Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Cloud Hands Blog Usage

The Cloud Hands Blog has served up over 400,000 blog posts from October of 2005 through July of 2014.  It now has a 97 subscribers.

Thank you very much to all those that read the posts to this blog.  

This year, I added a Translate button at the top of the right sidebar so that non-English readers can read the post in the language of their choice, albeit within the limitations of automatic machine translations.

The nice aspect of any blog is the fact that all posts are thoroughly indexed by topics shown in the lower right side bar.  The blog has a search box at the top left hand corner of the blog that provides full access to all past posts.

Many of my blog posts refer to material found in my many webpages.  Links in each post point to relevant material in my webpages on a particular subject. 

The right sidebar of this blog highlights my many webpages on a variety of subjects of interest to me.  Also, there are links in the right sidebar to other blogs and webpages by others that are worth exploring and reading.

My main webpage efforts during the last two years has been weekly work on the 81 Chapters of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.  In June of 2014, I just completed adding two Spanish language translations for each of the 81 chapters of the Daodejing, and indexing by Spanish language terms for all the Chapters.  Each Friday, I submit a post on the Daodejing to the Cloud Hands Blog. 

I do get considerable positive feedback about my webpages and blog via email

Hopefully, posts to this blog will benefit my readers in some positive way, lead to discovering other mind-body fitness options they might explore, and providing a little insight on topics of mutual interest.

I receive very few comments to the blog posts, and I always respond. I get email with questions and comments each day. 

I recently upgraded my computer to a new HP Pavillion desktop computer running Windows 8.1.  I moved all my software and files over to the new computer.  I am now using the Microsoft Office Suite 2007.  In the past, I used the Microsoft Office Suite running on Windows XP on a Gateway desktop computer.  I purchased a number of good low priced used books from Amazon about the Microsoft Office Suite 2007.  This summer, I plan to get very familiar with Word 2007 and Dreamweaver CS5. 

Our summertime afternoon daytime temperatures in Red Bluff, California, frequently climb to above 100F, and nighttime temperatures drop to 70F.  Consequently, we get all outdoor chores and watering done in the early morning hours.  I also take a long walk at daybreak.  In the afternoon, at 4pm, I go to the gym to lift weights and then teach yoga.  I tend to work indoors on computer projects, webpage publishing, writing, reading, and blog posts during the hottest time of the day.  I am off my part-time job as a Elementary School District Librarian and Webmaster until August 20, 2014.

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The picture below was taken in Olympia National Park in Washington during the summer of 2012.  My granddaughter, Makenna, and I enjoyed our visit to this beautiful park.  This summer, in 2014, we will camp at South Beach State Park in Newport, Oregon.




Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Cloud Hands Blog Usage

Cloud Hands Blog Milestone

As of today, there have been 303,000 page views of the Cloud Hands Blog.  

I have made 1,614 posts to this Cloud Hands Blog.  My first post to the Cloud Hands blog was made on October 26, 2005.   

There were 15,880 Pageviews of this blog last month, and 608 Pageviews yesterday.  There are now 91 persons that follow this blog. 

I have had some positive feedback and awards for the Cloud Hands Blog

My Cloud Hands Blog is primarily a online vehicle for referring people to my hundreds of webpages with specific, extensive, and focused content on subjects of interest to me, and updating my readers on the webpages I am currently creating.  

In 2013, I posted my research, compilations, index, concordance and notes about the Tao Te Ching.  

I have been creating webpages at the Spirit of Gardening website since 1999.  Over 27 million webpages were served to people all around the world from the Spirit of Gardening website from 1999-2013. 

Over 3,500 persons have written to me to tell me how these hundreds of webpages have provided them with enjoyment, inspiration, information, and insights; or, to ask me questions.   


I use Blogger for a number of reasons.  First, blogging provides a permanent record of one's written contributions with backup files.  Second, your posts can be indexed in a variety of ways.  Third, it provides a useful and flexible structure for linking to other related websites and blogs.  Fourth, people can subscribe to your posts via an email blog aggregator.  Fifth, your posts and content links are added automatically to the Google index.  Sixth, you can display photos, graphics, and UTube embeds in your blog.  Seventh, web publishers can use their blog to create a alternative front-end index to their other websites and webpages.  


Mike Garofalo has been creating webpages at Green Way Research since 1999. Each year over 1 million webpages are served up from the Cloud Hands website which includes Cloud Hands Taijiquan, Valley Spirit Qigong, Ripening Peaches: Taoist Studies and Practices, and One Old Druid's Final Journey





Sunday, June 16, 2013

Honor the Good Fathers

A day to say "Thank You" to all the good fathers in our lives, our communities, our nation, the world.  Their hard work, generosity, kindness, courage, and steadfastness have helped us all lead better lives.  The good men who have supported, nurtured, raised, and properly educated their children (their own offspring or children they have adopted) are very important in our lives.  These good fathers (past, present, and future) deserve respect and praise. 

For those men who have been poor, bad, absent, or evil "fathers" we shake our heads with disapproval and disdain.  They squandered their opportunity and left the challenge to other women and men to do good towards their children and our communities.  Their irresponsibility is so shameful. 


So, to all these good men, "Happy Father's Day!"  
You deserve the praise. 
Three Cheers to You All !!! 









My own father, Michael J. Garofalo (1916-1997) provided well for his family, was very hard working, and was very reliable.  He stressed giving a full effort as a worker, fulfilling one's duties, obedience, and respect.  He was a hard taskmaster at times, but I learned a lot from living with him.  He was a decent man, and a fine grandfather. 
After he retired as the Chief Piping Engineer at the Fluor Corporation, he and my mom enjoyed traveling in their trailer in the Southwest.  




















My father-in-law, Delmer Eubanks (1912-2002) was a good father, grand-father, and great-grand-father.  He was a decent man and friend of many.





















The above family portrait was taken around 1987.
Yes, being a good father and grandfather is important to me.


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Cloud Hands Website Awards

I want to thank the Mixed Martial Arts Zone 2012 Martial Arts Award Committee for acknowledging my efforts in this Cloud Hands Blog to share my observations, ideas, practices, and research into the Chinese internal martial art of Taijiquan, Chi Kung, and fitness. 

"Hello Mike,
We just finished up the voting and ... "Congratulations - Your Site is One of the Best Martial Arts Websites On the Internet!"
Our 2012 awards committee of 12 top martial arts experts voted unanimously for this award for the Cloud Hands Blog.  Our team is passionate and dedicated to making sure that the best Martial Arts sites on the Internet get rewarded and noticed for all of their hard work and effort. We love self-defense, martial arts and everything that goes with it, and this is our passion."
-  Tony Hackerott, Secretary
    The Mixed Martial Arts Zone Martial Arts Award Committee

Kudos, Praise and Awards for the Cloud Hands Taijiquan website, Valley Spirit Qigong website, and the Cloud Hands Blog.



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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Feedback, Reviews, Kudos

I get lots positive feedback about my many webpages each week via email.  Occasionally, I get some nice feedback about this blog.  Thanks to everyone who took the time to write to me and provide me with encouragement and such kind thoughts.   

I collect some of this feedback and place on my webpage titled "Comments, Feedback, Kudos, and Reviews Regarding the T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Chi Kung Websites of Green Way Research."  Over the last decade, this positive feedback has inspired me to continue.  

This week I discovered that the Cloud Hands Blog had been recommended the most by the 11,000 people who nominated blogs for the 2012 Reader's Choice Awards - Top Ten Blogs of Into Mountains, Over Streams: The International Journal of Qigong and Taijiquan Culture.  What a pleasant surprise!  Thank you very much dear readers.  

There are many beautiful, original, creative and outstanding blogs on the topics I am interested in learning more about.  Check out the sidebar for many good examples.  Hopefully, I can someday really rise to their level of artistic, informative and creative excellence.  

I get the most feedback about my Spirit of Gardening website that has been online since 1999.  There are avid gardeners all around the world seeking inspiration and ideas about their avocation.  Check out the reviews and kudos for this website. 

"I happened upon your website today and felt like I had rounded the corner to find a magical garden.  Such a wealth of information, so deftly proffered.  As a student of tai chi, a practitioner of chi gung -- and an avid gardener -- I simply wanted to thank you.  Please know that your efforts are appreciated.  Peace!"
-   David Gunter, Sandpoint, Idaho, 19 August 2003

"People like you make the Internet a real blessing."
-  Stanley Atamanchuk, 20 April 2004


Again, many thanks!!