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What is Krav Maga?

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The definition, according to OxfordDictionaries.com, is:

Krav Maga (ˈkräv məˈgä):  A form of self-defense and physical training, first developed by the Israeli army in the 1940s, based on the use of reflexive responses to threatening situations.

After a little over 6 months practicing Krav Maga, here is my definition:

Krav Maga:  A self-defense system designed around natural reactions, efficient movements, and violent, overwhelming counter-attacks.

If you are not familiar with Krav Maga, here is a video that shows many of the techniques in real world conditions, including a home invasion and attempted carjacking:


Krav Maga Compendium from TKM on Vimeo.

As you can see from the video, Krav Maga is a powerful self-defense system.   [Read more…]

Share photos your way with Pressgram

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Pressgram logoAre you an Instagrammer (Instagram user, Instagrammerite, Instagramist)?  According to Instagram, there are over 130 million active monthly users and over 45 million photos being shared every day.  Compare that to the population of the US (a bit over 316 million according to the Census Bureau)  Of course, not everyone in the US uses Instagram and not all Instagram users are in the US but just compare the numbers.

Taken just the numbers, over one third of the population of the US uses Instagram on a monthly basis.  That is amazing, simply amazing.

But, who owns your photos?  When you get traffic to your pictures, does it help your personal or company brand?

For those of us that have our own websites (especially one as small as this one…), we want visitors.  We want people to visit our site, read our words, oohh and aahh at our pictures, and so on.  By sharing our content on other sites (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, etc) we get some visitors but it’s always a challenge.  This is especially true when most of your content (in the case of pictures) are housed on someone else’s site.  Luckily, now we have Pressgram. [Read more…]

Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 81

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Personal SEO - Getting to 1st on Google - Week 81 - Google resultsWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 81st update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 80th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 8-11-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

This week I’m still at #1.  Overall, my top 5 results increased 1 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results.

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Personal SEO – Getting to 1st on Google – Week 80

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Personal SEO - 1st on Google - Week 80 - VizifyWelcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 80th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 79th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 8-4-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

This week I’m still at #1.  Overall, my top 5 results decreased 3 places with 5 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places.  As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results.

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