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Hello Just My Two Copper! I, Mageshadow, will be your new content manager, and all I can say is that I'm extremely excited to work with such a wonderful audience.
As some of you know, I have been writing at The Gnomish Coin for the past couple months, and I've enjoyed every second of it, from the comments, the atmosphere, to even the small community of readers that I have. I enjoy blogging, it's become more than a hobby now, it's become something that I love. It gives me a way to help others, which is also something that I love to do. I'm a person that loves giving, anything that I have I'd be willing to give to those in need, sharing my thoughts and ideas with other people is a great way for me to give.
Me being the new Content Manager doesn't mean Markco is going completely away, he'll still be here posting and working, I will simply be helping out with content management.
I will provide a little background about myself. I'm an 18 year old, male that just completely loves gaming. I've been playing games since I've been six, It all started with the Super Nintendo, Contra and Super Mario World. man those were the days, you'd invite everyone over to your house to come play and it was extremely fun. I slowly moved on from there, the PlayStation one, the Xbox, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Etc. I've played almost all consoles now, except the Wii. I don't really enjoy offline games, or single player games, I'm more of a online guy, I love how every game can be extremely different than the last, and how you meet different people every single game.
I first saw World of Warcraft when I went over to my friends house and he showed it to me, when I first saw it I was astonished, I was amazed and I was hooked. It was amazing and mind blowing to me how the game worked, how simple yet addictive it was. That was back in 2005, I didn't have the money to pay for the game, so I forgot about it until I picked up a trial for $1.99 from the local GameStop in early 2007. Man, I was so hooked. I have been playing since Mid 2007, with small breaks for school.
I play a Fire Mage as my main, with an alt Holy/Prot Paladin. I enjoy raiding, I currently don't raid seeing as the current content is months old, and I've killed most of it several times. In Cataclysm, I plan to start raiding again, and give pvp a serious shot. I didn't pvp much during Wrath of the Lich King, I did do some arena but only hit a lousy rating of 1700. I can see myself doing both raiding and pvp, especially rated battlegrounds, I'm really excited to see how they will work out.
I got into the gold game when I wanted the Tundra Mammoth on my mage. I saved up for months, roughly 4 to be exact. I bought it and I thought to myself... why can't I have all of that gold back? I instantly started flipping things left and right, in a matter of 2 weeks I had 15k. I then started investing into my paladin, I leveled him to 80 and power leveled jewelcrafting, and started buying saronite ore by the truckload, I was constantly dealing with 5-600 stacks a week, I basically ran my servers gem market. I would log in every morning to ridiculous amounts of gold, I did this for a couple months, until I hit 60k. Since then, I've been on Auto Pilot, flipping rare patterns, using my professions, finding niche markets, etc.
I now use Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Enchanting, Engineering and Blacksmithing. My biggest money makers so far have been Inscription, Enchanting and Engineering. I enjoy finding niche markets and controlling them, so far my biggest niche market have been BOA enchants.
My Goals for JMTC
My goals for Just My Two Copper are simple. I plan to make the site the best site possible. I'll do whatever it takes to make the site even bigger than it already is. I want this community to grow, I want it to flourish. I can see the site 6 months down the road becoming even more successful than it already is.
I want to become one with you, the readers, I want to hear your thoughts and ideas, comments and suggestions, and improve the site based on your feedback. That being said, I will try to interact with the community as much as possible, the forums, e-mails, IRC, anything and everything to interact with you guys.
If you guys want to reach me, simply e-mail Markco, like always. Bloggers, If you're reading this, I will be looking for way to interact with you, I'm sure most of us have already met, but I'm looking for guest posts, and ways to talk, and meet with all of you, so please if you have any ideas, drop Markco an e-mail. Don't be afraid, he won't bite :) I can also be reached through twitter @Mageshadow
With all of that being said, I can't wait to see what the coming months will bring to JMTC. I hope to see you guys on the forums and in the IRC, as I will be hanging out there as much as possible, See you there!
Hello Just My Two Copper! I, Mageshadow, will be your new content manager, and all I can say is that I'm extremely excited to work with such a wonderful audience.
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Welcome Mage. Congratulations on this wonderful opportunity and we all look forward to your contributions to JMTC.
Anonymous said... December 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM
Looking forward to your contributions :)
Rebecca said... December 1, 2010 at 8:48 AM
Welcome aboard Mageshadow :) Looking forward to seeing what you do with JMTC!
Thatkindaorc said... December 1, 2010 at 8:52 AM
First of all, love the youthful enthusiasm. You're obviously a talented player, you just need to work on your writing a bit.
Careful with the commas; you had a bunch of unnecessary ones and a few missing where they should have been. Try short, concise sentences. Your point gets across more firmly, is easier to read, and looks less like rambling with to-the-point statements.
Other than that, great first post. Looking forward to the energy level of our new content manager!
Harold said... December 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM
I've always enjoyed reading The Gnomish Coin. I'm a little sad I won't have two blogs to look at now. :-( Congrats on the new job!
Michele said... December 1, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Nice post, welcome, even though you're half my age I look forward to you sharing your knowledge, I'm such a noob at making gold.
Lizzie said... December 1, 2010 at 11:31 AM
Hello, and welcome aboard. I love reading the Gnomish Coin, I feel like I am right in the room chatting with you, so having you here is awesome. My daughter bought me a trial account about one year ago, and I have never looked back. She is one of the best players I know, so age is just a number to me.
Right now I am making gold off of my Glyphs and buying up stuff to sell on auction when Cata comes out.
Thanks for all of your support guys, It really helps :)
As for my grammar, I know I need to work on it. English isn't my first language, I actually speak fluent spanish :)
Geargrinder said... December 1, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Hey Mageshadow, good first post. Sucks about GC but whatever. I'm wondering if you'd mind expanding on one point you made about engineering being a moneymaker for you. On most blogs and forums I've read people go on about the inability of engineering to be a money maker. I realize quest items (mithril casing) and pets can make you money but if you know something the rest of you don't please share.
Tks Gear
Engineering can bring in huge profits, you just need to know what to sell.
Pets, Bots, Parts, Mounts, Quest Items, The Chopper And such are great money makers, it may take sometime for the items to sell, but in the end you're turning 500g into 2000g.
I think of engineering as "passive" income, if it sells then excellent, if it doesn't, simply repost. When things sell the profits are immense as the profit margins on most of the items made from engineering are huge.
I'm not going to reveal everything though or name things down to the point, as that will be saved for a post scheduled at a later date. :)
phill said... December 1, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Hey i wanted to welcome you. I love the sight and have used many of the things listed and it has helped me tremendously. Hate to date myself but I started gaming with Pong...and been doing so every since...back in the day before windows...when you turned your computer on and only got a green screen...we use to write our own games...Sure glad WOW came along...lol
James said... December 1, 2010 at 7:33 PM
As a loyal disciple of Markco, I have learned that engineering can never bring in any profit. As he said on Call to Auction, it's just not a money maker. Sure, you can make hundreds of gold with simple items and make alot of cash, but If Overlord Markco, Lord of the 18th Dimension, Mogul of Onyxia, and Saver of Kittens disagreed, then so do I.
charlie said... December 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM
hey welcome to JMTC thanks for the tips about engineering now all i have to do is get a alt with engineering and ill be set!! :)
Markco said... December 1, 2010 at 8:35 PM
LOL :3 James
I love the sarcasm!
I actually said that you can make tons with engineering, which is what Jason is secretly alluding to.
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The well-known 1996 film by the Coen brothers, "Fargo," has had people chucking for almost twenty years, whether from remembering seeing the movie, or hearing others imitate the famous, over-done accent. Here in the actual, physical Fargo, North Dakota, everything is going along as it always has. Accents are still similar to what they were twenty years ago (minus the exaggeration) and the flooding and cold winters happen with unrelenting regularity.
However, with the new TV series "Fargo" premiering and becoming popular, the comedic perspective toward and around the city has become one focus of the media's attention for the Red River Valley area, until recently.
An article published in Star Tribune by Jennifer Brooks was published a couple of days ago and deserves a revisit. The headline, "Fargo reinvents itself as a magnet for creative types and entrepreneurs," gives a different vibe than the feel from the screen, and the article doesn't disappoint. It covers topics from eclectic and growing businesses, to many available jobs and low unemployment, and colleges with young people contributing to the community in various ways. Overall, the area is blossoming across the board and people are excited about Fargo's future, not just the next episode to air.
Brooks includes pieces from interviews with some prominent but down-to-earth people in the area, most of whom have become well-known through their work, start-up businesses, or community involvement. They're excited about the place and the people, noting that the metro area is growing as newcomers flood the cities.
Not only are people and businesses loving the growth and character of Downtown Fargo, Classic cars, vehicles, roadsters, and trucks are celebrating the season and their town with an event tonight called Cruisin' Broadway. The event will begin at 5 p.m. and people will be driving around until 9 p.m.
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Michael Mann has been the object of merciless attacks from those who refuse to believe that human beings are changing the world's climate. In 1999, he was the lead author on a paper (link; subscription required) that included the infamous "hockey stick" showing that temperatures in the northern hemisphere have increased dramatically since the start of the 20th century.
His book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, will be released on March 6.1 It tells the story of how climate science has been undermined by well funded interests determined to prevent adoption of any government policies that would reduce or restrict burning of fossil fuels. That effort has become a war on climate science. As an example, just take a look at a couple of stories about the recently leaked documents from the Heartland Institute (New York Times, Guardian). It's one thing to argue about what kind of response the projected impacts of climate change require. There are many uncertainties about the degree of impacts, the location of impacts, the actions that might be taken to mitigate impacts, and the policies that might reduce the impacts. But one thing about which there is no longer any uncertainty (any more than there's uncertainty that an apple dropped from a tree will fall to the ground) is that our burning of fossil fuels is causing global average surface temperatures to rise.
I mention all of this because, there's a nice profile of Mann at Wired Science. It's short and nicely done. I encourage you to click through and read it. In the meantime, enjoy this video, which accompanies the piece.
On a more local note, if you happen to be in the area on the 29th of March, Michael Mann will be the final speaker in this year's Teale Series on Nature and the Environment. Please join us. It should be a very interesting talk.
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Health Services Research
The Division of Health Services Research assesses the organization, financing, and delivery of health care and provides support for investigators working in health services research. Linkages between policy, practice and research highlight the Division of Health Services Research's vision statement:
The Division of Health Services Research conducts nationally recognized research that fosters and supports health policy and improves health care education and practices.
Health services research is "the multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors affect access to health care, the quality and cost of health care, and ultimately our health and well-being. Its research domains are individuals, families, organizations, institutions, communities, and populations." (p. 8; Lohr & Steinwachs, 2002).
Our Mission
The mission of the Division of Health Services Research is to implement and complete multidisciplinary investigations that examine health care access, quality, cost, and outcomes and emphasize applications to education, policy, and practice.
The Division of Health Services Research serves as a home for health services research within Oregon Health and Science University. We have a core portfolio of research that examines the organization, delivery and financing of services for alcohol, drug and mental health disorders and the outcomes of those services. We collaborate with investigators throughout the university including Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. A focus on the nexus of policy, practice, and research characterizes much of the work; we conduct community participatory research to assess the impacts of organizational change, facilitate implementation of evidence-based practices, and promote the adoption of evidence-based practices.
Faculty & Research Associates
|Current Work
|Dennis McCarty, PhD
|Professor and Head, Division of Health Services
|National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network
|Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment
|Adoption of Buprenorphine
|Traci Reickman, PhD
|Research Assistant Professor
|Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment
|Adoption of Evidence Based Practices
|National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network
|Community-Based Participatory Research
|Ana Quiñones, PhD
|Assistant Professor
|Population aging
|International Health - comparative aging,health disparities, and immigrant health
|Lynn Kunkel, MS, CCRP
|Senior Research Associate
|National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network
|Standardized Patients
|Kim Hoffman, PhD
|Affiliate Instructor
|National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network
|Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment
|Ariel Singer, MPH
|Program and Training Director
|Northwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center
|Don Lollar, EdD
|Associate Director, CDRC Academic Affairs
Director, Oregon Institute on Disability & Development
|Elena Andresen, PhD
|Aging, disability across the lifespan, health related quality of life methods and measures, and rehabilitation outcomes
Affiliated Faculty
|Barbara Campbell, PhD
|Todd Korthuis, MD, MPH
|Internal Medicine
|John McConnell, PhD
|Emergency Medicine
|Som Saha, MD
|Internal Medicine
The current portfolio of research, education, and service funding reflects interests in benefit design for public health care, purchasing in public benefit programs, quality of care for alcohol and drug disorders and screening and brief interventions for alcohol and drug use disorders.
- National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. We serve as a regional node for the Clinical Trials Network and work with treatment programs to implement clinical trials that test emerging drug abuse treatments in real world settings. Studies examine emerging pharmacotherapies and behavioral therapies for the treatment of alcohol and drug use disorders. See the NIDA web site for more information (http://www.drugabuse.gov/CTN/Index.htm). Funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx). NIATx is a learning community of addiction treatment programs applying process improvement strategies to the organization and delivery of addiction treatment services. Successful programs reduce days to admission and enhance retention in care – www.niatx.net Funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- Adoption of buprenorphine within an HMO setting. The study explores the impact of buprenorphine on treatment for opiate dependent individuals in two health plans. Administrative data and interviews with patients and staff will be used to assess the cost and utilization of services. Funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- Adoption of evidence-based practices. Multiple studies examine the implementation and adoption of evidence based practices. We monitor the implementation of legislative requirements to purchase evidence-based practices for substance abuse treatment, survey state addiction treatment authorities, review the implementation of screening and brief intervention, and track patient outcomes in response to process improvements. Funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
Other Recent and Current Awards
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Managed Care and the Evolution of Outpatient Services surveyed outpatient alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs in six New England States and assessed changes in the organization and delivery of care over a five year period.
- Implementation of MET/CBT 5 in nine CSAT grantees.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Client and Counselor Attitudes Toward the Use of Medications examines attitudinal and social normative influences on the use of medications to treat heroin dependence. The study provides insights into strategies to facilitate technology transfer and to promote the use of pharmacotherapy for treatment of alcohol and drug disorders.
- Elimination of Methadone Benefits in the Oregon Health Plan: Patient Impacts. This investigation documents the impact of benefits reduction on methadone clients' drug use, legal problems, employment status, use of services, psychiatric health living conditions and other risk behaviors. Findings have public health, economic, and policy impacts.
- Adoption of Buprenorphine in an HMO Setting examines treatment for opioid dependence in a large health plan.
- Northwest Frontier Addiction Technology Transfer Center (NFATTC) began in 1993 as a resource and catalyst for system development within the Northwest and Pacific region's addiction education, treatment and policy-making community. The project serves five states (AK, HI, ID, OR, & WA) and the U.S. affiliated Pacific Island Jurisdictions. The ATTC Network includes 14 independent Regional Centers and a National Office. Each ATTC strives a) to increase the knowledge and skills of addiction treatment practitioners from multiple disciplines by facilitating access to state-of-the-art research and education; b) to heighten the awareness, knowledge, and skills of all professionals who have the opportunity to intervene in the lives of people with substance use disorders; and c) to foster regional and national alliances among practitioners, researchers, policy makers, funders, and consumers that support implementation of best treatment practices. A website (http://www.nfattc.org/NFATTCinfo.htm) provides more details. Funding from the Center For Substance Abuse Treatment.


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eba {eba}
Fits a (multi-attribute) probabilistic choice model by maximum likelihood.
eba(M, A = 1:I, s = rep(1/J, J), constrained = TRUE) OptiPt(M, A = 1:I, s = rep(1/J, J), constrained = TRUE) ## S3 method for class 'eba': summary((object, ...)) ## S3 method for class 'eba': anova((object, ..., test = c("Chisq", "none")))
- a square matrix or a data frame consisting of absolute choice frequencies; row stimuli are chosen over column stimuli
- a list of vectors consisting of the stimulus aspects; the default is
1:I, where
Iis the number of stimuli
- s
- the starting vector with default
1/Jfor all parameters, where
Jis the number of parameters
- constrained
- logical, if TRUE (default), parameters are constrained to be positive
- object
- an object of class
eba, typically the result of a call to
- test
- should the p-values of the chi-square distributions be reported?
- ...
- additional arguments; none are used in the summary method; in the anova method they refer to additional objects of class
eba is a wrapper function for
OptiPt. Both functions can be used interchangeably. See Wickelmaier & Schmid (2004) for further details.
The probabilistic choice models that can be fitted to paired-comparison data are the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model (Bradley, 1984; Luce, 1959), preference tree (Pretree) models (Tversky & Sattath, 1979), and elimination-by-aspects (EBA) models (Tversky, 1972), the former being special cases of the latter.
A represents the family of aspect sets. It is usually a list of vectors, the first element of each being a number from 1 to
I; additional elements specify the aspects shared by several stimuli.
A must have as many elements as there are stimuli. When fitting a BTL model,
A reduces to
1:I (the default), i.e. there is only one aspect per stimulus.
The maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters is carried out by
nlm. The Hessian matrix, however, is approximated by
nlme::fdHess. The likelihood functions
L.constrained and
L are called automatically.
group.test for details on the likelihood ratio tests reported by
- coefficients
- a vector of parameter estimates
- estimate
- same as
- logL.eba
- the log-likelihood of the fitted model
- logL.sat
- the log-likelihood of the saturated (binomial) model
- goodness.of.fit
- the goodness of fit statistic including the likelihood ratio fitted vs. saturated model (-2logL), the degrees of freedom, and the p-value of the corresponding chi-square distribution
- u.scale
- the unnormalized utility scale of the stimuli; each utility scale value is defined as the sum of aspect values (parameters) that characterize a given stimulus
- hessian
- the Hessian matrix of the likelihood function
- cov.p
- the covariance matrix of the model parameters
- chi.alt
- the Pearson chi-square goodness of fit statistic
- fitted
- the fitted paired-comparison matrix
- y1
- the data vector of the upper triangle matrix
- y0
- the data vector of the lower triangle matrix
- n
- the number of observations per pair (
y1 + y0)
- mu
- the predicted choice probabilities for the upper triangle
- nobs
- the number of pairs
Bradley, R.A. (1984). Paired comparisons: Some basic procedures and examples. In P.R. Krishnaiah & P.K. Sen (eds.), Handbook of Statistics, Volume 4. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Luce, R.D. (1959). Individual choice behavior: A theoretical analysis. New York: Wiley.
Tversky, A. (1972). Elimination by aspects: A theory of choice. Psychological Review, 79, 281--299.
Tversky, A., & Sattath, S. (1979). Preference trees. Psychological Review, 86, 542--573.
Wickelmaier, F., & Schmid, C. (2004). A Matlab function to estimate choice model parameters from paired-comparison data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36, 29--40.
See Also
data(celebrities) # absolute choice frequencies btl1 <- eba(celebrities) # fit Bradley-Terry-Luce model A <- list(c(1,10), c(2,10), c(3,10), c(4,11), c(5,11), c(6,11), c(7,12), c(8,12), c(9,12)) # the structure of aspects eba1 <- eba(celebrities, A) # fit elimination-by-aspects model summary(eba1) # goodness of fit plot(eba1) # residuals versus predicted values anova(btl1, eba1) # model comparison based on likelihoods confint(eba1) # confidence intervals for parameters uscale(eba1) # utility scale ci <- 1.96 * sqrt(diag(cov.u(eba1))) # 95% CI for utility scale values dotchart(uscale(eba1), xlim=c(0, .3), main="Choice among celebrities", xlab="Utility scale value (EBA model)", pch=16) # plot the scale arrows(uscale(eba1)-ci, 1:9, uscale(eba1)+ci, 1:9, .05, 90, 3) # error bars abline(v=1/9, lty=2) # indifference line mtext("(Rumelhart & Greeno, 1971)", line=.5)
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Ted, here's the thing, if a specific brand of product has a pretty well documented rate of return for repair, It's because that brand keeps breaking. They very well have the best warranty on earth...but I want a product / brand that does not have a history of having more broken guns and crappy service, if I did I'd keep buying Kimbers.
So the gun is warrantied for life, great. How many times is acceptable for the gun to go back for repair? And if the gun itself keeps breaking, that's what I would consider a clue that maybe it's not of the greatest quality to begin with and I wouldn't give a hoot about the warranty, because I don't want to be worrying about when the next breakage is going to occur.
Taurus has a history of shoddy guns, plain and simple and a GRRRRREAT! warranty IMHO does not make up for it.


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College 101
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You're young. At this point in your life, retiring to a villa on the south coast of France is just a distant dream. You've got decades of work lying in front of you, so why not get started now?
- Scholarships. So, we may have called scholarships "free money" at other points in this text. That's...that's kind of true. Where it's kind of not true is that many scholarships require you to do something in order to keep the money flowing. Maybe you have to keep your GPA at 3.5 or higher; maybe you have to take your school's baseball team all the way to Omaha. In other words, you may be required to put some work in to actually earn the sweet, sweet cash that's paying for you to go to school.
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- Federal work study. It's all in the name. Put in the work, and the U.S. government will funnel you the funds to help you pay for the small but necessary items (like books) you need to complete your college education.
- Jobs. Working a summer, part- or full-time job while you're in school can seem like a crime against humanity. However, the money you bring in may significantly whittle down the cost of college. You might also be able to finagle a part- or full-time job at your school...with benefits...like partial or full tuition coverage. Work like that is hard to find, but it is does exist.


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A visit from the Senator…
NY State Senator Terry Gipson paid a visit to the ModCraft facililty the day after we received the manufacturing award from Dutchess County Excellence and Development awards. Here are a few shots of David showing the Senator some of our new equipment and the process involved in making handmande wall tile. It was a pleasure to show him around ModCraft and it's great to have a Senator who values small business efforts.
ModCraft earns Manufacturing Award
We are very proud to have been awarded the DCEDC (Dutchess County Economic Development Corporation) 2013 Business Excellence Award for Manufacturing. The support we get from our community is amazing and we are extremely happy to be here.
Here's a link to info about all the recipients http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20131017/BUSINESS/131017008/VIDEO-Business-Excellence-Awards-tonight-Poughkeepsie
ModCraft Hexon tile in running for Interior Design Product of the Year
Please Cast Your Vote for ModCraft's latest dimensional tile design HEXON.
We are proud to be among the many excellent designs in the Wallcoverings and Treatments category in Interior Design Magazine's Best of the Year award.
We are up against some solid competition so we would appreciate your support!
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Voting ends Friday, October 11th. Thanks!
ModCraft Hexon Tile 6″ x 6″…
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ModCraft chosen for Interior Design Market Tabloid 2013
ModCraft was chosen again this year to be part of the Interior Design Spring Market Tabloid. Featured here is our ModCraft modern tile Roundhouse in our new stannic glaze. Thanks Interior Design Magazine.
Tile Giveaway Innovative Installation
This is what Alexandra, our Peak tile giveaway winner, did with her prize. We love her mix of modern tile with illustrated flat tile! Innovative.
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Architect Nandini Bagchee showcases custom wall tile
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Open Office Wordperfect filter on way
Lawyers, accountants, secretaries. Take a note. Or a memo
We rambled and rumbled on and on about different word crunchers we'd reviewed over time, and mentioned Wordperfect - the most popular word processor in its day - and we're sure that lawyers, accountants and many others have stacks of documents still languishing on somewhat smaller hard drives than exist these days.
Wordperfect, as we recall, was very popular with people that had to type out loads and loads of stuff at speed. We had a brief incarnation as a touch typist in the London of the early 1970s, but when Wordperfect came out of Utah 10 years later, we just couldn't figure out what to do with a completely blank blue screen. Pressing F1 didn't help. Wordperfect had/has rules of its own.
The good news is that a Wordperfect filter for Open Office is very close to release. The lasses and lads at openoffice.org also tell us that the openspec of the software means that it's not too hard to write a little module that will....
....translate Lotus Manuscript files, DesCribe, Samna, DisplayWrite, Gem First Word Plus, Word for DOSes, Multimate, Wordcraft et al...
Our elderly readers will recall that almost the first "Wizard" Microsoftie produced for Word was a little bit of crafty stuff that swallowed Wordperfect files into the Windows maw, and sort of re-digested them.
In the meantime, a few clarifications, or to put not too fine a word on it, corrections.
Sun is basing Star Office 6 and beyond on openoffice.org code. If we'd ticked a box, then OO wouldn't have converted all our Word icons to OOese.
Plus, we hear, the next major release, probably out in Q2/Q3 next year, has a very useful registry rollback just in case you got frightened that Open Source advocates were set to take over your world.
Said one source at openoffice.org, we like "free as in beer" to mean something.
Meanwhile, we moaned terribly about how we used Wordpad and all it lacked was spell checking and a word counter.
That brought some interesting tips for freeware and the like.
Cryptedit looks startlingly like Wordpad but saves your preferences, has a spell checker, a word counter and several foreign language modules. Its web site? Ici la
And Abiword is also good stuff. It's got spellchecking, compatibility with Mucrosoft Wurd, but runs on loads of different platforms and doesn't occupy stacks of room. It needs English big dick (dictionary), in our opinion, but a 4MB file size makes it easily downloadable if BT hasn't bestowed its DSL boon upon thee... µ
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Shows you a much bigger macro icon selection frame instead of the standard 5x4 one. The default this addon sets is 10x10 but you can change this to any size you want with the simple command listed below.
This addon is LoadOnDemand (will load when Blizzard_MacroUI loads) and thus does not load until you type /macro to open the Macro editing window.
Please turn on "Load Out of Date Addons" at the character login screen as I will not be updating this addon often. In fact, it has no code changes for 3 years since initial release until patch 4.3 broke it. :P
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A couple of weeks ago, Tesla Motors, Inc., the all-electric car company that manufacturers a pricey but spectacularly innovative product, cut a deal with Ohio lawmakers that allowed it to sell cars directly to Ohioans at three Buckeye showrooms.
The deal, which avoided a fight with the state's automobile dealers association that balked at the California company's business model for direct sales, was a big win for a company that's on a crusade to both sell all-electric vehicles that can now cover more than 300 miles on a single charge and build out a recharging system that spans all corners of the nation with locations spaced about 100 miles apart.
Tesla announced that its 100th supercharger station is now open. There are now 86 supercharger stations in North America, 14 in Europe, and two in China, the company said last week. "Number 100 is another milestone in the rapid expansion of Tesla's Supercharger network, making it possible for Model S owners to drive long-distance, for free, for life," it's announcement read. At a supercharger, a Model S can get up to 180 miles of range in as little as 20 minutes without having to pay a cent for gas or electricity.
Tesla's new network supports road trips on the most popular routes across America, it said, adding that Model S drivers have now charged enough at supercharging stations to circle the globe 573 times.
The Ohio State University, one of the nation's largest universities, also had important car news to announce: OSU has again been selected for an auto engineering competition: EcoCAR 3. A team of OSU students will participate in the upcoming Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC), EcoCAR 3. EcoCAR 3 is a four year collegiate automotive competition series sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors Company (GM).
Sarah Jadwin, Communications Manager for OSU EcoCAR 2 Team at the OSU Center for Automotive Research, reports that not only has OSU been a participant in AVTCs since 1990, but in previous competitions, the OSU team has been a championship contender, placing in the top five the past nine years.
The team is finishing the third and final year of the EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future competition that challenges 15 universities to redesign a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu into a more environmentally friendly vehicle. Jadwin said the team will be traveling to GM's Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan, and on to Washington D.C. over the first two weeks in June for the final competition.
"The AVTC's mission is to encourage the development of alternative fuel technologies and advance propulsion, as well to provide students with professional, hands-on, systems-level engineering experiences," she said in a media release. During the next competition series, EcoCAR 3, students will use a Chevrolet Camaro donated by GM as the integration platform for their advanced vehicle design. Reducing the environmental impact of the vehicle while maintaining consumer acceptability, performance, utility, safety, cost and innovation are project goals. OSU and 15 other university teams will participate in the four year competition.
At Google, the little search company that morphed into a global media giant that is actively engaged in various projects that seem far afield to its beginnings, like self-driving cars, said it has shifted the focus of it's innovative self-driving car [SDC] project to mastering city street driving. On it's blog, Google said it's SDC have logged thousands of miles on the streets of Mountain View, CA it's its Googleplex campus is located. A mile of city driving is much more complex than a mile of freeway driving, with hundreds of different objects moving according to different rules of the road in a small area, it observed.
"We've improved our software so it can detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously—pedestrians, buses, a stop sign held up by a crossing guard, or a cyclist making gestures that indicate a possible turn," Chris Urmson, Director, Self-Driving Car Project, said. She added that a self-driving vehicle can now pay attention "to all of these things in a way that a human physically can't—and it never gets tired or distracted."
Urmson notes that thousands of different situations can now be taken into consider with software built to expect the unexpected, from a car stopping at a red light to it not stopping. Many problems remain to be solved, but thousands of situations on city streets that "would have stumped us two years ago can now be navigated autonomously."
Google's SDCs have now logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles, Urmson said. "With every passing mile we're growing more optimistic that we're heading toward an achievable goal—a vehicle that operates fully without human intervention."


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Indian police on December 22 baton-charged, tear-gassed and fired water cannon at demonstrators who were demanding better safety for women following the brutal gang-rape of a student last weekend. Thousands of protesters rallied at the India Gate monument in the heart of the Indian capital, New Delhi, and surged toward the president's palace. The hours-long gang-rape and near fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country as Indians demanded action from authorities who have long ignored persistent violence and harassment against women.


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Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ... Annie Baker's play The Flick starring, from left, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten. Photo: AP
Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The history award was given to Alan Taylor's The Internal Enemy, and general nonfiction on Monday went to Dan Fagin's Toms River.
Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller won for biography and Vijay Seshadri's 3 Sections received the poetry prize.
Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday. Photo: AP
Annie Baker's The Flick has won the Pulitzer for drama, a play set in a run-down movie theatre that was hailed by the judges as a "thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters" with "lives rarely seen on the stage."
The Columbia University's prize board on Monday gave the playwright, who is in her early 30s, the prize for her play about friendship, morality and loyalty. The university said it was "a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world."
It played off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons last year, becoming divisive among critics and the public alike. Many admired its attempt to capture real life but others found it tediously long.
But it was The Washington Post and The Guardian, which won the Pulitzer Prize in public service. They revealed the US government's sweeping surveillance efforts in stories based on thousands of secret documents handed over by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
The Pulitzer for breaking news has been awarded to The Boston Globe for its coverage of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.
The awards, announced on Monday, are American journalism's highest honour.
In The Flick, three relatively youthful, low-paid employees work together in a rundown movie theatre in Massachusetts that still shows 35-millimetre movies on film. Everyday jealousies, disappointments and anger share the stage with jokes, chit-chat, occasional poignant revelations and a lot of workplace tedium.
But The Flick clocked in at 3 hours and 15 minutes - with an intermission - and angered a few theatregoers who walked out, prompting the artistic director of Playwrights Horizons to write a letter to subscribers.
"Perhaps we can all agree that whatever values we look for in the theatre, we all stand on the common ground that it is a vital and important art form that we look to to illuminate the human experience with complexity and integrity," wrote Tim Sanford.
The drama award, which includes a $US10,000 ($10,674.07) prize, is "for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life," according to the official guidelines.
Baker beat out The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, by Madeleine George, which also played Playwrights Horizons, and Fun Home, with a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Jeanine Tesori, which played the Public Theater.
Previous playwrights honoured include August Wilson, Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
Last year's winner was Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party spins out of control. The year before, it was Water By the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes.


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New York based is the largest life insurer in the U.S. and a leading provider of insurance, annuities, and retirement-savings products to individual and institutional customers.
MetLife (NYSE:MET), the largest life insurer in the U.S., is shifting its business mix to protection and other less capital-intensive products, which should result in less operating earnings volatility and improve free cash flow. The company has a diversified international platform, with the advantages of economies of scale and a well-known brand.
MetLife is also trading at a discount. The insurance company's shares have upside potential as interest rates rise, and interest rates are destined to increase as the economy improves. Finally, increased clarity on the looming FED regulation should also result in a higher P/E valuation.
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After its acquisition of American Life Insurance Company from American International Group in 2010, which significantly expanded MetLife's international presence in Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Europe, it carried out a comprehensive strategic review of its business in 2012 that led the company to refocus its U.S. business, expand emerging market operations, and build a global employee benefits business.
The insurer is shifting its business mix to protection and other less capital-intensive products. The company's actions should not only result in less operating earnings volatility, but should also improve free cash flow.
Key drivers of the stock
While interest rates remain a key driver of insurance industry stocks, the regulatory developments continue to remain an overhang for MetLife shares. The company is in the final stage of consideration to be designated a systemically important financial institution (SIFI). As a reminder, American International Group and Prudential Financial were designated non-bank SIFIs by Financial Stability Council last year.
Other than interest rates and regulatory developments, several other business catalysts for MetLife are beginning to emerge. Sales growth in the U.S. is beginning to pick up, particularly in group and corporate benefit funding. International growth prospects post-2014 are also improving, there is increasing capital generation, and cost savings also remain on target. The year 2014 is one of transition for MetLife's earnings, and EPS growth should accelerate in 2015 and 2016.
Improving risk profile and free cash flow
MetLife is also taking measures to improve its risk profile and free cash flow (FCF). The insurer expects FCF to improve from 35% of operating earnings in 2014 to 45%-55% by 2015/2016 . Over time, MetLife's target is a ratio of more than 50%. This translates to roughly $2 billion-$3 billion of free cash flow in 2014 that is expected to be deployed, mostly for dividend increases and bolt-on mergers and acquisitions (M&As).
While the company's strategy to shift the business mix from market-sensitive, capital-intensive products toward protection-oriented, capital-efficient products will improve MetLife's risk profile, the strong free cash flow will provide management with greater capital management flexibility.
ROE target appears reasonable
MetLife's long-term (by 2016) core operating earnings growth target of 7%-8%, and ROE target of 12%-14% -- 11%-13% with no share buybacks -- appears reasonable vs. 12% in 2013. I think the company can achieve the low end of this target, even with the headwinds from low interest rates, and a slower than expected pace of capital return.
To achieve its 12%-14% ROE target by 2016, the company plans to repurchase $8 billion worth of shares by 2016, which should result in approximately 100bps of improvement in ROE. MetLife also assumes gradually rising interest rates. MetLife's earnings should improve further if interest rates rise, or if equity markets generate better performance.
Valuation has upside
MetLife's shares are cheap; the company is trading at just more than 9x its forward earnings, and 10% less than its book value. MetLife's valuation has potential upside if interest rates rise. Moreover, increased clarity on the looming FED regulation should also result in higher P/E valuation.
The company is well positioned to benefit from its diversified international platform. International sales and margins will be a major driver of the company's earnings going forward.
MetLife is trading at a forward P/E of 9.3, compared to 10.2 for American International Group, and 9.0 for Prudential Financial. The New York-based MetLife has a price/book ratio of 0.9 compared to 1.1 for Prudential Financial and 0.8 for American International Group.
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Winter Moon, Clouds, and Granite. Yosemite Valley, California. February 23, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Winter moon rises through post-storm clouds above Yosemite Valley, California
On this winter evening, photographing the "usual subjects" in Yosemite Valley was not easy. This was the weekend of the Horsetail Falls pilgrimage, and hundreds or perhaps thousands of people were lined up with cameras in hopes of making their photograph of this thing/event – but for most this was not to be as the water fall was almost dried up and clouds blocked the sunset light. It had been a cloudy day, starting out with rain and staying that way for a good part of the day, with even a bit of light snow at times. As evening approached it looked like the cloud deck was going to remain thick and low and that it would likely be a gray evening.
With it looking like the potential for inspiring light was quite low, we went to Tunnel View – it seemed as good as any other option, it can be an inspiring place even when it doesn't provide inspiring photographic opportunities, and I was with someone who had not really tried to photograph there. When we arrived there was some clearing, though the clouds seemed to remain thick to the west, meaning the no brilliant light was likely to be seen. I put a long lens on my camera and worked the upper rim of the Valley to my right, about 90 degrees away from the direction most were shooting, but where fog and mist drifted across the rim, granite pinnacles and cliffs, and among trees. As I watched this I noticed the nearly full moon occasionally poke out from behind clouds above Sentinel Rocks as the clouds and mist drifted this way and that. Since it was that early twilight time when a good exposure for the light of the moon can also work for other subjects such as clouds, sky, and mountains, I swung the camera around and watched the drifting clouds, waiting or moments when the took on interesting shapes and when the moon was visible.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Fourth of July has always been one of my favorite holidays. The fireworks, barbeque, summer activities...and of course celebrating our great nation!
This year we hosted a get together with our friends. The day was filled with fun, food, swimming, laughs and of course fireworks.
I created an American Flag out of streamers as my focal point for the dessert table, it was a fun project but took some time. The picture below is from when I first finished it, unfortunately it fell and took a bit of a beating right before our guests arrived. A little disappointing, but we later used it as a photo booth backdrop. :)
I also created an area for the kids to decorate white Gable Boxes, which we later filled with hot dogs, veggies and popcorn for them to eat during the firework show. They colored the boxes and added star cutouts to show their patriotism. Each place setting also had an activity place-mat and a mason jar of berries.
There was a table of party favors for the Firework show. We had bubbles, water guns, glow sticks, sparklers, poppers, airplane gliders, balls, straws and patriotic tattoos.
I created an American Flag Fruit Tray for dipping in Velata Chocolate Fondue....It was the first time I tried Velata. It was fun and the dark chocolate paired perfectly with the fruit and marshmallows. Best of all, it was super easy to clean.
We had a wonderful day with friends and family.


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The plundering miners have been replaced by the plundering tourists. Can the Rockies survive this new invasion?
June 1968 | Volume 19, Issue 4
To most dwellers in the high country, these new winter sportsmen were incomprehensible. We who lived there were afraid of snow. The toll of disasters over two thirds of a century had been appalling. In 1874 an avalanche at Alta, Utah, killed more than sixty residents; the exact number was never determined. Between 1875 and 1910, when the last of the Alta mines closed down, sixty-seven more died from the same cause. Nor was Alta unique. At 7:30 A.M. on the morning of February 28, 1902, a slide tore away part of the workings of the Liberty Bell mine above Telluride. As rescuers toiled up from town, a second avalanche dropped on them. And finally, after the rescue work had ended and the weary volunteers were dragging the corpses and the injured back to town on sleds, there was a third slide. The triple blows killed nineteen men, including my grandfather's brother, and cruelly hurt eleven more. My stepfather-to-be saved himself by seizing a tree as he was being hurled down a hillside; there he clung, semiconscious, deafened and almost suffocated by the snow that had packed like cement into his ears, mouth, and nose.
At a mine where I had once worked above Ouray, a slide swept away the boardinghouse and killed seven or eight of my erstwhile companions. And we all listened to men like Harry Johnson, who had been trapped above Telluride at the Black Bear mine, where the cook and her husband had been crushed to death in their own bed; Johnson's tale of a dazed groping for help in the white wastes twelve thousand feet high was by no means reassuring.
As skiers unfamiliar with the slopes began thronging them, the Forest Service, which issued special-use permits for lifts that might carry the newcomers to disaster, took to worrying. The result was the establishment at Alta, during the winter of 1937-38, of the nation's first avalanche-research center. The masses of information collected there during subsequent years enabled not only ski patrols but also highway departments and telephone and pipeline maintenance crews to design protective bunkers at vulnerable spots, to predict unstable conditions, to shoot down threatening accumulations of snow with cannons and special "avalaunchers." Today, if hazards warrant, slopes and highways are closed entirely, and when accidents do occur, tested rescue procedures are put into operation immediately. The results have been phenomenal. By 1965 the annual toll from avalanches, which once had killed a score or more people in the Rockies each year, had dropped to less than six, although more users than ever were travelling the roads and coursing the slopes.
The guidelines for whatever the Forest Service did, whether promoting outdoor sports or developing utilitarian goals, were laid down as matters of administrative policy by the Department of Agriculture and hence were susceptible to amendment with each change of administrators. To give the programs the dignity and stability of law, Congress in 1960 passed the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act. In this new act, recreational facilities were officially recognized for the first time as a national resource, and the service was ordered to "manage" recreation along with trees and grass and water.
Budgets jumped; crash programs were instituted. Thousands of miles of road were built not only for timber cutters and stockmen, as in the past, but also for growing numbers of highly sophisticated mobile camping units. Visitor information centers, built in imitation of similar units in the national parks, appeared in the more popular areas. Signs interpreting a region's history, geology, ecology, and whatnot sprang up beside the mountain highways. "Adventure" trails led from parking places into choice dells where viewers might glimpse animals in their native habitats.
Census takers meanwhile stalked the gathering places with clipboards and pencils, trying to determine what the forest visitors really wanted. Most, it seemed, were not touring the forests per se but were passing through on the way to visit relatives in another part of the country. They would leave the direct route if roads were good and afforded roomy turnouts where they could exclaim over striking views with a minimum of inconvenience. Fishermen among them hoped to be able to catch trout from the shoulder of the road and apparently saw no incongruity in ganging up elbow to elbow beside the pools formed by bridge abutments. A significant majority of the passersby insisted that when they "camped out" for a night in a mobile home, they preferred doing it in tight clusters with others of their kind. They desired showers and laundromats with hot and cold running water, sturdy tables and prepared fireplaces, convenient toilets and ready access to grocery stores and gasoline stations. When they returned at night from a day with the power boats or motor scooters that they carried with them, they were not averse to nearby entertainment—juke-boxes, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, cocktail lounges, and the like.
As more and more camping spots of this sort appeared, dissident voices began to sound. As long ago as 1872 naturalist John Muir of California's Sierra Nevada had spat out in a private letter that "rough vertical animals called men … occur in and on these mountains like sticks of condensed filth." But were modern recreationists really so inured to urban crowding that they craved similar conditions in the mountains? Or were their attitudes being subtly guided by the purveyors of an annual four billion dollars' worth of trailers, boats, scooters, sports clothing, and sports equipment—a new breed of exploiter as ruthless as any lumberman ever was?


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Fresno, Calif. - The fifth-ranked UCLA women's soccer team scored once in each half on Friday evening to post a 2-0 victory over Fresno State before 1,780 fans at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, Calif.
UCLA, which outshot Fresno State, 27-4 on the night, took a 1-0 lead in the 39th minute on a play started by senior Chelsea Cline, who one-timed a ball into the box from the left side. Defender Abby Dahlkemper managed to get a head on it, sending it in past Bulldog goalkeeper Katie DeVault for her second goal of the year.
The Bruins (2-0) struck again shortly after halftime, as Cline got in on the scoring action in the 59th minute. Sophomore Kylie McCarthy beat several Fresno State players down the right side of the field before slotting a ball into the box, where Cline was able to finish from close range.
"Overall, I think it was a very solid performance," said UCLA head coach B.J. Snow. "We had a lot of girls really step up both offensively and defensively. Although we played well, we still need to work on our refinement inside the 18-yard box. We created a lot of opportunities, but we need to do a better job finishing those chances. I thought Jenna Richmond probably played the best game she has ever played for UCLA tonight. She was outstanding on both sides of the field and helped create a number of our scoring chances."
Sophomore Katelyn Rowland played the full 90 minutes in goal for the Bruins, picking up her first win of the season. With the loss, Fresno State falls to 0-2-1 overall.
UCLA plays its 2012 home opener on Sunday, hosting Illinois at Noon.


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Happy and Not Happy at the Same Time
Sunday, May 13, 2012
First, I'll start with what did NOT make me happy today and end with the positive stuff. That way I can vent the stuff that's annoying and end up happier.
I gained 3 pounds this week. Started Insanity on Monday and have had some muscle soreness - especially in my calves from all the lower body work and jumping - but nothing that bad. Some might be water from the DOMS.
To be truthful, I had a little extra to eat at work because we celebrated a coworker's birthday but instead of having tacos I just added taco meat to my salad. My downfall was the tortilla chips. I did have SOME, but not as many as I normally would. But every little bit added up. Then we had Taco Bell the other night and instead of having just ONE taco, I had two plus a quesadilla and cinnamon twists. Ruined it that day. And Thursday we had a rep lunch. I have learned that I really need to NOT eat what the reps bring, since it's usually something I can't really track and have to guess at.
I have only eaten ABOVE my calorie burn one day so really, that much weight should not be fat but I'm not so sure.
I did my measurements today and have gained a 1/2 inch in my waist, hips and thigh. NOT good. That makes me think I'm gaining fat and not muscle or water. I really need to focus on only eating when I'm hungry and NEED to eat. Live and learn I guess. You'd think after doing this for so long I'd know this already but I guess I will always need reminders.
The good news - I got some ROCKIN' gift for Mother's Day!
A 15 pound Kettlebell
A pull up bar (but we don't really have a place to put it so we're trying to figure that out)
A new fitness mat since my yoga mat is getting a little beat up. It's nice!
The new Carrie Underwood CD.
So my focus for this week is to continue my workouts and REALLY watch the calories. See what happens.
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My calories were creeping up. I had to sort of regroup. Today I might have gone over a little, but not too bad, considering there was a breakfast buffet this morning and tonight we ate stuff I got at EarthFare grocery.
Now at buffets I find I have developed the habit of glancing surreptitiously at other people's plates. I never understand why people pile up their plates when they can go back as often as they wish. But I always took a lot of trips! So at least now I limit it to one reasonable plate and maybe one more trip for something that was especially good. Today it was the fruit. (Not the bacon!! :D)
You sound very aware of your situation, and that's half the battle.
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I hope at least some of the 3 pounds is just water.
Enjoy the awesome gifts!
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You've got this... you know where you need to step it up, acknowledgement is the first step of any successful venture... you've got this!! Cool gifts too.. Enjoy your day!
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Lucky! I asked for fitness stuff (specifically, a rack for my bike and sand volleyball) and ended up getting a hanging basket. My mom took my son out to buy me something. I think my family still thinks when I ask for fitness stuff that it's just not a fun enough present, or something. **sigh**
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Yes, I keep learning that lesson over and over and over again- if I don''t know how to track it I have to be veeerrrrry careful eating it. I wonder how often I need to learn that lesson.
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I think it was a great idea to vent first and end on a positive note. At least you know where the gain could've came from. Keep up the great work on your exercise and today is a new day to make new choices.
Happy Mother's Day! What great gift ideas. Enjoy!
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Love your Mother's day presents. I hear you on the 3 lbs..Enjoy your day and don't stress about it, you know what you're doing and they'll come off quickly!
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