Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Tazein!

After all the bloggers who were so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for awards, now another award.

Thank you so very much, Tazein of transcendingbordersblog, for nominating my blog for the Very Inspiring Blogger award!

The rules are to thank and link back to the blogger who has nominated you, then post the award logo to your blog, write a post on the nomination and nominate 15 other very inspiring bloggers. Notify them; and tell 7 things about yourself.

Seven things about myself:

1. Where did visits to my blog mainly come from today so far?

Country	Views
United States	52
United Kingdom	15
Canada	14
Tunisia	12
Netherlands	10
Australia	8
India	8
Philippines	7
South Africa	6
France	5
Bahrain	4
Germany	4
Singapore	4

2. Where did visits to my blog mainly come from, ever since February 25, 2012, when WordPress statistics about that started?

Top Views by Country for all days ending 2013-06-20 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	78,906
United Kingdom	33,892
Canada	13,274
Netherlands	9,189
Greece	6,547
Australia	6,195
India	5,840
Romania	4,699
Germany	4,509
Jamaica	3,956
France	3,934
New Zealand	2,793
Sweden	2,569
Italy	2,511
Belgium	2,423
Spain	2,202
Armenia	2,007
Philippines	1,977
Singapore	1,838
Ireland	1,816
Tunisia	1,606
Indonesia	1,532
Bahrain	1,274
Saudi Arabia	1,240
Brazil	1,233
South Africa	1,107
Switzerland	1,065
Pakistan	1,029
Japan	1,008
Turkey	959
United Arab Emirates	952
Poland	943
Norway	892
Malaysia	891

3. Where did the fewest visits to my blog come from, ever since February 25, 2012, when WordPress statistics about that started?


Niger	3
Dominica	3
Uzbekistan	3
Martinique	3
Kiribati	3
Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Monaco	3
Vatican City	3
Burundi	2
Netherlands Antilles	2
Somalia	2
Vanuatu	2
Tonga	2
Timor-Leste	2
Montserrat	2
Cape Verde	2
Mauritania	2
Sao Tome and Principe	2
Tajikistan	2
Togo	2
Guinea-Bissau	2
Comoros	2
Liechtenstein	1
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	1
French Polynesia	1
British Indian Ocean Territory	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1
Cook Islands	1

4. Which blog posts attracted most visits so far today?

Title		Views
Bahraini absolute monarchy and Al Qaeda in Syria		18
Home page / Archives		17
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		10
Greek media censorship continuing		9
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		8
‘New’ prehistoric lizard called after Jim Morrison		5
Svalbard king eiders and phalaropes		5
West Virginia’s 150th birthday		4
Costa Rican turtle conservationist murdered by death squad		4
Film festival in Sheffield, England		4

5. Which blog posts attracted most visits, ever since my blog moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Top Posts for all days ending 2013-06-20 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		37,194
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse		5,781
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt		2,296
About		2,120
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		1,838
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		1,638
Boy raped by priest, then castrated		1,628
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		1,045
Thatcher’s Downing Street child abuse scandal		1,029
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		891
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		880
Long-tailed tits, owls, and flowers		871
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		853
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		776
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		759
New African monkey species discovered		753
Dinosaur discovery in France		704
BBC: Pope Ratzinger ‘covered up paedophile priests scandals’. Like US Republicans		682
Greek nazis burn Roma people’s homes		666
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		648
Will US soldier escape punishment for rape of Dutch girl?		636
Scotland: giant centipede, crocodile, and other fossils brought back to life		634
Dutch war crimes in Indonesia, photos		601
Pompeii: ancient Roman brothel restored. Roman plants		582
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks dogdaz!		562
Bronzino painting restored after prude censorship		547
Ghanaian women’s forced prostitution in Bahrain		537
King of Spain, elephant killer, petition		523

6. To which other Internet sites did this blog mainly refer, ever since moving to WordPress in December 2011?

URL	Clicks
gravatar.com	871
en.wikipedia.org	698
21stcenturywire.com	254
aangirfan.blogspot.com	177
avaaz.org	169
socialistworker.co.uk	163
morningstaronline.co.uk	155
mirror.co.uk	155
focus.de/kultur/buecher/europas-schande-das-gedicht-von-guenter-grass-im-wortlaut_aid_758777.html	130
dearkitty1.files.wordpress.com	125
r.zemanta.com	120
actuable.es/peticiones/que-rey-juan-carlos-i-deje-ser-presidente-honor-de	114

7. Which sites referred mainly to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		108,922
WordPress.com Reader		8,779
Facebook		2,681
mail.yahoo.com		2,270
WordPress Dashboard		1,724
topix.com		1,578
Twitter		1,552
2012indyinfo.com		1,058

Here come my fifteen nominees … err… sixteen nominees 🙂 :

1. iarxiv

2. That is how I see the world…in photo and writing

3. Loc mai bun

4. euzicasa

5. Ekostories

6. misseychelles

7. rabirius

8. CaPtuRE LiFe

9. Șic și clasic – “Chic & Classic” luxury fine arts, handmade work, original design

10. Jörg David Photography

11. Vicky Nanjappa

12. Teacher as Transformer

13. A Solitary Torture

14. outdoorpictures

15. Grow your innerself

16. Wildersoul Colouring Book

Versatile Blogger Award, thanks Tazein! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Shine On Award, thanks Tazein and Anil! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Super Sweet Blogger Award, thanks Tazein! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Best Moment Award, thank you Tazein! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Best Moment Award, thanks Tazein! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks gwynnem! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thank you Khalil! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Seed of Light Award, thanks Tazein! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Shine On Award, thanks Giovanna! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
Shine On Award, thanks Shaun and Tazein! (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)

23 thoughts on “Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Tazein!”

What an incredible waste of time! You and Tazein giving each other Awards each day!

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petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 12:38 pm said:

That is not true. Tazein has given me many more awards than I gave her, which is really kind of her. I try to nominate different bloggers each time for awards, but in special cases, like Tazein, I (not that often) make exceptions.

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- narhvalur on June 20, 2013 at 12:47 pm said:
  
  I still wait for the Polar Bear, Seal and Whales piccies! And I must correct you. You have written that you have had no visits from Svalbard. Yes, that’s correct because Svalbard is not autonom from Norway.
  
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  - petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 1:04 pm said:
    
    I did not see polar bears on Svalbard; only as a picture on a traffic warning sign 🙂
    
    Svalbard does have some autonomy from Norway (not part of the Schengen agreement like continental Norway; cheaper alcohol, rights of Svalbard treaty signatory countries to mine coal, etc.)
    
    On WordPress stats maps, countries where there have been visits from are orange. Countries with no visits are white. Norway is orange on my maps; Svalbard is white; like Greenland used to be. But Greenland is orange by now 🙂
    
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    - narhvalur on June 20, 2013 at 1:09 pm said:
      
      The blogosphere is crap! Svalbards flag is Norways flag but Greenlan’s flag is not Denmarks , but its own. Try to get things straight!!!!!
      
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Excuse me, don’t you have a work???? Or is the stats true that a blogger is a woman, unemployed with socialistic ideas?

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I looked at WordPress map and I have had visitors from Greenland and contrary to your lies Greenland is pale orange and Denmark is almost red.

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petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 1:23 pm said:

Yes, I did not differentiate between pale orange (few visits) and dark orange (many visits). Only between orange and white (no visits). However, it stretches the definition of “lying” to call that a lie a bit 🙂

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Have you looked at Antarctica. Some parts are Norwegian. Are they also orange or White????

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petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 1:25 pm said:

Various countries (Britain, Argentina, etc.) have claims to Antarctica. However, other countries do not recognize those claims.

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- narhvalur on June 20, 2013 at 1:37 pm said:
  
  That’s right but Svalbard belongs to the Royal Kingdom of Norway and you and WordPress has missed that like your deficit knowledge about Greenland’s flag and autonomi.
  
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  - petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 3:37 pm said:
    
    France has five “overseas departments”, like French Guiana, etc:
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_department
    
    “They have the same political status as metropolitan departments [of France].” So, even less autonomy than Svalbard.
    
    When there is a visit from French Guiana, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Réunion to a WordPress blog, then that visit is counted separately from visits to France. Like visits from the British Indian Ocean Territory (not really autonomous) are counted separately.
    
    French Guiana, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, etc. get orange on the WordPress map when there is a visit from there. Like Svalbard will get (light) orange when there will be a visit.
    
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    - narhvalur on June 20, 2013 at 4:33 pm said:
      
      You’re a moron! WordPress shows flags when a country is visited. And Svalbard has a Norwegian flag idiot!
      
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      - petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 4:54 pm said:
        
        The official flag of French Guiana, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion is the French tricolour flag. Yet, these five countries show separately in WordPress statistics.
        
        Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own flags and their own parliaments. Yet , visits from these countries are shown as “United Kingdom”.
        
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        narhvalur on June 20, 2013 at 10:05 pm said:
        
        Can you please give me a link to Svalbard’s flag?
        
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        petrel41 on June 20, 2013 at 10:17 pm said:
        
        Yes, a link to an, unofficial, flag of Svalbard is at
        
        The official flag of Svalbard is, of course, as both you and I already know, the flag of Norway.
        
        Like in French Guiana, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, etc. as I already explained, the official flag is the French flag. Still, these countries are listed separately from France on WordPress maps. While Scotland, or Wales, which do have their own official flags, are not listed separately on WordPress maps.
        
        Conclusion: official national flags are not an absolute criterium for WordPress maps.
        
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        Laurits Finjord on July 1, 2013 at 6:44 pm said:
        
        That Wikipedia flag has to be very unofficial. I have live here (In Svalbard) for 3 years now, and this is the first time I see it.
        
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        petrel41 on July 1, 2013 at 6:48 pm said:
        
        Probably, though it has the polar bear which is in Svalbard’s coat of arms.
        
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