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Without question, Charles Ramsey is a character. The man who rescued Amanda Berry from captivity gave an epic television interview yesterday, in which he delivered one of the most brilliant lines ever uttered on national television. “Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms,” Ramsey said with a knowing nod and smile. “Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway.”

In one comical comment, Ramsey said a lot about race in America. There was no need for an explanation because we all knew what he was talking about. We all knew what he meant. And, given the nefarious stereotypes of African American men, we all knew there to be more than a kernel of truth to it. Just listen to the knowing laughter around Ramsey in response to his remark.

When I heard him say it, I roared with laughter at his brilliant response and gasped that he had the nerve to say it. Throughout his interviews, Ramsey, a dishwasher at a Cleveland restaurant, has shown a lot of nerve. But he has shown an equal amount of character.

Ramsey said he heard someone screaming for help at the house next door. He didn’t walk away. He went over to help. More remarkable was why he continued to help. “I figured it was a domestic violence dispute,” he told Cleveland’s NewsChannel 5. Most people would walk away because it’s too dangerous to get involved or it’s just none of their business to get mixed up in someone else’s problems.

When Ramsey was asked by Anderson Cooper how he felt about being a “hero,” the “hero” demurred as only real heroes do.

"No, no, no. Bro, I’m a Christian, an American. I’m just like you. We bleed same blood, put our pants on the same way. It’s just that you got to put that – being a coward, and I don’t want to get in nobody’s business. You got to put that away for a minute. You have to have cajones, bro."

And what about possible reward money from the FBI? Ramsey told Cooper he isn’t interested.

I tell you what you do, give it to them. Because if folks been following this case since last night, you been following me since last night, you know I got a job anyway. Just went picked it up, paycheck. What that address say?….Where are them girls living? Right next door to this paycheck. So yes, take that reward and give it to [them]….

Democratic strategist and commentator Zerlina Maxwell noted on Twitter, “If anything Charles Ramsey proves that bystander intervention WORKS and u don’t need any special training to do it.”

To which @RobMyers1968 added, “[A]nd Charles Ramsey did it without a gun!”

And he did it seemingly without fear or any thought to his personal safety. We need more neighbors like Ramsey. We all could stand to be more like Ramsey.

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Jim Morris (born July 5, 1952), best known to fans as Hillbilly Jim, is an American professional wrestler and disc jockey. He was one of the World Wrestling Federation's most popular wrestlers of the mid-to-late 1980s.

Career
Before appearing in the WWF (now WWE) as Hillbilly Jim, Morris wrestled with the Continental Wrestling Association in the Memphis area under the name Harley Davidson, a biker gimmick. While there, Morris formed a popular tag team with Roger Smith, who went by the ring name "Dirty Rhodes" because of his resemblance to Dusty Rhodes.

In late-1984, Morris first appeared in the WWF as a wrestling fan who routinely sat in the front row of live events and who eventually decided to try his hand at wrestling himself. A series of vignettes were aired on WWF's TV programming in the early weeks of 1985, showing Hulk Hogan training Jim and providing him with his first set of wrestling boots. This introduced the character of Hillbilly Jim; a simple-minded, shaggy-bearded Appalachian hillbilly clad in bib overalls, and hailing from Mudlick, Kentucky. Hillbilly Jim appeared in a few tag team matches with friend Hulk Hogan, and had his first high-profile singles match at The War to Settle the Score event on February 18, 1985 in which he defeated Rene Goulet.

Rene Goulet



Unfortunately, Morris was sidelined by an injury a few days later. At a show in San Diego, he appeared in Hogan's corner in a match between Hogan and Brutus Beefcake. While chasing Beefcake's manager Johnny V around ringside, Morris slipped on a wet spot and (legitimately) broke his leg. To help fill in the seven months during his recovery, similarly-dressed "family" members Uncle Elmer, Cousin Luke, and Cousin Junior were introduced for Morris to accompany to ringside as a manager.

When his in-ring career resumed, Morris often either tag teamed with his family, or fellow big man André the Giant. He was traditionally matched up against the WWF's monster heels of the era, such as Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy. He also had a short feud with Mr. Fuji, and wrestled him in a series of tuxedo matches in late-1986.

Hillbilly Jim was generally kept as a "fun" character, rarely getting involved in any serious storylines. His only WrestleMania appearance outside of battle royals was a novelty match in WrestleMania III involving King Kong Bundy and midget wrestlers. His theme music was a folksy barn dance tune called "Don't Go Messin' With a Country Boy", which Morris danced along to with his partners, the ring announcer and or children from the crowd while the audience clapped along.

In addition to wrestling, Hillbilly Jim is also credited as creating the puppet named "Mine" for fellow WWF Superstar George "The Animal" Steele.



Hillbilly Jim continued to appear regularly in WWF matches until the summer of 1990. His last high profile match with the WWF was during the April 28, 1990 (taped April 23, 1990) edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, in which he lost to Earthquake in a squash match that lasted just under 2 minutes. He returned in December 1995 as a guest referee and a month later became manager of Henry O. and Phineas I. Godwinn, "cousins" who were pig farmers.



After the Godwinns turned heel in the spring of 1997, Hillbilly Jim was no longer needed as their manager, Morris later worked as a road agent and participated in the "Gimmick Battle Royal" in 2001 at WrestleMania X-Seven.

He was the official WWE legend host of the highly successful WrestleMania Fan Axxess tour for WrestleMania XX, WrestleMania 21, WrestleMania 22, and WrestleMania 23 in major malls across the US. As part of the WrestleMania 20 Fan Axxess Tour, Jim performed at the "House of Blues" in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New Orleans sponsored by Gibson Guitars.

From 1990 to 2001 Morris traveled worldwide representing WWE for Coliseum Video sales and later with Sony Videos.

In 2005, Sirius Satellite Radio added "Hillbilly Jim's Moonshine Matinee" as a weekly program on its Outlaw Country channel 63. Every Saturday, Morris plays a wide variety of classic country music and Southern rock. Between records, he tells stories of his days with the WWF.

On April 10, 2012, Hillbilly Jim made an appearance on WWE Smackdown: Blast from the Past.

Other media
Morris has appeared in a number of trade shows, such as Atlanta Super Sports Show, Video Software Dealer's Association, Focus on Video, and many others. Moreover, he has had numerous personal appearances in national retail stores, such as Blockbuster Video, Wal-Mart, Kmart, Toys "R" Us, and Kroger.

He has done a national commercial for Chevy trucks and another local TV and radio commercials in Kentucky. He appeared in WWE cartoon series Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, which was produced by DIC Enterprises.

He is featured in the game WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain and is billed as a legend.

He performed the song "Don't Go Messing With A Country Boy" for the The Wrestling Album, which was certified gold.



Its follow-up album, Piledriver - The Wrestling Album 2, also included a duet by Hillbilly Jim and a female singer credited as Gertrude, entitled "Waking Up Alone".

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Degaussing monitors

Until recently, the most common use of degaussing was in CRT-based TV sets and computer monitors. For example, many monitors use a metal plate near the front of the tube to focus the electron beams from the back. This plate, the shadow mask, can pick up strong external fields and from that point produce discoloration on the display.

To minimize this, CRTs have a copper coil wrapped around the front of the display, known as the degaussing coil. Tubes without an internal coil can be degaussed using an external hand held version. Internal degaussing coils in CRTs are generally much weaker than external degaussing coils, since a better degaussing coil takes up more space. A degauss causes a magnetic field inside the tube to oscillate rapidly, with decreasing amplitude. This leaves the shadow mask with a small and somewhat randomized field, removing the discoloration.

Many televisions and monitors automatically degauss their picture tube when switched on, before an image is displayed. The high current surge which takes place during this automatic degauss is the cause of an audible 'thunk' or loud hum which can be heard (and felt) when televisions and CRT computer monitors are switched on. Visually, this causes the image to shake dramatically for a short period of time. A degauss option is also usually available for manual selection in the operations menu in such appliances.

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The unit "gauss" is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. As with all units whose names are derived from the proper name of a person, the first letter of its symbol is uppercase ("G"), but when the unit is spelled out, it should always be written in lowercase ("gauss"), unless it begins a sentence.

One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimeter; it equals 1×10−4 teslas (or 100 μT).

According to the centimeter gram second system of units (cgs), the gauss is the unit of magnetic flux density B and the equivalent of esu/cm^2, while the oersted is the unit of magnetizing field H. One tesla is equal to 104 gauss, and one ampere per meter is equal to 4π × 10−3 oersted.

The units for magnetic flux Φ, which is the integral of magnetic field over an area, are the weber (Wb) in the SI and the maxwell (Mx) in the cgs system. The conversion factor is 108, since flux is the integral of field over an area, area having the units of the square of distance, thus 104 (magnetic field conversion factor) times the square of 102 (linear distance conversion factor, i.e., centimetres per meter).

Another unit conversion that may be useful is 1 gauss = 10−4 kg C−1 s−1.

1. 10−9–10−8 gauss – the magnetic field of the human brain
2. 0.31–0.58 gauss – the Earth's magnetic field at its surface
3. 25 gauss – the Earth's magnetic field in its core
4. 50 gauss – a typical refrigerator magnet
5. 100 gauss – a small iron magnet
6. 2000 gauss – a small neodymium-iron-boron (NIB) magnet
7. 600-70,000 gauss – a medical magnetic resonance imaging machine
8. 1012–1013 gauss – the surface of a neutron star[4]
9. 4×1013 gauss – the quantum electrodynamic threshold
10. 1015 gauss – the magnetic field of some newly created magnetars
11. 1017 gauss – the upper limit to neutron star magnetism; no known object in the universe can generate a stronger magnetic field

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anyways, there's this guy, and he's got this wife and kid. they get mashed up in a car accident, out of the blue, drunk driver sideswipes'em to death. so this really messes him up. he starts to drink. then he goes out drunk and drives around and he mashes up a car that has a lady and her kid in there. he starts barfing blood until it fills the whole car up, he starts drowning inside his car in all this blood he's barfing.

then he wakes up and his whole bedroom is filled up with roses. he walks over to the window and it's sunny out. his wife and kid are playing in the yard. they beckon him to come outside. he opens the window, and looks up.

in the sky, a giant meteor is heading straight for him.