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I turned on the TV just in time. Literally, as I hit the button on the remote, I caught the second tower about to collapse.
Disbelief, fear and anger raced through my mind. I would like to say that the shock wore off sometime later, but that would be a big lie.
I couldn't even comprehend the lives that were down there. Just so many people in one of the busiest parts of the country, maybe the world. All I could think about were the people I knew.
Family friends that worked for the Port Authority, various friends/family members that work in New York City and my good friend George.
My buddy George is a N.J. EMT who works in some of the roughest/toughest parts of the tri-state area. With all his knowledge and expertise, I knew he was going down there.
Days went by. No answer. And I couldn't get in touch with his family.
I walked into my night class, expecting to see his empty seat.
I must have looked like a kid on Christmas morning. Seeing him there, after seeing so much hurt and turmoil on TV, it was an amazing gift.
He didn't give me the same look back. Not that he didn't want to, but I don't think he could. He was down at ground zero for almost two and a half days straight. In fact, when I saw the the second tower collapse, he was already half way over the Verazzano Bridge (bridge connecting State Island and Brooklyn that perfectly overlooks Manhattan).
His body and mind were beyond the point of exhaustion. He saw so much pain and anguish. Something that not many people can comprehend or imagine before that day.
He had to be in class. He needed to decompress after everything. Dealing with class work or talking about what he saw is what he needed.
The one thing he emphasized; the lingering health effects. Besides the physical injuries anyone can see, he said that dust and debris will cause problems for years. Probably decades.
Fast forward to this week.
I'm not sure why it took so long. But for whatever reason, 10 years later, we are finally helping those first responders. A health care bill is in place to help these true heroes. Finally, they are going to have the help they need, for unselfishly entering the gates of hell.
Too bad congress F'd the whole thing up.
A paragraph. A single paragraph. Screwed up the damn process. The small amendment basically states:
"The FBI must conduct background checks on those first responders to ensure none of them are terrorists."
No joke. No punch line.
A buddy said to me, "maybe it's a quick background check. Sorta like the way a credit card machine checks a pending credit card purchase." I chuckled and responded, "Nothing congress does has, or ever will, be that fast."
Nope, they're being told to just keep on waiting.
My only reaction is that Rep. Stearns (R-FL) must have miss-worded it in the bill. No way can anyone add such a slap in the face to the biggest heroes I know.
But think again!
Hats off to the boys and girls on capital hill. Only they can F'up this bad.
While these heroes wait for health care, a basic request we would like; almost 250 people on the terrorist watch list bought guns last year!
Oh, it gets worse. Since February 2004 -- 1,453 people tried to buy a firearm. Astonishingly, 90% were successful.
So let's recap.
9/11 first responders can't get health care because they might be a terrorist. However, people who are possible terrorist suspects can buy weapons, because they have a right.
I was never great at math, but this doesn't add up.
I'm not going to go into the safety of national security, debate gun laws or even respond to what the NRA had to say. If I got to look at congress, all I would say is, "how dare you?!"
War veterans and these first responders are true American heroes. They signify what our country stands for, and what it's capable of doing. In return, all they're asking for, is a healthy life. Nothing more...nothing less.
People who receive Social Security, or Medicare, don't get a background check. Also, I'm pretty sure bank CEO's didn't get checked before taking billions of dollars in bailout money.
The desire to help our first responders, was probably the one debate people didn't argue.
But no...as much as they deserve it, we even screw that up.


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Anemia is a condition marked by a deficiency or abnormality of red blood cells, which results in an inadequate supply of oxygen to body tissues. The most common type of anemia is Iron Deficiency Anemia. The mineral iron plays an important role in synthesizing the blood protein, hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is responsible for carrying oxygen to your body's tissues and muscles for effective functioning. However, when you have too few or abnormal red blood cells - or low or abnormal hemoglobin - the cells in your body will become oxygen deficient and you might experience a range of symptoms, from fatigue to pallor and headaches.
Who/how many people does it affect?
Anemia is the most common blood disorder. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, it affects more than 3 million Americans per year.
The majority of people don't realize they are living with Anemia until they have a comprehensive blood test.
What causes iron deficiency?
- Inadequate iron intake:
- consuming too little iron through your diet over time can cause a deficiency
- Menstruation:
- heavy menstrual bleeding can lead to iron deficiency
- Pregnancy:
- iron deficiency in a pregnant woman puts the baby at risk of developmental delays
- Internal bleeding:
- stomach ulcers, tissue growths known as polyps, or colon cancer can lead to internal bleeding and subsequent iron loss
- Iron malabsorption:
- celiac disease or intestinal surgery, such as gastric bypass, can limit your body's ability to absorb an adequate amount of iron
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms of iron deficiency include:
- fatigue (most common)
- headaches
- weakness
- pale or yellow skin
- chest pain
- irregular or fast heartbeat
- shortness of breath
- dizziness
- leg tingling
- cold hands or feet
- brittle nails
What are risk factors for anemia?
You might be at greater risk for developing anemia if you have any of the following chronic conditions:
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Autoimmune disease
- Kidney disease
- Cancer
- Liver disease
- Thyroid disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis)
How is anemia diagnosed?
Anemia can be diagnosed through a complete blood cell, or CBC, test. This will measure the component amounts in the blood, including Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Hemoglobin, Hematocrit and Platelets. A CBC test is usually part of a routine physical. If you are experiencing some of these symptoms and/or believe you may be anemic and have not received a CBC test, be sure to consult your doctor.
What might help once diagnosed?
If you are diagnosed with Iron Deficiency Anemia following lab tests or imaging, your doctor might prescribe an iron supplement. Under treatment, symptoms should resolve within months. I am mildly anemic and like Solgar's Gentle Iron Vegetable Capsules, pictured above, because the capsules are easy on my stomach and free of common allergens. However, do not just take an iron supplement if you are unsure if you have a deficiency and never take more than your doctor recommends, as a build-up of iron can be toxic with early symptoms including stomach pain, nausea and vomiting.
Good sources of dietary iron include:
- red meat (or tofu if you are vegetarian/vegan)
- beans
- dark leafy greens (like spinach)
- dried fruits (like apricots)
- certain iron-enriched cereals
Just make sure that the dried fruits and cereals don't contain too much sugar.


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Asia's Prime Fashion Event CENTRESTAGE to Debut in September
CENTRESTAGE, a brand new international fashion event organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), will be held on 7-10 September at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
"We are positioning CENTRESTAGE to be a platform for international, especially Asian, fashion brands and designers to promote their brands and launch their collections," said HKTDC Deputy Executive Director Benjamin Chau. "Fashion brands can leverage the show to reach buyers, particularly select shops, department stores and e-retailers, as well as fashion media and fashion enthusiasts in the region."
Four thematic zones to showcase diverse styles
The inaugural CENTRESTAGE will feature some 200 fashion brands and four thematic zones: GLAM, ALLURE, METRO and FORWARD. GLAM will bring together top international brands that embody fashion of the highest quality. ALLURE will showcase sophisticated designs that captivate the senses. METRO will present trendy and sporty designs for cosmopolites. FORWARD will feature up-and-coming labels and budding fashion talents from Hong Kong and around the region.
Although still in its preparation stage, CENTRESTAGE is quickly gathering momentum and will showcase brands including 112 mountainyam, anagram, ANTEPRIMA, Aquascutum, ARTHUR LAM, ATSURO TAYAMA, Charmante, DORIAN HO, Galtiscopio, HARRISON WONG, i.t, KOYO, LOOM LOOP, LU LU CHEUNG, MOISELLE, NOSTRUM and Sudo Kids.
CENTRESTATE ELITES to feature four Asian design units
To solidify Hong Kong's position as the region's fashion capital, a large-scale fashion parade entitled CENTRESTAGE ELITES will be staged on the first day of the event (7 September). Top models will showcase the latest fashion collections from four of the hottest design units in Asia for what promises to be a spectacular fashion extravaganza.
The 40th Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers' Contest (YDC), to be held on 10 September, will be another highlight of CENTRESTAGE. Over the years, YDC has played a significant role in identifying emerging talents for the local fashion industry, including Barney Cheng, Cecilia Yau, Harrison Wong, Joseph Li, and rising designers such as Aries Sin, Mim Mak and Mountain Yam. YDC is an invaluable platform for fashion designers who aspire to launch their own labels to showcase their works and creativity.
CENTRESTAGE will feature multiple fashion shows and brand showcases to provide a platform for international labels to promote their latest collections. The HKTDC will also organise networking events and trend seminars during the show, and invite seasoned industry professionals and experts to analyse the latest market trends in fashion.
Citywide promotion to engage fashion enthusiasts
CENTRESTAGE is set to become a signature, not-to-be-missed fashion event of the region. As part of CENTRESTAGE, the HKTDC will organise a citywide campaign "Hong Kong in Fashion", which welcomes fashion enthusiasts and promotes Hong Kong's design talents across the community. More details on the campaign will be announced shortly.
On the last day of the event (10 September), CENTRESTAGE will transform into OPENSTAGE, and visitors aged 12 or above will be admitted free of charge. OPENSTAGE will provide the public with the opportunity to experience a trendsetting fashion event, look up-close at the latest collections and connect personally with the designers who created them.


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Encrypts and hides files. Comprehensive secure deletion. Password manager. Blocks ads and browsing traces. Privacy protection.
Lacks privacy features found in competing products. Some privacy tools failed silently in testing. Password manager's features limited.
Bottom Line
Steganos Privacy Suite includes file encryption, password management, privacy protection, and more, but only the file encryption component is worth your while.
If a massive data breach leads to your personal details showing up online along with thousands (or millions) of others, there's nothing you can really do except change your passwords and monitor your accounts. But that doesn't mean you should give up. There are lots of things you can do to proactively protect your own privacy, among them encrypting your sensitive files and using strong, unique passwords for all your secure websites. Steganos Privacy Suite includes tools to manage your passwords, to encrypt and hide your documents, and more. Version 19 offers a few enhancements, including two-factor authentication, but its password manager is weak, its encrypt-and-hide component can fail without notice, and its privacy settings did not work in testing. Only the file encryption component is worth your attention.
Similar Products
These days you pay for most security products with a yearly subscription. That gets you all updates to the security software, and it also pays for the encrypted online storage of your passwords and other secrets. With Steganos, your $59.95 payment lets you install the product on up to five PCs and keep using it indefinitely. You only pay again if you want to upgrade to a newer version. The suite includes fully functional instances of Steganos Safe, which costs $39.95 as a standalone, and Steganos Password Manager, which goes for $24.95. Buying the suite instead saves you about $10. It also gets you a few suite-specific privacy features.
Early editions of this suite included Steganos Online Shield VPN. Given that the VPN costs $49.95 per year as a standalone, that seemed like quite a value proposition. However, the per-year pricing didn't jibe with the one-time-fee for the rest of the suite, so Steganos dropped it. In any case, PCMag's VPN expert Max Eddy rated this product just two stars.
Getting Started With Steganos
After the quick, simple installation, Steganos displays its main window. At the left is a matrix of eight icons representing the suite's features: Safe, Password Manager, Shredder, Trace Destructor, Crypt & Hide, Private Favorites, Portable Safe, and Privacy. The suite is effectively a launch pad for these utilities.
The right-hand portion of the main window is a kind of security progress report. Just by installing the suite, you start with a 20 percent security level. Creating an encrypted safe for storing sensitive files gets you another 20 percent, and setting up the password manager raises it by another 20. Using the password manager's bonus ability to store private favorites adds 20 percent more. Configuring the Privacy components takes you to 100 percent. I like the way this simple report encourages consumers to explore and fully utilize the product's features.
The previous edition included a ninth item, E-mail Encryption, but it wasn't a good fit, and is now gone. This component came from a third party, MyNigma. It worked only with Outlook, and only supported secure email with other users of the MyNigma product. I don't miss it.
Steganos Safe
As noted, you get the full Steganos Safe utility as part of your privacy suite. Do please read my review of Steganos Safe for all the juicy details. I'll summarize here.
Looking at the suite's main window, the icons for Safe, Shredder, Trace Destructor, and Portable Safe all refer to components of Steganos Safe. This utility lets you create encrypted containers, called safes, for your important files. You can store safes on a local drive, on a removable drive, or in your cloud storage account (Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive). New in version 19, you can convert an entire disk partition into a safe; note that doing so wipes out all existing data, just as if you formatted the drive.
Putting files into an encrypted safe is just half the process. The other half is deleting the unsecured originals, and just sending them to the Recycle Bin is insufficient. To ensure that those files are gone for good, foiling forensic recovery software, use the file shredder component, which overwrites file data before deletion. It can also shred all free space on the drive, effectively shredding previously deleted files. And you can use it to wipe every trace of data from any drive except the drive holding the operating system.
Your browsers keep track of your browsing history, allow websites to save cookies on your local device, and cache pages for quick redisplay. All this saved data could reveal your browsing history to a snoop who got access to your computer. Windows, too, maintains many lists of recent activities. The TraceDestructor component wipes out any or all of these traces. Once you've checked off the ones you want to eliminate, you can repeat the process with a single click. You can exempt specific sites to retain their cookies, and you can set it to clear browser traces whenever the browser shuts down.
Steganos Safe is a good encryption tool. It doesn't offer all features found in some competing products, but if your focus is on creating encrypted storage for your important files, it totally does the job.
Steganos Password Manager
If all your passwords are "Rover" or "123456," you're in a precarious position. A breach that exposes one of your accounts effectively exposes them all. You really should use a different password for every site, and one that's complex enough that nobody could guess it. And the only practical way to do that is with a password manager.
I put Steganos Password Manager to the test and found it lacking in several areas. Please read my full review for information beyond the summary that follows.
As with most competing products, you start your Steganos experience by creating a strong master password. But unlike most competing products, Steganos doesn't automatically sync between devices. If you want syncing, you must configure it to use your own cloud storage service (Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive). Once you've done that, you can set up read-only password access for any number of Android or iOS devices; these don't count against your five licenses.
New in this edition, Steganos supports two-factor authentication using Google Authenticator or a compatible Time-based One Time Password (TOTP) utility. You can also apply two-factor authentication to your safes.
When you log in to a secure site, Steganos now captures your credentials without waiting for confirmation. In testing, it had trouble with common sites, among them OpenTable and Amtrak. When I tried its manual login capture feature, it captured some, but not all, of these. That's a weakness I haven't seen in other products, nor in the previous edition of this product, which handled credential capture a bit differently.
Digging into the menu, you'll find the option to save a limited set of private data for use filling web forms. In testing, this feature worked in Chrome and Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer. It wasn't terribly accurate. On one page, it filled the First, Full, and Last name fields with the last name and skipped the street address.
Private Favorites are simply bookmarks that sync along with your passwords, so you can use them on all your devices. Think of them as login entries minus the login credentials
Steganos Password Manager does offer some interesting features. You can create a read-only portable edition to carry with you. A virtual keyboard prevents keyloggers, even hardware-based ones, from capturing your master password. To organize your password collection, you can create category folders and subfolders. And it includes the expected password generator. Overall, though, it's disappointing. The best free password managers are more effective, and the best commercial ones leave Steganos in the dust.
Encrypt and Hide
The name Steganos comes from the term steganography, which is not the same as encryption. The aim of encryption is to ensure that others can't decipher your secrets. The aim of steganography is to conceal even the fact that you have secrets. When you process a file through the suite's Crypt & Hide component and then shred the original, a hacker or snoop won't find any evidence that the sensitive data exists.
I don't know precisely how this tool encrypts files—it's not in the company's interest to reveal such information. But here's a simple example of how steganography could work to hide a file inside an image. First, picture that the file contains a list of numbers representing the exact color of each pixel in the image. Now round all those numbers so they're even. That tiny change to the least significant bit in the number doesn't make a visible difference in the image. Convert your secret file into a stream of bits, and step through the list of the image's pixels, leaving the color number unchanged for zero bits and making it odd for one bits. You've hidden the file in a way that's completely recoverable, but the image doesn't look appreciably different.
Steganos can use BMP, WAV, or JPG files as carriers for encrypted data. The help system advises using a carrier file at least 20 times the size of the encrypted data. You can also use it to create encrypted archives without hiding them, much as you'd do with a ZIP archive utility. Note, though, that the archives created by Steganos use the proprietary EDF format, not the standard ZIP format.
To create a simple encrypted archive, you drag files and folders onto the Crypt & Hide dialog, or browse to locate the desired items. You can also enter a text description of the contents, encrypted along with the files. Clicking Save lets you define the name and location for the resulting EDF file. The password entry dialog is the same as that used by Steganos Safe and Steganos Password Manager, except that it doesn't offer two-factor authentication. It rates password strength as you type, with the option to use a virtual keyboard, or to define the password by clicking a sequence of pictures.
To create an encrypted file and hide it, follow precisely the same procedure, but click the Hide button instead of the Save button, and choose a BMP, WAV, or JPG file as carrier. That's it. Your secret files reside within the chosen carrier. Of course, you must use the shredder to destroy the unsecured originals. Don't believe it? Launch Crypt & Hide again, choose Open, and select your carrier. Once you enter the password, your files magically reappear.
In testing, I had trouble coming up with a carrier file large enough to satisfy prompts from Steganos. I created a simple text file, just 25 bytes. When I tried to hide it in a JPG file, I got a warning that the file might be too small, recommending a file at least 39.9MB. That's about 1.6 million times the size of the input file, a far cry from the recommended 20 times. I tried converging the JPG image to a BMP file. BMP files don't use compression, so the resulting file was quite a bit bigger. Oddly, with the bitmap file Steganos recommended a minimum size of 9.98MB. That's still almost half a million times the size of the input.
I ignored the warning and proceeded to hide my sample file successfully. The carrier looked no different. But when I chose to open it with the password, my top-secret text file magically appeared.
I assumed that if the carrier were truly too small to hold the encrypted data, Steganos would warn me. To check this theory, I tried storing a large JPG inside a smaller JPG, a clear impossibility. Steganos displayed no error messages, and the process seemed to work. However, when I tried to open the carrier file, I got the same error that occurs upon trying to open a file that isn't a carrier. Apparently, the Crypt & Hide process simply failed, with no notice. Had I already shredded the original, I would be up a creek.
Crypt & Hide is truly useful for deeply hiding sensitive documents, but you must use it carefully. Since it can fail without notice, you must always double-check the result. After hiding files, always open the carrier and make sure the operation succeeded before shredding the originals. And, of course, don't forget where you hid your secrets, and what password you used.
Privacy Settings
Clicking the Privacy icon brings up a simple settings dialog with four on/off switches: Webcam protection, Block ads, Prevent tracking, and Anonymize browser type. They're all off by default. I couldn't test Webcam protection, because my virtual machine test systems don't have webcams. In addition, every time I opened Privacy Settings I got a notification from Windows that the webcam privacy component crashed. I reported this crash problem in my last review. I assumed the developers would fix it for the next version, but by observation, they didn't.
Webcam protection in Steganos does nothing but deactivate your webcam, so you must turn that protection off if you want to use the cam for videoconferencing. The webcam spyware protection feature in ESET Internet Security lets you disable the webcam in general but enable specific programs. That would prevent webcam spying while still letting you Skype, for example.
Kaspersky Internet Security and Bitdefender Internet Security also offer webcam blocking for all but authorized programs. Kaspersky extends similar protection to the microphone, to head off the possibility of a snoop listening in on your activities.
Internet advertisers work hard to profile your personal surfing habits, so they can target ads based on your interests. If you've ever bought (or looked at) a product on one site and then seen an ad for that product on a different site, you've seen this process in action. You can set your browser to send a Do Not Track header with each request, but nothing compels sites to obey this header. The Prevent tracking option in Steganos filters out tracking activity before it reaches the browser. However, I couldn't find any way to see it work. All the other active Do Not Track features I've seen display a list of trackers on the current site and let you control whether to block them.
Some trackers skip the usual techniques for tying together all data about your online activity, instead trying to create a fingerprint of your devices and activity, including precise data about the browsers you use. Steganos lets you replace your actual browser details with a generic fake set, to anonymize your browser type. In the previous edition, this component visibly failed. This time around, I expected success, and did seem to see a successful change to the User Agent String (which lets any site get details about your browser and operating system) one time. But when I tried to repeat the test to get screenshots, it failed, as before. I haven't been able to make it work again.
The remaining privacy option involves blocking all advertisements. A simple test, logging in to the same ad-laden pages on the test system and on an adjacent system with no ad-blocking, revealed this feature's failure. All the same ads showed up, some of them clearly based on my own browsing behavior.
During my previous review, I worked closely with Steganos tech support, supplying diagnostic files and reports. The agents determined that the proxy service, which manages these features, wasn't running. Even when we got it running temporarily, the associated features just didn't work. It appears this hasn't changed.
The worst thing about this component is that even when its proxy failed to load, it didn't display any kind of error message. Even when they work, the privacy features do their jobs silently. They're no visible indication when they're not functioning, unless you notice the failure to block ads.
Another Take on Privacy
Abine Blur is another suite of tools aimed at protecting your privacy. Its active Do Not Track component goes way beyond just sending the DNT header, which websites can ignore. Furthermore, unlike Steganos, it makes its DNT activity visible. It includes a simple password manager that goes beyond Steganos by offering a safety report that flags weak and duplicate passwords.
Blur protects your privacy by masking email accounts, credit cards, and (on a smartphone) phone numbers. Suppose you make a purchase from a merchant using a masked email account, and a masked credit card. Mail from the merchant reaches your regular email inbox, even though the merchant doesn't have that address. If the masked account starts getting spam, just delete it (and find a merchant with better practices). Likewise, a merchant who doesn't have your real credit card number can't sell the card data or overcharge you. Read my review for a full explanation.
Blur doesn't block ads, and it doesn't include file encryption, but its components are all directly aimed at protecting your privacy. Even if you do install the Steganos suite, consider trying Blur's free edition for additional protection. Note that if you do opt for a $39-per-year premium subscription, you can use Blur on all your devices.
Do You Already Have Privacy Protection?
You may also find that you've already got significant privacy protection courtesy of your security suite. For example, Kaspersky Internet Security and AVG Internet Security include an active Do Not Track system, like what Blur offers, and Kaspersky can block banner ads. As noted, webcam protection in Bitdefender, Kaspersky and ESET goes farther than what you get with Steganos.
As for encrypted storage, the core of Steganos Privacy Suite, you can find a similar feature in many security suites, among them Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and Trend Micro Maximum Security. Admittedly, none of the suites build out this feature into the comprehensive encryption system that is Steganos Safe.
Password management is becoming a common bonus feature in larger suites. McAfee comes with all the multi-factor authentication glory of True Key. Symantec Norton Security Premium, Trend Micro, ESET, Kaspersky, and Bitdefender are among the other suites with a password manager built right in.
Before you purchase a set of privacy tools, check to see what you already have right in your existing security suite.
Stick With Steganos Safe
Steganos Safe is the best part of Steganos Privacy Suite. It offers multiple locations for encrypted file safes, including converting a whole partition to a safe. It can also conceal the very existence of a safe, and it now supports two-factor authentication. The other components all have their problems.
Steganos Password Manager covers basic password tasks, but it had trouble capturing common websites that competing products handle with ease. The Privacy component simply did not work, and its webcam component crashed every time I opened the settings. Crypt & Hide is a clever way to hide important data inside media files, but it offers absurdly large suggestions for the carrier file size, and silently fails if the carrier is too small. Stick with Steganos Safe; you don't need the rest of this suite, not in its current form.
There aren't many products specifically devoted to privacy. TrackOFF succeeds at tweaking your online fingerprint, using a more ambitious technique than Steganos. It's a useful tool, but Abine Blur Premium remains our Editors' Choice in this growing field.


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Kraft Paper Bags are a popular choice among retailers. Store Supply Warehouse features a wide variety of kraft bags in an array of sizes and colors. From paper merchandise bags to metallic colored kraft paper bags with handles, retailers can make use of any paper shopping bag.
Complimentary customized samples can be sent on evaluation.
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We match colors with Pantone Matching System. So you can just tell us the pantone color code you need. We will match the colors. Or we will recommend some popular colors to you.


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I had this feeling that I was supposed to write this article and look at these phenomenon of supposed "experts" who have only really been lucky, very good investors who find success in almost any market and the trends that drive them both. So what three sources inspired me? Recently, I was reading the Wall Street Journal and an article by Jason Zweig jumped out at me. It asked an interesting question of investors. The headline was "Are Your Brilliant or Lucky?" Now the article has nothing to do with real estate, but I saved it anyway, because it reminded me of a presentation I had heard a few months earlier. I had never met Steve Cook before, but last March I was in Denver, CO. for the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Investing Summit, and I had the opportunity to listen to a talk he was giving about the current state of the real estate market. Something he said had stuck with me for all these months. He was talking about the rebounds occurring in several markets around the country and how all of the data showed that there was no logical reason for the rebounding prices or the demand for property. I had logged these two things into the back of my mind in a kind of "To-Do" folder for the future. I still didn't feel like it was time for me to write an article yet, just that I wanted to tackle a topic around investing and why some things happen and others don't and do we realize when we are making good decisions and when we are just plain lucky. And then, I ran across some comments in an over-seas article that prompted me to go ahead and put it all together. It seems that some people want to make U.S. real estate appear as if the land of Milk & Honey is really the land of never ending cash flow Victorian villages. Most of the time, those selling this fable are not U.S. citizens and their message is not intended for U.S. citizens. The message is intended for over-seas investors and it is carefully crafted to build upon preconceived ideas that you can make money anywhere and anytime in the U.S. real estate market. I get calls from time to time, although they are more frequent today, from foreign investors who need help. On a call with one investor, I asked him how he came to own some of the horrible properties he had purchased and he recounted his story and sent me some links to articles on the man he had purchased from. Those links contained articles that were the final piece to my puzzle and is what pushed me to sit down and write. In one article, about a Real Estate Investment Guru gone bankrupt, another overseas investor who runs a monthly meeting of local investors explained that the bankrupt guru had only done a handful of deals and having experienced a run up in property values, mistakenly thought of himself as an expert while in reality his early success was due to luck. So why do some people do the exact opposite of what all the data tells them? Why do we see so many people, both in the States and over-seas, do a handful of deals at best and suddenly want to tell the world how brilliant they are at investing? Why are some investors so ready to seize on the stories of untold riches to be made and ultimately end up losing? I think the answers lie in how and why we process information. Filtering The Good From The Bad And The Just Plain Lucky To really dig into the question will take much more than one blog article but it essentially boils down to instant gratification, unreasonable demand, the need to "do things" that other people are doing and our absolute belief that past performance is an indicator of future success. I would also add one more thing and it is very introspective so don't take offense as a reader. The easiest person to fool…is our self. Steve Cook's presentation pointed out that in several markets around the county and most notably Florida, there were pricing rebounds and demand curves occurring that seemed completely counter to the data. He showed where investors were making up very high demand yet they were purchasing based on their own personal demand for real estate and not on market dynamics that showed a high probability for success. In other words, limited job growth, persistent unemployment, years of over building and a massive backlog of delinquencies and foreclosures should not lead to a run on real estate pricing. There may be cities and certain sub markets in Florida where investment makes perfect sense and you cannot write off an entire state market, but the economics on the ground should not be leading to a huge run on real estate and prices should not be rebounding and in some cities going up. So why are they? Demand. Investors of all walks believe that now is the time to invest in real estate and they want to own property… and they are buying. In some cases, properties are being bought for second homes and in some cases foreign investors are buying properties for them to stay in when they visit or relocate for short periods to the U.S. In others, investors are buying to turn their properties into long-term rentals, as they are seduced by what appear to be no-lose numbers. What they fail to calculate is that population growth and demand for rentals is not growing at the same rate and when they are forced to rent their property at a fraction of what they thought they would be receiving, their investment and their return sink quickly. That of course is if they can get and keep their property rented at all. Just ask the thousands upon thousands of investors who believed the Toronto, Canada condo market could go on forever. There are thousands of condos sitting vacant in Toronto today that were sold at exorbitant prices and many investors are seeing their investment dreams and their funds go up in smoke. Who will end up being judged as good and who will end up being judged as lucky will pan out over time, but many will be judged as neither. In the case of over seas investors getting duped by their own into believing fairy tales spun about the U.S. real estate market, I can only say that investors have to do more due diligence across the boards. Simply because one person is having success does not mean every investor is going to have success and often times whatever success they are having has to be measured against strategy. That goes for any investor who is following the advice of someone else. If a person is motivated by some other purpose whether it be financial gain or some other reason, they are sometimes capable of even fooling themselves that they are an expert. I know countless numbers of individuals who see dollar signs when they think they can "sell" their knowledge and "teach" their investment methods. In reality, often it was the method which they were using that led to any success, real or on paper, they were having and not because they had figured out the secret wealth strategy of the ultra-rich like so many sales letters promise. Unfortunately, many times people are so accepting of a great story and a fear of missing out coupled with a desire to do what every one else is doing leads to poor due diligence and the need to call a local real estate expert for help. In Jason Zweig's Wall Street Journal article he pointed out several ways that investors can protect themselves from the trap of looking backwards to guess future returns. I really loved one statement and I highlighted in the article: "Outcomes don't just grab your attention more than process does; they are much easier to measure. So most investors look for top performance first. Only then (if ever) do they ask how it was earned." Want more articles like this? Create an account today to get BiggerPocket's best blog articles delivered to your inbox Sign up for free I think that is such an important statement regardless of what you are investing in today. Outcomes, the numbers themselves, are usually attention grabbing and as investors we often think that it is easy to measure the outcomes of two different investment opportunities. In reality, the process from neighborhood selection to renovation and most importantly sales technique or property management all play such a vital role in determining what the final numbers will be on an investment property. Will You Become A Good Real Estate Investor Or Rely On Lady Luck? Your willingness as an investor to dig through the dirt a little bit and get below the surface of an investment could very well be the difference between becoming a good investor or simply a lucky one. Investors also have to remember that luck absolutely plays a part in every successful investment and anyone who says otherwise probably believes that when things go well it is due to their superior skill and when things go wrong it is do to some unforeseen circumstance. That is simply not the case. I have experienced both sides of the coin as luck has played a critical part in some of my success and being a dummy, beginner played a critical role in my failure. But today, I consider myself to be much smarter for all the success and failure I have experienced I feel comfortable saying that I am a good investor thanks to the process of getting there. As you become more a more experienced investor luck will have less to do with your success because you will have time and experience on your side. You will have developed your strategies or your preferred teams and vendors and will know which decisions you make have the biggest impact on your success. If you are willing to be patient and not follow the crowd or the newest "guru" selling secrets, then you have a real opportunity to be successful. There are a lot of real estate investors whom many of us believe are taking some big risks today and then there are some real estate investors taking this same opportunity to solidify their wealth. As always, time will tell us all who was the good investor and who is lucky…or who is unlucky. What examples have you seen or experienced of being a lucky investor? How do you define a good investor? Photo: Banspy


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Kick The Box
July 28th Edition
As I trek down Kickstarter Lane, I am enamored with the amount of great looking games that are being displayed in the windows. Some new companies are always surfacing, but there are some well seasoned companies that have learned how to use Kickstarter to their fullest potential, while churning out some great content. There was a lot of debate on my end which games to include for this week's Kick The Box.
Kickstarter News: The single player game Hostage Negotiator is over 500% funded with two weeks left in their campaign. Core Worlds Digital is fully funded and into the stretch goal race with a little over a week left in their campaign. Yomi has finished their campaign with over 700% funding!
Musée: Alf Seegert's New Bookshelf Game of Classic Art!
Project By: Gryphon And Eagle Games
Alf Seegert, co-designer of Cubist, another successful Kickstarter game, partnered with Gryphon & Eagle Games, have yet another game on Kickstarter. Alf is sticking with the 'building a museum' theme, but this time you are creating an art gallery with cards, and not a statue gallery with dice.
Your art gallery will consist of three levels, six cards deep. You will draw a hand of five cards of art. On your turn, you will place one card anywhere in your museum. The only condition is that the numbers in the left hand corner will have to ascend from left to right. So, if you place a high number card on the far left side of the gallery level, that may leave you only a few cards that will be playable for the rest of the game.
The game ends when no one is able to place anymore cards into their museums. How many paintings you were able to place in your museum and the placement of the sets of related artwork all counts towards your point total. The player with the most points, wins.
Shipping is included in the contiguous US. Canada/non-contiguous US and US territories include shipping fee of $10. EU & Australia include shipping of $14. Rest of World include shipping of $20.
Trekking The National Parks
Project By: Bink Ink LLC
Trekking The National Parks is a family hand management game for 2-6 players. You will be competing against the other players, trying to visit as many National Parks as possible and collecting their cards and park tokens(randomly placed color stones.)
During your turn you can either draw a Trek card, which are used as either currency for buying the National Park cards, or as a movement cost, move your explorer across the map, or with your explorer at the National Park, and the right combination of Trek Cards, claim one of the National Park cards that are worth different amounts of points.
Every game will also include a 32 page book highlighting main attractions of all 59 National Parks.
U.S. Shipping is included. Add $20 USD per game for shipping to Canada. Add $40 USD per game for shipping anywhere else in the world. Insurance and tracking option available for an additional $10.
The Resistance – Hostile Intent & Hidden Agenda
Project By: Indie Boards And Cards
Indie Board and Cards has not one, but two expansions for The Resistance in one Kickstarter campaign. Hostile Intent and Hidden Agenda add new roles to this popular hidden role game. The Reverser can reverse any mission status, either a failed mission to succeed, or a successful mission to fail. The Inquisitor adds the first optional player role to the game of Resistance. This player will be able to look at another player's affiliation.
Also some of the cards from the Avalon Universe will now be added. You will be able to add the Assassin's, Defector, or Trapper module to your Resistance game. These roles and more are included in both expansions.
You can either wait til the retail version of these expansions, or jump on to their Kickstarter campaign and receive the Kickstarter campaign exclusives!
Different pledge levels for different shipping needs.
Aquasphere by Stefan Feld
Project By: Michael Mindes
Tasty Minstrel Games are busy with Kickstarter campaign after Kickstarter campaign. Each one more successful than the next.
This time they are bringing Stefan Feld's Aquasphere to a table near you in the US and Canada!
Aquasphere will pit your research team against your opponent's in a race to acquire the most knowledge. Each player will be using their team of scientists, reprogrammable bots, and submarines, to examine the octopods, upgrade their labs, or collect crystals. You will be balancing the need for more lab space with the actual collecting of the data. The game happens over four rounds, with a game time of 25 minutes per player. The game seats 2-4 players.
Different pledge levels for different shipping needs in US and Canada.
There you have this week's showcased games. Return next week to see which games I feel deserve your attention, and be sure to hit the subscribe button so you won't miss any of Troll In The Corner's marvelous content, including Kick The Box.


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Aggonis is a level 63 named mob felguard located at Pools of Aggonar in Hellfire Peninsula. Curiously, though a member of the mo'arg race, he claims to be the son of the annihilan pit lord, Aggonar.
This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.
Of course, the relationship between a demon and any creature they beget or create is entirely unknown to mortals. It could be possible that Aggonar had a direct hand in transforming a mortal mo'arg, Aggonis, into a demon through a blood rite, entirely created him in the shape of a mo'arg felguard (unlikely, as few eternals — let alone mid-ranking demons — have the power to create from scratch) or that Aggonis is a shapeshifter (as are many other demons) and that he simply prefers to assume the shape of a felguard over his true annihilan form (though it is confusing as to why he would take the form of a weaker demon).
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Draft ANWR management plan includes wilderness options
The draft plan is called a Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement.
The draft plan contains six alternatives for long-term management, ranging from the continuation of current practices to the designation of three geographic areas (including the Arctic Refuge coastal plain) for potential inclusion within the National Wilderness Preservation System, and the potential designation of four additional Wild and Scenic Rivers on the refuge, the service said in a press release.
The draft plan doesnt identify a preferred alternative. Rather, all the alternatives remain under active consideration, the service said.
Public comment will be taken through Nov. 15. Meantime, a series of public hearings are planned around the state. One hearing is set for Sept. 21 in Anchorage, and another on Oct. 19 in Fairbanks.
A copy of the draft plan, and additional materials, is available on the ANWR website at http://arctic.fws.gov/ccp.htm.
If the final plan recommends additional Wilderness and/or Wild and Scenic River designations, the recommendation(s) would require approval by the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Secretary of the Interior, and the President, the service said today. The President would then submit the recommendation to Congress, which alone has the authority to make final decisions on any proposed Wilderness or Wild and Scenic River designations.
Reaction to the announcement was immediate.
I have said all along spending limited federal dollars on a review of new wilderness designation in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a waste of time and money, said U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska. I am glad the Interior Department did not recommend new wilderness area in their draft plan, and urge Alaskans to speak out over the coming months to ensure the coastal plain of ANWR stays on the table for oil and gas development.
See full story in the Aug. 21 edition of Petroleum News, which will be available online to paid subscribers at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at www.petroleumnews.com.


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This week, I sat down for a casual chat with Vin Scully.
One name he brought up without any prodding was J.R. Richard's. Vinny was recounting the many brilliant young pitchers the Astros ushered into the 'Dome back in the day. He bemoaned the truncated career of Larry Dierker, the tragic end to Don Wilson's life and then stopped at the thought of J.R. Richard.
"He broke your heart." -Vin Scully
He certainly did. Anyone who ever witnessed him pitch wanted to see more. None of us got enough.
I was just a kid in small-town Nebraska back then. My older brother and I thought J.R. was the most dominating player who ever walked the planet. He was six feet, eight inches tall with a wingspan at least as freakish as the Celtics' Robert Parish.
Maybe it just seemed that way.
Richard's fastball hit 103 mph. He could hold four or five baseballs in one hand. He brought Bob Gibson's glare and intimidation to a new generation of hitters. When he got down to business, he was flat-out dominant.
In Richard's first big league start against San Francisco, he struck out 15 Giants hitters. Willie Mays fanned three times that day. So did All-Star catcher Dick Dietz, aka "The Mule."
ASIDE: The Mule made for excellent copy. Remind me to tell you about the day in which he showed me how he got the nickname. Let's just say it involved me flying from the mound into foul territory.
Mays was later asked by his mentor, Monte Irvin, what it was like to hit against J.R. Richard. The Say Hey Kid summed it up in one word:
I'm pretty sure he was serious. J.R. Richard went on to become the starting pitcher for the 1980 NL All-Star team. His legend was only in its infancy, and a place in Cooperstown seemed a reasonable goal.
"In my mind, he was as fearsome a pitcher as ever played," said Scully.
Back in Nebraska, my brother and I played a lot of pick-up games in a vacant lot up the street. The other kids wanted to be Pete Rose or Dave Parker or Steve Garvey. We wanted to be James Rodney Richard.
My brother always got his way. In protest, I'd be Biff Pocoroba.
That meant my J.R. Richard moments played out in private. I'm sure the neighbors wondered about the gangly 80-pound kid throwing imaginary 100 mph fastballs against the wall. That same goofy kid spent hours trying to palm as many baseballs as his larger-than-life hero.
My fastball never touched two-thirds of Richard's velocity. I never palmed more than a couple baseballs. But today I got the last laugh on my brother.
The Astros honored J.R. Richard tonight at Minute Maid Park. They unveiled his star on the new Astros Walk of Fame. He threw out the first pitch — as hard as he could — before the game.
J.R. Richard crushed my hand with his grip. He spent a chunk of his busy afternoon telling me stories and basking in a day designed to honor him. He told me about a high school game in which he hit four homers and pitched his team to a 48-0 shutout win. Turns out, he never lost a game prior to playing professionally. He also offered loads of optimism and insight about today's Astros.
Sure, my brother always got to be J.R. Richard when we were kids. Today I got to be with J.R. Richard.
Richard broke a lot of fans' hearts when his career came to a terrifying halt in 1980. We wonder what he could have accomplished, had he not fallen to the Astroturf while having a stroke.
Through many tough breaks, poor decisions and lonely moments after his career, J.R. Richard never lost his enthusiasm or competitiveness. He's an associate pastor now. He helps young players learn baseball. Optimism percolates with every smile.
He broke a few hearts, no doubt. His hurt for a time, too.
Tonight the Astros and J.R. Richard made bold steps toward mending a sadly fractured relationship. He was emotional. Fans were reassured. Baseball proudly sung his praises.
I didn't get a chance to tell J.R. during our broadcast, but I suspect I speak for many when I say that my heart burst with joy to see him in a rainbow uniform.


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Fall is the season when most of us decide to play with warmer colors for clothing and makeup. But, it seems that this year things are going to be different. All of the Fall 2017 shows are over, and the runway looks gave a lot of fresh fall inspiration. Thanks to these shows, we know what to expect for the upcoming season.
Bold and vibrant colors will dominate the makeup for Fall/Winter 2017. Lipsticks will be dark again, including maroon, deep cherry, and plum shades. The biggest trend is going to be the two-toned lips. You can create this look with any two similar lip shades that are based on the same color. It is a very wearable trend that is worth trying.
All of the eyeshadow trends will be fun and colorful. On the runways, you could see fearless blue and yellow lids that drew a lot of attention. This trend is definitely for those who are not afraid to experiment. For the makeup lovers that blindly follow all the latest trends, the neon lids are a must try. When it comes to eyeliner there are several options. The safest option is to wear a white upper liner. The more interesting ones are, of course, colorful. Instead of wearing a boring black liner, makeup artists suggest you try a vibrant neon pink one.
The eyebrows should not be ordinary. You have two options. The first one is to really accent and embrace your thick, natural brows. The second one is to bleach them.
Feast your eyes on the coolest makeup trends for Fall/Winter 2017.


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Blackhawks Buzz: January 26, 2014 vs. Winnipeg Jetsby Brad Boron / Chicago Blackhawks
Saturday will mark the fourth and final regular-season game between Chicago and Winnipeg, with the Blackhawks handily taking all three previous decisions, outscoring their opponents a combined 15-5. In fact, the Blackhawks haven't lost to the Atlanta/Winnipeg franchise since Oct. 27, 2007, a span of eight games.
Although he's gone through the typical rookie growing pains, the Jets' Mark Scheifele has proven that he belongs at the NHL level, and his recent production corroborates that fact. The 20-year-old centerman has recorded nine points (4G, 5A) in his last nine games, dating back to Jan. 5, and 20 points in his last 23 appearances. The 2011 first-round pick has also seen significant power-play time (2:01 per game), recording a goal and three assists on the man advantage this year.
Sunday marks Patrick Kane's 500th NHL game, and if his career numbers are any indication, he should end up on the score sheet. It's a small sample size, but Kane's career performance against the Winnipeg franchise has been nothing short of spectacular, recording 13 points (6G, 7A) in eight career matchups. He has two goals and an assist in three games against the Jets this season.
A pillar of a puck-possession offense like the Blackhawks' is winning faceoffs, and Chicago features two of the league's best at the dot in Jonathan Toews and Marcus Kruger. The captain and reigning Selke Trophy winner, ranks seventh in the league with a 57.4 faceoff percentage, while the Swedish center sits just behind him in eighth with a 57.3 mark. Just as important, Kruger's 57.8 faceoff percentage on the penalty kill makes him a valuable asset when down a skater, and his 66 shorthanded faceoff wins ranks 10th in the NHL.
The Jets may find themselves in last place in the Central Division, but their offense, which is predicated on a blend of speed and power, has produced enough to rank somewhere around the middle of the pack. Winnipeg features a host of talented wingers, including captain Andrew Ladd, Michael Frolik, Blake Wheeler and Evander Kane, and their defensive corps—led by Tobias Enstrom, Zach Bogosian and Dustin Byfuglien—is more than capable of joining the rush at any time.
Results have been mixed since Head Coach Paul Maurice took over for Claude Noel in Winnipeg; however the needle is pointing up as the Jets fly into Chicago. Having won five of their last six decisions, including an overtime win against Toronto on Saturday, it seems like Maurice's offensive system is clicking; his centers are distributing the pucks better, and with greater success. Though the end result may be a high-scoring affair, the Blackhawks know what it takes to beat the Jets, having done it three times already this season. With no games at the United Center until March 4, the Blackhawks will want to leave their fans a parting gift.


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As a single woman, well past 30, rounding the corner to 40, I have made a lot, A LOT, of bad decisions in relationships. My primary issue in is that I have given short term relationships long term expectations.
Where is my church fan? I should be waving it at myself shouting "amen".
Ladies, and gentlemen, I get it. I completely understand that you are hoping against hope, and praying with all you've got, that some relationships will just work themselves out. You are perfect for that man or woman, but they aren't perfect for you. They are NOT perfect for you. They aren't even good for you. That relationship isn't good for you. That relationship isn't a long term relationship. It's a reason or season, but not a life time.
Short term people tell you they are short term people, through words and/or actions. I had an ex boyfriend who claimed to want forever with me, but he never discussed marriage. He wanted a child with me, but he never discussed a family. He always stopped short of committing to me. The relationship was saturated in missed opportunities and let downs. But, I loved him. And, because he said he loved me, I stuck it out. It was bound to get better, right? Eventually he would see that I was perfect for him. I was supportive of him. I was committed to him. I was in this. Right?
Wrong. He showed me time and again that we were short term. Maybe we would shack up for a bit. Maybe I could join the baby mama team. Maybe I could look up in another 3 years and realize he had been consistently telling me that I wasn't the one.
Because as motivated as I should have been to leave, he was motivated to keep me around. I was offering up a wife life to him, with little expectations. Human nature was telling him to soak that up. I understand. And, he didn't owe me anything. He'd told me what I was getting. If I wanted to stand around hoping for more, I was the fool.
He was a reason for a season. He had a clear point and purpose in my life. I needed the lessons he provided. And, I'm grateful.
But, how do you know when long term really equals long term?
You will just know. The behavior changes from anything you've seen before. You feel it in your gut. Your person isn't being dragged into this idea of forever by you. They are happily walking into forever, eyes wide open, eager about what's to come. You are having long term conversations. They are initiating some of those conversations and not avoiding any of them. Their plans have you in them, and your plans don't intimidate them.
I'm there. Finally betting on the winner. My guy discusses us as a team, not two individuals that happen to be in the same time and space. We plan our life, our family, our future, our finances, our investments, our needs, our wants, and our goals. We have real arguments that aren't sugar coated to avoid upsetting the other person. We laugh with and at each other. We sacrifice to support the relationship, and we build each other up to be the best version of ourselves.
I didn't know what long term felt like until I got to where I am. I only knew the short term was uncomfortable. I only recognized the struggle. I thought forever was going to be a battle.
Long term IS a challenge, but short term with long term expectations is damn near a war.


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Does it make you squirm trying to remember where you started last year?
If so, I'm curious about that.
It's a little uncomfortable, isn't it… you've increased your strength (or muscle, etc.) but you can't be sure how much. Or you haven't made much progress and you're not sure why.
Making new goals (or resolutions, if you dig that) means looking back first. How'd you do this year? If you did set goals and didn't reach them, did your priorities change, did you forget your goals, or did you get derailed by a life event? Or maybe you just got lazy. Either way…
Before We Go Any Further…
It's really, really important we don't beat ourselves up for not reaching goals.
Progress isn't a straight line. There are months when things rock and you're taking ab selfies like crazy. Other months you can't remember where your abs are. We take steps forward and then backward. Then forward and back again. Stay positive – there is no "ugly." If you didn't do something perfectly, then you learned from it (hopefully) and even corrected it already.
Time to Set New Ones
To get to one-year goals, we need to set a series of short-term goals with a long-term vision (called micro-goals). For example, you want to increase your pushups by five reps within six weeks, but in one year you want to be doing handstand pushups. One year from now you want to know: How'd I do? How much farther do I have to go?
Start here:
- Set micro-goals to help you change ingrained habits.
- Keep a training log so you can look back at your progress.
- Take your measurements at regular intervals.
- Take progress pictures every six to eight weeks too, in the same clothes, time of day, etc.
- Most importantly, follow a structured training program instead of program hopping and to keep you accountable.
2013: The Good and Improved Upon
Here's what I did well and what I improved upon!
The Good
- I took creatine for the first time from January to April to see just how much muscle and strength I could build. I added 3/4″ to shoulders and increased my pull ups by 3-4 reps. I admit, I enjoyed my foray into creatine very much. My performance was crazy. I looked amazing, too… I was lean and pumped. So this goal was a success… if you don't count the overuse injuries (see "Improved Upon").
- I increased my pull ups from 30 reps in nine sets to 30 reps in six or seven sets. In March I started a program that calls for doing 30 pull ups in as few sets as possible. At some point I did eight reps in the first set. Not. Freaking. Bad.
- I grew my glutes, baby. I put half an inch on the ole' backside. That doesn't seem like much, frankly. It gets harder when you've been training for-evah. But I have to say, my bum looks a whole lot bigger. Feels bigger too. I love my booty now… it's my favorite feature. I'd call this a crazy success. How did I do this, you ask? I put myself on a more structured training program. I write programs for my online clients all the time; how come I wasn't doing it for myself? A structured training program is how I finally started seeing results in my lower body. Plain and simple.
The Improved Upon
- I acquired elbow tendinitis, my achy shoulder returned, my hip hurt on and off, and I even had calf pain. What a bitch.In retrospect, my upper-body injuries were probably caused by training hard for three months nonstop. The creatine energy boost was too intoxicating and I paid the price. My pull-up program might have played a role too, so I don't recommend you do it for more than a few weeks at a time. I also tried a very high-volume shoulder program. The tendinitis took three months to settle down and the shoulder remained an on-and-off scourge until I figured out how to fix it. But I did fix it myself using trigger point therapy, rest, and adjusting my programming.
If you choose to use creatine, schedule in deload periods every four to six weeks. Deal? As far as my hip and calf issue, that was resolved with some shoe manipulation. Yay me.
- Since I track my body fat percentage I can estimate that it's two or three percentages higher in the last few months. I have to be careful though, not to count bloat! But I know it's there and I want it gone. That's all I need to know to proceed (no self-flagellation).
What's in Store for 2014
Now it's time to look ahead. I see what I did right and not so right and I can use that to build new goals. Here are just three goals I can think of (more are in the works).
Reduce Body Fat by Two Percent
What's the best way for an already-clean-eater to lose just a little body fat? I help my clients with this all the time! I've already started cleaning up my diet by decreasing calories and increasing activity. This isn't enough, most likely, so I'll be putting together a more concrete plan to make this happen. Stay tuned, I'll be sharing it here and in my subscriber newsletter.
Increase Pull ups
Of course! I'm now working on getting those last two pesky reps into six sets. It's easy to plateau with pull ups, so I'll be mixing in eccentric pull ups along with band work.
Remain Injury-Free
I'm excited that I'm ending 2013 with no injuries or ailments. I've learned so much about how to stay injury-free. I'm committed to doing what it takes, including more deload periods and integrated low-intensity days.
In the coming year, know where you stand and map out where you're going. You'll get there sooner, I promise.
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Fighting those pesky hot flashes and night sweats? You may want to look at what you're putting on your plate. That's because a new study has come out that is among the first to link general dietary patterns to these bothersome menopausal symptoms.
The researchers looked at data from 6,040 middle-aged women who were born between 1946 and 1951 who participated in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. These women went through menopause naturally (as opposed to surgically). At the start of the study in 2001, researchers assessed the participant's dietary intake as well as whether they smoked, drank or exercised. Additionally, the women were asked whether they experienced hot flashes and/or night sweats. It was determined that 58 percent of the participants were experiencing these types of symptoms when the study started.
Over the nine-years of the study, the researchers looked at the women's diet, identifying six dietary patterns that they followed: cooked vegetables; fruit; Mediterranean style; meat and processed meat; dairy; and high fat and sugar. They found that women who consumed the most fruit (strawberries, pineapple and melon) or a Mediterranean-style diet (fruit, salad greens, pasta, pasta and red wine) were 20-percent less likely to suffer hot flashes and night sweats. On the flip side, women whose diets included more high-fat and high-sugar foods had a 23-percent higher risk of hot flashes and night sweats. And the researchers found that eating vegetables in general, meat and dairy were not found to be associated with changes (either for better or worse) in having hot flashes and/or night sweats.
Researchers aren't sure why these particular diet choices may have a difference. They have two hypotheses. The first is that low-fat, high-fiber diets may actually stabilize estrogen levels, thus tamping down hot flashes and night sweats. The second is that a Mediterranean-style diet may control blood sugar so it remains in the optimum range, thus lowering the possibility of hot flashes and night sweats.
This study echoes another that I've written about that highlight the importance of a healthy diet as you go through menopause. That study found that menopausal women who lost weight through eating a low-fat diet with lots of produce reduced or eliminated their hot flashes and night sweats.
Also, I thought it was interesting that this latest study focused specifically on salad greens. So what do these bring to the table? The Colorado State University Extension pointed out that lettuce, spinach and other salad greens are year-round sources of vitamin A, vitamin C and other nutrients. Additionally, red and dark green leafy vegetables tend to be more nutrient-rich, especially in antioxidants and vitamin B6, than lighter colored greens. Livestrong.com also points out that Romaine lettuce is high in vitamin K while spinach contains iron and Swiss chard offers potassium. Leafy greens have been found to be beneficial in preventing a number of disease, including heart disease and cancer.
And what about strawberries, pineapple and melons? The George Matlejan Foundation points out that strawberries ranked 27th among the top 50 antioxidant sources of commonly eaten foods. When fruits were the only ones considered, strawberries moved to 4th, only behind blackberries, cranberries and raspberries. Pineapples offer great amounts of vitamin C, manganese, fiber, vitamin B6, copper, vitamin B1 and folate. And cantaloupes are excellent sources of vitamin A and beta-carotene as well as a good source of potassium, folate, vitamin B6, vitamin B3, fiber, vitamin K, magnesium and vitamin B1. In fact, these melons have30-times higher amounts of beta-carotene content than fresh oranges. Cantaloupe also has been found to lower the risk of metabolic syndrome.
So load your plate up with salad and these fruit, as well as pasta (and a little bit of wine). It's a healthy and easy way to potentially give the boot to hot flashes
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Bunning, M. & Kendall, P. (2012). Health benefits and safe handling of salad greens. Colorado State University Extension.
George Mateljan Foundation. (nd.). Cantaloupe.
George Mateljan Foundation. (nd.). Pineapple.
George Mateljan Foundation. (nd.). Strawberries.
Herber-Gast, G.C.M, and Mishra, G. D. (2013). Fruits, Mediterranean-style, and high-fat and -sugar diets are associated with the risk of night sweats and hot flushes in midlife: results from a prospective cohort study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Pittman, G. (2013). Fruit, Mediterranean diet tied to fewer hot flashes. MedlinePlus.
Ray, L. (2010). What are the benefits of green salads? Livestrong.com.


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Did you know that there are thousands of people around the world who collect
With this global reach, and people's love of
The 2015 World Expo took place in Milan, Italy this year, and
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A few weeks ago, I attended the opening of the Bottle Art Tour in Bangkok. While I was there, I was able to meet
A group of 10 superfans from Korea were invited to the opening of the exhibit and given a sneak preview. I was able to meet with the group after their tour to answer questions about
The visits to these countries meeting collectors and our superfans around the world has reconfirmed for me the popularity of collecting
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Native Woman and Five Children in front of Huts near Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Africa
This photograph of a woman and children near Bulaway, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), is from the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress. Frank G. Carpenter (1855–1924) was an American writer of books on travel and world geography, whose works helped to popularize cultural anthropology and geography in the United States in the early years of the 20th century. Consisting of photographs taken and gathered by Carpenter and his daughter Frances (1890–1972) to illustrate his writings, the collection includes an estimated 16,800 photographs and 7,000 glass and film negatives. Carpenter's New Geographical Reader: Africa (1924) informed readers about the "continuous steel track from Cape Town to Bulawayo. This is thirteen hundred miles long, and the railway goes north of Bulawayo almost thirteen hundred miles farther, crossing Northern Rhodesia, and reaching Bukama on the Lualaba, or upper Congo River…. Bulawayo is now the principal station in Southern Rhodesia. The town is surrounded by rich farming country. There are gold mines not far away, and near by is a governmental farm containing more than one hundred thousand acres, which formerly belonged to Cecil J. Rhodes."
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Happy 2014… one week later!! 🙂 I had very good intentions of promptly posting some updated 2014 goals but obviously never got around to it! My older three started back to school yesterday so life is slowly starting to get back to normal. The Christmas decorations are finally put away and at one point we had the house entirely cleaned.
First of all… THANK YOU for the generous comments on Facebook, Daily Mile or in person after my race yesterday. It means the world to me!! A goal I set this past January was to break 3 hours in the marathon. It might have taken me all year but on December 28, 2013 it happened!! Official time- 2:59:19. (Wow- does
It's been a great first week of a brand new year. 2013- I think I'm really going to like you! my BIGGEST blessings! I am still figuring out some new goals for 2013. I am keeping a lot of my old ones but I have a few new things in mind for the new year. Here are a few non-running
It's been a little while (almost a year to be exact) since I wrote my New Year's Resolution Post but I decided to go back and check out some of my running related goals when 2012 started. One of my goals was to run a race every month! This included 5K's all the way to marathons. I knew this would
We made it! The past 24 hours have been busy! We had Ashton's 1 year birthday party last night and then it was time to switch gears and start race packing. This morning I finished all the packing (it takes a while packing up 6 people) and then this afternoon John, Ashton and I flew to Houston. The three big


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Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a kind of stimuli-responsive smart materials with the ability to undergo a large recoverable deformation upon certain external stimulus, (e.g., heat, electricity, light, magnetism, moisture and chemicals).SMPs possess a number of technical advantages compared with shape memory alloys, including high recoverable strain, ease of processing, the ability to tailor the recovery temperature, programmable and controllable recovery behavior, low cost and light weight, etc. Combining such advantages with the smart shape memory behavior, SMPs present significant potential and practical applications in various important fields.
Fig. 1 Schematic of shape memory effect during a typical thermo-mechanical cycle.
In our group, we focus on:
(a) Fabrication of various kinds of SMPs with different glass transition temperatures (Tg), including:
· polyimide-based SMPs (Tg: 90 oC-320 oC)
· cynate-based SMPs (Tg: 160 oC-250 oC)
·styrene-based SMPs (Tg: 47 oC-88 oC)
· epoxy-based SMPs (Tg: 100 oC-188 oC)
·poly (ε-caprolactone)-based SMPs (Tg: 37 oC-46 oC)
We can provide diverse SMPs with different Tg for future collaborations.
(b) Investigation of actuated approaches of SMPs and theircomposites, including:
·thermal-actuated method
·electrical-actuated method
· light-actuated method
·magnetic-actuated method
· solvent-actuated method
·multistage-actuated method
Fig. 2 Multistage-actuated shape memory recovery process (A) in 34oC, 37 oC and 41 oC water, respectively, (B)in an alternating magnetic field with a frequency of 20 kHz and a fieldstrength of 6.8 kA m-1 and (C) in the supplied voltage 60 V.
Fig.3 The novel water-induced SMPs composite with 3D microvoid is designed based on chemical interaction.
(c) Exploration of the potentialand practical applications of SMPs and their composites in various of fields, including:
·deployable structures
· morphing structures
· medical devices
· foams
· smart mandrel
· self-healing systems
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Freshwater Issues and a Possible Worldwide Solution
Video shows shocking stats for dirty freshwater!
Those of us at HomesteadWorld are very active in support of certain campaigns on the crowdfunding website, KickStarter. Most tend to be personal things we like and a lot are board games for fun at home with family, friends and neighbors. Since we have been doing a series of posts on water, this video seems to fit right in. It tells a lot about freshwater around the world and some very serious issues. We all know there are shortages around the states and some of the rest of the surface water is not fit to drink. There is a scary amount of items that can be in the water.
We talked about filtered water and that you should buy that for drinking and cooking if you want the safest and purist water. For those that want to DIY, or have it while camping and hunting or more importantly during a time of disaster, you should consider a portable, self-contained system. Surface water can contain things like: E-coli, Cholera, Hepatitis, Coliform, Salmonella, Legionella, Influenza, a variety of bacteria and viruses and so much more! Not to mention Pesticides and Herbicides, Giardia, Chlorine, and other odors, tastes and sediment.
Take a look at this video. The first part is very educational and covers in greater detail the issues around the world and right here with fresh water. The second half is a preview of a product to help virtually everyone, everywhere! It holds a very exciting prospect of clean water any time.
You can pack The Hydro or pull it with its built in handle and trolley wheels. The pump runs from a battery and that can be charged by AC or an optional solar charge for true off-grid use.
Crowdfunding in General and KickStarter
If you are unfamiliar with Crowdfunding or KickStarter, it is a way a group(crowd) can come together and donate small amount of money to help a new product get to market or help a company get started. Your donation or pledge of support is rewarded with a gift. The more you give the better the thank you reward. Since these individuals and companies are just starting out, there is a huge risk of delay and real business issues. Understand you are NOT "ordering a product" and your donation is really just that. One good thing is that the KickStarter financial goal must be met or you are charged nothing and the creator gets nothing. Please read the information about any crowdfunding you support and realize the risks. Here at HomesteadWorld we have backed over 500 KickStarter projects so far and only had a handful of "real issues", but 80% or more have run into delays on estimated delivery of the thank you gifts. As always we share our opinions simply to help others. Please use them with thought.


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When you zip the contents of a folder, there are three ways in which you are likely to want folder information stored.
Please refer to the picture of an open folder window above to understand the example pictures that follow. In each picture of the WinZip window, a Zip file has been created containing the files in the 10October folder. You can then refer to the instructions that follow to create your own Zip file with similar folder information.
A. Subfolders stored in October1.zipx
B. Complete folder information stored in October2.zipx
C. Selected folder stored with subfolders in October3.zipx
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Note: The Full Path Information setting in the Include drop down menu should not be selected when following these steps.
Another option, the context menu method, will work with all operating systems and WinZip versions.
Note: With the context menu, as described above, you will also get the same results if you click Zip and Share (WinZip Express), provided you have installed the WinZip Express for Explorer add-on.
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Cargo Cults
To accompany the release of Bateleur's new EP, CargoCults, they invited 5 artists to each work on a limited edition Artist Series. The EPs were housed in 30cm wooden discs. The artists had complete freedom to customize the wooden discs in any way they saw fit. These 4 discs, titled MYTH; RITUAL; FETISH; WORSHIP, I explored the changing ego as it is involved with altered states of consciousness - from ecstasy to annihilation.


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The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption
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The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work, listen to music, collaborate, produce and co-produce, search and browse very differently than in the pre-digital age. Adopting emerging technologies easily, spending a large proportion of time online and multitasking are signs of the increasingly digital nature of our everyday lives. Yet consumer research is just beginning to emerge on how this affects basic human and consumer behaviours such as attention, learning, communications, relationships, entertainment and knowledge. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption offers an introduction to the perspectives needed to rethink consumer behaviour in a digital age that we are coming to take for granted and which therefore often escapes careful research and reflective critical appraisal.


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TCP/IP Illustrated is a complete and detailed guide to the entire TCP/IP protocol suite-with an important difference from other books on the subject. Rather than just describing what the RFCs say the protocol suite should do, this unique book uses a popular diagnostic tool so you may actually watch the protocols in action.By forcing various conditions to occur-such as connection establishment, timeout and retransmission, and fragmentation-and then displaying the results, TCP/IP Illustrated gives you a much greater understanding of these concepts than words alone could provide. Whether you are new to TCP/IP or you have read other books on the subject, you will come away with an increased understanding of how and why TCP/IP works the way it does, as well as enhanced skill at developing applications that run over TCP/IP.
With this unique approach, TCP/IP Illustrated presents the structure and function of TCP/IP from the link layer up through the network, transport, and application layers. You will learn about the protocols that belong to each of these layers and how they operate under numerous implementations, including Sun OS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.2, System V Release 4, BSD/386TM, AIX 3.2.2, and 4.4BSD.In TCP/IP Illustrated you will find the most thorough coverage of TCP available - 8 entire chapters. You will also find coverage of the newest TCP/IP features, including multicasting, path MTU discovery, and long fat pipes.
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Links of London
Links of London is an iconic jewellery brand with an international presence. The design team strives to create exquisite jewellery and statement watches and that will captivate their customers worldwide. Links of London always have something exciting and new to offer. They believe in design and function, and endeavour to bring you contemporary classics, fashion must-haves and that extra special piece you weren't expecting. Available in silver and 18 carat gold, we always have an enviable range of charms, necklaces, bracelets, watches and rings in stock.
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Coming down from their mountain homes, every member of this race of artisans and sages approach their life's work with a single-mindedness that have garnered them the respect of dragons, dwarves and even elves. Minotaurs approach the labyrinth of life with such passion that they uncover the truth behind the mysteries of reality itself.
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