Over 1300 kids?

DNA TESTS PROVE RETIRED POSTMAN HAS OVER 1,300 ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN

Nashville, TN | An 87-year-old former postman has been proven to have fathered over 1,300 illegitimate children after a private investigator hired by a Tennessee family discovered the shocking truth.

The investigation that has gathered thousands of DNA samples and testimonies over a 15-year period ultimately proves the man is the father to literally thousands of illegitimate children in the region.

“Contraception wasn’t very popular in those days,” he told local reporters in his defense. “I have nothing to be ashamed of. The 60s were the good old days and I did a great Johnny Cash impression which played out real good with the ladies,” he explained. “Some even thought I was Johnny Cash for real,” he recalls laughingly. “I don’t know if they really believed it or if they were trying to convince themselves, but who was I to say no to a quickie?” he acknowledged.

Author Anthony Kendall has teamed up with private investigator Sid Roy and will publish the results of the 15-year investigation next fall in an upcoming book

Unraveling the truth

Private investigator Sid Roy never could have imagined a simple gig would end up in a 15-year quest for the truth.

“It all started in 2001 when two different men that had nothing to do with each other hired me to find their biological father. I was astounded after further investigation to realize they both originated from the same person. That is when the mystery started unraveling and it became a personal mission of mine, whenever I had some free time, I’d try and track down other testimonies. Eventually, DNA testing became really cheap and easy to use and helped me gather a lot of information in the latest years,” he acknowledges.

No lawsuit in sight

The private investigator says the children of the old man don’t intend to pursue any lawsuit against the old man.

“Most people who are aware of the truth don’t want this information to get out and have given anonymous testimonies,” he explains. “The truth unleashed could break up hundreds or more families and that’s definitely not the point of all these years of research. All I know is that most people are glad to know the truth and don’t bear any grudge against the old man, I guess it was a more common practice in those days,” he acknowledges.

Although DNA testing and testimonies point out to over 1,300 illegitimate children fathered by the retired postman, Sid Roy believes there could be many more. “I’ve spent 15 years of my own personal time into this, I think it’s enough,” he admits. “But my research clearly shows there could be many more children,” he told local reporters, although he declined to comment if the numbers were in the hundreds or thousands more.

Wow this is crazy! What do you all think, true or not?

Movie - X-Men Apocalypse

What do you all think of the new X-Men movie coming out? I am excited to see it and the introduction of new characters. The older movies were good but using the same characters all the time got dated. New blood needs to be infused into the series. I am ready for this one to come out but I am anxious to see the others as well. 

Hope you all have a great day!

You are not your labels

We tend to find our identity in labels. For example, the label “nerd” applies quite nicely to me. I like video games, obscure Star Wars quotes (“He’s no good to me dead!” – name the reference), and all the latest tech gadgets. The label “creative” also fits me pretty well. I love bringing new ideas to fruition and coming up with new ways to approach old problems. I’m also book junkie, a sports lover, and a coffee snob. I’ve got no problem with these labels. They represent part of who I am. And you probably have a number of labels plastered on your forehead as well. Gearhead, gamer, jock, outdoorsman, redneck, political junkie, etc. For the most part these labels are neutral.

But all of us have also adopted labels which are not so good. “My grandpa was an angry man, my dad was an angry man, and I’m an angry man.” Or, “I’ve always struggled with body image issues. It’s just who I am.” Or, “I’ve always wrestled with same sex attraction. It’s just a part of me.” Or, “My mom treated me like trash. My husband has treated me like trash. Therefore, I must be trash.” Or, “I’ve just always been a worrier. I can’t help who I am.”

We assume that what has been always will be. We willingly adopt the labels that come with the struggles: angry, anorexic, loser, trash, failure, addict.

When we believe the labels we more quickly give in to temptation. “I’ve always been a slave to porn. It’s just who I am. I might as well keep giving in to it.” Or, “I’ve always been impatient. I can’t help it. I’m always going to be this way so I might as well learn to live with it.”

But the solid, firm, Biblical reality is that we are not our labels. 

In Galatians 2:20 Paul said:

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

When Paul said he had been crucified with Christ he meant that his old, sinfully enslaved, wickedness-loving self had been killed. It was crucified with Christ and it died.When Paul’s old self died, all the labels that went along with his old self also died. Paul was a violent man, but the “violent” label was nailed to the cross. Paul was a self-righteous fool, but the “self-righteous” label was pinned to the cross as well.

For Paul there was only one label that mattered: Christ lives in me. That reality defined who he was. The old, “labeled” Paul had been crucified with Christ. The new Paul had only one label: “Christ In Me”.

The same is true for us. Our old self was crucified with Christ and now Christ himself lives in us. We are not ultimately defined by our struggles we are defined by our union with Jesus Christ. Our old self, with all its labels is dead and buried. Those old labels don’t apply to us anymore. We may still struggle with the same temptations, but those temptations no longer define our identity.

We are in Christ and Christ is in us. Period. That is our identity. All the old labels can go to Hell (I mean that literally).

There will be times when it feels like we will never change. Like we will always be angry, have an eating disorder, give in to lust, worry, or be greedy. But God’s reality must always trump our perceived reality. We will not always be the same. Why? Because Christ lives in us. When Christ lives in us the old labels no longer apply.

Every day we must live in light of who we truly are. When we are tempted to be angry we must remember, Anger belongs to the old me. When we are tempted to lust we must remember that lust belongs to our old self. When we are tempted to worry we must remember that our old, worrying self was crucified with Christ.

We are not our labels. We are Christ’s.

---

Stephen Altrogge serves as a pastor at Sovereign Grace Church

Biz Markie - Just A Friend (Official Video)

Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey

Alter Bridge - Broken Wings

Bloatware

How to Get Rid of Bloatware on Your Android Phone

Manufacturers and carriers often load Android phones with their own apps. If you don’t use them, they just clutter your system, or–even worse–drain your battery in the background. Take control of your device and stop the bloatware.

Uninstalling vs. Disabling Bloatware

You have a few choices when it comes to removing bloatware from your system.

Uninstalling an app is exactly what it sounds like: the app is entirely removed from your device. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to get many of these preinstalled apps from the Play Store if you ever need them again. Uninstalling some preinstalled apps may result in problems or instability, though, and in some cases may block your phone from getting updates. So we almost always recommend freezing those apps instead.

A frozen app is disabled completely–it won’t appear in your app drawer and it won’t automatically start in the background. A frozen app cannot run in any way until you “unfreeze” it. Freezing and unfreezing are instant processes, so it’s easy to undo your changes if you end up freezing a necessary app.

Best of all, recent versions of Android come with the ability to disable most apps out of the box–no rooting or extra tools required.

If the app in question doesn’t have a disable option, or if you’re using an older version of Android that doesn’t have this feature, you’ll need to root your phone and use a third-party app to freeze that bloatware. And if you want to uninstall the bloatware completely, you’ll need to be rooted–no matter what version of Android you have.

If you really must uninstall apps, you should freeze them first and wait a few days to ensure that your phone or tablet works properly without them.

How to Disable Bloatware With Android’s Built-In Setting

Disabling bloatware on newer phones is easy. Just open your app drawer and tap Android’s “Settings” app, then go to “Apps”. You may have to swipe over to the “All” tab to see all the apps on your system.

Select the app you want to disable–we’ll use “Motorola Spotlight Player” as an example–and press the “Disable” button.

You’ll get a prompt warning you about possible problems, but it’s okay–we’re just disabling it. If you experience issues, you can always come back to this same screen and re-enable the app later.

After disabling it, you may also want to tap the “Force Stop” and “Clear Data” buttons as well.

Note that not all apps will have this disable option–but in many cases, they should. If they don’t, you’ll need to use the rooted method below to disable them.

How to Disable and Uninstall Bloatware on a Rooted Phone

If the app in question doesn’t have a disable option, or if you’re using an older version of Android that doesn’t have this feature, things get a bit more complicated. To start, you’ll need toroot your phone, so if you haven’t done that, do that first. You’ll also need to enable USB debugging in Settings > Applications > Developer Options. And, as always, we recommendmaking a full nandroid backup before continuing in case something goes wrong.

There are many apps that claim to freeze bloatware, but at the end of the day, Titanium Backupis still the best on the block. We’ve already covered using Titanium Backup to back up and restore your Android Phone, but it has a number of other features too, including freezing and uninstalling bloatware. The only catch: you’ll need to pay $6 for the pro version.

If you’re dead set against paying $6 for Titanium Backup, you can try the free NoBloat or App Quarantine, but reviews are much more mixed. We’ve teseted them and they worked fine for us, but your mileage may vary. Our previous recommendation, Gemini, no longer allows freezing in the free version. We have a lot of experience with Titanium Backup, and we know it works well on a variety of devices. Plus, it’s one of the most useful apps you can have on a rooted phone. So we’re going to use it for our tutorial.

To freeze an app with Titanium Backup, install Titanium Backup and the Pro key from Google Play. Launch the app and grant it superuser permissions when prompted.

Head to the “Backup/Restore” tab to see a list of apps on your system. You’ll see both apps you’ve installed and normally hidden system apps. Disabling important system apps could cause problems–for example, if you froze the Package installer app here, you wouldn’t be able to install packages. Be careful about what you freeze. You can always unfreeze apps later, but only if your system remains stable enough to do so.

Scroll to the app you want to freeze or uninstall. In this case, we’ll use “Motorola Spotlight Player” as an example.

Select the app in question and you’ll see a popup with different actions you can take. Tap the “Freeze” button to freeze it. (If you want to uninstall it, you can do that here as well, but again, we don’t recommend it.)

If all goes well, you’ll see a message stating the app was successfully frozen.

To un-freeze an app, just come back to this screen and choose “Defrost”.

---

Once you run through either of these processes, those apps should be disabled completely, aside from taking up some space on your system. You won’t see them in the menus and they won’t run in the background. You may have to restart your device or launcher before the app icon disappears from the menus, but for all intents and purposes, they’re out of your hair for good.

Bought to you by: How to Geek

Little Humor

Guns N' Roses - November Rain

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video)

Black Stone Cherry - In My Blood [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Need to Breath - Brother feat. Gavin DeGraw [Official Video]

Prayer

Good morning/afternoon, today I am going to introduce a little change of pace to my normal postings. I realize and understand there are a lot of different religions out there and there are a lot of people that do not believe in anything or a higher being but not God. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though which is why I am posting this today. I will be incorporating more religious themed information into my posts slowly. If you are offended or do not like them, then just pass them by. If you read them and get something out of it great. Leave a comment if you like. I hope you all have a good day and great month of March.

I started a brand-new series on the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) entitled, "Teach Us to Pray." Let's remember that this is not a prayer Jesus prays, but that a prayer He offers for his disciples to pray. One of the things that really strikes me about Jesus' model prayer is just how God-centered this prayer is. The Lord's Prayer contains six humble requests, the first three are God-directed and the last three involve human needs. This is very similar to the structure of the Ten Commandments, which first begin with our vertical relationship to God and then end with our horizontal relationship with our fellow man. It's similar to the way Paul constructed his letters to the churches: he often began with who we are in Christ before fleshing out how that affects the way we live.

 A.W. Tozer said this (and I paraphrase), "The first thing that comes to your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you." I hear a lot of Christian says things like, "I don't worry about theology." Well, yes you do. Everybody has a theology, whether flawed or otherwise. Sadly, most of our theology begins with me. We start our prayers with what we think we need and then, if we have time, throw in a few God cliques. But the most healthy theology begins where the Bible begins: with God. You will notice that the first words of the very first book of the Bible begin like this, "In the beginning, God."

It's easy to subtly devalue God by our prayers and our life. We say things like, "I don't imagine God is like this." Or "The God I worship doesn't do this." But if God is truly God--that is to say if God is sovereign, powerful, holy, compassionate, just--then it behooves us not to define God on our terms, but to bow before the God who is already there.

How does this affect our prayer life? Why did Jesus say to start our supplications with God? Because the way we view God affects the way we live. How much we reverence God informs the respect we have for our fellow man. And beginning with God in our prayers filters out the frivolous. It considers prayer as an act of worship, an acknowledgment that we are, in deed, not God. That God is God.

It means our prayers are in God's will. It keeps us from destructive theology. It prevents us from saying foolish things like, "God told me to (fill in the blank)" when really it was our own fleshly desires that spoke. I once had a person tell me, with a straight and somber face, that God was telling her to divorce her husband of 15 years and go marry a convicted felon. Um, God won't tell you to do something against His sovereign will.

Praying God-centered prayers takes some discipline and practice. I'll admit that this is a struggle for me. I often want to begin what I think are my own needs rather than letting my Father in Heaven shape my them. But there is something refreshing about beginning with God. It reminds us of the awesome miracle of access to the throne room of Heaven, purchased at great price by Christ on the cross. It reminds me that God takes great delight in hearing my prayers and meeting my needs, needs he knows well before I know them. It comforts me to realize that I do, indeed, have a Father in Heaven with a hallowed name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   By  Daniel Darling

Movie Preview - Batman vs Superman

So this is one of the most anticipated movies to start the "summer" movie season. It comes out at the end of March. The 25th to be exact with screenings on the 24th I'm sure. Like most people I am a little skeptical about Affleck playing the role of Batman but I do like the comic book movies. DC is, of course, behind the times when it comes to the movies as compared to Marvel but this movie, if done right, will go a long way into bringing them back into the mix. Personally I am really looking forward to this one and I might see it on Thurs night even though I have to be up early for work on Fri morning. Unfortunately I do not have one of those jobs where I can go into work when I want and I need to be alert all day long. If I can't go on Thurs I will be there on Sunday when the crowds are not as big. Of course with a movie this big its almost better to wait until the second weekend to see it but I'm not that type. I need to see it on opening weekend. Enjoy the trailer and the movie when it opens. Let me know what you think of it.

USB WiFi Adapter

How to Choose a USB Wi-Fi Adapter for Your Laptop

If you’ve bought a laptop within the past five years, it probably has a decent Wi-Fi card installed already. But if you’ve been experiencing a shoddy connection, spent too long waiting for Netflix to buffer, or missed that last fireball because of lag, then it might be time to consider adding on an external USB Wi-Fi adapter instead.

Next, if you’re looking to upgrade your router anytime soon (and we recommend you do), many laptops built before 2015 don’t come with the ability to decipher the newest, fastest wireless standard: 802.11ac.Even at their best, very few internal wireless cards without an antenna can get the same kind of reception as an external adapter that has one. Large, high gain antennas make it easier for USB adapters to get a signal even when there are multiple walls or floors between you and the router, which means less packet loss and a more reliable connection overall.

The results: a Dell XPS 13 with an internal 802.11ac Wi-Fi card, and the same laptop with a high gain 802.11ac USB Wi-Fi adapter plugged in

802.11ac is much faster than than older a/b/g/n receivers, up to 1300Mbps in ideal conditions. This means if you’re planning on installing a fiber line or boosting your broadband subscription soon, a USB Wi-Fi adapter with an upgraded router will make sure you get the most speed you can out of your new connection.

And as always: things break. Sometimes, your laptop’s internal card up and dies on you. Instead of paying repair fees or sending the laptop back for a full RMA, you can just get a USB Wi-Fi adapter instead that will do the job just as well (if not better).

What to Look for in a USB Wireless Adapter

You can’t just judge a wireless adapter by its appearance. Just because two adapters look alike does not make them the same, and just because one adapter has two antennae and another only has one doesn’t always mean the first is going to be a stronger performer. You want to look at the actual specs on the box (or web page): specifically, the wireless protocols it supports (b/g/n/ac),  what generation of USB port it plugs into (2.0 or 3.0), and what bands it uses (2.4GHz or 5GHz).

Next, check to see what kind of USB ports your laptop has: USB 2.0 or USB 3.0. If your laptop is older and only has USB 2.0, the maximum theoretical speed you’d be able to achieve is 60MB/s, while USB 3.0 tops out at 640MB/s. This won’t matter as much if your broadband subscription is below 60MB/s or your router only uses 802.11n (whose max speed 56MB/s), but it’s still an important factor to keep an eye on nonetheless.

As we mentioned in the last section, you’ll also want to be sure that your router and your adapter are able to transmit on the same protocols, otherwise you’re just flushing money down the toilet. So if you have a 802.11ac router and a fast enough USB 3.0 port on your computer, you’ll probably want an 802.11ac wireless adapter. But if you router or your USB ports aren’t fast enough, you don’t need to spring for the AC adapter–wireless N is probably fine.

Which is right for you will ultimately come down to varying factors like how big your home or apartment is, the amount of interference your router might experience from surrounding devices, and what type of browsing you plan on doing most often.Lastly, consider the wireless frequency you want to use: 2.4Ghz or 5GHz. These two wireless frequencies each have their own benefits and drawbacks, as we’ve detailed in our guide to wireless bands. If there are a lot of walls in your home or you don’t live with a lot of surrounding interference from other routers or appliances, then 2.4GHz will suit your needs fine. 5GHz, on the other hand, is faster but can suffer from signal loss over longer distances.

Our Recommendations

That should help you do some comparison shopping yourself, but if you just want to buy an adapter and get on with your life, here are a few of our recommendations.

For Large Homes/Long Range: D-Link DWA-192 AC1900 Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter

D-Link is a staple in the industry of wireless products, and it’s this pedigree that allowed them to release a Wi-Fi USB adapter unlike anything else we’ve seen before. The DWA-192’s spherical design is unique among this product category, but also gives it some of the best range, speed, and reliability out there. Its 3-foot extension cable means you can place the adapter anywhere that gets you the best signal, combined with theoretical top speeds of up to 600Mbps on 2.4GHz networks, and 1300Mbps on 5Ghz. There are very few connections that can actually take advantage of that cap (even fiber optic lines only push around 1000Mbps), but if you do a lot of file transfers on your network, the speed boost could make a big difference.

For Small Homes/Portability: Netgear AC1200 Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter 

If the idea of dragging around a weird looking ball doesn’t sound like your idea of perfect portability though, the Netgear AC1200 wireless adapter is great thanks to its discreet antenna which folds back in on the stick itself. If you’re struggling to get a signal you can pop it out for extra range, but if you’re right next to the router in your coffee shop, feel free to fold it back in. Solid performance combines with a decent price to make the Netgear AC1200 one of the best all-around sticks on shelves today.

---

Of course, these are just two models out of dozens that could provide a much needed boost to your laptop’s aging hardware. If your laptop’s internal Wi-Fi card is experiencing spotty internet service, drops out constantly, or is causing you to lag out during games or Netflix streams, then it may be time to look into upgrading to a USB Wi-Fi adapter instead.