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Anatomy of a Fake Quotation - This is interesting: “Yesterday, I saw a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. fly across my Twitter feed: ‘I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.’ - Martin Luther King, J’. I was about to retweet it, but I hesitated. It didn’t sound right. After some Googling, I determined that it was probably fake, which I blogged about last night.”
Tornado Before and After - Amazing satellite photos of before and after the tornado.
Long Work vs. Hard Work - A quick but important distinction courtesy Seth Godin.
Praying For … Me - Paula Hendricks: “I thought you'd be interested in reading several prayers Nancy Leigh DeMoss has prayed for herself over and over again through the years. Then, I'd love to hear what prayer(s) you regularly pray for yourself.”
Here We Go Again - “I heard some really discouraging and sobering news the other day, and I wanted to take a break from Greek instruction to share it with you.” This is an important article from Bill Mounce.
Fed Up With the Fed - I enjoyed Sowell’s look at some of the evasive phrases used by politicians. Because “when people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.”
Dead Authors on Twitter - Results vary a lot, but some of these Twitter accounts from long-deceased authors are pretty funny (or clever or…).
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Comments (15)
Tim,
Thanks for the post about Nancy’s prayers. You asked what prayers we pray for ourselves. I pray Ephesians 1:15-23 and Ephesians 3:14-21 for myself, my family, and others.
I also pray the Lord’s Prayer for myself and others. I posted: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Life the last two days. Folks might find those posts, and the embedded link to a two-page prayer guide for the Lord’s Prayer, to be of help. Here’s the link: Learn how to pray the Lord’s Prayer for daily life: http://bit.ly/tlp4dl2
Bob
“I pray Ephesians 1:15-23 and Ephesians 3:14-21 for myself, my family, and others.”
That’s really encouraging Bob! Ever since I went through Ephesians I have started to pray those prayers also - it was a great help when I did not really know what to pray. Scripture memorization in general is great for “food for prayer”.
Man! That piece by Thomas Sowell about the essential problem with the Fed and their involvement in the US economy is SPOT ON! Thanks for posting that, Tim!
This is the first time I’ve seen the satelite images of the before and after of the damage in Tuscaloosa. I’ve lived in Tuscaloosa my whole life. It’s odd that just a few weeks ago I was looking at satelite images of the destruction in Japan and now I’m looking at it just a few miles from my home. Places I’ve seen my whole life- businesses I shopped with, restaurants I ate at, my fitness center, the two houses my two great aunts lived in and where I spent lots of time growing up- are no more, completely gone. I knew a tornado could be very destructive, but not this destructive. It wiped out a nearly half mile wide path right across the middle of the city of Tuscaloosa. It literally looks like a bomb exploded.
I hate playing the conspiracy theorist, however, if you look at the first picture in the Before and After a tornado, the one labeled TUSCALOOSA: Wood Square Shopping Center on McFarland Blvd
If you look at the after picture to the right of the shopping Center shows about 6 cars in a paved lot. If you move the blue slider to look at the before, you see grassland with Trees??
So am I to believe that a tornado created a paved with lines parking lot or are these pictures doctored
@Mike RE: Tornado pictures - note the dates in the bottom right corner of the image. The before picture was taken in 2006.
Mike,
The pictures were taken about five years apart, so the parking lot would have been built during that interval.
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Mike,No, the tornado didn’t create a parking lot. No, the pictures aren’t doctored. The parking lot was simply built sometime after April 2006 when the “before” picture was taken.
A great post on WHY we should attribute quotes correctly: http://st-eutychus.com/2011/why-correct-attribution-of-quotes-matters-an…
Well worth the read (and is in response to the misattributed MLK quote).
Mike, the early picture is from 2006. I would presume that a new store/parking lot had been added behind the big square in that time. Good catch!
“Never trust a quote you find on the internet” - Abraham Lincoln
@Mike: the before picture was 5 years earlier, plenty of time for a parking lot to have been built.
@ Mike - If you notice the date of the before pics they are from 5 years ago. A parking lot could have easily been built in that time frame.
@Mike, looking at the Tuscaloosa pictures, the labelling suggests a 5 year gap between ‘before’ and ‘after’. Looks like not a lot else had changed until the tornado ripped a path right through.
As someone from the UK, it’s beyond my comprehension what it’s like to face that kind of weather. The worst we’d generally get is maybe losing some roof tiles, a few trees blown over.
The area behind that shopping center was built after the satelite image without the damage. The building and parking lot you see behind the shopping center in the satelite view showing the destruction was a Gold’s Gym built recently that use to actually be in the shopping center. After Gold’s Gym moved out, another gym, which I’m a member of, moved into the shopping center and was completely destroyed. So, it’s just a matter of the satelite image taken before the destruction being a few years old, which I’ve noticed many of the google maps views are.