As goodwill ambassador, the 25-year-old from Orange, Australia, will promote The Bowling Foundation and its charities while competing as an exempt player on the 2009-10 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour.

“This support will be significant for The Bowling Foundation,” The Bowling Foundation Executive Director Troy Greisen said. “Jason Belmonte’s phenomenal success and popularity will bring much-needed awareness to our youth programs and charity partners. Jason understands the importance of helping those in need.”

The 2008-09 Harry Golden PBA Rookie of the Year won The Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic, earning him his 2009-10 exemption. Belmonte made the match-play field six times and cashed in eight of the nine events he entered during the 2008-09 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season.

“I am proud to serve as The Bowling Foundation’s first goodwill ambassador,” Belmonte said. “The sport of bowling does a lot of good work for youth and charity through the foundation, and I want to support these efforts any way I can.”

Belmonte and his unique bowling style earned plenty of media attention during the 2008-09 season. Among his appearances were ESPN’s E:60, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show and The Fox Network’s Fox & Friends. He also was featured in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, ESPN The Magazine, Denver Post, Boston Globe and ESPN.com among many other media outlets.

For more information, visit bowlingfoundation.org, or contact us at info@bowlingfoundation.org or (888) 302-8122.

About The Bowling Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to enhance the lives of others through the sport of bowling, particularly reaching out toward youth, those less fortunate, underprivileged or in need, giving them increased chance for success, health, fitness and the joy of sport; while fostering bowling across all sectors of society and the world.

As the “charitable arm of bowling,” the foundation is fully supported by the leading entities for the sport including the United States Bowling Congress, The Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America, the Bowling Proprietors Association International, Strike Ten Entertainment and the Professional Bowlers Association.

Program Partners include Special Olympics, Susan G Komen for the Cure, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Bowlers to Veterans Link, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The Bowling Foundation also supports the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame and Bowlers Education Youth programs.

The “Langham” Hotel is not too shabby either.

Bowling to me is a game for Attention Deficit Disorderists. Immediate gratification, noise, and lots of conversation. No naked cheer-leading though.

Create a sense of glamor in 5 minutes or less.

I found this photo in my “where’d these photos come from?” collection. I’d like to credit the photographer, but couldn’t find reference.

I decided though, after seeing the photograph, that it needed just a little something. So, i set a time limit of 5 minutes and had at it.

I’m thinking it might make a nice little tutorial if anyone is interested. Leave a comment if you’d like the tutorial.

And then I remembered a desktop I designed a year or so ago.

Have it. It can be your own “ghost in the machine”.

I created six, of different colors/hues, but of the same found pattern.

Here are the remaining five that were left over. If you can use them, feel free to do so. A simple feed subscription or link to this blog is all I’d hope to gain in return. TIA.

Have fun.

Our office, spread out over the State of Ohio, has been utilizing google Doc & Calendar for about 4 months now, and everyone here swears by both. We’ve not had much room/reason/whatever to try out the google presentations. At least not until now.

Official Google Docs Blog: New features for 2008!

New features for 2008!
Friday, January 04, 2008 3:27 PM
Posted by: Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, Google Docs Engineers

It’s been two months since we launched Google Presentations and already we’ve got new toys! We’ve been listening to your feedback and working hard to get you new features as quickly as possible (so keep the suggestions coming)…

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Here’s Week 1 (Large version available of course at flickr by a simple pic-click)

The Circle of Life