Your smartphone plus gravity equals drooping jowls and double chins?

It may be time to update that old joke about the horse walking into a bar — "Why the long face?" asks the bartender — and give it a digital twist. Our growing reliance on smartphones and laptops is elongating our faces into jowly, sagging messes, according to cosmetic surgeons and other beauty pundits. They've even come up with a suitably distressing name for this phenomenon: "Smartphone face." Here's what you need to know about the alleged phenomenon:

What exactly is "smartphone face"?
Apparently coined by British cosmetic surgeon Dr. Mervyn Patterson, the term describes a combination of sagging jowls, double chins, and "marionette lines," those vertical creases that run from the corners of the mouth towards the chin. As Patterson explains to the London Evening Standard, "If you sit for hours with your head bent slightly forward, staring at your iPhone or laptop screen, you may shorten the neck muscles and increase the gravitational pull on the jowl area, leading to a drooping jawline." The name also works on another level; face sag becomes especially noticeable when you take photos of yourself or video-chat on your portable device.

Is this a real thing?
The surprisingly rapid rise in "chinplants" and other jaw-focused cosmetic surgery certainly is. And it wouldn't be the first time smartphones have been blamed for ruining our health, our sleep, our relationships — or even for speeding us toward our death. Still, most symptoms of smartphone face can be attributed to genetics, the natural ravages of age, and weight fluctuations. For instance, as British doctor Nick Lowe tells the London Evening Standard, "People who jog and diet lose volume from their faces and their skin can become saggy and loose, especially around the chin area."

How do you fix smartphone face?
Options include a range of cosmetic "chinterventions," says the Evening Standard's Leah Hardy. While a chin implant will typically set you back $7,000, you can also firm up your jawline with less-invasive techniques such as injections of chin-sculpting filler ($950), special Botox treatments, ($550), skin-tightening radiofrequency waves ($4,800), liposuction/laser facelifts ($4,100), or the PY Neckline Trainer ($50), a "home gym for your chin." Or, if you want to save a wad of cash, how about keeping your chin up "when you text or stare into your smartphone," says Chris Matyszczyk at CNET News. "No need to thank me. My pleasure. You look beautiful."

CLEVELAND (AP) — A fugitive on the run for more than two years was arrested on accusations that he ran a scam that collected $100 million in donations from people in dozens of states who believed they were helping U.S. Navy veterans, Ohio's attorney general and the U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday.

The man, who uses the false identity of Bobby Thompson, was indicted in Ohio in 2010 on theft, money laundering and other charges related to the Florida-based charity. He disappeared in June 2010. Little, if any, of the money collected by the charity was used to benefit veterans, authorities have said.

Authorities acting on a tip tracked Thompson to a bar in Portland, Ore., on Monday night, followed him home and made the arrest,Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. He had multiple fake ID cards from Canada and a backpack containing cash, DeWine said.

Thompson refused to speak to investigators, authorities said.

At a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Acosta of Portland ordered Thompson was returned to Ohio. Thompson, who limped into the courtroom, spoke often with his public defender during an hour-long hearing to set up he was the man that authorities were looking for.

DeWine said authorities hope to have the man returned within 10 days to Ohio, where he will be tried in state court in Cleveland. The alleged fraud, which DeWine called "despicable," spanned 41 states, including up to $2 million in Ohio.

People who contributed gave small amounts, ranging from $5 to $50, DeWine said. "The bulk of this was not huge contributions," he said. "But these were patriotic Americans who gave money believing that money was going to help Navy veterans."

Authorities still don't know the man's real name, but investigators uncovered information earlier this year that led them to believe he may have lived recently in New Mexico.

Ohio investigators also tracked Thompson through Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington and West Virginia.

Elliott said Thompson fled New England the day after an episode about his case aired on "America's Most Wanted" in March 2011.

The arrest closes a search dating back several years and involving a Tampa, Fla.-based charity known as the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.

The charity's former legal counsel said she long accepted Thompson's explanations for irregularities in the group's financial records, but ultimately changed her mind after flying to Tampa two years ago where Blanca Contreras, another agency official, denied her access to many records. Thompson was gone by then, Helen Mac Murray said.

"He was a very brilliant man," said Mac Murray, of New Albany in suburban Columbus. "He had an answer for any questions that popped up about any kind of irregularity."

Mac Murray said she took her concerns to the attorneys general of Ohio and Florida and the FBI in 2010 and has cooperated ever since. She says she is not a suspect of the investigation. Cleveland-based U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott confirmed her coöperation.

Mac Murray said she last saw Thompson at a board meeting in New York City in June 2010. She doesn't know what Thompson was doing in Oregon, although he had often mentioned contacts he had there and in New Mexico. She also doesn't know who he really is or what is name is.

"He lied to all of us," she said.

Contreras of Tampa, Fla., was sentenced to five years in prison last year for her role in the scam. Contreras had pleaded guilty to theft, money laundering and other charges related to allegations she handled nearly $475,000 in Ohio donations for the charity.

Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray had also investigated Thompson and had worked with the Hamilton County prosecutor's office on an arrest warrant issued from Cincinnati, where in 2003 the man set up a UPS mailbox to collect donations for the association.

Authorities say the real Thompson, a Choctaw who worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wasn't connected to the association and had his identity, including his Social Security number and date of birth, stolen.

The association made a few sporadic contributions that benefited veterans, but public records show the man behind it contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to political candidates around the country, Cordray said in 2010. Authorities didn't know the motives for those contributions, he said.

Cordray's office froze the association's bank accounts and drop boxes and ordered it to stop operations in Ohio.

Monday night  11/14/2011
Lambeau  Field

This is what ESPN  failed to show you Monday night,  11/14/2011.
Apparently, they thought their  commercials were more important than showing this scene for  about 5 seconds.

Those  who attended the game said it was extremely emotional to see the entire  bowl of the stadium turn red, white and blue.  It took 90 workers two  weeks to get all of the colored pages mounted under each seat. Each piece  of card board had eye slits in them so the fans could hold up the colored  sheet and watch the game through the eye slits.

Simple Camo Netting 1.0 | A basic Vehicle Camo Netting Script for Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead

by =VG= SemlerPDX for VETERANS-GAMING (www.veterans-gaming.com)

You can deploy a large Camo Net over vehicles, hiding them from the enemy. Can be loaded into a vehicle from a service point,
or ammo crate - or you can give the ability to any individual vehicle by adding Deploy Net action to it's init line.

Copy and Paste the folder "scripts" into your mission folder. If you already have a scripts folder, just copy and paste the
"vehicleCamo" folder into it.

Download Here: http://www.veterans-gaming.com/download.php?view.162

All commands for this script are Mouse Wheel Action based. Change the color of any of the addAction Text with any HTML color
code. Just replace the #DBA901 to anything you want.

// Mission Integration //

Copy and Paste the folder "scripts" into your mission folder.
If you already have a scripts folder, just copy and paste the "vehicleCamo" folder into it.
Follow instructions in ReadMe to add the action to a vehicle or object in your mission.

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PM SemlerPDX =VG= at VETERANS-GAMING.COM or contact me on Twitter @SemlerPDX
Do not redistribute, mirror, copy, or adapt without authorization from creator.

Submitted by SemlerPDX =VG=

This month at VETERANS-GAMING February's contests and prizes are posted. Congratulations to last months winners! You guys have some great prizes on the way like a TurtleBeach X12 Gaming Headset,Razer DeathAdder Infrared Gaming Mouse and Men of War Complete Pack for PC! Unfortunately nobody won the Seagate Barracuda 500GB Hard Drive, so it's re-listed again this month!

CONTEST DETAILS

Grand Prizes (Feb 2012) : (1) Company of Heroes Complete Pack; Includes 3 items: Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor; (1) Seagate Barracuda 7200 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500418AS-Bare Drive; (1) Killing Floor Bundle Edition, Bundle Includes 7 items; (1) Free Copy of Garry’s Mod

Please read full contest rules and eligibility info at: http://www.veterans-gaming.com/page.php?214

Hi everyone!

A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.

The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game.  You were heard.

On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday.  See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.

This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled.  “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."  

Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up  - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause

Source: FightfortheFuture

Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We want to get you involved.

Join us on the historic day by blacking out your site. Copy the code below and paste it into the header of your theme (WordPress users: use the SOPA Strike plugin) to black your site out in protest of SOPA/PIPA. It will activate automatically on Jan. 18th, displaying this page and directing visitors to contact Congress, and will deactivate at the end of the day.

<script type="text/javascript">var a=new Date,b=a.getHours()+a.getTimezoneOffset()/60;if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear()&&13<=b&&24>=b)window.location="http://sopastrike.com/strike";</script>

In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society -- the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

10 November 1921:

This date marked the first formal commemoration of the birthday of the Marine Corps as 10 November. On 21 October 1921, Maj Edwin McClellan, OIC of the Historical Section, HQMC, sent a memo to MajGen Commandant John A. Lejeune, suggesting that the original birthday of 10 November 1775 be declared a Marine Corps holiday to be celebrated throughout the Corps. Accordingly, on 1 Nov 1921, Gen Lejeune issued Marine Corps Order No. 47 summarizing the history, mission, and tradition of the Corps, and directed that it be read to every command each 10 November.

Today in Marine Corps History. Happy Birthday Marines!

8 November 1990:

President Bush announced that he planned to add more than 200,000 U.S. troops to those already deployed in Operation Desert Shield in the Persian Gulf area. The number of Marines in the area would be doubled by the addition of II MEF units from the Corps' east coast bases, and the 5th MEB from California. Within the next two months, Marine strength in the objective area would increase to nearly 90,000 Marines.

Today in Marine Corps History.

Own a Gun? Please Keep This Moving

Guess they were not happy with the poll results the first time, so USA today is running another one (Poll) ... vote now.

Attorney General, Eric Holder, has already said this is one of his major issues. He does not believe the 2nd Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms. This takes literally 2 clicks to complete. Please vote on this gun issue question with USA Today. It will only take a few seconds of your time. Then pass the link on to all the pro-gun folks you know. Hopefully, these results will be published later this month. This upcoming year will become critical for gun owners with the Supreme Court's accepting the District of Columbia case against the right for individuals to bear arms.

Here's what you need to do:

First - vote on this: http://www.usatoday.com/news/quickquestion/2007/november/popup5895.htm

Second - launch it to other folks and have THEM vote - then we will see if the results get published.

Thanks to Gun lovers everywhere! Please Share, Share, Share!!