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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- After three weeks of collecting diapers for babies in need, the final numbers for the THV Diaper Drive benefitting the Arkansas Rice Depot are in.
Last year, more than 67,000 were collected. This year from Cabot, Maumelle and to Conway, the drive collected 124,663 diapers! But THV's Liz Massey believes in another week or two, the numbers will climb again because some people including First Baptist Church in Jacksonville are still collecting.
The final tally in Conway 80,172. Cabot and Maumelle each brought in about 22,000 diapers.
In addition, we also collected almost a million baby wipes in the drives, which included a donation of 25 pallets from Kimberly Clark.
This Diaper Drive wouldn't have been this successful without the support of many individuals, businesses and churches.
Thank You!
Many people especially churches are already talking about next year and making the Diaper Drive even bigger!
Thank you again for helping babies and families in need!
If you'd like more information on the Rice Depot's "Diaper Depot" contact Lauren at 501-565-8855. She can give you information on how to qualify for diapers or point you in the right direction of an organization that can help you in your area.


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Lots of folks, myself included, have written pieces about the downsides of multitasking. In general, trying to do two semi-related activities at once is just inefficient. When I check my email while writing an article, I get distracted, wind up surfing the web, and then struggle to regain my train of thought.
But even though there are plenty of instances when it is bad to do two things at once — texting and driving, say — there are other occasions when this isn't a problem. Many of us listen to the radio while driving. We go out to dinner with friends, family, or business associates, and conduct these conversations while eating. We watch television while running on the treadmill.
In that spirit, I'm trying to make a list of ways you can multitask without guilt. When is multitasking a smart arrow in the productive person's quiver? What activities do you combine?
In other news: I'm over at Fast Company, writing about What you need to know to create an accountability group that works. You can also read my interview with Crystal Paine (of MoneySavingMom) in How to combat a ridiculous work schedule and stop feeling so overwhelmed.
I'm also still looking for people to participate in the Mosaic project! The time logs are coming in steadily, and I'm learning a lot and starting to see patterns. There's more about the project (looking at how professional women with kids spend their time) here.
When I'm doing a really boring or repetitious data entry/analysis kind of task, I *have* to listen to something else or I can't stay focused and on track.
And, of course, commuting is a great time to listen to something else, or if you're not driving a great time to do work. I'm very productive at referee reports when I'm away from the internet waiting for something else to happen. Some folks do this sort of thing during boring but required meetings and talks.
Watching shows I love (especially ones that my husband isn't into like House of Cards and Breaking Bad) while running on the treadmill.
I just read a book called "The Myth of Multitasking" that separates inefficient multitasking from what the author terms "background tasking." For example, I iron while watching Downton Abbey. I'm probably less efficient at ironing while I watch TV, but the show acts as an incentive to me to actually do the ironing. And it also helps me feel like I'm not just wasting time watching TV.
Yeah, it works best for me to do something else in the background when I'm doing more physical (less mental) tasks. Like listening to podcasts while working out, watching TV while folding laundry, or talking on the phone doing any household chore. Sometimes even repetitive tasks for work (like plugging numbers in for an analysis, or typing in hand- written data into the software program) I prefer to do while listening to something (or, if its in the evening, enjoying my wine!). Its when the task demands even 80% of your attention that you can't take 50% of it elsewhere.
I listen to audiobooks on my ipod while I do routine chores (cooking, cleaning, folding laundry). Listening to something fun keeps me from getting grouchy about doing housework!
I practice my French while cooking dinner. I think I do better because I'm distracted and not trying to be perfect.
Things that involve people and relationships probably shouldn't be done distractedly.
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang discusses multitasking at length in his recent book "The Distraction Addition." He explains that most people define it incorrectly. What modern people (as opposed to our ancestors) think of as multitasking is really task switching. Cooking, for example, is multitasking because you are doing several activities at once to accomplish one goal: dinner. Humans have always multitasked, and it isn't a bad thing. Task switching is something entirely different, according to Pang and others he cites in his book who research this.
I call this multi-tasking but maybe others won't. I…
* meet friends for exercise.
* hold "walking meetings." A few regular contacts and I will talk business while walking around the lakes so we get exercise in while networking. I don't golf, but this serves the same purpose.
* read or clear out email while getting my hair cut.
* fold laundry while watching TV.
* clear out email while cooking. (You can get a lot done while waiting for noodles to boil but a timer is key.)
* help kids with homework while making dinner or folding clothes.
* talk on the phone while doing housework or mindless work tasks. A wireless headset helped me get something done during long conversations with my lonely father in the months after my mom died.
If I have big projects where I need to focus, I single task for a set period (say, 50 minutes) and then take a short break (10 minutes) to do something more fun. I have to set a timer though or I'll end up wasting too much time on email or internet reading.
I wrote a post about this a while back, and I differentiated between head tasks and body tasks. I can do those simultaneously (iron while listening to music, read while riding a stationary bike, etc.), but I can't combine two head tasks.
You can do two unrelated things at once more easily than on the same apparatus (like your example about email and writing on the computer). For example, when babies were in cradles, women rocked the cradle with their feet while they knitted or mended.
Like others, I do walking meetings, and do household tasks like folding laundry while watching TV. I also do things like computer maintenance (backups, cleanups) where you only have to check the computer screen occasionally, prune plants, clean out my purse/refill travel bottles after a trip. This also ensures that I'll hop up during a commercial to discard leaves/threads or get the next batch of stuff to work on.
If a friend is in crisis and needs to talk on the phone, I wear earbuds with a mike so I can fold laundry, wash dishes, cook, etc. while speaking. (This also helps my thoracic outlet syndrome, caused by years of trying to talk on the phone and type at the same time–get a headset, folks, and avoid years of physical therapy. )
I loaded all my CDs onto iTunes rather than pick and choose tracks, to make the process quicker. The next step is to then delete the tracks I don't want. So I flip and listen to music while filing or chopping food for cooking–easy to reach over and hit the delete key, and nice to have music while I file and cook.
I read NY Times online and books during my commute (obviously safer on public transportation than in a car!), which is easy even when standing, as long as you have a light paperback or electronic device.
Does singing while showering count? Well actually, singing while doing anything, especially cooking. And to avoid being overheard, singing while vacuuming! I like the distinction one commenter made between mental and physical tasks. Singing is active and creative but doesn't tie up one's hands. Great post, Laura!
Driving and audiobooks. Work email and work staff calls I used to listen to music when doing math problems (when I used to do math problems a long time ago). Now while programming occasionally I have some (mostly instrumental) music on. But other than that I try to practice the art of doing one thing at a time. It's better for almost 80% of the things we do.


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"The vulnerability was a remote file inclusion which allowed the attacker to open a shell into the forums Web system," Ehle said. "He used this shell to set up the page and dump the database."
VBulletin Solutions posted a security advisory Friday about a vulnerability in a third-party component called uploader.swf that's part of the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library included in vBulletin 4.
Yahoo does not plan to fix the vulnerability because it affects only YUI versions 2.5.0 through 2.9.0, which are no longer supported. As a result, vBulletin Solutions advised users to replace the uploader.swf with a dummy file of the same name, which forces vBulletin installations to fall back to an alternative JavaScript-based uploader.
It's not clear if this is the vulnerability that led to the OpenSuse forum compromise. According to the Yahoo advisory, the uploader.swf vulnerability is a cross-site scripting (XSS) one that allows the injection of arbitrary JavaScript.
This vulnerability does not allow arbitrary file uploads to the vBulletin site on its own, said Daniel Cid, chief technology officer at Web security firm Sucuri, via email. However, it could have been used together with social engineering or phishing to get access to a moderator or admin account and then upload a backdoor shell, he said.
"After the attack, we removed the uploader.swf file as a precaution," Ehle said. "I am not sure if this was the vulnerability that was exploited, but it seems consistent with how the system was compromised. However, it is entirely possible that another, unknown, vector was used."
VBulletin Solutions did not respond to an inquiry seeking information on whether it is aware of a different exploit in the software.
In the meantime, Ehle has some recommendations for other vBulletin site administrators.
"Be strict in your file permissions," he said. "In our system, only the sitemap directories were writable by the Web server, which is why only that portion of the site was altered," he said.
The remote Web shell was uploaded in the only writable directories suggesting that tight file and directory permissions make the exploit much harder to execute, he said. "If you need legitimate file uploads and sitemap generation to work, allow writing to only those directories and set your web server to not execute PHP files in them," he said.
Ehle also suggested using an alternative authentication system. The default one in vBulletin still uses MD5-based password hashing, which is inexcusable by today's standards, according to Ehle.
The fact that OpenSuse's forums site used an external single sign-in system -- except for a few administrative accounts whose passwords have since been reset -- prevented the breach from being much worse, he said.
This is not the first time that the OpenSuse forums were compromised as a result of a vBulletin exploit.
"We had a very similar breach last summer by the same attacker," Ehle said. "It was also from a very new exploit, so this individual seems to have a very good understanding of vBulletin software and security."
The new incident prompted the OpenSuse site maintainers to look into alternative Internet forum platforms.
"VBulletin provides some highly functional software, which is of course why it is so popular," Ehle said. "However, for some time I have had a number of concerns about the architecture and security of their software, and I believe the incidents that we have had and what others have experienced are beginning to confirm that."


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Charles Bradley's story is incredible, but I will leave it to your very capable fingers to Google!
"Strictly Reserved For You" is Bradley's new single, and being that he's on Daptone Records, of course his is a classically soul sound, the likes of which we haven't seen for a while and don't see these days often anymore. His voice hearkens back to a time when the focus was on the pain and emotion that the soul voice contained. It's a welcome disruption from the current version of "soul" and R&B which we are served up by Top 40 radio on a daily basis.
Charles Bradley is a seemingly out of place mix of James Brown's look, an old soul, a hardened life, and yet, an almost pure, youthful vibe as he's stepping into his own at such a later point in life. He may never sell a million records, but his talent and determination speak for itself. "Strictly Reserved For You" is taken from his latest album Victim Of Love, which is available now. The "Screaming Eagle Of Soul" has earned his moniker no doubt, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts!


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The Great Stagnation? What Britain can learn from the declining fortunes of the American middle class
Date: 21 November 2011
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With presentations from:
Jared Bernstein - Senior Fellow at the US Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist and Economic Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden.
Professor Lane Kenworthy - Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona and author of Progress for the Poor and Jobs with Equality.
Professor Stephen Machin - Professor of Economics at University College London and member of Resolution Foundation's Commission on Living Standards.
Followed by a panel discussion chaired by:
Stephanie Flanders - Economics Editor, BBC
Martin Wolf - Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Jonathan Portes - Director, National Institute for Economic and Social Research
Jared Bernstein - Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Professor
Lane Kenworthy - Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of Arizona
Gavin Kelly - Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
As part of its Commission on Living Standards, Resolution Foundation held this seminal event which brought together leading US and UK economists to discuss what Britain can learn from the declining fortunes of the American middle class. For a generation the wages of ordinary working Americans have barely risen. Middle skilled jobs have been in decline and the link between economic growth and gains for ordinary working people has broken down. Patterns emerging in Britain from before the recession are of serious concern: despite strong economic growth, median wage growth was flat between 2003 to 2008 and those on low to middle incomes have seen their share of national income decline sharply. This event asked what we can learn from the American experience and what action we can take to restore the link between growth and gain for working people in the UK.


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Vito Rizzuto died last December but the Charbonneau Commission today heard the mob boss on old wiretaps pursuant to its investigation into claims that the Montreal Mafia and dirty politicians took cuts from government contracts to construction companies in a massive bid rigging scheme as reported by CBC News: "Charbonneau Commission investigator Éric Vecchio walked the commissioners through hours of wiretapped conversations dating as far back as 2002 in which Rizzuto is heard negotiating relations."
"Rizzuto and other mobsters were usually never front-line players with a direct financial stake" but "instead, they stayed on the periphery, acting as consultants and deal-brokers while they picked up a piece of the profits" as reported by Sidhartha Nanerjee for the Canadian Press:
"Organized crime take a profit from the construction industry," Vecchio said. "In the end, they don't really get involved, they don't invest any of their own money, but they take away a consultant's or arbiter's fee."
Consultant's fee? Arbiter's fee? Call it for what it is: the extortionate shakedown of a protection payment.


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Law of Christ
Historical Committee
The Dordrecht
Confession of Faith, 1632
XVII. Of Shunning the Separated
Concerning the withdrawing from,
or shunning the separated, we believe and confess, that if any
one, either through his wicked life or perverted doctrine, has
so far fallen that he is separated from God, and, consequently,
also separated and punished by the church, the same must, according
to the doctrine of Christ and His apostles, be shunned, without
distinction, by all the fellow members of the church, especially
those to whom it is known, in eating, drinking, and other similar
intercourse, and no company be had with him that they may not
become contaminated by intercourse with him, nor made partakers
of his sins; but that the sinner may be made ashamed, pricked
in his heart, and convicted in his conscience, unto his reformation.
I Cor. 5:9-11; II Thess. 3:14.
Yet, in shunning as well as in
reproving, such moderation and Christian discretion must be used,
that it may conduce, not to the destruction, but to the reformation
of the sinner. For, if he is needy, hungry, thirsty, naked, sick,
or in any other distress, we are in duty bound, necessity requiring
it, according to love and the doctrine of Christ and His apostles,
to render him aid and assistance; otherwise, shunning would in
this case tend more to destruction than to reformation.
Therefore, we must not count
them as enemies, but admonish them as brethren, that thereby
they may be brought to a knowledge of and to repentance and sorrow
for their sins, so that they may become reconciled to God, and
consequently be received again into the church, and that love
may continue with them, according as is proper. II Thess. 3:15.
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OT: "Where Are They Now? - Walt Terrell"
I thought I'd share a nice off-topic "Where are they now?" article from the Detroit News about former MBL pitcher Walt Terrell. He was one of my favorite Tigers. He LOVED the city of Detroit and his teammates and wound up with a better career winning percentage at old Tiger Stadium than Hal Newhouser, Jack Morris or Mickey Lolich. Articles like these remind me why I fell in love with baseball in the first place.


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LONDONDERRY — Another plan for a facility on Technology Drive has come before town officials, giving yet another boost to economic development in North Londonderry.
Developers are interested in that part of town with several proposed development projects earmarked for that area.
The most recent plan is a proposed single-story, multi-tenant building at 10 Technology Drive.
Representatives from Fairwind Properties brought their conceptual idea to the Planning Board March 12. It was only a preliminary discussion, so no decisions were made.
A site plan at that address was approved 10 years ago, but building designs morphed since then into the newest plan, according to Brian Pratt of CLD Consulting Engineering.
"We decided that was not feasible," he said of the original plan.
The newest project calls for a 9,600-square-foot, one-story building that could accommodate eight tenants of various business types.
Each unit would be 1,200 square feet; spaces could be merged into a large space.
Front space would be used for offices and rear space would have enough room for potential bays for automotive work or other large-scale garage use.
There are no exact uses on the plan yet, Pratt said, but he suspected the building would be used for warehouse, storage or smaller businesses like electricians or plumbing companies. The design would fit into that area well, Pratt said.
"This is a pretty common style building," he said. "But we have no specifics on uses yet."
More details are needed on the plan, including more extensive landscaping designs, drainage and grading.
The proposal is scheduled to go before the Heritage Commission March 27.


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With their sixth pick in the 2011 MLS Expansion Draft, the (fake) Montreal Impact select:
Jake Gleeson (GK, Portland Timbers)
Kevin's explanation: This is the first of two picks that could best be described as 'gambles.' However, they are gambles on players who are very young and very inexpensive. Jake Gleeson was a highly regarded youngster coming into Major League Soccer, but looked a bit over his head in his four starts in a Portland Timbers uniform. In his defense, all four of those starts were in front of a below-average defense. He lost once and drew once on the road, then won twice at home, failing to get a shutout in all four starts. At 21 years old, his best years are almost certainly in front of him.
The Impact are likely to sign Bill Guadette to an MLS contract and they've already signed Evan Bush There is literally no reason to pick up a serviceable but unspectacular journeyman or career backup. There's no keeper better than those two who was left unprotected other than Faryd Mondragon, so I'm going with potential.
Analysis from Drew Epperley: I'm not really sold on a keeper pick. Gleeson is a decent keeper and one that filled in well early on for the Timbers but if I am Montreal, I take a page out of Philadelphia's book and go out and snag a veteran keeper to guide the club. Sure he's young but you can get quality keepers that are young in the draft if you want to go that route.


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On December 1st Dr. Bones of The Doom and Bloom Hour with Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy had a Guest Post published here on ModernSurvivalOnline. In it he discussed the need for antibiotics as a preparedness supply and made some recommendations. If you have not read the article - please do so.
BIRD BIOTIC (Doxycycline 100mg) – used in birds but the antibiotic is, again, the sole ingredient
BIRD SULFA (Sulfamethoxazole 400mg/Trimethoprin 80mg) also used in birds
In sourcing these for a supply order of my own – I checked out Amazon.com which had been recommended to me by several readers. I found all of them to be available and most with past buyer reviews. I found that many reviewers commented on their use being for their "fish" – and when you read between the lines it was obvious the "fish" were really humans.
Cost appears to be decently affordable. I have placed my order for a few bottles and over the next two months plan to complete my antibiotic supply list.
Next is to obtain a credible dosage chart/guide for each.
In PART 2 I will take a look at another option: legally obtained "meant for human consumption" antibiotics purchased on the Internet.
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Put that pitchfork down sir and put out that torch madam. Hear me out.
Not too long ago, as many other athletes in both MMA and many other sports do, our newest UFC champion Benson Henderson dedicated his fight and his hard fought victory to the Man Upstairs.
That same scene has played out in our screen multiple times now-- the winner, engulfed in a feeling of privilege by the odds being supernaturally stacked in his favor, makes sure to give props to Him who is due. Right besides him, pacing around the small semicircle his entourage contains him and his disappointment in, the defeated fighter looks down and up, often silently asking the very same deity what exactly did he do wrong to deserve this bitter test.
One can wonder, in a world dealing with never ending famine and war, what is God's actual role in MMA's modern human prizefighting?
Let's look at 4 reasons why we could argue He cares and 4 more reasons why He may strike the next champ's belt with lightning from above right there in front of Bruce Buffer.
Before we begin, let's set boundaries. As many an atheist author will happily inform you, we are all atheist towards most deities (most likely, you ask nothing and care not for Zeus and his thundering ways nowadays). So we are talking about the Judeo-Christian God and referring to His good book for some context. The intention is not to get preachy, but if you find me a way to ask Him the questions mano a mano, hook a brother up.
Let's figure this out together:
1. Athletes are good role models
Let's start with the big picture- does God care for sports and athletes? Cousin, yes he does, and we can quote Him on it:
"No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules." (2 Timothy 2:4-6)
In that golden era without TRT nor pot and other performance enhancing substances, athletes were a great example of adhering to a lifestyle as strictly as possible in order to reap the results at the end.
This is still true, of course. The discipline, focus, commitment and sacrifices required by modern athletes, certainly including MMA fighters, is a continuous example of pursuing your goals through hard work. Of course, there's a lot of disappointments today, but hey, who checked those runners up and down back in the day before hitting the tracks, youknowwhatI'msaying?
2. MMA training is good discipline
The apostle Paul apparently had a thing for races and runners. If somebody needed some counseling and Paul wasn't around, apparently you could find his ex-persecuting persona screaming at the top of his lungs in the tracks.
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training." (1 Corinthians 9:23-25)
From exercising your body to its peak performance, to making your diet serve your body and not just your appetite, to the time taken away from family and friends, fighters give up a lot of good things and take on a lot of pain to touch the glory of victory.
You can't fake it in MMA. Well, yes, you can, perhaps you're a guy who knocks every mother out there who crosses your path, but once you start climbing the MMA ladder to the big leagues, whatever you lack in your game, whatever it was you skipped in your training, it is going to come up and bite you in the body cushions. Today's MMA demands your body to be fit, your mind to be in the right place, your striking game to be K-1 quality and your grappling to be ADCC material.
Whatever your values, the principles of hard work, sacrifice for your goals and being thorough in preparation for your challenges stand the test of time. MMA fighters, the good ones, do this everyday.
3. MMA provides unique opportunities to make an honest living
Let's say MMA is working out for you. You decide to move closer where the gym or the fights are happening, and in this new town you find a new place to get your Christian on.
As you come in and inevitably are singled out as a newcomer, there are far, far, far worse things you can say to that nice old lady greeting you at the door than "... and I'm an MMA fighter." MMA fighter certainly comes out a lot nicer than porno actor, for example.
Or perhaps, it doesn't need to be about cleaning up your act in any way, but simply about making a decent living. MMA fighter is a great step up from working three jobs and watching your bronze Olympic medal collect dust. It is definitely much more rewarding and full of possibilities than garbage collector.
For many men and women who might have been stuck running dojo, or being part of the staff of a larger gym, MMA is now providing them independence and opportunities that did not exist before. No full-frontal nakedness required.
4. Furthering cultural understanding
It's not going to come from the People's Champ of course, but MMA is furthering the regular guy's understanding of cultural differences and, hopefully, reducing a bit of cultural prejudice.
If you've been paying attention, perhaps you now know the best BJJ is going to come from Brazil, and you might want to lose some of the preconceptions about the place and go there to learn from the art's masters. Or perhaps, Pearl Harbor and all, you've surrendered to the fantastic displays of judo from Rousey and Akiyama and are now booking a ticket to spend a few days in the Kodokan institute, or to bring Kosei Inoue stateside. Your striking needs polishing? There's a lot of lovely people waiting in Bangkok and The Netherlands waiting to make your shins bleed.
What MMA is doing to fighters and fans alike is making sure you get out of your bubble and look at the big wide word around you. You cannot bear prejudice and survive in this new game. Literally, spew some racist BS in pretty much any MMA gym and you're getting yourself mangled most likely. There are many arts and many philosophies waiting for you to embrace them, take what you like, and make them your own. The champions of the world understand this, travel or go from gym to gym as much as they can to expand their minds, further their technique arsenal, become better athletes. Understanding your fellow man, or as The Man said, "loving thy neighbor" in any context can only be a good thing
4 REASONS WHY GOD DOES NOT CARE (and perhaps secretly roots for the Culinary Union)
1. "Thou Shall Not Kill" and all that jazz
No, as far as contact sports go, MMA does not have the worst record in injuries nor deaths, and it doesn't present a greater danger than, say, professional football and its multitudes of brain damaged veterans.
But see, we don't even have to get there. It's a hard pill to swallow, but all indications in the Good Book are that violence doesn't really fly The Man's boat. Point in case:
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old, `Thou shalt not kill,' and `Whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.' But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment..." (Matthew 5:20-22)
The mere intention of harming your opponent is going to win you a big frown from the Almighty, basically.
See, a popular criticism of our modern times is how desensitized to violence we have become. You can go to certain places in the world wide web and be confronted with gore, just to see how much of a stomach you have.
Our level of what is acceptable for public consumption, violence-wise, is always on the rise. That is in stark contrast with how acceptable to The Man violence between ourselves is. After all, as the story goes, He took it in the face and did not counter punch, didn't even bob and weave. Ridiculous notion, too much to ask from mankind today? Maybe. But can we defend our appetite for violence sitting in the pews?
Not a chance.
2. He could not care less if you get rich or not
MMA may not be boxing, as far as the size of the prize for fighters goes, but right now it is making a lot of people rich, in whatever version of rich you want to think of.
Many a time, those men and women coming into the sport come with a feeling that He's going to give them every good, nice thing there is available for the taking because they have done good, they have behaved, they have been responsible, they have put in the hard work, they have have remained honest and, therefore, He should-- heck, he must, he must answer back and lay the right opportunities in front of them leading to the promised land of riches.
Right? Right?
Not really.
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven...'" (Matthew 19:23)
Not a popular verse that, I know, but it's out there and it won't go away because we're tired of this Not Having A Bentley lifestyle we were awarded.
This doesn't mean being affluent is sinful. It isn't in any way, remember those Job and Abraham dudes were basically the Bill Gates and Carlos Slims of their times.
But the fact you have been a good boy or a good girl, and that you've put in the hours to train and make sure to lift your hand above after every win and/or verbally give Him props means absolutely nothing to your bank account my friend. Our modern, dot com IPO and ponzi scheme world and its definition of success differ greatly from, say:
"For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction." (1 Timothy 6:7-9)
3. Brain damage
Maybe we're the natural progression of the stars, which is a fascinating notion. Or maybe we're special, like our mothers told us.
Whatever the case, the body we get is one, and He wants you to take care of it. We might argue the property angle, but once the knees give out and the KOs start coming quicker and easier, all you are left with is this bag of bones our mamas gave us.
Above all things He cares for, however, is the brain. The "heart", as you will find it referred to in the old book. The seat of the mind and personality, or as your spiritual leader will likely tell you, what really matters.
Here's some on it:
" Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (Proverbs 4:23)
Out of all the parts in the machinery, the brain always receives special consideration. Thus, the conflict with a profession where it becomes one of the main targets.
Mmafighting.com's own Ben Fowlkes illustrated this brilliantly in his new series The Hurt Business focusing on the changes to an MMA gym during the course of a year:
Or here was Verno Phillips, probably the most famous boxer Wittman worked with. Verno, who gave him his start. Verno, who won the WBO title with Wittman in his corner. Verno, who haunts these stories like a ghost with nothing better to do.
Verno used to piss blood after just about every fight. It became as normal as the repetitive locker room conversations Wittman never fully got used to having with him. Every time, it was some slight variation on the same theme.
Did I get knocked out?
No, Verno. You won a decision. Remember?
That's right. I did win. I remember. Hey, why is the floor so cold out there?
It's a hockey arena, Verno. They had a game here last night.
That's right. I remember. Hey, did I get knocked out?
Tomorrow Verno would be better. His brain would return to whatever its new normal was. Everyone could go back to ignoring the slightly terrifying reality staring them in the face.
Boxing and pro football have already started to tackle the problem of brain damage in varying degrees, obviously the sports cannot stop, the money machine cannot be halted, but things are promised and some are done to minimize sending an athlete to retirement only to become a shadow of his own self.
MMA, a relatively new sport still, is only now starting to even speak about as veterans such as Big Daddy Goodridge take the daring step to acknowledge the problem and come forward. What can we expect down the line with all of those fighters from the first UFC generation? What can possibly be the results of taking on multiple fights in a lifetime, where a single one of those fights can represent multiple concussions?
Fighters are adults, most of them family men, and they choose what to do with their bodies and how to put food on the table. But from all looks of it, The Man would rather you not leave your loved ones with only a shell of your old self, unable to recognize them or partake in the memories that (hopefully) gel a family together. What kind of life is that, anyhow? Moreover, what kind of spiritual relationship can a broken mind ever hope to establish?
4. Image problem
Skulls and monsters, scantily clad girls, profanity, blood and broken bones, and a constant validation that violence trumps all. Sounds ready for a post-worship Youth program, huh?
The UFC and MMA as a whole enjoys a certain image that has helped it appeal and hold on to their target demographic. That same image has raised questions about its ability to become mainstream, and they were brought up again and widely discussed when they signed their landmark deal with Fox Network. Is it good or bad that there was no blood in Velasquez vs Dos Santos? Is the general public going to squirm at the sight of blood or will they go TUF 1 and viewers will call their gore-friendly friends on the phone?
Beyond the question of readiness for the big leagues or lack thereof, can we somehow marry the current image of the sport to that of a Christian lifestyle? Well, let's see. If your spiritual leader comes for a surprise visit and knocks on your door during UFC 146, do you change the channel? Sit him down besides you and watch as Chandella walks around the Octagon and later Frank Mir breaks someone else's elbow and shoulder?
MMA and the UFC are many positive things, but as far as image goes, and as perhaps Chris Lytle is now finding out after ditching the MMA fights for political fights, it doesn't send an image of wholesomeness out there. To carry a message of being like Him who is meek and spend your days hurting and bloodying your fellow man is, well, a bit funny.
So, what is the answer? Can fighters really expect any help from above in kicking their fellow man in the head for money? Or are they just soothing their own consciences in doing so?
We gave you the reasons, let us know how they hold for you. Have your say in the comments or hit me up on twitter, we'd love to know what you think.


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The Ballad Of ZOT! #18 (And Other Ways Scott McCloud Made Me Crazy)
By Regie Rigby
There is nothing worse than having the whole run of a particular comic except for one issue. Unless it's having the whole run of a particular comic except for one issue that is the second part of a two part story! Actually, even worse than that is having the whole run of a particular comic except for one issue that is the second part of a two part story and you can't find the back issue you need anywhere.
Well, harken ye to the Ballad of ZOT! #18.
It's an unassuming little comic really. It was published by Eclipse back in 1988, right at the start of the comics boom that held so much promise and broke so many hearts. Between it's full colour cubist cover design it tells (in truly dazzling black and white) the second part of the two part story The Eyes of Dekko.
At the time, non of this meant very much to me. Back in 1988 I had only just discovered comics, and I certainly wasn't picking up black and white books from publishers I'd never heard of when I could be spending my limited funds on Batman and Spider-Man titles. About two hundred miles south of my South Yorkshire home however, the girl who would one day become my best friend (indeed, she'll be Best Man at my wedding next year) was embarking on what would turn out to be an eleven year quest.
By all accounts Andrea was a huge fan of Scott McCloud's Zachary T. Paleozogt (Zot, to his friends) from the very beginning, so I'm not sure how she managed to miss issue #18, but she did. She searched back issue bins in comics shops all over her native London, but to no avail. When we met at University three years later, she was still looking.
Helpful little munchkin that I am, I let my fingers do the walking and called (just about) every comics shop in the UK. Nothing. Zip. Nix. Nada. So far as I could tell, there wasn't a spare copy of ZOT! to be had anywhere in the whole of Britain.
So, I forgot all about it. By the time Andrea and I met, Scott McCloud had finished ZOT! and moved on to other projects. I had never read the comic, so I didn't need to know how The Eyes of Dekko ended - I didn't even know how it started! Time passed. It does that.
A couple of years went by, and Scott McCloud spent them working on one of the most remarkable books I have ever read. Understanding Comics just blew me away. A comic that's about comics. I devoured it from cover to cover, and then read it again. It's that good. If you haven't read it, where have you been? What have you been doing? Go and read it at once!
Anyway. Later that year Scott McCloud was a guest at the UK Comic Art Convention (UKCAC to it's mates). Andrea and I went along and spent a very entertaining afternoon watching Mr McCloud and his old High School buddy Kurt Busiek narrate The Battle of Lexington, a comic starring most of the Marvel Universe they had created together as teenagers.
After the show (which was really very very funny) we managed to squeeze to the front of the massed ranks of fandom and grab a couple of words - two of which were "ZOT! #18". McCloud smiled politely, apologised, and said he couldn't help. (Mind you, what was he going to do? Donate his copy?)
But I was interested now, so Andrea let me borrow her (very nearly) complete run of ZOT!. When I got back home, I found a comfortable chair, opened a bottle of wine and read the whole lot in one go. It was just fantastic!
Zot himself is just a clean cut superhero in the same sort of vein as the pre Crisis! Superboy. But McCloud uses his creation both to gently parody and subtley subvert that image. Zot's world is very different to ours, looking and working very much like the imagined futures seen in science fiction "b" movies from the fifties and sixties. His world is full of brightly coloured wonders and daring adventures. But Zot also crosses over into our greyer, more mundane world, and meets a lonely young girl called Jenny. What happens next is basically the story of their relationship, their friends and how Zot rescues his damsel in distress in the most unexpected way.
But I couldn't read issue #18. It was infuriating. Issue #17 introduced the character of Dekko, a malevolent (if tragic) cyborg artist whose head looked uncannily like the top of the Chrysler building. At the end of #17 he turns up at the home of Zot's Uncle Max and...
And what?
I had to know! By the start of #19, everything was clearly sorted out. But how? I remained in the dark until April 1999 when I found myself in London again, sleeping on Andrea's living room floor (well, her Parent's living room floor anyway...) so that I could take part in the London Marathon. Finding that we had a little time to kill we visited one of our favourite comics shops, the excellent (if tiny) GOSH Comics. (Opposite the British Museum - you can't miss it)
There, on a low shelf, almost hidden from view was...
Not ZOT! #18, but the complete run of ZOT! from beginning to end. Neither of us could afford it. You have no idea how bummed out we were. I mean, it was there - somewhere in the middle of the plastic wrapped bundle we were holding in our hands was the fabled ZOT! #18! But we couldn't have it. We asked, but unsurprisingly they wouldn't break up the set.
So we left, and I ran my Marathon (four and a half hours, thanks for asking) then I got on the train and went home. But I couldn't get those comics out of my head. Eventually, I could take it no longer. I called GOSH! (what is it with these capital letters and exclamation marks?) gave them my credit card number and asked them to mail me the set. They did.
So of course I opened another bottle of wine, settled back into that comfy chair and read the whole thing again. Then, because I'm a very nice guy (and because I owe her more favours than I can count) I posted issue #18 to Andrea. (Obviously I made a copy first, c'mon, I mean there's no way I was going through all that again.)
And so ends the Ballad of ZOT! #18. (And yes, I really did start out trying to write this up as song lyrics, but I very quickly ran out of rhymes for "Zot" so I gave up.)
Well almost. The final sting in the tail is that a few months later, Andrea found another copy of issue #18 which she proudly presented to me at the Comics 2000 festival. I dunno, you wait seven years for a comic and then two come along at once. Sheesh...
But there remained one final little niggle. When Scott McCloud ended the thirty six issue run of ZOT! back in 1991, it was with the promise that the character would return, "although it may be two years or more." Nearly a decade later, we were still wondering "What happened next?" I mean, alright, so McCloud had written Understanding Comics, The Adventures of Abraham Lincoln and Reinventing Comics in the meantime, but still a promise is a promise, y'know?
Finally though, the waiting is over. Sort of. McCloud has taken ZOT! online for a three month run. It's great to see Zot and Jenny again, but...
Well it's just not the same. It's in colour, which is nice, but I can't hold it in my hand. I can't sit in that comfy chair and read it with a glass of wine anymore, I have to sit at my desk to read it. And I can't file the new story neatly on my shelf with the original run. Don't get me wrong, I like online comics. I have several e-mailed to me every day. But I want my Zot on paper, dammit!
McCloud's view that the future of comics is likely to be online rather than on paper is well known, (if a little over simplified by me there - I'll be getting to the whole online comics thing in a couple of weeks) so it is perhaps not surprising that he has chosen to resurrect the character in this way. In the official press announcement for the new Zot, McCloud stated "I plan to spend a lot of my energy on such Web-only stories for the next few years (if not the rest of my career!)"
I hope he reconsiders, otherwise I'm going to have to buy a laptop...
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Yeah I understand. I know Ron Moore didn't like writing that way though. He likes his character journey's like I do. Maybe that's why I seem to like his writing so much lol.
Another interesting point is Babylon 5. How much that show risked to have a more serialized story and people still hung in there for all 5 seasons. And that ran from '93 to '98.
It's amazing isn't it? How TV can change in 15 years. I was too young to fully understand how it all worked in the early 90's but looking back and watching those TNG episodes on DVD and comparing them to today's episodic television I find some interesting changes. No episodic television lol. Reality TV and more
prime time
serialized TV. Shows like 24, Entourage, BSG, Lost, Fringe, Flash Forward etc. That's how alot of TV is now.
People now want more from TV than the "monster of the week" as it were (and we still get those too!).
I wasn't disagreeing with what you said. Just pointing out how TV writing was done, usually influenced by the studio. TV is and allways will be about making money.
I have never seen B5, it wasn't broadcast where I lived.
TV is luckily getting away (as you pointed out) from "reality" style shows, and back to more episodic TV.
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The comment backlink Method That Works
How to Comment Backlink
As a further experiment I have decided to focus on blog commenting for the next 60 days as my main method of acquiring new back-links to ZZZProfits. One of my favorite methods of creating back-links is commenting on other blogs and websites that allow posting a url that links through your user name.
I love blog commenting for a few reasons.
- The first reason is simply a blog comment backlink is the easiest and quickest method to create a quality back-link. There are always new blog posts being created, so the opportunity to comment is endless
- The second reason is that it is easy to find relevant & related blogs. Anyone familiar with SEO knows that relevant back-links are important part of SEO in the eyes of Google. With the current blog revolution you can find hundreds even thousands of related blogs on just about any subject.
- The third reason is you can engage the blog owner as well as their readers simultaneously. This is a great way to gain click-throughs as well as build online relationships.
The reason why I want to do this experiment is to see how much I can increase my daily organic traffic by focusing on only one type of off-page SEO, that being commenting. I followed a similar method for about 10 days, and after that time frame I noticed a mark-able increase in organic and referral traffic.
I believe that if done properly blog commenting can be a primary method of creating back-links.
So, what I have done is devised a simple comment backlink regimen that I will follow during the next two months. I have kept it simple and adjustable so anyone who wants, could create a similar plan.
But before I go over the blog-commenting-project-plan, I want to get one thing out of the way. I will not be using any software to spam or spin comments. Every comment backlink I make is unique to each post. All the best blogs manually moderate their comments, so using commenting software designed to spam blogs is pretty much useless in my mind.
The comment backlink plan that works
Here is the plan in a nutshell.
The first thing I do is find 25-30 authority blogs that are closely related to my niche or subject. What I mean by authority is that they are either ranked very high for some of my target key-words or they are highly trafficked with a healthy active community.
For example: one of my primary key-words is "passive-income" If you type into google "passive income", you will see that one of the first page results is for a website called The smart passive income blog(an amazing blog by the way). This will be one of the sites on my top 25-30 list. These types of blogs usually receive a large amount of comments(this blog usually receives over 100 comments for every post) from people with similar or related websites, which is crucial as part of my plan.
These 25-30 blogs are what I call my first level comment backlink. With these blogs, I will comment on any new posts they create. Soon as one of these first level blogs publishes a post, I comment as soon as I am notified of new comments through my rss feed. I make sure to read their posts and create a relevant unique comment. I try to write in a way to get the attention of the blog owner as well as the readers.
Then what I do is bookmark the post. After about 3-4 days I return to the blog post that I commented on, then go down the list of comments, and one at a time I click-through to each users website. I then leave a comment on their most recent post. This is what I call my second level comment backlink.
As I manually comment backlink on these second-level websites, I create a separate URL list and make a short note about each website. I write down if I liked the website, what the website topic was, and if it seemed active or not. This way I can create an ongoing list of good related blogs that I will comment on in the future. The other fun part of this is you actually discover some really cool blogs during the process.
If it is the first time I am visiting the blog I will leave a comment like this:;
"Hey! I like your website. I followed you from "The-Smart-Passive-income-blog". This is a subject I am very interested in so I just wanted to drop by and say hi. I bookmarked your site so you can expect to see me around. Cheers!"
With a comment backlink like that, I have achieved 3 things
- It almost always gets the attention of the blog owner, and I usually receive a reply at least %50 of the time.
- Since I am announcing that I followed them from a blog that we both obviously read, their curiosity makes them click-through and check out my website.
- Since the blog owner acknowledged me with a reply combined with the fact that I mentioned I found them somewhere else, a decent percentage of their readers will also click-through to my website out of curiosity.
I have a theory. I believe that if you create a comment backlink that gets a good percentage click-through, Google will give it a higher rating as a back-link which will better improve your SEO. So creating engaging comments should be the goal.
Here are some guidelines I like to follow when starting a comment backlink campaign
- If its is a brand new website, then I keep my daily average comment back-links to around 15-25.
- If it is a an older established blog of a year or more then I may bump the daily average up to 30-40 back-link comments.
- I always read or at least skim the post so I can leave a quality relevant comment.
- I never leave a generic comment like "Great site! You really hit the nail on the head with this post" That says spam all over it. If I receive a comment like that on my website it goes straight to the trash box.
- I usually check the notify me of follow ups box. This way I can comment back if I receive a reply.
- I always try and use an Avatar or Gravatar with my comments. There is a much higher click-through rate when people can attach a face to a comment.
- I experiment with the type of comments I leave. In other words I don't always agree with the post; sometimes I try and stir or rile up the blog owner and readers. Everyone is always praising and agreeing, so going against the grain can make you stand out. Just be-careful not to piss off the blog owner too much or you could get banned, heheh.
- I randomize. Although I created a guideline, I will change up my routine, quantity, time of day, and order I comment constantly so Google will not see a set pattern.
- I don't fret or spend to much time thinking about what I should say. I just get in, comment, and get out.
I would love to hear of any other comment backlink techniques that get results, If you know of any other tips let me know in a comment below.


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We can add another team to the group chasing after the Orlando Magic's J.J. Redick, as ESPN Radio's Chris Vernon reports that the Memphis Grizzlies are making a push for the sharpshooter.
For more on the story, head to Grizzly Bear Blues
The Magic are seeking a first-round pick and young talent for Redick, but interested teams such as the Pacers, Bucks, Bulls and Timberwolves have been hesitant to give up that much for a possible rental. The Grizzlies would almost certainly not offer that either, but they could provide the Magic with cap relief (due to the use of a trade exception), cash and a couple of second-round picks.
The move would make a ton of sense for Memphis, who could really use the shooting for a possible deep playoff run. Redick's $6.2 million contract would still keep the Grizzlies under the luxury tax this season, and with the salary cleared in the Rudy Gay trade, they could possibly re-sign him this offseason. Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reports that Redick is going to look for a deal worth around $10 million per year, but it's more likely he gets one around $7-8 million annually.
What this boils down to is what Orlando is looking for in a Redick trade. If they truly are dead set on getting a good young player and a pick, then Memphis probably has no chance. But if other teams continue to balk at the Magic's demands, perhaps they would be more receptive to the Grizzlies' offer.


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During the Vietnam War (1965-1975) as well as the earlier First Indochina War, which pitted Vietnamese nationalist troops against French imperial forces, the Truong Son Strategic Supply Route ensured that war material and manpower could flow north/south between different embattled sections of Vietnam. Dubbed the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" by the Americans, after the Viet Minh leader, this trade route through neighboring Laos and Cambodia was key to the communist forces' victory in the Vietnam War (called the American War in Vietnam).
American troops, like those pictured here, attempted to control the flow of material along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but were unsuccessful. Rather than being a single unified route, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was an interwoven series of paths, even including sections where goods and manpower traveled by air or water.


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MSNBC's Tamron Hall Blames Missouri Tornado on Climate Change, Climate Scientist Retorts 'Random Chance'
Less than 24 hours after a devastating tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri – killing at least 116 people – an MSNBC anchor was busy putting a political spin on the tragedy.
Tamron Hall wondered aloud on "News Nation" today whether climate change was to blame for the rash of hurricanes and tornadoes that ravaged several states, including Missouri, over the last few months.
"What about climate change?" speculated Hall, interviewing Dr. Howard Bluestein. "You have many people who see these severe storms, and not just the tornadoes, but the strength of hurricanes and even severe storms, we're getting hail and high winds right now from Texas, I believe, all the way through the Midwest. Is this a result of climate change or an effect of climate change?"
Bluestein, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma, dismissed Hall's baseless conjecture: "I don't think we can prove whether or not the occurrence of all these bad events this year are due to global warming whatsoever. They could be simply due to natural variability."
Hall began the interview with an open-ended question about the potential causes of these severe weather events, but after Bluestein suggested "random chance" could be the culprit, the daytime anchor pressed the climate change issue.
A transcript of the segment can be found below:
News Nation
May 23, 2011
2:34 p.m. EDT
TAMRON HALL: What about climate change? You have many people who see these severe storms, and not just the tornados, but the strength of hurricanes and even severe storms, we're getting hail and high winds right now from Texas, I believe, all the way through the Midwest. Is this a result of climate change or an effect of climate change?
Dr. HOWARD BLUESTEIN, University of Oklahoma: Well I can't speak for hurricanes, but for tornadoes and supercells, I don't think we can prove whether or not the occurrence of all these bad events this year are due to global warming whatsoever. They could be simply due to natural variability. After all, when you think back to some of the other historic events, like April 30 1974, the tornadoes in Missouri in 1953, the tri-state tornadoes back in 1925. If you through the records, you'll see that every 20, 30, 40 years there are these tremendous widespread outbreaks and some of them occurred long before we were talking about global warming.
HALL: Alright, Dr. Howard Bluestein, of the University of Oklahoma, where they certainly see their share of tornadoes in that state. Thank you so much, sir.
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Tamron's last science class?
Submitted by JeffC... on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:09pm.
I'm guessing earth science in high school. She seems like the type who complained about having to take it because she "would never need it in real life."
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I bet she complained to her producer
Submitted by T Walt on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:12am.
I can imagine the conversation when they went to commercial....
"Next time get a Goddamn so-called expert who isn't gonna make me look like an ass. Who the hell found this guy anyway? And why wasn't he f#*%ing pre-screened? This is MSNBC for chrissakes. We shake a tree around her and a half dozen global warming douches fall out. I swear to God Artie, if this happens again it's your ass."
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And that short story is filed
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:13am.
And that short story is filed under the category of "Fantasy/Science Fiction" at your local library.
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Come On Tamera-Ronald...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:14pm.
...Natural disasters are ALWAYS blamed on the sitting president...(Google Katrina-Bush)
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Usually, Big ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:15pm.
... but as with everything else "Obama," this was Bush's fault.
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Thank you BigDaddy*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 8:47pm.
Somehow I just knew this was Obama's fault.
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That didn't take long
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:18pm.
I was wondering when they would trot out the global warming/climate change bit.
Hell, at work, I had some people from a different department who were doing some work for us claim that it was global warming. I told him my dad was 77 years old and he's seen stuff like this before, it's nothing new. Weather comes and goes.
I said "it's just weather. Sometimes it gets hot, sometimes it gets cold, sometimes we get storms, sometimes we don't. Man has absolutely nothing to do with it, so relax about the global warming nonsense."
I told him about the CO2 component in our atmosphere. He knew of it, but he had no idea that it was only 0.033% of our air's makeup. He seemed to be a little convinced at least.
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Should have..........
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:51pm.
"..........He knew of it, but he had no idea that it was only 0.033% of our air's makeup......"
Should have asked him what he thought it was, before telling him. I bet the answer would have been uh, interesting.
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Should have clarified that one
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:36pm.
I meant to say that he had no idea what the percentage was, and I didn't want to insult him by trying to make him guess. I wasn't trying to play "gotcha" with him since I do have to work with him from time to time. That's kind of the work relationship I have with him and other people I work with, I tell them that if they don't know the answer, don't guess, just say so, I won't hold it against them as long as they are honest. It's worked pretty well so far.
Anyone who deals with me at work know I don't put up with or even appreciate BS. As long as we are honest, we'll get along just fine. At the same time, I've learned how to have better chances at telling if someone's being dishonest with me.
I wouldn't last long as a Congressman, I'd be forever calling people out for their BS. ;-)
But I try to find out how much people really know about weather and etc, and it's very surprising how little they know. It's also a little disconcerting and makes me wonder how much they do in preparation in case a storm hits and its aftermath.
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Algore Disciples
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:19pm.
make rotten journalists.
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Meanwhile, MSNBC is no doubt looking for a new "expert"
Submitted by Niall on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:25pm.
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Tamron Hall is so on top of
Submitted by ant on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 5:56pm.
Tamron Hall is so on top of meteorology and global climate, she must be so sure. But I'd bet Tamron Hall could not correctly name a single Mid or Southwest State on a blank map, like Ann Curry, you would probably have to show her where the home-State of her messiah is located.
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Has anyone else noticed?
Submitted by jdlybrand on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 6:15pm.
I know it's hard to stomach these MSNBC'ers, but I've been tuning in more than usual and I notice that almost all the 'anchors' look away from the camera as their guests answer questions. I first noted Mika doing it all the time on 'Morning Joe". Wish I was a fly on the wall in the studio to see why their eyes divert so often. But then again, if I were a fly in that studio I'd probably be too busy deciding which pile of crap to hover over to pay that much attention.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
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Same spin, different (NBC) network
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:03pm.
Becky Quick gave the same spin on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning. Must have been in this morning's NBC memo to on-air staff.
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Tornado alley
Submitted by Anna on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:25pm.
Maybe someone should give Tamron a ring and explain about tornado alley and Dixie alley - the plains and valley regions between mountain ranges where cold air from Canada sweeps down and meets warm air rising from Mexico and the gulf. We learned about it in elementary school, Tamron. Oh, and the deadliest years of tornado activity in the US recorded were 1840 and 1925.
Here's a good website: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/tornadoes.html
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Heavens to murgatroyd. They never give up.
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:43pm.
Tampon Hall....meterologist and all around weather genius! Amazing the garbage put out by these practicing morons. Hey, Tampon.......I hate to tell you, but, there is no Tooth Fairy, no Santa Claus, no global warming/climate change and definitely no one at your station with an IQ higher than a turnip!
Tampon, tomorrow, you could do a report on global cooling...that hasn't been done in quite a while.
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Lippy the Lion
Submitted by jdlybrand on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:00pm.
"exit stage left".
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
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Snagglepuss actually
Submitted by TempusFugit on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:31pm.
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Senior moment
Submitted by jdlybrand on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:16am.
My memory failed me...imagine that!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
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These Global Warming Ghouls have no shame.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:32pm.
We have a deadly weather catastrophe, and they IMMEDIATELY politicize it to push the Carbon Cops' agenda. Truly sickening.
Oh, and "Is this a result of climate change or an effect of climate change?" seems like a loaded question. Maybe it was just a slip of the tongue, but it seems like the left-wing yellow journ-O-lism is seeping through the cracks.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
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Not only tornadoes
Submitted by ahusser on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:16pm.
But the high pollen count this year is being blamed on, you guessed it, climate change. Those writing these articles take climate change as a given without blinking and is now a taken for granted "fact".
From the article above: "...Another factor in the increased pollen counts is climate change. Parker said that concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased in the past 100 years, and plants thrive on increasing levels of CO2. "Some types of pollens have doubled because of climate change," said Parker.
"CO2 is good for plants and they're making more pollen," agreed Dr. David Rosenstreich, director of the division of allergy and immunology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. In addition, he said, "Pollen seasons are lengthening a little bit because of global warming...."
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Yet another leftist dilemma,
Submitted by ant on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:17pm.
Yet another leftist dilemma, CO2 is BAAAADDDD! But it's good for plants. Kinda hard to be a tree hugger and demand mankind change the atmosphere back to.... where it ....was....? No, where it was is different from where it was before and different from the period before that. So how do we know what's supposed to be normal? We don't, because it's a false religion of profit. And how can we change the atmosphere to our 'standards'. We can't, and even if we could we're back to the dilemma of unintended consequences, like, starving plants of CO2.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive."
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The real dilemma
Submitted by ahusser on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 12:57pm.
For the left is actually believing our tiny race could actually change the planet's condition. This new religion, making the planet a god, and blaming mankind for it's destruction would be laughable if not so misguided. This is all feel good, self-righteous, touchy feely, liberal smugness on parade. The only success this "religion" will realize is the destruction of our economy and our standard of living. It is just another destructive utopian dream. (see socialism and communism et al).
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I Pitty These so called Journalists...
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 10:59pm.
Their work space is in a basement with lots of artificial lights from the cameras and computers...too much time spent in this environment can make someone become detached from reality. This is why you cannot take what they say on the airwaves seriously; they are delisounal.
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Don't forget...
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:08pm.
Don't forget that they also have an earpiece that is used so that someone else will them what to say and how to act. Talk about Human Automatons! These people don't have a single independent thought throughout their entire career!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
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TAMRON HALL: What about
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:10pm.
TAMRON HALL: What about climate change?
LOL! My 5 year old grandson knows what the 4 seasons are!
Ok, lets see... in the winter it gets cold, in the spring it warms up a little, in the summer it gets HOT, in the fall it starts to cool off again. TAMRON are you as smart as a 5 year old?
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Face Palm moment for Tamron Hall
Submitted by Boil It Down on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 2:53am.
How can these seemingly intelligent people fall for the Climate Cult? -bidn-
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Submitted by Nonanon on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:21am.
It is amazing and scary how so many people lack any perspective on events. I don't want to minimize what those who suffer from these weather events go through, but the coverage intimates that the storms are getting worse. They are not, but there are more people to hurt or kill and more stuff to damage or destroy than there was in the past. They don't seem to consider that 50, 100, 200, or more years ago how much less there was, thus even stronger storms would have had nothing to damage. F5 tornados could have gone through the empty ground that was there and there would have been no dollar loss. Also if these storms would have taken a slightly different path, there would be a different outcome. But there doesn't seem to be much of a push to have sensible coverage about things any more. Most seems to be based on emotions, and if you try to steer toward a balance, you are labelled cruel or heartless.
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I'll take my cue from Mr Obama. . . .
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:24am.
Tamron Hall is your typical black woman and blames all weather on white people and the technology they created to make life easier.
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The left are predictable. The
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:43am.
The left are predictable. The sun is out-climate change. It's raining-climate change. Obama is speaking-global warming.
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An open letter to Tamron Hall
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:48am.
I was asked to pass this along from my friend:
Dear Tamron Hall,
The climate has always been changing. It's called a clue. Get one.
Captain Obvious
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Submitted by Lgbpop on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:04am.
Stupid broad.
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