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POPS10 Amazing Facts About Worldwide Water Use
More facts: Since 1950, water usage in the United States has risen 127 percent. If you shorten your showers by just a single minute, you can save approximately 700 gallons of water in a month. Letting the tap run when you brush your teeth wastes up to 4 gallons of water every time. It takes an average of 300 gallons to water your lawn. During the summer, this can account for almost half of your water usage. It takes an average of 300 gallons to water your lawn. During the summer, this can account for almost half of your water usage. Another wasteful desert endeavor, the proposed Waveyards water park in Mesa, Arizona will require up to 100 million gallons of groundwater every year in an area that receives a mere 8 inches of rainfall in that time. This last is particularly insane. All the Western states are in desperate need of water for crops and other basic uses. The Colorado River no longer reaches the sea. Salmon spawning grounds have almost disappeared and major animal (as we
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POPSPresident Obama and The Three Amigos Mexican Summit
The agenda called for the three men to discuss four main topics: 1. NAFTA and what the second A really stands for. 2. The Swine Flu Epidemic aka H1N1 which started down in the vicinity of the Mexican volcano El Popocatepetl (The Petey). 3. The unbelievably high price of tequila. 4. The Mexican Drug Cartels and the ongoing violence that makes Al Capone's 1920s Chicago seem like Disneyland. Other secondary topical topics scheduled on the agenda include: 1. The Canadian Mallard Ducks for Mexican Burros Trade Agreement. 2. The Republic of Mexico's request to be allowed to purchase all of the Taco Bells in the United States. 3. The possibility of moving the NBA's Chicago Bulls to Toluca and renaming them the Toluca Toros. 4. The Canadian Mounties and Mexican Matadors Exchange Program. 5. The U.S. - Mexico investigation as to why in the world ex-President Horge (George) Bush was allowed to waste American taxpayers's money totaling $89 billion on a stupid useless
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POPSTiger Woods farting saga (Part 2) "Today's golfers have equipment we never dreamed about. But I guess our clubs were a lot better than when Bobby Jones played the game." When the farting questions came back around Palmer told about Sam Sneed's hay fever and the roaring sneezes he tried to suppress and would fart instead. "You want to get tickled so you can hardly hit the next shot, you hear a muffled sneeze and a roaring fart both!"
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POPSTiger Woods farting saga (part 3) "I dunno what Tiger eats for breakfast, but it sure doesn't agree with his bowels! And, instead of nipping his cheeks together at crucial moments to stifle the fart, he bends his knees and pushes down on his diaphragm to expel some of the longest trumps I've ever had the misfortune to have witnessed, so help me God!" The USPGA has said that it will investigate any claims that players are trying to gain an advantage by breaking wind loudly, and will deal severely with any found doing so.
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POPSRemember the Etch A Sketch? art by George Vlosich Amazing pics of artwork using the retro toy Etch A Sketch. Who remembers this fun toy? George Vlosich from Ohio has been doodling since age 10 and look at his sketches now .... producing amazingly detailed lifelike portraits of people we know. Some take over 100 hours to draw, using the 2 dials on Etch A Sketch, all using 1 unbroken line.
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POPSBecoming great at what you do
Many of these scientists are now saying that “targeted” natural gifts do not exist at all. You are not born a CEO or chess grandmaster. Rather, greatness is achieved by hard, focused work over many years. Charlie Parker, widely considered one of the most influential of Jazz musicians, showed no sign of musical talent as a child. He started playing saxophone at age 11, and was thrown out of his high school band because he was so bad. But this drove him to practice intensively for many years, for four years up to 15 hours a day. It was many years after that before he was noticed. Tiger Woods started practicing golf at 18 months, and was encouraged to practice by his father. He had been practicing intensively for 15 years before winning the U.S. Amateur Championship at age 18. But you and I both know people who work very hard. Many work for decades at a job or hobby without approaching greatness. Why don’t they become “world class”, then? It turns out that it’s not just hard w
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POPSThe most clutch athlete of all time is back!! Tiger Woods, asides from being an unbelievably gifted golfer, is simply the most clutch athlete of my lifetime...and quite honestly, i just don't think it would be possible to be any more clutch, so i'm going to say of all time!
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POPSAre Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted? "...In short, multiracial kids seem to create their own definitions for fitting in, and they show more psychological flexibility than those mixed-race kids who feel bound to one choice or another. Fortunately, all these questions of racial identity are becoming less important, as we inch ever closer to the day when the U.S. has no racial majority. One of these days, after all, we will all be celebrating our multiracial pride."
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POPSHow Barack Knocked the Satire Out of Me Man, that son-of-a-gun can give a speech. I can hardly wait for the inaugural. BTW, or perhaps not btw, it was a speech that got him here in the first place: at the Democratic convention in 2004. I remember watching him, riveted (I was a speechwriter myself, in the Coolidge administration), thinking, “Wow. Where did this guy come from?” I wrote in the New York Times (I know, I know: the height of vanity, quoting yourself): “Barack Obama is the Tiger Woods of American politics.” Ahem. You read it there first.
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POPSIrish Eyes are Smiling. And what a Smile. Good guys do win. After a successful amateur career, including winning the Walker Cup with the Great Britain & Ireland team in 1995, he turned professional later that year, joining the European Tour in 1996. He came to professional golf at a relatively late age, having qualified as an accountant and worked in the business for a number of years. He has spent a considerable amount of time both in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings and as the highest ranked European golfer, his best ranking being third, which he achieved following his second Open Championship victory. He has also played for Europe in four Ryder Cups; losing in 1999 but winning in 2002, 2004 and 2006 . He has also won the par-3 contest at the Augusta National Golf Club.
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POPSMichael Phelps Deserves His Endorsement Millions I would have loved to take my video camera and follow Michael Phelps around while he was in Bejing... taking videos... if for nothing else but for him to take home and remember that wonderful time. I'm sure he's got tons of memories of his own... but memories fade a bit... and digital media doesn't ;)
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POPSWhen Obama Is Off The Teleprompter I suspect this is why John McCain is so eager to get Obama into those town-hall meetings Obama seems intent on avoiding. McCain has been doing them for 25 years and is very good at them; it’s a mark of how good he is at them that he doesn’t make career-threatening gaffes during them. McCain wants Obama off that teleprompter, which is sound strategy. But he can’t make Obama go anywhere Obama doesn’t want to. The media pose a different challenge for Obama.
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POPSConservatives' Hate-Based Campaign Against Obama "When the controversy over Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright reached critical mass last week, it was the political equivalent of the green flag at a NASCAR race. The conservative strategists and talkers had been slowly circling the track, feet itchy on the accelerator, just waiting for the signal to floor it. But now, as The Politico reported in a story titled "GOP sees Rev. Wright as path to victory," the Republican strategists know exactly what must be done, starting with famed ad man Alex Castellanos: "All the sudden you've got two dots, and two dots make a line," said Castellanos. "You start getting some sense of who he is, and it's not the Obama you thought. He's not the Tiger Woods of politics." As Castellanos knows well, these kinds of attacks have their greatest power when they tap into pre-existing archetypes voters already carry with them, and the deeper they reside in our lizard brains the better."
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POPS"Caught In A Noose" Golfweek Issue And The Fall-Out It was not clear if Seanor, editor/vp had been fired. Babineau, 45, has been with Golfweek for nine years, including roles as editor, deputy editor and senior writer. "We know we have a job ahead of us to re-earn the trust and confidence of many loyal readers," Babineau said. "Our staff is very passionate about the game. Our wish is that one regretful error does not erase more than 30 years of service we've dedicated to this industry."
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