January 17, 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Versifli Light Future Shock
A light bulb has been developed that can be controlled from your smart phone or table. The Lumen LED App Enabled Smart Bulb by Versifli can be turned off or on or shine in 16 million colors from any Bluetooth 4.0 enabled IOS device such as an iPhone or iPad.
It sounds like making magic. You can pretend you’re Harry Potter.
Versifli Light Future Shock
Lenders Lurk Facebook
Next time your loan request gets squashed consider the stupid thing you said on Facebook about telling your boss to take this job and shove it. 
Lending companies are checking posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media to determine whether they should take a chance on you reports the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal notes that the practice is mostly being used by smaller and newer lenders but that it is likely to spread.
Omnibit Of The Day 1-15-14
January 15 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Howard Hughes once made a half billion dollars in a single afternoon.
April Magera, John Roman Press Club Speakers
Reality television personality April Margera and veteran journalist John Roman will speak at The Press Club Serving The
Philadelphia Suburbs, noon, today, Jan. 15, at Margaret Kuo’s in
Wayne.
Mrs. Margera is a reality television personality, best known for her appearances on MTV’s Viva La Bam, Jackass, the CKY videos, Minghags: The Movie and Bam’s Unholy Union. Referred to as “Ape” by fans of the popular series, April is the mother of Bam and CKY drummer Jess, and is married to Phil Margera.
Jeff Tremaine, producer of Jackass, once referred to her as “everyone’s mom,” telling how she cooked dinner for the entire Jackass crew on their first trip to West Chester. Margera published a cookbook called April Cooks: There’s An Alligator In My Kitchen, with the title being a reference to the time that Bam put an alligator in her kitchen as part of a skit on “Jackass: The Movie.”
In 2011, Mrs. Margera opened a store, The Rose Hip Barn, in Thornton that sells refurbished furniture as well as homemade purses and accessories for the home.
John Roman is a veteran crime reporter, award winning journalist and author of the mystery thriller “Ink in His Blood.”
Roman first pounded the city streets for the former Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, then the largest evening daily newspaper in America. He covered many of Philadelphia’s top news events.
After the Bulletin closed, Roman went on to a legendary career with the Delaware County Daily and Sunday Times, covering numerous murders and crimes, including the standoff of eccentric millionaire John DuPont at his sprawling estate after he gunned down an Olympic wrestler. A veteran and highly regarded police reporter, Roman was among the first to focus on the use of DNA forensic evidence in criminal investigations. He covered the brutal rape-murder case in Delaware County in which Nick Yarris wrongfully spent 21 years on death row before being exonerated through DNA testing after he was the first death row inmate in the U.S. to request DNA testing to prove his innocence.
April Magera, John Roman Press Club Speakers
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Omnibit Of The Day 1-14-14
January 14 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Yes, Robert James, William F. Buckley Jr. was a member of A.B.C.D.E.F (American Boys Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn)
IRS Audits Palin Dad
Sarah Palin’s brother on Jan. 11 posted on Facebook that their father became the subject of government harassment shortly after Palin was tapped as a vice president candidate in 2008.
Chuck Heath Jr. wrote:
Coincidence? You decide.
My father, who worked multiple jobs and faithfully and honestly paid his taxes for fifty years, had never heard a word from the IRS. In 2008, his daughter was tapped to run for vice president of the United States.
Since that time, he has been, in his words “horribly harassed” six times by the agency. They’ve tried to dig up something on him but he’s always operated above board.Government and politics are ugly. Kudos to the few that are trying to clean it up.
Chuck Heath Sr. is a retired school teacher who has a reputation of being Mr. Chips. So where is the outrage in his defense from the old media watchdogs? Stupid question. There are no old media watchdogs. All that’s left in the old media are gutless corporate hacks and happy purveyors of propaganda looking to go along to get along.
Hat tip Bryan Preston at PJMedia.com
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TV Changes Young Brains
A Japanese study has found that TV changes young brains and for the worse, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mail. 
The study looked at 276 children between five and 18. Brain scans showed that the ones who spent the most time before the tube had more gray matter around the frontopolar cortex. This gray matter needs to be pruned during childhood and the authors of the study say this was not happening.
This part of the brain is associated with intellectual abilities.
“TV view is directly or indirectly associated with the neurocognitive development of children . . . at least some of the observed associations are not beneficial and guardians of children should consider those effects when children view TV for long periods of time,” the authors said.
The study was almost evenly divided between boys and girls. The subjects watched between zero and four hours a day.
The effect TV had on the structural development of the brain had never been investigated according to the authors.
TV Changes Young Brains
HB 1411 Makes School Funding More Transparent
The Pennsylvania House is scheduled to vote this week on House Bill 1411 that would create the SchoolWATCH (Public School Web Accountability and Transparency) Act, according to state Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
HB 1411 would require the posting of searchable financial information on the web. Does this include teacher salaries? This is what the bill says: The advisory committee may consider including ON THE INTERNET DATABASE INDIVIDUAL salary information for employees who are not administrative staff.
“May consider” is pretty fudgy.
Cox says that the legislation is similar in concept to the bill that created PennWATCH, which enhanced the accountability of state government by posting state spending, budget and performance information online.
HB 1411 Makes School Funding More Transparent
Google Lessening Privacy Even More
A looming Gmail feature will Google+ users simply type in a name to email each other. One does need to know the address. This applies to all on that social network and this particular “feature” is the default. 
For those that don’t want emails from everyone on Google+ one has to opt out by selecting “no one” or otherwise limiting this “feature” in a new Gmail setting.
Google says it will let users know of the change via Gmail when it is implemented.
Google Lessening Privacy Even More