Vitamins for Your Eye
By ContentAuthor | July 30, 2010
Eye vitamins include vitamins A, C, E, B2 and they usually work in combination with minerals like zinc and selenium. They are essential for visual health and the prevention of specific disease. Eye vitamins are inexpensive and they are available as over the counter medication. Even so, the administration of eye vitamins and any other supplements should not be taken lightly because of the risks of side effects and possible other drug interferences.
In more modern supplements, traditional eye vitamins are also combined with the popular lutein, an antioxidant that prevents the decay of the eye tissues triggered by free radicals. Specialists recommend consumer awareness for the use of eye vitamins. For example, while beta-carotene (a form of vitamin A) can help you fight some serious eye diseases, in the case of smokers it may lead to the development of disease. Beta-carotene and smoking make a dangerous association.
People who have administered eye vitamins have reported improvement of vision ailments, and there is scientific evidence that such supplements reduce the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration. Antioxidants bring quite a lot of benefits here; thus, vitamin A helps people with myopia, vitamin C prevents or alleviates glaucoma while some essential fatty acids protect the eye against macular damage and alleviate the discomfort of the dry eye syndrome. The use of eye vitamins is not a must for people with very balanced diets.
Leafy greens, nuts, oranges and other yellow fruits are the best sources of eye vitamins. Salmon, mackerel and trout should be part of your weekly diet because they are the main source of fatty acids in nature. You should also know that there are foods that can damage the health of your eyes by creating imbalances in the body system. This is the case with too much refined white flour and carbs. It would be a pity to counteract the effects of eye vitamins with very bad food choices.
Finally, the way you shop for eye vitamins is relevant here. You may come across very tempting product offers on the Internet, yet don’t think of saving money first, and better put your safety and health first. Lots of things are out of your control, and the wrong choice of supplements could have a very serious impact on your health. Try to assimilate nutrients from diet, and talk to your doctor about how necessary supplementation really is.
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Success with Positive daily affirmations
By ContentAuthor | July 3, 2010
Affirmations are a great way for you to achieve attain success, improve your health, meet new people or improve your performance on the job.
While you can find a lot of examples of affirmations and even many sites that provide free daily positive affirmations, the most powerful affirmations come from you. Read the rest of this entry »
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REO Properties Bought With Hard Money Lenders Funding
By ContentAuthor | July 3, 2010
As more and more banks place bank-owned property for sale, a new breed of investors is snapping up these properties at almost ridiculously low prices. The LTV’s on some of these properties are as low as 25% of the market value and are being sold primarily to investors who are using private hard money lenders. Individuals purchasing owner-occupied housing is part of the REO properties which are now held by banks, it is apparent that the banks prefer to sell the properties at discount to investors because the closing and funding times are much quicker, making it more feasible for financial institutions and government agencies to recover loan-loss based on prior lending Read the rest of this entry »
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How To Charter A Yacht In The Mediterranean
By ContentAuthor | July 3, 2010
If you are under the impression that to be able to charter a Mediterranean yacht you need to be either a Premiership footballer or a Russian oligarch, then you are simply partly correct.
While it’s true that many high end yacht charters in the Mediterranean are extremely expensive (with rates in excess of 25,000 euros per person/week), there are actually other options which are significantly more affordable. Read the rest of this entry »
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Radio Controlled Electric Gliders
By ContentAuthor | July 3, 2010
If you are searching into building or purchasing and then launching your 1st electric glider, then you have fairly a bit of facts to look at. Unlike the gas motor glider, the electric glider is much quieter, has fewer vibrations, no emissions at all, it is less complicated to maintain and this is why it has been gaining popularity in the recent years. Of course, it also has its own disadvantages: the flights are shorter, the batteries have to be charged rather usually and the gliding speed is hard to manage. Read the rest of this entry »
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How Panic Attacks can be overcome with these remedies
By ContentAuthor | July 3, 2010
Did you know when you are dealing with any kind of panic disorder anybody would likely encounter distress physically at the same time? You may sense as though you’re exhausted continuously and in need a vacation. There’s nothing at all abnormal about getting these kinds of emotions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Taste the Food
By Sean | June 30, 2010
When I was growing up I was fascinated by cooking. Actually that’s not so true come to think of it. I was fascinated by the process and I loved to eat the results.
Fortunately my mother (who did all the cooking in our home) was not the sort to discourage my interest. I’ve got to admit that my fascination was mostly about the machinery involved as well as the process of mixing stuff up and following a map of what to do in order to enjoy some great tasting stuff I could pig out on and drink a gallon of milk with only to come back and repeat the process whenever that bloated, can’t stuff another bite in, feeling subsided just enough to permit disposing of yet more of the refrigerators contents through my digestive system. But that’s entirely another process for a different article.
Don’t get me wrong I was like any other kid who liked to lick out the bowl, lick off the spoons, and lick up just about any other food fragments that landed wherever.
Fast forward to when I moved out on my own at 16 years old. I think I was the only 16 year old I knew who could cook outstanding food that everyone loved and make it taste awesome damn near every time. Sure I experimented a lot and sometimes I didn’t get it just right like the time I tried making cacciatore out of calf tongues. It wasn’t bad but the leftovers got moldy before I had to admit that neither I nor my roommates were going to eat the rest of it. The point is that I was good at cooking from recipes and as I experimented more and more I discovered that I didn’t need recipes to cook great food. Why not? The title of this article should answer that question.
Fast forward to a decade ago when I met my wife. Grace was not that great of a cook when I met her. She was good in the kitchen, (with food I mean) but not great (with food I mean). She had cool ideas but they didn’t always pan out as good as they should have. As I tasted various dishes I’d ask her about the process she’d used — at least 1/2 the time using recipes and the other 1/2 just throwing stuff together like I did. It puzzled me what the key was to helping her pull off better dishes. Then one day she made something that was just bad … not terrible but not that good either. I could not imagine someone spoiling this dish if they’d followed the most basic principles of cooking so I asked her if she tasted the food as she was preparing it. She replied “no”.
At that point I embarked on a discussion where I asked her more questions about how she thought she could make stuff taste good without tasting it. She seemed to figure that mixing up the right stuff in the right quantities — if it looked right — should taste OK. I tried to dissect her train of thought about how that should work but she was not buying it — I mean she genuinely thought I’d lost the plot to suggest that her tasting the food while cooking it would enable her to make better food.
Over time other meals happened that did not taste as good as it should and I’d ask if she tasted it while mixing the ingredients. For quite some time the answer was still “no”. I think it was about 5 years before she was consistent about tasting food.
Then when we were watching the show Kitchen Nightmares one evening Gordon Ramsey asked a chef if he tasted the food as he was preparing it before sending it out. He also replied “no”. There’s Chef Ramsey dressing down a chef who did not taste the food nor see the importance of it. Gordon went ballistic on that chef telling him he was mad to think that he was going to produce great food without tasting it while cooking it.
You can guess that I pointed out that Chef Ramsey seemed to think the way I did. By that time my wife was thoroughly indoctrinated in the “taste the food” gospel so she was not that receptive to my gloating — but nonetheless good humored enough to allow me to enjoy my vindication a little. She makes a lot better food now and she doesn’t need recipes to do so. When I cook a new dish she can taste it once and make it as good or better than me — often the first attempt.
So why this story about tasting the food? I think there is a great story there about trading. When we learn to trade there are some things that will always separate successful traders from unsuccessful ones and also that separates mediocre traders from outstanding ones. The outstanding ones — even during the learning process recognize (sooner or later) the things that need to be done and they do them. Things like a written trading plan, written entry and exit rules, written money management parameters and compounding strategy. Not to mention trade documentation such as a trade journal. Proceeding step by step in the learning process and not being impatient to get there all at once.
In cooking as in trading there are basics that not only need to be learned — but consistently applied. In cooking we begin with recipes to train us how to taste food. There are chefs who never learn from recipes and who never taste the food they are cooking. Perhaps there are some who are even great. But there is no way they learn the scope of the master chefs without employing the fundamental principles and techniques that are essential to become a master chef who can stand up to the scrutiny of the best judges in the world.
And yet dear trader when you trade real money you are immediately trading against the best there is. But the only reason you’ll make any money as an amateur is that there are enough people who are (as a group) sufficiently worse off than you — that you can get a bit of it.
But to trade consistently there are many trades you’ll make where your money is taken from you by the best out there and the only way to take enough trades away from them to rise much beyond break even is to employ every edge you can. Most of the rookies are out there are focused trying to find the best system and they consequently ignore some of the essentials.
Also bear in mind that you need to learn faster than they do because the markets are always changing and to keep up you’ve got to build learning upon learning and never stop. A chef who stops tasting the food is ignoring the most basic feedback tool to help him improve his game and stay abreast of changes in food taste as new farming methods gradually change the taste of our live foods and also alter how those foods react to the seasonings we use in them. So with the markets as they change.
The average trader who actually bothers to read most of the stuff about psychology and rules and such — nods and sees the value in them and thinks about possibly doing that but rules it out for the time being (procrastination) — thinking that by having read and understood the point — that it is as almost good as as if they implemented it. Most of this thinking process passes by almost without the traders conscious recognition of the stupidity of that line of reasoning.
Like one of our members recently said “when you have to write something down it shows up all the holes and flaws in your thinking that you never notice until you are forced to write it out. You can think you have it clear in your mind until you are forced to write it down. Understanding in your mind (the value of writing out your plan) counts for 5 percent of the edge but implementing it (writing it down) counts for 95 percent of it. How many 5 percent’rs are there out there? About 95 percent of you people reading this.
There is nothing easier in trading than reading about trading systems (entry and exit strategies) and pouring over indicators and staring at charts, drawing lines, backtesting, and changing the parameters of your indicators. Doing the easy stuff gets you nowhere but has the illusion of being productive. Jumping from system to system and trading it demo (or worse live) until it gets too tough and overwhelms you — and you think the system was not right for you so you’ll move on until that magic connection happens and you luck into just the right system. Sorry but it doesn’t happen that way.
Trading is a systematic game. But most people don’t have a clue what that means so they focus on the idea of system trading rather than on trading systematically. There is a world of difference. These people do not become systematic in how they trade. They are undisciplined and do what is most interesting, fun, entertaining, or hypnotic — and they procrastinate when it comes to doing the hard stuff and instead become “system addicted”, chart staring, losers. With each new system they are looking for their fix. The conquest of a new idea that might make them rich. Some people call this the “holy grail” search. I just call it unprofessional work habits.
Kind of like the guy who chases girls for the conquest. He is unwilling, unable, and therefore too immature to actually plan a future with someone because he is not interested in long term satisfaction — he’ll take immediate gratification as a substitute and that becomes a destructive habit that makes him less and less capable of being a reliable mate. At 45 he’s out on the ocean snorting coke in a cigarette boat with increasingly dumber 23 year old bimbo’s as he goes bald and his beer gut becomes larger and hairier.
That’s a great metaphor to describe what happens to system junkies. They are always looking for that new system or indicator or mentor or whatever their latest conquest is. Once the reality and tedium of committing to a course of action and pouring their energy into becoming the kind of trader that is sustainably profitable — they cannot stand what it requires of them so they drop it prematurely and move on. They are also attracted to loser systems and the losers that sell them just like the old farts who never grew up are continually attracted to women that are too dumb to see what losers they are but just clever enough to take their money.
So taste the food if you want to make great meals…
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Twitter Security. Is it ok for Twitter to mislead?
By Sean | June 28, 2010
Twitter was ordered to set up and maintain a comprehensive user information security initiative with a third-party review of it every two years for the next 10 years.
When the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Twitter over security issues they took Twitter to task over its lax security procedures enabling hackers to post statements from the accounts of US President Barack Obama and others. What seems strange to me is that if this had not happened to the President it is most likely the FTC would not have acted.
The settlement also requires Twitter to take a number of security steps to protect user data. Twitter claims to have implemented many of the FTC’s suggestions and the agreement essentially formalizes Twitters commitment to those security practices, according to US reports.
What really blows me away is the wording of one final statement posted on Computer Weekly:
“The settlement bars Twitter from misleading users about the extent to which it protects their privacy and personal information for 20 years.”
Is it just me or does that ruling imply that after 20 years it’s OK to resume misleading people. How much tax payers money was spent crafting that brilliant piece of work?
Was it OK to mislead people before the ruling? Now that the 20 year ruling has been handed down it’s not OK for Twitter to mislead for the next 20 years. What a relief! I was really worried they’d only get 10 years.
Of course there’s the issue of all the other companies for whom that ruling has not been made. What if it’s a smaller social network company that has not had the ruling handed down to them? What if they get caught misleading people but the US president was not involved? Would they only get maybe 2 years restriction from misleading people about the extent their privacy is protected?
Ignorance is easily cured with knowledge. Stupidity is hard to cure even with great pain. — Sean Wyseman
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A Manager Helps a Worker Face up to His Depression and His Heavy and Abusive Drinking After a Broken Relationship
By ContentAuthor | June 3, 2010
Russ got suspended from high school when he was fifteen years old and eventually found employment at a local paint manufacturer. For the last three years he has gained a reputation as a reliable and hard-working employee who infrequently calls off work because of sickness.
The Likelihood of Getting Married
Roughly eight-and-a-half months ago he started going out with a woman named Emma. They appeared to get along real well right away and looked as if they had a lot of good times together. In fact, they got along so well that they began discussing the possibility of getting married.
The Abusive and Excessive Drinking Begins
When Russ met Emma, he almost never drank. This circumstance totally changed when Emma and Russ began seeing one another on a fairly constant basis. If truth be told, their relationship was going fine until Emma called Russ one night about 2:30 AM and said that she had to breakup and that she couldn’t tell him the reasons for her decision at that moment.
The next morning before he went to work, Russ drove to Emma’s apartment and immediately discovered that Emma had already moved out. Russ took this exceptionally hard. In fact, he was bewildered because they seemed to be getting along so very well.
When Hazardous and Heavy Drinking Leads to Problems at Work
So what did Russ do? Instead of working through his grief and anguish, he started getting intoxicated just about every night. It didn’t take long for his pals at work or for his manager to notice that Russ was coming to work late at least twice per week and that he time after time called off sick. What is more, some of his fellow employees made an appointment with staff in the HR Department and stated that Russ frequently came to work with a strong smell of alcohol on his clothes or on his breath.
Russ’s boss heard about all of this from Human Resources and also from Russ’s co-workers. So one Wednesday afternoon he invited Russ into his office. He told Russ that he had recently noticed a definite change in his sick time, attendance, behavior, and in his work performance.
When a Manager Can Motivate an Employee to Get Help For His or Her Heavy and Irresponsible Drinking
Russ’s manager also mentioned that a number of his co-workers reported him to Human Resources because he had been coming to work with a noticeable smell of alcohol. His supervisor then stated the following: “Russ, your fellow employees are not reporting you to the HR Department to get you into any trouble or because they dislike you but instead because they care about you. And I am concerned too. I don’t want to pry into your life outside this company, but it seems very clear that you are exhibiting some of the common symptoms and signs of abusive drinking. As a consequence, I want you to go and see a counselor in the employee’s assistance program to discuss your drinking behavior and your depression.”
“Russ, I’m no healthcare practitioner or a counselor, but I have seen quite a few of my relatives and friends suffer through some very negative alcohol side effects. What is more, I have also seen the signs of alcoholism first-hand in my own family. When people have problems with drinking, these issues not only affect the drinker, but they also make an impact on his or her friends, co-workers, family, relatives, and neighbors.”
Russ admired his manager very much and as a result followed through with his recommendation the next work day when he called and scheduled an appointment with a counselor in the employee’s assistance program.
Russ Begings to Feel Some Personal Happiness, Self Esteem, a Positive Attitude, and Some Success for the First Time in Several Months.
Even though Russ didn’t necessarily feel any better or less depressed about the sorrow he still feels for Emma, he felt comfort knowing that his boss and his co-workers cared about him and wanted what’s best for him. This gave Russ some psychological relief for the first time in quite a few months and he honestly felt some hope that he would get back on track with his life. In fact, Russ started to feel personal success, happiness, self esteem, and a positive attitude for the first time in several months.
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Puerto Viejo, Manzanillo and Punta Uva Costa Rica
By ContentAuthor | June 3, 2010
Puerto Viejo
The town of Puerto Viejo is located 124 miles east of San Jose and 34 miles south of Limon . Puerto Viejo is more popular than Cahuita because of its full of life atmosphere and because of the numerous amount of surfers that visit to the area from around the country and the world to ride the celebrated Salsa Brava breaks .
If you do not like surfing then there are a few good swimming beaches and slew of activity options including nearby rainforest trails. There are also a lot of great local and international restaurants that you can dine at . The town gets mucho rain so if you are looking for sun your best times to come are between September and October. Keep in mind in these months suns not secured. As you travel farther south there are even more grand beaches along the coast that have white sand and turquoise seas.
During the calm sea periods around August to October the seas are some of the clearest in the country. The coral reefs nearby offer excellent opportunities for snorkeling and scuba diving. Of late a paved road has connected Puerto Viejo with Manzanillo which has helped to make the beaches more easier to reach . There a few reasonably priced and budget hotels along the shore line. Puerto Viejo is located near the end of Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Just down the road only 14.5 miles from Puerto Viejo is the town of Manzanillo and after that there is a national wildlife reserve that stretches all the way to the Panamanian border.
Manzanillo Costa Rica
Located approximately 9km south of Puerto Viejo is the town of Manzanilla . It ends the coast road nicely in fact. When you go beyond the coast road that leads to Manzanillo, you will only find lush jungle . Monkey Point can be accessed from Manzanillo by motor boat , and there are several boat tours that will lead you there .
The people of Manzanillo are tight knit. The community is small and the people are close to one another. The town limits itself is much smaller that that of Puerto Viejo, with the inhabitants numbering about half of those in Puerto Viejo Manzanillo is approximately half the size of Puereto Viejo. The culture is quite rich comparitively however and most of the people who live there are of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Manzanillo has not always been a tourist hot spot . Before recently, the town didn’t have a complete paved road, making it difficult for many tourists. However, with a paving project well underway and complete in many areas, visitors are finding it easier to access this beautiful place and are enjoying the environment greatly.
So, if you are looking for a place in Costa Rica that is a little less populated than other spots , Manzanillo is a great choice. You can enjoy snorkeling in the best coral locations off of the beach or go exploring in the jungle -like landscape. In addition, if you adore nature, you can take a drive past Manzanillo into the Gandoca Wildlife Reserve for a best adventure. You can follow trails around the reserve and locate the natural landscape and wildlife there. You can rest assured that Manzanillo no matter what you choose is the place you won’t ever forget.
Punta Uva Costa Rica
Punta Uva is a quit town located between Playa Chiquita beach and the town of Manzanillo . There are afew little accommodations and restaurants in the area along with a little residential area. It is best known for its excellent beaches and the Punta Uva butterfly garden with a huge variety of tropical butterflies.
The beaches in this area are very safe for swimming since the coral reefs prevents the ocean waves from reaching the shore. Some of the best snorkeling occurs just off the point. The real point is a rocky promontory that extends out over the Caribbean sea. The rock is blanketed with thick rain forest and a trail leads to a one of a kind lookout point on the top. The Punta Uva butterfly garden is one of the most interesting attractions of the area. Here you can find great numbers of tropical butterfly species. The garden is far away from the road on the opposite side from the beach. You access it from a dirt road that leads up into the hills. The garden itself is situated within some of the thickest jungle in the area. It is also a great place for nature hikes and a place to find some of the local wildlife .
Visiting Punta Uva is well worth the trip because of its nice beaches and laid back small town atmosphere . There are many reasons why it is one of the locals favorite places to hangout and a reason why it is popular with visitors from all over the place .
Don’t trouble about finding accommodation in any of the three villages. With small boutique Costa Rica Hotels, Bed and Breakfasts and Costa Rica vacation rentals its easy to find what your heart desires.
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