- Twitter remains a loaded
gun in the hands of professional athletes who have neither the license nor the
intelligence to handle it. Adding in more technology to the mix doesn’t help
either, as evidenced by the curious case of Denver Broncos
linebacker D.J. Williams. Like many teams, the Broncos are turning to tablet
computers in lieu of traditional playbooks. The team gave players iPads this
offseason as an alternative to more customary playbooks and Williams happily
notified his Twitter followers of the development – by apparently revealing defensive
formations when he tweeted out a picture of his digital playbook Friday. The
image revealed what appeared to be six formations of one defensive play that
had the label "Sink Sam 1 Tite (Formation Adjustment).” A team official
quickly contacted Williams and the image was deleted, but as any athletes who
has sent out an ill-advised tweet knows, once you put a message or image out
there, there is no way to completely erase it from the Internet. "Coach
just told me I have to learn a new position over the weekn,, we have IPads as
playbooks now, but I'm old skool I'm using flash cards," Williams
originally tweeted when he posted the picture. He later attempted to diffuse
the drama by tweeting a second message "Dear Fans: My post about learning
a new position and the fact that our playbooks are now iPad was all for you."
Whatever you say, D………..
- Who isn’t concerned
about a possible zombie attack? Knowing that the undead may be
coming your way with ill intentions has a way of reshaping one’s priorities and
in the quest to stay safe from a zombie attack, what better weapon to have than
zombie bullets? Hornady Manufacturing is ahead of the curve on this one
and is manufacturing zombie bullets as quickly as possible and shipping them to
sporting goods and gun stores across the United States. “Be PREPARED – supply
yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse with Zombie Max ammunition from Hornady!
Loaded with PROVEN Z-Max bullets… MAKE DEAD PERMANENT!” reads a message on the
company’s website. How serious is the threat? Serious enough that company
spokesman Everett Deger feels the need to pretend that even though the bullets
are real, they’re only meant to be used on targets and not on people or zombies.
Mmm hmm, sure thing. No use for them on actual zombies, wink, wink. Hornady Manufacturing
president Steve Hornady came up with the idea for Zombie Max bullets because of
his love for zombie movies and shows. “After it gained some acceptance among
some of us here in the company got on board with the idea we decided
just to have some fun with a marketing plan that would allow us to create some ammunition designed
for that … fictional world,” Deger said. Not surprisingly, Deger said Zombie
Max bullets are Hornady’s most successful products. “This is probably one of
the only (product) launches that we’ve seen when people who are not in the
hunting and shooting industry will go out and they will purchase this,”
Deger explained. Well, duh. A person need not be in the hunting or shooting
industry to need to be safe from a zombie onslaught…………
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch!
Myanmar is essentially one big, continuous riot nowadays and the fun continued Saturday
as security
forces in western Myanmar opened fire on rioters who burned hundreds of homes
in sectarian violence that killed at least seven people. While relative calm
has been restored for the time being, the rioting signaled the furor still
alive and well in long-standing tensions between Buddhist residents and Muslims.
The Buddhists consider the Muslims illegal settlers from neighboring
Bangladesh. Although it is largely a regional issue, the government fears the
unrest could spread elsewhere because the split also runs along religious
lines. Friday’s violence in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships in Rakhine state featured
rampaging mobs, troops brought in to reinforce police and a lot of gunfire and
actual fire. Security officials imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and banned gatherings
of more than five people. State media reports placed the number of people
killed in the rioting at seven, with 17 wounded. An impressive 494 houses, 19
shops and a guest house were burned down. Initial blame was placed on 1,000
supposed terrorists, some of whom also stormed Maungdaw General Hospital. Local
residents identified the angry mob’s members as Muslims, which makes sense because
the area is 90 percent Muslim. To add security to the region, Myanmar naval
forces are taking security measures along the nearby coast on the Bay of
Bengal. The spark that ignited this weekend’s riots was the rape and murder of
a young Buddhist girl last month, allegedly by three Muslim youths. Propaganda
was circulated, tensions were inflamed and on June 3, 10 Muslims were killed by
an angry mob that attacked a bus carrying them from a religious gathering in
Rakhine's Taunggup town. From there, draw a straight line to Friday’s explosive
riots………..
- Music, even rock and roll,
is above all else a business. Even for heavy metal bands, who should be the
hardest rocking of all, business is never far away. Deep
Purple singer Ian Gillan and former Ozzy Osborne guitarist Bernie Tormé needed
something to do with their careers as viable rockers all but over and so they
have teamed up to launch a series of heavy metal business seminars.
Tormé
first rocked with Osborne's band in 1982 but is now on his own and ready to
wade into the corporate world. "I have worked with a fair mix of Class A
rock stars. The music business is a great teacher of life skills such as
negotiating, marketing, teamwork, high performance and so on, both how to do
them well and occasionally the dark side of the force,” he explained. Wait….a “Star
Wars” reference? Is this guy a rock icon, a businessman or a sci-fi dork? To
find out, just attend he and Gillan’s seminar at the Hilton Hotel in Dartford
on June 19. The sessions are organized by Peter Cook, a former business manager
and author of books such “Punk Rock People Management” and “Sex, Leadership and
Rock'n'Roll.” Cook believes the coroprate world has much to learn from the
world of pyrotechnics, guitar solos, big hair, spandex, groupies and copious
amounts of drugs and alcohol. “Procurement managers are not known for throwing
televisions out of windows or for their creativity…What we're teaching them is
about balancing the need for order and structure with a little bit of creative
spark which gives them the edge over their competitors,” Cook said. Lest anyone
think these sessions will be an excuse for un-cool businessmen to hang with
rock stars, just know that the focus will be the importance of discipline.
There may or may not be an after-hours sessions in the hotel’s penthouse suite
on how to properly snort a line of blow off a hooker’s stomach………..
- Two birds, one
health-wrecking stone. Smokers, your next method for kicking your cancer stick
habit has arrived and it fits nicely on your dinner plate. Thanks to researcher
Jeffrey P. Haibach, a graduate research assistant at the University at
Buffalo's department of community health and health behavior, the world not
knows that fruits and vegetables may help smokers quit the habit. Haibach and
his research team examined the cases of 1,000 adult smokers aged 25 and older
and surveyed them on their smoking and eating habits. Fourteen months later,
the smokers took a phone survey to find out how much they had smoked in the
past month. While previous research suggested that people who quit smoking for
less than six months ate more fruits and vegetables than people who still
smoked, Haibach wanted to know smokers who ate more fruits and vegetables were
more likely to kick the habit. The news was good for that thesis, as the
14-month follow-up calls showed that smokers who ate the most fruits and
vegetables were three times more likely to be tobacco-free for a full 30 days
than smokers who ate the least. "We may have identified a new tool that
can help people quit smoking,” Haibach said in a news release. "Granted,
this is just an observational study, but improving one's diet may facilitate
quitting.” Because the findings persisted even after factoring in the smoker's
age, gender, education, household income and race, that suggestion seems fairly
likely. Not only that, but smokers who ate the most fruits and vegetables
smoked fewer cigarettes per day, waited longer to smoke their first cigarette
of the day and scored lower on a nicotine dependence test administered by the
researchers. The obvious question is why broccoli or apple slices would be
helpful in kicking the cancer stick habit. While the study was not aimed at
answering this question specifically, the researchers postulated that it might
be cause the high fiber taken in from fruits and vegetables make people feel
fuller. "It is also possible that fruits and vegetables give people more
of a feeling of satiety or fullness so that they feel less of a need to smoke,
since smokers sometimes confuse hunger with an urge to smoke," Haibach
offered. Oh, and for those who stay
skeleton-like thin due in large part to their filthy smoking habit, eating more
fruits and vegetables would help maintain that svelte physique without the
added bonus of life-ending lung ailments……….
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