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Dwayne johnson played college football

Dwayne johnson played college football, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson rose to fame thanks to his exploits in the pro wrestling ring and got his first break in the movie business as the Scorpion King in 2001’s “The Mummy Returns.”

While the film role may have been seen as a way for producers to rope in fans of Johnson’s wrestling career, it actually sparked what turned out to be a lengthy and lucrative foray into the film world. By this time next year, he’ll have starred in more than 20 movies, while continuing to make his presence felt in the wrestling world.

Wrestling is actually the Johnson family business -- his father Rocky Johnson was a star in the 1970s and '80s, while his Samoan grandfather Peter Maivia was famous in the 1960s.

But before “The Rock,” Dwayne Johnson was a burly defensive lineman that teammates called “Dewey” who wasn’t afraid to walk around in a traditional lava-lava skirt and belt out country music tunes at the University of Miami 20 years ago.

After finishing high school in Pennsylvania, Johnson joined Dennis Erickson’s Hurricanes in 1991, a team that would go on to win the national championship.

Over his four years with the Hurricanes, the 6-foot-5, 290-pound Johnson started only once, appearing in 39 games with a total of 77 tackles and 4.25 sacks.

Still, Johnson left an impression on coaches and teammates that went deeper than his numbers, starting with the man who recruited him, Ed Orgeron, currently the defensive coordinator at USC. Orgeron, University of Miami defensive line coach (1989-1992): "He was a highly recruited kid. We were excited to have him, he came to us ahead of his time. He was developed and was extremely quick. He was a hard worker and a humble young man.

"Everybody liked him. He was easily coachable and everybody was impressed with him. He came in and played a lot as a freshman."

Kevin Patrick, University of Miami teammate (defensive end, 1989-1993): "At that time in college football I don’t think there was any doubt the University of Miami was at the top of their game. If you were on that team and a scholarship player, you were highly recognized.

"You look at those rosters that Dewey was a part of, they were loaded with talent and he was competitive.

"I can remember one of the first times he was on campus, it was an official visit. Our D-line coach [Orgeron], who was recruiting him, he was very proud, and he says, 'Look at my new dog.'

"And you look over and there’s this yoked-up kid with muscles everywhere walking around on the field. He got everyone’s attention. He was a physical specimen from Day 1. He didn’t just become one as soon as he became a wrestler.

Orgeron: "As a freshman, he came out, and back then we didn’t play too many freshmen. But he was very strong, he had some great practices and we were able to play him as a freshman, and at one point we thought maybe we’d start him as a freshman.

"The problem with Dwayne was there was a guy named Warren Sapp who came along the next year." Warren Sapp, University of Miami teammate (1992-1995): "He was a specimen. He looked great. He always looked great. He was tan, curly hair. He was the kind of guy you want your sister to date, because he was a nice guy. I always said that to him.

"When he was [first] there, I was a tight end in high school and I got [to Miami] as a tight end and linebacker, and they moved me over to D-line. I was real reluctant to do so. I thought I was a pretty good tight end and a pretty good athlete, but being 290 pounds, they moved me to D-line and said, 'We need you to rush the passer or you can go home.'

"So I came into the D-line room and sat down, and Dwayne Johnson walks in and says, 'What are you doing here?'

"I said, 'I’m here for your job.' So that’s how me and him had our introduction to each other. I said it jokingly, but I was there for his job."

Orgeron: "You’re talking about one of the best college football players of all time. If not for [Sapp], Dwayne could have been an all-conference, perhaps an all-American."

Sapp: "There was no competition between us. You could ask him and he’d tell you. He became a wrestler and a movie star. I love him to death, but he couldn’t play with me. If he’d tell you anything else he’d be lying to you."

Orgeron: "Dwayne was a good player, but he wasn’t one of our star players. We had some really good defensive linemen.

"He was very athletic, he had great gifts. Great strength. I coached at Syracuse, and if Dwayne had been there, he would have been one of the top linemen we ever had at Syracuse. He was that type of player."

Brad Webber, University of Miami strength coach (1988-1998): "At that time we had so many good players who did such a good job pushing each other, whether it was in the weight room or on the field -- we had two great bookends at that time. We had KP and Warren Sapp.

"Back in the day, Miami had some drills that were pretty cranked up. It was the offensive line versus the defensive line. At that time we had a great defensive line. They had some reps and they got Dewey in there and he got rocked right off the bat.

"And Kevin grabbed him and pulled him out of there and said, 'That’s not how we’re going to do things around here.' He didn’t really appreciate that, so they squared off right there and kind of pushed each other around, and Dewey said, 'I’ll see you in just a little bit.'" Patrick: "We were all best friends and we loved each other but when it boiled down to it, you fought for your job. I can remember getting into a fight with him in the strength coach’s office."

Webber: "After practice things kind of simmered down and we had come into the weight room. And they’re doing some working out and we had a big coach’s office that looked out into the weight room. And KP was in the office kicking back, and I saw Dwayne walk in there and he turned and shut the door and locked it, and looked through that glass window and smiled at me. And I said, 'Oh no, here we go.'"

Patrick: "I was the starter and there was this young kid fighting for his place, I didn’t take s--- from anyone and neither did he.

"I went to put him in his place and he fought back and words were exchanged and next thing you know there was a huge collision in the middle of that office."

Webber: "They start going at it and I ran down through that weight room and had to unlock the door -- in the meantime they had flown over my desk and tore the desk to pieces and knocked everything off there, and they were back in a little bitty hole behind the desk just wearing each other out.

"Dwayne ended up getting on top of him and he was trying to get a hold of his tongue. He was saying, 'I’m going to pull that tongue out of your head if you keep talking that trash.'

"So eventually I dove over on top of both of them, and next thing you know we’re all laying in there. You know how it is: You’re fighting one minute, you’re boys the next. We were laughing about it two minutes after that."

Patrick: "No punches were ever thrown and I think over time this story has gotten a lot bigger than it actually was. But we got after it pretty good and tussled around.

"I think we destroyed everything in that office, including the desk. In books, I’ve gotten his interpretation of the fight and I’ve heard it from his mom, and over the years it’s changed to be more amusing."

Sapp: "When you have a partner in crime and you can go balls-to-the-wall in a ball game and come out it knowing it’s not going to fall off, that bodes well for you.

"I knew I had somebody that was more than capable of playing if I was taken out. He was our do-everything guy. He could play inside and out, he could play all four positions.

"He was the Swiss Army knife. He was our utility guy. It was, 'Dewey, go left end. Go nose. Go right end.' He could do it all.

"He was a jack-of-all-trades, but only a master at wrasslin’.

Patrick: "One of my fondest memories is we got in a fight at San Diego State, and when they were breaking it up, the Aztec Indian was trying to climb a high wall down in the end zone of the stadium and Dewey was right behind him. The Aztec was trying to climb and there’s Dewey trying to yank him down."

Orgeron: "His uncle was Jimmy Snuka, he came from a wrestling family. So we knew about that.

"I remember one day walking off the field, he hadn’t had a good day and I said something like, 'You know, Dwayne, you should just become a wrestler.'" Sapp: "So we used to joke with him by saying, 'When you get done with football, you’re going to go into wrestling, right?'

"And he’d say: 'Damn right, bitch.'

"And we were like, "All right, that’s cool by us.' It was just our way of joking with him and passing time.

"So I get to the NFL and [teammate] Derrick Brooks is a wrestling nut. He watched wrasslin’ all the time: 'Monday Night Raw,' 'Tuesday Night Thunder,' whatever it is, he watched it. And I was his roommate. I’d come in the room and I’d be like, 'Oh come on. It’s Monday night, there’s football on, and we’re not watching football?'

"And Brooks would say, 'No, no: "Monday Night Raw."'

"One day I walk in the room and I hear 'candy ass.' And I said, 'What the heck?'
That’s what coach O [Orgeron] used to say.

"And then I started watching."

Patrick: "The first time I heard Joe Diffie’s song 'If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)' was because Dewey was sitting next to me on the way back from Colorado singing his tail off.

"He’s got a pretty good voice and was big into country music. We’d see him in the apartment he lived in just singing his tail off. We thought this was pretty good. He always had that, and in combination with his family background, we knew he was going to be something special if not on the football field but in another line of work."

Webber: "Football’s an emotional game and it gets hot and heavy, but that’s one thing about those Miami teams, we were all family and still are. You don’t see some of them for 10 or 20 years, but when you do, it’s like you never left. It’s a special place and a tight bond between all those people."

Patrick: "The one thing I say about Dewey is that he’s one of the most down-to-earth, most humble guys that I have ever been around.

"He’s as quality as it gets -- that could not have happened to a better person. It’s kind of cliché, but he’s a guy who worked his ass off.

"It’s interesting to see how his career has developed over time. I was taking my kids to see 'The Tooth Fairy' and I remember my kids saying, 'We’re going to see daddy’s friend in the movie.' And they were obviously excited."
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A day in the life of the Today programme

It’s 3.20am and Today programme night editor Tamzen Audas is bellowing down the phone line at Radio Five Live for using the same clip as her in its morning broadcast.

Otherwise, the Today programme office is quiet as I arrive to sit in on the early morning shift. There’s a team of four – editor, two producers and a broadcast assistant – working from 8pm Sunday night to 9am the following morning. Editors rotate between day and night shifts.

The final hour before presenters Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton arrive at 4am is the most pressurised as the team finish off the briefings on each story for the morning’s show.

The pressure is also on because Monday’s edition of Today is the hardest to put together, says Audas. The weekend makes it difficult to contact people for stories and the newspapers have, this week, proved unfruitful for leads.

The agenda’s looking something like this: DIY dental treatments, plans to promote use of UHT milk, the Booker prize, the Congo (‘a bit obscure,’quips Stourton), Michael Fish and a debate on abortion – to fill the big 8:10 slot.

There are briefs to be tweaked, questions to be asked (at one point, Audas demands the fact be ‘triple checked, I want it triple checked”). Post is opened, Montague especially enjoying her ‘fan mail”, one of which describes her delivery as ‘boorish”, but she takes it in good humour, especially considering it is 4.30am.

The early editions of this morning’s papers are scanned and stories corrected where necessary in the newspapers review. But very often, the programme will simply report what the papers write, says the editor. ‘Besides,’adds Stourton, ‘if we did check everything we’d never run anything from the Daily Express.”

As Today goes to air, Audas sits on the other side of the studio wall behind the four-desk team, like the captain of a ship. Ultimately, she says, the buck stops with her, which means she overrules everyone including the most tenacious presenters. ‘You have to take responsibility for what’s in the programme. What the editor says goes – it’s how it should be,’she says.

Criticism and comment are mainstays of the programme. As it moves into its final half hour, Audas keeps her eye on the clock but her mouse on emails. Abortion statistics are disputed, MP Ben Bradshaw’s claims challenged and a woman complains that she wasn’t forewarned about the abortion discussion and had to spend breakfast fielding questions on the topic from her eight and 10 year-old daughters.

The pace behind the studio wall can be frantic as guests are lined up on phone lines or in person. News items are shuffled around to keep to time slots. Stourton makes a squeamish face when a piece on the rise of Chlamydia is slipped into the latter end of the programme.

‘It’s not something one really wants to discuss at this time of the morning,’he says later in the post programme catch up. Here, the edition is reviewed and any issues ironed out. ‘The test is if it sounded normal, if it sounded good on-air. It doesn’t matter if it was frantic back here,’says Audas before she turns her attention to not falling asleep on the train ride home.

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American Pie 14.11.05

American Pie Should newspapers charge for reading its star
columnists on line? That’s the debate that has arisen over the decision
of the NY Times to charge a fee (the equivalent of about 75 p a week)
to read the paper’s top columnists on a computer. Regular subscribers
don’t pay anything. For them the service is free. Many people –
including the columnists involved – were sceptical and suggested it
would never work. But The Times is claiming that 270,000 people , about
half of whom already subscribe to the print edition, have in just over
six weeks signed up for the extra service. Which means half of them –
that’s about 135,000 – have plumped down hard cash. Of course it’s a
lot less than the million or more who lash out as much as $600 (almost
350 pounds) a year for the regular daily on-the-doorstep edition of The
Times. And it’s a lot less than the 20 million or more “visitors” who
log in every month to the NY Time’s regular website. So what does it
mean? The NY Times is supposedly delighted by the figures – which are
higher than expected. But is it enough to match the continuing erosion
of readership of papers like the NY Times? Some critics suspect not.,
The figures to remember they say is that two thirds of the income for
papers like The Times comes from advertising – and advertiser likes to
see what they are paying for. The one paper here that seems to have
overcome this is the Wall Street Journal which has 764,000 subscribers
to its web site, and even charges readers who already subscribe to the
paper, although at a reduced rate. The Journal however is the
exception. In most cases experts say that for every dollar a newspaper
loses in advertising revenue because of its switch-over to a website,
only 33 per cent goes into the on-line pocket. As more readers switch
from print to web sites newsprint and distribution cost will go down.
But enough to justify the switch?

As if the New York Times didn’t
have enough on its agenda â€¦it’s planning to enter a new field: It’s
about to launch a sports magazine. It will be called Play and will make
its debut in February.. The Times will be up against one of the
strongest magazines in the field, Sports Illustrated.. But with one
difference . Instead of being sold on news stands it will be included –
at no extra charge – in the Sunday editions of the NY Times. It will be
aimed,. says editor Mark Bryant, at people who play sports rather than
watching them.

On the same score, how are freebies doing. these
days? The takeover of the New York Village Voice – oldest of the
so-called “alternative” newspapers, founded 50 years ago by Norman
Mailer and which originally sold for 5 cents a copy in New York’s
bohemian Greenwich Village, but in recent years switched to a give-away
– means that one group, New Times Media, now owns 17 free weekly papers
in the US with a combined circulation of almost 2,000,000. The chain
includes freebies in such big cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Dallas. Apart from the wary eye that the US Justice Dept has cast on
the merger because of anti-trust laws, there are some who believe that
freebies are not the success some claim. For example they are not it
seems cutting into the sales of regular newspapers. When they do gain
readers its usually because of the distribution methods – giving them
away at railway and bus stations, rather than in street-corner boxes.
And that’s not cheap. Most give-away vendors get paid around nine
dollars – that’s almost five pounds – an hour. As for attracting new
readership to newspapers, most analysts say that is not happening.

is another big investigation under way in Washington. This time into
who leaked to The Washington Post that the CIA is running a secret
network of prisons in Eastern Europe and other countries where
suspected terrorists are interrogated. The suspicion is that classified
information was disclosed. The investigation was ordered just two weeks
after perjury and other indictments were filed against Lewis Libby, the
former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was accused of being the
secret informant in the CIA agent case involving the New York Times and
Time Magazine.The Washington Post story claimed the CIA has set up
secret detention centres in as many as eight countries in the last four
years. The writer: another woman journalist Diana Priest who up to now
has declined to comment on the story – and where she got it,.

anyone wonders why Judy Miller was so inclined to keep her mouth shut
about the name of her informant in the CIA investigation, they should
perhaps look to her childhood. Her father, Bill Miller, was the owner
of a nightclub called Bill Miller’s Riviera, in Fort Lee just across
the Hudson River from Manhattan . It was reportedly a swank place with
an illegal casino where Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jnr
launched their careers. It was also a hang-out it’s said of local
gangsters, including members of the Cosa Nostra or Mafia. And what is
the Mafia’s motto? Omerta – which means keep a tight lip.

with Rupert Murdoch did not attract that many bidders. Aimed at raising
money for the Jerusalem College of Technology, which the chairman of
News Corp has supported in the past, the bidding (for lunch for five at
News Corps US headquarters) was supposed to start at $25,000 (just over
14,000 pounds) . The first bid over that figure was from German
publisher Norman Rentrop who bid the equivalent of 14,100 pounds. .
Thirty two bids later (most on the last day) the final – and anonymous
bid from someone using the codename “wabenhood” was for $57,100 (just
over 32 ,000 pounds) .. or roughly 6, 000 pounds a head. After the
bidding closed “wabenhood” was identified as Bill Zanker, chairman of a
company called The Learning Annex which promotes self-help courses and
lectures,. He said he has been a long-time admirer of Murdoch and hoped
to learn a lot at the luncheon.. Bon appetit!

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Picture Editors' Guild Awards: full list of winners

The Associated Press‘s Matt Dunham was named photographer of the year at last night’s Picture Editors’ Guild Awards.

Dunham also scooped the royal photographer of the year prize for his photo of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall coming under attack from protestors in central London.

The expanded awards contest had nine categories including a new section recognising the impact of citizen photography.

Former Sunday Times editor Sir Harry Evans, currently editor-at-large for Reuters, helped present awards at the event, which were hosted by the BBC’s Kate Silverton in London.

The awards were judged by a panel of 12 senior picture editors representing national and regional publishers and media agencies in the UK, with the chairman’s award for contribution to the industry going to double Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas, who travelled from Germany to receive the honour.

Guild chairman Alan Sparrow said: ‘Ours is a competitive and sometimes combative occupation but we come together on occasions like this to celebrate and admire the work of some of our most talented colleagues and rivals.”

A selection of the winning images will go on display at the Museum of London from the end of September until January 2011.

Here is the full list of winners:

Photographer of the year

Matt Dunham

News photographer of the year

Winner – Carl Court

Commended – Matt Dunham, Paul Hackett, Jeremy Selwyn

Photographer of the year

Winner – Dave Benett

Commended – Wattie Cheung, Jon Enoch, Mike Marsland

Business photographer of the year

Winner – Christopher Ratcliffe

Commended – Jason Alden, Dan Kitwood

Young photographer of the year

Winner – Matt Lloyd

Commended – Adam Gerrard, Don Romney, Justin Tallis

Sports photographer of the year

Winner – Mike Egerton

Commended – Marc Aspland, John Giles, Ian McNicol

Royal photographer of the year

Winner – Matt Dunham

Commended – Chris Furlong, Christopher Jackson, Toby Melville

Regional photographer of the year

Winner – Anthony Chappel-Ross

Commended – Simon Hulme, Cathal McNaughton, David Moir

Citizen photographer of the Year

Winner – Ben Jacobson

Commended – Charlie Forgham-Bailey, Peter Dewhirst, Chris Smith

Photo essay photographer of the year

Winner – Dan Kitwood

Commended – Mark Bickerdike, Matt Dunham, Jack Hill

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SMG refuses to increase salaries for multiskilling

Negotiations between the NUJ and management of the Scottish Media Group over the introduction of desktop editing equipment into the newsroom at Grampian Television have broken down. SMG had refused to increase journalists’ salaries to match the multiskilling demanded of them.

The union had been campaigning against SMG’s plan to introduce desktop editing systems to Grampian TV newsrooms without consultation since last year, fearing it would mean even greater workloads. The NUJ threatened to disrupt the implementation if a pay agreement was not forged with an “embargo” on the introduction of the new technology.

A meeting to negotiate details of the introduction of newsroom desktop editing was scheduled for last Wednesday, when journalists had expected an “encouraging” package, that would include additional support staff to take up some of the extra burden on journalists, as well as a pay rise commensurate with their new multitasking roles.

SMG management decided to retain six of the 14 videotape editing jobs initially marked for redundancy to support the journalists, but flatly refused to agree to a pay increase.

The NUJ will now call for a ballot to boycott the introduction of desktop editing until the union “sees some movement” from SMG management.

Paul Holleran, NUJ Scotland’s organiser, said: “We are a bit surprised that it’s now ground to a halt given the level of progress we’ve made so far.

“When the BBC introduced multi-skilling with its videojournalists, it raised wages accordingly.”

Meanwhile, journalists at Scottish TV and Grampian TV have finally accepted a two-year pay deal of 2.5 per cent in the first year and 3 per cent from January 2004. Holleran said the deal amounted to increases of 22 per cent “for at least 60 people” at the group.

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The British Journalism Awards

A number of the British Journalism Awards judges felt uncomfortable about the fact that Impress were a sponsor of the event.
Although the judging process is entirely independent of any sponsorship, they nonetheless felt troubled by their involvement because of their strongly held views on the issue of press regulation.
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The race to succeed David Goodhart as editor of up-market current affairs magazine Prospect has resulted in a shortlist of three candidates – all women, according to the Independent on Sunday.

The Feral Beast column reports that the candidates are: Susannah Herbert, former editor of News Review in The Sunday Times; Bronwen Maddox, currently chief foreign commentator at The Times and Anne McElvoy, political columnist at the Evening Standard.

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Winehouse video spikes Sun's web traffic

New ABCe figures out today confirmed the Sun’s claim that its exclusive Amy Winehouse video had significantly spiked traffic to its website.

A week after the Sun splashed with a story based on a video it had obtained which appeared to show singer Winehouse smoking a crack pipe, the paper said 1 million people had watched the video online.

According to ABCe data for January published today, 1,549,168 million unique users visited the Sun Online on Tuesday, 22 January, the day that the Winehouse story broke. Another 1,140,065 million visited the site the following day.

By contrast, the Sun Online recorded around 800,000 unique users on most other weekdays in January.

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Sample Local ListingsIt is very important that you are discovered as people are searching for products and services when they are using one of the hundreds of local directory listing services in the marketplace. The local listings have some extremely compelling data for local Greensboro Marketing or local marketing within your given city. There are several hundred directories that give your business the potential of being discovered with an opportunity to obtain local business from those consumer searches. Enclosed is a small sample listing of just a few of the local directories.

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Simply try a new technique when you craft your next marketing message. If the marketing hook is the same old stale idea, then a new technique or approach to your messaging could bring in new customers to check out your products or services.

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What can Greensboro SEO do for your business?

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As a business within given communities, you have to make community involvement part of your Greensboro marketing strategy and plan. The success of your business or organization will directly depend on how effectively you reach the general public in your marketplace.

ID-10071926EdWe see many companies elect to start with community involvement activities, such as a sponsorship endeavor or speaking engagements. To ensure consistency with a brand in community involvement, we usually find that a community involvement assessment and a marketing plan are later needed. Staff members may be sending this logo to that organization and another logo to a second organization and it creates mass confusion for the general public.

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As we come to our fourth in a series of marketing assessments for your business, we come to an online and mobile marketing assessment. This segment of assessments will have an important focus for you to be ready with Greensboro Marketing, Winston-Salem Marketing, High Point Marketing, or local marketing for your targeted marketplace areas.

The world is becoming more mobile by the minute and I recommend that you review Google and Nielsen’s partnership effort to better understand consumer habits in the mobile shopping process. Google.com/Think is where you can find this and other relevant research.

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Below is a list of currently profitable books you can buy in the Amazon marketplace (MF) and the resell in FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon). The net profit is the minimum current FBA price minus FBA fees minus the cost to buy the book including shipping. It does not include the price to ship the book to Amazon (typically less than $1 per book when you send many books at once).
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      Yes you would have to be in FBA to to resell the books I have posted except a few rare occasions. FBA books sell for much more than MF which is where the profit comes from.

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September 1999

The Trumpet Herald is a commentary on certain current events in the light of inspired prophecy.

"The land was filled with violence"

New grisly violence seared the consciousness of the world as an Atlanta day-trader murdered his entire family, plus nine office workers at two Atlanta brokerage houses, then took his own life.

One week later, another disgruntled worker in Pelham, Alabama, shot to death three other workers at two different job sites. "Everybody around here is just regular working people," said one carpet store owner in Pelham. The shootings, she said, "were just beyond my comprehension" (USA Today, August 6, 1999, p. 3A).

The following week, an anti-Semtitic zealot opened fire on helpless little children at a Jewish Community Center in El Granada, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. Again observers everywhere sought answers as to why anyone would commit such a ghastly deed.

In the wake of all this, political analyst Bill Schneider spoke of what he calls a "values panic" on the August 13 edition of CNN's "Inside Politics." He spoke of the abject physical fear these shooting incidents are creating, and how many think "culture control" is as important—if not more so—than gun control.

"Do people want more regulation and censorship?" Schneider asks. "No. But they do want leaders with moral authority."

The problem is, unless laws are passed, a political leader's moral authority amounts to little more than words. As society grows more and more unsafe, words will seem increasingly inadequate without coercive regulation.

Inspired Commentary;

Again we recall the Bible's description of the world before the flood, in which we read that "the earth was filled with violence" (Gen. 6:11). Christ compared the days just before Noah's flood to the world's condition just prior to His return: "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man" (Luke 17:26).

Again we recall inspiration regarding this comparison of past and present conditions:

"They [the people who lived before the flood] worshipped selfish indulgence,—eating, drinking, merry-making,—and resorted to acts of violence and crime if their desires and passions were interfered with. . . . The land was filled with violence. War, crime, murder, was the order of the day. Just so will it be before Christ's second coming" (SDA Bible Commentary, vol., 1, 1090).

Weather Watch and Natural Disasters

Late July and early August witnessed a continuation of bizarre and destructive weather, as a killer heat wave scorched the Midwestern United States and left over 200 dead. Crops of all kinds have been well-nigh destroyed from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania.

The strange weather got even stranger as tornadoes touched down in such unlikely places as Long Island, New York, on August 9, and in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 11. The Salt Lake twister left one dead, 73 inured, and scores of buildings damaged. The one death was the first tornado fatality in Utah's recorded history.

In other natural-disaster news, a powerful earthquake (magnitude 7.4 according to CNN Interactive) shook northwestern Turkey on August 17 at 3:02 a.m. killing thousands and injuring many more thousands. Two earthquakes rocked the Nevada desert on the first of August registering 5.6 and 6.2, respectively, on the Richter scale. The same day saw floods ravage South Korea, leaving a wide trail of destruction. Two days later more floods wreaked havoc in Thailand, and a typhoon devastated the Philippines.

Inspired Commentary:

Once more we review the inspired prediction of what we now see in present natural chaos:

"Even now he [Satan] is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous" (The Great Controversy, p. 589-590).

More on Cloning

The Forum section of USA Today, August 10, 1999, contained a headline, "Concerns over human-animal experiments overblown" (p. 15A). The article insisted that while some scientists are exploring the possibility of cross-breeding animals with humans, such experiments are neither likely to succeed, nor are the majority of scientists likely to approve of such experiments because—so we are assured—most scientists are "too ethical." Those now trying to get the U.S. Patent Office to forbid such experiments are being accused of needlessly "thwarting research" because of what are thought to be needless fears of what scientists might do.

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Optimistic observers might repose great faith in human morality, but we know from the inspired record what has happened in mankind's history. Again, from the modern prophet's pen:

"But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere. God proposed to destroy by a flood that powerful, long-lived race that had corrupted their ways before him" (Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, p. 64).

Whatever the ancient "amalgamation" was, human with human and beast with beast, or human with beast, the above statement seems ominous indeed in the context of modern genetic manipulation.

Church-State News

In the wake of the Littleton tragedy last spring, state legislatures in Alaska, Nevada, Louisiana, and South Carolina have either passed or are presently considering laws to bring organized prayer back to the public schools. One state legislator in Louisiana declared, regarding the school prayer bill she supports: "If we are afraid to stand up for God, when all the storms and hurricanes come, He will turn his back on us" (Church & State, July-August 1999, p. 21).

Inspired Commentary:

Again we are reminded of the modern prophet's warning regarding religious legislation in the last days:

"Let the principle once be established in the United States that the church may employ or control the power of the state, that religious observances may be enforced by secular laws; in short, that the authority of church and state is to dominate the conscience, and the triumph of Rome in this country is assured" (The Great Controversy, p. 581).

The statement cited earlier from Louisiana reminds us of another warning, following the statement we cite so often in this newsletter regarding natural disasters in the last days:

"It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity" (Ibid., p. 590).

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Top 10: Online Dating Profile Mistakes

So you joined an online dating site, and while you got a lot of action at the beginning, you really haven’t been hearing from the types of women you’d actually like to date. What’s wrong? Is it them? Is it you? In fact, the problem may be your profile. Your online dating profile is who you are in the virtual world of online dating, so you should be very critical about what you place in it. Here are 10 mistakes to avoid making in your online dating profile.

1. Using a bad user name
Your user name says a lot about you. Either go with a user name which is significant and says something about you or one which is anonymous, such as “Jack2435”. Resist the temptation to refer to significant numbers such as your age, phone numbers, date of birth, etc in your user name as this gives away unnecessary personal information.

2. Not using a photo in your profile
This is one of the biggest reasons your profile won't get any hits and likely no messages. Women are attracted to men – how they look, first and foremost. When engaging in online dating, everything else in your profile can make for an interesting person, but you really can’t blame women for not clicking through a profile with no photo.

Using bad profile pictures
Your profile pictures are your match’s first impression of you, and the more interesting photos you have, the more likely a woman is to connect with one of them and feel compelled to write you or return an e-mail from you. One bad picture on your profile can ruin any attraction from a potential date, so make sure all of your photos are showing you at your best. They must be recent and preferably taken within the past year.

Make sure that you are smiling and avoid submitting pictures of you posing with your shirt off or wearing some tank-top. You also want to avoid placing photos of your dog or cat because they don't really say much about you as a person. Never submit a photo of you with your arms around your ex and by all means, avoid submitting a photo of yourself posing in a bathroom mirror holding your phone!

4. Having an incomplete profile
Online dating sites put a lot of thought into the questions they ask you to answer, and if you’re not doing your part in filling out your profile, you can’t blame female online daters for skipping over your profile. Treat the online dating profile questionnaire like a conversation with the woman of your dreams. The more complete you are, the better opportunity you have for finding an ideal match.

5. Writing your life story
in your profile
Don't tell your life story. You need to leave a little mystery so that women will feel like there are still things to get to know about you even after they read your profile. If you dish out your entire life history on page one, then what's left for them to discover? Say just enough to paint a realistic picture of yourself and what you're looking for so women will get a good idea of who you are but without boring them with too much information. Be original and watch your grammar and spelling.

6. Lying about yourself
It may be very tempting to tell white lies about your age, that six-pack you’re boasting about which is really a one-pack, or your habits; but remember, women are making choices based on what you say, and will only feel let down when they meet you and discover that you were lying the whole time. If all you're after is a casual or discreet type of relationship, then say so up front. Also, don't mislead women into thinking you want a serious relationship when you don't. Being honest with your potential dates will pay off in the long run.

7. Being generic and bland
Avoid using tired lines like “I enjoy long walks in the park, dining out and being with friends.” Who doesn’t? What does this really tell a potential date about you? Nothing! Be descriptive about the things that are important to you. Be unique, descriptive and original.

8. Placing photos of your children on your profile
Women initially want to get to know you as an individual, and although in any new serious relationship the new partner must be able to get on with your children, this should not be done from day one. You also need to consider that online predators are lurking everywhere on the web and you wouldn't want to place your children at risk.

9. Being negative and self-deprecating about yourself
When creating your online dating profile, don't complain about how lonely you are, how tired you are of the club scene, how badly you've been hurt before or how you don't want any drama. Remember, being a challenge to women is a good thing, and you want a potential date to look at your profile and see a confident man who knows what he wants and isn't afraid to say it. Present yourself as confident and assertive, not negative and referring to yourself as just "average."

10. Being overtly sexual
It is not necessary to mention sex or the different positions you enjoy doing unless you specifically want to attract matches who also want the same thing. If you are looking for a serious relationship, you might end up getting messages from weirdos or sex-crazed women asking you out all the time.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

8 Ways to Ruin a First Date

So you’ve convinced a woman to go out with you. After so much careful progress and planning, the last thing you need is to screw up on the first date. Although meeting a woman one-on-one can be nerve-wracking, a man only has one chance to make a good first impression. Ruining the first date is easy to do, but if you listen to at least a few of these warnings, you might just make it through the end of the date.

1. Arriving late

Showing up late is probably one of the biggest mistakes there are for a first date. It just starts the first date out on the completely wrong foot and shows your date that you're not very considerate. On the other hand, arriving early might give you the advantage of being able to see your date before she sees you.

2. Being too nervous

A woman understands that you may be a little nervous on a first date, but trying to calm your nerves by ordering too many alcoholic beverages can be disastrous. A woman doesn't want to kiss a man who's passed out, and she definitely doesn't want to have to carry you out of the restaurant. Keep your drinking to a minimum and don't get drunk and definitely don't try to get your date intoxicated.

3. Choosing the wrong venue

Certain types of venues are not appropriate for first dates. When considering good dating ideas, women want something that’s not too cheap, but also not too expensive. Taking your date out to a fast food joint tells her that you’re cheap and that you really don't care to impress her and might end the date early.

4. Talking about your past dates

Talking about your ex, your past experiences with your baby momma’s, or how your last girlfriend did you wrong, and most of all...talking about sex will definitely make your date feel uncomfortable...and could get you slapped!

5. Pretending to be someone you're not

A sure way to ruin a first date is to act like someone you are not. You don't have to be a macho, alpha male guy all the time. On the other hand, you don't have to be a needy wuss who lets a woman run all over you. Plain and simple--just be yourself. If you and your date aren't compatible, just accept it and move on.

6. Being too aggressive

Doing things like being too overly aggressive and touchy-feely with your date can put her off, especially being that you just met. Most women don’t like to be touched on the first date, so don’t start rubbing her leg or start tracing little light circles on her back with your fingers, telling her that you want to see her naked unless, of course, she tells you that she's completely comfortable with it. Show a woman you are interested by keeping your hands off.

7. Discussing your money problems

Although the economy is tough for nearly everyone right now,
it's best to avoid a conversation about your lack of funds with a woman you'd like to take home. Although she may not judge you negatively for being broke, a woman wants to feel that she (and the bill) will be taken care of if she sticks with you.

8. Answering your cell phone

Regularly answering cell phone calls (especially from other women) while you are out together with your lady is a big no-no. A woman wants to feel that she's the full focus of your attention and will feel insulted and disrespected that you would take these calls right in front of her--especially if she already has told you that it bothers her.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Answering Women's Questions

Good communication is the foundation for good relationships. Some women ask direct questions, seemingly designed to unravel the core of a man, while others simply ask questions to pass time or make conversation. Women are extremely smart in the dating world and the depth of a woman's questions will vary, depending upon her level of interest in a man or the level of her relationship with him.

Answering women's questions is a common frustration for men. Women ask men questions for different reasons and it seems that no matter what answer we give, it doesn’t seem to satisfy them. Men have a tendency to approach a question with a solution; however, when women ask a question, they are not necessarily seeking an answer. A woman who is aware and well-educated in the areas of emotions and relationships will know how to communicate with men in a direct manner; however, lots of women use questions to seek appreciation and assurance and to make indirect statements. Some questions they ask are designed specifically not to generate a response, while other questions require immediate answers.

Questions women ask are usually lighter and less intimidating earlier in a relationship, but become more intense as a relationship matures. Generally, women want to know things like what you do for a living and your dating history because these are two major clues to revealing the benefits you can offer her and to find out what you're all about. Always remember that guys who brag about their jobs or money, though they may think they’re impressing a woman, are really making themselves an easy target for gold diggers and manipulative women.

Early in a relationship, whenever a woman asks you any kind of personal question (especially when it doesn’t seem to fit in the conversation) you should get a little suspicious about it. You can definitely tell her some of what she wants to know, but remember--some questions women ask are designed to make a man fail, so always phrase your answers and reply accordingly or throw a question back at her to actually elicit more information about her. If she complains that you're being difficult, just laugh at her. Remember--being a challenge to women keeps them interested and by learning to keep mystery in your dating, you'll create a challenge for them and really engage their mind's and emotions.

When answering your woman's questions, pay attention to her emotional state and her non-verbal cues like body language, voice tone, etc...Pay attention to her reactions to your words, learn to suppress your urge to throw a direct answer back at her and learn to just be sensitive to what she's saying and not saying. If you pay enough attention to her and raise your awareness about what’s going on in the conversation, all of her non-verbal messages and signs will start making sense to you. In other words--read between the lines and listen for the REAL question.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

4 Signs Your Girlfriend Is Married

signs a married woman likes you
So you've finally met the girl of your dreams; however, just when things are getting good, her spouse contacts you and accuses you of trying to destroy his marriage, and your "dream girl" disappears out of your life just like that.

For one reason or another married women do sometimes stray. If you're not careful, dating married women could get you caught up in a very bad situation that you may not see coming. So how do you know if your love interest is already taken? Here are some signs:

1. She's tells you that she's almost single

A woman may tell you that she's separated from her husband, or that her divorce is almost final. Almost doesn't count and inviting women like this into your life is like inviting heartbreak, emotional and possibly even physical pain.

Your meetings with her are strange in every way
Does she always want to go to your house? Do you even know where she lives? If she won't give you basic information like her phone number, but rather insists only on calling you, that should be a red flag. The same can be said if she will only give you her cell phone or work number and even then she won't return your calls. These things don't happen in a normal dating relationship, so if you're experiencing this, there's probably something wrong.

She displays strange behavior on your dates
Does she stutter and worry excessively when you ask her innocent questions? Does she answer some phone calls but completely avoids other calls in your presence? If her cell phone rings on your dates and she has to urgently flee from you to answer it, you need to start wondering why. Also, if the woman you're dating insists on only being seen with you in certain places and at certain times, she may be avoiding certain areas so she isn't seen by anyone that she knows that could tell her spouse about what's going on.

She avoids talking about family or past relationships
Usually, questions about family and/or past relationships come up in the course of dating conversations; but, if she seems uncomfortable talking about such subjects, or if her body language indicates that she may be lying, your suspicions may be warranted.