesus'

Sometimes it's good to step back and take a look at things with a historical eye. President Obama is probably losing sleep about what to do in Afghanistan. Or maybe he's just wondering where to find all those soldiers that General McChrystal is requesting for the war.

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You can call me Mal...

I recently posted a "How To" article about posting full-width images in an article. Someone posed a question in that article asking about embeding video and audio in an article... So that is the purpose of this article.

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