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Posted on: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014


I remember the day I came to the United States on February 3, 2003.

It was Osher’s 10th birthday on February 1st and Bar’s 6th birthday on February 4th.  Today, Osher is 21 and Bar turns 17 tomorrow. My baby, Neta, was only 20 months old — now she’s heading toward 13!  Yes, my little girl who is now taller than me that rocked the stage at Barron Collier High School wearing my high heels on Saturday night modeling in a teen fashion show!  The month of February is definitely a special month with 3 special events.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe that 11 years have passed. I remember telling my son in 2005, “I am so happy we are in America now.  You don’t have to serve in the Israeli Army.” I felt safe.  My son said, “Mom, I am going to go anyway” and I said OK. I thought a few years would pass by and he would forget about it, but he didn’t.  In early 2011, Osher came to me and said, “Mom I signed up” and I had no choice but to support my son becoming an adult and allow him to follow his dream.  Osher left on August 15, 2011 and I haven’t seeing him for 904 days, 2.5 years.  Many people ask me if it’s easy.  No, it’s not but I tell them we make it anyway, we have no choice.  Osher will be released from the Army on May 19, 2014 — 105 days away!

We were blessed to find Naples just few days after we landed in the U.S. and made the decision to move here, not knowing anyone and of course, not speaking the language.  Unlike Miami, Naples didn’t have an Israeli culture: no Kosher food store or other Israelis to be friends with, but I told my ex-husband, “I didn’t leave Israel to live in Israel, I want to live America” and Naples was the best choice I have ever made for all of us.

Many people share on social media how Naples, Florida is one of the most beautiful places to live in this country and even compares to other wonderful places worldwide.  Naples continues to be voted as a great place for the best vacations, most beautiful beaches and is a lovely town.

But what might be missed is the wonderful people who call Naples home, who have businesses here and are part of keeping this town so attractive.  Just last week, Naples had the Winter Wine Festival, an annual event that raised over $13 million for children because Naples does not want any child left behind.

Naples provides opportunities for so many – I’m one of them. Naples is not just a nice place to live, it’s a place to succeed for those who are willing to work hard.  It’s not always easy, I didn’t have to work this hard in my country, but I choose to work hard to maintain a nice lifestyle for me and my children.  I am happy I choose to work hard because hard work pays off!

When I moved here I was just 29 years old.  Now, I am 11 years wiser and stronger.  I look around this town that I love that has a high percentage of retired and semi-retired people and I admire those who are still volunteering, still involved in things they have a passion for, staying young at heart.   I am so happy knowing I will be here in my 80’s going to Blue Martini, enjoying the beach and giving back.

I just wanted to take the time to share part of my story.  Most of all, I want to thank my kids for being so great throughout everything we’ve done in the past 11 years

I thank each and every client from both my previous and current businesses for the opportunity to work together.  It seems like God brings the greatest to me and I am very thankful for that.

Finally, I would like to encourage you to live in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to know God because they know you!

 

 

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My 10 Years anniversary In the US

 

Posted on: Saturday, February 1st, 2014


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Posted on: Saturday, February 1st, 2014


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Super Bowl XLVII is going to be watched live on the TV screens of an estimated 100 million Americans.But more than ever people will also be following all the action via social media on their iPads and other tablets, smartphones and computers.Here’s a primer on the Twitter hashtags, handles and accounts you should follow in order to make sure you see all the best commentary and opinions as the big game unfolds this Sunday. So here are the ones you should keep an eye on:  Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday:

Super Bowl Hashtags for Twitter, Instagram,Facebook and Google Plus +

#superbowlxlviii #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2014 #NFL #XLVIII #SuperBowlweek  #CBSSuperBowl #BudLight  #BudweiserSuperBowlXLVIII #superbowlsunday #MetLifeStadium #Seahawks #Broncos #NYNJSUPERBOWL

Twitter to follow:

twitter.com/Seahawks

twitter.com/PostBroncos

Twitter.com/NFL

twitter.com/ESPNNFL

Twitter.com/NFLonCBS

Twitter.com/CBSSports

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  • BudLight #UpForWhatever
  • Jaguar #GoodToBeBad
  • Heinz #ifyourehappy
  • Beats Music Vision #BeatsMusic
  • Pepsi #Halftime
  • Intuit #TeamSmallBiz
  • Dannon Oikos #FuelYourPleasure
  • Axe #Kissforpeace
  • GoDaddy #itsgotime
  • Toyota Highlander #NoRoomForBoring
  • Wonderful Pistachios #getcrackinamerica
  • Doritos #crashthesuperbowl
  • That’s it for our list. Feel free to add your own favorite Super Bowl XLVII hashtags,

 

Posted on: Friday, January 31st, 2014


9. Naples, FL

Naples, FL
(Brian Tietz)

World-class music, design to die for and palm trees: What’s not to like?

Even when it’s snowing somewhere up north, around the historic Naples pier they’re catching mackerel, opening beach umbrellas and looking for treasure in the surf. Grandkids are building sand castles, pelicans are squawking and the Gulf of Mexico is smooth as far as the eye can see.

Travelers have been coming to this small town on the edge of the Everglades ever since the late 19th century, when you could reach it only by boat and there was just one place to stay, the steeple-topped Naples Hotel, connected to the pier by a track with a cart for moving steamer trunks. Back then the visitors were chiefly sportsmen drawn to the abundant fish and game of southwest Florida’s cypress swamps.

Once the Orange Blossom Express train reached Naples in 1927, followed a year later by the opening of the cross-peninsula highway system the Tamiami Trail, sun-seekers arrived in boaters and bloomers, many of them Methodists from the Midwest who thought the drinking started too soon after Sunday church service in West Palm Beach. So when the snow flew, say, in Cincinnati, they decamped to winter retreats in Naples with wide sleeping porches, pine plank floors and whirring ceiling fans. Palm Cottage near the pier is a sterling example of classic Florida vacation cottage architecture. Built in 1895 for the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, it is now headquarters of the busy Naples Historical Society, which sponsors walking tours through the town’s winsome historic district and bougainvillea-lined back alleyways.

Sure, Naples (pop. 19,500) has malls and high-rise condos. Touristy development has taken over bayside docks where fishermen used to haul in giant grouper and tarpon. Traffic clogs the ritzy Fifth Avenue South shopping and restaurant district.

If most of the folks you meet are over 65, in Naples old age looks pretty golden. Ask a duffer with a fishing pole how he likes his martinis and he’ll tell you the third one’s always beautiful (Methodists notwithstanding).

A fair percentage of the snowbirds are retired executives with cultural expectations and the means to pursue them. So the town has an astonishing concentration of deeply rooted cultural institutions like the Naples Zoo, located in a tropical garden founded in 1919 by botanist Henry Nehrling; the Naples Players, a community theater now in its 59th season; and the almost-as-venerable Naples Art Association, at the Von Liebig Art Center in Cambier Park.

“A group of people wanted this little winter paradise to have the same cultural features as Northern cities do,” says Kathleen van Bergen, CEO of the Naples Philharmonic.

The Phil, born 30 years ago of an amateur group on nearby Marco Island, is a renowned orchestra with a state-of-the-art concert hall visited by the likes of Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman. From September to May, it holds 400 events: classical and chamber music performances; concerts by pop stars; galas; Broadway musicals; and lifelong learning programs, along with appearances by the Sarasota Opera and Miami Ballet. Bronze sculpture by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and massive art glass by Dale Chihuly spill over into the lobby from galleries in the adjoining Naples Museum of Art. Its chiefly modernist collection got a new star in 2010: Dawn’s Forest, Louise Nevelson’s last and largest work of environmental art.

Dozens of art galleries line Third Street South, just a few blocks from the designated Design District. Meanwhile, at the Naples pier, there’s bound to be someone at an easel, with a palette provided by the Gulf of Mexico—all sky blue, sand white and aquamarine. — SS

To read full article:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-20-best-small-towns-in-america-of-2012-66120384/

Read how these towns were selected.

Posted on: Thursday, January 30th, 2014


Today, Facebook introducing Paper, a new app that helps you explore and share stories from friends and the world around you.

Paper makes storytelling more beautiful with an immersive design and fullscreen, distraction-free layouts. Facebook also made it easier to craft and share beautiful stories of your own.

Paper is the first product from Facebook Creative Labs,  thayer crafting new apps to support the diverse ways people want to connect and share. The app will be available for the iPhone in the US on February 3rd.

For an early look, you can take a tour of Paper

Read more : http://newsroom.fb.com/News/793/Introducing-Paper-Stories-from-Facebook

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Posted on: Thursday, January 30th, 2014


 
 

  

 

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Facebook is a great utility if you want to stay in touch with friends and family, share photos, and see what other people are up to in their lives.

It’s free to use, of course, but that doesn’t mean it comes without a price. If you’re using Facebook, you’re giving the company a ton of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another.

And most people forget that when they download or sign up for an app or website using their Facebook login, that they’re giving those companies a direct look into their Facebook profiles and some of their personal data. That can often include your email address and phone number, but frequently also your current location.

If you’re worried about your privacy, you can do two things: Opt out of ad tracking and — and this is sometimes rather alarming if you haven’t done it in a while — look up the list of app companies that are logged in to your Facebook account.

We’ll deal with the ads first, as that is easiest.

You can comfort yourself a little bit with the knowledge that the ads being targeted at you are coming anonymously and in bulk, at everyone who is in some way similar to you. They aren’tliterally being targeted at you personally, even if it feels that way. If you really don’t like them, you can opt-out of most of them by following the instructions here and here.

If you want to go even further, by limiting the ad cookies that advertisers use to track Facebook users across the rest of the web, follow these instructions here and read this backgrounder here.

Now for the apps. That requires a bit more digging.

Here is the summary of where you need to go in Facebook’s settings to see which apps are plugged in to your account: Settings > Apps > Apps you use > Show All Apps > Edit/delete. A more detailed set of instructions follows:

First go to the settings button on your Facebook page.

 

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Scroll down and click “Settings.”

 

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Inside the settings menu, click on Apps.

 

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 This looks like a list of apps that are signed into your account. But pay close attention to the “show all” option at the bottom of the list …

 

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Voila! The list of apps tracking me is so long I have to make this super zoomed-out view to see them all:

 

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On each app, there is an Edit function and a delete “x” mark. Let’s look at what QuizUp, the hot new trivia mobile game app, knows about me.

 

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QuizUp knows my email, birthday, and current location. Because it’s a mobile app on my phone, it also knows my phone number. But that’s not all …

 

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Click this little “?” symbol on “basic info” and it turns out that QuizUp is getting a bunch more info about me, too, including a list of all my friends and my profile picture!

 

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You can control this information by clicking on the “x” symbol to delete the app’s access to your Facebook account. That might mean the app won’t work, however.

Review each app to either edit its permissions or delete its access to you on Facebook entirely. It’s a bit time-consuming — but otherwise you’re just giving these people free data.

That’s it! You’re done.

 

 

 

 

 

Posted on: Sunday, January 26th, 2014


January 21, 2014

By Chris Turitzin, Product Manager, News Feed Ranking 

The goal of every update to News Feed is to show people the most interesting stories at the top of their feed and display them in the best way possible. We regularly run tests to work out how to make the experience better. Through testing, we have found that when people see more text status updates on Facebook they write more status updates themselves. In fact, in our initial test when we showed more status updates from friends it led to on average 9 million more status updates written each day. Because of this, we showed people more text status updates in their News Feed.

Over time, we noticed that this effect wasn’t true for text status updates from Pages. As a result, the latest update to News Feed ranking treats text status updates from Pages as a different category to text status updates from friends. We are learning that posts from Pages behave differently to posts from friends and we are working to improve our ranking algorithms so that we do a better job of differentiating between the two types. This will help us show people more content they want to see. Page admins can expect a decrease in the distribution of their text status updates, but they may see some increases in engagement and distribution for other story types.

Many Page owners often ask what kind of content they should post. This is difficult to answer, as it depends on who your audience is and what they want to see.

Still, one thing we’ve observed is that when some Pages share links on Facebook, they do so by embedding the link in the status update, like the one below:

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The best way to share a link after this update will be to use a link-share, so it looks like the one below. We’ve found that, as compared to sharing links by embedding in status updates, these posts get more engagement (more likes, comments, shares and clicks) and they provide a more visual and compelling experience for people seeing them in their feeds.

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In general, we recommend that you use the story type that best fits the message that you want to tell – whether that’s a status, photo, link or video.

We’ll continue to work to improve News Feed, and keep you posted here.

Posted on: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014


“TodayFacebook  announced  a new product that’s designed to surface interesting and relevant conversations in order to help you discover the best content from all across Facebook,”

Facebook’s move underlines an effort to boost engagement on the site by stoking interest with such a feature that offers enticing headlines.

Facebook will place the Trending feature at the top right of people’s News Feeds. It’s intended to highlight things that have spiked in popularity but that are also custom tailored, based on people’s interests.

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Posted on: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013


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Past and future are its main preoccupation. The present moment, at best, is a means to an end, a stepping stone to the future, because the future promises fulfillment, the future promises salvation in one form or another. The only problem is the future never comes. Life is always now. Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do – it’s always now. It’s all there is. And if you continuously miss the now – resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments – the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be “yourself.” And so you are disconnected from the fullness of life that is the “suchness” of this moment. When you are out of alignment with what is, you are out of alignment with life. You are struggling to reach a point in the future where there is greater security, aliveness, abundance, love, joy …

Posted on: Friday, November 22nd, 2013


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