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Weight Loss through Cutting Calories Results Less
than Expected
Diet, Obesity, Prevention, Issue 589
This article originally posted 01 September, 2011
Common rules of thumb exaggerate how much weight people
will lose from a given dietary calorie reduction,
leading to unrealistic expectations and disappointment,
researchers said....
According to Kevin D. Hall, PhD, of the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
in Bethesda, Md, whereas patients are often told that
cutting 500 calories a day will let them lose a pound a
week, a more realistic formula is that such a caloric
reduction would lead to a 50-pound loss over three or
more years.
Even then, such weight loss is possible only if the
calorie reduction is actually maintained over that time.
The standard rules -- endorsed by the National
Institutes of Health and the American Dietetic
Association, among others -- fail to consider that human
metabolism responds dynamically to changes in diet and
body composition, Hall and colleagues asserted.
If a 300-pound dieter could really lose a pound a week
by cutting his regular diet by 500 calories, he would
vanish entirely in six years.
"This ubiquitous weight-loss rule (also known as the
3,500 [calorie]-per-pound rule) was derived by
estimation of the energy content of weight lost, but it
ignores dynamic physiological adaptations to altered
body weight that lead to changes of both the resting
metabolic rate as well as the energy cost of physical
activity," the researchers wrote.
When people gain weight, their baseline energy needs
increase, to keep the extra tissue alive and to move it
around. Likewise, when weight is lost, their baseline
needs decrease.
So when people cut calories below the baseline
requirement -- thereby triggering weight loss -- the gap
between their intake and their baseline energy needs
begins to shrink. At some point, it may disappear
altogether, at which point weight loss stops.
Hall and colleagues put together what they said was a
better model of caloric intake and resultant weight
loss, incorporating feedback mechanisms to reflect
metabolic changes over time in response to diet and body
weight. It indicated that weight change in response to
caloric restriction occurs over a relatively long period
of time.
Each reduction of 100 kilojoules daily -- 24 calories --
in intake eventually leads to a loss of 1 kg (2.2 lbs)
in body weight, the researchers determined. But only
half that loss occurs in the first year. In three years,
95% of the ultimate loss will be realized.
On the flip side, using data from previous studies, Hall
and colleagues said their calculations suggest that the
U.S. population has a persistent excess energy intake of
30 kilojoules (7.2 calories) per day, explaining the
increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity.
For the population to return to body mass index values
that prevailed in the 1970s, average diets would need to
shrink by about 220 calories per day.
The researchers pointed out that these figures are
averages for the adult population. Individuals'
metabolic requirements for sustaining a given body mass
vary substantially. Consequently, "a given diet results
in an uncertain degree of energy deficit," Hall and
colleagues wrote.
The findings have important implications for policy, the
researchers argued.
For example, they pointed to a 2010 policy paper from
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which included an
estimate that a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks would
reduce average energy intake by 40 calories. Using the
standard 3,500 calorie-per-pound rule, the paper
indicated that an average weight loss of about 1.8 kg (4
lbs.) per year could be expected -- "incorrectly," Hall
and colleagues contended. Their model shows that it
would actually take five years to achieve that level of
average weight loss.
"We suggest that unrealistic weight loss expectations
obtained by erroneous use of the static dieting rule
should be replaced by our methods to assess other
population-wide and more targeted obesity prevention
interventions," the researchers wrote.
They also pointed out that, in evaluating interventions,
the model can also take account of physical activity and
its effects on body weight and metabolism.
On the other hand, a limitation is that "it assumes
perfect adherence to the intervention" and also doesn't
automatically include increases in food intake that may
accompany the start of an exercise program.
The problem, of course, is that adherence is usually
anything but perfect. Moreover, it can be compounded by
the long lag between changes in diet and changes in body
One manifestation is that patients lose weight while on
a program and continue to do so -- for a time -- after
they revert to their former lifestyle. "The dieter might
then incorrectly infer that adherence is not essential
for continuing weight loss when, in fact, impending
weight regain has already been set in motion," the
researchers indicated.
Practice Pearls:
Explain that a study using mathematical modeling
explains that weight loss and energy intake reduction
are not static processes and require much more time than
previously appreciated.
Point out that the formula predicts only 50% of weight
loss within the first year and 95% by three years with a
consistent calorie reduction.
Hall K, et al "Quantification of the effect of energy
imbalance on bodyweight" Lancet 2011; 378: 826-37.
Quantification of the Effect of Energy Imbalance
on Bodyweight
Dr Kevin D Hall PhD a , Gary Sacks PhD b,
Dhruva Chandramohan BSc a, Carson C Chow PhD a,
Y Claire Wang MD c, Steven L Gortmaker PhD d,
Boyd A Swinburn MD b
The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9793, Pages 826 - 837
27 August 2011
Obesity interventions can result in weight loss, but
accurate prediction of the bodyweight time course
requires properly accounting for dynamic energy
imbalances. In this report, we describe a mathematical
modelling approach to adult human metabolism that
simulates energy expenditure adaptations during weight
loss. We also present a web-based simulator for
prediction of weight change dynamics. We show that the
bodyweight response to a change of energy intake is
slow, with half times of about 1 year. Furthermore,
adults with greater adiposity have a larger expected
weight loss for the same change of energy intake, and to
reach their steady-state weight will take longer than it
would for those with less initial body fat. Using a
population-averaged model, we calculated the energy-
balance dynamics corresponding to the development of the
US adult obesity epidemic. A small persistent average
daily energy imbalance gap between intake and
expenditure of about 30 kJ per day underlies the
observed average weight gain. However, energy intake
must have risen to keep pace with increased expenditure
associated with increased weight. The average increase
of energy intake needed to sustain the increased weight
(the maintenance energy gap) has amounted to about 0·9
MJ per day and quantifies the public health challenge to
reverse the obesity epidemic.
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Technology has forever changed the landscape of higher education, and continues to do so often at a rapid pace. A university-wide symposium on the use of technology to teach and work will offer sessions on social media in the classroom, massive open online courses (MOOCs), best practices in instructional design and information technology, the future of Office 365, information security and analytics.
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NU faculty and staff will have the opportunity to engage with nationally recognized experts in the use of technology to teach, share their experiences, and learn from the initiatives of colleagues from across the university. The event provides opportunities for networking and includes a vendor showcase.
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The event's closing session will be given by Daphne Koller, Stanford University professor and co-Founder and co-CEO of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that works with top universities to make education accessible across the globe – for free. Koller will address the symposium via two-way interactive video, with opportunity for audience interaction.
In addition, Tanya Joosten, interim director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Learning Technology Center and author of Social Media for Educators will deliver two sessions focused on the use of social media in an online or blended course.
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The Rev. Ted McIlvenna, whose pioneering work in the 1960s helped inspire the sexual revolution and the gay rights movement, has a new crusade.
Next month, the 80-year-old Methodist rebel will lead a delegation of 10 sex experts to China to help an emerging class of financially independent Chinese women achieve female sexual empowerment.
"The second sexual revolution is about female sexuality," said McIlvenna, a San Francisco preacher who owns what may be the world's largest collection of sex books, erotic art and vintage pornography. "And the women of China are starting to say, 'What about our sexuality?' "
McIlvenna's delegation includes experts from his Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, on Franklin Street, where scholars and sybarites have been studying sex since the 1970s.
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In December, Hamilton got a stark look at the sexual status of Chinese women when she taught a "basic sex and intimacy" course to about 120 female spa owners who had gathered at a resort hotel outside Shanghai.
"These women have not been touched. They have not been hugged, cherished or loved," she said. "These are the wealthier women of China. They are successful entrepreneurs and they have zilch love life."
"But we also have to get to the men," Hamilton added. "There's no foreplay, no kissing, no loving. ... When the men find how much better sex can be when they have a loving and involved partner, that is when things will change."
Jian Chen, a Chinese sexologist and yoga teacher, said the Chinese government has begun to allow international conferences that feature frank discussions about sex - as long as the Americans involved show sensitivity to Chinese culture, politics and professional standards.
"Yes, the government will likely support this, or at least it won't interfere," said Chen, who studied at McIlvenna's institute. "Currently there is more emphasis on happiness and family health, but I hope there is a new openness to conferences like this."
Unusual preacher
Some people may be surprised to hear that a preacher and a porn star are teaming up to sexually liberate the People's Republic of China. But then those people probably don't know the life story of Ted McIlvenna.
McIlvenna began making headlines in San Francisco in 1964, when he and a small group of liberal Protestant ministers started the Council on Religion and the Homosexual to improve communications between churches and gays.
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McIlvenna had been based out of the United Methodist Church headquarters in Nashville before Bishop Donald Tippett sent him to the Bay Area. "They brought me into San Francisco and said, 'Change the homosexuals into heterosexuals,' " McIlvenna said. "I said, 'You can't do that,' and told them they can't understand homosexuality without understanding human sexuality.
"Bishop Tippett warned me that if I continued my stand on homosexual rights I'd never be invited to preach in a Methodist Church, and I never have been. But I still considered myself a United Methodist clergyman."
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McIlvenna, who led an earlier delegation of American sexologists to China in 1996, hopes the time is right for change there.
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Other members of the McIlvenna delegation include Leanna Wolfe, whose talk is titled "Orgasm in America," and Kat Smith, who will speak on "the way ahead in new technologies for intimacy training."
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This particular 928 has some issues by the seller's own admission. Some of his statements would be considered red flags by pessimists. For example: "Needs fuel system and electrical system gone through," and "Last driven 6-7 years ago." But keep in mind that you're dealing with a "Solid car. Everything is there. Lots of potential!" Just start tracing those hundreds of identical gray wires . . . and
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The TORONTO BLUE JAYS have agreed to terms with INF MUNENORI KAWASAKI on a 2014 minor league contract with an invitation to attend Major League spring training.
Kawasaki, 32, appeared in 96 games for the Blue Jays last season batting .229 with a .326 OBP, one home run and 24 RBI. His five triples tied for the club high in 2013. The Kagoshima, Japan native became the 1st Japanese-born position player to appear in a game as a Toronto Blue Jay in franchise history. The left-handed hitter has now appeared in 157 career games for Seattle and Toronto in two seasons, posting a .218 average.
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The aftermath of Miley Cyrus' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards and news that the word "twerking" had been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online combined to leave J. Roddy Walston feeling giddy.
"There's a pretty serious twerk guy here in Richmond [Va.] that goes by the name J Roddy Rod," said the affable musician, who has fronted perpetually sweaty rock 'n' roll crew J. Roddy Walston & the Business since 2002. "I'm hoping our music gets a bump because of him and the current twerk explosion."
In a recent phone interview, the 32-year-old singer/pianist discussed the band's third studio album (the forthcoming "Essential Tremors," out Sept. 10), converting short stories into songs and the reasons grooming and the Business don't necessarily go hand-in-hand.
You named your latest album "Essential Tremors" for a nerve disorder you have that causes your hands to shake. Why'd you choose to address the condition now?
It just felt right. This record is sort of about owning whatever it is about you that maybe feels secret or weird or a little bit different.
In contrast, what's something surprisingly normal about your life? Is every Tuesday a Taco Tuesday in the Walston household?
[Laughs] Huh. No one has asked me that before. I like to work on my house. That's pretty normal. I've got a dog. I've got a wife. I've got a car I work on. My parents are still married and my wife's parents are married. With this record coming out, and other things in the past, people do assume I've gone through some really terrible stuff, but generally I have a really normal, functional life. I played sports in high school. I wasn't part of the popular crowd, but I wasn't some kid cowering in the corner wearing eyeliner and thinking my parents hated me.
It's interesting people assume you're writing about your own life because I've always been struck by your ability to step into another's shoes. Have you ever tried your hand at fiction writing?
Actually, yeah. A lot of times I'm mining short stories I've worked up and trying to figure out, "Can I tell this in under 100 words and in two and a half minutes even though it's 70 pages long as I originally wrote it?"
Have you ever considered releasing your short stories?
I've talked about it. I considered releasing them with the album, like, "Here's where the songs come from," but generally if something rings a little gimmicky I shy away from it. I don't know if I ever will do something with them. I know I'm good at songwriting; I don't know if I'm good at [writing] short stories. In some ways it's nice to keep it as a personal hobby without all that pressure of, "Is this good enough to actually show anyone? Am I good enough to do this for anything other than my own enjoyment?"
Your wife is a professional opera singer. Does she ever bust your chops about your vocal technique?
[Laughs] Yeah. I used to write in a higher key and she was like, "You're just singing in an insane place all the time." She and her friends marvel at me screaming my brains out, that's for sure. There's a teaser of the song "Heavy Bells" where you can hear me singing by myself, and they're like, "You're a fluke. Physically your voice should be gone after one second of that."
So if you were one of the X-Men that would have to be your mutant ability.
[Laughs] Yeah. The stars aligned for me to be able to blow it out. I can stay up late and eat whatever I want and my voice sounds the way it sounds. In the opera world, you're always striving for this perfect, pure sound. For [my wife] it's a strict diet: Drink water all the time [and] get to bed early.
I read a 2010 Baltimore Sun article that described the band as looking "perpetually a day removed from a shower." Would you care to defend your grooming habits?
[Laughs] Well, I could say that I was in the middle of a three-year tour at that point, so they were probably being generous. Your rules of humanity break down [on the road], and you become this weird, independent animal. But, no, we're probably not a band known for its grooming habits.
You guys are known for your intense live shows, though. As you get older do you find your body takes more of a beating putting yourself through that each night?
Yeah, definitely. The recovery time is longer. This tour is the first time I was like, "I just can't do seven nights a week anymore." I want to put on the best show possible, and I can't do that if we're playing every night.
What takes more of a beating on the road: You or your piano?
Man, the piano is in rough shape right now, so I hope it's true it takes a worse beating than I do. Almost every part that could fall off of it fell off it during the last show, which was dramatic and fun for the audience, but for me it was kind of like, "What am I going to do with this thing?" I don't want to jinx it, but generally if you do some maintenance on the thing it'll hold up. I guess the same is true of our band. [Laughs]
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Paul Clemens Is Tougher Than You
Houston Astros rookie Paul Clemens turned in a strong outing on Monday night, tossing 5.1 innings of one-hit ball. As impressive as that was, though, most people will remember his outing for another reason. As you can see in the video above, Clemens tried to field a comebacker only to dislocate his pinky.
Clemens had his pinky popped back into place and stayed in the game to retire the next batter. Apparently he first suffered the injury during high school and is totally used to it. Who knew anyone could be used to having a finger out of place? It just shows that Paul Clemens is tougher than you.


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Modern Dating Is A Group Sport For The Hashtag Generation
Modern Dating Is A Group Sport For The Hashtag Generation
Love in the age of social media is a many-splendored thing. It's moved past the traditional first date, past the boring dinner and a movie, and whooshed right on by your run-of-the-mill dating website hookup. Modern dating is now a group sport.
And, according to Michael Waxman, you probably shouldn't even call them "dates" anymore.
"We just call them groupers," he says. "And in fact, we have a policy of not using the d-word internally or externally."
Waxman is the CEO of Grouper, an online dating website that uses Facebook profiles to set up blind dates of six. Yes. Six. "Grouper" is what the company has named these dates.
Waxman thinks Groupers work for the hashtag generation for a number of reasons. He says that people in their 20s are used to experiencing and sharing things through social media. They're turned off by labels like "dates." And, perhaps most importantly, they hate being rejected.
"For a generation of people who grew up with participation trophies, rejection is a hard thing," he says.
And if at a Grouper date no one hits it off with anyone, that's not an issue — you're still there with your friends. It may be a strikeout on love, but you can still have a round of shots with people you already like.
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So, here's how it works.
You sign up for Grouper through Facebook. And it uses your Facebook profile to match you up with a blind date. Next, you recruit two of your friends. The blind date does the same. And then, Grouper sends all six of you on a group date.
Everyone pays $20 — to make sure you show up, as well as cover the first round of drinks. The day of, you get a text with a time and a place.
One recent evening a group of partakers met a bar called the Virgil, on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
(NPR agreed to the group's request to use only first names in this story; we all know how dicey first dates can be.)
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Before the date, the three ladies — Chloe, Daphne and Katie — had set the bar pretty low: "I hope they're good looking and I hope they're not 'acnefied' and sweaty," one of the women said.
Her friend replied, "The fun part about it though is if they're sweaty and 'acnefied,' we have each other!"
The three guys — Alex, Max and Josh — gathered outside at a taco truck before they went in the bar.
One of them was kind of hopeful. "I expect to find three relatively fun girls. My ideal is that they're very attractive, and they have great personalities, and they're probably looking to hook up," he said.
Another wanted something more: "I'm looking to find true love."
The date began a little after 8 p.m., with the usual pleasantries; the where are you froms, where'd you go to school, do we have any mutual friends type-conversations. Drinks were imbibed. But about an hour in, all energy became focused on the Groupergram.
"A Groupergram is when you and your Grouper groupies take a photo and you post it on Instagram. But the best Grouper photo of the night gets a free round of drinks," one of the women explain.
It's simple, and perhaps ingenious. The Groupergram is instant advertising for Grouper, and an instant bonding experience for the six people on the date. This gang's Groupergram took a village, and at least half an hour. They used intricate poses and props, a bartender who became a set director and even borrowed knives from the kitchen.
And then the captioning. And the editing. And the cropping and retouching and sharing.
This is modern non-dating. If you can't like it, tweet it, share it or use a hashtag, it's just a tree falling in the woods by itself.
A group blind date — at its essence — is down-right Darwinian. At a point, someone loses. Now, who fell flat this particular night? So around 10 p.m., the boys were separated from the girls, to see where things stood.
From the ladies:
"I feel like it was superexciting at first. And then, as their charm started to wear, and they got a little more comfortable, they became a little more boring."
I asked which one they weren't into. The response: "I think the guy that's not liked is the skinny one."
From the guys:
"I'm enjoying myself. They're fun girls. We all agree that two out of the three girls are attractive." And they dubbed the third as "sweet."
A few in the group said the next day that numbers were exchanged. And there was talk of hanging out at a party the next time. And they all would "try" to keep in touch.
But there was no love connection, which is fine.
Just Fun, No Love
Waxman says a "successful" Grouper can be many things: Making new friends, reconnecting with old ones or just having a good night of drinking — which makes sense. More than anything that stood out of that night's Grouper date was that the hashtag generation would almost be fine doing nothing alone, ever again.
Two of the night's Grouper participants summed it up best.
"Of course I would go out on my own if I knew other people were going to be out on their own as well. And I wouldn't be the awkward person alone at the bar, desperate. But everyone's always in a group these days," Chloe says.
"Desperation. I feel like if you're alone, you're like becoming desperate," Alex said.
Grouper's got them covered. And they're moving to where everything is headed these days — your smartphone. The company plans to debut a mobile app later this spring. Soon, you and your friends will be able to set up Grouper rendezvous almost immediately.
You'll be able to move from a night alone to #Groupergram in no time. And all of your friends will be able to see.
Yes, modern love is a group sport. And the stadium is all of the Internet.


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Just before christmas I decided I will spend the "immense" amount of 40 EUR for a graphic card for a system which was without one. The system is supposed to replace my dying home-server. I already moved everything, except my Desktop-in-a-Jail (actually it is my home-cinema-jail).
The old system had a Radeon 9200SE, and it was enough for what I used it for. Now… for a few bucks you can get a lot more horsepower today. After looking around a little bit I decided to buy a NVidia card. I made this decision because it looks like I can get better driver support for it. So I got a GeForce GT 520 with 1 GB of RAM (I doubt I will be able to use that much RAM) and without a fan.
With the Radeon 9200SE I was not able to get the 3D stuff activated (at least in the jail, I did not try without), Xorg complains about a missing agpgart module but I have AGP in the kernel (no /dev/agpgart outside the jail). I did not spend time to investigate this, as the main purpose – playing movies – worked. Now with the NVidia card I decided to give the 3D part a try again.
After adding the NVidia device entries to the jail, and a little bit of fighting with the Xorg-HAL interaction, I got a working desktop. The biggest problem to verify that 3D is working was, that I did not had xdriinfo installed. After installing it, I noticed that it does not work with the NVidia driver. 🙁 Next stop nvidia-settings: runs great, displays a nice FreeBSD+NVidia logo, and … tells me that OpenGL is configured. Hmmm… OK, but I want to see it!
As I decided to switch from Gnome to KDE 4 at the same time (I was using KDE when it was at V 0.x, switched to Gnome as it looked nicer to me, and now I switch back after reading all the stuff in the net that KDE 4 is "better" than Gnome 3), I was a little bit out of knowledge how to see the 3D stuff in action. So I quickly went to the settings and searched for something which looks like it may use 3D. To my surprise, it was already using 3D stuff. Nice. I fully realized how nice, when playing a video and using Alt-Tab to switch windows: the video was playing full speed scaled down in the window-switcher-thumbnail-view.
That was too easy. I am happy about it.
Now that I have a working setup of X11-in-a-jail for Radeon and GeForce cards, I want to cleanup my changes to the kernel and the config files (devfs.rules) and have a look to get this committed. A big part of this work is probably writing documentation (most probably in the wiki).
I still want to see some fancy 3D stuff now. I tried to install x11-clocks/glclock, but the build fails with an undefined reference to 'glPolygonOffsetEXT'. 🙁 Any recommendation for a fancy 3D display? My priority is on "fancy/nice" with as less violence as possible. Most probably I will look at it once and then deinstall it again, so it should be available in the Ports Collection (or included in KDE 4).


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This is when you need to implement a real CYA policy. CYA is Cover Your Arse this isn't the bad old EA CYA approach, its not even about clear documentation. This is about making sure when the shit inevitably fan that people don't turn round and say "why didn't you say" but also making sure that they don't say "its your fault because you didn't support it".
So the line here on your programme is simple, you know its going to fail, you have to support it through the failure, but when it goes tits up you need to make sure that your well reasoned arguments into the clinically insane decision are well versed.
Stage 1: Store ALL the documents that went into the decision
Stage 2: Write an email saying that you respect the decision and will of course support the approach, but you feel it doesn't address some of the issues that you previously raised
When this email is ignored that is fine, the people making the decision clearly know its insane but have decided that right now insanity is a valid defense. If they reply with "We think it does address those problems" then again don't reply.
Stage 3: Write down a list of the things that are going to go horribly wrong. Get them flagged in the risk register. You don't have a risk register.... holy crap you need more help than I can ever offer, get one in a hurry
Stage 4: It now becomes the PMs job to track against the risks, if you are the PM then make sure you got Amber early, not Red as you will be "obstructive" but go Amber with your concerns. The worst thing in the world is the project that flicks from Green to Red with you saying "told you so".
Stage 5: Its going down hill, your risk report looks like the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever and people have forgotten what colour green actually is. Now is the time to start pushing "resolutions" you really want to be the person who pulls it from the fire, this will involve however Napalming lots of the people who screwed up, you do not want a problem child responsible for clean up as that just means that it will go more wrong.
Stage 6: You are responsible for clean up. The key phrase here is "Drawing a line under what happened before" this means you are going to ignore any previous decisions and base your judgement on what goes forward is what you want. Its the same line as when a failure is put in charge, the difference here is you will be firing people.
Stage 7: Remember that people screwed up against advice. Those people need to find other place to screw up, unless they are in a desperate career saving type place, then they are your perfect allies. Think of reformed smokers or born again Christians... but with a pay cheque.
Stage 8: Do an Obama. The smartest thing Obama has done so far is declare everything screwed. Don't be nice, be ruthless. If there are six months to go live but it will never happen blame it on the prior administration. Then work out what is achievable.
Stage 9: Plan to an end. Don't get caught in fire-fighting, break the current project and start a new plan for a real end game.
Stage 10: Deliver to live. There is nothing that will help you more than meeting the expectations you set in Stages 8 and 9. This makes you a rock star and this gives you the future right to say "this is wrong".
Insanity and stupidity are horrible things, but don't try and ignore them. The worst things I've ever seen are where bright people have dug stupid people out of holes without making that visible. I've seen some really dumb people in roles they couldn't handle as a result and some smart people burnt out because of it.
The Risk Log is your friend. Do your job, do your best. But this isn't the navy. Over throwing the stupid captain is fine, as long as the number back you up.
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Bastrop, TX – Yesterday, Bastrop County and Connected Texas officials recognized the county as the first to become a certified Connected community in the state and 16th in the nation. More than 50 residents and community leaders attended the celebration event at the Bastrop Convention and Exhibit Center where results of the assessment and details of the new Technology Action Plan were unveiled.
"We congratulate Bastrop County on becoming the first certified 'Connected' community in the state," said Connected Texas Executive Director Don Shirley. "They have set an example for other communities with a technology plan that will encourage future growth and development."
Bastrop County has been working with Connected Texas through the Connected Community Engagement Program to assess the local broadband landscape, identify gaps, and establish actionable goals and objectives to increase broadband access, adoption, and use for families, organizations, and businesses throughout Bastrop County. To obtain Connected certification, Bastrop County had to meet certain benchmark scores based on the National Broadband Plan that demonstrate it is a technologically advanced community.
"We congratulate Bastrop County on becoming the first certified Connected community in the state of Texas. Through the Connected program, Bastrop County officials and other local leaders across Texas are working to improve the quality of life for local residents, spur economic development, and expand the opportunities afforded by broadband access," said Texas Department of Agriculture Administrator for Rural Affairs Rick Rhodes.
"We are excited that Bastrop County has achieved the Connected certification. As one of the fastest growing counties in the state, we embrace what technology can do for our citizens. Connectivity helps us do everything more efficiently, whether it's healthcare, education, agriculture, or business," said County Judge Paul Pape.
Participating in the Connected program means Bastrop County has gone through an extensive assessment of its overall broadband and technology innovation. The Connected Assessment has culminated in the outlining of projects designed to empower the community to accelerate broadband access, adoption, and use. Bastrop's top seven priority projects are to: complete a vertical assets inventory; develop or identify a broadband training and awareness program for small and medium businesses; establish a "digital factory;" identify, map, and validate broadband demand; implement a community-based technology awareness program; improve online business services offered by the government; and pursue next generation 911 upgrades.
"This is such a great effort and a big honor for Bastrop County," said John Dees, training manager for Technology For All (TFA). "TFA has provided computers and digital literacy training to public sites in the county, and we look forward to helping underserved populations in the area with technology for many years."
"Technology is at the epicenter of our economic future. Impacting everything from healthcare to education, agriculture to business – everything we do now is driven by technology. Making broadband access and technology a reality for the citizens of Bastrop County places a world of opportunities at their fingertips," said Dave Quinn of the City of Bastrop Economic Development Corporation.
The Connected program is part of the Connected Texas initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce NTIA State Broadband Initiative program. Connected Texas is working to facilitate the access, adoption, and use of technology throughout the state to create a better business environment, more effective community and economic development, improved healthcare, more efficient government, enhanced education, and improved quality of life. For more information about the Connected project in Bastrop County, please contact Connected Texas Program Coordinator LaTanya Tatum at firstname.lastname@example.com or (512) 461-4159.
Photo Caption: From left, Connected Texas' LaTanya Tatum and Don Shirley present Bastrop Community Champions Angela Ryan and Bastrop Economic Development Director Dave Quinn with the Connected certification trophy Wednesday at the Bastrop Convention and Exhibit Center.
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Spray-Wall Dynamics of High-Pressure Impinging Combustion
The fuel spray impingement on the piston head and/or chamber often occurs in compact IC engines. The impingement plays one of the key roles in combustion because it affects the air-fuel mixing process. In this study, the impinged combustion has been experimentally investigated to understand the mechanism and dynamics of flame-wall interaction. The experiments were performed in a constant volume combustion chamber over a wide range of ambient conditions. The ambient temperature was varied from 800 K to 1000 K and ambient gas oxygen was varied from 15% to 21%. Diesel fuel was injected with an injection pressure of 150 MPa into ambient gas at a density of 22.8 kg/m3. The natural luminosity technique was applied in the experiments to explore the impinged combustion process. High-speed images were taken using a high-speed camera from two different views (bottom and side). An in-house Matlab program was used to post-process the images.


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Wentworth Park Statistics (based on 3650 races between June 2011 – August 2014)
Of the eight boxes allocated for each greyhound race*, Box One (red) generated the most winners with 18.5%. This is traditionally the case at nearly all greyhound racetracks simply because the box is the closest to the rail and therefore the quickest route to the winning post. The greyhound contends with only the box 2 runner at the start, thus mitigating a 'squeeze' at the beginning of the race.
38% of all Wentworth Park TAB favourites over the past 3 years won their races (3.8 favourites win per race meeting) paying $2.39 on average for the win and $1.40 the place. This is greater than Randwick/Rosehill thoroughbred races that recorded 33.8% (2.7 per meeting) over the past 3 years
The average TAB win dividend was $5.94 and the average place dividend for these winners in isolation was $1.97
The average trifecta payout at Wentworth Park was $218 and for the First 4 was $1082. The highest payout was $3161 and $16,571 respectively. The largest dividend payout in the exotics was a Big 6 which paid $122,000 (average $7,700)
Box 7 is the least successful box at Wentworth Park, winning 9.2% of all races and falling to 8.7% if we observe 520m events only. In a perfect world it should be 12.5% (1/8).
Box 2 provided the best return on average over the three year period to Aug 2014, Box 7 the lowest average return for race wins
Of all 3650 winners, 14.8% paid even money ($2), 23.9% between $5-$10, 10% between $10 – $20 and 3.9% of $20 or more.
54% of all winners from box 1 were the favorities for the event and 75% were either the favorite or second favorite. The average TAB dividend for these winners was $2.20.
Whilst 54% of all Box 1 winners were favorites, boxes 5 and 7 were only ~28% (eg of Box 5's 362 winners, 100 were favourites). 48% of Box 5 winners were neither 1st or 2nd favourites. Despite producing only 10% of all winners of 3650 races, this may suggest punters are penalising /discounting these boxes too much.
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Komodo X is now available---everything a web and mobile developer needs. Includes chrome remote debugging, PhoneGap/Cordova integration, new javascript frameworks (AngularJS, EmberJS, ReactJS)...all wrapped up in a slick new UI.
Why am I writing my code in one place, and then switching to my browser to find that exact same code again in order to debug it? I already have all my code in one place, I shouldn't have to find it again elsewhere.
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Komodo supports debugging (IDE ONLY) for all of its major dynamic languages which includes Python, PHP, Go, Perl, Tcl, Ruby, NodeJS and JavaScript. What we do have that other IDEs may not support is remote debugging.
All of our main languages like, Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Javascript, NodeJS, Go, Tcl and HTML, among others have code intelligence support.
Track changes is a perfect feature for quickly reverting the changes that you've made during your current editing session.
A feature that you may or may not be aware of in Komodo is the Quick Bookmarks tool. The Quick Bookmarks extend bookmarks to make them faster to use by allowing you to access specific bookmarks with a single keystroke.
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Op Ed Article in OC Register from CES Dean, Don Cardinal
February 6, 2013
Our very own Dean, Dr. Don Cardinal, had an Op Ed piece published in the OC Register this week titled, "Don Cardinal: Stopping the next school shooting" on February 1. In the article Dr. Cardinal talks about his reaction as an educator to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting as well as what he sees as a way to bring meaningful change to our schools through greater access to mental health professionals. Below is the article from the OC Register.
By DON CARDINAL / For the Register
The tragedy in Newtown, Conn., left us shocked and numbed. As an educator, dedicated to protecting children, I felt I let down those children. As if somehow, I should have done more to protect them. After all, this is our job as educators, as parents, and as adults – we should be protecting our children. Something must be done and now.
In the aftermath, we are simultaneously engaged in deep anger and sadness. But we must do something. So, we act, or at least we talk about action. We've focused on guns and gun control because that was the tool used to perpetrate the crime. We talk about increasing the number of guns, decreasing the number of guns, arming teachers, administrators and janitors, adding more armed guards, even adding more rules in schools. We argue with each other and, in turn, we fail, again, to deal with what is in front of us, something much bigger than gun control, something much more taboo than tampering with the Second Amendment.ADVERTISEMENT
Maybe now is the time to raise this off-limits topic we seem to be dancing around. Yes, we must face the sensitive topic of the mental health of our society, including our children in schools.
President Obama recently proposed roughly 35 congressional actions and executive orders, yet one can barely detect any serious consideration of restoring school budgets in the area of certified school counselors – the very professionals trained to respond to early detection of troubled youngsters on campus.
Over the past decade we have continued to defund mental health programs in this country. California is responsible for the greatest cuts in the nation, including more than $587 million in 2011. This includes cuts to crisis intervention as well as for acute (emergency) treatments, psychiatric medicine and other supports.
These massive cuts put even more stress on our public schools since more parents and their children in need of support go undiagnosed, untreated or undertreated.
The problem is exacerbated by additional serious cuts to the front-line mental health professionals in schools. Funding for school counselors has eroded to such a degree that, even during times of crises, schools are unable to launch the necessary programs to meet the current needs of their students, not to mention new programs.
We have cut mental health programs at every level, turned-out mental health patients on the streets and have cut access to acute and crises care.
Many school children are only one bully away from doing something rash, hurting themselves or others. On-the-ground professionals can identify such children and offer them the support they need. But first, they must be in our schools in the numbers needed to provide quality service.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are roughly 150,000 schools in the United States. We may pass new laws about gun control or arm teachers or hire more armed guards in schools, but we cannot arm them all. To emphasize the point, in the recent shooting at a high school in Taft in central California, the campus had employed a full-time armed guard, but he was unable to report to work that particular day.
Armed guards, armed teachers and armed janitors will not solve the problem. Let's turn our attention to the mental health of our communities, beginning with our children. Instead of talking about arming teachers, let's arm our children with the mental health support they need.
Don Cardinal is dean of the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University.


text: National Aquarium announced today the addition of Blacktip Reef, a vibrant new exhibit that will open in summer 2013 in Baltimore. This coral-filled exhibit, replicating a salt-water Indo-Pacific ocean habitat, will feature animals new to National Aquarium, including blacktip reef sharks, reticulated whiptail rays and ornate wobbegong sharks, as well as some of National Aquarium's most beloved animals, including Calypso, the 400-pound green sea turtle, and zebra sharks Zeke and Zoe. "Blacktip Reef is going to be an incredible addition to National Aquarium and one that will continue to inspire guests to preserve and protect our oceans," said John Racanelli, National Aquarium CEO. "People travel around the globe to experience reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. Come next summer, they won't have to travel nearly as far to experience some of the world's most beautiful and essential aquatic treasures." Guests visiting National Aquarium, Baltimore, will be able to enjoy the new $12.5 million exhibit from many vantage points, including a new floor-to-ceiling pop-out viewing window that allows guests to virtually step inside the exhibit and come face-to-face with the magnificent animal species and corals. Blacktip Reef will be located in the heart of National Aquarium's Pier 3 Pavilion, where the Wings in the Water exhibit currently resides. "The ocean has many different types of habitats and coral reefs are like the ocean's Grand Central Station," said Jack Cover, National Aquarium general curator. "This incredible ecosystem really gives you greater context, showcasing biodiversity and the relationships among the diverse plants and animals. It's a complex living structure that continues to build on itself." The namesake animal of the new exhibit, the blacktip reef shark, is a smaller shark species that can grow to about six feet in length and bears distinctive black tips on its pectoral, dorsal, pelvic and caudal fins. Blacktip reef sharks are found in the shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific, hanging around reefs to feed. These sharks are sleek, attractive, fast-moving and hunt cooperatively in groups. "Blacktip Reef will show our guests that sharks not only play a key role in reef ecosystems, but are a thing of beauty that are very important to ocean health," said Cover. Guests will also have the opportunity to engage with National Aquarium experts through daily interactive Blacktip Reef diver presentations and shark feedings. Informative computer touchscreens throughout the exhibit will provide photos, videos and further facts about the reef ecosystem. At the end of their Blacktip Reef visit, guests can share their experience on a new interactive wall by uploading photos and comments, and by making personal commitments to ocean health. Before renovations begin in September, guests are invited to visit the Wings in the Water exhibit to say farewell to the barracuda and cownose, southern and roughtail rays that will be traveling to their new homes at the Georgia Aquarium, Tennessee Aquarium and Ripley's Aquarium. Guests will still be able to enjoy the bonnethead sharks, hogfish and tarpon in the National Aquarium's Atlantic Coral Reef exhibit, where they will be relocated. Categories: Exhibits


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A new Google patent aims to help those of us struggling to tell a smartphone's top from its bottom.
The patent outlines a smartphone with both a microphone and speaker at each end, allowing someone to hold the device upside down and still be able to talk normally.
Gyroscope or accelerometer sensors inside the device would detect the phone's orientation, allowing it to activate the correct speaker and microphone for how the handset is held at any given time.
For those who like to lounge and talk, the patent doesn't discuss how a device would cope with someone holding their smartphone sideways while lying down.
Talking upside down an underserved need
Smartphones generally have a symmetrical design so perhaps this is a frequent mistake when answering the phone - frequent enough that Google felt the need to patent the idea.
Google is generally known more for its software than hardware, so the likelihood of seeing this patent come to fruition is questionable.
If nothing else, it's an interesting idea for handset makers to implement, even if the convenience doesn't justify the cost of additional parts.


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Xbox 360 and PC role-playing game Fable III, not one to shy away from the sexier side of humanity, contains prostitutes. Here are some of them. Warning: coin purses ahead.
This image comes from an upcoming Fable III artbook, which is mostly full of beautiful images of uniforms, posters, characters and environments. Then you get to these two pages and it's...well, it's fantastic.
The full image is below. And yes, before you ask, it's wallpaper-sized.
That's quite a tease from Lionhead senior artist Ian Faichnie, too, considering the ones they were allowed to make.


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Rapper Flavor Flav was arrested earlier today after he was pulled over for speeding in a Hyundai. It was found that he had 16 suspensions on his license (is that a thing?) and he had a small amount of marijuana in the car.
Flavor Flav was pulled over after going 79 on the Meadowbrook Parkway in Hempstead where the license and drug issues were found. He was taken in and charged with was charged with a felony, aggravated unlicensed operation, and traffic violations. Apparently more than 10 suspensions makes the unlicensed operation a felony, but how a license is suspended more than once is beyond us.
He was released so that he could attend his mother's funeral, which was later on in the day. His mother passed away on December 31st.


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SANTA CLARA — A man who crashed his car and died may have suffered a medical issue Thursday while he was driving northbound on Interstate 280, the California Highway Patrol said.
Around 4:39 p.m., CHP officers responded to reports of a solo vehicle crash near the Lawrence Expressway offramp. When they arrived, they found a man inside a white truck, unconscious and unresponsive.
He was declared dead at the scene, according to the CHP, and his identity has not been released.
CHP officers said the man was traveling in the number three lane, heading northbound, when he suddenly swerved into the left then swerved back across three lanes of traffic before brushing up against a sound wall.
His truck came to a rest along the shoulder, and no other cars were hit.
The truck driver was the only person in the car. The CHP said he may have suffered from a medical condition, but his cause of death would be determined by the Santa Clara County Coroner.
Traffic was slightly delayed while crews cleared the scene.
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Rick Perry promises to create at least 2.5 million new jobs in his campaign's first television advertisement as he seeks to refocus his struggling GOP presidential bid on his economic successes as Texas governor.
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Perry is using the 30-second spot, which is launching Wednesday in Iowa, to introduce himself anew as a serious threat to national poll leader Mitt Romney.
The ad reinforces Perry's strategy to claim the GOP field's economic mantle from Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who is making his decades as a private sector executive the centerpiece of his second bid for the Republican nomination.
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After rocketing to the top of national polls after entering the race in mid-August, Perry's national poll numbers tumbled in the past month after poor debate performances and despite posting a robust quarterly fundraising that saw him banking $15 million for the stretch run to the early states.
Perry must do well in Iowa if he is to pose a threat to Romney in early-voting states New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Perry is campaigning aggressively in Iowa, where Romney has kept a low profile but has recently stepped up his effort and spoken of winning in the state he finished a disappointing second four years ago.
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With 14 million unemployed in the United States, Perry's promise of 2.5 million new jobs would leave unemployment still high at 7.5 percent, but certainly better than the 9.1 percent it is today.
The nation has 6.6 million fewer jobs than it did when the recession began in 2007. Since the economy began adding jobs in March 2010, the nation has gained 2 million jobs.
The last time 2.5 million jobs were added was from February 2006 to December 2007, when the country gained nearly 2.6 million.
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When childbirth is not progressing in the pushing stage of labor, a health professional sometimes uses forceps or a kind of suction cup (vacuum extractor) to help deliver the baby. This is called an assisted delivery, or an operative vaginal delivery.
Forceps delivery
Forceps are a device that looks like a long pair of spoons or tongs. Forceps can be used to hurry delivery when the mother or baby is in distress during labor and the baby's head is far down in the birth canal.
Forceps are sometimes used when the baby is not turning to face the right way or isn't moving down the birth canal (vagina). This can be because the uterus is not contracting well enough to deliver the baby. Epidural anesthesia makes this problem more likely than does no medicine or an opioid medicine for pain. footnote 1
Before a forceps delivery, the vaginal area is usually numbed by injecting an anesthetic into the lower spine or vagina. Also, an incision in the area between the vagina and anus ( episiotomy ) is commonly made before a forceps delivery. Forceps are then gently pushed up on either side of the baby's head and used to turn and/or pull the baby out.
See pictures of forceps and vacuum extraction .
Vacuum extractor delivery
In some situations, doctors use a device called a vacuum extractor instead of forceps. The cup-shaped extractor applies a gentle suction to the top of the baby's head and holds the baby in place. The vacuum extractor prevents the baby's head from moving back up the birth canal between contractions and can be used to assist the mother while she is pushing during contractions.
After a vacuum extractor delivery, there may be some bruising or swelling on the baby's scalp.
Both vacuum and forceps delivery can cause tears. Forceps delivery is more likely than a vacuum delivery to damage your vagina, perineum , or rectum. footnote 1 But forceps are less likely to affect the baby-there may be some bruising or swelling on the baby's scalp (cephalohematoma) or face where the forceps or extraction cup was applied. But this usually goes away in the days after delivery. In very rare cases, a baby delivered with forceps or vacuum extraction has bleeding inside the skull (intracranial hemorrhage). footnote 1
Discuss the use of forceps and vacuum delivery with your doctor before your delivery. Some doctors have more experience with assisted delivery than others. If your doctor does not have a lot of assisted delivery experience or training, it is important that he or she be assisted by someone who does.
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I think my first instinct was correct…
I said that I thought Jumanah Imad Albahri was lying when she said she didn't support genocide. Looks like I was correct.
From Jawas, an update on the muslimah Hamas supporter who questioned David Horowitz:
Update on MSA UCSD Muslimah: Death To Israel and previous Muslim Students Association Member Tells David Horowitz She Supports Genocide Against Jews…
Meet Jumanah Imad Albahri who doesn't quite have Taqiyya (lying for the sake of Islam) down yet. Reading her blog doesn't jive with what I posted earlier, video of her speaking to Horowitz plus screenshot of her comment on "The Something Awful Forums" where she stated "Death to Israel". Which she is denying now.
More at Jawas — and apparently she's lurking there to see what's being said about her. They all do that – they just can't stay away. Must be something in their ego-maniacal narcissistic existence that makes them keep checking back in, multiple times a day, hoping that they are being mentioned. Either that or they are worried that their terrorist supporting activities are being revealed and they need to get their taqiyyah right.
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In Transit, is a new documentary project by Todd Drezner that addresses some basic questions one might think of while stuck inside a motor vehicle, in stopped traffic? Who are cities and streets designed for and why am I stuck in traffic?
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The 12th Annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational, hosted by ARIA Resort & Casino at Shadow Creek, returns to Las Vegas for the third consecutive year and will give fans the chance to witness some of the biggest names in all of sports over this four day spectacular.
While this takes place on the links, you certainly don't have to be a golf fan to enjoy this amazing weekend. This year some of the first-time attendees include: Olympic Champion Michael Phelps, Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Jonathan Ogden, comedian Rob Riggle, PGA Golfer Dustin Johnson, country star Jake Owen, actor James Denton, NFL Quarterback Josh Freeman and actor/comedians Kevin Nealon and Wayne Brady. The new participants will join MJCI standout veterans including host Michael Jordan, Marcus Allen, Anthony Anderson, Brian Baumgartner, Roger Clemens, Wayne Gretzky, Ken Griffey Jr., Penny Hardaway, Brett Hull, Toni Kukoc, Mario Lemieux, Greg Maddux, Tom Welling, Jesse Williams and Adrian Young as they swing for a cause. In its third year in Las Vegas, MJCI will gather dozens of celebrities for four days of star-studded events and golf at Shadow Creek and ARIA. Additional celebrity and athlete participants include defending champion Brandi Chastain, Jerome Bettis, Chris Chelios, Vince Coleman, Janet Jones-Gretzky, Dan Jansen, Win McMurry, Christina Milian*, Paul O'Neill, Stuart Scott, Ozzie Smith, Alan Thicke and Winky Wright.
The Celebrity-Amateur tournament, which pairs one celebrity with four amateur participants, will take place Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5. The MJCI two-person, 36-hole scramble format tournament, including only competing celebrities, will take place Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7. Proceeds from the charitable tournament will benefit Make-A-Wish, James R. Jordan Foundation, Opportunity Village and Cats Care, the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats' charity arm. Since its inception in 2001, MJCI has raised more than $6 million for charity.
The Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational just announced GRAMMY Award-winning artist John Legend will headline the annual invite-only party for the tournament's celebrities and VIP invited guests with a private performance at ARIA Resort & Casino. The event will also feature a performance by Blue Man Group as well as famed comedian and television personality Wayne Brady, who will emcee the evening's festivities.
Discounted tickets are available for military service members, senior citizens 65 years of age or older and college/university students with valid identification. Each group will receive 25 percent off daily or weekly general admission tickets. Additionally, the tournament offers a "Bring the Kids for Free" general admission ticket pass, providing access to Shadow Creek for youth 17 years of age and younger when accompanied by a general admission ticketed adult (up to two children per paid adult).
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