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It?s essentially a Te?obargo, and the Chargers now admit they won?t be making their second-round pick available to the media at all until the middle of June.

So why are they not letting Te?o talk?? Chargers director of public relations Bill Johnston addressed the situation today on XTRA Sports 1360 in San Diego.

?Right now, anything that he does . . . makes news,? Johnston said.? ?Right now, the news that people are talking about with him is really not the news that we want him to be talking about.? Really, he?s a rookie, he?s a second-round draft pick, yet everybody wants to talk to him.? Well, why?? Well, it all goes back to that stuff that happened back in the winter, and back when he was at Notre Dame.

?To us, that?s not what we want him talking about.? We want him focused on becoming a Charger, on becoming a better player.? Learning our system.? Getting comfortable here.? We want him talking football, talking Chargers, and that?s all we want him focused on right now.? So we?re doing what we think is in his best interests to stay focused and become the best player he can.?

That really doesn?t make much sense, frankly.? Media availability inherently is a distraction, regardless of the topics addressed.? Any time spent talking to the media takes away from Te?o's effort to become a better player and learn the system.

Moreover, the furor regarding the Lennay Kukua nonsense largely has subsided.? It wasn?t, for example, much of an issue during the first session between Te?o and the media on May 10, in connection with the team?s rookie minicamp.

Of course, the controversy can remain relevant if Te?o does things to keep it relevant.? For example, he chose to attend the Maxim party honoring a list of women that included the non-existent Kukua.? Under the circumstances, it?s fair game to ask him why he did it.

It?s not fair game for the Chargers to protect him, or anyone other player simply because the team wants him to talk about certain subjects and not others.? Watch the video from the May 10 session; the kid can handle himself well.? Besides, they picked him knowing what having him on the team would entail.? It?s short-sighted to treat him differently than every other player.

Think of the message that sends this to the locker room, at a time when he?d love nothing more than to simply be one of the guys.? He?s necessarily not one of the guys, because the team is giving him different treatment than the rest of his teammates.

Meanwhile, the team is making the issue even bigger than it should be, giving Te?o yet another topic to address when he finally talks to the media and making it harder for him to lay the foundation for a positive relationship with the folks who buy ink by the truckload.

While it?s hard for any organization to reverse a decision that has been made and implemented, the best move for the Chargers would be to treat Te?o no differently than any other player ? and to hope that the media eventually will do the same thing.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/21/ray-rices-home-burglarized/related/

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Farrah Abraham Sex Tape Bikini: Yanked From eBay Due to Hygiene Concerns!

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/05/farrah-abraham-sex-tape-bikini-yanked-from-ebay-due-to-hygiene-c/

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WiFi Site Survey by WiTuners (Android)

WiFi Site Survey by WiTuners is an app designed to help wireless networking professionals and power users optimize placement of their access points, get details on wireless networks in range, and help select the best channels on which to set their APs. With the ability to load floor maps, view heatmaps, and import and export data? this wireless networking utility is obviously the result of considerable thought, but the touch interface and UI in general, needs work.

Availability and Install
WiFi Site Survey is a free app available from Google Play. I installed it on a Samsung Galaxy Note running Android 4.1.2.? Needed permissions to run include full network communications access, the ability to connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi, and the ability to view network connections.

WiFi Site Survey in Use
Upon opening the app, you see a display of numbers of wireless networks and access points in range, helpful information for understanding your wireless environment. Even better, the app shows the strongest AP in range.

You also get detailed information on all wireless networks in proximity. These are represented by a router and access point icons onscreen. Each network's authentication method, channel, radio band, signal strength, and encryption is shown. If you are connected to a wireless network, that access point's IP address, link speed, and RSSI are also displayed.

The app features an upper right-hand menu with a few cool options. One is "Advised AP." Tapping it opens a list of the best Wi-Fi networks available for connection. I did notice that listed first was a network with a signal strength of -73 dBm and that down the list as a third choice was a network that had a stronger signal at -43 dBm (lower is better). The developers informed me that the app does not always take into factor signal strength as "best." Rather, if the strongest AP shares a channel with another, the app will advise you to connect to a third AP, even though its signal may be weaker. There is obviously intelligence in the underlying algorithm for selecting the best AP for connecting.

Another menu choice is "The channel you should set to." This gives guidance for those setting up a new Wi-Fi access point on which channel is the best choice for the AP.

Visualizing Your Network
WiFi Site Survey gives you three different ways to view your network. The first is "Wi-Fi" which shows all AP and their information. Next, is "Heatmap view." Heatmaps provide visualization on wireless coverage and signal strength. The third view is "Rogue Aps." This feature compares the MAC address of an AP against a list of user-defined non-rogue APs.? You can import this list using "Set Rogue Aps" under another "Settings"?also on the upper right menu. The list gets updates when you set APs as rogue or non-rogue.

The app also allows you to upload a floor map which. I uploaded a sample map which was placed behind all of the AP in range displayed on screen. You can tap on the "Survey" menu option and then tap in the floor plan to set survey points for analyzing wireless traffic.

Interface
I did upload a sample floor plan and attempted to plot survey points. This is where I ran into trouble with the app. The swipe gestures indicated in the user manual to zoom in and out the floor map, just didn't want to work on the Galaxy tablet. Also, you are supposed to be able to tap on and move access points around and to the edge of the screen if you want them to disappear off the floor map. Tying to precisely touch the access point icon to try to pick it up and move it, proved an exercise in futility?absolutely frustrating. Maybe a stylus would work better (I didn't have one on hand for my testing tablet, but it really shouldn't be necessary to use one) but even swiping to zoom in and out was awful. The map would render too large or show up half-way on screen?there was no consistency between using gestures and the action.

This is a problem because for this to be a really useful app on an Android tablet the touch interface has to work a bit better?at least that was my experience on a Samsung Galaxy Note?tablet. There's a lot of great information that this networking utility gives, but the interface needs to be more responsive, or there has to a more robust interactive menu that allows you to send commands that correlate to touch.

The strongest capability in WiFi Site Survey is its wonderful advisement on best APs to connect to and channels to operate an access point on. The floor map upload needs work, although I do love the ability to import and export survey data to .CSV, SQLlite, and PDF.
Wolf WiFi Pro handles floor mapping better?invaluable for Wi-Fi professionals. Wolf WiFi Pro also did not have the wonky performance I noticed with WiFi Site Survey?which crashed twice during my testing.

Still, it's clear that lot of thought went into WiFi Site Survey; I am sure the developers are working hard on clearing up the issues I noticed in my testing. I'll be interested to take another look at the next iteration of the app. For now, WiFi Site Survey earns?3 stars and for wireless networking utilities for Android. Wolf Wifi Pro remains our Editors' Choice.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/q8NL7F12hvg/0,2817,2419213,00.asp

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Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon

The Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon ($1,849 list) is the largest of the portable all-in-one desktop PCs that we've seen. Its 27-inch screen houses the notebook-class components of a Windows 8 PC, in a large semi-portable desktop system. The system's touch screen is the centerpiece of what could've been a good argument for merging the portable and desktop form factors. However, the myriad concessions that Lenovo had to make to bring this PC to the market are daunting and ultimately spoil the party.

Design and Features
The IdeaCentre Horizon is so huge that it looks like a portable HDTV. The front face is dominated by the 27-inch screen, bordered by a black bezel. The edges of the IdeaCentre Horizon are coated in a soft rubber material for comfort. The back panel of the system is silver colored metal. Its dimensions run about 17 by 27.25 by 1.25 (HWD), so it's a big sucker. You'd never in a million years consider this to be an upsized tablet, as it weighs 18.02 pounds and is merely transportable, not really portable. With that 27-inch width, you'll need a large table or desk to rest it on. It's gargantuan compared to the Sony VAIO Tap 20 ($999.99) and Dell XPS 18 ($1,349.99), two other portable all-in-one desktop PCs we've seen recently. In fact, next to the IdeaCentre Horizon, the 18-inch XPS 18 almost looks like it's pocket sized (though it most certainly is not). The IdeaCentre Horizon can be carried around by hand, but institutional users and people who plan to move the system often should think about adding the Multimode cart as an accessory. The Multimode cart should be available in the July 2013 time frame.

There is a reason for the IdeaCentre Horizon's size, however. It is meant to be a sharable PC. Its 27-inch diagonal, 10-point touch screen can be laid flat and can be used simultaneously by a three-person family, plus two to three more people. The system has a beefy metal arm permanently attached that is spring loaded, so it can recline from a few degrees from vertical down to a 60-degree angle comfortably. Past 60 degrees, you can lay the IdeaCentre Horizon flat, which turns the pseudo-tablet into a table PC. Once laid flat, the IdeaCentre Horizon automatically launches its Aura overlay, which covers up Windows with a sci-fi movie style interface that lets you open media like music, photos, and videos, as well as a selection of touch-optimized games. The system asks if you want to return to Windows when you tilt the screen back up.

Aura uses a puck-like controller on the screen, which opens up to show media like photos, videos, or music, depending on the type of media you select on the puck. The puck can be moved around the screen, as can the photos, video, and music tiles. The puck and daughter tiles have inertia and friction, so they keep moving for a bit if you flick them across the screen. It's all like a science fiction movie in execution, and it works well enough. The Aura interface lets you interact with your digital life, no matter which side of the screen you're sitting on. You can rotate and zoom into media with two-finger pinch and zoom gestures. It's all very cool, but since most of us are used to using the PC in a traditional way, we have a feeling that the Aura interface will be trotted out once in a while to show off the PC, but hardly used at any other time.

The system comes with a handful of pre-loaded apps on the Windows 8 Start screen, including some that work fine with the screen vertical, like Accuweather, rara.com, YouCam, Kindle, and several Lenovo-branded kids apps. Within Aura, there are several touch-optimized apps like Air Hockey, Roulette, Draw Race 2, Raiding Company, Monopoly, and Texas Hold 'Em Poker. Texas Hold 'Em is notable for its ability to use Android phones or tablets to view your hole cards. Otherwise you'd have to view them on the screen, covering them with your hand so others can't see your cards.

The IdeaCentre Horizon comes with several specialized controllers that work with the touch screen: a joystick that stays put via a suction cup, strikers that slide like air hockey paddles, and an electronic die (E-Dice) that works with board games like the copy of Monopoly that was installed on our review unit. The physical controllers blur the divide between the real world and the virtual world, but it remains to be seen if software developers will code their games with these controllers in mind.

The system came with a copy of BlueStacks, which lets you use Android apps on a Windows (or Mac) PC. BlueStacks kind of works, but load times are a lot longer than on your smartphone or tablet due to the emulation performance hit and the slow hard drive. Smartphone apps also have a problem when blown up to 1080p, with jaggy text and graphics elements. One tower defense game we tried was unplayable, since the app's menu screens wouldn't render right. If you really need to run both Android and Windows on the same system, the Asus Transformer AIO (P1801-B037K) ($1,299) is a better solution because that system is essentially a Windows PC with an Android tablet used as its screen.

The system has a wide expanse of space on the sides for I/O ports, so it's kind of puzzling why there are only two USB 3.0 ports on the IdeaCentre Horizon, particularly because the wireless keyboard mouse combo we got in with our review unit came with a USB receiver dongle. If you're using the keyboard and mouse, then the IdeaCentre Horizon effectively has only one USB 3.0 port. That's puzzling because the IdeaCentre Horizon comes with Bluetooth and could've simply been served by a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, like the Dell XPS 18. If you simultaneously use the keyboard/mouse dongle and the USB dongle for the E-Dice, then you fill the system's USB ports. The system comes with an HDMI-in port, which is nice if you're going to connect the system up to your cable box or newer PC once this system becomes obsolete. The IdeaCentre Horizon comes with a SD card reader and audio ports, but that's the limit of the system's I/O. Speakers were fine, they sounded like a large laptop or small HDTV. The 27-inch Acer Aspire 7600U (A7600U-UR308) ($1,899) doesn't have a built in battery, but it has HDMI in and out, two USB 3.0, four USB 2.0, audio, memory card reader, and an Ethernet port in a system that takes up just about the same amount of desk space. The IdeaCentre Horizon's lack of ports really hurt its overall score.

Another problem with the IdeaCentre Horizon is its day-to-day performance. The combination of a huge screen and a 5,400rpm SATA drive mean that using the system with touch is a frustratingly laggy experience. When using the system in table PC mode, tiles and the puck interface in Aura sometimes render a few centimeters behind a fast dragging finger, at least until the puck catches up to your finger. Also, loading apps and documents take a lot longer than they would on a SSD-powered system like the XPS 18 or slate tablets like the Razer Edge Pro ($1,449). Taken alone, each delay is miniscule, but you're going to quickly notice the load and lag issues pile up during a normal computing session.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/mThe_Pyl_9Q/0,2817,2419218,00.asp

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Real Estate Sampler: 7 Readers' Houses For Sale

We?re for sale too-BUT we are in a rural part of Central Oregon, so it takes a while for anything to sell here-we are 45 minutes from Bend, Or which is great-all the shopping and restaurants and etc you could want; snow bunnies will love the skiing and snowboarding on Mt Bachelor; our town is about 6000 people-so you know your neighbors, etc.

We are ready to go For Sale By Owner on June 1st and our price will go to 145,000.
Our house is also the home that was built for the first mayor of Madras, OR in 1948

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Hubby has an amazing job offer in San Diego- we?d love to sell ASAP!

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Source: http://hookedonhouses.net/2013/05/18/real-estate-sampler-7-readers-houses-for-sale/

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Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns of dinosaur brain development

May 20, 2013 ? A new study conducted at the University of Bristol and published online today in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology sheds light on how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs.

Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol's School of Earth Sciences, together with Tom H?bner from the Nieders?chsische Landesmuseum in Hannover, Germany, picked the brains of 150 million year old dinosaurs.

The two palaeontologists studied different fossils of the Jurassic dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki: a very young (juvenile) individual of approximately three years of age and a fully grown specimen of more than 12 years of age.

Stephan Lautenschlager, lead author of the paper, said: "The two different growth stages of Dysalotosaurus provided a unique opportunity to study their brain, and how it developed during the growth of the animal."

Using high-resolution CT scanning and 3D computer imaging, it was possible to reconstruct and visualise the brain and inner ear of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki -- a small, plant-eating dinosaur, which lived 150 million years ago, in what is now Tanzania.

Co-author Tom H?bner said: "Well-preserved fossil material, which can be used to reconstruct the brain anatomy is usually rare. Thus, we were fortunate to have different growth stages available for our study."

By looking at the brain and inner ear anatomy, the two researchers found that the brain of Dysalotosaurus underwent considerable changes during growth -- most likely as a response to environmental and metabolic requirements. However, important parts responsible for the sense of hearing and cognitive processes were already well developed in the young individual.

Stephan Lautenschlager said: "Our study shows that the brain was already well-developed in the young dinosaurs and adapted perfectly to interact with their environment and other individuals."

This study has important ramifications for the understanding of how parts of the brain developed in dinosaurs. However, further research into that field is necessary to investigate if the pattern of brain development in individual dinosaurs is also reflected in a large scale trend during the more than 150 million years of dinosaur evolution.

The study was funded by a research fellowship to Stephan Lautenschlager from the German Volkswagen Foundation.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/zFljwprhuAQ/130520114017.htm

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What constitutes short sale fraud? - Zillow Real Estate Advice

I don't see fraud. Rather I see incompetence. It's possible that the loan was owned by Wells (or someone else) and it was determined they would be able to assign the debt to Fannie Mae (something that can only be done under certain circumstances). Once that occurs, you're playing by Fannies rules.

What's irksome is that in the event of a foreclosure, the 2nd may not get a dime if the homeowner files for bankruptcy. This way they would've gotten 50 cents on the dollar, which is pretty good for 2nd mortgages (typically 10 cents on the dollar).

Source: http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/What-constitutes-short-sale-fraud/493019/

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