Website AshleyMadison.com wants to challenge one of Tebow’s core beliefs. They’re offering up big money to any woman who can prove she has slept with the NFL sensation.
How does one prove?
Tebow is not likely, if he is lying, to have any proof lying around.
Let’s see if some ne comes forward.
The website will have more hits even other wise by cranky moves like these.
But this may prove to be counter productive in the long run.
CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell tweeted the rumblings of a $1 million bounty late Monday.
The company retweeted Rovell and on Tuesday morning issued a confirmation via Twitter: “@darrenrovell @TimTebow – It’s true Darren…we’re just worried it might cost us millions!”
Ashley Madison provides matches for those seeking an extramarital affair. The company is described on its homepage as the “most recognized name in infidelity.”
Throughout his career in both college and the pros,Tebow has proudly declared his devotion to Christian beliefs, which include abstinence until marriage. He is scheduled to appear at two Christian universities this week in Ohio for a forum on “faith and football.”
According to Ashley Madison, it’s more like sex and football.
“Sports and sex (and of course, infidelity) go hand in hand,” site founder Noel Biderman said in a statement, according to Rovell. “If Mr. Tebow is indeed abstaining from adult relationships, I would encourage him to find a nice lady or two and enjoy his youth and fame as much as possible.”
The offer will run through Tebow’s first season in New York, Rovell reported.
“I guarantee that no man of Tebow’s stature could survive a season in New York without succumbing to the temptations of the city,” said Biderman.
“If you ever thought that maybe your smartphone wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be, that’s because it wasn’t.”
Take cover, iPhone owners: Nokia is about to rain some furious criticisms down on your smartphone. Three “mysterious” videos uploaded by YouTube user SmartphoneBetaTest this weekend take some not-so-veiled shots at the iPhone’s vulnerabilities, all seeking to prove that your current smartphone isn’t all that great and that, furthermore, Apple treats its handset owners like beta testers.
The videos — widely suspected to be part of Nokia’s advertising campaignfor its upcoming Lumia 900 release — show “recently obtained, never before seen footage” of three fictional execs (company unnamed!) discussing shortcomings in their firm’s smartphones. The most viewed video, titled “Death Grip” (guess what that’s a reference to?), features one exec panicking that his phone’s signal is disappearing when he grips the phone a certain way; another exec scolds him and tells him he’s holding it wrong (get it?).
Understand real China in Chinglist words by netizen (Photo credit: IsaacMao)
Consequent on the rumours that there is a sort of Political upheaval in Beijing, which I have reported earlier, China has now fired a warning shot to netizens by forcing the microblogging service providers to disable comments by readers.
But no news of the political trauma is emerging. as of now.
Refers to:
BEIJING—The Chinese government fired a warning shot at the country’s Internet industry over the weekend, in an apparent effort to beat back the rumors that have filled an information vacuum following the ouster of former Communist Party highflier Bo Xilai.
The crackdown—involving temporary limits on popular microblogging services as well as the detention of six individuals accused of spreading rumors of a coup last month—shows the government may be try to reclaim its hold on political conversation in China.
The coup rumors appear to have put Beijing on the defensive, forcing top leaders at the center of the speculation to appear before the cameras, and to acknowledge the existence of the rumors through official channels.
The microblogging services—known asweiboin Chinese—of Sina Corp.SINA -2.10% and Tencent Holdings Ltd.0700.HK +2.86% said in identical notices on their websites Saturday that they were shutting down users’ ability to comment on other users’ posts until 8 a.m. Tuesday as part of “a centralized cleanup” because there has been “lots of harmful illegal information among the comments on weibo.”
A Sina representative said the company’s move was in response to a growing number of rumors but not a specific event. Tencent declined to comment beyond the notice on its website.
The state-run Xinhua news agency called the measures a punishment for the companies for allowing the rumors to appear, “resulting in adverse impact.”
Xiao Qiang, a scholar of the Chinese Internet at the University of California, Berkeley, said the moves show online discussion is hitting closer to home for the Communist Party than in years past, when authorities used censorship to quash discussions about issues such as democracy or Tibetan independence. Now “it’s about internal politics,” he said. The crackdown is “a public acknowledgment of their insecurity about online public opinion.”
The Hindu‘s coverage of the news relating to Tamil Genocide warrants this conclusion.
The Hindu which was known for integrity and unbiased reporting is no more.
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‘Activists of Delhi Tamil Students’ Union, Democratic Students Union, Students for Resistance and other common students raised slogans against N. Ram accusing him of being a ‘media fascist’ and ‘a stooge of Rajapaksa’ at a public meeting in JNU after his reply to a question on The Hindu’s role in whitewashing the Sri Lankan state genocide of the Eezham Tamils, wherein he had extensively blamed the LTTE. The meeting on ‘Paid news and media ethics’ was organized at JNU on Wednesday by the Student’s Federation of India, which is the students wing of the CPI(M). The fact that N.Ram and The Hindu have unethically manipulated news to cover up the war crimes of Colombo makes them complicit in the genocide committed on the Eezham Tamils, a Tamil Nadu research scholar in JNU told TamilNet.
Mr. Ram was talking about journalist coverage in India elections and during the US’ wars and on the theme of media ethics, referring greatly to Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, a classic on understanding how news is manipulated and on editorial bias.
An activist of the DTSU raised a question on why Ram, who had talked about journalists being attacked in Palestine and Iraq, had nothing to say about media freedom and assault on journalists in Sri Lanka, including murder of Sinhala journalist Lasantha Wikramatunga.
When he has been silent about this, used his newspaper to support the genocidal war on the Eezham Tamils, called a visit to the IDP camps in Vavuniya an uplifting experience when they were reality in concentration camps, how could he talk about the ethics of journalism, the activist further asked.
As a reply, N. Ram had said that those who criticize the GoSL do not criticize the LTTE [an argument highlighted by Mahinda Rajapaksa too nowadays]. After criticizing the ‘ruthlessness’ of the LTTE in his reply, he added a line that had the GoSL committed excesses, he would criticize that too…..
When an activist of the DSU observed that his bias was obvious in his reply itself, where he had criticized the LTTE for ten minutes, but had only one line to say about the GoSL, and whether this was his idea of media ethics, Ram fumbled for a response. At this, students in the audience remarked loudly that ‘this is why they gave you Sri Lanka Ratna’ and shouted ‘shame’.
I have been quite sceptical about of the Reports in Newspapers on any thing connected with ‘Cure found’,”genes isolated’ ‘Coffe.tea causes cancer,inhibits(/) cancer’,’Experts say’ and the lot.
When you go deep you would find that the Story has bo basis except in the imagination of the writer.
And many atimes the reports quote some one called an Expert whom nobody seems to know!
And the University/Research facility is still mor difficult to find.
Even if you are able to find such institutions, you would get a reply that ‘the theory/cure is in experimental stage’
How many’cures’ have been found for cancer till date!
The same trend applies to most of the reports on Life Style,Sex, Behaviour.
I came across a piece in Craked.com on the subject and I am reproducing here.
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I was busy finishing up the draft of what was to be my latest column, “Everything About Sausages Is Awesome,” when someone pointed out to me that the only research I had done was creating 45 animated gifs of rotating sausages. “Avant garde,” I mumbled, waving my hands around in an authoritative manner. “Daring,” I added, waving my hands in a more daring manner, before concluding with, “you slope-browed idiot.” This, it turned out, is the wrong way to win an argument with an editor, much in the same way that it’s the wrong way to win an argument with everyone else.
So in order to find some sort of academic support for my deeply held belief that sausages are awesome, I went to the public library. My initial searches were frustrated by the fact that the academic community apparently has greatly neglected sausage-based research, and despite numerous queries — “Excuse me, you slope-browed idiot …” — I was unable to find the sausage section of the library at all. My only promising lead, a helpful elderly gentleman who led me to the washroom, turned out to be talking about something else entirely, and I was forced to leave the washroom empty-handed, though with my honor thankfully intact. (Being empty-handed actually kind of related to the intactness of my honor.)
Frustrated, I turned to the archived newspapers and periodicals and began reading their health sections to see what the popular media had to say about sausages. Although I found little advice about tubed meats, I did find a lot of other advice, almost all of it dangerously insane. There wasn’t a single article about nutrition or health that didn’t make massive, barely substantiated claims about a new diet or medical treatment. This kind of journalistic malpractice is perfectly acceptable for Cracked (company motto: Journalistic Malpractice Is Perfectly Acceptable Here), but I was surprised to see this kind of ass-grabbery in the grown-up newspapers.
#8. ____ Is Incredibly Good/Bad for You
Here’s a headline you’ve probably read a few times already today:
News paper Report
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What these articles usually don’t do is qualify what exactly that “link” means. If you’re missing a discussion of:
– the cost of a diet/treatment,
– its side effects,
– how it compares with other treatments and
– how it compares with doing nothing at all,
… then you’re not reading very useful advice. Consider that last item for a second. Does a new diet reduce the risk of getting a disease from 5.4 percent to 5.2 percent? (I don’t know or care what the units could be. Riskometers, let’s say.) That is a potentially interesting finding, and it could certainly serve as a guide for future research, but it’s not the kind of evidence that should inspire you to cram fish oil into your throat until you stop blinking.
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#5. Lack of Knowledge
Earlier I talked about choosing proper methodologies, and cost/benefit analysis, and literature review. These are just some of the terribly boring chores that are a sad but necessary part of being an expert in a field. That’s why we can’t expect reporters to be experts in all the areas they’re covering; it’s often the case these days that a new reporter who a month ago was writing the “Tides Update” on page G18 is promoted to covering something actually useful, even if he doesn’t know the first thing about it. And the easiest way for this reporter to write about something he doesn’t know is to find and cite an expert. It’s a safe play for our young reporter; by simply describing the expert’s credentials and then relaying what they’re saying, the reporter’s young, soft ass is covered. It’s the expert telling the story, not the reporter. So it’s up to the audience to figure out if the expert is:
– actually an expert.
– a hired stooge.
– two children atop each other’s shoulders in a long coat.
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