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People always have had problems with relationships. Relationships have confused every past generation. Relationships confuse us. That confusion becomes more evident every year. People experience difficulty when they try to get along with other people. More know how to argue and fight with others than they know how to enjoy others. Many people have a lot of acquaintances but few friends.
In no relationship is it more obvious that relationship skills are declining than it is in marriage. Troubled marriages outnumber stable marriages. Grieving marriages outnumber joyful marriages. Marriages in conflict outnumber marriages that cooperate. Marriages that show contempt outnumber marriages that express respect. More marriages fall to separation or divorce than rise to genuine contentment.
In talking with people whose troubled relationship causes them sorrow and anxiety, I hear this statement. "I am just so confused. I really tried to make things right. I tried to make him (or her) happy. But the harder I try, the worse it gets. I just don't know what he (or she) wants."
"I just don't know what he (or she) wants." That statement is an indicator statement. It places a finger on the pulse of misunderstanding. One of the reasons we function so poorly in relationships is because of this: we have a poor understanding about what is to occur in relationships. We want good relationships. We just don't understand what is necessary to build a relationship. We don't know what is expected.
That is true in both relationships with people and relationship with God.
- In your relationship with God, do you know what God wants?
- Probably many of us are confused in our relationship with God because we don't know what God wants in the relationship.
- We don't feel close to God–in fact, when we need to feel our closest to God is often when we feel very far from God.
- We feel like God is rejecting us instead of accepting us–when we struggle spiritually is also when we feel that God is disgusted with us.
- When we talk to God, we either feel very stiff or very habitual in our prayers.
- As we pray, we feel like we need to apologize for bothering God.
- While we are very sincere in what we say, we always seem to say the same things in the same way.
- We appreciate our salvation and we want God to be pleased with us.
- We just don't feel that we are making God happy.
- We try to learn all that we are supposed to do, but knowing those things and trying to do them does not make us feel close to God–not as a child should feel toward his loving Father.
- We try to attend worship and study assemblies faithfully; sometimes we feel close to God in an assembly, but many times we don't.
- We try to do what we are instructed to do–be baptized, take communion, worship–but sometimes we feel so empty, like we are going through the motions because we are supposed to.
- If I asked you to explain your understanding of what God wants, what would you tell me? Certainly, you could answer that question in many different ways.
- You might explain that God wants us to obey Him and discuss what we are to do to obey God.
- You might explain that God wants us to worship Him and discuss meaningful worship.
- You might explain that God wants us to help and serve other people and explain how we are to help others.
- You might explain that God wants us to teach other people about Christ and explain the importance of being evangelistic.
- You might explain that God wants us to help the church grow and mature and stress ways that we can do that.
- You might explain that God wants us to help those who are spiritually weak or struggling and explain how we can help each other with our burdens.
- I want you to carefully consider Paul's answer to that question; listen as Paul explains what God wants in Titus 2:11-14.
- For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. (The New American Standard Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.)
- Let's set the context of that statement.
- Paul is writing a letter to a young preacher named Titus.
- It is likely that Titus began his work as a preacher and missionary under the direction and guidance of Paul.
- When Paul sent this letter to Titus, Titus was working with some young congregations on the island of Crete.
- People living on Crete had an earned reputation for being wicked people who honored evil–some evil things were considered to be good.
- The island also had an influential Jewish community that created some serious problems for Christians.
- These congregations needed some stable leadership from mature, godly men.
- Paul left Titus at Crete to set that leadership in place.
- Titus needed to give careful attention to himself as he did that–to set leadership in place in a congregation is an enormous responsibility.
- So Paul reminded Titus to give careful consideration to the way that he related to and interacted with the people in those congregations.
- He had some special instructions for Christians who were young women, young men, or slaves.
- Probably many of us are confused in our relationship with God because we don't know what God wants in the relationship.
- Then, in Titus 2:11-14, Paul explained what God wants when He saves people.
- First, Paul affirmed that God created the opportunity for all people to have salvation.
- Every person has the opportunity to escape an evil life and begin a new life.
- Anyone could be forgiven.
- Anyone could become God's own son or daughter.
- It was extremely important to remember this when working among evil people.
- God's goodness made salvation possible for anyone.
- God was unrestrained in revealing His goodness.
- God's goodness was expressed as it had never been expressed.
- That was what Christ's coming, life, death, and resurrection were all about–giving God the right to reveal and express His goodness without restrain.
- But notice (verse twelve) that God's goodness or God's grace instructs or disciplines (it trains people).
- God's goodness teaches the person who accepts it how to discipline himself or herself.
- God's grace is a gift, but if I accept the gift, it teaches me something.
- These people had lived out of control lives before they became Christians.
- God's goodness made it possible for them to be Christians.
- But God's goodness did not give them permission to continue to live out of control lives.
- God's goodness intended to train them in how to live disciplined lives.
- When people accept God's grace to gain salvation, they are to allow that grace to teach them.
- God's goodness teaches them an essential negative lesson:
- Renounce the life that was controlled or directed by ungodliness (feelings and thoughts that have nothing to do with God).
- Renounce the life that was controlled or directed by earthly desires (passions that only consider physical desires but have no concern for God).
- God's goodness teaches them an essential positive lesson:
- In your real life circumstances, live sensibly–do not merely do what you feel like doing or what you think will give you pleasure and satisfaction; bring yourself under control.
- In your real life circumstances, live righteously (uprightly, doing what is lawful, doing what is right–remember the situation in Crete).
- In your real life circumstances, live godly (think and act in ways that are appropriate for the person who has decided to belong to God).
- God's goodness teaches them an essential negative lesson:
- Why? Why will the person who accepts God's salvation completely change the way he or she has lived?
- Before he or she accepted God's goodness, he or she lived for greed, lived for pleasure, lived to satisfy the desire that controlled his or her thinking, ruled his or her feelings, or made him or her feel good.
- After accepting God's goodness, he or she lived for something entirely different.
- It was not even found in this physical existence and experience.
- He or she began to live for hope rather than gratification, the hope that existed because that Jesus Christ the Savior would return.
- That is when our great God will give us a good life that will not end.
- That is when we will experience the joy of being a part of His eternal glory.
- God gave Jesus in death for us for two basic reasons.
- The first was to redeem us from all our lawless deeds (again, remember the situation and circumstances at Crete in its lawless society).
- We are pardoned; we are freed from all our past lawlessness.
- The second was to bring into existence a purified people who belonged to God out of personal choice and desire.
- That is what God has always wanted.
- That is what He wanted with Adam and Eve.
- That is what He wanted with the people of Israel.
- That is what He wants in Christians.
- He wants a people who belong to him because they want to belong to Him, not because they have to belong to Him.
- It is their first choice; it is their number one desire.
- No matter what they could own, no matter what opportunities they could have, no matter what they could do–belonging to God would always be their first choice.
- Because they by choice belong to the great God whose goodness gave them a Savior and salvation:
- They are consumed with the desire to do good deeds for others.
- They are consumed with that desire because their God gave them His goodness.
- Every person has the opportunity to escape an evil life and begin a new life.
- First, Paul affirmed that God created the opportunity for all people to have salvation.
What does God want? He wants you to let His goodness train you: (1) train you to renounce ungodly desires and passions, and (2) train you to live under control while you do what is right and appropriate for people who belong to God. He wants you to live in hope as you look forward to the return of Jesus Christ. He wants you to belong to Him by choice and be consumed with a desire to do good.
A Christian who understands God's grace does that. A Christian who does not do that has a lot to learn about God's grace.
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I always wondered how VVP was. After reading your review we probably will go there in the future. Any other advice???We stayed at Vacation Villages over the 4th of July last year. We got the whole week on a last call deal. Here is my review: Vacation Villages Review
There are a few restaurants that you can walk to from the resort. You can also make use of restaurant delivery services and/or Publix delivery service.
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"I, (state your name), having been appointed a (rank) in the United States (branch of service), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter. So help me God."


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This has been a regularly reported practice for many years, but finally we have photo proof of the "hidden pocket" containing Westgate cancellation/rescission instructions to serve as a guide for unsuspecting owners!
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Westgate Hides Timeshare Cancellation Instructions!
In all 50 states, Timeshares are required to include detailed and specific instructions that define both the rescission (cancellation) period and the process an owner must go through to legally cancel their purchase. In most situations this information is located within the sales contract itself and while not painfully obvious within the many pages of 'legalese' most contracts consist of, it is least available to all owners who take the time to read the sales contract in its entirety.
Rescission is a perfectly valid and legal option for all Timeshare owners who have doubts or concerns about their purchase to cancel their new purchase and be refunded all monies paid and terminate the sales contract provide the instructions are followed!
Note for more detailed information about canceling your newly purchased timeshare, see this article:
How do I cancel my new Timeshare purchase
Given that the average Timeshare retail sales price at the time of this article is somewhere north of $18,000, one can see why resorts do not put forth much effort in explaining the right of rescission, but in the case of Westgate, it is taken many many levels further and these instructions are actually hidden in a secret compartment within the sales binder given to the new owner!
Surely you must be joking, how could a large multi-million dollar corporation do something like this?
No Joke here folks, this has been reported on TUG for many many years, but only recently did we have a new owner provide some detailed photographs of the hidden folder in their sales binder which we will show you below! Remember, there is only a very short time to legally cancel your Timeshare purchase and in some states its as little as 3 calendar days! Who knows how many countless owners have made a purchase and had no knowledge whatsoever about this secret pocket containing the information they needed to legally rescind their Timeshare purchase!
OK we get it, where is the proof?
And now for your viewing pleasure and to serve as a reference for all future Westgate buyers to be able to easily locate the top secret hidden cancellation documents within a sales binder, are the photos we have all been waiting for that we shall now name "Pocket-Gate".
Photo 1: What appears to all as a perfectly normal (and quite nice I might ad) sales binder given to a new buyer of a Westgate Timeshare!
Photo 2: The secret hidden compartment held closed by Velcro that contains the otherwise innocent looking manila envelope that contains the instructions for canceling your Westgate Timeshare purchase!
Owners can decide for themselves what reasons a major resort developer would put so much effort into hiding the information needed by owners to legally rescind their new timeshare purchase so many levels deep in secrecy (both the hidden velcroed pocket, and the plain manila envelope inside it), but we imagine you will come to the same conclusions most other owners do!
We truly thank those owners who found TUG in time to rescind their new Westgate purchase and shared this helpful information with us in hopes that it will find more owners in time so they are not stuck wondering how to cancel their new purchase because they cannot locate the information required to be included with the sales contract!
Here is the original thread where you can comment on and discuss this topic on the TUGBBS online forums:
Successful Cancellation of Westgate Timeshare Purchase!
Editors note: We personally find this practice utterly deplorable, and call for it to be discontinued immediately. Not that we expect this particular developer to listen, or even care...but if we can get this article in front of more and more Westgate owners, we hope they will use this knowledge to find these documents and be able to make an educated and informed decision to rescind their new Timeshare purchase, rather than having that option taken away from them because the information they needed was hidden in a secret compartment very few ever find!
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President Walter Frederick Mondale
The 1984 Election Campaign
When 1984 began it seemed incumbent president Ronald Reagan would be unbeatable in the upcoming presidential election. An economic boom in the USA was largely attributed to Reagan by the public, that combined with him surviving an assassination attempt early in his presidency had earned large support.
The Democratic Primaries saw three strong contenders for the Presidential Nomination: Former Vice President Walter Mondale, Colorado Senator Gary Hart and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
Though Hart would make an unexpectedly strong showing, he was ultimately beaten by Mondale who went on to become the nominee. Mondale used the then popular line "Where's the beef?" when describing Hart's "new ideas" platform.
Despite the bitter primary, Mondale ultimately decided to choose Hart as his running mate. Mondale hoped to use Hart's youth and verbal skills to his advantage, and to appeal to young voters.
In June, Reagan's problems began to mount. A doctor's appointment revealed he had cancerous polyps on his colon that were promptly removed. This cause questions of his health and if he was fit to lead. Reagan attempted to laugh off such concerns, claiming "I've survived a bullet; a few small bumps won't slow me down." Unfortunately this proved unsuccessful when cancer cells were discovered on his nose and quickly removed.
Reagan's health concerns combined with the positive reaction of Mondale choosing Hart caused Reagan's original 10 point lead in the polls to drop to 5.
The Democratic National Convention took place from July 16 to July 19. It was seen as a great success for the party. Hart gave an energetic speech where he promised to bring a voice for a new generation to Washington. He took a shot at Reagan claiming he was waging a war against the poor, "Well Reagan, you'll find out how hard it can be to find a job once we get you out of Washington and to the unemployment line!" was a popular line from Hart's speech.
Mondale gave a more subtle, but well received speech where he promised to fight for the middle class, for the forgotten citizens and for a more peaceful, more secure world. Word is originally Mondale was going to admit he would raise taxes if elected, but was talk out of it by Hart. This has never been proven.
The convention gave Mondale-Hart another bump cutting Reagan's lead down to 2 points.
Reagan's health concerns continued when in early August more cancer cells were discovered on his nose and were removed.
Near the end of August the Republican National Convention was held. It was highlighted by Reagan swearing his recent health problems had only made him stronger. Reagan-Bush saw their led bump back up to 5 points.
The Presidential Debates followed, Mondale won both decisively. Reagan was forced during the debates to go on the defensive and downplay questions about his health and questions over his fitness to lead. Mondale gained considerably in the eyes of voters, many who watched the debates called Mondale intelligent, determined and that he had a clear vision, while Reagan came off as confused and angry.
For the first time in the campaign the Mondale-Hart ticket took a lead in the polls with 2 points.
The Vice-Presidential debate was much closure with both sides declaring victory. Bush stated the Reagan had shown real leadership and a clear economic plan in his four years in office while Mondale was associated with "The failed Carter presidency." Hart shot back saying Reagan had forgotten real Americas and favored the rich. The debate was seen as a tie and the poll numbers didn't change.
As Election Day came closure The Reagan campaign released "The Bear in the Woods" ad which implied the U.S.S.R. was a threat and that Mondale would not be a strong leader. The also released an ad showing the disagreements Hart and Mondale had during the primaries and suggested that both were right, and that neither could lead the country.
In response the Mondale campaign released an ad playing up "Reagan's war against the poor and middle class" the ad appealed to Blue Collar workers in the Northeast who' d seen massive closings in the Steel, Auto, Rubber, and Chemicals industries.
The polls became even as the election neared.
What was seen originally as an easy win for Reagan became a nail biter.
Ultimately Mondale-Hart won with 296 Electoral votes, carrying: Washington. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Florida and The District of Columbia.
Mondale and Hart were sworn in on January 20th, 1985, both promising a fair and strong America for all its citizens.
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Mondale's first term was relatively successful according to most historians. He profited from a rebounding economy and peaceful times. He was very popular for combating Chinese Illegal Trade Practices, moving the country to clean renwable energy, and defending American foreign interest. He pulled funding from Afghanistan Rebels stating "What happens when the Soviets leave? I'll tell you they'll turn on us!" , but heavy fighting continued until the Soviet pulled out of the country. The Mondale/Hart ticket saw reelection in 1988 over Republican Bob Dole.


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For today's audiences, the actions of Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde's comedy of political intrigue seem romantic. Like more than one of our own leaders, he has a skeleton in his closet. His secret is that he made his fortune by what we now call insider trading: tipping off an investor about the government's plans for the Suez canal. Chiltern's prevarication when he is blackmailed by the manipulative Mrs Cheveley is a trait we recognise. Quite unrecognisable, however, is his decision to retire from public life even after he has successfully kept the secret quiet. Who today would show such scruples?
The question of how reasonable it is to expect perfection from loved ones and political representatives will always stay with us. On the one hand, Chiltern has built his wealth on a criminal act; on the other, he has behaved with integrity ever since.
It is a dichotomy that fuels the play's dramatic tension and one in which we can presume Wilde had a particular interest: two of the actors in the original 1895 production went on to testify against him in his trial for gross indecency. He was not a writer who felt he should be judged on his every action.
Despite this eternal dilemma, it is easy to mistake An Ideal Husband for a play about vacuous posh people in pretty frocks. It is not an illusion the Pitlochry company entirely dispels. Martine McMenemy plays Cheveley not as a dangerous tactician but as a silly coquette. With her sing-song delivery, she is more irritation than threat to Graham Vick's Chiltern. And this is a production in which the characters in general are too aware of their own ridiculousness. More gravitas – and less erratic emphasis – would earn more laughs and strike more notes of recognition.


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Gardening offers many pleasures, but weeding isn't one of them. Most successful gardeners develop their own special tricks to make the job easier, and if you coax them a bit, they'll share their secrets with you. The best weeding trick I've ever learned, however, didn't come from a friend or a book.
One spring day, Ted seeded an enormous patch of carrots, with 85 beautifully even rows. A few days later, while we were eating lunch, Ted and I noticed that our pigs seemed a bit noisier than usual. Gradually, a horrible realization sank in: the pigs were loose. Sure enough, when we looked out, we saw the whole bunch of them, rolling around in the soft, moist soil of the carrot patch.
I was just sick. Ted put on his bravest face and said, "Oh, Lois, don't worry. I'll re-seed it tomorrow." Well, of course, the next morning, rain set in and didn't let up for days. Ted never did get back to re-seeding.
A week later, I walked out to the garden. I couldn't believe my eyes. There were rows of seedlings, as neat and straight as could be. And any place that the pigs had rolled, there were no weeds, while the places they had missed were full of tiny emerging weed seedlings.
I was ready to let the pigs out again!
When I thought about it, it made sense. While those pigs had been having their fun, they were exposing thousands of tiny weeds to the elements. Meanwhile, a half inch below the surface, the carrot seeds remained safe and sound.
It's called "stirring the soil," and you can use the same approach even if you don't have pigs. When you plant your garden, say in early April, go out with a rake about two weeks later. Turn the prongs up to the sky and go over the entire area you planted. Just move the surface soil around. You won't do any harm to your garden, but you'll kill so much chickweed, you won't believe it.
When you seed again a couple of weeks later, you should wait only seven or eight days before raking, because the soil has begun to warm up and the seeds will germinate more quickly. By late May, wait only four days. With just a few minutes' work, you can save yourself literally hours of weeding.
Ted took this trick a step further. He always harrowed the potato field just before the plant emerged, to kill the competing weeds. He'd hitch spring-tooth harrows to the Massey Ferguson and drive along at about ten kilometres an hour, disturbing the soil as much as possible without damaging the crops. It was a great time-saver in the long run.
It goes to show you, if you pay attention, you never know what you might learn, even from pigs.
About fifteen years after the "pig incident", I gave this tip to a group of farm women. I had always thought it a remarkable pearl of wisdom. But that afternoon, an elderly woman came up to me and said, "Lois, my grandmother did that, my mother did that, and I've done that, and it works like a damn."
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Notes : The 3rd and the 4th apartment could easily be joined to make a comfortable 215m² home.
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Pool 6m X 12m, protected around by a fence; chlorine treatment
Nestled between broom bushes and oleanders, the pool has also a small area for children.
Surrounded by fields, vines and scrubland, the property extends on 12 ha of lands. A small stream that flows below provides in abundance the needs for garden automatic watering, the pool and all the domestic consumption.
The 3 restored apartments are in excellent condition. A part of the living area is heated by an oil central heating, the other part by electric heaters. Some works need to be done in the 4th apartment.
This splendid property offers great potential. The large reception capacity, the beauty and peacefulness of the site are ideal conditions for any kind of resourcing activities. The 12ha land allows a possible farming business. And of course, a brilliant family home.
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Bitcoin traders have no time to pop the champagne anymore.
The crypto-rocket shot past $11,000 last week just hours after eclipsing $10,000, which itself was mere days after pushing past $9,000. It then slid sharply before surging yet again.
Even as investors celebrate a banner year for stocks, the party next door is so wild there's no longer any way of ignoring it.
Now Wall Street is about to join in the fun. On Friday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission green-lighted plans by the CME and the Chicago Board Options Exchange to introduce Bitcoin futures, allowing traders to bet on the price of the digital currency on a trusted exchange. Nasdaq is planning to offer its own futures next year, while Cantor Fitzgerald will introduce a Bitcoin options product.
Because the futures are cash-settled—traders will receive dollars on the settlement date instead of Bitcoin—the Street technically won't be getting its hands dirty by buying the stuff directly. But make no mistake: getting listed on some of the largest exchanges in the country is a tectonic shift for Bitcoin, which has been associated with drug dealing and called a "fraud" by the chief executive of the nation's largest bank.
"If it works, you are witnessing the early stages of the birth of a new asset class," says Bill Miller, the chairman of Miller Value Partners and a longtime value investor who holds about $75 million worth of Bitcoin in his hedge fund.
Banks like Goldman Sachs are considering helping clients execute Bitcoin trades. And once they dip their toes in, there may be no turning back. Paul Chou, whose company LedgerX launched the first Bitcoin derivatives in October, predicted that "within a year we'll see at least two major investment banks holding Bitcoin on their balance sheet."
For all of the worries about a reprise of 17th century tulip mania, there are serious financial players who see a future in Bitcoin. Big banks are cramming to figure out how to get involved, say executives at Bitcoin companies.
Their employees are, too. Traders who are paid to make markets in "low-vol products" sometimes have an extra window open on their monitors so they can keep "trading Bitcoin at work," says Arthur Hayes, who himself leapt from the traditional trading world at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup to start a Bitcoin derivatives exchange called BitMEX.
Today's Bitcoin craze comes exactly 200 years after the formation of the New York Stock Exchange, when a small group of brokers weary of fraud in their industry decided to draft a constitution and set up rules. A formal structure for the equity market took decades to build. The crypto market is trying to build its own structure, without much guidance from the government, in mere months. But the holes, particularly in keeping the assets themselves safe, have created grave risks for prospective investors.
New money and talent have already flooded into the crypto market. The cumulative value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin has skyrocketed to more than $300 billion from $18 billion at the start of the year. Lawyers, hedge fund traders, and brokers—and even some value investors—have rushed in.
Ari Paul, for one, left his job as a portfolio manager at the University of Chicago's endowment to co-found a cryptocurrency hedge fund called BlockTower Capital this year.
"Traditional asset classes feel very, very ossified," Paul says. "Alpha is extremely hard to come by. It's almost about not making mistakes. You have hedge funds fighting to earn a 5% return over whatever their benchmark is, and that's [considered] a phenomenal performance. We're seeing opportunities like that almost every other week. It feels a bit like what I imagine trading commodities was like 30 years ago or equities 70 years ago."
But there is a flip side: "extreme volatility, operational risk, security challenges—so it's not free money," he adds.
Yet Bitcoin has certainly seemed like getting free money this year. Despite some sharp reversals, the price of Bitcoin has mostly been on a one-way ride, rising nearly 1,000% since the start of the year to $10,500 on Friday. Along the way, investors have gotten extra treats. In August, the Bitcoin chain "forked," splitting off a new cryptocurrency called Bitcoin Cash that was designed as a faster payment system. Most Bitcoin owners automatically got Bitcoin Cash tokens equal to the amount of Bitcoin they had. Bitcoin Cash shot up to $400 on the first day of trading, after not even existing the day before.
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., surpassed 10 million accounts this year, adding 100,000 new accounts in just three days over Thanksgiving week. (Unofficial counts put the number at more than 13 million, ahead of Charles Schwab accounts, at 10.6 million.) Exchanges and trading houses are reporting soaring institutional volume, too, from five to 10 times last year's activity. Over the past 50 days, a daily average of more than $1 billion in Bitcoin has been traded globally, according to Chris Burniske, co-author of the book Cryptoassets.
The logic that underpins the bull case for Bitcoin often seems circular: It's worth more because people want it, and the more they want it, the more it's worth. That's not unlike traditional fiat currencies such as the dollar. But for other reasons, Bitcoin isn't particularly useful as a currency.
Conducting transactions has become only more difficult and expensive because of gridlock on the network. Visa can process 10,000 times as many transactions per second as Bitcoin's vaunted blockchain.
Bitcoin doesn't have to be a currency to be valuable, however. Bitcoin bulls tend to argue that it's more like gold—a store of value that people hold for investment purposes, or for doomsday protection. Like gold, it's not correlated to most other assets, and there's a limited supply: Only 21 million will be made. Thomas Lee, the managing partner of Fundstrat Global Advisors, estimates that Bitcoin could account for 5% of the $7.5 trillion alternative-currency market, which is now mostly made up of gold. His 2022 price target is $25,000.
Skeptics like Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Hinds note that Bitcoin has several disadvantages compared with gold. Bitcoin is vulnerable to hacking, disruptions to the internet, and competition from other cryptocoins.
INVESTORS CAN BUY BITCOIN directly from exchanges designed for retail or institutional investors. Those exchanges will let you trade currency directly from a bank account or credit card for Bitcoin and help you set up a wallet to store the stuff. Trading cash for Bitcoin and vice versa can cost less than 1% of the transaction value. But the exchanges have proved susceptible to hacking. The safest way to store Bitcoin is in "cold storage" on a hard drive that isn't connected to the internet.
Of course, if you lose the hard drive, you lose the Bitcoin. This gap in "custodianship"—a safe way to store Bitcoin and still trade it—is the biggest challenge to getting more institutions involved. Most insurers won't touch the space.
Many accredited investors can't buy Bitcoin directly because it remains associated with unsavory actors. Bitcoin is regularly used for money laundering, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Some exchanges don't use "know your customer" rules that are common in any other kind of banking or investing.
There are no exchange-traded funds available yet, either. Investors could buy a security called the Bitcoin Investment Trust (ticker: GBTC), but it trades at a significant premium to the underlying Bitcoin that it holds, and that premium rises and falls in unpredictable patterns.
Large institutional investors have been waiting for products they can buy on the exchanges they already know. "There's not a day that goes by that a client or a prospect doesn't bring it up," said Dominic Marella, the head of business development at Icon Alternatives, a futures broker.
Enter the big Chicago exchanges.
"Over the last few months, we've gotten increasing requests from customers" for a product to manage risk, said Tim McCourt, head of equity products at CME. Cboe has similarly seen growing interest from "not only larger asset managers or hedge funds but all the way down to the more traditional retail folks." The CME futures will start trading on Dec. 18. Cboe hasn't set a date yet, but says it is "operationally ready."
The introduction of futures products will add liquidity to the system. But the most noticeable impact could be to the downside. "What the exchanges are creating here is a wonderful tool to fully be able to short Bitcoin," says Mark Williams, a former trading floor executive who now teaches finance at Boston University's Questrom School of Business.
Even if Bitcoin gets Wall Street's imprimatur, that won't suddenly make it "safe." The logistics of trading Bitcoin give it unique risks.
Just finding an accurate price can be a challenge, for starters. CME has been working with a London-based company called Crypto Facilities to determine the most accurate Bitcoin price. Bitcoin trades on dozens of exchanges around the world, often at considerably different prices. There's an active arbitrage trade that helps narrow the gaps, but at any given time the price discrepancy can be 1% or more.
Crypto Facilities uses four exchanges to create a Bitcoin Reference Rate that will be used as the official price to settle trades. But those exchanges have sometimes proven unreliable. It previously used six exchanges to determine the rate but had to exclude two because they restrict U.S. dollar deposits and can throw the price "out of line," says Timo Schlaefer, a co-founder of Crypto Facilities.
"CME is attempting to use a standard framework and impose it on a nascent digital commodity that is far from standard," Williams says. "The broader Bitcoin ecosystem is built on clay feet." Schlaefer, however, calls the system "manipulation-resistant."
TRADING CASH-SETTLED FUTURES may seem safer than holding Bitcoins, but it introduces its own risks. For one thing, futures trades are settled based on spot prices. "You're at the whim of the people involved in those spot transactions," says LedgerX CEO Chou.
LedgerX, the first to market with regulated Bitcoin derivatives, settles trades in Bitcoin itself. It now facilitates $6 million to $7 million in trades per week. Chou traded conventional futures products at Goldman Sachs before his current job, and his Goldman desk would hedge the risk from cash-settled futures by also trading the spot market. But with Bitcoin, that option isn't available for many institutional players. "I think there's going to be a point where cash-settled [Bitcoin] futures make sense," he says, but for now they're "incredibly risky."
And trading futures entails using leverage, a factor that may accentuate Bitcoin's violent price swings. Thomas Peterffy, chairman of Interactive Brokers, took out a full-page ad on Nov. 15 in The Wall Street Journal imploring CME to rethink its plans, because "margining such a product in a reasonable manner is impossible."
In response, CME said that while there are "issues to work through," added security tools will allow the exchange to "appropriately manage the risk."
Among those additional safeguards are margin requirements that will far exceed other products. For now, CME is looking at making traders deposit 35% of their initial investment, compared with 5% for a Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract. It will also have circuit breakers that will pause trading after swings as small as 7%.
New kinds of coins, meanwhile, are increasingly stealing Bitcoin's thunder. While Bitcoin accounted for 87% of the total market cap of digital tokens at the start of the year, it makes up about 55% now, according to CoinMarketCap.com.
A danger is that Bitcoin could end up being the Friendster of the crypto world, while the Facebook—the real winner—may still be in development somewhere. Aside from Bitcoin, the other tokens with a recognizable—though nascent—business case are Ethereum, which can execute more sophisticated operations like contracts, and Ripple, which banks can use to speed money transfers.
There are more than 1,200 other tokens too, launched through "initial coin offerings" or ICOs that have drawn increasing capital in recent months. Investors have plunged $3.6 billion into them this year, up from $96 million in all of 2016, according to coinschedule.com.
Even people who think that the token economy will one day be as important as the internet itself say it's a minefield. "Ninety-nine percent of it is junk," says Olaf Carlson-Wee, the 28-year-old founder of crypto hedge fund Polychain Capital, which has more than $400 million in assets.
These coins are similar to Bitcoin in that they are built on blockchain or similar "distributed ledger" technology that is powered by multiple computers. But unlike Bitcoin, which is at least accepted at some businesses and can be traded for fiat currency, most new tokens don't operate like stand-alone currencies and have little to no usefulness outside of the cloud. They raise money by crowdfunding on dedicated websites, allowing people to trade Bitcoin or Ethereum for the new coins they create.
To understand ICOs and the new tokens they spawn, think of the digital "coins" that you can buy (with real money) in some smartphone games. You use those coins to gain access to new levels or weapons. Most new ICO-launched tokens also operate as currencies within self-contained digital worlds. But they promise bigger rewards than a new digital sword to slay a digital dragon. Protocol Labs, for instance, introduced an ICO in August for something called Filecoin. People can use Filecoins to buy cloud-computing storage offered by other people on the network. It raised $257 million, the largest such fund raising ever.
Filecoin may be among the 1% that succeeds. But many are almost invariably pipe dreams. More important from a regulatory perspective, they're essentially securities without the normal protection that securities receive. In other words, people are buying them mostly for their investment potential instead of their potential as crowdfunded projects. There is little stopping ICO creators from taking their $10 million in proceeds and buying a mansion in Hawaii.
WITH THAT IN MIND, the Securities and Exchange Commission released guidelines in July on how to distinguish a security, which needs to be registered as such, from a crowdfunded project. Despite the regulator's report, there remains minimal specific guidance on these products.
In the interim, some private players are trying to help investors and entrepreneurs. GDAX, the institutional arm of Coinbase, created a "digital asset framework," explaining how it will evaluate digital tokens to determine whether they will trade on its platform.
Traditional law firms like Debevoise & Plimpton are also getting involved, helping new token creators prepare offerings and guiding exchanges toward legitimacy. New kinds of investment banks are popping up too, often staffed by people whose background is in raising money for more traditional public companies. It can be quite a culture shock.
"The investment banking industry has been around for more than 100 years, there's a book of rules, and everyone plays the same game," says Irina Demina, who formerly worked at Morgan Stanley but is now head of corporate development of Argon Group, which helps new token creators raise money. "We try to apply our previous experience and best practices, but we are building a new industry. We want to shape this industry in the right direction."
Venture capitalists and hedge funds have warmed to the space, with Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz giving millions of dollars to investors like Carlson-Wee to invest in new tokens. And some public market participants are making the crossover. Patrick Byrne, the chief executive of Overstock.com (OSTK), is developing a new licensed token-trading platform. Overstock's stock price has tripled since SEC guidance eased the way in July.
Other tokens could soon be available to more investors. Grayscale Investments, which started the Bitcoin Investment Trust, is getting ready to introduce a basket of the largest cryptocurrencies by market value in the coming months.
At a CoinDesk conference last week, there was a mix of exuberance and caution. While many attendees may have become millionaires off their Bitcoin stakes, the panelists warned that investors need to know the party could come to an end at any moment. That risk, however, may not be enough to drive interest away from Bitcoin.
"A really important concept in portfolio management is the idea that you don't care about the risk of an asset" because it's "idiosyncratic risk and it gets diversified away," says Paul, the former endowment manager. "If you put 1% of an endowment in crypto, it actually reduces the risk because it's uncorrelated to the rest of the portfolio."
That argument is getting harder to ignore, particularly as old-school investors get tired of watching the party next door.
"Eighteen months ago, the typical hedge fund or macro fund would never even dream of writing about Bitcoin or digital currencies in a quarterly letter," says Michael Sonnenshein, director of sales and business development at Grayscale. "Now their investors are calling them up and asking, 'Why don't you have exposure to this asset class?' "
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LINCOLN — Kendra Moos had to close down the cattle ranch. And once she did, the wife of Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos made the two-day drive from eastern Washington to her new home. She had the dog in the cab and a cooler of Special K Ranch beef on dry ice in the back.
NU's football team had just been hammered 54-21 by Minnesota. Bill hadn't fired Mike Riley, but the die on his tenure was cast. And when Kendra rolled into town, there was not only a little condominium shopping to do but a trip to take. Pack a bag, Bill told her. We're leaving.
"It was an adventure," Kendra said.
The destination was a key meeting between Bill and Scott Frost, now Nebraska's football coach, that was arranged by Frost's close friend and former teammate, Matt Davison. When you've been in the athletic administration business as long as Bill and Kendra have — and they're clearly in it together — you know just about everyone, and they knew of and admired Frost's work as an Oregon assistant and Central Florida head coach. There was excitement in meeting him, but not nerves; Bill, Kendra said, doesn't try to sell himself.
The rendezvous point: a hotel conference room in Philadelphia. Frost's Central Florida team was in town to play Temple. Nebraska was playing three hours away at Penn State. The gathering was small — Bill and Kendra, Davison, Frost, and Frost's operations guy, Wood River native Gerrod Lambrecht, were among the attendees — and, yes, there were cheesesteaks. A few other snacks, too, for this face-to-face chat Bill felt he needed to have with Frost before he could offer him the job.
First, Kendra had to find a bowl.
It's the little things that count when calling a native son home.
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What happened Sunday — the applause, the grinning ex-Husker teammates, Frost in a crisp suit with a red tie, this unifying moment in Nebraska football fandom — wasn't a slam dunk when Moos took the job in mid-October.
Nebraska landed Frost — with a seven-year, $35 million contract — and, on the surface, the courtship appeared easy, drama-free.
But Moos, Davison and a key ally — Husker legend Tom Osborne — had to navigate Frost's considerable loyalty to UCF and Frost's reasonable concerns about whether the conditions were right at Nebraska for him to return. If he could do it his way, no obstacles. Once Frost makes a firm decision, he thinks and acts fast, like his offense. It is, his supporters say, part of his talent. He commits and gets results.
By Frost's own admission Sunday, he's cautious about plunging in. Analytical.
"Listen — I didn't get engaged until I was 41 years old," Frost joked. "Obviously, I have trouble making decisions."
Trust matters to Frost. You have to earn it. And one guy who had was Davison, that Husker receiver who caught the Flea Kicker in 1997. Davison is famous for that, but is also known now as the frank, funny NU football and basketball analyst for Husker Sports Network. He'd become close friends with Frost. Both men were in each other's weddings.
When Moos took the job, he didn't know that. But his second week at Nebraska, he found out.
Moos had a meeting in his office with the man who'd once occupied it. Osborne.
The coach is a fount of knowledge of all things Huskers, and Moos wanted to learn. So their meeting was a broad, wide-ranging talk about Nebraska.
In the process of the conversation, Frost's name came up.
"He wasn't pushy about Scott," Moos said of Osborne. "He said, 'I think he's ready and would be a good fit, but there's lots of good coaches out there.'"
Osborne also mentioned: If you really want to know about Scott, ask Matt.
"So as soon as Coach left the office, I had my assistant Mitzi to get a hold of Matt," Moos said. "He was there in 15 minutes."
Davison became a "conduit" between Frost and Nebraska. Frost joked that Davison was "pestering" him to take the job, but it was really just close friendship. Texts. Calls. Explaining how the leadership landscape was different in 2017 from 2014, when Frost didn't get a phone call from then-Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst.
"I didn't call every day, but we talked a lot over the last six weeks or eight weeks," Davison said.
Moos was willing to fly to Orlando to meet with Frost, but Davison arranged a Nov. 17 meeting in Philadelphia. Frost would arrive after he'd finished all of the prep with his UCF team.
It was late enough in the evening, Kendra said, that the hotel restaurant was closing down soon.
"I had to improvise, and I always want to make sure everybody's fed," Kendra said. "So I went to the gift shop and bought all kinds of things, went to the kitchen, asked them to wash a bowl, put the bowl on the table, put everything in it and put soda pops and water around it. You've always got to be ready."
Bill Moos said the meeting turned into a "casual" conversation. No notes. It lasted an hour.
"I needed to know I was working with someone who'd do whatever it takes to help us win football games," Frost said. "I really believed that about Bill."
Bill joked that Kendra "gives a tough interview," but she has ample experience with coaches, since several have sat in her living room recruiting her sons, who played college football.
"I listened to what Scott said and thought gosh, if he were in my living room, recruiting my child, this Mama Bear would be saying, 'You are going to play for that man,'" Kendra said.
After that meeting, Moos said he backed off contacting Frost. He noted that Frost was most interested in taking care of his assistants — he's bringing most of them from UCF — instead of himself, and it was Moos' idea for the seven-year contract, although Frost appreciated it.
As those details got hammered out between NU and Frost's agent, the Huskers officially ended their season at 4-8 with a humiliating 56-14 loss to Iowa on Nov. 24. UCF beat South Florida, 49-42, the same day. Moos fired Riley Nov. 25; in a press conference hours later, he made clear Frost was a top choice. He danced around a question about the Philly meeting.
By Monday, Nov. 27, Frost signed the memorandum of understanding with Nebraska. NU administrators and graduate assistants started calling current Husker commits about an impending coaching change. Interim coach Trent Bray told The World-Herald on Tuesday that it wouldn't be "too long" before a coach was announced.
Frost confirmed he picked Nebraska "last week." And he had. But, late in the game, there were genuine second thoughts that perhaps only one person — Osborne — could address.
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Frost was surrounded by reporters Sunday itching for answers.
"There have been roadblocks here that have been in the way of football success, and they were created unnecessarily," he said.
That line carries 14 years of history. The firing of four head coaches — starting with Frank Solich in 2003 — has sent NU football into decline. Fights between administrators. Fights between old fans and new fans. Coaches calling athletic directors dirty names. Athletic directors silently freezing out coaches. Audiotapes. Press conference arguments. Players voluntarily taking off their Blackshirts. Former assistants saying current assistants are "full of it." Coordinators making their position coaches do calisthenics. The strain. The gaps.
This much is clear: Frost hated all of that noise. And, at UCF, he didn't have it. He didn't often have a full stadium, either, but he had harmony. Everyone pulled in the same direction. Boosters were pouring in money. The athletic director was an open, active cheerleader for the program on Twitter. The local media saw Frost the way Nebraska media once regarded Bob Devaney, as a visionary turnaround artist.
Nebraska was his physical home. But could he make it like the football home he remembered, the team he played for, like Osborne's program?
"I saw the best of this place," Frost said. "I also saw some hard times that maybe other people hadn't. But that's what makes this place great, the passion people here have for it. Watching it from afar, I'm not sure that that passion was unified, that that passion was always completely supported."
On Friday night, not 24 hours before he took the job, he called Osborne, who'd shoot him straight. They talked for "quite a while," Osborne said.
"He'd made a commitment prior to that, that he would come, but sometimes, you're just not comfortable," Osborne said. So Osborne listened. He said he didn't lean one way or the other. He just answered questions.
But Osborne clearly said enough that Frost believed he could resurrect Husker football, that all the strong, plain talk in his press conference could come true.
"If he wouldn't have believed this was the right time and the right place for me, he would've told me," Frost said. "Even though he probably would've liked to have me back, if those things weren't all taken care of and this wasn't the place that he thought I should be, he wouldn't have told me to come."
Frost said it was still a hard decision, but Osborne felt good about Moos, NU President Hank Bounds and UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green.
"That made me a lot more comfortable with taking this job," Frost said. At the end of that call, Osborne believed the same thing.
And so, on Saturday, he coached UCF to an American Athletic Conference title. He saw his parents — Larry and Carol — at the game. He wasn't sure they knew before the game he was headed to Nebraska — Frost doesn't want reporters calling his parents to ask them, either — but they knew afterward, which is when Frost wanted everyone to know.
Frost told UCF players he was leaving for Nebraska. It was an emotional meeting. Then he and a bunch of his operations guys and assistants got on a plane that was originally headed for tiny Beatrice Municipal Airport before, at the very end of the flight, it switched routes to Lincoln, landing after midnight. Two SUVs picked up Frost and his men.
Frost met with the current Husker team at 9 a.m. Sunday. He hadn't slept and had hardly eaten.
"I'm about emotioned-out," Frost said.
Surely he saved a little emotion for the moment he saw his old coach in Moos' office.
Osborne paid his former quarterback a quick visit.
"That's why you play the game," Moos said. "Those kind of relationships. The respect Scott has for his old coach, that's pretty special."
Bill and Kendra's adventure had a perfect ending.
"I'm impressed with Scott," Kendra said. "I'm happy for Nebraska. I think you've got so much success coming down the road."
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There's a variety of reasons why men say they want to workout, but in reality they don't. Whether it's the cost of gym membership, lack of free time, or embarrassed to be seen exercising, everyone has an excuse. That is all about to change today. You are going to learn about the different types of home workout routines for men, meaning you can throw all those excuses out the window. Most of the routines consist of body-weight exercises, meaning little or no equipment is required. At the same time, you can expect to build muscle and see the same results as you would as if you were actually at the gym.
Benefits of Bodyweight Exercises
Conventional wisdom says that you should be lifting weights three times a week, alternating between chest, back, and leg exercises. However, lifting weights isolates muscles and forces unnatural movement, which promotes imbalances and actually decreases performance and increases a risk of injury. Bodyweight exercises on the other hand ignite muscles simultaneously, as opposed to individually. This is the reason there are so many workout regimens these days that do not include much weight training, such as P90X. Even Navy SEALs train mostly by using bodyweight exercises, such as pushups, pull-ups and lunges.
Another key benefit from performing bodyweight exercises is it provides a more efficient workout. There's no need for putting on weights or moving from station to station. Your heart rate will also be steady since you won't have as much time to rest.
Just like all other exercises, it is important that you use proper form and breathing techniques to prevent any injuries. It is easy to pull a muscle from executing a pull-up or put too much weight on your shoulders when doing pushups, which can cause all sorts of problems.
Equipment Needed
While you most likely won't have the benefit of using standard gym equipment such as the smith machine, leg press machine, benches and a ton of free weights, it would still be ideal for you to have some workout equipment. At a minimum, you should at least have gloves, dumbbells and some weights. A great investment for home gyms is resistance bands. They run for about $35 or less and they will last you a long time, and they can even replace the use of dumbbells in most exercises. A pull-up bar is also very useful to have since pull-ups are such a beneficial exercise.
Chest, Shoulders and Triceps Routine
Standard pushups – Since you won't be doing bench presses, pushups are the ideal way to build your chest muscles. You will also be engaging your triceps, back, and shoulders. To do a pushup correctly, keep your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Tighten your abs and gluts so your body is like a straight line. Move your head so you are looking slightly ahead of you and not straight down.
Diamond pushups – To give your triceps a more intense workout, try doing some diamond pushups. Put your index fingers and thumbs together and flat so they are making a diamond shape. If you've had a wrist injury or problems in the past, you might want to be careful with this exercise since it puts a lot of pressure on your wrists.
One-arm pushups – This is a more advanced pushup for people who need something more challenging. Keep your legs wide apart, and perform a pushup with just one hand on the floor, while the other hand is behind your back. Again, this exercise puts a lot of pressure on your wrist and shoulders so perform with caution.
Bench dips – This exercise isolates your triceps. Go to a sturdy bench or chair, and place your body perpendicular to it. While looking away from it, hold onto the bench on its edge with your hands fully extended. Lower your body by bending your elbows, and keeping your knees bent. Go down until your butt almost touches the ground, and raise back up.
Back flyes – To get a good workout on the shoulders, back flyes are essential. The best way to perform these is by using resistance bands. Simply run a band around a stationary post like a pole, grab the band by the handles and face towards the band. With your arms straight and parallel to the floor, extend and pull your arms back. If you don't have bands, you can lie on your stomach and use dumbbells and use the same technique.
Legs Routine
Stiff-leg deadlifts – Considered the king of all exercises, because it works out your hamstrings, calves, glutes, quads, lower back and your entire core. You will need a barbell and weights for this exercise. With legs shoulder length apart, place your hands on the barbell with a reverse grip. Keeping your legs straight and your spine parallel to the ground, lift the barbell up, focusing on your hamstrings and lower back. Bring the bar back down but don't let it touch the ground, and repeat.
Lunges – Take a long step forward with your right leg and keep your hands on your hips. Lower your left leg until your knee forms a right angle, then raise yourself back up by using only your leg muscles. The key to this exercise is good form and focusing on using your targeted muscles. If you want to make things more difficult, you can hold weights while doing lunges.
Heel raises – Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and lift your heels so that you are on your toes for at least a few seconds. Lower your heels and then repeat slowly. Try doing this on a step and let your heels extend below the edge of the step to add a higher difficulty of degree to this exercise.
Plyometric exercises – Another great way to get a good leg workout at home is by performing plyometric exercises, which are designed to help develop strength, agility and explosiveness to your legs
Back and Biceps Routine
Standard pull-ups – Pull-ups are a great way to work out your back, as well as your shoulders and triceps. Put your hands at shoulder width apart and grab the bar with an overhand grip. Hang from the bar and pull yourself up until your chin is at bar-level. Try not to go too fast or you may pull a muscle in your back or shoulder. If you are not strong enough to do pull-ups yet, you can have someone assist you when pulling up.
Bent-over rows – You can perform this with either dumbbells or resistance bands. While standing, bend your knees slightly and bring your torso forward by bending at the waist. Keep your back as straight as possible so it's parallel to the floor. While holding the weights or bands, lift it up towards you, keeping your elbows close to your body. Focus on squeezing the back muscles so give them a full workout.
Bicep curls – Using either bands or dumbbells, stand with feet shoulder width apart and curl the weights on arm at a time. While in the curling motion, try contracting your bicep muscle as much as possible to get the full benefit. Speed is not your friend on this exercise, so perform them slowly and with good form.
Squat concentration curls – This will be working out your biceps only. Stand shoulder width apart and your toes pointed out slightly. Squat until your thighs are parallel to the ground, and your elbows pressed against your inner thighs. While holding the dumbbells or bands, perform a curl, one arm at a time.
Abs Routine
Bicycles – Sit on your butt and put your hands behind your head. Bring your knees up and into your chest so your feet are off the floor. Now rotate your legs in a circular motion as if you were riding a bicycle. Keep your chest up and try to avoid leaning back too much.
Hanging leg raises – While hanging from a pull-up bar, raise your legs slowly without swaying or jerking. Keep your legs raised for about two seconds, and then bring them back down slowly and repeat.
Side crunches – This will help focus on your obliques. Lay on right left side and keep your left arm on the floor for balance. Your right hand should be on your head, and bring both your legs and your body up as if you were performing a crunch.
Beyond The Workout
Whether you workout to look good or to simply be healthy, it is equally important that you have a healthy, balanced diet. If you are trying to gain a six pack before the summer comes along, you will definitely want to focus on your diet and cardio. If you are interested in learning more about how you should be eating and how to maximize your results from working out, take a look at some of these courses below:
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Musicians ask: To boycott, or not to boycott North Carolina over HB2?
Steve Eisenstadt of Raleigh goes to a lot of concerts, probably scores of them per year. But his 2016 total might be down from years past, thanks to artists boycotting North Carolina over House Bill 2.
He had tickets for both Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam, who canceled North Carolina shows this month over the controversial new law. And while Eisenstadt opposes HB2 and sympathizes with the artists, being on the business end of a boycott is wearing thin.
"It's been excruciating to live in a place where some of my favorite artists will not play," he said. "Who knows what will happen? It's an environment where anyone might cancel. I would argue that it's incumbent on any major artist with a North Carolina show between now and November to state their intentions now, one way or the other."
HB2, the "Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act," was passed and signed into law March 23. Along with the highly charged bathroom clause about which public facilities transgender people can use, it also invalidated local ordinances protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination.
A firestorm of controversy greeted the bill's passage. Music and entertainment has been front and center in the battle over HB2, almost as much as out-of-state businesses such as PayPal rescinding North Carolina expansion plans.
Springsteen garnered worldwide headlines when he canceled his April 10 show at Greensboro Coliseum in protest of the law. In his wake, Ringo Starr, Boston, Ani DiFranco, Pearl Jam and Cirque du Soleil are among those who have canceled North Carolina shows.
Other acts, from comedians Joel McHale and Louis C.K. to English band Mumford & Sons, have turned their North Carolina performances into benefits to raise money and awareness against the law.
But it's the cancellations that are getting the most attention, both for and against – leaving ticket-holders wondering who might be next.
"The bands that have canceled have merely punished their own fans who can't afford to just travel somewhere else to see the bands," said Dana McCall, another Raleigh concertgoer. "I'd rather see bands just show up and entertain us, regardless of what side of the aisle they prefer."
It's complicated
For acts opposed to HB2, whether or not to cancel can be complicated. Indy Week music/managing editor Grayson Haver Currin and writer Tina Haver Currin have started a campaign, North Carolina Needs You (ncneedsyou.com), encouraging acts including Mumford and Duran Duran to play their North Carolina shows in the name of activism.
"We're not opposed to boycotts," Grayson said. "It's all about context, and it's situational. Large-show boycotts can put pressure on the legislature and governor, and raise awareness. But doing the show allows the opposition to find funding, awareness and allies."
While it makes the strongest statement and gets the biggest headlines, canceling also penalizes people who might well hold the same views about the issue as the artist does. After Pearl Jam announced its Raleigh cancellation, front man Eddie Vedder addressed this onstage Monday night in Hampton, Va.
"We had to make a real tough call about what we would do," Vedder said of the Raleigh show. "It was a hard process because we thought we could still play and make things right, and we could fortify all the people on the ground working to repeal this despicable law. … But the reality is there is nothing like the immense power of boycotting and putting a strain, and it's a shame because people are going to be affected that don't deserve it."
Steve Baker, who plays trumpet in the blues band Bull City Syndicate and is a special events agent at Deep South Entertainment, would concur with that last part – and not in a good way.
"I am a raging Libertarian, and I think anytime there's an emotional reaction to government choosing sides, there are unintended consequences," Baker said. "The people you don't want to hurt will get hurt. A guy like Bruce makes a stand by pulling out, and the trickle-down hurts people setting up tables and chairs for parties before and after, stagehands, ticket-takers, concession workers, parking-lot attendants. Bruce or Eddie Vedder go back to their five-star hotel, and the evening's dinnertime bottle of wine is more expensive than the total paychecks those workers would have made. It doesn't impact them at all."
Raleigh's PNC Arena hasn't released figures for what Pearl Jam's cancellation cost the facility. But management for Greensboro Coliseum estimated that it lost out on $100,000 in concession and parking revenue from Springsteen canceling.
Further down the food chain, DiFranco's cancellation left Durham's Festival for the Eno in a bind, without one of this year's main headliners. That has potential impact for the festival's beneficiary, the Eno River Association, a nonprofit conservation organization.
"We're a nonprofit, and budget is always a challenge," said Tess Mangum Ocana, who booked Eno's headline acts this year. "So is filling a holiday weekend, the right mix of musical genres. This boycott is yet another challenge, because a lot of people just don't want to play North Carolina right now."
'Collateral damage'
This past week, Deep South Entertainment president Dave Rose was on the phone with a booking agent for an out-of-state act he manages. "I know you're there, so no disrespect," the agent told him. "But do we want to skip North Carolina right now?"
"It really hit me then," Rose said. "How many conversations like that are happening that we don't even know about? Cancellations are one thing. The shows that don't even get booked over this, that's collateral damage we'll feel months down the road."
Doug Daniel of EastCoast Entertainment agency sounds a similar note, describing himself as very uneasy over current trends.
"A lot of our business is at stake," Daniel said. "We see the news and read the papers, and we're very nervous just like everyone else."
Short term, at least, there will be no lack of concerts across North Carolina. McCall pointed out that the Triangle has "125 great concerts coming this summer, and the list has actually grown since the House Bill 2 controversy started."
But the controversy shows no sign of subsiding. At the very least, it's not going to go away quietly. One upcoming show in the area is May 15 at Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, "Stand Against HB2," featuring Southern Culture on the Skids, The dB's and others. It sold out in 10 days.
Another is Cyndi Lauper, a pop star who has sold 50 million albums worldwide during the past three decades. Rather than cancel her June 4 show at Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium, Lauper repurposed it as an anti-HB2 show with profits earmarked for efforts to overturn the law.
"It's gonna be a rally, basically," Lauper said. "People are so stuck in their own lives, because it's hard out there. But information is power. The thing about North Carolina is, I wasn't gonna not go and miss this opportunity to effect change. What we're doing together is the right thing."
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Filip Peliwo missed his bid to become the first Canadian to win a junior Grand Slam title, losing 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to local Luke Saville in the Australian Open boys final on Saturday.
The 17-year-old from Vancouver spent exactly two hours on court in a tight duel with his teenaged rival, who he beat for his first major title in the Traralgon junior event 160 kilometres from Melbourne only a week ago.
Peliwo fired three aces and 21 winners while committing 27 unforced errors.
"Luke played a great match, came out on top and played the better match," said Peliwo. "I played good tennis overall, but I didn't really do anything extraordinary.
"I wasn't returning quite as well as I'd like to, and a couple of bad games on my serve cost me. I wasn't able to break enough, and that's basically it, a couple of bad points."
Showcased on the Australian Open's main court — Rod Laver Arena — Peliwo went down a break in the second game of the match and was never able to close the gap on his rival, as Saville converted on his first set point after 32 minutes.
But Peliwo retaliated by winning the second set with a break of the Australian in the second game.
Peliwo managed a 3-0 lead before his opponent clawed back the break for 2-3 on a double-fault. He broke in the last game of the set to level.
Saville took a 1-0 lead on a break in the opening game of the third and finished with an untouchable service winner.
Peliwo, who turns 18 on Monday, lost his first match of the 2012 season after 11 consecutive victories. He's ranked No. 7 in the ITF junior rankings.
He said that even with the end of his winning streak, his season is off to a remarkable start.
"It's definitely my best streak of my career, besides the loss here I'm very satisfied with my performance."
Peliwo's the first Canadian since Vancouver's Philip Bester and Peter Polansky of Thornhill, Ont., in 2006 to reach a junior Grand Slam singles final.
"Thanks to the team back home in Canada, they did a lot of work and it paid off for the most part," said Peliwo. "I had so much support from back home form those who support Canadian tennis."
Peliwo trains a the National Tennis Centre in Montreal.


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- 1.5 cups water
- 1 tablespoon dried green tea leaves
- 2-3 cardamoms (cut opened from one side)
- 2-3 cloves
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
1Take a saucepan. Add the water to it and put it on the heat. Bring the water to boil.
3Lower the heat source. Put a lid on the saucepan such that it leaves a little space for excess steam to come out.
4Leave for 2 to 5 minutes. It is necessary to leave it for a few time to allow the real essence and flavor to come out of the natural ingredients.
5Remove the lid. The amount of water should be reduced to almost 1 cup by now.
6Put a strainer on the cup.
7Pour the liquid from the saucepan into the cup. Add honey and stir.
8Serve hot. Enjoy your gently spiced green tea drink.
- For a cold tea, leave it aside for couple of minutes until it cools down. Add crushed ice into it and enjoy.
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