Show Pick of the Week -- UFO's Best Evidence EVER

Written by Awkward Situations on Friday, April 27, 2007

UFO'S - THE BEST EVIDENCE EVER
SciFi Channel
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For those of you interested in UFO's, there's some pretty astonishing footage in this program, which recently aired on the SCI-FI network. Specifically, the NASA footage is rather impressiv. And while we know for a fact that three of the examples given in this show have since been proven as hoaxes, the rest of the footage, to this day, remains a mystery to scientists, paranormal investigators and ugologists alike. So check it out, and let us know what you think!
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This is a great indepth show for those of you who are interested in those pieplates in the sky, aliens, paranormal, etc. It's not something I believe in persay, but it's still interesting to watch. It's also pretty funny becuase some of the footage is obviously falsified works of crafty and tedious hoaxer's.
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If your interested in watching this clip you can find it below, if your going to watch it, please remember that not everything you see on tv is true just becuase it's explained well. Even hoaxer's can explain their work using other people like friends and family.
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Some of them I do admit are hard to debunk but it's just a good show for those of you who like this kind of thing. Lots of great pictures, NASA space cam pictures included, just nice stuff. So if your interested, get some popcorn, a blanket, and some pepsi (or cocain -- a.k.a Coca Cola) sit back, and enjoy!



Link: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4234425471367323464&hl=en

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School Shooting in Virginia -- Bound to Happen

Written by Awkward Situations on Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Why are we seeing so many school shootings these days? From Columbine, the Amish School Shootings, the shootings last year at Virginia Tech and now this, which grimly re-wrote past history as the worst school shooting in American history. But this isn't something that should of been -- something that should of been avoided. However, it must be said with today's immoral, unorganized society that it was bound to happen.

I'm frankly surprised it didn't happen sooner. It's something that we must realize is a real threat and start taking action NOW. I'm sure you are just as much as me having a heartache for these poor souls. So young to die, so much life to pursue, such a wonderful and grand future for these bright young people. Taken away by a senseless act of violence. It's sickening but reawakens the stance on gun control.

No I don't believe we should remove guns, because they are used for protection. However I think we should eliminate the use of guns without further diving into the persons background and history. Looking into the future I hope to see something done about this all. God bless you all. Pray for those poor college students -- they need your prayers right now in this time of immense catastrophe.

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I want to make friends.. "How do I?" By: TORC

Written by Awkward Situations on Saturday, April 14, 2007

This is one of my first large scale "personal improvement" articles so I may seem a bit, eh nervous at times but this is mostly how I am now in life and I figure it might help others.

What makes a man but his soul and his body, his attitudes, his opinions, feelings, etc, etc. I remember the days when I used to worry about making friends in a new school, job or business, it's always and (still is) very tough to do sometimes. But I have learned over the past few years or so (20 or more) that life is a wonderful thing and to share it with others, aka friends, family and relatives, is worth even more to me than just being alone in life.

Today's group of minorities and adolescents are all in to computers, video games, and messing around with drugs. Many of them, simply choose not to be helped, with the excuse that "they are a lost cause". But this isn't true. Reason with your child, ask them to listen, to learn, to hear. Let them speak their mind and speak yours. Don't just roll your eyes and give up. That never works.

A parent needs to just reason with their kid, and tell them they are not a lost cause. Whether they listen or not, eventually it will sink it with them. Once you've gotten your child to open to the world, help him or her make friends. The topic of this subject. They most likely are worried that the kids or people will think they are "gay" or "uncool", or maybe they just don't want to hang out with the "new kid on the block". It's obvious that at least in some schools that will never be the case. (hence, the public schools, which are a hell-hole for any child).

Tell them that to make friends it's better to talk with someone, someone they find interesting or cool. And so what if they don't like you back. You at least tried, so try again, you will eventually make friends no matter how bad the school situation is. Now whether those friends are good or not, has to be ultimately the parents decision.

Note: I am in no way a doctor or a PhD, I'm just giving my honest opinion on the subject, it's not my fault if your kid gets punched in the eye or kicked in the testicles.

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The Mechanics of Low Carb Diets

Written by Awkward Situations on Monday, April 09, 2007

Every now and then I like to find an article thats really good, and I put it on this blog. (It's not becuase im lazy, but I find these to be good things to read)
By: Linda Williams

By now the term low carb is practically a household term synonymous with losing weight and getting in shape. This diet seems to be successful and many people rave about it. The idea seems simple enough: eat lower carbs and lose weight. But it's worthwhile to examine the mechanics of low carb dieting and what makes them effective.

For most people, removing carbohydrates from your diet will greatly decrease your overall caloric intake. Simply by decreasing your calories you are eating less will lose weight as a result.

In addition to eating fewer overall calories, by abstaining from all of the starchy and sugary carbs that you would normally eat, your body will now have to break down glycogen in the liver and muscles to free glucose for use as fuel. Glycogen is the way glucose is stored in the muscles and liver.

This glycogen is made up primarily of water. During the process of converting it to glucose, water is released so the initial weight loss is almost entirely from water but this can amount to a substantial change in weight.In the next two weeks that an individual is on a low-carb diet they will notice that the extreme initial weight loss experienced slows after the initial effects of water being released slows down. It is at this time that your body begins to burn fat instead of releasing water. This will be the case as long as your carbohydrate intake remains below 50 or 60 grams daily. From this point, for the duration of your diet, the body is burning fat as its fuel.

When the body burns fat for fuel, ketones are produced as a by product. Ketones are released from the body in the urine, through the kidneys. An elevated ketone level in the kidneys suppresses your appetite, aiding in further weight loss. It is very important to drink increased amounts of water during this phase of your low carb diet in order to prevent dehydration.

Low carb dieting is not for everyone. Not everyone's body can withstand this eating plan. How long you remain on a low carb diet is a personal choice. As with any new diet or sudden change in eating habits, before beginning, it is recommended that you consult a doctor or a physician.

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Who Knew? A Random *New* Segment..

Written by Awkward Situations on Sunday, April 08, 2007

MY GOD HE'S GOT SEGMENTS NOW!
You know' he's big stuff..

It is impossible to lick your elbow. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in its head. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case wherean ostrich buried its head in the sand.I t is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. More than 50% of the people in the worldhave never made or received a telephone call.Horses can't vomit. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twisterin the English language. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vesselin your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,two rats could have over a million descendants. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

**Disclaimer** None of the above have been proven, nor disproven, silly as some of them may erhm.. *seem* they are interesting and mentally confusing to boot.

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Happy Easter -- May We Remember the True Meaning..

Written by Awkward Situations on Sunday, April 08, 2007

Happy Easter everyone! I hope your having a stellar Easter afternoon!

I think it's times like these that we should relize the true meaning of the holiday, no it's not about bunnies, or chocolate or even a basket of candy or those favored* easter egg hunts. No it's about the glorious rising (risen) of my (and I hope yours too) personal savior, Jesus Christ. It's fun to celebrate holidays with things like Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny, true, but we should never forget the true meaning. Even if your not a christian or a believer in Christ or God, Easter represents hope for us all.

The Pope made his speech and highlighted the "end of suffering for us all". It's true, the world is suffering and we need to fix the problems at hand. I feel that this holiday is not only one of the most single greatest events in Mankind's history (if not the most, besides the birth of Jesus ie: Christmas) but a message. A message of hope, love and peace for all of us, not just me, but you, and that man on the street corner with a single cardboard box and no food, for that lady in Africa living in a makeshift metal piece(s) house, or that jewish man being persecuted for his faith and his life. We must understand that Jesus loves us one and all, no matter what race, ethiticity, faith or otherwise.


I hope you all have an awesome Easter evening and a great new year of hope, dreams, and love.


God Bless you one and all!






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Copyright Claims Stink! Related to YouTube

Written by Awkward Situations on Saturday, April 07, 2007

First off, this isn't the Viacom claim issue Im talking about. All though that did sufficiantly screw me and all of you over if you liked watching South Park or other shows like that from Comedy Central or any outlet of Viacom on YouTube.
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No friends this is about a claim from a film company who got 12 of my videos that I had worked hard to edit to fit down to size and still maintain quality all in less than few days. I removed the videos some at least myself but alot of them simply vanished with nothing to explain but "Taken down by copyright claims". Which brings me to this topic. I think it's right that we have copyrights but not when they harm the viewing audience's chance to view movies, which (the companies don't relize) actually helps promote their items, movies, etc(s).

Now if your wondering what I did to get that claim against me I uploaded a complete movie to YouTube, BUT Understand the BUT here, I gave full credit to the company who made the movie, as well as tell them beforehand and never got rejected for it. And now they did this to me. I won't specify the company, nor the movie involved but I do feel somewhat cheated and letdown by YouTube that they could allow users to be stripped of their hard worked video editors.

Eh but I guess some people may never learn about whats right and wrong anymore. I guess soon YouTube will be shutdown for it's "Copyright Infringment" problems. Sigh. Well it was good while it lasted I guess.

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"Search Engine Marketing" A Great Article Find

Written by Awkward Situations on Saturday, April 07, 2007

SEM - An Effective Tool for Marketing
By: Puretech Internet (I love this source)

Marketing and advertisement is of foremost importance for any business / company. There are different reasons why companies pursue it. The popular ones include: getting more sales; branding, increase in visibility, and/or market share; or to introduce a new product line or services. According to recent trend branding and positioning is not only limited to offline world, Internet and Search Engines such as Google, Lycos, Yahoo, MSN, AOL etc., also play an important role in achieving this objective.

How does it relate to Internet and Search Engines? If your product is not right in front of your customer at the respective stores where these products are typically purchased, you can certainly say that you are missing out on sales, market share, and branding. The same concept applies to the Internet and search engines. If your web site doesn't shows up in the top rankings for your offered services and products in major search engines you can calculate how much business and branding you are missing out on? SEM is a Combination Art & Science.

According to SEM Experts, Search Engine Marketing is both an art and science. Its goal is to optimize a site's ability to be found on Internet search engines and directories for the most targeted keywords / phrase by employing various Search Engine Optimization strategies and drive qualified traffic to the web site. This leads to more quality referrals & hence increase in sales.

Search Engines provide Target Traffic.Search engines are the most widely used means of finding information on the Internet. It provides an effective method of driving highly targeted visitors to your web site. A new study shows that the Web has grown to more than 2.1 billion documents and is growing at the rate of 7 million pages per day. Another study indicates that people who spend five or more hours a week online, spend about 71 percent of their time searching for information. That goes to show that how important are search engines in branding and marketing of products and services through your web site. It is the No.1 way people find your web site.

Positioning your right web site at right place. If your business's main product is "fashion garments", you have undoubtedly positioned your product at most of the department and fashion stores. Following the same suit, SEM Experts position your product/website at the top of the search engine results so when users search for " fashion garments" roughly 1,500 times daily on the major search engines, your website shows up in the top rankings. Now suppose this campaign is conducted for 8 months (including the maintenance) and there are 1,500 searches a day and your website is seen as #1 daily, the users will begin familiarizing your company / brand name, thus helping in better brand recall and easy sales.How does it differ from Offline Marketing approach?

With a successful search engine marketing campaign you can accomplish every goal and objective that is sought after with offline marketing and advertising. There are two major differences between offline and online marketing: 1) Marketing your website via search engine marketing, email marketing, banner adv. have proven to be drastically less expensive than their offline equivalents, and 2) Search engine marketing facilitates you to demonstrate your product throughout the world or whichever geographical area you chose but with offline marketing, your marketing and selling efforts are restricted to a particular area in a city or town as the case may be. Why is Search Engine Marketing more effective?The ROI for SEM is excellent compared to any other online marketing means, especially when compared to online banner adv., direct mail campaign etc.

With SEM, you get better conversion rates, lower cost-per-click, and lower acquisition costs. A study by market intelligence firm NPD Group, say "consumers are five times more likely to purchase products after seeing search listings versus online banner advertisement". In the same market research report it was found that high search engine listings drive the highest awareness or branding for a website, with consumers recalling websites 60% of the time from search engine listings #1-5, and roughly 20% for online banner adv. Among the Top search engines, Google is considered to be the major source of referrals for all web sites and the main target of every SEM campaign.

It is followed by others major engines and directories such as Lycos, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, AltaVista. Search Engine Marketing is no trifle task. It is an art and science of applying the knowledge and experience gained over the years researching the search engine's distinct criteria, unique indexing parameters or algorithm. It requires a calculated approach guided by proven and ethical methodologies to deliver the results.With usage of Internet increasing in multiple folds in India and abroad, search engine marketing is an effective and appealing means of marketing and advertising to reach your target audience and cannot be ignored. For more Search Engine Marketing

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Spam Email -- God Hates the Interweb

Written by Awkward Situations on Saturday, April 07, 2007

Below are some of the things that I find in my email inbox every morning after I sip down a barrel or two of coffee with a chocolate spoon. (spoons are sic)
Apparently, they don't know if Im a man or not. Obviously they aren't trying to care. Spammers..
Womens Menstrual Pains -- Now can be alleviated with Dexstratien!
LEARN MORE BELOW.. (link removed becuase it contained a virus, and I wouldn't let you guys download a virus, especially considering we have only just met)

MEN'S NATURAL MALE ENHANCEMENT
Get A "Bigger" sight on your next girlfriends night over. Pleasure her in ways you never thought possible.
*Sigh*

Honestly Im going to stop there.. the rest of them are just nigerian lottery scam mails, 404 emails, "YOU WON OMFG" emails, and.. I digress.

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Gorgeous George -- A "fat" loser

Written by Awkward Situations on Saturday, April 07, 2007

If you haven't already seen this guy, he's a public access host in Richmond, Virginia. He's so full of himself and his own personal appeal that he cannot see how truly repulsive his show is, (and trust me, if you've seen it, the funniest parts ARE the prank calls into his show). Now you would think that a public access host (especially considering how big they want to make their show appear so that it may latch on to bigger networks and such) would be able to defend his show with at least a few good comeback.

This cannot be said for Gorgeous George. The man spurts out more brain damaging "so-called" comeback then a dead whale on a beach in the summer. His appeal is only to those who need someone to "relieve" themselves to and cannot find a date or anyone subtle on the internet to "cyber" with. Now knowing this, you may be thinking why I wrote an entry on this low to earth life form. Well it's simple, he has been dormant and I think he needs to understand that his show (even though he took off calls to get revenge on the prank callers) that his show will never be successful. The fact that he was on a magazine intituled "Success" must either be a Photoshop job or some really good bribing.

Either way it must be said that the prank callers are part of a site that equally is low on the standards of society and the universe in general. What site am I referring to? Something awful.com. Now some of you may think it's a funny, cool website. And maybe it is, but the majority of what can be found on SA.com is mostly things rejected by other large internet(s) website. Maybe it should be understood that's why it's called "Something Awful".
Not defending Gorgeous George of course, the SA "goons" are much more appealing to me than Gorgeous George's pointless "skits" and attempts at humor.

He's constantly tried to formulate good comeback both on his show and when insulted via email. It just so happened that he sent one of these goons two emails after they mocked his threats to get the authorities on him. Apparently, he would send his beautiful girlfriend Sue, to attack them and bite off their scrotums. Of course, Sue, proving to be unloyal, took the ring George got for their marriage and hocked it for meth, never to be seen again.Maybe it should be said that this topic is longer than any of the other "real issues" on this blog. But hey, it's not all seriousness here. Gotta live the party when the bandwagon zips on by. Have a great Week!

PS: If your curious, you might of seen this post of mine on another of my squarespace blogs, "A Random World". I migrated here since they only offer 30 days of free trial and error to test out. So if you haven't seen these posts, horray, and maybe a little different than usual from me at least.

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I guess I should welcome you inside..

Written by Awkward Situations on Saturday, April 07, 2007

So welcome? Yeah. I've made several Blogger blogs on reviews, and downloads but I figured for a change I would created a blog that deals with a variety of issues, both serious and non-cereal. {South-Park Reference, which im sure you guys know about!}. Anyways welcome to this parade? Party or something. I don't really know what this is. It's not even human, it's sub-human. Or something mutated from a cow. Eh, I think I need to lay off the joints for awhile.

Anyways enjoy the random ramblings of me, myself and I. And my imaginary friend that lives in my ear canal.

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