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Experts in the use and misuse of all the various Internet technologies, including browsers, servers, operating systems, as well as effective and usability-enhanced ways of communicating, advertising, marketing and distributing goods and information. Experts on Internet abuse of technology including spam email, Internet pornography, copyright infringement, identity theft and phishing. Internet experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in Texas legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in Texas.
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Expert ListingsChief Experience Officer, Inc.
Eric Gould Bear
Austin, TX
100+ patents and patent applications in software and hardware human interaction. 25+ years designing user interfaces and establishing user experience strategies for major corporations. Former university professor and Fortune 500 executive. Hands-on experience with litigation workflow throughout user interface patent infringement law suits.
Global Digital Forensics
Joseph Caruso
Oceanside, NY
Global Digital Forensics specializes in the Forensic Analysis of all types of digital assets and media (Computer Forensics) for corporate clients, law firms and government agencies.
Jessie Stricchiola
Alchemist Media, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Federal trial and deposition experience. O'Reilly Media author, co-author of The Art of SEO (2009, 2012, 2015). Expert witness in class actions involving Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and others. 19 years of internet marketing, SEO and web analytics expertise.
BrandMarketing Services, Ltd. (New York, Connecticut, Florida
Larry Chiagouris
Services Nationwide, NY
Rare combination of ADVERTISING and MARKETING expert who has substantial experience as BOTH a SENIOR EXECUTIVE and ACCOMPLISHED Ph.D ACADEMICIAN. Called guru and expert by the media. Substantial trial/deposition experience at federal level. Former Chairman of Advertising Research Foundation and member of AMA board of directors. Fast turnaround.
Telecommnet Consulting
Tal Lavian Ph.D.
Sunnyvale, CA
A scientist, technologist, and lecturer with 30 years of experience in mobile devices, smartphones, wireless LAN (WLAN), routing, LAN/WAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, IP, VoIP and web. Extensive testifying experience in Federal, IPR, and ITC. Invented over 120 patents, prosecuted pro se over 60 patents in front of the USPTO.
Dr. Lavian offers litigation support and expert witness services in the areas of network communications, telecommunications, mobile wireless, and Internet software technologies.
Provides expert witness services in the following areas:
Network communications, telecommunications, Internet protocols, and mobile wireless:
-Communication networks: Internet protocols; TCP/IP suite, TCP, UDP, IP, Ethernet, 802.3, network protocols, network software applications, data link, network, and transport layers (L2, L3, L4), packet switching, data center network architecture
-Mobile wireless: Wi-Fi, 802.11 (a/b/g/n/ac), MAC, PHY, OFDM, DSSS, Wireless LAN (WLAN), CDMA, FDMA, TDMA, SMS, instant messaging (chat), mobile devices, smartphone
-Internet/cloud: Web applications, HTTP, e-mail, SMTP, POP, IMAP, Java, C/C++, file transfer FTP, client-server, cloud computing, distributed computing
-Routing/switching: LAN, WAN, VPN, routing protocols, RIP, BGP, MPLS, OSPF, multicast, DNS, QoS, network infrastructure, network communication architectures
-Unified Communications: PSTN, circuit switching, IP telephony, VoIP, SIP, RTP, SS7, carrier Ethernet, SONET, SDH, WDM, TDM, video/audio conferencing, streaming media
Sidespin Group
Istvan Jonyer
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Istvan Jonyer MBA is a scientist, academic, engineer, educator, investor, and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of research, development, and management experience. He served as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at OSU, was a software engineer at Nortel Networks, and headed up partnerships for Google TV at Google. Holds a PhD in machine learning.
Litigation Specialist for losses due to online Defamation
Richart Ruddie
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Richart is an online Defamation and internet defamation expert. Working on in depth cases where I have the proper knowledge to showcase how a client has been damaged from material postings on the internet and the fees associated with cleaning up and removing unwanted libelous content that has been posted for the internet at large to review.
Peter Kent Consulting, LLC
Peter Kent
Denver, CO
Author of Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing for Dummies, and more. Real-world E-Commerce experience in SEO, PPC, Email Publishing, Online PR, etc. Online since 1984.
Software Analysis Group
Steven Kursh, Ph.D., CSDP, CLP
Boston, MA
Steven R. Kursh, Ph.D., CSDP, CLP is a seasoned management consultant and expert witness. He has extensive technical and management experience in the computer software industry. He has and retail. He has been admitted by the Courts in numerous IP and contract dispute matters. His clients include Adobe Bank of America Samsung HP and Honeywell.


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(Pocket-lint) - A 1080p webcam sounds a little ridiculous doesn't it. But of course, webcams aren't just for video calls, they're for recording your thoughts to YouTube, presenting a video podcast or lip-syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen. They are, in fact, cheap camcorders that have admittedly restricted mobility, but even so offer lots of promise.
The LifeCam Studio is one of few on the market claiming to offer 1080p video. And while we take its performance abilities with a large pinch of salt, it's still impressive to see electronics cut down to this size.
Unlike most webcams, the LifeCam looks more like an action camera, designed to be bolted on to your helmet as you fly down the piste. It's a metallic tube with an LED light, single button and microphone built in to the top.
It is mounted on a rubber foot that is designed to work in conjunction with any monitor, or nearby surface and it bends and flexes in several directions to make sure you can give it a stable footing before you make your first video call online. There's also a mount on the bottom that would allow it to be fixed to a tripod. Obviously, a full size three-legged support is unlikely to be a fixture of your home office, but you might use it with a GorillaPod or similar to get some interesting desk angles.
The camera connects, as all webcams do, via a USB 2 cable. This is a decent enough length, but it's not overgenerous. Obviously, there's a fine line between having a cable that's long enough for desktop users, but short enough to be practical to laptopers too. But we can't see many users giving up on their built-in webcam for this, even if it does offer a massive jump in resolution.
Skype HD
It has to be said that Microsoft webcams are, in our experience, the best to use with Skype. Now, given Microsoft owns Skype, that might sound like a given, but it was true long before the MS buyout of Skype.
What that means, is that when we call people using this, or any other HD Microsoft webcam, we usually get HD - widescreen video - quite quickly. To explain further, you need to be slightly familiar with Skype and the weird things it does, but essentially, when you have an HD capable webcam, Skype may sometimes refuse to send HD video. This can be because of a lack of bandwidth, but we've made calls to the same people, on the same day, and had other manufacturers' webcams fail to make the HD call, while Microsoft's does with no problem.
In our test calls, we found that the quality of Skype calls was pretty good from this camera. Indeed, by far the best we've used so far. If Skype is your game, then the LifeCam Studio is probably a great choice of camera for you.
Some significant problems
There are a couple of things that we HATE about Microsoft webcams. And annoyingly, these things have been true for all the cameras we've tried from the firm.
First, you have to plug it into a USB port on your computer, rather than an extension. Cable extenders may be fine, but we found the hub built into our Samsung monitor would work fine for SD video, but when Skype switch to HD there would be picture break-up all over the place. Switching to a USB port directly attached to the computer solved this problem easily though.
The other problem we find even more unforgivable, and it's the autofocus. It quite simply does not work. In our normally lit room, the camera would hunt constantly for a focus lock. Even if the subject of the video - us, in this case - didn't move at all, the camera would still keep looking around for us. This makes using the auto focus entirely impractical.
There is a way around this problem though, and that's to turn off the autofocus. Should you have to do this? No. Does the camera have enough going for it elsewhere to make it worth considering? We think it does.
Picture and sound quality
The sound from the top-mounted microphone is actually very good, and you will certainly have no problems being understood when using it.
The image is very, very good for the most part. When in normal 4:3 mode, it's a little unimpressive, but when you get an app that supports HD and 16:9, the whole thing jumps up and becomes a whole new experience. The field of view is wide, and that gives you a much less cramped and claustrophobic feel in video.
There's plenty of detail too, and even in lower lighting conditions there's a decent amount of image quality to make out what's going on. It's not noise-free, but it's better than a lot of cameras we've seen. The auto-exposure is very good too, making up for the shonkyness of the auto-focus.
Colours seem very natural too, which is a good thing, and the camera seems to do a good job with its TrueColor (sic) system. This seems to get you a natural, well-balanced image no matter what light you're sitting under. It was even able to cope with our eclectic mix of monitor glow, LED overhead light and standard bulbs.
If you're in the mood for fun, install the optional LifeCam software, and you can overlay cartoon animations and special effects onto your video chat. It is incredibly pointless, and the overlays are beyond absurd, but nothing cheers up a serious online video conference like you suddenly sprouting a set of bunny ears.
It is a little expensive - although for a 1080p webcam, the street price of £50 really isn't bad - and we are very cross about the auto-focus, but as a webcam the quality is unassailable, and it's a nicely designed camera which plays well with every video chat app we used it with.
So if you can live without reliable auto-focus, then this camera will offer you better video quality than anything else on the market. And that's what it's all about, really.

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The Ohio School for the Deaf thrives on its rich history and the belief that every student will achieve every day. The spirit and liveliness are infectious as staff greet children each day, from youngsters enrolled in the Alice Cogswell Center and the Early Learning Center preschool to the post-high school students who have elected to participate in the 4Plus transition program. The children and teachers in every classroom, laboratory and common space are ready, willing and waiting to learn.


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Stevie Wonder is going neutral.
The music legend has canceled a concert he had scheduled for next week to benefit Friends of the Israel Defense Forces at the suggestion of the United Nations, for which he serves as an official Messenger of Peace--and which just made the controversial decision to upgrade Palestine's status within the international body to nonmember observer.
"Given the current and very delicate situation in the Middle East, and with a heart that has always cried out for world unity, I will not be performing at the FIDF Gala on December 6th," Wonder said in a statement obtained Friday by E! News.
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Kim Kardashian gets caught up in Israeli-Palestinian controversy
"I am respectfully withdrawing my participation from this year's event to avoid the appearance of partiality," he said. "As a Messenger of Peace, I am and have always been against war, any war, any where. In consistently keeping with my spirit of giving, I will make a personal contribution to organizations that support Israeli and Palestinian children with disabilities.
"Hoping for one world, one people, one day, Stevie Wonder."
Wonder performed and spoke at last month's star-studded concert marking the 67th anniversary of the United Nations along with Sting, Janelle Monae, Estelle and others.


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David Patient
David Patient has a law degree from the University College London, and an MBA and PhD from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. David's research, which focuses on effective managerial communication and employee motivation, has been published in top academic journals, including Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.
At CATÓLICA-LISBON, David is Senior Associate Dean for Research, Director of CUBE - Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics, Academic Director of the Master in Psychology in Business and Economics, and Academic Director of the Executive Master in Management with a specialization in Leadership Development. He teaches courses in communication, organizational behavior, and human resources management in the MSc in Management, Master in Law and Business, The Lisbon MBA, Executive Master in Management, and CMU-Portugal PhD program. He also coordinates (with João Matos) two open enrolment executive education programs: "Three Pillars of Professional and Personal Success: Communicating, Persuading And Negotiating" and "Managing Difficult Conversations in Business", and teaches in numerous in-house and open executive programs.
Prior to joining CATÓLICA-LISBON in 2006, David was a Lecturer in Business Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. David has also worked as an independent provider of corporate writing and editing services to a variety of organizations, and as a marketing representative for IBM Canada.


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Diabetes guideline receives national recognition
The AOA's first evidence-based clinical practice guideline has reached a national platform, now posted to a professionally recognized clearinghouse for health care guidelines.
"The rigorous process of developing this guideline has now met the high standards of the National Guideline Clearinghouse, which is truly a sentinel event."
Eye Care of the Patient with Diabetes Mellitus, the milestone guideline released in February 2014 from the AOA Evidence-Based Optometry (EBO) Committee, was recently posted to the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC).
A database of clinical guidelines, the NGC is maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Guidelines must meet stringent standards to be accepted, and must provide evidence-based recommendations or action plans for patient care.
Posting to the clearinghouse means the diabetes guideline is publicly available for other health care professionals, institutions and agencies to reference with knowledge that it has met NGC standards, says Diane Adamczyk, O.D., AOA EBO Committee chair.
"The rigorous process of developing this guideline has now met the high standards of the National Guideline Clearinghouse, which is truly a sentinel event," Dr. Adamczyk says.
What the diabetes guideline offers
Revised standards from the Institute of Medicine in 2011 called for new clinical guidelines to adhere to a stringent evidence-based approach to development. In context of the diabetes guideline, this included a cross-disciplinary review from top optometric experts and specialists, and hundreds of scientific papers and studies over the course of two and a half years.
The end result is a comprehensive, 83-page resource for an ever-increasing patient population—nearly one-third of U.S. adults are estimated to have diabetes by 2050—to bolster the other diabetes resources available to AOA members.
In addition to a clinical breakdown of diabetes mellitus, prevention and diagnostic criteria, the guideline also assists doctors in achieving prescribed objectives in diabetes-related care, including:
- Identifying diabetes' tell-tale markers, and reducing the risk of vision loss through timely diagnosis, intervention and action;
- Improving the quality of care for people with diabetes;
- Educating patients and care providers regarding ocular complications of diabetes, and the benefits of vision rehabilitation; and,
- Suggesting vision rehabilitation services or referral of people with vision loss from diabetes.
Doctors also can use the diabetes quick-reference guide, a summary version of the guideline in a condensed, nine-page format for easy access. Read more about how optometrists are on the front lines of diabetes care.


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"Suppose It To Be"
Suppose it to be or not to be the end; so, too,
There may or may not be a beginning. If so,
Too, there is yet another in that hue
And shades of everything in between the two.
Suppose these to be the same but from another view
Of what and whom all things take shape; the new
And boastful old, it's true, but recreated in the nuance
Either of the seers each or what is seen in flocks. True
Enough, the hour arrives for consternation in Déscartes
To overcome volitions of the vocative
To overwhelm his definition of the infinitive
And halt all processes long enough for the definitive
To take seat there between the sciences and arts
And remnants of antiquities blessed within the interrogative.


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It was brought to my attention that yesterday Chris Brown being the total piece of artistic shit he is, decided to attack Jenny Johnson after she pointed out what a disgusting human he is. Brown retaliated by posting misogynistic hate filled messages that would later escalate to him deleting his account. Jenny stated that she is utterly disgusted that this cretin has not shown remorse for what he did, as proven by his violent misogynist twitter posts, which brings us to the question "Why is it wrong to criticize a violent woman beater like Brown? Why does society constantly shield violent people like him?"
Brown fans have been harassing and bullying Jenny, and sending alarming death threats because she called out Browns disgusting violent behavior, want to hear the best part? 90% of these death threats were initiated by his FEMALE fans. This is not completely shocking to me because some women tend to be more emotional when it comes to their MALE idols(One Direction, Justin Bieber), this is nauseating and warrants the fact that these women are willing to forgive Chris because he looks good(debatable) and sings and dances. I wanted to look more into this subject as to why its okay for assholes who sing and dance to beat women and get away with it, I think its unfair that I only focus on Chris Brown because plenty of violent abusive singers before him have done it., but let me empathize on the fact that Chris Brown is a POPULAR artist. He gets criticized because he is the shining example of how and why all the previous assholes got away with violent misogynistic behavior because society shielded those poor helpless men from criticism.
Chris Brown has shown absolutely no remorse for his previous actions, he continues to become more abusive and misogynist because he was NEVER punished for beating Rihanna. This fact alone probably turned him into an entitled piece of crap who believes and will continue to believe that he is ABOVE the law and no repercussions can happen from his violent outbursts. The fact that he continues to not be able to control his anger(chairs flying at windows, twitter outburst) proves that no one around him is willing to tell him that he has serious anger issues, and he needs serious extensive therapy to ensure that no one gets hurt in the future by his unthinkable actions.
In my opinion Chris Brown will never changes because:
1) He never got punished properly for beating Rihanna
2) He continues to surround himself with enablers who most likely share his same violent traits
3) Rihanna has forgiven him and they are back together(once again proving that Chris can act like shit and there will be no consequences)
4) His fans defend his behavior and show the same abusive behavior to people who dare criticize this woman beater.
5) The music industry continues to shower him with awards and acknowledgments because he sells albums.
6) He refuses to acknowledge that he has anger issues and seems to suffer from the MARTYR complex syndrome.
The list of people who got victimized and bullied by Brown and his fans for speaking against him
1)Jenny Johnson
2)Chrissy Teigen
3)Miranda Lambert
4)Andy Levy
5)Raz B
(Chris Brown publicly humiliated Raz B by mocking his sexual abuse incident)
(Source: Written by Snapple)
Note:Mods please accept this, it is relevant to celeb news because just yesterday the violent asshole attacked a woman with misogynist tweets and then proceeded to delete it after he got owned. I spent so much time and effort writing this. I apologize for forgetting the LJ cut, fixed it.


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ITHACA, NY – Ithaca College Theatre will conclude the fall semester with David Ives' "Mere Mortals." Performances will run in the Clark Theatre in Dillingham Center on Dec. 3, 5, 6 and 7 at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinee performances on Dec. 7 and 8.
Ticket prices for "Mere Mortals" range from $5.50 to $11 and are on sale at the Dillingham Center box office, open noon-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling (607) 274-3224.
Ives, a Yale School of Drama graduate and former Guggenheim Fellow, has had works both on and off-Broadway. Like Ives' previous plays "All in the Timing and Venus in Fur," the plot's main mover is language. When director Greg Bostwick was asked why he chose this work, he stated, "There is something for everyone in 'Mere Mortals' as the characters pursue their dreams of an existence that transcends the banality of everyday living." Whether watching mayflies engage on a first date or three constructions workers reveal their hidden (famous) identities, "Mere Mortals" takes the audience into a world that is larger than their own.
The "Mere Mortals" production team includes scenic designer Samantha Adamson '15, lighting designer Steve TenEyck, costume designer Rhiannon Randall '15 and sound designer Ezra Chamberlain '15. Travis Coxson '15 is the stage manager and Alexander Pitt '14 is the technical director. The assistant director is Eliot Cohen '14.
The cast of "Mere Mortals" includes Malika Cherifi '17, Devon Cox '15, Jordan Friend '16, Briana Ford '16, Coleman Hemsath '15, Stephen Humes '14, Matthew Madden '15, Joseph Pietropaolo '14, Matt Ryan '16, Alanna Smith '14, Emily Viancourt '14 and Cameron Wenrich '17.
A nationally recognized professional theatre-training program, the Department of Theatre Arts attracts students from across the globe. Throughout the school year, undergraduate students present all aspects of theatre in a professional model. Visit www.ithaca.edu/ theatre/mainstage/ for further information.
Follow Ithaca College Theatre on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ICTheatreArts and Twitter: @ICTheatreArts.
Dillingham Center accommodates all patrons. Individuals with special needs are asked to contact (607) 274-3224 to request accommodations as soon as possible.


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In browsing another security site I came across mention of another program and went to see what it does. While there I found a nice little tool that enumerates _everything_ that starts up when your computer starts, including scripts that are run through Win2k domain policies. I was rather impressed with the output, it's small size and text file output, (it all goes easily onto a floppy so no changes to the system are made.
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Springfield, IL (April 17, 2014) – Forbes Magazine has named Horace Mann Educators one of America's 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies in 2014 after naming them to the Forbes Top 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in 2013.
"Trustworthy is a term that resonates with Horace Mann, and that clearly describes the way we run this company," says Marita Zuraitis, Horace Mann's President and CEO. "At Horace Mann, we know the importance of doing the right thing. Whether presenting information for our shareholders, supporting our agents and employees or being there for our policyholders when they need us, we strive to always deserve their trust. And we never take it for granted."
The Top 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies was established as a result of financial services companies beginning to dominate the Top 100 Trustworthy list. Like the Top 100 list, the Top 50 Financial Company list is divided by market capitalization. Horace Mann moved from the small cap to the mid cap category for 2014 and continues to rank well among peer companies.
Horace Mann was named to this newly established Forbes list based on findings by GMI Rankings, a company that assessed the company's performance credibility based on a system designed to identify practices that have historically had a high correlation with increasing shareholder risk. In creating its ranking, GMI assigned a risk score for accounting and governance. Horace Mann received an AGR score in the last four quarters of 85, and it has a 92 for the current quarter.
To see the complete article, go to the Forbes website.
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Putting Greens: Speed Kills
Putting-greens management is the key to being a successful golf course superintendent. The putting greens are your business card and resume. But focusing on greens speed alone can kill your greens and your job. Instead, follow this step-by-step procedure for developing a comprehensive greens management program that will result in great putting greens without scalping them to death.
Speed and stimpmeter readings have no place in greens performance discussions. The stimpmeter was never meant to be, nor should it be used as, a speedometer to compare greens performance at different golf courses. Great greens are firm, smooth and consistent, and should be your primary objective.
Assess each of your greens for grass type, rooting depth, overall health and golfer perceptions. This process should include a visual assessment of the soil profiles of each green to compare construction, organic-matter layering and depth, rooting depth and putting-surface consistency. Research over several decades has shown that the best-performing greens need a minimum 12-inch depth of sand consisting of appropriate textural size ranges for adequate porosity to meet the turfgrass root-gas exchange and water requirements. These textural-size construction recommendations are designed to minimize rootzone compaction tendencies over time. The USGA putting-green construction recommendations provide guidelines based on physical parameters that have consistently produced good putting green performance. Using the USGA Green Section Turf Advisory consultative services is an excellent way to get a report card of your greens' condition. For maximum results, couple an onsite consultative visit with lab reports of your greens from one of the many labs throughout the United States. These labs specialize in providing a physical assessment of your putting green rootzone material.
Talk with the golfers, including your PGA Professionals, who regularly play your golf course. These discussions provide a good resource for learning how your greens are performing, how they performed in the past, how golfers would like them to perform in the future, which greens perform better than others and what the golfers use to gauge greens performance. The key to the success of these discussions is to develop a two-way communication between your customer golfers and the superintendent hired to meet their golfing play expectations.
When golfers see the outstanding playing quality of a major tournament on television, they wonder why their course doesn't play like that. A good analogy for comparing tournament golf to regular golf conditions comes from football. Few would expect an injured football player to continue playing a regular season game, especially if doing so might mean permanent player disability. But if the game is for a championship game like the Super Bowl, the player may choose to get the injury taped up, have a special pain-killer injection and get back in the game. Like the injured player, your golf course can only sustain tournament-like conditions during special occasions. Tournament golf-playing conditions are for exceptional circumstances only and should not occur more than two to three times per year. Putting your golf course into severe tournament stress makes it much more susceptible to turf death from any additional stresses that the turfgrass would otherwise easily tolerate. Golf course members who expect tournament-like conditions year round are dooming their golf course to massive and repeated turf death.
Once you have gathered and analyzed information about your golf course and identified expectations for your greens, you are ready to develop a maintenance program for them. Greens benefit from two distinct maintenance programs that are tailored to the specific needs and conditions of your golf course. The regular maintenance program outlines the primary maintenance procedures that you'll use during most of the year. The tournament maintenance program is one you'll use only for those exceptional circumstances, a maximum of one to three times each year, when golfers expect tournament conditions. For an effective management program, take into account these factors: putting green construction and age; grass species and variety; climate and time of year (soil and air temperature, precipitation amount, growing season, etc.); mowing height; mowing frequency; core aeration diameter, depth and frequency; sand topdressing rate and frequency; vertical mowing depth and frequency; rolling frequency; fertility level and grass succulence; and irrigation practices and root depth. Integrating these factors into a customized maintenance program is another good use of the USGA Turf Advisory Service. Your maintenance program goal should be to get the most from your greens for the best overall performance. Use these guidelines to focus your management program for producing outstanding greens.
- Mow properly
You should routinely mow each turfgrass at its physiological optimum, taking into consideration its variety, local climatic factors and expected playing quality. Only under tournament conditions should you mow below this optimum level. For example, creeping bentgrass putting greens mowed at ⅛ inch showed a 40 percent reduction in photosynthates compared to greens mowed at
inch. The grass mowed lower was significantly less vigorous and not as healthy. Monitoring your turf density is a good way to assess optimum mowing height. Poor turf density is many times the result of excessively low mowing height. 5 / 32
- Roll regularly
Rolling will improve putting surface smoothness and firmness. The turf is much healthier when mowed higher and rolled compared to being mowed lower. Research shows that frequent rolling (even five times per week), will not cause compaction or other turf health problems. Rolling is a great way to get fast, smooth greens and still maintain healthy turfgrass.
- Cultivate frequently
Putting greens produce the highest quality putting surface when you cultivate them frequently. The best quality putting surfaces develop on greens where you core aerify or deeply vertical mow at least 20 percent of the putting surface area each year. Vertical mowing and sand topdressing in conjunction with core aeration produce the best quality putting surfaces, resulting in firm, smooth, well-drained and fast putting surfaces. Golf courses throughout the Southwest with high standards may core aerify, vertical mow, and topdress weekly during optimal growth periods. Putting greens with adequate routine cultivation maintenance have an unlimited life expectancy.
- Apply turf growth regulators
Applications of turf growth regulators are the new magic bullet for high-quality putting greens maintenance. Turf growth regulators that are safe for your putting surface turf species will increase putting surface density and smoothness while also eliminating Poa annua seeding.
- Water properly
Reduce putting surface irrigation by implementing deep, infrequent irrigation supplemented by handwatering of hot spots. Ensure green surrounds are watered separately from putting surfaces. These procedures conserve water, increase surface firmness, reduce plant succulence and improve turf health.
- Fertilize properly
You should apply fertilizer only to meet the metabolic plant requirements. Excess nitrogen, for example, causes increased plant succulence, decreased drought and wear tolerance, and increased disease incidence and severity. The best putting green fertility programs apply required nutrients as foliar applied fertilizer at low rates to match the growing needs of the plant.
This is the final step of your greens management program. A successful maintenance manual will integrate the maintenance procedures, budget and schedules concerning golfers and golf course event and play. The document will provide a good reference for everyone and synchronize efforts for putting green performance success. It also will serve as a guide to direct you concerning what changes are needed when targets are not being satisfactorily met. Maintenance manuals also serve as great tools for developing realistic expectations, budgets, schedules and procedures to achieve these goals. The combination of good agronomics and effective communications will allow both your putting greens and your golfers to be champions.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) � America might not know what to make of a celebrity chef as comfortable quoting philosophers as corralling reality cooking show contestants.
And Nigella Lawson is completely at ease with that.
"Today, it's all about marketing and people want to know where to place you," Lawson said during an interview Saturday at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. "And I suppose I just don't care about that."
Lawson has carved a long culinary career by rejecting stereotypes and speaking her mind.
Most recently, she garnered attention for telling the producers of her latest television venture "The Taste" that they could not retouch images of her to reduce her belly.
It's not about vanity. It's about voice. And she wants hers heard � or in the case of her curves, seen � without layers of producers and editors and retouchers reinterpreting her message to viewers and readers.
"I don't need that to be mediated by any other person," she said. "To have your voice tampered with is a terrible thing. It has to be a genuine conversation with the reader."
That's why when Lawson writes cookbooks � including her just released ode to Italian cooking, "Nigellissima" � she sends them to the designer long before they go to her publisher. It's a way to preserve her vision for the book rather than have an editor decide how it should look.
It's also why she's comfortable dropping the names of British philosophers � in this case Bertrand Russell � in the introduction of her new book, the sort of highfalutin chatter that would end up chopped by most cookbook editors.
As for "The Taste" � which Lawson shoots with fellow culinary free spirit Anthony Bourdain � she has ideas for changing it up a bit if there is a second season, including more cooking and eating by the teams who compete on the show.
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Happy October 1st – and Why I Started Words of Encouragement
Happy October 1st!
Welcome to Words of Encouragement!
Happy October 1st to all! I have once again joined the Ultimate Blog Challenge (UBC) this month, so for my first post, I thought I would re-introduce the back story and purpose of this blog (can also be found on my About page). I thought this would also be a good idea because I've recently joined several new blog groups on Facebook.
I decided to revise this blog, which was originally my very first blog several years ago, and dedicate it to my beloved Dad, Ben Willis, who lost his battle with lymphoma on Sept. 2, 2002 (over 15 years ago – doesn't seem possible!) He was a giant of a man, loved by all who knew him, and one of his greatest strengths was his ability to encourage people. At his packed memorial service–standing room only–his gift of encouragement was the most often repeated tribute to his life.
That, therefore, is the goal of this blog – to encourage others through stories, verses, thoughts, and other bits of inspiration.
The header, created by my wonderful friend Becky Willis (no relation to my Dad's side of the family) of What You Talking 'Bout, Willis and Infurmation Taleway, is symbolic of several things.
First, the brick background represents the fireplace that stood at what used to be the family homestead in Gilford, New Hampshire. It was the site of many family occasions as we gathered in front of that fireplace in the livingroom.
Second, the photos in the header all represent special moments in his life and our lives with him:
*The blue chair – This is identical to "his" chair in the livingroom at that childhood home in New Hampshire; the chair from which he shared many of his words of wisdom and encouragement.
*Dad's photo – On the left, this was from happier, healthier times, during one of the many camping trips he and Mom enjoyed (taken from the photo below).
*Our photo – In the center, this is my Dad and me; I edited this photo from a much larger family photo from about 20+ years ago, to create a new one specifically for this blog.
*The rowboat silhouette – On the right, this picture was from another camping trip; this one has my Dad and my oldest daughter Shara in it, fishing at dusk.
This blog is my attempt, in some small way, to honor my Dad's memory and carry on his legacy of encouragement and inspiration, to help others as he helped all of us in his family, extended family, church family, and so many others during his lifetime. This is for you, Dad – I love you and miss you.
*NOTE* I also wrote my first book in his honor in 2012 for Father's Day, entitled Fatherly Reflections. It is available as an ebook and printed book at Amazon.
My daughter Shara's own reflections on the moment captured in this image of the rowboat with her and her Grampy, the same one as in the header, bring me to tears every time I read it:
"Grampy and I sat there for a good two hours, with our lines cast, anticipating the first nibble of some unsuspecting fish.
We didn't talk; we didn't have to.
The thoughts in our minds were too great, yet too simple for words.
This was our special place, a place where we didn't have to talk to communicate, where people weren't bothering us, where we could just sit and bask in the simplicity of it all."
And that is the overall tone I am striving for in this blog, created in my Dad's honor–for it to be a special place, where you dear readers can "just sit and bask in the simplicity of it all" and be encouraged and blessed.
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A new red band spot for the Todd Phillips-produced party comedy Project X has gone online. The previous trailers have been entertaining enough, but this red band spot really brings out the "Rated R" aspect of the film. The movie looks to be sufficiently filthy, and this trailer highlights the first jokes from the film that I've found more than marginally funny. If the rest of the movie is like this trailer (which I assume it is), then I can definitely understand how most of the films jokes aren't exactly age-appropriate. I'm still not on board with the whole "dwarf punching people in the balls" bit, but I think Project X takes an interesting approach to the comedy genre and Steve said he laughed his ass off, so I'm looking forward to checking it out.
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Project X follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let's throw a party that no one will forget… but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born. "Project X" is a warning to parents and police everywhere.


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SANFORD - Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman spotted an innocent teenager and assumed he was about to commit a crime so he followed him, murdered him then made up a series of lies hoping to avoid arrest, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday.
"He brought a gun to a struggle that he had started," Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda told jurors during closing argument, "and now he wants you to let him off because he killed the only eye-witness."
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations Friday afternoon in the most-watched trial in the country. There could be a verdict by nightfall Friday.
The panel of six women — five of them white — must decide whether Zimmerman committed second-degree murder, manslaughter or acted in self-defense when he killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford on Feb. 26, 2012.
When court resumes at 8:30 a.m., defense attorney Mark O'Mara is expected to give a three-hour closing argument, his last chance to save Zimmerman from a long prison term.
If convicted of second-degree murder Zimmerman faces up to life in prison. If found guilty of manslaughter he could be sentenced to up to 30 years.
In recent weeks O'Mara has predicted an acquittal.
The jury has listened to three weeks of testimony from nearly 60 witnesses and watched as attorneys presented 250 evidence exhibits. They have lived together in a hotel, sequestered from their families, friends, jobs and media reports since testimony began June 24.
De la Rionda gave an unconventional closing argument. He did not tell jurors what happened in the seconds just before the shooting. He conceded he did not know.
Instead he offered possibilities: that Zimmerman had his 9mm handgun in his hand as he walked through the neighborhood, trying to find Trayvon or that the defendant had pulled Trayvon toward him by the drawstring of the teen's hoodie just before shooting him.
De la Rionda accused Zimmerman of profiling Trayvon but said almost nothing about race, the issue that sent protesters into the streets last year and brought the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to Sanford for marches and rallies.
Zimmerman "profiled him as a criminal. He assumed certain things, that Trayvon Martin was up to no good, and that is what led up to his death," de la Rionda said.
The prosecutor did, however, make a reference to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., when he projected a PowerPoint slide onto the wall as he defended the testimony of the state's most important witness — Rachel Jeantel, who was on the phone with Trayvon seconds before the shooting.
Jeantel created a sensation when she testified, not because of her account but because she used slang, was defiant at times and spoke so softly and fast she was difficult to understand.
A witness should be judged, said de la Rionda's slide, "not on the color of her personality but on the content of her testimony."
On Thursday morning, Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled that jurors would be able to consider manslaughter as a possible verdict.
But moments later defense attorney Don West went ballistic after the state asked the judge to allow another possibility: third-degree murder based on the theory that Zimmerman had committed a felony - child abuse - against Trayvon.
He was ambushed, he said, because prosecutors had made no mention of the child abuse allegation until Thursday.
"It's outrageous that the state would do that at this stage of this trial. ... Judge, this was a trick."
After lunch, the judge said there was no evidence to support child abuse and ruled for the defense.
Zimmerman says he shot the unarmed, black Miami Gardens teen in self-defense after Trayvon punched him, knocking him to the ground, then climbed on top and began hammering his head against a sidewalk.
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Among the films available for your home viewing pleasure this week are Oscar nominees for Best Animated Film and Best Actress, and the winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. And then there are two legitimately good films, as well.
Young Adult
Charlize Theron stars as a successful writer who goes back to her hometown in hopes of winning back her high school boyfriend, his wife and child be damned. From screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman, the team behind "Juno." Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
The Descendants
George Clooney stars in Alexander Payne's film about a man struggling with what to do with his family fortune, when he learns his comatose wife had been having an affair. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
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My Week with Marilyn
Michelle Williams stars as Marilyn Monroe in this film about a brief dalliance the sex symbol had with a young assistant, played by Eddie Redmayne, while she was in London shooting "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Sir Laurence Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
The Adventures of Tintin
Director Steven Spielberg brings the beloved Belgian comic to life in this animated thriller that tells how Tintin and Capt. Haddock became friends while trying to recover a treasure lost years ago by the seaman's ancestor. Stars the voices of Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
Happy Feet Two
Mumbles is all grown up with a son of his own, Erik, who doesn't share his father's love of dance and falls under the spell of a "penguin" that can fly, but they must put aside their differences to save the rest of the flock from famine. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
12th and Delaware
An award-winning documentary that looks at the ongoing battle over abortion in American through the lens of an intersection in Fort Pierce, Florida, where folks from both sides of the debate line up every day. Watch the trailer
The Three Musketeers
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Eric Bana is headed for the big screen as American icon Elvis Presley.
According to Variety, the Australian actor will play the music great opposite actor Danny Huston, who is in final negotiations to play the late President Richard Nixon in "Elvis & Nixon."
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Researchers suggest that DNA of organisms exposed to stress undergo changes in DNA methylation patterns that alter how genes are regulated.
Technically, scientists found that exposure to a pathogenic bacteria caused widespread changes in a plant's epigenetic code.
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The research findings, published in Science magazine's August issue, may hold the key to manipulating plants ethylene on/off switch, allowing them to balance between drought resistance and growth. The results might deter crop losses and aid in a plant's ability to bear fruit.
The article points out that stress conditions can cause wilted leaves, premature aging and spoilage from over ripening
"Growers can opt to spray their plants with the ethylene inhibitor," said Hong Qiao, a postdoctoral researcher in Ecker's laboratory and first author of the paper. "This blocks the plant's ethylene receptors from smelling ethylene, which has an effect on growth.
"Without the ethylene response pathway, a tomato would never ripen. Too much ethylene and the tomato over ripens. Therefore, basic knowledge of the precise mechanism by which plants control the response to ethylene gas will lead to better ways to control these processes in crop plants."
It was long thought that methylation, a crucial part of normal organism development, was a static modification of DNA that could not be altered by environmental conditions.
More than 30 to 40 percent of annual crops are lost to pathogens each year at a cost of some $500 billion.
The U.S. is undergoing its most severe drought in 25 years, which could wipe out farmers' incomes and raise food prices. Researchers are studying stress conditions in hopes of improving crop production.


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FS#629 - Viewports - not retaining positions?
in Win 7-64
Hi Andrew
when I set up my default choice of viewports - say 'Two vertical', they do not retain either the initial starting position or indeed the position I leave them in when I reopen a drawing. On opening a new/previous drawing - always one of the viewports is at 'almost' full extents!
I then have to manually re-position my viewports to suit.
Is this normal behavior happening here?
It would be good if a drawing opened with persistent viewport positions held, possibly this option could be added to the 'Layout' Viewports dialog window?
*Out of interest, when you introduce an isometric grid in the future - will it be possible to set up a 'Three:Right' layout view for example and have all three viewports showing different planes - Top, Front and South East?
16.12.2013 13:36
Reason for closing: Won't fix
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a US$ 35 million loan to help Indonesia rehabilitate and expand sanitation facilities in the cities of Medan and Yogyakarta.
Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, and Yogyakarta, the capital of Yogyakarta province, have a combined population of around 4.5 million people.
The loan will be used to build around 280 communal sanitation facilities in poor areas in the two cities, as well as two wastewater treatment systems for low-cost housing development projects in Medan. Sewerage systems will be rehabilitated and expanded with up to 28,000 additional household connections. The Metropolitan Sanitation Management and Health Project will also provide support to mobilize community involvement in the planning, operation and maintenance of communal facilities, and will ensure women are strongly involved in the process.
"A gender action plan in the project design will ensure women fully participate in the decision-making process for the development of facilities, and that they benefit equally with men from improved communal services," said Rudolf Frauendorfer in ADB's Southeast Asia Department.
Sanitation services have steadily improved in Indonesia, but still lag behind many neighboring countries, with partial sewerage coverage only available in a small number of urban centers. Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, new sanitation investments have been postponed and existing treatment systems have deteriorated due to lack of repair and maintenance. As a result, many of the poor living in informal settlements suffer high rates of diarrhea, skin diseases and other illnesses caused by polluted water and untreated waste.
"This project will sharply reduce pollution of surface and shallow groundwater in the two cities, resulting in improved health and quality of life particularly for women, children and the elderly who suffer the most from unclean environments," Mr. Frauendorfer said.
The loan is structured to ensure that operating and maintenance spending on revenue-generating services can be fully funded from user tariff income by the middle of 2014, while remaining affordable to low-income communities. Insufficient revenue for service providers and low user charges, which deter private investment in new facilities, have been a major impediment to the expansion of sanitation services.
To complement the loan, ADB will provide a US$ 500,000 grant from its Technical Assistance Special Fund to strengthen the capacity and management capabilities of local governments, utilities and communities involved in providing or overseeing sanitation services. Further technical assistance of US$ 1 million in the form of a grant from the Government of Australia, will be administered by ADB.
The loan has a 25-year term, with a five-year grace period and an interest rate determined in accordance with ADB's LIBOR-based lending facility. The Government of Indonesia will provide additional funding of US$ 14.2 million, with regional governments committing US$ 13.5 million, and provincial governments almost US$ 500,000, for a total project of about US$ 63.2 million.
The Ministry of Public Works is the executing agency for the project which is expected to be completed around December 2014.
Source: ADB, 20 Jul 2010


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LETTER- Rehab coulda saved money, history
[Re: "Sliced: Endowment losses cut Jefferson Scholarships," January 22]:
I am a Jefferson Scholar from 1971 when the program was not so well endowed. I believe I got $1,500 over two years.
The razing of the Bradbury home to build the foundation's new center was a serious mistake. Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits would have been used to return 45 percent of the cost from the governments of Virginia and the USA.
The cost would have been dramatically affected, and Charlottesville would still have a very important part of its historic patrimony in play. It is yet another example of a sadly missed opportunity.
Don Swofford, FAIA


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I Am Second Lecrae
Hip-hop artist Lecrae is the newest individual to share his story on Iamsecond.com, a website featuring video testimonies of personal struggle, transformation and hope of celebrities and everyday people.
"Hip-hop is more than music, it's actually culture," said Lecrae. "It's the lens through which you see the world."
As a child, Lecrae's world was void of good role models. Growing up with a single mom, Lecrae admits he would watch rap videos at his grandmother's house and found people to fill the void. Despite his ability to rap, Lecrae wrestled with insignificance, having never met his father and experiencing abuse and neglect. He sought to fulfill this emptiness by surrounding himself with gangsters. Before long, Lecrae was embroiled in a world filled with drugs, theft, alcohol and gang activity.
"I didn't fit in anywhere. I was just a misfit of a person," he said.
His mother encouraged him to read the Bible, but instead he tore out the pages. Lecrae thought church was for older people and not for him, a perception he developed while attending a few times with his grandmother.
It wasn't until a friend invited him to attend a conference out of town, that Lecrae realized his preconceived notions about faith may have been wrong.
"I saw guys who have been shot for being in gangs, girls who were extremely promiscuous in the past – rappers, dancers, singers – people who came from the same background I came from and they still embodied who they were culturally. But they were all in love with Jesus," Lecrae said. "And I had never seen that before."
Lecrae didn't understand the God they were talking about but remembers asking God to get him out of the life he was living.
Not long after, Lecrae was driving and took a turn too fast when his car flipped over several times. The roof caved in, the windshield broke and the glasses he was wearing molded into the frame of the car, yet he didn't have a scratch on him. It was that moment he decided it was time to live for Jesus.
"I saw a change. I spent a lot of time searching for father figures, and God has shown me that, ultimately, he's my father that drives me to keep pressing," Lecrae said.
Lecrae started volunteering at a juvenile detention center, singing songs he had written in his darkest moments when crying out to God.
"You'd just see them sitting there weeping. And time after time they keep requesting, 'Can you do that song? I need something that's going to remind me that I need Jesus,'" said Lecrae. "This is what I want to do – use music to offer hope and encouragement."
Lecrae has released four albums with his newest, Rehab Deluxe, hitting stores Sept. 27.
I am Second is designed to help individuals discover hope. The iamsecond.com website includes authentic film testimonies of "everyday" people and celebrities related to a variety of personal struggles, including abuse, addictions, pride, eating disorders, broken families and the search for success and meaning in life. Celebrities featured include 2010 American League MVP and Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton; former Korn band member Brian "Head" Welch; surfer Bethany Hamilton; and football stars Bradie James, Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford.
Launched in Dallas-Fort Worth in December 2008, iamsecond.com quickly spread virally across the globe. To date, the website has seen more than 5 million visitors from 217 countries/regions who have viewed over 20 million pages on the site. The site has since officially launched in Orlando, Fla., Evansville, Ind., and Kansas City, Mo., with several other cities planned for the future.
The I am Second movement is now readying for the debut of its newest initiative – the I am Second book, slated to release from Thomas Nelson in January 2012.
For additional information about I am Second, visit http://www.iamsecond.com or for information related to the I am Second book, visit http://www.ThomasNelson.com.
Credit: I Am Second


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Just in time for the New Year's resolution season is "I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down" – the new weight loss book from Jennifer Hudson.
In the book, which hits stores Tuesday, Hudson explains her motivation to lose weight and reveals that she turned down the starring role in "Precious" because she didn't want to gain weight for the film.
The Oscar-winning actress and Grammy-winning singer will sign copies of the book January 17 at the Barnes & Noble in Old Orchard Center Mall in Skokie. You can also watch the Chicago native on NBC's "Dateline" Sunday.
And if you like DMX – or simply enjoying unlikely music collaborations – you'll be happy to know Hudson makes a cameo on the controversial rapper's upcoming album.
Speaking of weight loss: Plain White T's drummer De'Mar Hamilton lost so much weight over the last few months, I almost didn't recognize him at the "Starry New Year's Eve" party at the Hard Rock Hotel Saturday. Hamilton, who joined The Gold Coast All-Stars on stage for a cover of Weezer's "Say It Ain't So," told me he lost the weight through dieting and the Insanity workout. You can read more about Hamilton's weight loss on timeoutchicago.com.
Heads up: Phi Phi O'Hara -- one of three Chicago contestants on the upcoming season of Logo's "RuPaul's Drag Race" -- will watch the season premiere January 30 at Spin nightclub in Boystown. Check out redeyechicago.com for an interview with O'Hara.
On the record: "I don't know too many men that don't like a good-looking woman running up and down around the court," - Bulls legend Dennis Rodman talks to the New York Post about his new job as the coach of a topless women's basketball team.
Sightings: R. Kelly dined at M Burger in Water Tower Place December 28 and hung out at Angels & Kings in the Hard Rock Hotel Tuesday. … John Cusack hung out at Bijan's Bistro in River North Friday after taking in the Blackhawks game at the United Center. The "Hot Tub Time Machine" star and his sister, Joan Cusack, had dinner at Chicago Cut Steakhouse on Christmas Eve. … Former "Hills" cast member Kristin Cavallari shopped at Sofia boutique and visited Exhale Spa Thursday. … Actress Jenny McCarthy had dinner at Japonais Monday. … … Former "Friday Night Lights" actor Zach Gilford attended the Bulls game at the United Center Sunday. "One Tree Hill" star Chad Michael Murray and the Bears' Julius Peppers and Matt Forte were on hand for Tuesday's Bulls game. … The Blackhawks' Corey Crawford celebrated his birthday Saturday at Zed451 and then the New Year's Eve party at the Hard Rock Hotel. Also at the Hard Rock party was former "Malcolm in the Middle" actor Chris Masterson, who deejayed, O.A.R. drummer Chris Culos, who played a song with The Gold Coast All-Stars and "Real Housewives of Beverly Hils" star Taylor Armstrong, who arrived after her appearance at Enclave. Armstrong was also spotted at Hub 51 and Paris Club Friday. … The New York Yankees' Curtis Granderson rented out Roots Handmade Pizza for him and over 200 friends New Year's Eve. … The Bears' Lance Briggs dined at N9NE Steakhouse Friday.
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Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday tests showed nothing was wrong with his heart after he was hospitalized with chest pains.
Limbaugh, 58, was released from The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu two days after he was rushed there during a vacation. Doctors said he did not have a heart attack or heart disease.
"The pain was real, and they don't know what caused it," Limbaugh said, adding his best guess was he had a spasm in an artery.
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Limbaugh said he was not taking painkillers.
In 2003, he acknowledged an addiction to painkillers for severe back pain and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.
Limbaugh couldn't resist a few political comments during his short news conference at the Honolulu hospital.
One appeared to be aimed at health care reform, when he said he got the best health treatment in the world "right here in the United States of America."
"I don't think there's one thing wrong with the American health care system," Limbaugh said. "I got no special treatment other than what anybody else that would have called 911 and had been brought in with the same kinds of symptoms."
Caller after caller to his show Thursday sent get-well wishes. Friday's show was a "Best of Rush" special.
In a poll last month, Americans called Limbaugh the nation's most influential conservative voice. More than 14 million people listen to his show at least once a week, making him the nation's highest-rated broadcaster.
Limbaugh called his health scare a "blessing in disguise."
"It takes things like this in life maybe to prepare you for the eventuality that you are getting older, you're not as young as you were, and not as invincible as you once thought you were," he said.
Limbaugh said when he first felt the chest pain, he walked around, sat down then quickly called for help. He was in the hospital within 20 minutes.
Dr. Joana Magno, a cardiologist who treated Limbaugh at the hospital, urged people to call for help immediately if they think they have a heart problem.
"Time is very, very important, and the sooner you can get to the medical care for your heart, the sooner we know what the problems are and the sooner we can treat it," Magno said.
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Even though the man most responsible for West Coast gangsta rap, Dr. Dre, took him under his wing in the mid-2000s, Carson, CA, native Bishop Lamont has never fit the gangsta mold of his left-coast peers. With one foot firmly planted in underground hip-hop and the other in the mainstream, Lamont's varied lyrical topics, which juggle street rap, sociopolitical muckraking, and even religion, established the rapper as a strong up-and-coming contender in West Coast rap.
Born Philip Martin in Inglewood, Lamont bounced all around Los Angeles' different neighborhoods when he was young until settling down in Carson. Beginning to rap at age 13, he tried to veer away from the street life and kept himself busy racking up a huge collection of hip-hop tapes, vinyl, and CDs. Once Lamont started making his own tapes and CDs, he caught a break when his Who I Gotta Kill to Get a Record Deal, Vol. 1 mixtape found its way into the hands of Kanye West. Lamont planned to meet with West, who was interested in signing him, on the set of the video shoot for Dr. Dre protégé the Game's "Dreams" in 2005, though West canceled at the last minute. Instead, the Carson rapper approached Dr. Dre himself and handed him the mixtape. A few weeks later, Dr. Dre professed in a radio interview his desire to work with him and before long, signed Lamont to Aftermath later in 2005.
Lamont's professional recording career started to thrust forward. Having worked closely with Warren G, he made several appearances on Warren G's 2005 album In the Mid-Nite Hour. He also earned work providing tracks for various video games, including NBA Live 06 and Madden NFL 07. However, in 2007 his Internet and street mixtapes started to raise his profile considerably and lent credence to why Dr. Dre was championing the complex MC. Among the popular street releases were N*gger Noize (2007), Caltroit (2007) (a collaboration between him and Detroit MC/producer Black Milk), and Pope Mobile (2008). Lamont proclaimed himself "the Platinum Backpacker," and his mixtapes grabbed the attention of many hip-hop fans and publications by uniting underground hip-hop producers (9th Wonder, Black Milk) with mainstream ones (Scott Storch, Danjahandz). Throughout 2007 and 2008, his tentative debut album, The Reformation, was being promoted alongside Dr. Dre's long-awaited third LP, Detox, since Lamont seemed to be playing a big role in the latter album's recording. The hip-hop media even began comparing his relationship to Detox with Snoop Dogg's role in Dr. Dre's G-funk masterpiece The Chronic. ~ Cyril Cordor
New West Gang (feat. Glasses Malone, Bishop Lamont, Spider Loc & Mykestro)
Yung Bruh / G. Malone / Bishop Lamont / Spider Loc/ Mykestro


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Like most teachers on the planet--or at least in these parts--I spent last week frantically trying to organize my room and plan for the upcoming school year in the moments provided between attending meetings, learning how to bond with my fellow teacheroos and setting goals.
While at these meetings, we got to watch several nifty little PowerPoints along with nifty little YouTube videos. Don't you just love those videos? I do.
Jeez, I'd love to show nifty little YouTube videos to help keep my kiddos engaged, but sadly I do not have the keys to enter the YouTube video kingdom where all is nifty and fan-tab-u-lous.
No Siree, not me.
Try as I might, St. Bernard, our school's Internet gatekeeper, blocks me. No YouTube video kingdom keys for me. No Siree. I couldn't watch Mr. Teacher's rather fab-u-lous rendition of Darth Vader explaining the Pythagorean Theorem on YouTube no matter how hard I try.
Nope. No can do. And if you're reading this from your school, you probably can't go there either.
And, I'm sad to report that I can't show an interesting video by that University of Virginia professor to my newly bonded teacheroo friends to discuss how the professor basically cans everything I've ever been told about learning styles when he proclaims "Learning Styles Don't Exist."
Try accessing that at your school. Nuh-uh. Sorry. No can do. The watcher of all that is Internet will not allow access.
So much for the free flow of ideas. I'm down to a trickle here. I bet you are too. It's enough to make you think you're in China. Hey, maybe Chinese spies created Internet blockers.
Now, I could request access from my tech guy buddies, but with our tech guys opening up two campuses and troubleshooting all the computer scheduling problems etc. that surface at the start of the school year, I didn't because (1) I really, really do like our tech guys and I didn't want to bother them and add to their stress, and (2) I know this request isn't that important so it probably stands as much of a chance (at this point in time) as this guy.
So in the meantime until things settle down, I guess shadow puppets will have to suffice.
And if you don't think I'll do that, well then my friends, you don't know me well at all.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Back to School, YouTube Videos & Shadow Puppets
Like most teachers on the planet--or at least in these parts--I spent last week frantically trying to organize my room and plan for the upcoming school year in the moments provided between attending meetings, learning how to bond with my fellow teacheroos and setting goals.
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RealPlayer allows me to download youtube videos. You could just put them on a thumb drive and show them off of that. If they're good I like to download them anyway, you never know how long something is going to be on youtube.
- August 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Rhonda Halushka said...
We can't get YouTube either of course (but you can download a YouTube video and then replay on Real Player IF you have it on your school computer).
But for us, they (upon high) keep saying we need to USE the technology but then I want to make a department calendar in Outlook (which we use) and can I do it myself? No.
Can our school site tech guy do it? No.
I had to petition via my principal to the District Office where they will decide if I can make a department calendar just like the ones we already use for things like computer lab availability for my own department so we can coordinate using our science equipment.
If they REALLY wanted us to USE technology they wouldn't micromanage our use of it and would treat us as the adults we are capable of making good decisions.
- August 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- Melissa B. said...
Try Google Video. That usually isn't blocked at school (I have the same You Tube problema you have at WSHS, and if I want to show a YT video, I have to take my laptop home and download it there), and they often have many of the same videos as You Tube. BTW, don't forget it's Sunday, and you know what THAT means--S4 is underway today!
- August 24, 2008 at 2:18 PM
- askthehomediva said...
Teach5 & Rhonda,
Thanks so much for the RealPlayer suggestion. I'll try it. :-)
And, Rhonda, that calendar thing is nine kinds of CRAZY!
- August 24, 2008 at 3:55 PM
You can also use this website http://keepvid.com/ to download videos from YouTube & then play them in whatever player you've got at school. I use this for stuff quite a bit, as youtube's blocked at my school too. I just save it to a flashdrive & take it to school with me.
- August 24, 2008 at 11:18 PM
- askthehomediva said...
Thanks teach5! I'm going to do a trial run when I get home this afternoon to see how it works. Hopefully, I'll be successful. I'll let you know tomorrow. :-)
- August 25, 2008 at 5:15 AM
Sorry about the email mess, I sent you an alternate address until I can get it fixed.
- August 26, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Tubesock is another handy-dandy site that lets you capture youtube videos to save on lots of things. I save into My Videos and show them on my SmartBoard. Filter successfully bypassed!
- August 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM
- askthehomediva said...
Thanks for the other site suggestion! I plan to check that one out too. I knew others smarter than me found workarounds and would come to my aid! Thanks for taking the time to help.
- August 26, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- loonyhiker said...
I really enjoy reading your blog and would like to give your site an award. Here's the link to my site if you would like to collect it: http://successfulteaching.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-award.html
- August 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM
I like zamzar.com and then I store all the videos on my iPod.
- August 27, 2008 at 2:03 PM
- Mei said...
I download using ZillaTube and then take my flash drive to school. Also, try TeacherTube.com. The content is created and uploaded by teachers, and it's not blocked at my school (like everything else is).
- August 27, 2008 at 10:17 PM
- askthehomediva said...
Thanks for the suggestions. I see if TeacherTube is blocked and I'll check out ZillaTube.
- August 28, 2008 at 5:15 AM