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Based in Atlanta, GA - Rick Limpert is an award-winning writer, a best-selling author, and a featured sports travel writer.

Named the No. 1 Sports Technology writer in the U.S. on Oct 1, 2014.

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Thursday
Aug262010

Vote For Henry on ABC's People's Platelist

 

My friend, Superchef Henry Chandler is in the running to be honored by ABC News as one of the top chefs in America.  The video above tells a bit of Henry's story and his passion for good food and good times. 

About 10 years ago, Henry brought the Louisiana Bayou to the Atlanta suburbs, and things haven't been the same since.  If you have ever visited Henry's Louisiana Grill in Acworth, GA you'll know what I'm taking about. 

Henry is a great chef as you can tell by the packed restaurant, but he's even a better person.  He supports many causes, not only with his business, but personally as well.

Vote for Henry.  http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Platelist/nightline-peoples-platelist-vote-favorite-finalist/story?id=11460875

Monday
Aug232010

Tiger and Elin's Divorce is Final

It's finally over.  Tiger Woods and his wife are officially divorced.

The lawyers for Woods and Elin Nordegren say in a statement that the divorce became official on Monday in Bay County Circuit Court.

The divorce comes nine months after Woods crashed his SUV outside their home near Orlando, setting off explosive revelations that the world's No. 1 golfer had been cheating on his wife. It led to Woods losing millions of dollars in endorsements and taking five months away from the game.

Terms of the divorce were not disclosed, except that they will share parenting of their two children, ages 3 and 1.

Tiger has committed to play in this week's PGA tournament, The Barclays.

Friday
Aug202010

J.D. Salinger's Throne up for Auction

A North Carolina collectibles dealer is hawking a toilet ripped from reclusive author J.D. Salinger's former home.

Rick Kohl of The Vault said Friday he bought the standard white porcelain fixture from a New Hampshire couple who owned a home where the author of "Catcher in the Rye" once lived.

To vouch that this is no phony, Kohl has a letter from the homeowner attesting that she and her husband replaced the toilet while remodeling, and that they knew the workmen who installed it decades ago.

The eBay asking price is $1 million, though Kohl says he's willing to see what the literary giant's home throne will fetch.

The toilet's lid is stamped with a manufacturing date of 1962, well after the 1951 publication date of Salinger's classic novel.  Has to be worth something to someone.

Thursday
Aug192010

Avoid Searches for Cameron Diaz on the Web

Diaz, 37, is top of the list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, above second-placed Julia Roberts, according to computer security company McAfee, Inc. Last year's most dangerous Web celebrity, Jessica Biel, fell to third.

One in ten websites featuring the "Knight and Day" star contain malicious software intended to infect computers and steal data from users, according to research released on Thursday by McAfee.

Creators of malicious software use celebrities as lures, baiting fans and followers to click on and download seemingly innocuous content containing programs designed to steal passwords and other private information for profit, said Dave Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs.

They follow hot topics on the Web and create their poisonous content accordingly," Marcus said.

"This relates to a larger trend of using social engineering lures. A lot of times a cyber criminal will mine Twitter, or follow Google Trends, to poison those links. It's very clear they will use news trends to lure," he said.

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen came in at fourth.  Brad Pitt is also one of the celebs that is dangerous to randomly search for.  This is the fourth time McAfee published the annual list of dangerous individuals.

 

Thursday
Aug192010

Dee Snider Welcomes You to 'Snidersville, OH"

An Ohio town named Cridersville will be renamed "Snidersville" for one day in honor of Dee Snider, singer of 1980s heavy metal group Twisted Sister, after he had requested the change as a joke following a call from a resident on his syndicated radio show."I've had many dreams and been lucky enough to have most of them come true, but I would never dare to dream of something like this!", said Snider, 55.

Some 1,500 people live in Cridersville, located between between Dayton and Toledo. The name change is set to take place on August 21, when Snider will host a motorcycle ride to support the March of Dimes foundation's "Bikers for Babies" initiative. He will ride his motorcycle from Lima, Ohio, to "Snidersville" with other bikers to raise funds to help fight premature birth.

Snider, a New York native whose band is most famous for commercial hits such as "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", is the national spokesperson for March of Dimes Bikers for Babies and has participated in its rides for more than 10 years.

Snider and his wife Suzette, to whom he has been married for about 29 years, have Tthree sons - Jessie, 27,  Shane, 22, and Cody, 20, and a 13-year-old daughter named Cheyenne. Two of their children were born prematurely. The family stars in an A&E reality show called Growing up Twisted.