| Grand Haven Tribune
DALLAS James Kroll has spent 35 years debunking popular misconceptions about America's favorite big game animal the white-tailed deer. Kroll, a.k.a. Dr. Deer, is a professor of forest wildlife and director of the Institute for White-tailed Deer Management and Research at Stephen F. Austin University. He's a regular on hunting and deer management seminar tours and also on the North American Whitetail television series where he delivers concise information about wild deer, ending each segment with a signature phrase "I'm James Kroll and this is my world." Kroll has helped landowners from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border manage deer. His cutting edge research includes the use of infrared triggered cameras as early as the late 1970s. Today, thousands of hunters use inexpensive digital cameras (more than 100 models are available) to census deer herds, identify target bucks and track their movements.
Firm eyes bigger RP market
AS it opens its concept shop in Cebu, Samsung Electronics bared plans to double its growth and get a bigger share of the Philippine market.
Antonio Mauricio, Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp. general manager-consumer electronics team, said the company expects double-digit growth this year and intends to achieve the same in 2008.
Samsung, together with partners Asian Home and Junrex Cellphones, opened a concept shop at the Ayala Center Cebu yesterday.
Mauricio said the shop is intended to �make our presence stronger here.�
The concept shop is the first in Cebu and in Visayas. Last year, Samsung opened a concept shop in Cagayan de Oro, also in partnership with local dealers.
Technology
Mauricio said the concept shop will highlight the technology that Samsung has developed, particularly products �that are designed with convergence of features and functions in mind.
The art issue
The Times of Acadiana asked local artists to submit bios and examples of their work for our first-ever Art Issue. We've picked through the entries to compile 50 of Acadiana's most creative. Art washes away the dust from everyday life.
-- Pablo Picasso For weeks, the Times of Acadiana has put out the call to area artists -- to those who earn their bread and butter via oils and watercolors and to those who simply consider their craft a vehicle for profitless creativity. We asked them to include basic biographical information, price range of their work, technique specifics, inspiration and thoughts about recent works. We asked artists to recall that special time when they discovered they had talent in the first place. We asked for samples of their works. Before posting the first request, we certainly recognized the abundance of talent in Acadiana.
Caught by a trail camera: For a few bucks, you learn a lot
The two deer caught by the trail camera at night are a spike and an eight-point with heads down and antlers interlocked, but this is only a play fight. If that eight-point were rutting, he'd drive the spike off in seconds. Charley Guenther looks at the photograph made by an automated camera on his hunting camp near this Osceola County town and says, "The amazing thing is that several of us have seen that spike, but no one has seen the eight-point. In fact, there are eight different bucks in the pictures that the camera took this week, and I think we've only see two of them." Trail cameras are becoming enormously popular among hunters, largely because the price has dropped as low as $49.95, and $130-$200 buys a digital model that will make excellent pictures for months on end and store hundreds of images on a data card not much bigger than a postage stamp.
Creativity Of The Cubicle Spawns Office Lip Dubs
They've given us some great laughs, but YouTube and other video-sharing venues have also smothered cyberspace with homemade bosh and bunkum. So it was a pleasant surprise to find a little online refinement via the concept of "office lip dubs," music videos made by 9-to-5ers from offices around the world.
The videos are filmed in one long camera shot, with the song dubbed over the footage during editing, which lends theatrical heft and volume to what would otherwise be a routine lip-sync. The concept fell into our laps when we received a link to a video made by the staff of AOL France, which, like its counterpart in Dulles, Va., is laying off some of its employees. About 40 people at the company made a "souvenir video" during a recent office party (which may have been their last), according to a design director at AOL France who spearheaded the project (and wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons).
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