Hey, check it out…man drowning – Pull up a seat
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 2nd, 2011
This just happened the other day in the Bay Area. Thanks to Doug for e-mailing me this.
Budget cuts force Calif. police and firemen to watch man drown
Police and firemen in Alameda, California watched a man drown on Monday after realizing they did not have proper certifications for water rescue, leaving them open to possible lawsuits if they attempted to save him.
The drowning victim, 53-year-old Raymond Zack, was apparently suicidal, according to a report from the scene. He waded out about 150 yards into cold waters off Crown Beach in Alameda and took about an hour to drown himself.
A crowd of about 75 gathered to watch the bizarre scene, which saw police and firemen just standing at shoreline watching helplessly. After the man had drowned, authorities couldn’t even go into the surf to retrieve the body. They instead recruited a passer-by for the job.
City officials reportedly blamed the incident on budget cuts and said they would have a discussion about why Alameda, an island city, does not have proper authorization to rescue people from the waters surrounding it.
UPDATE: City changes rules after police watch man drown
This video is from ABC 7 in San Francisco, Calif., broadcast May 30, 2011.
Readers: This is shocking to me. Not only did the policemen and firemen, who are paid to do something, sit there and do nothing, everyone else followed suit. I am not the best swimmer, but I would be going insane if I was there. I would have to do something. Not sure what, but there is no way I could just pull up a seat and watch this man drown for an hour. But that is exactly what happened. No one did anything. It is crazy that those we rely on, those that get paid to protect us, did just that…until the final moment. The man drowned.
And then they couldn’t even pull the body in. (!) Leave it up to a woman to care enough to pull him out of the water.
Here is a perfect example of money being more important than life. There is no true respect for the sanctity of life. It is all just words to appease anyone who is listening.
Thoughts? Blog me.
iOke: I just wanted to say hello. I really have nothing more to add in response to your question: Goddess or Alien? I agree with Holly – go for Goddess.
As far as being sexy and appealing to men. Hmm…that’s a little challenging. Sexiness can come from the inside, by the way you carry yourself, your confidence, a feeling you have about yourself. But it also can show up in the way you dress – what you show and what you don’t show – sometimes showing too much (skin, cleavage, etc.) isn’t very sexy. And sometimes just giving a little peak now and then of a possible promise to show more, can be very sexy.
It could be just a beautiful smile or the way you toss your head, or how you sit. Sexy to one person may not be sexy to another. Am I confusing you even more?
Hm…I guess I did have more to say. I’ll defer to Holly for the second part of your question since you originally addressed her. Perhaps Holly or someone else will chime in and be more helpful.
Lilly: I have to agree. Some of the comments that I read were just so insensitive. All claiming that Naomi was being too sensitive. It’s easy to imagine what we would hear if the same thing was happening to them.
Akhila: Obviously he fucked with the wrong girl.
AH: Thanks for being here. I know that many of my readers really enjoy your writes. I HOPE all three of you are doing great.
Bob: LOL
Oh Zen Lill: No one made a comment about Evelyn. I blogged it – perhaps you didn’t see it at the bottom of my write yesterday. Ruth e-mailed me and told me about Evelyn.
Anonymous: I have been reading about Manal al-Sharif. The things that men do to control their women to keep them from being independent…these absurd laws – they are just ludicrous. More power to these women – I HOPE they go for it and June 17th is a huge success.
Peace Out.
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June 2nd, 2011 at 10:19 am
Oh man, I can’t watch someone die in a video.
No, I did not see that last statement about Evelyn (Ruth’s email) though I wish her well and a speedy recovery. I guess I got L.a.z.y. in my reading towards the end yesterday, I’m on alert now : ) thanks. Let’s chat soon, let me know good times to call, miss chatting, it’s been awhile…
I’m outta here, my doggie needs a vet visit : )
Luv, Zen Lill
June 2nd, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Michelle:
Thank you for your advice. I like what I heard. I can experiment this weekend.
i0ke
June 2nd, 2011 at 1:21 pm
RAPID BODY TRANSFORMATION: AN UNCOMMON GUIDE
Tim Ferriss has been described as the Indiana Jones for the digital age. His apparently limitless energy, enthusiasm and commitment to all-out exploration resulted in mega-sales for his first book and number-one New York Times best seller The 4-Hour Workweek, which is now in 35 languages.
For his next project, he set out to find ways to create a healthier, stronger, leaner body. Out of shape himself, he put on 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days and — using uncommon techniques — helped his 65-year-old father lose 90 pounds of fat.
Ferriss was deeply bothered by the huge numbers of otherwise successful people who had accepted living in mediocre bodies, and so he spent the next three years traveling around the world and studying fast, effective — if sometimes highly unusual — methods of bringing about needed changes.
Those are the ideas that now fill the pages of The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman.
Now, as I picked up the book and took a good look, it was obvious that the title was the kind of extravagant overstatement designed to grab customers’ attention and ensure a large volume of sales.
The question: Would this very hefty book deliver anything close to the content it promised? I sat down to talk with the author, and the question quickly answered itself.
It turns out that Ferriss knows whereof he speaks. He ran a sports nutrition company for eight years and had access to leading doctors, athletes and scientists. He talked to them, learned from them and put a lot of advice into practice after first using himself and the people around him to test the theories that he details in his book. In fact, Ferriss says, he personally tests everything he writes about.
Ferriss is adamant in his belief that being in charge of your body gives you power in life. “It puts you in the driver’s seat,” he says flatly. In my recent conversation with him, Ferriss talked about the discipline that helped him create a leaner, healthier body and a life that is decidedly not mediocre. He also told me more about ways readers can start on their own pursuit to becoming “superhuman”…
Daily Health News: You manage to do a gargantuan amount of work. You have written two very large best sellers (the most recent one is 571 pages) — and you’re a Guinness Book of World Records holder for the most tango spins in one minute (37) besides!
You exercise daily and zoom around the world making presentations, talking to experts, putting their theories to work for yourself and for others. Where does that kind of energy come from?
Tim Ferriss: A lot of it comes from how I was nurtured, but I would say that the turning point was when I went to Japan at age 15 as an exchange student. Living in such a different culture from ours, I realized how many of the rules we follow are completely arbitrary and certainly “challengeable.”
I began to think about what would happen if I did the opposite of what I was told to do, or if I followed only the first two or three rules instead of all of them. I put that into practice and I learned Japanese and earned a Judo black belt in just one year.
I returned to the US with a newfound sense of confidence, not in myself but in the process and in the tool set that I had developed.
Success begets success, and I have continued to be guided by this principle ever since. Really, at its most simple, we’re talking about thinking for yourself and questioning basic assumptions.
Daily Health News: Your drive is unique. What is at the root of it?
Ferriss: Philosophies are the “operating systems” we have for life — rules that allow us to make decisions, hopefully better and faster.
I am attracted to Stoic philosophy and learning to value only nonmaterial things that cannot be taken away easily, such as close relationships — and not to overreact emotionally to things you cannot control.
This is much like some teachings in Buddhism. Both philosophies have been tested in warfare with its high stakes and immovable deadlines. I find you can learn a lot from extreme situations that you can then apply to more moderate circumstances.
Daily Health News: You are endlessly positive about people’s ability to reach their potential, but you say that, ultimately, the basis for motivation is what you call the “Harajuku moment.”
This describes what happens when someone replaces seeing a goal as something “nice to have” with seeing it as a “must have.” How can people propel themselves to that level of commitment?
Ferriss: To get to a goal, the psychological behavior you set up is as important as the method you use, and there are several ways to engineer a “Harajuku moment.”
For example, our society focuses on positive psychology too much, in my opinion. The fact is that negative prompts are extremely useful.
Magnifying the pain your problem causes you can be a great motivator. To see how, let’s suppose that you are trying to lose weight. You could constantly think about other people who already have great physiques
. But what if, instead, you make your current state extremely visible — take a picture of yourself in a bathing suit with plain lighting and your hands on your head so that your fat hangs out in all its glory — and place it where this painful sight of yourself is an unavoidable and regular occurrence?
This actually tends to work better. Another way to build motivation is through peer pressure and public accountability — maybe forming a betting pool with friends that features friendly competition in which the one who loses the most weight or gains the most muscle wins the pool. I offer a number of case studies in the book that use clinically tested setups like this.
Daily Health News: You write that when working toward a goal, it’s helpful to remember that by mastering just 2.5% of the total subject area you can achieve a good 95% of the desired results.
You give the example of learning Spanish — 95% of conversations contain just 2,500 words, so knowing them is enough to be perceived as fluent. The question is, though, how do people identify what parts of a given area make up the critical 2.5%?
Ferriss: The first answer, not surprisingly, is to let the experts in your target field do the initial round of testing for you.
Then go beyond the mainstream by talking to the outliers — those people who are working toward the same particular goal in an untraditional way.
Let’s say, for example, that you want to train for a marathon or triathlon. Common wisdom says that you’ll probably need 20 to 30 hours of training per week, at least if you want to perform well in an Ironman competition.
Now let’s say that you ignore the party line and common prescriptions for training, and opt instead to find people who run very long distances who shouldn’t be able to — overweight people or those who don’t have the typical body build of a runner.
Find out what their strategies for success are. Then use the knowledge from both groups to make your plan.
Another way to make progress toward a daunting goal is to start small with short-duration experiments that last only two weeks or so. My 65-year-old dad finally lost 90 pounds of fat and gained 20 to 30 pounds of muscle with less than four hours of resistance training per month because he started with a two-week experiment, rather than considering this a change that he had to make a permanent part of his life.
He was willing to take on a two-week trial and see where it was going. Taking this reversible “baby step” took the pressure off.
Daily Health News: Then, of course, you have to keep up the motivation that will get you all the way to your goal, which your book makes clear involves having measurable achievements. What is that about?
Ferriss: I take a very strict business approach, which I base on a tenet of the management guru Peter Drucker — that what gets measured gets managed… and if you can’t measure something, you can’t manage it.
With weight, for example, I like to have people use more detailed ways of measuring than just the scale. Body fat is a good measure, but you can also simply measure circumferences using a basic tape measure on the mid upper arm, waist, hip, and midpoint on the thigh and track the total inches you lose in fat, or the inches you gain in muscle if that’s your goal.
This body measuring is particularly useful for women. The fact is that inches often come off before pounds do, when measured on a scale. What that represents is a positive small increase of muscle, in addition to fat loss.
Sadly, when women measure their progress only by the scale, they are apt to get frustrated and quit.
Daily Health News: I like the concept you have that what you gain in one area transfers to other areas of life. Can you elaborate on that for Daily Health News readers?
Ferriss: It is hard to sell people on making an effort for their health — as a mission, it’s just too far off and nebulous.
But if they start with one goal of improved performance and one goal of improved appearance, the other health benefits come with it. This “transfer” is like a Trojan horse, but one that helps you. And it goes far beyond the physical.
Richard Branson, the Virgin empire billionaire, was quoted in my book as saying he gets three to four more productive hours of work done per day by working out.
Improving the physical machine, and breaking limits, changes everything. People see how what they thought was physically impossible has become possible, and then they start to think about what else they haven’t changed in their lives that they could change, whether doubling their income, asking for promotions, traveling the world for a year, etc.
Their confidence multiplies in a cascading effect. That is why I believe for the sake of mental health, business, relationships, family dynamics — everything — the first thing people should do is improve their bodies.
Source(s):
Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek (Crown Archtype) and faculty member, Singularity University, Moffet Field, California, http://www.SingularityU.org.
is a frequent lecturer at Princeton University. Daily Health News subscribers can find free sample chapters of The 4-Hour Body (and video samples) at http://www.FourHourBody.com.
June 2nd, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Michelle when people in France balk at the french outlawing the burqa because they say it is interfering with religious freedom. They are implying that women want to wear that shit.
Assholes, arab men want women to wear that shit! Then you have the same idiotic justifications by white men like the ones being made to justify allowing a sick man to drown.
Fucked up white men are proposing the idea that some arab women are doing it as a fashion statement. I’d like to force those assholes into putting their tiny balls into a straight jacket even smaller that their tiny balls if such a gadget could be found. Then I’d say when they ask to be relieved of the pain. No, wear it asshole it is your way of making a fashion statement.
The french are doing the right thing to stop that shit arab men are using religion to force women to do.
Why am I raging?
Well this article is about an 19 year old arab woman who lived in the Ukraine. She entered a beauty contest. The fucking men stoned her to death. It is fucking sick. Three teenage boys stoned her to death. A 16 year old boy said that he had no regrets because she violated the laws of Sharia.
The country is not islamic, but this is a woman so the fucking men are not taking it seriously. If an arab killed one of them because his religion said so they would hang him from the nearest pole. But it is a woman so they have to think about it.
Michelle, that proposal kill all the males over 10 should be lowered to 5 and we need to get started NOW!
Here is the fucking article.
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Ukrainian officials have slammed media claims that a teenage beauty queen was stoned to death by three Muslim suspects who alleged the 19-year-old violated Sharia law by participating in pageants.
As CBS reports, the body of Katya Koren was found in a forest near her home in the Crimea region of Ukraine one week after her disappearance. Her battered body had been partially buried.
Initial media reports said three Muslim youths were responsible for the murder, claiming Koren’s death had been justified under Islam, the Daily Mail is reporting. One of the three suspects, named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev, was quoted as telling police that Katya had “violated the laws of Sharia,” and that he has no regrets about her death.
Now, Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Chairman Mustafa Abdülcemil Q?r?mo?lu, commonly known as Mustafa Cemilo?lu in Turkey, said the detained teenager, who is of Crimean Tatar descent, was pressured by police into accepting the blame for the murder.
“The killing was covered in a distorted way, as if it was a religiously motivated murder, by the media around the world,” he is quoted as saying. Though initial reports claimed Koren, like her assailants, was Muslim, officials like Q?r?mo?lu now say she is actually Christian with Russian roots. “The girl was not Muslim. All these [reports] are a provocation and fabricated news.”
Other authorities now believe Koren may have been killed by a psychologically troubled classmate, who robbed and possibly raped her before battering her to death with a rock.
“A student did it, killing his classmate,” Sergei Reznikov, a senior policeman involved in the case, is quoted by the Telegraph as saying. “There is no other underlying reason, neither religious nor linked with inter-ethnic conflicts.”
Friends have described Koren, who reportedly finished seventh in a regional beauty contest, as liking fashionable clothes. Though the Crimea region is home to more than 250,000 Muslim Crimean Tatars, cases of Sharia punishment being meted out by stoning have thus far been unheard of.
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The latter is a lie. They are covering up the crime. She was a muslim and she was stoned to death. It is bad enough that she was senselessly murdered, but it is shameful the men are covering it up this way.
Bari’ah
June 2nd, 2011 at 3:15 pm
When we were little; a boy could pee in the snow, and a girl would marvel at the wonder of it all… later, when she bled but did not die, warned him of peril that was impending, and then pulled another live, separate human, out of herself… suddenly peeing in the snow, wasn’t so cool.
June 2nd, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Every religion has taken away the rights of half of the population . Religion has been imagined by men, who have by virtue of their larger size and smaller brain have controlled women with violence. The biggest laugh is that they think god is a man. Time for women to learn to shoot.
June 2nd, 2011 at 3:17 pm
In these “civil” United States, some Republican Governors are doing pretty much the same thing in their states by enacting laws that put women’s rights back to the 18th century. There is a total attempt to “administr ate” women’s bodies and choices to some old, and some not so old, White men.
June 2nd, 2011 at 3:21 pm
If the right wingers here in the US have their way, it will be pretty much the same here too when it comes to reproducti ve rights. They want to force women to have a vaginal sonogram before getting an abortion, among other things.
June 2nd, 2011 at 3:24 pm
If a man is obsessed with a woman’s purity and virginity, you can be sure he has a filthy mind. He is projecting his own filthy mind onto the woman. Men who have clean minds, are not obsessing about the sexual histories of women
June 2nd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
#5 anon – women do a whole lot more thinga that are very cool, I think it just scares the wimpy males so they struggle to control. #6 – I’m with you, I’m a good shot and a ‘gun for hire’ : )
…actually I came back today to tell (oh forgive me, can’t go back in archives to find your name but I think it’s) Rose Marie (?) the woman with menopausal questions and I must tell you that you have inspired me to get to it bc your story touched me and when someone makes me feel something, good, bad or whatever, I must get to the bottom of it. I’m sure part of it is that while I don’t believe we all need to run around happy happy happy all the time, there just isn’t any reason why women should have to suffer physically or psychologically anymore than we already do. Click thorugh on my name if you want more back up on how to combat those ‘woman of certain age’ symptoms…
Though that’s what I wrote on, my 20 something nephew texted me that he and his buddies think my blog rocks, go figure, time to give the young dudes some info on their hormones and attitudes, should be fun ; )
Luv, Zen Lill
June 3rd, 2011 at 6:57 am
Which story is true, this or the “breaking news” of last week. It is difficult to believe anything in the corporate press as their agenda is so swayed against the people to tell truth. I think this smells more like truth than the original “breaking news” stories. Greed outweighs well too much…I mean, sex with a hotel maid…in two stories in a week?…makes no sense to me either.
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/05/russia-says-imf-chief-jailed-for-discovering-all-us-gold-is-gone/