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HD Guru recently published an article entitled "Is your TV watching you?" In it, we discussed the fact that new features in Samsung's top 2012 models -- including built-in microphones, HDTV camera, wireless and wired Internet connection, built-in browser with voice to text conversion, face recognition and more -- could be used to collect unprecedented personal information, as well as present a new way for hackers to invade users' lives.

We asked Samsung for a privacy statement prior to publication, but the company did not respond. Now, Samsung has given HD Guru an official comment, and shared two separate privacy policies. In the interest of transparency, here's the complete statement, with our emphasis added on key parts:

Samsung takes all concerns regarding consumer privacy and information security very seriously. In all of our Smart TVs, including our new 2012 LED and Plasma TVs featuring built-in camera and microphone components, Samsung employs industry-standard security safeguards and practices (including data encryption) to secure consumers? personal information and prevent its unauthorized collection or use.

Samsung also ensures consumers have the opportunity to review the terms of the company?s Privacy Policy prior to using Samsung?s Smart TV services. The Privacy Policy can be found at?www.samsung.com/privacy. ?

The camera and microphone are integrated into the TV to provide users with innovative new ways to control the TV. They may also be used for video conference and speech-to-text services offered by third parties, in which case the audio and video data is transmitted to the service providers? servers and does not pass through Samsung servers. Images captured in order to use the facial recognition feature are stored in a secure manner on the owner?s TV only.?

Should the TV owner choose not to use these features, the camera and microphone can be disabled. Users can check if the camera and microphone are activated from the TV?s settings menu. As an added precaution, the camera can be rotated and tucked into the bezel of the TV. Once tucked away, the camera only captures a black image.

Samsung is dedicated to instilling consumer confidence in this matter. Any questions regarding the Privacy Policy or protection of personal information on the TV can be directed to intertv@samsung.com.

Samsung says it does not upload video or voice streams into its servers, though it does sample your voice for speech command. We know third parties such as Skype use encryption for video conferencing, and Samsung says it uses the same "industry standard security" for the "personal information" it transmits.?

We asked Mineola, N.Y. attorney Emouna Matin, who handles privacy cases, to explain what is meant by "personal information," and if would include video and voice samples, along with browser history and TV viewing habits.

"Samsung has to address that more properly," says Matin. Personal information can be limited pedigree information -- name, address, phone number, age, the kind of descriptive information that identifies you as an individual but doesn't say a lot about who you are -- or ?"stronger" information -- your voice, your personal images, websites visited, data that are not traditionally defined as "personal" but say a lot more about you.

Another issue is that Samsung effectively locks you into a privacy agreement before you can even use the Internet-based services of the TV. In part, this agreement reads:

We reserve the right to share all Personal Data and non-Personal Data with any company within the Samsung Electronics group of companies, or with any other company that operates under the Samsung brand. ... Each of the Samsung Group Companies will use your information in accordance with their own independent privacy practices.

The lengthy agreement goes on to say that your data will be carefully guarded and shared only when necessary "in order to pursue our legitimate interests or if we are required to or are permitted to do so by law." While this reads as relatively standard, the definition of "personal information" is, again, not made clear.

As for the "Group Companies" that can receive personal data from a Smart TV, Samsung says it is not every one of the 48 Samsung subsidiaries and joint ventures. For U.S. customers, only Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in Korea, Samsung Electronics America and?Samsung SDS (based in both U.S. and Germany) would share the information. For customers in other countries, their local Samsung subsidiary would also share with the Samsung Electronics Co. and SDS, which handles data globally.

It is good to see Samsung disclosing more details of its privacy policy, but the industry still has a way to go before consumers can have a complete understanding of what is at risk when using these new and unprecedented technologies. HD Guru will continue to investigate the Samsung TVs and others, in hopes of learning exactly what these new HDTV eyes and ears are sending out from your home.

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Researchers work to help soldiers break camouflage

Public release date: 30-Mar-2012
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Georgia Health Sciences University

AUGUSTA, Ga. Researchers want to help the Army better camouflage its soldiers and break the enemy's efforts to hide.

"We want to make our camouflage unbreakable and we want to break the camouflage of the enemy," said Dr. Jay Hegde, neuroscientist in the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University.

Hegde and GHSU Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Xing Chen are using a relatively simple technique they developed to teach civilian volunteers to break camouflage. They flash a series of camouflage pictures on a computer screen, providing about a half second after each to spot, for instance, a face in a sea of mushrooms. A green light signals a correct answer and a red light signals an incorrect answer. The computer-generated images include distractions to make the difficult task even more challenging.

They are finding that an hour of daily training in as little as two weeks results in proficiency for 60 percent of the mostly college and graduate school students who have signed up for their training. The Army's current approach is taking soldiers into battlefield situations to hone these skills.

As part of a three-year grant from the Office of Army Research, the researchers want to determine which parts of the brain light up when trained snipers break camouflage.

"We need to figure out how the expert camouflage-breakers do it," Hegde said. "We want to figure out what parts of the brain are most responsive when people break camouflage and, a related experiment is what part of the brain changes its response when people learn to break camouflage." Their techniques include functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure blood flow activity as an indicator of brain cell activity.

Figuring out which parts of the brain are involved could give the Army and others a better way to identify future first-rate snipers and objectively assess instructional efforts.

"If you are the Dean of the Army Sniper Corps and want to develop top-notch snipers, you don't want to spend a year training them before giving up on half of them," Hegde said. A brain scan could help signal whose relevant areas are well developed and, consequently, have natural skill.

Early evidence points toward two regions of the temporal lobe, found on either side of the brain and known to have a role in speech and vision. A region called the fusiform gyrus which plays a role in facial recognition and lights up when people become experts at recognizing various objects, such as a particular bird species may be important in breaking camouflage as well.

Hegde suspects that expertise at breaking camouflage stems from the fusiform gyrus in combination with some other area(s) of the brain. And, because good recognition skills don't typically translate from one area to another, he also suspects that the parts of the brain involved vary with the object of their attention. For example, the ability to easily recognize the make and model of a car doesn't guarantee skill at breaking camouflage and Hegde notes that some military snipers aren't good at game-hunting.

Vision happens when light enters the retina where photoreceptor cells turn it into signals that are interpreted by the brain. "If there is a whole lot of light falling on them, they send a lot of signals, beep, beep, beep," he said in rapid succession. "If there is a little bit of light they fire slowly." The brain connects the dots to form a familiar face or landscape. Camouflage complicates the task the difference between recognizing a mountain goat against a clear blue sky and finding a moth among a pile of fall leaves.

"Here is the beautiful thing that we are finding out: if you know what you are looking for, the next time you can break the camouflage of the moth. Without knowing what you are looking for, the picture also is ambiguous," Hegde said.

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Hegde also is a faculty member in the GHSU College of Graduate Studies and Vision Discovery Institute.

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Georgia Health Sciences University

AUGUSTA, Ga. Researchers want to help the Army better camouflage its soldiers and break the enemy's efforts to hide.

"We want to make our camouflage unbreakable and we want to break the camouflage of the enemy," said Dr. Jay Hegde, neuroscientist in the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University.

Hegde and GHSU Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Xing Chen are using a relatively simple technique they developed to teach civilian volunteers to break camouflage. They flash a series of camouflage pictures on a computer screen, providing about a half second after each to spot, for instance, a face in a sea of mushrooms. A green light signals a correct answer and a red light signals an incorrect answer. The computer-generated images include distractions to make the difficult task even more challenging.

They are finding that an hour of daily training in as little as two weeks results in proficiency for 60 percent of the mostly college and graduate school students who have signed up for their training. The Army's current approach is taking soldiers into battlefield situations to hone these skills.

As part of a three-year grant from the Office of Army Research, the researchers want to determine which parts of the brain light up when trained snipers break camouflage.

"We need to figure out how the expert camouflage-breakers do it," Hegde said. "We want to figure out what parts of the brain are most responsive when people break camouflage and, a related experiment is what part of the brain changes its response when people learn to break camouflage." Their techniques include functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure blood flow activity as an indicator of brain cell activity.

Figuring out which parts of the brain are involved could give the Army and others a better way to identify future first-rate snipers and objectively assess instructional efforts.

"If you are the Dean of the Army Sniper Corps and want to develop top-notch snipers, you don't want to spend a year training them before giving up on half of them," Hegde said. A brain scan could help signal whose relevant areas are well developed and, consequently, have natural skill.

Early evidence points toward two regions of the temporal lobe, found on either side of the brain and known to have a role in speech and vision. A region called the fusiform gyrus which plays a role in facial recognition and lights up when people become experts at recognizing various objects, such as a particular bird species may be important in breaking camouflage as well.

Hegde suspects that expertise at breaking camouflage stems from the fusiform gyrus in combination with some other area(s) of the brain. And, because good recognition skills don't typically translate from one area to another, he also suspects that the parts of the brain involved vary with the object of their attention. For example, the ability to easily recognize the make and model of a car doesn't guarantee skill at breaking camouflage and Hegde notes that some military snipers aren't good at game-hunting.

Vision happens when light enters the retina where photoreceptor cells turn it into signals that are interpreted by the brain. "If there is a whole lot of light falling on them, they send a lot of signals, beep, beep, beep," he said in rapid succession. "If there is a little bit of light they fire slowly." The brain connects the dots to form a familiar face or landscape. Camouflage complicates the task the difference between recognizing a mountain goat against a clear blue sky and finding a moth among a pile of fall leaves.

"Here is the beautiful thing that we are finding out: if you know what you are looking for, the next time you can break the camouflage of the moth. Without knowing what you are looking for, the picture also is ambiguous," Hegde said.

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Hegde also is a faculty member in the GHSU College of Graduate Studies and Vision Discovery Institute.

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Positive Affirmations were My Transformation! ? Recovering The Self ...

Guest Blogger: Thomas Allan

Such a simple tool, positive affirmations, but they have been my transformation and my one constant through the last two decades and beyond.

Before I get into my story, I?d like to make sure you know what positive affirmations are.

To define them simply, they are just positive statements which you say to yourself to affirm something to be true (even if it?s not? yet).

For example you could say affirmations for confidenceto yourself, if you wanted to improve your confidence and become more social and outgoing (this is how I got started). To give some actual examples, these would be statements such as:

?I am confident within myself and love myself unconditionally.?

?I am confident, outgoing, social, and friendly.?

?Every day I become more outgoing and confident.?

You can see they are actually just simple statements really, and the theory is that over time, these statements become so natural to you, you hear them so often (as you repeat them each morning and evening), and they become a self-fulfilling prophecy?they sink deep down within your subconscious mind and they become a real and lasting part of who you are.

And let me tell you, this is much more than a theory for me ? this is how it happened to me when I first started, and I was amazed that such a simple tool, such a simple daily practice could yield such results.

My Story

I first started using positive affirmations when I was 17 years old? a long time ago now.

I was a shy, introverted teen, but I wanted nothing more than to go to parties, become more social and chat to some girls.

There was no way (that I could see) to develop myself? there was no Internet to consult with the type of self-improvement information available today, there was no way I would even consider asking anyone for help (for fear of them laughing about me), I thought I was stuck and didn?t know how I could improve? until I read an article in a magazine about positive affirmations.

That was the first day of the rest of my life. I finished reading the article and started straight away. I wrote my first affirmations for confidence, and like the article said, I stood at the mirror and said them every morning and ever evening before bed. Just 5 minutes at a time.

Straight away I noticed a difference, not huge, but just a feeling of positivity, excitement, the potential for change? Then within two weeks, I really did notice a significant difference in my self-perception, in my self-belief, and in my outgoing confidence and social skills.

This first experience only made me push further forward, I kept saying my affirmations and soon I started making more of an effort socially, within a few months, my social circle doubled and I started going to the parties I always wanted to?then four months into my affirmations experiment, I got my first real girlfriend. One day I looked back on my life and saw it transformed!

I could have cried for happiness at what a difference there was between now and just a few months earlier? but I didn?t, I was ,at the same time too excited to cry?excited about the future possibilities, about how else I could use affirmations to enhance my life and to excel in other areas.

And so I did. Over the years positive affirmations have always been with me. I have written out hundreds and hundreds for all different areas of my life at different times and different pursuits.

Using Affirmations for Health

Later in my life, I found myself with some health complications after a motorbike accident. Without going into too much detail, it was quite serious, consisting of both broken bones and internal injuries and I required a few rounds of surgery?each time was supposed to be the last but due to other problems or unsuccessful attempts, I had to have a few operations.

To start with, I was ok mentally, but the operations really wore me out and I was really quite sick too, of course.

Then I realised I had never used affirmations for health before; so I started there and then. I wrote my own, based on how I was feeling compared to how I wanted my health to be.

Once again, the results were phenomenal, and I am certain it was the affirmations at play!

First of all, I felt much more mentally able, I felt more upbeat and positive, and less drowsy and down. Then within a week, I started to pickup physically. I didn?t need as much sleep; I had more energy; and then with consultations with doctors they said they were impressed with my progress and maybe I wouldn?t need my 4th operation yet.

That 4th operation never came and I made a full recovery, and the turning point for me was crystal clear?when I started using my affirmations again.

Using Affirmations for Business

The main way I have used affirmations though is for business success; to help me acquire a positive and focused mindset, to help me to think like other successful entrepreneurs, investors and businessmen do, to boost my confidence (of course), and to get me into the right state of mind to pitch to investors, other directors, or to present sales presentations.

Over the last 20 years, I have been successful in business, I live a lifestyle of my design and I have owned or do own online businesses, real estate portfolios, land, and have partnered in several offline retail and service-based businesses.

All along this journey, and still to this day, I have used positive affirmations to help me get to where I wanted to be.

Positive affirmations for me aren?t a quick fix, or a passive pursuit?if you take them seriously, repeat them daily and use them consistently, then they could be all you need; they are all I have ever needed.

About the Author

Thomas Allan is a positive affirmations enthusiast. He runs the world?s largest collection of free affirmations ? visit today to browse 1000s of affirmations for almost every personal development goal imaginable.

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Utah women share feelings about having cosmetic surgery

By Cathy Carmode Lim, ksl.com Contributor

March 29th, 2012 @ 12:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Numbers and anecdotal evidence suggest that a high proportion of people, particularly women, in Utah are having cosmetic surgery done. Doctors who perform these surgeries say Utahns are educated and open to surgeries and that women just want to look like ?themselves? before they had children; therapists say issues of body image and self-worth are considerations.

But what about the opinions of the women themselves? Here, five women share their experiences and feelings about their bodies and why they chose to have or considered having cosmetic surgery. (Names have been changed because of the sensitive nature of the topic, but identifying information has not been changed. )

?I?m kind of on the petite side, and I had 9- pound babies,? said Abby, 37, a mother of five living in Springville who had a ?mommy makeover,? a combination of breast augmentation, tummy tuck and liposuction, in 2009. ?By the time I was done having kids, it was just like I felt like I was living in somebody else?s body.?

"I'm kind of on the petite side, and I had 9-pound babies. By the time I was done having kids, it was just like I felt like I was living in somebody else's body." Abby, mother of 5

?I had my daughter at 19 and I had no image issues before then,? said Becky, 31, a mother of two who lives in St. George and had a tummy tuck about 10 years ago. ?After I had my daughter, I looked down and the first panic moment was when I was at work. I saw four stretch marks. I had marks ... (that are) keloid, so they had texture. Every time I?d get undressed to take a shower, I didn?t want to look at my body; I didn?t want my husband to look at my body. (Then) my son pushed my muscles apart. The surgeon said he?d never seen a gap as big between the two muscles as in mine.?

?I had been married to a verbally and physically abusive man who had told me I looked like a boy when I was naked. I had given birth to two children, and my breasts had lost some volume from that, but also from weight loss in general due to all the marital stress I was under,? said Claire, now 40, from Salt Lake City. ?Upon divorcing him, I elected to get breast augmentation surgery to boost my self-esteem. I never had a problem with body image before that abusive relationship. Before I had kids, I was pretty perfect in my opinion.?

?I had saddlebags: I had to buy pants a size bigger and have my (pants) waists taken in just to fit my thighs. Honestly, it was a huge issue for me; I thought about it every single time I got dressed or went shopping,? said Deborah, 32, who lives in Ogden but is from the East Coast. ?(In my home state I would think) I have to dress to hide this, it?s nothing horrible; I can deal with it. Then I moved out here, where there are a lot more young people. I?ve never seen so many people with perfect makeup and hair.?

Four of the five women interviewed referred to a culture of image or perfection in Utah. Becky, who grew up in Hawaii and is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as are all of these women, observed, ?Utah has its own culture; everything here is different. There?s Utah hair, the Bumpits (plastic hair inserts). They all wear the same thing, they wear the same jeans, the same clothes. I?m (even) seeing it with my (12-year-old) daughter?s classmates.?

?I?ve been a member of the (LDS) Church my whole life,? Deborah said. ?It seems like (in Utah) at church it?s all about appearance; back (East), church was a place to go because you need that peace. Here it?s because it?s a social club, everyone in your neighborhood goes. It was a huge culture shock when I moved here. No one (at home) had Bumpits. We were trying to get our hair to sit down.?

"I often find myself thinking that maybe the reason I have not had the privilege of finding someone to spend my life with is because I am not the ideal look of the "cookie-cutter" type of LDS woman that, in my opinion, most LDS men are looking for." Emily

Emily, who is 25 and lives in Salt Lake City and hasn?t had surgery done but considered it seriously enough that she saved up money for it, said, ?I feel a great deal of pressure to look a certain way because I am not married. Both of my older siblings were married at young ages, and I often find myself thinking that maybe the reason I have not had the privilege of finding someone to spend my life with is because I am not the ideal look of the ?cookie-cutter? type of LDS woman that, in my opinion, most LDS men are looking for.?

Emily is from Washington state and observed, ?Every time I go back to the Northwest, the pressure is gone. I feel that people are looking at me and I get all this attention. (But) when I?m here in Utah, I don?t know ... it?s just there?s all this competition with beautiful people.?

Abby said she?s never lived outside of Utah, but ?it does seem like there?s sort of this crazy, underlying drive for perfection, (the feeling that one should) bake bread and sew my children?s clothes and work out every day and look perfect.?

The women observed that there is a stigma about certain kinds of surgeries, while others are either ?acceptable? or even ?popular? and something women enjoy talking about openly.

Abby said, ?I think there?s this stigma ? (someone looks good) only because she had surgery, not because she took care of herself. There?s (also) this stigma of being worldly or vain to take that step with your appearance. (But) I have had a few come out of the woodwork (who admitted having surgery). Everyone I?ve talked to has been very happy that they did it.?

?I found out in the surgery culture that having breasts done or nose done is fine, but lipo is like cheating,? Deborah said. ?It?s kind of a quiet thing how word gets around. I only told a couple of close friends at work; my husband?s family knows because they live here. I don?t tell people about the lipo, because it?s like, oh, you couldn?t just stop eating.

?The breast jobs, though, everyone?s excited and talking about: ?Oh, yeah, I?ve had my breasts done.? I?ve never heard people say, ?Oh, I?ve had a nose job.? I?ve heard someone say, ?My friend had a tummy tuck;? it?s a quiet, through-the-grapevine, I- know-someone-who?s-had-that-done. Except the breasts; everyone?s proud of those. It?s like somehow that?s OK; anything else is a little vain and selfish.?

Becky said, ?Breast augmentation is really big here in southern Utah. For a little while, it seemed like you could just go to Target and grab them (breast augmentations) ? they were that popular.?

The men in these women?s lives tended to try to discourage them from going through an invasive procedure but supported them in their decisions. All of the women, except for Claire, whose former husband was abusive, said they considered surgery to make themselves feel better, not to make a mate happy.

?My husband was totally against it,? Abby said. ?He said, ?I don?t want you to die on the table!? My husband told me if I had to do it, OK, but he didn?t really want me to, but I felt so bad about my body that I did not even want my husband to see me naked.?

?My husband was really supportive,? Deborah said. ?He always said, ?You?re beautiful the way you are.? He?s the sweetest guy ever. But he said, ?I won?t get in your way.? ?

At the same time, she still hasn?t shared news of her surgery with her family back East. ?I know what my mom would say, and I don?t want to hear it. My mom will notice when she (does) see me.?

The women who had surgery all were very happy with their results and had no regrets. Deborah said, ?Part of me is disappointed with myself because I had this work done, but I know I?m so happy now that I?ve had it done. I love it.?

"The surgery made me feel like me again. No amount of counseling was going to help me because no amount was going to make me see myself any differently than just a skinny girl with a big belly." Deborah

?I would definitely do it again, hands down, no doubt,? Becky said. ?I know how sad I was before, how it affected my relationship with my husband and my children. I wouldn?t go in the water in Hawaii with my kids even though I was in a one-piece. The surgery made me feel like me again. No amount of counseling was going to help me because no amount was going to make me see myself any differently than just a skinny girl with a big belly. It was too ingrained, too deep. For me, I knew who I was before, I was just trying to get back to the me before, not be a different me.?

For Claire, the surgery was part of moving past a bad relationship. She met her current partner a month after her surgery in 1997. ?I think the surgery did add to my happiness,? she said. ?Being in an abusive relationship was horrible, so obviously I was very low at that point, and after I got out on my own and started the road back, when I did have the surgery not very long after that, it was a huge confidence boost.?

There were a few costs, in terms of money and some drawbacks. Claire, for instance, had one of her implants deflate and had to decide whether to have another surgery to remove them entirely or put in new implants. Since no one at her workplace knew she had implants, in the week between the deflation and her new surgery, she had to stuff a sock in her bra.

At that time, in 2007, Claire did decide to have new implants inserted. But ?if they need to be replaced every 10 years, I think in five years, I?d consider getting them taken out just so I wouldn?t have to worry about getting them done again. I don?t have the body complex anymore that I used to.?

Recovery also can be a challenge. ?I tell you one thing I was not prepared for is the skin is now numb; right where the surgeon cut, about a few inches above and below the belly button, I can?t feel anything on the surface of my stomach,? Becky said. ?That?s one of the side effects I didn?t count on.?

Deborah said, ?The one thing no one told me, which I found it online, is that you?ll never gain weight in that same area again. Your body still wants to gain weight somewhere, so it?ll go somewhere else. Now I?m starting to gain a little bit of fat on my stomach for the first time ever. I didn?t know that your body would do that, but I?d still do (the procedure) again.?

Prices for the procedures vary, and none of the surgeries was covered by insurance. Abby?s mommy makeover cost $13,500. For her family, the cost wasn?t an issue because their income is high.

Becky?s tummy tuck cost $6,000, which she paid for on a credit card. The liposuction on Deborah?s outer thighs cost her $2,500. Claire paid about $3,500 for her first breast augmentation in 1997, for which she used a credit card, and about $3,200 the second time, for which she used funds from a second mortgage.

Overall, these women were pleased with their results, despite any costs or stigmas; those who had surgery after pregnancies feel better being ?restored? to pre-baby bodies.

Contribute to the discussion

This article is part of a continuing examination of the prevalence of cosmetic surgery in Utah. The author is still seeking input from more people who have personal experiences with surgery, either those who have elected to have cosmetic surgery, those who have considered it, those who have opted not to have aesthetic surgery and/or those who know someone who has had surgery.

Interviews will be arranged at your convenience, and published quotes will not feature full names. The author would like to provide an in-depth look at this issue from varying points of view and allow an open and thoughtful dialogue. If you have interest in contacting the author to contribute, please email her at utcosmeticsurger y@gmail.com.

Cathy Carmode Lim is the founder of RatedReads.com, a website that reviews books and gives them ratings according to content. She also blogs about beauty and self image, books and other topics at LifeandLims.com.

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Home Improvements | A Bathtub's Secret Weapon

A dirty bathtub is the worst. Unlike a sink or even the floors, in order to clean a bathtub you have to get on your hands and knees ? but no more! Whoever said you have to get on your hands and knees to clean your tub must have liked torture. We?re going to get creative here and explain some no-knee tricks for cleaning your bathroom tub.

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When we think about mopping we often think of floors, but why not let this great invention serve multiple purposes. Mops allow you to get those hard to reach sports without bending over. Use them to wash the floors, clean walls from floor to ceiling, and scrub your bathtub. Nowadays, mops are made specifically for the tub with rounded corners and tougher scrub pads. But you can buy just a regular sponge mop to clean your bathtub. Many sponge mops come with two sides: a rough sponge and a softer sponge. The floor shouldn?t have all the fun. Take the mop into the tub and get the job done.

Let it Soak (x2)

The Beatles were almost onto something with their 1970?s single ?Let It Be?. The key to getting your bathroom clean is to let it soak and then let it soak some more. You don?t need to use fancy cleaning products. You can actually use your kitchen sink soak designed to tackle grease. Put the soap into a spray bottle and spray the whole tub down and let it soak. Come back in an hour or so and wipe down with the sponge mop.

Avoid cleaning products with a bunch of chemicals in them, but if your tub is really dirty or you have hard water stains you may have to. If you do use chemicals, be sure to wear a face mask and protect your mouth and nose from breathing in the harsh fumes. Turn on the overhead fan and don?t let these products soak too long, as the chemicals make them more potent.

Bathtub Refinishing

If the mop trick doesn?t work for you may have to resort to the old fashioned hands and knees approach. Now if this doesn?t work, you will have to call a bathtub refinisher. Don?t replace your tub! A bathtub refinisher will be able to apply a no-spray bathtub refinishing product to your tub and restore its natural color and sleek shine. No-spray bathtub refinishing is a unique and eco-friendly alternative to typical spray bathtub refinishing methods.

Once your bathtub is clean, keep it that way with regular cleaning. Spray a non-toxic cleaner every time you finish a shower to help maintain upkeep. For more bathtub home improvement ideas and for more information on upgrading to a soaker tub check out this other My Home Improvement blog.

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Formula 1 Race is now becoming more famous among youngsters

Formula 1 racing is nowadays becoming more popular for youngsters because it has become more and more professional sport. It is the most thrilling sport because of higher audience makes it very interesting and thrilling to attract the audience, who is seen very interested and thrilling to make it very popular sport of youngsters. Nowadays, grand prix is the most popular sporting event which takes place over three days with a series of sport activities and qualifying the sessions to take a race on Sunday. The drivers of F1 are the most considered people among the most highly conditioned athletes who love it very much because of thrilling activities performed admirably.?

? F1 is the most popular sport of racing in the world, which is loved too much by sport lovers in the form of racing in the world.

The cars are very fast, lightweight and comfortable to be the master in all kind of racing. It is very global sport for whole world, therefore millions of racing lovers come to play this sport excitedly. Today, formula one racing is the most popular sport in all over world, therefore it has millions of television audience viewers in the world. Today, TV viewing is measured billions of sport lovers as a sporting event and getting a lot of popularity on par with Olympics and the Soccer World Cup.

The cars are very fast, flimsy and smooth as well as most hard to master in all of racing. The formula one racing cars like Squidoo car are built with higher standards designed by experts for keeping safety and security. It has the largest television viewing a large number of audiences in the whole world.

Today, television viewers love this sport very much and getting great popularity in every part of the country. The drivers of this racing are the most considered among the most highly conditioned athletes with their bodies in top shape to adapt the expectations of top flight single seater motor racing.

Formula 1 racing is popularly known as Grand Prix as well as very popular motor sport around the globe. It is considered more and more competitive sport in comparison of all motor sports. Therefore, racing is the most popular sport in the world, when it comes to turn about Formula one racing car sport, really it is very popular sport. It is very competitive and exciting race championships to watch this sport event in the world. Therefore, millions of viewers of this racing sport are very thrilling moments to enjoy the every moment of this sport amusingly.

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Benefits of banner advertising | FCYD

Advertising through online media which is also known as online/internet advertising is one of the most adopted means of promoting a brand or business by modern advertisers. Online Advertising media is infact booming. Providing promotion solutions for various brands, services and businesses, internet advertising media is poised to top the chart amongst the list of advertising means. Banner Advertising is one of most adopted means of internet advertising. A banner ad is a form of advertising on the web that entails embedding an advertisement on a particular website page. A banner ad is intended to attract heavy traffic to a website or landing page by linking it to the website of the advertiser (who hosts the ad).

Following are few more features and benefits of banner advertising.

Ideal means of advertising (for newbies or established brand owners)

A banner advertising campaign is ideal for any kind of brand owner whether a newbie or oldie. A banner ad is similar to one of the magazines or newspaper ads we often come across. The only difference is that this kind of advertisement is accessible only through the web world. If articulately implemented, a banner ad can get you the exact response that you are expecting from your TG.

Talk to your customers through text and pictures

A banner advertising campaign is one of the interesting means of communicating a brand message to your customers. Enriched with attractive graphics and one liner copy, anyone who comes across your ad display will take time to go through the brand message. The sizes of banner ads vary from one advertiser to another. Following are ten types of banner ads-

Animated banner ads
Rotating banner ads
Scrolling banner ads
Pop-ups
Pop under
Drop-down menu bar
Floating banners
Corner peel banner ads
Interstitials
Rich media banner ads

Every advertising campaign provides an appeal to customers. Advertisers infact persuade customers through this appeal. An ad appeal may be either based on emotions such as love, belongingness or care or fear. Without an appeal, it is a tough task for an advertiser to communicate the brand message to customers as they don?t find it interesting or attractive. So, it is a must for every brand owner to launch his promotion campaign by loading an out of the box theme or appeal that may strike customers? attention even at a quick glance.

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Source: http://fcyd.org/benefits-of-banner-advertising

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Home Improvement | Recovering After a Fire

A house fire can be one of the most traumatic events in a person?s life. After a fire, we are reminded of what?s most important in life ? your family. It?s imperative to fire proof your home and practice safe habits to prevent house fires, but house fires can be accidental and happen to even the most organized people.

A house fire results in essential home improvements that can be costly depending on the extent of the damage. You want to make sure you pick a general contractor who has a good working relationship with your insurance company to get the most out of your repairs.

Whether you have a small self-contained fire or one that produces more widespread damage, recovering after a fire can be difficult. You want to recover anything you can, but often times you will need to replace belongings and appliances from smoke damage.

If your home can be salvaged after a fire, you want a professional who specializes in fire restoration. It?s best to call a general contractor for fire restoration as soon as possible. The quicker they are contacted, the better chance they have of preventing further damage to your property. They can repair the exterior and interior of your home, which is really important when it comes to your home and your family?s well-being.

Even if you just have a smaller self-contained fire, smoke and soot can travel through air ducks affecting other rooms. One of the most common house fire locations is in the kitchen. A grease fire on the stove or in the oven can produce a lot of damage. It is essential that you react quickly to the damage and begin cleaning immediately. A general contractor will know how to clean up after a grease fire and salvage items.

Even if you call a general contractor with the tools and experience to deal with the fire damage right away, it may still be difficult to restore everything. Walls, countertops, and cabinets will need to be wiped down thoroughly to remove soot. Damage from soot is not easy to clean, but a general contractor will have the products and tools to do the job and possible save you replacement costs.

Open food items or anything in cardboard will need to be discarded, as the toxins from the smoke will cause them to spoil. Canned food items are probably the only food item you will be able to keep. Although the food inside the fridge is not salvageable, the fridge itself often is. After cleaning the outside surface of the fridge, you will want to be sure to replace the seal, filters, and fans to prevent trapped soot from penetrating into the fridge and spoiling future food.

For tips on fire proofing your home and preventing the likelihood of a fire, see this previous My Home Improvement blog.

Source: http://www.my-home-improvement.com/2012/03/29/recovering-after-a-fire/

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DC, Richmond, and Points South: Let?s Plan The First TC Mini-Meetup In The Virginia Area

I've been digging through all of the various start-up emails I've received, and I thought it would be fun to start traveling down the Eastern Seaboard for a bit of mini-meetup action. In essence, we're going to hold small, casual get-togethers at a local bar in DC and Richmond and I'm open to stopping in one more location, depending on interest. Why? Because TC is for everyone. And just like the events Mike Butcher and I organized in Europe and Asia, it's more than worth our time to roll through your town to get the lay of the land.

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Ken Solin: Divorcing Your Family - Huffington Post

My article, Divorcing an Old Friend, evoked nearly 1,200 comments, most agreeing that sometimes there's no choice. My old friend isn't the only person I've left behind. I divorced my family after decades of hoping our relationship could be different. The misguided pain families frequently inflict on their members is inexplicable. What's even more inexplicable, however, is why anyone would suffer what I term insider abuse. After all, who knows your strengths and weaknesses better than family? But that information is a sacred trust, and using it to inflict pain is a betrayal of that trust.

If you're in a harsh or painful situation with your family and your game plan is to simply continue ignoring it and get on with your life, you're ensuring that your pain will last for as long as it takes before you finally deal with it. There is no such thing as stuffing pain and pretending it no longer exists. That's a myth. You either deal with your pain or suffer the consequences. It takes courage to take a stand and stop playing your dysfunctional family's game.

But deserting a family can feel as painful as the abuse, and that feeling of anxiety is the issue to confront. Why is leaving pain behind so scary? The thought of being alone in the world can feel unbearable. That's when friendships play a vital role. My friends and I have heard each other's stories and supported each other decisions regarding family, and my wife also supports me.

The excuses offered for intentionally hurting any family member are varied, but none are valid. Inflicting pain as a methodology to change someone's behavior is ignorant. Not respecting a family member's choices is meant to crush that person's spirit. There's no love in that, so pretending otherwise is just rationalization. No one has the right to foist his or her agenda on anyone. I'm not referring to tough love, a practice often invoked for alcohol and drug addicted people meant to wake them up to the realities. I'm referring to personal choices people make that don't always measure up to a family's purported standards.

My father worked, but couldn't pay his bills. I wore hand-me-down clothing and worked to earn money, but I didn't mind, especially since none of my boyhood friends had money, either. Being broke wasn't something I held against my father. But the fallout from our family's financial woes was that my father took his financial frustrations out on me. He wailed on a small boy as if somehow I was responsible for his plight. This went on for years, and my mother's contribution was silence, which may have been her only protection. My sister hid. No one in my family has ever mentioned this violence, and no one has ever acknowledged it ever happened, either. That denial has caused me more pain than the actual events.

Not surprisingly, my father died at 52 from a heart attack. He literally imploded. I was in my last year of college, and what became clear was that when I graduated and was employed, my mother was going to become my financial responsibility, no matter that I had a wife and infant son to support. I was so desperate to feel loved that I began supporting my mother right out of college, and did so for twenty-five years, without a thank you. I couldn't even buy love in my family. This is a family theme I've heard from other people.

When she died, my sister insisted she wanted a relationship with me, but was unwilling to be open and honest about what had occurred in our family. After a few years of dancing around our family's issues, I walked away. I divorced her. To ignore a sibling's pain simply to maintain a delusion is not an act of love. Do I feel wonderful about any of this? Absolutely not, but I'm taking care of myself in a manner that my family didn't, and coming from a dysfunctional family, that's critical.

There are too many folks who still suffer the fallout from dysfunctional families. I hope to encourage them to make the choice not to continue suffering. There is no reason to allow any family member to hurt you. Whether or not you did something that caused pain in your family isn't a valid excuse. Punishment is a perilous road to travel, particularly since few of us are perfect. Punishing someone rather than loving them is self-righteous and sanctimonious.

Taking care of myself became paramount, even though that meant forgoing any family beyond my son and grandson. While that's painful, it doesn't begin to equal the pain I felt from being mistreated just to make someone else feel better. Be your own best friend. Divorce is ugly, but the alternative, continued pain, is worse. No family member has the right to hurt you.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-solin/family-feud_b_1385505.html

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