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My last shift with Denis consisted of zero rowing. We started rowing but were making no progress due to the stiff headwinds so we spent three and half hours pushing the boat through the shallow water – we made 5.5 km in four hours. If we had calm conditions, we could row this in one hour with far less effort.

Over this time, my mind began to wander and realizing we can control so little up here, I began thinking about what we can control. My thoughts drifted to things we can do to give ourselves the best chance of moving forward. It’s probably stating the obvious but all we can control is our actions and nothing else. I suppose when you think about it, this is no different from life in general.

How I (or anybody else) performs in life is really down to focusing on what one can control. Whether it’s on this expedition, in my business or just life in general the only thing I can really control are my actions. There are so many things beyond my control so why bother worrying about them – like the actions of others, what anybody says or thinks of me, the economy…….the list is endless but yet it’s so easy to allow things like these occupy our head space.

Controlling Our Performance

Exactly. Humans don’t control the climate and they should quit wasting their summer on this idiotic trip.

Another possibility would be what Agamemnon did, sacrifice their first born to make the wind stop blowing.

You won’t recognize me. My name was Antonio West and I was the 13-month old  child who was shot at point blank range by two teens who were attempting to rob my mother, who was also shot. A Grand Jury of my mommy’s peers from Brunswick GA determined the teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty…too bad I was given a death sentence for being innocent and defenseless.

My family made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white neighborhood, but my murder was not ruled a Hate Crime. Nor did President Obama take so much as a single moment to acknowledge my murder.

I am one of the youngest murder victims in our great Nation’s history, but the media doesn’t care to cover the story of my tragic demise, President Obama has no children who could possibly look like me – so he doesn’t care and the media doesn’t care because my story is not interesting enough to bring them ratings so they can sell commercial time slots.

There is not a white equivalent of Al Sharpton because if there was he would be declared racist, so there is no one rushing to Brunswick GA to demand justice for me. There is no White Panther party to put a bounty on the lives of those who murdered me. I have no voice, I have no representation and unlike those who shot me in the face while I sat innocently in my stroller – I no longer have my life.

So while you are seeking justice for Treyvon, please remember to seek justice for me too. Tell your friends about me, tell you families, get tee shirts with my face on them and make the world pay attention, just like you did for Treyvon.

Thank you.

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Last year the AP wrote this story about Zimmerman :

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman accused the Sanford police department of corruption more than a year before he shot Trayvon Martin, saying at a public forum the agency covered up the beating of a black homeless man by the son of a white officer.

“I would just like to state that the law is written in black and white,” Zimmerman said during a 90-second statement to city commissioners at a community forum. “It should not and cannot be enforced in the gray for those who are in the thin blue line.”

The forum took place on Jan. 8, 2011, days after a video of the beating went viral on the Internet and then-Sanford Police Chief Brian Tooley was forced to retire. Tooley’s department faced criticism for dragging its feet in arresting Justin Collison, the son of a police lieutenant.

“I’d like to know what action the commission is taking in order to repeal Mr. Tooley’s pension,” Zimmerman said to the commission. “I’m not asking you to repeal his pension; I believe he’s already forfeited his pension by his illegal cover-up in corruption in what happened in his department.”

The story was located at this URL

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEIGHBORHOOD_WATCH_ZIMMERMAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-23-20-37-47

AP has overwritten the story with a new one which does not mention anything about that incident, but you can get to it on the Internet Archive:

News from The Associated Press

Zimmerman is an exceptionally decent person, who is being lynched by racists in the White House which have chosen to ignore the evidence.

h/t to Dave G

Cleveland man shoots intruder holding fiancée at gunpoint; Resident applauded by councilman

Obama stated today that people like him should back off and avoid confrontation. They probably just wanted to rape and murder his fiancee, after all.

h/t to Dave G

Obama also suggested that the outcome of the case could have been different if Martin were white. “If a white male teen would have been involved in this scenario,” he said, “both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.”

There is zero evidence that this had anything to do with race. Zimmerman was investigated by the FBI, police and the prosecutors, and none found any evidence to support that idea.

The issue was an out of control teenager who decided to attack a “creepy ass cracka“. Obama is the person who brought race into it.

The president also nodded to the Justice Department investigation which is probing whether or not to bring federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. But Obama also urged state and local officials to review their own procedures to see how to improve their law enforcement practices.

The fifth amendment prohibits this

He also called for a review of so-called “Stand Your Ground” laws, a central issue in the case.

It was not brought up during the case.

“If Trayvon Martin was of age and was armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?” Obama asked. “If the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we should examine those laws.”

Martin was suspended from school for drug abuse and theft. He never could have gotten a CCW license. He would have been extremely dangerous with a gun. There was no indication that Zimmerman threatened Martin any way. Zimmerman was waiting for the police to arrive when he was attacked.

And though Obama sidestepped the idea of demanding a new, national conversation on race — and while he said that racism was far from eliminated — the president ended on an upbeat moment, expressing his view that race relations are “getting better.

Obama: ‘Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago’ – NBC Politics

Obama has sent race relations backwards by 50 years with his constant race baiting. There was no evidence presented that this case had anything to do with race. Just like when he accused the Cambridge police of racism. Why is Obama talking about it?

The five hottest July’s in the US were 1936, 1901, 1934, 1930 and 1931.

During July, 1936 – US afternoon temperatures averaged 33.6C (92F) compared to 30.1C (86F) so far in July, 2013.

The two coolest July’s occurred in 1992 (Pinatubo affected) and 2009.

USHCN hides this trend by cooling the past and warming the present. In order to get rid of that inconvenient hot July of 1901, they subtracted 2.5 degrees.

According to some honest people at NOAA, July, 1901 was the third worst heatwave in US history, with 9.500 casualties.

Top Ten Heat Events

Had USHCN been able to adjust the temperatures at the time, most of those 9,500 dead people probably would have survived.

From July 19 to July 29 1930, temperatures at Laurel, Maryland were over 100F eight times, including two days at 106F. Temperatures during the current heatwave are forecast to be more than ten degrees cooler than during the low CO2 year of 1930.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

On July 18, 1934 every station but one in Nebraska was over 100F. Four were over 110F, twenty-three were over 105F, and Weeping Water reached 112F.

The president used the highly personal comments to, in his words, put the angst in the black community in “context.” And he also appeared to give his support to Attorney General Eric Holder’s call earlier in the week for a review of “stand-your-ground” laws. The laws allow people to use lethal force if they feel threatened — even if they might have the option of retreating.

“If we’re sending a message as a society … that someone who is armed potentially has the right to use those firearms even if there’s a way for them to exit from a situation, is that really going to be contributing to the kind of peace and security and order that we’d like to see?” Obama said.

Obama enters Martin debate with personal remarks, questions ‘stand-your-ground’ | Fox News

Martin was standing over Zimmerman ground and pounding his head into the concrete, and Obama says that Zimmerman should have retreated.

Obama also believes that the weather is getting worse and that warming has accelerated over the last decade.

These three children were among the 30 people murdered in Chicago so far this month.

Gizzell Ford   Ed Cooper   Damani Henard

Obama has shown no interest in them. His concern lies with the kid below, whom he says he relates to, and can use as political tool to further divide America.