Last summer, I started what is turning out to be a lifelong quest: to visit all of the 417 patches of this country that are overseen by National Park Service. This doesn’t just mean the 60 spots that …
Paper Coffee Cups Will Be the Death of Us
While driving around the country on a mega-road trip last year, I relied on a lot of things to keep me going: gas, protein bars, peanut butter pretzels, water, and coffee. Lots and lots of coffee. I …
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After Boston, Des Linden Tries to Conquer New York
Ten miles into the Rock ’n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon in September, Desiree Linden was about 50 seconds ahead of the second-place women’s finisher, Kellyn Taylor. A half-mile later, though, she …
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5 Cheap(ish) Things for Cold Weather Running
Welcome to winter, my favorite time of year to run! No sweating through my running top, no sun trying to burn my scalp — well, at least here in New Jersey. …
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My Imaginary State is Better Than Yours
Last summer, I went on a four-month, 16,000-mile road trip (plus flights to and from Hawaii from Las Vegas) to see the 18 states I hadn’t been to yet. When making small talk with strangers, they’d …
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Why Run Marathons?
When my alarm went off at 4 a.m. last Sunday, I tucked down deeper into my pile of blankets and thought, “I’d much rather not.” It was the morning of the Philadelphia Marathon, and it would be my 10th …
Latin America: The next frontier in warehousing?
When both Amazon and DHL announced they were making moves to open warehouses in Latin America, it brought a spotlight onto a growing region – on the overall economy but especially on e-commerce and …
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McAfee: Coin Mining Malware Attacks Skyrocket in First Quarter
You may know that hackers want to take over your devices and use them to get rich mining cryptocurrencies. What you may not know is the problem is getting worse very quickly. That’s a key finding …
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TillBilly: Consumers Will Love Paying With Crypto Plastic
Paper, plastic or crypto plastic? Get ready to pay for those stylish jeans at your local retailer, in person, using cryptocurrency. How? TillBilly, an Australian startup, unveiled this month its new …
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An Old Crime in New Clothes: Hackers Demanding Bitcoin Ransom
The threat of blackmail never really goes away. It’s just now the bad guys want their anonymous payments in bitcoin (BTC). In a Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack hackers bombard a website …
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Beating the House: Ethereum-Based Gaming Apps Found Vulnerable to Attack
When Arseny Reutov, a web application security specialist at Positive.com, set to test out potential attack points in games of chance that run on the Ethereum blockchain, he expected to find some …
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Turning to Marijuana for a Runner’s High and More
The ultramarathoner Avery Collins, among the fastest in the world, is not shy about appearing in photographs holding a bong. The first time he tried running after using marijuana, he said, he realized …
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Making a New City Your Home
Moving to a city where you know no one is never easy. It is even harder if you are a recent college graduate and are leaving the comfort of a ready-made community to start your career with your first …
The New Retirement: Near the Kids
Thirty-five years ago, Holly Bowers Ruben moved from California to New York, following an actor boyfriend to Brooklyn. The relationship didn’t last, but Ms. Ruben never moved back, although her …
5 ways big data will shake up supply chain systems
Big data is the buzzword we can’t avoid, but for good reason: it’s changing the way a lot of businesses operate, and will continue to do so, especially within the supply chain world. Sixty-four …
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Catch as Catch Can
Attractions have their core visitors—locals and those who travel back year after year—but what about capturing those out-of-town guests who may not know your facility exists until they’re within …
A pilot program allows Walt Disney World resort guests to check in with Fido
At sunset on a warm January evening, I walked my dog along the edge of a man-made lake at Walt Disney World’s Art of Animation Resort. She sniffed the grass and marked her territory while I kept my …
Should You Really Buy That Home?
Falling in love with a house is easy when it seems to have everything you want. But what if there is more to the house than your eye can see? A cracked pipe underground, a litigious neighbor, a long …
How to Make (and Keep) a New Year’s Resolution
Are you making a resolution for 2018? Warning: More than half of all resolutions fail, but this year, they don’t have to be yours. Here’s how to identify the right resolution to improve your life, …
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The Running Bubble Has Popped. (You Couldn’t Hear It in New York.)
About 50,000 runners started the New York City Marathon on Sunday — and they were the lucky ones. Only 17 percent of those who had entered a drawing that fills a third of the field were selected, and …
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How I Became a 37-Year-Old Snowbird
This is how I found myself crying early one morning in January: For the three weeks I had been living in a studio apartment in Daytona Beach, Fla., I had gone running four times a week. On that …
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Why don’t romance novels get the respect they deserve?
In college during summer and holiday breaks, I worked in a mall bookstore. Our most popular promotion was a summer one: buy two books, get one free. Romance readers loved it. One afternoon, an older …
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Here’s The Deal With Listening To Sad Stuff When You’re Depressed
In January, I fell into a hole, one deeper than the usual series of potholes I hit every year when days are short and cold. No, this was a chasm; a bleak, black pit that swallowed me whole. That’s …
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Memories of a Jersey Shore Town, Before a Boom
On a hot August afternoon in the late 1990s, I waited at Donnelly’s Deli in Avalon, N.J., for our family’s sandwich order. This was a rare treat. We were a bologna-and-cheese-on-white-bread kind of …
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How to Avoid Stress While You’re Moving
One night last month, while I was in the midst of moving out of the house where I had lived for nearly a decade, I found myself trying to make dinner with two pans, one fork and one knife — the only …
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Paying to Run with – and for – Oiselle
When Oiselle, a women's running apparel company, started a brand ambassadorship program in 2010, it went with what other companies were doing at the time: Find people who love the company and run a …
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Things I Wish I Had Known When My Dog Died
On Jan. 4, 11 years and 26 days after I walked out of an animal shelter in New Jersey with a little white and brown dog attached to the end of a brand-new leash, she died. On this day, an undiagnosed …
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Finally honoring Bobbi Gibb, to first woman to run the Boston Marathon
On a warm day in the winter of 1966, Bobbi Gibb was getting in a long run on the beach when she accidentally ran to Mexico. She was recently married to a Navy man, which brought her from her home in …
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Project Your Jobsite Crews from Summer Heat
On a jobsite in Kingsville, Texas, in August 2013, a worker was mixing gypsum concrete in preparation for gypcrete installation on an apartment building. It’s not a particularly taxing job, but he was …
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Will the MEGABYTE Act Make Waves in Federal Software Procurement?
Federal CIOs need an action plan for tackling software management. The Making Electronic Government Accountable by Yielding Tangible Efficiencies (MEGABYTE) Act, signed into law July 29, requires …
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Getting Packaging Costs Down to Size
It's a wrap for bulky, wasteful packaging. Shippers today have to satisfy consumers who not only demand that fewer materials be used in packaging, but also prefer those materials to have a low …
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We are the 82%: Alumni putting data analytics to work
Employer demand for data analytics skills is up 82 percent since 2011, according to a study by labor analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies. Meet five alumni living the trend. …
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From sidelined to finish line: how women changed running
On Christmas Eve, I sat on the floor of my mom's living room, her high school yearbook in my lap. After giggling at my teenaged parents in the Pep Club picture (sideburns for him, long, long hair for …
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Here’s why your credit card will look different this week
In the last year, Moira Cannon became a fraud magnet. She was hacked four times: once through Paypal, once through her grocery store, and twice through online shopping. "It was such a pain in the …
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The stick shift: a love letter to a fun but fading American driving style
Last August, I flew from Philadelphia to Ft Worth to buy my dream car: a 2002 Jeep Wrangler. TJ model, soft top, cherry red, no rust and, of course, a manual transmission. “Of course” is, in part, …
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Crossing the Finish Line 25 Pounds Lighter
On a recent dreary morning I dragged myself to the gym. I’d run two miles in the rain earlier that day and really didn’t want to do my usual 20 minutes of weight lifting. But I showed up anyway and …
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The Long and Winding Blue Ridge Parkway
Looking to get out on the open road this summer? How about one that cuts across the Appalachian Mountains and has provided drivers, motorcyclists, and cyclists with stunning views of mountains and …
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The Future of mHealth Goes Beyond Fitness Apps
The mobile health (mMealth) marketplace has lived up to its hype, but where it goes next depends on our changing healthcare needs. The number of mHealth apps published on iOS and Android has more than …
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Apple Pay Has Retail CIOs Rethinking How Customers Pay
When Smoothie King decided to change its point of sale system, the company didn't just make alterations to what was currently in more than 600 stores. It scrapped the whole thing. "As far as our …
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Why Sprinting May Be the Best Way to Strengthen Your Muscles
When it comes to running, the status symbol of late can be completed in less time than it takes to warm up. "The mile is a distance short enough that you can put yourself on the edge from the start …
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