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How to Have Whatever You Desire in Life Faster Than You Could've Imagined
We've all seen 'The Secret'. We are all familiar with the Law of Attraction. And we are all familiar with the method presented for manifesting our desires: Ask. Believe. Receive.
If you look at that again, it becomes more clear that the biggest obstacle standing between our wishes (ask) and their fulfillment (receive) is Belief. Most people miss out on the ability to manifest their desires because they lack the belief needed to make it happen. The key to manifesting our goals, then, is in developing a strong sense of belief. But how do we do that?
We do that by using our conscious to influence our subconscious, convincing ourselves that we already have the results that we seek. In order to achieve this, we have been taught to use affirmations, NLP, hypnosis, and other forms to program ourselves for success. These methods are great, and I highly encourage you to use them. However, I would like to focus on a method that has been utilized since before electricity.
The Miracle Of Display Advertising
Jim Carrey once wrote himself a check for $10 Million, even though he was broke and desperate. It was simply his way of advertising his desires back to himself. Remember Jack Canfield's story from 'The Secret' about his $100,000 bill? Again, we are looking at someone who found a way to create a symbol to represent his goals, and then broadcast those goals to himself until it changed his sense of belief, allowing him to attract his success.
In each case (as well as countless others), the method being employed is simply a form of advertising: They were selling their goals to themselves in a way that fostered the belief of "having it now."
Here's The Formula For Self-Advertising:
- Create a Master Goal – This goal should be huge, outlandish, and it should inspire a certain amount of fear. Grant Cardone speaks at length about how bigger goals inspire us to really fight harder and have more fun doing it.
- Turn That Goal Into Some Form of Symbol – Think about billboard advertising. What we want to do here is create a symbol that our mind can understand at a subconscious level. This could be something like photoshopping your face onto a fitter body, or perhaps superimposing yourself onto the summit of K2. In fact, it's a lot of fun to Google search for examples of great display ads and billboards in order to get some creative help. Ultimately you need to make this symbol something from your heart and mind. The more creativity that you apply, the better the end results will be.
- Finish Your Ad With a Killer Slogan – The secret to advertising is to reach the subconscious. The subconscious is ruled by symbols. We can use some words, but we want to keep it as simple as possible. Again, think of how a good billboard only uses words to underline the statement made by the image on display. Keep it to 10 words or less. Pro Tip: This is a great place to utilize short, direct suggestions and/or affirmations. Things like, "I deserve it" or "Do it NOW" work wonderfully for this method.
- Create Lots of Copies – Once you've settled on a final look for your billboard, I would suggest making a minimum of a dozen copies.
"Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true." – Ralph Marston
It's Time To Advertise
Now that we've gotten our display ads created, we want to place them everywhere. The idea is to create a 'surround sound' effect so that there is never a time when our field of vision is missing out on the image of our desire. Does that make sense? Just like any good retailer would utilize his or her walls, shelves, and counters to build confidence in a product or service, we are going to turn our walls into billboard ad spaces.
Begin by thinking of where you spend the most time, and where your vision is fixated during that time. Now, slightly off to either side of your primary focal point, go ahead and place 2 of your ads, one on either side.
Ideal Places For Self-Advertisements:
- Each side of your computer screen, towards the edges of your field of vision.
- Either side of your TV
- The back of your bathroom door, since you look in the mirror everyday
- The back of your front door (most of us leave the house every day)
- Each side of your bedroom door, since you go in and out several times per day
- Your living room, one per wall
- Set it as your phone's Lock Screen
"I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game." – Paul Pierce
There are many other possibilities, but I think the point has been made. We want to turn our homes and our office spaces into an enormous billboard. This will reach our subconscious as quickly as possible, and will result in a requisite shift in our minds.
The purpose of display advertising is to build people's confidence in a brand, product, or service. This confidence is what causes people to buy. Utilizing this same method, we build confidence in ourselves and our goals; effectively selling our goals to ourselves until we begin to believe that we already have the desired outcome.
Give this method a try, and then leave a comment below to share your experiences.
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3 Ways You Can Track Your Habits to Make Significant Improvements in Life
Do you feel sick and tired of all the generic advice on success out there? It's always the same things. Read more, write more, believe in yourself, eat healthy, go to the gym, love your life and your wife. From time to time, all of the articles seemed like they were written by someone who has never experienced real life or any of the struggles they tend to write about.
It's like getting advice from an alien. But nobody ever writes on the details of the struggle. Because they don't know it. To be able to know and understand the struggle, you need to experience it. To live something day in and day out and experience it viscerally means to know something and have a grasp of it.
It is as Walt Whitman said it: "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels. . . . I myself become the wounded person." I went through years of pain to learn how to build habits. I didn't only read books about it (and yes, books are important), but I lived through it.
Because I know that theory and practice are the same in theory, but they are not the same in practice. I had to live it through to be able to give any advice on it.
I did go through the pain and created my habit building system. What I noticed during the process of building my habits was that it can be challenging to track them. Nobody was telling us how to do it, because that's something you learn when you go through the process.
Here are the three different ways you can track your habits:
1. Task done
The way you track this type of habit is by marking if you did your task. By that, I mean "I am going to vacuum the room" and you mark it done/not done or 1/0 in your habit tracker. This way of tracking works the best when you don't know how much time a task will take and you just track if you did or didn't do the task.
I have the same for my writing habit. My daily habit is "Write 500 words." So when I do the task, I immediately open my habit tracker and mark it done. I do this by writing in the tracker the number of words I wrote that day (I don't count social media or texting or things like this- only writing as in pure writing).
This is one of the easiest ways you can track your habit. But if you have a tight schedule, a different way of tracking might be better and this is what I mean.
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them." – Benjamin Franklin
2. Time Allocated
Let's say that you have only 30 minutes for yourself in the morning before the kids wake up. What you do in those 30 minutes counts and that is the second way of tracking your habits.
A great question to ask yourself is "How much time did I spend today on a certain habit?"
For example, let's take the habit I'm developing of the writing 500 words daily. I try to make "write for 20 minutes" a daily habit. This way of tracking your habit works the best if you have a tight schedule or you run your life on "manager time," as Paul Graham would say it.
I use this way of tracking for my daily walking habit where I "walk for 30 minutes" a day, trying to get my 10,000 steps a day count. From July 2018 up to March 2019, my average number of steps per day was 9429 and I did 2,178,120 steps. One kilometer is around 1,250 steps which means I walked 1,742 kilometers in 8 months which is the equivalent of walking from Miami, Florida, to Washington D.C.
There is one more way of tracking your habits, and this one is the best for tasks which are hard to accurately measure.
3. Did I do my best?
How do you measure your habit of being a great dad, husband, boyfriend, or friend? You can't just say "Phone my girlfriend every day and talk to her for 15 minutes" and call it a day. It doesn't work like that. You can talk to your girlfriend for 2 hours straight and it won't make you a great boyfriend. Time isn't the issue here. It's how we use that time.
And that's where the third way of tracking your habits comes into play. "Did I do my best to be an awesome boyfriend, husband, father, or friend today?" And you rank yourself from 1 to 10, 1 meaning that today, you were really lousy, and 10 meaning you were an amazing boyfriend, husband, father, or friend in the world.
"You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." – John C. Maxwell
This makes a massive difference in the lives of not just you, but people around you. It's what Brendon Burchard would call social habits. You can't count love, but sure as hell can you count the effort for love.
You don't have to pick just one way or another. You can combine these different ways of tracking your habits. And yes, even though some habits work better with a particular type of tracking, that doesn't mean that you need to adapt to it.
Experiment and try and see which one works the best for you. Use all three tracking methods if you want to. Just remember to track your habits. Because the Walt Whitman quotes, which I modified a little bit, tells us "I don't ask a successful person how he did it…. I myself become a successful person."
How do you track your habits to make sure you're on the path towards succeeding? Share your advice below!
Why Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone May Be a Bad Idea
Donald Trump famously said, "Avoid your comfort zone – it's probably outdated anyway." It is very good advice for people who are exceptional, but what if you are not exceptional? You probably learned in college that no matter how good you are at something, there are always other people who are better than you.
Are you humble enough to say you are not exceptional? And if so, isn't it possible that your comfort zone is where you belong? Just because you are in your comfort zone, it doesn't mean you don't crave success. Champion boxers never leave their comfort zone to take part-time jobs as a typist. Consider the fact that your comfort zone is the place where you will enjoy the most success.
Why "Comfort Zone" Advice Seems So Correct
Once again, breaking out of your comfort zone may be the right thing to do if you are exceptional. It is especially true for exceptional people because breaking out of their comfort zone is often the only place where they can grow. Yet, that is not the only reason why breaking out of your comfort zone seems like good advice.
The truth is that most people confuse being in a rut with being in their comfort zone. For example, the middle-aged executive who stays in his dead-end job because it is safe, rather than starting a new business selling parachute lessons, is not staying in his comfort zone, he is sticking with his rut. If people tell the middle-aged executive to get out of his comfort zone, they actually mean he should get out of his rut.
However, take the same middle-aged executive who is well respected at work, whose job is not a dead-end one, whose social life thrives because of his job, who's bringing up children, investing, and who is healthy because of his job. If this same person were to leave his job to start a parachute training company, he would be leaving his comfort zone and most probably be making a great mistake.
Isn't the Grass Always Greener On The Other Side?
Taking the previous example, what if the middle-aged executive left his job and his parachute training company offered him all the same things his old job offered him except better? Isn't it always a good idea to try and fail rather than to never try at all?
The question and sentiment is fine, but it is not real life. Ask a person who has tried everything and ask a person who tried a bunch of stuff and then found something he/she enjoyed, and ask which person is happiest. Just because you "Didn't" try something doesn't mean you are missing out.
"The grass isn't always greener on the other side!" – Ricky Gervais
What About People Who Broke Out of Their Comfort Zone?
There is an old "Will & Grace" episode from 2002 called, "Went to a Garden Potty." In it an old man says a line that goes, "I'm Stan's old partner. We started the mattress store together, then he wanted to branch out into other businesses but I said, no I'll just not take any chances, so now I've got the one little store and he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars."
The mattress store story sounds familiar doesn't it? You have read about similar stories in motivational books, but what you rarely read about are people who didn't take risks and still became successful millionaires. A book called, "The Millionaire Next Door" addresses this discrepancy by featuring people who became millionaires by selling caravans and by being dentists. It shows how people who work the same job their entire lives are not schmucks, and that their unexciting success stories are still success stories.
Do not confuse taking risks with being outside of your comfort zone. In the "Will & Grace" example, the character Stan felt outside of his comfort zone with just one store. Stan's comfort zone was taking risks. Stan didn't leave his comfort zone when he went off making millions of dollars, he entered his comfort zone in order to do it.
The people who risk it all on a penny-share company are not doing it to break out of their comfort zone, they are doing it because they feel uncomfortable if they are not taking risks.
"Unexceptional" People Can Be "Exceptionally" Successful in Their Comfort Zone
"I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide." That line is a quote from Larry David, the guy who wrote "Curb your Enthusiasm" and "Seinfeld" and he is worth $400 million.
Stephen King was 27 when he sold his first book, and he was writing long before that. King hasn't left his comfort zone since he was out of college, and he is worth $400 million. One could even say that Stephen King rarely leaves his comfort zone creatively since his stories almost always feature a middle aged man, and many times the middle-aged man has a creative career such as being a writer, painter, etc.
Danica Patrick, when asked how she became the best female racer in the world responded with, "I never do anything out of my comfort zone." Does that mean this woman, who is worth $60 million, never takes risks? You would know the answer if you had ever watched her race.
Do not forget the psychological damage that repeated failure can do to a person. People who say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" have clearly never gone through a terrible time because terrible times often make you weaker.
Repeatedly trying to break out of your comfort zone, only to be kicked back and stomped into the ground (metaphorically speaking) takes its toll and will often sap your enthusiasm to keep going forwards.
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." – Dale Carnegie
Conclusion – He Will Be Back
Have you considered that exceptional people do not have a comfort zone? Take Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose last name has found its way into every spell checker program on the planet. He was a world-class bodybuilder, a record breaking actor, married a Kennedy, and became a US governor.
Some people say he was so successful because he never became comfortable being the best at just one thing. Maybe that is the reason for his success, maybe he wasn't trying to break from his comfort zone…maybe he was trying to find it.
What are your thoughts on being able to succeed while staying your comfort zone? Share your opinions and stories below!
Do These 3 Things Today to Live in the Moment and Have a Better Tomorrow
People always say that life is short, but they fail to remember that while life is short compared to eternity, living is the longest task that we as humans will ever perform.
Some of us take each day as it comes and some of us carefully plan out what we desire each day to bring us. No matter how you go about it, if you're not careful, having an unbalanced point of view as it pertains to life and how to make it better for yourself can bring more pain than it will joy.
Life is filled with decisions and the decisions you make today have the power to shift the course of your tomorrow. Life can sometimes move so quickly that it's hard to think and act while simultaneously balancing all the roles you possess and completing all the tasks you need to complete. Nonetheless, there are ways to navigate the trenches of life so that you're able to enjoy each day as it comes, embrace the possibilities of tomorrow and be present to experience all the moments that make you smile.
If you have a hard time slowing your mind down long enough to pause and breathe, try these three tips:
1. Before you make a decision, ask yourself "why."
According to Psychology experts, one of the easiest steps you can take right now on your journey of de-stressing is to ask yourself hard questions. Sometimes you think, act and speak before you have time to process what is happening inside of you and around you. Knowing this. It could be your lack of intention that's the problem.
As a part of your self-awareness journey, start asking yourself why you are the way you are, why you think the things you think and why you do the things you do before you take action. While an adrenaline rush helps kick you into gear to take action, you want to make sure any action you take aligns with your personal goals.
Self-awareness allows people to recognize what things they do best so they can then go hard on those aspects of their life. It also helps you accept your weaknesses. – Gary Vaynerchuk
2. Instead of planning for the long game, just plan for tomorrow
Worry is the thief of time and joy. If you look at your track record of life events, you may notice that many of the things that caused you the most stress and worry never came to pass. When you think about the direction you want your life to go in, don't stress yourself out wondering what the next five years will look like. Take a moment to breathe, look around you and relax.
When you focus on taking life one day at a time, you'll have more energy to think logically and make the decisions that lead to both short and long-term gains. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you live a happy life? One moment at a time.
3. Fight the urge to prove yourself
We live in a society that forces us to try to convince others of our happiness. According to studies, phones are necessary evils. It seems like you can't live with them and you can't live without them. And for most of us, our phones play such a large role in our day to day that we start and end the day looking at the small screen.
The last time you enjoyed a moment of peace and tranquility, it's likely that you snapped a picture of your surroundings so you could show the world just how much you enjoyed that moment.
Here is the good news, you don't have to prove to anyone that you are happy or that you enjoy your life. Keep some moments to yourself. Protect your peace and your space. Don't let the urge of sharing your journey cause you to be distracted from living in the moment. Don't miss a moment in an attempt to capture the moment. Just be.
"It's the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness." – Richard Branson
Life is what you make of it. You have more control than you know. Life gets so much better when you acknowledge the opportunities instead of the obstacles that come your way. Before you feel an ounce of anxiety as a result of a stressor coming your way, ask yourself "why" you feel the way you do, think for the moment and not for your life and remember that you have nothing to prove to anyone but yourself.
How do you relax with so many distractions in the world? Share your ideas with everyone below!
Follow These 5 Steps to Radically Transform Your Negative Mindset
Struggling with a negative mindset is a very real and common problem, one that often hinders a person's ability to grow and achieve the things in life they want. Oftentimes, it is someone's mindset that determines their level of happiness.
What is a mindset? A mindset is the beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Think about your intelligence, talents, and personality, these are the basic traits of oneselves. A mindset determines how we deal with challenges and obstacles. Which frame the running accounts in our heads and guide us on our life journey.
Experts agree there are two basic types – a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. In a fixed mindset, people believe that their natural traits – intelligence, abilities, and talents are fixed from birth. In a growth mindset, people believe that they can develop their inner traits through learning and determination.
"The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives." – Carol Dweck
Research has shown that 80% of the nearly 60,000 thoughts we have on a daily basis are negative. It also estimated that 98% of those thoughts are a repetition of yesterday. On a subconscious level, people are expecting the worst – almost all of the time. Constant repeated thought patterns turn into beliefs.
These beliefs then combine into a fixed and negative mindset. One where our inner voice is a harsh critic, a worrisome voice, and an anxious being. Luckily – we can employ parts of our brains to change other parts. We can move a fixed mindset into a growth mindset. How?
Here are five steps to radically transform your negative mindset:
Step One – Untangling your thoughts
A very powerful, proven technique for stepping back from the constant flow of thoughts is to look at them with the impartial rational mind. Generally, it is easy to spot these negative thought patterns because they are accompanied by an emotion. Recognizing the emotion tied to anxiety then gives you the power to label it for what it is. The same can be done for many other feeling patterns. These thoughts and feelings start to lose their intensity when repeatedly scrutinized by the rational mind.
Step Two – Examine your beliefs
Using the perspective gained in step one, you can begin to check your belief systems. The fixed mindset creates an internal monologue that is focused on judging: "This means I'm a loser," "I am a better person than they are," "I am not a good wife and mother," "My partner is selfish." Etc.
The key is adopting a growth mindset. A growth mindset is one where it is possible to learn and begin to cultivate positive beliefs. For example – when you find yourself being hard on yourself, consciously change it to something more positive – like when you have failed at something and the negative inner voice is yelling "see – you suck. I knew you'd fail" (a fixed view). Changing this tone to one that is more forgiving to yourself – "its ok – you're only human. Learn from this mistake and you'll do much better next time" (a growth view).
Step Three – Balance Your Risk-Averse fears
Being overly risk-averse in life leads to focusing on catastrophic possibilities. In a fixed mindset, these fears are set in place and the belief is that they cannot be changed. Which results in a human being that is unable to experience life because of fearfulness. Fears can be overcome by setting goals and making detailed plans to accomplish them. Write the specific goals and plans down on paper. If you have your plan written down on paper than you know what you have to do and will not negotiate with your fears when making decisions.
Step Four – Adopt the Habit of Daily Mindfulness Meditation Practice
The practice of mindfulness meditation has been around for 2500+ years. It is what Buddha practiced and is at the heart of many religions. Meditation can be used to see the bigger picture and not focus on the implications of now. More so, mindfulness meditation can delve into each piece of it – old fears, habitual self-loathing, shying away from challenges and eliminate these pains.
What is meditation anyway? At the core, it is the mind's ability to look inward. As discussed above – it can look at the thoughts, emotions, beliefs, fears, hopes, attraction, and avoidance of oneself. It can gradually quiet the negative internal monologue. Research shows that meditation increases a sense of happiness and contentment. Mediation makes space for growth by eliminating underlying stress, depression, and anxiety.
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." – Buddha
Step Five – Shape Your Mindset With Visions and Goals
Every person has hopes and dreams that they want to accomplish. However, often we feel powerless to do so. By setting specific goals and detailed plans to accomplish them, you can start to break free from negativity. Break down the goals into smaller achievable steps. Allow every achievement along your plan to bring a sense of accomplishment and self worth.
The best way to begin to put it all together is to have faith that you can break out of a negative mindset. Gain an understanding of how your current mindset is fixed and negative through mindful meditation. From this insight and understanding, you can then set achievable goals of positive growth and use the same mindfulness to measure your success.
Adopt these five steps and through determination and consistent practice, you will find your mindset transformed in ways you never thought possible. Remember, there is always space for failure. Without failure there is no growth.
Do not fall back into the trap of negative thinking if you do not achieve what you want in one day. Humans are imperfect beings, and it is not possible to reprogram your brain within a day or a week. Some negativity will linger for awhile and that is totally normal. What matters most is your continued effort to reprogram. Over time your mind will change, just give it time.
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Among the world's commodities, crude oil is one of the most visible and relevant to individual consumers. This is because each time we purchase gasoline for our vehicles, we perceive the price of crude oil reflected in the price we pay for gas.
Historically, high gasoline prices were viewed as being inflationary. There most certainly is a measure of truth to this. However, based partially on the lack of a value-added tax (VAT) in the United States, as well as other structural factors, U.S. drivers pay a much lower fuel tax than drivers in other nations. Consider Norway and Italy, where fuel regularly costs more than $9 a gallon rather than the $3-$3.50 paid at the pump in the United States today. An argument also could be made that the lack of this tax structure allows crude oil prices to have a more direct impact on the U.S. retail gasoline market.
In addition to price, consumers also are exposed to crude oil volatility. Price increases are reflected at local gasoline stations almost immediately. Who can't recall 2008 when the per-barrel price of crude rose to $150?
Price drivers
Foreign exchange relationships are a major factor in the price of crude. Crude oil and the U.S. dollar generally have an inverse relationship with one another, meaning that if the dollar drops, then the price of crude increases, and when the dollar rises, the price of crude oil should fall.
However, as with many economic relationships, this is not always the case. The dollar is driven by many factors, including the threat of government shutdowns, the extent of Federal Reserve tapering, economic trends in other countries, trade balance, etc. Forex is a true global market, with fluctuations of other major currencies such as the euro, yen, etc., having a direct effect on the value of the dollar.
Consider March 2013 when Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), made a comment about the euro that was taken out of context.
"We aren't concerned about the value of the euro," he said, referring to inflationary pressures.
Instead, the market had another interpretation. The euro dropped like a rock, the dollar took off and dollar-priced markets found themselves under enormous pressure.
So the question remains: If we cannot rely on the dollar as a correlated asset for crude, what can we rely on? If crude is supposed to be a bellwether in terms of economic growth, then why not tie crude to the E-mini Dow (YM) contract? If YM is increasing in value, then it makes sense that crude futures (CL) should follow suit. If crude increases in value, it is evidence of a stronger economy. Considering a strong economy tends to reveal itself first in stocks, then equities may indeed lead crude — or at least the two should move in tandem.
One fundamental trend that might affect this relationship going forward is the adoption of hybrid vehicles. At this time, however, electric vehicles have not yet fallen in price to the point where it's economically feasible for the average citizen to purchase one. At $60,000, a four-door Tesla sedan is not ready to supplant cheaper gasoline alternatives for most Americans. And ultimately, these vehicles run on the energy source the electric utilities use, which to a great extent is still fossil fuels.


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The Atlanta Falcons swapped out fullbacks on Wednesday releasing veteran Lousaka Polite and re-signing Mike Cox.
Cox played in the final nine games of the 2011 season serving as the lead blocker for running back Michael Turner. Cox was released by the Falcons at the end of training camp in August.
Polite played in six games for the Falcons but has battled a hamstring injury that forced him to miss two games earlier this season. The injury forced backup center Joe Hawley to see time in the Falcons' backfield blocking for Turner.
Turner has just two 100-yard games this year and is averaging 20 yards a game less than he did in 2011. While still on pace for a 1,000 yard season, Turner is on pace to finish with over 300 fewer rushing yards than last season.


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Kyle Busch: Oops, sorry (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
TALLADEGA, Ala.
Four days after his emotional outburst at losing the Dover 400, Kyle Busch is apologizing to Toyota for his radio rant.
Busch dominated the race and was untouchable, but the final run came down to gas mileage, and Busch needed to stop 10 miles short of the finish for more fuel.
After having several engine problems this season, a mediocre season at best for one of the sport's top drivers, Busch blew up and ripped Toyota's TRD engine department.
For years team owner Joe Gibbs had run his own independent engine department at the Charlotte-area shop. But last year Toyota consolidated engine operations, with NASCAR engines now coming out Toyota's Los Angeles shop.
"I made some remarks, out of frustration, on my radio...that were very misguided," Busch said in a statement released Thursday evening. "I owe my friends at Toyota and TRD an apology.
"We have a great partnership with TRD, and they built me a motor that helped me lead over 300 laps and nearly lap the field. It's just frustrating that the caution fell where it did and suddenly it became a fuel mileage race, and we were set up for maximum horsepower.
"Obviously that worked well for most of the day. And you can't control when the cautions will fall."
Toyota's racing boss Lee White said that while he understood Busch's frustration, "we were disappointed with Kyle's post-race comments.
"Kyle's had a frustrating year with several car and engine mechanical failures which were not his responsibility, and we're working extremely hard on our end to improve our products and processes. We will continue to address these issues, but we're ready to put this behind us and move forward."
Toyota, which joined the Sprint Cup tour in 2007, has yet to win its first championship, but Denny Hamlin, Busch's teammate, has an excellent shot at the title this fall.
Gibbs, offering no explanation for why it took so long for his driver to issue the obviously de rigueur apology, conceded "It has been a frustrating season for Kyle in many ways, when you think about some of the issues we've had with that team this year... and obviously some of those frustrations carried over to his finish last week in Dover.
"Certainly you can understand the frustration.
"However Kyle recognizes that his comments and the tone of his comments were misguided."
The incident clearly went beyond Toyota's racing operations, with Ed Laukes, vice president of marketing, communications and motorsports, chiming in: "We've had a fabulous relationship with Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing over the last five years. Kyle is a talented driver who wins races and can compete for championships, and he is a very important part of the Toyota brand. We look forward to a long-term relationship with Kyle and Joe Gibbs Racing for years to come."
Busch's driving contract is up at the end of next season, and Gibbs has been hoping to renew it before 2013 opens. It is unclear if this latest outburst by the volatile racer could affect that situation.
Why does Joe Gibbs keep apologizing for Kyle Busch? It seems year after year either Joe or J.D. Gibbs have to say "I'm sorry" to a sponsor or manufacturer for the child-like behavior of their driver.
Last season after Kyle dumped Ron Hornaday who was a championship contender for the truck series title at the time Joe Gibbs said he took responsibility for Kyle's behavior and that is where the problem still is.
If one of Joe Gibbs' football players took out an opposing teams player, cussed out a ref or bad mouthed his team he would be benched. The Coach seems to talk a good game but he wont take his player out of it when he behaves like a child.
When you let a dog pee on the rug for a year and then start swatting him for it the dog says what gives, I thought this was all right. That is what happens when a driver like Kyle Busch is let off the chain for so long.
Joe Gibbs needs to sit his driver down for a race or two or not re-sign him. That way he can learn the lesson his brother did by driving for a second rate team for a year, I hear the 51 is open for next year!
When is Gibbs going to grow up and get rid of this Shrub Jerk?? I don't want to hear what a great driver he is when 75% of what a driver can do is due comes from his team. The Shrub has always had top notch equipment and people behind him. Give him a few years with that brother of his and maybe they both will clam down and act like they got some sense. Naw I doubt it really...
Well, we were all wondering when the next Kyle moment would come along and it didn't take too long for it to happen! And, there would have been no apology but when Toyota Complained Ole Joe got involved and ordered Kyle to "apologize". It sure is fun watching all these "As Kyle Busch Turns" Moments!
It took 4 days for Gibbs to talk him into climbing down out of the tree. This kid is just too stupid to use his brain. Gibbs is getting soft as well, putting up with it. He'll end up just like Kurt, in some desperate, second rate team with no shot.
It's past time for the Bush bratt to go. There's more to being a NASCAR driver than turning the steering wheel and pushing the gas peddle. There are young children who look up to NASCAR drivers as roll models. Kyle is not the right kind of roll model NASCAR needs. I'm tired of hearing excuses for the Kyle. Joe Gibbs disappoints me by supporting Kyle. I thought Joe had higher standards. There are lots of other drivers who indure hardships on and off the track that never act like Kyle. Lets hear about them for a change.
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Dodd's Fifth Children's Book Availableby Howard Hewitt • May 16, 2013 Share:
Children's author Quentin Dodd '94, also Wabash's Network Services Manager, has published his fifth book.
It's called Tennis Camp of the Living Dead:
Stickley Smythe is spending the summer at Bright River Tennis Academy. He's playing against top competition and learning from the best tennis coaches in the country.
But something isn't quite right.
Everyone else thinks the camp is perfectly normal, but Stickley can't help asking questions, such as:
Why does the camp pro never go out in the sunlight?
Why are they building coffins in arts and crafts class?
Why do the villagers across the river fear the camp so much?
and, most importantly:
Why did he agree to come here in the first place?
As Stickley works to unravel the mystery, he realizes that he's staying at no ordinary summer camp.
Instead, he's stumbled upon the Tennis Camp of the Living Dead!
Dodd says the book is geared to older kids than his previous books, estimating fifth to eighth graders will enjoy the story.
"The original idea for the book came from repeated viewings of the second-generation Universal monster movies, such as "Son of Frankenstein," "The Mummy's Ghost," and " House of Dracula," Dodd said. "In all those movies, I was struck by how resigned the villagers were to the coming mayhem. They knew that someone was going to open the tomb and revive the monster again, and they knew they were going to have to dig out the pitchforks and flaming torches and chase it down again. It was accepted. They had developed a businesslike attitude to the whole thing. I wanted to write something that showcased the lives of monster-movie villagers."
The camp in Dodd's latest book isn't from his active imagination but from visiting his then-girlfriend now now wife during the 1990s at Tippecanoe County's Camp Tecumseh.
"The book is a lot more funny than scary," he said. "It's not quite 'Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein,' but I don't imagine anyone having nightmares over it. There are one or two spooky scenes, but I can't ever go very far without telling a joke."
You can read a bit more of the book at Quentin's website. The book is available through the Wabash College Bookstore and at Amazon in hard cover and e-book versions.


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Hope Solo and J.R. Martinez were on the chopping block at the results show tonight, but which dancer is going to the 'Dancing with the Stars' finals?
After withstanding an injury this week, J.R. Martinez was freaking out about getting eliminated from Dancing with the Stars tonight — but was he right to be scared?
Turns out, he was just fine! Although he was in the bottom two, Hope Solo was the one to be eliminated. (Yay!) "This competition is one of the toughest I've ever been a part of," the booted soccer player said. "I'm grateful. It was an amazing opportunity."
Her partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, seemed bummed but thanked the fans for their support, saying they make the show what it is.
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Dick Dodd, who was born in Hermosa Beach but sang "Oh, Boston, you're my home" on The Standells' 1966 garage rock classic, "Dirty Water," died in a Fountain Valley hospital of esophageal cancer at age 68, reports The Associated Press.
Dodd began his professional career as a9-year-old child actor and singer. He beat out hundreds of other kids to become a Mouseketeer on the first season of "The Mickey Mouse Club" in 1955. During that time, he learned to play the drums and in the early 1960s he founded two pioneering surf bands. The Bel-Airs was one of Dodd's band best known for the 1961 single, "Mr. Moto." His second band, Eddie & The Showmen, featured Larry Carlton, who later became a popular jazz guitarist. One of their songs, "Mr. Rebel," was an homage to popular KRLA DJ and rock and nightclub owner Reb Foster.
Dodd joined garage rock legends The Standells in 1964 as a singing drummer, two years after the band was formed by keyboardist-singer Larry Tamblyn, replacing Gary Leeds, who changed his stage name to Gary Walker when he joined The Walker Brothers later that year.
Dodd and The Standells' biggest years were 1966-1967. "Dirty Water," the group's biggest hit, reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart as well as No. 8 on the Cashbox Top 40 chart and No. 1 on the Record World chart. It stayed on the WLS Playlist for 17 weeks, the most weeks on that playlist of any song during the '60s, tied by "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and The Papas.
The group scored other hits, songs that are now considered garage band classics, including "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White," "Why Pick On Me" and "Try It," that was banned by many radio stations for its lyrics that encouraged girls to have sex.
Dodd and the band recorded numerous songs that are considered cult classics, including "Riot on the Sunset Strip" that was the theme for an American International B teenage drive-in flick of the same name and in which they appeared. The Standells with Dodd also appeared in "Get Yourself a College Girl." At the height of Beatlemania, in March 1965, they appeared as themselves on an episode of "The Munsters," entitled, "Far Out Munster," in which they did not perform any of their own songs, but rather, a novelty dance song, "Come On and Ringo" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
Dodd left The Standells in 1968 for an unsuccessful solo career. Over the years he would rejoin the band on a few of their reunions. He joined them for the last time in 2012. Over the years he also worked as a limo driver in Orange County.
This year, The Standells recorded and released their first album in 46 years, "Bump," on which Dodd opted not to participate, according to Tamblyn, possibly due to the severity his illness.
In a lengthy remembrance posted on his and the band's Facebook pages, Tamblyn wrote: "As fate would have it, The Standells were all together, not performing, but enjoying the evening (a rare event) when we received the news that Dick Dodd had passed away at the age of 68."
Tamblyn added that Dodd died "appropriately with drumsticks in his hands."
Phil Collins mulls playing again with Genesis
Phil Collins, the most successful solo member of Genesis, is writing songs again and is seriously considering reactivating his solo career as well as performing again with Genesis, the singer-drummer tells German paper Bild am Sonntag. His last solo show was in 2010 (the year his last CD, "Going Back," was released) and he last played with Genesis in 2007, a 20-date jaunt that included a free concert in Rome before 500,000 fans.
In 2011, Collins announced that he had retired to his Swiss chalet in 2011. He said at the time that he wanted to write a book on the Alamo (which he did last year with the publication of "The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey") and be a full-time father to his two boys, who eventually moved to Miami to live with their mother. He recently moved into an apartment in New York City to be closer to them.
At the time the 62-year-old also divulged that he was battling back and hearing problems and severe nerve damage in his hands that forced him to have to tape his drumsticks to his hands. Things may have improved.
He told the German paper: "I have started thinking about doing new stuff. Maybe playing some shows again, even with Genesis. Everything is possible. We could tour in Australia and South America. We haven't been there yet."
Collins and Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. As a solo artist, Collins has sold more than 150 million albums worldwide. In 2008, he was ranked 22nd on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Artists.
The Rascals postpone return to Broadway
The Rascals have postponed their return to Broadway with their acclaimed "Once Upon a Dream" reunion show, according to a statement the group posted on its Facebook page. The band was slated for a three-week run at Broadway's Marriott Marquis Theatre from Dec. 15–Jan. 5.
The statement cited a scheduling conflict with the show's director, writer and producer Stevie Van Zandt, who is filming the balance of his Netflix series, "Lilyhammer" and touring with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The producers hope to reschedule the shows when Van Zandt's schedule "stabilizes."
The show, a musical history of the group, reunites singer-keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, drummer Dino Danelli, guitarist Gene Cornish and singer Eddie Brigati for the first time in 40 years.
Kraftwerk to play L.A. residency
Veteran German experimental electronic quartet Kraftwerk will showcase eight of their albums, one at each concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, March 18-21, according to a post on their Facebook page. In addition to performing the eight albums in their entirety, they'll also perform additional songs from throughout their 44-year career during the shows.
The albums date from the LP that put them on the map, 1974's "Autobahn," to their 2003 album, "Tour de France." Last year, they played a similar residency at New York City's Museum of Modern Art and, earlier this year, at London's Tate Modern Museum.
The instrumental group of keyboardists will perform two Los Angeles shows nightly.
Ray Price spends Thanksgiving out of hospital
After spending more than two months in a Nashville hospital where he's been battling pancreatic cancer and sepsis (a severe infection that inflames the entire body), country singer Ray Price was well enough to be discharged in time to spend Thanksgiving at home with friends and family, according to a post from his wife, Janie, on his Facebook page.
Janie writes that Price, who is best known for his 1970 crossover pop and country smash version of Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times," "remains very weak and his recovery will be slow."
"I have a great team of health care providers with Ray here at home. His every need is taken care of by these caring professionals. In the comfort of our own home we have both finally gotten our rest," she added.
Until a series of health-related issues this year, the 87-year-old man nicknamed the Cherokee Cowboy was still performing 50 or so concerts a year. Price was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
New Releases
Among the recently released albums, digital reissues, MP3 downloads and deluxe box sets are "Rain or Shine" from Englishman Paul Carrack, who founded Squeeze and was the lead singer in Mike & The Mechanics and in the '70s wrote the smash "How Long" when he led Ace; a 22-track "What The…," seminal L.A. punk band Black Flag's first album in 28 years; and a 2-CD, "Hipper Than Hip (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow) Live on the Air & in the Studio 1974," from Tower of Power; "The Secret Tour: Live" from 66-year-old London-born pop singer-actor David Essex, whose 1973 single, "Rock On," hit No. 5 here; "Greatest Hits" from English pop-rock singer Dido, whose 1999 debut album, "No Angel," sold more than 21 million copies worldwide; "Stoke Extinguisher" from California punk vets NOFX; and a reissue of "So Intense," a 1992 CD with four bonus cuts from R&B singer Lisa Fischer, who has toured with The Rolling Stones since 1989.
A 4-CD box, "Before the Music Died – The Complete Recordings 1954-1962" from the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson; "USA (40th Anniversary Edition) CD + DVD," British prog rock icons King Crimson's 1974 live album; an import from quirky L.A. '70s idols, Sparks, "New Music For Amnesiacs: Essential Collection"; and a bunch of reissues from Gladys Knight & The Pips.
New DVDs include "In Your Dreams" from Stevie Nicks; "Dolly Parton & Friend: Collection"; and "US Festival 1983: Days 1-3" featuring The Clash, Men At Work, Berlin, Missing Persons, The Scorpions, Judas Priest and others who played Apple head Steve Wozniak's Memorial Day weekend bash in Devore, near San Bernardino.
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safariguy5 wrote:To perhaps steer this discussion a bit more into the realm of mafia and less on grammar, I'm a bit curious as to why Vio didn't look up her role?
I never look anything up. I don't care. This is actually one reason why I tend to avoid theme based games. I totally suck at them, especially when I can't follow the flavor/history/details. I did want to participate in this one because I like edoc as a mod, and I wanted to participate in the entire series. But normally, I join the "typical" games, where outside reasoning doesn't come into play. Because honestly, I don't really feel that it should. Just not my style.
safariguy5 wrote:And if you yourself do not take the time to check the flavor of your role, then when someone else cites outside sources, surely it wouldn't hurt to at least affirm or deny the information provided by someone else.
The thing is that any information does not change my alignment. According to my role pm, I am either town or mafia or third faction, or whatever. No outside source is going to change the role that I was given.
Whatever Rodion found out wiki did not change the fact that I was a saint and alive. Like I said, outside sources can throw you off if the games isn't exactly going by those outsides sources.
In the games I have modded in the past, my character roles have sometimes been a direct contradiction of "outside sources." I think Clue Mafia was a great example of this. For example, someone who was a villain in the movie might have been Town in the game. Someone who was good in the book, might have been Mafia in the game. A NRPC (non-role playing character) might have a large role in the game, or a main character might be an NRPC in the game. I like to mix things up.
safariguy5 wrote:Part of this has to do with find out fakeclaims. We know that mafia may have to fakeclaim from time to time, and if roleflavor does not support the claim well, then that may be a hint that the person is faking.
I agree that research can be useful with fakeclaims, and that is the only time that I am remotely interested in looking at outside sources. I think because I was town and because I knew I was town, I wasn't too concerned with fakeclaims. I'm usually only concerned with fakeclaims when I'm mafia.
I just don't tend to use outside information to determine who is scummy or not. I base it on their actions within the game. To be honest, I think that is the best and most fair way. This might be why some people criticize too much meta-gaming.
safariguy5 wrote:I have to say that I didn't initially see too much with Vio's claim, but the defensive nature of her response and apparent complete unwillingness to accept any outside attempts at clarification made me think twice.
If I know my role, then I know it. Period. I don't care what Rodion or Wiki says. Wiki could say, hypothetically, that Saint Catherine was really some twisted demon. However, it doesn't change that my role pm said living saint. If a situation like that occurred, what could I possibly say in defense? I had to defend against something that wiki said when my role pm says something different? How is that even fair?
safariguy5 wrote:If it weren't for the earlier innocent result and the fact that I thought we had better leads, I might have believed she was faking.
That's how mafia goes sometimes. It is not the first time that I've been 100% honest about my claim but have still not been believed. I've been lynched as town before and I've been lynched as mafia before, so I know it happens. All I can do is try my best, but I can't control if I will always be 100% believed. I was honest with the claim, but if it came across as scummy- oh well. I can't say much about that. It appears that if I had lied, then I might have been better believed. However, it is my impression that very few really actually thought I was scum at the end of the game.
safariguy5 wrote:So in conclusion Vio, I think that your initial claim may have been a poor choice of wording
I really don't get what you think I should have said differently. I think my choice of words were straight to the point, as they should have been. "Saint, alive, doctor..." How else could I have claimed?
safariguy5 wrote:but you compounded the issue by the subsequent defense and failure to do a little research into your own role to provide some substance/rationale.
If I believe something to be true, I will defend it to death. I won't give in just because it doesn't "sound right," to someone else. Truth is truth. I need to have a really good reason to do research, as I prefer to go by the information provided within the context of the game. I don't always know what the mod had in mind, so it's all speculation. Also, as I stated above, if wiki or another outside source contradicts what my role pm said, then there is really nothing I can say. I'm just not that creative about coming up with "excuses." I won't even try (unless I'm scum). Perhaps that is my mafia shortcoming, but I am just not creative. Thus, I take a much simpler approach to my games.


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Oracle's quarterly results, under normal circumstances, would be considered a major highlight for the market during the earnings offseason. The kind of thing that could set the tone for the entire trading day, especially in the tech sector.
But between Putin's power push, this absurd missing plane and Janet Yellen's first FOMC presser, any headlines from Camp Larry Ellison stand a good chance of disappearing in the shadows of the next major development.
And, as Jani Ziedrins of Cracked Market points out, stocks are fine with it.
"Sometimes the market blows risks out of proportion, other times it under-appreciates the dangers," he wrote. "Given the market is 1.3% from record highs, the market is many things, but panicked over current events is not one of them."
He's absolutely right. With everything that's going on, stocks have no business zip-a-dee-doo-dah-ing around these levels. But they're flirting with gains again, and by the looks of our sassy chart of the day, a 400% rally is a virtual lock.
One guy nobody will confuse with Uncle Remus is Marc Faber, and he's back with another handful of soot to blow in our faces.
"I think that we had a colossal credit bubble in China and that this credit bubble is now being gradually deflated," he told Bloomberg. "There's lots of funny things that are happening in China. And when the whole thing unwinds it will be a disaster."
While we await that imminent disaster, Cam Hui offers up an interesting way to gain exposure to China without taking on too much risk (more on that below).
Key market gauges: Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/14515889/realtime YMH4 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/20258903/realtime ESH4 took a leap of faith, if you call it, on Putin's declaration that he's not seeing a "partition of Ukraine." Sure he isn't. Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860/realtime XX:ADOW closed mostly in the green, though Shanghai /quotes/zigman/1859015/realtime CN:SHCOMP ticked fractionally lower. Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150/realtime XX:SXXP is also struggling.
The economy: February housing starts came out this morning, and the report showed a fall to an annual rate of 907,000 from an upwardly revised 909,000 in the first month of the year. Nasty weather has made it difficult for builders to start new projects, but that doesn't mean construction is slowing down. The level of building permits– which climbed to the highest rate since October — suggests construction will pick up with warmer weather.
Separately, consumer inflation for February came in with a 0.1% increase in both the overall rate and the core rate that excludes food and energy, as expected. Read: Consumer prices edge up in February.
The quote of the day: "While there is always the possibility that ghosts are real, 'Big Foot' is alive and a 'soft landing' will be achieved, there is just precious little historical evidence to support that claim. Unfortunately, such claims of a 'soft landing have always come just prior to recessions, as any claim different by a Federal Reserve member would likely spark a panic in the financial markets, accelerating a recessionary event." — Lance Roberts, STA Wealth Management.
Earnings: The meat of the season may be over, but today's docket has some notable entries. Oracle /quotes/zigman/19452757/delayed /quotes/nls/orcl ORCL is the biggie, along with Adobe /quotes/zigman/67665/delayed /quotes/nls/adbe ADBE , DSW /quotes/zigman/372549/delayed /quotes/nls/dsw DSW and Pacific Sunwear /quotes/zigman/53450/delayed /quotes/nls/psun PSUN .
Hertz /quotes/zigman/439823/delayed /quotes/nls/htz HTZ shares are up in premarket after the auto-rental company posted results, citing record fourth-quarter and 2013 revenue.
The buzz: Is it too early to start drooling like a mental patient over Apple's /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL iPhone 6? Apparently not, especially since it could be the "mother of all upgrades." Or maybe it's the Healthbook app that's worth getting all Apple-y over.
But Apple isn't the top-trending ticker on StockTwits. That distinction belongs to You On Demand /quotes/zigman/10294883/delayed /quotes/nls/yod YOD , which erupted for a 29% share gain in Monday's session after the company signed deals with HiT Entertainment, Sesame Workshop, and Nelvana Enterprises to launch a new service in China. Buyers aren't done with it yet, either. The stock is up 5% in premarket trading.
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Hi Father MacDounough..glad to meet another Acadian "cousin"... I have many Gaudet in my lineage.
Thank you for your post however, "A Great & Noble Scheme" by John Farragher: the documentation it contains is not entirely correct. So unfortunately it is not really the best book someone would want to purchase and bank on it being 100% accurate as it is not.
I had a book review done of Johnny's book when it came out and he has read it.
Sorry to disappoint you with my assessment of this work...
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Talk:1079: United Shapes
Hooray, another comic that only Americans will get. Randall, some of us live in *other* parts of the world. Davidy22[talk] 13:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Wait, so an American artist with a mostly-American audience is supposed to limit himself to cartoons that everyone can understand? And people say AMERICANS are the arrogant ones. 220.127.116.11 07:59, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Could someone please explain the stereotypes? I'm American and I don't really see any jokes. As far as I can tell, he just picked images that fit in each state. -- 184.108.40.206 (talk) 07:59, 24 March 2013 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
We still have to fix this thumbnail issue. --Dgbrt (talk) 16:47, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
For the most part I don't think the shapes have anything to do with the states other than what happens to fit. The Louisiana "boot" and Michigan "glove" are commonly used to describe those states shapes. 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
People in Michigan actually say things like "I live in the thumb" 188.8.131.52 05:18, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
I'm not sure how this really constitutes an explanation. The current text seems to amount to "Yeah this comic is all perfectly clear and logical everyone gets all the references alright I gotta go have fun now!" I think this needs an incomplete flag, but I don't know if someone who isn't a moderator can do that? --Mynotoar (talk) 22:32, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Could the signature in Wyoming be Randalls own one? Compare it to 1005: SOPA. --18.104.22.168 09:06, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
He does lotsa comics the rest of us can undrestand, too. After all, though, he IS American. Texas: that's a cat? 220.127.116.11 16:26, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
<rant> The bear in the state of Alaska is NOT Winnie the Pooh. The most recognizable version is yellow with a red shirt. The original illustrations didn't have a shirt, but were still yellow. Further more, there ARE other cartoon bears to choose from, or it could just be a non-affiliated one that Randall created for the sake of fitting in the state of Alaska. Add to that the fact that Winnie the Pooh never had a jetpack OR a raygun and there is a pretty solid case for that bear NOT being Winnie the Pooh. </rant> Anonymous 04:51, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
- I did correct a former typo done by Randall himself, but Winnie the Pooh is just what he was thinking about. Please start a discussion on such an edit first, maybe we can say Randall's painting is bad, but that's what is on his official transcript. And SO this does only belong to the explain, the transcript is just only a transcript of the ORIGINAL comic. I'm sorry, but please don't change this until you know what you are doing, please ask for help first. You will get kind answers by many people here. --Dgbrt (talk) 22:29, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Undoing edits
I expanded a bunch of descriptions, especially with an eye for people who may not be able to see the comic. This was the "incomplete explanation of the day" comic the day I started adding to the wiki. For example, Utah was described as "An oven." I changed this to "A white stove" because the entire appliance is called a stove (an oven plus drawer below, cooktop above, and upright piece with controls at the back of the cooktop).
Dgbrt undid all my changes without explanation. Would someone please explain what, if anything, I did wrong? I know I'm new here, but I did look around before making any changes. Is there an "o
Corollary question: Someone also removed the actual text that appears in the various images.
Is there an official-from-Randall transcript somewhere?
Thanks. Karenb (talk) 21:48, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
- Dgbrt replaced the transcript that was present with the transcript that can be found here, or in the page source of the original comic. It's not always perfectly accurate, but I usually just trust in it since Randall probably knows what he drew. If you feel that there's a typo/stuff-up somewhere, feel free to change it. Accuracy trumps the original transcript. Davidy²²[talk] 00:48, 21 March 2014 (UTC)