Wilton Resident, Former Golf Pro To Host MS Benefit Tourney

WILTON, CONN. -- A Wilton resident who has multiple sclerosis has organized a charity golf tournament in Ridgefield to help fight the disease.

Greg Jacobson, known as Jake, is hosting the Sept. 25 event at Ridgefield Golf Club. It is the event's inaugural tournament.

Jacobson was a fixture at the Ridgefield Golf Club for nearly 20 years with numerous club championships and a course record. He also was a regular competitor in Connecticut State Golf Association tournaments, playing in numerous Connecticut Opens, Amateurs and Mid-Amateurs.

His golf career came to an end in 2011 when he was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis, a debilitating form of the disease in which individuals can lose motor function over time. There is no known cure for multiple sclerosis.

The disease of the nervous system may include loss of sensitivity or changes in sensation such as tingling, pins and needles or numbness, muscle weakness, very pronounced reflexes, muscle spasms, or difficulty in moving; difficulties with coordination and balance, problems with speech or swallowing, visual problems, fatigue, acute or chronic pain, and bladder and bowel difficulties.

For the Sept. 25, The best ball tournament starts at 1 p.m.. The two-person team entry fee is $400 and includes golf, cart, lunch, dinner, drinks, contests, prizes, raffle and a silent auction. There will be three divisions -- scratch, men's and women's (both with 80 percent handicap).

Sponsorship opportunities are available for any interested company.

For more information on the tournament or to register, go here www.playthejake.com.

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Is Life Hacking Worth It?

Earlier this week, Slate published an article by Evgeny Morozov with what is probably our least favorite title ever: "Down With Lifehacking." We considered writing a straight up rebuttal, but then it occurred to us that you might have just as much to say on the subject as we do. Welcome to a very special edition of Flame Wars.

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As ?lifehacking? becomes an industry with its own blogs and book-length guides, a good chunk of the freed-up time often goes to fix, upgrade, or replace the very tools and programs that make lifehacking possible. Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time?so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

We highly recommend giving the full article a read?it's really short?then coming back here and sharing your thoughts with us. We'll do a full write-up of your best opinions (and some of our own) next week.

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Our previous flame wars pitted reader against reader in arguing meaningful issues of the day, like "is OSX or Window the better OS" and "do beans belong in chili." This time, we're firing up the furnaces to help solve a much more important question: Why (and how) do you hack life effectively? How do you ensure life hacking isn't a waste of time and actually makes your life better?

We hope to generate some fun discussions and show how life hacking really can be valuable. So grab your flame-retardant suit and jump right into the discussions below. Most of all: have fun! Just keep in mind that we're using the term "flame war" a little tongue-in-cheek: we'll actually be looking for the polite, well-reasoned, and well-articulated arguments to feature in our follow-up.

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AP Source: Pistons acquire PG Jennings from Bucks

DETROIT (AP) ? The Detroit Pistons have made another move in their busy offseason, acquiring Brandon Jennings as they desperately try to end their four-year postseason drought.

Detroit landed the point guard from the Milwaukee Bucks for point guard Brandon Knight and two prospects, according to a person familiar with the deal.

The person, who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the trade hasn't been announced, said Jennings has agreed to a $24 million, three-year contract with the Pistons. The person said Detroit will also give up seldom-used Ukrainian center Viacheslav Kravtsov and forward Khris Middleton in the deal.

Detroit has been active this offseason, signing free agents Josh Smith, Chauncey Billups and Luigi Datome along with bringing back Will Bynum.

The Pistons signed Billups in part to mentor Knight, but have chosen to replace him with Jennings. They're in a win-now mode, and must figure Jennings gives them a better shot to have success this season than Knight, who hasn't shown he can be a reliable point guard.

Milwaukee drafted Jennings 10th overall in 2009 out of Oak Hill Academy and he averaged 17 points, 5.7 assists and 2.4 turnovers over four seasons with the Bucks, who could've matched any offer made to the restricted free agent this offseason. He averaged a career-high 6.5 assists and 17.5 points last season, a year after averaging a career-best 19.1 points a game.

Instead of keeping a player who might not have wanted to stay, the Bucks are adding to their depth with another young point guard and two players. Detroit drafted Knight eighth overall in 2011 out of Kentucky. He averaged 13.1 points, 3.9 assists and 2.7 turnovers.

The 6-foot-11 Kravtsov averaged 3.1 points and 1.8 rebounds in 25 games last season as a rookie. Middleton, a second-round pick last year from Texas A&M, averaged 6.1 points in 27 games.

The Bucks, coming off their first postseason in three years, also were finalizing a two-year deal for just under $6 million with free agent combo guard Gary Neal.

After starting his career overseas playing in Italy, Spain and Greece, Neal spent the first three seasons of his NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs. He earned a spot on the team after a standout performance in summer league play, then quietly emerged as a potent scorer off the bench for one of the best teams in the West. Neal averaged 9.7 points and shot 38.9 percent from 3-point range in his three seasons in San Antonio.

His 24 points helped the Spurs to a 36-point win in Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. The Spurs abruptly pulled a qualifying offer from Neal last week after agreeing to terms with shooting guard Marco Bellinelli. Suddenly a free agent, Neal said he is looking forward to joining the Bucks, where coach Larry Drew told him there's an opportunity for a more featured role.

"In San Antonio you had the expectation of being a team that's going to be in the playoffs or make it to the Western Conference finals every year," Neal said in a telephone interview. "Even though Milwaukee doesn't have those same expectations nationally, I have an opportunity to play a bigger role and a bigger part here. As a competitor you look for that situation. This is the first time I've had this role in the NBA."

Neal will help add some scoring punch to a backcourt that lost Monta Ellis and J.J. Redick earlier this summer.

"For the most part it's just something I'm excited about and happy about," Neal said. "Especially talking to coach Drew and ownership, it's something that has me excited. I kind of wish we could start tomorrow."

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AP Basketball Writer Jon Krawczynski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-pistons-acquire-pg-jennings-bucks-215637755.html

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Facebook planning to sell TV-style ads for US$2.5-million a day ...

Facebook Inc., seeking to break the long-held dominance of television over advertising budgets, plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as US$2.5 million a day, two people familiar with the matter said.

The world?s largest social-networking site, which has 1.15 billion members, expects to start offering 15-second spots to advertisers later this year, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the plans aren?t public.

The move would follow efforts by Facebook?s online rivals to capture ad dollars that have traditionally gone to TV networks. Google Inc. began funding original content channels on its YouTube video-sharing site in recent years, giving it a more curated venue for commercials. A year ago, AOL Inc. started HuffPost Live, a CNN-like video stream running five days a week.

With Facebook, the idea would be to capitalize on the millions of users who actively check the site on a daily basis, including during the prime-time hours coveted by television advertisers. As of last quarter, 61% of Facebook members were using the site daily ? a number that has risen despite management predictions that it would decline.

?Every night, 88 million to 100 million people are actively using Facebook during prime-time TV hours in the United States alone,? Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said last week on a conference call to discuss second-quarter results.

Elisabeth Diana, a spokeswoman for Menlo Park, California- based Facebook, declined to comment on its advertising plan.

TV Opportunity

While the social network already allows advertisers to upload videos to their Facebook page and then broadcast them into a user?s news feed, the new service would let marketers buy their way directly into a person?s feed with a 15-second pitch, according to the people. That?s typically the minimum length of a television commercial.

The commercials will initially be sold on a full-day basis and can only be targeted to users based on age and gender, according to the people. Facebook members won?t see a spot more than three times in a given day, the people said. Depending on how large an audience an advertiser plans to reach, the ads will range in price from US$1 million to about US$2.5 million a day, according to the people.

Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who has been working with global marketing head Carolyn Everson on the video ad service, pushed back the start date at least twice, wanting to make sure Facebook?s user experience won?t be tainted by the ads, according to the people. Zuckerberg wants high-definition video and easy-to-use playback features, the people said.

Advertising Edge

Even with the growth of Internet traffic, television remains the undisputed king of the ad world. Advertisers plan to spend almost twice as much on television as on digital media this year, according to ZenithOptimedia, a research unit of Publicis Groupe SA. Internet ads are expected to reach US$36.2 billion, or 22% of all media purchases, while TV advertising will garner US$63.9 billion, or 38%.

Facebook?s move also would step up competition with social- networking rival Twitter Inc., which has been courting TV advertisers in its bid to reach US$1 billion in sales by 2014. The microblogging site earlier this month expanded a service that markets direct promotions to viewers who tweet about shows they?re watching on television.

Nielsen, the dominant firm for measuring TV ratings, started working with Facebook three years ago on an effort to count Internet viewership the same way it does with television. Nielsen relies on Facebook?s user data to create ratings measurements for online content, whether it?s an ad or a TV show streamed over the Internet.

Measurement Challenge

Silicon Valley companies have had difficulty luring away ad dollars from television networks because of a lack of a single measurement system that compares TV audiences directly to Internet audiences. Figures from measurement companies such as ComScore Inc. are difficult to compare against ratings from Nielsen.

Facebook sees the Nielsen partnership as a boon in its effort to sell more video advertising, an executive familiar with the plans said. Advertisers will be willing to spend more if they?re able to present comparable Nielsen ratings figures, the person said.

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Source: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/30/facebook-planning-to-sell-tv-style-ads-for-us2-5-million-a-day-source/

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Republican donors send letter to GOP: ?Take action? on immigration

Former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who started a political action committee, Republicans for Immigration Reform, organized more than 100 business leaders, who sent a letter today to Republican members of Congress urging for immigration reform with a path to legalization.

?Immigrants are often entrepreneurial, family-minded, and guided by faith. ?These are Republican values,? says the letter, according to the New York Times.???These are Republican values.? The GOP donors urge Congress to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants, provide a way for U.S. companies to hire the workers they need while making it ?impossible? to hire undocumented workers, and to secure the border.

?Doing nothing is de facto amnesty,? the influential Republican donors say.

?What tends to happen during the month of August is that members go home and they go to town hall meetings and they check up on their offices in terms of phone calls and letters, and that?s where they get bombarded,? said Gutierrez in an interview. ??So Republicans who are for immigration reform ? and I believe there are many ? we need to make our voice known in August.?

The donors who signed the letter include Republicans such as Karl Rove, former Vice President Dan Quayle, and business leaders such as the founder of Staples, Tom Stemberg.

Gutierrez, who was an influential Republican under the Romney campaign but went on to criticize the party?s rhetoric and stance on immigration, recently wrote an opinion piece on The Hill about the GOP need to support reform.

?And as an immigrant and proud lifelong Republican who came to America in search of opportunity, I can tell you that the only things perhaps more outdated than our immigration system, are the nonsensical?and misguided statements espoused by some extremist elements of my own party,? wrote Gutierrez?recently.

Immigration advocates are putting pressure on House leaders, though it is expected that the House will not vote on any immigration bills until they come back from summer break ? meaning votes possibly in September or October.

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Times Union Center bidding on three NCAA Division I tournaments

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The Times Union Center has hosted NCAA men?s basketball and wrestling championship tournaments in various years since the arena opened in 1990, but never women?s basketball or women?s volleyball.

The Times Union Center could host up to three NCAA Division I championship tournaments starting in 2015 -- games that would not require expanding the sports arena at an estimated cost of $6 million to $11 million.

The arena?s general manager, Bob Belber, said bids will be submitted to the NCAA to host regional championship tournaments for women?s basketball, women?s volleyball, and men?s ice hockey from 2015 to 2018.

Belber is working with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Siena College on the women?s basketball and volleyball bids. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College are teaming up with the arena on the hockey bid.

The bids are due Sept. 16. The NCAA will announce the winning sites in December.

The games, if awarded, are expected to draw thousands of fans to the county-owned arena for two-day tournaments in March and December of those years, and help fill local bars, restaurants and hotels.

?The reality is if you bring in, for example, the regional women?s basketball tournament my guess is we?ll probably have close to 65 to 70 percent of the people who attend the event come from outside this market, and fill every hotel in a 50-mile radius,? Belber said.

The Times Union Center last hosted an NCAA Division I tournament in 2010, when the men?s ice hockey East Regional was played there.

The arena has also hosted NCAA men?s basketball and wrestling championship tournaments in various years since the arena opened in 1990, but never women?s basketball or women?s volleyball.

?These championships that we?re bidding on we feel can bring in huge crowds,? Belber said. ?We can generate not just enough to cover expenses but to provide the NCAA with the net revenues they?re looking for.?

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