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Reemergence of Dexter malware demonstrates need for forensic analysis services
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The stakes for securing networks against malware are high now that cybercriminals are increasingly going after large data repositories containing information such as credit card numbers. Infection could originate from a variety of vulnerable endpoints, including mobile devices or point-of-sale systems.
Recent iterations of the Dexter malware illustrate how forensics analysis services, such as the ones provided by Ziften, are key to improving network security in the long run. By gaining insight into the time and particular features of malicious incidents, companies can implement sounder endpoint management to forestall similar incidents.
Dexter malware may be on the rise again
The Dexter malware, as well as a similar strain known as Project Hook, may be on the uptick as the holiday season progresses. These infections are designed to exploit POS systems and scrape data from the magnetic strips on the backs of payment cards. According to IDG News Service, Dexter and Project Hook can lift the Track 1 and Track 2 data from cards and relay it to cybercriminals, who can then use it to create clones.
Dexter isn't a new threat, having first been discovered November 2012. However, there are more variants in the wild than ever before, including the StarDust version that goes beyond the original by tapping into network traffic. More than 20,000 credit cards numbers may have been compromised so far by StarDust.
The StarDust variant is notable for how it creates botnets using POS systems at major retailers and communicates with command-and-control servers in Russia. Its efficacy in circumventing POS system security reveals how companies must be mindful of vulnerabilities on IT assets other than PCs, especially since many endpoints are now using the same operating systems and services.
"POS systems suffer from the same security challenges that any other Windows-based deployment does," stated researchers at Arbor Networks. "Network and host-based vulnerabilities (such as default or weak credentials accessible over remote desktop and open wireless networks that include a POS machine), misuse, social engineering and physical access are likely candidates for infection."
Using forensics analysis to stay on top of threats such as Dexter
Threats such as Dexter often emerge because cybercriminals have a first-mover advantage, which they use to exploit previously overlooked network vulnerabilities. Still, victims can mitigate risk in the long run by utilizing intrusion forensics analysis to gain granular insight into breaches.
Writing for Network Computing, Michele Chubirka observed that seeking help from an outside forensics provider is sometimes the right choice for organizations. More specifically, a provider can offer in-depth knowledge and expertise about sophisticated threats that succeed in bringing down even complex IT systems.
Chubirka pointed out that the higher education sector in particular has witnessed the evolving nature of data breaches, which are now led by cybercriminals using advanced tactics to go after large information repositories. The reemergence of Dexter illustrates the creativity of many of these perpetrators.
Rather than lose time and resources to conducting investigations with a completely internal staff, organizations can gain rapid insight into what happened by seeking help from a digital forensics solutions provider. Knowing how and why a breach happened is the first step toward warding off similar threats in the future.


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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Currently March!
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I love how Farley's Currently always leads me to someone new!!! A new puppy?? How exciting. I am glad I am now following you so I can see the pictures. Oh and my blog has a huge giveaway going on right now, come enter to win great prizes!ReplyDelete
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Thanks, Julie! I love meeting new bloggers as well. I will have to check out your giveaway! :-) LaurenDelete
I just landed here from Farley's linky. I am also a mom of 3- 26, 23 and 20- and I used to be a reading specialist. Now I am back in first grade and love it. I also cannot sleep in. (I can fall asleep at 8PM, though!) I look forward to reading more of your blog!ReplyDelete
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We have a lot in common, Carol. I ♥ firsties too! :-) LaurenDelete
I headed over here after you left a comment on my blog. I agree with Julie. I like how Farley's Currently leads me to a new bloggy friend. I am one of your newest followers. I teach first grade and I'm always looking for ways to become a better reading teacher, especially to those struggling readers. I'm looking forward to reading your future posts. I love Christian music too. It's just about all I listen to. My favorite songs right now are I Love Your Presence and Closer. Listening to Christian music truly helps me find rest for my soul. Since my boys are growing up, I am desperately wanting a new puppy. My husband is against it right now, but when I'm an empty nester I will NEED a snuggly little puppy. ;0)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Corinna! It took my husband 7 years to convince ME that we needed a dog! Now, I have two pups and can't imagine life without them! :-) LaurenDelete
Love finding new bloggy friends! The theme of your blog is right up my alley! I love children's literature, both picture books and chapter books. A new doxie puppy! How fun. Can't wait to see pictures. I have 2 doxies and they are the best. So funny and sweet! Looking forward to reading more!ReplyDelete
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Thanks, Gina! I'd love to see pics of your doxies. I just love this breed! :-) LaurenDelete
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JOURNALIST: Can I just get your reaction to John Bolton's comments today where he said that he essentially wanted Australia and the US to do more joint patrols in the South China Sea, while at the same time we have China saying "don't side with the US'. Is this a good idea?
SENATOR PENNY WONG, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE SENATE: Let's come up to the matter of principles first.
First, our alliance with the US is unshakeable and we are clear about that.
Second, Australia seeks a region where behaviour, disputes are governed by rules, by norms and by institutions and we seek a region where those rules are negotiated, not imposed.
That is the way in which we approach disputes within the region and that principle grounds our support for the Law of the Sea and for Freedom of Navigation and Overflight.
So, I would say more broadly, certainly to China, as I have said previously, you would expect Australia to advocate for our interests, including for the sort of region we want, just as China advocates for its interests.
JOURNALIST: Should we summon the Saudi Ambassador over the issue in Turkey and also should we still pursue a bilateral arms export deal considering the issue?
WONG: Can I make this first point, I saw overnight the French, German and British Foreign Ministers have issued a statement in relation to the disappearance of Mr Khashoggi and they have articulated a set of principles that Labor supports. And that is, we support freedom of expression, the freedom of the press and the protection of journalists and we agree with their call that light needs to be shed on this disappearance. So we support that collective call from those European Foreign Ministers.
JOURNALIST: It is sometimes said with the nuclear proliferation expanding and fragmenting the risk is actually greater now than it was since the Cold War. Where do you stand on that?
WONG: We're talking about margins of risk, all of which are unacceptable for the reasons I outlined in the speech.
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2722. Works of Mercy
Teaching English is a work of mercy, even more now than ever before, because for example youngsters in Spain do need to be capable of a communicative competence in that language, for example to find a job.
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Ira Sachs' seventh feature A Family Vacation starring Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jérémie Renier, and André Wilms will start shooting in Portugal in October.
Saïd Ben Said and Michel Merkt produce through their Paris-based SBS Productions, which represents worldwide sales rights. Sachs and longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias wrote the screenplay.
The family drama follows three generations of a family as they grapple with a life-changing event on vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal, known for its dense gardens and fairytale villas and palaces.
A Family Vacation will mark Sachs' first time working outside of the US, and his first association with Huppert, Renier and Wilms.
"I am working with some of my favorite actors in the world to tell this delicate story of a family in crisis," the filmmaker said. "Some like Huppert for the first time, and others whom I have collaborated with for years. "The script has a theatrical quality, in that nine lives unfold in the course of one day, and it's wonderful to have such a nuanced, risk-taking group of actors to bring the story to life."
Sachs's longtime collaborator Lucas Joaquin serves as executive producer through his company Secret Engine, along with Kevin Chneiweiss of SBS Productions.


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If you've ever auditioned a virtual guitar in your DAW and thought, "I guess it kind of sounds like a guitar… sort of," Roland plans to make that frustration a thing of the past. Tera Guitar is the latest addition to the Tera series of acoustic virtual instruments, running on the Roland Cloud Concerto engine.
For the first Tera Guitar in the lineup, Vintage Steel, Roland reached back to the days of big-band swing and waltzes named after U.S. states to capture a remarkable guitar. The world was in turmoil, but music was alive and well, and the inspiration for Vintage Steel celebrated its first birthday. With tones only achievable by 70-plus-year-old Sitka spruce and mahogany, you can hear the warm history with every note. If you've ever wanted a national treasure as part of your composition, Vintage Steel fits the bill.
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In the space of one week, all three Bundesliga clubs–Bayern, Dortmund, and Schalke–were eliminated from the Champions League round of 16, and German national team head coach Jogi Löw caused a shitstorm for his awkward dismissal of Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer, Jerome Boateng, and Mats Hummels from Die Mannschaft. Of course, these dismissals came on the heels of the German national team playing one of its worst calendar years (2018) ever, failing to get out of the 2018 World Cup group stages, then getting "relegated" in the UEFA League of Nations tournament.
Oh, and for the first time since September, Bayern Munich regained the top of the Bundesliga table, passing Borussia Dortmund on goal differential. Until this moment, many of us thought it was finally the season when someone else wins the Bundesliga after Bayern have won six consecutive titles.
Nope. Probably not.
So here at The Fanatic, we asked some of our editors to weigh in on these recent events, as well as the past year in German football.
New Era Slow to Blossom
Or is it?
Between the lofty expectations of the German game and the nature of our modern always-connected society and 24-hour news cycle, it feels like German football has been in a tailspin for ages and the World Cup victory in Brazil seems like something we saw only in grainy black-and-white footage from another era.
Exacerbating the dread lingering from the 2018 World Cup flame-out was German's performance in the UEFA Nations League, where die Mannschaft was among the first-ever teams to be relegated from the competition's top group alongside traditional powers such as Iceland, Poland, and Croatia.
But once we remove the emotional reaction from things, it's easier to remember that things in this game are, by and large, cyclical and that these cycles take longer to rotate than we would necessarily prefer.
Before the 2018-19 Bundesliga season started, I wrote about the historical precedence of a strong Bundesliga season following Germany coming up short at the World Cup. Ignore the Champions League and Europa League disappointments. We're talking about the Bundesliga itself . . . for now.
Despite Borussia Dortmund stumbling enough to put Bayern back in the driver seat of the league's title chase, the two giants are level on points and have just one match day before they will meet head-to-head at Allianz Arena with a chance for both to make a resounding statement going into the final six match days. The races for the final Champions League and Europa League spots are shaping up to also be hotly contested.
On a broader note, the Bundesliga has returned to its much-beloved goal-scoring ways. Among the "top five" European leagues, only the Bundesliga is averaging more than three goals scored per match (3.12). A cynic might say that is due to subpar defending or an ability to realize the last World Cup showed that the modern game needs to be more about defending and counter-attacking, but eschewing rhetoric and analytics for a more-anecdotal view, the Bundesliga and German football are better off when goal-scoring is up.
Fans of the NBA's Philadelphia 76'ers coined a phrase years ago to help keep a long-term perspective in the face of what seemed like a never-ending rebuild. They have yet to see the ultimate return since deciding to "trust the process," there is no denying that their franchise is well-positioned for greatness.
International football is a vastly different animal than the NBA, but the main idea behind "trust the system" is very much the same. Remember that heading to Brazil, Joachim Löw was widely criticized for a team selection that brought charges of his being unable to cut ties with older players in favor of new talent. All he had to do to respond to that was raise a trophy.
Now (those same?) critics don't like how he dispatched some team veterans and see little hope in the new youth movement.
Maybe the critics will prove to be right. After all, when Germany followed their 1990 World Cup with an unexpectedly early exit in 1994, the rebound was slow and painful (Anybody care to argue the 2002 finalists were a juggernaut, by the way?).
But things ARE changing, as things tend to do. A snapshot tells a story but doesn't always capture the surroundings or depth.
German football will be just fine, trust me . . . or the process.
(by Randall Hauk)
Bundsliga? Nah, It's die Nationalelf
Is there a crisis at club level? The teams that fell in the Champions League Round of 16 are not in such bad shape. FC Bayern are probably a few transfers away from having a more competitive team. Borussia Dortmund have a young, extremely talented squad that is most likely to overcome a dry spell and grow. Both teams may be in the thick of the action again in 12 months. As for Schalke, this season's European results are in line with recent history.
The real crisis may be found at German national team level. The worst World Cup results since 1938, failure to promote young stars such as Leroy Sané early enough, a public fallout with four stars, terrible communications and apparent improvisation have diminished a formidable organization.
The real question, in my opinion, is what contribution Germany's flagship clubs can make to the national team in the future. Neither Bayern nor BVB may be able to provide the Nationalelf a core of German players anytime soon. It matters since national teams can piggyback on club success. Barcelona and Real Madrid players fueled Spain's golden age from 2008 to 2012. Bayern and BVB fed Germany in 2014.
(by Michel Munger)
Deutschland (Creeps) Forward
Anytime all the Bundesliga sides crash out in the same round, the optics always give us pause–regardless of context. Call this phenomenon a sort of "simultaneity problem," i.e. X, Y, and Z are related (Bundesliga clubs!) and have something similar happen to them all at once (crash out of the round of 16!). Next, link this event to Jogi Löw covering himself in all sorts of inglorious light by canning the ol' Bayern boys, Müller, Boateng, and Hummels from the national team. (Damnit, why didn't Jogi throw Neuer in for good measure?) Put it all together and, for like a week, it looks like German football is fouuuuuucked. Not so fast.
First, we gotta disaggregate. Start with the simultaneous UCL exits. Obviously, all three exits are independent events, not directly influencing each other. If there's any similarity involved with BVB, Bayern, and S04 stubbing their toes collectively, it's that they all faced Premier League clubs, and the three best clubs at that (Spurs, Liverpool, and Man City). A horrible draw and spectacularly bad luck. Thus, if there's any overall meaning here, it's that England's three best domestic clubs are better than Germany's two strongest clubs (Schalke doesn't deserve to occupy this sentence). But it's not like we didn't already know this.
However, drilling down into individual exits, it's Bayern that caused me the most concern. Against, Kloppo's Liverpool, Bayern again looked like the aged toothless unit from mid-Hinrunde. You know, the one that Gladbach tortured 0-3 in the Allianz. Bayern lacked creative ideas around the box, and while the feeding-the-ball-to-Lewa plan wipes the floor in the Bundesliga, it's consistently failed in the Champions League for half a decade, as opponents nullify Lewa's seemingly vanishing ball hold-up abilities, while forcing Bayern to play through less effective outside channels. Thus, Bayern's scoring ability in Europe that most concerns me; and my hunch is that it's this facet of Bayern's game the club is most overconfident about. Look, we all know Boateng, Hummels, Rafinha, Ribéry, and Robben are all out. The defense and wings are being overhauled. But I'm more worried about the attacking front. Bayern is stale here and is certainly drifting away from the well-publicized five year identity plan it supposedly completed under Pep.
Going back to the Bundesliga, let's not forget that this season became the title race that wasn't supposed to be, thanks to Bayern's accelerated ageing and Favre's BVB out-performing all the metrics, especially expected goals (at least until like a month ago). Crisis? Bayern monopoly? Let's pause this particular crisis, at least until May.
Although I'm just as disappointed as you that Bayern has won its last three Bundesliga matches by a combined score of 17-1, we should all be heartened to see how "average Joe" Bundesliga clubs approached their Bayern encounters earlier in the season by using speed and aggressiveness to disrupt Bayern's rhythm-heavy fame. If only these clubs would boycott transferring their players to Bayern (collusion, please!).
As a BVB lover, I'm all in on black-yellow madness this season; however, I'm very excited by Eintracht Frankfurt's success. My hope is that the Eagles have discovered a new model for Bundesliga success: shrewd use of league retreads (e.g. Kostic, Hinteregger, Hasebe), recruiting young players and loanees at just the right level of skill (e.g. Haller, Rebic, and Jovic)– who are not too gaudy in the media hype machine sense–combined with a distinctively physically bold and speedy playing style. The result is a defensively solid unit with one of the league's best attacking lines. My hope is that the likes of Leverskusen can follow this template and consolidate their identity (sorry, Peter Bosz); while the likes of VfB Stuttgart and other traditional clubs with large supporter bases can follow this template to catalyze their own resurrections. The result could be a more competitively deep Bundesliga–one that Bayern will have to take more seriously on a weekly basis.
Finally, die Mannschaft. Let's be honest: 2018 was an entire CRISIS YEAR (of historic proportions to boot). My hindsight-blessed argument is that more of the Confederation Cup-winning squad should have been the World Cup squad; however, back in June 2018, such a possibility was neither socially acceptable nor warranted given the "proven" winners Löw had on his Russia roster. If anything, we learned that German international football is also prone to the historical object lessons of sustaining greatness, which is always already nearly impossible to sustain. Complacency comes in cycles and die Mannschaft was due for a new cycle after the 2002-2014 narrative played out. My law here is that when a book (or books in this case!) is published about a success, said success is already crumbling. Call it the Das Reboot law? At least as applies to the sports world …
Finally, I'm also a subscriber to the argument that Bayern's problems become the national team's problems, at least as long as the spine of die Mannschaft is made up of Bayernisch. The Neuer-Boateng-Hummels-Müller-Kimmich-Kroos (come on, guys, he's formerly big-time Bayern) spine is what Löw leaned heavily on. Psychologically and sociologically, I'm sure you could say stuff that I'm not qualified to say, so I'll simply say that die Mannschaft needs to be diversified. The latest roster is a good step in this direction, even if Bayern is still represented heaviest. Löw finally seems willing to "kill his darlings."
I'm not buying it. If anything, the present points to a slightly better future for everyone in love with the Bundesliga.
(by Travis Timmons)
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When I started school, I was pretty unpopular.
I was a chubby little cherub with a bowl haircut who liked drama and could barely kick a football, but by the time I graduated I was one of the most popular kids in school.
I was never especially gregarious, rebellious or good looking; I was popular because over the years I'd been playmates with nearly everybody in my 50 person year group, and play was something I was really good at.
I was fun and spontaneous, and through play, I became increasingly creative, funny, generous and empathetic. Kids liked playing with me. Once they'd given me a chance they grew to like me for who I was, and how I made them feel.
That's the kind of foundation that self-worth, self-confidence and healthy, life-long relationships can be built on.
Be fun to be around
It was an odd set of innate and learned abilities that made me fun. I knew how play, and that meant different things when I was four, than when I was sixteen, than it does now that I'm in my mid-thirties, but the mechanics are just the same.
Before I share those mechanics with you, I want to do a little to explain why play is central to my sense of self.
The dad I wanted
There's a scene in Mrs. Doubtfire where Robin William's character plays with his children. They all dress up in suits of armor made out of trash cans with bin lids for shields and broom handles for swords and have a crazy-good time.
To my twelve-year-old mind that was the epitome of a good dad.
My parents were divorced and my dad lived about four hours away. He tried his best, but I only saw him a few times a year. Things were always complicated between him and my older brother, who felt abandoned.
There wasn't a lot of room for play.
In Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams was the dad I decided I would be: riotously good fun; puts his children above everything else; would dress as a woman and take a job as a house keeper just to be around them. A father who wouldn't accept divorce.
Of course, knowing how to play with your kids doesn't make you a good father or husband (which is the point of Mrs. Doubtfire), but for my money there's no quicker way into the hearts and minds of your children and spouse.
The dad I am
I'm the dad being chased around the playground by a dozen kids who've all joined the game of superheroes I started with my son, working them into a frenzy.
And, to my shame, I'm the dad who hurts his friends' feelings when their children want to play with me rather than play with them. Or worse, when I play with my friends' children in a way they've never been able to.
So what makes me a good play mate? What are the mechanics, and can they be learned? Yes, I believe so.
To really play with kids:
- Let go of your inhibitions
- Be fully present
- Improvise
- Actively Listen
- Don't block
- Say "Yes, And"
- Be a team player
- Build trust
- Commit to, and develop, your character
As an adult, you'll bring particular value if you also:
- Help craft satisfying stories
- Work in themes, morals or lessons
That may seem like a long list, and if this stuff doesn't come easy to you, it will take some practice. Don't underestimate how much. As easy as play looks, good play is anything but mindless. It requires presence of mind, something we're often loath to give to something as frivolous as play. But play is how children learn. It's their work.
Take the bullet
Once you're doing all of the above, when a kid shoots at you, you'll dodge the bullet as though it were real, and you'll instantly capture their imagination.
They'll have found something they long for, a big kid with the power to suspend their reality.
And they'll come after you with everything they've got, guns blazing until they plug you full of holes and you collapse, and maybe cough up a bullet.
You'll lay still for a moment, and then maybe you'll come back from the dead as a zombie. They'll panic and keep firing, but the bullets no longer work, they barely slow you down. A little scared, they'll need to think on their feet, to improvise. How can they stop you?
You'll be working together: acting, storytelling, listening, empathizing, bonding and playing together.
Whatever happens next, you'll have a blast. And you'll have them, one hundred percent.


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Romine, Martinez Lead Sun Devils To 8-3 Victory Over Cougars
March 31, 2006
PULLMAN, Wash. - After dropping the first game against the Cougars earlier in the day, the Arizona State Sun Devils bounced back to take the second game 8-3, thanks to a strong relief outing by Brady Martinez and some clutch hitting by Andrew Romine. ASU improves to 22-8 and 1-1 in the Pac-10.
The Cougars crossed the plate first, taking a 1-0 lead after the first inning off starter Matt Trink. The Sun Devils put three on the board in the fourth off Wazzu starter Mike Wagner. After Brett Wallace and Eric Sogard reached, catcher Preston Paramore sent them both home with a double to left center. Paramore would come around to score on a single to right by Rocky Laguna. That put the Devils up 3-1.
After the Cougars tied the game at three in the fifth, Paramore would strike again in the sixth inning. With Wallace on second, Paramore sent a single up the middle to score Wallace and put ASU back on top 4-3.
The Devils would add another run in the seventh when Ike Davis singled home Colin Curtis for a 5-3 lead, and added one more in the eighth when CJ Retherford scored Laguna with a sacrifice fly to make it 6-3.
The Devils got some big insurance in the ninth. Davis singled and Willy Fox walked, setting the stage for Andrew Romine. In only his second game back from rib removal surgery, Romine singled through the left side to score Davis and Fox and give the Devils a commanding 8-3 lead.
Brady Martinez closed out the Cougars in the ninth, giving ASU the victory. Martinez was stellar, entering in the fifth and striking out seven and allowing only one hit to earn his third win of the year.
Paramore finished the night 3-5 with three RBI, and Rocky Laguna added three hits of his own and an RBI for the Devils. ASU and WSU will play the rubber game of the three-game set tomorrow at 1 PM.
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"Divine Love is often misunderstood. Love is actually the most powerful "weapon" in the Universe. It can be razor sharp, slashing away the binds of slavery enshrouded in darkness-- exposing the naked truth, pouring a fountain of freedom out for the liberation of ALL...and it will always lead you home."
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Alchemy - noun al·che·my \ ˈal-kə-mē \
Alchemy is a broad term. Like the word "remote," it has many different meanings. It is mainly known as an ancient chemical science and philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of base metals into gold. In this case, it is meant as the art of spiritual energetic transformation, creation, and reassembly; taking heavier, less than beneficial energies and transmuting them into LIGHT, upgrading whole being = body + mind + soul.
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**Time and space are "no matter" when it when it comes to distance energy healing (no pun intended). Satisfy your curiosity here.
Now, for just a few of the particulars…
StarLight Energetics™ - a technique gifted to me personally, straight from the celestial realm, that includes what I refer to as Shamanic Encoding: Star and Light medicine fusions (frequencies, sacred geometries, colors, patterns, and symbols) for calling in Light, opening the Light Body (LB), removing, unblocking, restoring, unlocking and downloading new imprints for healing. These are in a constant state of "downloading" - especially when working one-on-one with a client or student.
Clearing the Human Energy Field (aka, aura, luminous energy field, LEF) and chakra balance is a stand-alone healing session, and is the foundation to my energy medicine sessions. We first discuss any issues you are having in your life that may be holding you back. This might be a physical concern, an emotional or behavioral issue, a feeling of being stuck or overwhelmed in your life, depression, stress, depleted life force, lack of direction, or really anything that is not serving you anymore. I "track" or identify the energetic source of the issue and break up and move heavy energies out of the luminous energy field, dislodge the blockages, and drain them out through the chakra. Using focused intention and breath, I illuminate the spaces where the imprints were with light and bring the chakras back into balance, allowing your luminous energy field to flow freely, facilitating the release of ineffective patterns allowing the energy bound within them to be freed up. I use sacred songs, chants, drumming, and rattling to enter into the trance-state known as a shamanic journey to connect with the domains of Night (underworld/subconscious), Daytime (middle world/conscious), and Heavenly (upper world/spirit) Realms. It is during this journey that I connect with celestial aspects of the deep self and sometimes channel information in service of:
Depending upon your personal needs, I may lead you on your own shamanic journey, myself acting as a guide, witness, and holder of sacred space. You are always an active participant in your own healing...as to how little or how much, that is up to Spirit, my intuition and up to your Higher Self. They are highly individualized experiences; just like grains of sand, no two are exactly alike. By releasing these imprints, memories, and attachments, you will be able to break free of old patterns and consciously create every moment of your life from a position of clarity, flexibility, abundance, joy, passion, and beauty.
Time and space are "no matter" when it when it comes to energy healing (no pun intended). Satisfy your curiosity here.
Unlike other practitioners who utilize a specific system and prescribed set of rules, this Sacred Healing we orchestrate together is creative, dynamic, and entirely individualized. My practice focuses on helping people just like you remember the truth of Who They Are by reconnecting them with all of the elements of their soul and Higher Self. Lifetimes of trauma and fear-based programming create cycles of mind-less living, toxic patterns and limiting beliefs. As you come into Conscious Awareness, we must journey to those places where healing is needed. Whether you need guidance + nurturing on your journey, or you're ready to move fiercely forward, I use every particle of experience and training in my toolkit to help YOU experience healing transformation, take your power back, step into your sacred sovereignty and reunite with your Higher Self and Oneness.
Energy isn't something most people can see, yet those of us who have been beneficiaries of it or work in the spiritual and healing arts recognize that it works. But, is it merely an anecdotal or placebo effect? We are all taught that if something isn't tangible, it can't exist. If we don't understand it, our ego wants us to dismiss it. The issue with this paradigm is that it severely limits our growth in every way. While healthy skepticism serves its place, we must remain open minded and be willing to seek education on those things we don't understand. Fortunately, modern science has and continues to prove that not only does the human energy field exist, but energy fields surrounding all living things are present through the study of electromagnetic fields, biophotons, quantum physics, and scientific research in other domains such as experiments with plants and water.
According to modern physicists, all of reality can be described as vibrations and waveform patterns, light and information. If we look at the basic components of what makes up our physical bodies, we realize that we are made up of atoms, and based on quantum physics those atoms are really just packets of energy. Biological information fields form an active, constantly resonating matrix. So, in other words, our bodies are constructed from trillions upon trillions of packets of energy. What both ancient indigenous cultures and many modern-day healers know is that working with the energetic systems of our being have a MUCH greater effect on our health than simply focusing on "correcting" symptoms of the physical body. The ancient shamanic traditions describe an energy field/aura that surrounds the human body. It is within this "luminous energy field" (referred to as the aura (or LEF) that the memories of our genetics, karma, life experiences and even ancestral wounds are stored. These imprints and memories propel our life in a certain direction by attracting people, energies, situations, behaviors and experiences to us, although they are not for our highest good.
As an example, imagine a tree growing over decades from a small twig into a big and tall tree. If the twig has been exposed to no trauma, it will grow into a straight and mighty tree with no knots, bends, twists, or rough spots. However, if the twig or immature tree gets stepped on, bent, or otherwise injured, it substantially changes the growth of the tree forever, and with little effort. We are like the tree. However, as we were growing up we received traumas, betrayals, wounds, programming and judgment from others. Then, we actually continued to perpetuate those hurts so we could grow in a way to please these others. Every time a parent (teacher/authority figure, etc.) said "No!" to our spontaneous arising of energy, we had to begin denying that part of our self to assure that we would be liked by the adults around us. As a young "twig" this was the only way to survive: by creating patterns of behavior that kept us safe in the presence of others. As adults, we are still running these patterns, but they were constructed by a child - and they really don't work in an adult world. It takes a tremendous amount of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy to maintain these "safety-providing" and self-denying programs that keep us in states of being, relationships, situations and circumstances that do not serve our highest good. As a result our LEF can become laden with heavy, less than beneficial imprints and energies that cause dysfunction and negatively impact our health on every one of these levels. This is where holistic medicine methods can help.
Space and time are relative in the "shamanic" view of the cosmos. I witnessed this during my near death experience and continue to observe it during my engagement with non-physical existence. As the veil has lifted, quantum physics shows us this to be true from a scientific perspective. All of reality can be described as vibrations and waveform patterns, light and information according to modern physicists. In the quantum realm everything is considered energy, alive and connected; a conscious intelligence, connected to the matrix or "web" of all existence.
The ancients may not have had knowledge of these modern-day terms, but they absolutely possessed the technological wisdom of it. They understood that humans, rather than being subject to rules of matter or physical form, moved and flowed within the timeless, limitless forms of Energy and Spirit
•How long distance energy healing works
A remote healing session is done in a fashion similar to what I would do if you were having a session with me in person; yet I am working in the quantum field of the Universe.
You may feel "something" is happening or experience a shift at any point during the session, or you may not have a sense that anything is happening at all. This depends on your sensitivity and the innate wisdom your body-mind contains to deliver and integrate the healing according to your personal needs. Check out a few testimonials if you are curious as to others' experience.
The best results manifest when you are ready to receive healing and transformation on the issue that has surfaced. Being open and receptive to the experience softens you in a way that opens a gateway for the greatest, grandest version of yourself to come forward.
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On Blatchington Hill
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It is available from the Museum
Price £12.95
The story of a small Sussex Downland village is told for the first time. Using a wide range of sources, including historic maps, house histories, old letters and personal reminiscences, the complex history of East Blatchington emerges, with unexpected results.
The book reveals how close the village came to extinction in the Black Death, and how the ambition of the last squire led to many of the village's present-day problems.
Some extraordinary personalities reappear from the past. What emerges is an unexpectedly rich and colourful picture of an English village that has come close to being forgotten.
Over 90 black and white illustrations.
About The Author
The son of a crime-scene investigator, Rodney Castelden lives at Seaford and is a full-time writer.
His surveys on the Cerne Giant won a British Archaeological Award in 1996.
He writes about landscape, ancient hill figures, neolithic Britain, the bronze age Aegean and criminology. His interests range widely across the arts and sciences, and he wrote Winfrith, a music drama, to celebrate the Millennium at Brixworth in Northamptonshire.


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OpenHack 2009, London
OpenHack London was a great opportunity for me to get introduced to a powerful set of web development tools by Yahoo and get inspired by the ideas of some talented hackers that were produced over a 24 hour period. Before starting hacking, Yahoo! Engineers gave presentations about the tools and technologies including BOSS, Fire Eagle, GeoPlanet, Pipes, YAP and YOS. All of the talks can be seen on Skills Matter's web site [1]
Kizoom Team won the "Most Awesome Hack" prize with their robot finger that presses a button when it hears a loud noise. It is based on Lejos which allows programing LEGO ® robots in Java with a built-in Java virtual machine. Open Free Cycle, developed by Premasagar Rose and Tom Leitch using OpenMail, YQL and some other technologies won the "Hacker's Choice" award, selected by the audience. It is an attempt to make community sharing for free. A list of all hacks presented in the event can be found here
[1] Yahoo! Application and Social Platforms
Martin Barnes – Yahoo! GeoPlanet. Exploring Places without Maps
Christian Heilmann – Remixing Web Data for Your Hacks
Ted Drake – Unlocking the Secrets of BOSS
Mike McKenna – PHP and Internationalisation
Also take a look at the following links:
A Very Personal Ramble Down Hackday Memory Lane
Sad Robot by Pornophonique, that gave a concert during the event
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Heat 1 teaspoon of coconut oil or butter in a pan, throw in the cashews and stir well to coat. Sprinkle over some salt and keep stirring for a few minutes until golden. Tip out onto a plate to cool.
Mix the fennel, carrot, mango and raisins in a bowl. Combine the dressing ingredients, adding 1–2 tablespoons of water to thin it out.
Heat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a griddle or frying pan over a high heat, then grill the halloumi for 1 minute on each side until golden. Top the veggies with the halloumi and cashews and drizzle over the dressing. Throw over the basil leaves and chilli to serve.


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Good Morning everyone! I am posting this without my usual morning cup of coffee so I hope that it will all make sense! Got to get this posted then take a shower then it's off to the free movie! This is the last week of free movies which is another sign that summer is coming to a close. But tomorrow I leave for convention!! I will set my computer to pre-post so that hopefully you will still be able to see cards while I am gone. I will also post my convention swaps while I am gone.
Today's card and the cards that will be posted the next three days are different than my usual ones. Now, I don't want anyway to get injured so you may want to sit down or hang on to something... But these cards are done with stamps other than Stampin' Up! stamps!!! GASP! When I started this blogging thing, I knew that I wanted to be able to post other kinds of projects and projects using products other than Stampin' Up!. And, about a month ago I went to a Close To My Heart party and ordered a set of their acrylic stamps, some blocks and paper. I played with them this past weekend and it was a blast! I hope that you like what I came up with as much as I do! I felt so free!!! I am glad that I was able to break away. There are many wonderful stamp companies out there who make some really great products as well.
Anyway, about the card... I actually copied it from a card from the recent Cards Magazine. I used different stamps and I added another color but other than that it is pretty close! I just love the new Tangerine Tango! It is the deep orangey-rusty color that I have been looking for! Have a great day! I will be "live" again next Tuesday!!
Card Recipe: Stamps- With Love from CTMH; Paper- Close To Cocoa, Tangerine Tango, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla; Ink- Tangerine Tango, Mellow Moss, Close To Cocoa; Accessories- Mellow Moss taffeta ribbon, photo corner punch, dimensionals


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Carol Prusa
"….Prusa's horrors are all sublime, tinged with melancholy and charged with an extreme attention to detail that makes them seem, somehow, to probe the heart of life's mysteries and illuminate the essential fact of life: that it is abundant, simple, unpredictable and very beautiful…." – Laura Stewart, Fine Arts Writer, The News-Journal, Sept. 3, 2006
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On the sandblasted convex of the acrylic hemispheres, layers of smoothly sanded gesso created the ground for depositing strokes of sliver from a thin wire. When the silverpoint drawing is complete, I obliterate it with a wash of powdered graphite. Forms emerge between the wash and the under-drawing that I heighten with white acrylic paint, causing them to coalesce. I use this "heavenly canopy" of my collected, unified and illuminated world mapped on the exterior of the dome to cradle other possibilities within. Desiring to express flux and shifting scales within the geometry of the fixed hemisphere, I have turned to employing light, video and mirrors. Intricate patterns of flickering lights play on the surface from tiny holes drilled through the dome, sometimes as many as five hundred, each connected to a fiber optic cable bundled to a programmed sequence of light-emitting diodes. Videos play on the ipods inside the dome, viewed through optics opening up the vision of the artist Kaleidoscopic mirror effects utilized to create fractal patterns.
Building on the metaphor of the "dome of heaven" as a visual container holding what we know, I am creating a body of work consisting of acrylic hemispheres ranging from bowl sized to six feet in diameter. Initiated in silverpoint drawing on the on convex surface and the completed with fiber optics, programmed LED's and videos housed within, these domes are a visual embodiment – a download of sorts – of what it feels like to be alive while in conversation with a contested cosmologies. As a "conceptual voyager" I visually play with the frothy flux created when the scientists and artists imagine,and each work posits, as George Johnson suggests science does,"…a glorious human construction, an artful fitting of the data into a carefully crafted mental framework, a construction of towers that just possibly might have been built another way."
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Recent Artwork
Video Interviews
Artist Information
Selected Exhibitions
2019 (upcoming) solo exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
2018 Umbra, solo show, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Dark Energy, Endicott College, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Thin Spaces, Art Center Sarasota
2017 solo show, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Luminal Worlds, Messiah College, Pennsylvania
2016 Numinous-several person show, Lisa Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
2016 solo show, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 LIT, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, Florida
2015 University of North Carolina, Asheville
2015 Unfathomable, Alan Avery Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2015 Overflow, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Entangled, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, Florida
2014 Silver Universe, BlueRider Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Fearful Symmetry, Zadok Gallery, Miami
2013 Emergent Worlds, University of Wyoming Art Museum
2013 Liminal Worlds, York College, Pennsylvania
2012 Emergent Worlds, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Kohler, Wisconsin
2012 Non-equilibrium, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Kohler, Wisconsin
2011 Domus, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2010 Emergence, Coleman Burke Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2010 Cosmic Fabric, EO Art Lab, Connecticut
2009 Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
2009 Entanglement, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2009 Silver Linings, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
2008 Spooky Action, Finestra Artspace, Michigan Ave- Chicago
2007 Threshold, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami
2007 Coherent Structures – Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2006 Eyebiters, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami
2006 New Work, Carol Prusa, Stetson University, Florida
2006 To Be Us – New Work, Carol Prusa, Lakatamia Municipalia, Nicosia Cyprus
2005 Silverpoint Painting, Carol Prusa, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Arkansas
2005 Recent Work, Carol Prusa, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Recent Curated Exhibitions
2018 The Future of Craft Part I, Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC
2018 FLAT???, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NYC
2018 Farewell, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
2018 Feminine, Alan Avery Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2017 Glasstress 2017, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
2016 All Florida Curated Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Worlds, Western North Carolina
2016 Friends, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
2015 Metalpoint, Morris Graves Museum
2015 Illuminations, Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida (Adriana Herrera, curator)
2015 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York City
2015 Miscellaneous, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
2015 Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings, Miami (curated by Bernice Steinbaum)
2015 Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs, originating in San Francisco and traveling to Asia, Vargas Contemporary Museum, Manila, Philippines
2015 Art of Magic, Museum of Contemporary Art – Jacksonville, Florida
2014 Collectors and their Collections, Jewish Museum, Miami
2014 Endangered Visions, Manila, Philippines
2014 Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Florida
2014 Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, WI
2013 Curator Selections, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2013 GRAM Selects ArtPrize 2012: Encore!, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
2012 Empire of Things, Spencer Museum of Art, University Kansas
2012 Jepson Center's Steward Gallery, Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, Georgia
2012 Winter Salon, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
2012 The Abstract Universe, Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey
2012 Woman to Woman, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami
2011 Seeing is Knowing: The Universe, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
2011 Believe it or Not, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida
2011 Full Fathom Five, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2011 Green House, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, MIami
2011 Summer Selections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York City (Chelsea)
2011 Silver Linings, Chautauqua Institution Galleries, Chautauqua, New York
2010 Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami. Curated by Peter Boswell, Senior curator.
2010 Metaphysical Materiality, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville. Essay by Peter Frank
2010 Redefining Drawing, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver – For Drawn
2010 Vancouver,
2010 Metaphysical Materiality, Georgia State University, Atlanta
2010 Luminous Lines, Scripts College, California. Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
2010 Florida Contemporary Artists, Naples Museum of Art , Naples, Florida
2009 Starry Messenger, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge
2009 Whitespaces, Mordes Collection, West Palm Beach, Florida
2009 Set to Manuel, Girl's Club Collection /Bishop-Good, Ft. Lauderdale
2009 Five-person exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
2009 Silverpoint Artist Exhibition, Evansville Art Museum, Indiana 2009 With You I Want To Live, Museum of Art – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2009 Painters not Painting, Rutgers Art Gallery, Camden, New Jersey
2008 Grey, Miller-Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Drawn to Detail, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass. (outside Boston)
2008 Shades of Grey (four-person exhibition) Mark Scala, Curator, Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
Recent Selected Honors
2017 Awarded SECAC Artistic Acheivement Award at 2017 national conference, Columbus, Ohio
2017 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2016 Artist residency in glass at Berengo Foundation, Murano, Italy
2016 Bridge (60" dome) acquired by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
2015 Nominated and selected for American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational
New York City, (received purchase award for museum collection)
2015 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist (upcoming
2015 Featured in catalog essay accompanying historic silverpoint exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington D.C. curated by Bruce Weber
2014 Featured artist, Summer 2014 issue, Elephant Magazine (international)
2014 Featured artist, Art Taipei; Bluerider Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, October
2014 Invited Speaker; Lecture and workshop, Draw2014, Symposium at Carnegie-Mellon University, Spring
2014 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2014 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship
2013 Art OMI Internation Artist Residency, NY
2013 Vermont Studio Program, Visiting Artist
2012 Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist, Palm Beach County
2012 Kohler Artist in Industry residency (Fall 2012)
2011 Scholar of the Year at the Professor rank, Florida Atlantic Univ.
2010 Nominated for American Artist Fellowship
2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
2008 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, National project award ($25,000)


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The Pinehurst of 2014—the host site for its 3rd U.S. Men's Open in 15 years commencing Thursday—is a far cry from the depths the facility had fallen 30 years ago. Pinehurst in 1984 was facing serious questions dealing most notably with its continued relevance in golf. The facility had been the domain of the Tufts family from its beginning in 1895. During those many years the steady hand of the Tufts ensured a continuity on how the golf courses were showcased, most specifically Pinehurst 2—the Donald Ross design gem.
By 1970, the family opted to sell its complete ownership to the Diamondhead Corporation. From 1971 to 1982 Diamondhead left an imprint on the facility—one which altered significantly the original design philosophy of the 2 Course.
Diamondhead saw Pinehurst as a real estate "brand" pushing development plans ahead for countless homes to be built. Diamondhead also altered Pinehurst 2, morphing it into a "country club" layout—enveloped with verdant bermuda grass throughout the acreage—eliminating the sandy scrub areas that were long the hallmark. Long-time players bemoaned the changes. The lofty reputation of Pinehurst was in free fall. Serious golfers who had always embraced the facility now placed it in their rearview mirrors.
The aggressive development plans put forward by Diamondhead could not be sustained and by 1982 a consortium of banks had taken ownership of the property. For roughly two years the banks kept Pinehurst alive on life support. Maintenance was not truly detailed but only focused on simply keeping grass cut and manageable. By 1984 serious interest from outside parties emerged but key questions remained—would the banks sell the entire property or in different parcels? Would the courses remain together under one ownership roof or be split? How would the new ownership run the facility?
Among the interested observers was Robert Dedman, Sr. Dedman's background in golf came from founding and running Club Corporation of America (ClubCorp) based in Dallas, TX. ClubCorp specialized in owning and operating private golf clubs—maximizing their earning potential and staffing them with various key professionals in a wide range of areas. The Pinehurst property fascinated Dedman but the final outcome was far from certain.
Initially, Dedman only wanted to purchase the golf properties. The banks balked—favoring an all-or-nothing deal. Knowing that a deal could be finalized with any other bidder Dedman went all in—offering $15 million for the entire package—the biggest deal he had ever done in the golf business. Although not fully known at the time the price paid was the biggest steal since America took ownership of the Louisiana Purchase from the French in 1803. In July 1984 the deal was finalized. Dedman said it succintly, "This is one of those places you just can't duplicate—it's kind of like buying the St. Andrews of America." One of the first things Dedman did was to make sure that Pinehurst kept the money it made—reinvesting the profits to strengthen the overall facility and build momentum for those working there.
Within a year Pinehurst went from losing $1 million to making $4.5 million. Within four years Pinehurst was generating an operating profit of $10 million.
Even with Dedman's involvement the turnaround was a slow one because of lingering perceptions. Pinehurst had dropped off the golf radar screen—many doubters had to be convinced that the new owner was going to have a team of people reinvigorating what had been in serious decline for many years.
Just like a sports franchise the successful ones start with the ownership. Dedman was an earnest sort but he also realized the practicality of a Clint Eastwood movie line, "A man's got to know his limitations."Dedman smartly realized he needed a talented team to secure the true renaissance of Pinehurst. Having on board a President and CEO handling the vast and myriad elements tied to a facility of Pinehurst's size and offerings was task one.
Dedman wisely hired Pat Corso to serve in the dual capacities as President and CEO after Joe Burns served in a similar fashion for the first few years of the new ownership. Corso and Dedman had first met in 1985 when Dedman was looking to buy Schuss Mountain in Traverse City, MI. Corso would remain in that position until early 2004.
Even with the facility making money the final leap to the top of the golf pecking order was still to be maintained. Corso had upgraded the many dimensions of the Pinehurst brand but it would take one additional hire to really signify that the "new" Pinehurst was bringing back to life all the "old" magic and then some.
Corso had been in his new position only a few months when the then Director of Golf—Mike Sands—left for a new position. The key for Corso was finding a proven known entity—a person who could instantly demonstrate that Pinehurst valued golf and would have the ultimate golf person in charge for that side of the operation. Corso found such a person in Don Padgett. Padgett had served as President of the PGA of America from 1977-78. Padgett was completely networked with the leading golf luminaries—from the top players, to the various key golf association leaders to those at the club pro level. Padgett thoroughly connected all the dots that Dedman and Corso had started. The twin areas of tradition and history were once again celebrated at Pinehurst—at the same time married to the most detailed and thorough of service delivery—with quality golf courses centered around strategic qualities and first rate turf presentation. Padgett made it clear to all who worked underneath him: When people spoke about Pinehurst they were always referring to its superstar—the 2 course.
Once the team settled in for the long haul, Pinehurst began to climb the competitive mountain, first with the Club Pro Championship in 1988, then the Women's Amateur in 1989—which kicked-off the relationship with the USGA. The PGA Tour would follow soon thereafter with its Tour Championship hosted at Pinehurst 2 in 1991 and 1992. The U.S. Senior Open came in 1994 followed by the ultimate prize in American golf—the U.S. Open in 1999.
Padgett remained nearly as long as Corso—retiring in the Fall of 2002. Interestingly, his son, Don Padgett II assumed Corso's role as the head of overall operations after being general manager at Firestone CC in Akron, OH for 25 years.
This talented trio knew the ultimate goal was bringing back to life a resort that had always been such a shining star. But, even more so—each relished their respective roles—never losing sight of the big picture while always seeing to it that the smallest of details were handled professionally and competently.
Pinehurst today has come full circle—Dedman saw the vast potential and went ahead when others simply saw a tired relic from yesteryear. The infusion of stable ownership—deep enough finances—and in tandem with a top tier staff brought to the forefront a facility that once again rides at the crest of American golf.
M. James Ward, a member of Golf Writer's Association of America (GWAA) and past member of Met Golf Writer's Association (MGWA), has reported on golf's grandest events since 1980 in a variety of forums.


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Coffee subscriptions are an increasingly popular way to get your beans. However, you might find yourself hesitating: Do you want to commit to a subscription? What are the benefits? Below, we'll explain how a coffee subscription can improve and simplify your daily routine.
For many of us, coffee is a necessary part of our daily routine. We know people who can't function until their third cup. (We may even be those people.)
However, coffee isn't as simple as it used to be. There are so many options out there. When you shop for coffee in the grocery store or online, you get bombarded with dozens or hundreds of options, all of them claiming to be exceptional coffee. And some of them are, but a lot of them just amount to average coffee wrapped up in slick packaging and slapped with an expensive price tag.
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The average adult spends 348 days of their life shopping. Now, if you're like us, you're probably not spending that time in chic boutiques that offer you a glass of champagne while you browse. Instead, you're in a big-box grocery store, dragging a hangry child behind you and trying not to forget two-thirds of the stuff you need.
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Local Storytelling "Swaps" and Open Mics
Drop by your local gathering of storytellers where they swap stories. Everyone is welcome to these informal open mics, whether you want to tell a story or just listen.
It's a good idea to call ahead to confirm that the group is meeting, and if you want to tell, it's good etiquette to ask about the standard time limit.
You can also sign up at Meetup.com to get on the mailing list for upcoming swaps: http://www.meetup.com/storyswaps/
It's a good idea to call ahead to confirm that the group is meeting, and if you want to tell, it's good etiquette to ask about the standard time limit.
You can also sign up at Meetup.com to get on the mailing list for upcoming swaps: http://www.meetup.com/storyswaps/
*San Francisco – San Francisco Story League, 2nd Thursday of the month. 10:00 a.m.-noon, at Golden Gate Park Senior Center, 6101 Fulton St. at 37th Ave. Contact Rhoda Meer at (415) 566-9050 to verify. firstname.lastname@example.com
* Antioch - Delta Wordweavers will meet Sunday on Feb 17 and March 10 from 3:00 to 5:00pm. Saturday April 27 from 2:00 to 4:00pm. All are held at Antioch Public Library 501 West 18th Street, Antioch. See SAC calendar for details on these fall events. Contact 925-437-1360 (Marian Ferrante) or email@example.com for more information.
* Concord - Tales and Tellers. An Advanced Toastmaster's Club, specializing in the art of storytelling. 2nd and 4th Sundays, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Denny's, 1313 Willow Pass Rd, Concord. Contact: Brendan Murphy, firstname.lastname@example.com.
* Hayward – Hayward Storytellers meet 2nd Thursday of the month, 7:30-9:30 p.m., at Hayward Arts Council, 22394 Foothill Blvd, Hayward OR in a home. We hold August Lake Chabot campouts. For meeting or camp, contact Gina Rose, (510) 205-8606, email@example.com
* Oakland – Mixed Bag. 1st Thursdays 7:00-9:00 pm at 828 59th St., Oakland. Swapping stories traditional and personal in an informal setting. Contact Linda Walls at 510-229-2742 or email email@example.com.
* Oakland - Sing Say or Play. Third Saturday, 7:00 pm in private homes. We are a singers' circle, story swap & tunes session all in one! For home location, contact Ed Silberman (510) 853-1749 email@example.com
* Orinda - Contra Costa Tale Spinners. 4th Thursday of the month, Gallery Room of the Orinda Public Library, 24 Orinda Way, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Walking distance from BART. Contact: Sally Holzman (925) 372-7036, or Liz Nichols at firstname.lastname@example.com or phone: (415) 505-7941
*Petaluma – West Side Stories, a Story Slam! 1st Wed. monthly 7:30p.m. Sonoma Portworks 613 2nd St. $8 in advance, $10 at door. Ten names drawn out a hat to tell 5-minute personal story. Winner prize, $50. Other contact info: Dave Pokorny (707) 477-4416.
*Santa Rosa – Do Tell Story Swap, 2nd Tuesday monthly, from 7:00 to 9:00pm. Valley Village Community Center, 6401 Country Club Dr., Rohnert Park 94928 The Swap is a non-competitive, friendly venue for adults and teens. Stories are to be told, not read, up to 5 minutes in length, and not longer than 7 minutes. Donation requested. Scent free, please. Donation, share refreshments. We hold November Tellabrations! Contact: Elaine Stanley 707-539-3642, email@example.com
*San Mateo - San Mateo Storytellers Club, an Advanced Toastmasters International Club. Guests and visitors welcome. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. San Mateo Community College District Offices, Second Floor, 3401 CSM Dr., San Mateo. Kathleen Maxwell, President. firstname.lastname@example.com
* Los Altos - Southbay Storytellers & Listeners. 2nd Sunday 7:00-9:00 pm at Los Altos United Methodist Church, Garden Room #3, 655 Magdalena, Los Altos. Contact Joy Swift 650-494-1383. firstname.lastname@example.com
*San Jose - Silicon Valley Storytellers, a Toastmasters Club. Visitors welcome. 2nd and 4th Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Denny's, 1140 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose.
*Sacramento - Aesop's Fablers Club (Toastmasters), 1st Thursday of the month, 7:00 p.m. at Sacramento County Administration Building, 700 H St., 3rd floor break room. Contact: Arne Sampe, (916) 362-9013.
*Sacramento - Sacramento Storytellers Guild, 3rd Saturday of the month, 2:00–4:00 p.m., Eskaton Monroe Lodge (Senior Citizen's Residence), 3225 Freeport Blvd. Contact: Lawrence Crason, (916) 399-1999.
*Redding - The Traveling Bohemians, Spoken Word Night - 2nd Wednesdays 7:00–9:00 pm. Bohemian Art Loft, 3304B Bechelli Lane, Redding. An open mic for poets, writers, playwrights, storytellers, comedians. Audience welcome. Donations, refreshments. Contact 530-229-7818 or email@example.com.
*Auburn – Foothill Storytelling Guild for Placer & Nevada Counties. http://foothillstorytellingguild
*Sonora & vicinity – Mother Lode Storytelling Guild. Tuolumne County Open Telling - 3rd Saturday 4:00-6:00pm, August to May. Sonora Joe's Coffee Shoppe, 140 S Washington St, Sonora.
Calaveras County Story Swap, - Every other last Sunday (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sept, Nov), 4:00–6:00 pm, Manzanita Arts Emporium, 1211 S. Main St, Angels Camp.
More info: http://www.sierranevadastorytelling.org/mother-lode-storytelling-guild.html contact B.Z. Smith, (209) 532-7697, email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Liam Pitchford is like most other men his age.
At 22 he likes nothing more than to relax by playing FIFA or Call of Duty on his PlayStation, or heading out to the golf course.
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At 16 he left his Chesterfield home and moved to Germany to pursue his dream of a career in table tennis.
Now, six years later, he is set to move to Sweden to further that career he has forged for himself.
In a little under two months, shortly after his 23rd birthday, he will also be a double Olympian.
Pitchford is currently ranked No.50 in the world, an achievement he has had to make countless sacrifices to achieve.
"I missed out on a lot when I was younger," said the five-time Commonwealth Games medallist.
"I didn't get to hang out with my mates as much as I would've liked and I didn't go to uni, so I missed that kind of life but it didn't bother me.
"It was what I wanted to do and what I'd always wanted to do. I always knew I was destined to do it so I missed out but it is what it is, it's my life and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
"I don't get to play as much golf as I'd like, when I'm home I try to play a bit more but now I'm living with my girlfriend so she doesn't let me play PlayStation as much as I'd like to.
"But I'm growing up and things change in life."
For most successful people, in any walk of life, along with the personal sacrifices come the sacrifices of those around you to get you where you want to be, and Pitchford is no different.
The Team World Championships bronze medallist cites his parents as his biggest influence and his biggest support.
Pitchford made his Olympic debut as a 19-year-old at London 2012 and hoped his success in his chosen field would act as some sort of repayment for the faith his parents had showed in him.
"They have been there since I first picked up a bat," added 2015 national champion.
"They've not put any pressure on me to do anything, they let me do what I want and I chose to do this.
"They drove me all over the country and spent I don't know how much money, helping me achieve what I wanted to do.
"It's nice to see them get a little bit back, they are so proud that I'm going to be a double Olympian.
"London was amazing, everyone came down, my parents, my uncle, the whole family were there to see it.
"The table tennis side didn't go as I wanted, I played one match, but hopefully this time it will be different."
Things would have been different though if it weren't for the Great British weather and a sporting choice that changed Pitchford's life forever.
He first picked up a table tennis bat aged nine at a lunchtime club in junior school, a club he only went to because it was raining outside.
A few years later, having become a regular at a local club and beginning to play more tournaments in the Chesterfield area, Pitchford faced the decision of table, or no table?
Despite being a talented tennis player he plumped for the table variety and the rest is history.
"I started playing tournaments all over the country at under-11 level and then I got scouted by the England teams at around that age," added Pitchford.
"I started going to England training camps then gradually thought that it was what I wanted to do more.
"Now I'm here, set to be a double Olympian, I never would have dreamed of it back then."
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The other club owned by the late Leicester chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Belgian outfit OH Leuven, have paid their respects.
Belgian football club OH Leuven have paid tribute to their late owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died when his helicopter crashed outside Leicester City's stadium on Saturday.
Srivaddhanaprabha bankrolled Leicester's incredible Premier League title triumph in 2015-16 and expanded his footballing portfolio last May by taking over Leuven, who play in Belgian First Division B – the country's second tier.
Leicester confirmed on Sunday that Thai billionaire Srivaddhanaprabha and the other four people on board his aircraft were killed when it came down in a car park outside the King Power Stadium, around an hour after the 1-1 Premier League draw against West Ham.
"Our first thoughts go to the Srivaddhanaprabha family and the families of everyone on board the helicopter," read a statement on Leuven's website.
"This is an unbelievable loss for the supporters of both clubs within King Power's football family.
"Khun Vichai was not only a warm and humble man, but also very generous to everyone who crossed his path.
"Although his journey with Oud-Heverlee Leuven was only just beginning, his vision for the club will be protected and executed."
Former Leicester manager Nigel Pearson, who worked under Srivaddhanaprabha at the English club until the end of the 2014-15 season, was appointed as Leuven head coach last September.